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Good afternoon, everyone.
As we type these words, the state Senate is debating the $28.37 billion general fund bill for the fiscal year that starts at 12:01 a.m. on Monday. The chamber is also set to vote on the enabling legislation that actually gives the state the authority to spend the money set out in the general fund bill.
State House Republicans, meanwhile, remained deep in caucus. And Corbett administration officials, including Budget Secretary Charles Zogby and Gov. Tom Corbett himself are still trying to untangle the legislative knots on the spending plan.
As of 3:39 p.m., here's some other stuff to know:
Transportation Funding: Still at a standstill. House Democrats who have stymied progress on the bill for the last 24 hours haven't dropped their opposition to what they say is a paucity of funding for mass-transit agencies.
Philly Schools: Corbett administration officials say there's no linkage between more money for city schools and Democratic opposition to the transportation bill. Though one suspects that's a major club in discussions.
Liquor Privatization: These aren't the 'droids you're looking for. Move along. Move along. The Senate has yet to vote on a bill.
Medicaid Expansion: Ditto.
Lottery Privatization: The state's wait-and-see with U.K.-based Camelot Group expires at midnight tonight. Corbettistas are likely to seek an extension, though they're not officially saying yet. | <urn:uuid:9dade5ba-33f9-4111-9485-a89c5631431c> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://blog.pennlive.com/capitol-notebook/2013/06/the_budget_wheels_roll_on_sund.html | 2016-05-25T14:59:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00228-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9457 | 317 | [
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Lloyd Starts His Own Production Company
At the age of 21, Lloyd has taken a huge step to expand his territory. The singer starts his own production company named "Young Goldie Production" where he will sit at the position of Executive Producer.
Backed up by Sho Nuff Records' founder Henry Lee and Jazze Pha, Lloyd started this company for one reason, buttering new artists' path to get signed by a label. "It took a long time, so I figured with this company I can introduce new talent out there as well as bring a few of my friends into the game, who to me has what it takes to make it big in the music industry," he said. "I want to be their stepping stone, therefore giving everyone a fair chance to make a name for themselves in this business."
Llyod is an African American singer who shot to fame after his single "Southside" featuring Ashanti was released. His second album "Street Love" was just released on March 13. He was initially signed to Def Jam and The Inc. Records before moving to Sho'nuff.
- 'Game of Thrones' Showrunners Help Jimmy Kimmel Poke Fun at Hodor Twist
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- Chloe Grace Moretz Gets New Sweet Tattoo. See the Pic!
- 'Fear the Walking Dead' Star Frank Dillane Arrested Following Altercation With Security Guard
- Katherine Webb and NFL Star Husband AJ McCarron Welcome First Child
- George R. R. Martin Revealed Three Huge Twists to 'Game of Thrones' Producers. What Are They?
- Take a Look at Pink's Awkward Reaction When Her Celebrity Crush Johnny Depp Surprises Her
- Brad Pitt Saves Young Girl From Being Crushed by Excited Fans. See His Heroic Action! | <urn:uuid:23a07140-a4e8-4874-af4a-e4fa22025010> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://m.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00008372.html | 2016-05-25T14:57:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00228-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96007 | 386 | [
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HEATHERS Reboot Among New Scripted Dramas Headed to Bravo
Bravo Media announces five additional scripted projects currently in development including HEATHERS, a present day update of the cult classic 1980's film, "The Apartment (Working Title)," about a beautiful Upper West Side apartment rented as a private space for extra-marital affairs, "The Darlings (Working Title)," set in Wall Street after the crash of 2008, "All American Girl," centered around a female lifestyle magazine across three different time periods, and "Rita," a family drama following an acerbic, outspoken private school teacher who struggles to raise her own three teenagers. Previously announced scripted projects at the network include "The Joneses," "22 Birthdays" (Working Title) and "Blowing Sunshine." For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com and follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BravoPR.
"Through our growing slate of scripted development we plan to build upon the success of our award-winning unscripted programming , accessing and exploring new worlds and characters while still engaging the same affluent and pop culture savvy audience that watches the Real Housewives and Top Chef," said Andrew Wang, Vice President for Scripted Development and Production. "We're excited to partner with such high caliber talent in developing TV that pushes boundaries conceptually and thematically while still telling a fun story in the way that our audiences have come to expect from us."
NEW SCRIPTED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS:
From Sony Pictures Television and writer and executive producer Mark Rizzo (The Man Date, Zip), executive producer Jenny Bicks (The Big C, Men In Trees) and Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi serving as executive producers for Lakeshore Entertainment. Present day update of the cult classic 1980's film that picks up 20 years later with Veronica (played by Winona Ryder in the film) moving back to Sherwood with her teenage daughter, who enters high school to deal with the next generation of mean girls, the "Ashley's," daughters of the surviving "Heathers."
"The Apartment" (Working Title)
From Uni TV and writer and executive producer, Jessica Queller (Gossip Girl, Gilmore Girls, Felicity) and executive produced by Karey Burke and Todd Holland (Go On, Free Agents) for Dark Toy Entertainment After the death of their mother, two 20-something siblings unexpectedly inherit the love nest where their mother had an 18 year affair. After the initial shock that their mother was not who they thought she was, they begin to rent out the beautiful Upper West Side apartment to people who want a private space to have their own extra-marital affairs. | <urn:uuid:c4f9c689-49f9-4bbe-99cb-2a2ecb564c75> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/HEATHERS-Reboot-Among-New-Scripted-Dramas-Headed-to-Bravo-20120912 | 2016-05-25T15:05:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00228-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95345 | 559 | [
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Dr. Samir D. Gergis ProfessorInterim Director, Pain MedicineVice Chair for Research, Department of AnesthesiaProfessor of AnesthesiaProfessor of
Primary Office: 6418 JCPIowa City, IA 52242
Email: [email protected]: More information
PhD, University of Texas Health CenterMD, University of Oklahoma Health and Science Center
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in NeuroscienceInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Translational BiomedicineMedical Scientist Training Program
Our goal has been to improve the management of postoperative pain in surgical patients. We recognized that there was a significant gap between basic science pain research and clinical acute postoperative pain management that should be explored. We examine how surgical incisions cause pain using preclinical animal models. Having developed a model for measuring pain behaviors caused by incision in rats, we examine the key process producing clinical pain states- sensory neuron sensitization; the conversion of normal, nonpainful sensory stimuli to pain eliciting responses. We utilize in vivo and in vitro neurophysiologic methods to examine the sensitization process and the resulting behavioral phenomena at the level of the primary afferent neuron as well as the spinal cord dorsal horn. Extracellular in vivo dorsal horn cells are recorded in anesthetized rats and combined with behavioral pharmacology. The results of the spinal cord dorsal horn experiments describe why the AMPA-kainate receptor system is critical for expression of pain behaviors after incision. An area of research to develop in the future is the clinical use of spinal and epidural nonNMDA receptor antagonists for use in humans and clinical pain states. Our second area of emphasis is the peripheral sensitization process caused by incision. In vivo single fiber primary afferent recordings continue to be utilized. Recordings of pain transmitting fibers will be studied in vitro using organ sensory nerve preparations like skin nerve and muscle nerve studies. We will attempt to develop these preparations in mouse tissues to take advantage of knockout animals.
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CHARLESTON -- The investigation into a fatal shooting Friday afternoon is continuing.
The Charleston Department of Public Safety received a call reporting gunshots in the area of Vine and Finney streets at about 3:30 p.m., Charleston DPS Director Robert Hearnes said in a news release.
"The first officer to arrive found a male subject lying on the ground with an apparent gunshot wound," Hearnes said. "He was pronounced dead at the scene."
The victim was identified as George Oliver Moore Jr., 34.
Hearnes declined to give further details about the incident, noting the investigation is ongoing.
Hearnes urged anyone with information about this incident or any of the other shootings to contact the Charleston DPS at 573-683-3737.
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Tama Police are diving into their restoration effort for Cherry Lake. The 40-acre property located just southwest of the Tama downtown business district was given to the city by Caraustar- Tama Paperboard in 2006.
Earlier this year, Tama Police Chief Jeff Filloon announced his department had decided to enhance the property as a public service undertaking.
It's being done on a volunteer basis by officers who choose to take part and is being done at no cost to taxpayers.
Police placed a total of 11 fish habitat structures on Cherry Lake as part of their restoration program. They will melt through the ice and provide underwater habitat for fish.
To kick-off private fund-raising, police are sponsoring a photo contest. Everyone is invited to take their best photo of Cherry Lake - be it wildlife, "your biggest or first catch at Cherry Lake" or anything else associated with the lake.
A $5 entry fee will get your photo into the contest, a chance to win a prize and to have your photo appear on the 2015 Cherry Lake Calendar.
There's two age groups for photographers 17 and under and age 18 and above.
Photos need to be dropped off at the Tama Police department or Tama city Clerk's Office by May 15. As an entry, they become property of the police.
The ccontest winners for both age groups will be announced at the Lincoln Highway Bridge Festival, just prior to the Tama Citizen of the Year award.
Tama Police list these as the goals of their undertaking:
To provide a place for the citizens of Tama no matter what their age to enjoy outdoor recreation, through volunteer work and donations from the community.
1. Dredging 2. Dock structures 3. Fish structures, PVC, brush piles, pallet piles 4. Waterfowl nesting structures 5. Develop fishing spots amongst the tree line 6. Gravel and sand beds for future spawning 7. Shelter house 8. Develop beneficial aquatic plant life that is now none existent. | <urn:uuid:1fbacd2c-afdb-4c14-9632-f0ac1d5f0206> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.tamatoledonews.com/page/content.detail/id/547027/Tama-Police-kick-off-Cherry-Lake-effort-with-photo-contest.html?nav=5006 | 2016-05-25T14:57:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00228-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959242 | 410 | [
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Saturn Is the Reason for the Season
Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" A new decade, a new dream!
We live and die by the Roman calendar, and January 1 began their new year. From what I've read, this date was the occasion for lots of costumed revelry and associated slurping of alcoholic beverages. As if we need a reason to do those things!
Like the other Roman Gods and Goddesses who have planets named after them, Saturn isn't as bored as most "myths." In fact, His planet rocks, if you ask me. All those rings! Too cool!
Let us also not forget that Saturn is the God of Saturday. I don't know about you, but that's my favorite day of the week. Except when there's laundry to be done, or Druid Grove to attend (we do that on Sunday).
I saw Saturn last night out in my backyard. He blew out my candle to Cernunnos. Why are deities so jealous of one another? We don't have a Cernunnosday, for the love of fruit flies!
It's Mummer's Parade day here in Philly. I'll check in tomorrow, which is going to be Cernunnos Day if Saturn blows out one more candle on the Shrine of the Mists. | <urn:uuid:83130c2d-735b-497a-95da-fa628120d1bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://godsrbored.blogspot.com/2010/01/saturn-is-reason-for-season.html | 2016-05-28T07:58:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277475.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00143-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967186 | 271 | [
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The Fairy Way of Writing -- Shakespeare to Tolkien by Kevin Pask, Johns Hopkins UPress '13, $39.95, 178 pages, ASIN #1421409828. Index, works cited, notes, b&w images sprinkled through text. Laminated illustrated cover perfect.
"Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase 'fairy way of writing,' writes author Kevin Pask, "to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis of high literary culture and the popular culture of tales and superstitions."
In the Introduction of his new book, English professor Pask elaborates on the subject phrase by quoting from Addison's essays:
"There is a kind of Writing, wherein the Poet quite loses sight of Nature, and entertains his Reader's Imagination with the Characters and Actions of such Persons as have many of them no Existence, but what he bestows on them. Such are Fairies, Witches, Magicians, Demons, and departed Spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls the Fairie way of Writing, which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the Poet's Fancy, because he has no Pattern to follow in it, and must work altogether out of his own Invention."
"In addition to English writers and visual artists such as Pope, Blake, and Keats, who were directly engaged with Shakespearean fantasy," explains the author, were "fairy tales, letters, and paintings by the French writers Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, Madame de Sevigne, and the Swiss-born artist Johann Heinrich Fussli." (Fuseli)
Author Kevin Pask is an associate professor of English at Concordia University and is author of The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England.
Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce -- Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu, by Allen V. Pinkham, foreword by Frederick E. Hoxie, Dakota Institute Press/UOklahoma Press '13, $29.95, 332 pages, ASIN #0983405980. Index, glossary, books, endnotes, b&w images sprinkled through text.
It is only in recent years that historians have turned from writing about the white man's take on relations with Native Americans to looking at things from the other side. In their new book, scholars Allen V. Pinkham and Steven Ross Evans have examined closely the journals of Lewis and Clark to create "the first richly detailed exploration of the relationship between Mr. Jefferson's Corps of Discovery (explorers Lewis and Clark) and a single tribe (the Nez Perce). In a brief Q&A, they discuss the writing of their book:
Q. Why do you feel it is important to tell this story of the Nimiipuu?
A. We felt compelled to write this book for several reasons. This time period was the beginning of 'history' as it is conceived in the West, a time that is covered by the written word, so this is the beginning of Nimiipuu 'history.' This was also a big turning point in tribal history. Before Lewis and Clark the tribal past is known through archaeology and through tribal myths and legends -- their stories are their identification with the landscape and their past in that landscape.
The 'history' of the tribal folk who called themselves Nimiipuu had never been written in a serious, modern historical fashion. We felt that it needed to be written soon as many of the elders were aging and many did pass on while we were writing the manuscript.
Q. What is your favorite expedition story?
A. The Grand Council was the high point of the time of the tribe and the Americans together. This story showed the Nez Perce understood the future might well rest upon their agreements with these powerful people. Also the camaraderie that evolved in the Kamiah Valley for the next month proved that Indian and white could live side by side and get along just fine when both sides were motivated. They set an early and good example.
About the authors:
"Steven Ross Evans, who earned his Ph.D. in history from Washington State University, taught history for 33 years at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, ID, before retiring in 2001. Allen W. Pinkham served in the U.S. Marine Corps and later earned a two-year degree from Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA. He has served the public as a story-telling educator-author and has contributed to or co-authored previous books.
Act of War -- Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo by Jack Cheevers, NAL Caliber '13, $27.95, 431 pages, ASIN #0451466195. Index, bibliography, notes, grouping of b&w glossy images.
From the dust jacket:
"In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, the USS Pueblo was poorly armed and lacked backup by air or sea. Its crew, led by a charismatic, hard-drinking ex-submarine officer named Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested sailors in their teens and twenties.
"On a frigid January morning while eavescropping near the port of Wonsan, the Pueblo was challenged by a North Korean gunboat. When Bucher tried to escape, his ship was quickly surrounded by more patrol boats, shelled and machine-gunned, and forced to surrender. One American was killed and ten were wounded, and Bucher and his young crew were taken prisoner by one of the world's most aggressive and erratic totalitarian regimes."
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Northumbria Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman was found dead this afternoon in a house near Blyth.
Officers say that this is also connected to a car crash which happened earlier in Shiremoor, a few miles away from the address in Holywell.
A woman crashed into a lamp post and is now being treated in hospital for serious injuries.
Officers say that the two women knew each other.
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Pasco shelter takes ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge
Pasco County Animal Services has accepted the $100K Challenge. The Land O'Lakes shelter is one of 50 shelters across the country that will compete this summer to break their own records for saving animals' lives.
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Best Wishes to the Animals of the Pasco Shelter,in accepting,and meeting the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge, this Summer 2013.
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“‘Never was a case clearer,’ says the prosecution. On the contrary, I maintain that never was a case more obscure; and that, so far from fathoming the secret of the whole affair, the prosecution has not found out the first word of it.”
M. Folgat takes his seat, and the sheriff’s officers have to interfere to prevent applause from breaking out. If the vote had been taken at that moment, M. de Boiscoran would have been acquitted.
But the proceedings are suspended for fifteen minutes; and in the meantime the lamps are lit, for night begins to fall.
When the president resumes his chair, the attorney-general claims his right to speak.
“I shall not reply as I had at first proposed. Count Claudieuse is about to pay with his life for the effort which he has made to place his evidence before you. He could not even be carried home. He is perhaps at this very moment drawing his last breath upon earth in the adjoining room.”
The counsel for the defence do not desire to address the jury; and, as the accused also declares that he has nothing more to say, the president sums up, and the jurymen withdrew to their room to deliberate.
The heat is overwhelming, the restraint almost unbearable; and all faces bear the marks of oppressive fatigue; but nobody thinks of leaving the house. A thousand contradictory reports circulate through the excited crowd. Some say that Count Claudieuse has died; others, on the contrary, report him better, and add that he has sent for the priest from Brechy.
At last, a few minutes after nine o’clock, the jury reappears.
Jacques de Boiscoran is declared guilty, and, on the score of extenuating circumstances, sentenced to twenty years’ penal labor.
Thus M. Galpin triumphed, and M. Gransiere had reason to be proud of his eloquence. Jacques de Boiscoran had been found guilty.
But he looked calm, and even haughty, as the president, M. Domini, pronounced the terrible sentence, a thousand times braver at that moment than the man who, facing the squad of soldiers from whom he is to receive death, refuses to have his eyes bandaged, and himself gives the word of command with a firm voice.
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And, gathering up all the energy of which the human heart is capable, he had made a supreme effort at the decisive moment, and kept his word.
Turning quietly to his counsel at the moment when the last words of the president were lost among the din of the crowd, he said,—
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The vehicle has now moved beyond highways to its next phase: roaming the roads of Mountain View.
And brought it back to London before his one-day rental ran out.
E-bikes are poised for a boom, but are we ready for them?
After boasting that she had knocked over a cyclist in her car, Way has become international news.
The city's new Complete Streets Design Guidelines creates a paradigm shift in how road crews and transportation workers should look at shared streets.
The vehicle fatality rate dropped, though.
City officials think so, and they've launched a low-tech campaign to get people to pay attention.
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With a lakeside view available from almost anywhere in the house, it might be tempting to just sit back and relax at 12 Evergreen Street in Southwick, Mass.
But then you’d be missing out on all the area has to offer.
“All year long there’s something going on around here,” owner Rick Wylot says. “It’s a very active area.”
Located off a small cove in the Middle Pond portion of Congamond Lake, the house was constructed in 1950 as a smaller cottage, but was completely rebuilt in 1996.
“In order to stay with zoning, you leave one wall up and you can rebuild the house,” says Gordon A. Fish of D.W. Fish Real Estate. “Even though technically the house is from 1950, it’s a 1996 house.”
Congamond Lake straddles both Southwick and Suffield, Conn. It consists of three ponds – North, South and Middle – but all three are connected, making it possible to take a boat around the lake, something Wylot says takes between one-and-a-half to two hours.
And unlike other lakes, there are few restrictions on what kind of boating activities are allowed. That means residents can fish, kayak, sail, jet ski, or water ski across the lake.
Two restaurants border the lake – Crabby Joe’s on one side and Louie B’s on another – inviting people to pull up their boats for dinner or a drink. On the Suffield side of the lake is Babb’s Roller Skating Rink, which hosts outdoor concerts.
The property at 12 Evergreen Street has its own boat dock, and there’s a marina on the lake as well where boaters can refuel, get repairs done, or store their boat for the winter.
Bass fishing tournaments are held year-round, says Wylot, who’s lived in the house since 2009. During the winter, he and several neighbors set up an ice hockey rink. There’s also plenty of snowmobile activity once the ice has frozen over, and there are several open fields nearby where riders can venture once they’ve circled the lake.
The eight-room, three-bedroom house has plenty of windows throughout, providing the inhabitants with spectacular views of the lake from virtually any room.
Inside, the house has a light and bright open floor plan. The kitchen, living room and dining room are all one space, allowing you to view the water while making dinner.
The kitchen also features new granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, as well as a pantry to the side that has a new washer and dryer and plenty of storage space.
Two guest rooms are upstairs, in addition to the master bedroom which has spacious cathedral ceilings. Off the master bedroom is a balcony that might have some of the best views on the lake.
“I sit up there in the morning and have my coffee and just watch the boats,” Wylot says. “It’s never the same; there's always a lot going on.”
There’s a spacious game room in the finished basement with a fireplace insert and a pool table that Wylot says comes with the house. A storage or exercise space is off to the side of the basement. The house also has a hot tub room and a one-car garage.
Congamond Lake is home to plenty of wildlife. Wylot says that a beaver swims past the house every morning and there’s the occasional loon and bald eagle sighting.
The property lies just over the Connecticut border and is only 15 minutes from Bradley International airport. It’s also within a few minutes of the Southwick Rail Trail, part of the 80-mile Farmington Canal Heritage Rail Trail that runs from New Haven, Conn. to Northampton, Mass. Also within easy access is the Metacomet Trail in Suffield, a 62.7-mile hiking trail that’s part of the newly designated New England National Scenic Trail.
Still, if you’re in the mood to just sit and relax, there are plenty of chances to do just that. The front yard features a Koi pond, while there’s plenty of room on the deck and in the backyard for grilling. Shrubs on both sides provide privacy during the summer months.
The house’s central location on the lake is actually an asset when it comes to privacy. Since the property is set back in a cove, it shields much of the noise from across the lake and also keeps away the geese that are a nuisance in other locations.
Most of the inhabitants in the area live there full-time, ensuring that residents always have something to do.
“It’s a year-round vacation spot,” Fish says.
An open house for 12 Evergreen Street in Southwick, Mass. is scheduled for Saturday, May 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information on the property, contact realtor Gordon A. Fish of D.W. Fish Real Estate at 860-871-1440, Ext. 142, or [email protected].
Year built: 1950
Square footage: 2,340 square feet
Acreage: 0.15 acres
Tax rate: 17.06 mills
Best Features: Lakeside views and activities
Contact: Gordon A. Fish, D.W. Fish Real Estate, 860-871-1400, Ext. 142, [email protected]
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My OB1.4 is larger than the one posted to try to utilize as much print bed as possible. I have squeezed out :
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The original switch mount did not allow you to mount the switch inside. This made it bind on the angular supports. This new rev of the switch is longer. It allows you to mount the switch as shown which then if you work with it a bit can barely clear the support and allow you to butt your X carriage the farthest out possible on my printer. It also acts as a lever so you can make slight tweeks to placement. It might not look like it but it clears, and the screws can be shortened.
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Marisol Orihuela: We have n oidea how many guilty pleas and guilty verdicts have stemmed from these illegal practices, but we have to stop this before it goes any further.
About Marisol Orihuela
Marisol first joined the ACLU as a Liman Fellow in 2008. During her fellowship year, Marisol worked on litigation challenging conditions of confinement at an immigration detention facility and surrounding prolonged detention.
From 2009 to 2011, she clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Judge Consuelo B. Marshall of the Central District of California. She returned to the ACLU/SC in November 2011 as a staff attorney, and works on Franco v. Holder, an action brought on behalf of immigration detainees with serious mental disabilities that seeks competency evaluations, appointment of counsel, and bond hearings. She also works on Rosas v. Baca, which seeks to end a pattern of deputies’ beating inmates in Men’s Central Jail, Twin Towers, and the Inmate Reception Center of the Los Angeles County jails.
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JOHNSTON — For certain football players, the time comes that they become their team’s top option, the guy with the right combination of skill and experience to draw the focus of teammates and opponents alike.
For Strom Thurmond junior running back Chad Gilchrist, that time has come, and it’s enough to earn him the No. 5 spot in The Standard 10.
“He’s a specimen; he really is,” Midland Valley head coach Rick Knight said of Gilchrist. “He could present a problem for everybody.”
Knight noted the combination of size and speed that Gilchrist possesses. At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Gilchrist is capable of going head-on with defenders or just pulling away. During his sophomore year, Gilchrist ran for more than 1,100 yards with 11 touchdowns, an impressive number considering quarterback Jauveer Hammond accounted for 1,300 yards on the ground himself.
Rebel first-year head coach, Antwaun Hillary, said that Gilchrist’s value as a running back goes beyond his running ability, though.
“Chad is just an all-around back,” Hillary said. “What you don’t see is his blocking ability.”
Hillary said that he and Gilchrist have talked about the back’s changing role on the team. After watching Darius Hammond, a sophomore at Charleston Southern, earn Shrine Bowl honors in 2012 as the tip of the spear for the Rebels and Jauveer Hammond, now at The Citadel, turn heads a year ago, Gilchrist has seen what it takes to lead a team with the type of expectations that Strom Thurmond squads face.
“It changes a lot because I finally realized I have to step up my game,” Gilchrist said of his approach. “I can’t just look up to Jauveer anymore and Kendall (Hill) and all them.”
Hill was the Rebels’ top receiver a year ago, and like both Hammonds, he has graduated. Add in that another top receiving weapon, Tyree Stidem, has moved to quarterback, and Gilchrist could be leaned on heavily – at least early on – as the only proven skill player Strom Thurmond has to start the 2014 campaign.
Hillary said he can rely on Gilchrist in that role, an asset for his first year at the program’s helm.
“One thing is you know he’s going to do the things he’s supposed to do,” Hillary said. “I know he’s only a junior, but he’s been a great leader.”
The coach added that Gilchrist has had good examples to follow in the Hammonds and other recent leaders for the Rebels.
“I think he was just kind of taught the right way to do things,” Hillary said. “I think he saw the importance of having a complete game.”
On the flip side, Gilchrist isn’t concerned about the transition to playing under Hillary. The former Rebel quarterback and offensive coordinator has replaced Lee Sawyer, who retired earlier this year after racking up a record of 107-24 in 10 years in Johnston. Gilchrist doesn’t expect the team will miss a beat, strategy-wise.
“It’s no different to me because he’s still like Coach Sawyer,” he said of Hillary. “I already had him with the running backs and everything.”
Gilchrist is already garnering attention from colleges like Georgia Tech and Georgia Southern. He’s even gone to a camp at the University of Georgia. Regardless of his future, though, Hillary said the junior embraces playing within the Rebels’ system, where he will share the load with Stidem and fellow running back Deion Chinn.
“One thing about Chad, he’s never cared about how many yards (he gets),” Hillary said, adding that Gilchrist places a higher importance on team victory than personal gain.
To get those wins and advance in the playoffs the way Rebel teams are known to do, Gilchrist and his teammates will need to overcome a new batch of region opponents and a new classification. After playing in Region 5-AAA for the past two years, Strom Thurmond’s returning to Class AA and Region 2-AA.
While the Rebels have faced region foes Batesburg-Leesville and Saluda as a regular non-region rival, Abbeville, Crescent and Ninety Six are all new to the schedule.
Gilchrist said moving down a class didn’t mean the Rebels could cruise.
“I know it’s not going to be a cakewalk,” Gilchrist said. “You’ve still got to play like it’s going to be the same teams.”
Before Strom Thurmond gets to region play, though, the Rebels will open the season on the road at Aiken. Gilchrist feels like the Rebels, despite some new faces, will be ready to face the Week Zero challenge on Aug. 22.
“I don’t expect us to be top-notch, but … I think we’re going to get it done,” he said.
Jeremy Timmerman has a journalism degree from Mercer University. Follow him on Twitter @ASJTimm.
This story is the sixth part in a series highlighting The Standard 10, the top 10 Players to Watch in the Aiken area for the rapidly approaching high school football season.
• July 21 — No. 10 DeAngilo Drayton, SB
• July 22 — No. 9 Dalton Swires, FC
• July 23 — No. 8 Tyree Stidem, ST
• July 24 — No. 7 Rashad Byrd, NA
• July 25 — No. 6 Malik Lee, SA
• Today — No. 5 Chad Gilchrist, ST
• Sunday — No. 4
• Monday — No. 3
• Tuesday — No. 2
• Wednesday — No. 1
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On October 8, Shah Rukh Khan apparently took a day off from the hectic shooting schedule of Rohit Shetty’s Chennai Express to spend time with his daughter, Suhana. Since it was his wife Gauri’s birthday on October 8 and she was in London with their son, Aryan, the actor didn’t want the little one
to be left alone at home. “The entire cast and crew got a day’s break thanks to SRK. He knew taking a few hours off in the middle of a shoot would not be feasible, which is why he just asked for the entire day,” says an insider.
The actor even posted a message on Twitter saying, “Watching a horror film with daughter...she isnt scared...i am scared for her...or am I just scared myself?? Either way...scared!! (sic)” For the last few weeks, the actor has been juggling Shetty’s film with the promotional activities of his Diwali release, Jab Tak Hai Jaan. According to the insider, he hasn’t taken any breaks in this time. “Only when it came to his family, he took the day off,” adds the source. SRK remained unavailable for a comment. | <urn:uuid:2e8ab84d-f593-4fb4-9706-6ec2ce992f44> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.bollywood.com/daddy-strongest-family-first-shah-rukh | 2016-05-26T01:09:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275429.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00003-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985066 | 275 | [
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Before he began playing John Wilkes Booth in "Killing Lincoln," Jesse Johnson celebrated a private triumph: He grew a jumbo mustache for the role.
"I'm very proud of it, by the way," the 30-year-old actor told me Thursday by phone from New York. "I wasn't aware I was capable of growing such robust facial hair. But now that I know, I feel more of a man."
Johnson stars as Abraham Lincoln's assassin in the National Geographic Channel film that premieres at 7 p.m. CT Feb. 17, with Billy Campbell as the 16th president and Tom Hanks narrating the documentary sections of the drama.
The blond Johnson spent two hours in makeup each day to get his black-dyed hair curled tightly just as Booth wore it. The result was such an uncanny resemblance to Booth that people in Richmond, Va., he encountered did double takes.
"People were like, 'John Wilkes Booth, glad you got that guy,'" he said, laughing. "I said, 'Whoa dude, you need to slow your roll. I'm just playing a character. No problem with Abraham Lincoln over here. I'm an Abe Lincoln fan.'
"I had to see the world through his eyes, and they were unique and curious lenses."
Johnson not only captures Booth's look, but also presents a three-dimensional human being who may surprise viewers. Johnson hit the books to learn more about Booth and his acting family and discovered that a lot of what history says about him isn't totally accurate. He wasn't a second rate stage actor, but was so famous he often couldn't walk down the street without being recognized.
He also was passionate in his support of the Confederacy, so much so that he "leveraged his fame and his power and his wealth" for the cause, Johnson said. He was far from being simply a pro-slavery madman who shot the president at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.
"He wasn't crazy," Johnson said. "He was just wrong."
Like Booth, Johnson grew up in an acting family. The son of actors Don Johnson and Patti D'Arbanville, stepson of Melanie Griffith and brother of Dakota Johnson said family members were "really stoked" about his biggest U.S. role to date.
"Everybody's going to be crowded around the television Sunday to watch it," Johnson said, laughing, "and we'll see what they say."
Johnson talked more about his famous family, what he was surprised to learn about John Wilkes Booth and which of the famous characters Booth portrayed he'd like to tackle.
Spielberg's "Lincoln" is an Oscar favorite. You do not have to suffer comparisons to anyone else because Booth is not in "Lincoln."
No, not at all. I had zero competition on a performance level, which I'm thrilled about. … I thought that the Spielberg movie was fantastic because it sets our movie up kind of perfectly. I remember walking out of there and being like, "Cool. There's no John Wilkes Booth component at all so people will have a real reason to tune in and watch this and learn something else."
Was the idea of playing Booth the biggest reason for you to sign on to the film?
I think the character always in the work is what drives my decision in project choice. John Wilkes Booth is such an enigmatic character. He's so misunderstood in the context of American history. And I think it was a real opportunity as an actor to dive into some deep, dark places that would remain otherwise unvisited. But also as an opportunity to show a different side of John Wilkes Booth that maybe people don't know about. That he was a passionate feeling, three-dimensional human being, not just this two-dimensional mad man, villain guy that just hauled off and killed the President because [Booth] was pro-slavery. It was much more complicated than that.
I love the concept of him being raised on Shakespeare--his father being an actor and his brother being an actor and his fight and paying his dues in coming up in the 19th century theater and up to being like one of the biggest stars. He couldn't go anywhere without being recognized. He was loved and he was starring in engagements all over the country.
It was all based around the fact that he had this upbringing that was based in the dramatic context. I feel like he saw the world through the eyes of a dramatist always. There's this notion that I latched onto that the whole world for John Wilkes Booth is a stage and that the lines between drama and reality are blurred.
And so he eventually ended up orchestrating his own one-man show, his own one-act tragedy, as it were, and living that out in real life much like the famed villains he portrayed on the stage.
Somebody who's that magnetic and is that larger than life is such a gift for an actor to play because you have so many options and so many things to play with with that. It allows you to be bold and make choices that are rich and provocative for viewers.
Which of Booth's famous characters would you want to play?
I think that Richard III is a pretty phenomenal role to play. Oh, and Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar." I'd love to play that. I love Shakespeare; I'm a fan of the classics.
Did you adjust your approach to acting a little bit to create Booth's over-the-top, theatrical style?
I think my performance is right on the razor edge of where this man lived. And I'm not really concerned with results as an actor. I'm concerned about living moments. And each of those moments in the piece raise the stakes. The cool thing about this having the narrative component is that every single piece of action is hugely important. When it drops into the feature film component of the film, which is the majority of the movie is action, is dramatic narrative. It's all important and high stakes and the story's moving forward rapidly.
To John Wilkes Booth making his impression in each of these scenes is the characters ultimate goal. And so it's my responsibility to bring myself to that and figure out, "OK, well if I were in these set of circumstances how would I be?" I obviously am not a racist and I am not an actor in the 19th century theater but I am an actor and I know what it's like to use language to sort of command the situation and to get an audience to portray a character in a way that an audience will respond to and understand. And so if you apply that concept to John Wilkes Booth in his real life, that's where you'll see that he was just living this dramatic interpretation of his own life.
Spoiler alert, but Booth is killed in the piece and you have to play him dead on the slab. You said earlier you really felt the weight of the project at that moment.
There were two moments that I really felt the gravity of what we were doing. It was while I was lying dead and we were recreating a poster that Alexander Gardner had taken that had never been found. And everyone was being so meticulous about what this photo would have looked like and how his autopsy would have gone and he would have been performed.
Honestly, my job was pretty easy. I just laid there in rigor mortis with my mouth open. But it was the sense of everybody around me and the recreation of this moment that is unclear [in history]. Everyone was doing the best they could because there was something in the crew and in the producers' minds that we wanted to see this picture that's never been found. And we wanted to see it in the way that it would have been done, so we shot it with a real glass--collodion glass plate and the way that it would have been done in 1865.
The other scene, of course, was the scene in the presidential box committing the crime. Things got real quiet on set and everybody understood that we were handling something that was delicate and special. And there was a painstaking attitude about getting it right. We were under an enormous time crunch but we made sure that everything was perfect.
Did you do a lot of research?
I stayed away from the Internet and went old school with my research by reading books. I read "American Brutus" by Michael Kauffman, and "Lust for Fame" by Gordon Samples. As far as understanding the chronology of events, "American Brutus" was really a terrific book. "Lust for Fame" was about his stage career and family, so as an actor playing an actor that was helpful to see John Wilkes Booth as a man.
Any surprises about Booth from your research you did?
Something that was interesting about it and maybe surprising was how much he was involved in a subversive way with the Confederacy before the crime. He leveraged his fame and his power and his wealth to help the Confederacy in whatever way he could. Whether it was organizing for the passage of goods over the border to the North or from the North into the South. Or meeting with secret service agents and doing his best as an ancillary member of the Confederacy in the war.
I found that surprising--how passionate he was about it. It wasn't just about etching his name in the pages of history. It was about what he really believed--that what he was doing was right. That's a surprising thing for anybody to hear, because you would think it takes a certain amount of derangement to kill somebody. But he really, really believed in it.
That's the paradox about John Wilkes Booth that's so interesting and that people are going to take away from it. He's lying in the pine thicket as he's reading these newspapers thinking that he's going to be applauded and lauded as a hero for this act. And it turns out that his play is a failure. He's reading the worst reviews of his life and there's nothing he can do about it but end it in the tragedian way.
What's the family think about this project?
Everybody's really supportive in my family. No one is unaware of how difficult this business can be, and I feel like everyone's really proud of me. So I'm honored for that.
Has coming from a family of actors been an asset or a hindrance?
I'm always surprised when people think that it hurts. It's only helped, but like any other actor you have to prove yourself. Having actors in the family might get you through the door, but you have to earn the part yourself with talent and hard work.
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Eleanor Gibson, 83, of Edinboro, died Saturday, March 26, 2011 at Hamot Medical Center. She was born in Latrobe, on July 12, 1927; daughter of the late Andrew and Ida Ciconna Mania.
Eleanor was a long time member of the Latrobe Art Club. She was a talented painter and entered many paintings.
She was preceded in death by her husband Lester Morgan Gibson, her daughter Julie Ann Weatherholtz; her sister Rose Marie Klesyk and her son-in-law Steven Emmett.
Survivors include her daughter, Amy Gibson Emmett of Edinboro, her niece, Andrea Klesyk of VA, nephew Richard Klesyk of VA and her beloved grandsons, Ryan and Neil Emmett of Edinboro.
No calling hours will be observed.
The Glunt Funeral Home, Edinboro, has been entrusted with funeral arrangements.
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BAR confirm Panis signing
BRITISH AMERICAN RACING officially confirmed on Thursday that Frenchman Olivier Panis will join the team to partner Jacques Villeneuve in next season's world championship.
Panis will fulfil his testing duties with McLaren before moving at the end of the year. He originally announced that he had signed a two-year deal on Wednesday.
BAR managing director Craig Pollock believes the appointment of Panis will help his young team develop in their third season in the sport in 2001.
Pollock said: "Olivier Panis is an experienced Grand Prix driver, a highly rated test driver and a proven race winner, and we believe his knowledge and ability will assist the team greatly.
"Any decision concerning our driver line up is a complex matter and had to be carefully considered. Ours is a young team and one that has set itself some ambitious targets."
Panis made his Formula One debut with Ligier in 1994 before moving to Prost in 1997. He has one Grand Prix win to his name after victory in Monaco in 1996.
The Frenchman will replace Ricardo Zonta at BAR after the former Champ Car driver failed to impress, scoring just one championship point in two seasons.
Pollock added: "I want to thank Ricardo for his continuing efforts. There are still five races left this season and he can be assured of our support in his efforts to achieve the best possible results.
"He is undoubtedly a talented young man and will always have a special place within the team as one of our original drivers. We wish him well for the future."
Zonta is expected to join Swiss outfit Sauber next season and said that he has already held talks with the team.
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BAR CONFIRM PANIS SIGNING
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BENETTON BOSS LOOKING FORWARD TO "BENEFICIAL" PARTNERSHIP WITH BUTTON
BUTTON SIGNS FOR BENETTON
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Posted on Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 by Angie Han
It’s been nearly seventy-five years since MGM released The Wizard of Oz, and over a century since L. Frank Baum first published the book it was based on, but the story is showing no signs of losing its power. Last year saw the release of a big-budget prequel, Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, and next year we’re getting an (unrelated) animated sequel called Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return.
Lea Michele voices the Kansas-born heroine, who — as the title suggests — comes back to Oz and finds herself caught in another colorful adventure. She re-teams with her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer), and the no-longer-cowardly Lion (Jim Belushi) to fight a new foe, an angry Jester (Martin Short) who wants control of Oz. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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While Sam Raimi is working on explaining how the Wizard got to Oz, there’s another film in production that’ll tell the story of what happens after Dorothy left. That film is called Dorothy of Oz and it’s a 3D animated sequel to the 1939 original about Dorothy being transported back to help a new group of misfits find the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion in order to defeat an evil Jester who wants to take over Oz. Directed by Daniel St. Pierre, the film sports a start studded voice cast including Lea Michele, Martin Short, Dan Aykroyd, Kelsey Grammer, Jim Belushi, Oliver Platt and Patrick Stewart and is reportedly scheduled for release in April 2012. We’ve already seen some character sketches, but now a bunch of concept art has surfaced that gives us a good idea of what to expect from the film. We’ve got the photos and more after the jump. Read More »
In part because of the runaway success of Alice in Wonderland, a story like The Wizard of Oz is hot stuff in Hollywood right now. So there are loads of Oz-related projects in the works: Disney’s Oz, the Great and Powerful, to be directed by Sam Raimi with Robert Downey, Jr. starring; the Polish Brothers’ Oz; a Wizard of Oz sequel called Surrender Dorothy potentially to be directed by Drew Barrymore; and the animated Dorothy of Oz.
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VALRICO — Bloomingdale took a step closer to its first playoff berth since 2008, beating Newsome in a pivotal Class 8A, District 6 matchup. The Bulls host Wharton next in a game likely to decide the district runnerup.
“It doesn’t get any easier,” Bulls coach John Booth said. “The rest of the way is playoff mode for us. The tough thing is, they know.”
Two interception returns of Zac Slater passes for touchdowns were the difference for the Bulls. Chris Wonsley ran one back 63 yards in the first half and Alan Yearby’s went for 52 yards.
“Those were the game-changers, both Chris and Alan,” Booth said.
Starting for a second straight game in place of Isaiah McIntyre — “a discipline issue,” Booth said — Tommy McLaughlin completed 16 of 26 for 136 yards and a touchdown. His 14-yard TD to Logan Crouse, who had seven catches for 76 yards, gave Bloomingdale a 17-7 halftime lead.
“We’ll continue to go with Tommy,” Booth said.
Trailing 10-0, Newsome got on the scoreboard on Chris Bryant’s 4-yard run in the second quarter. Austin Cobb added a 40-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.
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May 7, 2014
By Bob Coleman
Editor, Coleman Report
New SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet is making the rounds to SBA lending trade groups
She told NAGGL attendees in Florida today SBA will radically change its processes to help SBA 7(a) lenders make smaller loans to underserved markets.
“Today, I have a call of action for you: I’m asking you to work with us to get capital into the communities that need it the most. The truth is, we still have work to do in this area. The Department of Commerce looked at loan denial rates for firms with gross receipts of $500,000 or less. They found minority-owned firms were three times more likely to get turned down for a bank loan. For high-sales firms, loan denial rates were twice as high for minority-owned businesses.”
How will SBA help?
“We also continue to make regulatory changes to make your work more efficient. In March, we eliminated a regulation that was hurting more than it was helping. The SBA has thrown out the wealth test. No borrower should be denied a loan for enlisting a wealthy investor to help underwrite their project. We want your customers to attract private capital. They shouldn’t be penalized for bringing good people in. So we’re no longer scrutinizing personal liquidity of every investor before we’ll approve a loan.”
And how will SBA do that?
“Technology can transform SBA lending, so more banks see our products as the profitable tools they are. Innovation can help ensure that you, our most active lenders, feel the benefits always outweigh the costs when making 7a lending decisions.
“Early next year, we will roll out SBA One. I describe it as a lot like Turbo Tax for business lending. It will enable the agency to provide one set of forms, services, and data management to thousands of SBA lending partners. We will use industry-leading electronic signature software to help facilitate loan closings. If you’ve filed your taxes electronically, you’ve used this software. We are preparing to bring this advance to commercial small business lending.
“We’ll create a single portal that’s a one-stop shop for eligibility, underwriting, closing, loan modification, servicing, and purchase. It will automate the upload of documents. It will automate the generation of forms. It will automate credit scoring. And it will automate electronic signatures. SBA One will streamline and simplify our lending process. It will save you hours of processing time and thousands of dollars in processing costs on every 7a loan. Needless to say, we’re excited about SBA One, and we hope you are, too.
And she promises to streamline the process.
“One of my top priorities at the SBA is to make it easier for you to work with us. I believe we’re on the right track. We simplified the process for loans under $350,000. As a result, we tripled lender participation under the Small Loan Advantage Program. We re-engineered CapLines to help small business owners meet their short-term and cyclical working-capital needs. As a result, we tripled our lending under this program. And the SBA has eliminated more than 100 pages of time-consuming paperwork on our lending applications. But this is the 21st century, and I believe the time has come to do more than reduce paperwork. It’s time to get rid of paper. And that’s exactly what we plan to do for the 7a program. The truth of the matter is, the SBA can’t offer truly best-in-class service until we automate our lending process.”
“So here’s my vision: I want to work toward a day when SBA lending is in the DNA of every business bank in America. I want to make it simpler and cheaper to work with us. I want to create a climate in which no loan application is turned down until it is first screened by your risk managers and loan officers as a possible 7a candidate.”
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Parker, T. Jefferson. (2013) The famous and the dead /New York : Dutton,MLA Citation
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Family Law Questions? Ask a Family Lawyer Online.
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To answer................Any and all marital property is subject to distribution during divorce in the state of Washington. Marital property includes all property and debts acquired during the course of a marriage. This does not include debt/property acquired before marriage. However, there are exceptions and non-marital property may become marital property via commingling of funds (to the point where the source of the funds become untraceable, or reliance on the asset during marriage, etc.).
If the money was put into trust prior to marriage and kept separate throughout the marriage, never relied upon or used as a source of income during the marriage.
sorry to continue the last statement..........if the property was acquired prior to marriage and kept separate then it may be considered a non-marital asset and thus not subject to distribution.
If it was marital property put into trust, then it would be considered a marital asset, just putting the funds into a trust would not in and of itself make this a non-marital asset.
Unless this is a trust that was not set up for the benefit of the husband or wife and not simply for the purpose of setting aside or diminishing marital funds for distribution.
If it looks as if the funds were pumped into the trust during the break down of the marriage in order to avoid having them distributed the court can give the other party a credit for the funds or order their return. Good Luck and please let me know if you have any further questions and I would be happy to answer them. Thanks for using JustAnswer and again good luck.
I am not married at this point yet but I am going to marry a guy in the Washington State. I love him but I do not trust him in handling money. He already has two bankruptcies As I am bring my own money into the marriage and planning to buy property in Washington for investment purposes. How do I protect my money from the marriage?
Hello, to answer your second question..........You can keep non-marital property separate such as an investment property ONLY if you maintain it as a separate asset AND do not spend marital funds on it. This can be difficult to do as it is common to spend money during a marriage on these items, unless you have enough funds set aside prior to marriage to pay taxes, upkeep, etc.
However, even if you do spend marital income/ funds on the property investments or use these as income during the marriage........the equity in the property prior to marriage can typically be separated out during any divorce and a credit given for this amount.
HOWEVER, considering the fact that you have not yet married and know this all ahead of time................A PRENUPTUAL AGREEMENT may be a great idea. A prenuptual agreement is a contractual agreement between the two future spouses which can control property issues, etc. You can put in there that you would keep your prior owned property in whole upon dissolution of marriage. You should have an attorney draft any prenuptual agreement and it is also important to make sure your future spouse has full financial disclosure ahead of time and is represented by an attorney who can explain the prenuptual agreement to him/her to make sure he/she understands what he /she is consenting to and to abate and later claims of confusion (in an attempt to have the prenup thrown out).
Good Luck and please let me know if you have any further questions and I would be happy to help.
Thank you for answering. Should I have the prenuptual Agreement signed before the marriage? and where do I find a lawyer to do this prenuptual agreement and what is the cost for it?
Yes, a prenuptual agreement is by definition one that occurs before marriage. You can also have a post nuptual agreement done instead (after marriage). However, the obvious distinction is that if you dicuss these issues and are able to sign an agreement before marriage it makes it easier on your end and you don't have to worry that this person will marry you then refuse to sign a postnuptual with terms you are satisfied with. Potentially if a couple were to seriously disagree on certain issues before marriage they may not get married.
You should go to www.google.com and search out "family law attorneys" in your city. Not all family law attorneys draft prenuptual agreements, but I'm sure you will find several that do. Good Luck and thanks again for using JustAnswer. Again please let me know if you have further questions.
Thank you very much for your answers!
you are welcome
I will look into the your suggestions. Thanks again.
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The Woodinville Falcons are searching for an assistant soccer coach for their men's and women's teams and JV teams. The position became available after longtime coach Sully Hester stepped down recently.
"Hopefully it'll be someone with experience, but I want someone with a lot of energy," Falcons head coach Nathan Davis said. "The high school season is completely different from club soccer or select soccer. Club and select play two times a week and maybe a tourney once in awhile. Whereas the high school season is 5-6 days a week for two and half months. It can be a long season. So I am looking for someone with a lot of energy and who is very excited to get in there to help develop basic skills for some of the JV girls [this fall]. Someone who is willing work with me and isn't afraid to voice their opinion because I don't want a coach who is going to be a `yes man'. I want someone to bounce ideas off of... It doesn't matter if they are a man or a woman."
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IMAP4 error when opening mail using the Russian client on a Russian OS workstation
This document (7001900) is provided subject to the disclaimer at the end of this document.
This crash issue appears to be specific to Russian GW Client on Russian OS. IMAP4 emails with/without Cyrillic characters send & receive but fail to open in Russian in this test environment resulting in a system crash when a user attempts to open the received IMAP4 email. On a US system both US & RU GW Client open received IMAP4 emails without crashing.
The received IMAP4 emails will continually crash the system when a user attempts to open in subsequent Client launches. However if the Client language is changed to US on a Russian system, the user can open received IMAP4 emails that were previously crashing the Russian Client. As a result, when the user subsequently launches the Russian Client, the emails that had been crashing the system now open fine.
This has been reported to engineering
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Director Oliver Stone, never a stranger to controversy, will be taking a rare turn on the small screen, bringing a series of history documentaries to US cable television, local media said Wednesday.
Stone, who has courted criticism for his takes on issues including the Vietnam War and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, plans a television event called "Oliver Stone's Secret History of America" on US historic events due to premiere in 2010 on the cable channel Showtime.
"Through this epic 10-hour series, which I feel is the deepest contribution I could ever make in film to my children and the next generation, I can only hope a change in our thinking will result," Stone said in a statement.
"His continuing curiosity about real events of the 20th century has now led him to a documentary series unlike any other, which is why it's perfect for our premium audience," said Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt.
Stone, 62, won Oscars for best director of "Platoon" and "Born on the 4th of July." He is also working on a documentary on the left in Latin America and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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The Rock & Roll Pop Culture Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2011
An original 1st printing poster of the Big Brother and the Holding Company concert at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco on December 9 and 10, 1966. It has "The Bindweed Press, San Francisco" credit in the lower right hand corner, measures 14 3/16" x 18" and was printed before the concert. Overall very good condition, with wear on the corners showing where the tape once was and a very tiny tear on the left side edge toward the bottom. FD038. Comes with a Gotta Have Rock & Roll™ Certificate of Authenticity.
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Amos Bronson Alcott was an abolitionist vegan in a way that few today are emulating – in the 1830s he was taking a stand against human slavery in the USA. In some parts of the world human slavery is still very much with us of course, and I’d hope that modern day ‘abolitionist vegans’ are just as active in campaigning against that too.
Bronson also argued for women’s rights even, for a while at least, helping them in the kitchen. We know he had stopped eating meat by 1836, but it appears to have been during his visit to England in the summer of 1842 (age 42) that he became an ‘ethical vegan’ and expanded his anti-slavery views to include all non-human animals.
Soon after his return to the US, with two new English friends, he started the Fruitlands community on a 90 acre site near Harvard. No animals of course, and even refusing to use horses for slave-labor – but with tractors not yet invented, that was part of the reason it didn’t last long.
Bronson was no gradualist, he wasn’t going to wait for human equality before demanding it for the animals as well. He wanted it all and he wanted it now. He didn’t get it of course, idealists never do, but that doesn’t mean the ideals are wrong. He lived long enough to see the end of slavery in the USA, though nowhere near long enough for Civil Rights, or for the women’s movement to make some progress in western countries. The animals are still waiting.
But Bronson was so far ahead of time in his attitude to non-human animals that we have to fast-forward at least a hundred years before we can clearly identify other Americans with the same views. That doesn’t necessarily mean they weren’t there, just that we don’t know about them because in such a big country it was all too easy to simply ignore the ‘extremists’.
The main reason we know so much about Bronson is because his daughter, Louisa May Alcott, age ten at Fruitlands, later wrote a book called Little Women. Naturally everyone wanted to know about her childhood and she obliged by writing about that too – some of it distorted by later biographers into accusations of child-abuse by her father for not feeding her meat.
We know there were many others in 19th century America who abstained from eating flesh, the first American Vegetarian Society was formed in New York in 1850. But they were dominated by medical men with only a secondary interest in animal concerns and, as far as we know, they were all strongly ovo-lacto-vegetarian.
Dr. William Alcott (Bronson’s 2nd cousin) was elected the first President of AVS. Unfortunately two recent veg historians have hopelessly muddled the two of them, one rolling William and Bronson into one person, and the other citing Bronson as AVS president. These mistakes seem to be copied by other writers and spread around the internet.
Bronson had no direct involvement with the American Vegetarian Society, partly because they had adopted the form of ovo-lacto-vegetarianism promoted by the Bible Christian Church, through their branch in Philadelphia – looking forward to the ‘promised land flowing with milk and honey’ (and eggs). Not at all how Bronson saw things.
Some vegans today argue that armed with modern nutritional knowledge and faced with the horrors of factory farming and climate change - if those ovo-lacto-vegetarian pioneers could come back today they would be vegan. Maybe so, we’ll never know of course, but by the late 19th century in both England and America we do have people clearly writing that the acceptance eggs/dairy was merely a ‘first step’ in dietary reform, and we are gradually identifying some who actually took the next step.
The first American 'vegan' cookbook was published by Russel Trall in New York in 1874, updated from an earlier edition to remove all the eggs/dairy.
There were other Americans eating only plants, and going further with ethical values towards animals. But most of the vegetarian histories were written by ovo-lacto-vegetarians who just ignored that minority, at times even deliberately writing them out of history. Later vegans have just assumed this wasn’t their history so they didn’t investigate it – but scratch below the surface and it is just possible to find some.
But be warned – most of the early ‘vegans’ that are claimed on the internet turn out to be not any sort of vegetarian after all – but always worth investigating as there must have been more around, we just need clear evidence.
I’ve avoided giving much of a biography of Bronson Alcott as we already have an excellent summary on the IVU website, from Karen Iacobbo in 1999, as part of the preparation for the equally excellent ‘Vegetarian America, a history’ (2004). The page below has a link to that book, and several older books by and about Bronson. Less than 1,000 words and well worth reading:
For more about vegan history, see my free e-book: ‘World Veganism – past, present and future.” It has now been updated to include the above article, and more. You can download it for free, or replace your existing copy at: www.ivu.org/history/Vegan_History.pdf (5mb)
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A reward is being offered to help investigators find who got away with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment.
It happened at the AWC Carriers Trucking Company in Wicksburg last Saturday night.
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A truck towing a flatbed trailer, loaded with a gray shipping container that was ready to deliver 840 computer monitors to Nashville.
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Here are 28 of the best-loved children's stories from around the world. Included are:
© and (P)1987 JimCin Recordings
Yes...my kids love the stories.
Reading brought the stories alive!
Had to raise the treble a bit in car to cut through road noise.
My grand kids and I loved the stories, both single voice and multiple. Great stories and very good readers.
Too many to count.
The one problem is that this recording is a bit old..not digital quality. In the car it was a bit hard to hear clearly at first but...once I upped the treble...they were fine. Looking forward to getting more of these Volumes.
The stories are great. But sorry, this book is really hard to listen to, especially in the car. Sounds like an old gramophone recording. The "strange" thing is that the listening sample is the only story that has acceptable sound.
We purchased this for a long trip, thinking it would entertain our younger children however, although we were looking forward to the many stories, the very poor sound quality and pure obscurity of some of the texts meant that we eventually gave up on it.
Poor quality and many stories difficult to hear. This was very disappointing and would not recommend this book to anyone. Have given up on this well before the end.
"What a mistake!!!!"
I bought this to keep a 5 year old entertained on long journey.
What a mistake. Some of the stories we being read like a robot and I had to skip them before I went mad.
Some of them had strange story lines.
I didn't realise that the princess and frog required the frogs head to be chopped off. Also didn't realised that goldy locks was in fact a grumpy old woman. This was just a few....
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I don't know what the previous reviewer is on about. This is an outstanding collection of stories read by a variety of richly evocative narrators. It is spellbinding. Do yourself a favour and buy it!
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LIVERMORE, Calif. -- In a breakthrough paper published in this week's issue of Science magazine, researchers from Sandia's Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester and Bristol University report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-phase Criegee intermediate using photoionization mass spectrometry. (visit www.youtube.com/SandiaLabs to see a short video of Sandia combustion chemists discussing the research.)
Criegee intermediates - carbonyl oxides - are implicated in autoignition chemistry and are pivotal atmospheric reactants, but only indirect knowledge of their reaction kinetics had previously been available. The article, titled Direct Kinetic Measurements of Criegee Intermediate (CH2OO) Formed by Reaction of CH2I with O2, reports the first direct kinetics measurements made of reactions of any Criegee species, in this case formaldehyde oxide (CH2OO). These measurements determine rate coefficients with key species, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and provide new insight into the reactivity of these transient molecules.
The detection and measurement of the Criegee intermediate reactions was made possible by a unique apparatus, designed by Sandia researchers, that uses light from a third-generation synchrotron user facility, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source, to investigate chemical reactions that are critical in hydrocarbon oxidation. The intense tunable light from the synchrotron allows researchers to discern the formation and removal of different isomeric species - molecules that contain the same atoms but arranged in different combinations.
In the present case, CH2OO can be distinguished from its more stable isomer, formic acid (HCOOH), because of their differing thresholds for photoionization. The Manchester and Bristol researchers recognized that this apparatus could elucidate not only combustion reactions but also important tropospheric oxidation processes, such as ozonolysis.
Ozonolysis, or the cleavage of carbon-carbon double bonds through reaction with ozone, is a reaction that plays a key role in a number of fields, including synthetic chemistry and tropospheric removal of unsaturated hydrocarbons. In the 1950s, Rudolf Criegee proposed that ozonolysis of alkenes occurs via the carbonyl oxide biradicals, now called Criegee intermediates. Criegee intermediates also have been calculated to be markers of critical chain-branching steps in hydrocarbon autoignition chemistry.
However, until 2008 no gas-phase Criegee intermediate had been observed, and rate coefficients derived from indirect measurements spanned orders of magnitude.
In the Science publication, Sandia researchers reported a new means of producing gas-phase Criegee intermediates and used this method to prepare enough CH2OO to measure its reactions with water, SO2, nitric oxide (NO), and NO2. The ability to reliably produce Criegee intermediates will facilitate studies of their role in ignition and other oxidation systems.
In particular, the present measurements show that the reactions of CH2OO with SO2 and NO2 are far more rapid than previously thought. Moreover, the Bristol and Manchester investigators demonstrated that these kinetics results imply a much greater role of carbonyl oxides in tropospheric sulfate and nitrate chemistry than models had assumed, a conclusion that will substantially impact existing atmospheric chemistry mechanisms. For example, SO2 oxidation is the source of sulfate species that nucleate atmospheric aerosols. Because the oxidation of SO2 by Criegee intermediate is much faster than modelers assumed, Criegee reactions may be a major tropospheric sulfate source, changing predictions of tropospheric aerosol formation.
This capability breakthrough was funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) within the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy, and conducted using the Advanced Light Source, a scientific user facility supported by BES.
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MORRISTOWN — The Market Street Mission, a homeless shelter in Morristown, is suing JP Morgan Chase Bank for allegedly letting a former mission employee cash more than $20,000 in checks that were intended as charitable contributions.
The suit, filed this week in Superior Court in Morristown, says Chase “breached” its duty of “ordinary care” when it failed to properly inspect the 16 checks that were deposited in a Chase ATM in Morristown between January and April of 2011.
The mission, which also provides meals and gospel-based recovery programs, contacted Chase for reimbursement, but the bank “rejected the claim,” so the charity wound up suing, said Stephen Leonard, an attorney for the mission.
The former employee, Willie Carter, whose job was to open mail, wrote his name near the mission’s name on the checks, according to the suit.
Carter illegally “altered” the checks and the bank’s “failure to exercise ordinary care” contributed to that alteration, the suit says. That resulted in the mission losing a total of $20,010 that had been donated to “help underprivileged people,” according to the suit.
Carter, 52, of Morristown, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Morristown to theft and forgery, according to court records. He was sentenced in October 2012 to three years in state prison and was ordered to pay $20,010 in restitution.
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Our trip involved three nights in Cairo based at a hotel near the Pyramids and then seven on the Royal Viking boat from Luxor to Aswan and back. The organisation was through Discover Egypt. This was very satisfactory with smooth transfers and arrangements at all times.
Our previous experience on cruises has all been on ocean-going larger vessels so this was an interesting contrast. Our mid-deck cabin on the Royal Viking was spacious in traditional wood-pannelled style and had a good sized bathroom, though storage was a little cramped. It was good to have an opening window to lean out as well as look out over the Nile. The cabin was well looked after by the two cabin stewards.
We missed lots of places and nooks and crannies to go to on board, but the sundeck was very pleasant and the main and really only social space apart from a lounge bar where the mostly homespun, low key entertainments took place, including a jolly galibiya dress-up evening. The "swimming pool" was really just a plunge pool but useful nevertheless to cool down in as temperatures hit the high thirties during the week.
The trip included several excursions which were led by very knowledgable and enthusiastic guides. The passengers were divided into two groups and both guides, Hussain and Radwan, were highly and rightly praised. These tours often required early starts, but were neatly arranged to get everyone back in time for lunch and to avoid the real heat of the day. The tombs and temples were really stunning. Having seen Greek and Roman temples before we were bowled over by the beauty and wonderful state of conservation of the Egyptian monuments despite their mostly being 1000+ years older. The other highlight was drifting along the Nile and seeing the timeless scenes along the banks.
Meals were always by buffet with a reasonable selection, though this was often rather bland, certainly very edible but hardly cordon bleu given the five star status. The best exceptions to this were the local Egyptian dishes somethimes served (not often enough). Soups were always rather watery. There wasn't much of a selection of fresh fruit despite the piles we could see in local markets and coffee was disappointing - Nescafe sachets plus hot water for breakfast. Cleanliness was good however and no-one seems to have had any major tummy problems.
Egypt is in an uncertain phase at the moment since the Revolution. Two aspects underlined this. Firstly, there is a great dearth of tourists. Whilst this made it pleasant for us visiting the great sights, it was sad to see the majority of Nile cruise boats empty and forlornly tied up three or four deep on their moorings in several places. We were told tourism is 90% down in the last two years. As a result the local hawkers who have never been shy of doing all they can to get a sale are now totally "in your face" and incredibly persistent, so that you run the gauntlet every time you stop and venture off the boat or tour bus.
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Ackerman, Brennan Winter Warm-Up RecapKMOX hosts Tom Ackerman and Charlie Brennan were live Monday morning with a string of interviews from the Winter Warm-Up.
Ballpark Village Finding Inspiration for What's NextDeWitt says now that they have a year of phase one under their belts, they're looking at a parking garage, office tower and condo tower.
U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team to Play Match at Busch StadiumThe U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, in its first domestic game of 2015, will play the New Zealand National Soccer Team in a match at Busch Stadium at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4.
KMOX, Cardinals History Focus of Sports Illustrated ArticleKMOX and its longstanding sports broadcasting history are the focus of a new Sports Illustrated article from St. Louis native Joan Niesen.
Cardinals to Induct First Hall of Fame Class During Ceremony on Saturday2014 Class of Edmonds, Marion, McGee, and Shannon will be enshrined during ceremony at FOX Sports Midwest Live! at 10:30 a.m.
Developers Promise Expansion at Ballpark Village OpeningDevelopers made a promise for the future, with Blake Cordish promising that Ballpark Village would pack downtown with other developments.
The Sports Hub: Dan McLaughlin, Joan Niesen, Bill DeWitt III, Michael Calhoun
Hancock & Kelley - Friday, March 21 - Bill DeWitt III, John Mozeliak, Rick Horton, Mo.State Rep. Rick StreamJohn and Michael with Bill DeWitt III, John Mozeliak, Rick Horton and Mo. State Rep. Rick Stream.
Sports Correspondent Blog: Star-Studded Spring TrainingWhat an exciting morning in Jupiter! I arrived at the stadium at 8am to join Tom Ackerman for a preview of our day.
Cardinals Winter Warm-Up: January 20, 2014
Cards Announce Team Hall of FameTeam officials hope it'll be open at Ballpark Village on Opening Day 2014.
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The important role fathers have in their children’s education.
There’s a lot of research that shows children who have dads who care and get involved with their education do better in school. But when a child is having a tough time in school and even failing courses and tests, sometimes the best thing a father can do to help is to lighten up. Richard Selznick, author of The Shutdown Learner says having a little fun one-on-one time with Dad can do a child a lot of good. “I think Dads can often play a role in doing non-academic activities such as building something together, a project, helping around the house, going for a hike, anything like that that can be a little bit more encouraging and supportive that doesn’t involve the confrontation of school and yelling and all of that. So if you can change the atmosphere a bit with your child, I think that they would find that really helpful.”
The Parent Report’s guest expert is Dr. Richard Selznick, Director of the Cooper Learning Center and author of The Shut Down Learner.
From the nationally syndicated radio show “The Parent Report”, hosted by Joanne Wilson and heard on more than 100 radio stations. Any advice or information contained herein should never be a substitute for professional and/or medical advice, diagnosis and treatment. For more information please review Terms of Service.
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Live Updates - Islanders at Penguins 10/25/13
Friday, 10.25.2013 / 6:45 PM ET / News
By Travis Betts
New York Islanders at Pittsburgh Penguins
Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 - 7:00 p.m. - CONSOL Energy Center - Pittsburgh, PANote: Page will automatically refresh every 60 seconds.
Radek Martinek is scheduled to make his season debut in place of Brian Strait, who is out with an upper-body injury.
7:07: Andrew MacDonald goes away for slashing on Jussi Jokinen, and Pittsburgh earns the first power play of the night.
8:01: Evgeni Nabokov makes a huge save sliding to his left of a Sidney Crosby one-timer.
8:19: Matt Niskanen gets called for a hit from behind on Kyle Okposo, ad the Islanders will get a chance at the man advantage.
10:14: Matt Moulson scores on a second or third chance midway through the power play to put the Isles up 1-0. John Tavares redirected a centering feed from Frans Nielsen, and Moulson took care of the rebound in front.
13:25: Just as a Penguins power play was ending, they even the score at 1-1. Brandon Sutter pulled up and fired from the top of the left circle, and Jokinen swung at the rebound in the slot to knock it in.
16:16: Matt Carkner will go to the box for hooking. Pens are 1-for-2 on the job.
19:28: The parade to the Isles penalty box continues. Andrew MacDonald will sit again, this time for roughing.
End 1st: NYI 1 PIT 1. Shots: NYI 8 PIT 14. Pens will have a 1:28 power play to start the second period.
1:30: MacDonald flies out of the box, and the Penguins are 0-for-4 on the man advantage.
5:59: Another 2-on-1 goal against the Islanders. This time it's Crosby, who was flanked by Chris Kunitz. Crosby elected to shoot, and beat Nabokov from the right side to make it 2-1 Pittsburgh.
13:21: Moulson penalized for hooking on Evgeni Malkin. Penguins are 0-for-4 on the man advantage so far.
16:25: Travis Hamonic fires one from the top of the zone, and Pittsburgh goalie Jeff Zatkoff has some trouble with the rebound. The netminder finally pushes to his left to cover up the loose puck.
17:40: Nielsen with the best Islanders chance of the period in transition from Pierre-Marc Bouchard, but Zatkoff gets across to absorb the shot from the left side.
End 2nd: PIT 2 NYI 1. Shots: NYI 18 PIT 34.
4:50: Nabokov denies Crosby on a breakaway, despite the Penguins captain trying to get him off-balance. Kunitz with a long pass from the d-zone to spring Crosby.
11:23: Josh Bailey weaves through the zone and earns a wraparound opportunity, but Zatkoff gets to his post in time. Still 2-1 Penguins.
12:46: Nielsen scores on a redirection to tie the game at 2-2 as the puck flutters over Zatkoff. Thomas Hickey with the shot-pass from the left point. Radek Martinek is going to get the secondary assist.
13:02: 16 seconds later, Deryk Engelland scores while attacking the net. Joe Vitale took the line and made a pass from the goal line to the front of the net. First of the season for Engelland makes it 3-2.
13:55: Pierre-Marc Bouchard nets his first as an Islander following a failed clearing attempt. . Martinek with a great no-look feed at the point to Bouchard, who deked, opening up Zatkoff's five hole, tying the game at 3-3.
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96 Pierre-Marc Bouchard - 51 Frans Nielsen - 12 Josh Bailey
29 Brock Nelson - 16 Peter Regin - 15 Cal Clutterbuck
17 Matt Martin - 53 Casey Cizikas - 13 Colin McDonald
47 Andrew MacDonald - 3 Travis Hamonic
14 Thomas Hickey - 4 Radek Martinek
46 Matt Donovan - 7 Matt Carkner
20 Evgeni Nabokov
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Mario Chalmers is returning to the Miami Heat on a two-year contract, according to a report by ESPN.
The guard was an unrestricted free-agent and was considered unlikely to return until LeBron James made the decision to return to Cleveland.
With more money available and a need for talented players on the team, the Heat moved quickly to secure Chalmers' services. Terms of the the deal were not disclosed as of yet.
Chalmers himself took to Twitter to confirm the report:
Proud to say I'm back wit the heat. Heat nation we still here
— Mario Chalmers (@mchalmers15) July 13, 2014
Chalmers is set to remain the starting point guard for the Heat leaving Norris Cole and newly drafted Shabazz Napier on the bench as depth. Cole should see the bulk of reserve minutes with Napier more of a project for the future.
The Heat have been in the process of reshaping the roster and have already added Josh McRoberts, Danny Granger and Luol Deng in recent days. The Deng signing was reported earlier on Sunday and was also a two-year deal.
In addition to the new names, the Heat have also brought back Chris Bosh and are expected to re-sign Dwyane Wade as well.
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Athletic Department Philosophy
The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics operates within the institution's mission statement and the NCAA rules and regulations of fair play and amateurism. At Southern Utah University, student-athletes are provided with the opportunity and are required to progress toward completion of the degree of their choice while concurrently developing athletic abilities in an environment consistent with high standards of academic scholarship, sportsmanship, leadership, and institutional loyalty. The intercollegiate athlete representing SUU is thus a bona fide student and amateur competitor.
Further, it is recognized that a viable, academically and professionally sound intercollegiate athletic program is made up of these components:
- The Athletic Department is an important component of a comprehensive state institution dedicated to the service of a broad range of student, faculty and public interests.
- Develops character, maturity, and a sense of fair play as well as athletic excellence.
- Engenders community support for the institution at the legislative, state, and local levels.
- Fosters pride in the University among faculty, students and citizens of Utah
- Generates revenues to support, at least in part, intercollegiate teams and athletes in those sports that are not financially self-sufficient.
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A Southampton County man is facing a reckless care for a child following an incident in the early morning hours of March 4.
Suffolk police raided two properties they say are tied to meth labs.
Six people were taken the hospital with non life-threatening injuries following the crash.
A police spokesman says they are stepping up patrols at the school as a precaution.
The crash has caused delays on both sides of the bridge during the Monday morning commute.
The rocket was carrying three new technologies into space.
Former President Bill Clinton is traveling to North Carolina to campaign for his wife ahead of the state’s presidential primary on March 15.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is bringing is campaign to North Carolina this week.
Police are still looking for the suspect following the overnight chase.
The second floor of the duplex sustained considerable smoke damage from the fire.
Police are currently investigating a shooting that occurred in the 1200 block of Lead Street Sunday night.
Police are on scene of where a 16-year-old was shot near Pollard Street and Barre Street in Norfolk.
A 15-year-old was hit by a vehicle near College Drive and University Boulevard Sunday afternoon.
Police are on scene investigating a male who was shot in the 1800 block of Portsmouth Boulevard on Sunday afternoon.
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Daniel Way: The Wolverine: Origins Interrogation
Daniel Way on Wolverine: Origins
Newsarama contacted writer Daniel Way to discuss the upcoming arc, ‘Family Business’, and Wolverine’s budding paternal instinct.
Newsarama: In the aftermath of 'Original Sin', Daken and Logan appear to be on the same page--and they're both pissed. Is the hunt for Romulus on?
Daniel Way: Yes, but—as you’ll soon see—the two of them have very different reasons for doing so.
NRAMA: How do you think Wolverine has changed characteristically—now that he realizes that he has a son? Since Daken's introduction, have readers been watching a slow change in Logan?
DW: Good question. Just like anyone else, fatherhood has changed Logan—hopefully, for the better. In the wake of both regaining his memories and learning of the existence of his son, he can now see that he has set a horrible example for others to follow—that’s why, in ORIGINS, you don’t see him hacking and slashing, going nuts, letting the cards fall where they may. That’s what got him where he is today. He has finally taken control of his destiny. The tragedy of this, though, is that Daken is walking the exact same path that Logan did—how can he, Logan, convince his son to change his ways without being hypocritical? It’s something that he’s trying to figure out as he goes. For once, he’s thinking about the future instead of the past.
NRAMA: Is Daken's role in the Marvel Universe going to become expanded in 2009? Could we end up seeing more of him elsewhere?
DW: Readers will be seeing a lot of Daken in 2009, both in the Orgins book and others.
NRAMA: I asked Mike Carey a similar question in our last interview: Do you think Wolverine and his new "family" (Daken, X-23) are forming up to be a Marvel version of the Bat-family? Does Wolverine make for a good father figure? Or is that a role reserved for the young and innocent like Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, and Armor?
DW: Wolverine has always felt compelled to help those who are helpless, probably due to his own childhood. Daken and X-23 are far from helpless—what they need is guidance. This is the role he is struggling to take in Daken’s life; that of the sensei. But before he can do this, he must first lay his own demons to rest...which means having it out with Romulus.
NRAMA: Will readers get a closer look at Romulus as Origins moves into 2009? Or is he going to remain elusive?
DW: Romulus will finally show his face in 2009. At this point, that’s all I can say.
NRAMA: Will more of the Weapon Plus Program be explored as we approach the release of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine motion picture?
DW: We will be exploring it in depth during the “Weapon XI” storyline, but that’s due to the planned trajectory of the series rather than the release of the film.
NRAMA: Is Daken connected to any other characters in the Marvel Universe since it's been revealed that he's a little older than most characters? Is his bloody career fairly prolific?
DW: At the end of Origins, Wolverine’s past will be laid to rest, allowing him to finally step into the future. However, Daken’s past will remain wide open, providing fertile ground for years and years worth of stories.
NRAMA: Will the members of X-Force be showing up in Origins anytime soon?
DW: There are no plans for them to show up in Origins, but you’ll be seeing them in another book that I write…
NRAMA: Any hints as to any other familiar (and/or unfamiliar) faces showing up in months to come?
DW: As the solicitations have already revealed, Cyber will be looping back into the story, leading up to a huge confrontation with the X-Men. There’ll also be a surprise appearance by a character who was off the board for a while, but is now back with a vengeance. And guess what? He knows about Romulus.
NRAMA: Are there any stones you haven't uncovered yet that you're really champing at the bit to explore?
DW: The thing that I’m most excited about is Romulus—who and what he is, where he came from and what his ultimate goal is. As Origins moves into its final act, all will be revealed.
NRAMA: What other projects are you working on in early 2009?
DW: Deadpool, Deadpool, Deadpool! Plus, I’m working on a project with Richard Corben in addition to a super-secret X-book that will be announced at the New York Con.
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Americans are producing more, but job growth is very sluggish. So UCLA’s Anderson Forecast has pronounced the domestic economy “bipolar.”
The forecast says economic output is on the rise. The surge in productivity started when companies felt the pinch of the recession.
"Firms decided to lay off lots of people, and then they figured out that they could produce as much as before with less people," Senior Economist David Shulman says.
The Gross Domestic Product was up almost 6 percent at the end of last year, but the economy still lost jobs. Shulman expects those jobs to begin return very slowly this year. That would lower the unemployment rate only slightly to just over 9.5 percent. He says that businesses are reluctant to start hiring, uncertain about a range of changing government policies, from health care reform to interest rates.
"We don’t really know when taxes are going to go up a lot or spending is going to go down a lot, and that affects business decision making," Shulman says.
In California, the unemployment rate stands at 12-and-a-half percent. The UCLA Anderson economists predict that it won’t dip into the single digits for another couple of years. The state budget crisis will play a role in the sluggish job growth, pressuring the state and local government to lay off even more workers. But if you think the Golden State's budget crisis is bad, Shulman says it's far from the worst.
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There are many ways to enjoy a hike in Nahal Kziv', and I advise you to take the 6-km circular route [3.7 mile]: although the rough climbing at the end is quite demanding, it is suitable for the whole family. The best season for this trail is at the hot season, because trails that don’t have the chilling pools like those of the Kziv Stream might be less agreeable. Don't forget to bring swimming suit with your or extra clothes to change and a flashlight in case you'll want to enter the Ein Tamir spring tunnel.
1. A circular trail (6 km) [3.7 miles] – this trail begins and ends at the same point and it fits for hikers with only one vehicle. Turn north at Route 89 to Meilliya and Mitspe Hilla. Near the entrance to the Mitspe continue straight to a dirt-road . Drive on this road an additional 200 meters [656 feet] until you arrive to a parking lot on your left. From this point track the trail that descends to the stream; its mark in the marking trail map [the 1:50,000 SPNI mapping system] is black.
2. First option for a non-circular trail (6 km) [3.7 m] – At Beztet Junction drive east to Kevish Hatsafon (Route 899 – The North Road). After driving for about 12 km [7.4 mile] you’ll come to a signpost indicating right to Park Goren. At Park Goren, follow the signs until the Monfort Observation Point . The trail starts from this point. Drive the other vehicle eastwards, adjacently to the stream bank; at the place where the road turns left, continue directly on the dirt-road for another 200 m [650 feet] to a point above Ein Tamir (marked blue in the marking trail map).
3. Second option for a non-circular trail (6 km) [3.7 miles] – this route starts next to Ein Ziv. From Route 89, turn north at the western entrance to Ma'alot-Tarshiha . Follow the road that goes down towards the stream until a point which is impassable for further driving next to a Mekorot water pumping station. Leave the second vehicle at the end of your route, at either point or , as was explained above.
4. A difficult-level hike (25 km) [15.5 miles] – starting point is at the Druze village of Hurfeish. The trail starts next to a plaza at the northern entrance of the village and winds along the stream until Moshav Avadon.
(Starting point according to Trail 1) – Take the black-marked trail that descends from the parking lot northeast. (Note the additional dirt road which is also marked black but heads westward toward the sea). The starting point of the trail allows for a spectacular view of the Kziv Stream. With its 20 km of windings, the Kziv Stream extends from the western side of the Meron Mountains until its estuary north of Nahariya. During winter the rainfall is drained into the Kziv Stream. Then the stream is fed by flows of more springs that emanate alongside the bed of the stream. Currently, Mekorot (the Israel National Water) pumps most of the water of the main spring of the Kziv – the Ein Ziv – and boosters it for the water supply of the dwellers of the western Galilee.
The footpath will take you down toward mitspe Hila, one of the Mitspim that were built during the eighties in an effort to populate the Galilee with Jews. The flora that grows alongside the trail, and especially its varied trees that belong to the Mediterranean forest, is consisted of the Palestine oak, terebinth tree, Syrian Maple, sweet bay, Syrian maple, Grecian strawberry tree and Italian buckthorn.
During the last days of winter and beginning of spring you’ll meet with the varied species of the season, as for example crown anemone, turban buttercup, and Florist's cyclamen. Towards the end of spring try to locate the florescence stalks (scapes) of the bristly hollyhock, and note the blossoming of the sage-leaved rock rose, Cretan rock rose, thorny burnet, red cudweed, wild carrot and the plentitude of other seasonal flowers.
Continue for about 1-km [0.6 mile] until you meet with a turn left toward another blue-marked trail. In case you decide to follow the blue-marked trail, it might extend the trail by about 1.5 km [0.9 mile], and this extension is recommended if you still have the verve and energy. This trail leads to an observation point with a beautiful view of the Kziv Stream that joins with the black-marked trail.
During May-June this trail encounters with one of the rarest and most beautiful flowers of Israel namely with the white Madonna Lily that blossoms here with all its beauty, and grows in discrete groups alongside the blue-marked trail. It is recommended to search for it; however, picking the flower is banned.
Return to the black-marked trail and after 1 km [0.62 mile], come to the bed of the Kziv Stream and to the green-marked trail that passes on the bed of the river. Take the turn right and climb up the streambed and after not a long distance of about 400 m [1,300 f] you’ll come to Ein Tamir . It is easy to locate the spring due to the water-pools that surround it. This is an excellent opportunity to stop and wade in the water. At the south bank of the stream there is a tunnel which was dug during antiquity to support the capacity of the spring. Although its narrow entrance, it becomes wider later. Try to walk in the tunnel’s water – it is great! At the end of the tunnel, you’ll arrive to a dead-end and have to turn back to the entrance. Don't forget to fetch with you some flashlights!
After having enough of wading in the water, return along the green-marked trail down the stream to the place from where you will have came. It will be a short while until the trail rejoins again with the black-marked trail, with the one that you will previously had climbed; however continue to go down on the bed of the stream and follow the green-marked trail. The footpath continues through an impressive avenue of oriental plane trees that impart shadow over the stream. This avenue of oriental plane trees used to go further and used to shadow the entire trail, but due to excessive Mekorot pumping of the Ein Tamir Spring, the eastern side of the avenue dried up. During later days, the company had undertaken to allocate 100 cubic meter water per hour and thus the preservation of the unique flora of Nahal Kziv was allowed.
Along the waterside, you’ll meet with an abundance of aquatic plants: horse mint, holy bramble, great willow herb, common fig trees, watercress, common reed and more.
After hiking for about 1.5 km [0.93 mile], join with the black-marked trail that descends from Granot Ha-galil . Continue along a green footpath, and about 500 m 1,64 feet] later, you’ll come to an old flourmill on your left. This watermill, and many more like it in Kziv Stream, used to serve the inhabitants during various historical times. The last flourmill, which was owned by a villager from Mi'ilia, had stopped from grinding during the fifties of last century. There was a shared method for operating flourmills that was common for many streams in Israel: some of the water of the stream was captured in a tunnel and was made to flow toward the flourmill, and through the natural gradient of the river, the height-gap between the bed of the stream and the tunnel was increased. Then at the flourmill facility, the water fell through a chimney and a vertical shaft and splashed on the paddlewheel. Here gravity started to work and the pressure of the falling water started the movement of the waterwheel that was tied up at its upper part to two millstones – an upper and a lower one. The water from this point onward was captured again and was streamed back to the bed of the stream.
One kilometer after the flourmill [0.62 mile] and downstream, you’ll come across another flourmill and meet a red-marked trail that ascends to the Monfort Fortress . Follow this footpath that climbs from the southern bank toward the fortress .
The Arabic name of the Monfort Fortress is Qala'at Qurein, i.e. “the little horn fortress” and it received its name after its locus at a steep mountain range that resembles a horn. The fortress which was owned by one of the orders of the Crusader was in the purview of their local center at Mi'ilia. There are many farms and flourmills that surround the fortress and they were part of the agricultural deployment of it. The fortress was besieged during the Mamluk Conquest by Baybars after 1265 AD. The landscape from the fortress is breathtaking, and one might find it intriguing to imagine the kind of life the crusaders had led in this fortress 800 years ago. The current ruins which are seen on the surface only hint about the whole fortress and they include the Bastion face and the Keep (the gate tower). Many compartments of it were totally ruined or never excavated by the archeologists.
After visiting the fortress, continue with the red-marked trail on the slope uphill. After about 400 m [1,300 f], you’ll reach to the top of the hill. From here, follow the red-marked trail for 1 km [0.62 m] and go along the dirt-road until you’ll encounter with the second vehicle .
Fallow-deer (roebuck) in Kziv Stream: the roebuck, a mammal that looks like a stag or a ram, used to teem in this area until its extinction. In 1996 a population of ten fallow-deer was released back to nature after they had been acclimated at a corral next to Ein Tamir Spring.
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From the Zinn Education Project
On May 23, 1838--the forced removal of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw and other Native American nations officiallybegan--a land theft, massacre, and attempted genocide known as the Trail of Tears. A petition was signed by close to every member of the Cherokee nation (16,000) in protest of the planned removal. This resounding, democratic voice was ignored.
See the film segment of We Shall Remain (http://bit.ly/13Mu8RG) and use the Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play from the Zinn Education Project (http://bit.ly/13Mt8wM) to introduce students to the history outside of the textbook about the organized efforts to resist relocation and the horror of the internment and subsequent death marches.
Photo: Elizabeth "Betsy" Brown Stephens, a Cherokee woman who walked the Trail of Tears. [Wikimedia Commons]
Keeping in mind that this Trail of Tears also went through Missouri--which they don't teach in our schools. It went through Southern Missouri and straight through what is now Springfield, Missouri.
Links: Trail of Tears
Discover A Hidden History- Cherokee Trail of Tears Encampment Waynesville, Missouri
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I have been slacking lately. In my blog writing (you've noticed, haven't you?) and, I hate to admit it, in my household chores.
The dishes need to be done. The laundry needs to be done.
But I have excuses; are you ready for them?
My garden is planted!
This corner of my backyard:
Now looks a little different:
There will eventually be fence slats up on the posts but I'm waiting for the concrete (cement?) to cure. Someone once explained the difference to me between concrete and cement and I have since forgotten which is which...did you know there was a difference?
And I am reading "The Curved Saber" by Harold Lamb. This is one of my dad's books that I read in high school and he kindly let me borrow it again. I love it and was thrilled to get on Alibris books and discover that someday if I ever have spending money I can pick up my own copy as well as a few other of his books. I'm particularly looking forward to some of his biographical and historical narratives on Ghengis Khan, Charlemagne and Constantinople, The Crusades and The March of Moscovy. Many of his stories are being reprinted in collections or volumes with two due out this year.
Yesterday I sat out on the back deck and read while the kids played in the wading pool and then next thing I knew I was surrounded with kids and books and they had all joined me for a time of "reading"; each kid with a pile of books to look through.
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Entertaining Philly for 30 years and counting! The Spirit of Philadelphia delivers the city's most unique combination of dining, dancing, entertainment and waterfront views. Cruising year-round from Penn's Landing, Spirit Cruises offers Lunch, Dinner, Moonlight Cruises and more. Enjoy contemporary food stations and unparalleled skyline views set to a lively soundtrack of Top 40 hits and old school favorites. All for one great price! For your next special occasion or a unique way to experience Philadelphia, come aboard today!
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Actor John Malkovich will probably get a standing ovation after his performance at Toronto's Elgin Theatre on Saturday night — but the problem is he may not know if the applause is for his performance on the stage, or on the street.
The highly-acclaimed actor is in Toronto starring in The Giacomo Variations at the Elgin Theatre.
But Torontonians are just discovering, that Malkovich helped to save a man's life on King Street East in the downtown core on Thursday night.
It happened in just a few seconds, said Jim Walpole, who is visiting Toronto after just completing a cross-Canada train trip.
He and his wife, who are from Ohio, had just finished eating at P.J. O'Brien's restaurant and were heading back to the King Edward Hotel when Walpole tripped and fell.
As he tumbled to the ground he slashed his throat on some scaffolding.
"The way he was spurting I thought it was the carotid [artery] or the jugular [vein]," said Marilyn Walpole, who is a retired nurse.
Marilyn, 79, yelled for help and the 59-year-old Malkovich appeared and applied pressure to Walpole's throat to stop the bleeding.
Also helping out was Toronto restaurateur Ben Quinn — owner of P.J. O'Brien's where Jim and Marilyn had just had dinner.
"They were so helpful, so wonderful," Walpole recalled to CBC News.
Malkovich applied pressure to stop the bleeding, using his scarf to help stop the blood flow.
"I asked, 'What's your name?' He said, 'John.' And I didn't ask the last name 'cause I didn't figure I'd remember it anyhow," he said.
Malkovich "took over just like a doctor," Walpole said.
The hotel doorman called 911 and an ambulance appeared a few minutes later.
Walpole was taken to St. Michael's hospital where he received 10 stitches and was released.
The 77-year-old said he didn't recognize Malkovich and wasn't really sure if he's ever seen him in any films.
But Marilyn says that's going to change.
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Christine Marie Schoonmaker and Mark Daniel Kipps were married May 23 at Centreville United Methodist Church.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Schoonmaker, Jr. of Centreville. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne V. Kipps of New Market.
The Rev. Dr. Alan Felumlee and the Rev. Doug Sterrett, uncle of the bride, performed the double-ring ceremony. Rebecca Jackson was the organist.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a floor-length white sleeveless gown with a halter neckline and a chapel-length train with sequins and beads. She wore a fingertip-length veil and carried a bouquet of white roses, blue delphiniums, blue hydrangeas and purple lisianthus with stems wrapped in her mother’s lace.
Bridesmaids were Gillian Mescher of Elkridge, Md., Julie Shore of Centreville, and Anna Copenhaver of Yorktown, cousin of the bride. They each wore a floor-length periwinkle sleeveless gown with a V-neckline and each carried a bouquet of yellow stock and carnations with blue delphiniums and hydrangeas.
Groomsmen were Jonathan Egan of Hanover, Md., Michael Shore of Centreville, and Jacob Teter of Fairfax. The usher was James Schoonmaker of Centreville, brother of the bride.
The flower girl was Kaitlyn Grover, niece of the bride. Ring bearer was Adam Souder, nephew of the groom.
A reception followed at Stonewall Golf Club in Gainesville.
Prenuptial entertainment included bridal showers given by the bridesmaids and the groom’s family and the rehearsal dinner given by the groom’s parents at Heart in Hand in Clifton.
The bride is a 1999 graduate of Centreville High School and a 2003 graduate of James Madison University. She has a degree in biology and works in biodefense.
The groom is a 1997 graduate of Stonewall Jackson High School in Quicksburg and a 2002 graduate of Virginia Tech. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is employed by Valley Engineering, Surveying and Planning in Harrisonburg.
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B vitamins obtained from food sources provide numerous benefits, including improved liver and nervous system function and healthy skin, hair and eyes. Because B vitamins also affect your metabolism, taking excess vitamins in a B complex supplement may upset your digestive system and cause changes in your stools. Yellow stools may also indicate liver problems, one of the side effects of taking too much vitamin B. If the problem persists, see your doctor.
If your stools remain a shade of brown, you likely have nothing to worry about, according to Michael Picco, a gastroenterologist who answers patient questions at MayoClinic.com. Changes in your diet, including taking vitamin B complex, can change the color and consistency of your stools. The amount of bile in your stool also affects the color. If stool passes through your digestive tract quickly, it doesn't absorb much bile. Your stool may turn lighter and become looser. Several B vitamins can cause diarrhea.
B-3 and Liver Damage
If the vitamin B complex supplement you take includes niacin, check the label for the amount of this vitamin -- B-3. The recommended dietary allowance of niacin ranges from 14 mg to 16 mg a day. If you take more than 100 mg of niacin daily, side effects can include diarrhea and vomiting. Taking niacin in large amounts can also cause liver damage. If you've been taking vitamin B-3 for an extended period, get your liver checked periodically even if your stools have not turned yellow.
If you take more than the RDA of vitamin B-5 -- 5 mg -- you may also experience diarrhea and lighter stools. If you are deficient in vitamin B-5, also known as pantothenic acid, you may need to take 10 mg a day. Apart from treating a deficiency, few medically proven reasons for taking extra B-5 exist. Switch to a B complex supplement that contains no more than the RDA for pantothenic acid and see if your yellow stools return to their normal brown color. People with hemophilia should not take B complex supplements that contain B-5 -- the vitamin could worsen bleeding incidents associated with the blood-clotting disorder.
Crohn's disease and other bowel disorders may cause yellow stools and diarrhea. Taking B complex supplements poses other side effects in addition to liver damage. Some are fairly minor -- change in urine color and output, headaches, sleepiness and upset stomach -- but serious side effects include gout, stomach ulcers and vision loss. Most people get enough vitamin B from their diet. Ask your physician to check out the cause of your yellow stools. | <urn:uuid:831eaa24-347a-4d84-886a-3f4d7cf56207> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/491415-can-vitamin-b-complex-cause-yellow-stools/ | 2017-06-22T12:26:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00393.warc.gz | en | 0.912539 | 541 | [
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Published by Crown on February 11th 2014
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him & forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded & completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—& even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—& a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?
It’s Sci-Fi Month, courtesy of Rinn Reads and Over the Effing Rainbow! If you want to get involved, you can check out the details here. Today I’m reviewing The Martian, which is probably my favorite Sci-Fi read of 2015.
So imagine my surprise when I could not put down The Martian, a book basically written as a love letter to engineering and problem solving. From the first sentence I was engaged in the story. What’s the first sentence you ask?
‘I’m pretty much fucked.”
What makes The Martian work so well is the humor. Mark Watney is hilarious, and surprisingly optimistic for being stranded on Mars. Without such a likeable character to route for, this book would fall pretty flat. But the whole thing is chock-full of witticisms.
“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
“He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man’s psychology?” He turned back to Venkat. “I wonder what he’s thinking right now.”
LOG ENTRY: SOL 61 How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.”
Mark is the MacGyver of Mars, rigging everything from farming potatoes to creating water from scratch. But for every scientific endeavor that goes well another goes terribly wrong. This made The Martian incredibly fast-paced. It also makes you forget just how long Mark is on the planet by himself. That actually might lead to my one minuscule criticism about The Martian. I really have to suspend my disbelief that Mark is able to stay as optimistic as he does for as long as he does.
The story is told via Mark’s logs on Mars, in addition to some third person chapters from people back on earth. The chapters not featuring Mark were less interesting, but necessary for upping the stakes. As if being stranded wasn’t tricky enough, there’s a lot of factors back home that complicate Mark’s retrieval. Turns out that bringing a scientist back home is a very political problem that will look bad on NASA if they mess up.
Overall, the humor and fast-paced problem solving is what makes this book so charming. The science is accessible and really interesting, and pretty much ensures I’m never signing up for a free trip to the red planet. Kudos to Andy Weir for making such an engaging story! I look forward to any other crazy shenanigans he can cook up! | <urn:uuid:1d6d067b-1278-497d-8e72-b11544a58989> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://lovelyliterature.com/2015/11/05/sci-fi-month-review-the-martian/ | 2017-06-22T11:50:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00393.warc.gz | en | 0.968931 | 778 | [
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A brand well-known for their appreciation of art, Sullen Clothing return for fall with this masterpiece of a cap. The “Mandala” 9FIFTY snapback comes in black, with white embroidery and features mandala artwork by Orge on the visor. The front displays “Sullen Art Collective” script and the New Era flag is stitched on the side. This one is almost pretty enough to hang on your wall, but then you wouldn’t be able to rock it! Get this snapback on your head for the fall season. Scoop one up now via Sullen Clothing.
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Tattoo-inspired lifestyle brand Sullen Clothing have just dropped their latest snapback to keep you stylin’ for S/S 2015. The “Cali” 9FIFTY comes in black with white embroidery. The front displays a “CA” interlocked logo; the side flies the New Era flag and the back displays the Sullen skull logo superimposed over California embroidery. Represent the Golden State proud. Purchase this cap today at Sullen Clothing.
Known for their tattoo inspired clothing, Sullen Clothing just released this snapback featuring art from Damion Conklin. This snapback features a black and red colorway with “Sullen” on the front in puff embroidery. The underbrim displays images of roses by Conklin. If you rep the Sullen Clothing brand, don’t miss out! Add this cap to your collection now.
The Sullen Clothing 2014 Summer collection is hot! It features many creative and spooky tattoo art-inspired pieces in a variety of different styles, designs, and colors. One of our favorite caps in this drop is the “Casadores” Snapback. featuring the artwork of Carlos Torres. The cap comes in a black on black colorway, with the Sullen logo embroidered on the front. The dopest feature of this snapback is the undervisor, which features a skeleton who looks like he’s had a few too many shots of Cazadores tequilla. If you’re not into floral pattern and bright colors and want to get spooky this summer, make sure to check out the latest Sullen x New Era collection.
Tattoo art-inspired brand Sullen Clothing recently dropped the “GXS MTN Assault” 59FIFTY. This cap comes in a black and grey colorway with a contrasting visor. The front is embroidered with the Sullen logo intertwined with a skeleton hand – an image that is also featured on the under-visor. The side flies the New Era flag. If you rep Sullen Clothing, don’t let this spooky 59FIFTY scare you away. Ride on over to the Sullen and cop it now.
When you buy a hat you probably look at several things, 1) that its a new era, 2) that it catches your eye and 3) the graphics & colors are on point. The Creeps 59Fifty New Era By Sullen Clothing does all three of those things with it’s detailed Sullen lettering on the front panels and the black red color combo. Be a creeper for once and grab the “Creeps” via Sullen.
Huntington Beach based Sullen Clothing is an art-driven lifestyle apparel brand that focuses on bring multiple sub-cultures to one spot. The Sullen Hideout 59Fifty fitted hat is the brands latest New Era Cap release is fall time ready and sports a woodland camouflage body, black brim and Sullen Art Collective patch on the front. Connect with Sullen Clothing for yours.
Fall 2013 from Sullen Clothing is accompanied by no other than a New Era collaborative. An adjustable snapback with the large Sullen badge logo is embroidered on the front left panel and completed with Sullen lettering on the back. With a woodland camo, black brim and rusty New Era logo you can’t go wrong. Now at Sullen.
Most items from Sullen are art-heavy, but for this fitted hat, the brand has put that artistic talent into a typography design of their name. This hat was released previously, in solid color but this time around, the hat comes two-toned. On the back of the hat you can find a skull & cross logo. You will be able to find this hat at Dresscode Clothing. …more
Sullen clothing has picked up momentum with it’s Blast 59Fifty fitted cap by New Era. The Sullen lettering on the front brim features a gradient stitching from top to bottom and side to side. My favorite feature on the cap is the astonishing under bill which has full printed artwork by Timothy Boor – mind blowing!
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|Mr Uncle chugging uphill on his Dahon Dash P18|
|The Bentong riders at Hutan Lipur Lintang|
|Giving chase to Mrs Samo|
I jumped on this offer and wasted no time in heading towards this small town in Pahang, which is about an hour's drive from our home in Subang Jaya.
Michelle had warned me about being late and well, we were 10 minutes off the mark.
The plan was to meet at Kedai Basikal Bentong at 07:30am and ride towards the Bentong-Genting Sempah road.
This is a familiar route to me as we rode here two weeks earlier.
By the time we got to the bicycle shop, about a dozen people were already waiting.
They took off to the hotsprings while Michelle and I went on to set up.
Coincidentally, another group were riding from Bentong to Genting Sempah.
We caught a glimpse of them on the way to town.
By the time we reached the hotsprings, which is about 35-minutes later (about 16km from town) the cyclists were waiting.
We didn't stop and proceeded towards Lentang.
Since the Bentong riders knew the way, they led us to a left turn.
This happens to be the Forestry Department's quarters and nursery.
And during our trip to the East Coast with our Huskies, this was their pee and poo break area.
I am familiar with Lentang and having been there on a macro photography excursion, the landscape was familiar.
The only thing that caught me by surprise is the last 50 meters to the grouping area.
It was a short and steep climb.
So, with the gears crunching, I managed to get all the way to the crowd.
Later, we set up a group photo and adjourned shortly.
The ride to Bentong was a smooth one.
At the time, I was riding with a 70-year-old dude. He was obviously not the strongest of the lot, but he showed some true grit.
I took the position of sweeper as this dude was left very far behind.
We rode slowly at 15km/h and as we reached Bentong town after crawling for 12km, I broke away.
Michelle's voice cracked over the radio, trying to get my position. I was at a Hainanese coffeeshop and made my way back to the bicycle shop where everyone was waiting. They wanted to say goodbye before leaving.
We had an early lunch with Ah Pan, Farmer Wong and Ah Loy, the workshop dude before driving back to KL.
The journey home was agonizing and I felt some pain on my left knee. Felt like the joints were really sore.
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THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT
Ogre's animated by Horrors
It is very rare for Horrors to use powerful magic’s to animate dead ogres. They usually much prefer to use that privilege for the recognised Namegivers. But sometimes the shear size and strength of an Ogre proves simple to tempting and they to will be drafted in to the ranks of the undead.
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Renita Jablonski: Musicians have to be creative when it comes to getting people to stop and listen. One way to get audience attention is to make the venue small. Many artists are staging shows in places like basements, living rooms, and backyards. That grassroots approach is paying off for some with corporate sponsorship. Lisa Chow has the story from New York.
Lisa Chow: You almost get the sense sometimes that musicians enjoy not making money. Violinist Joanna Frankel is a Juilliard graduate and has performed at Carnegie Hall.
Joanna Frankel: I mean, I guess to a fault, I'm not thinking about money, because this to me is something very pure, very honest.
Frankel and five other musicians recently performed in a grand apartment overlooking Central Park. They played for dozens of people, but they didn't make a dime. Michael Reingold organized the event. He says he doesn't charge guests because his main goal is getting people turned onto classical music. And that's hard enough.
Frankel: When I package it with the social element, with the intimacy of it, the food, all these elements put together, it becomes more attractive.
At the other end of town, singer-songwriter Ruth Gerson has found a way to make house concerts pay. She used to play at clubs but switched to house concerts when she realized she could make more money that way.
Ruth Gerson: And the first person was like, OK, and got, whatever, 60 people in a living room and between CDs and people throwing something in, I did, you know, over a thousand dollars and I said, ''Oh, I can do this and make a living.''
Now, corporate interests are catching on. A marketing agency working with Pepsi approached Gerson last year about using her concerts to promote a new zero-calorie drink, Tava. Cassie Hughes is with Grow Marketing. She says house concerts are a perfect place to introduce Pepsi's drink to consumers.
Cassie Gerson: The drink Tava is being targeted at someone who, you know, is in their mid-30s and older who loves to entertain at home.
Gerson says she doesn't feel that she's selling out.
Gerson: Making a living, making music involves thinking outside of the box -- you know, being a creative business person.
Pepsi catered one of Gerson's recent house concerts. The company laid on shrimp and sushi, and, a waist-high bin filled with Tava. Not everyone loved the drink. But it did get them talking about it.
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The Democratic supermajority in Sacramento wants to shield all "the immigrants" from deportation from the mean, nasty Trump Administration. They have already enacted a series of resolutions denouncing any attempts at enforcement of federal immigration law.
Let's see how long this actually lasts.
The Speaker of the State Assembly wants an apartheid state for illegal aliens, along with welfare princes and the public sector union elites. They get to make the rules, and the rest of have to play along and pay the price, even if we do nothing wrong.
They are stealing money from hard-working taxpayers to subsidize immigrant lawyers. County supervisors have declared their firm intentions to build walls around their own counties to protect the illegal aliens. Governor Brown wants to build a big wall around California to shield this state from the "overreach" of Washington.
That overreach is called enforcement. It's called the rule of law, something which Democratic machine politicians have resisted and hated with a passion.
Interestingly enough, however, other states flirted with declaring themselves a "sanctuary state."
Vermont seems to be headed that way, even with a Republican Governor. Who knows what Charlie Baker of Massachusetts is dreaming up. He wants to push away from Trump as much as possible.
But what about Delaware?
The First State is strangely a blue state, even though Pennsylvania to its north and Virginia to the south have remained steadily conservative--especially at a state level.
The Blue Dog coalition in the House of Representatives best represents the Delaware political temperament, fiscal conservative but socially liberal. Republican Congressman Mike Castle managed easy re-elections year after year stressing this fiscal moderation, until the very end when he caved on very bad bills.
The state has been a Democratic trifecta for the last six years.
Democrats are getting more aggressive liberal and partisan, reflecting the regressive leftists tendencies of the national Democratic Committee.
Lawmakers were toying with the idea of make the First State a sanctuary state for illegal aliens, too.
But ... the state senator who had hatched this despicable idea ended up backing away from it!
The Washington Times reports:
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Democratic state senator running for Congress has withdrawn legislation that would have made Delaware a “sanctuary state.”
Sen. Bryan Townsend of Newark withdrew the legislation Thursday amid recent criticism following the arrest of Richard Diaz-Garcia on federal charges of heroin possession and illegal re-entry. Court documents show Diaz-Garcia has been deported to the Dominican Republic five times and twice convicted of illegal re-entry.
|Brown Townsend is in the middle.|
He doesn't deserve any award.
Two of the three counties in Delaware are fairly conservative/Republican leaning. No one wins anything there if they insist on brazenly violating federal law.
Here is the mugshot of the illegal alien:
Illegal immigration is never a victimless crime. The report of a repeat offender illegal alien was enough to shut down turning Delaware into a sanctuary state.
Would that the same revelation worked in California ...
Townsend’s bill prohibited police from detaining anyone solely on the basis of an immigration detainer or warrant after the person posted bond or was otherwise eligible to be released from custody on other charges, and from arresting or detaining a person solely based on citizenship or immigration status.
I wonder what the Delaware police forces thought of this rogue action? Why would any state lawmaker want to make it harder for the local police to do their job?
Townsend said he announced almost a year ago that the legislation would not move forward.
Yeah! How about it should never have been introduced in the first place!
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NY4PI HOST YOUTH SUMMIT ON COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM
On Thursday, April 6th 2017, 100 participants gathered at the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS), University of Ibadan, Nigeria for the National Youth Summit on ‘Youth Participation in Countering Violent Extremism: Opportunities and Challenges’ organised by Nigeria Youth 4 Peace Initiative (NY4PI). The summit was aimed at raising awareness on how youth participation, protection, partnership and engagements can prevent violent extremism and foster sustainable peace and development. It was intended to engage and strengthen local and national networks of young people focused on addressing violent extremism in their own communities and provide an opportunity to share experiences, challenges, and best practices to prevent/counter violent extremism across Nigeria.
Countering Violent Extremism, CVE, UNESCOYFng, Youth Works#youthcivicengagement#counteringviolentextremism, #cve, #unescoyfng, #youthworks
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Newport Vermont restaurants
Tell someone in Vermont that you’re headed to Newport for a few days and their reaction is likely to be something along the lines of “Newport ... Vermont?”
Yes, Newport, Vt. The state’s northernmost city, better known for its economic struggles than its leisurely pursuits, has been generating mostly positive news of late: about eager developers, new restaurants and a gleaming indoor water park at nearby Jay Peak Resort that attracts tourists all year round.
Chief promoter of this land of plenty is Bill Stenger, president and CEO of Jay. He’s been utilizing the federal EB-5 program — which gives green cards to foreigners who invest at least $500, 000 in economically depressed rural regions across the U.S. — to attract $600 million of development projects to the area.
The expectation of enterprise — in a place that desperately needs it — has already rebranded Newport as a burg on the verge of a radical transformation, a city waiting to happen.
“Today, we’re looking at a community that has a lot of qualities to it, a lot of business opportunity, ” says Stenger. “With patient capital and a diverse range of jobs, we’re going to really thrive.”
Stenger’s indoor water park is up and running, but Newport is waiting on Walmart; AnC Bio, a South Korean company that manufactures artificial human organs; a German window manufacturer; a hotel and conference center; and an expanded airport. Those developments are expected to create more than 5000 jobs, from high-level tech positions to dishwasher and construction gigs. In a city with fewer than 5000 residents, that’s a game changer.
Meanwhile, the nonprofit Newport City Renaissance Corporation is working to make downtown attractive to tourists and locals.
Is Newport ready to be a destination? We packed our bags and drove north to find out.
- Megan James
- Jay Peak Resort
The view from 3800 feet
Newport State Airport sits next to the grassy Coventry landfill and across the street from the farm where Phish played their muddy 2004 “farewell” concert. Built in the 1940s for military purposes, the airport sees approximately 20 flights a day — in good weather. It’s also the international headquarters of Lakeview Aviation, whose proprietor, Daniel Gauvin, runs a flight school, rents aircrafts and gives aerial tours to tourists like us for 0 a pop. We decided to climb on board.
The son of Canadian immigrants, Gauvin grew up on a dairy farm in Newport. Before he got his pilot license in 2003, he ran his own farm in the area. “Farming’s a tough life, ” he told us. “I just got tired of giving blood and getting nothing in return.”
- Daniel Gauvin
From the air, Newport looks like an idyllic settlement jutting out into shimmering Lake Memphremagog, a patchwork of churches, bridges and houses surrounded by water. Much of it was built in the late 1800s, during the lumber boom, when Newport was a major stop on the railroad line between Boston and Montréal.
In the ’30s and ’40s, Newport’s International Club had the largest dance floor in New England. Up to 2000 Vermonters could boogie simultaneously to Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller and Louis Prima, who all gigged there.
Newport today is not so glittery. Like many North Country towns, the city has been in slow decline since the 1950s, when the mills began to close. A handful of ski clothing manufacturers stayed until the 1990s, but after they left, Newport hit rock bottom — aided, Stenger says, by increasingly restrictive tax and travel policies along the Canadian border.
Unemployment rose, businesses on Main Street shut down and rents dropped so low that the city began to attract a disproportionate number of the state’s welfare recipients. The 2010 census found that the median income was $33, 526; one in five Newport residents was living in poverty.
There’s a different plan for Newport’s future. From his four-seat 1967 Piper Cherokee 140, Gauvin swooped over the sites of the proposed developments: over the hillside where the new AnC Bio plant will be built; the field where a 150, 000-square-foot Walmart has been proposed; the waterfront strip mall that will become Newport’s first hotel and conference center; the old hospital being converted into 80 market-ready apartments.
“The Northeast Kingdom has always been a high unemployment area, ” Gauvin said as he soared over town. To oppose the development, he added, “would be selfish.”
He assessed the sky. “We’re gonna do a little cloud surfing, ” Gauvin said, and pointed the plane toward Jay Peak, which is 30 minutes away by car. The mountain’s dramatic ski slopes are visible from Newport, but from the air, the resort looked like the Emerald City, only made of wood and steel. We noticed numerous large construction sites dotting the landscape. The roof of the water park reflected the clouds as if it were a giant mirror. | <urn:uuid:87231bee-02e3-4c16-948c-1e45b675f97d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.holidayinn-vermont.com/Restaurants/newport-vermont-restaurants | 2017-06-28T03:48:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322320.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628032529-20170628052529-00394.warc.gz | en | 0.955812 | 1,100 | [
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I couldn't think of a title, as this is just rambling on about how life is going here.
Tomorrow is Tommy's 26th birthday. Not only this week, or this year has flown by, but the cumulative years just keep flowing on.
Tommy (Stephen Thomas) is still attending Christ For The Nations International (CFNI) in Dallas. This summer he will be helping out at a day camp for children. (Kids for the Nations? I can't remember its proper title.)
Next Friday would of been Bill's 34th birthday, and my PawPaw's 102nd. Paw was always so pleased to have a great grand baby born on his birthday!
This has been a run run run week. Tom got the garden (such as it is) planted over the weekend. We have eight tomato plants, six jalapeno peppers, seven bell peppers, two tabasco peppers, and two squash- one each of yellow and zucchini. We had to put several of the peppers in containers, plus I have lettuce, spinach, radishes and carrots in containers. Sam started some tomatoes and peppers from seed... which I accidentally killed by leaving out on frosty night. I replanted those, and now that they are up... we have no place to plant them! Looks like we may need more containers. (I also planted gallardia (Indian blanket) flower seeds. Those have also come up.)
Trim Healthy Mama has been slow going for me, but I am down TWO lbs. Tom fluctuates a lot, but mostly because he hasn't quit sugar... to the tune of ice cream every night, and pretty much whatever he wants when he wants it. I can cook THM desserts, but more often than not, they go to waste.
He does exercise, though. A whole lot. he gets up in the mornings and works out with weights. On his lunch break at work, he does walking, stairs, and other calisthenics. I just walk the dog. But the dog and I generally go about 3 miles every day. Yesterday, I met another, older lady who walked with me. Her name is Stella. We may be walking buddies. (I can use some real life friends!)
Mondays are Tom's and my grocery shopping/ errand days. Tuesdays generally see me going in the opposite direction to get our Aldi list. I try to remember to pick up their sales flyer for next week when I go. Aldi's sales week starts on Wednesday... so when Dan saw the flyer Tuesday night, he requested I go back on Wednesday. He has been learning bike maintenance and repair... and one of the weekly deals for "this" week was a bicycle maintenance stand. As long as I was all the way back down in Siloam, I hit up the thrift shops. I got some summer clothes for myself, but my biggest "score" was a carafe for my blender. It was marked $4.05... but that colored tag was 75% off! So I got it for $1.01. I'm quite pleased.
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I am a dyslexic. I spell things wrong. I tend to avoid reading. I believe this makes me different, a creative, a problem solver and more. This blog site is a portal for me to share work and thoughts with you. Parts of it will be about me; my history from assistant to photographer, via lighting designer and digital operator. Some of it will be about photography; tips, advice, shortcuts, lessons, kit. And some of it will be pictures; mainly mine, occasionally others I’m connected with, good ones bad ones… But this blog is about more than that for me, it’s my story, accompanied by the spelling mistakes. For years I have been afraid to do a blog because it creates a burden on the people closest to me – checking through what I do. How do I spell that? What does it start with? (the second letter is sometimes more difficult than you may think) Spell check is often useless to me as I can’t find the start of a word or read the difference between some words. As the dyslexic journalist AA Gill pointed out, you’re the people who thought it was a smart idea to […]
After two year of planning, moving house and designing, the studio build is underway. Courtesy of the amazing team a Studio Bark. A very exciting time for me. After many years I will finally have the perfect space in which to work, shoot, test and play. From Monday 12th - Friday 23rd of October I will be testing out the light (which has been expertly planned). Anyone who wants a headshot or any type of portrait for the massively reduced price of £120 please email [email protected] to book a session, quoting LIGHTBOX. Please press SHARE as many times as you possibly can and pass this on to anyone you know. The LIGHTBOX offer is open to, friends of friends and their friends too. Or anyone that reads this blog. It’s still pretty new with a small following. This is a few shots of the build so far. I will be adding to this post over the coming weeks. Concrete base being pour tomorrow. See the next post.
The final stage of the build is complete. My fantastically amazing studio has its clothes on. The team at Studio Bark have poured there hearts, soles and creative energy into these amazing concrete tiles and they look fantastic. I’m just ecstatic with my new studio. For now I’m going to hold off on the final shots until the garden landscaping is done and I can take a photo that will do it justice. If you want to see the finished building, for now you will have to book in for a portrait. I am also putting together a time-lapse from beginning to end. But for now lets get to work…
I’m not really sure how to go about this. I suppose I’ll just keep writing, then post one bit at a time. I’ll just start at the beginning and go from there. I shall do my best to keep in a lot of detail (for those of you who may be interested) without boring the socks off the rest of you. From a young age I spent a lot of time frustrated by many things thought in the classroom. I understood what was going on but couldn’t seem to retain the information other children could. This made me boisterous and very easily distracted. A slippery slope for someone who finds retaining linguistic information tricky. It wasn’t till much later that I discovered that ‘practice makes perfect’. In my case I could never be perfect but I did, and still do get better the more I read and write. Whether it was forcing myself to read literature far beyond my capabilities in photography degree, reading about dyaspora and semiotics or my most recent practice, reading my one year old daughter bedtime stories. I was lucky enough to be recognised as dyslexic at a really young age. I was […]
The build is fantastically underway now. It's been eventful and an incredibly steep learning curve. This is what I have had time to document so far, from the concrete pour to huge 3m x 1m window going in. With a few gaps, while I have been doing shoots elsewhere. The first few shots are of the early morning concrete pour with four key members of Studio Bark; Wilf, Steph, Nick and Wilson. All fantastically hard working and individually exploding with building and architectural knowledge. After that you start to see some new faces. This is because the build itself is being run as part of Construction Week 2015 working with students from UEL. They are learning to construct a timber framed building and concrete casting among many other things. They are currently out there in the rain fitting all of the insulation. There’s a lot. The huge sliding door is being fitted tomorrow. It is very much going to live up to it’s name ‘Lightbox’. See first post.
I have no idea what it is to be a dyslexic photographer, I just know what it is like to be me. I think that being dyslexic has made me compensate in other ways. Visually, often taking the long way round rather than read or write or the almost impossible task that is, learning to spell. This may be a chicken and egg scenario; am I dyslexic, therefore have to become more visually and spatially aware or am I more of a ‘pictures person’ who wasn’t that good a reading therefore stuck to the easy stuff getting much better at it while seriously neglecting the literacy. I dont want anyone to think that I am not truly dyslexic. I just don’t think that anyone fully understands what it is yet. At the moment its beeing said that it affects one in ten of us. I’m just suggesting that it may be multiple things that effect 10%, not just one badly spelt word. When I was at 6th form college (2000 – 2002) I had my own special appointment with an educational psychologist who put me through my paces showing me cards, cubes, letters, words and shapes. Saying things […] | <urn:uuid:e277b27e-d31d-41fa-8268-b263d4ae4049> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://dyslexicphotographer.com/portcat/my-story/ | 2017-06-28T22:28:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323807.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628222452-20170629002452-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.972154 | 1,292 | [
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"Oh yeah! Didn't we win an Emmy for that episode?" --Eddy This article has been featured on the Main Page. You may also request the next featured article here.
"An Ed is Born" is the 4th episode of Season 4 and the 81st episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. In this episode, Eddy finds out that his brother still treats him like a baby after getting a package from him. Eddy decides to make a home movie of himself to show his brother how grown up he has become.
The episode begins with Rolf sniffing along the sidewalk. After he goes right over Jonny, he tells him to be silent. After a while, he reaches Ed's bedroom where Ed along with a nagging Edd is teaching Rolf's chickens to swim. Just as Rolf is about to yell at them, he is knocked out the basement window by a huge package that was pushed down the stairs by Eddy. After Rolf takes his chickens back, Ed tells them "that concludes our lessons for today, ladies!" Eddy comes down and, in a good mood, tells them that it is a gift from his brother. Eddy tears the wooden box open only to find it full of baby stuff such as a pacifier, a diaper, and a rattle. Ed and Edd laugh at the diaper and pacifier, but Ed becomes fascinated by the rattle. After suggesting to make a movie by Ed, Eddy decides to make one showing how much he has grown up to his brother. Edd states they need a camera first, so Ed rummages through his dryer and gives him one claiming it is static free. Edd questions why he has a video camera in his dryer, but Ed responds with "What?" They start the movie in front of Eddy's garage.
Eddy swings in, on a rope, and lands on a chair. Eddy, while sporting a lengthy piece of fake mustache hair, tells his brother that he is rich, grown up and he also owns Saturn and Pluto, but it goes downhill when Edd accidentally films Ed gluing money signs on garbage bags. Eddy repositions the camera saying not to film that. Edd apologizes saying Eddy being planet baron threw him off. Eddy's fake mustache then falls off and when he sees that this happened, he becomes distraught that this will not work before he covers up his face. He demands Edd to stop filming as he can't show his brother how cool he is when his friends keep messing things up. Before he finishes his sentence Ed arrives and shakes his head like the rattle which only makes Eddy more distraught.
Next scene, Eddy and Ed are walking down the sidewalk where Eddy claims to his brother that while the Cul-de-Sac hasn't changed much since he remembered and left it, he is the mayor now. When he also claims that Kevin has now become the neighborhood dork and Kevin overhears this, he decides to get even by giving Eddy a bicycle wedgie by tying his underwear to the back of his bike and speeding off down the street. Eddy then tells his brother that Kevin collects underwear and gives it to the poor but then gets pulled away and as Kevin speeds off with Eddy stuck, he gets his underwear torn off and crashes to the ground. Ed and Edd rush off to make sure he is all right. After arriving where Eddy is, Ed says he deserves a shake for that before shaking the rattle while Eddy gets back on his feet. Eddy snatches the rattle out of Ed's hands, throws it to the ground, and tries to smash it, but he ends up falling off the rattle while it flies away off-screen. While Ed goes to retrieve the rattle, Edd sarcastically notes to Eddy if he was his brother he would be very impressed. Eddy glares at Edd.
When Edd starts recording again, The Eds are in the playground. Eddy reminds his brother on how he used to own the playground before claiming that he owns it now. When Sarah and Jimmy come, Eddy says they have to pay to go on the swings. Edd then stops everyone for a brief moment, so he can get a close-up. When he gets to his position, he wants Jimmy to be closer to Sarah. Right after Jimmy gets closer to Sarah, she punches the camera out of Edd's hands. As Edd gets the camera back, Sarah yells at Ed to get Eddy and Edd out of the way. Eddy tells her it is no use pleading for mercy as Ed obeys only his supreme leader which Eddy claims is him. Ed then obeys what his sister said, drags Eddy away, and ties him around one of the beams of the swing-set. Eddy claims to his brother that Ed is showing Sarah what he will do to her if she doesn't go away. After getting Eddy stuck to the swing set, he puts Sarah and Jimmy on the swings and gives them both a push. Edd tells everyone to give a big smile for Eddy's brother.
After that, Ed is playing with the camera while Edd and Eddy are thinking of some new ideas. Edd tries to tell Ed to be careful with it but stops himself knowing that the camera is Ed's. Ed swallows the camera and the inside of his stomach is shown. Edd fishes the camera out of Ed while nagging on what it could do to his digestive track. Ed says that he can't wait to see that part of the film, but Edd says, "Let's not and say we did, Ed." Eddy shouts, "Come on, come on! I got an impression to make here, remember?"
The Eds then notice a humming Nazz doing her nails. Eddy claims that she is his girlfriend and goes over to her to give her the pleasure of his company, but he ends up getting karate kicked into a fire hydrant. Nazz notices Edd and questions whether they were filming a movie or not. Edd, overcome with nervousness, dispositions the camera downward and begins filming the ground. Ed repositions the camera so that it focuses back on Eddy. While Ed gets Eddy and dries him off by shaking him, Jonny and Plank steal the camera and begin fooling around with it. Eddy angrily pounces on Jonny and buries him, along with Plank, except for his head in a garden claiming he scares the birds away. With the camera back, Edd then gets a shot of Ed (dressed as Rolf). Eddy claims Rolf is his jet-setter, but he sees that it is really Ed in Rolf's clothes. He then snatches the rattle away and asks "Rolf" how did he become his jet setter while he throws the rattle away. It then hits the real Rolf, who then proceeds to angrily chase the Eds with a rake.
They go to The Junkyard next for their movie. When Edd focuses on Ed and Eddy he tells them no backs to the camera as that is rude. Eddy tells him to just roll while putting on sunglasses. Eddy reminds his Big Bro about his old hangout, the Junkyard; and even mentions that the other kids are too chicken to come to the Junkyard now. Ed is then shown moving, while being scared, that something might attack him. Eddy then claims that proves otherwise. Ed is then shown bashing a car which Eddy claims is an old car he owns that is being fixed, but it is not ready yet. Eddy then shows off a central heating unit claiming it to be his latest invention, which he "builded", dubbing it as a hard-boiled egg boiler. Eddy then explains how it works while Edd shoots him at different angles. After finishing, Edd says he is creating dynamics and Eddy says to not get arty on him. When he opens the door to the boiler it shows the Kankers inside. When Edd points this out to Eddy, the Kankers ambush him and take Eddy for some smooching, but he is then rescued by Ed and Edd. The three then evacuate out of the junkyard with Eddy screaming for his life. The Kankers wave goodbye. All of this, including Eddy's humiliating retreat, is captured on camera.
Back in Eddy's room, Eddy gives one last attempt to show his brother how cool he is. He has gathered up all the "kids" to his place for a party. He then proceeds to give everyone he sees his autograph (signing Kevin's hat and Jonny's shirt). Ed then appears with some Chunky Puffs saying to Eddy they're hungry again. Eddy angrily grabs him and says feed them somewhere else before throwing him away off-screen to feed the "kids". All seems to be going well until Rolf walks in, angry once again. Eddy promptly signs Rolf's face (thinking he was the prop Rolf), which only makes him furious. It is then revealed that the Eds have stolen Rolf's chickens again, and that the "kids" are actually cardboard knockoffs mounted to the chickens. After having his face vandalized and his chickens stolen a second time, Rolf proclaims that he must "unleash his rage now" and attacks the Eds, throwing Eddy onto his wall, breaking some of the prop kids, and chasing Ed. A chicken flies into Edd and the camera malfunctions and it is knocked from his hands and falls to the ground. It comes back online in time to film the scene. As Edd lies on the ground with Ed and Eddy under attack in the background by Rolf, and with the camera's battery life almost depleted, Edd mutters his final words to the camera: "I think your brother's got the picture, Eddy." and Eddy screams as the camera shuts down, ending the film.
Jonny: [seeing Rolf sniffing on the ground] "Hiya, Rolf, what'cha doing there, guy?" Rolf: [turns to Jonny] "Silence! Rolf must brood!" [goes back to sniffing the ground]
Rolf: [motioning for Edd to stop] "Let Rolf understand this. I suppose disgracing Rolf is okay to you, Ed boy?" [pupils enlarge pretending to be understanding of Ed, then return back to normal size while Edd steps back] "Walking off with Rolf's chickens like a fine howdy-do?" Ed: [grabbing a handful of chickens] "It was their idea, Rolf. As they wanted to be the best chickens they could be! Bless their little giblets." [He notices Eddy pushing a crate outside his window.] Rolf: "Is this so, Ed boy? You have squeezed an orange rind in the eye of Rolf! Return the chickens or Rolf will…" [a large box hits Rolf and sends him flying out the basement window] Ed: [waving goodbye to the chickens as they leave through the window over the ski] "That concludes our lesson for today, ladies! Ta-ta! Same time tomorrow!"
Eddy: "Hey guys, look what my brother sent me, that big lug." Edd: "Your brother sent you this?" Ed: "I think his brother sent it to him, Double D." Eddy: "Check it out! I bet it's a car or something!" Edd: "Why this seems to be addressed to a 'Pipsqueak', Eddy. A pet name for his baby brother I assume?" [Ed and Ed began snickering of the name 'Pipsqueak'] Eddy: [defensive of the 'Pipsqueak' label on the crate] "Yeah? So, that means head honcho in our house." [grabs and picks up a pacifier from the crate] "Why else would he send me a key to his new truck?" [Eddy shows them a pacifier with Edd and Ed started laughing hysterically]
Ed: [sticking labels on bags of garbage to make them look like sacks of money] "Boy, being rich really stinks." Eddy: "What the heck are you doing?! Don't film that!" Edd: [sarcastically while Eddy's fake mustache falls off his face] "Sorry, Eddy. The planet-baron story threw me off." Eddy: "Cut! Cut! How's my brother supposed to think I'm cool, when you guys keep…?" [Ed looks at the screen and shakes his head like the rattle]
Kevin: [pulls Eddy's underwear and put it on the back of his bike and rides off] "Neighborhood dork, huh? Hey, Double Dweeb, you getting this?" Eddy: [talking about Kevin while his underwear is being pulled by Kevin on his bike and holding on to the fire hydrant] "He collects underwear and gives it to the poor. Pretty stupid, huh, Bro? Help!" [camera turns fuzzy] "Slow down, Kevin! I was just kidding! Stop, please! No, wait!" [Kevin releases him making him flop like a fish out of water] Ed: [to camera] "Look at him bounce, Eddy's Brother!" Edd: "Eddy! Are you all right?" [Edd and Ed rush over to Eddy after his incident] Ed: [holds out rattle] "Boy, Eddy! You deserve a shake for that!" [Eddy takes the rattle and gets rid of it making Ed chase it] Edd: [sarcastically] "I must say, if I was your brother, I'd be very impressed." [Eddy scowls at him on the ground]
Edd: [nervously panning around for Eddy] "Eddy, w-where are you?" Eddy: [irritably and offscreen in the background] "Over here, Spielberg."
Eddy: "Rolf? Did I forget to sign Rolf? There you go stretch."[signs Rolf's face; pauses as Eddy looks at Rolf motionless] Rolf: [outburst] "YOU HAVE VANDALIZED ROLF'S FACE, AND YOU HAVE--" [sees chicken and Rolf cardboard cutout] "…And you have stolen Rolf's chickens yet again?!" [sees camera and glares menacingly at it] "Are you stealing Rolf's soul with your film box?!" Edd: [nervously] "Why, of course not, Rolf! What gave you that impression?" Rolf: [furiously] "Rolf will release his rage now!!!!" Eddy: [offscreen in the background] "Wait! Uh, we can work this out!" Rolf: [off-screen in the background] "SCHLO-HOI!" [Rolf defeating Eddy offscreen and tosses him at the cardboard cutouts and Ed sees the cardboard cutouts' heads decapitated] Eddy: "Aah!" Rolf: [off-screen in the background] "Return Rolf's chickens!!!" [Ed begins to run off as Rolf begins to defeat Ed and Eddy while taking back his chickens] Ed: "Aah!" Rolf: "RETURN THEM!!!!" [the chickens come across to Double D and the camera] Edd: "Shoo! Go away! Don't touch me!" [the camera gets knocked out of Double D's hands] Ed & Eddy: [while running from Rolf] "Aah!!" Rolf: "Stop! I must punish you!" Eddy: [offscreen in the background while being chased by Rolf] "Mommy!" Edd: [as a "low battery" signal flashes on the screen] "I think your brother's got the picture, Eddy." [Eddy screams off-screen as the camera shuts off and the credits begin to play]
When the sky is first seen, the clouds are light yellow, but in later shots, they aren't and turn back to white as per usual.
When Eddy digs through the box, the wall behind him is violet instead of blue as it is in the shadow, but when Edd reads off the shipping label, the wall was blue again even though it was still in the shadow.
Eddy throws the rattle onto Rolf's head, but when the Eds are being chased by him, Ed is holding it again. He might have quickly grabbed it before Rolf started chasing the Eds.
At the end, Edd dropped the camera after a chicken knocked him and the camera down onto the floor. However, the chicken was on the floor while Edd was standing up holding the camera.
This episode was featured at the New York Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center for Media) as a part of the "Cartoon Power!" program in August 2002 (several months before the episode officially aired in the United States).
This episode, together with "Is There an Ed in the House?," though aired as part of Season 4, was originally listed in Cartoon Network's episode guide as episode 8 of Season 3, and is also listed as such on Amazon Instant video as well as iTunes. Furthermore, the third season's A.K.A. Cartoon logo is featured at the end, suggesting that the episode was originally produced as part of that season, but was not completed until after the remainder of the season was finished.
Most of this episode is shown through Ed's camera and Edd's camera direction rather than a normal third person view.
The music also plays during the end credits, as opposed to the usual theme song. This is the only time in the series where alternate music is played.
At one point Eddy sarcastically refers to Edd as movie director Steven Spielberg.
At the foot of Eddy's bed, there is a Barry White record. Barry White was a Grammy Award winning record producer and singer-songwriter.
Ed's camera is seen again in "A Town Called Ed." However, when they were filming in that episode, it was on black & white setting whilst in this episode, it was in color. There could have been a setting change for both features.
Ed's bathtub is filled with regular water instead of gravy in this episode. (Ed may have gotten rid of the gravy so that he could "train" the chickens.)
This is the only time we see Ed's digestive system. It has a discarded soda can, a banana and a sock in it, once again showing Ed's disgusting eating habits.
At one point, after commenting that he's a big shot now, Eddy says "No more beating up on little Eddy, huh, big bro?" This is a hint as to the true nature of Eddy's Brother.
When Rolf was seen in the beginning trying to find his chickens, you can hear part of the theme music to Ultra Q.
Rolf's comment of "Are you stealing Rolf's soul with your film box?!" is based on the beliefs of some cultures that taking a photograph (or in this case, recording a video) of a person will take their soul and disrespect the spiritual world. | <urn:uuid:faf8d1e5-38bd-4166-993b-91c3de567a97> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://ed.wikia.com/wiki/An_Ed_is_Born | 2017-06-28T22:43:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323807.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628222452-20170629002452-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.977938 | 4,070 | [
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JONES NEW YORK Women’s Plus Size Short Wool Tweed Coat with Envelope Collar– Amazon
Feminine Cuts of Ralph Lauren- Their Sandra Twill Jacket
Fall is here, and the warmer, heavier fabrics are now back in fashion. Military styles have been trendy for fall and winter for decades. You simply cannot go wrong with the military style, which shows its face season to season in one designer line or another.
What Military Elements Have Influenced Fashions?
1. Officer Jackets – These stately jackets have been a sign of power and leadership throughout the decades. Formal military jackets and overcoats have hit the hangers as a personal statement of wealth and power. A simple black or navy jacket can push for a formal appearance, especially when the brass buttons and cording is overstated.
2. Leather Bomber – The leather bomber is another great look for women going into the fall. This jacket takes on a life of its own, as putting on the leather bomber jacket gives one the feeling that they just stepped off of a B-17. Comfortable, warm, and stylish these jackets are made popular by movies and actors alike.
3. Navy Twill Jackets – Navy wool twill jackets have always been a popular choice for their style and warmth. Many variations of the Navy wool twill jacket have been created throughout the years in a wide range of colors.
4. Double-breasted Coat- The double-breasted look has been a style that has been around for hundreds of years. Civilized military of all kinds from all corners of the world have incorporated this look into their formal attire.
5. The Sleeveless Vest – Military sleeveless jackets can be accessorized with a variety of slacks and pants. For years, these vests have been worn for warmth, and ease of wear. Many designs have pockets lined to fit a variety of items such as smartphones and wallets.
Although you may not realize it, everything from the colors you’ve chosen, to the fabric and choice of material can be a reflection of your personality. References towards the military are seen in fashion year after year. Designers often feature brass or metal button on clothing, breasts pockets and belts.
How To Spice Up Your Jacket And Coats For The Winter And Fall
The military look is one of the easiest trends to shop for. Season after season, this trend stays in style, which means you can transfer a few pieces over to the next year, and build up your winter seasonal wardrobe. Here are a couple of tips of what to look for:
- Shop Within The Right Color Palette- Shop for coats which have a camel, khaki or perhaps military green color tone. Embrace the fall colors that naturally work with the traditional military palette such as army green, black, navy blue and mustard which are often paired together. Work with creams, and include something with leather. Pair a military coat with trousers or slacks that have a print, or a heavier fabric.
- Work Gold Into Your Outfit- Another great way to make your military jacket a little more stylish is to add gold accents. A wide belt with a gold buckle can go a long way to upgrading your jackets appearance. Replace plain buttons with fancy brass buttons to give your jacket a lift in style.
- Trim Your Vintage Jackets With Piping– A vintage jacket that has good bones can be altered slightly to give a more sophisticated appearance. Work with piping that will stand out such as white piping on black, or a subtle darker gray with a light gray jacket.
- Patches Look Great On Bomber Style Jackets- Another unique accessory for your bomber jacket is patches. Different groups have different patches, and they all look awesome. There are many different patches that you can add to the sleeves of your jacket for an extra punch of cool.
- Work With Tweed- Tweed is a fabric that really stand the test of time. Suits, trousers, suits, dresses, coats and capes … The tweed can transform any outfit and give a more classy tone in any style.
These are just a few additions you can make to your military jacket to give it a little extra pizazz. Have fun decorating your jacket and making it as unique as you are!
The military jacket is a classic piece that every woman should have in her closet for the winter and fall seasons. This is a look that has been around for decades and seems to always stay in season and in trend.
Whether you have one colored military jacket or a simple black jacket, here are 4 things you should not wear with your jacket:
Long Necklaces: The military jacket gives an appearance of structure, so wearing a long necklace can distract from it. You don’t want to take away from the military design by wearing something that throws off the symmetries.
Scarves Just Don’t Work: A scarf will also take away from the look and covers up the largest military aspect of the jacket. If scarves are to be worn, wrap them around your neck, and tuck them into the jacket. Consider finding a non-patterned scarf which can be knotted and hidden under the jacket for the best look.
Matching Pants Is Hard To Pull Off- A lot of designers showcase their military jackets with matching pants to create a visual work of art, and often times it looks incredible. If you do pull off this look, consider having both pieces tailored to your figure. Work with slacks which are heavier, and are close in color, which will give you the same cohesive appearance you are looking for.
Additional Military Accessories Can Be Overkill: Skip the military accessories like pins, military hats. If you incorporate too many military pieces, the look will start to take on the appearance of a costume. An exception to this rule, is wearing military boots with your military jacket. Wearing taller boots with a military styled jacket could perfectly finish your overall look off.
The key to wearing a military jacket is to keep it simple and wear the look as is. Don’t distract the jackets natural and cool style with unnecessary accessories.
Harper’s Bazaar U.K. September 2012 Editorial – Sophie Srej
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Harper’s Bazaar U.K. September 2012 Editorial – Sophie Srej
1998 Meisel Carolyn Murphy, 2004 Ralph Lauren Zoya Todorovic, Harper’s Bazaar Australia September 2012 Cover – Constance Jablonski
East Wind for Io Donna March 2013
Wool Coats on Ebay
Madame Figaro Greece December 2011 Cover – Coco Rocha
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Cranberry Leather Jacket-lockerz.com, Burberry Prorsum Linen Jacket
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At this point, your sprouts should have been soaking for 8 – 12 hours.
Now, take your Mason Ball jar to the sink and pour all of the water out. The seeds will stay in the jar because the cheesecloth we securely attached to the jar in Part 1 acts as a strainer, letting the water flow out of the jar but trapping the seeds inside.
Next, turn your jar upside down so the rye berries fall down towards the cheesecloth and the bottom of the jar is sticking up in the air. Place the jar with a slight tilt into either a dish drainer or a large bowl making sure to create a space so the berries can breathe. Allow the jar to rest this way for 8 – 12 hours so the water drains out and the berries start to dry.
In my experience, I need to rinse and dry the berries a second time before they start to sprout. Re-rinse the berries and place the jar so the berries can dry out again, then simply walk (or run) away for 8 – 12 hours.
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I am a firm believer in the daily pampering of one’s skin, because just a few routine minutes will pay you back tenfold over the course of a lifetime. With that said, I know how tough it is to stick to a facial regimen when you are on the go or on those late nights out…it is so tempting to just hit the pillow and deal with it in the morning. Disaster. To avoid that situation, you must have Arcona Triad Pads on-hand at all times.
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Folklore Legend: Your guide to the Folk trend
Folk style comes in many guises, but it's a trend that works on Arts and Craft ideals of individuality and craftsmanship. As such, there are no rules! There are a million ways to interpret the folk trend to suit your style; channel your inner free-spirit and take inspiration from some of the folk-orientated AW14 shows.
The likes of Alberta Ferretti and Valentino focused on an opulent, couture-like folk aesthetic, with decadent combinations of rich patterns and texturally contrasting materials. For a folk look that's all fairy tale opulence, follow their darkly romantic example into the realms of shimmering fabrics and embellishments. Black provides the perfect base for electric metallics and intricate patterns; don't be afraid to mix prints for a free-spirited, haute boheme feel.
On the other end of the folk spectrum, houses such as Burberry Prorsum, Tommy Hilfiger and Etro focused instead on creating a slightly cosier, more organic impression. Earthy colour palettes, floating silhouettes and tribal or floral patterns conjure a sense of the 1970s urban hippy. Rokit have a wide selection of separates in various paisley and ethnic prints; pair with leather or suede boots to keep that 1970s look consistent, or with a chunky cape or blanket coat to stay warm this winter.
The folk trend is all about layering, which makes it perfect for transitional seasons; a warm cape or maxi-cardigan instantly readies a light summer dress for those chilly autumn days. Tame flowing silhouettes with a belt or scarf tied at the waist, à la Burberry Prorsum.
When it comes to folk, the same principles go for the men. Outerwear plays a big role, from maxi cardigans to big, woollen overcoats or parkas. Don't be afraid to accessorise; take inspiration from Burberry's menswear collection, which draped patterned scarves around the shoulders of heavy overcoats. Hats and gloves are also a wonderfully warm way to add a few patterned, free-spirited touches to your ensemble.
Layering is also a great way to let your inner bohemian free; go wild with mixing patterns, but keep the overall look unified by selecting pieces from the same colour family. Valentino's AW14 collection demonstrates just how bright autumnal shades and subtle patterns can bring a neutral colour palette to life. A pair of boots is the perfect way to finish the ensemble with a folk flourish.
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In 2013, a police lieutenant at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey retired with an annual salary of $129,000; the next year, he began collecting a lifetime pension of $172,000, or one-third above his base pay. The officer had managed to juice up his annual pension through pay sweeteners provided by the Port Authority, including lots of overtime work. He was far from alone. An assistant operations manager at one of the Port Authority–controlled New York airports retired at a salary of $89,000, but soon began collecting a pension of $103,000, 16 percent above annual pay. An electrician quit working with a base salary of $76,000 and started collecting a pension of $79,000. These are extraordinary numbers, culled from a database of Port Authority pay practices provided by OpenTheBooks.com.
Formed nearly a century ago as a good-government unit to manage the bistate operations of the massive Port of New York, which spans both states, the Port Authority has evolved over the years into the worst kind of government operation: a vast but poorly run agency. Much of what’s wrong is reflected in its pay and retirement practices. In labor-friendly New York and New Jersey, unions have bullied the agency into giving away incredibly generous benefits to workers, and then the authority, through mismanagement, has proved unable to control key costs like overtime that drive pay even higher. The result: a workforce among the highest paid in government, even by the dizzying standards of public-employee compensation in the greater New York area. The Port Authority’s retirees regularly rank among the top pensioners in the lucrative New York state retirement system, to which most agency workers belong.
Meanwhile, the Port Authority is groaning under $20 billion in debt, struggling to make investments in local infrastructure, and levying steep fees on New York and New Jersey residents and businesses to keep itself afloat. (See “The Port Authority Leviathan,” Winter 2016.) For those stuck with paying for the authority’s plush benefits and mismanagement, one sign of hope is that New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who effectively control the Port Authority, have embarked on a search for a chief executive officer to fix the troubled agency—a task that would include grabbing control of soaring pension and persistently high overtime costs. Still, the Port Authority has struggled with these same issues for at least three decades, with little in the way of successful change to show for it. It may take something closer to a revolution to free area residents from the Port Authority’s grip.
The governments of New York and New Jersey were dragged reluctantly into forming the Port Authority in 1921. The two states often fought over operations at the Port of New York, until a federal judge admonished both to settle their differences with the mutual good in mind. The states set up a commission to explore how best jointly to run the port, and thus was born the Port Authority, modeled on the Progressive-era ideal of a government agency directed by enlightened bureaucrats, with input from an appointed board, independent of local politics.
Regional political leaders, initially opposed, soon discovered all sorts of uses for the Port Authority beyond its original mission. They folded the operations of a new Hudson River crossing, the Holland Tunnel, into the authority in 1930, for example, and handed it the mission to build additional ones. The agency assumed control of newly emerging air traffic by taking over the airports—even though the operation of the airports didn’t cross state lines. And political leaders began using the Port Authority as a dumping ground for their problems. The authority took over the bankrupt Hudson Tubes rail line in 1962 and assumed the task of trying to revive the West Side of lower Manhattan by constructing the massive World Trade Center complex.
As its role widened, the Port Authority swelled to gigantic proportions, with sprawling facilities and a huge payroll. Today, the Port Authority employs more than 7,800 workers, including nearly 1,700 police officers. Almost 70 percent of the agency’s workers are covered by collective bargaining, with more than 5,700 former employees currently collecting pensions. In 2014, the agency spent $1.19 billion on pay and benefits—an average of more than $150,000 per employee for an operation that largely hires blue-collar workers.
Today, the Port Authority employs more than 7,800 workers, including nearly 1,700 police officers.
In a region where public-employee unions wield enormous power, the Port Authority has proved an easy and lucrative mark for labor groups. The agency enjoys a monopoly over New York and New Jersey assets—like airports and tollways—that people need to use, and it has levied steep fees on residents and businesses in order to pay for generous worker contracts. When, for instance, the Port Authority assumed control of the Hudson Tubes in 1962, it acquired not only a bankrupt rail line but also militant unions that learned how to use the agency’s resources to burnish members’ pay and benefits. In 1973, the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen demanded a new contract with a 45 percent pay increase and enhanced pensions that would let members retire with full benefits after just 20 years on the job. When the Port Authority balked, the union struck for 63 days, creating chaos for the 40,000 riders using the daily service, dubbed PATH. As members of a rail union, the striking workers received strike benefits from a federal fund and eventually settled with the authority for a 19 percent pay increase over two years. Just five years later, the union demanded a three-year pay increase totaling 36 percent, and when the Port Authority again resisted, workers shut down the train line for another 81 days, ultimately securing a new deal that raised pay 35 percent over three and a half years and added pension sweeteners.
The combative rail unions also tangled with the Port Authority over work rules, especially reforms that might make the rail line more efficient at the expense of union jobs. In 1967, the PATH’s engineers’ union won an injunction to prevent the rail line from adopting walkie-talkies, which would enable workers to communicate with one another more easily and frequently, boosting efficiency. A judge eventually intervened, giving the PATH the go-ahead to deploy the technology. The engineers staged a sick-out in 1993 to protest management demands for work-rule changes, including an end to time off for blood donations. Only a compromise avoided another strike. In 1997, signalmen threatened to strike when the Port Authority initiated a policy that allowed supervisors to discipline workers taking too much time off for illness or injury. The union wanted members to be able to miss up to 40 days without ramifications; over time, the parties settled on ten days of sick time.
In the 1970s, frequent work stoppages and trains regularly getting stuck in tunnels prompted the New York Times to observe that the PATH was “no tunnel of love” for commuters. For rail workers, it was a different story. PATH employees, who not long before had worked for an insolvent private railroad, became among the highest-paid rail workers in the greater New York area. In 2014, according to OpenTheBooks.com data, the top-earning rail employee at the Port Authority was a unionized maintenance supervisor, who took home $216,378—more than half of it in overtime. Several union colleagues did nearly as well, frequently surpassing their white-collar, nonunion supervisors in pay. In fact, five of the top ten compensation leaders in Port Authority rail operations in 2014 were union members, including a track foreman who earned $208,994 and another who brought home $206,295. The base salary of an experienced conductor is $74,173, though the top-earning conductor in 2014 took home $156,343, thanks to overtime and other pay add-ons. On average, Port Authority rail workers earned $91,000 each in total pay in 2014, and that’s not counting the steep cost of benefits, which add about 55 percent beyond salary to the cost of employing a worker.
If work stoppages, slowdowns, and PATH strikes weren’t enough to test the patience of area residents, the Port Authority’s police union has also used its leverage to demand higher pay and steeper benefits for members, whom the union once claimed were underpaid. In March 1972, the cops disrupted vehicle traffic in a job action that snarled the approaches to the Hudson River crossings connecting New York and New Jersey. The action bolstered the union’s negotiating position, and it won a 25 percent pay increase over two years. Barely 15 months later, the union threatened another job action when the Port Authority, trying to cut costs, announced that it would start using civilians to perform some non-safety jobs that cops were then doing. Asked about what his members might do to tie up traffic, the head of the police union said, “Anything is conceivable.” The agency backed off, avoiding a showdown, but the issue arose again in 1979, with several hundred off-duty officers disrupting operations at the authority’s midtown Manhattan bus terminal in a dispute over pay and the hiring of more civilians.
From Port Authority employees’ perspective, the confrontations have yielded impressive results. A 2012 study by the Citizens Budget Commission found that the agency’s public-safety force—one of the nation’s largest—is “paid more generously than those of most other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies,” with senior officers’ pay averaging between 25 percent and 48 percent higher than compensation of similar officers employed by New York–area local governments. Only cops working for Nassau and Suffolk Counties receive more generous compensation (and the jaw-dropping cost of Nassau’s police force is a major reason that the state has placed the county, one of the nation’s richest, under a financial control board). The average base pay of a Port Authority officer after six years is $90,000, but officers (like other authority workers) have many ways of increasing compensation, including longevity pay based on years of service, extra payments for work done under non-regular conditions (such as night or holiday shifts), uniform allowances, and the most lucrative category—overtime pay. In 2014, the 870 Port Authority officers earning the top-tier base pay of $90,000 annually enjoyed an average of $153,784 in total cash compensation, with $46,192 per officer in overtime pay, nearly $5,500 per worker in longevity compensation, and $7,511 per worker in extra pay for working under unusual circumstances.
The Port Authority has an even tougher time managing the overtime of its senior public-safety staff. The department’s 123 full-time sergeants earned a base-salary average of $102,532 in 2014, but total compensation for these workers was an astounding $182,133 per officer, thanks to $56,539 per worker in overtime and $9,492 per worker in pay differentials for unusual shifts. In its 2012 study of regional police departments, the Citizens Budget Commission noted that many police forces, including New York state troopers and New York City police officers, don’t receive pay differentials for duties such as holiday work, which are typically assigned in public safety on a rotating basis.
Other authority unions have secured similarly plush compensation for their workers. Toll collectors, represented by the Transport Workers Union, enjoy a base annual pay that tops out at $65,026 annually for the most senior members—for a job that requires no special skills. Total compensation for this senior group averaged more than $85,841 in 2014, thanks to some $7,600 in overtime and $4,030 per employee in extra pay for work performed under special circumstances. Buildings and grounds workers at the agency’s facilities earned a top average base pay of $55,900 in 2014, with total pay averaging $74,846 for those who worked full-time at that pay. That included an average $14,936 per worker in overtime. Electricians, represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, top out at an annual base pay of $76,024; the 100 of these workers employed full-time in 2014, however, earned an average $111,463 in total compensation, with nearly $29,455 per worker in overtime.
Problems managing and restraining overtime pay have plagued the Port Authority for years—a testament to the agency’s inability to budget properly and supervise workers adequately. A 2011 audit by the New York state comptroller noted that “overtime flows like water” at the agency. Three years later, the New Jersey Courier News observed: “Among the sure things in this world besides the inevitability of death and taxes are stories . . . about how much over budget the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey went in paying overtime.” Published articles about the agency’s efforts to control overtime date back to the mid-1980s. A typical example: a November 1986 New York Times story reported that Port Authority overtime costs would grow by nearly 25 percent that year, despite an agency pledge to cut total compensation. Little has changed. In 2014, 5,360 Port Authority workers received overtime, with about 100 effectively doubling their base salary. Of the remaining workers employed by the agency, 2,200 worked in nonunion jobs that don’t qualify for overtime. Only 289 of the thousands of authority employees who qualified for overtime failed to get it in 2014. “Management has no clear strategy to achieve its own benchmarks and goals for curbing costs,” the New York state audit noted in 2011.
A big reason for the overtime cost explosion is that the Port Authority made the questionable decision in the past to try to save money on expensive benefits—which average about $55,000 per employee—by hiring fewer workers and instead paying overtime to current ones. The authority wound up cultivating not savings but an uninhibited culture of overtime, which it now seems incapable of changing, as evidenced by data that show workers piling on extra hours as they near retirement, to spike pensions. That and the fact that the retirement system bases lifetime benefits on total compensation have added more to the agency’s costs than pay data reflect.
Even by the standards of other public-sector retirement programs, the Port Authority’s pensions are incredibly generous. A 2011 study by the New York state comptroller found that 71 of the top 300 pensioners in the New York state retirement system were Port Authority retirees, though only about 5,750 members of the system’s 430,000 current beneficiaries worked for the agency. Like many public-sector workers, authority employees can qualify for full pensions with less time on the job than can private-sector workers. In 2013, for instance, a Port Authority police sergeant retired after 20 years on the job with a pension of $92,500, representing more than 85 percent of his annual base pay during his final working years. That same year, an officer with 25 years’ service began collecting a pension of $95,800—105 percent above his base pay during his final years on the job. Non-public-safety agency employees must work longer to collect a full pension but can still take home sizable retirement checks in a shorter time than is typical in the private sector. A unionized supervisor at one of the area’s airports retired after 30 years of work in 2013, with a final salary of $69,900, but began collecting an annual pension of $83,000.
One consequence of these earlier-than-usual retirement schedules is an unusually high ratio of pensioners to current workers, with approximately one Port Authority pensioner for every 1.2 active workers. (PATH employees at the Port Authority are part of another retirement system for rail workers.) The price for having so many retirees adds up. In 2014, authority pensioners collected $277 million in retirement pay from New York State. Annual payments by the Port Authority to the New York state retirement system are soaring, rising nearly 135 percent, to $143 million from 2009 to 2014. Annual pension contributions for public-safety workers are particularly high, relative to payroll, increasing from $32 million, or 16 percent of payroll, in 2009, to $71.4 million, or 28 percent of payroll, in 2014. Those costs are likely to keep rising fast, thanks to an ill-considered decision by the Port Authority years ago to place its employees, including those from New Jersey, in the New York retirement system, where they’re protected by an unusually strong state constitutional clause that makes it impossible to change current worker pensions—even for work they’ve yet to perform.
Over the years, Port Authority management has continued to make questionable decisions on pension policies that suggest that it couldn’t care less about rising costs. In 2002, for example, the agency began giving bonuses to top managers and letting them count that money as part of their pay, in order to boost their pensions. The practice stopped only when a New York state comptroller audit in 2011 discovered the bonuses and ruled that they couldn’t be counted toward pensions. Considering who was getting the benefits—the agency’s chief financial officer, general counsel, and chief administrative officer were among the recipients—the bonus plan clearly appeared as a perk that the managers had awarded themselves, after years of watching unionized staff spike their own pensions.
One consequence of early retirement schedules is an unusually high ratio of pensioners to current workers.
All this irresponsibility would add up to a damning indictment of the Port Authority under any circumstances. But the agency’s missteps are even more worrisome in light of the doubling of its debt in recent years to help pay for redeveloping the World Trade Center site after September 11 (another project that it has bungled). The agency also needs to begin financing investments that it desperately needs to make in infrastructure around the region, including a projected $10 billion for a new bus terminal in Manhattan. To keep its finances from sinking completely, the agency has already sharply boosted fees on bridges and tunnels, up for cars from $8 in 2008 to $15. The result has been a half-billion dollars in additional tolls and fares paid by users of these important facilities. The authority has also kept raising the fees that it charges airlines at its airports. In 2014, it collected $242 million more in aviation fees than it did five years ago. United Airlines, the major tenant at the Port Authority’s Newark Airport, says that its gate fees there are the highest in the nation, 59 percent higher than it pays at Chicago’s O’Hare. Among the reasons United cites for the inflated charges: the high costs that the Port Authority pays for its airport police force.
The Port Authority’s continued effort to subsidize its high labor costs and money-losing operations with spiraling fees is generating growing controversy. In a 2013 report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office questioned the authority’s recent toll hikes in light of a federal statute that holds that interstate-agency crossing rates must be “just and reasonable.” The GAO criticized the Port Authority for a lack of transparency in setting the fee increases. The Port Authority refused to provide the GAO with copies of its own audits of its operations, the report noted. The Automobile Club of America, meantime, has sued the authority over the toll hikes, charging that they’re illegal because they’re being used to fund other, money-losing agency operations. The lawsuit is still in court. United Airlines has similarly sued the Port Authority over its stratospheric airport fees, contending that the agency is milking airlines to fund other operations. The controversies illustrate a major flaw in the governance of an independent agency with significant taxing power but that stands outside the jurisdiction of any elected official. Taxpayers don’t seem to know whom to hold accountable for the fiscal consequences of authority mismanagement.
Gaining control of the Port Authority’s workforce will be a major task of the agency’s new chief executive, but he’ll need the support of the governors of New York and New Jersey. As an independent body, the Port Authority can make changes in its workforce policies and practices without passing legislation. One already-proposed reform would end unions’ right to bargain over changes in health benefits, which would enable the agency to impose money-saving changes. Most private employers can make such alterations to their health plans without bargaining with workers (and if they don’t like the changes, employees have the right to seek employment elsewhere). The Port Authority should have the same prerogative. In fact, in 2012, the agency announced just such a change to its policies, but Governor Cuomo nixed it after unions pressured him. The agency needs to revisit that policy.
The Port Authority should also stop placing workers in the New York state retirement system. That way, it could escape New York’s constitutional provision that blocks any reform for current employees. Instead, the agency should explore other options, including creating an independent pension plan outside New York State for new workers.
The Port Authority is custodian of some of the most vital public assets of the greater New York area. One look at its compensation practices makes it clear that the agency has often operated those resources more for the benefit of its workforce than for the people of the region. That needs to change—and soon.
This is the second in a series of articles on the Port Authority.
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Today I’ve been totally spoilt!!! I got a sleep in, a REAL sleep in. I woke up to my arm on tomato toast.
Glen had brought me in acappuccino and my favorite tomato on toast an hour or so before. It was cold and soggy but he’d made it for me! I ate it anyway. The coffee was past it, but the thought was so lovely!
I walked out to find he’d washed the dishes given the kids weeties, toast and a healthy fruit salad for break fast AND that they’d just had cheese on crackers, banana, sultanas for morning tea. (I didn’t wake until 11am! I CAN NOT remember when I’ve EVER been in bed til that late, but I so badly needed it.)
He was also in the process of peeling potatoes, making jelly and had already taken meat out for dinner, I was a little confused with the timing and combination of things he was doing but then he explained we are having a BBQ. He made potato salad, deviled eggs, and a delicious looking trifle!
I was left feeling quite useless, but he was happy and proud of his efforts. (and yes they were ‘efforts’ it’s nice sometimes for dads to put in ‘effort’ for just one day, appreciates mummies a little more I think…)
So thank you to Glen!
Anyway he had some left over sponge that I asked if I could have and at first I thought about having another go at cake pops. BUT on second thought I remembered how bad my last ones were and really I wanted to ‘invent’ something new. I made the chocolate icing as normal, milk, butter, icing mixture and cocoa powder then crumbled the cake into it. I used the mixer to get it smoother and finer.
I was going to pull out my mini muffin pans and make mini bake free cakes topped with fresh summer fruits.
hmmmm…..upon searching my pantry……I must have thrown out my baby pans…:(
Ok, well Maybe I’ll make the cake balls but put three on the skewer instead of just one…..I know, THREE!!…*gasp* who ever would have thought of that?…then roll them into little rainbow glitter sprinkles.
….darn it! I must have chucked out my left over sprinkles too, planning to buy fresh ones, argh…I don’t have any skewers left anyway *sigh*
Ok well I’ll cut weet bix into thirds and spread it onto them. OMG! chocolate spread!! Who would ever thought of that?!?!?
*open the cupboard*…….nutella screamed in my face….”IDIOT!”
Ok fine…..So I have some cake mixture….*insert absent minded grab banana and peel whilst thinking sooo hard*…hmm..what will I make?…..*insert dip banana and take a bite*….
OH. MY. GOD!
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I found this old photograph tucked in a frame behind one of the wedding photos below. I had no idea it was there and we got the frame as a wedding gift, so I truly don't know how it got there. I wanted to share it anyway. This picture is of my grandmother and late grandfather with 8 of their children. One was already in heaven and two were yet to be born. There are also two set of twins, can you find them? One of them is also my mom. Do you have photos like this packed away somewhere? I love looking at the older photographs. My grandmother has literally tons of pictures and when we come to visit, she show us them all (or as many as possible). | <urn:uuid:7515587b-3014-4cda-ba7d-ab51bfa2293a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://aretrocatholicfamily.blogspot.com/2009/06/an-interesting-find.html | 2017-06-23T12:02:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320057.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623114917-20170623134917-00193.warc.gz | en | 0.993579 | 145 | [
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Like so many of you, I have many things to be thankful for and it’s hard to choose just two. But as I sit here this morning in my warm, safe home with the bright sunlight pouring in through the long wall of windows that look out into my small backyard, I’m reminded of my children and how they loved to play in the leaves. We lived in several different places when they were children and each of those places had its own special charm. But all of them seemed to be the most beautiful to me in the autumn.
I’m thankful for the colors of autumn and the fact that I can still see those colors. Sometimes my vision seems to dim and I pray that it will not go away completely.
My family is the single thing I’m most thankful for at this Thanksgiving season, though. I’m glad that my husband and I have been able to raise such well-rounded children and that we don’t have the worries that some folks have when dealing with their kids. Thank you, God, for that blessing. We have three children and six wonderful grandchildren whom we enjoy so much! I’m also thankful for the rest of my family, both past and present. Just being able to share sisterhood with four beautiful, fantastic women is something I think about everyday; and to have two very strong, good men as brothers is a blessing, as well.
I’d like to hear what you are thankful for today. I’m tagging William Morgan over at The Sock in the Drayer.
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As you can see, I have a new website. I appear to have leapt before I looked, leaving everything somewhat amateurish. But I am trying to ween myself off FATMAGS* and that means that Blogger (Google owned) has to go.
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European shares slide as Atlas Copco and Commerzbank fall
* Pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index falls 1.5 pct
* Atlas Copco, Commerzbank and UPM Kymmene among top fallers
* Greek share index up, adding to previous day's gains
* FTSEurofirst still up nearly 20 pct in 2015
* Asset performance in 2015: link.reuters.com/gap87v
By Atul Prakash
LONDON, April 28 (Reuters) - European stock markets dropped on Tuesday after some weaker-than-expected corporate updates, with mining equipment group Atlas Copco and Commerzbank among the hardest hit.
European equities were also impacted by weak U.S. consumer confidence data while Iran's interception of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel added to market jitters.
Commerzbank fell 5.7 percent after the German bank launched a share sale to raise 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) from institutional investors to bolster its capital. Continuación... | <urn:uuid:3eaa0241-1a6e-4b7a-aa16-43bab1beb7b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://lta.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idLTAL8N0XP4EO20150428 | 2017-06-25T02:09:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320386.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625013851-20170625033851-00354.warc.gz | en | 0.848696 | 223 | [
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Sales can be tempting. LinkedIn lured me into a premium account with a deep discount for the first month.
Without a monthly contract and instead offering terms that allowed for cancelation anytime within a billing cycle, there really didn’t seem like a good reason to say no. Well, except for the feedback of friends who had also upgraded and found little use for the service.
Curiosity, it’s an expensive habit, ($31 monthly for a Job Seeker Premium Account, $26 for a Business upgrade). Thus, earlier this fall did I upgrade.
Other than letting me see who was looking at my profile – which really just feeds a mixture of vanity and paranoia – all a premium account offered otherwise was a limited number of InMails a month. The InMail program allows a subscriber to send messages to people outside their network – if the intended recipient allows for such stranger danger (many so-called influencers do not).
There were other features too, but none that really applied to my needs, which were to simply grow an existing network beyond the people I already knew.
Perhaps the limited number of targeted searches are more useful for head hunters, and likewise the featured candidate offering might help some job seekers who do well on those blind applications in a pool of thousands.
All I discovered in this experiment was that criticizing the LinkedIn influencer program on a post by Conan O’Brien will garner more interest in a profile than any paid-for service offering.
This, and the overwhelming majority (90+%) of strangers who look at my profile are men – which might account for the LinkedIn suggestion to use pictures of women in paid ads on the network.
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An astounding richness gathered in folds that hugged my body; silk, freshly-scented folds of soft, cool material, breezy and brilliant, that I embraced back, breathing it in and out, smiling, my eyes half-shut, but still aware of the brightness of the midday summer sunshine, casting bars of shadows on my face from my eyelashes. I lay down in tender blades of sweet grass, springtime enveloping the entirety of my soul, filling up missing pieces that were previously in disarray. I was home, in my childhood house, in my mother’s kitchen; I loved that kitchen. I loved the solid oak cupboards and I remembered tracing my tiny, slender, soft fingertips up and down the s-shaped, intricate designs. I loved reaching into the cupboard and grabbing my favorite pot, which looked like a witch’s cauldron, cast-iron and blackened from years of wear and tear; I would fill it with tea-towels and stir them around with a wooden spoon, pretending I would cast a magic spell.
I lay awake in bed, flexing the tension from my legs, hugging my sheets close to me, recounting the sketchy details of the beautiful dream I had. Flowers…spring flowers, and silk. Lots of folding silk. I loved the feeling of rubbing two pieces of silk together; it is soft and you can squeeze it; the more you squeeze, the better it feels. I curled up in my bed, in the fetal position. Beautiful dreams didn’t happen often. I smiled at my dream. It was bright and vivid. Maybe now I can heal, I thought to myself. Maybe the darkness was finally leaving me. But it wasn’t. It was short-lived and shattered the moment I opened my eyes; silk, my childhood kitchen, the smell of grassy spring fields – it was all in my head, but gone in a single splinter of a moment. | <urn:uuid:d6641b9c-afd2-477e-8f43-fd1a5d43bd3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://newyorkfruitstand.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/july-9th-dreams-childhood-disappointment/ | 2017-06-25T20:51:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320582.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625203122-20170625223122-00434.warc.gz | en | 0.952602 | 403 | [
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Vidyashankari (pronounced ‘vidyaashankarii’) is a unique program launched by the Adi Shankara Brahmavidya Peetham (ASBP) for promoting education among children of families residing in remote Himalayan villages around Uttarkashi.Under this scheme, students are enrolled by the ASBP in various government schools. These students are carefully selected after taking in to account their individual merit, family background etc. Their educational and also other essential needs are sponsored by ASBP. At present there are fifty enrolled students in various government and some private schools. These students are from the Himalayan villages of Ravada, Bhangeli, Sunnagar. They are reached by a 6 km trek along steep mountain paths starting from Gangnani on the main road.
A survey was done in the aftermath of the unprecedented floods which affected the entire Uttarakhand Himalayas in mid-June 2013. About four tonnes of relief material was mobilized from various donors and well-wishers particularly the two organizations which are working in tandem with ASBP, viz., ‘Namarupa’ and ‘Moksha’. Getting this relief material to the villages high up in the hills, accessible only by a hazardous trek, was a significant logistical challenge. ASBP had to organize fifty mules for transporting educational materials, food supplies medicines and also other articles for day-to-day use to these villages to address the immediate contingency needs of the flood-affected village families. It is difficult to imagine the intense hardship and suffering to which these families were put. They have suffered loss of lives and livelihoods as their crops and fields have been wiped out. They are so remote that they have no access to ‘civilization’; the government response is very slow and inadequate. Each village has about seventy families with about 200 adults.After trying to address in a small way the immediate essential needs of these families, a long-term outreach program is in progress with the focus on educating the children.
Himalayan Village Children
Bhangeli Village view with trek route visible
Two brahmacharis, Br.Ram ji and Br.Ranjan ji have started teaching the children by taking classes for them on a regular basis in Sunnagar. Another well-wisher, Francois Bernard, a cyclist who has been travelling from the Netherlands and is now in India, has also been rendering valuable help in this work.
In addition to the fifty students currently enrolled, an additional twenty are to be enrolled very soon.
We invite volunteers with skills (such as in any of the vocations, handicrafts, computer skills etc.) who enjoy the challenge of staying and helping in these villages, to join us in training these children and young adults. It is not very fruitful to just sponsor students for just an year or so and then leave them to their own devices. Therefore, the aim of Vidyashankari, this long-term education program is to facilitate and mentor these children from the sixth standard (age 12) till they are out of higher secondary school i.e., twelfth standard (age 18) by the year 2020. The necessary funds for this project have to be accordingly mobilized. The cost of sponsoring one student for one year is Rupees Twelve thousand (equivalent to $200).
The focus is on 70 students to start with and then to increase the number to about 100 students eventually, with the aim of really making a difference in their lives. We invite all well-wishers of the Peetham to generously support this initiative and make it a success.
NUMBER OF YEARS OF SPONSORSHIP
COST OF SPONSORSHIP
( FIGURES IN BRACKETS ARE THE AMOUNTS IN DOLLAR TERMS
All donations to the Peetham are eligible for tax deduction under 80G of the Indian IT act.
Village View with clouds
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Now on its 35th season, Tanghalang Ateneo is holding auditions for Ang Mandaragit: Isang Orestaya on April 15 & 17, 2013, 5-8 pm at the Fine Arts Black Box Studio, Fine Arts Annex (Old Communication Building), Ateneo de Manila University.
Based on Oresteia by Aeschylus, Ang Mandaragit is written by Jay Crisostomo IV and directed by Ricardo Abad at Myra Beltran. The production design is by Gino Gonzales while the sound and music is by Teresa Barrozo. The play is slated to be shown on July 2013.
-Agamemnon (late 30’s or 40’s)
-Klytemnestra (late 30’s or 40’s)
-Agisthos, (late 30’s or 40’s)
-Koro (6-8 people)
(1) Please be prepared to read a text piece or two in Filipino
(2) Please show a one-minute movement routine following a given piece of music
(3) Please be ready as well to explore sounds through voice
All who pass the auditions are expected to join the movement workshop with Myra Beltran before a final cast selection is made. The workshop will be held every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for 3 weeks from April 24, 2013 (Wednesday) to May 10, 2013 (Friday), 5 – 8 pm.
Selected cast members will continue with movement workshop and regular rehearsals. By late May or June, rehearsals will proceed daily from 7 to 10 pm.
Workshop venue will be announced after the auditions.
Ateneo students who complete the three-week workshop will be entitled to receive a three-unit credit upon enrollment in the course FA 190 (Special Topics) during the First Semester of SY2013-2014.
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Robinson’s Place Midtown-Ermita , Manila-Philippines
United Mix Creations Corporation manufacturer of Cardam shoes , Liberte’ and Mario’ D boro’ , UniSilver Time in partnership with Robinson’s Mall chains presents to the public its 2014 summer, rainy season collection, holiday collection and formal collection.
Top 3 winners
Prior to the main event , the crowd were treated to some games, watch modeling contest, trivias about celebrity ambassadors and dance showdown. The kid in the middle was among the top choice with his hip- hop groove dance movements which delighted the crowd.
Upgrade performs a dance number much to the delight of their fans
UPGRADE is one of the famous all-teen boy-bands in the country that is currently seen on some GMA Kapuso channel 7 shows co-managed by Kuya German Moreno and Mr. John Fontanilla.
They all decided to name their group “UPGRADE” because as the word speaks for itself, they believe that they will transcend by upgrading. They were launched in ‘Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman’ last November 12, 2011 as a guest performer when Kuya Germs surprisingly stood on stage and announced that the group would be regular on their show.
They were chosen as band ambassadors includes Mr. Rhem Enjavi, Mr. Mark Baracael, Mr. Armond Bernas, Mr. Ron Galang, Mr. Kcee Martinez, Mr. Miggy San Pablo and Mr. Raymond Tay
Ms. Christine Ng- Marketing and Merchandising Manager
male and female models started to walk the runway with the new dress, shoes and accessories for 2014 Mid-Year line.
Ms. Carizza Chua
A fashion blogger was also invited to walk
Mr. Joseph Cham
Mr. Joseph Cham is a lifestyle and fashion blogger
Mr. Diego Bandido
Mr. Diego Bandido is one of the best Disc Jockey of 90.7 Love Radio Manila. He had some wacky moves during the catwalks which makes his style very unique.
Mr. Diego Bandido Ms. Shai Tisay
Mr. Arron Villaflor and Ms. Kim Rodriguez
Mr. Arron Villaflor is a product of a star circle quest talent show of ABS-CBN Kapamilya channel 2 while Ms. Kim Rodriguez is one of the celebrities of late early prime-time evening show Paraiso Ko’y Ikaw, weekdays before 24 Oras at GMA Kapuso channel 7
promo items 50% discount
Both artists were chosen by the company to become a brand ambassador of their products.
Cardians for male and female
Highlight of the fashion show was the arrival of Ms. Gretchen Ho and Mr. Richard Poon. After the successful fashion show , Mr. Nat Manilag ( Filipino fashion stylist ) was given a bouquet of flowers
A short press conference was held at the Ibarras at the nearby Padre Faura street. The event started with a little intimate conversation with some of the brand ambassadors and a sing and dance number performed by the teenage group UPGRADE and a song rendered by Mr. Richard Poon .
Note: I would like to ” Thank ” Mr. Ronnie Bernardo and Ms. Christine Ng for the exclusive invitation
Helicon Projects.com : http://www.heliconprojects.com/
Mario ‘d boroFacebook : https://www.facebook.com/MarioDboroShoes
Cardam Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/cardamsshoes
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'Blades of Glory' lands a double klutz
The male pairs figure skating film starring Will Ferrell and John Heder is (crackpot) poetry in motion.
The idea of male pairs figure skaters is such a funny concept that it would have taken a considerably worse movie than "Blades of Glory" to flatten it. Throw in the fact that Will Ferrell and Jon Heder play the two skaters and you have a potentially great comedy.
Well, "Blades of Glory" is not great – it's often not even very good. The codirectors, Will Speck and Josh Gordon, are so carried away with the funniness of its concept that they often settle for half measures. The timing is slack and the jokes repetitive. But, like most Will Ferrell movies, it has enough riotous moments to carry you through the dull stretches.
Things begin promisingly as we see a young boy executing triple lutzes on the frozen pond at an orphanage. Flash forward to the present and that boy is now champion figure skater Jimmy MacElroy (Heder), who favors sequined outfits with tufted plumage.
His rival and nemesis is Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell), who is the ying to Jimmy's yang. With his leather duds and cowboy swagger, Chazz is so macho that his female fans can barely contain themselves as he swivels his way across the ice. When he and Jimmy tie for first place at the world championships (the film is careful to avoid any prominent reference to the Olympics), they break into a slugfest on the winner's podium and are banned from the sport for life.
Both skaters go on the skids. Jimmy works in the shoe department of a sporting-goods store; Chazz dresses up as a meanie in a kiddie ice review. Then Jimmy's resident stalker figures out a loophole that will get his idol back in the rink: The skating bylaws don't prohibit him from pairs competition. Of course, we know who his partner will be.
The best sequences in "Blades of Glory" are the odd couple confrontations between these two loonies as they attempt to overcome their intense dislike for each other and grab the gold. Ferrell and Heder are such polar opposites that just seeing them stand side by side is often enough to provoke titters. Jimmy, with his blond coif, is as fey as Chazz is surly. When they do their flips and lutzes, their slapstick ballet is (crackpot) poetry in motion.
Even though these skating scenes employ ample computer-generated effects, there are still plenty of sidesplitting close-ups of Ferrell at his most mock intense. Heder is a less-skilled comic performer, so there's a mismatch in this duet. But it's difficult for anybody to go up against Ferrell when he's really cooking. And even though he's only at half boil here, that's plenty. Grade: B
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Ah, community college. Where anybody can go, where nobody wants to be, where I have spent several semesters of my life so far becoming, as my history professor puts it, “educated.”
I enjoy expanding my knowledge on different subjects, adding to my vocabulary, and learning to think critically about current issues. While I haven’t necessarily enjoyed every class, I have enjoyed learning. I mean, that’s what we go to school for, right?
What continually surprises me is the number of students that don’t seem to even care about their education. They come late to class, leave early, complain about having to sit in on lectures, don’t participate, complain about the teachers, talk during class, text during class, procrastinate, complain about having to learn and memorize, blah, blah, blah – the list goes and and on – then they wonder why they’re not passing the class. Well duh!
While I can’t say that I’ve never been guilty of any of the above, I can say that I’ve learned a lot from the mistakes that I’ve made. I’ve learned to prioritize and not put things off; to get up early enough to make it to class on time; to relax when I get stressed out; to ask for help; to make new friends when I don’t have friends around; to risk feeling stupid by asking questions; to apply what I’ve learned to life; to develop self-confidence; to write a paper half an hour before it’s due (which I don’t recommend); to stand up for what’s right, even if I’m the only one; to study in advance rather than cramming the night before exams.
My favorite thing about being at the community college is that I can pick whatever classes I want for my major and electives. My favorite classes include Arabic (I can actually read/write a foreign language!! even if I don’t understand it that well), History (it makes the difference between winning and losing on Family Feud when you have to know what purpose the Missouri Compromise served), Speech (while I really dislike public speaking, I liked that it forced to me step out of my comfort zone and gain confidence in myself. And hey, a class field trip to get pancakes wasn’t bad either), and my most favorite class was Fencing!! (I would definitely recommend it) 😉
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The Evidence, Property, and Records unit (EP&R) is part of the Administrative Division. It is responsible for securing and tracking all items that are collected by GTPD officers as evidence or seized property and for managing the life-cycle of police records including creation, collection, processing, maintenance, dissemination and disposition.
In accordance with Institute policies and procedures, the Records arm works closely with the Georgia Tech Office of Legal Affairs and the Georgia Tech Office of Institute Communications when complying with the Georgia Open Records Act.
To request a copy of a report from the Records Unit, please complete the Police Report Request Form. Once completed, you may:
- email the form to [email protected]
- mail the form to: Records Unit, Georgia Tech Police Department, 879 Hemphill Avenue NW, Atlanta GA 30032-0440
- deliver the request at the Police Department any weekday between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
The Georgia Tech Police Department reserves the right under the Georgia Open Records Act to assess a charge for the materials and time associated with the request.
Items collected by the Property and Evidence arm are stored until the item is no longer needed for law enforcement purposes, and then is either returned to their owner or destroyed.
High value lost & found objects are securely stored with the Property & Evidence unit. We make every effort to identify the rightful owner and return the property to them. Here you can submit a description of the property you lost, and we will contact you if it matches up with items that have been turned in to us. Please note that due to the large number of inquiries we receive, we will only contact you if we believe we are in possession of your lost property. If you have lost high value items (such as jewelry, a passport or electronics), please stop by to file a police report.
Lower value lost & found objects (such as clothing or notebooks) are often stored in the building where they are found. Check with the Residence Hall Director or the Building Manager where you may have lost your property. | <urn:uuid:d826d03a-a60e-48b3-88e0-af618f0f7752> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://police.gatech.edu/evidence-property-and-records | 2017-06-28T05:32:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322870.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628050821-20170628070821-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.938095 | 430 | [
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I never answered your post back. I was actually on call last night and have some insights to consider if you want to recover pts outside the PACU.
1. You asked about meds; yes, I still do the med orders and administrations the same way as in the PACU. Only change is that the ICU doesn't stock all the same meds as we do, so I may have to call the pharmacy to tube up the meds I need.
2. I don't know about looking at the census and going from there to select a recovery area unless you have pre-determined buy-in and a little infrastructure in all the areas. We always use the ICU; we keep a recovery cart there with "everything" we need, and then we restock the ICU stuff we have to borrow if it isn't on the cart. The cart can be moved from one ICU room to another, but I wouldn't want to be moving it all over the hospital every night. The ICU tells the house supervisor if they need that ICU bed, and we might be bumped back to PACU.
3. Even more subtle is the dynamic between the PACU on-call nurse and the "host" nurses wherever you recover; you're going to have to ask these people for help every so often (for example, I had a nurse watch my rather fresh post-op for a minute because I needed to get something that was out of view of his room), and you need to know that they are qualified to help with the kind of stuff you do. I know ASPAN standard says RN and doesn't get into details about ACLS, etc., but I am more comfortable with backup that is experienced in critical care. That's what I love in the ICU; their nurses have much of the same training as we do (and more), and they also recover their vented patients after surgery so they know what to do with a post-op. Some of the nurses are more helpful than others. I'll just leave it at that; my experience has been about 90% positive and 10% positively ridiculous. I think that's true no matter where you are, but when they are your only backup, it's nice if they aren't put out at having to help.
4. I haven't had a problem with my anesthesia or OR staff. They know where we are, they are responsive to pages (especially the on-call anesthesiologist, who usually stays at the hospital and isn't rushing off to another case like during the day), and they know we are kind of marooned. Call is the one time we are allowed to carry and use personal cell phones; I just page the docs and have them call my cell, and I can always call the switchboard or direct-dial departments PRN.
5. Pedi is a whole different thing. If you do a lot of pedi, consider setting up a cart for pedi in your PICU if you have one, in addition to a regular cart for the unit. We are brainstorming this right now; I've recovered kids, but they were old enough that I could safely work in the adult ICU with them and have help. If it were an infant or toddler, I'd much rather be in the PICU with pedi nurses as backup.
6. Finally, I miss my support staff when I'm not in the PACU. It's like taking away everything familiar except the monitor sometimes! We're physically distant from other nurses (within earshot, certainly, but nothing like our packed-like-sardines PACU bays), the unit secretary in the unit has usually gone home, and we don't have our LNAs, on whom we rely heavily for transport, emptying drains, removing A-lines, the works. I could borrow an LNA from the ICU for an emergency task, but at night the LNAs are very busy and I don't like to give them non-ICU work to do. At night we also don't have transport, so we have to beg, borrow, and steal staff from around the building to help!
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I love Halloween. It may just be my favorite holiday of the year (that is assuming 'the day my neighbor's wife finds his Girls Gone Wild tapes and makes him throw them out and I take them out of his trash can' is not a real holiday.)
In the past I have had some pretty good costumes.
Last year I was a piece of beef jerky.
Click here to see it.
I know you want to.
So, the pressure was on to try and top it. I tried to think of something original that I could create for a reasonable price.
I looked into the cost of different fabrics, took a look at some existing patterns...
...and then I just gave up and bought something at the Halloween store.
Take a look:
That's me in my Donald Duck costume. You know you love it.
It was a huge and rather well made costume. The butt of the costume was most impressive. It was soooo big that I could not fit in the front seat of the car without reclining the seat ALL THE WAY.
My duck butt also knocked over knick knacks and portraits everywhere I went.
Plus, I was wearing tights:
That's me and my cat. I can't really determine what she thought of it.
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After slaying a lowly monster in your favorite MMORPG you expect it to drop a small amount of coin, a basic food item, or some other fairly predictable object that likely has little worth to you directly. Once in awhile you'll find something more valuable, but it may take time. As you walk around and fight monsters this can become extremely repetitive and boring. What if you were able to obtain items in a "casino" style fashion, similar to the Diablo series but built for MMORPGs?
Ultima Online, one of my favorite MMORPGs, was all about item generation, economics through trading of those items, and the community that helped guide which items were popular or useful. EverQuest, Dark Age of Camelot and Star Wars Galaxies have employed similar item systems. They do not target items as the main theme of the game like Ultima Online does, however, they still use items as there core economic engines. Especially Ultima Online, these games require the user to obtain items and property in such a way that it ultimately becomes redundant and down right boring.
Is predictable item statistic generation necessarily a bad system? Not at all. For example, when you are participating in a quest or are after a particular weapon, you would like to be certain that the creature you are spending time fighting will eventually drop the item. You might ask yourself, "Is this not random item generation?" If it isn't, then wouldn't the item in question come up every single time, or not at all? Item generation in all games is "random" to a certain extent.
What games need that employ any sort of serious item based system is a more Diablo style random item generation technique. It is this "lottery" system that users will become excited in using, at least longer than traditional systems. The second benefit in such a system is the acceptance of a smaller pool of overall items. With a random item generation system players may be willing to ignore this limitation for slight tweaks and unique qualities of current items.
Let's take this one step further and add in the idea of random location spawns, and forget for a moment about the typical "kill a monster and a chest or bag appears". Replace this with simply a chest or a bag! For example, your character is strolling through the woods and happens upon a randomly generated chest. To open this chest you may have to go through a series of monster spawn battles or some other challenge, but once open any number of things may occur or spawn. A scroll to some great quest, an item that will help you on your journey, or a bit of coin.
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GAMES SEASON GEARING UP FOR BUSY SPELL
BUSY SPELL BECKONS ON HIGHLAND GAMES CIRCUIT writes Shane Fenton
The busiest spell on the Scottish Highland Games Association season beckons with no fewer than 8 games set to take place over a six day period.
[Saturday 16th July] Loch Lomond[Balloch], Tomintoul and Lochcarron.
The Loch Lomond Games features the World Heavy Events Championship with Scotland's top throwers set to be joined by a number of overseas competitors to contest the various disciplines. Scott Rider has taken the title for the past three years
There is a good entry for the running events with the SHGA British 80 metres Championship topping the bill.
The Balloch event introduced Long & Triple Jump for the first time in 2014 and a quality entry looks set to take part on this occasion.
Lochcarron will stage the SHGA 800 metres Championship for only the second time as well as the SHGA 56lb Weight over the Bar Championship with the highlight at Tomintoul the SHGA Scottish 16lb Shot Putt Championship.
[Sunday 17th July] Rosneath Peninsula Highland Gathering. Stonehaven Highland Games.
This years Rosneath Games are looking likely to have a good entry with many of the competitiors and spectators who were at Balloch expected to stay over and head to Howie Park on the Sunday. The games feature a full programme of running, cycling and heavy events.
Mackie Academy Playing Fields will host the Stonehaven Highland Games. The standard in the heavy events is likely to be high with it being a venue for the Glenfiddich Heavy Events Championship.
[Monday 18th July] Burntisland Highland Games
A huge crowd boosted by day trippers from all over Scotland will be in Burntisland for the games which are traditionally held on the the first Monday of the Fife Trades Holiday fortnight. Again a full programme of all the traditional events as well as the famous 'Binn Race' for locals.
[Tuesday 19st July] Inveraray Highland Games
A big field of heavy event competitors are likely to be at Winterton Park with the games hosting the World Caber Championship supported by a full programme of heavy events.
Full programme of track and light field events as well as cycling. Always a big entry for the highland dancing and one of the premier games on the circuit for solo piping.
[Thursday 21st July] Mull Highland Games
There will be a big incentive for the jumps competitors at Tobermory with good prize money on offer.
Erray Park in Tobermory offers the best surface for jumping in the SHGA circuit with impressive ground records in all 3 jumps. The high jump record of 6ft 3.5in [ grass to grass] was set by the great Jay Scott in 1955. The triple jump ground record is 49ft 4in set by David Watson,Glasgow. The highlight for the heavy event competitors will be the Scottish Off-Shore 56lb weight for distance Championship.
For full details of all events go to http://www.shga.co.uk/
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This is of value in our sorrow for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
God does nothing without cause and truth. But, believe me, a person cannot completely grasp the meaning of God’s locutions and deeds, nor can he determine this by appearances without extreme error and bewilderment. Since the duration of these causes is uncertain, the fulfillment of the promise is too. One should seek assurance, therefore, not in understanding but in faith.
Saint John of the Cross, written 1585
The Perplexing Beatitude
Aaron Weiss, the popular mod singer, composer and head of the MeWithoutYou Band, has it tattooed on his wrist. I have read many writing which were unsuccessful in convincing me of its meaning. Then the light finally came by something said by a man who is in no way a theologian.
In the Southern town where I grew up, when you spoke of someone who was greatly distressed and burden down with worries, you would say, “Poor soul, he sure is poor in spirit.” And when you asked this person how he was feeling, he might say, “Mighty poorly.”
For that reason, I have long been disturbed by the first of Jesus’ beatitudes, when he said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” It didn’t make sense to consider yourself blessed if you were a mealy-mouth person, all down and out.
One evening when Donald Trump had again hit the skids and was head-over-head in debt, he and his current wife were walking down a street in New York. When they passed a street person with his hand out, Trump said in truth, “See that fellow? He is richer than I.”
Since that moment of revelation, I have accepted “poor in spirit” as meaning one who acknowledges the tremendous debt he owes to the Supreme Being who continuously allows the debt to increase each day. God is like a banker, who out of compassion rather than good business sense, keeps extended one’s line of credit. He knows that only in a minute way can the creditor repay what he has been given freely.
The value of something is what you would let it go for. So, the gift of my eyes, ears and other senses would have a price tag of over a million. Each family member and friend would each be worth a staggering sum. In appreciation, if I valued $1 for each bodily cell which performs so perfectly, I’d add a billion to my debt. For example, how could I establish a value for my Catholicism? My life would have less meaning if I were ignorant of the fact that God became Man with of His message of love. When I put a total price tag on God’s gifts to me, the 000s go out the window.
May I tattoo on my memory slate each morning, “Please bless me, one of the poorest of the poor!”
(And give me your thoughts about this Beatitude, [email protected])
In order to desire to be saved, we must know we are lost.
Servant of God Madeleine Delbrel 1958
Sister Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.
(And what are a few of your favorite sayings?) [email protected])
– In the 2/5 Wall Street Journal, Sarah Pulliam Bailey wrote an interesting article, jabbing sports reporters for not giving attention to the faith of the sports champion about whom they write. Her examples included Tim Tebow, Kurt Warner, and Joe Gibbs.
– In the February issue of U.S. Catholic, Phyllis Zagano wrote “The case for Deacon Pam” encouraging us having women deacons. I’ve got bad news for you, Phyllis, because I don’t think the first woman deacon has yet been born. Last month with pressure from the Vatican, Bishop Joseph Grech (not “Grench”!) in Australia stopped a parish church from lending its facility to an Anglican church that is under repair. The reason—the fellow Christians were going to have an ordination service for seven deacons, four of them women. The Bishop said that the ordination of women would be a potential source of confusion and conflict. (What do you think about this. [email protected])
– A good economical sign! The editorial board of America magazine selected Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury for its 2009 Campaign Award Recipient. “Gifted with a creative mind and poetic spirit, Archbishop Williams writes eloquently about many things: theology, prayer, church history, icons, religion and literature. His body of work nourishes the mind and the spirit.”
– With the snow storms of the century in the Washington, DC, area, the community has responded with admirable help and compassion for those in need. Everyone with whom I have talked has an account of being either the benefactor or recipient of sincere caring. It’s interesting that it sometimes takes a catastrophe to bring out the best in us. But, it’s there!
(And what joyful experience do you want to share?)
Examples from martyrs
As a young man who’s wife was expecting their second child, Blessed Luis Magana Servin told the Mexican judge during the anti-Catholic persecution, ”If you accuse me of being a Christian, yes, I am, and if I must be executed for that reason, I welcome it.”
The next day, February 14, 1928, when he was being shot in the vestibule of his parish church, he told his executioners, “I want to tell you that from this moment I pardon you, and I promise that on arrival in the presence of God you are the first ones for whom I will intercede.” Wow!
The first to send the right answers to [email protected] will receive a gift copy of Light Reading for Good and Wayward Catholics.
1. What is the least Catholic area of the United States?
2. In the Bible, what were the last words spoken by Mary?
3. What are the seven sacraments of the Church?
Many thanks for telling about your Prayer Group. I intend to give it a try with four of my friends.
Rebecca Robbins, Birmingham, AL
I find it hard to believe that you fellows in your Prayer Group have been meeting so long. I discussed this with my priest who wants to start a group in our parish, using your guidelines.
Erick Tims, Erie, NY
(Let me hear from you via [email protected])
Other recommended Catholic Blogs
www. Zenith.com (daily news from the Vatican
Rumor has it that after seeing the wide approval of our Joyful Catholic blog, the Pope is encouraging priest to start their own blogs in order to communicate better with their congregations. I am glad the Pope didn’t ask me to relinquish the title of this blog. If he had, since he is younger than I, I would have given in.
(Via Bob Kehlhofer in Atlantis, FL
If you also have a favorite chuckler, send it to me. [email protected]
A nun in a Catholic hospital was quizzing a penniless man without insurance about who would pay his bill and she asked if there were concerned relatives. When he said he had only a spinster sister who was a nun, the inquiring nun shot back, “A nun is not a spinster, because she is married to God!’
The old man said, “Well then, send the bill to my brother-in-law.”
My favorite religious priest, layperson or organization
The fifth grade students in the school at St. Anthony’s Parish in Columbus, NE, recommended Father Del Lape by listing 14 (!) things they like about him. A few of these are:
“Father Del is a great priest and teacher, a person who tries to teach about God and has a fun time when he’s doing it/ he eats lunch with the kids and makes them laugh/ he is trustful and kind/ he is the best preacher ever/ he is always ready to hear our thoughts. Father Del, you are terrific and the best priest ever!”
And let me know about your favorite Catholic priest, layperson or organization that is making a difference. Share this with our many Joyful Catholic members.
Special Intentions List
As you pray with a broad brush, please include these loved ones, who have been submitted by our readers. You, too, are invited to send me names of your special persons who are in need of prayer. My address is [email protected]. They will be on the list for 60 days. At the end of that time, if prayers are still needed, you merely have to renew the name.
Juanita Caldwell, David Abbey, Amie Ellis, Linwood “Skip” Williams, Gerry Paradiso, Nick DeCarlo, Tom Medved, Eileen Grotsky,
Roseanne Somlock, Nicholas Gallagher, Tom Lewis, Donald Whitcomb,
Violeta Zepeda, Rev. Joseph Healy, John Aylor, Rev. Joseph Marini, Enrique Portillo, Sharon McPike, Tom Ryan, Joseph Normile, Jim Quimby, Russell Edwards, Mary Darwish, Msg. Louis Quinn, Rev. Lawrence Boedt, Gertrude Goldstein.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Two Oregon bakers who refused service to gay couples citing their religious beliefs are not bothered by other occasions frowned upon by some Christians.
In separate incidents separated by three months, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham and Fleur Cakes in Hood River received national media attention after each refused a request for a wedding cake from a lesbian couple. (Gay and lesbian couples can enter a domestic partnership in Oregon.)
“We don't do same-sex weddings,” Aaron Kelin, the owner of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, reportedly told the couple.
“I believe I have the liberty to live by my principles,” Pam Regentin, owner of Fleur Cakes, told KATU.
Alternative weekly Willamette Week contacted each bakery to order cakes for other occasions disapproved of by some Christians, including divorce and a baby being born out of wedlock.
When Willamette Week anonymously inquired about such celebrations, neither bakery refused service.
“My friend is getting divorced and we'd like to throw her a little party to mark the start of her life,” the paper said in contacting the bakeries. “Do you ever write messages on those – we'd want it to say 'congratulations'! – and how much would it be for a cake that could serve about eight people?”
“We can definitely do something like that,” a Sweet Cakes by Melissa representative said.
Fleur Cakes quoted prices then added that advanced noticed was necessary because “June and July is very busy.”
Other inquiries included providing baked goods for celebrations surrounding stem-cell research, a non-kosher barbecue and a pagan solstice party.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Supporters of the bill have argued that the state lacks laws giving clear guidelines on the governing of such births, and have asserted that current gaps in guidelines could lead to legal problems for surrogate mothers, their spouses, and the intended parents of a child.
The bill includes a clause, which specifies that the “intended parents” of a child must be married, under laws recognised by the state. The Louisiana Constitution specifies that marriage “shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.”
Smith said on Monday that he is against the amendment added in the House by Republican Representative Frank Hoffman, which would cause the bill to become void in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), is overturned by the Supreme Court in a decision expected by the end of June.
He went on to say that even after the conference committee “rewords”, the bill, that he intended it to ”still keep [marriage] defined as what Louisiana believes,” he said, referring to the state Constitution which specifies marriage as between “one man and one woman”.
The bill has already proven to be divisive, and is opposed by both conservative religious, and more left-leaning groups, meaning it is backed by a mix of proponents, however it has been widely supported so far.
The National Organisation for Women has said the bill discriminates against same-sex and unmarried couples, however on the other end of the spectrum, the conservative Louisiana Family Forum, is against surrogacy full stop.
The bill was passed in the House last week with overwhelming support, however it will be reworded by the committee, before returning to both chambers for final debate.
Not content with denying equality in marriage to gays, the religious homophobes in Louisiana are now attempting to dictate our right to propagate...would love to see how they will attempt to enforce this one!
The wedding of the first gay couple to marry in France was broadcast live throughout the nation on Wednesday.
Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau were married in the southern gay-friend town of Montpellier by Mayor Helene Mandroux.
The men said “oui” and then shared several public kisses.
A small group of protesters who had gathered behind city hall were scared away by police, the AP reported.
On the eve of the law's start, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Paris to demand its repeal. In incidents on Saturday and again on Sunday, police detained several hundred activists who refused to disperse.
Speaking to CNN before the ceremony, the men discussed what the law means to them.
“When French children are born into this world, they are born with the same rights as everyone else,” Vincent Autin said. “But from the moment you said you were a homosexual, society deprived you of some of those rights just because you were a homosexual. Today, the French republic has given these rights back to us. Ones they had taken away. And they have put an end to an institutional discrimination.”
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The latest Jil Sander Navy Autumn Winter 2017 collection tells the story of a young Parisienne travelling to Venice during the Baroque era. Curled up in voluminous coats and wide skirts. She moves freely through urban environments with her feminine allure.
The versatile and modern cutted clothes, as the ample trousers and the oversized coats, are paired with soft shirts with puff shoulders; sumptuous dresses made with rich yet light fabrics and draped skirts – a hint to feminine fashion of 17th Century Venice, which exalts her silhouette.
The colour palette, which includes dark blue tones, grey, brick-red and purple hues, alludes to French photographer Sarah Moon’s work, Serge Lutens’s iconic shots from the 60s and Georges Lacombe’s intense paintings, surrounding the Jil Sander Navy woman of the season with an unmistakable air of mystery. | <urn:uuid:fea04902-dfd4-4ec4-926c-2583e767feed> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.frontrowedit.co.uk/new-york-fashion-week-jil-sander-navy-autumn-winter-2017/ | 2017-06-23T13:53:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.906033 | 189 | [
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Connected Educator Month in NZ-Aotearoa kicked off with a bang! I joined the celebration and listen to some amazing presentations. We were in for an amazing 31 days of Connected, Professional Learning.
The following are links to some Workshop recordings.
Day 1: (1st October)
- CEM Launch - Kick off session with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Sandy Philips, Derek Wenmoth, Wharehoka Wano, Phoebe Davies, Anthony Faitaua, Karen Melhuish Spencer
- Introduction to the Starter Kete
- CEM NZ Showcase - Carolyn Stuart, Sonya Van Schaijik, Te Mihinga Komene, Anthony Faitaua, Allanah Kind, Tessa Gray
- Stories of Connected PLD from NZ - Aotearoa (Connected Professional Learning - Shared notes) - Hoeard Baldwin, Trevor Storr, Phillipa Antipas, Alana Madgwick, Tamara Bell
Day 2: (2nd October)
- Modern Learning Practices and the connected world (Shared Google Doc) - Stephen Heppell, Derek Wenmoth, Janelle Riki, Mark Osborne
- Change Leadership: Connecting Maori and Pasifika (Shared Google Doc) - Dr. Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai, Keriana Tawhiwhirangi, Maria Lemalie, Togi Lemanu, Phoebe Davies, Tahy Paki
- Connected Voices, Whatunga Korero project - with the link to the project
- A powerful blend: ULearn14 and Connected Educator Month: What's in store
- #blogsync launch: Chris Waugh, Karen Meluish Spencer
Day 3: (3rd October)
- Connected learning: Plotting pathways, navigating mazes - Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, Tom Barrett, Togi Lemanu, Karen Melhuish Spencer
- Book Group kick-off: NZCER's Key Competencies for the Future - Rachel Bolstad, Sue McDowall, Sally Boyd
I made the decision not to link to all the Workshops I watched after Day 3, as I was getting ready to prepare for uLearn14 and soon after that it was back to school again. However, the calendar for all events can be found here
Other events that I committed myself to throughout October was:
- eFellows14 Reflection
- ConnectedRotorua's Pass the Blog
- James' #primedchatnz with Tony Ryan on 'Future Focused Learning'
- TeachMeetNZ presentation
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Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
- Serves 4 to 6 as an hors d'oeuvre
- For Sauce
- 1 small onion, chopped coarse
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 red bell peppers, roasted (procedure follows)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil leaves
- six 9- to 10-inch flour tortillas
- a 4 1/2-ounce log soft mild goat cheese such as Montrachet, cut into 4 pieces, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup prepared basil pesto*
- 1 small onion, sliced thin
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- *available at specialty food shops and many supermarkets.
- Make sauce:
- In a skillet cook onion and garlic in 1 tablespoon oil over moderate heat, stirring, until softened. Transfer onion mixture to a food processor and add roasted peppers, basil, remaining 2 tablespoons oil, and salt and pepper to taste. Blend sauce until smooth and transfer to a small bowl. (Sauce may be made up to 3 days ahead and chilled, covered.)
- Put 1 tortilla on a work surface and spread with 1 goat cheese piece, covering surface evenly. Spread 1 tablespoon pesto over goat cheese and cover with one fourth of onion. Repeat layering in the same manner, ending with a tortilla and gently pressing layers together. Make 1 more layered quesadilla with the remaining tortillas, goat cheese, pesto, and onion. Spread top and bottom of each quesadilla with 1/2 tablespoon butter.
- Heat a griddle or well-seasoned 10-inch cast-iron skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking. Cook quesadilla, 1 at a time, gently pressing down with a metal spatula, until golden, about 4 minutes on each side. Cut each quesadilla into 8 wedges and serve warm with roasted red pepper sauce.
- To Roast Peppers:
- Using a long-handled fork, char peppers over an open flame or on a rack set over an electric burner, turning them, until skins are blackened, 4 to 6 minutes. (Or broil peppers on a rack of a broiler about 2 inches from heat, turning them every 5 minutes, 15 to 20 minutes, or until skins are blistered and charred.) Transfer peppers to a bowl and let stand, covered, until cool enough to handle. Keeping peppers whole, peel them, starting at blossom end. Cut off pepper tops and discard seeds and ribs.
- Carbohydrates43 g(14%)
- Fat28 g(44%)
- Protein13 g(26%)
- Saturated Fat11 g(53%)
- Sodium697 mg(29%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber4 g(14%)
- Monounsaturated Fat13 g
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