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Which new features do you want the most? I’d die for an iPhone/iPad app. I understand that a lot of people have iPhones… but I don’t, so iPad compatibility would be incredible. That and the ability to toggle “gong-fu” brewing style in the tasting note section. Yes please! Or, even simplier, a mobile version of the website would be ok at the beginning. Oh, I know youu can make mobile apps from web application, so a mobile website could be made into an app very easily so it would not be wasted. I apologize if any of this has been mentioned before, but I don’t feel up to reading a 31 page thread. Anyhow – It would be great if the results from text searches had the teas number rating listed as well as the number of reviews-and even better, those results sortable by rating. For example, when I type a search for “Lapsang Souchong”, I get 235 results with absolutely no inkling as to the Steepster score on any of them. I don’t want to have to click on 235 teas to find say, the top 10 or top 25 in the results. Another thing that would be nice is to make a members’ tea reviews searchable. Many members here have hundred of reviews and a searchable review function would be nicer than having to go through page after page of reviews looking to see if they have reviewed a particular tea (or going through dozens of reviews of that tea looking to see if that particular member has reviewed it). Not sure if these are the kinds of things that would slow the server down, but they would be nice. I almost forgot – A “reply with quote” feature would be amazing so that new replies to older thread comments could easily be found and read. For example, if you wanted to comment on something that someone said on page 15 of this thread, you could click “reply with quote” on their post and a quote of their post would appear in smaller type at the top of your post on the most recent page. I’m sure that I am not the only person who has given up trying to find the “new” post on multi-page threads. Yes – I totally agree on somehow linking a member’s reviews to their account so one can easily locate specific reviews by a certain person. In fact, that would be incredibly useful for locating my own reviews – sometimes, I know I have logged a tea and want to check on my awesome steeping parameters from the last time, and I have to click through pages of reviews of a popular tea in order to find it. (Is there already a shortcut for this??) Indeed, anyone who has several pages or more of reviews could benefit from their own reviews being searchable. I would really like to be able to sort the reviews of a particular tea by date, so, most recently posted first (I guess you’d have to go by the date on the last one if there are multiple tasting notes), and oldest last. Sometimes a new review can be more valuable than an old review that has lots of ‘likes’ (especially for the more ‘seasonal’ teas). I would love to be able to mark certain discussions as favorites. And being able to “like” discussion posts would be helpful also. Another thing that would be helpful is being able to make notes on our teas without having to share it. I might really like a tea but don’t want to spend 10 mins describing every flavor I taste. Just to be able to say, “yum my fav so far. Buy more!” and not worry about tea describing etiquettes would be grand. Thank you for listening! I don’t think you really have to worry about ‘tea describing etiquette’ :) Everyone has their own style of note-writing, and although many people (including me) tend to be quite verbose, at least in my opinion it’s perfectly acceptable to write ‘yum my fav so far. Buy more!’. As an example, TeaEqualsBliss often writes quick notes on her backlogs. I totally agree with Krystaleyn. Anny Oxidant & the Tea Bullie: you are free to post as much or as little as you want, in whatever format you want, and as frequently (or infrequently) as you want! I mean, I can only speak for myself, but I don’t think anyone is going to look down on you even if you just post, “Yum. Like.” I think there would be complications in marking discussions as favorites (or like-ing a post), but I can see a benefit to the ability to do that (almost like bookmarking a particular webpage) Does anyone know when an update will take place? If reviews could be sorted by steeping parameters-So many times I look up a tea and all I want to do is see how other people brewed the tea and I have to wade through all the reviews where people don’t bother to fill out the parameter info. Teas in common-If you click on a person’s profile, it could show you certain teas that you both have in the cupboard or have both reviewed. An optional list only of tea’s in your cupboard so that you can print it. Vendor Kudos/ratings, somewhere to leave feedback like we can for tea shops on shopping experience. It would be cool if we could attach an image to our tasting notes if we happened to snap a shot of the tea we are enjoying. I agree since I find myself doing this quite often. I think it’d be cool to see others teaware and where they like to drink tea most often also. I agree! I would love this. Plus some teas, like those from 52 teas, don’t have photos. Sometimes the look of the tea (leaf and in a cup) is what makes me want to check it out. Just one thing (trying not to offend anyone/vendors) is trying to limit vendors posting their “deals” or offerings in the discussion messages – like when someone asks about a certain tea or best place to get X tea and a bunch of vendors jump on the post. Not really a feature but I think it would make the site more useful. This might have been mentioned before, but it would be nice if the tea pages could include an “owned by” or “in these steepsters’ cupboards” function, so you could see who has a tea/how many people. It’d be a nice way to see the most-owned teas, as well as looking for swap partners for teas that aren’t super popular.
I received this tea as a sample, it must be a new tea to the Element Tea line because I couldn’t find it on their website. This is really quite yummy. Very authentic pumpkin pie flavor. Not just pumpkin or pumpkin spice, but, pumpkin pie. The buttery pastry tones hit my palate almost immediately. The pumpkin flavor is there as well as a light sprinkling of spices. This is not overwhelmingly spicy, the spice here is an accent to compliment the pumpkin pie. This would be perfect to serve with dessert on Thanksgiving! Its awesome!
I had too much sherbet at lunch so I had a bit of a tummyache. And I’m out of Moroccan Mint, which is generally a staple for me, and great for gut-rot. I decided to haul this one out, hoping it would do the trick. Anyway, the taste is mostly of chocolate, with a minty aftertaste. It’s delicious, but I would like it better if it were mintier. I don’t get the taste of the black tea in the background at all. I’ll probably use this up or give/trade some away but it won’t be a go-to like the Moroccan Mint is. For a refreshing, delicious tea that tastes like a sinful dessert, but doesn’t have all the calories, we’ve taken the decadent flavor of dark chocolate and delicately blended it with the intriguing, subtle mint sweetness of Spearmint. Perfect for an afternoon treat! Ingredients: black teas, spearmint leaves and chocolate flavor. Brew tea at 212º – steep for 3 minutes.
Fancy Tie Guan Yin Oolong Autumn Harvest 2012 Dry: Rich, clarified butter, orchid-floral Wet: Oceanic, vegetal, faintly floral, almond Leaf: Deeply luminescent green, tightly rolled knots that unfurl to huge full leaves. 4g easily fills the volume of an 10oz pot. Cup: Pale, lemony-golden liquor with a cloudy appearance, that clears up to a bright, glowing white grapefruit translucent hue by the 3 extraction. The cup is deeply fragrant and hints at the buttery and sweet flavors in the cup. Rich, explosive layers of resonate orchid, with a sweet oceanic depth and almost sea salt lingering. The resounded waves that bloom throughout the mouth are like the ocean against the shore, laying new sparkling moments that linger for many minutes after drinking. The splashing flavors are rich with a texture that is like holding flower petals in the mouth, only to find them vanish upon searching for them. The flavors continue, steep after steep, only becoming cleaner, more mineral, elusive and sparkling sweet. It seems to hold onto the temperature of the liquor and translate it into something that is nearing a texture, but also a physical sensation that resonates against the top of the palate and against the uvula and intensifies each whisper of incoming breath. Directions: used 4g in 10oz glass pot, decanted into glass tea ocean and steeped for 1-2 minutes using 190 degree water (with an initial ½ oz of cold water to pre-extract the leaves on the 1st steeping. 2nd steep same. 3rd steep 3minutes. 4th steep 4 minutes. 5th steep 5 mintues. Notes: I have been assembling over a dozen Tie Guan Yin oolongs of various grades, types, oxidation, locations, harvests and crafts to hold a free tea cupping for the local public in my Tea Around Town program. Its been a very interesting journey and quite educational, as I have draw together aged oolongs, double fired, spring/autumn harvests, China/Taiwan harvests, and variable oxidation and this particular tea floored me. I have always heard about the quality of these oolongs being defined by the characteristic of ‘orchid’ notes and the tendency for them to ‘blush’ in repeated ways beyond the first sip. I guess I have experienced some of them in the past, but this was truly an example of this all the way. Later steeping even drew out flavors of Asian pear and granny smith apple. All I can say is with such a bounty in a simple cup, why would anyone ever need to flavor these? Wow…..amazing. "Fancy Tie Guan Yin of Anxi" Autumn 2012 Oolong Tea of Fujian Fancy Grade Tie Guan Yin is made from a genuine varietal of Tie Guan Yin from Gande village in Anxi County of Fujian province. The tea is full of flavor and aroma, smooth but with a bitter-sweet aftertaste. The first infusion should be used to prepare the leaves and warm the drinking cups. This grade is also referred to as “Grade A” Tie Guan Yin.
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Audiobus, iPolysix, iMS20, ReBirth, LiveFX, NLog Pro and Sunvox jamming together Audiobus grows in importance, here’s a good example: “in a previous video i did the main arpeggio from bliss on the IMS20 for iPad, now with Audiobus i added iPolysix, ReBirth and some effects with Nlog and Livefx, all in the same iPad, that was fun!! …and expensive :S if you like it subscribe and share ”
KORG monomania [monotribe and KP3 plaing] And as most of you know I am not fully skilled in Japanese so I need to rely on that Google does its job right: Tetara tinkering, it had long been forgotten about time, Bassari off to later. Well maybe not connected;; ^ ^ Could not become a song; Some additional info on the KP3: The sampling side of the KP3 is easy to figure out. Four samples (or phrases, because the KP3 is really of the ‘phrase-sampler’ ilk, rather than a traditional sampler) can be stored. The sampling time is 16 beats at 74 bpm—suggesting that the maximum sample time is about 13.2 seconds for each pad at 16-bit, 48kHz stereo. You can sample at 74 bpm or higher at beat values of 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 per measure. Each sample can be a continuous loop or a one shot sample. Recording a sample is easily done by pressing “sampling” and then the pad you want to record to. It’s that easy. The only draw back for some will be the fact that it only has RCA-style jacks for all incoming and outgoing audio. Now the for best part: the effects! This section is incredibly intuitive because of the large centrally located X/Y touch pad. Effects are selected with a knob (there are 128 programs to choose from). The types of effects offered vary widely and can be used for a range of creative possibilities. From grain shifters, slicers, LFO modulation, echo, reverb, flanger, delay, filters to various combinations. Eight memory locations are provided above the touch pad to store your favorites, along with any pad motion recording, pad hold status and position, plus values for fx depth and fx release. Also, another attractive point of the KP3 is its ability to apply effects to the input of the unit, with or without samples playing back, effectively using it as a real-time effects processor. As this device begs to be used live, it does a great job at sampling the input or re-sampling the output on the fly. Another nice extra is the ability of the KP3 to provide a tap tempo and it has auto-BPM detection to beat-sync its tempo to the input (sometimes the sync is sloppy but you can help it by tapping the tap tempo button, indicating to the KP3 where the beat is). This tempo can be output in MIDI to clock other devices, as well as any button you push or activity on the touch pad can transmit/receive MIDI for the option to record and playback your performances in a sequencer.
While statistics are weak on startup success rates, the worst one I’ve seen suggests that 2 in 1000 venture backed startups will ever achieve $100-million or more in valuation. Another stat puts that number at 2% rather than 0.2%. Either way, the “hurdle” for successful, scalable startups is high, and it gets higher every day as customer acquisition challenges continue to increase. I’ve spent more than four decades founding, coaching, teaching and investing in startups, and nothing breaks my heart more than meeting a starry-eyed founder who says “we’re almost ready to show it to people.” The “it” is a physical or web product they’ve often been locked-down, pounding away at, for many weeks. In my view, this is the nastiest of all startup sins: failing to involve customers and their feedback from literally the first day of a startup’s life, keeping the most vital opinions silent—those of the eventual customers—for far longer than necessary. When I hear this comment, as I do far too often, I switch to pleading mode: “Please. Take a week. Get some feedback. Does anybody really care, or are they giving you polite nods and little more. This generally leads to the second biggest reason too many startups suck: they’re solving a non-problem. Does anybody care? Many Startup Owner’s Manual readers ask why Steve Blank and I are adamant that Customer Discovery happen in two separate, distinct phases: “problem” discovery and, later, “solution” discovery. There’s just no other way but, as Steve Blank has said for a decade, to “get out of the building” and talk to the only folks who matter—your customers. Building a solution to a problem of moderate or lukewarm interest to users is a long-term death sentence for startups, where founders will almost certainly commit to 20,000 hours of their lives(or 5 years of 80-hour workweeks) in order to “beat the odds” and deliver a breakout success: a sustainable, scalable, profitable business. Why, then, are so many founders so reluctant to invest even 500 or 1,000 hours upfront to be sure that, when they’re done, the business they’re building will face genuine, substantial demand or enthusiasm. Without passionate customers, even the most passionate entrepreneur will flounder at best. Dropbox is a great example. It scaled like lightning by solving an urgent, painful problem for millions of consumers. The product is so good, helpful, and easy to use that it literally almost does its own marketing organically through the product’s viral nature, just as Hotmail and Gmail have done since inception. What’s the honest trajectory? There can only be one Mark Zuckerberg, and at last look he’s young and healthy. Can every startup skyrocket like Facebook or Square or Google? It’s downright impossible. The solution: understand your startup’s “honest trajectory” and align objectives of the founding team and—importantly—its investors to define and agree about what “success” looks like. Thousands of entrepreneurs would be a lot happier if their focus was a solid, growable, defensible niche business that might never go public or be worth $100-million. There’s a ton of money to be made “in the middle,” a broad swath between struggling or gasping for cash and ringing the bell at the NASDAQ. Find the right trajectory for your business and focus not only on reaching it, but on assuring that the result is a sustainable, repeatable profit engine that can perform and grow healthily over time. Use Customer Development to identify and refine the potential profitable niche and stay in close contact with customers as you build, to be sure you’re building something they’ll want to have…and keep. Stand Out in the Crowd: If you’re solving an important problem, make sure your solution stands out in the crowd. Hundreds of entrepreneurs I’ve met never spent an entire day Googling their industry, other ways to solve “their” problem, and few have spent time “playing consumer,” trying to find “their” own product, or one like it, and creating a “market map” that assesses all the competitive solutions, their strengths/weaknesses, and where the new product fits clearly and distinctly in its competitive environment. If you can’t figure this out on your own, and relate it to customers succinctly, it’s a certainty that your customers never will. Going Forward is NOT About Standing Still: Another of my high-frequency “sad” moments happens when visiting with a team that is consistently “flatlining,” or delivering minimal or trivial user growth week after week or worse. Clearly, something’s horribly wrong, and everyone just keeps showing up, doing their jobs, without attacking the core problem that’s almost always a lack of palpable customer enthusiasm. What’s the point? What are they waiting for? It’s time to bring the leadership team into a room, dissect each key element of the business model, and identify pivots that are worth exploring smartly—where else—with customers. Going Forward Is Often About Going Backward First: Entrepreneurs pride themselves in their problem-solving abilities, tenacity, and willingness to run through brick walls to make things “go.” More often than not, the DNA strand that makes entrepreneurs great is the one that’s their undoing when confronted with “flatlining” user adoption, growth, referrals, or frequency. These entrepreneurs need to switch smartly out of “do” mode and return to the earliest “discovery” steps to find a distinctive, exciting solution to a seriously painful customer need or problem. It’s the only way to make a startup not suck.
It’s interesting to see those who don’t realize that most of Wisconsin is actually rural (that is, those who live in greater Madison or Milwaukee) to observe those who made America’s Dairyland America’s Dairyland. Isthmus, of the People’s Republic of Madison, reports the observations of a UW professor: At a forum last week hosted by the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, political science professor Katherine Cramer Walsh made a stark observation, culled from five years of conversations with residents around Wisconsin. “In most communities,” she said, “the public workers are the ones who are rich.” Not “comfortable” or “middle-class,” but rich. Walsh’s comments came as she offered suggestions for what people on either side of the political divide need to know about the other in order to start mending fences. For Barrett supporters, she said, “It’s useful to hear that, especially in smaller communities, public employees are the only ones making decent wages and getting insurance and benefits,” she said. For these residents, she added, “it’s a question of public employees versus private employees, not rich versus poor.” Walsh claims to be a Wisconsin native and the daughter of two teachers. Her bio doesn’t say where in Wisconsin she grew up. Isthmus recounts the tale of Walsh’s visit to northwest Wisconsin in 2008: She says that a group of loggers, most of whom were self-employed, believed that while schoolteachers may work hard during the year, they have cushy positions. Among the perks: great benefits, health care, summers off and an annual salary of about $50,000 a year. “Nobody in this town makes anywhere near $50,000,” says Walsh, paraphrasing comments she heard. “At the lumber mill, they’re making $20,000 and losing their fingers!” Walsh says when she probes further, asking why people see a public employee/private employee divide and not a rich/poor divide, she gets stares of disbelief. It seems to come down to what is tangible and what can be controlled. Private-sector workers, many of whom are struggling, perceive that a large portion of their taxes are going to pay for the salaries of public workers. A cut to public-employee wages and benefits would, at least in theory, mean lower taxes. But these same people don’t see themselves as having any control over the salaries and benefit packages of CEOs in the private sector, says Walsh. Moreover, they don’t really see anything wrong with top executives making big bucks. “There’s very little blame on the private market,” says Walsh. “It always comes back to government.” Well … a large portion of the taxes of private sector workers are going toward public employee salaries. The biggest part of any unit of government’s budget outside state government is employee compensation. For state government, it’s second largest after shared revenue. And of course you know what funds government employee salaries. Rural people learned well that the phrase “we’re from the government, and we’re here to help you” is a threat, not a greeting. The phrase “Damn Near Russia” as an alternative name for the Department of Natural Resources did not come from Madison. Walsh helpfully debunks a claim of an ignorant Democratic legislator (but I repeat myself): State Rep. Terese Berceau (D-Madison) says that Republicans have cultivated this “politics of resentment.” She says that when she grew up in Green Bay in the 1960s, things were not always easy, but “we didn’t feel that the next-door neighbor was the enemy — that somebody had a job and we should hate them for it.” … Walsh says the current GOP leadership in the state might have seized on simmering resentment about public workers, but they did not create it. “The interesting thing to me, being here in Madison and watching events unfold, is knowing that a lot of the sentiments Gov. Walker and the Republicans tapped into were not manufactured, but were out there well before the governor [took office].” By the way, if you’re wondering about Walsh’s advice to Walker supporters, it was this: “It would be helpful for them to sit down with public employees — to hear that they are concerned about the future, the financial well-being of their community, and that they also work hard.” That last sentence is sort of a non sequitur. Walsh’s first two points about concern for the future and “the financial well-being of their community” is belied by the flood of government-employee retirements in the past year. (No private-sector employee jumped into retirement in their 50s over the cost of their benefits.) I never claimed government employees, particularly teachers, don’t work hard. Conservatives do not further their cause by harping about teachers’ summer vacations; looking at the number of hours a teacher works over the entire year is more to the point. But private-sector workers also work hard, and for less pay and benefits. Small business owners work longer hours than their employees, pay 100 percent of their benefits, and have their entire financial fortunes tied up in their businesses. And you would have to look hard during Recallarama to find anyone with a title at the Wisconsin Education Association Council or AFSCME, or anyone with a D after their name, to acknowledge those facts. (For that matter, I wonder how many Ds from Madison or Milwaukee have ever milked a cow or shoveled manure … other than what comes out their caucus, that is.)
A fresh, snazzy intellectual property has been shown through a teaser video that’s made its way to Youtube. No gameplay is shown, but we do know that the project is titled Murdered: Soul Suspect. Youtube user MikeRJena just uploaded the file that he “found through the arg,” so it’s safe to say that major developer/publisher Square Enix wasn’t quite ready to show off its new title. But, it’s out there, and it looks to be a detective-themed game where instead of solving a handful of murders involving absolute strangers, you’ll be asked to solve your own murder. “The hardest murder to solve is your own” is the tagline. Take a look at some early footage. PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC are all mentioned, but it’s likely we’ll also see this on next-generation consoles. What do you think about this new video? Are you happy that IP are starting to pop up? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below!
Below are the stimulus contracts, grants, and loans in this city. You can click on an award to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the award and vote on whether you are satisfied with it or not. For a more local view, you can drill down to awards in a particular city. Just choose a city from the following list. The total of cost of all the projects submitted by Goldendale is $4,917,196.00 \|Grant\|\|SR 14/Cliffs Rd to Chamberlain/Goodnoe Rd - Chip Seal\|\|$509,307\|\|Goldendale\|\|WA\|\|2\|\|0\| \|Grant\|\|South Columbus (MP 0.77 to 3.16)\|\|$521,656\|\|Goldendale\|\|WA\|\|2\|\|0\| \|Grant\|\|US 97/Centerville Rd to Bickelton Rd & Satus Pass\|\|$3,536,233\|\|Goldendale\|\|WA\|\|12\|\|0\| \|Grant\|\|Bickleton Hwy (MP 6.64 to 8.22)\|\|$350,000\|\|Goldendale\|\|WA\|\|2\|\|0\|
Total Received: $321,051.38 (sub-recipient) - Visit on the Web Below you will find all the contracts, grants, and loans received by Chandler Preparatory Academy as of October 30, 2009. You can sort by the different table columns. Click on an item for more information and to comment and vote on the item. \|Grant\|\|IDEA Grants to States Part B Sec 611 Recovery Act\|\|$27,121\|\|Phoenix\|\|AZ\|\|N/A\|\|0\| \|Grant\|\|State Fiscal Stabilization Fund - Education Grants, Recovery Funds\|\|$293,931\|\|Phoenix\|\|AZ\|\|N/A\|\|-5\|
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ST. LOUIS -- On consecutive pitches in the second inning Friday, Brewers third baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. made one of the best defensive plays of the series and one of the worst. The first, a diving grab that robbed Nick Punto of a hit, saved at least one run from scoring. The second, an error on a hard-hit grounder by Cardinals lefty Jaime Garcia that went under his glove and through his legs, cost Milwaukee a pair of runs in a 7-1 loss in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series. "You want me to be completely honest with you? I really didn't see both balls that well," Hairston said. "Even when I caught it, I was a little surprised. ... It may have caught me a little bit. I saw the one Garcia hit better than the one I caught; it just hit the lip [of the grass]. There's nothing you can do. That's baseball, man." As a third-generation Major Leaguer with his grandfather Sam, father Jerry Sr., uncle Johnny and brother Scott all having played in the big leagues, Hairston learned at a young age that sometimes the ball catches you. He also learned that the game of baseball certainly is not always fair. "First of all, life's not fair. I mean, goodness," Hairston said. "All you can do is prepare yourself and put yourself in position to be ready. I was ready, I was in position -- it just didn't happen. It's tough." Hairston has started every game of the postseason for the Brewers at third base, and he's performed better than anyone could have expected. With both his offense and defense, he has made manager Ron Roenicke's decision to start him over Casey McGehee look brilliant. In nine of 10 postseason games, Hairston has hit safely. He is batting .371 (13-for-35) with five doubles, four RBIs and six runs scored. But in the biggest game yet of the NLCS, it was Hairston who seemingly started the trend of poor Brewers defense. His error was the first of four on the night for Milwaukee, the most in an LCS game since the Braves had as many in Game 4 of the 2001 NLCS. "There was nothing I could've done any different," Hairston said. "He hits a rocket, and it hits the lip and just stays down. "It's just one of those things where, sometimes at the hot corner at third base, you're kind of at the mercy when a guy hits a bullet. Once it hit the lip, it just stayed down. "If it doesn't hit the lip, it comes right up to me and I play it well. But it did and ... five hole." Adding insult to injury, Hairston got in the way of Yadier Molina as the Cards' catcher approached third base, drawing an obstruction call from third-base umpire Tim Timmons. The call allowed Molina to advance freely to home to make the score 3-0 Cardinals, though Brewers starter Zack Greinke still made an attempt to tag the runner as he cut off the throw home. "It happened so fast. I was shocked the ball just stayed down," Hairston said. "And then Yadi, I guess, tried to get by me. But he would've scored anyway. It's not even a big deal." Said Molina of Timmons' obstruction call: "He caught it. That's good." While it was a play that certainly seemed to shift the momentum of Game 5, Hairston was not worried about the error. He remained positive after the loss, focusing on what he and Milwaukee needs to do going forward in Game 6. As for the error, he quoted a Hall of Famer and former teammate, who also happened to be in attendance Friday night at Busch Stadium. "It's not the first error I've made. Hopefully, it won't be my last," Hairston said. "That's just something Cal Ripken used to say. Because if you play a long time, things are going to happen in this game. "Third base is not easy. I always say third base is the toughest position I've ever played, by far. You have a split-second to react, and the ball didn't bounce my way." Jordan Schelling is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
a forum for talking about Disc Golf in St. Louis and Beyond Did any RCF members homes receive damage from the Tornado that hit in the airport area last night? Any damage to the courses? I know there are a lot of people in the northern st. louis area without power right now, probably can't access the net either, but I am curious as to the well being of the disc golf community in "the lou". - Bogey Poster - Posts: 37 - Joined: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:09 pm nothing in my neck of the woods (sioux and white birch), but i'm also curious whats left of the land where bridgeton will go in after the twister hit so nearby at the airport... Are YOU the d-bag who swiped all four of the putters I left at White Birch? - Ace Poster - Posts: 610 - Joined: Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:21 am - Location: Florissant This may also serve as a good opportunity to help restore our relationship with the City of Bridgeton. If we can help them clean up the storm damage, I imagine that we would come out looking pretty good. Just a thought... Probably not necessary, but it certainly wouldn't hurt either. - Ace Poster - Posts: 1022 - Joined: Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:57 am Return to General DG Talk Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest
The statement confirms Patterson Mayor Rodney Grogan’s announcement at this month’s City Council meeting that the rating has improved. Donelon commended fire-fighters and local officials in Patterson for the improvement of their fire protection grading from Class 5 to Class 4. This improvement will bring about insurance rate reductions for many policy-holders. “Your efforts to make your property safer have brought about the lowering of your fire protection grading, which results in lower insurance rates on your homes and other property,” Donelon said. For example, fire insurance for a home valued at $150,000 was costing residents in Patterson about $1,561 a year. That cost is likely to drop to about $1,460 under the new grading, saving homeowners about $101 in annual premiums. “The amount of the premium rate reduction will vary, depending on the value of the property, the fire district where the property is located and the rate schedule of the company insuring the property,” said Donelon. Fire protection grading is promulgated by the Property Insurance Association of Louisiana (PIAL) and approved by the Louisiana Insurance Commissioner. All fire districts are graded on a scale of 1 to 10 by PIAL, with 1 being the best. Rankings may change any time PIAL resurveys a district, or they may remain the same. An upgrade (such as Class 6 to Class 4) will probably mean a drop in property insurance rates. PIAL conducts surveys of fire district’s fire protection services before issuing a grading. Factors that affect an area’s grading include the number and type of training of firefighters, the number of fire stations and fire trucks, and the availability of water. If PIAL surveys a fire district and finds it is offering fewer services than before, they may “retrograde” the class, from a 4 to a 6, for example. When this happens, property insurance rates will probably go up. Policyholders in the affected area should contact their insurance producer if the expected reduction in fire insurance premiums is not reflected in their next renewal notice.
Announcements (November 19, 2006) 1. Once again, in order to focus on Parish Stewardship, there is no two-bit collection this Sunday. Our Parish Stewardship Annual Renewal is coming to a close. Thank you to all who have turned in the commitment cards for Time and Treasure. If you havenít yet returned your commitment card, we ask that you prayerfully consider how you might be able to give back to God from the blessings he has given to you. We will be mailing out another Commitment Card this week to those who have not yet responded. Please bring your Commitment Card to Mass next weekend or drop it by the Parish Office. 2. Our parish school is promoting some community building and fund raising activities, including a Christmas Dance for adults on December 2. All those over 21 years of age are invited to attend. 3. Home Groups are forming in our parish. Please see the announcement in the bulletin for how you can participate. 4. Next Sunday after the 11 a.m. Mass we will have a Farewell Party for Frank and Pat Waite. They have been very involved in our parish, for example, in directing our childrenís choir. Plan on attending the party in their honor in the new Tice Hall. 5. At the entrances of the church you will find forms to order Christmas trees. You purchase will aid our school and parish. Also you will find Sunday Missals on sale for five dollars. You may pick up a Missal and place the five dollars in a strong box or in the regular collection. 6. This Thursday we will have a special Thanksgiving Day Mass at 9 a.m. You are invited to bring non-perishable food for our parish St. Vincent de Paul. Also we invite you to bring an item of food from your Thanksgiving table, for example, a loaf of bread or a pie. These items of food will be blessed at the conclusion of Mass for you to take home for your Thanksgiving meal. The Mass will be principally in English with some explanations in Spanish. 7. Please take home a bulletin for more information on the Thanksgiving Day Mass, as well as other news about our school and parish.
Well, today I was kicking myself over a post I wanted to do this weekend but didn't. I had wanted to post about the presumably bearish SEC filing from the managers of UNG on Friday afternoon. The news that came out was that UNG is going to start issuing shares again, in other words go back to being an open ended fund (note that a "closed end" fund is not a shut down fund). This was supposedly the news that the bears had been praying for because it meant that UNG's "huge" premium would go away and the UNG stock price would crash. Actually, that's not completely true, the news the bears had really hoped for was that UNG would be shut down like DXO last week. But seriously, no one expected UNG to be shut down, that was just the ramblings of idiots and thieves on message boards which had been mixed in with the usual crap articles coming out of Jim Cramer's junk website thestreet.com. No, this wasn't ever a real possibility but the street wanted you and I and anyone holding UNG or anyone dumb enough to short it to think so. No, UNG was not closed down, rather they will start issuing shares again to expand the fund in response to investor demand. While the fund was closed, pending CFTC and SEC comforts, investor demand for natural gas did not go away, it in fact increased causing the ETF to outperform the NAV (net asset value (natural gas futures and swaps)). This led to a massive premium, unheard of in ETFs, of nearly 20%. Oh the bears jumped all over this, they screamed that longs would loose their ass when UNG started issuing shares again. The message boards were, of course, a zoo. Bears were screaming in all caps that "idiot bagholder longs" had low IQs and what not for buying UNG with a premium. Then on Friday UNG announced that they would start issuing shares again and UNG cratered 6% in the after hours. What a joke the headlines were recently like this weekend one: "Dion: Investor Alert -- UNG Shares to Slide" where the author says foolishly (in hindsight) that "in a filing Friday, managers of the United States Natural Gas ETF(UNG Quote) announced that the fund would resume the creation of new shares, a move that could send the fund tumbling more than 16%." Oh really, the market is that stoopid? No, the UNG NAV increased 14.8%, while the shares increased 2.5%, actually. Here is a six month continuous natural gas chart:Today the front month natural gas contracts that you own when you buy UNG surged 14%. Why? Well, there was a bullish report about natural gas by Goldman Sachs (and we know they run the show), but it doesn't take a genius to say, oh, hey, natural gas is cheap, it might go up. I mean, I've been saying that for weeks! And I ain't no genius. No, I think natural gas went up so much because of the UNG announcement. UNG is clearly one of the biggest natural gas players in the market now and they told the market, hey, we are going to increase our positions going forward to meet huge and increasing investor demand. If that isn't bullish for natural gas, I don't know what is. Currently there are about 400M shares outstanding but UNG has approval from the SEC to expand that by up to 1 billion shares. They could expand their natural gas futures holdings massively if demand for UNG so merited it assuming the CFTC was cool with it. Clearly the CFTC must have given UNG the green light based on Friday's announcement. So what happened to that big premium that the bears have been screaming about? It pretty much disappeared in a single day. Here is the UNG NAV (net asset value) compared to the UNG share price over the past week. Premium is gone (pretty much). I'd note that the premium can not go negative because redemptions would happen first(fund would completely evaporate before UNG fell below NAV)). Now it certainly looks like we are back to the good old open ended natural gas ETF that we want, one that is targeted to move with front month natty. So UNG can't under perform natural gas (by more than a few % annually), but of course, its now unlikely to outperform natural gas also. So at this point we can expect that UNG will closely track natural gas and looking at natural gas (see top chart) I now see an obvious and solid long term bottom. I'll repeat that, natural gas has bottomed. Personally, I don't think natural gas will ever be cheaper in history than it was a week ago when the $2.40 low was made. I'm tempted to not even show the UNG chart because I'm so bullish on their holdings, but here it is: The UNG chart doesn't look as great but that's because of the creation of and then dissolution of the premium (UNG was up only 2.5% today despite the surge in their holdings). This UNG chart does show capitulation, it shows bullish signals on the stochastics and almost on the CCI. It also shows a wedge that is about to confirm a failed breakdown reversal. I don't really see any other scenario possible besides a massive short squeeze to begin the next bull market in natural gas. Its too early, of course, to call this a bull market. But I bet that by the end of Fall I'll be posting about the new natural gas bull market that began here right now. There are issues, and always will be with investing in ETF's like UNG that roll through commodity futures, but the fact is its the simplest and most accessible method for profiting on the insane gains coming for this commodity. I think another great way to profit from the coming bull market in natural gas will be solar energy, but that's for another day, and another post. For now, this is a day for natural gas bulls. Hold them GAZ or UNGs! Disclosure: I still own UNG calls. More infon about UNG here. More infon about UNG here.
2012 Workshop registration packet (Printable PDF) Last year David started a new addition to the photography workshops called Workshop Plus. This is a course held the day before the workshop begins. You must arrive one day early in order to take this class. This course starts at 9:00 a.m. , ends at 4:00 pm and lunch is served around noon. This is a beginner’s course to teach you how to use Lightroom. Taylor Stoecklein will teach you how to set up the program, import photos as well as explain all the basics of Lightroom. This is a fantastic course to get you familiar with your computer, Lightroom and your camera. This course will really prepare for the next two day of photography. Dave will be spending a great deal of time with you and the other students taking photos and processing them into Lightroom. This is the perfect jumpstart to your action packed weekend with Dave. If you have the time we highly suggest you come a day early and take this course. Please email or call Sunny Mills @ (208) 726-5191 ext 15 or firstname.lastname@example.org to schedule today. This course is a separate sign up from the workshop and is $550.00. Adobe offers a free 30 trial for Lightroom and the link is provided below.
Due to the growth of gang membership nationally and as a preventative measure, Stop Albuquerque Gangs Task Force, has created this website to educate the public about criminal gangs and to provide a way for residents to report tips to thwart the potential threat. This community policing initiative has been designed to help keep our neighborhoods and families safe from gangs and the related violence they bring. Read more>> Gangs are morphing, multiplying, migrating and entrenching themselves in our inner cities, suburbs and rural communities. They are selling drugs to our kids, shooting up our neighborhoods, invading our homes, robbing our banks and stores, stealing our identities, our money, and instilling fear and violence everywhere they go. Read more>> Gang-related crimes typically fall within the jurisdiction of state and local law enforcement. In response to the growth in gang membership nationally, several Albuquerque based federal, state, and local agencies have joined forces and created the Stop Albuquerque Gangs Task Force. To disrupt and dismantle the most significant criminal gangs in Albuquerque and the surrounding area. "Criminal street gang" is defined as three or more persons having a common identifying sign or symbol or an identifiable leadership who continuously or regularly associate in the commission of criminal activities. Read more >> These fugitives should be considered armed and dangerous. Never try to apprehend a fugitive yourself. Contact law enforcement for assistance. The act of engaging in criminal activity as a structured group is referred to in the United States as racketeering. Once a gang shifts from turf wars and organizes illegal activities with a money focus they have crossed the line and can be classified as an Organized Criminal Enterprise. There are some facts you need to consider before you join. Read more >> Disclaimer: Images and symbols displayed in tattoos on this website may not be gang affiliated and in fact may represent legitimate entities such as sport teams and ethnic groups. It's time to learn about gangs and how to recognize them Most people don't want to admit that gangs and violence exist in our home towns and sometime in our own families. If we don't educate ourselves you on what's going on we can't help our sons, daughters and friends. Talking about the problem is the first step to fixing it. If not, we know one group that will listen to your children - gang members. Read more >> Join Our Neighborhood Gang Watch Click here to see the status of tips submitted over the last 90 days. Report - Prevent - Solve - Protect Stop Albuquerque Gangs News on
With an old-school idea and a few modern twists, most of Houston's "Top Ten Most Wanted Gang Fugitives" have been captured within the past 100 days. With their faces pushed through cyberspace and plastered on donated roadside billboards boards, the public was called on to anonymously go to their computers, smartphones or tablets to share online tips on the gangsters' whereabouts. And apparently they did. Six gangsters were nabbed in the Houston area, including reputed robbers and home invaders. An accused drug trafficker was apprehended in Mexico. It is social networking at its finest," said Larry Karson, a retired Customs Service agent who is a criminal justice lecturer at the University of Houston -Downtown. "It is simply an extension from John Walsh's 'America's Most Wanted,' a continuation of it in the 21st century." Among the highest profile fugitives to be captured is Raul Madrigal, affiliated with the Houstone Tango Blast, who is accused of leading a cocaine-trafficking organization. He was arrested in Mexico in May and has not yet been sent back to the United States. As Madrigal roamed Mexico, presumably out of the reach of American authorities, pictures were posted on a MySpace page that showed him on the beach, soaking in a giant bathtub of bubbles and hanging out in nightclubs. U.S. authorities confiscated an array of his expensive toys, including such luxury cars as a Bentley, Maserati, Hummer and BMW. Houston Police Capt. Dale Brown, in charge of the Gang Division, said there are 10,000 documented gang members in Houston and the surrounding counties, and more than 200 gangs. "There is a gang presence in basically every part of our city and surrounding counties," he said. "There is no such thing as, gang members are only hanging out in the inner city. For years now they have spread out into the suburbs and the rural regions." The public now has at their fingertips the wanted posters of Houston's most sought gangsters on the law-enforcement website, stophoustongangs.org. They can, and have, left real-time tips leading police or federal agents right to fugitives. Authorities in turn post status reports to let tipsters know what happened, including whether an arrest has been made or more help is needed. As soon as one "Top Ten" fugitive is captured, another moves onto the list. "When your picture is put up, and you are aware of it, it means you have to go underground," said Karson, of the University of Houston-Downtown. "Depending on the level of the criminal, it might be from someone moving out of the neighborhood or going on the road and living in campsites and hoping not to get spotted." Since mid-April, authorities at HPD, the FBI, and other agencies behind the website have singled out one member of "Top Ten" for extreme online and billboard attention. Clear Channel Outdoor has donated spots on several billboards. Since the the Top 10 program was launched, visitors to the website, which includes a wealth of information on gangs, have soared, leaving 430 tips on gang activity in a recent 90-day period, authorities said. Brown, the HPD captain, said people who previously have been hesitant to offer information on gang members due to fears of retaliation should find more comfort in the website's anonymity. "The public, the citizenry have the information we need to solve crimes, to identify the bad guys, to help locate and arrest them," he said. "Somebody out there knows who these people are."
wow...and let's all be honest. It's so easy to find someone's info on the net. =( Why didn't he just take all the stuff himself? I personally think it's the person who got evicted from the house and they did that for revenge. =\ Actually that's quite obvious, dont wanna sound like some smart ass or something. ^'cos someone stole it. Those people who even looted the place didn't even think twice. wouldn't it be suspicious if somebody said that they can take anything they want out of their place? oh well thats life. and on a completely different note. I'm currently dealing with the police because of some dodgy guest who's currently staying here. ugh my peaceful night is ruin. stupid stupid guest >:( (waiting for them to come down, they're currently interviewing everyone in the room)
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Bought this lil guy for my daughter and she loves it!! I'm gonna have to get one for me now! Bought this for the NSD Week-Long Challenge this year and had a blast filling up the pages! Some were so random and funny, I kept them as they were! (See the llama page!) My only drawback, and I think this was just the book I happened to get, was that the pages didn't turn very well. They kept getting stuck in the rings, which makes it difficult to turn them. I went back to the store and checked, and none of the others did that, so it's just my dumb luck! :o) Other than that, I LOOOVE this littler version of the SMASH books! (I've also got the bigger one too.) I'm sure I'll buy another mini, I will just be more selective about making sure the pages turn easily. Great fast mini album-patterned paper already there!
I love stencils and this one adds something fun to my collection! I saw Donna use it in a video and I feel in love with what she did with it. I got the 12X12 and now I want the 6X6! kind of bigger than what I expected by it's well made! beautiful
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“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James I get asked all the time as a Life Coach, what does it take to have an utmost relationship. Let’s be honest. We have all gone through difficult times in relationships. I have some friends who got dumped at prom, many friends who went through an ugly divorce, a lot of friends who feel just plain stuck in what seems to be a horrible relationship. We see couples all the time at the beach, the mall or the movies who seem surprisingly happy and in love, but we all know that at some point, they will, if they didn’t already, have a fight or disagreement. What makes the difference between bliss in the relationship and feeling like it just isn’t working? Attitude. Now let’s remind ourselves that it takes two. This means both parties need to take a look at their attitude. This is where many couples find support in a counselor or mediator. Like the old saying, “relationships are like socks, you need two and they should match”, it is necessary to make sure you are on the same road. This doesn’t mean you have to be identical in your likes and dislikes, but it does mean that you should be both willing to support each other’s goals and dreams because they also fit into yours as well. Here is an example. My nephew is married to a wedding planner who’s dream it is to support couples on their special day. Now, while it is not his dream to do the same, it is however his dream to see his wife happy and fulfilled in her career. The same can be said for her support of his work as a designer. They are not two identical people, but rather two people who’s attitude it is to support each other on the journey. This common ground is the basis for a long, healthy friendship. Its about providing an environment for others to be their best and vice versa and in doing so you make way for your best. “When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” – William Arthur Ward Living your utmost finest life while being a support for others to do the same is a difficult, but rewarding experience. Remember, it’s not just about you, we were meant to do life together. So whether you are working on better friendships, business relationships, marriage or simply how you interact with your community, remember loving you neighbor as yourself requires both loving yourself by living your life at the utmost level as well as supporting those around you in doing the same.
Gender: Male Age: 34 Location: USA I awoke that very early that morning in the hospital, lying uncomfortably next to my wife Rachel, still in her smock, fresh from delivering our two twin girls, Kristine and Katherine, into the world. The memories of the last day of chaos and shock all came back to me in their beauty and horror. I gazed at the seat in the room, seeing the duffle bag that my adulteress student who I’ve been giving ‘tutoring’ at her mother’s request had packed. My thoughts couldn’t stay away from the way I’d taken and defiled my marriage bed with her supple young body. I felt my boner, already hard from my dreams, just throb thinking about it again and it filled me once more with shame. I hadn’t realized Rachel was already awake, but she laughed and reached a hand over to my groin and squeezed my morning wood. “Looks like someone is up?” Then she smiled up at me and I could literally feel her love for me. “I’m sorry I’ve not paid much attention to you these last few months. I promise I’ll make it up to you.” I almost cried. “No. You’ve needed more attention than me.” The guilt of my cheating ways ripped at my heart. She just smiled and kissed me. “I’m still really sore, down there, but this…” she indicated to an IV in her arm that I’d barely seen, “has some good stuff in it!” She chuckled then hugged me again. We hugged for a time until a nurse brought in some food for Rachel and some papers for us to sign. An hour later she had dressed and I walked while the nurse wheeled Rachel, sitting in a wheelchair due to hospital policy, came to the nursery. We gazed in at the two little clear plastic cribs that held our girls, wrapped loosely in fluffy pink blankets. They were amazingly beautiful little wonders. We nearly cried again as we each were given one to hold as we prepared to head home. The nurses had given them formula late night, but were already hungry, and Rachel just acted naturally, and bulled her shirt up to offer them each a teat and nurse on, taking them both to her breasts. I wheeled her out to our car and after a bit of figuring out how to actually install the two car seats I’d bought last month in my car, we eventually got home. Now we were hungry as well, so I made breakfast, which we ate in bed with the babies. The girls were ready for napping again, and we put them each in a extra large crib I’d pulled into the bedroom. It blocked up my whole side of the bed, but that didn’t matter to me in the least. Even though I knew it was going to be a rough couple of weeks without sleep, I couldn’t take my eyes off the beautiful little wonders. We slept more, woken a few hours later by hungry babies, and I made lunch, and Rachel was still taking pain pills every few hours as well. The day seemed to repeat that process until that evening when the doorbell rang. As she’d promised my wife, Judy and her daughter Becky were here for dinner. We’d been so busy that I’d forgotten all about them coming over to fawn over our babies some more. Rachel was so please she nearly milked her shirt, and had to immediately get a baby latched to one of her full tits. I couldn’t help but look at Becky for an instant, realizing that even though she was young, her breasts were already bigger than my wife’s fully milk-laden ones which must have grown a cup size from the way they’d grown. My brain then gave me no choice but to imagine Becky’s breasts swollen with milk and grown even larger as well. Realizing I was staring at Becky’s bosom for too long, I shook my head of adulterous thoughts and moved to the kitchen to cook for the party. I was cooking when I felt a hand squeeze my butt and whipped my head around, expecting to yell at Becky for touching me here, but lost my voice when I saw it was Judy instead. “Easy Tiger… Becky was right, you sure are on edge.” I couldn’t say anything, and just listened to her while I went back to cooking. “She said you were very rough yesterday.” I looked at her trying to figure out how to apologize or explain, but she stopped me with a finger to my lips. “She wanted to say thank you and wished you were more forceful and took charge more often, but didn’t want to say anything here because of a promise she’d made to you. She knows you’re going to be busy for a while, and that even if it’s over between you two, she’s grateful for the time she had with you. That’s all, no strings attached.” Then she winked at me, turned and sauntered back to the living room to rejoin the baby shower. I served dinner and actually enjoyed the meal. For once I didn’t feel like an adulterer any more, with Judy’s little talk. Becky and Judy were both pleasant and Rachel was radiantly happy. After the meal I cleaned the dishes and Rachel asked Becky to help me with so she could talk to Judy in private about ‘motherhood’ issues. She happily agreed and I washed, while she dried. It wasn’t sexual, or school related, and we both just talked about my babies non-stop. After we were done, we came back in and Rachel and Becky were whispering, but stopped as we entered, with wide grins on their faces. I guess they were talking about either me or Becky, but probably in relation to babies. That’s when Judy said, “Well, tomorrow is still a school night for you young lady, so I think it’s time to head back home.” “But Mom! It’s not even 8 o’clock!” Becky almost whined. “Yes, but these two need some time alone…” She said with a knowing smile. “Oh. Sorry. Congratulations again. Goodnight!” And smiling and skipping out, the two Whitmore girls left. As soon as their car was out the yard I was surprised again, but this time by Rachel who, having just finished another feeding had gotten behind me and goosed my ass as well. I turned and kissed my playful wife and she looked like the cat that ate the canary as she pulled me by my hand into the bedroom. Once there she kissed me deeply and said, “Now, you sir, deserve a reward for being the most patient and loving husband that a woman like me could want.” God she always turned me on, and after this many years really knew how to stroke my ego. I kissed her deeply and fully. I hugged her deeply to me and after a moment broke it off with a little start as her nipples wetly pressed through her shirt and into my own shirt and chest. She laughed and said, “Sorry. I’m going to be milky for a while yet.” I grinned and slyly said, “Good, then there will be plenty for me as well.” Then I pushed her back on the bed more roughly than I’d done in the better part of a year due to her pregnancy. She laughed and didn’t stop me from pushing up her braless shirt and gently cupping her two breasts. I massaged and gently squeezed watching them ooze a little milk. Rachel squirmed a little, but really began moaning when I lowered my head to her tit and licked up her thick creamy milk around the nipple. After it was clean I sucked in the teat and suckled, just as my daughters had, taking a nice long drink of her hot breast milk. After a few slurps I switched breasts and gave her sister the same treatment. Rachel said with lust, “You have no idea how good that feels.” She reached down and put her hand on my groin, gripping my hardening member tightly. After a few more minutes on her tits she pushed me up and said, “It’s your turn now.” She undid my pants and adroitly pulled them free along with my underwear. She then grabbed my mostly hard cock and looked at it up close. “Did I ignore you too much?” She squeezed it making my head swell up more. “I guess so.” Then she kissed him on the head and began rubbing my base and shaft up and down. It felt great to have my wife back after all these months of celibacy between us. And while I knew I could never tell her, she almost felt like the other woman after having taken Becky’s virginity a few weeks ago and since then been regularly fucking her brains out in our after school ‘study sessions’ her mother had set up with my wife’s permission. And only my wife didn’t know the truth. With these crazy thoughts whizzing through my head I almost didn’t realize how much it really turned me on until Rachel said, “Wow… I think you’re bigger than I’d ever seen you. I must have really not done my proper wifely duties. Well, I’d better do what I can to fix that.” She grinned a crooked smile then did her level best to devour my cock. Her practiced style and skills felt great compared to Becky’s inexperience but eagerness to learn. By brain had no choice but to compare the way they worked my meat, both wanting only to please me. Becky would be terrific in time, but still had to learn the fine techniques that Rachel had mastered. And Rachel would occasionally deep-throat me and get her lips almost to my base, which really turned me on, while Becky would gag with only half of my penis between her pretty lips. I just sat back and really enjoyed the stress free feeling of my wife’s loving tongue, lips, and throat all caressing the center of my being. It wasn’t going to make me cum, as she knew I had never cum from oral sex alone. Back in college she’d lost twenty dollars betting me she could get me off with that way alone. That was also the first time I’d made love to her, and that twenty dollar bill was still in one of my sock drawers. I thought about the wild times I’d had in college exploring sex before I’d met Rachel, and though that she would be the last woman he’d ever need. And I knew that was true, even if a small part of me still instinctually desired to spread my seed in every womb I could. After her divine oral caresses of my cock had me throbbing she looked up at me lovingly, nuzzling my hardness between her lovely bloated breasts. “I’m sorry I cannot give you more than this, but my area down there is still sore from moving two watermelons through it. I know I haven’t showed you, or talked about it, but the OBGYN said to wait 4 to 6 weeks to give it time to heal.” She looked only slightly sad as she squeezed me between those lovely breasts, still leaking a little milk into my curly fuzz. “I do have a surprise for you however…” and her grin made me shiver. “OK, I’m game… what is it?” I asked casually. “Me.” A female voice came from the doorway behind me. I spun my head sharply, totally not expecting anyone else in my house other than me and my wife. I was totally blown over at what I saw. Judy clad only in a sexy black teddy. Her red hair was flowing down her shoulders and the lace teddy left little to the imagination, but it lifted her giant breasts and erotically lined and shaped her body. She was in her mid-forties, but you couldn’t tell she was over thirty, or a mother of a young adult daughter for that matter, by just looking at her hot body. Totally speechless she wagged her hips and tits as she sauntered over to me and sat next to me on the bed. “Rachel asked me to come over to help reward you for being the man of her dreams.” I looked down at her is shock, not believing my wife could have planned this. She was wild in her college days as well, and was renowned for her expert cock sucking skills, which was how we’d met in the first place, but she’d never given any indication of any willingness to expand our horizons in such a way. I know that we’d talked about it once when we dated about sexual fantasies, and like every guy a two-girl threesome is a dream come true, but she said she loved my cock in her own pussy too much to share. “Well, since I cannot please you the way I want to, this was the only other option. And I’d been talking to Judy, and she recommended a hooker. But I couldn’t do that, I didn’t want you doing some dirty slut who might have some disease, and asked her, since she’s not got anyone, if she could help me please you.” It all sounded so simple and proper when Rachel said it. Like that’s just the way things are. “Besides, back in my psych class I learned that a man needs release his seed,” she squeezed me hard, making me throb fiercely in her hand, “or he will stray. Now we wouldn’t want that now would we?” God’s I wanted to confess right there and then about me and Becky, and I just might have had Judy not been right there. My eyes wandered up and down her body again, and I oozed precum all over Rachel’s hands and tits. “So he really cannot cum orally?” Judy asked Rachel while kneeling next to her on the floor. Ignoring me completely, they talked, “Nope. Believe me, in college I lost twenty dollars trying for over an hour.” “Really? Wow. I never had a guy how could last longer than ten minutes of blowing before he came.” “I know! I once sucked of five cocks in an hour between classes in High School. They called me the Cum Guzzling Queen, but not Ed here. He will only cum in a pussy.” “What about anally?” “Well, we tried it a little, but… It feels great for the first inch, but after that it just hurts too much for me.” I felt like I had to interject there “And I’m not into that anyway.” “Really? Every guy I’d ever slept with just wanted to jump my ass.” Judy laughed. “I couldn’t get into it, even though porn always plays it up, I couldn’t get the picture out of my head that it could be a guy I was fucking.” I confessed. “I never thought about it that way, but it makes sense I suppose. Guys do seem really homophobic.” Judy reasoned. “Not like girls who are all a little bi.” “Yea, right.” I laughed. “No it’s true. Were jealous, conniving, vindictive, hypercritical, bitches, but every girl has at least an experimental phase to test their natural urges to bong with other women.” Judy said with a completely straight face. I looked back at Rachel, who’d just continued to rub my cock during this intellectual discussion. Seeing me look at her made her cheeks redden with embarrassment. After a moment of silence she broke down and stopped rubbing my cock, “OK! Yes… I spent a week once in college with a girl, but we were just experimenting. We both moved on once we got boyfriends again.” I was just staring at her. “Look, I’m sorry I’ve never told you, but it was just a phase.” “That’s not what you said last week when you begged me to lick your pussy.” Judy shot back. There was more shocked silence, and Rachel’s cheeks burned even redder. “You… She… But… You were still pregnant though?” “I’m sorry honey. I was too embarrassed to talk to you.” Rachel confessed in a fast blur of words. “The last month of my pregnancy, I was so horny all the time! I was masturbating like crazy, and I needed some release. I know I was the one who was always pushing for kids, and I thought you wouldn’t want to touch me since I was so ugly and bloated.” “That’s not true! I loved you and would have done anything for you! You said you wanted to hold off on sex these last few months, for the babies’ sake.” I shot back, almost mad. “The doctor’s said I had too, not that I didn’t want too. And you seemed to just ignore me after that…” More silence followed until Judy piped up, “Sheesh! Look at you two! Both horny as hell, and completely in love with each other. Look, life isn’t perfect, but the only thing that matters is love. Rachel, you love Ed and want him right?” She nodded silently like a child being scolded. “And Ed, you love Rachel and want her as well?” I nodded the same as my wife had. “Well that isn’t that all that matters? There are going to be things you have no choice about how your bodies work, but as long as you both love each other, Get Over It!” It must have looked completely ridiculous being lectured about love from a woman ten years older than us, being the only clothed individual in the room, and she was just in lingerie. “Now…” she continued looking at me, “Yes, I’ve been giving Rachel some sexual release, but now she has asked me to do the same for you. Do you love Rachel enough to accept that or should I get dressed and go?” I was silent for a moment but said, “Rachel, I have always loved you and I need you to know that I would do anything… everything, for you.” She smiled, looking up at me from my knees, getting a little teary eyed, “I know.” She got up and hugged me tight. After a minute we pulled back, kissed, and she laughed. “Well, look like I’ve done a horrible job for you so far, Little Ed is unimpressed.” Looking down I saw I’d become totally unaroused, despite having two very beautiful women offering to please me. If it hadn’t happened I say it wouldn’t have been possible, but there I was, shrunken to a limp noodle. “Well than, we’ve got some work to do then don’t we?” Judy stated flatly to Rachel and reached one hand to my groin. Rachel, wiping tears away with one hand, nodded and reached her other hand to join with Judy’s, grasping my ball sack. Soon they were both massaging and stroking my small package with their soft and dexterous fingers. It felt great, but for some reason he refused to grow right off. “Looks like he needs a more serious kick start…” Judy said. Then with her other hand she reached behind Rachel’s head and pulled her to her own. Rachel was surprised and a little shocked when their lips met in a sapphiric kiss. This was the first time I’d ever seen my wife do anything with another woman, and that made my small cock instantly kick-start back to life. While it was static for the first few seconds, Judy was persistent, and soon Rachel, to my utter shock and delight, relaxed and put her arms around Judy and opened her mouth to her. The moment grew, both of them getting deeper and deeper into their lesbian kiss and made out like lovers do. When they finally broke Judy turned to look back at my cock with approval. “Yup, that gets them every time.” Rachel slowly turned again to me as well and giggled like a little girl at my hardness, “Oh, my pussy is on fire. I long to have you in there again, but I’m still to stretched and sore.” She dropped a hand down her belly and rubbed her clit slowly. “Well, I think I can help both of you at the same time then.” Judy said while she stood up. She held a hand to Rachel and helped her up as well and led her to the open side of the bed. “Lie down,” she told her. Rachel sat onto the bed, and I could see clearly for the first time, her distended pussy and stitches that were just at the bottom of her cunt on the little flap of skin that connected to her ass. Just looking at it made my own ass hurt with sympathy pain. I hadn’t realized that was why she was still in pain. Judy knelt onto the center of the bed and turned to my wife. She leaned over and kissed her deeply, making my cock throb again. My naked, and still puffy bellied wife, with a sexy redhead in striking black lingerie above her and between her legs, making out in front of me. Judy straightened up, pulled down her lacy black panties and threw them to the side of the bed, winking as me, then backed up and placed her face right into Rachel’s pussy. My wife howled with pleasure like I’d never seen. “OH FUCK YEA!” For a woman who took care of preschoolers, it always struck me as funny how she had such a dirty mouth when she got really turned on during sex. I couldn’t move for the first few minutes, just aroused to watch Judy lick and flick Rachel’s clit with her sexy tongue. I reached down and stoked my cock while watching them go at it, finally getting back full strength. Judy stopped her ministrations and looked back at me, wagging her hips and naked pussy at me, “Waiting for a written invitation?” She then went back to sucking on Rachel’s clit. My wife then begged me, “Oh Honey! She feels so good! Please… Oh please fuck her good, OH FUCK!” I had no choice but to join in after that. I knelt on the end of the bed, now full with female flesh and crept up behind Judy’s inviting posterior. I rand a hand up her fishnet clad legs, and along the garter straps that ran over each cheek of her ass, and up to her brazier laced back. Then I placed a hand onto her moistening honey pot. It was thick with dark curly hair, still red, but darker than her striking main of hair on her head, but it was soft to the touch. I rubbed her clit, making her squirm and moan around my wife’s cunt, then dipped my middle finger into her vagina. It slid in easier than I thought it would for someone who hadn’t had a man for the better part of twenty years. But then I didn’t really know that much about Judy, other than her teenage daughter and how her husband had left her over a decade ago. Really that was it, but it didn’t matter that much to me right now, for she gripped and held my probing finger with such strength that I could wait to put my cock into this lovely MILF. I rubbed the head of my cock up and down her slick passage, wetting my head and shaft. Then I lined up and sunk deep into her in only a single stroke. I was impressed with her vaginal control, since she opened up and her cunt literally sucked in my cock. I’d never had a girl who could do that. I’ve been told that my 9 inch penis is thicker and bigger than most other guys, and I’ve always had to work it in, no matter how wet she was. Then Judy went to the grip she had before and made me yelp in surprise. I withdrew and plunged back in, grabbing her hips and rocking slowly back and forth. Good that felt good. For a few moments I felt like I was fucking Becky again, but Judy’s wider hips, controlled vaginal muscles, and her flaming red hair gave her a distinct feeling. I rocked back and forth, enjoying her cunt immeasurably. My wife moaned more as I fucker her clit licker. “Is it good Honey? Is she a good fuck? OH, GOD!” I could tell she was getting really close, so I rocked harder and slammed into Judy hard and fast, feeling her cunt literally trying to milk my cock. Judy did a great job keeping her head glued to Rachel’s cunt as I pounded her. Only moments later Rachel was screaming at the top of her lungs, “I’m so Fucking hot! OH GOD! I’M CUMMING!” She grabbed the back of Judy’s head and her cute face scrunched in a powerful orgasm. It was so erotic and Judy’s cunt felt so good that I tried to cum with her, but Judy backed up, making me sit back, as she withdrew her face from Rachel’s pussy, making me wait, still lodged in her pussy. Rachel’s last throws of orgasm subsided as we watched, with Judy just sitting back on my cock, only holding it tight for a few moments. Judy then asked, “Rache, is it OK if I use Ed to get me off too? I haven’t had a man since Becky father left and he feels REALLY good.” She gyrated her hips on me moaning. Rachel smiled and knelt in front of us, “Of course Jude. Edward Honey, can you hold off long enough for Judy here to cum too?” “Anything for you my love.” I answered, almost unable to believe the reality of that question. Judy then began to rise and fall on my lap, fucking herself on my cock. Rachel smiled and leaned forward, and I could tell from the way that Judy gasped and moaned louder that my wife was playing and licking her tits. Judy rode my cock with zeal, making me feel terrific. Soon I felt Rachel reach a hand under me between our legs. One hand frisked Judy’s clit and my cock sliding in and out of her cunt, but her other hand cupped and kneaded my balls. I was unsure if I could last long enough, but with the added stimulation on her clit Judy’s determined riding of my cock turned more to desperation and became quicker. She was the quiet type, only moaning in between short breaths and soon groaned out as she shook with the throws of her gushing orgasm. Her cunt quivered and squirted her girl-cum all over my cock and legs. I’d done a squirter in my college days, but it really turned me on knowing that she came so hard on my cock. She quivered and moaned for a few minutes before turning and asking me, “You sure do have some saying power! I can see why she loves you so much.” I got the feeling that she was talking about Becky and not Rachel, but didn’t give me time to respond. “Well this will get you off.” She pulled herself off my cock and had Rachel sit back on the bed, turned over and laid her head in my wife’s lap. Then she spread her long legs and into almost a split. “Now Rachel, tell him to get his ass over here and fuck me hard.” Rachel gave me her sexy eyes and sultry voice, “Come on Honey. I know you wanna cum, and I want lick you’re spooge out of her dirty cunt.” A heart-attack couldn’t have stopped me. I almost leaped on her and slammed my throbbing cock into Judy’s hot juicy snatch. My wife whispered dirty things in my ear as I fucked harder than I ever thought I could. “I know you tight balls need to shoot your salty load, so spray it all over her fucking pussy. That tight unused cunt feels great doesn’t it? I know it does so cum in the bitch. Show her you love it. Do it! Fill that fucking slut!” I slammed hard and fast, nailing Judy into the bed. Between her moaning softly, and my wife’s dirty talk, I had no choice about pulling out. I came just as she said ‘slut’ with possibly the biggest orgasm I’d ever experienced. It ripped a scream from my normally silent lungs and I burst what felt like gallons of cum so deep into Judy sucking womb that it made her scream as I thrashed inside her. My whole body contracted and shook and I drilled her full of my white gold. I would have half a breath before another contraction shook me, sending more and more of my semen into her depths. After five explosive shots of cum, I shoot softly, with only much smaller contractions still squirted out more of my drizzle. Rachel hugged me tight while I continued to shake in Judy’s full cunt, and Judy just moaned out, “God I’ve never been so full.” After I softened, still leaking out cum, I sat back and Rachel greedily sank her head down and gently sucked me clean. Judy, just lay back, still paralyzed from the harsh cunt beating I’d given her. When Rachel was satisfied no more of my cum was going to come out she kissed my cockhead and said, “Mmmm, she’s sure is tasty. Sit back and enjoy my love.” Then she turned about and sank her head to Judy’s cum-oozing cunt. Judy went crazy, shaking and moaning as my wife licked and sucked out as much of my sperm as she could from the cream pie I’d just given her. After a few minutes she lifted her head and moved up to Judy’s face. I thought they were going to kiss again, but then Rachel let a long thick rope of my jism that she’d sucked out of Judy’s cunt stretch down to Judy. When that well fucked beauty saw what my wife intended, she opened her mouth wide, letting a long stream of pass from Rachel’s mouth and into Judy’s. God it was so hot that I did twitch out another glob of man-milk on my leg from my almost soft cock. When it was almost gone Rachel followed it down and kissed Judy deeply and swishing my cum around between their mouths. After they had finished my wife eased onto her side and mirrored my own thoughts, “God it was so hot!” All she got back were breathless groans of agreement from both Judy and I. “I really love you Ed, and I never thought I could share you, but I knew you’d rip me back open if you did that to me.” She then rubbed her stitched and sore pussy gently. “Oh, I think he did rip me open.” Judy groaned, “But damn that felt good. It’s been too long since I’ve had a real man…” with that Judy excused herself to the bathroom to dress and cleanup, Rachel checked on the babies and I just laid down and feel asleep exhausted. I slept until morning when a screaming newborn woke me. I woke Rachel, who was asleep next to me. She proceeded to feed the kids and I made breakfast. As we ate and discussed last night’s events, and her discussion with Judy after I collapsed. We all really liked it and Rachel had scheduled a repeat performance at the end of the week. God, what had I done to deserve a wife so considerate and loving? I kissed her and hugged her tight. “You know I love you more and more each day.” “I know.” She sighed contented, “But you have to admit that was a great night last night…” I had no choice but to agree, “Yes… Yes it was.” Read 89154 times \| Rated 94 (466 votes) Please rate this text:
Gender: Male Age: Secret Location: 53° 6'13.59"S 73°31'1.45"E \|Introduction: a small story i wrote\| Before i start my story i would like to introduce the main people because i feel that describing people during the story disrupts the flow im 22 years old, 6 ft tall, muddy brown hair, average build not too skinny or fat. i would describe my looks as average and i dress in jeans and a bright coloured polo shirt she is 20 years old, i would guess she is 5'8, she has hazel colour eyes and dusty blonde shoulder length hair and she has the most inoscent face, you look at here and you would bet your right arm that she has done nothing now to the story it was the summer of 2010, the sun was hot and the air was dry but the constant gentle breeze kept the sweat at bay. i recently been fired and was deperatly looking for a job and this couldn't of happened at a worse time i had recently bought my first house and the 3 month grace period was quickly araving. in desperation i took up the job of a baggy in large super store, the first day was ok, i met most of the till staff and other baggies. the actual job was ok but being surrounded by 18 year olds i wanted to work as a shelf stacker because no one sees you working. a week into the job i was working at till 14 and i was looking down across the tills while bagging stuff and i saw this girl working at a till, she looked like a angel in a sea of grey faces, her hair swayed gently as she sweaped items across the lazer. i was broken out of trance as john the till guy said "jason, what are you looking at" i said nothing a pointed my head in her general direction "oh thats marie shes a "ive never heard that name before, marie" i relped "if i was you i wouldn't get too interested in her, you know jeof the shelf stacking manager he is her "ah damm i want to be a shelf stacker" "just be carful around her because jeof has a short temper" "thanks ill keep that in mind" it had been a month and had gotten my first paycheck and i asked my manager, steve. if i could become a shelf stacker. i dont know what it was but when i asked he gave me a look like ive just pissed in his coffee cup. and he replyed with a straight up "no" i felt like he didnt like me beacuse i was older than him and that pissed him off. and it pissed me off that my manager was younger than me days whent past and still no promotion to shelf stacker, during one lunch break i was in the break room eating a sandwich when marie walked in with a tube of pringles, i was watching tv and i only noticed her when she sat down at the oposite end of the couch, it was the first time i was alone with marie scince i started and i said "hi, im jason im the new baggy" she said "hi im marie, i saw you working at tills before" i said "so what do you do other than working here" she was about to reply when jeof walked into the room he screamed at me"what the fuck do you think your doing" i cooly replyed with "nothing just talking" he picked up on my coolness of my reply and said "if i ever see you alone with my girlfriend" as he said girlfriend he grabbed her butt and squeezed hard enough to provoke a look of discomfort in marie's face "ill beat the shit out of you" they both walked through the outdoor exit, as they left steve walked in holding a VHS tape. "jason you need to watch this training tape" "but ive already watched the tape"i replied "ive had enough of your backtalk, get the fuck out my sight" i sat there lost for words i replied dumbly with "but its still my break" "your break is up" he turned around and started to walk back to the store i got up and walked up behind him and grabed his sholder, like a dad would do the first time he would catch his face was full of shock as i turned him around and i said "now listen kid, ive had enough of this bullshit" at this point i couldnt stand the job anymore and did not care what happned "from now on i expect you to respect your elders and not to act like a total dueshbag" with that he slowly backed away and headed into the store. i styed back and finished my sandwitch and started working again the next day i was in the break room and steve walked into the break room he had a bottle of coke and a chicken tikka wrap and handed me the drink and the wrap, he said " the drink and wrap are on behalf of the management and i have spoken with the store manager and he has given you the job of shelf stacker" in my mind i was like HELL YEAH, but i kept my composure. steve turned to leave but quickly turned and said "management also said that all staff will have to watch the training video next friday as a group event" i said "okay" and he left my first day as shelf stacker was bad, jeof had made it a personal mission to make this job hard for me, but he did it in a way that isnt obvious to other people as i finished stacking the soup in the shelfs i moved over to the buscuits in the other aisle, i just started when jeof came screaming around the corner "what the hell is wrong with you" "you retard you couldnt even stack soup properly" "but ive put the corect flavours in the corect area" "no you dipshit you overloaded the shelfs, come back here and take the extra soups off the shelfs" i when back the soups and started taking off the soup from the bottom shelf then jeof became inpatient and stated knocking the soup from the top shelf and dropped them ontop of me. one cliped my sholder and i dropped down into the fetal position as cans dropped down when he left the other shelf stackers helped me out by putting the cans into storage on wednesday day jeoff changed completly, today he was half nice and he was talking to me while we stacked. out conversation moved over to women and he asked me "so what do think of marie?" i paused for a second and in my mind said "shit, shit i need to say something so he doesnt get pissed" so i said to him "um marie isnt my type" that snaped something in his underdeveloped mind and he graped me by the collor and slammed me against the pallets of pepsi bottles "dont you ever dare talk about marie in that way again" i just looked back afraid to say anthing back "you know what ive had enough of your bullshit, just get the fuck out of my sight. your fired" as i walked out of the store i just walked up to my car and sat inside thinking about what just happened i was there for a hour when jeof walked out the store with marie, kissed her and he left the car park alone in his car i started up my car and drove over to marie and i summed up all my courage and asked her "do you want to go watch a movie or something" and to my suprise she said "yes" as marie sat in my car my head was spinning, i didnt know what to do or how to react, but i kept driving and we arived at the cinema. i asked marie "what movie do you want to watch" she said "suprise me" as she stod in the middle of the ticket room i watched her from the ticket line. she looked so uncomfortable standing there, looking around constantly, she had her hands up inside her hoody sleaves her hair was kinda messy but not in a way that makes her looks like she doesnt care about herself, it looked like her hair was made up that way she had one foot twisting on her toes. and as a looked at her from the line i knew that she was the most beutiful girl i had ever seem i bought the tickets and we entred the theater we sat towards the back near the corner, we watched the movie. in my mind i wanted to make a move and do something but i didnt want to ruin what i had with her, but she had placed her hand on my knee the movie finished and i drove over to my house and asked her "do you want to come in for some tea or she said "you have your own house?" "yeah i got it a month back" "sure ill come in for a drink" as i walked in i got marie seated and said "ill be back im just gonna change my clothes" as i walked into my room to get changed out of my work clothes as i was half naked marie walked in she said i need to talk to you i said "sure whats up" i sat down on my bed still in my boxers and marie sat down next to me marie said "you know jeof hes a asshole and i need to get away from him" as i looked at her she looked back seconds passed as nothing was said then she started to move closer i moved closer our faces were inches away as she kissed me on the lips her tentative kissed turned into a full kiss as i gently moved my tounge forward it was met by her tounge we rolled onto my back as she moved ontop of me as we kissed i explored her body through the hoody i felt down the side of her body as i reached the bottom of the jumper i pulled i up off her pleaving only her jeans and work shirt. i undid the top two buttons and pulled that over her head too marie reached back and unclasped her bra slid it off her arms i rolled both of us over and undid the buttoon on her jeans i pulled down her jeans and pantys in one go the girl of my dreams lay there naked infront of me marie pulled my boxers off like a animal as i moved my dick to her opening and push half of my head in i looked down into her eyes and marie said "wait before we do it i want you to know something tomorrow it's Friday, Friday we gotta get down on Friday everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Gettin' down on Friday Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend Seven a.m., waking up in the morning Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal Seein' everything, the time is goin' Tickin' on and on, everybody's russian Gotta get down to the bus stop Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends Kickin' in the front seat Sittin' in the back seat Gotta make my mind up Which seat can I take? It's Friday, Friday Gotta get down on Friday Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Gettin' down on Friday Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend Partyin', partyin' (Yeah) Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)Fun, fun, fun, fun Lookin' forward to the weekend 7:45, we're drivin' on the highway Cruisin' so fast, I want time to fly Fun, fun, think about fun You know what it is I got this, you got this My friend is by my right,I got this, you got this Now you know it Kickin' in the front seat Sittin' in the back seat Gotta make my mind up Which seat can I take? It's Friday, Friday Gotta get down on Friday Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Gettin' down on Friday Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend Partyin', partyin' Partyin', partyin' Fun, fun, fun, fun Lookin' forward to the weekend Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin') We-we-we so excited We so excited We gonna have a ball today Tomorrow is Saturday And Sunday comes after ... wards I don't want this weekend to end then i replied with M-h, marie hackSo chillin' in the front seat In the back seat I'm drivin', cruisin' Fast lanes, switchin' lanes Wit' a car up on my side Passin' by is a school bus in front of me Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream Check my time, it's Friday, it's a weekend We gonna have fun, c'mon, c'mon, y'all Read 4368 times \| Rated 26.9 (26 votes) Vote list (Close) : Please rate this text:
Check out the latest swimming blog from Wade Vantrease. Thursday, December 27, 2012 Saturday, August 11, 2012 This is the first time a 12u team has won the regular season championship! The 12u Lady Bulldogs won both the Regular Season Championship and Tournament Championship in the Cuyahoga Valley Elite League (CVEL). This marks the first time ever that a Stow 12u team won the Regular Season Championship! The Lady Bulldogs competed in both league and tournament play and finished the season with a record of 23-9. Thursday, April 5, 2012 The Lady Bulldogs have only lost to Elyria so far this season. Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Stow's girls basketball team is ranked as 10th out of 25 Northeast Ohio teams. Thursday, December 1, 2011 Take a look at some awesome game photos from a Stow Patch reader and find out when the next game is happening. Thanks to Stow Patch reader Karen Baer for submitting these photos of the Lady Bulldog win against Youngstown Ursuline at the home opener Nov. 28. If you have photos from any winter sporting events, please email them to Local Editor Amanda Harnocz. The next game is Dec. 3 against Cuyahoga Falls at home. JV starts at 1 p.m., Varsity begins at 2:30 p.m. Click here for the full schedule. Monday, November 28, 2011 The girls team won 53-47 against Youngstown Ursuline at home Nov. 28. Bookmark this page to keep up to date on scores, stats and to find out where and when the Lady Bulldogs will be shooting hoops. Here's a list of scheduled regular season Lady Bulldog games: JV times are listed before Varsity times. Games highlighted in bold are home games. Plan on going to the games? Share photos and updates with us. Email photos to Amanda.Harnocz@Patch.com or request to post updates in a blog! Thursday, May 26, 2011 Stow finished the season at 15-9 overall. The Stow-Munroe Falls High School softball season ended on a positive note as the Lady Bulldogs beat Nordonia 4-2 in a make-up game that was rained out earlier in the season. Stow finished the season at 15-9 overall, while going 4-6 in the Northern Ohio Conference River Division. Stow was on the scoreboard first as Julie Rooney earned a walk to lead off the game for Stow. Rooney promptly stole second base and with one out, Alex Shaver doubled to left center field scoring Rooney as Stow took a nearly 1-0 lead. Nordonia responded with 2 runs in the bottom of the first inning on 3 hits and a Stow throwing error as they took the lead by a score of 2-1. The Lady Bulldogs scored a pair of runs in the fifth inning on 4 straight hits. Sarah … Friday, May 20, 2011 Alex is a featured Whiz Kid because she was the lead scorer on the Lady Bulldog basketball team. Name: Alex Shaver Grade: Stow-Munroe Falls High School Junior Alex is a three-year letter winner with the high school girls basketball team and was also one of the captains this past season. Alex is the fourth leading scorer in girls basketball and she still has one more season remaining. "Alex was our leading scorer and has a unique ability to score inside and outside," Girls Basketball Head Coach Bob Podges said. "[She is] one of the best athletes that I have ever had the opportunity to coach." Know someone who should be featured as a Whiz Kid? Sure you do! So, send an email to Editor Amanda Harnocz. Please include the Whiz Kid's name, school, grade, age, a photo and why he or she should be featured. Parents, you know you want to brag … Wednesday, May 18, 2011 The team lost by 8 runs Monday. The Stow-Munroe Falls Lady Bulldog Softball team's tournament season ended Monday with a loss to Hudson 1-9. The team plays again tonight in it's final game against Nordonia away at 4:30 p.m.
Separate names with a comma. Add your good wishes here Discussion in 'UO Oceania Trade' started by Fink, Aug 23, 2008. Just Invisibility now. Go to Rivendale .. .the vendor closest to the stable. Rivendale is at Minoc plains North of minoc town. Thanks, very nice vendor there. Ack! I had invisibility, more than one of them, but cos my crafter had learnt them, I turned them in for spring points! (and yeah, Rivendale is a great vendor place! =D) Tried to score one myself, but the bottle quest is now 50 per (I'm sure it was 10 originally), and it seems like a one in fifty shot of being given the damned quest in the first place. Too much clicking. I got a couple of them, you can have one for nix. Send me a message dude.
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A group of mages that can alter the strength and properties of spells or enchanted items slightly but cannot cast a spell themselves Within these Towers reside some of the most feared sorcerers ever to have blighted the lands of men. Blood. Ah, yes. Blood. Such a wonderful tool when you know how to use it. Welcome, my friend, to the wonderful world of Blood Magic. This is a wretched tome of oceanic blasphemy; a foul water-stained, bone-white binder of bitter dead-men’s secrets and a guide to Nautical Necromancy useful in the hands of the young sea-faring necromancer or the Great Lich Umeen herself. The scent of magic "Aww, dang, did you fart again?" asked the Jordy, The Knight. "No, screw you! I didn’t fart in the first place!" replied The Scoundrel, Harris. What they didn’t know was that the Smelbinders could hear their every word. Vampires have strange powers indeed. "I walked through the poor’s quarters, and my eye was not harmed. All functional, and simple, and crude, made on the whims of fate and delivered by immediate need. I walked through the merchant’s quarters, and my eye was bored. Pretensions where nothing backed them, striving for appearance without substance, evidence of changing wealth, too much only began, too much never finished. I walked through the place where the powerful lived, and my eye was tired. Too much of attempted beauty turned hideous, and a lack of taste was made worse by willing lackeys. But then I’ve seen the treasure of the city. A cathedral, that was part of the sky, columns, and arches to carry the weight of the world, shapes to let your mind fly along, and ornaments to stop by. A place to ponder, to be pleased to be alive, to accept suffering, and to realize your mistakes. This is a place I could learn from." Conosca abbastanza per essere impaurito, molto impaurito Motto of Cinque-Parte Polygnostic Not all magic is focused on war or power. Some magic is used to ease some of the hazards of normal life. The school of Midwifery is one such school. The Zoimorph School of Magic is a school of magic specialized in altering and creating variants of life, sometimes referred to as Arcanaeugenics. Pnathic sorcery has existed for ages, crudely used by magi who no idea the true forces they were fumbling with. I have never been happy with the way that magical constructs were presented in games. Admittedly, a large statue stomping the surrounding countryside is an impressive image. But the logic (or lack thereof) involved has always bothered me. The sum of all spellcasting traditions of one world - or most of them - in one place. IN WORK. The school of Entwiners is formed around the art of creating magic with rope and knots. Deep forests hide many secrets, and traditions older and stranger than civilization itself. The art of putting spells within spells. It is said that dwarves have problems with using magic (maybe they cannot cast spells at all). This is an attempt to create a distinctly dwarwen school of magic. The way you use it is of course yours. The young priest had been healing in the market place for free. Someone seeking bounty gold had told someone at the temple. "Hut. Hut. Hut" The Temple Knights in formation came marching down from the temple. The young priest stood up. He reached into his pouch. With a smile he put the top into the Bey. With a spin, the 1000 prayers to the spirits came forth. The spirit responded. The wind whirled and buffetted the troops. They fell into each other and were having trouble getting due to the wind that only they felt. The priest picked up his top and ran away. They would not catch him today.
How the “Law” Really “Works” I’m publishing four items of evidence below. I’m not even going to bother explaining them in detail. For any thinking person who reads the material below – the picture should fall into view; no further explanation necessary. Couldn’t make it up. 1: A quote from the speech made by Sir Phillip Bailhache, when swearing-in to Office as magistrate, Bridget Shaw on the 2nd July 2008. The “senior politician” he was referring to in such a prejudicial manner was me. “Mrs Shaw, you take up your post at a time when the judiciary and those in public office in the Island are, for better or for worse, under greater scrutiny than has been the case for some time. No-one can object, of course, to holding individual members of the judiciary to account for their judicial conduct or indeed for their conduct outside the court room. Indeed you have become, by virtue of your office, a member of the Jersey Judicial Association which last year adopted a Code of Ethics and Conduct setting out quite clearly what is expected of judges and magistrates in this Island. But wholesale attacks upon the judiciary and suggestions that they are collectively incapable of dealing with any outcomes of the current child abuse inquiry are ignorant and unwelcome, and I deplore them. Senior politicians, should know better than to attempt to subvert public confidence in our judicial institutions in pursuit of a personal agenda.” [emphasis added] 2: Two paragraphs extracted from the 94 page statement made to the Wiltshire police force by Graham Power, Queens Police Medal, the then Chief Officer of the States of Jersey Police Force. The Stephen Baker referred to is the same Crown Advocate Stephen Baker who is paid with tax-payers money by William Bailhache and Tim Le Cocq to prosecute me, the then politician who led on exposing the child-abuse cover-ups: 208. It might be useful to offer some comment on the role of Stephen Baker. Mr Baker is a highly regarded lawyer who is experienced in working with the police. He is liked and respected by police officers. From his evidence the impression may have been given that he was a lawyer dedicated to Rectangle whose efforts at engagement were frustrated. This is not entirely the case. He is a busy criminal lawyer with a heavy and varied workload. I see from the disclosure documents he was first appointed to the case in late January and had some involvement in issues around the charging of the accused Wateridge. I will return to that matter in more detail a little later in this statement. The point I wish to make at this time, is that in the period which followed his appointment the force was having exchanges with Mr Baker of an entirely different nature. He was at that time representing a man called Curtis Warren who had a few years previously, been described as the U.K.'s leading criminal. Warren was in custody locally, having been arrested in Jersey following a covert operation by the force. Warren, who at one time appeared in the Sunday Times Rich List, was reported to have substantial criminal wealth, which he had successfully hidden from the various agencies which had sought its recovery. This led to an interesting exchange of correspondence between David Minty and Stephen Baker. David asked if Baker was being paid for his services, and if he was, whether he proposed to make a disclosure to the financial crime unit. I think that this was eventually resolved in favour of Baker, who successfully argued that he did not have to do so. 214. The core of the story is that Wateridge was in the process of being charged, when Stephen Baker attempted to intervene but apparently was too late to change matters. My notebook for that day records that in my briefing from Mr Harper I was told that there had been an "issue regarding charging. JJ (Notebook 07/358 page 68.) Stephen Baker's intervention came at a time about which he states "At that stage I knew nothing about the cases. JJ (Statement of Stephen Baker paragraph 7.) He had clearly been retained by the Attorney General to work on the abuse enquiry. He knew that, and obviously the Attorney General knew that. 3: A quote from the Jersey Evening Post of the 13th October 2011, in which the paper reported my appearance on the 12th October, before magistrate Bridget Shaw. The quote – from Jersey’s only “newspaper” - should be borne in mind, and contrasted with the facts as evidenced in the actual transcript, published further below: "Throughout yesterday's 70 minute hearing the 45 year old repeatedly interrupted the magistrate or spoke over her as she repeatedly asked him to be concise and relevant with his argument." 4: The actual transcript from the appearance before Bridget Shaw on the 12th October. I had to force this court hearing because it was the only chance I had to attempt to use evidence that had been unlawfully concealed from my defence during the prosecution and the appeal. (I was prevented from using that evidence – as the grimly amusing transcript shows.) Key amongst that evidence is the 94-page statement by Graham Power - the importance and relevance of which I’ve scarcely yet touched upon. That key evidence was unlawfully concealed from me by William Bailhache’s prosecuting lawyer, Stephen Baker. The person who refused to give me access to court to raise this fresh evidence – until after the election - was William Bailhache. “In the Magistrate’s Court of Jersey 12th October 2011 Before: B. Shaw, Magistrate HER MAJESTY’S ATTORNEY GENERAL Crown Advocate Stephen Baker Defendant representing himself Verbatim Transcript of recorded proceedings AG v Syvret: 12/10/11 MAGISTRATE: Good afternoon. CENTENIER HUELIN: Good afternoon. GREFFIER: Be seated, please. CENTENIER HUELIN: Thank you, Ma’m. Stuart Syvret. MAGISTRATE: Good afternoon. Will you confirm your name is Stuart Syvret? DEFENDANT: Yes, yes, that’s correct. MAGISTRATE: Thank you very much, date of birth 30th of July ‘65? DEFENDANT: Yes, that’s correct, Madam. MAGISTRATE: Thank you. DEFENDANT: Obviously before these proceedings begin, I want to begin by making a recusal application concerning yourself. MAGISTRATE: Well, I am going to---- CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, there has been a recusal application previously. CROWN ADVOCATE: It has been rejected as far as the Court of Appeal. There should be no recusal application. DEFENDANT: Well, with all due respect, if I may be---- MAGISTRATE: Mr Syvret, is there any different from anything you’ve said to me before on this issue? DEFENDANT: Oh indeed there is, absolutely. (Magistrate conferred with Deputy Greffier) MAGISTRATE: I want to get these proceedings started, Mr Syvret. I am going to ask that the Representation is put first and then we will deal with any substantial matters. CENTENIER HUELIN: Centenier Huelin of the Parish of St Helier, on behalf of the Constable of the said Parish, has the honour to present to the Court that, in virtue of the terms of the Criminal Justice (Community Services Orders)(Jersey) Law 2001, he is of the opinion that, for the reasons given in the attached statement submitted by the Community Service Officer, it is necessary for the Magistrate’s Court to re-examine the conditions imposed on Stuart Syvret, who, by Act of the said Court, dated 17th of November 2010, was convicted of the offence of Contempt of Court by failing to attend a hearing at the Magistrate’s Court on the 9th of November 2009, and sentenced to a term of eight weeks’ imprisonment. The said Stuart Syvret made an appeal to the Royal Court of Jersey against the said conviction of the Magistrate’s Court and, on the 8th of August 2011, the appeal against conviction was dismissed, but the appeal against sentence was allowed, in part, by ordering that the term of imprisonment be substituted with a Community Service Order of 80 hours or eight weeks’ imprisonment. The said Stuart Syvret has failed to conform to the conditions of the Community Service Order. Therefore, the said Centenier, on behalf of the said Constable, presents the aforementioned information to the Court in order that it may ordain on the facts contained in the above mentioned statement; the whole in accordance with the terms of Article 7 of the said Law. MAGISTRATE: Thank you very much. Mr Syvret, do you understand what has been said and why you are here? DEFENDANT: Yes, I do. MAGISTRATE: Thank you very much. CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, the Defendant has said that he intends to apply for you to recuse yourself. You spent a considerable period listening to recusal applications some 18 months ago now, I anticipate. The complaints went in that regard as far as the Court of Appeal and were entirely rejected. The complaints as to bias and recusal were rejected by Commissioner Pitchers. There has been a full hearing of these allegations, these repeated allegations. The last time that they were repeated was before Commissioner Pitchers in the middle of August this year and, if you are minded to ask the Defendant whether he has anything new to add from that which was said to the Court in the middle of August 2011, then that is understandable, but he should immediately identify what it is that is new. MAGISTRATE: Yes. Yes, Mr Syvret, if there is anything new, I want you to say very concisely what is new. If I don’t hear anything new within the first couple of minutes, then I am going to stop you. DEFENDANT: Yes, Madam, there are new grounds. Obviously I remain of the view that the old grounds were valid. DEFENDANT: And indeed I think the events showed that that was the case, but Advocate Baker has referred to the Judgment of the Royal Court, which is before you, I believe. DEFENDANT: And if one looks, for example, at paragraphs 59 and 60, it does there describe how the inappropriateness of your conduct on the day of sentencing and the way you applied contempt of Court charges against me without proper due notice and without proper due process against me; and indeed the Royal Court found that these were plainly so insupportable that they were, these particular charges were thrown out by the Royal Court. MAGISTRATE: Yes, thank you. DEFENDANT: The conduct that you exhibited on that day, Madam, on that ground, does show very clear, powerful and dramatic actual bias. One doesn’t even need anything approaching a complex or well versed understanding of law to know that, if you lay a charge before a person, if you accuse them of a criminal offence of some description, especially one that is so significant you’re going to impose a significant sentence upon it, you have to allow that person an opportunity to defend themselves. You have to give them a reasonable notice of the charge, allow them some time to prepare their defence case and to make their defence. You did not on that occasion, Madam, do any of that. Your decisions concerning me were wholly extraordinary, wildly, massively at variance with even the most rudimentary and simple understandings of how the administration of justice operates in a clear and fair and impartial manner. Clearly your conduct was not compliant with Article 6 on that day; and I make the point that this was such a very, very clear matter because it is not as though it could be argued that this was some complex consideration, perhaps an error in law of the kind that can get made or perhaps a misunderstanding of some factual item. This was an extremely aggressive, overtly actually biased decision/decisions on your part on that day and quite extraordinarily so. I mean, I am not aware of another case where a person has been faced with charges of that nature, even contempt of Court charges, when the matter normally can be dealt with summarily of course, but that is in the cases of contempt, direct contempt, in the face of the Court. I have not been able to locate a similar case anywhere that corresponds to your conduct, your attitude towards me as displayed on that day. The charges I had less than 24 hours’ notice of. I applied to reserve my plea. You wouldn’t even allow me to do that. You then entered a not guilty plea on my behalf and I then applied for time to then prepare some defence, some defence argument or possibly some mitigation argument to the charges in question and you absolutely refused an adjournment to me to do that, which was quite extraordinary given that these charges had only been notified to me less than 24 hours beforehand. You then proceeded to find me guilty of these charges and I then sought another adjournment in respect of sentence and sentencing so that I could appeal, and you refused that too and you also pretty much instructed the Prosecution to prepare further charges on the day, which were worked into the proceedings. Now, these are absolutely very clear crystallisations of the bias that you displayed to me throughout the whole proceedings and it was very powerfully and dramatically overt and on display in your conduct in that particular instance, and these were, indeed so insupportable was your conduct on that occasion that not even the Royal Court could uphold it. Now, the conduct that you displayed towards me, the attitude that you displayed towards me on that occasion in that kind of kangaroo court approach that you took does display actual bias, very clearly evidenced actual bias. There is no other word for it. We are not even talking about potential bias here or conduct that might risk appearing to be biased. This was overt, aggressive, biased conduct and one has to also read the Judgment that you delivered on that day and see that there are various passages in it, various observations that depart considerably from consideration of the verdict and the law and so on and effectively amount to a Jersey establishment press release condemning me in all kinds of ways, calling me a liar and things of that nature for having tried to protect my constituents by making the public interest disclosure that I did. Indeed, the evidence that you refused to allow me to use in my defence case is now published so that the public can see for themselves how serious that matter was. You brought, as it were, the Prosecution argument that somehow it had been wrong of me to have published that information, the original information, with some kind of a political commentary alongside it. Now, that may or may not have been a legally correct decision. I don’t believe it was a legally correct decision judgement or yours, nor of the Royal Court consequently, but it is quite one thing, even if I were wrong to have published that material, for me to have published it in a way that didn’t suit your particular interpretation of the law, but then to write at great length of how I was some kind of malicious liar in what I have written---- CROWN ADVOCATE: This can’t be relevant. MAGISTRATE: Is there any … the Royal Court has ruled on my previous Judgment, Mr Syvret. The Royal Court has upheld it and I am not going to reopen anything regarding that. Have you anything else directly to say to me that you haven’t said to me before about why I shouldn’t sit? DEFENDANT: Yes, the, the case uhm that, of the uhm, the uhm, sorry the contempt of Court matters that you put before, that you put before me, this does demonstrate very clearly and dramatically actual bias on your part. MAGISTRATE: Yes, you said that. DEFENDANT: As did a lot of the other proceedings. It is also since those events occurred, which takes me onto the second plank of the argument, and that is really why I am here today, because I obtained some evidence recently from a source in the---- CROWN ADVOCATE: This can’t be relevant to recusal. MAGISTRATE: I don’t think fresh evidence can be relevant to why you are here before the Court or why I shouldn’t sit in the case. DEFENDANT: Well, I think it is. Perhaps you would care to listen to the explanation before coming to a judgement? MAGISTRATE: Well, we’re talking about fresh evidence and the evidence in the case has been heard and that stage of the case is over. DEFENDANT: The evidence in question is a 94 page statement to the Wiltshire Police Force by Graham Power. Now, clearly in a variety of different ways that evidence is of dramatic and central---- CROWN ADVOCATE: I am sorry to---- MAGISTRATE: I just don’t follow this. CROWN ADVOCATE: I did not interrupt Mr Syvret at all---- CROWN ADVOCATE: -----in the substantive proceedings, but it is my intention to interrupt him if it is apparent and obvious that he is going to address the Court on matters which are utterly irrelevant to the issue before it. What you are being asked to do at present is to recuse yourself because of actual bias. A 96 page statement by Mr Power to Wiltshire can have nothing to do with that whatsoever and was canvassed in the Royal Court on appeal and dealt with on appeal by the Royal Court and unless---- DEFENDANT: That’s not true. CROWN ADVOCATE: -----and unless Mr Syvret can show that it has anything to do whatsoever with the recusal application, you shouldn’t hear him. He shouldn’t be given any more indulgence than any other citizen in this position. MAGISTRATE: Mr Syvret---- MAGISTRATE: -----I don’t see on the surface of it what the 96 page statement by somebody else will have to---- DEFENDANT: It is 94 pages actually. MAGISTRATE: Will you tell me in two sentences what the link is between my sitting and this statement? DEFENDANT: Certainly. You, Madam, are mentioned in the document, I think in a couple of points, in your previous capacity as being involved as a legal adviser with the police force in respect of the child protection issues and investigations and that does have a bearing on the recusal application. This was not evidence or knowledge that was in my possession before and this is not an argument that has been advanced before. MAGISTRATE: But I don’t see what that can have to do with breach of a Community Service Order. DEFENDANT: This is in connection with the recusal application, Madam. You have---- MAGISTRATE: Yes, but what I am sitting on is a Representation to do with a breach of a Community Service Order. I’m not sitting on the trial. Mr Syvret, you haven’t raised anything else. DEFENDANT: But this is a part of the recusal application---- MAGISTRATE: Which can be---- DEFENDANT: -----this is evidence that I was not aware of previously that I am now aware of which goes further to the fact that you have a history, as it were, of involvement in the background issues and that goes further to the strength of the argument that you must recuse yourself from this case. Your past involvement with these matters and your acquaintance with a number of the individuals involved, of the interested parties as it were, is magnified and made even clearer by the fresh evidence. MAGISTRATE: Okay, well---- DEFENDANT: That is fresh evidence that goes to---- MAGISTRATE: -----well that is your point, right. DEFENDANT: -----the recusal ap---- MAGISTRATE: I hear what you are saying. Thank you very much. DEFENDANT: -----the application. DEFENDANT: The evidence is of further relevance, and I must address this because Advocate Baker raised the point, I did not. Advocate Baker suggested, and he used the word “canvassed”, he suggested that the matter of the 94 page statement of Mr Power had been dealt with in detail in the Royal Court. It in fact had not. That is simply incorrect and that is another one of the numerous untruths uttered by Advocate Baker throughout these proceedings. I repeatedly, indeed before you and before the Royal Court, sought disclosure of this document. Advocate Baker throughout most of the proceedings repeatedly asserted that this document would not be disclosed because, in his judgement, it was of no relevance to the Defence arguments of things like abuse of process and malicious prosecution. MAGISTRATE: Mr Syvret, thank you very much. I have heard enough about that. MAGISTRATE: I don’t see that---- DEFENDANT: Am I allowed to actually make my case? MAGISTRATE: I have heard enough, thank you very much. Would you, would you sit down? DEFENDANT: I haven’t finished making my case. MAGISTRATE: Well, you might not have finished, Mr Syvret, but you’re saying there is something in this statement to say that I worked for the Law Officers and had some involvement in child abuse cases in the past. From what you’ve been telling me, I cannot see that this can have any possible relevance to whether I should sit on a breach of Community Service Order in the Court now, so would you just take a seat for the moment? DEFENDANT: -----well, Madam, I must respond to that. What you are hearing today, whether it is a breach of Community Service Order or any other matter, the nature of the case you are hearing is immaterial. You are sitting in the capacity of a judge and, if I have grounds for considering that you are conflicted or that you have exhibited bias towards me, I am entitled to make that argument. The particular nature of the case you are hearing is immaterial. If there is a credible argument that you have exhibited actual bias, then you have exhibited actual bias and the nature---- MAGISTRATE: You have made that point---- DEFENDANT: -----the nature of---- MAGISTRATE: -----in relation to the contempt of Court. Now you are bringing in something that doesn’t seem to me to be directly relevant. DEFENDANT: Madam, this is of relevance as to whether you are capable of being an objective judge in any matter concerning me and I do not believe that you are capable of being an objective judge in this matter before the Court today or, frankly, in any other matter concerning me. That is the argument I am making and now if I could please---- MAGISTRATE: Right, thank you. No, I understand the argument you are making, Mr Syvret. Would you sit down, please? DEFENDANT: But I haven’t---- MAGISTRATE: I want to hear from Mr Baker. DEFENDANT: But I haven’t finished making---- MAGISTRATE: No, I don’t wish to hear any more, Mr Syvret. MAGISTRATE: I understand the nature of what you’re saying. MAGISTRATE: If what you’re saying is right, then---- DEFENDANT: With respect, Madam, there---- MAGISTRATE: -----you’ve said sufficient already on the contempt matters. DEFENDANT: There are entire strands of the argument that I have not yet addressed. MAGISTRATE: Mr Syvret, I just don’t see that you’re saying anything to me that I can see is relevant to the proceedings today. DEFENDANT: Any matter that demonstrated conflicts of interests or bias on your part---- DEFENDANT: -----is of relevance. MAGISTRATE: Yes, but you have raised it and I understand that you’ve raised it. DEFENDANT: I haven’t yet---- MAGISTRATE: And, therefore, I shall take it into account---- DEFENDANT: I haven’t yet finished. MAGISTRATE: -----when I consider what to do. DEFENDANT: But I haven’t yet finished making the argument. MAGISTRATE: You have raised the matter and said that I was involved in child abuse cases when I worked for the Law Officers’ Department. Where does that take you? DEFENDANT: Well, we go back to the earlier considerations and they do have to be put forward again in that---- MAGISTRATE: No, no, you have said the earlier considerations. MAGISTRATE: Can we go back to the---- DEFENDANT: -----when you---- MAGISTRATE: -----to what you are saying to me now because I really don’t follow what you’re saying. DEFENDANT: When you made the earlier decision not to recuse and you considered yourself able to hear this case, you did on that occasion refuse, as you did on several occasions throughout the proceedings, you refused to itemise and declare openly who your particular acquaintances were, who you knew and so on and the extent to which you may have worked with them. Now, if you worked further with these people, as indeed is indicated by this statement, then that is further grounds for me, new grounds for me, arguing that for you to meet the test of coherence of objectivity, you must declare quite openly the full extent and nature of your acquaintance with any of these interested parties. That is a perfectly reasonable test of openness and transparency. If you do not declare openly each such acquaintance, then you can’t meet the test of the appearance of objectivity. DEFENDANT: And the recently obtained evidence adds weight to my previous argument that there is a requirement for you to declare quite openly your acquaintances with any of the involved parties. There is another dimension to this argument too, which I advance against you hearing any case concerning me, and---- MAGISTRATE: What is that? DEFENDANT: That is the question of judicial, simply professional competence. Anyone has a right to a fair hearing under Article 6 of the ECHR---- DEFENDANT: -----and part of a fair hearing has to be competency. If a judge isn’t fully competent, then they are not capable of presiding over a hearing in an effective manner. DEFENDANT: Now, you, Madam, agreed with the Prosecution throughout that they not be required to disclose to me any of the evidence I sought that was of relevance, obviously central relevance, to what were in many ways the very key foundation stones of the Defence argument. Those arguments were abuse of process, malicious prosecution, politicised prosecution and personal conflicts of interest on the part of the prosecutor. Now that was, if you like, the very centre, in many ways the foundation stone of the defence case throughout. You repeatedly refused, quite remarkably, to disclose any of that evidence, in particular and expressly and directly the evidence provided by Mr Power to the Wiltshire investigation. That was never a decision I accepted. I always knew perfectly well that there would be, quite obviously, material within that evidence that would, could not be anything other than of relevance to the Defence arguments, but you refused and that evidence was not disclosed to me. DEFENDANT: I have now obtained the evidence and I will be exploring it in some detail and it shows in fact, precisely as one would expect, I think as any reasonable person even without legal training would expect, and fully as I expected, that in fact substantial parts of that evidence do without question go absolutely directly and most powerfully to the Defence case I was running---- MAGISTRATE: Hmm hmm. DEFENDANT: -----namely abuse of process, malicious prosecution and essentially a structural set of proceedings by the prosecution authority in Jersey that were wholly non-compliant with the ECHR. Now that Defence argument now is effectively proven and Mr Power’s statement proves it, as it was probably always going to do. I believe that so extraordinary was your decision not to order the disclosure of that evidence to me and indeed some other similar decisions that it has to raise very serious questions about your basic competency as a judge. MAGISTRATE: Right, okay, that’s your third point. DEFENDANT: And there are also other questions that have to go towards the whole consideration of competency. It is entirely right that when considering whether judicial proceedings are Article 6 compliant, the person before the tribunal has a right to consider that everyone taking part in it is fully competent and to understand what the methodology and the standards are of the proceedings taking place. Further to that end, I repeatedly sought disclosure from you of whichever third party or parties you’ve taken advice and guidance from during the course of the proceedings against me and during adjournments and so on and again you have refused to disclose that information, much like---- CROWN ADVOCATE: This must be a repeat. DEFENDANT: -----much like you refused to disclose … well, it is a different argument if you don’t mind. CROWN ADVOCATE: It is a repeat. DEFENDANT: You refused to disclose---- MAGISTRATE: All right. DEFENDANT: -----the acquaintances you had. MAGISTRATE: So you are saying for various reasons I am incompetent, yes? DEFENDANT: Yes, Madam, I think you are on the evidence, and this is not merely an assertion of mine. DEFENDANT: And this is an important point because obviously it is very easy for any accused person just to stand up and cast condemnations upon the Court that is hearing them and, you know, justice would not function if such claims were to be taken seriously without any kind of evidential background to any kind of robust grounds for making such claims, but in this particular case I do have such robust claims. I am able to argue in powerfully evidenced detail that you have in fact made many decisions in this case certainly concerning me and possibly in other cases too that do cast the most telling light on your basic competency as a judge. Now that is an entirely legitimate argument. If it is true, then the proceedings you preside over will not be Article 6 compliant, so, if I can show to the tribunal, if I can demonstrate that you have made basic errors and that you’ve been incompetent in some regards as a judge, then your capacity in the past tribunal and indeed any other tribunal hearing matters concerning me becomes vitiated. MAGISTRATE: Thank you. MAGISTRATE: I understand what you’re saying. DEFENDANT: -----that is an argument I am entitled to make and to make on an evidenced basis. MAGISTRATE: No, you can make representations---- DEFENDANT: I want to tell you---- MAGISTRATE: -----which you have just have done. Mr Baker? CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, the Defendant has, as he so frequently does, utterly overstated his case. He accuses you of actual bias and incompetence and what the material that he has drawn to your attention shows is only this, that the Appellate Court concluded that you had made errors in procedure. It makes no comments whatsoever on the merits of the conduct which was under consideration. By that I mean merits of the conduct by the Defendant, which was under consideration. There is absolutely nothing to suggest actual bias. There is nothing to suggest apparent bias and any reasonably or properly informed independent observer would come to no conclusion other than the Appellate Court had concluded that you followed the wrong procedure in what is a difficult area and an uncommon area of law to have to deal with. His attacks upon your competence are wholly misplaced. Your Judgment at first instance was upheld in its entirety effectively by the Appellate Court. The Court had no criticism whatsoever of your conclusion that the Defendant had lied to you. It concluded that the convictions on the main charges were entirely justified. In fact, the proper reading of the transcripts and the whole of the case shows that you have demonstrated remarkable patience with the Defendant, as in fact have all the judges who have had to deal with this Defendant’s case, and you have shown remarkable patience in the face of unprovoked and unsustainable and (in the words, in the mouths of a lawyer) utterly improper allegations against you. There is nothing whatsoever in this application that you recuse yourself and you should sit. MAGISTRATE: Thank you very much. Mr Syvret---- DEFENDANT: I haven’t actually finished. MAGISTRATE: Well, I have heard four headings under which I shouldn’t sit. Is there a separate heading? DEFENDANT: Well, I mean, I am dealing with the evidence under those headings. MAGISTRATE: No, no. I have heard those headings. I have heard you outline what your arguments are. It is not an occasion on which to bring evidence. I will deal with this matter by way of submissions. I have heard submissions from you and I have heard them from Mr Baker. I would say I am not going to recuse myself in this case. MAGISTRATE: I do not have actual bias against you and any informed bystander I believe would not think that there is an appearance of bias. DEFENDANT: No informed bystander---- MAGISTRATE: The case against you was taken on appeal to the Royal Court. The Royal Court found that I did make procedural errors in dealing with your contempt. The Court has dealt with that. That doesn’t mean that any judge who is overturned by a superior Court bears malice towards a defendant in that case. Nor does the procedure I adopted on that occasion demonstrate actual bias towards you. In terms of my competence, the vast majority of my decision at first instance was upheld by the Royal Court. I was right, they said, on the disclosure issue and I don’t think my competence is being, can seriously be called into question. MAGISTRATE: So, Mr Syvret---- DEFENDANT: -----with respect---- MAGISTRATE: -----I intend to---- DEFENDANT: -----I haven’t yet finished. MAGISTRATE: No, that is the recusal matter over with. DEFENDANT: Well, I have to state that it is not the recusal matter over with as far as I am concerned because you have not permitted me to explain the facts properly. MAGISTRATE: No, you have brought up the planks of your argument, Mr Syvret. I don’t think they are sustainable. DEFENDANT: We have not seen, we have not examined, we have not considered the evidence. MAGISTRATE: No, well we’re not going into the evidence. We don’t go into the evidence in cases like that. DEFENDANT: But there is---- MAGISTRATE: We deal with the matter by way of representation. DEFENDANT: There is ample evidence available which could be explored and argued about here and now that would indeed seriously challenge your competency. Indeed, one of the factors that makes that relevant to be dealt with at this particular time is the fact that that evidence was not in fact before the Royal Court and was not in fact heard or considered by the Royal Court, largely due to the mendacity of Advocate Baker; and that evidence does in fact now, as it is before this Court at the moment, does in fact go powerfully to questions of your competence, and this is not a matter that has been dealt with in any other Court---- DEFENDANT: -----because of the failure to disclose the evidence. It is now before this Court for the first time and it does indeed form a substantive argument, evidenced grounds for exploring whether you are competent as a judge and I have a right to make that argument. For example---- MAGISTRATE: Mr Syvret, we are here to deal with an allegation of breach of a Community Service Order. DEFENDANT: Well, with respect, we’re here first of all to---- MAGISTRATE: No, no, Mr---- DEFENDANT: -----we are here first of all to deal with---- MAGISTRATE: Mr Syvret---- DEFENDANT:-----the question of whether your presiding---- MAGISTRATE: No, we are not. DEFENDANT: -----over this Court case---- MAGISTRATE: I have ruled on that matter, Mr Syvret. DEFENDANT: -----is Article 6 compliant. MAGISTRATE: I don’t wish to ask, I don’t wish to hear any more. DEFENDANT: So you’re not---- MAGISTRATE: That matter is, that matter is closed. DEFENDANT: So you’re not prepared to hear the evidence? MAGISTRATE: Mr Baker, can we carry on? DEFENDANT: You’re not going to permit me to explain the evidence? MAGISTRATE: No, no. MAGISTRATE: I’m not. CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, before I do, can I just say that the suggestion that the “mendacity of Advocate Baker” could in any way persuade a High Court Judge not to look at something is utterly ridiculous and it should be dismissed for the piffle that it is. Can I then move on to the breach of the Community Service Order? DEFENDANT: I can bring the transcripts up. CROWN ADVOCATE: This matter is listed before the Court today because the Defendant has been ordered to serve 80 hours’ community service. That 80 hours’ community service was imposed for an offence of contempt of Court. The contempt of Court was his absconding from Jersey for some six months and thus not being available for his trial. In England, the matter would have been dealt with under the Bail Act in all likelihood, but in Jersey by our law it is dealt with as a contempt of Court and it is dealt with frequently as a contempt of Court in this Court. He was convicted and sentenced by you for contempt of Court on the 17th of November 2010. A transcript of what transpired is in the bundle before you and will be easily in your recollection in any event, Madam, but he was sentenced to eight weeks’ imprisonment for that contempt of Court. The reason that he was sentenced to eight months’(sic) imprisonment---- MAGISTRATE: Eight weeks. CROWN ADVOCATE: Eight weeks, I do apologise, eight weeks’ imprisonment that day was because he refused the offer of community service as an alternative. You specifically gave him the opportunity of undertaking community service and he declined it and you therefore sentenced him to eight weeks’ imprisonment, which was inevitable. He thereafter, as soon as he could, applied for bail from the Royal Court and he was granted bail by the Royal Court pending his appeal in regard to a series of convictions and sentences which had been passed, but it is only the contempt for absconding which concerns you today. His appeal against conviction was rejected by the Royal Court on the 11th of August of this year and, as to sentence, the learned Commissioner and Jurats offered him the opportunity of doing community service and he accepted that opportunity. Commissioner Pitchers told him on that occasion that he had no doubt that he could do community service and asked him whether he was willing to do it as an alternative to prison. The Defendant said that he was. The Commissioner then substituted 80 hours’ community service for the contempt and told the Defendant that, if he failed to comply, he could be resentenced and made it clear “This is the sentence that the Magistrate wanted to pass the first time round”, so he was left in no doubt as to what the consequences might be should he fail to co-operate and carry out his community service. It is alleged that he has failed to comply with the requirements of the Community Service Order. He has refused to attend a single appointment for work. He attended one meeting at the Community Service, at the Probation and was largely offensive and insulting at that meeting. You have before you a report prepared by Mr Le Marrec, who sits behind me, dated the 12th of October 2011 and who is available to give evidence or answer questions, as is the normal course in this Court. I hope I can encapsulate the Probation Service’s position, but they can speak for themselves if and when you have questions for them, Madam, but that they consider that the Defendant has been dismissive of them and has effectively been contemptuous of them in the casual use of the word. You will see that in paragraph 4 of the report “You don’t really expect me to take this seriously” is what he says to Community Service, and this days after he has been sentenced to community service as an alternative to custody. (Pause) MAGISTRATE: Carry on. CROWN ADVOCATE: As I say, the Probation Officers can speak for themselves, but arrangements had been made for him to attend Community Service on a Wednesday morning, on a day when lighter work and more vulnerable prisoners – sorry, not prisoners, more vulnerable convicted persons – are carrying out their order. They tend to carry out tasks at the zoo, at Durrell, sweeping up leaves and the like. What I submit to you – and you should ask the Probation Officers some questions – but what the report which the Probation Service has prepared for you reveals is just exactly the same type of conduct as you have faced for 18 months and which the Royal Court faced, with him playing a medical card when he thinks its suits him, being dismissive of people when it suits him and not engaging and then making allegations against people when it suits him. So that when he comes across people who don’t see the world as he does, or who want him to do something he doesn’t want to, he seems incapable of engaging with them and, rather than engaging in reason and reaching compromise with them, he accuses them, makes wild allegations with virtually no evidence or no evidence at all to back it up. What you see in the report, I repeat, is what you’ve seen throughout these proceedings and he is “swinging the lead. “ Commissioner Pitchers was in no doubt in the middle of August that he was capable of doing community service. He is Exhibit A as to why he is capable of doing community service. He is a man who will argue with you until he is blue in the face. He will talk across you. He will insult you and he is more than capable of engaging with things when he wants to. It is just when he doesn’t want to, when it doesn’t suit him that he decides that oh he’s too ill, “I’ve got a doctor’s report saying that I’m unfit for work” and he resorts to insults and excuses as to why he can’t comply with something he has been ordered to do; this in circumstances where a retired High Court Judge says that he is certain that he can carry out community service. Again, you doubtless will ask some questions of the Officers, but 95% of people who are ordered to do community service in Jersey carry it out, and in the Wednesday working group at the moment there are several people who have doctors’ certificates saying they are unfit for work, who carry out community service. It is about seven hours on a Wednesday. It can be as low as four and a half hours and any sensible engagement with Probation leads to persons being able to carry out community service. Madam, you have power to deal with the alleged breach under Article 20(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Law. I don’t intend to take you to it unless you wish me to. MAGISTRATE: Article 23? CROWN ADVOCATE: I have got 20(3). MAGISTRATE: Yes, sorry 20. CROWN ADVOCATE: It is behind divider 8---- CROWN ADVOCATE: -----of the bundle I have put before you. CROWN ADVOCATE: Do you wish me to read it? MAGISTRATE: Yes, the Royal Court has effectively varied a decision of the Magistrates’ Court. Is that what you’re saying? CROWN ADVOCATE: Yes, that is right. CROWN ADVOCATE: The Defendant claims to have material which affects the safety of his conviction on one of the data protection offences. Any such material is entirely irrelevant to this Community Service Order, which he has been ordered to complete for contempt of Court, not for the data protection offence, about which he says there is evidence which may affect the safety of that conviction. It is plain that he has been told that in terms by Commissioner Pitchers, and there is an email behind divider 6. MAGISTRATE: Hmm hmm. CROWN ADVOCATE: Mr Syvret wrote to the Bailiff’s Judicial Secretary saying he needed an immediate injunction, or something of that type, to suspend the orders which had been made against him, and Commissioner Pitchers replied through the Bailiff’s Judicial Secretary, saying that he had read the documents submitted by Syvret, “he wishes to seek a stay of the orders made on appeal, applications properly made to me, he argues a new witness is relevant in the defence of public interest under Article 55 of the law” – that is the offence I was referring to. MAGISTRATE: Hmm hmm. CROWN ADVOCATE: “Accordingly whatever the outcome of this application for convictions and sentences to do with the data protection offences, the two motoring offences and the contempt of Court offence will be unaffected. The fines and the community service for those offences will remain.” So he knows, because Commissioner Pitchers has told him, that any material which might be relevant (and there will be a dispute as to that doubtless) to the data protection offence is not relevant to this. Madam, if the breach of Community Service Order is proved or admitted by the Defendant, then you have various options. One option is to allow the order to run with a final warning to the Defendant that, if he does not complete community service, then you will have no option but to send him to prison. That is entirely your decision and the Crown in this Court has no role in submitting as to what it believes you should do, but, should the Defendant refuse to undertake community service, then the likelihood is that the Court will be left with no option but to send him to prison to serve the eight weeks’ imprisonment. The Prosecution indicates that it has no desire that the Defendant be sent to prison. It is in highly unusual circumstances, that people get themselves into a position where a Court has to send them to prison where they have been sentenced to community service. If he is sentenced to imprisonment, it will be entirely a consequence of his own acts and he would effectively have chosen to be imprisoned. It is all his doing. It is all his choice. Madam, I have told you that there is a report from the Probation Services dated the 12th of October 2011. Mr Le Marrec is here behind me, as is his boss, if you will excuse the colloquialness, and they are here to answer any questions you might have. MAGISTRATE: Has that report from Mr Le Marrec been supplied to Mr Syvret? CROWN ADVOCATE: Yes. MAGISTRATE: Thank you. Mr Syvret, you’ve---- DEFENDANT: Can I make my---- DEFENDANT: Can I make my case now? MAGISTRATE: No, I’m going to ask you some questions about what Mr Baker has just said. Firstly, he said that there is an allegation of a breach of a Community Service Order, and the details of what is alleged to amount to the breach is contained in a report by Mr Le Marrec. Have you read the report by Mr Le Marrec? DEFENDANT: I only received the report, it was handed to me in a physical copy today. I’ve glanced at it briefly. I haven’t had time, sufficient time to absorb it, properly read it and absorb it all. MAGISTRATE: Has that been emailed to you before? DEFENDANT: No, it has not. The first I have seen of this was today. CROWN ADVOCATE: As for me, as with me. MAGISTRATE: You saw it for the first time today? CROWN ADVOCATE: Yes, I did. MAGISTRATE: The report. DEFENDANT: With respect, Advocate Baker is a trained lawyer. I am a lay person. MAGISTRATE: I beg your pardon? DEFENDANT: I said, with respect, Advocate Baker is a trained lawyer. I am a lay person. I haven’t had sufficient time to consider this. CROWN ADVOCATE: You have had all day. He has had all day. He has had from ten o’clock to read this. MAGISTRATE: Well, Mr Syvret, this isn’t so much a matter of law but a matter of fact. All the law requires for you to do is to do the work as directed and to keep appointments and Mr Le Marrec’s report is saying what he says happened. So have you actually read the report? DEFENDANT: I have glanced through it briefly. I haven’t had a chance to study it or absorb it, no. MAGISTRATE: At this stage are you able to say whether you agree or disagree with the basic allegations that Mr Baker has just---- DEFENDANT: I can’t, no. MAGISTRATE: -----enunciated, that you failed to keep appointments? DEFENDANT: Well, I failed to keep the appointments, but I have been signed, signed off ill. I mean, that is, that is the case. I mean, as far as the specific detailed allegations, I have not yet had time to consider them. CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, it is entirely a matter for you, but let’s give him 15 minutes to read it. DEFENDANT: Well, with all due respect, I haven’t yet---- CROWN ADVOCATE: He has had all day. He has had all day and it is not acceptable to be in Court for breach of community service, to be given the report and not to bother reading it. DEFENDANT: But with all due respect---- CROWN ADVOCATE: He knows he is here for breach of community service. This is the report and to tell you that he has skimmed it is utterly unacceptable. DEFENDANT: Madam, this, this, this grandstanding and this PR speak by Advocate Baker playing to the gallery is really quite transparent and quite tiresome. MAGISTRATE: Well, what I want to know---- DEFENDANT: If people are being thrust documents upon them that they are then being expected to comment upon in a case that day, it isn’t adequate. It is simply basic rudimentary due process that people are given adequate time to reflect upon documents. People might want to take advice on documents. This is not unreasonable. This is a perfectly proper approach and---- MAGISTRATE: Yes. Mr Syvret, can I just stop you there? The other question that I wanted to ask you is whether you wish to be legally represented in these proceedings and have you thought about applying for Legal Aid? DEFENDANT: Well my view on that remains the same as it has always been. I would like to be legally represented by a paid lawyer of my choice, but, as that is not going to happen, then I have to represent, I have to try. MAGISTRATE: So you accept that you are going to represent yourself in this matter? DEFENDANT: With reluctance, yes. CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, this matter has been dealt with in entirely the usual way. He has been treated exactly as any other citizen. MAGISTRATE: Well, yes. Mr Baker, I was just going to make the point that it is the usual practice in this Court to ask a defendant whether they wish to seek legal advice and, if they do, to grant a two week adjournment. That is perfectly standard practice and Mr Syvret will be afforded that opportunity should he wish to take advantage of it. From what you’ve just said, you don’t seem to want an adjournment to seek legal advice. Is that correct? DEFENDANT: Well, I may well try and take some pro bono legal advice on these matters, yes, I may well do that. MAGISTRATE: Well, I---- DEFENDANT: But, you know, the question you put to me was whether I would be represented by a lawyer. DEFENDANT: And my answer to that is no. If the question is will I, would I like an opportunity to seek some pro bono advice on these matters, the answer is yes. DEFENDANT: They are two different questions. MAGISTRATE: Well, right. Can I just stop---- DEFENDANT: But, but---- MAGISTRATE: -----can I just stop you there, because this matter, if the Court is, if the matter is proved to the satisfaction of the Court that you were to be in breach, then clearly you would be at risk of going to custody. You understand that, don’t you? DEFENDANT: I do. MAGISTRATE: Very well. In that circumstance, the Court would normally make an adjournment available for someone to seek legal advice. Now, whether that is pro bono advice or whether that is advice that you pay for or that is advice under the Legal Aid Scheme, that is a matter for you, but you can face custody if this matter is found against you. DEFENDANT: Yes, I fully understand that. MAGISTRATE: You have been given this report from Mr Le Marrec today. I would have thought that you would have been able to read that in some detail because you have had several hours today, but I want to give you an opportunity, if you wish to take the opportunity, to take legal advice as to your situation---- DEFENDANT: Well, I---- MAGISTRATE: -----including any matters raised in the report and any matters you would like to raise if you want to say that you are not in breach of this Community Service Order. DEFENDANT: Yes, indeed. I would indeed want to take advice on those points because there are---- MAGISTRATE: Well, yes, I don’t really need to know why---- MAGISTRATE: -----but that is the normal procedure of the Court. So---- DEFENDANT: I’m trying to, well, to answer you, and I am trying to assist the Court, Madam. To answer your question, would I wish an adjournment to take advice on the report and the options in it and what arguments I might make---- MAGISTRATE: And what arguments? Because what would happen if I did find---- DEFENDANT: The answer to your question---- MAGISTRATE: -----if the Court did find---- DEFENDANT: -----the answer to your question is yes. MAGISTRATE: Yes, because, if the Court did find that you were in breach, then the Court has various options, and sentencing, re-sentencing for the original offence is one of them, for which you might like to take advice. MAGISTRATE: -----and you might like to take advice as to, and sit back and think about what position you’re in and what your approach to the Community Service Order is in the cold light of day. DEFENDANT: Well, if---- MAGISTRATE: So what I am going to do, Mr Syvret, is adjourn the case for two weeks. That is the standard adjournment. DEFENDANT: But before---- MAGISTRATE: Is that a convenient date for the Court? (Magistrate conferred with Deputy Greffier) Tuesday the 25th? DEFENDANT: Before the, I am trying to assist the Court here---- DEFENDANT: -----so as not to have be accused of raising these issues again in the future. I am trying to be helpful. I was going to apply for an adjournment in any event because I want to subject your decision today to a judicial review. You are, that is your decision to refuse to recuse. DEFENDANT: You are a public authority exercising a statutory power. DEFENDANT: Exercising a discretionary power. All public authorities bar statutory waiver are susceptible to judicial review. DEFENDANT: Now, there is no appeal of course that lays from interlocutory decisions in the Magistrates’ Court. I think we have established that on past procedures. There are, however, grounds, and this does relate to the matter that we have just discussed actually, the question as to whether I have breached the order, there are matters that I need to take advice on and there are grounds upon which I would seek judicial review of your decisions in this matter. MAGISTRATE: I think the 25th of October should be sufficient, Mr Syvret. CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, I am not available on the 25th of October. It is a half term week---- MAGISTRATE: Oh yes. CROWN ADVOCATE: -----and I have arranged to be away for some considerable time. MAGISTRATE: Yes. What about the beginning of the following week? CROWN ADVOCATE: I am in Court on the 1st of November. DEFENDANT: Madam, could I finish the point I was making, because it may help the Court in making its arrangements? MAGISTRATE: Hmm hmm. DEFENDANT: Advocate Baker made a number of assertions which are untrue. For example, he accused me of not engaging with these procedures. MAGISTRATE: Hmm hmm. DEFENDANT: Well, I am more than happy to engage with the full range of judicial procedures and I am more than happy to use those, and I am entitled to use them in ways that meet my human rights. Advocate Baker also asserted quite volubly that I make “wild allegations” that are not substantiated with evidence. Well, as I think today’s proceedings have demonstrated, as indeed did a lot of the other proceedings, I do have in fact ample evidence that does prove my concerns, but I am repeatedly prevented from using that evidence in Jersey’s courts. Now, one of the reasons that I wish to judicially review this matter is that the key argument I am bringing forward – and this does address a point that was advanced by Advocate Baker in his arguments a moment ago – he suggested that this matter was simply a question of whether I had complied with the order in respect of the contempt of Court charge. Advocate Baker asserted, therefore, that any matters I might raise or bring before this Court or other courts were, or this Court, were of no relevance. The other charges, for example, were of no relevance. DEFENDANT: Well, that isn’t the case because my key argument is that the entire proceedings against me dating from the very original decisions of the Attorney General to have me investigated, raided, arrested, charged and prosecuted, right back from that day forward, the entire proceedings against me are structurally unlawful and evidencedly so an demonstrably so. Now, the case, if I had access to a higher Court where I could run these arguments, let us suppose hypothetically, I know you don’t share my views on this matter, but it must be regarded as a hypothetical consideration. Let us suppose hypothetically I were to win that argument which did show and did prove that the basic fundamental administrative decisions and decisions of the Attorney General concerning all of the actions taken against me in the first place and all of the charges and so on, were structurally unlawful, then all of the proceedings against me and all of the charges and all of the convictions would fall away. DEFENDANT: And that would---- MAGISTRATE: You have---- DEFENDANT: -----true of all of them. MAGISTRATE: Yes, but---- MAGISTRATE: -----but you have exhausted those remedies, Mr Syvret. DEFENDANT: With respect, Madam, no, I have not. Since the decision in the Royal Court to reject the appeal, two things have occurred. A witness came into my knowledge who could well have placed an entirely different complexion upon the whole public interest disclosure argument I ran, and in fact that witness was known to the Court Greffier, Mr Le Heuze, yet the identity and the existence of that witness was not informed to me, not notified to me and I came, I had no knowledge of this witness until after the appeal when the witness themselves approached me. The second factor that has changed is of course I have come into the possession of the 94 page statement of Mr Power. Now, both of these dramatic bits of evidence do clearly at the very least more than justify the reopening of the appeal. These clearly are matters that should have been considered and I should have had access to as evidence to enable the working of these considerations into at least my appeal and frankly probably the proceedings beforehand. Now, had I been able to do so, it is conceivable, it’s possible that such evidence, particularly for example the report of Mr Power, would have demonstrated sufficiently to the Court indeed my argument that I have always made, the actions of the Attorney General were unlawful, would be upheld, in which case all of these proceedings would be overthrown. Now the difficulty I face from a legal perspective is that I sought---- MAGISTRATE: I can’t see that, Mr Syvret, at all. MAGISTRATE: I can’t see that as a matter of law is possible. DEFENDANT: It is. CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, the---- DEFENDANT: Well, it is possible--- CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, his comments are legally illiterate. He is being sentenced for contempt of Court, namely absconding. MAGISTRATE: Yes, yes. CROWN ADVOCATE: That is what you are dealing with. MAGISTRATE: Yes, I entirely take your point, Mr Baker. CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, I am not going to suggest that you depart from your normal procedure and an adjournment for legal advice. MAGISTRATE: No, no, no. CROWN ADVOCATE: Excuse me, I am speaking. DEFENDANT: Well, I was speaking actually. MAGISTRATE: No, I want to hear Mr Baker at the moment. I just want a date. CROWN ADVOCATE: If that is the normal, if that is the normal procedure, then I don’t in any way suggest---- MAGISTRATE: Yes, yes. CROWN ADVOCATE: -----that you should not follow it, you should, but I do make it plain that, on 16th September, a month or so ago now, Mr Le Marrec wrote to Mr Syvret saying “It has been decided to return your case to Court because, in the opinion of the Community Service Officer, you have failed to comply with the conditions of the Community Service Order. This is known as breaching the order. You will be notified when a Court date has been set---- CROWN ADVOCATE: -----You are strongly urged to seek legal advice. If you wish to apply for Legal Aid, then you should call the Legal Aid Office or email the current Acting Bâtonnier. You may then be given a personal appointment.” So what you have here, you should of course follow the normal procedure, but what you have here is this man again manipulating events to his benefit. MAGISTRATE: Well, I am afraid that the experience of this Court, Mr Baker, is a lot of people appear before this Court without having taken legal advice first when they perhaps should have done. CROWN ADVOCATE: I am sorry, Madam, I didn’t mean to sit down, yes. MAGISTRATE: All I want to do at this stage---- DEFENDANT: In response---- MAGISTRATE: Mr Syvret---- DEFENDANT: May I respond? MAGISTRATE: No, Mr Syvret---- DEFENDANT: Well, Madam---- MAGISTRATE: -----the things you are telling me---- DEFENDANT: -----you have just allowed---- MAGISTRATE: -----no, Mr Syvret, the things that you are telling me---- DEFENDANT: -----you have just allowed Advocate Baker---- MAGISTRATE: -----are not---- DEFENDANT: -----to lie. You have just allowed Advocate Baker---- DEFENDANT: -----to make a misleading assertion. MAGISTRATE: I am---- DEFENDANT: I received that email that he has---- MAGISTRATE: I am not interested in that email, Mr Syvret. DEFENDANT: -----referred to. The report in question that I was given today---- MAGISTRATE: I am saying I am not interested in it. DEFENDANT: The report in question---- MAGISTRATE: A lot of people don’t---- DEFENDANT: -----that had the detail I was only---- MAGISTRATE: -----get the Legal Aid that they need. DEFENDANT: -----handed today. MAGISTRATE: I am adjourning this case for you to seek Legal Aid and I am asking for a date from the Greffier---- MAGISTRATE: -----which is convenient to the parties. DEFENDANT: But, Madam, I was in the middle of speaking when Advocate Baker interrupted. MAGISTRATE: But you’re in the middle of saying things, Mr Syvret, that really don’t make a great deal of sense. You’re hypothesising that you might have a third route of appeal, sorry a second route of appeal beyond the Royal Court and hypothesising that a number of not only the case to which you think you might have a route of appeal would be thrown out but everything else besides. I really don’t think that that is tenable in any way. Therefore---- DEFENDANT: But, Madam, with respect, you---- MAGISTRATE: -----I am going to allow an adjournment for you to seek legal advice. DEFENDANT: -----you have just expressed a prejudiced view and you haven’t even considered the evidence yet. MAGISTRATE: It is not a question of evidence, Mr Syvret, at this stage---- DEFENDANT: Well, if Court cases are not questions of evidence---- MAGISTRATE: -----it is a question of allowing you an adjournment for legal advice and, therefore, I am asking for a date from the Greffier. DEFENDANT: May I finish what I was saying when Advocate Baker interrupted? MAGISTRATE: No, you may not. DEPUTY GREFFIER: Madam, if Mr Baker is not available on the 1st, if Mr Syvret is also available, the 2nd in the afternoon. Might I suggest Wednesday the 2nd pm? MAGISTRATE: 2nd of November. DEFENDANT: Can I finish what I was saying? MAGISTRATE: Well, no, you can tell me whether you are available on the 2nd of November. DEFENDANT: Well, this was the point I was attempting to address. MAGISTRATE: No, you are saying that you would like to take my decision on recusal to judicial review. 2nd of November would give you time to make an application should the Court entertain that and, if you wish to take legal advice you can do so and, if you don’t have any other reason why you shouldn’t attend on 2nd November, then I shall adjourn the case until that date. DEFENDANT: Well, if I may continue with the explanation I was making before Advocate Baker interrupted---- MAGISTRATE: No, no, Mr Syvret, I just don’t see the relevance of what you are saying. I am going to adjourn the case---- DEFENDANT: With all due respect, Madam---- MAGISTRATE: -----until the 2nd of November. DEFENDANT: -----you’ve not yet heard what I was going to say, so how can you gauge whether it is going to be relevant? MAGISTRATE: Well, you have prefaced it with a long introduction relating to additional evidence that you might have in other cases. I just don’t see how they can impact on the case that we’re dealing with at the moment. DEFENDANT: Well, admittedly---- MAGISTRATE: 2nd of November---- DEFENDANT: -----admittedly I’m not a lawyer, but let me try and explain my thinking---- MAGISTRATE: -----at 2.30pm. DEFENDANT: -----on the question. My thinking is that if, as I believe it does, the statement of Mr Power demonstrates structural unlawfulness of the office of Attorney General in respect of me, then all of the decisions of that office in respect of me are vitiated. MAGISTRATE: Yes, yes, I understand that that is what you think. DEFENDANT: That is, well it is not a question of what I think, Madam. There are, there is substantial case law on the requirement, the very strict requirement from public authorities when making discretionary decisions such as those to prosecute. There is a very clear body of evidence that such public authorities must not be conflicted---- DEFENDANT: -----and that officers within them must not have direct personal conflicts of interest. Now, this is rock solid, uncontroversial, English jurisprudence. MAGISTRATE: Yes, I understand you want---- DEFENDANT: I am pointing---- MAGISTRATE: -----to raise these matters, Mr Syvret---- DEFENDANT: -----I am pointing to that. MAGISTRATE: -----but now is not the time or the place. It is the 2nd of November at 2.30 in the afternoon. DEFENDANT: Well, Madam, you were fixing the date and that date might not be possible because of the proceedings I am going to bring---- MAGISTRATE: Well, then you will have---- DEFENDANT: -----in the other Court. MAGISTRATE: -----to come back to the Court and say so, Mr Syvret, but for the time being it is the 2nd of November at 2.30 in the afternoon. (Magistrate conferred with Deputy Greffier) Is there any need for conditions on the bail? CROWN ADVOCATE: No, I don’t think he is on bail. Is he on bail? MAGISTRATE: Well, he will be on bail from now on. The Court will grant bail to that date. Mr Syvret, you are under an obligation to attend. DEFENDANT: Madam, may I---- MAGISTRATE: -----and you know you will be arrested if you don’t. DEFENDANT: -----may I point out at the end of these proceedings that I consider your conduct today to again exhibit actual bias. CROWN ADVOCATE: Madam, I do apologise, the Probation have raised this with me. The Probation have prepared a report upon this man. I have referred to it. It has been prepared for the purpose of these Court hearings. CROWN ADVOCATE: And they are concerned to ensure that it doesn’t get published to the world on a blog or something of that type and they invite me to invite you to remind Mr Syvret that there are conditions upon him being given a copy of that report, namely that it is used for this. MAGISTRATE: Yes. Mr Syvret, you know the obligations. You are familiar with the Data Protection Law. MAGISTRATE: And there has been a report given to you in connection with these proceedings and, apart from your legal adviser, if you have a legal adviser, then that report should otherwise remain confidential. DEFENDANT: Can I just be clear about this? Does that mean that I can’t publish it on my blog, but it’s okay for it to be given to Channel Television by the Probation Department and they can publish it? CROWN ADVOCATE: Of course it is not. MAGISTRATE: Of course it is not. CROWN ADVOCATE: That is an absurd suggestion. MAGISTRATE: Very well.
I’ll put you out of your misery – the latest addition to my 50 Books is David Lindsay’s The Haunted Woman. It’s one of the books which came to my mind first when planning the list, and one of those which I still have in my mind over three years since reading it. I’ll warn you, though, reactions have been rather widespread – just within the blogging world, Lisa at BlueStalking and Elaine at Random Jottings thought almost exactly the opposite. Lisa put it in her top ten reads of 2004, whilst Elaine thought it was silly and pretty poor – all the more fun when opinion is disparate, isn’t it?! (On a completely unrelated note, did you know that the correct term for ‘?!’ is an interrobang?) I’ll quote the blurb from my copy of The Haunted Woman: Engaged to a decent but unexceptional man, Isbel Loment leads an empty life, moving with her aunt from hotel to hotel. She is perverse and prickly with untapped resources of character and sensibility. They explore by chance a strange house and there Isbel meets Judge, its owner; a profoundly disturbing relationship develops and it is from this that the drama unfolds. They obviously don’t want to give the staircase bit away, but I shall – there is a staircase which offers three doors at the top. Isbel takes one of them, which leads to a room, where she meets Judge again. When they return to the main house, neither remember what has taken place in the room. And so it goes on, with parallel existences and relationships. All the way throughout the novel there is the mystery of what remains behind the other doors… David Lindsay’s writing is sometimes criticised for not being very fluid or well styled, but I just found it took a little getting used to – sure, he’s not Virginia Woolf, but I didn’t find it stood out as awful. And, for me, the plot and intrigue and characters more than make up for this. I sometimes love books for language, regardless of plot (e.g. Tove Jansson’s writing) but equally sometimes plot takes precedence over language. And Lindsay manages to combine the two in a way which leads to a beautiful surrealism by the end, and produces a novel which is quite unlike anything else I’ve ever read. Give it a try.
I posted on this topic earlier when the contest was first kicked off. Here were the results from the spring 2008 contest: - Among the 46,000 students who took the test in the spring, the average score was 56%; 35 students aced the exam. The fall 2008 results quite a bit lower as the blurb below indicates: 75,000 took the exam, average score of 52% and 28 students aced the exam. Here is a table comparing results from the two contests in 2008: Test takers 46,000 75,000 Avg. score 56% 52% Perfect scores 35 (0.08%) 28 (0.04%) One bright spot I guess is that the awareness of the challenge contest increased between spring and fall with an increase of almost 30,000 participants. Now if only the scores were increasing.... The Fall 2008 Challenge is Complete! Thank you to all the teachers and students who participated in the fall 2008 Challenge. More than 75,000 high school students in the U.S. and at Department of Defense Schools around the world took the Challenge. The average score was 52 percent. More than 18,000 students earned certificates of recognition for scores in the top 25th percentile of all scores. Nearly 400 students earned the National Financial Literacy Award, a medal from U.S. Treasury. (Medal winners answered at least 94 percent of the questions correctly). Twenty eight students earned perfect scores.
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The STUDIO 20 concentration at NYU offers master’s level instruction with a focus on innovation and adapting journalism to the web. The curriculum emphasizes project-based learning. Students, faculty and visiting talent work on editorial and web development projects together, typically with media partners who themselves need to find new approaches or face problems in succeeding online. By participating in these projects and later running their own, students learn to grapple with all the factors that go into updating journalism for the web era. The program seeks to draw together a diversely talented team of students who can produce excellent work that pushes the field forward and realizes some of the possibilities inherent in a multi-media, interactive and constantly evolving platform for journalism— namely, the World Wide Web and its mobile extensions. Studio classes provide a “hub” for organizing activity and a common space for inquiry and reflection around the program’s various projects. Students are expected to be flexible and curious, generous in sharing skills, eager to pick up new knowledge and willing to adapt to what the project—and its deadlines—demand. The curriculum has three parts: 1.) the traditional requirements of two basic reporting classes plus “digital thinking;” 2.) a core of three project-based classes called Studio I, II and III; and 3.) elective enrichment courses that allow students to pursue interests and work on initiatives of their own. In their third and final semester, students design their own projects with an appropriate media partner and try to create innovation—as well as a name—for themselves. For a list of typical projects go here. Each year Studio 20 recruits a mix of writers, editors, videographers, audio journalists, programmers, designers, Web producers and smart people who may have no journalism training at all— under the principle of “bring skills, share skills, learn new stuff.” Recruiting emphasizes students comfortable in more than one medium and ready to tackle new challenges. One of our mottos is: “Everyone works on everything.” In 2009-10, one of Studio 20’s major partners was the New York Times. Working with editors at the Times, students and faculty designed and planned a hyperlocal news site for the East Village neighborhood in Manhattan. It launched in September, 2010: The Local East Village. The site is edited and produced at NYU, but runs on nytimes.com Studio 20 students can publish there, and if they have ideas for improvements they can pitch them. In the spring of 2013 that site evolved into Bedford + Bowery, which will be co-published by NYU Journalism and New York Magazine (nymag.com). The New York Times involvement will end. The editor, Daniel Maurer, explains: “We’ll still be covering the East Village and Lower East Side but we’ll also be jumping on the L train to cover Williamsburg, Bushwick and Greenpoint – where, of course, the East Village already has a strong presence.” The change was covered here. In 2010-11 Studio 20’s major project was a collaboration with ProPublica, the investigative reporting non-profit. Students experimented with the genre of “the explainer,” a form of journalism that provides essential background knowledge and brings clarity to complex issues in the news. Read more here and see the project site, Explainer.net. Don’t miss The Fracking Song, which came out of that work. Time magazine named it one of the most creative videos of 2011. In December of 2010, NYU announced that the renowned Internet thinker Clay Shirky would be joining the Carter Institute and Studio 20, where he will teach courses and consult on projects. In 2012-13, Studio 20’s big project revolved around networked reporting. Five media partners were involved: The Wall Street Journal, ProPublica (again), Fast Company, Mashable.com and Pando Daily. You can read about it here and here. Think you might be interested in applying? Email firstname.lastname@example.org to let us know; do tell us about yourself and your background. Also: how we can find you and your work on the web. Here is Studio’s 20’s official page at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism. It’s not as good as this page. Here are the official instructions on how to apply. (The initial deadline is Jan. 4, 2013; we will accept applications after that but cannot guarantee space or financial aid. Please note that the GRE General Exam is required of all applicants. See our How to Apply page for more details. If you cannot take the GRE by January 4, you should submit your application by the deadline and take the GRE before March 1.) Here is a map showing where we are located. Follow professors Jay Rosen and Jason Samuels on Twitter, as well as Clay Shirky. And check back at this site for updates.
Here you can see Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) CSS past question papers for International Law subject for year 2009. International Law css past paper 2009 will help you to prepare your upcoming css examinations. You can download International Law CSS Past Paper 2009 from the following link: Lahore, PEC is going to announce the result of 5th & 8th class annual exams for the year 2013. In the primary class exams, there were about 14,74,163 candidates, who appeared in the middle class exams and the percentage of the pass students remains 54.06%. In the middle class exams, 11,20,266 candidates appeared in the middle class exams and the pass percentage of the students remains 68.40%. The students can collect their results card from their district education office. 5th & 8th Class Result 2013 is available on following links: Sargodha, Punjab Government has announced that they will provide the free medical facility to the position holders of the Youth Festival along with certificates and gifts of thousands of rupees to the students. Chief Minister of the Punjab has also issued orders to establish the committee on Tehsil level for granting of certificates, gifts and medical cards among the male and female students across Punjab as well as in Sargodha division on the merit basis. He also announced that the supervisor at Tehsil level will complete the procedure on their Tehsil level from 4 and 5 March, 2013 and Assistant Commissioner will complete the procedure at the district level on March 06, 2013. The students participated in different events of the Youth Festival and they are also awarded with certificates, gifts worth thousands of rupees and medical cards for the free treatment of the students. He further added that the students who are awarded with the free medical cards will be given preference in the government hospitals for free treatment. Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Mardan has issued the date sheet for annual examinations of 9th class & 10th class. BISE Mardan Students for SSC Part 1 & SSC Part 2 are able to download their date sheet for annual examinations for year 2013 online at www.result.pk. Mardan Board Matric Part 1 & Part 2 students are also able to download their Matric Date Sheet for Class 9 and 10 at given below link:
Requirements for proficiency in Norwegian The Norwegian language is the primary language of instruction at Norwegian institutions of higher education. Some foreign students learn Norwegian before they continue with further studies in Norway. Below is an overview of the language requirements for foreign students applying for courses where the language of instruction is Norwegian. If applying for a course taught in Norwegian, or for general acceptance into an institution, applicants outside of the Nordic countries must meet one of the following requirements: - Successfully passed 'Norwegian as a second language' from upper secondary school. - Sucessfully passed Level 3 in Norwegian at a university. - Successfully passed one-year study in Norwegian language and society for foreign students from a university college. - Successfully passed test in Norwegian at higher level, 'Bergenstesten', with a minimum score of 450. In certain cases, institutions may accept other types of documentation. Please contact the institutions directly for details.
Camilla Belle on Dec. 12 and Carey Mulligan on Dec. 5. No time to wax, thread, or tweeze your brows this winter? You don't have to! According to brow guru Heidi Evora Santiago (she’s worked with Estelle and Eva Longoria) bushy brows are what’s in this season. Now, before you let your fringe grow all willy-nilly, remember it’s thick brows (see actresses Camilla Belle and Carey Mulligan above) that are trendy, not ungroomed brows. Read on for tips on getting a fuller-looking brow fast. Chanel's Perfect Brows Kit, Neuveaubrow, Maybelline Define-A-Brow Gel and the Anastasia Mini Duo Brush. Thick Trick #1 Just as you would brush the hair on your head to stimulate the scalp, you should also brush your eyebrows upwards with an eyebrow brush like Anastasia Mini Duo Brush ($18, Sephora.com) every night before bed to stimulate hair follicles. Thick Trick #2 To fill in brows for a natural look, use brow powder like the one found in Chanel's Perfect Brows Kit ($65, Chanel.com). Dip an angled brush into the powder, then make tic marks into your brows, mimicking small hairs. Next, blend the powder by brushing brows. Thick Trick #3 If you’re trying to grow out sparse brows, use a brow gel like Maybelline Define-A-Brow Gel ($9.99, Amazon.com) to keep renegade hairs in place and looking polished (instead of wolfy). Thick Trick #4 Though they're pricey, brow conditioners like Neuveaubrow ($100, Neuveaubrow.com) can help speed up the growth process by moisturizing the hair follicle with vitamins and nutrients and boosting the elasticity of individual hairs. + Do you like bushy brows?
It’s a master bedroom before and after, and it’s one of my favorites. We had finished their kids’ rooms and it was time to move on to working with mature adults, whom strangely didn’t want any One Direction posters in their room no matter how hard I tried to sell them. This was really a case of just decorating and styling — they already had a great bed and a great high boy dresser, but they needed some style, color, and a cohesive design plan. Luckily, they have good taste and had a budget; nothing too luxury, but they knew that if they were going to hire a designer it’s best to actually give them resources to do a good job — how very refreshing, indeed. But first, let’s start with the very first “before.” When we got the call from these new clients, the first request was paint colors, and FAST. We had just a couple days to choose, swatch, and make final decisions about the paint in all the rooms downstairs that were under construction without seeing what they already had or having a design plan. So yes, we had to be a bit on the safe side. Luckily, after designing the 26 rooms on the show and 10 houses since, I have my go-to’s that everybody universally loves. So I chose my favorite gray, Benjamin Moore, Gray Owl for the room and they went for it. Phew. So that is really where we started. The bed is great but other than that they needed everything. Stylistically they wanted it to go a little Hollywood regency, but still have it feel calm and quiet; nothing too insane and no busy patterns. They were open to any colors although they LOVE peacock blue and teal — it’s like I’m a magnet for people who love blue. I swear that it’s not always my idea. It’s just style fate. The biggest challenge was where to put the bed. There were only two wall options. The first would be the wall that you see when you walk in and it would have made the bed really hug one side of the room, and then the bed looks straight at the door when you walk in and it made walking tight, which is fine if you need to but it’s definitely not ideal. The other wall is the window wall, and the bed doesn’t fit in between the two windows as is, so we had to come up with a solution. We decided to put extra curtains behind the bed so it kinda becomes the focal headboard wall and you don’t notice how the windows are small. It made the windows look bigger, and added so much softness behind the bed. We just floated the bed out a few inches to allow for the curtains to hang properly. Resources: Beautiful blue Chadna rug, Lulu and Georgia. White shams with gray border, West Elm. Gold silk curtains, Pottery Barn. White linen duvet, Eileen Fisher for Garnet Hill (and yes, they are my favorite bedding — I’ve bought it now for 4 different clients). Blue king pillows , HD Buttercup. Bench at the end of the bed, vintage. Chandelier, West Elm. The nightstands and lamps were too small and just didn’t have much of a design point of view. So I found those blue lamps at the flea market and it was VERY hard to give them up, the hoarder in me was chanting, but, but, but, those are miiiiiine … , but we wanted them to take up more visual space since that king bed is big. So we added these larger scale rectangular shades that made them look more modern and were a better proportion to the bed. Also, if a lamp has a rectangular or base, I say go for a rectangular shade. It instantly makes it more modern and a little more masculine. Nightstands, vintage $750 for the pair. Vintage lamps, flea market $200/pair. Lampshades, custom from Replacement Shades, $70 each. Blue pitcher/vase, Crate and Barrel. Gold bowl, Tom Dixon set of three $90. Across from the bedroom is a high boy dresser that they already had, and I love. And we styled it up with a pretty white geode lamp from Lamps Plus and some of their books. The paintings were done by, I believe a mom or grandma of theirs, and we just had them framed/floated in simple walnut frames — something that felt traditional and modern at the same time (as opposed to like a modern white lacquer frames or ornate traditional frame). Resources: Dresser, vintage. Lamp, LampsPlus $166.91, Vase, roost. 8 ball in dome, New Stone Age. Brown leather jewerly box, Pottery Barn. Huge bird Painting, Dwell Studios, $1195. Antique paintings framed at Curve Line Space. So there you have it. A master bedroom redo that makes me jealous all over. Shoot was produced/designed and styled by me and Orlando, shot by David Tsay.
Yesterday I went to the dermatologist who suggested I try a glycolic peel. It was way too strong and now my face is swollen and covered with red burn marks. I have an event this week and I`m freaking out. What should I put on my skin to prevent it from peeling, and how can I cover up the red spots? Chemical peels are generally risky and should be performed very carefully, as they may produce adverse reactions on certain types of skin. Dr. Verallo-Rowell, dermatologist and creator of VMV Hypoallergenics, shares her three-step method for dealing with a bad reaction to a peel: 1. Start by spreading a layer of VMV Grandma Minnie`s Oil`s Well Nurturing Do-It-Oil all over your face; it contains organic virgin coconut oil which will moisturize and soothe your skin, leaving it hydrated and significantly reducing the pain. 2. On the most sensitive areas and burn marks, apply VMV Grandma Minnie`s The Big, Brave Boo-Boo Balm. This ointment was created to clean wounds and treat infections caused by skin damages, making it a perfect protective barrier for your skin. 3. Before leaving the house, make sure to apply sun screen with a high SPF rating, such as VMV Armada SPORT 70. Also, try to keep out of sun, light and heat as much as possible. To reduce the pain and swelling, Dr Verallo-Rowell suggests applying cold-water compresses with just water, at most coconut oil or baking soda. Also, try not to put on make-up right away and test out a small area first to make sure you don`t have bad reaction. When you feel like your skin is ready, apply a moisturizing foundation like VMV Skin Savvy 60 or Illuminants Brilliant Finish 25 Powder Foundation. Lastly, remember to always inform your doctors about this experience in the future so that they can adjust your dose of glycolic acid: most doctors begin with the standard dose and need to know if you are more sensitive than the average bear. NOTE: one of our editors here at StyleCaster recently experienced a similar beauty disaster and swears by The Concentrate from La Mer as her ultimate remedy. Before going to sleep she covered her entire face with The Concentrate, a product developed to specifically treat burned and traumatized skin. She says that it took her face under three days to almost completely heal. (Warning: as is the case with most La Mer products, this may become addictive, so make sure to stop before you do some serious damage to your bank account!)
It’s officially winter and Los Angeles was feeling the cold weather this weekend – brrrrr! I’ve been spending a lot of time in doors these days, enjoying the Christmas tree, making dinners and hanging out with friends at the apartment. But when it’s time to get out, the layers are key! I love leather jackets and feel it’s always a great way to incorporate a little ‘rocker chic’ into your outfit. It was freezing and starting to rain but we took a couple snaps in the neighborhood, followed by a delicious cocktail at Messhall and pizza at Little Doms. Quite the perfect day if you ask me! Wishing you all wonderful times with friends, family and more.
Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in countries all across the world and have been reported since World War 1. They are identifiable by the unusual contents of their broadcasts: seemingly random sequences of numbers, words, letters, tunes, and Morse code, usually spoken by artificially generated voices of women and children. The most common theory regarding the purpose of these bizarre stations is that they’re used by governments the world over to secretly transmit encrypted commands and messages to spies. That said, even though numbers stations have been discovered all over the globe and in any number of different languages, no government has ever officially acknowledged their existence. While the espionage theory is a logical one, with no official confirmation of their purpose the jury is still out. One particularly odd station, UVB-76, has existed since the late 1970s and has broadcast a simple, repetitive buzzing tone 24 hours a day ever since. On very rare occasions, however, listeners have reported a Russian voice interrupting the buzz to read out sequences of numbers and words, always in a consistent format — this happened once in 1997, once in 2002, once in 2006, 56 times in 2010, and 14 in 2011. As with all numbers stations, its true purpose is and will probably remain unknown, but the increase in frequency of whatever it’s doing is certainly odd. You can listen to well over 100 recordings of numbers stations for free on archive.org but be forewarned that they’re all kind of, well, eerie. They feel like something you shouldn’t be listening to, which stands to reason since apparently you’re not supposed to know they exist.
Hazelnut Freckle Cupcake – tender cupcake speckled with bittersweet chocolate; with chopped hazelnuts and sugar at the bottom, ganache on top and decorated with a glistening caramel-dipped hazelnut spikes. Price available upon request. freckles and candy The idea for this cupcake started with a chocolate-speckled cake. I wanted to make something quirky but flavorful. Again, I used my go-to basic cupcake recipe and adjusted it to make a hazelnut-flavored one. Frangelico is so expensive so I used a hazelnut syrup. I also added a combo of chopped hazelnuts and sugar and dumped a heaping teaspoon of this mixture on the bottom of each cupcake liner to create a crunchy base. For the frosting, chocolate goes well with hazelnuts so ganache is the only way (my way, actually!) to go. I’ve long wanted to make the caramel-dipped hazelnuts since I saw them in Alice Medrich’s book Bittersweet. But for some reason, I could not cook a perfect caramel; if it’s not undercooked, the syrup gets burnt. I think I’m the only one who has trouble with cooking caramel—sigh. The project I was working on before this was actually a caramel cupcake but since I always had disastrous results with the syrup, I ditched cooking the caramel from scratch. I was still able to create a luscious caramel cupcake but that’s another story. Coming to this project, I still had no confidence making caramel so I made another topper, sort of a chocolate bark with hazelnuts. It looked good and tasted good but I was still dreaming of those shiny, nutty and spiky gems so I decided to give caramel another go. I followed Ms. Medrich’s recipe but halved it as I anticipated another failure and I do not want to waste valuable sugar especially at this time when sugar prices are skyrocketing. The syrup cooked to a beautiful amber color and following instructions, I put the pan on an ice water bath to stop the cooking. Stop the cooking indeed as I heard the caramel cracking and hardening. I think I left the pan in the ice bath for too long. What to do, what to do? I rewarmed the solid caramel on low heat and it turned syrupy again. Whew, lucky me. This time, no more ice bath. I just worked quickly. Now how did I get those spiky tips? As per Ms. Medrich’s instructions with some of my modifications, I pierced the side of the hazelnuts with a pointy toothpick, dipped them in the caramel and stuck them on a piece of styrofoam. At that point, the caramel will begin to drip and create a long string. I did this on the kitchen sink with a newspaper directly below the skewered nuts to catch the caramel drippings. The pan with the cooked caramel can also catch the drippings so there will be no wastage. It looks daunting to make but it is really quite easy. Just make sure to use these candied nuts at once preferably on the same day they are prepared. * * * skinning hazelnuts the foolproof way Home bakers are used to skinning hazelnuts by roasting them first in an oven and then rubbing off the skins with a dish towel. But there is another way that will ensure that the entire skin on each hazelnut will be removed. This foolproof method comes from Rose Levy Beranbaum who learned this from Carl Sontheimer (the man who brought the food processor to America from France and called it Cuisinart). Boil 1 1/2 cups water in a large saucepan and add 2 tablespoons baking soda. Add 1/2 cups nuts and boil for 3 minutes. Test a nut by running it under cold water. The skin should slip off easily. If not, boil a few minutes longer. Rinse the nuts under cold water and toast them in a 350 degrees F oven for 20 minutes or so. Watch carefully so they don’t burn. 4 comments December 17th, 2009
The public holidays always bring with them their share of tragedies as people do whatever they have to for fun. In this case, a Polish tourist appears to have been having a photo taken by friends. A witness reported that he was on, or very near to the cliff edge and holding on to a tuft of grass for support as the photo was being taken. The grass was uprooted by the tourist's weight and he fell 300 feet (90m) to his death. The time given is approximately the time that the emergency services were called. The man was already dead when the call was placed as is shown in the chart. The chart speaks clearly enough, but readers might also like to note the similarities with previous charts of cliff falls on this web log. You can see the Ascendant and the Moon in late degrees as well as Venus, to whom the Moon applies. The Sun rules the Ascendant and is exalted, high up, but not this time because he would be rescued by the Coastguard. The general significator, the Moon, is in its fall and in the 4th house of ground level afflicting the rising degree. The late degrees again describing a position 'between', in this case, between land and sea, between life and death.
\|Special Guest:\|\|Brian Stepanek as Arwin Hochauser, Milos (dual role)\| John Kapelos as Elias Adam Bay as Adonis \|Originally Aired:\|\|November 7, 2008\| "It's All Greek to Me" is the 7th episode of the first season of The Suite Life on Deck. When the S.S. Tipton docks in Athens, Greece, the twins meet Arwin's cousin, Milos. But when he accidentally switches a replica and a real artifact, they have to recover the fake before they're found out. Meanwhile, London Tipton struggles to write a speech to present at the museum about the artifact, but finally writes it with some inspiration from a dream about Aphrodite. The twins arrive in Athens, Greece and meet Arwin's cousin, Milos, a janitor in the Museum of Greek Antiquities. When Milos shows Zack and Cody the museum, he shows them the Amulet of Aphrodite. But after Cody arrives back on the ship and gives the amulet to Bailey, they discover that he's actually given her the real amulet. With time against them, they must hurry and replace the amulet in its rightful place before the museum's curator finds out. Meanwhile, London has to think of a speech to say at the museum. She thinks that writing a speech is boring, but when she falls asleep and has a dream about Aphrodite, London says something inspirational to the people who are listening. - London: Ladies and quentlemen... - Mr. Moseby: (to Ms. Tutweiller) Get ready to flee the country quickly. - Cody: Look, by mistake, I gave you the real Amulet of Aphrodite. - Bailey: You mean this is the actual priceless artifact? I wore it in the hot tub! - Zack: Huh? Oh, great. So we'll be returning it clean. - Aphrodite (London): Wow, I look great! No wonder why I'm the God of the Beauty. - Hermes (Mr. Moseby): Good morning, Aphrodite. - Aphrodite: Hi, Herman. - Hermes: It's Hermes, messenger of the gods. - Aphrodite: Whatever. - Hermes: I bring you a message from your father Zeus. - Aphrodite: Don't tell me he's marrying Medusa! Her hair is terrible. - Ms. Tutweiller: Mr. Moseby? Do the faces on those statues look familiar to you? - Mr. Moseby: How old do you think I am? - Milos: Why have I not seen any wedding pictures yet? - Arwin: They're...still in my camera? - Milos: It's been four years! - Bailey: I'm Bailey. I don't suppose the boys have mentioned me. - Arwin: Are you kidding? Cody sent me a nine-page e-mail just about your hair. - Milos is a Greek island where the famous statue Venus de Milo (translation: "The Aphrodite of Milos") was found. - Adonis was the lover of Aphrodite, until Persphone fell for his beauty. The same happened with Bailey and London, who both liked him. - Cody, Zack, and Bailey are seen using an Apple Macbook. Also Milos is using a Macbook. For legal reasons, the word "Macbook" and the Apple logo were covered up by stickers. - London says that gentlemen is spelt with a silent "q", but actually says it with "q" ("quentlemen"). - In this episode, London says she's been speaking since she was nine, but in the episode "A London Carol", during a flashback, she is seen speaking at the age of seven. \|The Suite Life on Deck (Season 1)\| \|The Suite Life Sets Sail • Parrot Island • Broke 'N' Yo-Yo • The Kidney of the Sea • Showgirls • International Dateline • It's All Greek to Me • Sea Monster Mash • Flowers and Chocolate • Boo You • seaHarmony • The Mommy and the Swami • Maddie on Deck • When in Rome... • Shipnotized • Mom and Dad on Deck • The Wrong Stuff • Splash & Trash • Mulch Ado About Nothing • Cruisin' for a Bruisin' • Double-Crossed\|
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The Economist's View quoted Bloomberg's John Berry that China's Booming Economy Will Never Surpass U.S.. There are a lot of assumption going into how fast the GDP growth in both countries in the next 30-40 years, and other factors such as population and exchange rate. What I am going to do is look at the historical benchmarking. I feel this is a more accurate measure, as it models the narrowing of gap and increasing difficulty of playing catch up. Below is the chart of OECD nations GDP/cap from 1960 to 2003 (source: demographia), measured in real 2003 PPP converted US$ (PPP so that exchange rate aberration is sort of removed, real so that nominal inflation is adjusted). China's GDP/cap (in PPP) is about 16% of USA today ($6400 vs $40000), similar to the relative ratio of Korea/US in 1970. It took Korea about 15 years to reach 1/4, and 20 years to reach 1/3 of US level. It is likely to take China the same or longer time given its huge size. Therefore, total GDP of China (in PPP) could be comparable to that of US in 15-20 years, in an optimistic scenario. (There was 9 years of 9-11% growth for Korea from 1960-1990, average CAGR was between 7-8%) If we assume another big "if", that China will follow Japan's path afterward, i.e. after 15-20 years, China will be at where Japan was at in 1960 relative to US, there will be another 30 years when China joins the developed country pack (70% of US). So the optimistic scenario is that it will around 2055-2065 then. Once China joins the developed country pack, it could follow the path of any of these 14 countries. Whichever path it takes, it will at best reach around 80% of US' GDP/cap. However, no one large/medium country (except small banking havean such as Luxemberg or BVI) has surpassed US at any point of time () since 1950 in terms of GDP/cap, and the runners-up are resource rich countries Norway and Canada. It is likely that China will then remain at around 75%-80% of the US level of GDP/cap, like what Japan has been at for the past 20 years. This is assuming the PPP conversion for Korea/Japan historically and for China today are correct. Alternatively, similar adjustment in exchange rate to converge the PPP gap is assumed during the next 30-50 years. This is also assuming no major political or economic disruption in the world (not just China, as world recession or war means disruption to China's trading) from now till around 2060. That is why "peaceful development" is the correct, and the only sensible strategy for China. This is also why China cares about a peaceful world environment, and why it has taken great pain in settling border disputes with its neighbors, and is willing to give up its 1.5M sq km claim in dispute with Russian and 90k sq km with India. Update: (via New Economist) EIU has this forecast, showing China overtake US in PPP terms in total GDP by 2026 already (equality around 2020) Note () Japan did overtake US in the late 1980s briefly in exchange rate GDP per cap, but that was due to a short-lived exchange rate abberation
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Welcome to Day 2 of Verve Sneak Peek hops! Today we are previewing three stamp sets and a couple of new dies!! I used the Super Dad stamp set with the new die called the Ribbon Banner Die - which is just super super awesome and coordinates with the big banner in the Super Dad stamp set! I made this card with my DH in mind - who loves these colors too.. Paper: Cardstock from PTI and papers from MME Stamps: Super Dad stamp set from Verve Stamps Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa Accessories: bling, dimensionals, stickles and photo corner I loved making this card and can't wait to see what the rest of the DT has created with these gorgeous stamp sets and dies - please check them out with me here!! And please leave a little love on everyone's page and one lucky commentator could win the sets that are being shown today! Thanks so much for stopping by! Please stop by tomorrow for some release day fun!
There's something about these two dining areas that draws me in. In the first - it's all the blue! In the second..it's just a pretty little dining corner! (images) - Good thing I had a couple days at home to rest after Monday's fainting scare because work was c-r-a-z-y the rest of the week. - It's Movie Night! Blockbuster went out of business in my city, so I found this cute little almost-rent-everything-by-hand-not-computer video store and rented Couples Retreat and the Morgans film (hugh grant). Am really waiting for my netflix film to arrive tomorrow: September Issue. - Am also waiting for some family to return from a vacation in Vietnam/Singapore. Can't wait to hear their stories!! - I've not read blogs all week! Must catch up this weekend.... - I've missed you guys!!!!! Here's some organized goodness from Rachel of Smile & Wave! I love boxes turned sideways as shelves + jars + baskets + containers + blue. She has it ALL here. (images)
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Needles: US7/8 (turns out I had a 7 on the knit end and an 8 on the purl end) Yarn: Less than 1 skein – Malabrigo Lace in Lettuce (see note below) Mods: Left the M1′s as open (they remind me of pips); one extra repeat. I need to knit more lace. Specifically more with Malabrigo Lace. The yarn was well marinated in the stash (7+ years). I bought this at Circles back in the early days of Malabrigo, back when there were way more than 470 yds in a skein. (Anyone know what the put up was in the early days? I’ve googled and can’t find the info.) The yarn is so soft and fairly sturdy for laceweight. Due to my inability to count, I had to tink on several occasions (at one point the same section 3 times) and the yarn held up well. It is a bit sticky so I don’t know how well it would stand up to frogging.
I am so shame… Despite many people calling me racist, I continue to point out the subtle difference between being African American and being Black. Whereas black people such as Chris Williams sing songs like “Love Is Gone” for David Guetta’s smash dance album Pop Life meanwhile African Americans sing what is featured below and think that it passes for an uplifting and endearing ballad. What would possess anyone to write that song, sing it, produce it and decide THIS is the best I could do with my song writing and rapping ability! It is vile, grotesque and at the very least inappropriate. I am waiting for the remix featuring Trina. Shakes head from side to side disapprovingly
There's a portentous news article on Page 8 of this week's SN. It cites the prediction that in the next five years or so, as much as 15% of all grocery product sold in conventional supermarkets will be natural and organic product. That would represent quite an increase, given that less than a decade ago such product constituted just 1.2% of product sold. Today, it's about 6.4%. Connect the dots, and you'll see a line that's pointing straight up. Predictions such as that were backed by a large-scale consumer study commissioned earlier this year by SN. Results of the study, published in the March 1, 2004, issue, show that 61% of food shoppers say they purchase natural and organic product in supermarkets. The reverse side of that is that nearly 40% of shoppers remain to patronize such product, if they're given a chance. It was with thoughts such as these in mind that SN's editors have been working in recent weeks on the inaugural issue of the new publication you'll find bagged with this week's SN. It's SN Whole Health, which will publish four times a year starting in 2005. Let's take a look at WH, and at the intent behind it, starting with its mission statement: "SN Whole Health is first in supermarket retail for comprehensive business coverage of the categories devoted to health and wellness." (See the WH table of contents on its Page 3.) So that's it in a nutshell. WH is intended to examine the supermarket-business side of product that's variously called natural or organic, or product that has a health and wellness dimension. How that intent is addressed in the current issue of WH, and will be in those to follow, can be seen by taking a look at the type of information it contains. Let's look closer: News pages come first and include articles like increased competition faced by organic farmers, new labels being launched, and the growth of organic pet food. Trends pages come next, with articles about fair trade coffee, health claims for omega-3, and a gluten-free bakery. A consumer focus follows, which offers findings about what directions consumers are going with regard to relevant product. Next is the cover story about the fastest-growing element of the natural and organic category: beef. That feature profiles what's happening at Marsh Supermarkets. Farther back in the publication is another store feature based on King Soopers and its response to vertical natural and organic stores. Following the Marsh feature is a category report about the growth of healthy grab-and-go items, then a feature about supermarket pharmacies. Finally, the publication is rounded off with articles about supply, logistics and technology considerations, together with a products review, a guest column and quite a bit more. SN editors hope you'll find much of value in WH, and look forward to bringing it to you again next year. We welcome your comments about the publication, which can be directed to me or the editor identified on WH's Page 3.
LOS ANGELES -- Hoping to capitalize on a market looking for edited family entertainment, New Line Home Video here released "The Mask," starring Jim Carrey, in an edited version for family viewing. According to Pam Kelley, New Line's vice president of sales, the studio removed language and scenes that it deemed might be offensive to those looking for films appropriate for younger viewers. Other movies on deck for an edited release are "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," "Dumb and Dumber" and two Mortal Kombat films. All were rated PG-13, and will sell for $14.95 -- the same price as the originals. "We've had requests from retailers for awhile about this," she said. "When we looked at our library, we identified "The Mask" as one of those titles that would appeal to the whole family. It's a good test product to introduce our edited family line." Supermarket retailers reacted favorably to the release last month, particularly those serving a more conservative clientele. "We're in the buckle of the Bible belt," said Ryndie Liess, video manager at Country Mart, Hollister, Mo. "This whole area is big on family entertainment and family values -- the whole bit. Even box art will affect their decision about what to rent." She said her customers have often complained about content, so she and her staff preview films before they put them on the shelves so that they can better serve individual tastes. "We try to get to know our customers as well as possible," she said. "If we know someone is offended by excessive language, we'll inform them not to watch a film with a lot of swearing. If we see a child pick up a film that we think might be inappropriate, we'll tell his or her parents to watch it first. Edited titles would make our job a lot easier." Jason Hoyle, video manager, Hilander Foods, Rockford, Ill., believes the edited version will sell, although he doesn't serve the same conservative base as Liess. "Personally, I like to see what the director and writer wanted in a movie," he said. "I can't stand watching something on TV, knowing that I'm missing scenes. But certain people do want to see an edited version, particularly older people." Hoyle is aware that supermarkets cater to a broader base of consumers, which is why he's careful more about box art than the content of a film. "If the art is too racy, it might not be appropriate for a supermarket," he said. "I didn't even put up the poster for "American Beauty," because it didn't seem appropriate for this setting. I did get 19 copies of the film, though, all of which are renting. We can thank Blockbuster for that." Big Blue's dispute with DreamWorks Home Entertainment over pricing prompted the retailing giant to buy light on the Oscar winner; most stores didn't even bother to put it on their shelves. Customers had to ask for it in order for it to be brought out from under the counter. "It's great Blockbuster didn't get them," Hoyle said. "It's helping us little retailers." He believes that ultimately, the edited Mask will sell well, as does Dick Rolfe, founder and CEO of The Dover Foundation in Grand Rapids, Mich. After years of requesting edited family versions of films, he's thrilled that New Line has made the leap. "Supermarkets, along with mass merchants and religious stores, are the most suitable markets for this kind of a product," he said. "There's such a demand for this kind of option." In the past, he said, studios have offered many excuses as to why editing films for families was not feasible, but he finds none of them convincing. "Some say you can't have too many stockkeeping units for a title, others say edited versions would take up too much shelf space, but these arguments don't hold," he said. "What about director's cuts? What about unrated versions? Right there, you're catering to two audiences. My response is that there are at least as many people who want to see sanitized versions as unrated versions."
ORLANDO, Fla. — While the Rapid Recall Exchange, the 2-year-old industry recall portal, has signed up more than 600 manufacturer and retailer subscribers, it still lacks the “critical mass” of suppliers that would make it a primary source of recall information, according to trade association officials and retailers. Manufacturers use the exchange to communicate timely and accurate product recall and withdrawal notifications to retailer and wholesaler headquarters, which in turn share the information with individual stores. The exchange's retail membership represents 85% of U.S. grocery volume — including 21 of the 24 largest supermarket chains based in the United States — but it still lacks key suppliers, especially in the fresh food sectors, said Pat Walsh, senior vice president, industry relations, education and research for Food Marketing Institute, Arlington, Va. “We have good penetration [among manufacturers] on the dry grocery side — though it needs to be better — and need to expand in other fresh food verticals like meat, produce, deli and bakery,” said Walsh, who participated in a session on the RRE at the U Connect Live conference here earlier this month. Major food distributors in the exchange, including Kroger, Wegmans and Wakefern, have recently sent letters to their vendors explaining that the only way they will accept recall information is via the RRE, noted Brian Lynch, senior director of business and industry development for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, Washington, who also participated in the U Connect Live session. In an April letter posted on www.rapidrecallexchange.org, Kroger asked all of its suppliers to subscribe to the exchange by July 1. Michael Roberson, director of corporate quality assurance for Publix Super Markets, Lakeland, Fla., said in the U Connect Live session that the chain is “disappointed” in the number of manufacturers using the Rapid Recall Exchange. “Only 222 of our grocery suppliers are signed up, and more than 1,000 have not yet joined,” Roberson said. “We need to have the entire food industry collaborating on the Rapid Recall Exchange.” Last year, of the 300 recalls Publix experienced, fewer than 50 went through the RRE, he said, adding that industrywide only 15% of recalls were submitted to the RRE. A total of 65 recalls have been issued through the exchange industrywide since its September 2009 launch. For recalls that went through the RRE at Publix, Roberson observed “the absolute excellence in the information that was communicated,” including product GTINs (global trade identification numbers), the reason for the recall, and photos. “If we get this information from our trading partners using RRE, then we eliminate most of the [internal] steps because everything works together through this tool,” he said. By contrast, for recalls that don't go through the RRE, “nine times out of 10 we're going back to trading partners and seeking out additional information.” Publix has been proactive in urging manufacturers to join the exchange, Roberson said. In addition, Publix has expanded its supplier scorecard to monitor and rank suppliers on whether they leverage the RRE. The RRE was created by FMI and GS1 US, Lawrenceville, N.J., which will be issuing a new version of the exchange, 2.3, in August.
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iPod shuffle (3rd and 4th generations): Compatibility of third-party headphone remote controls To control your iPod shuffle (3rd or 4th generation) with the remote on your third-party headphones, the headphones must be compatible with Apple's Headphone Remote and Mic system. Current third-party headphones that Apple has approved to carry the "Made for iPod" logo are compatible. iPod shuffle (3rd generation), iPod shuffle (4th generation) "Made for iPod" headphones carry this logo on the packaging:
Mac OS X: How to verify a SHA-1 digest Learn how to verify a SHA-1 digest (also known as a checksum). Important: Verifying the SHA-1 of a software update is optional; it is provided on Apple software updates for those individuals who want to verify the authenticity of an update. Mac OS X 10.0, Mac OS X 10.1, Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.6, Product Security Note: For updates delivered by Automatic Software Update, SHA-1 digest verification is performed automatically for you. To verify a manually-downloaded software update from Apple Downloads, which contains a SHA-1 digest, perform the following steps: - 1. Open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities). 2. Type the following at the Terminal prompt: openssl sha1 [full path to file] openssl sha1 /Users/myaccount/Documents/1024SecUpd2003-03-03.dmg SHA-1 is essentially a secure checksum for a data file. The SHA-1 checksum is based on a cryptographic standard. For a given file, SHA-1 produces a 160 bit encrypted output known as a "message digest." It is highly improbable that a modified data set would produce the same message digest. If a file is changed during transit, its message digest also changes. SHA-1 and Apple Downloads You can download manually-installable updates from Apple Downloads. Apple uses SHA-1 digests on certain Apple Downloads so you can verify (with a high degree of probability) that the software you downloaded is the same software you intended to download (see Related documents below). When the SHA-1 digest for the file you downloaded matches the digest for the file as displayed on Apple Downloads, you can be sure that the file is authentic. For best security, you can use the secure https download page for a manual update. For example, the Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update Combo's manual download URL is: Change the http to https, then download from:
Are you sure you want to delete your Orkut account? This is important, because deleting your profile is totally permanent. If you’re absolutely sure, follow the steps below to permanently delete your Orkut profile: - Click settings or, if you linked your profile, click the gear icon in the upper right, then select Settings. - On the general tab, click delete my Orkut account. - You'll be taken to a page that gives further instructions and a link to delete my account. Clicking this link will redirect you to the "Delete Orkut" page of your Google Account. - Check the box confirming that you really want to permanently delete your Orkut profile from your Google Account. - Enter your password and click Remove Orkut. Your Orkut profile will be deleted, but your Google Account will remain active. Your profile will now rest forever and you won’t be able to bring it back, nor restore any of the information from the deleted profile. Also keep in mind that any communities you own won't be deleted when you delete your profile. If you'd like to also delete your communities, remember to do so before deleting your profile. Alternatively, you may also transfer ownership of your community to another member. Otherwise, another member may become the moderator of any ownerless communities. What's a Google Account? A Google Account is a unified sign-in system made up of an email address and password of your choice. It gives you access to various free Google products, including Orkut, Gmail, Google Groups, Google Docs, Blogger, Picasa and more. If you've used any of these products before, you already have a Google Account. To try new Google products, such as Orkut, simply sign in with your existing Google Account information. Your account username is the email address you entered when you created your Google Account. If you have a Gmail account, you can use your Gmail username and password to sign in to your Google Account and to new Google products. You can find out more about Google Accounts at the Google Accounts Help Center.
Websites created with Google Sites are automatically verified in your Webmaster Tools account. If you want to verify ownership of a custom domain URL, follow these steps. Verify a site created in Google Sites: - Make sure you've added your site to your Google Webmaster Tools account. - On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the Manage Site button next to the site you want, and then click Verify this site. - In the Verification method drop-down list, select Meta tag (if it is not already selected). - Copy the meta tag that appears on the page. - In Google Sites, open the site you want to verify. - In the top right corner, click More actions, and then click Manage site. - In the left-hand column, under Site settings, click General. - In the Google Webmaster Tools verification box, paste the meta tag you copied from Webmaster Tools, and click Save changes. - Go back to Webmaster Tools verification page, and click Verify. Once you've verified your site, Google Sites will automatically generate a Sitemap for it, ready for you to submit to Google. If you created your site using Google Apps, your Sitemap URL is: http://sites.google.com/a/(your domain)/(site name)/system/feeds/sitemap If your site is located at http://sites.google.com/yoursite, your Sitemap URL is:
Monitor drivers vs. video adapter drivers: How are they different and which do I need? Monitor drivers are specific to the monitor. They are usually text files that tell the operating system what the monitor is and what it is capable of. They are not required for the monitor to function. Video adapter drivers Your video adapter lets your computer communicate with a monitor by sending images, text, graphics, and other information. Better video adapters provide higher-quality images on your screen, but the quality of your monitor plays a large role as well. For example, a monochrome monitor cannot display colors no matter how powerful the video adapter is. A video driver is a file that allows your operating system to work with your video adapter. Each video adapter requires a specific video driver. When you update your video adapter, your operating system will provide a list and let you pick the appropriate video driver for it. If you do not see the video driver for your adapter in the list, contact the manufacturer of your video adapter to get the necessary video driver.
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I made the decision to run a piece from a regular contributor on Monday. I have to be honest, I wasn’t prepared for how some people reacted to it. I’m sorry, but that’s my truth. This is because I read the piece and interpreted it one way (as many other people did, who left comments) and some people in the self-advocate community read it completely differently. I understand why. It doesn’t change that I read it and still read it in a way that is not literal, but more metaphorically. However, I absolutely don’t dismiss there are people who do read it literally and I appreciate that more than I did three days ago. Some people read it as if the writer was saying, “I don’t care where you are coming from, you should not be offended by anything I say!” and I read it was “Wouldn’t it be nice if we were all not offended when discussing these issues!” The writer included himself in that description and I thought the same about me, “wouldn’t it be nice if I weren’t offended by what some people say.” I’m not being glib when I say this; but I have literally tried to put this into practice the last three days. I could back away, stay where I feel comfortable, but in the end, I don’t think that is the right thing to do. So I take responsibility for running the piece and also for shutting down comments. It’s important that I say I still stand by the writer, Rob and I stand by the piece in how I and others interpreted it. I will say, I wasn’t prepared to address the issues as if the piece was literal, and I very much see and understand that now. I wasn’t prepared and I’m so sorry about that. I panicked and I didn’t want people to get hurt (more) and so I shut comments down, which I realize is ironic. I stand by that decision too. I think I wasn’t clear where to intervene in the comments and when not to, because I’m human. I’m leaving the piece up because taking it down would be trying to erase that it happened and I won’t do that, even though that request has been made. When I shut down the comments I wrote that I would welcome discussions privately and a few people reached out to me and I thank those people. I can’t say I’ve agreed with everything that was said, but I can tell you that I have learned and my mind has opened, which I see as a good thing. Both for our community and for me personally. The discussions were civil, pleasant even, and I couldn’t help but long for that for everyone is our community. For the chance to really be heard (this was not a one-way street, I also felt like people listened to me). I thank the people who reached out to me respectfully. I thank you for the dialogue and your collective promises to help me understand things from your perspective again in the future, which I am sure to need some day. I’d also like to say that someone who has been conversing with me helped me understand that while my pain in parenting children with differences is mine to have and they respected it, their pain is from the basis of being the person who is the target of constant marginalization — their pain is greater. And I get it. I get it because my children also suffer that and will in the future when they become their own advocates. Their pain isn’t mine but it does have a certain level of importance over mine. I get that in a way I didn’t a few days ago. Where do we go from here? It think it would be a disservice to the disability community to just let this post be it and so I’d like to make an offer. In an effort to make this space a place where people can learn, I’d like to make an open invitation for essays from people who identify as self-advocates. I’d like to make it a regular series and not just a shot this month because this happened. I like it to be once or twice or more times a month if there are enough essays and especially if some people would like to contribute regularly. If you think you might like to share your experiences with orignal essays around 600 words, I would welcome a discussion with you to see if it might be a good fit, so please email me at julia AT supportforspecialneeds DOT com. I’m still open to private emails regarding any of this situation. In the meantime, I’d like to link to a blog of a very articulate self-advocate, Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg. In our discussions, we’ve not agreed with everything, but in our communications, I’ve found her to be respectful and kind, and passionate about the issues that impact her every single day. I’m linking because if you’d like to learn more about what she faces in the world of being a self-advocate, her blog is a great place to start. Thank you again for your patience as I navigated how to handle this situation and I thank you for the extra time I needed in order to figure out the best way to proceed. Even in that, I am sure to make mistakes. Just know that I am still listening and learning. It was an oversight to leave a link out, so this is edited to add the link to the original post: No Offense Edited (again) to add an omission, there were people without disabilities who did not like the piece as well and I did not note that.
Alabama v. King & Boozer - 314 U.S. 1 (1941) U.S. Supreme Court Alabama v. King & Boozer, 314 U.S. 1 (1941) Alabama v. King & Boozer Argued October 23, 24, 1941 Decided November 10, 1941 314 U.S. 1 1. No constitutional immunity of the United States from state taxation prevents a State from applying its sales tax to a purchase of building materials by one who buys them for use, and uses them, in performing a "cost-plus" building contract for the Government, although the contract provides that the title to such materials shall vest in the United States upon their delivery, inspection, and acceptance by a Government officer at the building site, and that the contractor shall be reimbursed by the Government for the cost of the materials, including the tax. P. 314 U. S. 8. (1) The fact that the economic burden of the tax is passed on to the United States does not make it a tax upon the United States. Panhandle Oil Co. v. Knox, 277 U. S. 218, and Graves v. Texas Co., 298 U. S. 393, overruled. P. 314 U. S. 9. (2) In this case, the legal incidence of the tax was on the contractor, not on the United States; the contractor, in buying the materials, was not the agent or representative of the Government, and the transaction was not such as to place the Government in the role of purchaser. P. 314 U. S. 9. No question was here raised of the power of Congress to free from state taxation transactions of individuals where the economic burden of the tax is passed on to the United States. P. 314 U. S. 8. 2. Under the Alabama statute here involved (it is conceded and assumed for the purposes of this case), the purchaser of tangible goods, who is subjected to the tax measured by the sales price, is the person who orders and pays for them. when the sale is for cash or who is legally obligated to pay for them if the sale is on credit, and under the contract here involved, the contractors were to purchase in their own name and on their own credit all the materials required, unless the Government should elect to furnish them, and the Government was not bound by their purchase contracts, but was obligated only to reimburse the contractors when the materials purchased should be delivered, inspected, and accepted at the site. P. 314 U. S. 10. 241 Ala. 557, 3 So.2d 572, reversed. Certiorari, post, p. 599, to review a decree of the Supreme Court of Alabama which reversed a decision of a state circuit court sustaining a sales tax. The decision of the circuit court was rendered upon an appeal from the assessment. The United States was permitted to intervene.
Richards v. Wisconsin - 520 U.S. 385 (1997) OCTOBER TERM, 1996 RICHARDS v. WISCONSIN CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN No. 96-5955. Argued March 24, 1997-Decided April 28, 1997 In Wilson v. Arkansas, 514 U. S. 927, this Court held that the Fourth Amendment incorporates the common-law requirement that police knock on a dwelling's door and announce their identity and purpose before attempting forcible entry, recognized that the flexible reasonableness requirement should not be read to mandate a rigid announcement rule that ignores countervailing law enforcement interests, id., at 934, and left it to the lower courts to determine the circumstances under which an unannounced entry is reasonable. Id., at 936. Officers in Madison, Wisconsin, obtained a warrant to search petitioner Richards' motel room for drugs and related paraphernalia, but the Magistrate refused to give advance authorization for a "no-knock" entry. The officer who knocked on Richards' door was dressed, and identified himself, as a maintenance man. Upon opening the door, Richards also saw a uniformed officer and quickly closed the door. The officers kicked down the door, caught Richards trying to escape, and found cash and cocaine in the bathroom. In denying Richards' motion to suppress the evidence on the ground that the officers did not knock and announce their presence before forcing entry, the trial court found that they could gather from Richards' strange behavior that he might try to destroy evidence or escape and that the drugs' disposable nature further justified their decision not to knock and announce. The State Supreme Court affirmed, concluding that Wilson did not preclude the court's pre-Wilson per se rule that police officers are never required to knock and announce when executing a search warrant in a felony drug investigation because of the special circumstances of today's drug culture. 1. The Fourth Amendment does not permit a blanket exception to the knock-and-announce requirement for felony drug investigations. While the requirement can give way under circumstances presenting a threat of physical violence or where officers believe that evidence would be destroyed if advance notice were given, 514 U. S., at 936, the fact that felony drug investigations may frequently present such circumstances cannot remove from the neutral scrutiny of a reviewing court the reasonableness of the police decision not to knock and announce in a particular case. Creating exceptions to the requirement based on the culture surrounding a general category of criminal behavior presents at least two serious concerns. First, the exception contains considerable overgeneralization that would impermissibly insulate from judicial review cases in which a drug investigation does not pose special risks. Second, creating an exception in one category can, relatively easily, be applied to others. If a per se exception were allowed for each criminal activity category that included a considerable risk of danger to officers or destruction of evidence, the knock-and-announce requirement would be meaningless. The court confronted with the question in each case has a duty to determine whether the facts and circumstances of the particular entry justified dispensing with the requirement. A "noknock" entry is justified when the police have a reasonable suspicion that knocking and announcing their presence, under the particular circumstances, would be dangerous or futile, or that it would inhibit the effective investigation of the crime. This standard strikes the appropriate balance between the legitimate law enforcement concerns at issue in the execution of search warrants and the individual privacy interests affected by no-knock entries. Cf. Maryland v. Buie, 494 U. S. 325, 337. Pp.391-395. 2. Because the evidence in this case establishes that the decision not to knock and announce was a reasonable one under the circumstances, the officers' entry into the motel room did not violate the Fourth Amendment. That the Magistrate had originally refused to issue a noknock warrant means only that at the time the warrant was requested there was insufficient evidence for a no-knock entry. However, the officers' decision to enter the room must be evaluated as of the time of entry. Pp. 395-396. 201 Wis. 2d 845, 549 N. W. 2d 218, affirmed. STEVENS, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. David R. Karpe, by appointment of the Court, 519 U. S. 1106, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were John Wesley Hall, Jr., Henry R. Schultz, and Jack E. Schairer. James E. Doyle, Attorney General of Wisconsin, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Stephen W Kleinmaier, Assistant Attorney General. Miguel A. Estrada argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance. On the brief were Acting Solicitor General Dellinger, Acting Assistant Attorney
Grammy Award-winning rock act Switchfoot hosts 8th Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am Presented By Hurley featuring a pre-event auction night, charity surf contest, the Rob Machado Bro Junior, and beach concert — all to benefit StandUp For Kids Switchfoot Bro-Am Kick-Off Auction Night Soiree When: Thursday, June 14, 2012 Where: The Crosby at Rancho Santa Fe Tickets: $150 each, or $225 for VIP, available via www.switchfoot.com/bro-am 8th Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am Presented By Hurley When: Saturday, June 16, 2012 Where: Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, CA Surf contest: 7am-3:30pm \| Concert: 12pm-5pm *A free event featuring a surf contest, the Rob Machado Bro Junior, concert, vendors, and more! (Encinitas, CA) — The Switchfoot Bro-Am surf contest and concert returns to Moonlight Beach in Encinitas on Saturday, June 16, 2012. An annual event near and dear to Switchfoot’s heart, the Bro-Am was created to give back to the San Diego community while benefiting a local children’s charity through funds raised at a pre-event auction night soiree, as well as from vendors on the beach day-of, corporate surf team entries, and sponsorships. Since its inception in 2005, the Bro-Am has raised more than $515,000 for San Diego-based children’s charities. The 8th Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am Presented By Hurley will once again benefit StandUp For Kids, a national nonprofit volunteer outreach organization founded in San Diego that is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of at-risk, homeless, and street kids (www.standupforkids.org). In addition to the surf contest, live music performances, and nerf surf jousting exposition between surf contest heats, this year’s event will welcome the newly-added Rob Machado Bro Junior. Rather than a financial donation, those ages 16 and under who collect the most donated clothing win a spot to compete. Bro-Am weekend kicks off on Thursday, June 14, at The Crosby at Rancho Santa Fe. With a “taste of San Diego” format, guests will savor signature dishes from the area’s leading restaurants including 2Good2B, Bull Taco, Chuao Chocolatier, The Crosby at Rancho Santa Fe, Crush Restaurant & Wine Lounge, Daphne’s, Del Mar Rendezvous, East Coast Pizza, Flavor Del Mar, Jake’s Del Mar, Luna Grill, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Pacific Coast Grill, Pacifica Del Mar, Pizza Port Brewing, Rimel’s, Solace & The Moonlight Lounge, and Zenbu. The evening will also include an exclusive live performance, silent and live auctions, and opportunity drawings. Tickets are limited, and are $150 per person; VIP are $225 per person, and include a VIP reception and meet & greet with Switchfoot. The auction night is sponsored by The Crosby at Rancho Santa Fe, Kaiser Permanente, Ashford University, Redfearn & Associates, and Ranch & Coast Magazine. “The Bro-Am has been my favorite day of the year ever since we started it back in ’05,” notes Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman. “To see our hometown come together to help out a deserving group of kids is an incredible experience — surfing, music, and the San Diego scene at its best. We feel truly honored to again partner with StandUp For Kids, an incredible organization serving at-risk youth here in San Diego and across the country. Last year was our biggest year ever, and we hope to top it again this year.” Four-person surf teams secure their participation via sponsorship donation to StandUp For Kids. This year’s surf contest will feature riders representing Hurley, Billabong, Channel Islands, Transworld Surf, Surf Ride, Dragon, Surfer Magazine, the Encinitas Firefighters Association, and more, as well as surf legends Tom Curren and Rob Machado, and members of Switchfoot. A free concert on the beach will feature performances by Brandon & Leah, Le Blorr, Dead Feather Moon, professional surfer Makua Rothman, and Jon Foreman and Friends. Past performers have included Jason Mraz, OK Go, Johnny Rzeznik, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants Timmy Curran, Dynamite Walls, The Almost, Kate Voegele, members of Angels and Airwaves, Young the Giant, and many more. Expanding upon Bro-Am’s relationship with Hurley H2O, this year’s beach event will again be a “single-use plastic water bottle-free event.” Attendees are encouraged to bring a re-usable water bottle to fill up at the H2O station for free, and Hurley H2O will provide stainless steel bottles with funds raised supporting nonprofit partners like The Ecology Center, which will also be at the event with an interactive educational exhibit. Continuing its eco-friendly efforts, the Switchfoot Bro-Am will again work with San Diego-based Alternative Power Productions to offer cutting-edge solar-powered sound and staging. Alternative Power Productions utilizes the renewable energy sources of the sun to deliver 100% pollution-free concerts. By using solar power rather than a diesel generator or grid power, the Bro-Am will avoid emitting approximately 1,000 lbs of CO2 into the atmosphere (the equivalent of not driving your car approximately 1,100 miles or the annual sequestration of 66 trees). In addition, this year’s event will also welcome The Rob Machado Foundation, which aims to provide funding and initiate educational programs focused on helping children understand their contribution towards a healthy earth (www.robmachadofoundation.org). Beach vendors confirmed to be present at the 8th Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am include title sponsor Hurley, Ultimate Ears, official retail partner Surf Ride, Slurpee, Wahoo’s, Harney Sushi, Jedidiah, INT, Clif Bar, Honest Tea, Bull Taco, East Coast Pizza, Pizza Port, Daphne’s, Alaska Airlines, HOC, Inc., Natural High, Surfrider Foundation, Keep A Breast, To Write Love On Her Arms, and The Ecology Center, among others. To continue to help ease the traffic in the neighboring areas, the Switchfoot Bro-Am will offer parking and traffic solutions, which include a free shuttle from San Dieguito Academy as well as utilizing the parking lot at City Hall, located at the corner of Vulcan Avenue and E Street. Attendees are also encouraged to take the Coaster, or source rideshare options on Ridejoy.com. SWITCHFOOT – comprising Jon Foreman (vocals/guitar), Tim Foreman (bass), Chad Butler (drums), Jerome Fontamillas (keys/guitar) and Drew Shirley (guitar) – has sold over 4.4 million albums in its career. The band won its first GRAMMY award earlier this year for Hello Hurricane, which bowed at No. 13 on The Billboard 200 and contained the Modern Rock hits “The Sound (John M. Perkins’ Blues)” and “Mess of Me.” The follow-up to Hello Hurricane will be released later this year. SWITCHFOOT just wrapped up an international tour of Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines and will launch a 10-city, major market Canadian tour on May 16th. For more information, visit http://www.switchfoot.com. ABOUT STANDUP FOR KIDS The mission of StandUp For Kids is to end the cycle of youth homelessness. The organization’s volunteers go to the streets in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help homeless and street kids improve their lives by providing and connecting them with lifesaving services. StandUp For Kids has been recognized by both the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations and the U.S. Justice Department for the impact and scope of its programs. Charity Navigator recently recognized StandUp For Kids as one of the most efficient and effective nonprofits in the United States. To find out more, visit www.standupforkids.org. “Hurley is a company based on inclusion,” says chairman and founder Bob Hurley. This philosophy applied to Bob Hurley’s early years as a Huntington Beach shaper, working with friends alongside the world’s best athletes to make a better surfboard. It applied to the company’s launch in 1999, when Hurley decided to start a brand that was a true microphone for youth. In 2002, Hurley was acquired by Nike — the largest and most influential sporting brand in the world. Inclusion remains a guiding principle of the company today, where innovative products like Phantom Boardshorts and game-changing events like the US Open of Surfing continue to redefine what is possible in our world. Hurley headquarters are in Costa Mesa, CA with international offices in Sydney, Tokyo, Barcelona and Bali. For more information, visit www.hurley.com.
22/09/2008 \| by admin Amongst a frenzy of online activity in the core surf/skate/snow communities, long time friends Matt Patterson and George Opadchy have built an international store for surfers, skaters and snowboarders to swap and sell their wares. The motivation for the site was the numerous websites like eBay and Craig’s List, although the new site – Go Boarding – has a focus on core action sports, so you can pick up a new board or piece of kit from a specialist site. The site allows general users to post one item for free per month and setting up your account is also free. Retailers are given special retail accounts which allows them to post unlimited items for a flat monthly fee. “It was originally aimed at the second-hand market, but after speaking to a couple of shops, it’s clear that retailers wanted to post new product on there too – so we rebuilt it,” said Opadchy. The Go Boarding website features a product management system which allows the most technophobic to post new items, hide items when out of stock, re-post items when back in stock, edit item details or delete items. “We always wondered why no-one else had built this site already,” said Patterson. “We felt that the surf/snow/skate industries would be well served with a dedicated site with ‘industry-exclusive’ features and categories. The giant one-site-fits-all websites don’t work for all industries.”
Monday, October 15, 2007 An Opinion Opinion My para-previous post mentioned getting second opinions. I think it's a concept worthy of separate rumination; and because I'm not entirely coherent on the subject, I'll be interested to read what I have to say. So it doesn't get lost in the morass, let me be totally clear: whenever a patient wants a second opinion, for whatever reason, s/he ought to get it, and I'd never ever discourage or disparage it. Being comfortable with whatever medical intervention is at hand is essential, and if the first doctor resists it or gets huffy, well, that's probably confirmation of the need. But it has always bugged me when the reason is a requirement by some insurer or another, or when it's because someone (an agenda-driven talking head; a relative; a BFF) has made the patient feel guilty or inadequate if they don't demand it. It's possible -- and I always made a hell of an effort -- to establish a relationship of trust based on being fully informed, respectfully addressed, and carefully listened to without the need to run off. At some level, when a patient requested a second opinion I felt like a failure. Drawing diagrams, writing booklets, soliciting questions, I succeeded nearly always. Many is the time my patients told me they'd never had a doctor explain so thoroughly and understandably. So to me -- ever self-critical -- a request for a second opinion said, somewhere in my lizard brain, that I'd not done something well enough. I recognize that many people simply see it as due diligence: taking control of one's health includes exhausting every avenue to information. But in that evanescent and impossible best-of-all-worlds, that fantasyland, I like to think doctors could be good enough, and patients open enough, to justify the idea that one opinion can suffice. Patients have the right to feel right. They are entitled to full disclosure, to thorough explanations, and to complete answers to all their questions. And people have senses. If they feel uncertain or dissatisfied; if there are warning bells ringing in their heads; if for whatever reason they are left uncomfortable with a physician encounter, they should absolutely positively get another opinion and/or another doctor. But what's wrong with feeling OK in the first instance? If what you hear makes sense, if you think the doctor in front of you is being honest and thorough, must you be made to feel like an idiot for standing pat? Some people show up broadcasting distrust from before the first hello; or bring someone who glares dares from the co-pilot seat. It ices the wings of the encounter before it ever gets off the ground. That attitude comes from giving too much credence to crap. Don't cheat yourself, says I. Don't close the barn door before the horses are in. Or something. Of course, it's not always simple, and doctors are imperfect. I'll examplify. There was a time when, because of insurance demands, I saw lots of people in need of second opinions before hernia repair; and had to send them for same, as well. (After looking at a few years of predictable data, most companies have dropped most such requirements.) Usually it's a no-brainer: you can see the hernia as the pants are coming down. But I've had a couple of people in whom, for the life of me, I couldn't confirm the hernia for which they were scheduled to be operated. It's uncomfortable. Often, because the mandated need for a second opinion was realized at the last minute, I'd be seeing the person within a day or so of the operation. In part, it (the non-finding) happens because you can't always feel a hernia, even when it's there. They don't always pop out on command, with office maneuvers. I'd explain that to the patient, and tell them the fact that I can't feel it doesn't mean it's not there.... Unpleasant, mutually. When the patient had symptoms, and described what surely must have been a hernia, I always explained that it was a probably a safe assumption. But sometimes it was a person in whom the "hernia" had been found on a physical exam, and there'd been no signs or symptoms at all. When such a person was sent to me directly from the primary doc, I'd generally recommend against surgery until things were more clear, trying also to avoid any implication that their doc was wrong. But what to do when it's a second opinion referral from a surgeon who had them on the dotted line? With breast cancer, some aspects of treatment are extremely complex, and changing nearly daily. Along with the good information available, there's lots of bad, sometimes leading to distrust as the default position going in, which makes the job of explaining even harder than it already is. I still get upset when I think of my patient who went for a second opinion and died a couple of years later, very possibly as a result. She had a very large cancer in her breast, and for several important reasons I told her she ought to have mastectomy despite her hope for breast preservation. She accepted what I said and why I said it, but saw another surgeon anyway. A young guy fresh out of training, sure he knew way more than the old guy, he told her she could safely have lumpectomy and radiation. He convinced her, signed her up, and went ahead. As I was sure would happen, he ended up cutting through tumor at all edges of his large lumpectomy, operated again unsuccessfully, and not very much later, operated once more to do a mastectomy. I can't say with certainty she would have been saved if she'd had it at the outset, but cutting through tumor that extensively may well cause direct seeding into the bloodstream, if it hadn't already happened; and three major operations on incompletely treated tumor seems less propitious than having only one. So there you have it. Second opinions aren't necessary except when they are, and they're good for you except when they aren't. Have a nice day.
Apparently, a lot of producers think that they must showcase how they handle team coverage in order to impress. I am seeing a lot of team coverage newscasts both from potential clients and when judging EMMY award entries. So if you are going to show it off, make sure it is done well, and that you put your own stamp on the coverage in some way. So let’s spell out expectations for team coverage. How to execute team coverage - Grab them - Spell out each element clearly - Do not assume viewers know story - Button up, then push ahead Team coverage demands special opens. These do not have to be 30 second mini packages with a lot of incredible wipes and sots and nats. (Although those are a blast to watch) You do have to showcase to the viewer, right away, that this is a big story that warrants their full attention. And you need to spell out why, right away, then expand on the impact. So once you showcase why this is team coverage (a child is rescued from a kidnapper by a good samaritan, a police chase leads to a deadly crash and now officers must answer for it, or this storm could set off a bunch of tornadoess) you need to make sure each reporter involved has a clear angle. Very often the anchor says something, the reporter repeats the information, then the second reporter repeats the angle again. Viewers pick up on this and get frustrated. “You just said that!” “Do you know anything else?” “Move on!” Those are all phrases you will hear in focus groups. The viewer loves more more and more, as long as there really is more to say. Producers, you are supposed to explain to each crew what elements they are responsible for, and what to leave out. You are judged on that. If this is a story you have covered for more than one day, or even from newscast to newscast make sure the viewer understands what happened. Too often I see team coverage where the viewer never gets the basics. You still have to provide an “overview” even if this is day 5 of coverage of the same story. How you do that is one way a producer can show some creativity. I have seen cool timelines with killer graphics, telestrating with video of a police chase and crash, mini anchor packages walking viewers through the up until now elements. Just going from live shot to live shot on a four box is not enough to own team coverage. That is easy to do. If you want to showcase your management of the team coverage, making sure the viewer is crystal clear on the timeline is a great place to start. Another key element to team coverage is a button up. That entails a brief summary of the latest information you just presented and if at all possible a push ahead with a fresh angle on the station webpage and/or next newscast. These may seem mundane, but they are no different than the conclusion to a presentation. Viewers like conclusions. They are used to seeing them. Use them to make it clear, we gave you all the information you need right now. We are not letting go. We will keep pushing for more for you. You want viewers to see you do this. It is part of a journalists advocacy role. Do not blow off the button up. Those are the basics for executing team coverage. But if you want to really stand apart, you need incredible images, crisp and powerful elements that put your anchor into the story as well, and excellent use of nats, images and sound to weave the viewer from element to element in a clear way. That is truly owning team coverage.
Thursday, January 26, 2012 Well, after years of seeing these adorable flower headbands all over the place and having my daughters request that I a make them one, I finally sat down and designed one myself. It is not an earthshaking design and I didn't reinvent the wheel, but I did try to spice up my version with some fun techniques that may be new to some of you (if not that's all the better). I threw in some detailed instructions for short rows and a sewn bind off and a few different sizes for the headband and a completely customizable flower. There you have it! My girls are in love with these headbands. Peachy likes the natural version and TC likes the colorful Noro version. Go figure. 120 yards of chunky weight yarn (samples in Rowan British Sheep Breeds - leftover from the Owls sweater, and Noro Kochoran) US size 10 needles, 6mm, 16-inch circular and 24-inch circular (the longer needles are optional but make things easier) or the size to obtain gauge Gauge is 3.75 stitches per inch in stockinette stitch. And you'll need about one afternoon or evening to make a beautiful headband! It is a fast and furious and simple project. A little front angle for you.... The Noro Kochoran version... TC wanted a lining for extra warmth so I found a headband that I purchased at Jo Ann's for $1.00 in a matching shade of pink. I see these cheap-o headbands all over, even in drugstores and grocery stores. I took a matching thread and stitched it in leaving enough give so that it stretches nicely. One note, TC wanted a bigger flower so I added a 10 petal layer to her finished version. This version has a smaller flower. Go big or go home (with your flower that is). Now, I want you to know that there are pages of similar projects on Ravelry like this one. There are even many free versions of headbands with flowers. You may want to check these out. I am making this pattern available for an extra-low price of $2.50. And for this price you get: 3 sizes: small child (large child, teen/adult); 16-inch (18-inch, 20-inch) circumference (remember to have 1-2 inches of negative ease when selecting a size) A customizable revamped flower pattern (similar to the felted flower in Itty-Bitty Hats) - it is only 3 rows per petal layer! An instructional video for the flower - remember this one? And a whole lot of fun, I hope! I made three of these and had the pattern completely memorized including the flower. It is that simple. It's my new go-to gift. Click here for the Ravelry project page link! I forgot how much I love making these flowers! For some other cool flowers to embellish your headband check out this pattern by Kristin Nicholas. The button-free headband gets narrower in the back of the neck for comfort. This project is a great way to use up leftovers from other projects. You could stripe yarns and use different yarns for the flower, too. Mix it up! The pattern is in my Ravelry Pattern Store and I am putting it up in the new Craftsy.com pattern store as well (I'll let you know when it's available over there). Yarn shop owners, by the way, I have made my Ravelry Pattern Shop patterns available for wholesale if you are interested in that. I think you have to be a pre-approved shop but definitely check into it if that is something you'd like to do. Here is the Ravelry button to click to purchase the pattern for Another Flower Headband, if you are interested: I'll be back with my Milk Cow pattern from Knit Circus. The rights have reverted back to me so I can sell the pattern in my shop now. Also, a couple of you left comments about a Pinterest invite but you didn't leave your email. I need your email address to invite you. Take care, sweet Knitters, and keep those ears warm!
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TQO: What advice do you have for new writers? DS: Don’t be afraid of how you actually think, and write how you actually think. If you have a chance to be an interesting writer, then you will try to find a form that releases your best intelligence. Don’t just add more driftwood to this already established pile of wood. You can write another memoir, and of course your memoir will have its own stamp because yours will be set in Omaha instead of Lincoln. You’ll have your own story to tell. But it’s really just one more relatively formulaic work that’s not advancing the art. If you have a chance to produce interesting work, it will be the direct result of your willingness to face the unusual nature of your own intelligence. Find a form that embodies that. Tags: Creative Nonfiction
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I am a full time working Mom. My Husband takes care of our Daughter during the weekdays. We are having a very difficult time finding playgroups on weekdays (are there any other stay at home Dad's out there??) or weekends (hey Mom's .... happy to meet at the Park or you can come to our house). We've tried to join The Welcome Group, but they only allow Fairfield Residents to be members. I even called to see if they would make an exception, but to no avail. We live in Black Rock (St. Mary's by The Sea which is considered Bridgeport). If anyone has further suggestions, please let me know. P.S. I love Suzysaid.com, I look at their calendar every week and participate in many of the Children's Events posted.Thank you, The Mom of a beautiful, fun-loving 2.5 year old. updated 4 years ago
The Devil Wears Prada Interview: Mike Hranica Sets the Record Straight At Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival I had a chance to sit down with Mike Hranica, lead singer of one of metalcore's hardest working, and hardest rocking, bands - The Devil Wears Prada. Their latest album, Dead Throne, ranked as one of the most anticipated records of 2011 by many music critics and it didn't disappoint. With heavy duty Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz helming production it's little wonder that the buzz soon became deafening. Dead Throne busted out of the gate, selling over 32,000 copies in its first week--not bad for a band who has never had radio support. It was interesting to get Mike's perspective on the evolution of Prada's studio work. One of the other topics of discussion was the rush of younger bands to jump on major tours and sign record deals without doing the groundwork necessary to carry them up the ranks, and for many, without doing any work at all. It's a subject that I've heard resonating amongst many of the up and coming bands, a sudden shift that promotes bands who piggyback, and sometimes downright copy and steal from others who have had to work for their success. While emulation may be construed as flattery, flat out copycatting cannot be. There's simply a line that must be drawn when the pariahs threaten to overrun the creative community. Unfortunately few are willing to discuss the ripple of discontent that's been building; a silence which leaves the ethically obtuse to grow like a plague. "To me it's sad that anyone should ever have any clue what a 'record deal' is when they start a band. I spoke about this in an interview the other day--we fall right in the generation gap of when you actually made money selling records and the 'new age.' And we're the 'new age,' unfortunately. But we came in right at the beginning of that sort of inception to this era. To me it's sad that people can start bands and already... I don't know, it makes me sound so exhaustive to say, 'They shouldn't know anything about touring or the lifestyle or anything,' but... focusing on a record deal to me, when you just got some guys together? It's like... are you kidding me?Continued on the next page
"Shug Boabby" <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote on 11/02/2006 03:34:52 PM: > Version 1.1.8 had the following change in it "Rearrange items on SVN > menu and remove all toolbar items except Checkout. (394)" > After clicking on the bug item, I am completely astonished at this > extreme action... this all came from somebody asking for key-bindings? > And there was need for a patch to do this? And this somehow resulted > in the removal of my most frequently used toolbar icons? > What part of this request could not be accomplished by simply using > the "keys" options of Eclipse and setting custom key bindings... > personally I have replicated Emacs "C-x C-v C-v" style commands for > SVN commits/updates since the 1.0 days! > Why has this resulted in the icons being removed?? And how do I get > those Icons back again on the toolbar? I only want buttons on that > toolbar that I use frequently, which includes commits/updates but does > not include checkouts (a rare event). > My vote (and that is supported by everyone in my office and a handful > of Eclipse/Subclipse users I know elsewhere) goes with reverting this > inefficient change and getting the convenient icons back again for > commits/updates, please! First off, your post makes it sound like these toolbar options have been there forever. The toolbar options were not even added until the keybinding support was added which was 1.1.2. So the 1.0.x and earlier streams have never had them. The issue was that we never set out to add the toolbar items. The person that implemened the keybinding support went through a lot of iterations of the patch and getting it to work in all situations and the toolbar items just kind of got added along the way. It turned out that adding them had nothing to with getting the feature to work. We removed them because the feature does not really scale. We cannot just add all 22 of our Team menu options to the global toolbar, there is no precedent to support this. We are trying to take our cues in some of these UI areas from what the CVS developers have done, and they did not choose to make any of their actions, except Checkout, available to the To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org Received on Thu Nov 2 23:01:17 2006
Pariṇāma tāpa saṁskāra duḥkaiḥ guṇavṛtti virodhṛāt ca duḥkham eva sarvaḥṁ vivekinaḥ (II.15). The happiness that we pursue should be unmixed, if it is genuine. It should not be contaminated by other features, as that would go to prove that there is some defect in the way in which happiness is being pursued. It will be observed that every passing phase of pleasure or joy in life is accompanied by another character altogether which precedes it, comes with it, and also follows it – namely, a kind of sorrow. An immediate consequence that follows the experience of contacting a pleasure is a feeling of having lost it, because it has not continuously become a part of one’s experience. There is no such thing as a continuous, unbroken experience of happiness, because the happiness was caused by certain efforts and certain conditions. When the efforts cease or the conditions disperse, the effect also must vanish; therefore, there is the consequence of an unhappiness of having lost the happiness that was once there. This peculiar character of unhappiness following a temporary experience of happiness will continue in spite of our pursuing it again and again. Moreover, the repetition of an enjoyment increases the thirst for it due to a memory which is retained on account of that pleasure. Memory of unhappiness becomes an urge, a goad to drive the mind onward once again towards continuing the same process which it followed earlier. The fact that there was no satiation in an earlier experience of a similar character should show that there was some defect in the procedure adopted. Nevertheless, the same procedure is adopted again, and there is no improvement whatsoever in the modus operandi. The result is, once again, a recurring feature: there is unhappiness; there is thirst. The quenching of a thirst does not end the matter – it creates further thirst – so the attempt at quenching the thirst is only a new effort that we are putting forth at creating a new thirst and a greater longing for the experience that passed away. How is it possible that a quenching of a thirst can create more thirst? The attempt is for one thing, and what happens is something else. A desire, when it is fulfilled, should not create a greater desire. If that is the case, the very purpose of the fulfilment of the desire is defeated. What is the intention of our efforts at fulfilling desires? It is so that they do not, once again, come and trouble us. The satisfaction should be there. That is the purpose of the attempt of the mind to gain pleasure of any kind. But, the satisfaction does not come. What comes is a greater desire. How is it possible that the flames of desire get fanned more and more rather than extinguished in a large measure, in spite of hard effort? Whatever be the effort, whatever be the manner adopted, whatever be the kind of object one contacts – we may move earth and heaven – yet, the result is the same. There is a parinama, or a consequence of unhappiness, that follows happiness. This is something very strange. How can unhappiness follow happiness? How is it possible that something contrary to the nature of the cause can follow as the effect? If the cause is happiness, how can the effect be unhappiness? But, the effect is unhappiness. This shows that the cause was not happiness. There was something very mysterious about that experience which appeared as happiness. It was really unhappiness. It was not happiness – otherwise, how could it produce unhappiness? There was a mix-up of values and a confusion of mind, on account of which a peculiar passing phase of tension called unhappiness looked like happiness, for different reasons altogether. In the sutra we are told that the consequence of happiness is unhappiness. Therefore, it should be concluded that the happiness was unhappiness only. There was no happiness. Also, there is an anxiety that follows the experience of pleasure – that having lost it, it should be pursued and attempted once again. There is an anguish in the heart on account of having been dispossessed of the enjoyment, and this anguish will continue for any length of time. The attempt at happiness is repeated. Whatever be the number of times we attempt to contact the mind with objects for pleasure, so many times we will be unhappy. Hence, this anguish of the heart cannot subside. There is anxiety even at the time of the enjoyment of a pleasure. It is very strange that even at the time of enjoying the pleasure, there is an anxiety that it is going to be lost and there is unhappiness. Further, the imagination that it will end in itself becomes an eviscerating factor, even at the current moment. This is the tapa that follows, the agony that is inherent in the very process of enjoyment of the pleasure. Earlier there was anguish because it was not there, and now when it comes, there is anguish that it is going to be lost. And when it is actually lost – well, the heart burns with great sorrow. Thus, in the beginning, in the middle and in the end it is all a kind of tension, though it looks as if a great satisfaction has come. This is the thing for which one is working. A third difficulty is that this experience of pleasure produces an impression in the mind; it creates a groove. A vasana is produced, and these vasanas, these grooves formed in the mind, will remain there latent for all time to come. They are permanent copperplates produced in the mind, and we can manufacture any number of gramophone records so that there is an urge for repetition of these experiences, manifest or unmanifest. If the conditions are favourable, they will manifest immediately. If conditions are not favourable, they will keep quiet, and when conditions become favourable – even after years, even after births – they will again motivate the mind towards that enjoyment. Thus, the samskaras produced by a particular experience of pleasure are going to be sorrows in the future. There is another danger about this: if the samskaras are very strong, if the impressions or grooves formed are very marked, then what will happen is that they may take effect even in future lives. And, when these impressions take effect in a future life and direct the mind towards the very same type of objects with which they are connected, as it happened in an earlier life at the originating time, the desire of the mind might have changed. So, when we come in contact with a particular condition on account of the motivation of these impressions, we do not want that experience any more. Then it comes as a pain, and we wonder why we experience pain. What has happened to us? Why is nature punishing us? Nature is not punishing us; it is only giving what we asked for. But, unfortunately, time has elapsed to such an extent that we have completely forgotten that we wanted those things, and now when those things are given to us, they are not the wanted ones. The needs of the mind change according to the vehicle which it enlivens – the body-mind complex. The body which the mind enters in a new birth is constituted in a fashion which conforms to the type of desires which are going to be fulfilled in that particular life according to the prarabdha karma. So, naturally, it does not mean that the desires of this life will be the same as the desires of the next life. They will be changing in their form and shape. The impressions formed by experiences in this life will produce effects of a similar character at a time when they come as pain rather than as pleasure. Thus, pains and pleasures are both things which we have asked for. They have not been thrust upon us by anybody. When our individual constitution is in harmony with those external conditions, objects, etc. which come in contact with us or with which we come in contact, we call that experience a pleasure. But if that relationship between ourselves and the external circumstances is disharmonious for any reason whatsoever, then that experience becomes unhappiness. Well, this is a very strange thing which the mind at the present moment cannot understand. It is sowing the seeds of its future sorrow now, by pursuing pleasures of sense which it thinks are desirable at present, but later on they will come like pricking thorns. This is the sorrow of samskaras. Also, the gunas of prakriti are the cause of all experience:guṇavṛtti virodhāt ca duḥkham eva sarvaṁ vivekinaḥ (II.15). These gunas are called sattva, rajas and tamas. It is the rajas that is present in the mind which creates desire. The purpose or function of rajas is distraction, externalisation, or driving the mind towards objects; so as long as rajas functions, there must be unhappiness. The reason is that when the mind is urged against its own self and towards the objects of sense, it is in a state of tension. Therefore, there is unhappiness until the moment of the enjoyment of pleasure, which is all caused by rajas. The cessation of this function of rajas at the time of the contact one has with an object is the cause of pleasure. Sattva is the cause of pleasure; rajas is the cause of pain. The temporary manifestation of sattva at the time of the cessation of the activity of rajas, on account of the contact of the senses with objects, is what we call pleasure. But, inasmuch as the gunas of prakriti oppose each other and react upon one another, there is no stability of the three gunas. They always rotate like a wheel that is moving, and we cannot say that we can be in any given particular experience of one quality or property of prakriti. One may predominate at this point in time; at another time, another may be predominant, and according to the predominance of the intensity of the manifestation of a particular property of prakriti, there is a particular corresponding experience. Therefore, on account of the movement of the gunas, it is not possible that we can choose only one quality. On account of the opposition among the gunas, or the rotation of the wheel of the gunas of prakriti, it is not possible to have permanent happiness. For all these reasons, it is all duḥkham eva sarvaṁ vivekinaḥ. This is the meaning of this sutra: pariṇāma tāpa saṁskāra duḥkaiḥ guṇavṛtti virodhāt ca duḥkham eva sarvaḥṁ vivekinaḥ (II.15). Thus, it has been pointed out that the klesas – avidya, asmita, raga, dvesa, abhinivesa – are sources of unending trouble. They are made up of trouble itself. There is nothing else of which they are made; and, unfortunately, everyone and everything is made up of these complexes called the klesas. They have also motivated another peculiar law, which is called the law of karma – all of which is a different way of describing the manner in which desires function and the reactions that are produced by the desires. The one mistake that has been committed in the form of error of perception – namely, affirmation of the individuality, asmita – has caused us so much trouble. These conditions cannot be overcome merely by an action in an ordinary sense. There should be an overall transformation brought about for the purpose of dealing with these vrittis, because any one-sided approach to it will not succeed. If we touch any one aspect of these vrittis, other aspects will revolt. They will support, in affiliation, the particular vritti that has been encountered for the purpose of control. When we attack the vrittis or try to control them, they have to be taken in a group and not individually, because they are connected, one with the other. What we call these kleshas, or vrittis of the mind, are a group. They are intertwined in a bundle, one inside the other; and so when any aspect of it is faced and suppressed with the force of will, the other aspects gain strength – the very same strength which we have withdrawn from the particular aspect which we have suppressed. Thus, it is not wisdom on the part of any seeker to look at only a single side of this issue, or even at a few aspects of this issue. We should take the total issue in one stroke. This means to say that we have to have a proper understanding of the nature of our mind in its comprehensiveness. We should not study ourselves only as we appear to ourselves today. “What am I today? This is not what I am really, because what I look like today is only one phase of my real nature, and what I am is much more than what I appear today. Every day my mood changes, the desires change, the way of the thinking of my mind changes, and so on and so forth, on account of a certain predominance of the vrittis in the mind.” If we take an average, for instance, of the various experiences that we passed through for the last one year, we will have a fair idea of what we are made of. We may take an average of even three years, if we like. What sort of attitudes did we develop continuously, for days and days, for the last three years, for instance? This is a difficult thing to remember, but a cautious student will keep a note of all these things. Many of the things can be remembered; we cannot forget them. What are the moods through which we passed? What are the desires that appeared in our mind? What are the things that attracted our attention? What are those things that repelled us? What are the things that annoyed us? What are the things that distressed us? – and so on. Taking an average of all these conditions through which we passed during the last few years will give a fair idea, though not a complete idea, of the stuff of which we are made. Now, this is an indication of what is to be done. We have suffered from various diseases for the last ten years. What are the kinds of disease that attacked us? We can find out the predominance of these illnesses and the peculiar characters of the diseases to which we are susceptible – the major problems of our life as illness. Likewise, the major or predominant character of the vrittis of the mind can be discovered by a careful analysis of an average taken in this manner. Everyone has desires; everyone has vrittis; everyone has distresses, anguishes, etc., but they vary in tones of expression. The way in which one reacts to the external conditions of life, normally speaking, is the nature of one’s person – and it is this that has to be subdued. This is the essence of yogaḥ cittavṛtti nirodhaḥ (I.2). It is not one vritti that we are subduing; it is the entire tendency of the mind to manifest as vrittis. It may manifest itself as many vrittis, many types of vrittis, but whatever be the types or the ways in which it manifests itself, it has a general character. The general character is the indication of the difficulties that are likely to be faced by us in the future. The past will give an indication of the kind of future that we have to face. Though details may vary, the general features may be the same. We have lived for so many years in this world and we can understand what sort of experiences we had. Similar types of experience are likely to be repeated. This general feature of the mind, the total character of the vrittis, should be taken into consideration at one stroke at the time of the practice of meditation in yoga. This cannot easily be done by a casual look at the mind or a desultory analysis of the ways in which our mind manifests itself. Many a time we forget various aspects of the mind and take into consideration only certain aspects. Also, it is unlikely that we may agree that the vrittis of the mind are all defects of the mind. Many of us will be under the impression that they are certain justifiable moods that the mind manifests for certain benefits. But it is not so. Every vritti is a defect. It cannot be regarded as a benefit in any manner whatsoever because a vritti – whatever be the nature of that vritti – is an urge within to drive us away from ourselves to a condition which is external. What is yoga except the prevention of this tendency of the mind and an attempt of a counteracting nature, enabling it to rest in its own self? The vrittis of the mind, to which reference has been made in the sutra, yogaḥ cittavṛtti nirodhaḥ (I.2), are summed up in the single word ‘citta’. What is to be suppressed or eliminated is not any one vritti, but the citta-stuff. Citta is not merely the conscious mind or the mentation process, but the stuff of the mind. “The modification of the mind-stuff” are the words used. The stuff of the mind is the substance out of which the entire internal organ is constituted – what we call thinking, feeling, willing, memory or remembrance, etc. Various functions are there, including even ego. These functions all put together are the citta, the stuff of the mind. This stuff it is that reveals itself as various functions, though it is true that the stuff itself cannot be discovered and we can know its nature only from the functions that it performs. Nevertheless, we can know something about this stuff by the nature of this function. As I mentioned, we should take an average of the types of functions which the citta has been performing for the last several years, and we can know what stuff it is made of and what is it that is in store, inside it. When the task on hand is taken up, as it was mentioned, we have to strike the iron while it is hot, as they say. The total mind has to rise up to the occasion in a comprehensiveness that would be necessary to deal with the problem, just as when there is a national war, the whole nation girds up its loins. It is not only a few people that start thinking about it; the forces constituting the entire nation get stirred up into a single energy of action for the purpose that is on hand. Likewise, the energy of the total system is to be harnessed for the purpose of encountering this total situation that is called the citta. When we get into trouble, we will find that we get trouble from every side; it will not be only from one side. When people start disliking us, everyone will start disliking us, and not one will like us afterwards. So is the nature of the mind. When it likes a particular thing, the whole of the mind will pounce upon that object which it likes and the entire resources of the mind will be there to back it up in the execution of this deed; and when it dislikes a thing, there will be a wholesale dislike. This is the peculiar way in which the mind works. In yoga we have to note this feature of the mind and act on it in the manner in which it acts in respect of objects. A wholesale view has to be taken. It is the total man that rises to the occasion for the purpose of subduing the total mind. It is not a partial aspect of ours that is functioning in yoga. It is a movement of the whole, towards the whole. So, we have to keep a cautious eye on every direction – externally, as well as internally. The circumstances which may aggravate the desires of the mind should be avoided, though the aggravation has not taken place. It is not that the mind is always thinking of an object of sense, but it is likely that it can fix itself upon an object when conditions become favourable for it. Therefore, knowing that such and such conditions may aggravate a particular desire of the mind in respect of a particular object, it should be wisdom on the part of a seeker not to place oneself under those circumstances which are likely to aggravate the desires of the mind even in the future. This is because even a single desire, when it takes action, will be difficult to control since other desires which are there will also back it up. Wisdom consists in knowing what can happen in the future, though it has not taken place. We should not try to understand a situation only when it has taken place, because then it has gone out of hand. We should try to read the indications of the future by the present conditions, using a process of logical deduction. Therefore, conditions which are likely to stir up the activity of desire should be avoided now itself. Anyone with a little bit of understanding will know what are those conditions, inasmuch as we know what are the predominant desires in our mind. So, avoid the conditions – external first, and internal afterwards. This is called vairagya, really speaking: an avoidance of all those factors and conditions which are likely to stimulate the mind towards enjoyment of sense. And, simultaneously, there should be practice; this is abhyasa, which we mentioned earlier. Together with this withdrawal of the mind from conditions which are likely to aggravate it in respect of fulfilment of desire, there should be practice of meditation on the ideal that has been chosen – namely, salvation of the soul. The practice of yoga is an attempt of the mind to direct itself to the salvation of the soul, ultimately – the moksha, or the ultimate freedom which it is aiming at – so that it is doubly guarded in the practice. On one side, it has wrenched itself away from all those aggravating conditions, and on the other side, it has fortified itself further by an intensified concentration of itself on the great, glorious, magnificent goal which is going to be its destination.
Dunja Lavrova (Violin) James Barralet ('Cello) Konstantin Lapshin (Piano) Ensemble Metamusika began its life at the Royal College of Music, where its founding members Dunja Lavrova and Konstantin Lapshin were awarded the highest prizes for their achievements upon their graduation as Masters of Music. Ensemble Metamusika has now become something close to a "fellowship" of well-established musicians united by a passion for music, and a way of bringing their musical ideas to life in order to achieve something truly unique. Notable performances for the ensemble have included playing to HRH Prince Charles, a broadcast on French national television, and an invitation to the highly-acclaimed International Festival of La Baule. Most recently, in anticipation of the 140th anniversary of Sergey Rachmaninoff, the Ensemble has been joined by the cellist James Barralet to perform composer's works as a piano trio. P. I. Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 (approximately 44mins): I. Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai - Allegro giusto) II.(A) Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto - (B) Variazione Finale e coda S. Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque in D minor, Op. 9 (approximately 52mins): II. Quasi variazione III. Allegro risoluto
Well, thought I could cross one item off the BUCKET LIST this morning, as a TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN passed across our town in Japan. Except, I soon found out, it was technically -not- a “total eclipse”, but something called an “annular eclipse”. That means that, because of the distances between sun, moon and earth, the moon does not completely block out the sun’s rays, though in turn producing a most spectacular golden ring around the moon (as in the photo). I’d never even heard of an “annular eclipse” before this morning! It is a pretty rare event (the next won’t pass through here for a few hundred years), and thoroughly spectacular nonetheless. Our town was about as close to the central path as possible, making for a most lovely ring, a solar ENSO in the sky! Still, I was rather annoyed that it was not TOTAL … a bit less than “total” … thus not quite up to the demanding standards of my Bucket List of things to experience in life “before I kick the bucket”. Oh well, life is always filled with disappointments … even when it comes to otherwise spectacular, rare eclipses! How silly are we human beings who, in the face of a cosmic miracle, might demand the heavens to put on even a more pleasing show simply for our enjoyment! Aren’t we like that about so many of the events, experiences, people and encounters in our lives? Fortunately, Zen Practice also affords us a ”Non-Bucket List” … or a ”Bottom Fell Out of the Bucket List” … all items checked off from the start! Today’s Sit-A-Long video follows at this link. Remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 15 to 35 minutes is recommended
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 Cinnamon Chip Scones I don't know about where you live, but the time around Thanksgiving cinnamon chips are really a scarce commodity (being there's a tea room less than a mile from where I live, all the grocery stores near me get cleaned out!) But before Thanksgiving I was shopping at a grocery store across town and was able to snag 3 bags of chips!!! WooHoo. Today I finally made some scones. Here's the recipe...just in case you get a hankerin' ! LOL 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp salt 1 Tablespoon baking powder 1/4 cup sugar 1 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream (Don't substitute anything else for this, it won't work!) cinnamon chips (I threw the whole bag in!!! - I don't think that ya should but I love cinnamon!) 3 TBSP melted butter (to brush on tops of scones. Additional sugar and cinnamon for sprinkling on top Combine flour, salt, baking powder, sugar and cinnamon chips in a medium mixing bowl. Pour in heavy cream. Stir ingredients until just combined. Turn dough out onto a floured board and knead lightly 7-8 times - do not overwork the dough. Shape into a round, about 1 inch thick and cut into 8 wedges. Place on a foil covered baking sheet (I used parchment paper!) so you don't have to spray with cooking spray. Brush the tops of the scones with melted butter and sprinkle tops with sugar and cinnamon Bake at 425 degrees for 12-15 minutes until just lightly golden brown (watch the bottoms!) NOTE: if you happen to want to put the whole bag of chips in...you might need to adjust the cooking time to a little longer. You can serve with whipped cream, but as you can see, I didn't wait! LOL
Snapshots from Israel: Qatayef at Diwan al-Saraya Abu Ashraf's small, homey shop Diwan al-Saraya, famous for his qatayef—those would be tiny folded pancakes—is the sort of place you'll see written up in guidebooks and articles and TV specials. (And, hey, food-lovin' websites.) But it's pretty clear why this incredibly mediagenic man gets the press he does. There are the qatayef themselves—delicate, spongy pancakes filled with cinnamon and walnuts or salty goat cheese. But the avuncular Ashraf, who speaks of his work in the loving manner of many who devote their life to one skill, is the real charmer. He's owned the business for 33 years and, while the kataifi aren't all they sell, it's what he's known for best. The pancakes are usually eaten as a dessert during Ramadan, part of a nighttime meal that breaks the day's fast, but Ashraf sells them all year. He works delicately and deliberately, first griddling up hundreds of the two-inch pancakes... and then, for each order, stuffing each one... before they're fried (!)... and doused in orange blossom syrup. The result is a crisp-edged cake with an appealingly oozy center; I particularly loved the saltiness of the melted goat cheese cradled in dough and sweetened with the faintly floral syrup. Just about the only thing that can cut through all that richness? Ashraf's incredibly rich, cardamom-speckled coffee. One shot gets your heart racing—and gets you ready for another few pancakes. My kind of breakfast. White Mosque Yard, Old City Market Editor's note: Carey was on a culinary tour of Israel through Taste of Israel.
Research Interests:Development and identification of early life history stages of eastern Pacific and Indo-Pacific fishes. La Jolla Fisheries Resources Division coastal pelagic fish, squid, and groundfish fisheries research, CalCOFI surveys, and anchovy/sardine egg staging activities. Production of planktonic shorefish eggs and larvae from coastal waters. Distributional ecology of early life history stages of coastal fishes and squids. - M.S., Oceanography, University of Hawaii, 1974 - B.S., Oceanography, University of Washington, 1970 - B.S., Zoology, University of Washington, 1970 Curriculum Vitae File

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