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Oh Issues! Oh Guilt! Where to start?! What to reveal? There is a part of me that feels that to write honestly on this prompt is a sort of betrayal; treachery to my family and the unspoken rule regarding Our Business. My parents are not bad people. An odd couple, for sure, and co-dependent in equal measure, each doing his/her part to allow the other indulgence in his/her respective vices, but not bad…certainly not vindictive or morally corrupt. They’re just flawed human beings and as such, I have no shortage of things that I would approach differently. You should know, Dear Reader (and many of you already do) that I am no fan of loin fruit. My distaste gently mellows with age, and I’m certainly not as opposed to shooting a warm bag of Jell-O out of my vagina as I once was, but there’s a certain amount of commitment involved in child-rearing that I’m loathe to take on, especially considering the No Returns policy and the teenage years. I used to like to say that kids annoyed me and that they were all snotty, bacteria-breeding parasites. It was kind of my thing. But as years wear on and I find myself smack in the middle of a demographic defined by Baby Fervor, I realize that I’m not so much a critic of the babes themselves as I am of BAD PARENTS. I tell you that not to judge PARENTS (which I do freely and without apology, by the way) but to tell you THIS: I’m scared that I would be a Bad Parent: That I don’t have what it takes to change in myself the one and most important thing I would have my Hypothetical Children (a boy and a girl, close in age, perhaps twins) experience differently than me. That they get to BE children. That I, their mother, am certainly, and firmly, able and equipped to do the job, and that nothing (NOTHING) has anything close to that capacity to stand in the way. That my loves, my distractions, my jobs, my ISSUES are all a distant second to doing everything necessary to assure them to THEIR MARROW that they are CARED for. I always had what I needed as a kid. I wasn’t neglected or starved, but I did grow up identifying and knowingly compensating for each of my parents’ emotional inabilities. My father, a kind, patient and supremely masochistic man met and fell in love with my beautiful, whip-smart and scathingly scarred mother almost 40 years ago. His driving need to be loved and not abandoned gelled well with her need to feel superior and they forged a marriage on an unspoken agreement that he would love her and hold her above all else as long as she would never leave, and she would never leave as long as he was willing to remain suppliant to her every harangue. I was raised, you see, feeling bad for the way my mother treated my father, and so, grinning and bearing her treatment of me and excusing his refusal to disallow her abuse. From a very young age, my father was not my father, you see, but a peer, a partner in misery. We worked together to maintain the delicate balance of my mother’s mercurial moods, and for him, I forgave her sins, knowingly only that some days, he had it worse. Those relationships evolved as such things are wont to, and I became more and more a caretaker, praying for soft seas and only silently steaming against a woman who couldn’t seem to keep her hands off a vodka bottle or little pink pills or me. For years, it was he and I against her, and only recently have I realized that it was never really my side he was on, but hers. That each time he apologized for her or made an excuse or asked me to tough it out, he left a scar the same size of the ones she left with her words or metal spoons. Their feelings and hurts and relationship were always more important than my emotional, and oftentimes physical, well-being. And so my railing against screaming babies and outspoken toddlers has much less to do with annoyance. That’s just the blanket I cover everything in. Underneath it, I turn on my flashlight, and survey the scars dealt me by each parent. I’m painfully doubtful of my own abilities to overcome them, that my children, those dark-eyed twins, never have to run barefoot over them on tip-toe, careful of an unseen and treacherous balance.
Those who are impersonating others ... why? Leave it alone. Joe Pinckney, 29, drove up from SD to watch his Niners. He has hope: "If I stuck with them through a 2-14 season I can stick with them now." RT @StephenCurry30: Can't wait for the "Bad Lip Reading" episode of that Harbaugh chew out session Michael Crabtree scores on 31yard touchdown catch. Impressive 15 yards after catch. Pulls #49ers within 28-13 CK to Crabtree, 31 yards. #Ravens 28, #49ers 13 with 7:20 left in 3Q. #SB47 You can bet John Harbaugh, a special teams coach for nearly 20 years, is telling his guys to watch for the onside kick.
In Memoriam: John Bury John Bury, a set, lighting, and costume designer who enjoyed extremely long and fruitful collaborations with UK directors John Littlewood and Sir Peter Hall and who is probably best known in the US for his Tony Award - winning sets and lights for Amadeus in 1981, died Sunday, November 12 in Gloucestershire, England. He was 75. The cause was pneumonia brought on by heart disease. Born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1925, Bury started out at Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Stratford East, London, just after the war in 1947, serving in a number of different roles. "I didn't just design," he said in a Theatre Crafts profile in 1992. "I lit, I stage managed. Lit the boilers. We just couldn't employ designers. Occasionally when we got other people there was always trouble, because they turned out these designs on bits of paper. And it was no use to me, because I had nobody to build it." Bury's early sets were usually made out of found objects combined with scenery discarded from other productions. He worked on over 60 productions at Theatre Workshop, including A Taste of Honey and Oh, What a Lovely War! before leaving in 1963 to join Hall's fledgling Royal Shakespeare Company. Beginning first as an associate designer and then head of design, Bury and Hall enjoyed a healthy and successful collaboration at the RSC from the first production, a widely praised "Wars of the Roses" cycle featuring an all-metal set, to their final effort, All Over in 1972. "I like to think my aesthetic stayed the same," he told Theatre Crafts of his transition to the RSC. "With the same objectives. Of course, I had many more resources at the RSC and people to do things. I had the advantage of a lot of skilled cutters and tailors." Bury never made sketches, preferring to build as he went along. He considered the early years at RSC as "the apogee of my career, from 62-70. I never actually had the facilities again to work the same way. There were always too many other things getting in the way." His 1965 design for Hamlet, with "a great black and gray marble floor and big arches all around," was among his favorite works from that period. Bury would occasionally work on other projects outside of the RSC. His 30-year relationship with Hall, Bury once said, was non-exclusive, "but long-term, like a marriage, with flirtations." In the early 70s he designed the sets for such Broadway productions as The Rothschilds, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, and most notoriously, the sci-fi musical Via Galactica. "It was high-tech stuff, pretty advanced for those days," he told Theatre Crafts. "It was pretty stunning, with a floor all made of trampolines, with pink projected flowers. There were space figures with machines on their heads." He also noted that the technical requirements of the show "ran it into the ground." When Hall moved to the National Theatre in 1973, Bury followed. The pair worked continuously during the ensuing 12 years, both at the National and at the Glyndebourne Opera House. Their most successful project during that period was Amadeus in 1979, which transferred to Broadway and earned Bury Tonys for lighting and set design. Bury left the National in 1985 and spent much of the rest of his career in opera, working on such projects as Salome for the Royal Opera House in 1988, the Washington Opera in 1990, and the San Francisco Opera in 1993; Carmen for Glyndebourne in 1987; and Orfeo and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Glyndebourne in 1989. He was working on a revival of Midsummer with Sir Peter at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, who served as a collaborator on his designs for many years, and his four children, Christopher, Adam, Abigail, and Matthew. "I try not to get in the director's way," John Bury once said. "An artist should never be aware of his best qualities. I always strove to serve, not put myself forward. I've been successful in life by being responsible. The job of a designer is much more than being clever."
recently added numerous new items to its inventory of state-of-the-art video equipment. Included in the purchase were 15 new projectors, including the Barco SLM R10 and RLM G5 and Christie Digital L8 and LX20, two new High End Systems Catalyst systems, eight AV Stumpfl screens, and five NEC 61" plasma panels. It's important to our clients that we offer the latest and best equipment," commented Scharff Weisberg VP of staging Michael Halper. "Our recent acquisitions represent the state of the art in the industry and have been thoroughly researched in terms of quality and relevance to our clients' business." The largest portion of the purchase is new video projectors, with models from Barco and Christie Digital selected to provide a wide range of performance and cost options. The new Catalyst systems will be put to work immediately on the Broadway production of Wicked, which opens in San Francisco in June before coming to New York in October. The AV Stumpfl projection screens were chosen for their fast-fold capabilities and square corners. In other equipment news, the company will be purchasing new audio equipment including a 48-input Midas Heritage 3000 console and linear-array speaker system. Research is also being completed on a new high-resolution video switching.
SERAPID, Inc. is excited to welcome three new employees to the company. Keith Redmond, Diana Pickens and Chi Chung have all joined the SERAPID team. Redmond is working in estimating and spare parts sales, Pickens is joins the purchasing department, and Chung is working in electrical engineering. SERAPID specializes in horizontal and vertical motion through the use of our Rigid Chain Technology. Our products are best used with long strokes, heavy loads and in harsh environments. The Rigid Chain is a telescopic mechanical actuator that is flexible in one direction and rigid like a steel beam in the other.
Radio City Music Hall, a New York City landmark for 75 years, has installed 11 Dolby® Lake® Processors. The processors are being used for zone control and optimization of a newly installed JBL VerTec sound reinforcement system as well as existing under-balcony speaker, front fill, and Dolby movie surround networks at the prestigious 6,000-seat, multi-purpose, indoor theatre. The new main audio system, installed by Clair Brothers Systems, utilizes 11 Dolby Lake Processors to control the flown main left-right, down fill, subwoofer arrays, and a center cluster. Additional units provide processing for onstage side fill monitors, under-balcony delay, and front fill speaker systems. Two more units provide control of the in-house Dolby movie surround system. Clair Bros. recommended the Dolby Lake Processors, according to Jim Devenney, the design and installation company's senior audio designer. "It has one of the simplest GUIs to operate, with minimal flipping between pages to get to different processors," he says. "We grouped everything for them on one page so it's really easy for them to get in and get going with it." Tom Arrigoni, lead sound engineer for Radio City Music Hall, is already familiar with the processor due to the many Clair Bros. rigs incorporating the unit that are used on tours playing at the venue. "The first thing you notice about this system is that it's dead quiet," he says. "I have never heard a PA that has no audible noise. The superior sonic properties, coupled with the system's flexibility and the benefits of wireless operation, make this the optimum control package to meet the wide variety of applications that our Audio Department is called upon to meet."
With locations in London, Paris, Tokyo, and New York, The Living Room nightclubs are known for their chic comfortable spaces and great sound systems, but Fort Lauderdale, FL along the Las Olas River seemed an unlikely location for a new 11,000sq-ft. South Beach-style club in the worldwide chain. Jay Krause, owner of Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Sound & Lighting Solutions Inc. designed the lighting and sound systems in the venue, and his company also supplied the gear. Intended to be a highly interactive and sensory experience, the venue includes four main spaces, starting with an outdoor Zen meditation garden built around themes of fire and water. Inside are three differently themed rooms: the Opal Room, a white, moody ultra-lounge; the Meditation Room, a modern loft living room-type space with a waterfront view and beds that appear to float; and The Gate, the main room with the area’s most powerful sound system to date. Krause admits that the visuals were not necessarily the top priority. “The first thing that was the most important to the owners was to have that serious nightclub sound, even though it’s three different areas and not huge,” he says, adding that the venue’s thumping beats are courtesy of a Dynacord system, with all the processing within the amplifiers, “a good turnkey,” he says. “Once the audio was done, then we worked around the speaker positions with lighting.” Once the sound wish list was fulfilled, the creative team turned to visual aspects of the spaces. As one of the owners is a decorator, carving out unique spaces was a must, as was the demand to ensure the guests would not be able to see any of the lighting sources. “Looks were very, very important to the client,” he says, adding that the club caters to its clients by allowing each room to change its mood depending on special occasions and club-goers needs. The Gate, aptly named as the entranceway to the venue, features the main dance floor and areas that are “very earthy,” according to Krause, who says the owners wanted this area to have an “elemental effect—things that look like eyeballs, organic stuff.” To keep the effects pumping, The Gate has a rig of Chauvet lighting gear: six Min Wash LEDs, three Min Spot LEDs, and two ST-750 Strobes, as well as a Martin Professional 24/7 Hazer. “This room also has a 12' chandelier with Chauvet ColorDash PARs to make it a centerpiece,” adds Krause, noting that he also incorporated lasers into the chandelier—Chauvet Scorpion Storm Lasers, Scorpion Sky units, and Scorpion Storm RGs. “The room looks like an all-encompassing laser net,” he says. Bubble chandeliers in the main bar add color to the room as well, and a painting lit by Philips/Color Kinetics ColorBlast LEDs changes images—including from Buddah to sky to various other scenes—as the LEDs change color. Krause notes that a challenge in hiding all the light sources was “to get that certain look without it looking like a Lite-Brite in every room.” In addition, the venue’s vaulted ceilings and odd angles proved to be tricky when it came time to mount the fixtures. “The walls structurally come to a sort of dome, like a pyramid ceiling with curved walls, so that presented a challenge to mount the lasers and other fixtures,” Krause says. “It’s also all finished wood, so we couldn’t cut into it.” He adds that he also backlit the main room with LEDs using three colors to bring out different looks. In The White Rooms The Opal Room, easily identified by its all-white theme, was designed so that the lighting does the work of setting the mood, changing the feel of the room with color. White walls and a mirrored ceiling intensify the effect. Here, a combination of lighting and effects from Chauvet—LEDrain 56s, Intimidator Spot HTI 150s, and an F1250 fogger—and from Elation Professional—FLEX RGB LED Tape and MRRGBE27 LED Lamps—are rounded out by Acclaim Lighting X-Stick LED Tubes. The Meditation Room—with its white couches and a 3D holographic projection of Angelina Jolie inside a ceramic head centerpiece—required the continuing theme of hiding the sources but also ensuring they didn’t blind guests. This area includes three Sanyo PLC-XL51 ultra-short throw projectors with extreme, fish-eye lenses mounted 4" from the walls, throwing onto screens that mimic picture frames set on their sides. “People can’t tell how we did it,” says Krause. “There are no shadows created by the projections.” Elation Professional MRRGBE27 LED lamps and American DJ Fantasy Scan 250s comprise the lighting in the Meditation Room. Krause notes that venue’s location overlooking the waterfront created both benefits and challenges. “There are pillars that are structural outer walls between which are windows, so we only had a certain amount of space to work with—maybe 3' across, but we had 6' high—one of the unique things in that club,” he says. Outside in the Zen garden and on the patio, overlooking the riverfront, Chauvet LEDrain fixtures sealed inside weatherproof boxes create downlighting. The control system is via a Martin Professional Light Jockey 2 for main room control for The Gate, with Elation Professional Compuware Control for the Opal Room, and Acclaim AR-32 controllers for X-Stick LEDs and accessory lighting. Video content is all run from DVDs. The lounge has become such a draw with the club circuit that it is adding another 10,000sq-ft. dance floor, for which Krause says he’s in discussions with the owner for the lighting system. “We’re also excited most about adding an infinity video wall, and they already have us working on the wall and some other ways to change the interior again,” he says. “It’s exciting working with them, because a lot of times, the challenge is coming up with the concept, and it can be hard to get it completed financially and having the client involved. This client has an exact vision, so we aren’t challenged as much. Financially, they wanted what they wanted, so they could make changes elsewhere to get what vision they had.” 4 Chauvet Lighting ColorDash PAR 1 Chauvet Lighting F1250 Fogger 2 Chauvet Lighting ST-750 Strobe 3 Chauvet Lighting Min Spot LED 6 Chauvet Lighting Min Wash LED 12 Chauvet Lighting LEDrain 56 2 Chauvet Lighting LEDrain 64 4 Chauvet Lighting Scorpion Storm Laser 10 Chauvet Lighting Scorpion Sky 4 Chauvet Lighting Scorpion Storm RG 5 Chauvet Lighting Intimidator Spot HTI150 10 Elation Professional FLEX RGB LED Tape 70 Elation Professional MRRGBE27 LED Lamp 4 American DJ Fantasy Scan 250 Scanner 60 Acclaim Lighting X-Stick LED Tube 1 Martin Professional Wizard EO 1 Martin Professional Atomic Strobe 3000 With Color Scroller 1 Martin Professional Light Jockey 2 2 Acclaim AR-32 Controller 1 Elation Professional Compuware Control 1 Martin Professional 24/7 Hazer Two DJ Booths 1 Denon DNX1500 5 Pioneer CDJ1000MK3 1 Pioneer DJM800 Mixer
We Owe What Episodes Meet the Carolus Family Tammy and Ed Carolus are living on a Hollywood budget. With three children destined for fame, Tammy is burning through cash. But will that leave their bank account in ashes? Tammy is banking on big-time fame from her children to reimburse the excessive spending. With a dancer, a race car driver, and a wrestler at hand -- all the kids need is their big break! Tammy has bought a fully stocked tour bus to be prepared for the big moment. But will that moment come before their bank account crashes and burns?
Well, yesterday concluded the first ever ZomBcon Seattle, and what a great convention it was! We here at Living Dead Targets are very excited to see this convention continue to grow and become a must see for anyone involved in the zombie culture. We met a lot of zombie fanatics in great costumes and we were happy to aid in their apocalypse training. Pictured: (from left to right) Death, Mario, Nate Pecota Pictured: The Seattle Thrillers - ZomBcon 2010 Seattle Perhaps the most exiting event of our day at the Living Dead Targets booth was having the great Malcolm McDowell train for the zombie apocalypse using our targets. Pictured: Malcolm Mcdowell All in all the weekend was a great success. Despite a few hiccups in communication and a less than predicted attendance, we believe there are very good things to come for the future of ZomBcon Seattle.
This blog post perfectly sums up my most recent feelings about Facebook. While I've struggled to use the website as my alter ego in addition to the real me - the real me is struggling with it. My desire for real connection over the one that Facebook provides is winning out. I'm increasingly spending more time on all my blogs, reading more, and spending more time out in the real world with real people having real experiences. It can be easy to forget how awesome that is (I mean real life and both the shitty and awesome experiences that come with it) without thinking about how great a status update the situation(s) would make. Or taking pictures and not worrying about putting them on Facebook or where ever on the immediate web with cute quips and snarky comments. Down with Facebook, I'm here for my real life!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 What Looks Good? Between the heat, the humidity, getting my new car registered and titled, work, the little guy, and picking up a copy of Iron Man for my PS2 (not Iron Man 2, Iron Man! It was finally cheap enough for me to buy!), it's been a heck of a week. Good thing I have some comics to tide me over. Doom Patrol #11 -- The Brotherhood of Evil? I think not. Human Target #5 -- Chance has to keep his charge alive for this mission to have meant anything! Outsiders #30 -- The fallout of the war between Geo-Force and Black Lightning! Warlord #15 -- What is the mysterious beast in the cave and will Joshua survive it's wrath? Invincible Iron Man #27 -- What does Tony have up his sleeve? And what bout the Hammer ladies? So, what looks good to YOU?
We have these “truths” we seem to hold so damn self-evident in local news, the whole “they can’t live without us” stuff that the smartest tv newsers still cling to like baby blankets. The problem is, these fundamental truths don’t really hold up under close examination, and with every passing day, there’s more and more evidence that what we do is not the “given” we have so long believed it to be. Remember once, it was a “given” that a lower channel number was better than a higher one, and UHF? Oh my God. UHF. The other day I mentioned the concept of UHF and got a blank stare from an intern at a top university. They don’t teach it, because it’s irrelevant. Not only is channel number irrelevant, as local stations go digital, the channel number we may be clinging to won’t even be the right number anymore. It’s a new ballgame. And it’s a game we can lose. I crack up reading these determined posts on tv sites, where newsers debate the future ownership of certain stations. Inevitably, someone will chime in that one of the networks is “dying” to buy this or that station. Really? Are networks buying stations, or looking for a way to get out of the local affiliate model altogether? What are the odds your market will continue to support three, four, five or more local tv newsrooms over the next five years? I hate to bring up the comparison, but without a new model and some innovation away from the news at 6, and 11 and “innovations” like weekend morning news and “webcasts,” we may be looking a lot more like newspapers than any of us would care to admit. Print had a multi-paper heyday. Now many cities are one-paper towns, and some have no paper at all. Tomorrow, the Rocky Mountain News will hit the streets of Denver for the last time, shutting down after 150 years. Don’t even start to say that can’t happen to your might fifty years of history at Channel 6. In Miami, NBC’s WTVJ was as good as gone, offloaded by NBC to Post-Newsweek to be rolled into an ABC-NBC duopoly that many (especially in the TVJ newsroom) feared would mean, essentially, eliminating their newsroom and running WPLG’s product on two channels, with one staff, under one roof. (The TVJ call letters, channel assignment and peacock making the move; the majority of the news talent and support staff becoming the cost savings) The deal died, not for the concept, but for the banks. The loans that underpinned the purchase faded with the rest of the economy, and, for the time being, WTVJ, with its decades of South Florida history, lives on. But it was a close call that should open eyes. If a set of call letters like WTVJ can very nearly die off as a true, living, breathing, competitive newsroom in a big city, it can happen anywhere. In Denver, Rich Boehne, CEO of Rocky owner E. W. Scripps Company, put it bluntly to the paper’s people: “Denver can’t support two newspapers any longer,” according to an account of the meeting published on the Rocky’s website, which noted that some staffers cried at the news of the paper’s death. ”People are in grief,” said Editor John Temple. On Saturday, Denver will become a one newspaper town, with the Denver Post the last man standing in an old west print duel that has waged since the 1920s. Why not TV? Over at LostRemote, Cory Bergman blames that old “wall” for a “fatal disconnect” between us local tv newsers and the folks upstairs who get the Pontiac guy to buy spots. You know, when “they” get us some ads, we’ll be fine: “The problem,” Bergman blogs, “journalists wash their hands of the business side of the equation. That’s the business guys’ problem, said one newspaper journalist. But it’s not. It’s everyone’s problem.” His solution? Work together to create a product that people might want to buy–or watch. ”By splitting journalism and business into two buckets separated by a longstanding cultural divide, the two groups fail to collaborate on ideas that tap the strengths of both. And neither have a track record of understanding how technology enables community, the greatest opportunity of all.” Bergman believes–as I do–that finding a model beyond 5, 6, and 11, beyond the exciting addition of weekend morning news and email alerts (sent right to your mobile phone when weather threatens!) means recrafting the whole damn thing, which is something newspapers didn’t do very well, and tv’s not so hot at, either. (Look at the raging success of the DTV transition.) Bergman boils it down to putting the “business” back in the news business: ”local journalists are losing their jobs, often blaming the business guys. But along with upper management, they’re all to blame for failing to collaborate. For failing to understand their users and advertisers’ evolving needs. Not OUR needs. But our CUSTOMERS needs.” What do you think? Will your station be doing news in five years? Who will you be working for ten years from now? How long can we count on viewers showing up for appointment newscast viewing–and getting advertisers to pay for the privilege of buying time on those newscasts? [FULL DISCLOSURE: I've worked at for E.W. Scripps, and Post-Newsweek, and know many of the people who would've been directly affected in the Miami duopoly, both the managers at WPLG who without a doubt would have created something unique and very likely profitable--and the journalists at WTVJ, who I consider good people and would have hated to see any of them lose their jobs]
January 18, 2013 Joanne Pasquale of Lockport, entered into rest on Thursday, January 17, 2013. Born on June 20, 1941 in Niagara Falls, the daughter of the late George and Madeline Schebell Tripoli. Joanne worked at the Presbyterian Home in Lockport for 17 years as a Resident Aide. She also volunteered at Eastern Niagara Hospital in Lockport. She was a member of St. John the Baptist Church. Joanne was an avid bowler and enjoyed spending time with her family. Her husband, Louis P. Pasquale, Sr., passed away on October 3, 2010, She was the mother of Theresa A. Pasquale of Lockport and the late Louis P. Pasquale, Jr.; sister of Samuel Tripoli of Arizona and the late Rose Mary Damone and Constance (late Louis) Pucci; sister-in-law of Jeanine (Luigi) Fiorelli of Michigan and Anthony (Gloria) Pasquale of Lewiston; special cousin of Vita Husanian. Also survived by relatives and friends. Friends may call on Monday from 2-4 PM and 7-9 PM at Taylor & Reynolds Funeral Home, corner of Transit and Niagara St. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. John the Baptist Church, 168 Chestnut St. on Tuesday at 10 AM. (PLEASE ASSEMBLE AT CHURCH) Entombment Queen of Heaven Cemetery. Arrangements by Provenzano Memorial Chapel, Mark C. Provenzano, Director. Visit www.niagara-gazette.com/obituaries for online guest register.
By Bill Hoppe BUFFALO — The growing potential for an NHL lockout has forced the Detroit Red Wings to cancel their annual NHL Prospect Tournament in Traverse City, Mich., which the Sabres won last season. The Sabres were one of eight teams slated to participate again in September. The collective bargaining agreement expires Sept. 15. Little progress has been made during recent talks between the NHL and NHLPA.
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Progress has been made. Six old shirts and a lot of long seams. The blanket top is done...I think. A whole field of blue. Thank goodness the elbows went out on the stripy number at the last minute, the stripy bits really pulled it all together. Still deciding if I should add sashing to the sides and ends. Or a pop of color somewhere. It'll make a fine picnic blanket in the end. I'm calling it a blanket and not a quilt, for I imagine I broke far too many quilting rules along the way to make it a proper quilt. Is anyone interested in just how I put "Old Blue" together? let me know and I will work up a little 'how to' when it's all done. Have a happy day!
[OT] perforce: one server, multiple ports? extasia at extasia.org Thu Oct 12 19:24:35 BST 2006 While not strictly a perl question, I figured there would be a number of people on the list who might offer insight. My manager says that at her last gig, they ran, on a fedora box, a single perforce server that listened on multple ports, one port I can't (yet) find any documentation supporting this. Multiple servers each listening to a distinct port, yes, but a single server listening to multiple ports, no. Has anyone experienced a situation in which this (one server listening on multiple ports) was done? Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors. More information about the london.pm
Continuing our series of art work inspired by subterranean London. Nadja Ryzhakova, whose work we’ve featured before, fingered out these illustrations of stations on her iPad. The first two images show underground spaces (one surreal, one ‘from life’), while the other two show mainline concourses, the portals into the underground world. The art work forms part of our ongoing Londonist Underground series, tying in with the Tube’s 150th anniversary. We’re still looking for further entries. All you need to do is imagine something — anything — underneath London and create some kind of image (painting, drawing, collage, sculpture…) to share your idea. The image could be fictional or fact based — from a secret bunker of unicorns beneath Mile End, to a serious painting of your favourite Tube station. So long as it’s underneath London, we want to see it. Send entries to email@example.com as soon as possible (no deadline, but we’re hoping to organise an exhibition soon).
Honoring The Fallen Chris Matlosz had many friends; now, he has many more They've seen people die. That's what happens when you're a police officer. You see the worst of things. Or so you think, until another surprise comes your way. Few officers see one of their own die - not on duty. Never, some said, did they think this could happen here. Never did they think it could happen to a guy like Chris Matlosz. He was a guy with a fiancee, a graduate of Howell High School in 2001. He had a Facebook page, with pictures. He was a cop who was friendly, and a friend to many. But there they were, lined up deep into the parking lot of the Lakewood Funeral Home, hundreds of them waiting for hours to see Matlosz, who was shot and killed on Friday. There they were, to see a man who was shot three times in the head, for reasons unknown. Even the most jaded observers, those who study crime, have had a hard time explaining this. He was from the Jersey Shore, a place that's usually tranquil, with beaches and seas that are pleasantly deserted in the winter. He was from Howell, a town with Route 9 roadside stores with signs that say "Pooltown Pools" and "Shoes $5 and Up." He died near Howell, last Friday, down the road from the Lakewood Funeral Home, where a large American flag hung from a ladder truck Wednesday night, as the hundreds of mourners lined up. A lane on Route 9 southbound was closed, forcing cars to slow to a crawl, letting the mourners cross the normally busy road, hang their heads, and walk in, peacefully. As they walked in, they saw helmeted officers, holding large guns at their chest, standing watch. Many of the mourners were citizens, wearing Giants football jackets, jackets and ties or long overcoats. Just as many were police, wearing the Lakewood color of blue, or they wore black or some other color from some other town far away. When they saw each other, they shook hands. Or they saluted, moving their hand slowly toward the brim of their cap. There, they saw pictures of Matlosz and his girlfriend, Kelly Walsifer, one after another, flashing up on a computer screen. In almost every picture, Matlosz is smiling, If he's not smiling, he's hamming it up, being playful. In so many of the pictures, he's standing near the beach, wearing an LBI sweatshirt, or just smiling in front of a setting sun. The sky is pink, blue and gray, and the waves are crashing behind him. Peacefully. At the end of the slideshow was this: "Only the good die young." They saw a poem that talked about a man "who's first name is Chris...he could light up a room.. something we'll all miss." There were flowers against the wall, from police forces, businesses and individuals who know this story. They're feeling hurt by this story, and wondering why. "Even a guy like me, who's jaded about Jersey City, is shocked," an undercover Jersey City cop told me. He was one of the hundreds who came between 4 and 9 p.m. Wednesday. Once it was over, he was walking hurriedly back to his car, one of many that lined the side of Route 9 southbound. He said he wears a beard because he's an undercover cop; no one can recognize him. He couldn't give me his name, because he'd lose his cover. But he thought about it, because he wanted to say something, anything that would make sense of this. "Unfortunately, we've seen it happen in Jersey City a little too much," he said. "But it's still always a shock." He lives in the Howell area because he wanted to. He thought he could hide here. Now he's not sure. "There's no way I'd live in Jersey City," he said. "That's why I live here."
[Hagelin.] The Hagelin Cryptographers, an Analysis, CONFIDENTIAL. New York: Ericsson Telephone, 1942. 28pp Very good condition. Mimeographed sheets, stapled. 11x8, 19pp. Offset, typed document. Stamped "Accessions Division, Nov 11, 1942, Library of Congress". With an accompanying cover letter with the rubberstamp of Ericsson Telephone, Sales Corp, NYC., and dated July 3, 1942. $650 This is a general report on the origin, development and status of the Hagelin "cryptographers"-a word used here to describe the physical machines (rather than the people working on codes). Sections in the document include:"Models Built at Express Demand of the French Authorities", "Evolution of Hand Cryptographer Type C-362", "Hagelin Cryptographer Models" (BC-38 and C-362), "Methods of Operation", "Superiority of Hagelin Cryptographers over Competing Makes", and others, including a final section "How to Sell Cryptographers". There is a mention of the "Enigma" machine on page 14, which is limited to mentioning that it is not sold outside of Germany. From WIki: "Although the Swiss firm founded by Boris Hagelin has manufactured, and continues to manufacture, many kinds of cipher machines, the words "Hagelin machine" will normally inspire thoughts of their unique lug and pin based machines. The basic principle of a Hagelin lug and pin machine is easy enough to describe. In the C-38, used by the U.S. Army as the M-209, six pinwheels, with 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, and 26 positions on them, can be set by the user with an arbitrary series of pins that are active. For every letter enciphered, all the pinwheels rotate one space. The combination of active and inactive pins is presented to a cage with 27 sliding bars. Each bar has two sliding lugs on it, which can be placed either in a position where it is inactive, or in a position corresponding to any of the pinwheels, so that it will slide the bar to the left, if the pin currently presented by that pinwheel is active. The number of lugs sticking out rotates the cipher alphabet against the plaintext alphabet. The two alphabets used are just the regular alphabet, and the alphabet in reverse order, from Z back to A. This meant that encipherment was reciprocal, although the machine still had a switch to select encipherment or decipherment: this determined if the machine printed its output in five letter groups, or if it translated one letter, chosen by the user, to a space. The C-52, a postwar version of the Hagelin lug and pin machine, added an extra five sliding bars to the cage that, instead of moving the cipher alphabet, caused the stepping of the pinwheels to be irregular. The first pinwheel always moved, but the remaining five pinwheels only moved when their corresponding bars were slid to the left. The six pinwheels were labelled A, B, C, D, E, and F from left to right; bar 1 controlled pinwheel B, bar 2 pinwheel C, and so on. Also, on the C-52 the lugs could be moved from bar to bar, and the six pinwheels were chosen from a set with lengths 25, 26, 29, 31, 34, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 46, and 47. Using the pinwheels with lengths 34, 38, 42, 46, 25, and 26 allowed one to achieve compatibility with the C-36: provided one also turned off the irregular pinwheel stepping feature. The alphabet always started from its normal position, instead of the position last used, before being rotated by the projecting slide bars. This was perhaps the machine's main weakness, as it made attacks based on frequency counts of displacements possible, but it was perhaps unavoidable, since there was always a slight possibility of occasional mechanical errors. Particularly as the machines were often used on battlefields."
Official: Enrollment Issue Making Progress Community Advisory Committee set to meet again on June 12. Progress is being made in potential changes that could affect the Washington Township School district due to projected enrollment drops, according to Community Advisory Committee chairperson and board of education member Michelle Munley. The committee was established in early March and has been meeting every few weeks. Discussions have centered around the district continuing its education standards while considering changes in facilities, if the projected enrollment drop of more than 500 students in five years comes to fruition. The group’s most recent meeting, held on May 17, went over the current districts assigned to each school, and what the positive and negative of those currently are, and how they may be changed. “We’ve been looking at short term opportunities and long-term opportunities in this process,” Munley said. “We’re looking at different district models and different ways of doing things.” A new districting model, for example, could allocate individual schools for individual grades, i.e. Kossman for all the township’s kindergarten and first grade students, with Cucinella holding all the township’s second and third grade students, and so on. Munley said the process is being looked at in a pro and con fashion, and the list of cons is currently longer than the plus side. “We’ve discussed a lot of options so far, and nothing has been thrown out yet,” she said. Munley said about 20 to 25 of the committee’s original 40 or so members have been consistently attending the meetings and giving input. “We’ve been able to maintain the diversity of residents involved in this process,” Munley said. “We have empty-nesters, retired residents, teachers and parents of pre-schoolers and school-aged children working on this.” As for changes to the new school year beginning in Sept. 2012, Munley said it might be too soon for anything to be put into place just yet. The committee next meets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12 at Kossman School. Residents are welcomed to attend.
If you are totally new to WordPress, and even newer to the idea of a PHP driven website, we have the information you need to help you learn about how this all works. The more you understand about the basics, the jargon and terminology, the core structure, and the process, the easier it will be for you to get a grip on what it takes to ask questions about WordPress to get the help you you, and what it takes to customize your new WordPress site. To start, check out First Steps With WordPress. This article literally holds your hand through the process of your first introduction to WordPress. As you read it, imagine a WordPress Support Forum volunteer is sitting beside you, guiding you through the process of looking at all the parts and pieces and then slowly setting up your site. If you have a brush of familiarity with websites and website design and structure and you are anxious to just jump in, then begin with New to WordPress – Where to Start as it lists the various articles you will need as you go through the process step-by-step. New to the whole language, jargon, and terminology of WordPress? There is a lot to learn like the difference between posts, Pages, and single and mutli-post views. Simply put: - A web page is any page generated in your WordPress site. - A post is a anything that has your blog, article, or general post information entered in the Administration Panels Write Post panel. Posts are listed chronologically by default on the front page, archives, and category views. - A Page is a psuedo-static web page that usually hosts information like About, Contact, and other information that is not chronlogical. A Page does not have a category, nore is it viewed on mult-post views. - A single post view is a web page that features only the post within the layout of the website. It may or may not show comments on the same page. - A multi-post view is a web page that features more than one post on the page such as the front page of the site, archives, and categories. You can learn more about the terminology and jargon of WordPress in the article on WordPress Semantics. The transition for many from HTML to XHTML may seem confusing. Basically, HTML is the older brother of the improved XHTML. For a basic overview, see HTML to XHTML for information on what may need to change in your old posts and articles when importing them to WordPress. One of the most important features of WordPress is the easy ability to enter your blog or article content to your site. You can assign categories to posts, add excerpts, custom fields, and even set your post to be published in the future, so you can work ahead and allow WordPress to automatically release posts so you can get on with the rest of your life and your WordPress website will continue to work for you. You can learn more about writing posts in WordPress at Writing Posts. And don’t forget, WordPress has a whole group of articles on the WordPress Codex that are the tutorials you need to help you get started. Called WordPress Lessons, they take you step-by-step through setting up your site and customizing each aspect of your new WordPress site including: - Stepping Into Templates - Stepping Into Template Tags - Customizing Your Sidebar - Styling Lists with CSS - Designing Headers, Header Art, and Header Text - Linking to Posts, Pages, and Categories - WordPress Feeds - Creating Category Pages - Customizing the Read More There is a lot to learn and if you are a beginner and just getting started, these links and articles should help you get a handle on how WordPress works and what it has to offer you and your readers.
Rays come up short against Reds Center fielder Upton goes 3-for-4, drives in one run REDS 5, DEVIL RAYS 4 at Sarasota, Fla. Friday, March 30 Reds at the plate: Juan Castro hit a two-run double to highlight a five-run first inning. Scott Hatteberg doubled and walked with an RBI in the first. Ken Griffey Jr. singled to drive in a run. Cincinnati pulled all its starters except Chad Moeller after four innings. Devil Rays at the plate: Akinori Iwamura singled twice and drove in a run. Iwamura is hitting .200 for the spring. Jonny Gomes singled home a run and walked. B.J. Upton had three hits and an RBI. Brendan Harris, who was with Cincinnati briefly last season, was 0-for-5 and struck out twice. Delmon Young, the brother of former Red Dmitri Young, was hitless in three at bats. Reds on the mound: Matt Belisle and Kirk Saarloos continued their rivalry for the fifth-starter spot. Belisle started Friday and allowed three runs, two earned, on five hits in 2 2/3 innings. Saarloos followed with 2 1/3 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out two. Rheal Cormier allowed a run on two hits. Mike Stanton escaped a one-out jam in the eighth inning. Rule 5 Draft choice Jared Burton pitched a perfect ninth for a save. Devil Rays on the mound: Jae Seo allowed five first-inning runs on six hits. He finished with three scoreless innings with one hit. Al Reyes and Shawn Camp each pitched a scoreless inning, while Gary Glover allowed two hits in two scoreless frames. Grapefruit League records: Reds 18-10; Devil Rays 9-19. Up next: The Reds play in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday against the Florida Marlins at 2:00 p.m. ET. They will also send a Minor League team against Toronto in Dunedin, Fla., to fulfill its Grapefruit League schedule at 1:05 p.m. The Devil Rays host the New York Mets in an exhibition game at Tropicana Field at 1:05 p.m. Gary Schatz is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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February 25, 2011 Garnett high on Ducks The Oregon Ducks landed five top offensive linemen in the last class, but they will certainly be adding another few for the Class of 2012. One of the first they identified and offered was Puyallup offensive tackle Joshua Garnett. Watching film of Garnett, the reason for the attraction is obvious. As a junior, Garnett dominated whichever defender the opponent threw at him. Besides his imposing physical stature, the 6-foot-5, 280 pound athlete has another leg up on the competition. His father is former Washington Husky and NFL star Scott Garnett. "He really knows a lot," said Garnett of his father. "It's a diverse knowledge of weightlifting. He is helping me out getting stronger because he can teach me different lifts. What lift to do to gain size or gain power, or gain strength. He shows me the difference between power and strength and speed. We work on the explosion things that are especially beneficial. My dad was big at power clean and squat so he can help me with form." Garnett attributes their shared passion as healthy motivation for achieving his own goals. "It strengthens our relationship because some people don't have that great a relationship with their parents," Garnett explained. "I hand out with my dad every single day. We're always joking around, messing around with each other, asking who was stronger, who was better when he was my age so we have a little rivalry going. It's a healthy rivalry that makes our bond closer." ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
Heart-shaped Gift Box/Bag (You could really make it any shape as long as two sides are flat and meet at a 90 degree angle.) Trace a heart on the cereal box front and back using the bottom corner of the box as the point of the heart. Extend the sides about an inch or two past where the heart meets the side and add little tabs on either side for easier gluing. Using a hole punch, punch a hole near the top of both sides. Curl in the sides and glue. Trace two heart shapes on decorative paper and cut out. Trace two rectangles a half an inch wider on both sides. Fold sides over and cut "teeth" where the paper will need to curve. Glue sides on and then the front and back hearts. (Thankfully they covered up where I creased the side wrong!) Don't forget to punch a hole in the paper so it lines up with the previously punched hole. I added a braided twine handle, but you could use ribbon or even a couple layers of matching paper, depending on how strong you need the handle to be. Add your tissue paper and gift and you are ready to go!
It was the day before the Providence Cyclocross Festival and Richard Sachs asked whether I was going. Richard Sachs is a bicycle framebuilder in central Massachusetts, maybe you've heard of him. He builds these nice lugged steel bikes for which there is a 10 year wait list. He also races cyclocross, with his team, on bikes that he makes (no wait list for those). They would all be racing in Providence that weekend, and if I went I would get to see them. I should explain that I'd never actually met Richard Sachs at this point, though we'd exchanged a couple of emails. As another bit of indirect contact, some time ago I briefly rode one of his bikes - a blue and white 26" wheel brevet bike that belonged to a friend of the Blayleys. It was a nice bicycle, and I knew of the legendary status of Sachs frames. But what truly sparked my interest in the builder was his writing. His writing is extensive, addictive, and freely available online. Blog entries that read like essays on postmodernism. Quotes from his own interviews followed by commentary, analysis and critique of those quotes. He keeps records of things that happened 10, 20, 30 plus years ago. He tells and retells his history, using scanned photographs, scraps of receipts, and yellowed bits of newspaper as evidence. You can learn almost anything you care to know about Richard Sachs by reading through all of this. "[People] are buying me, not the bike," Sachs once wrote. "They want to have a little bit of me." And so he grants us access to his person, or at least gives the illusion of doing so. Naturally, all of this fascinates me. The site of the Providence Cyclocross Festival was labyrinthine and chaotic. When I got there, I realised that I had no idea how to go about finding a specific person. There was no Sachs tent, and he had given me no instructions for where to find him. As I wandered around, I made a game out of looking for him. After 10 minutes the closest I got was spotting a red and white bike being wheeled past, with "Richard Sachs" on the downtube in yellow. Then I saw a woman with a fluffy white dog peeking out of her backpack. Both she and the small creature looked familiar. When I noticed that she too was rolling a red and white bicycle, I realised this was Deb, Richard Sachs' wife. The Masters men's race was scheduled to start soon, and she was headed to the staging area. All of the Richard Sachs cross team bikes are red and white, and all are fitted with identical components. The look of the team bikes has not changed much over the years, nor have his bicycles in general. "Why buy a frame from a one-man shop still using traditional hand-building methods?" his website asks. "Because technology alone is a poor substitute for experience." The experience he speaks of dates back to 1972. His frames are not custom, but made to measure, in the sense that the customer has no input into geometry or other core design elements. A Sachs frame means Sachs geometry, his own proprietary blend of (Columbus "PegoRichie") steel tubing, his own lugs, dropouts, fork crown. He has perfected his method over the course of 40 years. This is what the Richard Sachs customer pays for; this is what they believe is worth the wait. Spotting some more of his bicycles on the roofs of cars, I try to see all of this in the frames. But my novice eye just sees some classic lugged bikes. I was now in front of a car that I recognised as his. "Richard Sachs" was everywhere, but still no Richard Sachs. Also everywhere was his signature acronym ATMO - "according to my opinion." ATMO is used on online forums, in written correspondences, in descriptions of things. Products are branded with it. You can buy an ATMO bag, t-shirt, hat. Socks. Seeing them somehow made me feel better prepared to meet him. Just one of those ridiculous thoughts that goes through one's mind. In fact I had no idea whether I'd be able to pick him out of a crowd. I flipped through my mind's database of all the online pictures I had seen of him. These generally fell into three categories: There was the thoughtful Richard Sachs in a black turtleneck sweater, brazing. The muddy, suffering Richard Sachs in a skinsuit and helmet, racing. The smiling Richard Sachs in jeans and a blazer, shaking hands at NAHBS. Tableaux. I'd heard numerous stories at this point about what he is "really like." He is arrogant. He is humble. He is funny. He is humourless. He is charming. He is abrupt. But now I spotted him in the race, and my first impression was that he was a cyclist. Skinny and scowling, he stood and pedaled, staring straight ahead, breathing with his mouth open, as if gasping for air. "That bike fits him well," I thought, before I remembered that he made it. I had picked the wrong day to attend the cyclocross race: sunny, dry, cheerful. The following day would be all rain and mud, but my pictures make the riding look like a fun little jaunt. There were at least two men in the Master's race wearing the RGM Watches-Richard Sachs team kits, but I quickly determined that Sachs was the one in long sleeves and that made it easier to follow him around the course. Not that this helped me much. I do not envy sports photographers: This stuff is more difficult than a wedding. To get good shots, first you have to study the course in advance and wait for the riders you want to capture in the spots that not only promise action, but offer a good vantage point for photographing individual riders. Then you have a split second to compose a shot; once a rider passes you, there is no do-over. By the the end of the day I started to figure it all out, but when Richard Sachs was racing in the morning I had not yet gotten my bearings. It took a couple of laps before I even managed to get a picture where his head was not overlapping with a tree or other riders. Finally he was riding alone for a stretch and I got a few shots, one or two of which were even in focus. Still, nothing to write home about and certainly not worth all the running around I did. Once it was over, I headed back toward the car where I had seen the ATMO wheels and dirty socks. On my way there I saw the other, short-sleeved Masters rider (David Genest?) rolling along while doing the double-bike maneuver. Soon after that Richard Sachs rolled up, recognising me. His appearance up close was a little startling at first. He has very pale gray eyes and features that are both angular and delicate. The kind of face you might see in an expressionist painting. We said hello. He was tired, but willing to pose for pictures, even pointing out which parts of the bike and his outfit to photograph, so that sponsors would receive attention. "Make sure to get the watch," he said, and I did (RGM Watches). The black team kits with cream horizontal panels and red edging are striking and elegantly styled. Sponsors' logos have the look of vintage newspaper headers. I studied the bicycle - a Richard Sachs, with Richard Sachs upon it. I tried to focus on the details of the frame, take some close-up of the brake bridge and fork crown, that sort of thing. But instead I kept thinking of the steel tubes against the 59-year-old muscles. The streaks of dirt on the frame juxtaposed with those on his legs. The stylised RS headbadge with the weight of the actual man whom those initials represent resting above it. Richard Sachs has done an impressive job of branding himself. He has created a micro-universe of imagery, logos, words, phrases, even ideas that signify him. The red bikes. RS. RICHARDSACHS. e-Richie. ATMO. CFRS. "The frame is the frame." "Imperfection is perfection." I tried to see through these layers of signifiers and representations, to the actual flesh and bone person in front of me. But I couldn't see him clearly. Or photograph him in a way that satisfied me. We kept talking, not about anything in particular. He came across as open, friendly. At some point he picked up his fluffy white dog, cuddled it, held it in front of the camera. I took the pictures, but even as I did I sensed that this too was a tableau; that when I'd get home and look online, others will have taken the same shot. "Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me," I thought. That's a lesser known version of a popular Gertrude Stein quote. I could not get a feel for the man, as a separate entity from the e-mythology that surrounds him. At the end, finally I came close - catching him off guard as he sat on the edge of his car and stared into space. It was a fleeting moment, and still perhaps a tableau. The post-race Sachs. Before becoming a framebuilder, Richard Sachs had planned to be a writer. Of course, this was over 40 years ago, but it still "explains things," one could say - meaning his blog, his extensive documentation of personal history, the way he forms his replies in interviews. And the interviews with him are numerous, as are the biographical articles and the reviews of his bikes. Me, I can hardly contribute anything of substance to such a collection. Best I can do is share this story of meeting him.
NEW! Flat-panel TVs with 30 channels of HD programming. Easy-access Plug-and-Play feature makes it simple to connect electronics. The location of the La Quinta Inn Virginia Beach provides a straight shot to Busch Gardens/Water Country USA and also the Virginia Beach Oceanfront: Marine Science Museum, Nauticus, (USS Wisconsin tours), Seashore State Park, and Mount Trashmore Recreational Park (skateboard pit, Kid...see mores Cove, one of the area's largest playgrounds and a jogging path). Watch the Norfolk Tides (Minor league baseball) and the Norfolk Admirals (ice hockey). We are the closest Hotel to the Verizon GTE Amphitheater and the Virginia Beach Soccer Complex, and convenient to all military bases. Stay here when attending functions at the new Virginia Beach Convention Center. The friendly staff at the La Quinta Inn Virginia Beach provides a Free Bright Side BreakfastTM each morning, and your stay includes complimentary passes to the local YMCA.. All rooms are spacious and include free wireless high-speed Internet access. Our king rooms also include microwave and refrigerator. We are one of the few area hotels allowing pets! Centrally located 7 miles east of Norfolk International near the I-64/I-264 interchange.see less Amenities & Services Free Bright Side Breakfast Free Wireless High-Speed Internet Access Free Local Calls Outdoor Swimming Pool Express Checkout Available Free Bright Side Breakfast® Hot and cold cereal Bread and muffins All-you-can-drink coffee and juice Additional Breakfast Items: 8,000 La Quinta Returns points for a free night stay. Not a member? Join Now Check-In Time: 3:00 PM Check-Out Time: 12:00 PM Guest Room Amenities NEW! Flat-panel TVs with 30 channels of HD programming Plug-and-Play TV feature makes it simple to connect electronics Free wireless high-speed Internet access Premium Cable Channels Iron with Ironing Board TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: Most Recent Reviews: "Convenient location, good price" Reviewed May 14, 2013 A TripAdvisor Member \| We only stayed one night, but we surely enjoyed it. the hotel is conveniently located about 10 miles from Virginia Beach and 10 miles form the Chesapeake Bay Beach, away from the tourist chaos. The room was comfortable and clean, although I've found some hair in the tub and on the bathroom floor. Breakfast was not as rich as it usually is at some other LQ (no scrambled eggs or sausages) and at 10am on the clock they started putting everything away. Not a deal breaker though. They let our medium size dog stay for free, so that gets them 1000 points. Overall, definitely a recommended hotel. Had to travel to the Norfolk area for a funeral, and didn't make reservations ahead of time as I wasn't sure if I would stay in a hotel or with family. Decided to stay in a hotel - check in was easy, staff was VERY pleasant, room was clean and quiet. Has a 24 hour Denny's next door which was nice since we didn't arrive until after 10 pm. We stayed one night in the LaQuinta on Newtown Road in Virginia Beach, VA and that was one night too many. The property really needs an update and the rooms need renovation desparately. We have stayed in LaQuinta properties before and have been pleased but this one is suffering from neglect. The exterior can be deceiving but like they say do not judge a book by its cover, the rooms are as nice as newer hotels., the remodel is the reason I came back to staying here. There are other hotels but I value the stay as much as or more than the price. Overall a very good experience. For my purposes it was ideally located and affordable. I will definitely stay here next time in the area. Very good location to see the sights in the Tidewater Area. The staff was very helpful with any information needed. Virginia Beach, VA Local Time: 1:24 AM (Eastern) Local Temperature: 64.5°F 5-day Forecast Whether you're traveling on business, a leisure getaway, or a family vacation, La Quinta has the right hotel accommodations for you. Take advantage of free Internet access, free breakfast, and comfy beds offered at La Quinta Inns & Suites. You'll find the best rates online, the widest variety of room options, the most reliable hotel info, and more on LQ.com. Thank you for considering La Quinta Inns & Suites for your hotel travel plans!
color="#FFFFFF" size="2">Back to Regional News Digest Saturday, September 19, 1998 Last modified at 3:24 a.m. on Saturday, September 19, 1998 State gets more rain, except in plains ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Slightly higher averages of rain in New Mexico this summer masked big differences in precipitation levels statewide, the National Weather Service said. The state's June-through-August average was 5 percent wetter than normal. But while summer rains fell on the western and northern parts of the state, the eastern plains were dry, said Charlie Liles, head of the weather service's Albuquerque office. Liles said you could draw a line south from Clayton and Las Vegas, N.M., through Cloudcroft to see the demarkation: It mostly was dry to the southeast and wet in the northwest. Part of weather systems that steered rain away from Texas did the same to eastern New Mexico. "The dry east and southeast plains shows the westward expansion of the Texas drought that has taken place the past three to four months," Liles said.ce Clovisn got 61 percent less rain this summer, he said. Monsoons caused an unusually wet July across the rest of the state but then stopped in August, said Dave Gutzler, a climate researcher at the University of New Mexico. Jal, in the southeast, was the driest spot for the three-month period, with just 1.43 inches of rain, 72 percent below normal. The wettest spot was Black Lake near Angel Fire, with 14.53 inches, Liles said. Albuquerque was two percent below normal with 3.42 inches, while Socorro was nearly 50 percent above normal with 5.6 inches. Santa Fe had 33 percent more rain at 7.15 inches, while Las Cruces was 47 percent below normal at 2.37 inches.
Two University of Chicago Alums team up for a “darkly fascinating,” “ambitious”* theatre piece: Caffeine Theatre presents: Like the Moon Behind the Clouds by Donald Gecewicz (AB ’76) directed by Jennifer Shook (MAPH ’05) And this week, Caffeine brings you two special events with these U of C artists: Wednesday, January 30: A free reading of poetry and Donald Gecewicz’s translation of Carla Vasio’s inspiring Italian memoir of her trip to Japan, where her heart “opened like an eggshell”– at the BookCellar in Lincoln Square. 7:00 pm. See http://www.bookcellarinc.com/ for more information. Thursday, January 31: Theatre Thursday dinner package includes a pre-fixe dinner at Bella Bacino’s Italian Bistro and Pizzeria, a ticket to the 7:30pm performance of Like the Moon Behind the Clouds, and a post-show conversation with the playwright and director. $25. Tickets at 312-742-TIXS (8497). Studio Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center 77 E. Randolph St. …or skip dinner and you can still see the play and discussion for the low price of $20 ($18 for seniors, $16 for students, $14 for groups of 10 or more). Tickets at 312-742-TIXS (8497). “It’s easy to dehumanize people and cover it up by saying it’s a small world after all,” said Gecewicz. “But it’s much harder to open up our hearts to the whole world.” (For an interview with Gecewicz and Shook, see: Caffeine Theatre presents the world premiere of Like the Moon Behind the Clouds, by Donald Gecewicz. Follow Italian writer Carla Vasio to Tokyo and into the worlds of Japanese poets. Like the Moon Behind the Clouds fuses film, music, and puppetry in Caffeine Theatre’s acclaimed poetic style. As Carla’s story unfolds like a Japanese printmaker’s album of views, the question remains: Is it a small world after all? Through February 24, 2008 Studio Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center 77 E. Randolph St Thurs-Sat at 7:30; Sundays at 3pm; Saturday matinees on Feb 9, 16 and 23 at 3:00 $20 Regular price $14 Groups of 10 or more * Quotations from Jonathan Abarbanel, Windy City Times
Julie Cooper is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research and teaching interests include early modern political theory (especially Hobbes and Spinoza); Jewish political thought and modern Jewish thought more generally; religion and politics; secularism, and contemporary critical theory. She is currently completing a book entitled Modesty and Dignity in Modern Political Theory. PLSC 28700. Jewish Political Thought. Autumn 2007 PLSC 27910. Hobbes and Spinoza. Spring 2009 PLSC 36910. Secularism and its Discontents. Spring 2009
Major Upload Today - Sunblocker Pullover, Sun Salutation, Hats, Shorts, Totally Totetastic A very nice surprise today - A few lot of new things were uploaded to the website around noon - Sunblocker Pullovers, Sun Salutation Tanks in Angel and Potion all colors, Baseball Hats (although not in Angel Blue), Running Visors, Running Bonnets, new Zoom Singlet colors, the Angel Run: Energy SL, new Swiftly Tech tee in Silver, Twisted Tee, New Remixes, and the the Totally Totetastic bag. " Sweetart Remix with Dark Classic Sport Gray - What a pretty color! Silver/Potion Run: Swiftly Tee Run: Energly SL in Angel Blue - was this always $58?
Day 6 – Video and Pictures My Spring Training trip officially ended yesterday as the Seattle Mariners took on the Milwaukee Brewers in Maryvale. Whoever said that Arizona never gets rain and is always scorching hot was wrong. It was a damp, cold morning in which the area temperature was –get this — just six degrees warmer than Milwaukee. Still, it was an enjoyable afternoon. I got up close to Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder and company out by the batting cages, then ran into former LumberKings closer Ruben Flores (’09) on the practice fields. “Flo” had the opportunity to suit up for the Crew as the emergency man in the bullpen and was hoping to face the team that drafted him. Unfortunately for him (and me, as it would have made for great video), it didn’t happen. My dream matchup was Flores against fellow former King Denny Almonte (’09), who was brought along as part of Seattle’s split squad that day. Sadly, Denny also did not get into the game. I did get some video on Dustin Ackley, who got the start at second base and went 1-for-5 with a triple. The video I have wasn’t of the triple, but rather a frozen rope that would have dropped for a single if not for the ageless wonder Jim Edmonds, who made a shoestring catch to rob him. Video of my last day in the Cactus League can be found here: “Scenes from Maryvale“. The Maryvale back fields. It looks dreary, but that’s really only because of the weather. The fields are each named after a famous Brewer. I was somewhere between Paul Molitor Field, Rollie Fingers Field and Robin Yount Field. Field this way, clubhouse that way. Jim Edmonds stops to sign a few. A Brewer this Spring, a Red or a Pirate next year? Ruben Flores suited up in Brewer blue. Flores in the Brewer bullpen. Denny Almonte on equipment bag detail. Almonte up close. Mariners’ GM Jack Zduriencik talking with Brewers broadcaster Bill Schroeder. I used to be Bill’s research/stats guy. Dustin Ackley faces Brewers’ lefty Manny Parra. Maryvale, my last Cactus League stop this year. I’ll be back. And there you have it, five Cactus League games in six days (one rainout, unfortunately), five former LumberKings sighted and pictures/video of four different Spring Training facilities. Every baseball fan needs to experience Spring Training at least once in their lives, and I highly recommend the Cactus League because of the close proximity and overall quality of the parks. If you have just one day to spend in AZ, I’d recommend going to Camelback Ranch. It’s the biggest of the Cactus League parks and has probably the best Southwestern feel and most unique back fields. You also can’t go wrong with the laid-back atmosphere in Peoria, where the palm trees lining the berm make you feel like you’ve gone to a tropical locale. Now, with under 30 days left until the start of the season, it’s back to Clinton. See you there.
A Delegation from University of Malaya (UM) Visits LUMS A five-member Malaysian delegation headed by Tan Sri Ghuth Jamson, Vice Chancellor of the University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia visited the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on Monday, September 10, 2012 as part of their initiative to visit Higher Education Institutions across Pakistan from September 6-13, 2012, for future academic collaborations. The Malaysian visit to Pakistan is aimed at exploring opportunities of bilateral cooperation, better understanding and setting-up mutual ties between the two countries, with the special emphasis on areas such as Engineering, Medicine, Information Technology and Business. The delegation was received by Dr. Adil Najam, Vice Chancellor LUMS along with Syed Babar Ali, LUMS Pro-Chancellor; Dr. Arif Nazir Butt, Dean Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB); Dr. Sohail Qureshi, Dean Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE); Dr. Sohaib Khan, Chair Computer Science Department; Dr. Syed Noman-ul-Haq, faculty Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; Dr. Shahid Masud, faculty Department of Electrical Engineering; Col Amer Khan, Director General Administrative Service Department; Mazhar M. Chinoy, Head of Office of Students Affairs; and Gulbano Asim, Head of Marketing. VC LUMS, Dr. Najam briefed the Malaysian delegation about the history and establishment of LUMS and the progress it has made over the years. He talked about how LUMS started off its journey as a Business School and now while being in its 27th year, LUMS has “blossomed into a University housing three Schools: Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) – the Flagship School; Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) – the Largest School; and Syed Baber Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE) – the Newest School.” He added that LUMS is also hoping for a fourth one – The Law School. While talking about some of the major milestones of LUMS as an institution, in terms of its reach across Pakistan with around 57 % of students from outside Lahore, Dr. Najam said that LUMS aspires to expand into a full-fledged University in years to come. He further added that just over 40 % of the students at LUMS are availing some form of financial aid, where as PKR 360 million has been disbursed as financial aid to date, at LUMS. “The idea is to make good Education available to the best minds from across the country,” said Dr. Najam. The delegation was also briefed about the LUMS National Outreach Programme (NOP) and how it encourages and supports diversity by reaching out to students from far flung areas of Pakistan. This was followed by a video on the NOP initiative of LUMS. The faculty of University of Malaya (UM) also briefed the attendees about their various offerings at their University and shared that they have collaborations with around 300 universities worldwide with hopes of further adding on to the visiting number. The visit concluded with a tour of LUMS campus.
Norway - Full Moon 31 - 04/30/99\| Krank is one of the small but active and exciting lo-fi underground labels that has popped up over the last years here in Norway (along with Smalltown Supersound and Apartment). This EP presents four bands - two Norwegian, two from the U.S. - checking out the possibilities of a multi-track recorder. Dipsomaniacs is the first band out. Their In Flight.....dream #2 is a dazed psychedelic moment, a bit more "off" than they usually sound. Check out their eminent album Reverb No Hollowness of last year. Havergal hail from Texas, and Bronze Dream of the Cast sounds a bit like fellow Texans Bedhead: low-voiced lo-fi pop sneaking up from behind. An interesting song that makes you want to check out other recordings by this combo, such as a single called Crowd (Western Vinyl, 3116 Wayfarer Road, Bedford TX 76021 USA), which can also be found on a Krank release: a split CD (oh, yeah? one side each...?) with Havergal plus a band called Winfoster. Side 2 opens with June Panic from Indiana (courtesy of: Secretly Canadian Records, 1703 North Maple Street, Bloomington, Indiana, 47404 USA), presenting Sundowner which starts rather smoothly and minimalistic, to become more intense but yet relaxed, with a Ry Cooderish steely, twangy and dusty guitar. June Panic could've been the bourbonized band in the corner of some imaginary desolate taverna into which Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) could've stumbled in the film Paris, Texas (by Wim Wenders). Except there's no such scene in that movie... Finally there's Krank's own Ring, who released a debut mini album last spring entitled Incence, Spice and Late Late Nights. They've spent some more late-late-nights it seems and they've come up with a fitting title for the song included here as well. Island in the Sea is sort of hard to describe. It sounds like a small island in a big sea. It's like a campfire song just before Mars attacks! Weird and beautiful psyche-folk-a-delica, and my fave track on this EP. Get in touch with Filip Andersen and his label, on the southern tip of Norway: Krank Records, Tinnheiveien 7, 4629 Kristiansand S, Norway. Copyright © 1999 Håvard Oppøyen
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A warm welcome awaits you at Curtis Farm Bed and Breakfast which is a comfortable Victorian farmhouse, set amongst rolling green meadows, in the heart of the beautiful Kent countryside. We offer two twin/super king rooms, one double, all en-suite or private bathroom. All rooms have colour television, central heating and are double glazed. Tea and Coffee making facilities are provided in each room. Self Catering Accommodation at Curtis Farm. The old Milking Parlour at Curtis farm has been converted into two self catering Studio Flats. They enjoy a totally rural setting and look out over meadows where sheep and sometimes the farm goats graze. The two Flats are named Acorn and Aspen. Acorn takes it's name from a near by row of oak trees and has facilities that meet the requirements of Mobility 1 Aspen comes from a row of poplar trees. Both units have been awarded 3 stars by "Visit Britain" within the category of Walking and Cycling. Both have their own garden and private parking area.
Thank you to all who attended the tenth annual Operation Frontline Dinner at Tremont 647 last week! Also a huge thank you to Matt Lambo and Triple Eight Distillery for donating the delicious Triple Eight Cranberry Vodka that the ladies of LUPEC used to make the Petticoat Row! If you weren’t able to attend, but are interested in our newest cocktail creation here’s the recipe and the history of the name! LUPEC Boston’s Petticoat Row 2 parts Triple Eight Cranberry Vodka 1 part Fresh Orange Juice 1 part Spiced Simple Syrup* Chill the above mixture in a shaker with ice. Strain into a flute, filling the flute halfway. Fill the flute with Prosecco and enjoy! The Petticoat Row is named after the shops located along Centre Street on Nantucket. This area acquired it’s nickname in the 19th Century when, while most women were mothers and homemakers, the majority of these shops were owned and operated by the wives of whalers who would be at sea for years at a time. Cheers to our forebroads of Nantucket! Spiced Simple Syrup Place one cup of water, 12 whole cloves, 1 or 2 star anise, and 1/8th teaspoon ground cinnamon in a small saucepan and stir to combine. Bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Add 2 cups sugar and simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved and the syrup is slightly thickened, about 2 minutes more. Remove from the heat and let cool. Remove the cloves and star anise with a slotted spoon. Syrup will keep for up to four weeks when refrigerated. Recipe from “Raising the Bar”by Nick Mautone
Friday afternoon while telecommuting at home, the call came from my husband inviting me to go out for dinner. So, I logged off the work network, shut down my computer early and got ready for date night. He picked me up a few minutes later, and we went to one of our favorite Italian spots for dinner, where we shared a wonderful gourmet pizza. After a while, we ventured outside on its quiet patio for dessert and coffee under the stars. The moon was a bright clear crescent, and the night air cast a relaxing mood over the evening. Lingering over the last few sips, we decided the night was too young to end and decided to go for a drive. Heading northeast out-of-town, we soon reached the outskirts of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The night was clear and the air temperature was cool and refreshing, so we opened the moon roof on our PT Cruiser and just kept driving. I leaned my car seat back just far enough to get a wonderful view of the stars overhead through the open roof. Before long, we were at the junction of the Beeline Highway, and turned north toward Payson, Arizona, heading out still farther away from town. The mountain roads were familiar from the years my husband spent growing up in the Arizona mountains north of Phoenix, so we relaxed and enjoyed our impromptu road trip. It was a perfect night for star and moon gazing. The air was clean and pure as we escaped the smog of the metro area, and soon my head was clear and awake from the increased oxygen and crisp fragrance of the altitude. We drank in the night air in deep droughts, and filled the depths of our lungs to capacity with every breath. The air, moon and stars were refreshing and relaxing and we enjoyed an unhurried relaxed conversation. What a nice unplanned change of pace! An hour and a half later, we arrived in Payson and contemplated looking for a room to stay overnight. The signs advertising a farmer’s market on Saturday morning were enticing, and an overnight in the mountains sounded like such a fun unplanned thing. I just love waking up to the exhilarating fragrance of crisp mountain air. Then, reality set in. In our spontaneity, we did not consider packing or bringing medications. My evening doses were probably not all that earth-shattering for me to miss once, mostly long-acting drugs. But, my husband’s evening epileptic medications were quite another thing! If he were to skip night-time medications, that would mean risking a seizure in the night or next morning, and that I would be required to drive the mountain roads home the next day. Without morning prednisone and other lupus prescriptions, and with my morning CNS lupus symptoms, the proposition sounded too dangerous. So, partly because of my medication needs, and because of my husband’s, our invisible medication leashes forced us to turn the car around to finish the last half of our Friday night star-gazing trip. Perhaps in the future, I will plan better for the unplanned. It might not be a bad idea to stash a couple of morning and evening medication doses for each of us in the glove box of my car. Then, perhaps we might be better ready to follow our next whim of small adventure, and we might loosen the hold of our invisible medication leash.
DMC Upgraded the Beautiful Ferrari F12 Berlinetta Do you like this article? The passionate tuners at DMC have completed a new amazing project: a remarkable upgrade for the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. For a more aggressive look, it received a carbon fiber kit comprised of a roof scoop, prominent lip spoiler, spoiler wing, new side skirts, diffuser plates, and even a carbon fiber hood. Also part of the upgrade are a new set of alloy wheels, measuring 21 inches at the front and 22 inches at the rear. They are wrapped in performance rubbers: 332/25 and 255/30. In terms of performance, the Berlinetta is now more ferocious, being capable of putting out 764 hp (24 extra hp) from its 6.2-liter V12 engine. It also received a custom titanium exhaust, and this helps it reach up to 217 mph.
Waku Ghin, Singapore: It's chef Tetsuya Wakuda's only outpost outside Sydney. The fine dining concept restaurant, located at the Marina Bay Sands, showcases Tetsuya's Japanese-influenced European cooking. The 8,000sqft restaurant is divided into a pre-dinner drinks lounge and four dining rooms where meals are prepared live for small groups; then guests can head to the main dining room or drawing room for dessert and coffee as well as a stunning view of Singapore. The marinated Botan shrimp with sea urchin and caviar is a signature dish here. POST A COMMENT
Gaming as a service... Posted Mar 6, 2008 22:21 UTC (Thu) by man_ls In reply to: Gaming as a service... Parent article: Ryzom returns? I'm confused -- isn't this more or less what we have now? It is, but only in the client space. And even if you can choose between different free 3D engines, they are not quite state-of-the-art: this field is advancing all the time. I'm not sure a big studio would want to commit itself to any of the free engines. On the server there seem to be not viable options. So, no massive multiplayer games can be free software. Granted, there's no "grand unified game engine" but I see that as a strength. I'm sure that this is a transitional phase. Depicting a more-or-less-physical world is a complex task and we are not getting there yet. It is like color films in the 40s and 50s -- there were many different technologies (Technicolor, Multicolor...) until the industry settled to a single format (Eastman Color). If ever there is a standard protocol for player-world interactions free software might even become the most popular choice. to post comments)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 fixes Password Manager regression (MozillaZine) [Posted September 30, 2008 by cook] explains the security fix in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3. "This upgrade has been rushed out to fix a regression introduced in Firefox 3.0.2, which caused issues with retrieving saved passwords and saving new passwords (bug 454708)." (Log in to post comments)
Download Firefox 12 Final for Linux Mozilla uploaded earlier today, April 22nd, the final version of the Mozilla Firefox 12.0 web browser for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. There's no official announcement from Mozilla, as the browser is officially expected in two days, on April 24th, but the binary and source packages of the final version of Mozilla Firefox 12.0 were made available for download on their official FTP site. Highlights of Mozilla Firefox 12.0: · Ability to paste URLs in the download manager window; · Added line numbers for the Page Source viewer; · The title attribute supports line breaks; · Find in Page improvemens to center search results; · Added column-fill CSS property; · Added support for the text-align-last CSS property; · Added experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects. This topic does not have any threads posted yet! You cannot post until you login.
(Effective 7/1/13 - 6/30/14) Notices for valuation changes were mailed March 1, 2013. The official appeal period for all property owners will be March 1, 2013 through April 1, 2013. Appeals for the Board of Equalization will be accepted March 1, 2013 through July 1, 2013. We appraise all real property within the City of Lynchburg at 100% fair market value, fairly and equitably, utilizing a professional staff and technology. GIS Parcel Viewer View property data using GIS Parcel Viewer for assessment information. By checking the Show Advanced Search Options box, you can search data by: Or any combination You can export the data to MS Excel if desired. The Lynchburg City Assessor's Office keeps an alphabetical ownership tax roll and assesses approximately 32,000 real estate property parcels, of which 1,400 are exempt. To maintain the roll, the City Assessor must keep current property records showing physical characteristics of each parcel and in accordance with Chapter 18-48 of the Lynchburg City Code, Title 58.1 of the Code of Virginia, and Article X of the Virginia Constitution. Property transfers and building permits are processed throughout the year and all parcels are reassessed biennially. Special appraisal estimates of value for budgeting and rental studies are prepared periodically. An official tax roll is maintained each year beginning July 1 through June 30. For a copy of a tax roll (land book) 434-455-3830 or .
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Bacon Chicken I128 Reviews “Gives the great taste of bacon to your chicken and gravy. The gravy is great served over rice or mashed potatoes. Note: Any creamed soup works well with this recipe.” - by Kim Kriss Original recipe yields 6 servings - Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). - Wrap each chicken breast in one piece of bacon. - Place the chicken breasts in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Mix the soup and milk and pour mixture over the chicken breasts. Cover dish with foil. - Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 50 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and juices run clear. Remove foil for the last 15 minutes of baking, to brown the bacon. Amount Per Serving (6 total) - 300 cal - 16.5 g - 4.2 g Based on a 2,000 calorie diet Reviews (128)Rate This Recipe "5 stars for tasting GREAT without alot of ingredients!!!!! I followed the recipe as is. I did turn the broiler on for an extra few minutes to crisp the bacon to our preferences.... Thank you 07/10/..." See more05 Review 2 - Stil 5 Stars! I have made this so many times and have found the best way to make this by following the recipe exactly as is. Too much flavor is lost if you cook the bacon beforehand. I always turn on the broiler to brown the bacon during the last few minutes and turn it over to brown the other side, too." "I precook my bacon so it is crispy and just top chicken with it, pour soup over, then milk and bake. So easy and can make with different soups for totally different flavors. So far I have used celer..." See morey soup, mushroom, potato, and nacho cheese. Didn't care for it with the nacho cheese soup though. Season chicken first with pepper, garlic, poultry seasoning, whatever you like. I'd check the soup first to see if it's salty before adding any salt! Don't forget the bacon is pretty salty too. This is the first recipe I ever made from this site back in June, 2005 and my husband LOVES it, second to Burrito Pie." "When I asked my husband if I should make this one again, he gave me a look like he thought I was crazy and then emphatically said yes... for sure. This was easy easy to make. I used Turkey bacon ins..." See moretead of pork, and went with a cream of broccoli soup. I actually put 2 bacon strips around each piece of chicken, and pounded the chicken flat first. Beating up a piece of poultry is a great way to get some of my workday stress out. I will definately make this dish again." Grilled Chicken with Rosemary and Bacon Bacon Chicken II Just swipe to see more like this.
19 SuperCar Challenge screens 12th Feb 2009 \| 17:35 System 3 has passed over a batch of new shots for its super car game, SuperCar Challenge. We recently went hands-on with an early build. Resident car-bore Mike Jackson explained, "The overall presentation of the game will need some real spit and shine to be up there with Gran Turismo at 1080p, but with the new cars in there and, hopefully, a re-thought championship mode, Supercar Challenge should have the extra oomph that Ferrari Challenge lacked." Read the full preview here. New shots below.
A four-month investigation is reportedly turning up links between Al Qaeda groups and the Sept. 11 attacks on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. But as Libyan investigators fall prey to harm, concerns rise that the probe may be derailed. The release in Tunisia Tuesday of a suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, is a reminder of the frustrations piling up for US officials as they try to bring to justice the perpetrators of an assault that resulted in the death of four Americans, including the US ambassador to Libya. Four months after President Obama told the world from the White House Rose Garden to “make no mistake, justice will be done” in the Benghazi case, the investigation continues to hit hurdles like Tuesday’s release in Tunis “for lack of evidence” of Ali Harzi, a Tunisian with links to North African militant Islamists who was at the Benghazi mission during the attack. The accumulating setbacks range from intimidations – including kidnapping and killing – of Libyan law enforcement officials with any role in the investigation to a breakdown of judicial authority in eastern Libya and rising sympathies across the region with Islamist influence, if not Islamist militancy. The latest blow to the Benghazi criminal investigation comes as some members of Congress vow to hold up action on President Obama’s national security agenda until they get answers from the administration about the Benghazi attack – including why the US mission was so lightly protected in a region of Libya known to be falling under the influence of militias and militant Islamist groups. Influential Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Tuesday he would push to hold up Mr. Obama’s nomination of White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to head the CIA until the administration provides answers on Benghazi.
Batman moviegoers, at first, think that shooting is part of the spectacle. Paris cancels opening of 'The Dark Knight Rises,' as New York tightens security at film's opening to preempt copycats. Law enforcement authorities in Colorado have begun to piece together details of a movie theater shooting that killed 12 people and wounded 38 others. So far, they say, the episode involved a single shooter not connected to foreign terrorism. Colorado has many military bases, and military authorities were quick to report that the suspect had no prior Army experience. What authorities know so far is that a 24-year-old man identified as James Holmes entered the Century Aurora 16 theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora during a midnight premier showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," the latest Batman movie. Witnesses said the shooter, dressed in black, entered by an exit, tossed some kind of gas canister, then began shooting. "I think we were 15 minutes in, and there was a chase scene where there was gunfire on screen," Quentin Caldwell told CNN. "And right then out of nowhere on the right side of us we hear a very distinct 'pop, pop, pop, pop.' " Following the rampage, police apprehended the suspect – who did not resist arrest – outside the theater. They retrieved a rifle, a shotgun, and two pistols, and they were searching the suspect’s residence for the presence of explosives. Page 1 of 4
President Obama is way down in the polls. The only politicians with lower approval ratings are those in Congress, which may explain why Obama is blaming them for "holding back this country." President Obama’s sharpening his rhetoric about his GOP congressional opponents. In his weekly Saturday Internet and radio address he said that lawmakers could learn something from the average Americans he’s met during his recent three day listening/political tour through the Midwest. The nation would be better off if its leaders showed the same discipline, integrity, and responsibility that citizens outside Washington “demonstrate in their lives every single day”, said Obama. If they did so these unnamed DC reprobates could do things right now to help the economy, such as pass a road construction bill, or extend a reduction in the payroll tax that funds Social Security, or approve trade pacts with other countries, said the president. (He was referring there to proposals he’s been pushing for weeks.) “These are common-sense ideas, ideas that have been supported by both Democrats and Republicans. The one thing holding them back is politics. The only thing preventing us from passing these bills is the refusal by some in Congress to put country ahead of party. That’s the problem we have right now. That’s what’s holding this country back,” said Obama in his weekly address.
Jon Stewart to host autism benefit Published Sep 16 2010, 19:06 BST \| By Mike Moody © Rex Features / Sipa Press has signed to present Comedy Central's star-studded autism benefit. Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman will appear on Night Of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert For Autism Education, reports The AP Other stars due to star include Larry David, Steve Carell, Jimmy Fallon, Joel McHale, John Oliver and Chris Rock. The show will consist of a comedy concert to be filmed at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Soul funk group Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings will serve as the night's house band. Rainn Wilson, Rob Coddry, Bryan Cranston, Jimmy Kimmel, Jim Parsons and Sofia Vergara will be on hand to take calls from donors during the two-hour broadcast to raise funds for education programmes for autistic children and adults. The benefit will be broadcast on October 21.
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Author's note: I apologize for taking so long to post this chapter. I had a lot of thoughts and ideas to weed through, and I hope this works for you. If you like what I've written or have some constructive criticism, please post a review or send me a message. Previously: Chris, Nathan, Vin, and Josiah have left town to carry out a job for Judge Travis. Sammy, feeling constrained by the watchful eyes of the residents of Four Corners snuck out of town to the pond. While there, she comes close to being attacked by two men, only to be rescued by Michael Langdon. Oren Travis sat on the porch outside the saloon, smoking a cigarillo. He would be catching the stage to Red Fork later in the day. Chris had sent a telegram reporting that he and the other peacekeepers had arrived there the day before with their prisoners. Having turned the men over to the town marshal, they were on their way back to Four Corners. Crushing out his cigarillo, he rose and stretched the kinks out of his back. He was planning to go spend some time with his grandson before he had to leave. However, Judge Travis's attention was caught by Sammy and a man he vaguely recognized riding into town. Normally, a sight like that wouldn't have piqued his interest as people rode into and out of town all the time. But he knew how protective Chris was of Sammy, and he couldn't imagine Chris having condoned the activity. Curious, Judge Travis watched as the two riders neared the livery stable. Sammy dismounted, but the man remaining atop his horse. They exchanged words, but he was too far away to hear what was being said. Sammy led her horse into the stable, while the man continued in the direction of the saloon. As he couldn't help but notice that the girl was moving a bit too stiffly, his curiosity was piqued even more. Resuming his seat, he decided to wait for the man to dismount and move onto the porch. "Did I just see you ride in with Samantha Browning?" he asked, lighting another cigarillo. "What business is it of yours if I did?" Michael studied the older man. His brow furrowed slightly. The older man was slightly familiar, but Michael couldn't place him. Either way, he was in no mood for small talk at the moment. "I'm Oren Travis, territorial judge. I'm also a good friend of Chris Larabee." Damn, Michael thought. Now he remembered. During his marshal days, it had once been his duty to escort a prisoner to a trial before Judge Travis. Michael removed his hat and dusted it against his pant leg in agitation. Given the man's identity and his connection to Chris, he supposed it would be better to answer than not. Sighing in frustration, he said, "I was riding into town when I spotted her at the pond, and she wasn't alone. There were two saddle bums who were preparing to raise sand with her." Michael settled his hat back on his head. "I chased them off and escorted her back here." Judge Travis glanced in the direction of the livery stable. He almost felt sorry for the girl, as Chris certainly wouldn't be happy when he heard what happened. Turning back to Michael, he asked, "she okay?" Michael debated about how to answer that question. Given the sensitivity of the subject, he decided to be a bit judicious in his response. "They didn't hurt her, but I'd say she's still a mite sore." When Judge Travis raised his eyebrow in inquiry, Michael continued. "That's something you'll have to discuss with her. Now, if you'll excuse me." He moved past the older man and into the saloon. Oren Travis removed his hat and scratched his head as he contemplated his next move. Finally making up his mind, he stepped off the saloon's porch and headed toward the livery stable. He paused as he stepped into the darken structure and watched Sammy as she carried her horse's saddle to the tack room. His earlier impression had been right, she was moving a bit too stiffly. Sammy started when she came out of the tack room and saw Judge Travis standing in the wide doorway. She had known he was in town, but hadn't run into him, so she couldn't help but wonder why he was here now. For the moment, however, she tried to ignore him as she entered her horse's stall to begin the grooming process. "I heard you've had quite the day," Judge Travis stated as he neared the stall. He casually crossed his arms on the top of the stall door, patiently waiting for Sammy to respond. His instincts told him to tread carefully if he wanted to have his curiosity satisfied. Sammy looked up from running the curry brush along the horse's side and met Judge Travis's eyes. When she had first met the man, she had resented him for the role he'd played in preventing her from being able to pursue her revenge against the Slater gang. Since she had adapted to life in Four Corners and had grown closer to Chris, some of that resentment had eased. That didn't stop her attitude from showing through. "Yeah, so?" Judge Travis grinned. He'd had a lot of practice reading people, and Sammy was definitely uncomfortable. Whether it was his presence or the thought of what suspected had happened between her and Langdon was yet to be determined. "I ran into Michael Langdon over at the saloon. He told me what happened." "Why, that boot-licker. He had no business telling you about it. Or anyone else, for that matter." Sammy nearly slung the brush onto the shelf. The horse shied away in fear at her sudden outburst. Ignoring her language, Judge Travis stepped back and opened the stall door. "Come on out of there," he directed. Taking her by the arm as she exited the enclosure, he led her over to sit on a hay bale. He took a seat beside her. "I've been meaning to sit down and talk with you about how you're finding life here in Four Corners. Mary tells me you're settling in well." He glanced over at Sammy. Not quite sure where this conversation was going, she shrugged. "I suppose I am." Judge Travis bit back a grin at her reticence. This was going exactly as he'd expected. "She also tells me you are helping out at the school. How's that going? Are you enjoying the work?" Sammy tried not to pleasure at the idea of her time at the school show on her face. "It's a good job. I do enjoy it." "Maybe I can make some inquiries about getting you admitted into one of the normal schools back east so you can be formally trained as a teacher." He paused a moment to let the idea settle in. "That is, if that is what you want to do. Why don't you think about it and discuss it with Chris?" She wouldn't admit it, but Judge Travis's offer had certainly taken her by surprise. "I'll think about it." He nodded and settled back on his makeshift seat. Now was the time to get to the meat of the matter. "You want to tell me about what happened at the pond?" Sammy shifted so she could look the older man in the eye. What she saw there was concern and a measure of patience, rather than the condemnation she had expected to see. She sighed heavily and shifted so that her back was against the wall and pulled her feet up onto the bale of hay. In doing so, she took some of the pressure off her still sore backside. Wrapping her arms around her raised knees, she leaned her head back so that she could study the hayloft. "I had to get out of town for a while. Since Chris left, people seemed to be watching my every move. It was worse than when Chris is around. At least he lets me have the run of town without having to explain my every move." "I suppose that would make a person itchy," Judge Travis commented when Sammy paused. "Yeah, I managed to make my way out of town without being stopped. At first I planned to just ride for a while, then head back to town. But, when I got to the pond I decided to stop. I was sittin' on that giant boulder that overlooks the water. You know the one?" she asked. When Judge Travis nodded, indicating he knew the area to which she was referring. "Well, I'd been sittin' there maybe fifteen minutes, just thinking about stuff, when two men came up behind me." She shuddered at the thought of what had nearly happened. "I spent enough time with the Slater gang that I knew exactly what they had planned. Those sons-a-bitches would have done it, too, if Michael Langdon hadn't shown up." She ignored the judge's raised eyebrow at her use of the vulgar term. Judge Travis acted on instinct and draped his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close to his side. "You were a very lucky young woman." Sammy took comfort from Oren's embrace. "I know. I don't think I've ever been so scared, even when I was living with the Slaters." She wiped a tear from her eye. Giving a short laugh, she continued, "I guess I finally learned that lesson Chris keeps trying to teach me about ridin' out alone." A thought suddenly occurred to her. "You're not going to tell Chris about this, are you?" Sammy asked, turning pleading eyes to the older man. The judge studied her a moment. Deciding that fostering trust between them was more important than telling on her to Chris, he shook his head. "No, what you just told me stays between us." He smiled kindly when Sammy sighed in relief. "However, Four Corners is a small town. It's a good bet he'll hear about it from someone else. You'd do better to tell him yourself." XxxxxxX XxxxxxX XxxxxxX Chris sighed as he and his friends rode back into Four Corners. He was weary from being on the road for so long. He wanted a drink, a meal, a bath, and to check in with Mary and Sammy, and not particularly in that order. "What's eatin' you, Cowboy?" Vin asked. He hadn't missed his friend's sigh. "Nothin'," he replied as he dismounted in front of the livery stable. He looked around at what he could see of the town. It didn't look like anything had changed. "Just glad to be home." And wasn't it strange to be calling someplace "home," he thought. He'd spent much of the last several years on the run from his memories, only to finally find his place in this town. "I hear that," Nathan stated from his other side. Josiah grinned as he led his horse into the stable. "It's a wonder how quickly a place can become home." The four men unsaddled and groomed their horses in companionable silence. Each was lost in his own thoughts of what Four Corners and the people had come to mean to them. Finally, giving his horse one final affectionate slap on the rump, Chris stepped out of the stall. He'd decided that the first order of business was to be a drink and a serving of whatever Inez had prepared in the kitchen of the saloon. Then he'd go by the boarding house for a change of clothes before heading over to the bath house to get cleaned up. A few minutes later, he was ensconced at a corner table, a beer at his elbow and a plate of tamales and beans in front of him. Given the relatively early hour, the saloon was nearly empty, but the few customers who were there were giving the black-clad gunman a wide berth. Michael Langdon entered the saloon just as Chris stood to leave. Deciding now was as good a time as any to have this particular discussion, he stepped into the older man's path. "Can I have a word with you, Larabee? I'll buy you a beer." Chris nearly shoved Michael out of his path and walked on. However, something in the younger man's face made him pause. He turned on his heel and headed back to the table he'd just vacated. "You've got five minutes," he said over his shoulder. "Keep your beer." Michael nodded and followed Chris. Given their history, he supposed five minutes was as good as he was going to get. "Whatta you want?" Chris demanded as soon as Michael neared the table. Michael nearly changed his mind, but what he was after would be worth the confrontation. He pulled a chair out and sat. Leaning back, he crossed his arms over his chest. "I know we haven't gotten off on the right foot, but I want to change that." "Why?" Chris questioned as he studied the other man's face. He wasn't sure he liked what he saw there. Michael shifted in his chair. He nearly walked away from the table, but that wouldn't get him what he wanted. "I want your permission to court Sammy." Chris stared at the younger man for several long seconds before smiling. It was a grin many people had learned to fear. "And exactly why would I do that?" He leaned back in his chair in a deceptively relaxed pose. "Because I'm not the same man you first met. That's my past. It's not my present or my future. Right now, I want to work hard and make a good living and find a good woman to settle down and raise a family with. I think Sammy may just be that woman." Michael studied Chris, trying to read the inscrutable expression on his face. Chris leaned forward to brace his hands on the table, bringing his face close to Michael's. "I catch you anywhere near Sammy, and by the time I get done with you there won't be enough of you left to even interest the buzzards." He straightened and stalked out of the saloon. His temper was on a slow boil when Chris stepped into the foyer of the boarding house. The first thing he noticed was the piano music. He instantly recognized it as something Sammy played when there was something weighing heavily on her mind. The music abruptly stopped, and Sammy appeared in the parlor doorway. "You're home," she said as she moved to embrace Chris. She stopped short as she reached him. "You smell worse than a horse." Chris gave a short bark of laughter. "Hello to you, too." He studied Sammy's face. "Something on your mind?" Sammy nodded. "It can wait. I'm sure you want to get cleaned up." Chris's eyes narrowed. Whatever had been on Sammy's mind had her upset. He glanced around the parlor, trying to decide if he'd ruin any of Mrs. Patterson's furniture if he sat on it. Finally deciding it was safe enough, he grasped Sammy by the arm and led her into the room. "You're more important than me taking a bath. If you can stand the smell, we can talk about whatever's eatin' at you." Sammy sighed heavily. This wasn't a conversation she had looked forward to having, but she supposed it would be better to get it over with sooner rather than later. "How was your trip?" she asked, hoping to ease into the subject. "Long and dirty," Chris replied shortly. "Somehow, I don't think my trip is what's on your mind. Something happen while I was gone?" Sammy shrugged and moved to pace the room, unable to stand still. "After you rode out, everybody in town started keeping an eagle eye on me. I couldn't walk down the street without ten people asking me what I was doing or where I was going." She turned to face Chris, and he could see the strain in her face. "I didn't put them up to it, if that's what yer thinkin." "I didn't think you had," Sammy responded. "I'd like to think you trust me more than that." She moved to sit on the small rocking chair in the corner of the room. "It got to be too much, and I had to get away for a while." She studied Chris's face as she told him exactly what had happened at the pond, including what had happened between her and Michael. "I guess I finally learned my lesson," she said as she shrugged her shoulders. Chris rubbed his hands over his face and stared at Sammy over the tips of his fingers. His gaze was so intent that she started squirming in her seat. He supposed this was what had spurred Langdon to approach him about courting her. "I ought to blister your ass, you know that don't you?" "Yes, sir," Sammy replied in a soft voice. This was exactly what she had been expecting and was afraid that sitting was soon to become just a fond memory. Chris let her continue to squirm for several long moments. "I'm proud of you." He nearly grinned at the surprise that crossed Sammy's face. Obviously, it wasn't what she had expected to hear. "But I won't. In the time you've been here, you've grown into a responsible, caring young lady. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt this time and assume you've more than learned your lesson." He paused to allow his words to sink in. "But," he said, his voice taking on a stern tone, "you pull anything like that again, and I'll strip all the skin off your backside. Is that clear?" Sammy grinned. "Perfectly." She stood and considered her next move. Making up her mind, she threw her arms around Chris and hugged him tightly. "I love you, Chris." He hugged her back, oblivious to the tear that left a muddy track through the dust that coated his face. Yes, he thought, he was home. Author's Note: I've decided to end this story here. I promise to return to Four Corners one day. There are still so many stories to tell. In the meantime, I've got some ideas to explore in my NCIS story, More Than She Can Chew.
\|Cookbook of the Week\| Introducing our Newest Feature We love to read cookbooks, cover to cover, as do many of our readers. We read each cookbook like a novel, and consider each book similar to a map− providing a set of directions to a destination; a destination of adventurous deliciousness. We have searched the world of cookbooks, and selected some of the most exciting, enticing, fun, entertaining and informative to share in our new regular feature Cookbook of the Week. You will find recipe gems and cooking treasures in each! As you enjoy this new column, you will notice that some recipes have non−kosher ingredients. No worries! KosherEye and our knowledgeable team of cookbook authors, chefs and foodies will help you convert and change these ingredients to appropriate kosher substitutes. To launch this wonderful new feature, we are highlighting Bon Appetit Desserts: The Cookbook for All Things Sweet and Wonderful, by Barbara Fairchild (Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC). For over a half century, Bon Appétit magazine has been sharing “to-die-for” desserts. From quick home-style cookies to unforgettable special-occasion finales… Bon Appétit showcases meticulously tested recipes. Now, culled from the extensive Bon Appétit archives and including never-before-published recipes, the cookbook Bon Appétit Desserts is a comprehensive guide to all things sweet and wonderful. read more... June 6, 2012
Thursday, December 28, 2006 SHORT SHORT STORIES: TOO SAD Next year, a few months before the contest [“Fast Reads,” Jan 5-11], could you put your 101 word short story judges on Prozac? Thanks. —Anne Jones \| Pacific Grove BUTTERFLY FLAP IN (WHERE ELSE?) PG Yee gads! Cancel the Butterfly Parade or the Feast of Lanterns? Yes indeedy, there was a mild hysteria in Pacific Grove over Ryan Masters’ article “Pinching Pennies” [Jan. 12-18]. This even surpassed the hysteria reflected by PG Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar’s comments in the article describing these beloved events as “doomed.” Hmm…ya think this whipping up of hysteria might have been the goal? So everybody can unbunch their boxers here in town, let me make this perfectly clear: the PG City Council has never even mentioned charging for city services for events such as the Butterfly Parade. I know of no councilmember of that mind. The Council was in full agreement that these are much-beloved events that define our town. –Susan Goldbeck \| Pacific Grove The letter-writer is a member of the Pacific Grove City Council. A BLOW FOR INTERNATIONAL HARMONY Regarding the letters “Norwegians Deserve More Lefsa,” and “How To Spell Like a North Dakotan” [Jan. 5-11], my response is: Lefse is good stuff whether you are Mexican or Norwegian! Good lefse is tricky to make unless you happen to have a lefse griddle, a lefse turning stick and a lefse cooling rack (and can roll the dough very very thin). Uffda. I order my lefse from: norslandlefse.com in Minnesota, and it tastes just like my Norwegian grandma used to make in Wisconsin. Good luck. –Sonja (Revling) Jeter \| Carmel OUR NEW LOOK: KINDA FISHY I really like the new look. It is way easier to navigate through the paper. It’s really clean looking, and the fabulous “This Modern World” looks like it got a little bigger. (Or did I just get better reading glasses?) The only thing I’m not crazy about is the squid artwork—looks a bit octopussy to me. –Esther Trosow \| Monterey TRIBUTE TO OCTOPUSSY, PT. II Time for a trip to the Monterey Aquarium for Squid’s artist friend, who is unable to distinguish a squid from an octopus! Glad to see artwork, but get it right. –Nancy Iverson While this piece by Jane Smiley (Forum, Feb. 16-22) is beautifully constructed, it is nothing more than an hysterical screed. It is replete with childish vitriol and innuendo. Factual support for her conclusions is nonexistent and passing on thirdhand non-verifiable comments (ex: President Bush’s supposed quote regarding the Constitution) should be beneath her accomplished level of writing! By not issuing a disclaimer are we to assume you support her conclusions? –Charles L. Pifer \| Carmel HEY! WAIT! WHERE AM I? It’s all Barbara Evans in your “Desal Project Stalled in Court” article. I am unnamed in the picture with Barbara and nowhere am I mentioned in the article [“Desal Project Stalled in Court,” Feb. 23-March 1]. How can this happen when I know more about de-salt stuff about the coast of the Ivory Coast than anybody west of Needles? The Weekly needs to crank up its society editor and recognize the importance of what I am doing in the field of Micromanipulation. –Ed Leeper \| Monterey HEY! WAIT! WHERE’S MY SENTENCE? Does freedom of speech apply only to liberal speak!? By omitting my reference to the Clinton administration you deprived me of my freedom of speech. –Charles L. Pifer \| Carmel Editor’s note: The following line was cut from Mr. Pifer’s letter of last week, which criticized Jane Smiley’s jeremiad against the Bush administration: “Interestingly, the Clinton administration is factually guilty of most all of her accusations!” The line was cut for reasons of space. We regret that, because its omission made the clever headline (“Impeach Clinton!”) meaningless. OLD GUYS DON’T NEED TIES Love your publication! A minor correction to The Best Retirement Community of Canterbury Woods [“Best Of Monterey County,” March 16-22]. It used to be coats and ties for dinner but I managed to break that stuffy tradition when I moved in four years ago. After all, this is Casual California and even old fuddy duddies should dress casual. The standard now is slacks, a nice shirt, with or without coat or sweater. A tie if one wants but most inmates, oops, I mean residents, have dropped the tie for dinner. –David C. Powell \| Pacific Grove WHERE’S THE BEEF? A $2,000 reward is being offered by Lightning Bolt Rodeo Productions for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the cold-blooded shooting of two top rodeo bucking bulls. The bulls’ names are Malley Bear and Michi, valued at $150,000. They were shot at point blank range, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006 at around 5pm. This shooting event took place at 1500 River Rd., Gonzales. It is suspected that the meat (1,800 lbs.) is being used to pay a specific debt. These two bulls were legally branded and were on rented pasture. What happened was illegal and immoral. Other beef cattle have been reported missing in Monterey County as well. This is a very grave concern to our community. –Lana Sargenti, Rodeo Secretary \| Wellington, Nevada PHOTOS OF GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE, BUT GUNS DO KILL PEOPLE I’m writing in regard to the photo on page 29 of the April 20-26, 2006 issue, part of the A&E Calendar. The photo shows three men, one with a pistol, one with a double-barrel shotgun, and the third with a rifle, aiming the firearms toward the reader. This image isn’t OK with me. It was probably intended to be tongue-in-cheek, but it’s not humorous nor artful nor entertaining to me. –Andy Bell \| Pebble Beach LOVE AT FIRST VISIT I drove my daughter’s car down to her at the Defense Language Institute, along the way everyone I spoke with in and around Monterey were very helpful. I was just going to deliver the car and spend some time with my daughter but then I fell in love with your entire slice of heaven you have there. We went all sorts of places; your town is hilly for my crippled taste, but whenever I got tired there was some new person offering a chair—sometimes their chair. In all my travels all over this world I have never experienced such kindness. Because of all the nice people that make up your community, I stayed another five days, and hated leaving. Thank you, Monterey, for your wonderful people, on my next trip down I will be looking for a live-aboard and a home. –Bill Jesernig \| Kennewick, Wash. VOTE AGAINST WEEKLY ENDORSEMENT One of the best reasons to elect Peter Kaiser to be on the Monterey Republican Central Committee is because the Monterey County Weekly opposes him. The real Republicans of Monterey County should be a little uneasy about voting for Central Committee candidates endorsed by the most left-wing paper in Monterey County, a paper which also endorses Sam Farr and even ex-governor “Moonbeam” Jerry Brown for Attorney General. The Republican Party deserves better than this local and national crop of the near-Democrats who masquerade as “Republicans.” I would also suggest writing in the names of three other traditional Republicans rather than voting for the Weekly-endorsed candidates. –Brian L. Burleson \| Seaside GET REAL; NO RAIL Recently Eric Johnson wrote a quaint piece heralding the New Age of Trains to the Peninsula as a cure to our local transportation woes [“Back to the Future,” May 25-31]. However, as much as his article “sounded” plausible, alas, it is no more so than bringing back buggies to Pacific Grove and closing the gate near New Monterey at 8pm. Take a modern family of five from San Francisco. Dad wants to golf. Mom wants to shop, the kids want to go to Cannery Row, and everyone wants to see the Aquarium. They also have a toddler who needs a stroller. Imagine how much stuff they will put into their SUV before coming. Perhaps in days gone by when vacations were spent at the Del Monte Hotel, all this would work, but in today’s environment of free-traveling mobility, it is simply a pipe dream. Nice try. But yes, close PG at 8. –Christopher “CB” Maxwell \| Pacific Grove HERO SUFFERS; VILLAIN THRIVES The nation owes the Monterey County Weekly a debt of gratitude for having published “Crude Conspiracy” this past Nov. 3, 2005. Mr. Mehdi Shahbazi, the Marina gas station manager, is a shining beacon in the sea of bureaucratic mediocrity. How many hundreds of thousands of operators are there out there that are privy to the same information as Mr. Shahbazi, and yet are afraid to speak out against this immoral, corrupt rape of the working classes! In my mind, Mr. Shahbazi is a true American patriot for having the guts to speak out as he has. It is a disgrace that he and his family are made to suffer financial losses while the president of Exxon Mobil earned $18 million this year and will retire next year with a $140 million package! –Ben Kaplan \| Northbrook, Ill. CHOATES FIGHTS CITY HALL According to Raul Vasquez’s view of Seaside city politics, Mayor Ralph Rubio doesn’t like to be questioned in public by longtime Councilman Darryl Choates. Rubio shows “thinly veiled irritation” by Choates, whom the mayor sees as a “thorn in his side.” Well, more power to Choates as he sticks up for the people, reminds his fellow council members and staff that backroom deals and conducting business without fully explaining matters to the public aren’t good policy. Bravo to Choates for asking the questions, despite what Rubio “intimates as mixed motives.” No, Choates’ motives clearly are on the side of the people and not hidden in “closed session” deals with developers. Bravo to the Weekly for writing about these issues. We hope to see more coverage about Seaside City Hall. –Tommy Horne \| Seaside NUÑEZ: GIFTS FROM PHONE COMPANY DID NOT INFLUENCE MY POSITION In his article “Dialing for Dollars,” [July 6, 2006] Ryan Masters says that the passage of AB 2987 would cost Monterey municipalities millions of dollars in lost fees. Not true. We don’t have the exact figures yet, but cities in the Monterey area could receive more fees under AB 2987—and consumers may end up paying less for video services. That’s a win-win. Masters also ties political fundraising to the passage of this bill. That’s ludicrous and again, not true. AT&T has sponsored the Speaker’s Cup Golf Tournament at Pebble Beach for a decade, making this year no different. I have worked tirelessly for nearly two decades on civil rights issues and have always stuck up for the rights of the poor and disenfranchised. That hasn’t changed with this bill. –Fabian Núñez \| Sacramento The letter writer is speaker of the California Assembly. AMERICA: EAT FASTER! There is perhaps no better index of the United States decline in the global community than ceding of the world hot dog-eating contest once again to Takeru Kobayashi from Japan. With all due respect to Mr. Kobayashi, who consumed 53 hot dogs in 12 minutes, American patriots need to take notice. In a country that has long held the distinction of the highest caloric-consuming country in the world, one would think that the US could hold first place in this important international sport. Sixty-five percent of American adults are overweight. The World Cup holds little promise for proving American prowess. But with Joey Chestnut of San Jose placing second at 52 hot dogs in 12 minutes, we are within striking distance in this new global sport. –Bill Monning \| Carmel
Dolores between Ocean and Seventh, Carmel With Jason Balestrieri as partner and chef busting out house-cured salumi plates and hand-crafted pastas like the pappardelle alla bolognese— a decadent housemade egg yolk pasta with a traditional sauce consisting of ground salumi, veal and beef with tomatoes, white wine, porcini mushrooms and sage—this hallmark could win for best Italian. Instead it wins in a more competitive category: Best in 1-million-restaurants-per-capita Carmel. That tells you how good the Italian wine selection—and the grilled octopus! The oozing fresh burrata cheese! The bianca pizza! The chestnut rigatone!—really is. The urban buzz, authentic old-world eats and the wonderful Italian-born general manager Emanuelle Bartolini in the front of the house makes you forget where you are, and to remember to keep coming back.
Notion 4 composing/notation package released 7th Nov 2012 \| 09:51 Notion Music's Notion has always been billed as not just a score writing package but a composing one as well, and the update to version 4 brings what appear to be some significant enhancements Notion Music's Notion has always been billed as not just a score writing package but a composing one as well, and the update to version 4 brings what appear to be some significant enhancements. To begin with, there's now native 64-bit support for OS X and Windows, plus new and interactive note entry tools (Keyboard, Fretboard, Drum Pad, Chord Library). 64-bit ReWire support is in place too, as is MIDI recording and overdubbing. It's also possible to view notation and MIDI data on the same staff. Notion Music is keen to point out that two-way transfer of files between its desktop and iPad apps is entirely possible. More details below. Notion 4 is available now for the introductory price of £83/$99 (download). Notion Music Notion 4 official details The latest version of Notion builds upon our award-winning software foundation with all new possibilities and enhancements. Notion is continuing to redefine the way notation software is used while staying true to our strengths: great playback, a simple easy-to-use interface, great compatibility, and incredible customer service. Compose, playback, and edit music with a quality and ease of use that must be experienced. No endless level of menus to find what you need. Notion is the most efficient notation product, making it simple to write and edit your ideas quickly. Notion gives you the best playback of any notation product. Orchestral samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. Guitar samples by Neil Zaza, bass samples by Victor Wooten and drum samples by Roy "Futureman" Wooten. All samples were painstakingly recorded using the best equipment by top engineers recording an array of dynamics, articulations and performance techniques. No other product allows you to create a score on your desktop and transfer it to your iPad, where you can continue to edit and playback your music. Now, with Notion you can. If you have Notion and the Notion iPad app, you can send and open scores from each device and continue to work on your score, anywhere, anytime. Native 64-bit Support (Mac OS X and Windows) Realize the potential of your 64-bit computer. Take advantage of your 64-bit computer's ability to address more than 4GB of RAM and watch the speed and performance of Notion as well as your VSTs and sample libraries increase. (Notion is still 32-bit compatible. You can also run Notion in 32-bit on a 64-bit computer for compatibility purposes with other products) Interactive Entry Tools (Keyboard, Fretboard, Drum Pad, Chord Library) Now you can enter notes into Notion with the interactive fretboard, keyboard, and drum pad. Many users find it convenient to first capture their pitches or guitar fingerings on an instrument before translating them into notation or tablature. These interactive entry tools allow for a quick, convenient way to build your score. You can customize the number of guitar strings on the fretboard or the order of entry for each voice for the drum pad. Also, use the chord library to enter the chord name or voicing you want to appear in your score. Choose from standard chord symbols and fretted chord symbols. ReWire (64-bit) Host and Slave Notion was the first notation product to support ReWire (host and slave). Now take advantage of this great feature on your 64-bit Machine and with other compatible 64-bit products. Notion's SequencerStaff feature is loved by many. Now, there is Sequencer Overlay. This is a feature that allows you to see both notation and its MIDI performance on the same staff. You can edit each individual note's velocity, duration, start-point and end point by simple click and drag functions. For precise values, you can double click each note and enter in the numeric values as well. With this feature, Notion combines the power of the MIDI sequencer with the clarity of standard notation in a unique and powerful way. With MIDI you often need to overdub a passage or merge recorded data and new events. Notion allows you to overdub your recordings in either merge or replace mode, giving you full control over the resulting performance. Overdubbing is great for adding expressive controllers, recording key switches, or trying that line one more time. Capture your MIDI performance better than ever before in Notion. Choose keyboard or guitar entry as well as having an incredible level or tweakability to dial in the way Notion will follow your playing. Notion 4 features - Native 64-bit Support (Mac and PC) - Interactive Entry Tools (Keyboard, Fretboard, Drum Pad, Chord Library) - Compatibility with Both Notion and Progression iPad Apps - ReWire (64-bit) Host and Slave - Sequencer Overlay - MIDI Overdub - Built-in Guitar Amp - Real-time MIDI record - Step-time MIDI input - Save as PDF (Mac and PC) - Built-In Integration with VSL Special Edition Plus 1, 2, 3, and 4, *Miroslav Philharmonik, and others - Save Directly to SoundCloud - Improved Compatibility with MusicXML, MIDI, and Guitar Pro Files (ver. 3-5) - Open Progression files - And More...
NEW DELHI: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was on Saturday rendered a doubtful starter for Sunday's third and final One-dayer against Pakistan due to a sore back, forcing the team management to call up Dinesh Karthik as the back up. Dhoni said at the customary pre-match press conference that he developed soreness on his back during the morning practice session at the Feroze Shah Kotla ground here. He was actually asked about the absence of middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh at the training session and the skipper said, "If at all somebody is doubtful, it's me. I have a sore back and we have called Dinesh Karthik as back up. "Since it was an optional practice session, Yuvraj did not come," he said. Asked, who will lead the side if he does not recover in time, Dhoni said, "Let's hope that I play. We'll see tomorrow." The beleaguered Indian batting line-up could come under more pressure if Dhoni sits out on Sunday. He has been India's top scorer in the series with a 113 not out in the first match in Chennai and an unbeaten 54 in the second in Kolkata. Asked if it would be a setback for Indian batting, which has been struggling to put up decent scores against Pakistan in the first two matches, Dhoni replied in the negative. "Nobody is irreplaceable. I am sure if Dinesh plays tomorrow, he will bat as good as I batted in the last two games," he said. "It's important to back players. Yes, we are going through a tough period but we field the best eleven. If we go by criticism or by media, probably we would need 30-40 teams. Had I put myself under such pressure, I would have broken down by now," Dhoni said. A section of media had claimed that Indian team members, especially the skipper and the coach, do not speak to each other much after a match but Dhoni said it's not like that. "It's not that we are not talking. We have meetings but having 15 types of different meetings does not help." Dhoni has been India's batting mainstay in the series against Pakistan with an unbeaten 113 in Chennai and unbeaten half-century in Kolkata. Asked if it would weaken the Indian batting further if he sits out on Sunday due to sore back, Dhoni said, "Our batting is good but we have not performed. No individual is irreplaceable. "The new boys are as good, it's just that they have not got enough chances. If Dinesh gets a chance, he will play as good as I played in the last two games. It's important that our top order clicks." Dhoni hoped that the Feroze Shah Kotla wicket will behave the same in both the innings. "It's difficult wicket. It's difficult to predict. But hopefully it will remain similar after the first half," he said. When a Pakistani journalist asked about his viewpoint on the visiting side, Dhoni said, "They have a balanced side. They play with five bowlers. Hafeez and Malik also bowl. They have more options and they are consistent. We have not batted well to test them." The Indian captain said that there was not much difference in ODIs due to new rules but India were struggling due to the lack of a fifth bowler.
UEFA Champions League holders Chelsea FC failed in their quest to lift the FIFA Club World Cup after falling to a 1-0 defeat at the hands of SC Corinthians Paulista. José Paolo Guerrero headed the winner after 69 minutes, and the Blues, who lost Gary Cahill to a red card late on, were unable to find an equaliser despite late pressure which included Juan Mata connecting with a post. After defeating Mexico's CF Monterrey to reach the final, Chelsea went close to going ahead against the Copa Libertadores champions when Cahill had an early effort blocked on the line. Emerson hit the post for the Brazilian side before Cássio Ramos in the Corinthians goal denied Frank Lampard and Victor Moses. The winner came as Danilo's shot looped into the air off defender Cahill and Guerrero reacted smartly to head the ball past three defenders on the line, ensuring the trophy failed to return to Europe for the first time since 2006. "We had enough chances to at least draw the match," said Lampard. "Corinthians are a very good, very organised team as Brazilian teams at club level can be." © 1998-2013 UEFA. All rights reserved.
Do not read below if you have a heart condition or are under 42” tall Calgary offers plenty of crazy ways to flirt with danger. Defy death and gravity at one of Calgary’s rock climbing centres. Experience 5Gs aboard a bobsled at Canada Olympic Park. Test your luck riding whitewater in the Rocky Mountains – or even a rodeo bull. Let Canada Olympic Park take your breath away on an unforgettable rip down the zipline. COP offers year-round activities for families and adventurers: skiing, zipline, snowboarding, bobsleigh, luge, mountain biking, and more. Grab your mountain bike and hit the 25km of trails hard and fast at Canada Olympic Park. Most of them point downhill, so hold on tight! Get lots of runs in as a high-speed chairlift takes you back to the top. Get ready for all kinds of altered states of equilibrium from a lineup of almost 40 major rides! If you found out that rides aren't your thing, the games will be making a return as well! From Ring Toss to Whack a Mole, there will be a game calling your name. Pounding of hooves and trembling of the ground can mean only one thing - Stampede Chuckwagon races. You’ll witness all the heart-stopping action as 36 drivers, 288 horses and their teams of outriders vie for huge prize money! Rodeo in the Infield Rodeo’s roughest champions and the ranch’s toughest stock together. That’s the Calgary Stampede Rodeo. Head-to-head for ten days leading into Wildcard Saturday and Showdown Sunday – the biggest one-day prize in pro rodeo. Rodeo’s home in Calgary. Enjoy country music and cowboy style all year in an old-west saloon. Ranchman’s regulars wear cowboy hats and big belt buckles year-round on horseback – even bull back. Ever dreamed of being a zookeeper? Spend the day with the zoo's animal care staff and help them prepare meals, feed animals, clean habitats, change exhibits, learn about our animal enrichment program, Species Survival Plans and much more. Hot Air Ballooning Imagine floating high in the air over Calgary, taking in the city skyline, Rocky Mountains, and rolling foothills. Enjoy the hot air balloon ride as you take in this unique perspective. Spend a warm summer day indulging in food, fun, and thrill inducing rides. Western Canada's Largest Outdoor Family Amusement Park has 34 rides, 25 skill testing games, 23 food locations, 4 attractions, out of this world live entertainment, free parking and all the family fun you can handle! So, you're in Calgary, and the mountains, snow, ice or trails are beckoning. Loudly. Only thing is, you didn't bring your gear. Well, not to worry. It just so happens that the University of Calgary Outdoor Centre has a lot of equipment, and they'd like to rent it to you. The Glenmore Reservoir not only provides half a million Calgarians with drinking water, it also provides a plentiful source of family summer entertainment including sailing, canoeing, and kayaking. Thrill seekers warning: the activities listed above and similar activities are considered hazardous and extremely fun.
MiniWeb is a free and open source, small generic web browser. MiniWeb lets you configure the user agent string it sends to websites, so that these sites think you have a browser that you don't. This is useful when testing websites against various mobile browsers. Or it is useful when you develop phones. MiniWeb comes with a few sample user agents, and you can add your own. So if you want to see if a particular user agent string works well with websites, you can test it. The window size is adjusted to fit the specifications of the user agent. MiniWeb is also handy if you want to watch news tickers, sports scores, weather reports and such things on a small window, but not in your main browser. The formatting of some websites for mobile clients (phones) is sometimes more convenient for this purpose. Finally, if you can't afford one of those fancy new web phones, but you want Google to think you have one, just use MiniWeb and set the user agent to the latest fashonable expensive gadget. You might see ads for the competiting brand, but that's a small price to pay. Building from source: Unarchive, open a Terminal window, go to the Miniweb directory in the src folder and from there run the following command: Then double click the generated Xcode project and choose Build from the Build menu in Xcode. This will build Miniweb in the "/build/Debug" folder inside the source directory . · Qt 4 or later
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The MacKay Foundation for Cancer Research is excited to announce that we will be holding another event to benefit blood and marrow, leukemia and hematology research and education at WFUSM, Section on Hematology and Oncology. It is our sincere desire to make a difference in the lives of our family, friends and coworkers who have been touched by cancer. The proceeds from our event will ensure that important cancer research will continue and new research projects will have the seed funding to move forward. 20th Annual Bob MacKay Memorial - This year, the Bob MacKay Memorial Golf Tournament will be held on Friday, September 27, 2013 at Bryan Park Golf and Enrichment Center, Greensboro. The tournament will benefit blood and marrow transplant, leukemia and hematology research and education at WFUSM, Section on Hematology and Oncology.144 golfers will be invited to participate and over 30 volunteers will be out on the course to ensure that the tournament is a great success and a good time is had by all. We will invite corporations and local companies to consider sponsoring this event. Please feel free to let all your golfing friends know about our tournament and it you are interested in volunteering, please contact Barbara MacKay Vinson at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Aug 18 2010 As demonstrated in this video, BlindType is some sort of keyboard replacement for the iPad, iPhone and presumably the iPod touch (neither are actually available at the moment but we are told to follow @BlindType on Twitter for updates) that allows flawless gibberish interpretation even when every character is wrong. It can apparently even deduce what you where trying to type even if you miss the keyboard entirely as long as you remain consistent in how far off you are and stick to the proper key layout. They call this adjusting to your “perceived keyboard” and it is some form of black magic. I can imagine this technology coming in handy for those who might like to drunk text their ex-girlfriends. Finally those unintelligible keystrokes will be properly interpreted! I’m skeptical that BlindType can really be as good as this video suggests. I’m also curious to see if the folks creating this technology have an equally slick solution for getting my BlindTyped text into the apps that I use every day. What do you think of this witchcraft? Leave a comment below!
Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * In an unexpected turn, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch has begun complaining about the competence of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. The conservative media mogul soon added, however, "Of course I want [Romney] to win [to] save us from socialism." * Speaking of the Romney campaign, its new attack ad targeting President Obama features four-year-old criticism from Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. * Morgan Stanley employees are being encouraged to give money to Romney. The financial firm will also host a Romney fundraising event at its corporate headquarters in New York City later this month. * On Tuesday, it looked as Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) had won his Democratic primary. As of yesterday, his victory appears far less secure. * In Massachusetts, Romney's former constituents aren't especially interested in giving him a promotion -- PPP shows Obama leading Romney in the Bay State by 16 points. * Rep. Jeff Flake (R), worried that the U.S. Senate race in Arizona is slipping away from him, has put down another $1.4 million for airtime, and will start another round of advertising next week. * And speaking of buying ad time, the House Majority PAC and the SEIU have bought nearly $20 million in ad time for the fall, targeting 47 competitive House races.
White House photo President Obama holds his first cabinet meeting in April 2009. While we wait for the official announcement from President Obama about Chuck Hagel's nomination, it's worth pausing to note the larger context: as a candidate, Obama promised a bipartisan team, and whether one approves of the goal or not, it's a promise the president has kept. Traditionally, this hasn't been much of an issue -- presidents were largely expected to create cabinets from their own party -- but Clinton added some Republicans to his team in the 1990s, including naming William Cohen to head the Pentagon, and when George W. Bush ran in 2000, he presented himself as a relative moderate by assuring voters there would be a Democrat in his cabinet, too. Bush later tapped Norm Mineta to lead the Department of Transportation. But even before Obama nominates Hagel as Secretary of Defense, as best as I can tell, this president has given more administration positions to Republicans than any modern president has given to members of the other party. For all the talk on the right about Obama being a bitter partisan, the president made former Republican Rep. John McHugh the Secretary of the Army; he made former Republican Rep. Ray LaHood the Secretary of Transportation; he put former Republican Rep. Jim Leach in charge of the National Endowment for the Humanities; he named former Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman as U.S. Ambassador to China; and he put former Republican Rep. Anne Northup in charge of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Obama also kept Bush's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, in his post, and for a while, nominated former Republican Sen. Judd Gregg as his Commerce Secretary. Indeed, Hagel has already been on the White House team, serving as a co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. To be sure, opinions can vary widely as to whether this is a positive development or not. There's a credible school of thought that suggests if Americans wanted Republicans in key administration posts, they would have elected a Republican president. For that matter, it's not as if Obama's GOP's detractors are giving him credit for crafting such a bipartisan team -- the right still considers the president a radical, left-wing partisan who refuses to reach out to Republicans, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Still, for good or ill, this is largely what Obama promised the public four years ago, and at least in theory, it's what Americans say they like -- a leader who's not afraid to surround himself with a diverse group of advisors, including folks from the other party.
Studio MadsMonsen is run by Thu & Mads Monsen as part of Cong Ty TNHH MTV Thu Le (Official legal company name). MST: 0308817316 (Tax code). Thu is the Photoshop guru when it comes to retouching and is available for commercial retouching assignments. Thu also handles the production side and welcomes model portfolios as well as stylists/make-up/hair/et al. Mads is the photographer with a dual background. Commercial photography apprenticeship from Norway, BA(Hons) Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins, London, UK. Former magazine art director. Ngoan is the diligent studio assistant and indispensible helper throughout sessions and everyday studio operations. Our team of freelancers that help us with our productions and make it all possible. Stylists, make-up artists, hair stylists, props, scouts, casting, models... Your continued support is very much appreciated. Thank you!
Species: Namista's Spider Birthday: Monday, February 27, 2012 As soon as one of Namista's spiders is born, it begins to grow at an alarming rate. By the time the spider has reached adulthood, the arachnid has become humongous. These creatures are as large as small horses, complete with big moods. Most magi choose not to keep them as companions, as they are one of the more difficult companions to tame. As hatchlings they sleep much of the time, but adults only fall into deep slumber during the day. At night they build huge webs deep in the forest, and feed upon whatever unfortunate animals fall into the traps. These webs are incredibly strong and almost impossible to break out of. Young Namista's spiders are always practicing building these webs, though they are not as strong as the adult's. It is best that a magi teaches their spider companion to create these webs far in the forest, lest the little one still makes them in the castle when older. It is rather annoying to walk into one of these webs during the night: if it were an adult's creation, it would be very difficult to get out of. Something else to be painfully aware of is their poisonous fangs. Even when first born, these sharp fangs are filled with deadly poison, and even a shallow cut from one can be fatal. Because they were created from dark magic, these giant spiders have the unfortunate tendency to become evil. They must be raised carefully from birth, lest they learn to take pleasure in rending flesh and tormenting all living things. It is fortunate that the magi have taken it upon themselves to make sure that these arachnids no longer cause violent events. So far, the endeavor has been successful – none of these spiders have injured anyone, but there is something different about them... the way they skitter along in the edges of shadows, something about their eyes... No one quite trusts them, and many will have nothing to do with them. Villagers in particular fear them, which is not particularly strange, given their past. Once controlled by an evil magi, Namista's spiders gleefully destroyed villages and carried out their master's orders. It is only recently that these strange creatures have been considered companions; it was not long ago that they were terrors to everyone. It is still not common for magi to choose one of Namista's spiders as a companion. Those who do are usually curious about dark magic, though everyone knows how fatal that can be. Namista's spiders turned on their own creator, as unnatural beings often do. Even though the woman trained them carefully, the spiders have vicious temperaments. These arachnids have such great potential for destruction that none are allowed to exist in the wild.
Winners of September 10th, 2011 $700 Riichi Madness Tournament are : Mat09 from Thailand($350.00); Maechen from Japan($250.00); ynot3m from the USA($100.00). Click here to watch the game. The next Taiwanese Madness Tournament will take place on Saturday, October 1st Early Bird Registration! Players who register by Sunday, September 18th(PDT) will receive an additional $5 after participating in the tournament. Please note: To be eligible for the bonus, you have to be registered for the tournament for the entire time. If you unregister at any time, you will not be eligible for the $5 early bird bonus. Diamond, Gold, and Silver crowns can receive seats for free! After purchasing the following seats, members will receive a rebate credited to their account within 24 hours: Diamond Crown - For every 1000 Reward Points you have earned 2 free satellite seats. Gold Crown - For every 1000 Reward Points you have earned 1.5 free satellite seats. Silver Crown - For every 1000 Reward Points you have earned 1 free satellite seat. Here are the details: Prize Pool: From $250 to $1,000 Tournament Rounds: 4 Players - One Round; 8 Players- One elimination round and a 4 player final; 12-16 players - Two elimination rounds and a 4 player final; Min. Points: 6 Points Players: 4 -16 Play Time: up to 180 min. Date and Time: Saturday, October 1st US/Pacific(PDT) 4:00 AM Buy - in directly to the tournament: $67.5
Subject: Re: port-i386/37026: userconf(4) doesn't work with vesafb(4) To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org> From: Jared D. McNeill <email@example.com> Date: 09/25/2007 14:34:34 On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, firstname.lastname@example.org wrote: > Using a kernel with vesafb(4) enabled seems to hung when > trying to access to userconf(4) via boot -c. vesafb_cnattach is a noop because it is called too early (before kvm86 is initialized). This is why userconf fails; vesafb is not actually attached at this point. Possible workarounds include early probe and init of vesafb, or allowing vga to early attach and taking ownership of the console when vesafb attaches later on.
Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 problem booting after installation To: Michael Smith <email@example.com> From: Steven M. Bellovin <firstname.lastname@example.org> Date: 12/14/2004 06:45:29 In message <email@example.com>, Michael Smith writes: >On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:08:22 +0000 >David Laight <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote: >> You should be able to boot the system by interrupting the install boot >> and typing 'boot wd0a:' >When I do this I get: >open wd0a:: Device not configured >boot: wd0a:netbsd: Device not configured >, alternatively exit sysinst, mount the >> filesystem and chroot into it. >Yes. I found this yesterday (I sent the original message on saturday. There mu >st be moderation on this list). >installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2 >....made no difference... >(I have currently installed with FFSv2, though I have the same problem with FF >installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rwd0d /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2 >...did. Quoting from the update I sent a little while ago: >...and now the primary bootstrap seems to load. However it can't see /boot: >NetBSD/i386 ffsv2 Primary Bootstrap >Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot >I can mount the filesystem on /dev/rwd0a by booting from the install CD and ru >nning a shell, and have verified that /boot and /netbsd both exist. >So I think I am half way there. But I don't know what is wrong with /boot This sounds similar to a problem I had with -current a few weeks ago -- google for 'unbootable new disk' starting 23 November. The problem in my case was apparently that my BIOS and NetBSD disagreed about mapping sectors on such a large (160G, over the 137G limit) drive. Is the CPU old? There have been lots of IDE size limits... In any event, what I did was to change the BIOS's access mechanism; it all --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
[ILUG] Network / DNS Problems Smith, Graham - Computing Technician Graham.Smith at it-tallaght.ie Wed Nov 21 10:26:27 GMT 2001 Might be an issue relating to routes - check that your routing/static-routes etc settings are as they Department of Computing, Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Phone: + 353 (01) 4042840 From: Lemon, Matthew [mailto:matthew.lemon at williamfry.ie] Sent: 21 November 2001 10:20 To: 'ilug at linux.ie' Subject: [ILUG] Network / DNS Problems I installed RH 7 onto my desktop machine without a problem. BUT when I try to ping an internal network address by name it fails. I can ping it by IP address OK though. The installation is configured with two DNS addresses and when I put an external web address into my browser it finds it by name. So it appears that the DNS for external addresses is working and the internal DNS isn't. How can this be ? I can ping the internal DNS so I know that it can see it, if I do an NSlookup then I get a message that says : ***Can't find server name for address 172.16.100.1: No response from Default Server: ns.isi.ie Any ideas ? Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug at linux.ie http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: listmaster at linux.ie More information about the ILUG
[ILUG] TV tuner cards bobb at redbrick.dcu.ie Tue Jul 5 19:39:49 IST 2005 Simon Kenyon hath declared on Tuesday the 05 day of July 2005 :-: > get a hauppauge pvr card > the 250/350 are best supported on linux, followed by the 150/500 I thought hauppauge had switched from the BrookTree chips to Connexant(sp?) which are not as well supported under linux. Has Connexant support improved, or do the 250/350 cards still (always) come with the BrookTree chip ? Mr. Rogers could explain shoe-tying and make it seem like the coolest thing in the world. He was our Uncle and older brother. He told us we were special, and we knew he'd be there for us. A cult leader, right down to the sneakers. More information about the ILUG
[Python-Dev] Math.sqrt(-1) -- nan or ValueError? hasan.diwan at gmail.com Tue Sep 4 23:43:04 CEST 2007 I'm trying to fix a failing unit test in revision 57974. The test in question claims that math.sqrt(-1) should raise ValueError; the code itself gives "nan" as a result for that expression. I can modify the test and therefore have it pass, but I'm not sure if an exception would be more appropriate. I'd be happy for some direction here. Many thanks! Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan at gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... More information about the Python-Dev
How do we explain clp to newcomers? mwh at python.net Tue Oct 1 16:17:07 CEST 2002 claird at lairds.org (Cameron Laird) writes: > Is there a canonical page, presumably at www.python.org, or, more > specifically, the Wiki, that answers the question, "What do you > mean, 'post my question to the Usenet comp.lang.python newsgroup'?"? > If there isn't one already, I'll make one for the Wiki. I'd like > to avoid the labor, of course. Not the most obvious location, to be sure. Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make the additional features appear necessary. -- Revised(5) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme More information about the Python-list
suggestions please "what should i watch for/guard against' in a file upload situation?" tjreedy at udel.edu Thu Oct 7 00:19:25 CEST 2010 On 10/6/2010 12:02 PM, geekbuntu wrote: > in general, what are things i would want to 'watch for/guard against' > in a file upload situation? > i have my file upload working (in the self-made framework @ work > without any concession for multipart form uploads), but was told to > make sure it's cleansed and cannot do any harm inside the system. > my checklist so far is basically to check the extension - ensure it > has 3 places, ensure it's in the allowed list (like jpg gif etc...). > not sure what else i could do to guard against anything bad > happening. maybe the file name itself could cause greif? > not sure but any suggestions or examples are most welcome :) I am not sure whether anyone mentioned limiting the file size, checking the incoming header, and aborting an upload if it goes over anyway. Most sites do not want 10 gigabyte files ;-). Terry Jan Reedy More information about the Python-list
[alsa-devel] alsactl adds volume controls? broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com Thu Sep 30 18:47:53 CEST 2010 On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 04:09:56PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > shouldn't use them, but at present it does and they are active and > used, so it's not an issue for me), the problem is rather one of setting > Master (not PCM) to 0% aka -46.5dB causes some kind of auto-mute that > cuts off all sound. It shouldn't do that. I've not muted it. I've set it Is this perhaps just an error in the TLV information - should it be flagging that the minimim gain is mute but isn't? More information about the Alsa-devel
Explore Chandler from wherever you are. About Stellar Airpark (PDF) Read about Chandler's Stellar Airpark, written by Stellar Airpark. Stories from the Chandler Airport The story of how Chandler's airport got where it is today. World War II Honor Roll Explore in-depth experiences of Chandler men and women during the Second World War. Chandler Mayors’ Stories Former mayors describe what brought them to public service and how Chandler has grown over time. All pictures are courtesy of the City Clerk’s office. Hispanic Heritage Stories Photos and family stories capture the resiliency, struggles and pride of Chandler’s early Hispanic community. When Cotton Was King In 2002, the City and the Arizona Humanities Council sponsored a photographic exhibit featuring the images and stories of twenty-four African Americans from Chandler. History in Your Own Backyard These kiosks tell the stories of the families, businesses and cultures that were established in the area around each park; long before many newer neighborhoods were created. It's a great way to see how Chandler has changed over many decades. Roots of Ocotillo This documentary explores the stories of those who grew up in what was once the first town of Goodyear. (Click on link to immediately play.) Price House, A Snapshot in Time Watch and discover what makes this house unique and the stories of those who lived here and who worked in the surrounding fields. (Click on link to immediately play.)
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I grew up in a rabid Brooklyn Dodgers family and the expression “damn Yankees” was a common complaint around our house. If the Devil had appeared on our doorstep offering us the same deal as that Washington Senators fan Joe Boyd accepts in Damn Yankees, it’s not inconceivable one of us would have taken it. The more you know about the Yankees’ dominance in the 1950s – they won the World Series from 1949-53, then again in ’56 and ’58 – the easier it will be to enjoy the musical, but there are still pleasures for everyone despite its feeble book. The 1955 script by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop is not only dated, but also has a hard time making a compelling story out of a diehard baseball fan’s pact with the Devil. Still, the music is tuneful, the choreography (by Denis Jones after Bob Fosse’s original) sparkling, and the performances - with a few exceptions (more on that later) - first-rate. The curtain opens with Joe (Hugh Hastings) glued to the TV set as his hometown Senators lose once more to that damned New York team. Ignored wife Meg (Patti Cohenour) sits politely by his side, then in frustration belts out the baseball widow’s lament, “Six Months Out of Every Year.” Cohenour has a powerful voice that reaches to the rafters and in this song she sounds uncannily like Ethel Merman. When the game is over, Joe mutters to himself, “I’d sell my soul for one long-ball hitter” and poof! Mr. Applegate (Hans Altwies) aka the Devil appears in a cloud of smoke. Applegate makes Joe an offer he can’t refuse. He will turn Joe into a youthful baseball superhero with one catch: When the Senators win the pennant, Joe will have to accompany Applegate to Hell for eternity. Joe, a real estate salesman, is as sharp as Applegate and negotiates a first-ever escape clause. At that instant, in a bit of stage magic, the beefy middle aged Joe Boyd is transformed into Joe Hardy (Christopher Charles Wood), a lean young hunk with almost supernatural batting skills. From this point on the story gets silly and predictable but, like other musicals of its era, Damn Yankees is designed largely as a vehicle for rousing song and dance numbers. And oh what numbers they are! Richard Adler’s and Jerry Ross’ music and lyrics hold up well, especially “Heart (you gotta have heart),” “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO,” “Two Lost Souls,” and of course “Whatever Lola Wants.” From the moment the curtain goes up, the entrance that everyone is waiting for is Lola’s. Played to perfection by Gwen Verdun in the original Broadway later film versions, Lola is the ultimate vamp, summoned by Applegate to keep Joe's mind off his wife. Sexy, elegant and playful, Verdun brought a sensuousness to the role that made it easy to believe her Lola was irresistible. In the current revival, Chrysie Whitehead is pretty and talented, with kicks as high as the sky. But her Lola is too flamboyant and in the “Whatever Lola Wants” number, with her jutting hips and wiggling posterior it’s not hard to understand why Joe Hardy recoils at her advances. When she lets go of the temptress role, however, as she does in her “Two Lost Souls” duet with Wood, Whitehead’s sweetness comes through and it’s easy to see her as another of the Devil’s victims. Wood is engaging as an innocent young Joe Hardy, who seems just as surprised by his athletic prowess as everyone else is. Wood has a versatile voice that can hit his challenging high notes as well as the deeper, richer passages and is especially touching in his duets - “A Man Doesn’t Know” and “Near to You” with Cohenour. He’s a fine actor and prevents his scenes with Meg from falling into bathos. He never lets us forget that his Joe Hardy is really Joe Boyd and that his heart is back at home in Chevy Chase – with Meg – rather than in the ballpark. As Applegate, Hans Altwies doesn’t really come alive as deliciously evil until his second act solo “Those Were the Good Old Days.” Up to this point he is too restrained for the manipulative, soul-stealing Satan, but in “Good Old Days,” he finally cuts loose. Remembering with glee the greatest villains and catastrophes of history (presumably his doing), the suave Altwies cavorts around the stage in devil-may-care style. It’s a tour de force performance but comes too late to inject much energy into the show’s central role. The rest of the cast is superb. Cohenour as Meg is sweet but not saccharine in a role that can easily be overplayed. She is so convincing as the devoted wife that she forces us to suspend belief when Joe Boyd disappears, then accepts him back, no questions asked, when he reappears. Another standout is Nancy Anderson as the brassy, fast-talking sports reporter Gloria, who knows there’s some bigger story behind Joe Hardy’s sudden arrival. She never quite figures it out – who could? – but in the process she gets to belt out “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO,” a blockbuster production number if ever there was one. Anderson sounds remarkably like a young Bernadette Peters and steals every scene she’s in. The production design is up to the Fifth’s usual high standards with sets and costumes that perfectly capture the mid-century modern style of the ‘50s. Tom Sturge’s lighting design is especially noteworthy, particularly in the scene where Applegate turns Joe Hardy back into Joe Boyd. In a stunning freeze-frame effect, Sturge illuminates Applegate’s face in white while throwing dark red light on everyone else. It’s a shocking reminder that, despite his human appearance, Applegate is not in fact like the rest of us. Perhaps the best reason to see this Damn Yankees is for the dancing. Choreographer Jones has retained much of Fosse’s pizzazz but updated the movement to make it even more athletic. Virtually all the dancers are Fifth Avenue regulars and bring their characteristic flair and energy to the extended dance numbers. Damn Yankees may not win the prize as the best musical ever but 57 years after it first opened on Broadway, it can still provide a jolt of joy for baseball and non-baseball lovers alike. If you go: Damn Yankees, Fifth Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Avenue, through June 5. Tickets starting at $19 at the box office, by phone at (206) 625-1900 or (888) 5TH-4TIX or online at www.5thavenue.org. Like what you just read? Support high quality local journalism. Become a member of Crosscut today!
Notebook: Miller, Williamson in transition stages Photos: 2013 Jones Cup Check out photos from the first round of the 2013 Jones Cup in Sea Island, Ga. SEA ISLAND, Ga. – One is headed overseas. Another is PGA Tour-bound. Mike Miller and Peter Williamson both have creative ways to fill their schedule until the Walker Cup. Both players are in a transition stage in their career. They don’t want to begin their professional careers until after September’s Walker Cup. They’re not mid-amateurs (age 25 or older), but aren’t playing college golf, either. Miller, 20, played one semester at Penn State. Williamson, 22, graduated from Dartmouth last June. Miller, who shot a first-round 76 Friday at the Jones Cup, leaves next week for the Portuguese and Spanish amateur championships. Williamson will make his next start at the PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Invitational. He opened with 84 at Ocean Forest Golf Club. Miller first travelled overseas last year, finishing fourth at both the Lytham Trophy and Irish Amateur. He played the events after meeting the Golfing Union of Ireland’s Pat Finn at the Carey Cup, a Walker Cup-style match between New York’s Metropolitan Golf Association and GUI. Miller, No. 25 in the R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking, will play the Azalea Invitational before heading to Ireland for this year’s Carey Cup, which is scheduled for April 27-29 at the European Club in Brittas Bay, Ireland. He’ll remain overseas for a return to the Lytham Trophy and Irish Amateur, then play the usual summer events in the States. The Brewster, N.Y., native figures to face some potential Walker Cup foes at those events. That experience should help in the matches, as would a home-state advantage. The Walker Cup is being held at National Golf Links of America in Miller’s home state. “They’ll be hooting and hollering,” Miller said of the potential home crowd if he’s picked for the U.S. team. “It would be loud and definitely be good for our side.” Williamson earned his PGA Tour start by winning last year’s Southern Amateur. He also won the North & South Amateur in 2012, a big reason why he’s No. 8 in the R&A’s amateur rankings. He moved to Jupiter, Fla., in September and has been preparing for his PGA Tour debut by playing at Medalist Golf Club with the many pros who live there, including Rickie Fowler, Bud Cauley and Hank Kuehne. When asked if he’s played with Tiger Woods, Williamson replied: “I haven’t yet. Hopefully soon.” Williamson, a New Hampshire native, is getting accustomed to playing golf year-round. He’s been working on shallowing out his swing so that he takes smaller divots. The extra practice time had resulted in soreness in his wrists. He said he struggled with distance control Friday at Ocean Forest. “I’m just trying to figure it out,” he said. • • • COAST-TO-COAST: Jonathan Garrick isn’t headed to Hawaii with his UCLA teammates. Ocean Forest isn’t a bad backup, especially when in contention at the Jones Cup. Garrick, a UCLA freshman, is T-6 after shooting 72, four shots back of co-leaders Cory Whitsett and Rowin Caron. “It’s unfortunate not to be there, but this is a top-10 amateur tournament and this course is the toughest I’ve ever played in competition,” said Garrick, a freshman who won the Cal Poly Invitational earlier this season. “We’re here, so (missing Hawaii) isn’t all that bad.” UCLA’s lineup for the Amer Ari Invitational wasn’t finalized until Sunday. Garrick and Anton Arboleda decided to travel to Georgia after failing to make the lineup via a match-play qualifier. Arboleda shot 79 Friday. Their 11th hour, cross-country trip was made more difficult by delays. The teammates left Los Angeles Wednesday morning, then were delayed five hours in Atlanta. They arrived at Sea Island about 2 a.m. Thursday after flying to Jacksonville, Fla., and driving approximately 80 miles. Garrick played about 14 practice holes later that day. It was 3:45 a.m. in his home state when he awoke Friday to play the Jones Cup’s first round. There’s good news. UCLA head coach Derek Freeman told him a victory here would exempt him into the Bruins’ next event. • • • FAIR-WEATHER FAN: BYU’s Zac Blair has travelled to a warmer climate to keep his game sharp this winter. It’s approximately 50 degrees in St. George, Utah, and the lack of snow makes it possible for Blair to play golf. He said he visits St. George almost every weekend. Taking part in last month’s Walker Cup practice session in Florida and the Patriot All-American (T-18) in Arizona has helped Blair stay in form, as well. He shot 72 Friday at the Jones Cup. This is his first time playing the event. “I’ve played a bit more than I usually have. I’m a bit sharper than I usually have been,” Blair said. • • • SHORT SHOTS: Defending champion Justin Thomas shot 78 after being even-par through 10 holes. He played Nos. 14-16 in 5 over after making triple-bogey at the par-3 15th. Thomas was part of the featured pairing of Williamson and U.S. Amateur champion Steven Fox. They were a combined 27 over par. Fox shot 81 and Williamson fired 84. ... Dru Love, the son of Davis Love III, shot 78. Seth Waugh’s son, Clancy, shot 82. ... Two mid-ams – John Engler and Nick Gilliam – are T-6 after shooting 72.
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Cocaine charges against a champion-chicken wing eater were unveiled on the eve of the gorging competition that made him a minor Philadelphia celebrity. Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, the five-time winner of the Wing Bowl, was indicted on various charges stemming from an arrest in southern New Jersey last summer in which police allegedly found cash and thousands of dollars of worth of coke in his car, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Simmons, 51, was already banned from this weekend's Wing Bowl before Gloucester County prosecutors revealed they'd charged the bleached-blonde devourer with 13 counts of possessing, manufacturing and distributing different quantities of cocaine, the South Jersey Times reported. The organization banned him shortly after his arrest. He spent 10 days in jail after his arrest, an eye-opening experience he called "life-changing," according to CBS News. Simmons used to strut into the event like a pro-wrestler, wearing a sleek robe and t-shirts emblazoned with his logo of a mighty bird. But perhaps his best years of stuffing bar food down his gullet were behind him. He last won the contest in 2005 by eating 162 wings, the Associated Press said. In his prime, Simmons had a knack for eating wings, which requires more technique than other foods featured in competitive eating contests, said George Shea, the CEO of Major League Eating. (Major League Eating organizes events like the Nathan's hot dog contest, but isn't affiliated with the Wing Bowl. "He was a superior chicken wing eater," Shea told HuffPost.
Use of Biomedical Engineering and Music for K-12 Math/Science Education The study proposes the use of Biomedical Engineering (BME) Ph.D. track graduate students to assist middle and high school teachers to teach math/science skills, by providing additional tools and training to optimize their use. The emphasis is on the use of disciplinary knowledge to enhance how people learn with the aid of computer technology; showing the students the importance of this knowledge to solve real world problems. Three school districts have committed to participate in a cross-disciplinary education program (Shelby County, Shades Mountain Independent, and the Alabama School of Fine Arts). Students from UAB’s Biomedical Engineering (BME) and the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA) departments will develop, implement, and evaluate the four interventions used to enhance math/science skills. - Music education - Math/Science kits and six-week projects - Science Fair project development - A technology of Fine Arts class When the cost-effectiveness of each intervention has been determined, decisions whether to expand the intervention, within each school system will be made. Information about successful programs would be made available, on the internet or other media, to interested groups. Trained personnel from this project would serve as facilitators for these groups. - Investigators: A. Eberhardt, R. Thompson, M. Froning, D. Kilpadi
Figure 27. Belt of elongate granite plutons (red) in west-central part of the Bath map sheet. Names of several plutons are given. Most intrude the Cape Elizabeth Formation (peach) and some intrude the East Harpswell Group (purple). Bodies of quartz diorite (Dqd) and pegmatite (Dp) are indicated. Last updated on January 25, 2006.
Cumberland County Beekeepers Association Presents: Swarm Prevention, Management, and Capture Wednesday April 25th, 2013 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Location: Mabel I. Wilson School, North Yarmouth Maine Presenter: Erin MacGregor-Forbes, Master Beekeeper This will be a lecture style workshop discussing the causes of, and reasons for, honeybee swarms. How to manage and reduce the swarm impulse in your own colonies, how to make splits (artificial swarms) and how to capture swarms once they have left the colony. Participants will learn the fundamentals of how to assess their colonies’ swarm preparations, how to make a split, what to have on hand to be ready to capture swarms, and how to make a “Swarm Trap.” Each registered participant will leave the workshop with one plant pot style swarm trap ready for use in his or her own apiary. The purpose of this workshop is to begin educating our membership in methods of sustainable apiary management and prevention of nuisance bee issues. Cost this year is $35 for Cumberland County Beekeepers Association paid members (a savings of $10 from last years cost) and $45 for non CCBA members and it includes the “swarm trap”. Participation is limited to 30 registrations. Please use the form below to register or click the link on the MSBA website and use the pay pal function. April 20th will be the cutoff date for mail in registrations. Latest posts by Erin MacGregor-Forbes, Master Beekeeper (see all) - How to Make Summer Nucs – Hands-on Workshop – Saturday, June 16, 2012 - March 29, 2012 - Swarm Workshop Wednesday April 25th, 2012 - March 28, 2012 - 2012 Open Hive Hosts - March 1, 2012
How do we help “new bloggers” find their voice? Are we really a community that does? I believe we are, or at least can be. Main Street Plaza is an Internet home for people who care about their thoughts and ideas, eventhough weoften disagree. Wedon’t have the same world view,but it helpsus tobe able toarticulateour point of view, and listen to others asthey express theirs.Disagreements on doctrineor different life choices,does nothave to lead to animosity.I hope that we are making a space for people questioning their faith, lives and community, and to help them feel that they have a “voice” as they work throught those struggles. An Example of doing it right! I think that Post Mormon Girl does a great job giving voice to her experiences with the church, and how those experiences shaped her life. Her entire blog is great and some time. when you have the flu or something else, where you have an excuselay inbed,I highly recommendreading through her past posts. She is an awesome person, writer, friend and she has a great way of gently encouraging new readers and commenters to talk, even if they are VERY shy. Part of what is remarkable about Post Mormon Girl, as a blogger and human being, is that she makes sure to thank each person who comments, or to engage them in some way. When she doesn’t know an answer, she will post that she doesn’t know, and ask her readers whether they know them. She also asks questions that she genuinely doesn’t know the answers to, and at the end of the OP asks her readers to share their experiences. This is one of her recent posts, that especially hit home with me: (You really should take the time to read the OP and ALL ofthe comments) The post is touching and masterfully written.Thecomments, thoughts, ideas and personal experiences added to the OPmake it much morepowerful!. PMG is a great writer, who writes honestly and straight from the heart. There is no doubt that her writing stands on its own. While being a great writer is important, her original reasonfor starting A Post-Mormon Life, was to help others who had, were or were going to have some of the same experiences, when they decide that leaving the LDS church, She wanted other people toknow that it is possible to leave the LDS church, andthey can be happy. Mostly, she wants people to ask questions, or leave part of their own stories, so they can be part of the larger narrative of current Mormons, Ex-Mormons, and thosestraddling the fence. What we are doing now, and howwe can bebetter! Hopefully, Main Street Plazais creating a space for thestoriesof people who have had the LDS church touch their lives. As a place forexperiencesto beshared, a place of encouragement, and not a place of condescension or condemnation.This is a place that you can hear the words and voices of those whose lives have been different,while you still share some common threads. Hopefully, you willfind acceptance, no matter where you fall on the living-believing-caring-hoping scale of personal growth.As you discuss, debate, and find common ground, hopefully you will see Main Street Plaza as a place to embraceideas and people who don’t agree with you (or do agree with you) that you respect because of the lives they live and their tollerance and support, no matter how different you may seem at first. Oftentimes, connecting through blogs has less to do with marketing and more to do with making personal connections, but it is hard to make those first few connections, If someone has posted on a group blog, and they have a personal blog that is in their profile, check out their blog. If theirblog is interesting, and youare comfortable with the content, leave a comment about something you liked, and then ask them to check out your blog.It can be a great was tostart conversations that mightnot happen inlarger forums, with 20-50 comments. There are new and more experienced authors,who offer their advice, when you ask for it. There are times whenyouneed help now, and you aren’t sure who to ask. So, please, if you are new or have been lurking for a while, please leave a comment with your question(s) and hopefully between the community members, we will be ableto answer all of them. **Disagreeing is just as honorable as agreeing, as long as comes from a supportable idea or an experience based insight. Name calling is always an easily throw, like the balls from a Nerf gun. I am asking you to at least try meeting me half way, and stick to only calling me an idiot, AFTER you have shared your “supportable idea.”
Please check out a post Katie has written about watching Abramz's Breakdance classes, which I was unfortunately never able to attend. I truly am devastated that I wasn't able to see one. Also, make sure to read this very moving post about spending a night in a Night Commuter Center, which I was able to visit while I was in Gulu, but didn't spend the night in. When I went the peace talks were still in progress and so there were fewer kids there then there are now. Since the peace talks are stalled the number of children night commuting has risen once again. Katie truly is an inspiration and on the trip she was our Mama Katie! She has reminded me through her thoughtful and intelligent posts that, as some of the children told her, "As a child, it is my right to play." And it is, and we should never ever forget that. A classic OLP song from their album Clumsy. Raine Maida's solo project, a more beat poetry type music then OLP's rock sound. An interview with Raine and his wife Chantal for a glimpse into the rockin' couple's life. I'm not usually the type of person to follow the celebrities because frankly I don't care and our country's obsession with celebrities makes me ill, but I truly admire Raine Maida as a person from his music (he writes all of OLP's lyrics) and his activism with War Child Canada and so cannot resist being curious about his personal life. But please don't think I give a damn what he or his wife are wearing. Thank you for allowing me to share my obsession. There's nothing obsessives like to do more then to try to infect others with their obsessions. As Newsweek reported, at least four female aid workers have been beaten and sexually abused recently — raped in the case of two French women.Thanks to Mick Hartley for keeping up on the situation. Read more on Mick's blog here and here. In addition, an aid worker in Sudan tells me that on Jan. 22 the police raided a party in the city of Nyala and arrested 22 employees of aid groups. Several were beaten and one woman was sexually abused but managed to fend off an attempted rape. Broader security is also collapsing. On a road near Bulbul that used to be safe, gunmen stopped a public bus in the middle of the day and brutally beat the men and gang-raped the women for hours. In the face of all this, aid workers are jittery and some are pulling out. Yet Europe is oblivious (the Davos conference here has great sessions on Africa but nothing on Darfur). President Bush has been better than most world leaders, but still pathetic: he mustered half a sentence in his State of the Union address. Perhaps this is because Mr. Bush regards the situation as tragic but hopeless, but in fact there is plenty he could do. He could speak out forcefully about Darfur. He could bring victims to the White House for a photo op. He could help the U.N. send a force to protect Chad and the Central African Republic — while continuing to push for U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur itself. He could visit Darfur or Chad and invite European or Chinese officials to join him. He could invite African leaders to Washington for a summit meeting that would include discussion of Darfur. He could impose a no-fly zone. He could develop targeted sanctions against Sudanese leaders. He could begin forensic accounting to find assets of those leaders in Western countries. He could call on NATO and the Pentagon to prepare contingency plans in case the janjaweed start massacring the hundreds of thousands of Darfuris in camps. And this weekend he could telephone a few African presidents to tell them what a catastrophe it would be if Africa chose Mr. Bashir as its leader. - Nick Kristof (at Coalition for Darfur) On another note, here is a really great post on using technology with development projects. Consider technologies like Wimax, an easy to deploy broadband wireless technology, that can cover large geographical areas – up to 50km – at fast speeds, up to 72mps. Wimax is perfect for peri-urban and more rural areas. It could help Government bring new services to the recovering North and facilitate trade. In June 2006, the roll-out of Uganda’s Wimax network began. Can Government, the donors and the private sector help finish the job and make a wired Northern Uganda a reality?Thanks to Jack Fruity for bringing me to this really innovative and creative article about working in development in countries that currently have little access to technology.Think about new low-cost solutions like Motorola’s Motofone, a no frills cellphone designed just for the rural market. The unit is dust-proof, uses voice prompts to local languages, has extended battery life, and is affordable. Especially given the difficulty of travel and land-line communication, opening up a strong cell market in places like Northern Uganda would seem to make sense, lowering the costs of doing business, and helping provide security and reliability to potential investors. Can Uganda jump start this market?Or, how about the highly anticipated $100 laptop that is already proposed for Emerging Markets like Brazil, Nigeria and Rwanda? Current plans call for the distribution up to 15 million of the devices in 2007, which feature full-color, a 500MHz processor, and wireless broadband capabilities. Will Government and the aid agencies help bring the tools of the wired world to Gulu? - Andy's Global View Update: Please check out this great post on an extremely innovative solution to a large problem that have been plaguing Sudanese refugees. Thank you Elizabeth! Also had to give a shout out to my dear friend Colin who helped lead the trip from Uganda. He's a unique person, to say the least. He's extraordinarily kind and ridiculously funny with a train of thought that is hard to follow sometimes. Really, I don't need to say anything else about him because you can get his dynamic personality from his blog so well, that you just need to go on over and check it out! He's a newbie blogger and I'm happy to give him a shout out and send you on over there. I promise, you will not lack for entertainment! And just to prove that I really did know him before he became rich and famous from his blog, here is proof in form of a picture: Coming into Uganda knowing the perceptions and prejudices that many Westerners have entered African countries with, I was determined to have a completely open mind. With my first step off the plane, I was already in love with the country. Looking across the landscape of Uganda felt like I was breathing in beauty with my eyes. I was in awe of it all and also in awe of the fact that I was there, drinking it all in in person. A dream since high school finally realized. Perhaps I'd expected some life changing moment as soon as I stepped off of the plane, perhaps I expected rays of light to shoot from the sky to reveal some holy revelation to me, but I felt odd feeling so normal in Uganda. I still cared that my hair was flipping out weird with this odd kink where I slept on it on the plane. I was still conscious of making friends in the group and feeling my every fault and oddity like a sharp stone sticking into my side. I was still me even though I was in this different country, I didn't magically transform into something much more inspiring or amazing, all the images I had of myself being adventuress and selfless traveling across the world to give myself to others were evaporated. I was still frumpy little me, yes I wanted to help and give to others, but I also still cared about myself in the ways that normal people do. I still wanted to have fun and to have things for myself, to feel pretty and liked and to be accepted. Perhaps it was finally time to accept that I am not Mother Teresa as much as I wish I could be so selfless, and I as I think of this I think it's humorous to me that many athletes perhaps will idealize people like Michael Jordon and their talent, while I idealize Mother Teresa and her complete selflessness. I truly am a non-profit nerd. Kampala is as bustling of a city as I've ever seen! I've been to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and those are busy cities, but Kampala is bustling! People are always on the move, and so many people too! Rushing around, cars, matatus, bodas all driving ridiculously close to each other, so close that you could pick each others' noses. Poor children follow you around with their hands outstretched saying "hello" and "sar" to any mzungu ("white person" in Swahili) who walks by and they just about break your heart as they wave at you, but you almost can't even look at them because then they'll follow you around for a couple of streets. Traveling through Kampala is exciting and bewildering all at once, and I know I've complained about the potholes in previous posts, but let me just tell you, the potholes are insane. I cannot believe the conditions of the roads in Uganda and am now more than happy to pay for taxes that go into our road maintenance! The fact that there are potholes the size of small cars that vehicles literally have to drive around is just ridiculous! Oh, and by the way, if you ever travel to Uganda, FYI, they pretty much ONLY take Visa. Yeah, I have no Visa credit cards to my name, only Master Card and American Express. And if you only have $20 dollar bills, they charge you $2-3 for ever $20 dollar bill just to convert it to shillings. Funny thing is that I had $50 and $100 dollar bills (which did not have a conversion fee) but I broke them just for the trip because I thought it wouldn't be a good idea to be carrying around big bills like that. So I had to rely on my fellow Americans who did have Visa cards to get money out for me and trade so I didn't have to pay the conversion fee. We met the Kampala participants right away on our first day, after dropping our stuff off in our rooms. I'll never forget the nervousness of meeting all of them, worrying whether they'd like me or not, how we would get along, what we'd talk about. I was very conscious of their culture and hoped I didn't unintentionally insult anybody because of my ignorance on some cultural nuance. But immediately as the Ugandans came into the dining hall and introduced themselves to me I felt their warmth and friendship. As I got to know everyone's very differing personalities I also learned some of my favorite nuances about their culture. How people say "sorr-ah" for just about anything bad that may happen to you whether or not it's their fault, it's so sweet, thoughtful and genuine. How whenever someone begins speaking in a big group setting, such as asking a question of one of our speakers, he or she starts with "Thank you very much honorable minister" before even thinking of uttering their question. The endless politeness and thoughtfulness of the people I've met in Uganda is inspiring and warmed my heart immensely and coming back to America, especially to such a cold and uninviting city such as Cincinnati (I will tell you for a fact Minnesota held much friendlier people) has been a harsh harsh jolt to my heart. My first day in Uganda was an exhausting and busy day that ended up feeling like at least two days rather than one. Near the end when we traveled as a group to the internet and I was able to chat on G-chat with my hubby I had realized that I'd been so busy that I hadn't been able to miss him yet, as funny as that sounds. Chatting with him made me feel that slight sting, but I was able to walk it off and breath in the dusty Uganda air and live in the moment, something I've struggled endlessly to do in America. Despite the very starchy, bland food, the rusty toilets without seats, the rock hard and squeaky beds, somehow I felt at home. I was rather shocked at how quickly I adjusted to the living conditions that I wasn't used to. I was surrounded by people who thought like I did and refused to live in the American suburban bubble and who chose to see the world's pain as their own pain. I was surrounded by a culture built on helping each other and full of warmth and love. I was more home than I'd ever been before because it was the home I'd always dreamed about. And from my very first day in Uganda, I knew it'd always be my second home, next to the one I was born into. The home that I'll always go back to and that has ingrained itself as a seed in my soul that will grow and grow until it is just as much apart of me as the home I was born in. A ring of gangsters who traded in the bodies of women they murdered, selling them as brides to keep dead bachelors happy in the afterlife, has been arrested in China. The arrests have exposed a trade that places a higher value on women when they are dead than when they are alive. Yang Dongyan, 35, was arrested on January 4 in Sha’anxi province as he played cards with his children. In his prison cell, Mr Yang showed little remorse for committing two murders. He told the Legal Daily: “I just wanted to make money. It’s a quick way to make money. I was arrested too soon otherwise I had planned to do this business a few more times.” The article continues with more creepy professional murdering of brides-to-be stories, but really, that should be enough to creep the hell out of you. I feel like this is straight out of that old TV show that used to scare the shit out of me when I was a youngster, Tales From the Crypt. Thanks to Mick Hartley for filling my dreams with hellish nightmares for the night. Bomb worries help book sales: After New Years Eve bomb blasts put Bangkok on edge, "Thailand's book market looks likely to grow by 10% this year, partly thanks to the new-found preference of many to stay at home rather than going out."Thanks to The Millions for this link... really, I think it's a really positive campaign for books. I mean, whatever gets people reading, right? Right?!?! I know, I'm sounding like a completely disorganized slacker here and I really do apologize and I promise that I will get at least one post up no later than this weekend! And it'll be a damn good post too, you'll see. Part of the problem is I really want to write well written, well thought out, well edited post on Uganda because I have so much to say and it's all so important to me that I keep putting it off to a time when I can really focus on it. As much as I'm able to blog at work, it's hard sometimes to really focus and concentrate, so I think I'll just need to suck it up and spend some time on it at home, as much as I hate hanging out on the computer at home since I sit in front of one all day long. Further I must apologize for being such a reading slacker. I had expected to get like a ton of reading done on my trip to Uganda. I mean there's the full day of travel to and back from Uganda and then I had thought that the travel to and from Gulu could count as reading time, as well as the fact that I always read before I got to bed. Well, as it happened, not only was I in and out of sleep on the flights, but also international flights apparently have personal TVs for everyone (which I did not know) and so rather than making myself more motion sick by reading I opted to watch movies and TV shows instead! It was quite wonderful, I'm not going to lie to you. And the trip to Gulu, well try reading when you're being jostled and bumped around every other second by the horrendous roads. I have motion sickness already and reading always makes that worse, but with those roads I would have been puking out of the little matatu window! Also, since I devotedly journaled every night and had so much to journal about, reading before I went to sleep just didn't happen. Exhaustion usually made even journaling a huge task. So yes, I did finally finish Crime and Punishment, I know, it took an embarrassingly long time, though in my defense I often put it down to read other books for specific purpose (as in the other book was being made into a movie, for a book club, etc.), but I have not been able to start another book yet, partly out of just the exhaustion and jet lag I've had since coming home. There are so many books I want to read right now that I think my head will explode, but of course I couldn't resist starting with my dear friend's upcoming debut release, The Cleaner by Brett Battles! I've been very excited to read it and I think going from a psychological thriller in Crime and Punishment to a international thriller is a great transition! Plus, I'm sooo all into international traveling right now, so I'm really pumped to read it. After that, I've been dying to read a couple of books and I've just ordered some highly recommended books on Uganda and Africa that I really want to devour. Sometimes I just wish I could eat books and absorb them that way, I'd get so much more read then! The boredom and monotony of my job just leaves my brain so unstimulated at the end of the day that by the time I get home it's just complete putty and all I want to do is vege in front of the TV, especially since I have so many episodes of The Office, 24 and Six Feet Under to catch up on. So under that paragraph of excuses, I do promise to get back on track with my reading and return to providing my book reviews. I didn't write a review for Crime and Punishment because I thought it was so well read and since I read it in pieces over such a long time, I didn't think I'd write a well rounded review, it'd probably have been heavily focused on the second half of the book! But if you just absolutely have to have a review just give me a ping in the comments and I'll relent. Overall I can say this, the book was intriguing, dark and just endlessly interesting. The characters were complicated and I felt like I was always learning something new about each character. At first it was a little difficult for me to get into the style of writing but once I did I really enjoyed it and moved through the book fairly easily when I got a chance to actually read it. For funsies I thought I'd throw out a couple of links for y'all, just since you've been so patient to read through the drudgery of my excuses. Books are finally cool!!! Well, sort of... do you guys remember when mint was the cool word for cool? Nobody seems to, but I totally do, and it was so mint. I swear, I really did read Crime and Punishment, but if I were to lie about reading a book, that'd have been a good one... so what books have you lied about reading? Honestly, I really tried to think about it and I really can't remember lying about reading a book. The closest I think I've ever come is pretending to have heard of a book when in fact I haven't if someone acts like I so totally should have heard about it. Still pretty lame of me, no doubt. Recently, I've been baffled by the recent reports that there's such a high demand for Chinese babies that they're actually running out and have therefore constructed even stricter restrictions for International Adoption. I first heard of this talking to a friend (I honestly can't remember who, otherwise I'd send her this article) who said that they're running out of Chinese babies. I didn't believe her for a second because I was very aware of the situation in China and the fact that baby girls are still loathed to the Chinese who'd rather have a boy as their only child rather than a girl. But I was baffled at the news that the Chinese government has increased the restrictions on adoptions and are granting fewer babies to International applicants. It is distressing news to someone who cares deeply about the baby girls in China and also to a prospective adopter. This New York Tims article (thanks for sending it my way, hubby!) touches on some of the possible reasons for China reining in foreign adoption: The issue of abandoned and institutionalized children remains a taboo subject in China, a problem the government does not even acknowledge exists. The impulse to hide it seems to stem partly from embarrassment and partly from fear of revealing the grave human rights abuses the one-child policy has produced; surely, watching a parade of well-off foreigners cart off thousands of babies would make the Chinese authorities understandably uncomfortable.If I know anything about Chinese culture it's that it is a very proud culture, so I can buy this reasoning. What I can't buy is that nobody's doing anything about a very obvious human rights violation. According the the Times: Just to give you an idea of the new stricter guidelines for international adopters: According to a February 2005 report in The Weekend Standard, a Chinese business newspaper, demographers in China found a ratio of 117 boys per 100 girls under the age of 5 in the 2000 census. Thanks to China’s one-child policy, put into effect in 1979 in order to curb population growth, and a strong cultural preference for male children, this gender gap could result in as many as 60 million “missing” girls from the population by the end of the decade, enough to alarm even Chinese officials. And what happened to these girls? According to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (a term that takes on a whole new meaning when referring to China), there are about seven million abortions in China per year, 70 percent of which are estimated to be of females. That adds up to around five million per year, or 50 million by the end of the decade; so where are the other 10 million girls? If even 10 percent end up in orphanages... well, you do the math. Yeah, a little crazy there. Also, no mental or physical illnesses and no disabled persons. So far, once I turn thirty, I'll still be eligible. But then the process right now takes between 16-24 months, nearly double what it used to take. You truly have to wonder if China's putting its image or the children first with these new guidelines. After all I know overweight and disabled people who'd make much better parents then some of those image obsessed people running around out there, so using that as a guideline seems extreme and unnecessary, if not prejudice. But history tells us that China has rarely put their baby girls first over anything, ever. And so one can only assume that the orphanages (which China Rarely lets foreigners visit, you need permission from the government to visit any orphanage in China) are still overcrowded with unwanted baby girls, perhaps not murdered by their parents, but slowly being murdered through malnutrition and disease by the China's pride. Under the new Chinese adoption guidelines, the international adoption celebrity Angelina Jolie could not adopt from China (she’s not married, and alas, she and Brad have more than two divorces between them, which is a no-no); nor could the actress Meg Ryan (again, not married). Another person who is not eligible is yours truly. My husband is over 50, so I would have to trade him in, marry again, wait the required five years (another new rule) before beginning the adoption process, and by that time I would be sneaking up on 50 myself. It is comforting to know that Madonna is still eligible, at least until she turns 50, gets fat (the new regulations call for a body mass index of less than 40), gets divorced or goes broke (anyone with a net worth of under $80,000 is excluded). After so much hope expressed by the people of Uganda, particularly in the North, this is disheartening and disappointing for all Ugandans and for the anyone who cares about the safety and well being of Northern Uganda. For me personally, I would be devastated to see war break out again in Northern Uganda where I've seen the faces of hope in person. I've never met people who have been through so much grief and trauma who can still smile, sing and rejoice in life as the Ugandans do. The spirit of Africa is a miracle for a country that's been so devastated so much over the years and are an inspiration to me. I've tried to start a thoughtful blog on my trip to Uganda many times and have faltered. Where to begin with an issue 20 years in the making and with an experience too profound for words? I finally decided to approach it in an organized systematic way that hopefully will not seem so overwhelming to me. I journaled nearly everyday while in Uganda and I'll follow my journal and blog about the more interesting points that I journaled about. I'll start tomorrow with Day 1: Arrival into the country and continue with my Uganda Series until I've exhausted my journal pages and made you all so knowledgeable about Uganda you'll feel as if you've been there. As I blog about Uganda, please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions on the subject. I'm deeply interested in an interactive discussion of all things Uganda. I've become quite obsessed, more so than before and anybody who knew me before probably already thought I was a nut about Uganda. Now that I've tasted the Pearl of Africa, my mouth yearns for the sweetness and my tongue flicks at the slightest whiff of anything Uganda. For more up-to-date news on the Juba Peace talks please visit Uganda-CAN. Also, a very provocative and controversial article, thanks to In An African Minute for the link. I'm curious to people's thoughts on this article. I'm excited to see what will happen, I really liked Tomlin with the Vikings and so I'm pretty stoked to see what he'll do with my Steelers. Of course now I have to worry about who will replace Tomlin with the Vikes, our running D was the one bright spot on our team last year so now I'm a little less excited about the Vikings prospects without Tomlin. Sigh, it's so hard loving two teams sometimes. Check out Deadspin's take on Tomlin as Steelers head coach... always an entertaining read! Mixed feelings have arisen for me since I am of course a Vikings and a Steelers fan and the Steelers have taken one of the best Defensive Coordinators we've had in quite some time (our D has sucked for a while now, basically) and our team will definitely be hurt by this loss. However, I'm totally stoked at the thought of seeing Tomlin, whom I'd watched and followed closely this last season with the Vikes, take the reigns of my other fave team, the Steelers. I'm not surprised by the pick, I really didn't see the Steelers going Offensively with their coaching pick (hello, look at their last two coaches/last thirty plus years of coaching) and they like going for the young up-and-comer. He must have really impressed them, which is good enough for me and I really hope he does well. My only concern is that Tomlin is more of a Cover-2 guy which really doesn't fit our 3-4 Defense right now, and we definitely don't have the budget to reorg our defense with the type of guys that can do Cover-2 and 4-3 D, so I'm hoping he's willing to adjust his experience to the 3-4 D and I'm really hoping LeBeau will stick around to make that transition easier. Plus, I just really freaking love the 3-4 and would be totally pissed if he changed that!!! Next year will be an exciting and interesting year, except that the Vikes' D will totally suck again. Sigh. FYI, Josh is the amazing individual who basically organized the whole Kimeeza II. You could say he's pretty awesome, but I wouldn't to his face, he might get a big head. :) That's Josh on the left (obviously) whipping out his Zoolander pose. The beautiful lady on the right is the wonderful Katie Spencer who was our group Mama on the trip! The long awaited toilet picture. By the way, that toilet does not flush. See that container in the bottom right corner? You are supposed to fill that with water to wash the waste down. FYI, most of the people did NOT do this. There's nothing like seeing and smelling other people's poo first thing in the morning. Yes, I have thighs of steel now. It was nice to get home, but it was odd to feel like I was in a luxury spa in my own home. I did have the deepest sleep I've had in a while and pretty much slept offand on all day. It'll take me a while to get used to living like this again and it makes me feel insanely spoiled and more determined to share my privileges with others by devoting myself to helping. It is in this spirit that I've taken on the position of American Ambassador of the Uganda Breakdance Project. I plan on working with the founder, Abramz, and doing some amazing things with his project including increasing awareness and raising funds. This guy is truly amazing, up until now he has been paying for the project mostly by himself with very little help. There will be a ton more info coming, I promise! You'll be flooded with info and ways you can contribute to this project so I hope you get involved in the efforts to build peace in Uganda. Just to give you a taste of what amazing things Abramz's project creates, please check this out: And just in case you weren't sure how amazing Abramz truly is and wanted some more evidence, check out his music video with his brother (he's also a rapper)... yup, no drugs or bitches and hoes rapped about here! I'm tired, grumpy and hungry. I'm going to eat some good ol' American pizza now from Papa Johns and then probably get diarrhea from it since I've been on a diet of basically rice and beens for two weeks now. Oh well, it'll be worth it! Tomorrow, onwards to Cincy! By the way, the internet in America is freaking AMAZING! You'd better appreciate it! And my dear angie, the culture shock has already started, I miss Uganda sooo much! What's funny is I thought I'd miss America like crazy and that after two weeks I'd be dying for home, but other than missing my hubby and family I really could have happily stayed on in Uganda and didn't miss America that much other than little things I could deal with. I already miss Uganda though and feel an ache in my heart that makes me just want to cry. So I know I have to go back! Watch out Uganda, you'll be getting a second dose of Mai very soon!!! Thanks to everyone for your wonderful and supportive comments! I also got to watch an American football game!! The only guy on our trip, Kris, is a huge Patriots fan and I'm just a huge football fan in general so we went on a mission to find the game and watch it. In the process we found two other Pats fans, had to change bars twice, ALL of us got propositioned by hookers (and yes, by ALL of us I do mean me too and there weren't any male hookers either), and we got back to our dorm at 5am to find the door locked. After an outdoor bathroom break Kris and I then had to scale a concrete block wall with barbed wire wrapped around it! Luckily I've learned to carry my headlamp with me everywhere I go because the lighting around Uganda at night time is not reliable. You'd think that me being as clumsy as I am that climbing a wall covered in barbed wire would result in multiple injuries, but that's the irony of me. I didn't get hurt at all during rafting though my roomie, Lynn, busted her chin open with her paddle and another girl in our group slipped on some rocks climbing into the boat and got scraped up. I also came from my wall scaling experience with out a scratch. And yet I randomly ran into barbed wire here for no good reason the first week I was here, and I just tripped and stubbed my toe again last night for the fiftieth time. This trip is definitely coming to a close and it's so sad. I feel like I'm just starting to get really close to everyone and now we have to leave. It's been a stressful last couple of days for the group including a odd shooting in Gulu the last night we were there (the rumor is a guy committed suicide) right in front of our hotel at the club we frequented. It was unnerving and scared some of the people. A mugging at night in Kampala of one of my fellow American participants in which she lost all her money and credit cards, luckily her passport was not with her. An eye swollen shut by a bug bite for another one of my friends and finally one of the girls getting malaria even though she was on anti-malaria pills. Everyone's okay and contrary to popular belief in America malaria is Not deadly unless a child or elderly person contracts it, it's kind of like influenza in America, it's just not pleasant to get it. It's just been stressful for everyone around here and the strain of the trip finally hit all in one day. Yes, other than the shooting all of that took place in one day, the day I went rafting and the same day my roomie busted her chin up rafting. It's been a fantastic trip and I'm very impressed with the GYPA program and the manner in which it conducted the trip. It was perfect and well thought out, though often the schedule was very fluid and not set (which drives me nuts since I'm obsessed with planning ahead) I really think most of what we did was interesting, useful and valid. The greatest thing about this trip is the Action Statement we created and the different relationships that were created. I've really gotten into Abramz project and am goint to help him, but GYPA picked many different community leaders here in Uganda as their Ugandan participants and other American participants are hooking up with other projects here in Uganda through them! It's so great to meet people and find a common interest and passion and create a partnership. Already so many people have planned out their return here and I have a list of different ways I can return and can't wait to plan out which will work out for me. That is the allure and sweetness of Uganda, once you've gotten a taste it's in your blood and you have to return. The fact that I plan on coming back is one of the only thing keeping me from grabbing the ground and not letting anyone pull me away! I have a full day of travel tomorrow (16 hours on the plane!) and will arrive back into Cincy early Wednesday morning. I'm excited to see my family and to eat some American food! Oh, and I get to watch the Championship games this weekend, only a world war could keep me from watching those games this weekend. I miss watching football so much! At least I didn't have to miss any of my teams' playoff games because neither of them made it. Love y'all, see you in America! P.S. I have a ton of awesome pictures that I'll upload once I get home, also the GYPA flickr site will have a ton more uploaded as the American participants get home. This is the Kampala GYPA group with the Youth Minister of Uganda. We were Extremely lucky to get many government officials speak to us while in Kampala... more details to come. Just thought I'd share the photo. I'm not in it because I'm taking it, so don't waste your time looking for my gorgeous face! :) We're in Gulu until Saturday morning and today it's been an exact week since we've been in Africa. I can't believe we've only been here for a week! i feel like I've been here for at least a month, it feels very comfortable and like a second home. I'm absolutely falling in love with Uganda and the people I've met here more and more every day. Though I do have to admit, I will have a love affair with my bathroom when I get home. That's the only thing that makes life in Africa a little bit tough for me, but I can take it, it's just not very pleasant at all. I'm trying to upload some more pictures, we'll see if it works! And on Sunday we're going to Jinja to go white water rafting on the source of the Nile!! Hell yeah, how many people can say they went rafting on the freaking Nile? Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm pretty cool. Again, I wanted to reitterate that I'll be providing more analytical blogs on what I'm actually discussing here with the Ugandan participants and discussing in more detail some of the activities we've partaken in and my feelings and thoughts on them. I just don't feel like I have adequate time to analyze and write something well written and thoughful right now since I'm always rushing on the computer to get all that I need to get done done on the slow slow computers here! Much love to all in the US and I hope if nothing else I've sparked an interest and concern in you for Northern Uganda and the 20 year invisible war here. I got to Gulu okay, the trip took a little over five hours and was quite bumpy. Boy, will I sure love the roads when I get home! I was so incredibly sad to leave our Kampala Ugandan participants for this week that I can't imagine how I'll feel when I come home. I miss my hubby and family and pets to death, but I really don't want to leave... I'm already plotting my return. This place feels like a second home and I know that I'm meant to work here because I just love it so much. I want to bring everyone I know here!! It truly is an amazing place. Anyways, attempting to upload some more pictures, but until then, Nkwagala! (I love you) I'm so sorry I've been slow to get up a good post, but the computers here have been ridiculously mind numbingly slow. I'm on a resort right now relaxing after a Very trying day yesterday and so it has nice (and expensive!) internet. However, I have to take advantage of it to upload all my photos so I can take more at Gulu since my disk is almost all full. We're leaving for Gulu tomorrow morning, so I definitely will not have internet access until Friday at the earliest (when we come back to Kampala). I've decided that I'm going to die here in some completely random manner. Nope, not by malaria or boda bodas (the taxi motorcycles here that are extremely dangerous) but by tripping and falling and splitting my head open. I've tripped, bumped into things, cut my finger on my razor, cut my arm on barbed wire. I'm a mess. I'm quite known for it actually now amongst my group! While I'm famous amongst my American group for my clumsiness, I'm actually quite famous to the Ugandan people. To the extent that I was interviewed!! Hehe, okay, so maybe famous is a stretch, and just so you know, the newspaper is government run and I definitely did not "demand" anything, but the quote is pretty accurate... other than the "Sir," I didn't say that and I'm not sure why it was added. I actually kind of panicked when he asked me that question because he was only supposed to be interviewing me about the Kimeeza and why I came and he kind of just sprung that on me. I was also interviewed (on camera, ugh) by a local news station that did that same thing, only they sprung a question about women and work on me. I truly felt like an idiot when answering because I was not at all prepared. Anyways, more annoying photo uploading news, I was happily uploading when my camera ran out of batteries. Grrrr, at least I got some uploaded. Oh well. Luckily the group will be having a joint Flickr account and so I'll link to that and you can see a lot of the pictures I might now be able to take! Beyond that, I'm getting used to the living conditions, surprisingly! I thought I'd be a lot more finicky than I am. I'm having so much fun and have absolutely fallen in love with many people here, including my roommate, Lynn, and especially one of the Ugandan leads of the trip, Colin and this AMAZING person, Abramz. You have to check out his Breakdance Project Page to see what a young (he's 24) person can do and what a difference one person can make. The people in general are amazing and I'll be posting many many posts following my trip about many different issues and thoughts that have presented themselves to me on this trip. I've learned a lot about the world and myself this trip. Alright, since I can't upload any more pictures and it's expensive, mine as well go and get some sun!! Much love to everyone in the states! I'm really enjoying every minute and they may have to drag me home... P.S. I'm even more depressed to go home because of the news of Cowher retiring. I seriously almost cried, it's surely an end of an era... I'm hurrying to get an entry in to let everyone know that I'm okay and got here safely. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR ALL THE COMMENTS, KEEP THEM COMING, I LOVE THEM!!!! I wish I could respond to all of them individually, but as the internet's super slow here and I have limited time on it, it's just not possible right now. More later, I promise, including pictures!!!!!!! I hate travelling by myself. I suck at it. First my original flight was cancelled and good ol' Delta decided to let me know BY EMAIL. No phone call. They rebooked me on a flight that would have arrived too late for me to make my flight to Uganda, so luckily on NEW YEAR'S EVE I happened to not be partying it up and checked my email. Then hubby and I sat on the phone with Delta on hold for about an hour before having to acquire an earlier flight to New York today, meaning less time with my hubby. So, being Miss Prepared, I go to the airport super early and not only have to wait one hour anyways, but my flight's delayed another hour. Get on the plane, arrive at the gi-normous JFK airport (at least to me) and get lost on my way to the baggage claim, get to it finally and wait for about an hour for my bag before realizing that it was pulled off and put to the side cuz it took me so darn long to get there, get my heavy ass bag and wander around lost some more sweating and in profuse amounts of pain, finally find the air train, get on the wrong one, finally get the right one, call my hotel for a shuttle, wait an hour, realize shuttle's not coming for me, call again, wait some more, finally get on the shuttle, get to hotel. More later, right now I'm going to rest my sore back and try to quiet the butterflies that are dancing in my stomach right now...
Here’s round 2 of the “WordPress as a CMS” user test. You can view round one here. As much as I love spending 2+ hours making notes on each user test video, I’m going to try a different approach with this one. As you watch this one, please make a note in the comments if you spot anything that could be fixed. I’ve found the “2:23 – Something happened here” format to work pretty well.
A Note from Neil The start of a new year is a reflective time for all of us. I start my reflection of 2005 with the gratitude and humility 2004 taught me. During that period I was focusing on developing a unique personal style putting my energy into making and thinking about inventive imagery. I looked for every opportunity to use lighting and composition to do something I had never done before. The results of that process were rewarded in 2005 with a top 5 ranking in the US by the WPJA. At the same time I was forcing my personal will into stretching my own conceptual boundaries of my craft – concepts of controlling and creating with light, shadow, perspective, and tonality – the people I served enlarged my spiritual boundaries as I stated last year “I wanted to make clear that God has given much more through you, than your dollars as I have received a new appreciation and understanding of love and art this year. I hope that I have been an equally effective conduit for God to give my talents away to you.” Well enough for review, my personal goal for 2005 was to expand my consistency. The artistic inspiration can fall at unpredictable times and while that’s nice for winning awards, its not necessarily a reflection of skill as much as an ability to capitalize on good luck. So my intuition told me that I needed to really look at what went into those flashes of creativity I had in 2004, and learn to repeat them as a skill instead of as an accident. I’m only finishing my third year of professional service for weddings so maybe its too lofty a goal to ask myself for consistency after such a short period. But as I write now I feel a tremendous satisfaction looking back over the mountain of work that I’ve completed in 2005. Possibly I’m deceiving myself, but I am satisfied knowing that I have not overlooked the good to make something great. Sounds funny, but it has been a tremendous challenge to face this year – boredom – that could have eaten away the quality of my work as I sought to continue to top my own pictures. What brought me back to that point, was you again. Times where I began to feel rote, where I was being distracted by the small things – you gave me the expressions of Love that can not help but snap you back into focus. Love, the miracle that we give to each other; that we go through all these rituals to express and to seal; that I have the privilege to have the invitation to help you develop. My reflection for 2005, has the same heart of the lesson learned in 2004 – learned more deeply. “The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer)” This year I’ve matured enough to realize how I should act to reinforce my reflections. I see better the Tao that has helped keep me in balance and I will seek to nurture that harmony through my business practices. “We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.(Talmud)” So this turn of my personal quest for photographic vision leads me to work to see you more clearly. I will draw upon my experience of over 100 weddings to help you express “How your Love is New” in photos and in person. I excitedly anticipate what you will teach me as my experience shows that it will be volumes.
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So to start the week, I wanted to share with you all a pretty, soft green look perfect for Spring! It's a COMPLETE full-face drugstore makeup tutorial. Yep, from foundation to brows to all the makeup products in between. It wasn't by any means a struggle to pull together all these products. They're truly things I love that collectively create an awesome look that you'd never guess was created by using products on the cheap. I've always loved drugstore products, but I'm becoming a total convert. ;) Hope you guys love it! Revlon Colorstay Foundation Covergirl Trueblend Pressed Powder Maybelline Bouncy Blush in Candy Coral Maybelline Vivids Lipstick in Pink Shock Revlon Smokey Shadow Stick in Torch Wet n' Wild Comfort Zone palette-greens Loreal Carbon Black Lineur Intense Loreal Telescopic Shocking Extensions Mascara Revlon Brow Fantasy in Dark Blonde
Section 19. Notwithstanding the provisions of any premium finance agreement to the contrary, any insured may pay it in full at any time before maturity of the final installment of the balance thereof, and in so paying such balance shall receive a refund credit thereon for such anticipation. Such refund credit shall be computed on a method which is at least as favorable to the insured as the actuarial method, so-called. If the prepayment is made other than on an installment due date, it shall be deemed to have been made on the first installment due date if the payment is before that date, and in any other case it shall be deemed to have been made on the next preceding or next succeeding installment due date, whichever is nearer to the date of prepayment. Where the amount of the credit for anticipation of payment is less than one dollar, no refund need be made. The details of application and the rules for partial prepayments shall be subject to the regulations issued under the provisions of section one hundred and sixty-two B of chapter one hundred and seventy-five.
Come to the 4th Annual Reel Stories Film Festival, a student-led event that seeks to unite the Pepperdine student body and the surrounding communities through a night of celebrating and appreciating the art of film. This year’s REELSTORIES will take place on Friday, January 25th, 2013. Join us at 6 p.m. at Joslyn Plaza at Pepperdine University for a premiere party, followed by a showcase of student-created films and award-winning feature-length films including 2013 Oscar nominated "Searching for Sugarman," Stacey Peralta's "Bones Brigade" and "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" by director, Alison Klayman. Get your tickets to see the films upon arrival. Invite friends and family. The non-Pepperdine community are welcome! Free food. Red carpets. Activities. VIP/Celebrity Guests. Films. Community. Fun. RSVP via Facebook! For further questions and press inquiries contact: firstname.lastname@example.org
In what appears to be the first strategic move of the 2012 campaign, incumbent candidate John Sibert on Monday proposed the city hire a consultant to analyze the . Opponents of the plan, including fellow council candidate , have devoted much of their anger toward Sibert when criticizing the council for not taking a stand against the state project. Sibert proposed the council spend up to $25,000 to hire "a well-recognized institution that has no dog in this fight," possibly from outside California, to review the project's environmental impact report as well as documents and additional information from proponents, opponents and others. The analysis from the consultant would be used to guide the council in taking an official position on the project. The other council members supported the proposal, although they could not do it formally since the issue was not on the agenda. The proposal is expected to be placed on the agenda for an upcoming meeting, at which the council could formalize the plan. "There has been so much heat and so little light around the whole lagoon project that I think the city does need to take a position on this and I think the city needs to take a well-considered position," Sibert said. He continued, "[The analysis] ought to be done quickly and it ought to be done thoroughly, because then we'll have information that we can make a decision based on, and it won't be based simply on emotion or misinformation. We owe Malibu a timely answer to this question because it has become such a big deal." Sibert said Jim Thorsen should select the consultant, and recommendations on who to choose should be accepted from anybody who has an opinion to offer. Sibert appeared to be reading from a pre-written speech when he made the proposal, but his comments could also be seen as part of a direct response to Lyon, who addressed the council about the lagoon project earlier in the meeting. He asked that the council vote to take a position. The council tried to take a position in April, but at the well-attended meeting, it deadlocked on various 2-2 votes (Mayor Laura Zahn Rosenthal was on a pre-planned vacation with her son). No council member voiced support for the project, but they had varying views on how to respond to the state about it, with one concern being that formally opposing the project could lead to there being no project at all to heal what they consider to be an unhealthy lagoon. Council member Pamela Conley Ulich was the only one who wanted to write an opposition letter to Gov. Jerry Brown, and did write one as an individual. She said on Monday that she was "grateful" Sibert proposed the idea for the consultant, but also took a shot regarding the timing. "It looks like everybody nine months later has come back to this issue—magically, and I'm glad we're here, but I hope it's not too little too late," Conley Ulich said. "Unfortunately, this project is going forward in June, and to hire somebody to do this now … hopefully it's enough time." Project opponents have focused most of their anger toward Sibert perhaps because he is on the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission, which is involved in the project, or because he was mayor during the April meeting when the plan was on the agenda. During the meeting, he got into . The opponents have said Sibert supports the project, but his public comments tell a different story. Malibu Patch has been unable to find any public statement made by Sibert in favor of this specific plan. He has criticized the opponents verbally and in interviews with various media for what he considers to be their spreading of misinformation, but those statements have not been paired with comments in favor of the state project. He has said something should be done to heal what he and many others consider to be an unhealthy body of water. "This is a big project that I am not comfortable with," Sibert said at the April council meeting. "But on the other hand, we've got to do something about this lagoon. And it is sick … so as flawed as it is, I think we need to support some version of this." City Manager Thorsen sent two letters to the California Coastal Commission that included statements in favor of the project (as well as criticisms) prior to the commission's unanimous decision to approve the plan in October 2010 (the documents are attached). The letters were sent with the support of the council. Called the Malibu Lagoon Restoration and Enhancement Plan, the project includes the replacement of nonnative vegetation with native vegetation and adjustments to slopes and channels in a 12-acre portion of the lagoon. Existing access bridges will be removed. Proponents, including all the major local environmental groups, say the project will improve oxygen circulation and the general health of the lagoon. Opponents, including at least two council candidates (Lyon and Missy Zeitsoff) say it will harm the lagoon and many species will die. They object to the use of bulldozers, the removal of bridges and other features. A San Francisco Superior Court judge rejected a lawsuit against the project in October. Environmental activist Marcia Hanscom, who heads two of the three nonprofits that filed the suit, told Malibu Patch an appeal is being considered. They are also seeking administrative remedies.
MASH UP is "Song made from bits of other songs" v. To take elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music and combine them to make a new song. n. A song comprised of elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music. 2. I'm in the middle of mashing-up songs by Tom Jones and Michael Jackson. (verb usage) 1. I'll play my mash-up of Tom Jones and Michael Jackson at the club tomorrow night. (noun usage)
Although I have made Raw Almond Milk from scratch many times before, throwing a tablespoon of store bought raw almond butter, a tablespoon of sweetener and a cup of water in my blender and pureeing the mix was just easier and faster for this busy Mama. Well, until recently, I didn’t know what kind of Almond Milk I was missing by not making my own Almond Butter first! I have one of my readers, Heinz, to thank! Recently, Heinz asked me how to make Raw Almond Butter. Frankly, I never had, so I researched and found an amazing post on it instead. I would like to thank the writer of A Bowl of Plenty because the photographs are amazing, as well as the instructions. Note: I would first soak the raw almonds overnight, drain, rinse and dehydrate them. Although I blended mine in my Vitamix, the process is basically the same as in a food processor. I think it just takes much less time. By the way, I also added a little extra virgin olive oil to my almond mix… I guess I was afraid my expensive Vitamix would die on me. And, as they say in the A Bowl of Plenty, the machine and the almonds do get hot if you don’t take a break. So, please do. The result is a wonderfully smooth and delicious raw almond butter. Like me, if you always seem to need Raw Almond Milk NOW instead of tomorrow, just throw a tablespoon of homemade raw homemade almond butter, a tablespoon of sweetener and a cup of water in the blender and puree away. As you see in the photo above, you’ll get the richest and creamiest Raw Almond Milk ever… and you don’t have to strain it either, which I used to do with store bought Almond Butter. So, A Bowl of Plenty, thanks for converting me to a DIY Almond Butter Mama! I used to buy it to make my life so much easier… but doing it yourself is worth it!

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