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Logan has been sitting up now for about 3 or 4 weeks. We still try to keep a pillow around him in case he decides to flip back. It is so hard to believe he is six months now! He had his six month check up on Sep. 25th. He weighed 20 lbs. and was 28 inches long! Yup, he's a big boy. He is also sitting up in his new high chair and eating solids now. He loves sweet potatoes! Okay, so he has only had sweet potatoes so far. Hopefully he will like the rest of it. Time is just going by too fast.
- 9 updates The Royal Navy's new £3b aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has been officially named. Crowds cheered as The Queen used a bottle of single malt whisky to christen in Scotland, the biggest ship ever built for the fleet. But the atmosphere was much more muted in Portsmouth where workers who've helped to build her watched the ceremony on big screens. Many of them will lose their jobs by the end of the year when the BAE shipyard closes. Richard Jones reports. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were accompanied by Prime Minister David Cameron and Defence Secretary Philip Hammond at the naming ceremony of Britain's largest ever ship. Hundreds of workers, who helped build the HMS Queen Elizabeth, have joined military Chiefs and dignitaries at Roswyth Dockyard in Scotland to witness the Queen's christening of the warship. The ceremony is underway as the Queen is set to formally name the Royal Navy's largest ship at Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland. The Royal Navy has tweeted: The Queen has arrived at Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland to formally name the largest ship ever built for the Royal Navy. The ceremony marks the completion of the 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier after five years of construction work which took place at six different shipyards across the UK. To honour the warship's birthplace in Scotland Her Majesty will smash a bottle of Islay whisky, from the first distillery she visited, against the bow. Staff from BAE in Portsmouth who helped to make parts of HMS Queen Elizabeth have been watching the naming ceremony on a big screen in the city. The £3 billion aircraft carrier is the biggest ever Royal Navy carrier to be built. It was put together in Scotland but large parts of it were built at BAE Shipyard in Portsmouth. She'll arrive in the Hampshire city, which will be her home port, in two years time. Captain Simon Petitt explains the pride he feels in HMS Queen Elizabeth. The biggest ship ever built for the Royal Navy will be officially named by The Queen today. The three billion pound aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is being put together in Scotland but large parts of her were built at the BAE Shipyard in Portsmouth. She'll arrive in the Hampshire city, her home port, in two years. Latest ITV News reports The Queen will formally name the Royal Navy's biggest ever ship today, with whisky replacing the more traditional champagne at the ceremony.
In 2006, Pat, the founder of the Arroyo Vista Inn, came to a crossroads in her life. Fortunately, she followed her heart’s desires and ended a 20-plus year career at a law firm. She then began meticulously searching for the perfect location that she would turn into a beautiful bed and breakfast. Lester Moore, a famous architect who began his career in the late 1800s, was the man who designed and personally aided in the construction of the Craftsman style home where the Arroyo Vista Inn is today. Since completion in 1910, the property had gone through several additions and alterations combined with heavy wear and tear before Pat took over. Surprisingly, Pat had found the opportunity she was looking for with this combination. Because of the contribution to the city of Los Angeles by Lester, a remodel that brought the home back to its original 1910 design would not only be invited, but would highlight the registered historical landmark status. The dilapidated state of the property was also in her favor. She wanted to open an inn that was revolutionary in the state of efficiency and this gave her the opportunity to restore it as such. Starting with nothing but green methods in the actual restoration process, the inn was fitted with solar power, energy saving lamps, a GreenStay option, environmentally sensitive body care products, permeable paving in the parking lot that returns rain water and runoff to the water table and carpet made from recycled water bottles to just name a few. On the property are several fruit trees, backbone of Pat’s notorious fresh squeezed orange juice, and a fully organic herb and vegetable gardening center contributing to a delicious farm to table breakfast every morning. All of this leading commitment to the environment was recognized by the Arroyo Seco Foundation by awarding her business with “Greening the Arroyo”, in 2010. She goes one step further by provoking thought. The customers leave with an arranged packet of information highlighting the things that they can do in their own homes. This character of how Pat feels about where we live extends over to her guests. She provides an immaculate location where they can truly rest and relax. Some of her stories that show this feeling are guests providing a ride to the airport for her parents and taking her and her husband out to dinner. The beautiful Arroyo Vista Inn is a gem that is nestled above the Arroyo Seco that flows through Pasadena, one that is Leading LA. Thank you Pat!
The Story of Pasadena and it’s Neighboring Clay Industry Pasadena is little more than a name on a map. Coincidentally, this is about all that Pasadena, New Jersey ever amounted to; it was a name on a map, and only a small bit more. However, to understand this claim requires a more in-depth view at its history and the history of its neighboring clay industry. The clay industry started around 1858 when an Irish imigrant named Lewis Neill moved to a remote corner of Lacey Township (then Union Township), located along the Manchester border, from Philadelphia. He began a terra cotta and fire brick operation that has been known for generations as the ‘Union Clay Works.’ The name ‘Union Clay Works’ was not a proper name for the operation at any point in time, but instead a name given it by locals who never knew the name of the company operating at the factory. Quite simply put, it was a clay works located in Union Township, New Jersey. The operation was known as Lewis Neill and Company, and it obtained its clay from nearby sources. The most noted of these sources was near the remnants of a hotel and popular stopping point on the Egg Harbor Road known as Half Way. In time, Neill’s operation obliterated this small stopping point, leaving few traces behind. By 1859, Neill had attracted several investors in his company, and he took a partner, John McManus, the same year. Coincidentally, the manager of Neill’s factory was a tobacconist and Minister by the name of Andrew McCall. The name of his property was ‘Red Oak Grove.’ Neill and McManus continued operation until 1865 when the factory was sold to a fire brick and clay retort manufacturer from Brooklyn, New York named Joseph Keasbey Brick. Under Brick’s ownership, the factory became part of the Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Company. Even after his death in 1868, the factory remained under the company’s ownership until 1897 when Brick’s wife died and her estate, which included the Union factory, became a charitable donation to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital. The factory was closed down, and the entire property remained dormant until it was sold in 1910. Not far from the Union factory, about three miles north, was the site of another clay works that opened in 1866, the Townsend Clay Manufacturing Company. It was located in a part of Manchester Township then called Wheatland, and was owned by a successful war profiteer named Daniel Townsend. Within a few years, good fortune smiled on the company as the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad laid its tracks only yards from the factory’s kilns. By 1873, the company had attracted the attention of several powerful local bankers and was incorporated as the ‘Wheatland Manufacturing Company.’ The factory operated until about 1878 when Daniel Townsend died. After his death, however, the company took another path to profit. In 1883, the remaining officers of the Wheatland Manufacturing Company decided to change the mission of the company from terra cotta manufacture to real estate development. A development was drawn up and registered with the county clerk; it was named ‘Pasadena.’ At first, lot sales were high, but soon turned for the worse. In fact, the Pasadena development failed utterly by 1915 without a single house ever having been built. Not far from the remains of the Wheatland factory, just south along the railroad tracks, lay the remains of another site associated with the clay industry. These are the remains of the Brooksbrae Brick Company factory; the same remains that Henry Beck, in his Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, called the Pasadena Terra Cotta Company. Incorporated in 1905 to manufacture bricks on behalf of the Adams Clay Mining Company, a firm that excavated clay from mines just a mile south along the railroad tracks, the Brooksbrae Brick Company erected a state-of-the-art factory on a small parcel of land near the failed development of Pasadena. In full operation it could have produced thousands of bricks per day. However, the factory never reached that potential. In fact, it is doubtful that the factory ever began operation at all. In 1908, the owner of the Brooksbrae Brick Company, William J. Kelly, died and due to a problem with his will, his entire estate was frozen and became embroiled in litigation for the next decade. The Brooksbrae factory was mothballed until the problem with the will could be sorted out. In 1915, there was an interesting incident that began with the laborers from the Central Railroad of New Jersey going on strike at the Brooksbrae siding. The strike tied up the rail lines and attempts by railroad management were unsuccessful in easing the tensions. In response to this, agents for the Brooksbrae Brick Company sent a caretaker to the factory. However, during a cold night, the elderly caretaker and his wife lit a fire in their stove without checking or cleaning the chimney’s flue. Smoke backed-up into the house while the couple slept, and within hours it was ablaze. The next morning it was found in ashes by several workers from the nearby Bullock cranberry bogs. After an investigation it was determined an accidental death with no foul play involved. However, the locals in the area, remembering the strike several days earlier, insisted that murder and robbery was the real cause. When Henry Beck recorded his tales about Pasadena, it was this last tale, about murder, that he attached to name ‘Peggy Clevenger.’ The problem with William Kelly’s will had finally been figured out by 1918. Due to an escape clause, the estate could be sold as seen fit by the executors and, the Brooksbrae factory was one of the first pieces to go. After the tragic deaths at the factory, it was sold and never completed. So, in retrospect, Pasadena was little more than a name on a map. It was a failed attempt at a development in the Pine Barrens, and its current notoriety is only associated with a clay industry that, for the most part, preceded it. The only legacy that Pasadena holds is the folktales that confused and combined the histories of several forgotten localities and one fairly successful clay industry. However, Pasadena is also the key to learning about this wonderful and interesting region of both the Pine Barrens and New Jersey’s past.
After drilling through the ice at the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project (NEEM), an international team of scientists this week hit bedrock 1.5 miles beneath the ice surface. In doing so they recovered ice from the Eemian interglacial period—between 115,000 to 130,000 years ago. During that time, atmospheric temperatures were warmer than they are today, said Jim White, director of the Boulder, CO-based Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. The Past as Analogue for the Future “The Eemian, or the last interglacial period, is the last time climate was as warm as it is today," White said in a radio interview Aug. 3 with KGNU. "In fact, it was warmer than it is today. And that’s important because as climate warms, we want to know what the impacts are going to be. How much ice is going to melt, how are the climate patterns going to change, are the agricultural areas going to stay the same or are they going to change. And the last interglacial period, being warmer, is a good analogue for the future.” Higher Sea Levels During the Eemian, sea levels were more than 15 feet higher than they are today. Scientists predict that melting sea ice could cause sea levels to rise more than three feet by the end of this century. Studying ice cores from the Eemian period could unlock climate mysteries because the new cores are thicker and more intact than previous ice cores drilled in Greenland in the last 20 years. In the earlier cores, the deepest layers were compressed and folded, making the data difficult to interpret. Annual ice layers formed over millennia in Greenland by compressed snow reveal information on past temperatures and precipitation levels, as well as the contents of ancient atmospheres, said White. Ice cores from previous drilling efforts revealed temperature spikes of more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit in just 50 years in the Northern Hemisphere. Ice Cores and Climate White said the latest cores would offer critical insight for forecasting future weather and climate. "The cores tell us that these interglacial periods, and climate in general, is not a static thing," he said in his radio interview. "We should expect change. We should expect that sea level will change. We should expect that temperatures will change. We should not be surprised that climate changes when we do something as fundamental as adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.” An international study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week showed the first decade of the 21st century was the warmest on record for the planet. An International Affair The NEEM project involves 300 scientists and students and is led by Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, director of the University of Copenhagen's Centre of Ice and Climate. The United States portion of the effort is funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs. A View Into the Past The two meters of ice just above bedrock from NEEM -- which is located at one of the most inaccessible parts of the Greenland ice sheet -- go beyond the Eemian interglacial period into the previous ice age. It contains rocks and other material that have not seen sunlight for hundreds of thousands of years, said White. The researchers expect the cores to be rich in DNA and pollen that can tell scientists about the plants that existed in Greenland before it was covered with ice. The core samples are being studied in detail using a suite of measurements, including stable water isotopes that reveal information about temperature and moisture changes back in time. The team is using state-of-the art laser instruments to measure the isotopes, as well as atmospheric gas bubbles trapped in the ice and ice crystals to understand past variations in climate on a year-by-year basis, said White. Greenland—Before the Ice As part of the project, the researchers want to determine how much smaller the Greenland ice sheet was 120,000 years ago when the temperatures were higher than present, as well as how much and how fast the Greenland ice sheet contributed to sea level. The NEEM facility includes a large dome, a drilling rig to extract 3-inch-in-diameter ice cores, drilling trenches, labs and living quarters. The United States is leading the laboratory analysis of atmospheric gases trapped in bubbles within the cores, including greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Other nations involved in NEEM include Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Other U.S. institutions involved in the effort include Oregon State University, Penn State, the University of California, San Diego and Dartmouth College. —Rachel Walker
Another loss, this time to a middling Purdue team at home. Seven losses out of the last eight. And Coach Weber, by his own comments, seems resigned to, well – resignation (or worse). It’s a sad day for this Illini fan. Bruce Weber is a good man who does things the right way. He works his butt off, recruiting, teaching, impacting the community. He’s a guy you want to succeed. We’ve criticized the motion offense for years. It always seems less effective in the second swing of conference games due to over-familiarity and predictability. No need to rehash that. This team needed a strong defensive identity to win, and that just hasn’t happened. This is on the coaches and the players. It also comes down to the fact that a lot of the guys on this roster are decent role-players who are asked to do too much. We’re not going to call guys out here, so instead we will highlight some other guys, who chose to go elsewhere who would have made a difference. In the end it comes down to recruiting. If you get the right guys, you win. In Illinois, that means you get the best players out of the state – including Chicago-land. Lou Henson did it briefly before being brought down unjustly. Bill Self was starting to do it. Whoever comes next will need to embrace this fact as well – even if it means diving into the inherent grime of street-agents and graft in the Windy City. The Illini have to get some of those guys. Does Coach Calipari ever get in trouble? Jim Calhoun? That Matta? Pitino? Coach K? No, not really. Illinois basketball was so wounded by the NCAA’s decision two decades ago it has affected the culture and willingness to play the recruiting game up north. That needs to change. Here are five recent misses that would have made a big difference: - Chasson Randle – Stanford. Combo guard from Rock Island who chose to go west. His smart game, passing skills, and leadership would have helped immensely. - Wayne Blackshear – Louisville. Chicago shooting guard was a bigtime scorer in high school. Had some injury issues which have hampered his freshman season. - Sam Thompson – Ohio State. All-State Small forward from Whitney Young in Chicago who has been used sparingly by Matta. Why did he want to go to Columbus instead of Champaign? - Brad Beal – Florida. St. Louis shooting guard averaging 14 points as a freshman for Billy Donovan. When was the last time the Illini got someone out of St. Louis (the city)? - Verdell Jones III/Lewis Jackson – Indiana/Purdue. Maybe Verdell (Champaign) never wanted to play in his home town, but LewJack (Decatur) likely would have. Maybe they were worried about playing time behind McCamey. Either of them – tough good-passing guards would have made a difference the last few years. And they were in our back yard.
You are each cordially invited to participate in our Beginning Meditation Class at the Fo Guang Shan Temple. It matters not your level as long as you are there. To preview if you have not attended a class: The class begins with a few stretching out exercises. This is a warm-up for the muscles and the mind. We than participate in a walking meditation. In the walking meditation, we walk mindfully focusing the mind without being distracted by our thoughts. We do not look around but instead concentrate on relaxing our body and mind. As we walk, we gradually take longer strides and swing our arms. With head up and chest out, we work up to a sweat and keep an even distance from the person in front of us. During this time, we can notice our thoughts and attempt to prevent daydreaming. Our walk should not be in vain. This is the time to tackle the random thoughts and face them without fear so that we can let them go easier each time they enter. It is similar to working the muscles to build up strength in them, but here we are building the mind’s strength to free the thoughts. After the walking meditation, our muscles are stretched out and we than begin the sitting meditation. All jewelry, watches, etc should be removed so that silence can be observed during this time. We focus on the breath by silently counting each breath in and releasing. Each inhale is counted until a total count of ten is reach and we begin our count again. We count in intervals of ten since the mind can latch on to the count if counted over ten or under ten. If for some reason, a thought enters, we release it and restart our breath count to one. I think that the furthest that I have gotten to my count is four, and I have not yet made it to a total of ten counts without having to restart my breath count. I have a very long way to go with my sitting meditation and taming my mind. The Venerable stated that not only is meditation good for the mind but also the body. She said that when she first started meditation, she lost over 30+ pounds. I am hoping by the time that I am able to reach a breath count of 10, ten times in a row, that I will be a little more weightless and alot more peaceful in my mind. For me to stop the mad monkey in my mind for just a few minutes would be an accomplishment and that is my goal. I hope you can join us on Saturday at 2:00pm and develop a goal of your own that is sure to make your life easier, healthier and a little less stressed. (There is also now available a book in the temple bookstore that explains Chinese meditation for all of those wishing to further their understanding of it beyond the class.)
Naomi: Come in. Oh, hello Thad. How are you, darling? I haven’t seen you in a while. Thad: No, no, it’s been a long time, Naomi. I’m great though, really great. How are you? Naomi: Fine Thad, thank you. What brings you into my office today? Thad: Well (Thad sits down and nervously picks at the lint on his pants) I was hoping that maybe you could write me in on Book 8? You haven’t finished it yet, have you? Naomi: No! I haven’t even started it. Thad: Well, you know…I wasn’t hardly in Golden’s Quest, just a cameo and then even less in Metamorphosis. Do you think, maybe, possibly you could give me something to do in the next one? Naomi: Well, I’ll think about it. The truth is Thad, you’re a nice guy and all and you were great in the early books but…well, you’ve gotten a bit tiresome and actually…nobody likes Gina. Nobody ever liked Gina. Thad: Hell, I don’t like Gina either! Can you write her out and just leave me? Naomi: No. I can’t do that. Look at the backlash I’ve had since I wrote out Caroline. I’ll ponder this and…wait, I have an idea. What if I write a prequel novella about you? We’ll make it when you were young, before you married Gina, maybe even bring your ex-wife Leslie into it. It could be about how you ended up leaving Earth and going to Rozari where of course, you meet THE MAN. Thad: That’d be cool but do we have to bring in Leslie? I mean, nobody likes Gina, just wait until they meet Leslie. They’ll hate her. Naomi: Let me work on it. I’ll call you. Thad: Thanks Naomi. I really need the money. This economy you know… Naomi: I know, Sweetie. Give me a few days. Thad leaves. A few minutes later the door opens again. Naomi: Sweetheart! Why am I so fortunate to be graced by your presence today? Senya: Have you started Book 8? Naomi: No. Sit down and put out that cigarette. You know how I hate smoking in my office. (A cloud of smoke wafts over Naomi’s face) Senya: I don’t want any more Viagra jokes. Naomi: There was only one. Senya: I don’t like being old. Naomi: None of us do but you know, time has to happen in the way it has to happen. Senya: I am not going to metamorphose into any more pathetic geeks. Naomi: Got that. Senya: I want you to kill Katie. Senya: If you don’t, I will. Naomi: Now hold on. I admit she was very annoying in Metamorphosis but still, you two have a long history together. Senya: I would rather have Hannah from the Journey series. Send Katie there and give me Hannah. Naomi: Sorry, Cupcake, but I’m not getting started with that oedipal theme. Let me work on Katie. I’ll calm her down and you’ll see, things will be better. Senya: How many more books are in my contract? Silence. Another cloud of smoke passes in front of Naomi’s face. Naomi: (smiling while gritting her teeth) Sugar Plum, do you remember what happened to you in book 1? How about books 3 &4? Do you want to go through stuff like that again? Senya gets up and leaves, slamming the door. Naomi: (sighs) I didn’t think so.
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Polluting energy subsidised Time to give up our expensive addiction to fossil fuels to save our air and our climate Worldwide, our reliance on fossil fuels costs $10 million per minute, in direct and indirect subsidies, according to figures released by IMF. This is much more than would be needed to develop clean and renewable energy on a massive scale worldwide. The myth that fossil fuels are cheap has been shattered by this year’s IMF study. The economic argument no longer holds up. Other studies show that the green economic sector will generate more jobs than its polluting counterpart. To continue subsidising fossil fuels, is to guarantee that we plunge the world into climatic chaos within a few decades. All of this for the short-term benefit of a small percentage of people, who profit outrageously from a perverse situation. According to IMF experts, if subsidies to fossil fuel were removed, a 20% reduction in global CO2 emissions would be acheived. Not to mention the benefits to our air quality and public health. According to WHO 3.7 million people die prematurely worldwide each year due to air pollution. The report published in November 2015 by the European Environment Agency reveals that in Europe, 430,000 people die prematurely each year due to air pollution! It is time for our leaders to act in the best interest of the entire planet and to overcome the dictatorship of a few lobby groups who rule for their own benefit or for the profits of their shareholders. This unacceptable situation creates immeasurable risks to public health and to the longevity of our climate.
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Wyshynski's reasons include leadership, his salary not counting in the Olympics, more than numbers, versatility and pissing off Jeremy Roenick. ...not sure why there is so much vengeance towards Drury. As seen with U.S. Olympic basketball teams, to be successful you can't just have a group of superstars and expect to win. You need versatile players who can fill certain roles. And Drury can play a huge role on the pk and in the locker room. As Team USA GM Brian Burke said you don't need to be wearing a letter to show leadership.
MAC lovers rejoice! A new permanent MAC mascara has been delivered! MAC mascaras have never been #1 in the mascara world, but with MAC's promise for Dazzlelash to "go bigger, bolder, longer", maybe we'll be hearing a few more raves soon? I picked up "DazzleBlack" today, and here are some photos and thoughts: First, I love the fact that MAC's mascaras are so affordable. Dazzlelash is $12, and that's at the higher range of MAC's mascaras, which range from $10-12. Seriously, drugstore brands are almost the same price, so for a couple bucks more, why not go MAC? Besides it's affordablity, Dazzlelash is packaged in a unique tube akin to MAC's prep + prime line, with shimmer embedded into the black plastic. The wand looks like a boring ol' mascara wand, but the results are fascinating (oh and sorry it looks grey, I used a flash! It's supposed to be black). It's much smaller than a lot of MAC's mascaras, particularly the Plushlash, which has a huge wand. This allows for the product to be applied more precisely, depending on YOUR preference. More control for you = good. I like that this mascara really does deliver on all of its promises to make lashes more voluptuous. In fact, the MA said it has already become her favorite MAC mascara, as some mascaras focus on just length or volume, not both. In these photos, the MA applied Dazzlelash to both my upper and lower lashes. I'm not a huge lower lash fan, but you can see how the bottom lashes fan out with the mascara! Genius! On the down side, there does seem to be a slight amount of clumping. My upper lashes are one thing, because I was wearing a teeny bit of mascara before the MA applied, but the lower lashes have no excuse, because they were previously mascara-free! So I will try again tomorrow and see if there's a lot of clumping or not. PS- Here's my favorite way to apply mascara: Apply mascara first to the root of the lashes and wiggle the wand back and forth, and then brush it out to the tips. The tips should not be clumpy, and you shouldn't apply a lot there, just a little bit. The most concentrated bit should be at the roots! Enjoy Dazzlelash!
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R2-D2 and BB-8 have saved the day countless times in what will probably end up being a never-ending series of movies. But droids are an expensive companion, and you’ll never have to put up with any sass-talking from this set of lightsaber-handled screwdrivers. The £13.62 ($20) set, available exclusively from ThinkGeek, includes two flathead drivers with Yoda and Darth Vader’s hilts used as the handles, and a Phillips head screwdriver with Luke’s/Anakin’s lightsaber providing plenty of grip and torque. You probably won’t want to face a Jedi with one of these in hand, but with enough determination they could probably be used to take down a Wampa. [ThinkGeek]
Kitchener, Ont.-based VidYard wants to make it easier for companies to use their videos for marketing and learn about how to improve their video content, At a medium-sized booth at Dreamforce, the San Francisco-based annual conference of Salesforce.com, VidYard CEO Michael Litt demonstrates his Web-based software that ties together video publishing and distribution tools with a CRM and analytics component. As he explains it, not only can VidYard users blast out their video marketing content across social channels so it’s embedded and viewable in stream, they can also learn about what impact that video had. The service will tell you how long people watched your video and help build leads for your business by identifying who watched your video. ITBusiness.ca met up with Litt on the Dreamforce show floor and fought back the crowd long enough to shoot this video discussing VidYard’s approach to marketing videos and its integration into other software such as HootSuite and the new Salesforce AppExchange app.
Carlson Wireless announces the addition of the SafeTCOM™ Wireless PBX/PA System to its existing line of fixed wireless solutions. The SafeTCOM is a point to multipoint digital microwave radio system specially designed for outdoor industrial facility and campus public safety applications that require both fixed phone and PA services. The system is available in unlicensed frequencies 2.4, 5.4 and 5.8 GHz as well as the licensed public safety 4.9 GHz frequency with a range of up to 30 miles. The SafeTCOM radio system includes a single base station with up to 16 CO lines and 20 field systems (CPE) each equipped with up to two phone (fax/modem) lines and an amplified public address output. Carlson’s TrueTDM™ plus IP technology assures carrier class quality and complete interoperability with VoIP and legacy TDM systems while also meeting all 911 compatibility requirements. In addition, SafeTCOM can easily be configured so that system managers can reliably monitor the system remotely or locally with a Network Management System. SafeTCOM was designed to perform beyond the rigorous communications required by numerous industrial applications. “Our systems are used in numerous industrial and campus facilities including oil rigs, mines, factories, business parks and colleges,” said Bill McBride, director of engineering. “What makes the SafeTCOM really unique is the ability to provide reliable wireless phone as well as 30 W PA connections to your most remote locations.” “The CPE was designed to withstand rugged outdoor and industrial conditions,” said Jim Carlson, CEO of Carlson Wireless. “Unlike a traditional wired system, the SafeTCOM system is portable. CPEs can be relocated and reconfigured to adapt to changes in the work environment such as when a drilling rig is moved or a mine expands. As conditions change, CPEs can easily be set up in new locations without expensive wire line replacements.”
NOTE: Those who have a high possession level will incredibly uncomfortable during this exercise. Michael’s energy is anathemic to sentient dark beings, so they will MAKE IT uncomfortable for you so you will stop doing it. PLEASE make every effort to continue and complete the exercise as often as possible. REMEMBER – Demons will fight you and lie to you and try to convince you the Shielding is bad for you but YOU MUST PERSEVERE to regain control over your life. - Take all the time you need to learn this exercise thoroughly and it becomes an automatic reflex instead of your having to focus closely on it. As you develop skill with this process, you should be able to do it anywhere during anything happening in your life. - The Lower Tan T’ien represents one’s basic body center and energetic foundation and is located approximately two inches below the navel in the center of the pelvic area. Also known as the Hara. - Centering in the Lower Tan T’ien helps one shift attention to experiencing the NOW without being distracted by past or future. - Centering yourself provides the opportunity to feel the energy of calm and peace move throughout and enact change upon you, regardless of what emotional state you were in. Place yourself in a comfortable sitting position. Relax and take three slow, deep breaths. Count to 10 for each breath, hold it for at least 3 seconds, and then release the breath through your mouth. Place your attention at the Lower Tan Tien and center yourself. Allow yourself to place all your attention here and FEEL. Now, look in front of you, approximately three feet. A column of white, iridescent energy has formed. As you stare at it, you realize it goes deep within the earth and reaches far into the heavens. This column of energy has Archangel Michael’s energy resonance throughout it, strong, protective, and clear. Some people see it as having a blue energy tint. As you stare at the energy column, it begins to move to your left and slowly will complete a circle around you. As it moves around you counter clockwise, slowly repeat to yourself the following phrase as the column moves to each quarter point (left, back, right, front): This is the circle that surrounds me And protects me And that guides me And heals me You may feel a small energetic “snap” when you get done with the last step, Do the shielding process a minimum of three rotations. Three rotations equals one rep. Once comfortable with this technique, you should always follow your guidance daily on how many reps to do – note, this will vary from day to day! Now, you are going to ground. Shift your attention from the Tan T’ien to your feet. Feel how heavy they are. How solid. How they are part of the earth and hold you here. Visualize roots flowing out from the bottom of your feet, flowing into the ground. Deeper and deeper until they stop at the perfect depth which you will recognize intuitively. Or maybe you see your feet extending down as a column of light into the earth. Once your bottom energy has stopped, then shift your attention to your head. Visualize a column of light growing from your head way up into the air, high above you, up to the top of the Troposphere miles above us. Feel the energy sink into this Christos energy which surrounds this planet and allow yourself to connect deeply. Now, fill your energy structure with this high vibrational energy. Begin by pulling in the earth mother energy and then once you feel it flowing through you, pull down the Christos energy. To help you focus on these steps, recite to yourself: I reach below I reach above I pull it all together And I fill myself with love. Allow yourself to feel the energy as it moves up into your body and allow yourself the time to move slowly, paying attention to every part of you as the energy enfolds you. Once you feel both energies flowing through you, focus your attention at the heart chakra. Visualize the energies pooling together and then flowing outwards through all the meridians until you are encased in a web of light. The combined energy of these two Light Beings will smooth out your energy and level and balance your emotions so you continue to feel calm and at peace. Ask Archangel Michael to remove any blockages and then to fill place with Light. Once all the meridians are flowing, the combined energy will fountain from the heart chakras out to your auric layers, moving up and through each layer to smooth and balance with this Love energy. Once you feel “full”, thank all the Light beings involved with this gift and allow yourself to shift into meditation. Now, ask the Light to camouflage you so your energy frequency is visible only to those with the intent of serving 100% your highest and best good. © 2017 Julia Knickerbocker ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Red Bull Grand Prix Here’s the official conference transcript for the Red Bull Indianapolis GP, Round 11 of the 2010 MotoGP Championship. Attending the Thursday pre-race conference were Monster Yamaha Tech 3 riders Ben Spies and Colin Edwards, Ducati Team rider Nicky Hayden, Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo, Interwetten Honda rider Hiroshi Aoyama MODERATOR: Warm welcome, everybody, the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix. It’s round 11 in the MotoGP World Championship; the third time we’ve been to Indianapolis in the premier press conference. Obviously in the center, Jorge Lorenzo, the World Championship leader; 77 points he leads the championship this season. Seven wins and three second places. The Indy winner last year, and, of course, Jorge also won on the Fiat Yamaha at Laguna Seca this year. He comes here in very good shape. To his right, no introduction needed, of course. Nicky Hayden, the former World Champion. Two podium finishes here on the Ducati at Indianapolis. Nicky riding with a damaged wrist, a nasty accident in Brno, but finished the race well. To his left, Jorge’s left, of course, Ben Spies riding the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha. Ben, his first full season in the MotoGP World Championship. He’s seventh in the World Championship. He’s had a third at Silverstone, a front-row start at the Czech Republic and, of course, rode here a couple years ago for Suzuki, 2008 as a wild card entry. To Nicky’s right, a warm welcome to Colin Edwards. It will be his 130th Grand Prix appearance. That’s amazing. You remember Colin coming up from World Superbikes. He’s 10th in the World Championship and he was fifth at Indianapolis last year, again, of course, riding for the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha Team. And a warm welcome back to Hiroshi Aoyama, the current 250cc champion, of course, riding the Interwetten Honda. He’s been out of action for over two months with a back injury following a crash in the morning warmup at Silverstone. Obviously we’ll start the press conference with Jorge. We said all the things, Jorge, 77 points, wins at Laguna, Indianapolis. You come here in very, very good shape. JORGE LORENZO: Yes, I come here in very good shape. You know, all the things are going so well this year. There was sort of — I got second position, so I couldn’t ask for anything more. And we come here in a track that I love. In 2008 with a lot of rain and very hard conditions, I made my first podium in rain in my career, and last year I won. So it’s always very positive that MotoGP comes here in America, and I’m happy for that. MODERATOR: And just walking into the Motor Speedway is a special place, an iconic place, isn’t it? LORENZO: Yeah, very special with a lot of history and a lot of races here in the past. And obviously we are — we want that this continues for long years, but I don’t know whether it’s going to happen for the next years. MODERATOR: We sat here two weeks ago, not here but in the press conference in Brno in the Czech Republic, you said: “Now I think very hard about the championship. I have to be careful. Wins not so important but podiums. We just want to win the race again.” Is it the same philosophy here, the same theory? LORENZO: Obviously, I want to win. Nobody in this world want to lose and to make bad results. You know, but we have the possibility to lose a race and to get zero points. But anybody knows what can happen if you crash. Maybe can happen nothing and you are OK physically or you can hurt yourself. So it’s better not to take so many risks and to be on the bike. MODERATOR: Off the track at Brno, many things happened. Valentino Rossi will not be your teammate next season. It does appear that Ben will, although that has to be confirmed yet. How do you feel about Valentino going and Ben joining you? LORENZO: Well, Valentino is going to Ducati, it is official. It’s very big news and very interesting news. Very hard challenge for him, for Ducati. We all hope next year the championship could be more interesting, this for sure. For my side, I still haven’t signed with Yamaha, but we all hope that it comes very soon. MODERATOR: Jorge, many thanks. We come to Nicky Hayden, of course to Jorge’s right. Nicky currently sixth in the World Championship. As I say, two podium finishes on the Ducati here. Nicky, I know we always say it’s a special place but I think for anybody coming here, we always think, wow, this is a bit different. NICKY HAYDEN: Yeah, absolutely. Been a lot of history here, a lot of racing, period, went on here, especially in this whole area, Indianapolis. You can race about anything within, you know, 30 miles of here. So it’s, I think special for anybody but for me it’s double because it’s so close to my house. And to drive to a MotoGP race for me is still the third year kind of seems strange because my first couple years in GP was no American rounds, so I definitely enjoy it and happy to be here and looking forward to the weekend. MODERATOR: And the wrist obviously you crashed in qualifying, wasn’t it, at Brno, you rode in the race very bravely, you had a couple of weeks to at least make some sort of repair. HAYDEN: Yeah, absolutely. I crashed there and was an easy crash, but I was telling Colin I always hold on to the bike too long think I’m going to save it, save it, and the bike landed on it and it definitely wasn’t real fun there in Brno for the race. After the warm-up, I was praying for rain for the race and didn’t get it. But managed to do even better than we thought in the race. But I’ve had about 10 days, and bones don’t heal up 100 percent in 10 days, so us riders we think they can sometimes and they should. But it’s certainly a lot better than it was last week, and this track doesn’t have the hard braking it had in Brno. So, you know, I really don’t expect big, big problems with it. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. But left wrist is a lot better than the right wrist. So, you know, we’ll see. But I’m hoping for no big problems. We ain’t got time to be messing around with sore wrists this weekend; we’ve got to go for it. MODERATOR: So typically it didn’t rain in the race at Brno, you had the test on Monday and the rain came in the afternoon. You did get some laps in, didn’t you? HAYDEN: Actually the rain, I was done anyway, I had a couple things to try, but I couldn’t ride, so it didn’t hurt my feelings that the rain came. Every man for himself. If I couldn’t ride, actually probably just as soon nobody ride. But I think everybody got to do a few laps in the morning which I think everybody needed because it had been since Jerez that we got to try anything. MODERATOR: Your brother in Moto2, that’s going to be interesting, isn’t it? We’ve had him in MotoGP, but Moto2, a lot of riders for him to contend with to start with. HAYDEN: Yeah, MotoGP this year and World Superbike, Moto2 this weekend. We joke around the house: “Why if there’s any race somewhere, what he’s done at home. Surely he can find something, British Superbike or go-kart race, get involved in BMX.” But, yeah, he’s definitely looking forward to a good weekend. I think it’s a great opportunity for the American fans, too, because the whole Moto2, they didn’t come to Laguna. The championship, I’ve said before, seems a little unknown to fans around here. The whole concept of single-engine deal is not really something that’s been used a lot in the American championships in any kind of racing. So I think it will be great racing for the fans, we’ve seen 40 bikes within two seconds is good racing. And put in a good effort for the team. So it won’t be easy, as anybody knows it’s a World Championship level, so to just show up here and jump it in, it will be tough. But I think he can see how it goes. Qualifying will be really important for him, just like everybody in Moto2. But hopefully have a good result, be fun. We certainly got the support, a lot of friends and family and stuff making the trip this year, probably more than ever. So we need to bring our A game. MODERATOR: Just finally, 2011, there was rumors or we felt that you may make an announcement this weekend about 2011. HAYDEN: Yeah, certainly we’re really close, and a announcement is coming soon. So officially I can’t say a whole lot more than that, but everything is looking good and soon we’ll know something. MODERATOR: No great surprises we don’t think. HAYDEN: No, not at this moment. So I don’t expect anybody to be shocked when they hear what’s happening. It won’t be nothing too overwhelming. MODERATOR: Nicky, thank you very much indeed. We come to Jorge’s left, of course Ben Spies. Ben, first season in MotoGP. Ben, at least you arrive at a circuit that you’ve actually ridden on before. That’s a start for you, isn’t it? BEN SPIES: Yeah, I look forward to it. We were here a couple years ago and it was, I think we kind of raced in the hurricane then, but it was — I like the track, it’s definitely a different track for us. But for Indy, they put on a great event for being inside a speedway. It’s as good as it can get. I like the track. So it should be fun. A lot of, like Nicky said, he’s got a lot of friends and family, same for me. It makes it fun. It’s serious, you’ve got to perform on Sunday, but it’s kind of like a little vacation. You get to hang out with all the people that you used to like when I was in AMA and stuff like that. So I’m looking forward to it. Hopefully we can continue with the momentum from the last few weekends and just keep going. It’s tough but hope to have some fun. MODERATOR: And I think for us Europeans, we find the place is so, so different, Indianapolis and Laguna Seca. They’re almost different countries to us. Do you feel like that in some ways? SPIES: I grew up riding, and it’s a little bit different coming back after being at Brno and places like that. But no, it’s still nice. It’s riding at some tracks coming up that are a little bit worse than this. So it’s good. Like I said, I like the track. For what they’ve done inside a speedway, I think it’s awesome. MODERATOR: In 2011, we all think we know where you’re going, but is there anything actually confirmed yet? SPIES: I think you know with a few riders there’s been the worst-kept secrets of all, but like I said, I don’t think a whole lot of people will be shocked. But we have an announcement coming this weekend, and that’s pretty much all I can say right now. MODERATOR: And Brno you did get to test in the morning anyway before the rain came? SPIES: Yeah. We got in some laps. We did what we needed to do. We didn’t set the world on fire but we got some data and, you know, got an early look at some stuff. And hopefully found some things, too, for this weekend and the future of this year. And then, you know, started some development for next year and, yeah, it was a good test for us. MODERATOR: It was an important test, wasn’t it? I think you’re right, so much to do with so little testing for 2010 before you can even look at 2011, it was important. SPIES: Yeah, I mean there’s for a lot of the riders and like I said, not just – even not so much for next year but just for the rest of this year, just looking at some stuff, trying some stuff we didn’t get a chance to with Brno. The weather was kind of a little bit iffy through a couple sessions. There are some things we wanted to try and never got to. We tried to. Some things worked and some things different. We’ll just try to put it to the test this weekend and the rest of the year and try to get ready for next year. MODERATOR: Ben, thanks very much indeed. Come to the far end, ladies and gentlemen, of course, Ben’s teammate, Colin Edwards. Colin, 130th Grand Prix appearance. It’s been some run some run, hasn’t it? COLIN EDWARDS: It has. Can I just say something real quick for future reference? Earlier when you said 10th in the championship, that’s like a dagger in the heart. So let’s just leave that shit out next time, OK? If it weren’t for these assholes being so fast, I might be a little bit higher up in the championship. (Laughter) No, 130 races. Oh, man, I’m getting old, aren’t I? HAYDEN: He’s a professional. He should be able to put a better spin on it than that. (Laughter) EDWARDS: Yeah. No, it definitely, 130 races, yeah, it’s been something special. It’s been some of the best times of my life. It’s been awesome. MODERATOR: Tough year for you this year. EDWARDS: Oh, you think? Is that just being honest? (Laughter) MODERATOR: I’m being honest. You’ve had a tough old time out there. EDWARDS: Yeah, it’s been very difficult. We obviously finished fifth in the championship last year and came here kind of on a high thinking everything would be cool. This dumb-ass six engines per year rule, I don’t know what they have there, but we’ve suffered. We’ve obviously suffered. We got a little bit something extra at Laguna, not necessarily engine or whatever, but we developed a little bit of a faster bike overnight and it seems to be working. Our two best results were Laguna and Brno and we’re just looking to build on that. MODERATOR: And the future, do you want to stay in MotoGP? EDWARDS: I’m going fishing. Screw this shit. MODERATOR: You’re beginning to sound more like Kenny Roberts every day. (Laughter) EDWARDS: No, I would love to stay with Herve. I’d love to stay with Yamaha. That’s my No. 1 goal at the moment. We just need to try and make it happen. MODERATOR: So an important second part of the season for both of you. EDWARDS: Yeah, I think there are a couple chips that need to fall in the right place and I think it can happen, it’s just a matter of — is it a full moon yet? I don’t know. Anyways, we just need to see what happens. MODERATOR: I think I speak for everybody, we hope it happens. We don’t want to lose you from the MotoGP. Finally, I remember a couple years ago when you first came to Indy, you said what a special place to come and actually race here, just so fantastic. EDWARDS: I have so many memories here. You all probably heard the story, it was ’85 or ’86 when Danny Sullivan did the 360 and still won the race. My dad was drunk on the bed, and I was a little kid. I just remember my dad being drunk, “God damn, did you see that?” I’m like, “Dad, that’s the 10th time you said that. I saw it already.” (Laughter) But I have some memories of this place, most of them televised that I was watching. And to be here and to be parked in the same Paddock in the motor homes and just being in this area, it’s something special. They’ve done a great job with it, you know, to build a motorcycle track here, it’s a good job. MODERATOR: Colin, many thanks. Congratulations on 130. Thank you. We come to the far end, ladies and gentlemen, Hiroshi Aoyama. Of course, the current 250cc World Champion. He finished second here in the 250cc race last year. Been out of action for over two months. Welcome back, Hiro. It’s been a long, hard road for you. HIROSHI AOYAMA: Thank you very much. It was two months ago, and I crashed in the warming up. It was not really hard crash, a simple crash. But when I crashed I had so much pain and they brought me to the hospital, and doctor said my back is broken and it takes three months. I was very sure at the beginning, I didn’t want it to be that, but after that I stay in my bed for one month. Sometime I had any hand and my leg numbness, so I was really scared. But now I can come back to here and it was really hard time to be, being at home for two months. But I did testing last week — two weeks ago in Brno and feeling was OK. So I think now it’s time to come back to racetrack. MODERATOR: Will you have some special protection or some strengthening for the back? AOYAMA: Yes, we made a special corset for riding the bike because my back is not 100 percent yet, so I need some support. With this I can ride normal. I hope I don’t have so much pain during this weekend. Last time in test I did 10 laps continued, it was OK, but after that I had to lay down on the floor. Now it’s two weeks later, so I hope it’s going to be better. MODERATOR: And while you’ve been away, have you been watching the races on television? AOYAMA: Yeah, these two months I was away watching the MotoGP and it was kind of stressed, but also I felt I love motorcycle and I’m really happy that I can ride a bike again, also I can walk normally. MODERATOR: All I can say, Hiroshi, I think from everybody, a big welcome back, it’s good to see you back. We’re glad everything is OK. Thank you very much indeed. AOYAMA: Thank you. MODERATOR: Questions from the floor, ladies and gentlemen. Put up your hands, the microphones will come. You silenced them all, Colin. EDWARDS: We’ve got a question here. Right here. SPIES: So is your dad the reason you don’t have a filter, is that it? (Laughter) EDWARDS: He is Australian, so maybe that filter is gone. (Laughter) Q: Pretty much the talk of the morning has been Ben’s NBA exploits. Can you tell us a little bit about your basketball? I heard you’ve been knocking down three-pointers like they’re going out of style. SPIES: You didn’t see me dribbling too much, did you? I used to play basketball a long time ago. That was the first time, it was fun going out there and seeing how big the stadium is, how small the court feels in the stadium environment and meeting Rik Smits, that was a pretty cool deal. I got hot for a second, and then I missed everything else. (Laughter) MODERATOR: Anybody else, ladies and gentlemen? Q: Nick, have you tried to ride? Have you ridden your dirt bike or anything? HAYDEN: Yeah, I rode a little bit a couple days going at my house, me and my dad, just a normal deal. Actually, yeah, I felt OK. Like I said, not just great, and I didn’t push it, but, you know, my home race, so it’s not going to get caught up thinking about it too much, just ride. So I don’t really — I’ll see tomorrow, breaking in on one of these things is a little different than riding up your driveway, backyard type thing, but it will be all right. Q: Nicky, did you seek any kind of medical treatment for the wrist injury? HAYDEN: Yeah. Well, I mean I went obviously to Costa after it happened and after I got home, I did an X-ray and scan because I have a screw in my left wrist, too, riding in the scaphoid area where they were worried about because at the Clinica, they can’t sometimes see 100 percent on X-ray and so close to that scaphoid bone they say needs a couple days before it can really show up. So went home to my doctor, and another doctor checked it over. Some normal therapy stuff, ultrasounds and things like that. I’ll maybe get another X-ray in a week or two and see if it’s still healing, but I don’t expect no surgery or nothing like that. Q: Then, also, I understand maybe the new Ohlins forks were made available this weekend, but you’re not going to use them? HAYDEN: We’re not going to use them tomorrow. I’ve got one set that, you know, I used a bit in Brno and I really didn’t have, you know, anything but — didn’t like better than what I had. I tried, really only changed one or two things on them and we’ve talked this week and it seemed after they got back and checked the data more, maybe we started off with the wrong setting on some of the static compression or whatever was maybe not the ideal place to start. So, you know, not confuse things tomorrow but maybe try them again here, Misano or something. We brought them and we’ve still got them around. So something we might look at but not tomorrow. MODERATOR: Anybody else? Q: Nicky, assuming that the announcement is what we all think it’s going to be, what are your thoughts of being teamed back up with Valentino next year? HAYDEN: You know, if that was to happen — (Laughter) You know, I think it would be great for our series, great for the championship, obviously for the Italians to have Rossi on the Ducati. I was just doing an interview and told them they better get their tickets for Mugello now because I can only imagine that place with him on it. Even the test at Valencia if he rides that, there will be as many people trying to watch the test. So I think it would be a great opportunity. We’ve been teammates before; we got on well. You know, sure, put a lot of pressure on me and everybody to do a good job. But he has a lot of experience. Everywhere he’s went, he’s great for engineers because he’s consistent. His feedback from what I’ve been around, you know, is very clear. And I wouldn’t certainly have a problem with it. I could see only for the most part good stuff. So I hope that’s the case. I think it would be a lot of fun. Q: For the three American riders. Obviously, to compete at the level that you guys are competing at, you have to ride beyond the edge so often anyway. But I know when you come here to race in the States, you want to win so bad and perform so well. What do you do, what do you say to yourself? How do you dig deeper for an even better performance or to try to achieve the goal that you hope for when you’re here? Because mechanically you’re to a point but you try to take it so much further on your own. EDWARDS: You’ve been doing all the talking. Do you want to talk first? HAYDEN: I’ll keep going. I’m warmed up. (Laughter) You’ve got to be careful. Like you say, you always try your hardest. You come and think, “Oh, wow, you’re going to try that last bit, but sometimes there’s not any more.” You try too hard and the pressure is too much, and you go slower and make mistakes. I think, if anything, you’ve got to be more careful. Just stick to your routine and do what you normally do. Really, I can’t say I’ve been holding anything back. I’ve been on the ground a lot this year. So not like I got a whole lot left, but I’m going to try to find something on Sunday. EDWARDS: Go ahead, Ben. HAYDEN: I’ve never heard Colin turn down the opportunity to do a little talking. (Laughter) EDWARDS: I’m thinking. HAYDEN: Do you feel OK, man? SPIES: I think it’s kind of what Nicky said. You know, every Sunday, no matter what country you’re in, we try hard for 45 minutes. You want your best result to be at home. I mean, that’s what you want. You just hope everything comes together. You get good qualifying, you get a good start, the bike’s working good and try to put it together. But, yeah, I mean a week and a half ago at Brno and before that I’m pretty sure I rode as hard as I could and the same thing here. Just hope it comes together and get a good result for everybody. EDWARDS: Honestly the same. You don’t really do anything different. Every weekend you go and you ride your balls off. And every weekend after Sunday after 45 minutes of riding you say that’s the hardest race I’ve ever ridden, this is bullshit. And it’s going to be the same this weekend. There’s nothing really different, you just do the same thing. Being on home soil, yeah, maybe a little extra incentive, maybe a little more attuned — I don’t know — kind of focused on bike setting. Maybe a little bit more trying to find that extra little 10th or two, but that’s about it. MODERATOR: Anybody else? OK. It’s time for the photograph, gentlemen. Thank you very much indeed.
Need to install replacement air bag and seat belts. Need Info for resetting trigger device and location of it. I also need to find the computer and any special instructions in order to avoid further damage. The system was activated in a front end collision with a wall, I am worried that if installed improperly the air bags will active and the seat belts will lock up again. Please advise as I am trying to do the installation and am not a mechanic. have the same problem? Friday, August 23rd, 2013 AT 2:55 PM
The debate over Alex Smith provides some insights into how general manager Trent Baalke and head coach Jim Harbaugh view things. Baalke, it appears, seeks a divorce from Smith and his mercurial six-year relationship with the 49ers. Baalke said that the starting quarterback is not on the roster, which includes the impending free-agent, Smith. He said that he would treat Smith as just another free agent and he said, in defending his offensive line, that quarterbacks last year (including Smith) held the ball too long, which, of course, led to sacks. Conversely, Harbaugh has supported Smith. He said he has met with him many times, and said he has reviewed his play and said he likes what he saw. Baalke appears eager to move on so he can remake the team his own way. Smith is a reminder of the unsuccessful recent past and consequently, a significant part of the fan base is deeply dissatisfied with Smith. Baalke’s desire to part with Smith seems more symbolic than practical. Conversely, Harbaugh was apparently so buried in making Stanford a winner for the last four years, he completely missed the anti-Smith zeitgeist. What Harbaugh apparently sees is the possibility of a protracted labor struggle and the need for more than one quarterback (only David Carr is signed) to study his playbook, and don’t believe that players won’t be studying the new scheme despite rules against such activity during the labor stoppage. Neither side wants teams to be unprepared when play resumes, now back to Harbaugh. Harbaugh also might believe that Smith might top the current free agent field of quarterbacks, including those that may be available via trade such as Philly’s Kevin Kolb or Cincy’s Carson Palmer. Smith’s statistics stack right up there with those other players despite playing in a constantly-changing offense. So Harbaugh is trying to adapt to what could be a harsh reality of a non-active off-season. Baalke is making a stubborn attempt to ditch Smith despite the fact the team might need him if there’s an abbreviated time to learn the offense. The disparity of views also reveals that Baalke isn’t necessarily going to satisfy the needs of his head coach. Prior general manager Scot McCloughan didn’t like former coach Mike Nolan’s hire of offensive coordinator Mike Martz. But when Martz asked McCloughan to sign free-agent wide receiver Isaac Bruce, McCloughan did it. Baalke might have his own vision for structuring the team that could be different from Harbaugh’s image, so it doesn’t appear Baalke will get players Harbaugh wants. At least that’s the way it appears so far, with the different opinions over Alex Smith.
Working away on this, still. I’m going to have to take a day or two away soon, because I’ve been invited to provide some text for Naked Girls Reading. Which is exactly like what it sounds–naked girls reading from novels, short stories, articles, whatever, for 8-10 minutes at a time. Leo and one of the bad guys are going hunting for teenagers to traffic, and Leo to make a meet with the agent who’s going to back him up. “Where are we going?” he asked. “We’ll just cruise a bit. Try the parks, the Mall.” “Not the shopping malls?” “Maybe if there’s no luck in the open. Can be hard to get them out of those buildings.” Leo nodded and looked out the window. He needed to get them over to the shopping mall on Pennsylvania Avenue for early evening. DeGraff grinned. “You’re thinking about getting your tickets, aren’t you?” Leo shrugged and stared stonily out the window. DeGraff chuckled and left him alone.
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Hello Fiddle Heads People! Hoping you are well and happy! It’s been another fun week. Just made some fresh chocolate mint fudge, chocolate orange fudge, God Butter and Goddess Butter! (See other specials below) We just got a delivery of LOVELY local teas from the Love and Tea Co. We have really delicious kombucha concoctions made by Karen at Toll a Bell Farm. We have the flavors listed below. Also have some VT Honey Garden Apitherapy’s Elderberry Syrup back in stock. That last batch sold out pretty quickly. I’m working on some raw vegan meat (veat) loaf here and gonna make some BLT kind of sandwiches. That’s always fun! Think I’ll make it on some not so typical raw onion bread (not typical as in not super OILY!) 🙂 If you are interested in receiving some raw food goodies to your doorstep, consider the Mystery Box. I also have new tee shirts in! Here I am smiling all FULLY bright! lil ol (tall) me fully stoked to wear this organic cotton, low-impact dyed tee. There are 3 colors to choose from. I have men’s shirts available now too! iFully dude! Right on! Check out my blog for recipes and other fun stuff. I’ve made some good dinners this past week and posted some of the recipes on the blog. Hours of operation Tuesday: 10 – 6 Wednesday: 12 – 6 Thursday: 10 – 6 Friday: 12 – 6 Saturday: 11:30 – 4 Now for the specials: http://www.vt-fiddle.com/rawfood/fiddle_heads_cafe.php This is my UN-Pizza! My Original Recipe! Menu Items for this week and next: Other Food items for sale this week and next: - gRAWnola – $9.75/ 8 oz bag - LORAH balls – $1.95/pkg - buckwheat breakfast bars – $4.00/ 4oz pkg - buckwheat, date, mulberries sweetie cakes – $4.00/ 4 oz pkg - shallots – $4.20/lb - Good EFAs (Essential Fatty Acids) Milky Shake - Pink Smoothie (Calcium Rich and full of sprouts) - Chocolate Smoothie (Calcium/Magnesium Rich and yes, full of green sprouts!) - Green Smoothie (Calcium, Potassium, EFAs – green nutrition!) - My Favorite Juice - Drink Your Facial Juice - Chocolate Mousse Pie with chocolate pecan crust - Kefir Soda - Hot Cacao - Hot Teas/Coffees - Superfood “Lattes” - Goji Burst – Toll a Bell Farm Kombucha calendula flowers, green rooibos, lemongrass, safflower petals, nettle leaves, orange peels, mango ceylon tea, goji juice - Mellow Mint – Toll a Bell Farm Kombucha spearmint, lemon balm, lemon verbena, lemon thyme, lavender, chamomile, orange peels - Sencha Rose – Toll a Bell Farm Kombucha green sencha leaf tea, nettles leaves, green rooibos, rose petals, rosehips, lavender flowers - Acai Burst – Toll a Bell Farm Kombucha lemongrass, rosehips, chickory root, fennel, hibiscus, orange peels, spearmint leaves, roses, acai juice - Cranapple Ginseng – Toll a Bell Farm Kombucha fresh hawthorne berries, dried cranberries, rosehips, hibiscus flowers, orange peels, ginseng, ginger, lavender, lemon verbena - Power Mint – Toll a Bell Farm Kombucha oatstraw, calendula, lemon balm, peppermint, lemon thyme, alfalfa leaf, wheatgrass powder, barley grass powder, spinach powder - The Dipsters: 2 choices of Cheddary Cheeze and Italian Garden Cheeze. My pizza crackers will be what you use to do the dippin’! crackers: sprouted buckwheat, flax, ground ginger, italian seasoning, garlic, mild chili powder, sea salt, lemon juice. - RAWsome Wrap: Pick your potion: Cheddary Cheeze and Italian Garden Cheeze. The wrap is kale or collard leaves. The filling: dollop of your choice of salad or cheeze, house kim chi, carrots, sprouts, dulse and some of the best black olives ever. - RAWmarkable Chili with “Sour Creme” – sprouted barley, bell peppers, red onions, corn, carrots, garlic, yellow onions, tomatoes, oranges, dates, sun-dried tomatoes, Bragg’s liquid aminos, curry, cumin, italian seasoning, chili powder, cayenne. Sour creme is made from cashews, onion and sea salt. - RAWvioli – local turnips, pine nuts, macadamia nuts, walnuts, lemon juice, liquid aminos, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, agave, olive oil, cayenne, sea salt. Served over greens. - Baby Greens Salad with Almond Orange Ginger Dressing – baby greens, onion, cabbage, carrots, mushroom with delicious OIL FREE dressing: really raw almond butter, oranges, liquid aminos, lemon juice, raw agave and ginger. DEEEELICIOUS! heavenly layered cake! Have you seen the inside of our cafe/store yet? Well, check them out! (Or better yet, stop on in!) \|ALERT! We are adding all our cafe products online so you can order them “to go” – give us a lunch order or a bulk order and we’ll fill it for you. Let us know the approximate time that you will be picking it up and we’ll have it ready for you. For now, call us or email us if you’d like to place a lunch order…\| New Products and Sale Items Be sure to check out the calendar pages to see what is going on in our little world here. \|Everything that I sell are items that I personally use and love. That’s my whole “shtick”. We pride ourselves on being a “green” business (which means biodegradable/compostable packaging, among other things) and for selling local and “extended” local items! Come in and see/feel the fun colors and feel of the place. We are getting lots of compliments and thanks from many for being here in Worcester. Thank you!\| \|NEED A NUT MILK BAG? Get your wholesale/retail nut milk bags here. Check out our hemp and nylon filtering bags. GREAT NEWS! We now have 100% compostable bags to package our bags in! As you know, it is our mission to be a sustainable company and that’s not just for our business sales, but for our business practices, meaning our packaging and shipping materials. MORE GREAT NEWS! We now have OVAL shaped bags in both nylon and hemp! YIPPEEEE!!!!\| \|http://www.vt-fiddle.com/rawfood/how_to_make_nut_milk.php – at the top of the page, you’ll see links to do various things with your nut milk bag and VitaMix. Recipes included! 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I heard that: Mabby showered together, Lisa planted bugs, Lulu gave Dante the "news" run-down, Brenda freaked out...did I miss anything? Had a wild afternoon-- then all of a sudden it was 4:45!! On the site there's SPOILERS and a new poll up. Remember, for May I'm doing couple polls, no one can win twice...and the runner up is on the poll the next week. I also put on couples I think of, there's no agenda going on. I might even do a wacky one!! Hope you had a good day!!
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New Affordable Solar program doubles state incentives to further reduce costs of solar for income-eligible households The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced today that it has increased access to solar for low- to moderate-income homeowners. The program, called Affordable Solar, supports Governor Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), a strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers. Affordable Solar doubles the incentives for each solar project installed at the home of a low- to moderate-income resident. The double incentives are available for residential solar projects for households earning less than 80 percent of the area or state median income, who often lack access to sufficient up-front capital to purchase a solar installation. Initial funding for the double incentives is expected to support between 2,500 and 4,500 new residential projects for low- to moderate-income households. Residential incentives currently range from 20 cents per watt to 60 cents per watt, depending on the area of the State. The low end will increase to 40 cents per watt under this program, and the high end to $1.20 per watt. The start of the Affordable Solar program continues to expand renewable energy at customer sites in support of REV goals. Governor Cuomo first announced the program at Capital for a Day in Central New York. The incentives are available through the NY-Sun initiative, administered by NYSERDA. "Affordable Solar expands solar energy to households most in need of the electricity cost reductions that solar provides and enables them to participate in Governor Cuomo's REV strategy," said John B. Rhodes, President and CEO, NYSERDA. "We expect to see strong interest in this program from solar installers and residents." Eligibility requirements for the increased incentives through Affordable Solar include household income verification and completion of an electricity energy efficiency assessment at the home. If the assessment identifies a need for more efficient lighting or hot water heating, those updates will be implemented prior to the solar installation to decrease electricity consumption. Part of Governor Cuomo's NY-Sun initiative, Affordable Solar is authorized to spend $13 million to achieve greater participation by low- to moderate-income customers in solar electric programs. The double incentives for low- to moderate-income homeowners will use approximately half of that funding. The other half will be used in the future to support shared solar projects for renters and others who do not have rooftops or who have rooftops that are unsuitable for solar. Learn more about Affordable Solar online at ny-sun.ny.gov/affordablesolar. NY-Sun is Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's $1 billion initiative to advance the scale-up of solar and move New York State closer to having a sustainable, self-sufficient solar industry. The growth of solar in the State has increased more than 300 percent from 2011 to 2014, twice the rate of U.S. solar growth overall. NY-Sun web site. About Reforming the Energy Vision Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) is New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers. REV is transforming New York's energy policy with new state-wide initiatives and regulatory reforms. REV will grow the state's clean energy economy, support innovation, ensure grid resilience, mobilize private capital, create new jobs, and increase choice and affordability for energy consumers. REV places clean, locally produced power at the very core of New York's energy system. This protects the environment and supports the State's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% while generating 50% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030. Successful initiatives already launched as part of REV include NY-Sun, NY Green Bank, NY Prize, K-Solar, and a commitment to improve energy affordability for low-income communities. To learn more about REV, visit www.ny.gov/REV4NY and follow us @REV4NY .
Posted 6 years ago I love butterflies and I think this one is spectacular. This is one of Sarah Cov's signed pieces. Features a gold tone finish. Size of the brooch is 1 7//8 x 2 1/2". The gold intricately designed brooch resembling gold star dust. The brooch is marked SARAH COV on the back. This gold butterfly pendant was featured in Deborah Robinson's book! Vintage pins are wonderful and affordable pieces. Why I love this butterfly? There is so much to do with a fine piece like this. Pin them to your collars, cuffs, purses, hats, and wrists of your gloves! Dolls and teddies love to wear them too! Pinning them to drapes, picture frames, guest towels, decorate a tree with them, pin them to the box of a gift, and fancy throw pillows, which is what this beauty currently adorns in my house.
The Mediterranean is so enthralling, so absolutely seductive that, like the mythical siren's song, its spell is impossible to break. It is both a haven for nature's glory and a veritable treasure trove of history. Once you experience it and behold all its treasures, you will never be the same. See it once and the memories forever embrace your soul. See it a thousand times and you still yearn for more. An extended Mediterranean cruise is simply a cruise vacation that combines ports from both the Western Mediterranean and the Eastern Mediterranean. The Mediterranean has cruises from every major cruise line and quite a few of the specialty operators too. While there are many cruise types and cruise lengths to choose from the major distinction is whether a cruise is an Eastern or Western Mediterranean cruise or an extended cruise. The Eastern Mediterranean is the area that covers Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Adriatic Enjoy the culture and history of Italy, especially Venice which is simply stunning and completely unique.See the whitewashed splendor of the Greek Isles and discover the antiquity of Classical Greece. Wonder at the sheer beauty of the Dalmatian coast and be amazed by Istanbul who’s history dates from Byzantium to Constantinople to its place at the head of the Ottoman Empire. The Western Mediterranean is the area from the west coast of Italy and covers France, Spain and North Africa including the Atlantic coast of Morocco and the Canary Islands. Enjoy the history and culture of Florence, the excitement of Monte Carlo, the architecture of Barcelona and the Arabic heritage of Morocco. Extended Mediterranean cruises are more than just a combination of east or western Mediterranean cruises. The size of the Med and the range of major ports allows cruise lines to offer a huge range of 10 to 14 day (and longer) itineraries. While cruises are available year round the main season is from March to October to take advantage of the longer days and warmer weather. Cruises depart from most of the major ports but the key embark ports include Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Rome (Civitavecchia), Venice, Athens and Istanbul. Many cruises also start and finish in the UK with Southampton being the major port. Weather during the cruise season is warm to hot and the days are long and generally sunny. Most rain in the region falls in the winter months. Photo Credit John Simos Please note, while cruise details and inclusions are accurate at time of loading they are subject to change due to changes in cruise line practices and policies. Please check details and inclusions at time of booking.
Make an Easy Switch from Android to Apple Move to iOS app in iOS 9 makes it easy to switch from Android to Apple The great war between iOS devices and Android devices has been a long and tiring one. Many users from both sides have become fanboys and girls for their operating system of choice, and by extension the company associated with it. You will hear similar arguments regardless of which side’s representative you are talking to. “This operating system is so much easier to use than the other one” or “we get real upgrades” or “this is just so much more user friendly”. Let’s just cut out the fat and admit that both operating systems are sitting on their thrones at the top of the cell phone market because they are both amazing! What many people claim is inferiority in regard to the other side, is really just a fear of something different from those making that claim. Apple has address that fear, and has revealed a new app that will allow Android users to easily transfer all of their content from their Android device to their new iPhone. The major deterrent for Android users who have considered jumping over to iPhone's is that it would be too much of a hassle to do so. We may not have realized it when smartphones were first released, but our choice at that time threw us into a long term confinement. That is, at least for people who like to stick with what they know. So the dilemma for most is to either stay with what they know and attempt to forget their personal complaints, or venture out and try something new. With the release of iOS 9, a new app called Move to iOS will be make it easy for you. Move to iOS is a feature that will likely push many people from Android to Apple who have been on the fence. Android users who choose to switch to an iPhone just need to download the “Move to iOS” app on their Android device. The app will securely and effortlessly transfer all contacts, message history, camera photos and videos, web bookmarks, mail accounts, calendars, wallpaper, and DRM-free songs and books. Additionally, Move to iOS will recognize all free apps that have been downloaded in the past will pop up in the “recommended” section of the app store. Also, apps that have been purchased on an Android device will automatically appear in the new iPhone’s App Store “wish list”. This new migration feature is precisely what many Android users have been waiting for. No longer will curious Android users be expected to rebuild their entire smartphone experience from the ground up. With a simple app, new iPhone users will find the transition process effortless, allowing them to enjoy their new phone much sooner. If you do end up making the switch, don't forget to trade-in your old Android phone with ePelican.com! [button color="black" size="medium" link="https://www.epelican.com/" ]Back to ePelican.com[/button]
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after reading about the sad demise of SILEBY in this section of “chavtowns”. I felt duty bound to include it’s near neighbour BIRSTALL. Again tucked away in the countryside between the dual mecca’s of chavdom that are LEICESTER and LOUGHBOROUGH. The youth of Birstall have recently become obsessed with copying their near neighbours by dressing in ridiculous “FAKE” sportwear and riding in “chavmobiles” pumping out the very worst of R&B & Hip-Hop. Their main points of congregation seem to be the park & outside Mcolls/Bargain Booze, attempting to purchase cheap cider & scare old ladies with their rancid language & spitting. About as frightening as a gaggle of Riverside mothers. these morons are the latest youth culture to afflict this peaceful affluent village. Gone are the heady days of the “Birstall Blades” who would have wiped the floor with these social rejects. My only hope is that they should travel to nearby SILEBY of an evening & fight it out Chav to Chav with their nemises. A couple of jars of special brew & merrydown snakebite in the Free Trade Inn. (No ID required) and it’s off to the Horse & Trumpet for an hilarious toe to toe. Watch that fake burberry dosent get ripped you scum.
TV favourite Ant McPartlin has spoken out after checking into rehab for 'drink and drugs problems'. The telly presenter, one half of duo Ant and Dec, has candidly opened up about his battle. He's told how depression led to addictions to prescription drugs and substance and alcohol abuse. "The first step is to admit to yourself you need help," he said last night. “I’ve let people down. I’m truly sorry." Ant, who hosts I'm A Celebrity and Britain's Got Talent, told The Sun newspaper: “I feel like I have let a lot of people down and for that I’m truly sorry. “I want to thank my wife, family and closest friends through this really difficult time. He added to The Sun: "I have spoken out because I think it is important that people ask for help if they are going through a rough time and get the proper treatment to help their recovery." Fans have been quick with their support and Ant's pal Dec tweeted today: "Thank you for all the kind messages and well wishes for the big fella. He will be touched. Your support is, as ever, much appreciated. DD xx." On Twitter, one user wrote: "Ant McPartlin checking into rehab serves as a reminder that mental health issues have no boundaries. Fame does not give anyone immunity." And another added: "The bravery of Ant McPartlin shows how mental health issues can affect anyone - pls make sure the people in your life know it's ok to talk."
The Gesa Carousel of Dreams will celebrate its grand opening noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Southridge Sports and Events Complex in Kennewick. The carousel has been open since September, giving Tri-Citians a chance to ride on the restored 1910 horses carved by Charles Carmel. It once was an outdoor carousel at the Silver Beach Amusement Park in St. Joseph, Mich. The celebration will have an early 1900’s theme and will feature carousel rides, a clowns, jugglers and cloggers, face painting, antique cars, a barbershop quartet and more. Concessions also will be available. Tokens — each worth one 2.5-minute ride — will cost $3 for one, $10 for four tokens and $20 for 10 tokens. For more information or to donate, go to www.carouselofdreams.net or call 509-585-8800.
Montrose Through Time is an excellent presentation of the changes that have taken place over the past century or so in this attractive coastal town in Angus. Amberley Publishing's "Through Time" series is a format which does a great job of bringing the past to life in a very immediate way, and Tom Valentine has applied the format very effectively to his home town, Montrose. The idea is very simple. Take a series of views of the town shown in old postcards, then match them up with modern photographs taken for comparison. What is particularly nice about Montrose Through Time is the care the author has evidently taken to ensure the closest possible matches between the old views and the modern equivalents. You get the sense throughout of the author literally comparing the scene in his viewfinder with a copy of the original postcard. Montrose Through Time will appeal to anyone who knows the town, either as a resident or a visitor. But the great thing about the way the images have been paired is that the book will also be of interest to anyone interested in the way our settlements have changed over time: and the elements which have not changed. Some of the changes are to be expected. Streets that seemed relatively empty when originally photographed are now home to that blight of the modern world, parked cars. Less obvious is the way what might be called the treescape has changed, often greatly altering the appearance of a scene. In some cases trees in early photographs have been cleared, while in others they have grown: or simply planted where they didn't previously exist. The most intriguing image in the book is an early postcard view of Beacon Terrace in Ferryden. Here a number of residents appear to have come out to pose for the photographer, while overhead, at very low level, is an early biplane, which appears to have simply flown into the image by chance. This was, presumably, en route into Montrose Air Station, established on the northern side of the town in 1913.
She has been called one of Britain's most promising young actors, but SAMANTHA MORTON says she's in the wrong business. Words: Judith No ’I’m like, yeah, there are stupid women out there, but we don't need every part for women to be a stupid bimbo.’ Samantha Morton’s rage seems somewhat at odds with the gawky heroine she plays in Dreaming Of Joseph Lees, not to mention the antique cream lace in which she is currently clothed. Then again, it’s the world’s inability to see past her latest ‘There are stupid women out there, but we don't need every part for women to be a stupid ' biMbO.' Samantha Morton role that is so grating upon her temper. Despite having played everything from Jane Eyre to a teenage prostitute in Band Of Gold, it would appear that bags of talent and a bulging CV are no match for the forces of typecasting. After Under The Skin, in which she FORTY THIRD LONDON FILM FESTIVAL ON TOUR 1999 19 NOVEMBER - 3 DECEMBER 1999 Tic f: ‘ LONDON FESTIVAL played a grieving nymphomaniac to rapturous acclaim, she was inundated with ’similar’ parts. ’They were very sexually provocative or hungry~for—Iove characters,’ says Morton, ’but I found them underwritten. They didn’t have a reason, they didn’t have any meanmg.’ As a result, when the part of Eva in Joseph Lees popped up, she was desperate to play it. ’Even though it was a quiet role, she was still doing very controversial things,’ explains Morton. ’The control she was taking of her own life was inspiring — strong and forthright and trying to make choices that other people would be scared to make.’ Despite a tense seven-week shoot, working with director Eric Styles Glasgow Film Theatre 0141 332 8128 The Girl on the Bridge Forgive and Forget Night Train Being John Malkovich 29 Nov 30 Nov 1 Dec 2 Dec Taking control: Samantha Morton in Dreaming Of Joseph Lees and the rest of the team was, she says, ’brllliant, and the girl who played my sister, Lauren Richardson, was just one of the best actors I’ve ever worked WIIIT She was incredibly truthful.’ This is no faint praise. Morton has dealt with a good few actors and a few great egos — she scornfully mentions a ’famous Brit actress’ who sent along her portfolio to an audition instead of herself. She has acted alongside Richard Harris and Gabriel Byrne, and more recently spent eight months in New York with Uma Thurman and Sean Penn on Woody Allen’s forthcoming Sweet And Lowdown. (’I still haven’t come across the politics of Hollywood,’ she says.) The buzz is already audible: both Morton and Allen’s fIIm returned from 0870 242 2847 ABCD 25 Nov October Sky 27 Nov The Virgin Suicides 28 Nov this year's Venice Fllm Festival, struggling to bear home the weight of all the praise Morton flnds the media attention something of a burden, She’s been twrce bitten, haying taken two newspapers to court, and at 22 years of age IS already press shy. Her ChlIdhOOd, spent dodging trouble and foster care, gave the gossip-lovmg tablouds plenty of ammunltlon and provided 8 them wrth handy parallel with Band Of Go/d. ’I’m In the wrong industry in a lot of ways,’ she says, summing it up. Ongoing critical acclaim for her actlng may yet prove her wrong. Dreaming Of Joseph Lees opens Fri 26 Nov. See review. 18 Nov—2 Dec 1999 THE U812?
Hey guys, This may be a pretty stupid question but I will ask it nevertheless; I have a client who wants a comments section on his website, Does anyone have a fairly simple way of implementing a comment box? It doesn’t need to be anything special just something where a user can post what they think of the site. Thanks guys! Really appreciate this :) I have another quick query. Could you both have a look at the following website in firefox or i.e and let me know if you’re getting the twitter feed on the right hand side. If you are then do either of you have any idea why it would do that in firefox and not safari? The troublesome site!
In my house we call it “spaghetti sauce” whether it’s going to be used for spaghetti or not, but I think I’ve read that they call it “red gravy” sometimes. Anyway, I’ve been making quite a bit of it lately, because we have had some extremely prolific tomato plants this year. In honor of that, I thought I’d share my basic recipe (concept) with you; just keep in mind that–unlike what appears to be the rest of the world–I don’t have an Italian grandma, so I’m just hoping that if I did, she’s not shaking her head in disgust. 😛 Things you need: Tomatoes (mine are Roma and Italian varieties.) Enough to fill your stockpot to the halfway mark. Tomato paste (around two of the little cans should work, depending on how thick you are going for). Mushrooms (we love portabellas) one 10 oz. box should do. Pork sausage or Italian sausage I used 1 lb. per 4 quarts. White wine (cooking wine is what I use) Somewhere around 1/2 cup. Garlic (or garlic powder) to taste Onions (or onion powder) to taste Basil (optional) to taste Salt & Pepper (I use mostly Cayenne) to taste 8 quart stockpot/pressure cooker About 8 hours before dinner The first step if you are using fresh tomatoes is to blanch and peel them. This is pretty easy to do, and you can see a step-by-step tutorial HERE. After that, you’ll want to seed them and kind of chop them up a bit (don’t worry about uniformity or dicing carefully, it won’t matter in the end.) Brown and drain your sausage. Dice your mushrooms (really tiny if you have picky eaters) and add them to the pot along with your white wine to deglaze the pan a bit. Kind of let the mushrooms cook down (helps hide them from the picky eaters) before adding your garlic, onion, tomato paste, and tomatoes. Bring all of this to a full boil for around 10 or 15 minutes, stirring regularly. Drain if it looks really watery. Cover. Reduce heat to really low (on my stove I set the dial between ‘2’ and ‘3’) and let simmer for at least 8 hours, stirring occasionally if you remember. I start my actual sauce at about 10 p.m. and do mine overnight, so I don’t bother to stir it once it stops boiling. 😉 If you do that, shut it off when you wake up (or by about 8 a.m.) and it’ll be cooled enough to put into freezer bags (use gallon bags and only fill them about 1/3 full so that you can lay them flat while they freeze and have them thaw quickly when you need them) by around noon. After 8 hours or so, the sauce should be pretty much ready to go. If you want to add basil, now’s the time. The sauce freezes really well, and is pretty versatile. It’s especially great on pizza. 😉 Enjoy! 🙂
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So this girl was a little difficult for me to talk to at first but we got to know each other and now she is more relaxed. At first, I noticed how she would use everybody's name but mine while in a conversation with them. We would just talk and that was that. After a while, she started using it which made me feel I was making some progress and also she started throwing things like "dear" while talking to me, but it was once in a while. However, now she calls terms like "dear" or "darling" a lot during the day but I have never heard them use them on anybody else (and I know some of her friends) so mu question is, why is she doing this? I know that once or twice could be nothing but now she uses them everyday, am I over thinking this? Or is there a reason behind it? Most Helpful Girl I have a guy friend whom I know is interested in me who constantly calls me things like "sweetheart" and "cutie" and stuff like that. I hate it. But my personal dislike aside, I know he doesn't do it with anyone else, so it was a clue that he likes me. A pretty big one at that. I mean I don't get two texts from him without one of them using some term of endearment. If you're hearing them all the time and only to you, she really may like you. However, if she says them to other people, that may just be the way she talks.0
We need someone to design a Chauffeur Booking Apps so our clients can book a chauffeur car at the touch of a button for both account and cash/credit card paying customers. So we want all our customers from their iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Androit with newer, faster, more intuitive App. Whether they are an account customer or paying with cash or credit card, they can book a chauffeured car in under a minute with Phones. Using their Phone’s intelligent memory system, which they only have to enter their details once and the app will remember it for their next chauffeur booking. So if you ever to win our project designing this app you will be using the full advantages of iPhone’s technology: Click "find my location" and using the built-in GPS, their phone will pinpoint their location. Also customers must have the option to enter an address or do an address search if they want to be picked up from elsewhere. Using the ASAP button, their chauffeur driven car will arrive within 40 minutes for central London. They can also pre-book Chauffeur cars for a specific day and time. Cash customers will get a fixed price quote regardless of time of day or traffic conditions. Account customers will also get a lower price than the Cash Price regardless of the time of day or traffic conditions. So We want you to show us any project that you have done past and present Thank You.
Awe at the wonders of Vigeland Park In the center of Oslo sits the world’s largest sculpture park created by a single artist, the Vigeland Park. The mastermind behind it all was Gustav Vigeland, one of Norway’s finest artists. The park is not only one of the Norwegian capital’s largest public open spaces but also an eye-catching homage to the artist himself. More than 200 granite and bronze statues await your visit, in addition to welcoming open spaces. A visit here is a must-do when in Oslo, it is open all day, all year, and is eagerly awaiting your visit. Enjoy stunning sculpturesCompleted between 1939 and 1949, the Vigeland Park is a stunning and majestic work of art in itself. Here, you can see the famous bronze statue ”Angry Boy” (Sinnataggen in Norwegian) as well as the ”Wheel of Life”. These striking statues are spread over an 850-meter axis from the entrance to the park’s stunning centerpiece the ”Monolith”. Human nudity, in all shapes, sizes and situations, is the main theme for the sculptures, which explore the human form and human life. The park has more than one million visitors each year, making it the most popular tourist destination in Oslo. The park is also a loved recreational area for the capital’s citizens, whom love to bask in the sun in this beautiful area. Witness the legacy of a unique artistGustav Vigeland, the artist himself, passed away before the park was completed and was never able to experience the success of his legacy. His vision was to create a public park for the people of Oslo, and beyond, to enjoy. If you want to learn more about the artist you can make your way to the Vigeland Museum, situated just outside the park itself. The impressive Vigeland Park is easily accessible by public transport from our Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Oslo. Our city center location enables you to easily make the most of all that the Norwegian capital has to offer.
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“All is Well” is the title of gospel singer and record producer Troy Sneed’s latest CD, and it also works as a summary of his life these days. His 2012 album produced two hit singles on the Billboard gospel charts — “All is Well” peaked at No. 14, and “Lay It Down” peaked at No. 9 with a 21-week run that ended in early December. His production company, Emtro Gospel, continues to record other artists as well. His records are distributed through Warner Bros. and sold in outlets such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target. Sneed stays busy performing at churches, concert halls and festivals around the country. He had just returned from an appearance in Detroit on The Word Network when he sat down for an interview in his office on College Drive in Clay County. The 45-year-old Fleming Island resident becomes animated as he talks about gospel music — “I love all genres of music, but when I hear gospel it just feels natural, it just feels right. When you listen to a song, it connects with your spirit.” — and the music industry, which he is no longer surprised to be a part of, though that wasn’t always the case. Growing up in Perry, about 50 miles southeast of Tallahassee, “all I thought about was sports, sports, sports.” Sneed played football in high school, but was sidelined twice by a knee injury his junior year. He re-injured the knee in the final game of his senior year, finishing off his dream of playing professionally. After three surgeries for three injuries, his doctor told Sneed he’d never be back on the football field. A somewhat depressed, unfocused Sneed ended up enrolling at Florida A&M University, where he gravitated toward music and the school’s choir. The choir’s advisor, Prince J.D. Olds, encouraged him to get involved. Soon Sneed was writing songs and playing the piano as well as singing. “I thought I was Luther Vandross,” Sneed said, smiling. He also came to believe that God was opening a new door for him. Sneed eventually become minister of music while getting a degree in elementary education with a minor in music theory. The choir was performing in Los Angeles when the Rev. Milton Biggham, founder of the Georgia Mass Choir and an executive with the prestigious Savoy Records, heard Sneed sing and invited him to be part of the Georgia Mass Choir. This launched Sneed’s 12-year association with the group. He became its assistant minister of music and traveled worldwide. “God opened another door for me,” Sneed said. Though the choir’s headquarters are in Atlanta and has chapters throughout Georgia, Sneed continued to live in Florida throughout his involvement with the group. “I told them I am a Floridian and intend to keep it that way.” Something else pivotal happened when Sneed went to college. He met the woman who would become his wife while standing in line to register. Today Emily Sneed is her husband’s business partner at Emtro (a fusion of “Emily” and “Troy”), his strongest supporter and the mother of their four children. They married in 1992, graduated in 1993 and came to Jacksonville to teach in the public school system that same year. Sneed taught for two years, but his career took an unexpected turn when the Georgia Mass Choir was asked to appear in the film “The Preacher’s Wife,” which starred Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington under Penny Marshall’s direction. Sneed was on the set in Newark, N.J., for six weeks, and in Atlanta for two weeks to work on the soundtrack. Houston was standoffish at first, Sneed said, but eventually relaxed, became friendly with the cast and proved to be down-to-earth and funny. For Sneed, the most memorable moment was listening to Houston perform “I Love the Lord” on the set with such power and emotion that production was shut down for the rest of the day. Everyone, from director to choir to crew, was brought to tears. (The soundtrack to the film, which was released in 1996, remains the No. 1 selling gospel album.) After returning from a leave of absence, Sneed finished out the 1995 school year, then chose to leave teaching to concentrate on music. “I decided after that to build the foundation one brick at a time,” he said. Before long, Sneed had a contract with Savoy Records, a major label for gospel music. He recorded two solo albums with Savoy — “Call Jesus” in 1999 and “Bless That Wonderful Name” in 2001 — but ultimately became disillusioned and asked to be let go. “Unless you’re a big-name artist, they don’t know what to do with you, don’t know how to market you,” Sneed said. “I had learned a lot from a lot of different people” associated with the label, he said, and decided ‘I can do this myself.’ ” When Sneed formed Emtro in 2003, he was determined to stay in Jacksonville rather than go to New York or Atlanta. Though friends questioned his judgment, Sneed said he felt Jacksonville was where he needed to be. If he was successful, he said, he could be “King of the Hill.” Five solo albums later, Sneed appears to have reached that goal. In 2011, his single “My Heart Says Yes” went to No. 2 on the Billboard gospel chart; “Smile,” by gospel powerhouse Kirk Franklin, kept him from reaching No. 1. And the album “My Heart Says Yes” made it into the Top 10 as well. His approach these days is not to think in terms of entire albums, but simply of songs, and he writes them as they come to him. By the time he goes into the studio to record, he has an album’s worth of material, without having undergone the pressure of having to compose a significant number of songs in a relatively short amount of time. “If I’m feeling it, I say let’s do it now,” and Sneed puts down the track as soon as he can. He has also found success as a producer. He produced the Top 5 gospel singles “Right Place” (Rudolph McKissick Jr.), “All Night” (Alvin Darling), and the No. 1 gospel hit “The Struggle is Over” (Youth for Christ). Alvin Darling, a singer and pastor who has worked closely with Sneed on three albums and has a fourth coming out on the Emtro label this spring, was at Savoy Records at about the same time as Sneed. Darling recalled their mutual dissatisfaction with Savoy in a phone interview from his home in central New Jersey, “One of the problems at Savoy was they didn’t get behind the lesser-known artists,” Darling said. He said he and Sneed left the label at about the same time, and Darling contacted Sneed when he heard about Emtro. “Troy is a people person, he’s a great entrepreneur and he has the drive, which I don’t,” Darling said. “He will get things done. But he’s a great guy to work with. I’ve never seen him mad, although I’m sure he gets that way, we all do.” Darling added that he doesn’t feel any competitiveness from Sneed, which is sometimes the case when “you’re an artist and you have an artist working for you.” Sneed has seen a lot of airports, and said traveling to perform doesn’t offer the excitement it once did. “You have to be careful what you ask God for,” he said. “It sometimes comes with lots of responsibility.” As a result, Sneed the singer is ready to slow down and give more time to Sneed the producer. But he’s not sure how to make that happen when he’s on the gospel charts and in demand as a performer. Surprisingly, Sneed said he still gets uncomfortable before a performance. He described his anxiety, which can approach stage fright, as “butterflies.” Still, “When you see people getting blessed by the music, it’s all worth it,” he said. “God knows there’s a need for the music. As long as Sunday comes, we’re OK,” Sneed said. “And we always need new music that will fit the worship experience.” David Crumpler: (904) 359-4164
Back in June, President Obama announced that he had finally lost patience with the House Republicans blocking immigration reform. “I’m beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress,” he said, daring Congress “to pass a darn bill.” With Congress still not moving on the issue, Obama was expected to follow through on his threat to take executive action by the end of the summer. But earlier this week, the White House started hinting that the president would put off his overhaul of immigration until after the midterm elections, lest the controversial move cause problems for Democrats currently running for election. On Saturday, an unnamed official confirmed the new plan. From the New York Times: “Because of the Republicans’ extreme politicization of this issue, the president believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and to the long-term prospects for comprehensive immigration reform to announce administrative action before the elections,” a White House official said. “Because he wants to do this in a way that’s sustainable, the president will take action on immigration before the end of the year.” Unsurprisingly, Republicans responded to the announcement by once again suggesting that Obama thinks that he is the King of America, instead of a mere president. “The founders of our country did not want a king, and the American people do not want a president who acts like one,” huffed Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander. And John Boehner said that while “there is a never a right time for the president to declare amnesty, the decision to simply delay this deeply controversial and possibly unconstitutional unilateral action until after the election — instead of abandoning the idea altogether — smacks of raw politics.” Immigration advocates weren’t thrilled either. In the wake of the news, various groups issued statements calling Obama’s move “a broken promise,” “a slap in the face,” and a “shameful betrayal” that leaves “countless families to continue to wait in the shadows of fear,” among other things. Obama will likely discuss all this a bit on Sunday, when he appears on Chuck Todd’s first-ever Meet the Press broadcast.
Last updated on August 5, 2017 Howdy everyone. A few months ago, my friend Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income interviewed me for his podcast. Little did I know that podcasts are a channel with significantly less competition than blogs and a fervent subscriber base that is LARGE in masses. Think about it... Most blog posts you skim while having 30 tabs open or find intentionally via a Google search. And Youtube videos are based on when you want a solution to a problem but with most people listen to podcasts consistently and generally devote their undivided attention during the entire time. While at Awesomenessfest I heard my friend James Schramko speak about all the tools and techniques to create and grow a successful podcast. Blew me away. It was like a foreign language. James was nice enough to put it all in a simple checklist for OkDorks (can we start calling each other that?) to take advantage of. Take it away James. Below he'll show you The Equipment You Need, How to Create Content, How to Publish, and How to Get Your First 100 Listeners. Enter James Schramko I used to record interviews and stream them on my sites before I knew about iTunes podcasting. One day two guys called me up and asked me to be on their ‘show’. I spoke to Tim Reid and Luke Moulton for Small Business Big Marketing and it went out to nearly 20,000 people that download their podcasts. Straight after that my course (mentioned on the show) started selling like crazy. Tim was so intrigued he asked me to start a podcast with him. FreedomOcean.com was born… Tim and I took to the airwaves with a new show and it quickly became a favorite. With over 5,000 downloads for some episodes we were able to drive a lot of sales. We drove more than 50,000 clicks to my products and $100,000 in sales so far from the first 70 episodes. The podcast also helped to drive over 1,400 email subscribers with a 34.1% open rate. Not too shabby. Once I realized podcasts had huge amounts of quality traffic, I quickly submitted my existing blog to iTunes and turned all my streaming interviews into a Podcast. SuperFastBusiness.com is my main blog (where I interviewed Noah while he was eating breakfast). From the podcasts I have generated over one million downloads, which have contributed to more than a million dollars in sales per year. * * * I showed you some results of a podcast, now let me show you the exact no-fail checklist to get started… TIP: Pay attention to the sound Sound quality is very important when people put headphones on. You want to sound great. If you record with another person on skype you can both record at your end, and if the line’s patchy or broken up, we take the separate recordings and join them back together later on, that’s called a double-headed recording. Noah's Note: Better Quality Podcasts are easier to listen to. And there a ton of amazing mics out there. In addition to James' list, here are some others that have been recommended to me HEIL PR-40 (not USB, needs Interface) and the new BLUE Spark is a good USB. Also for Interfaces/mixers: Scarlet 2i2 - 2 Channel mixer or Audio Technica ATR 2100. Personally I like Blue Snowball USB microphones like this one. Also if you're worried about cost and want to validate your podcast first, you don't have to buy all equipment now (renting is an option) - try before you buy on a "shoe string" budget. Or use your iPhone or Android. * * * What format works best? SuperFastBusiness is an interesting podcast where I have long form interview podcasts, like I do on ThinkActGet and FreedomOcean, they might be 40 minutes, it is often two people. I also mix in three to five minute videos that we strip out the audio and turn into a podcast. This can be done automatically using a software tool called Auphonic.com (Free). More of my favorite tools in a bit… All different episodes were popular. The one with Noah Kagan has had more than 7,071 listens. Now if you were to calculate the cost of getting those cost per clicks with paid traffic, or Facebook ads, then it would actually be expensive. The overwhelming outcome here is that high volume, even if they’re short, is going to gain more overall listenership. It’s literally five times more powerful having a higher frequency, and it doesn’t even matter if they’re not long episodes. Dynamic Duo Mistake! Beware of the Batman and Robin format. That’s where one guy’s like the boss and the other one’s the assistant. That’s how FreedomOcean started where I was the expert, and Tim was asking all the questions like the Robin. “What about this?” “What about that?” And now it’s turned more into a different type of show, because we ran out of genre with that. Tim didn’t want to continually play the guy asking the questions, and I totally understand that. It was easy for me to always be the expert, harder for him… Build your portfolio In the marketplace other shows pop up underneath your show. One great way to leverage a podcast is to have another podcast. And obviously the audience will jump around between your own show and your joint show. Podcast Format Interview Now here’s a podcast format interview, and I have to give some credit to Dan Andrews from Tropical MBA. We include a funny audio grab (This is a snippet from within the podcast that is deemed to get the most reaction such as controversy or laughter) to hook the listener before the intro (The intro is a a professional-sounding bumper that we get recorded by a radio professional. People sell these on Fiverr). We then insert a little narrative about the episode, what’s the title of the show, the topic, we tease what’s coming, we make a joke – we try to, if we were funny, we’d make more. Content, which really is the meat of it… Potential Format Checklist for your Podcast ❏ Funny Audio Grab ❏ Intro Bumper ❏ Narrative Intro about life this week in general ❏ Topic for the show specifically ❏ Tease what is coming in this show ❏ Joke or two to get some vibe ❏ Content delivery of the show topic ❏ News and updates ❏ Listener comments from the website and facebook ❏ iTunes reviews people left ❏ Action Tips a listener can implement ❏ Outro music to end the show A consistent format is the foundation for success. Pick one that you’re happy to roll through each time. It helps to write it out like I showed you ours above. Debate if you dare The best interviews I’ve had are where I bring on a guest, and I did this with Pat Flynn and I did it with Derek Halpern, where I have a bit of a debate with them, put a different point of view to them and ask them about that and I get their reaction on it. These were wildly popular episodes. It really made them think, and it turned the interview into something more magical for the listeners. Ask something no one’s ever heard before. How to produce an amazing audio track? On the air I’ll read comments from the blog or listeners dialing in via SpeakPipe. It’s been very very good and lends itself well for audio mediums. People just record, and then it gets put into your file, we download it, we play it back on air and then we respond to it. Notes Versus Transcription? I do transcriptions for my other shows but it’s more expensive and it takes longer. I think the easiest way to get started is to have show notes which is just bullet points summarizing what’s talked about in the show. Noah’s Note: I’ve had some good success with speechpad.com for affordable and quick transcriptions. If you want people to have you on their show, tell people that you’re available for an interview. Just put it in your P.S. subject line and tell them “Hey, if you’ve got three episodes, I’d love to do an interview with you” and do this for everyone else that shows up under your show. Noah’s Note: Here’s an email (click to view) I got for a podcast interview request that was awesome and encourage you to use: Get your guests sharing And when you interview famous people, put a picture of them and add a quote and stick that out on social media pointing back to the shows. Email List Building Ideas You should definitely try to have an email list since you don’t get email access with your podcast listener’s emails. SumoMe.com from the AppSumo guys (thanks Noah) has been helpful with collecting more emails. Your list is extremely helpful in sending out reminders to all your audience besides just iTunes / Stitcher sending updates to your audience. Underneath the podcast on your site, let people download the resources you talk about or a PDF of the show. This gets wild opt-ins. I recommend LeadPages which has leadboxes to make this easy. Encourage people in your email / people click on an icon that takes them to iTunes so they can get on to that subscription feed. Some people don’t even have an iPhone or an iPad yet so they need to be able to stream it from your site (using the Blubrry plugin or Soundcloud) or download it to their computer. (TIP: Every time I’ve removed this, I’ve had complaints so it’s better just to put it up there.) Get your next interviewees from your guests And ask your guests: Who else would be great to have on the show? This is a great way for you to get extra guests referring each other. Retro Fit Your Blog Today TIP: you can actually reinstall a current blog to iTunes. Just get out your microphone and talk some of your blog posts and then add it to iTunes and you’ll have a show right now. * * * Have your own platform. I’m really big on this and it has paid me big dividends. We build podcast websites at SuperFastBusiness. Just install Blubrry Powerpress plugin on a WordPress site. It’s free and it will guide you through setting up iTunes. Every time you do a post, then your episode is published. You only have to submit it once ever. It’s great to host your podcasts on Amazon S3 How to submit your podcast to iTunes the manual (harder) way Auphonic is amazing Auphonic is a wonderful app that will pretty much replace a sound engineer. It will balance and level different speakers, it will remove background noise, it’s that good and it’s free. You can record straight into your iPhone, into Auphonic with your Rode smartLav and then upload it to your Amazon account or Libsyn account or Dropbox account. In fact if you make Videos, you can upload it to Auphonic, it will use a pre-set configuration and add a (preloaded by you) start and end audio or video bumper, export the video AND the audio to your destination/s of choice (dropbox, Amazon S3 or SoundCloud) ready for going live. You can literally podcast from your iPhone and be published without any engineer or middle steps. Here’s your checklist to get your podcast off the ground and live in iTunes: ❏ Open a project dropbox for everything to be placed in as you go ❏ Identify your target audience ❏ Create a premise for your show ❏ Decide if you need a partner ❏ Name your show ❏ Register a domain name ❏ Create an image artwork 1400 x 1400 for the show ❏ Have a favicon created for your website ❏ Buy hosting for your website ❏ Have intro and outro sound bumpers created ❏ Create your mobile responsive WordPress website ❏ Add your Email name capture offer / form ❏ Add a social sharing plugin like social sharing toolkit ❏ Install Blubrry Plugin for WordPress ❏ Open a free account http://stats.blubrry.com/ to track your downloads ❏ Write your about page text ❏ Add Disqus commenting system ❏ Draft some show notes / questions / format ❏ Get your best microphone ready ❏ If using Skype get a call recorder ready ❏ Create your first episode ❏ Edit your episode and add your intro and outro bumpers ❏ Run the final version through www.Auphonic.com to clean up the sound ❏ Load your audio to an Amazon S3 bucket or create an account with Libsyin ❏ Create your first post with title, show notes, MP3 embed and picture ❏ Publish your post ❏ Submit to iTunes ❏ Bonus: Submit your show to Stitcher which comes standard in many car radios now. Tada, but how do you get listeners. If you talk it, will they come? Let me show you exactly how to do that. * * * ❏ Email your mailing list if you have one ❏ Update your signature in your email provider (Gmail) to include the podcast ❏ Share via email, Google+, Facebook Profile, Facebook page, and Twitter ❏ Update your Twitter profile page ❏ Share your post image on Pinterest ❏ Share in Facebook groups you belong to ❏ Buy Facebook Ads targeting a narrowly defined audience (look for a post on OkDork about how to do this soon) ❏ On LinkedIn you can share in groups, status and to all your contacts ❏ Email your customers (including all emails via Paypal) and ask them to rate your iTunes show ❏ Ask website visitors to share and comment ❏ Submit your podcast to Stitcher ❏ Post to relevant forums ❏ Update your forum signature file ❏ Create a press release about your new show ❏ Create images with quotes to share on Instagram ❏ Submit guest posts to popular blogs in your industry ❏ Record episode 2 as fast as possible. It’s been shown if you can release your podcasts all within a certain period of time they are more likely to get shown on new & noteworthy in iTunes. ❏ Contact other podcasts in your category and be interviewed on their show ❏ Interview all the other podcasters in your category ❏ Ask the guest to share the episode they appear in. (Here’s how I ask them in a non-annoying way - send a short email/Facebook message to the episode and say “hey [Name] our episode is out - you were awesome, thanks for spreading the word”) ❏ Contact everyone you would like to interview and ask them to be on your show ❏ Repeat the syndication each time (email list, social shares) Get to talking!
My name is Wayne, and I am 48 years old. On April 11, 1998, at the age of 34, I was in a motorcycle accident. That was the day my life changed. After hitting a car on my motorcycle I was airlifted to a hospital where I was told that I had two broken legs, a broken arm, and a broken jaw. My left ankle was broken in several places and my right leg was even worse. My arm was broken in two places as well as my jaw. Over the next several years I endured nine surgeries on my left ankle including removing titanium plates and ending on the fusing of my ankle joint. I was in such pain I even tried acupuncture. When that didn’t work, I made the choice to amputate at age 40. I felt like that was my best option since I still had at least 25 more years to work. After I came home from the hospital I was watching television, and a soldier was on there who was a below-knee amputee of the left leg. He was still in the military and going to complete jump school. After seeing that, I could live my life the way I always did-- wide open. I was back to work in five weeks. We had gotten a puppy, which I thought was a big help in my recovery since I had no choice but to get up and take care of him. I started back to work on the temporary leg. The first leg I got was from another provider in D.C did not fit properly and was uncomfortable, but after talking to someone else, I got hooked up with Real Life Prosthetics™ . They fixed me up with a more comfortable socket that was a hundred times better, and for the first time in years I had no pain. I am a mechanic by trade and spend all day on my feet, so comfort is a big issue. A year later I bought myself a new Harley, and I was back riding. I walk my dog a couple miles every day. I work as a mechanic and stand 10 hours a day, 5 days a week and I continue to ride a motorcycle. So, if you think you can’t do it, you’re wrong. You can if you want to. I am walking proof.
Real Estate Sales Specialist Annabelle Gleeson is a well known face in the Inverell and surrounding districts, having owned and operated her own successful retail clothing business for the past 15 yeast. She decided to have a lifestyle change after having studied her Real Estate / Auctioneers licence 2 years ago. She has been in retail 28 years and wanted to keep fulfilling her clients needs with her dedication, passion and enthusiasm for Inverell. Annabelle was raised on her local mixed farming family property in the Oakwood district and has an ongoing clientele base in the northern tablelands both town and country. Annabelle met her husband Richard through Elders 26 years ago when he was a stock agent who transferred to Inverell from his family farm Lockhart in the Riverina district. Annabelle's family have been loyal Elders clients bank to the 1950's where her family ran a successful Hereford stud at "Alma Downs", North Star. Annabelle and Richard have two girls, Chloe 24 and Sophie 20. Chloe is following in her dad's passion as a livestock clerk at Bindaree Beef and Sophie is studying education at university. Annabelle has always been a strong supporter of the Inverell district and has always been involved in endless fundraisers helping the district. Her hobbies include show riding, attending race meetings, gardening and quality time with family and friends. There are lots of great benefits working with the Elders team, and that's what makes her job worthwhile, being with motivated people and dealing with all walks of life. Getting good results for vendors and finding the purchaser the home or farm of their dream is a great feeling. Being focused on what her clients want and need will help her get results and live her real estate dream. She looks forward to meeting with you soon. Enter as strangers, leave as a friend - 02 6721 7700 - 02 6721 7755 - 0411 854 689
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Fresh Air @ARTFarm from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday and 2 p.m. to midnight Saturday at 10 Poplar St., in Somerville’s Inner Belt area. Admission is a $10 to $15 suggested donation, and free for those 16 and younger. This outdoor rock festival puts more than three dozen bands – including Yune Neptune, Joss, Anjimile (above), Dent, Sidney Gish, Mint Green, Solei, Midisexual, Lea Jaffe and The Furniture – onstage over two days, with proceeds going to the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth and the Girls Rock Campaign Boston. (Set times are here.) The Taco Party food truck will be on hand both days, and Feminist Fiber Art for Saturday, at this show hosted by Boston Hassle. Information is here. In No Time: A Garden Party from 7:45 to 9:30 p.m. Friday in the Lipchitz Courtyard of the Hayden Library Building at 160 Memorial Drive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Free, but register here. Why put a graduate student end-of-year event on the weekend hot list? Because these are students in MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology program, and you know these people have put together some amazing stuff before getting on with changing the world post-grad-graduation. Also, these undoubtedly insanely clever installations, performances and screenings take place outdoors. Information is here. Fresh Pond Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday around the Water Treatment Facility, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Fresh Pond. Free. The annual Fresh Pond Day celebrates Fresh Pond Reservation – the urban wild that protects Cambridge’s drinking water reservoir – with live music, face painting, truck climb-aboards, nature storytelling, separate parades for “wildlife” (kids can make signs and masks onsite) and bicycle riders (kids can add flair and decorate onsite), a visit with live animals, nature drawing and a “Fresh Pond Beyond This Moment” tour. Rain or extreme weather cancels this event, the Cambridge Water Department warns. A schedule and information is here. An Afternoon with Granta Magazine: Best of Young American Novelists at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge. Free. Look back a decade or two and this Harvard Book Store event introduced us to such luminaries as Daniel Alarcón, Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, Nicole Krauss, Lorrie Moore, Yiyun Li, Karen Russell and Gary Shteyngart. Out of the 20 voices featured in this decade’s Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” four will be on hand: Mark Doten (“The Infernal”), the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Rachel B. Glaser (“Paulina & Fran”), Greg Jackson (the story collection “Prodigals”) and Sana Krasikov (above, of “The Patriots” and “One More Year”). Information is here. New dance in Central Square. See the “A Hunger Artist” performance and album release from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at The Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Ave., ($20, or $21.69 in advance with the online service fee, $25 at the door) or “California Guignol” at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Studio at 550, 550 Massachusetts Ave. ($15). “A Hunger Artist” (above) is an experimental dance theater performance with Vaudeville slapstick, jazz and contemporary dance that is inspired by Franz Kafka’s work of the same name, following the journey of a fasting artist who lives for yet resents his audience. Composer and director Simona Minns sends dancers Madeline Miller, Séarlait Rose Carr and Mary Teuscher on a roller coaster of grotesque images and emotion, with live music that is also being released on CD. There will be a Q&A session at the album release party, as well as wine and a photo session. Information is here. “California Guignol” moves Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” to the Hollywood of the 1970s (where a director’s attempt to film at a secluded mansion runs afoul of a Manson-esque guru and the band of hippies squatting on his terrace) and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” to present-day Silicon Valley (where a biotech billionaire’s experiments in necromancy wreak havoc). Cambridge experiences the gruesome style of Grand Guignol in this wrap-up to the Strange News troupe’s first season, with stars Natanjah Driscoll, Doug Dulaney, Evan Eckstrom, Chelsea Evered, Kate Jurdi and Dharmik Patel in adaptations directed by Davis Alianiello. Information is here.
When Sarah O’Holla started her blog “My Husband’s Stupid Record Collection,” its title was a playful nod to the 1,500-album elephant in the room, poking fun at the snobbish seriousness of collectors like her partner, Alex Goldman. Despite packing and unpacking Goldman’s vinyl collection for five different moves over the course of their nine-year relationship, O’Holla had only listened to a small sliver of his music. So in a recent moment of inspiration, O’Holla set out to conquer the entire collection, writing a review for every album from A to Z. “I think most people in the world don’t listen to music for intellectual stimulation, they listen to it for emotional and physical stimulation.” With its refreshing, stream-of-consciousness style, O’Holla’s blog disregards the conventions of contemporary music writing—she dissects each album’s art, lyrics, and sound from the perspective of an open-minded amateur, rather than a haughty critic, Googling specific musicians and industry jargon while she listens. For example, take this excerpt about a track on the Barbarians’s self-titled album from 1965: “It feels like one of those classic break-up rock-and-roll songs from the 1960s. Lots of ‘babys,’ some call-and-response and a pretty jamming guitar. It sounds like summer. I imagine listening to this on a record player in your bedroom, laying in bed all sweaty because it’s just too hot out, and you can see the moon shining in your window.” In many blog entries, Goldman chimes in with esoteric details his own personal connections to the music at hand. Seemingly overnight, the project struck a chord with a wide variety of audiences: Lifelong music nerds enjoyed O’Holla’s irreverent take on their obscure favorites, while rookies loved discovering new music through her accessible writing. But the blog is not without its detractors, some of whom claim it reinforces stereotypes about gendered realms of knowledge (a criticism that seems more appropriate for the Internet response at large, rather than O’Holla’s methods or intention). “As acquaintance after acquaintance—almost all of them men—enthusiastically shared the blog, I noticed a more powerful, gendered slant to their appreciation of it,” Judy Berman wrote for Flavorwire. Yet O’Holla’s project also challenges sexist stereotypes about record collecting as she experiences each album on her own terms, without letting Goldman or others mansplain them for her. As O’Holla wrote in a response to her loudest critics, “I decided to be courageous enough to talk about something as a layman, to focus on emotions and the way the music was making me feel and certain memories or stories it would conjure up, rather than the fact that I don’t know how to write about music. These thoughts are me. These are my opinions formed from my experiences. And yes, I happen to be a woman writing about her experiences and having an opinion. I guess that’s still controversial these days.” O’Holla’s project also highlights an undervalued aspect of a decades-long collecting habit: Objects like records serve as a proxy for their owners’ personal history and offer the opportunity to share these past experiences with others. Like many record-obsessives, Goldman’s collection is intimately tied to his life, from his days pilfering vinyl from his older brother to those attending his friends’ basement punk shows. The records in his collection may contain favorite tracks, but they also conceal untold memories, neatly filed away until the needle hits a certain groove. While Goldman’s audio-mania carries over to his day job as a producer for WNYC, O’Holla’s nostalgia-tinged passion is for books and writing, which helps explain why she’s now a librarian for a K-8 school, and why she likes to blog. Now firmly into the “B”s, we chatted with O’Holla and Goldman about the project’s notoriety and the ways art can be appreciated by insiders and outsiders. Collectors Weekly: What initially sparked the blog idea? Sarah O’Holla: It was really one specific moment. We had a friend over, and were hanging out the living room, drinking wine, and listening to records. I kept getting up to change the records and just had this thought, “There are so many records I haven’t listened to, maybe I should try and listen to all of them and write about it.” I’ve been blogging for a long time, and I love coming up with new ideas for things to write about. The fact that we just moved also had a big influence—we moved from a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn to a house in New Jersey. In our apartment, we had our records in the same space as the computer, which has all of Alex’s MP3s and things like Spotify on it. We were recently in a phase of not listening to records that often because they are a little more involved, in that you have to keep getting up to flip them over or physically pull them out. Putting on your Spotify playlist is so much easier. But with our new house, our computer’s upstairs. Alex Goldman: And the record player’s in the living room. O’Holla: So that was part of the reason we were listening to records. I was remembering how much fun it is and how interesting it can be to pull something out and look at it. And then I realized how many I hadn’t ever listened to, in all these years of living with this collection that’s already been curated for me. Goldman: Not to say that it’s been curated well, but it has been curated. O’Holla: I think Alex has good taste in music, or at least interesting taste, that lets me discover things I’ve never heard of before, not just the very mainstream, top-40 bands. Although, he does have some stuff like that. Collectors Weekly: At what point did you start collecting records, Alex? Goldman: I’m 34, and I became conscious of music when I was about 11 or 12, in 1991 or ’92, right about the time Nirvana got big. Nirvana was like a gateway drug into more indie bands. At the same time, CDs were taking prominence and everybody was unloading their vinyl collections. Suddenly the market was flooded with records. I was in the Midwest, and they were being sold at yard sales and record stores really cheaply. As a kid with only paper-route money to spend—I had to paper route from 9 to 14—or a hundred bucks a month, I had to stretch my dollar. So I started buying records because I could get a full album for just $3 or $4. Once I started getting really into music, I realized, oh, my God, records are so much cheaper, and they’re everywhere. Also, if I went to a new music store, I’d find mostly contemporary stuff, the latest CD by Soundgarden or whatever. But if I went the record store, I could find 40-year-old records by crazy bands I’d never heard of. So I just started digging. If something had an interesting cover and was cheap, I would definitely buy it. But there were also people who I considered oracles, mostly record store employees. I would be hanging around in there long enough that they’d be like, “Just get this album. You’re 14. I don’t want to deal with you.” Collectors Weekly: Sarah, is collecting in your genes, too? O’Holla: As a kid, I definitely had collections. I had a postcard collection. Actually, there was a time where I had a receipt collection. It feels like something I grew out of, but I do remember having that feeling of enjoying starting a collection. “She doesn’t place him in the pantheon of free jazz luminaries and doesn’t give him this bullshit respect that people think he deserves before they ever start talking about him.” I guess I could say I collect books, not rare books or anything like that, but I love having books in my house, and it’s hard to resist buying them. As a librarian, I also use the library a lot. I’ve read lots of great books that I don’t own, similar to how there’s a lot of music in Alex’s collection that he doesn’t have on vinyl. He has all the Beatles’ albums, but only one on vinyl. I don’t buy books that often because I get to read them for free right away when they get into libraries. But there are definitely times I can’t resist. I actually have three copies of “Little Women.” I have the one from my childhood, and then I have a hardcover copy that my mom gave me, and a new soft-cover copy that looks like needlepoint on the front cover. It has those pages that are very jagged and rough-cut on the sides, and the tactile aspect of it was so intoxicating. I haven’t actually read that copy of the book—I wanted it because I love “Little Women,” but also because of what the book felt and looked like. Collectors Weekly: As a librarian, are you frequently exposed to old or forgotten books? O’Holla: Yeah, that’s the best part about being a librarian. There are so many gems, and the only reason I know about them is because I get to browse and re-shelve and things like that. My school started in the early ’70s, and though our catalog is on the computer now, we still have a lot of books with the original cards in them with signatures from students, some going back decades. It’s hard, though, because as a librarian, you still have to do what we call “weeding,” and sometimes you get rid of these older books that no one is reading. But we have many great out-of-print children’s books. Goldman: Do you recommend any of those a lot? O’Holla: One of my favorite picture books of all time is called “Jellybeans for Breakfast,” and we read it aloud every year. We’ve actually put it behind the desk because it’s falling apart. It’s from the 1960s, and it’s out of print. I think the copies on Amazon go for a couple hundred dollars, so we don’t want it to totally fall apart because we can’t buy a new copy. The librarians always make sure to read it to the kids, and if a parent asks to check it out they can. But we took it out of circulation because it was too precious. It’s such a good book, though, it really should go back in print. I think librarians should help decide what gets reprinted. Collectors Weekly: Alex, what kind of satisfaction do you get from your music collection? Goldman: That’s changed over time. There was a time in the 1990s where the only way I could hear a certain album was if I went out and found it. Ultravox! albums weren’t being reissued on CD, and there was no Napster. So if I found it in a record store, suddenly there was a piece of this culture that I felt a part of, and I could experience it whenever I want. It was so gratifying. Recently, I’ve been purchasing fewer records because the glut of records that came on the market when I started collecting has dwindled. Vintage vinyl has had this resurgence in the past couple of years, so good stuff is harder to find and a lot more expensive. In the mid-2000s, I got really into dance music, so I started buying a lot of dance-music singles. At first, I was like, “I’m going to get contemporary electro and old-school disco and this and this.” But just when I felt like my collection started to catch up to the present, that was the moment when dance musicians stopped putting out stuff on vinyl. I remember it clearly because Azealia Banks released a song called “212,” and it wasn’t on vinyl because everybody’s using Serato or digital turntables now. I actually feel like the new LP is the cassette. There’s a lot of people getting into cassettes right now. Our friend Michael Troutman has a cassette-centric record label, or a cassette label, I guess. Collectors Weekly: Before the blog, was Alex’s collection something you shared? O’Holla: A little bit, but it always felt like more his thing. Whenever the pile of records got to be too messy, it was his job to put them away, because he knew how to do it better than I did. I knew how to use the record player and the other equipment, and I’ve definitely discovered a lot of music through his collection. But when I had the idea for the blog, I also realized I usually go to my favorites, bands that I already know, like Sonic Youth. It’s tricky to put on an album that you’ve never heard of, especially because Alex’s taste is so eclectic. You could be getting a crazy hardcore punk band or you could be getting a sweet indie-pop band. Like most people, when I put on music I want it to fit the kind of mood I’m in, so that risk is a little too much sometimes. Goldman: You probably aren’t going to remember this, but very early in our relationship, you were looking through my record collection for something to put on, and you pulled out a record by godheadSilo. I was like, “I don’t think you’re going to like this.” And you were like, “Why?” And I was like, “Look, you can put it on if you want, but I think you should pick something else.” O’Holla: And what was it? Goldman: It’s a band that’s just bass and drums, and it’s super distorted with this guy screaming. You’ll hear it soon enough. O’Holla: Did I put it on? Goldman: No, you didn’t. O’Holla: But I might have liked it. Goldman: You might have liked it. Judging by your reviews of Arab on Radar and Anthrax and bands like that, I’ve been very presumptuous. I’ve learned amazing stuff about you as a result of this blog. Collectors Weekly: Do your respective relationships to making music impact the way you listen to records? O’Holla: Yeah, so much. Alex makes music, and he hears it very differently than I do. He claims he doesn’t care about lyrics, although he knows the lyrics to more songs than I do. I’m actually pretty tone deaf, but he’s very good at singing on key. We both have very emotional responses to music, but they’re sometimes totally different. Alex often has more extreme reactions to music than I do; he just gets really excited about it. I’m kind of jealous of that, actually. “It’s a happy accident of playing records. Sometimes they sound interesting at the wrong speed.” Goldman: I play guitar, and in the past, I’ve performed music. I’ve played in bands for a long time, and I’ve also done my own weird stuff, solo-ambient-noise-experimental music. But I don’t have a lot of formal training. I’m not good at reading music or anything like that, but I have a decent ear to pick up a melody on guitar. When I listen to music, my impulse is to break it down into its component parts in my head. I’ll be like, “Oh, that thing happening right now was done this way.” And once I do that, it helps me visualize a song in a way. Like Sarah said, I think I interface with music on a more emotional level. There are levels of knowledge, and for a musician, I think I’m on the lower side of the comprehension scale. But as a listener of music, I may be on the higher end of the comprehension scale. Collectors Weekly: Sarah, have you discovered things about Alex’s collection that he didn’t know? O’Holla: Definitely, because there are some albums he’s barely listened to. The one that I really think of was the Barbarians record. Alex had maybe listened to it once, and it was originally a gift. The album wasn’t that remarkable, but there’s one song on it called “Moulty,” which is the drummer’s last name. It’s about how when he was a teenager, he made this homemade bomb. Goldman: And he blew his hand off. O’Holla: So he had a hook, and in the 1960s, he drummed with it for the Barbarians. And this song, “Moulty,” is this inspirational song about that experience. He’s just talking about how he had this dark time in his life, and he thought he lost control over his dream to be a drummer, but then he was able to do it anyway. And then the chorus is just people going, “Moulty!” and chanting his name. It’s really, really good. Goldman: The best part of it is at the end, he’s like, “I kept with my dream and I got everything I want, and all I need now is a girl who will love me.” It’s so nuts. I can’t believe I’d never listened to it, and I’ve had it for a decade. O’Holla: So, yeah, I found that gem. Collectors Weekly: Why do you think the blog hit such a nerve for so many people? O’Holla: I think many people connected with it because it was such a different way to write about music. I’ve had musicians and music writers and DJs and record collectors all reach out and say that they loved it, but also a lot of ordinary people like me. I think it’s the collection, too. Alex has a collection that lots of music nerds appreciate, and they’re excited to see certain bands written about. From the beginning, I intentionally wrote about my emotions because that’s the only thing I already had a vocabulary for. And I honestly think that’s how most people listen to music. Music is often written about very analytically, in an intellectual way, but I think most people in the world don’t listen to music for intellectual stimulation, they listen to it for emotional and physical stimulation, like how it makes your body feel. Goldman: Correct me if I’m wrong, but you didn’t overthink it. You just started writing. The only rule was to listen to the whole record and write as you listened. But I think people like the blog for a couple of reasons. For one, I think it’s a totally new way of writing about music. It’s not about context; it’s about the very immediate feeling. Sarah doesn’t necessarily know an artist like Albert Ayler, so she doesn’t place him in the pantheon of free jazz luminaries and doesn’t give him this bullshit respect that people think he deserves before they ever start talking about him. O’Holla: Some people do write about the emotional impact of music, but it usually includes that deeper context, which puts up a wall a little bit, like, “Oh, I’m not going to sound cool if I say that I don’t like this music that’s supposed to be really high-brow and great.” Goldman: Once we’d gotten midway through the A’s, someone on Twitter was like, “He doesn’t have any Amon Düül records. He’s such a poser.” And that was honestly my biggest fear going into this—that people were going to judge my record collection. I think record collectors are a little self-important and take their hobby deadly seriously. Something I really like about this project that might piss other people off is that it says that record-collecting is not so important. In a subtle way, I think Sarah’s taking the piss out of me a little bit, and I like that. O’Holla: Well, that’s definitely why the word stupid is in the title. Obviously, I think collecting records is great, but sometimes I roll my eyes about it. Goldman: And I appreciate that. I’m fully aware that record-collecting in the era of music ubiquity is a little ridiculous as a hobby. But it’s what I do. Collectors Weekly: Were you surprised by the critical media response? O’Holla: I did feel a little like this group of bullies wanted me to stop writing, but I didn’t. Honestly, their criticism made my blog a lot more popular. I don’t think Slate would have written about it if people hadn’t already criticized it. Beyond the popularity thing, I’m actually really happy it turned into a bigger conversation, and it’s not just a silly personal project anymore. I’m happy to talk about gender all the time, so let’s talk about it. Now it feels like I’m doing something a little more important. Goldman: It was a little overwhelming at first. O’Holla: I felt like people didn’t know me, but had this idea of who I was based on a few of my early posts, where my words weren’t that careful. There were certain things that get taken out of context. For the “Au Pairs” album, when I pulled it out, I had a dyslexic moment and read “Au Paris.” And I kept it in there because I thought that was funny. Goldman: People turned around and were like, “Look at how stupid she is.” As far as I’m concerned, Sarah has balls of steel. After we came back from Scotland to all this press, for one of her first reviews, she listened to a record at the wrong speed—at 33 RPM when it was supposed to be 45 RPM. We spent the entire night arguing over whether she should include that. I was like, “Don’t do it. You’re just feeding the fire. It’ll make people angry.” And Sarah was like, “Fuck them. I don’t care. I’ve been writing this thing honestly from the beginning, and I don’t give a shit.” And she left it exactly as it was. Afterward, Sarah posted an update with all these comments from people saying they’d made the same mistake. It’s totally common; it’s a happy accident of playing records. Sometimes they sound interesting at the wrong speed. O’Holla: I liked it slow. I would listen to it again slow. The album was by Bad Manners, this ska band with a woman singing, and I thought it was a man. I thought it was a man singing very slowly, but it’s a woman singing pretty fast. Collectors Weekly: Sarah, is there a children’s book you’d recommend to your blog’s naysayers? O’Holla: One of my favorites is called “The Big Orange Splot” by Daniel Pinkwater. It’s a picture book about a neighborhood where all the houses look the same, and they call it their “neat street.” And then one day, a house gets an orange splot of paint on it accidentally, dropped by a bird flying by with a paint can. No one knows why, and the owner just goes with it. Instead of cleaning it up, he trips out his house with crazy murals, alligators on his lawn, and all sorts of amazing things. At first, everyone on the street is really angry because all the houses are supposed to be the same, but eventually they come around and realize that a house that reflects who you are is the best house to have, and they all get creative with their own houses. So, my connection goes back to my idea that there isn’t just one way to write about music. My blog was a little bit like “The Big Orange Splot” house: It didn’t look like any other music writing out there, and it was causing a lot of attention. But I’d like to think I will inspire others to write about music, or anything really, in the way that I did—to trust your gut, and write in whatever way feels true to you. (All photos courtesy Sarah O’Holla. Click here to listen to O’Holla’s recent interview with Soundcheck on NPR.)
But at the same time, NATO's global partnership is in need of reform to function effectively in a complex security situation, Peter MacKay said in a set of speeches at Stanford University in California on Wednesday. Domestic security issues begin internationally and it's best to act before they happen, MacKay said. Yet, the events of the Arab Spring show that expecting the unexpected has become the norm in preparing for global events, he said. "These wide-ranging security requirements are further compounded by new fiscal realities forcing governments to make difficult budget and capability choices as they undertake their future defence investments in an effort to prepare for an uncertain future security landscape," he said, according to a prepared text of his remarks. Strong partnerships are one way to move forward, MacKay said. "Not just to share the burdens, but because partners bring different assets, capabilities and relationships to the game," he said. MacKay's set of speeches at Stanford came at the invitation of former U.S. secretary of state of Condoleezza Rice. He called the Canada-United States defence relationship the one certain thing in the world today and told students, faculty and security experts he looked forward to hearing from them how the relationship can be further developed. His speeches also come as the Defence Department is expected to face major cuts in the next federal budget. MacKay is set to address the Conference of Defence Associations in Ottawa on Friday, where's he's expected to lay out some of the challenges facing his portfolio as all eyes are on how the military moves forward after Afghanistan. In his speeches Wednesday, MacKay highlighted the close relationship Canada and the U.S. built during their work together in Kandahar as well as Canada's contribution to the recent NATO-led military mission in Libya. Groups like NATO are crucial in the global effort for stability, but they need updating, MacKay said. More resources need to be placed into operational capability and less into administration, he said at Stanford's Center for International Security and Co-operation. "I believe that this is the only way to make sure that NATO stays agile and effective in a constantly evolving world and that it can continue delivering results for our common security and collective defence," he said according to a text of his remarks. Also on HuffPost
You are here: 1999 MTV Movie Awards nominations19 Apr 1999 MTV announced today the nominations for the "1999 MTV Movie Awards" and "The Truman Show" received a total of two nominations in the categories of Best Male, for Jim Carrey's performance as Truman Burbank, and Best Movie. This year's nominees will be highlighted during the "MTV Movie Awards Nomination Special" hosted by Chris Connelly on April 20 at 4:30 PM (ET/PT). The winners will be announced at the "1999 MTV Movie Awards" which will be taped on June 5th at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA. The awards ceremony will air on June 10th at 9:00 PM (ET/PT). The nominations for the "1999 MTV Movie Awards" are chosen through a national poll of MTV viewers. The winners will be determined by MTV viewers, who can cast their votes via a special number 900 number that appears on air 4/21-5/18 and on MTV Online or at any participating Blockbuster Video location nationwide from 4/22 through 5/17. Joel Gallen of Tenth Planet Productions will produce again the eighth annual "MTV Movie Awards" in association with MTV, while Salli Frattini is Executive Producer and Bruce Gowers Director. Below are the "1999 MTV Movie Awards" nominations in the categories where "The Truman Show" is mentioned: Armageddon (Buena Vista); Saving Private Ryan (Dreamworks SKG/Paramount); Shakespeare In Love (Miramax); There's Something About Mary (20th Century Fox); The Truman Show (Paramount) Ben Affleck - Armageddon (Buena Vista); Jim Carrey - The Truman Show (Paramount) » Send to friend « Newer article \| Overview \| Older article »
Staff at HMP Liverpool were subjected to more attacks last year than any other this century. A total of 80 assaults on workers were recorded at the Walton prison in 2016 - with 13 classed as “serious”. The figure was almost twice that of the year before, even though 2015 had been one of the worst since 2000. The shocking level of violence directed towards staff at Merseyside’s prisons was highlighted by Ministry of Defence data released this week. It revealed there were 183 attacks on workers at HMPs Liverpool, Altcourse and Kennet in 2016. Privately run Altcourse, managed by G4S, saw the highest number of incidents, with 99 recorded. That was a rise of six on the year before, but well below the 150 reported at the Fazakerley jail back in 2014. The most worrying trend to emerge from the figures was the huge increase in attacks at HMP Liverpool, however. In 2013 just over a dozen assaults on staff took place there. That rose to 35 and 47 in the following years before rocketing to 80 in 2016. The 48 attacks reported in 2003 had previously been the highest in a single year recorded at the jail since 2000, the period the Government’s data covered. Of the 80 incidents in 2016, 13 were serious - defined by the MoJ as either sexual assaults, anything that requires someone going to hospital, stabbings, bites, broken noses and various other nasty offences. A dozen attacks at HMP Altcourse fell into that category. Concerns over conditions have been raised at both prisons in recent years. Earlier this month a guard at HMP Altcourse had his throat slashed by an inmate, leading to fears over the safety of staff there to be highlighted. Director Steve Williams, who targeted ending Altcourse’s reputation as one of the most violent in the country when he was appointed last year, said: “There is no place in our prison community for violent behaviour and we will always work with the police to push for the strongest possible sanctions in court against prisoners who undermine safety.” Meanwhile officers at HMP Liverpool staged two walkouts over fears for safety last year, protesting against a backdrop of attacks on staff, self-harm among prisoners and fears inmates could take over the jail if they wished. The prison recently advertised for 50 new officers as part of efforts to combat safety fears. The roles are being made available after the Government designated it as a “pathfinder” prison, meaning more funds would be made available to help stop prisoners returning to crime once released. Four attacks on staff, none of which were “serious”, also took place at the now closed HMP Kennet.
Rape case exposes India's dismal record of delivering justice for women Priya Virmani says a shocking rape case has united Indians in anger and grief but has done little to alter the nation's patriarchal mindset A 23-year-old paramedical student went to a cinema with a male friend this month in the Indian capital, Delhi. On the way back, the young woman and her friend were lured onto a private bus masquerading as a public bus. She was then gang-raped by six men, who bashed the couple with an iron rod and left them on a roadside. This happened within a stone's throw of a posh residential estate. And while the assault was carried out, the bus passed several police checkpoints. Even before this gruesome incident, Delhi had earned itself the tragic moniker of India's rape capital. But the unprecedented cruelty of this case sparked an unprecedented backlash. The whole nation has come together in condemnation, with some protesters demanding capital punishment for the culprits. In the Indian Parliament, the Bollywood actress and politician Jaya Bachchan poignantly voiced the shame she felt as a lawmaker. But however well intentioned Bachchan's stance may be, parliamentary perorations are inadequate. The imbalance of security personnel guarding India's VIPs versus the multitudes needs urgent attention. The figures are appalling: three cops protect each VIP, while there is just one officer for 761 citizens. Perhaps parliamentarians and their families using public transport would send a far more potent message than their speeches. Bachchan was overcome as she demanded justice for the victim in a nation where female deities are worshipped. She, however, misses the point that Hindu goddesses are haloed in mythology for their roles as the apotheosis of submissive, loyal wives to their husbands. They are not glorified for being lodestars of standalone identities. In hegemonic Indian culture, interpretations of history, mythology, religion and tradition have all colluded to root the identity of the Indian woman as subaltern to men, most importantly, her husband. India's blatantly patriarchal rape laws are an extension of this mindset. In rape cases, section 155 of the 1872 Indian Evidence Act permits the victim's sexual history to be regurgitated to establish the morality or otherwise of her character. This does not apply to the culprit. Moreover, though reported rape cases in India are on the increase, the conviction rate is abysmal. Hundreds of cases languish in Delhi's courts and thousands more in Indian courts overall. According to national figures released for 2011 by the National Crime Records Bureau, there were 228,650 registered crimes against women but the conviction rate was a dismal 27 per cent. In today's India, more women are coming out to work. With their financial independence, they are reclaiming their identities for themselves. This is intensifying power negotiations between the sexes. Rape happens when the "endangered man" addresses the power equation by reinstating his prowess by way of assuming the role of a predator and making the woman his prey. The tumescence of India's patriarchal mindset must be stemmed. This change has to take effect across the spectrum - from homes to institutions. This is no other way forward. Priya Virmani is a political and economic analyst. She is the founder and director of Paint Our World, a humanitarian project that works with underprivileged children
I realize that this may seem a repeat, but I’ve just recently started a new class starring films and their impacts on society. We are charged with writing on a blog every week during it. Don’t be alarmed if you see this mixed in with my usual knitting chatter and #stashdash2015 posts. Don’t worry, I haven’t been taken over my aliens (no matter what the Boov may want me to do…lol). You’ll see a new tag popping up for these such posts. I will understand if you want to give this series of my posts a skip, as I love talking about movies from time to time. My glee at being able to do analyses of movies I watch during the weeks of this class may translate into LONG A$$ entries. Having to do it for an assignment will be the highlight of my week… Anyway, off I go. Till later!
I made a cake the other day. It was nice and soft on the day I baked. Jay loved it. But on the second day, it was a little (I said LITTLE) hard. He took one bite and left it. Having known this guy for some time now, I said to myself, Oh, I’ll have to have the rest of the cake myself. Next day evening, on opening the door as he came back from office, he announced that our friend is coming home to have my cake. This friend is a forced bachelor in US, as his wife and daughter had to move back to India for some reason. He is a foodie and always appreciates tasty food. He eats out on all 5 days and cooks only on weekends due to the hectic schedule. I invite him over for dinner, whenever I cook his favourites. Before I could say something, the friend was at the door. I quickly made some snacks and served. In no time the cake and the snacks was over. We had a nice chit-chat and he left. It was a nice evening. I was already on Cloud Nine seeing Mr.Husband inviting his friend to taste his wife’s baking expertise, but still wanted to hear it from horse’s mouth. Since I don’t see any reaction from horse, I initiated.. 😉 Me: Oh Jay, was the cake that good that you invited him to have it? I have made better cakes na? You never invited anybody then. Was this thaaaaat good.. Jay: Oh it turned hard na. I did not like it. Jay: I know you will not make anything else unless we finish this off. So I invited him over. You know na, how much he craves for homemade food now. So I was sure he will finish it off.. Please make something else tomorrow. I should have guessed That was the first time we had a Starbucks coffee after it changed its cup colour to red. Since I wanted to do something with the cup, I saved it and one and a half months had already passed by before I picked it up for doodling. This friend came home that day with Jay. (Yes, he still comes. He survived my cake 😉 I just finished doodling then and the cup and the sharpie was still on my the dining table. Jay (to me): Oh you went to Starbucks today? I smiled because I already knew that Jay will not notice the doodling. Jay (to friend): Did you see the new Starbucks red cup buddy? Oh, it had designs on it, eh? I never noticed it. Nice na. I couldn’t control my laughter. I said I doodled it. He looked exactly like this PS: This is coming from a person who never says anything good about his wife in front of her. It was the time I just started experimenting stuff in kitchen. We had pancake at a friend’s place. That was the first time I am having a pancake. She made it in a jiff and it was yummm. So I decided to try this at home. I referred to so many recipes and zeroed on one. It was also the time when I made the worst dosas in my life. Somehow my dosas were not just working. So back to pancake story. With all the enthu, I poured a ladleful of batter. My sixth sense said something is wrong. Yes, it was correct! It was so soft that it looked like Set Dosa – you know very soft, white and melts in mouth kind of dosa with lots of holes on it. This guy ate one piece (luckily not with chutney) and said, “wow, nice. You should actually make dosas with this batter, please don’t insult this by calling pancake.”
Day 3 of quotes tag! Okay, it’s much harder to pick from the quotes I love than it seems. I have so much saved! Anyway, thanks to Confessions of a Literary Addict for the tag! - Thank the person who nominated you. - Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day). - Nominate three new bloggers each day. Sense and Sensibility is not my favorite Austen book, but this quote makes me laugh all the time. Especially when it can be joined with this particular gif: It’s just still so frelling relevant. Change the wording and Austen is talking my language.
4839 Headquarters Rd, Courtenay, BC V9J 1P2 Third annual Comox Valley Ribfest, September 15, 16, 17 at the Comox Valley Exhibition Grounds on Headquarters Road. This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever. As well as delicious ribs and sauces prepared by four professional Ribbers, a variety of other tasty treats will be available from local vendors. There will be a beer garden, great live music and a Kids Zone. Sunday will feature a Classic Car Show from 10am- 2pm. This event will bring three fun-filled days to the Comox Valley. We will need lots of volunteers to make it happen. For volunteer opportunities and registration, please go to our website: www.comoxvalleyribfest.ca. CV Ribfest is a fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Strathcona Sunrise.
My week hasn’t been too exciting due to being so busy sorting out my winter season abroad! On Wednesday I sucked it up and bought snow chains, I really didn’t want too but it is a legal requirement to be carrying them in a ski resort. One they are quite costly, two they can damage your alloys and three I doubt we will even use them as our car is four wheel drive and we have no need to take it out either if the weather is bad. At least the sun set was super pretty that evening! I have spent a lot of the week making things for my Etsy store, I won’t be able to make anything whilst away so am trying to use up all my materials before going so that I have the maximum amount in my store to make a bit of extra money whilst away. My Etsy store is https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SaraLouiseSews New items are appearing all the time at the moment! Friday was stressful as so much stuff needs sorting for moving abroad including stuff like jobs and it’s just very overwhelming sometimes. Luckily I had Kris to calm me down a bit and buy me a takeaway to cheer me up. On Saturday Kris spent his day sorting his car which left me with a ton of time to get stuff packed, rooms tidied, bathroom cleaned, loft arranged and even an hour to sew. As it was bonfire night we headed out to his local Rugby club as they always have a fire and fireworks there. First time I have got to wear my hat this season! Sunday was spent in a similar way to Saturday. Kris worked on his car again and I spent the morning in the town centre buying a shit ton of stuff. Christmas presents were bought as were stuff for the season such as toiletries and food! On the evening we got to spend some time with our friends and going out for food which was nice as it may be the last time we get to see them before heading off.I also lost my VW centre hubcap on my wheel though which annoys me haha! More and more stuff keeps selling on my Etsy which is exciting! I have sold quite a bit off Etsy too which is slightly annoying as it obviously doesn’t come up in my sales totals so it doesn’t look like I am doing as good as I actually am! This is my latest item to be sent out!
Last week, a friend and I went along to a truffle cooking workshop at à Table. It was decadent, indulgent and so much fun! Shaving black truffles Creamy truffle velouté WIN a free truffle cooking class with à Table on Sunday 26th August! To be in the running to WIN this scrumptious prize, simply: 1. LIKE the Cherry and Me Facebook page 2. Share this link on your Facebook wall or Twitter feed 3. Then leave a comment telling us why you’d like to WIN. Entries close midnight 28/07/12 The workshop will be held between 11am – 1pm on 26/08/12 in Melbourne Visit www.a-table.com.au for more information.
VIENNA -- People at low risk for becoming infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and undergo vaccination to prevent acquiring the disease may frequently test positive for the virus, researchers found. Vaccine-induced seropositivity/reactivity occurred among 908 of 2,176 participants who were actually free of HIV infection, Lindsey Baden, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues reported in the AIDS-themed July 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association and at a press briefing here. That represented 41.7% of the patients who received vaccines in either phase I or phase IIa studies, they wrote on behalf of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases HIV Vaccine Trials Network Vaccine Induced Seropositivity Task Force. The press briefing was conducted in conjunction with the International AIDS Conference, expected to draw about 20,000 doctors, scientists, advocates, patients and activists as well as other allied healthcare professionals. Vaccine induced seropositivity/reactivity was defined as reactive on one or more enzyme immunoassay tests and either Western blot-negative or Western blot-indeterminate/atypical positive and HIV-1-negative by nucleic acid testing, the researchers wrote. They noted that different types of vaccines appear to produce different results as far as vaccine-induced seropositivity was concerned. For example, of those patients who underwent positivity testing in the trials: - 86.7% of the 460 individuals who received adenovirus 5 product vaccines developed positivity without infection - 53.4% of the 552 participants in the trials who received poxvirus vaccine developed positivity - 6.3% of 555 patients who were administered DNA-alone products developed positivity "Development and detection of vaccine-induced seropositivity appear to be associated with the immunogenicity of the vaccine and the assay used," the authors wrote. "HIV-1 vaccines have the potential of confounding interpretation of HIV tests because of the antibody induced by vaccination," they wrote. "Depending on the HIV associated sequences used in the candidate vaccine, not only may the screening enzyme immunoassay be reactive but the Western blot may also be difficult to interpret." Positive reactivity on these tests is not necessarily benign, the doctors reported. "Participants in early-phase clinical trials, who are typically at low risk of HIV infection, may encounter difficulties with obtaining medical or disability/life insurance; donating blood or organs -- which is based on a reactive enzyme immunoassay regardless of any confirmatory Western blot or RNA assay result; employment, and immigration owing to a false-positive HIV test result." The researchers suggested that this confusion could be problematic later on as well. "In volunteers who participate in later stage efficacy trials, this becomes an even more complex issue, because these individuals are at higher risk for contracting HIV, and the candidate vaccines are generally known to be immunogenic," they wrote. They also noted that in the U.S., "the adoption of an 'opt out' HIV testing strategy recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention facilitates identification of individuals infected with HIV and thus allows earlier access to care. However, this approach also has the potential to increase confusion around false-positive HIV testing resulting from vaccine-induced antibodies." The study was sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. None of the authors listed any disclosures. - Reviewed by Barry S Zingman, MD; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Cooper C, et al "Vaccine-induced HIV seropositivity/reactivity in noninfected HIV vaccine recipients" JAMA 2010; 304(3): 275.
Consumers can use these pre-tax accounts to pay for eligible health care expenses -- expenses that used to include over-the-counter medications. Under the new healthcare bill, however, only prescribed medications will be covered. As written in Newsmax: “ … Section 9004 of the Senate bill the House … as well as Section 531 of the House bill that passed in November, changes the tax code so that “distribution for medicine” from HSAs and FSAs are “qualified only if for prescribed drug or insulin.” Yes, the bills are merciful enough to allow diabetics to purchase insulin under these tax plans, but if you or your family members need Pedialyte, prenatal vitamins, or numerous other OTC health items, you will see a tax hike that could be huge. Since HSAs and FSA contributions are exempt from both income taxes and 15.3 percent payroll tax for Social Security and Medicare, and since these together can reach more than 40 percent of an employee’s salary, the effective tax increase on these medicines could be more than 40 percent. And this tax change will almost certainly cost the healthcare system billions more dollars in unnecessary spending both to the government and private insurance plans.” This is only one aspect of the healthcare bill that could end up costing the government more money. According to Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post, the plan may also trigger a budget crisis. He writes: “Two weeks before the House vote, the Congressional Budget Office released its estimate of Obama's budget, including its health-care program. From 2011 to 2020, the cumulative deficit is almost $10 trillion. Adding 2009 and 2010, the total rises to $12.7 trillion. In 2020, the projected annual deficit is $1.25 trillion, equal to 5.6 percent of the economy (gross domestic product). That assumes economic recovery, with unemployment at 5 percent. Spending is almost 30 percent higher than taxes. Total debt held by the public rises from 40 percent of GDP in 2008 to 90 percent in 2020, close to its post-World War II peak.” The “Affordable Health Care for America Act” could cost the U.S. nearly $2 trillion over the next 10 years. When added into the Congressional Budget Office’s latest budget estimates from 2009 to 2020, the total budget rises to $12.7 trillion! So what exactly is “affordable” about that? You may have heard reports that the new health care bill will actually reduce the deficit by $143 billion over the next 10 years. Even if this is true, it is still only a fraction of the overall costs of the plan, and, as the Washington Post reported, amounts to only “about 1 percent of the projected $12.7 trillion deficit from 2009 to 2020.” So what is all of this spending going to get you? What will it mean for your health and that of your family? Who Will Benefit from the New Health Care Bill? Will all of this spending result in stellar health for every U.S. citizen? Unfortunately not. The United States already has the most expensive health care system in the world, The U.S. spends more than twice as much on each person for health care as most other industrialized countries. And yet it has fallen to last place among those countries in preventing avoidable deaths through use of timely and effective medical care. That the system is fatally flawed and in need of a radical overhaul is self-evident, but now, written into the new health care bill, are subtle changes that will end up costing taxpayers even more money, all while encouraging the use of expensive and dangerous prescription drugs. Since over-the-counter medications are no longer qualified items for HSAs and FSAs, it will actually be less expensive for many people to see a doctor and be prescribed a drug then it would be to purchase a drug over-the-counter. John Berlau said it well in Newsmax: “OTC drugs are much cheaper [than] those available for prescription, but they could now be more expensive to individual consumers given that prescription drugs would still be eligible for favored treatment in the tax plans, and that insurance companies would be mandated to cover many of them. Consequently, any time a consumer has the slightest headache, the financial incentive would often be to see a doctor and get a prescription rather than go to the store and get medicine off the shelf. This could mean that billions will be wasted on the additional costs for prescription drugs in instances when OTC medicines could be just as safe and effective at treating the illness.” Drug Companies Will Get Richer There should be no doubt about the power the drug industry wields in shaping the US health care system, and they undoubtedly made sure the new plan would continue to shower them in profits. Big pharma has been the driving force behind conventional medicine, and the beneficiaries of exploding health care costs, for well over a century, and there are no signs that the current health care reform will change any of this. On the contrary, this new legislations is specifically designed to continue to feed the beast. The new health care bill actually provides incentives for people to purchase more expensive prescription drugs in favor of their less expensive over-the-counter cousins. What is Missing From the Health Care Reform Bill? Drug companies, by and large, are not here to bring health to the population but to scam them on one level for vast amounts of money, by treating the symptoms and not addressing the cause. And a health care system that continues to buy into this methodology, which focuses on drugs and surgical interventions instead of valuing your body’s innate ability to heal when given proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, will ultimately fail you. Where, instead, is the debate about limiting unnecessary, ineffective treatments and stopping fraud? Why is no one talking about the fact that there are effective, inexpensive natural-based alternatives? These are the discussions that could actually make Americans’ healthier … but the fact of the matter is that the Big Pharma Cartel has a supreme hold over our government, and this is, most likely, why you do not see any discussions about these very real, underlying problems -- and why the drug companies, not you or your family’s health, will be the primary beneficiaries of the new health care reform. As long as your focus is on drugs and surgical interventions, you will never see the fundamental changes that are so desperately needed. It can only be accomplished by a radical change in how you, and how society as a whole, think about health. And this change can only be accomplished one person at a time. The goal is to have a critical mass of people refuse the unnecessarily dangerous and counterproductive solutions currently offered by conventional medicine. That will serve as the powerful stimulus to generate authentic change in the system. 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I have them stacked - 20 notebooks and/or folders high - in the high shelves of my kitchen. It's a strange sight - coffee mugs and drink glasses on the lowest shelf, plates and bowls on the next one up, dense notebooks filled with 3/4-attentive notes for psychology lectures and poems in the margins and back pages. Yes, I was a poet then. I tried my hand at writing fiction here and there. The poetry worked well. The fiction struggled. I'm spending the day rereading the contents of my mind from 20+ years ago, hoping to gain perspective on where I find myself today. There are no clean/clear answers. There's a lot of longing in these poems. And surprisingly many of my attempts at humor back then still generate laughs today. But most of all there's a young man who took himself and his thoughts (moreso than his experiences) way too seriously. Yes, some of it is poignant and direct. A poem called Sad Song, written on May 8, 1988, two days after the end of the longest relationship of my life up to that point, is sad and beautiful and heartbreakingly honest. If I could remember exactly where it is, among the giant paper piles in front of me, I would quote from it. But I will quote from the poem that impressed one of my best friends back in 1984, a friend to whom I was very impressionable. The poem was called Albatross. We were going to name our literary journal after it. We never got that far. The opening lines of Albatross (12/2/84): When morning arrives, let's all hold handsAnd spit our existence into a pool of melted popsiclesAnd we'll wind up in intensive careBut who cares?And we'll comb our hair with tree branchesDon't you dare...touch my hair Okay, is it appropriate for me to critique my teenage self? First of all, the final two lines of the verse are fucking amazing. I slay the forced existentialism that preceded it (line 2 where I even include the word "existence"). I make the reader forget the wordplay (care/cares) and the fact that three out of six lines starting with "and" is two too many. I was so proud of Albatross back in the eighties. Its one word title would signify the writer in me to the friends close to me, much like my creative mid-nineties self could be defined by those two one-word poem titles: Marbles and Bakersfield. (If any of you know the whereabouts of Marbles or Bakersfield, please let me know. I can't find a single copy of either one - electronic or paper.) But who am I kidding? Sure, I wrote the occasional philosophical thinkpiece like Albatross. But mostly my 1980s poems were there to house the contents of my heart. Love poems - beautifully worded, forever unrequited. You see, my heart gave way to my head (still does) and my poems allowed me to think my way through every misguided crush, every appropriate crush, and every missed crushless opportunity staring me in the face. I mean - poetry aside - who would go out on a date with an alluring girl like S.M. and end the date by driving past D.L.'s house, all the while telling S.M. of his unrefined lust for D.L.? I would, that's who. It was April 1 1984, the day Marvin Gaye died. We went to see Footloose. And not only did I fuck things up by discussing my love for another girl, I outed myself as an apprentice stalker by driving past that other girl's house. Which was completely out of the way - at least six miles away from Doylestown. Six miles was a long way for teenagers back in '84. This perspective that I have now, it was absent then. But I'm more of a blogger than a poet these days so let me just get it all out here in the open, in this forum, at this moment - Sue Morris, I sincerely apologize for making us drive past Donna Lutz's house on our one and only date. Oh and Marvin Gaye, I apologize to you too. On your death day, I sullied your name and your sexual legacy. But I'm here to write about my poetry. Back to my pile of papers. What is this beautifully typeset collection of loose pages? Holy crap, it's The November Magazines!!?? My first attempt at anthologizing myself! On the title page, beneath the brilliant title, I write: What brought me here. A non-linear history in three chapters. A history of the great glorious Harvest Years (1985 through 1990 or, more liberally, 1983 through 1993). So what did I choose to include in The November Magazines? I am both apprehensive and excited as I consider turning the page. If this collection truly does end in 1993, then it might just include Marbles and Bakersfield, though I believe the latter was written in 1994. Damn, that's a fact I should remember. Okay, turn the page: Wow. I forgot about this. Centered, in glorious unknown font, I offer the reader two bookend quotes, from the qualified beginning and ending years I promised on the title page: I never play basketball now - Paddy Macaloon, 1983I used to shoot hoop - Snoop Doggy Dogg, 1993 Damn I had perspective even then. I even got the "Doggy" into Snoop's name. He wouldn't drop it until 1995. Turn the page. It's the first chapter of a novel I don't remember writing. Wait a second - The November Magazines is NOT a poetry collection. It's the NOVEL I DON'T REMEMBER WRITING. Here's chapter two. And chapter three. And it's kind of awesome. I need time to think these pages through. Three chapters is a lot for me. Sure, each chapter bears little resemblance to the others. Each paragraph bears little resemblance to the others. No discernible plot. Just memories and more and more memories. It's a history of my life. And indeed it does cover those years. I'll give you the final sentence of each chapter. It will be sufficient. It will explain me to you (then and now): You could have kept your promise of eternal love but you didn't. (end of chapter 1)There is a blessing on the ground. (end of chapter 2)In the November magazines, there's always a picture of you trundling up the riverside, walking back from your car, clutching the November magazines. (end of chapter 3, also the greatest sentence I've ever written) One reason for my confusion: I recall being overly proud of the title The November Magazines and used it more than once. Whenever I anthologized or compliationed myself in the mid-90s, it was my go-to title. More poetry. This is called The Night Before Thanksgiving. Written on the night before Thanksgiving (11/25/92). This one I remember every second of, every moment. I wrote it for someone I missed dearly in 1992. I wrote it for someone I unreasonably avoided in 2009, as recently as a week ago. Sorry for the avoidance. Here's where I get the most direct in a generally indirect poem: Just think somehowOf pleasant thoughts of meThe man you rememberThe solitude, the senderOf all love your wayAnonymous and in decay, I miss you Wow. Some things just don't change. I turn the page (real time) and there is another poem about the same person, the same fear and feeling. Wow, Ali, just because someone doesn't call you back within two days doesn't mean you have to go all fatalistic. From Dearest You (11/27/92, two days after the night before Thanksgiving): Dearest you, do you stillWear black against your willSay words for sake of listeningTo the blind forbidden thrillTo the deaf and deafening shrill Yes, there should be a question mark somewhere in there. And yes, it's pretty great. Next, there's some claptrap (yes I used that word) about "that blessed year of 1989." Really, all that was blessed in 1989 was February and March and November and December. The rest of it I could do without. I think it's coming. Yes, chronologically, it had to show up some time. I found one of my great long lost poems. Marbles. 6/21/93. Let me read it now. (Two minutes later). Surprisingly, not that good. But in a few places it shines: you had the kind of broken smilereserved for a metaphor writerin the depths of the loneliness jungle a gallon of heartache, a liter of willcan't be a writer if I can't buy a thrill Yes, I did switch to not uppercasing the first letter of each line. It happened some time between November 1992 and June 1993. Since then I've alternated between the two methods pretty randomly. Please let Bakersfield be found soon. If Love Had a Halo. No. Swirl. Better. Ever the Fortunate Soul. Forgotten but pretty good. No Bakersfield in this pile. It's okay. Something has to remain lost or we wouldn't bother looking. Look, here's a printout of a letter from 1993 I was planning to mail to my friend John. Or my other friend John. Not sure. What's important is that I once truly, sincerely believed that Pain Makes You Beautiful by The Judybats was the best album of the first half of 1993. In retrospect, it's clearly Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair (release date 6/22/93 - the DAY AFTER I WROTE BAKERSFIELD). Sure, it's possible I just hadn't heard Exile yet (it's not on the top 5 list) and sure the Judybats were underrated but still.... I have Pure Guava by Ween at #3 so that could be #1 and.... wait, you probably don't care. More stuff from the 92-94 era. Pretty good. Here's the awesome String of Pearls (132 lines of pure cleverness). Here's another letter to one of the Johns. In which I offer 11 alternate names for testicles (Judds, Dibbits, Clem & Phil). In which I ask "How many Long Beach Crips does it take to change the lightbulb?" (Yes Doggystyle had just come out. Yes I answered the question. Yes I can tell you that it takes 5 of them. No I cannot elaborate although I do so in the letter.) No sign of Bakersfield (interestingly, it was originally called Riverside.) And suddenly we go back into the eighties. We move from odd-fonted early Word printouts to crusty typewritten pages. Something called I Wanna Be Degraded from 12/7/84. Five days after Albatross but a million years removed. I simply will not quote from it. I recover from whatever degrading angst was torturing me to write Walled City eight days later on 12/15/84 (Inside my walled city, I can look at the sky / I will always know that no one's looking down at me). Wordplay. Then - January 1985. One of my favorite months ever. It's when Kaari blew on the key. It's when"No Impulse Shopping" became a catchphrase. And these last two sentences will only both make sense to me. Some of you will get one; some of you will get the other. No one will get both. There will be a future blog post to explain everything. Yes, Kaari took the key - actually the entire keychain - and placed it in her gloved hands and blew on them with her warm breath. One last poem because my fingers are tired. The Sun Never Shines for Darkness (2/4/85) in which I lament my advancing age and disappeared childhood. I was still a teenager. The opening lines: I hate it when they call me "sir"I'm only a guy with a lifeI hate it when they call me "mister"I'm just a guy who's real nice From there I write a life story of a poem, from baby to boy to man to corpse, age impending and relentless. I'm a fatalist by the third verse and a reluctant atheist by the fifth. I realize now that the poem was inspired by an incident that happened to me at the movie theater where I worked. I was the ticket seller that night. A customer called me "sir." I was horrified. I felt old. That one perceived but not real slight inspired a carefully written, precisely metered 48-line poem (12 verses of 4, every third verse indented). Two decades later, a painful divorce would inspire maybe one poem and half a bad short story. Life. I promised that would be the last poem. And it was. But I just found a note. The handwritten note is from me to my then-girlfriend Lauren. Judging from the sentiments expressed, the note is from the first year of our 3.5 year relationship. I read it and I am flabbergasted by what I wrote. Was I really that much of a smushy-voiced sentimentalist? Did I actually say "weekends" instead of "weekend" when I meant to say "weekend" because I was invoking the ex's lingo? Did I really refer to myself by her nickname for me (the nickname I hated) not once but twice, in two different forms? Did I really substitute the word "kiwi" for vagina? Yes to all of that. And another note. To the same person. Written on the letterhead of my old Ventura County job. In which I leave my work number. Because she's sleeping in and I'm heading to work. This must have been when I was living in Newbury Park. Anyway, in the note, I propose marriage. I don't remember doing that. I don't believe she answered. We never made it that far. Here's something called Beckon. It's a song not a poem so you didn't catch me in a lie. It's a song because I called it a song back then (in a note at the bottom). I can imagine singing it and I probably have, to myself, toward the microphone of the mid-priced boombox I owned then. It's from 10/2/85. I begin by repeating the line "My only other dream was too real to mention" 14 times. I then follow this with an eight-line verse. I know enough about myself to be certain that I wrote this about a dream I had about a girl named Gretchen. We worked at the movie theater in the summer of '85. She went away to college (St. Olaf, Northfield, MN) and I pined/longed for her. I never asked her out because I was a shy and shyness made for better poetry. I remember the dream. In it Gretchen and I drive across the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, toward the east bank of the University. We go to the Big Ten bar and eat subs and drank beer. Some other people from the movie theater are there. This never happened in real life but I remember the dream so well even today. When we worked together at the theater, we were both given performance evaluations by our boss, Mr. Engebretson (shout out to Mr. E!). I don't remember the range of the rating scale but I know that Gretchen's final score was 14 and mine was 8. Her score was the highest of everyone there. (Why did we so blatantly share our confidential scores? Oh because we were young and we didn't give a fuck.) My 8 was actually pretty good; Mr. E was a harsh reviewer. Anyway, that's why I repeated that line in the poem/song 14 times. And that's why the subsequent verse was 8 lines long. Because of our ratings. That little trickery of numbers and words sums up my relationships with females in the 80s (and half of the 90s and maybe my whole life if I think of it): a private joke, written in a private forum, full of meaning and obscure references, dripping with personal importance... never read or sung aloud to its intended recipient, almost never given on printed page to its intended recipient. And then, four years later, when I did give another girl everything I wrote about her and she said "Is this about me?" as she sat upon the late, lamented mini-papasan chair from Pier 1, in the sunny second floor apartment at La Casa Brea in Brea, I couldn't just say yes. I had to give a qualified yes with a lengthy explanation. Could anyone have more blatantly walked into more missed opportunities than me? But there's a silver lining in all of this regret. Two silver linings, actually. One, at least I have the poetry. Two, some of those girls - they're still single. (I will be posting some of these old, long-lost, pre-Internet poems on my poetry blog - link at right - in the coming weeks/months/years. Happy Fourth)
But I couldn't help it. I cooked again tonight out of Donna Hay' Modern Classics, and my eyes rolled back in my head after the first bite. The Thai Pork with Noodles delivered everything the Bolognese Sauce lacked. This dish was vibrant with flavors--browned pork, thinly sliced red chilis, lemongrass, red onion, and mint leaves, and a sweet-sour snap from a dressing of fish sauce, brown sugar, and lime. There was just as much variety in the textures, with the crisp, fresh vegetables contrasting with the chewy mung bean vermicelli. This one is a definite keeper. Since we don't exactly have a thriving farmer's market here in the summer (my car thermometer registered 117 degrees outside while I was running errands, and it's still 101 here at 10:15 tonight), I have to get my summer produce fix at places like Whole Foods. This afternoon, I couldn't resist the heirloom tomatoes. I also picked up a basket of black figs that are at their succulent peak, bursting with juice and tasting like candy. I do envy those of you, though, who can stroll through the stalls and talk to the growers, buying locally. Somehow, talking to the Whole Foods produce guy just doesn't feel the same.
Thursday, March 1, 2012 I know I just posted something a few hours ago, but I just saw this on tumblr and I think it describes me perfectly. Or at least who I used to be. I hate change, yet I've pretty drastically changed my life multiple times in the past 3 years. I've made so many good friends and then just left them behind to do something else. And it's really bothered me. I think I've finally found the place where I'm going to stay for the long run. I feel so happy and content here and the few friends I've made are people I don't want to leave behind. I'm making a life here for myself and I don't plan on changing it again for the next few years at least :) Can I just say that I absolutely love being in Pulse? This is the most I've ever learned from a group about playing cymbals, about performing, and about myself. I love everyone in the group and I love who I am when I'm there :) I feel like my life is finally the way I thought it would be. I'm finally doing the things I wanted to do and accomplishing the things I wanted to accomplish. 2012 is finally going to be my year. A year filled with firsts and amazing memories. I'm so excited for my life right now, it's crazy <3
I checked this morning to see how long it takes to just check my favorite places online and check my e-mail. It was less than 20 minutes. I say "less than 20 minutes" because right in the middle of checking the time, my internet went goofy and I couldn't get an accurate time. Based on that, my morning computer time is going to be 20 minutes. I'll have a couple of other 20-minute sessions during the day. I have to be on the computer for various things during the day, such as checking the kids' schoolwork or preparing something for a Sunday school class, but I can limit the leisure stuff. I don't think I have to completely do away with surfing or chatting, but I know I can have more balance than I've had recently. I made a list one day of all the things that I could do besides surfing the net. It's amazing all the things that I could be doing: cook for the freezer organize decluttered areas read - Bible, inspirational, personal growth, pleasure learn a new craft write a letter send a card take a walk play a game The list is virtually endless! All of these things make for a fuller life, one that isn't confined to a little screen. One that keeps me in touch with my home, family, and friends. I think I'm going to try some of these things this week to draw my mind away from the net and back into my home!
Aliayah Lunsford: A Broken Child Lena Lunsford, a mother who sought out pregnancy after pregnancy for the social reward of tax payers' funds, trading food stamps for her drugs, and who cared not for little Aliayah. Ralph Lunsford, a biological father, a druggie, in and out of prison...who failed a polygraph and likely assisted Lena in disposing of Aliayah. The family was one of survival, with children of neglect learning early how to fend for themselves. The children became a closed society unto themselves, with each learning early how to prepare food, allowing for the stoned mother to boast how 'mature' her children were. As is the case in societies, role playing comes about, with one, often the oldest female, taking upon herself the role of caretaker; another of instigator, another of clown to cheer them up, yet another the scavenger who knew how to get food from neighbors. In this pathetic and artificial society, there was also the pariah. This was Aliayah's role. Despised, alone, she kept to herself, so young and unable to thrive without attention, she became sullen and depressed. Without sunshine and smiles to stimulate growth, she barely survived. How did she die? Did she die of a broken spirit? Did she simply give up living due to despair? Did she find Lena's oxy? Or, was it Ralph's, who was in and out of the house, but always out of her life? Were they concerned about her shallow breathing, or were they angry to have seen a portion of their precious stash lessened, even if only by one? Perhaps they will find a lawyer who will bring suit, seeking damages from such postings. Perhaps, they will claim, Lena's not been able to land a job due to postings like these. Perhaps. And if so, perhaps it is that they will go through with it, and Lena and Ralph will take the stand, and answer questions. Police have yet to "solve" the case, and volunteers, driven by a passion likely fueled, in part, by anger, continue to search the rural areas for Aliayah's remains. God speed, searchers; don't give up.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Republicans Begin Taking Health Insurance Away from Millions The Republicans who now run the House of Representatives have today taken the first step in attempting to overturn our modest healthcare reform. They are profoundly dishonest, hypocritical, selfish and mean-spirited. I hope the people who voted for them enjoy what they're getting from them. That is all.
So if you haven't heard by now, let me tell you. WE ARE MOVING!!! We finally sold our house (after 8 months of being on the market). We have not found another house yet so we are going to rent a duplex for now. This way we can take our time finding the right house just for us. So the packing begins, we hope to be moved by this weekend. You don't realize how much stuff you have until you start packing. As long as all my toys get packed I am good. Although that can take up several boxes. It's kind of funny how mom and dad's concept of packing are totally different. Mom has been packing stuff up for the past week and is trying to be as organized as possible. Dad's concept has been waiting until the last minute and then throw it into a box. So needless to say, dad hasn't help much as of yet, until tonight. We plan to start moving into the duplex tomorrow (Tuesday), so tonight we did some major packing and dad got into the grove of throwing everything into a box, including ME! Luckily he didn't tape it up. So wish us luck for a smooth moving process. 1 month ago
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If you’re like me, you’d rather watch water evaporate than World Cup soccer. Which means that all I know about what’s going on in the world of the cup is that some player from Uruguay bit an Italian dude during a match the other day. But was that really so bad? It certainly was to the sports commentators and soccer purists. I caught some of them on the tube yesterday. They were all gnashing their teeth over this bite now seen ’round the world. In my view, however, occasional chomping could be a real boost for non-soccer fans like me. As in guys who are put off by all the endless running around, the low scoring and matches that end in disappointing ties. Why not biting?/Doug Clark, SR. More here. Question: Do you agree with columnist Clark that the biting incident in the Uraguay-Italy match made the World Cup more interesting?
If you were going by what you saw on social media, you’d think Kylie Jenner and Tyga do pretty much everything together. They vacation together, workout (and take selfies) at the gym together, and even take showers together (and then release the footage to the public and call it a short film). But is there trouble in Tyga and Kylie’s wonderland? E! News was the first to notice that it’s been two weeks since Tyga has been spotted on Kylie’s social media posts, and even longer since the two have been spotted out in public together. Meanwhile, Tyga moved into a new home in the Hollywood Hills last week and though he’s reportedly been partying nonstop, sources say, “There’s been no sign of Kylie.” Perhaps the most damning evidence comes courtesy of a photo posted on Kylie’s Snapchat earlier this week, Elite Daily reports. On Wednesday night, Read more at: http://www.oxygen.com/very-real/did-kylie-jenner-and-tyga-secretly-break-up Nearly one year to the date after Rob Shaftel founded his New York-based multi-platform production company, Hit+Run is gearing up to introduce itself to the world via Red Bull TV’s Way Past Midnight. Since launching in April 2016, the fledgling shop has sold four series and specializes in the creation of “high-concept and high-quality character-driven series” and formats for broadcast, cable and digital outlets. Way Past Midnight is the first project to be completed. Beginning April 3 on digital platform Red Bull TV, the 10 x 30-minute docuseries explores the people, places, and cultures that come alive in the dead of night, from 3 a.m. Vogueing competitions in Barcelona, to late-night Caribbean dancehall parties in New York City and “Choose Your Own Adventure” gatherings in Brooklyn. Each episode of the nightlife series, which plays like a standalone documentary rather than a typical profile show, was shot on location from sundown to Read more at: http://realscreen.com/2017/03/30/exclusive-clip-red-bull-tvs-way-past-midnight/ Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian have been over for a while now, but despite the time that’s passed, Odom still considers how he treated Khloe during their relationship one of his biggest regrets in life. In a recent interview with Us Magazine, Odom opened up about what really ruined his marriage. Spoiler: it wasn’t just the drugs. Odom explained that it was actually his high profile relationship with Khloe that attracted many women to him, and he took full advantage of that. “[My relationship with Khloe] opened this gate up with other women who probably wouldn’t have been interested in me. When I became Khloe Kardashian’s man and on TV, it made me look more enticing,” he explained. “Btches and THOTs came out of the woodwork,” he continued. “If there is one thing I regret when I was married, it was having multiple affairs with different women. That wasn’t the stand-up thing Read more at: http://www.oxygen.com/very-real/lamar-odom-opens-up-about-cheating-on-khloe-kardashian-multiple-times Oxygen was founded by Oprah Winfrey in the late 1990s. Specializing in women’s programming and more specifically focusing on younger women, Oxygen offers mainly reality shows that include true crime options like Snapped, along with other reality shows that include Sisterhood of Hip Hop, Strut, Battle of the Ex Besties, and Bad Girls Club. You’re probably familiar with Oxygen as a cable network, but did you know that you can watch Oxygen online without cable? Well, you can! Keep reading and you’ll have a chance to learn how you can watch Oxygen online without cable! Watch the Oxygen Live Stream with DIRECTV NOW Need to watch the Oxygen live stream? DIRECTV NOW will allow you to do just that! Check out the Go Big package, for just $60! Read more at: https://www.streamingobserver.com/oxygen-live-stream/ News broke that Tiny Harris filed for divorce from her husband T.I. back in December. Since then, there have been conflicting reports on whether or not they were planning to actually part ways, but things didn’t really get messy until a third party was added to the equation: T.I.’s rumored side chick, entrepreneur and Instagram model Bernice Burgos. Harris and Burgos have been throwing shade at each other on social media for a while now, and it’s getting messier and messier. After a fan commented that Burgos “be all over” T.I.’s Insta, Harris responded, “I ain’t losing no sleep over no pass around btch! Bless him and bless her too!!” Harris also liked a comment calling Burgos a side chick and insinuating other things. Unsurprisingly, Burgos took offense to all of this, and she fired back at Harris via Read more at: http://www.oxygen.com/very-real/tiny-harris-and-tis-rumored-side-chick-bernice-burgos-are-at-war Thought Blac Chyna and Tyga were getting along these days? Nah, not even. Despite how often the two are always talking about how peaceful things are between them, clearly there’s drama behind the scenes because Chyna just aired it all out. Chy took to Snapchat this morning and spilled all the tea about her famous ex, calling him a “btch,” going off on him over not paying child support, and accusing him of cheating on both her and Kylie Jenner with a man. She went off, you guys. “It’s funny now to me!!! But when Tyga and side ngga kicked me out!!! And they wanted to see me fail!” Chyna said, insinuating that Tyga cheated on her with a man. She then goes in on him over child support, writing, “And 2 grind from the dirt!!!!! No child support!” “So go tell Kylie and Rob! About our son account! Read more at: http://www.oxygen.com/very-real/blac-chyna-went-on-a-wild-snapchat-rant-about-tyga-and-called-him-a-btch Meek Mill just got himself into even more social media drama, but at this point, is anyone even surprised? Surprisingly, Meek isn’t beefing with another rapper; this time, his opponent is an Instagram model. Earlier this week, Meek went all “What are those?” and wrote a snarky comment about one of Insta model Empresaria‘s photos. Empresaria posted a photo of herself rocking a pair of Timberlands (and little else), and Meek got smart, reposting it and writing, “I will look past that thot pose just to air them yuttas/boots out.” Well, Empresaria noticed the Instagram shenanigans going on and fired back at him. “Nobody talks about my timbs and gets away with it,” she wrote, reposting his post. “Meek Mill will be addressed.” NOBODY TALKS ABOUT MY TIMBS AND GETS AWAY WITH IT……MEEK MILL WILL BE ADDRESSED…..#sipstea #meekmillbodiedbyigmodel A post shared by 👑Empresaria💵💵💵💰💴💎💍💎💴 (@lady_lebraa) on Mar 24, 2017 at 11:46am Read more at: http://www.oxygen.com/very-real/meek-mill-accidentally-got-into-a-feud-with-an-instagram-model It was love at first sight. Nicki Minaj was out and about recently when she found herself getting infatuated with a swoon-worthy fan. She told the tale on Instagram, and even posted a picture so her 77 million followers could understand where she was coming from. “I’ll never hate on u thirsty nggaz ever again,” Nicki wrote. “I was totally in my own world when she asked for a pic. Nggaz was snappin taking selfies. Someone told her I wasn’t taking pics. In the corner of my eye I saw her walking away.” “I reached right back out like ‘Oh hey, u said u wanted a pic?'” she continued. “She was like ‘Everyone says I’m your twin.’ I said ‘Oh do they now? Well twin, sht, come on, let’s take this pic bih, what’s ya number?'” Nicki added, “I totally understand why u nggaz r suckers for bad b*tchs now. It’s Read more at: http://www.oxygen.com/very-real/nicki-minaj-fell-in-love-with-a-fan-and-posted-about-it-on-instagram Future and Ciara may have broken up like three years ago, but considering all the drama that followed their breakup, Future still has some feelings about it, feelings which he shared in a recent interview with Billboard magazine. “I feel like everything happened for a reason,” he began. “I’m happy with life now. I’m happy with life, period, even with the end of a relationship being…” Future then trailed off before restarting, saying, “I’m just not going to settle for anything, you know? Even in my life now, I know I can be a better person. I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you. Because if you give up on something that’s real, it wasn’t real to you.” One thing he doesn’t miss are the changes he felt he had to make during his relationship Read more at: http://www.oxygen.com/very-real/future-said-ciara-gave-up-on-him They may have had their ups and downs, but Khloe Kardashian and Rob Kardashian are still best friends. For his 30th birthday, Khloe sent Rob a sweet birthday message on Instagram— and she clapped back when haters trolled her baby brother. “I am incredibly blessed to have a brother like you! You truly are one of the funniest people I’ve ever met! You have the most unbelievable heart and anyone who is fortunate enough to have you in their life knows what a positive impact you make on them!” she captioned a throwback video homage to Rob. “We’ve been by each other’s side for life and that will never stop! You’re 30 now, the age when Jesus turned water into wine (Your favorite fact) This is your year of greatness! We all believe in you! Happy birthday Rob! I love you” Happy birthday @robkardashian!! I am Read more at: http://www.oxygen.com/very-real/khloe-kardashian-clapped-back-at-robs-body-shamers-on-instagram
In my book, New Business Networking, I put a lot of emphasis on the importance of business cards. I stress that you should not be the person at the party handing out cards like a Las Vegas dealer. However, you should have them readily available when the opportunity arises to exchange your contact information. Business cards are not just for people gainfully employed. Use them when you are between jobs or to promote your personal blog or hobby. The following are my five tips for better business cards. I get my cards inexpensively from VistaPrint if you are interested. 5 Tips for a Better Business Card - Use a photo of yourself. Be memorable by adding a headshot to your business card. - Include several points of contact. Don't just use a phone number. Include a couple of different ways a person can get in touch with you. - Leave white space. Save a little white space, so a new contact can add a note about who you are and how you met. - Include your URL. Where can people go to learn more about you? I recommend buying yourname.com if you can get it. Then redirect the domain to your blog, business site, LinkedIn profile, or a personal landing page. Use a free service like About.Me or Flavors.Me to create your own personal landing page. - Be creative, but remember who you will be handing your card to. They may not be ready to play it on a music box or carry around concrete, although I love these ideas. What is the most creative business card that you have seen? Get more done with our free daily goals doc. Grab a copy now.
"Lusty, late night, urbanite...an emphatic statement of things to come" NME "After-hours, dub-step soul, this sensational, sit-up-and-listen" Sunday Times "In one fell step, Honne have established themselves as a potent, provocative new voice" Clash "A lush, seductive jam…perfect" Nylon TICKETS FOR ELECTROWEKZ Honne have unveiled the flip-side to forthcoming single 'All in The Value', as well as announcing an Electrowerkz date that will take place on February 3. New track 'The Night' premiered recently, and will partner the release of 'All in The Value' on November 24 via Super Recordings (AlunaGeorge, Bondax) - again going Top 10 on Hype Machine and picking up early support across Radio 1 (Zane Lowe, Huw Stephens, Annie Mac), 6Music and 1Xtra. Honne's escapist but intimate blend of nocturnal R&B with Classic Soul songwriting saw them emerge, fully formed, with one of the most-blogged songs this summer on debut track, 'Warm On A Cold Night'. Their second release, 'All In The Value', suggests this was no fluke. Starting sparsely with mellow keys, hip-hop beats and just singer Andy's dulcet, James-Blake-esque vocal, 'All In The Value' digs deeper into a love of Frank Ocean together with an almost late-80s groove inspired by the productions of Quincy Jones. From their shared, crackling radio intro, lyrically Honne's new single is a neat counterpart to 'Warm On A Cold Night', and its romantic invitation to forget your problems and run away together: flashing backwards, 'All In The Value' is a snapshot of a failing relationship, where you can feel the other person's interest has faded ("I want you / to really want me too / because it'sall in the value"). The space between sensuality and sadness persists across the duo's work, right down to the name Honne: inspired by a trip overseas, it's a Japanese word (with no Western equivalent) for "True Feelings", and is often contrasted with tatemae (or, one's outward behaviour). In more ways than one, Honne is an apt reflection of songs which address private passions, and their playing out in public. Honne are soulful electronic duo Andy (on vocals) and James (on production), whose atmospheric West Coast influences find their slightly less evocative source in the South-West of England (specifically, Somerset and Wiltshire). They met at University, forming a close bond befitting the first new person each other had spoken to. Slowly they set about developing their sound and production skills, between part-time jobs teaching music in schools (though news of Honne's extracurricular activity is already trickling into the outside world: 'Warm On A Cold Night' was recently played by a fellow teacher during their primary school assembly, to a largely positive response). Honne are creating a distinct, night-time aesthetic to their sultry sounds, with part two of their video series - featuring choreography from Fionn Cox-Davies - picking up the narrative of a couple on a romantic journey into the unknown. Another soaring single under their belt, and Honne's own destination is still to be continued. February 3 London Electrowerkz
There was little real reason behind yesterday’s sharp dollar correction. Factor’s such as Trump’s burgeoning chaotic approach to his Presidency and European political risk have been cited as factors, but, in the absence of a real catalyst, it looks as though it has simply been profit taking that has beset the dollar and for that reason it is unlikely to be too long before the dollar find support once more. The US data has been strong this week and continues to reflect an economic improvement that the FOMC will be required to take notice of. Expectations of a rate hike have moved higher and despite the drop in Treasury yields yesterday, there are signs that a low may be about to form once more. This should be supportive for the dollar again. Key charts such as Dollar/Yen , Euro/Dollar and Gold have all moved against the Greenback but there has been no decisive dollar sell signal. What is more likely is that this is a brief consolidation move which needs to settle before the dollar recovery will continue. Already today, the dollar has started to find a degree of support again, although perhaps we will need to wait to next week for the real support as there is little US data to help drive the dollar today. Wall Street stalled its rally last night with the S&P 500 -0.1% at 2347 whilst Asian markets were also mildly weaker with the Nikkei -0.6% on the stronger yen. European markets are set to continue this consolidation theme with a mixed to slightly higher open today. Forex markets are showing mild dollar strength with no significant movers, whilst the gold price is slightly lower amid the dolalr strength. Oil is once more consolidating. There is a light economic calendar for traders today, however there will be a focus on the UK Retail Sales at 0930GMT which will give further insight into the reaction of the UK consumer as inflation has started to bite recently. The expectation is that Year on Year ex-fuel retail sales will drop back to 3.9% (from 4.9%). Having previously found the benefit of sterling weakness, this is beginning to swing round as input prices have increased in recent months and prices have started to be hiked in response. Will this start to impact on retail sales? Chart of the Day – USD/CAD The profit taking on the dollar returned yesterday and looked to drag the pair back to 1.3000 once more, however this is a considerable level of support which remains largely intact and it seems that buyers are happy to continue to defend this level. The flat oil price is helping to prevent the downside on USD/CAD (CAD strengthens on stronger oil), and the technical rally into the close has left a candle that is almost looking like a bull hammer. The uncertainty with the decline has increased in recent days, with a string of (almost) doji candles which have had three closing prices all within 7 pips. The downtrend of the past 7 weeks is intact however the uncertainty is mounting. The momentum indicators are somewhat neutrally configured on the daily chart with a mild bear bias (not unexpected in light of the pressure on the support) , however it is interesting to see the hourly momentum indicators starting to improve again as the market pulled higher from 1.3007 whilst there was also a bullish engulfing candle on the hourly chart (bullish key one hour reversal). The key near term resistance at 1.3120 needs to be breached to improve the outlook as it would signal a bullish recovery really has legs. A close below 1.3000 would be the key bear move. There has been a dramatic move against the dollar in the last couple of sessions and this has shown itself through in a strong rally on EUR/USD. This rally has seen a rebound of 160 pips to yesterday’s peak and has decisively broken the near term trend lower that had been forming over the past couple of weeks. The momentum indicators have ticked higher with the near term crossover buy signal on the Stochastics the main improvement signal. The hourly chart shows the recovery but it will be interesting to see if the bulls can sustain a move higher. The medium term outlook would point towards selling into strength whilst the key near term pivot at $1.0710 remains intact as a basis of resistance for now. The hourly momentum indicators are worth watching now as the hourly MACD lines have just crossed lower overnight as the rally has just stalled briefly. Will this stalling continue into the European session? A minor pivot around $1.0650 is supportive with $1.0630 and $1.0590 too. The daily chart shows the lack of decisive direction continues. A mild bid up on Cable has maintained the pivot support around $1.2430 and formed a minor bullish candle yesterday which has been maintained today. However the momentum indicators are showing almost no sign of impetus and the market is in need of a catalyst. This is reflected in the hourly chart shows continues to find resistance at lower levels, with the previous key resistance at $1.2550 adding to overhead pressure. The hourly momentum is oscillating in a ranging configuration now with the hourly RSI between 30 and 70. The sequence of lower highs and consistent pressure back towards $1.2430 suggests that rallies are a chance to sell. There is further resistance at $1.2580 with $1.2600 an old pivot. The bulls have lost control of the recovery. The posting of a strong bearish candle which dragged the market 95 pips lower has changed the complexion of this rebound. The momentum indicators are rolling over and there is a far more neutral look to the chart developing. Breaking back below Tuesday’s low at 113.20 was an important near term deterioration and now places added importance on holding above the breakout support at 112.50. The hourly chart has broken 113.20 and is now open for 112.85, whilst the hourly momentum indicators are now longer bullishly configured. This chart has now become increasingly uncertain and neutrally configured and the pivot at 114.00 is once more a key level of near term resistance to watch. A sequence of lower highs over the past couple of days adds to the near term corrective pressure. The outlook for gold has improved as a run of three positive candles has taken the market away from the support at $1220 and back towards a test of $1244 again. The daily momentum indicators are still positively configured with RSI supported abvoe60, and the Stochastics holding well above 80. However the hourly chart shows that the market is probably more of a range play for now and this rally to yesterday’s peak of $1242.30. The hourly momentum is failing to reflect any significant trend direction. There is a band of historic overhead supply between $1241/$1251 which needs to be remembered too. A move back below yesterday’s low at $1231.70 re-opens the downside back towards $1220. The consolidation on oil continues. The market has been trading in a sideways range of just over $5 between $49.60 and $55.25 for the past couple of months. Trading above the $52.00 mid-range pivot leaves a mild positive bias which is reflected in the daily momentum indicators that are marginally all above their neutral levels. However the indicators have also plateaued and in the past few days as the market has struggled for any real direction. The intraday chart shows a basis of support around $52.75 in the past few days which again came under pressure yesterday but once more remains intact. There is a very rangebound outlook that has formed even on the hourly indicators which are oscillating around with a lack of direction. Selling pressure is coming in now above $53.50. Below $52.75 opens $52.00 but this is where the buyers will start to come back in again.
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I love the Christmas season. The decorating, the shopping, the whole nine yards. I am usually well prepared and ready days before the big day without nary a hitch. But not this year. I am way behind. I've been really busy with real estate the past few weeks and though I have been able to get most of my decorations up the shopping part has been waylaid. So when I heard the news that snow, lots of snow, was on it's way I knew I had to get out there without delay. I mapped out my route the night before and with list in hand I bundled up and headed out yesterday morning totally focused on shopping. As I was making my way through my list my cell phone rang. It was a client who I have been working with the past two weeks. A home that she had loved had gone under contract and now was back on the market pending releases. She was so excited. Since I was in a check out line I told her I would call her back in a few moments. I finished checking out and rushed to my car to begin loading my packages in the trunk, get in the car and return her call. It was cold so I decided to turn the car on while I sat there talking. We discussed the home for a bit and then decided on meeting early evening to put thoughts to paper. As I hung up the phone I clipped my seat belt all the while thinking how much can I accomplish before I need to meet her. As I put the car in reverse to my shock it drifted forward instead. Oh my...what is this? I then looked at my dashboard and saw my oil light was on. Hmmmm.... I am just at my oil change mileage so whats that all about? Once again I tried putting the car in reverse and once again I drifted forward as I took my foot off the brake. No!!!! This can not be.! I have too much to do for my car to break down on me now. I nervously placed it in park and called my mechanic. Help!!! After explaining what was happening he said he would be right out to see. So I turned the car off and waited. My mind went to all the well laid out plans going down the tubes as I just knew I was going to be towed back. Well...my mechanic is right next to my office so I will just do some real estate while he fixes my car and then I will be back on my way. Should be fine I thought. Before long he was there and I explained once again what was happening as I handed him the keys. He proceeded to sit down in the drivers seat and turn the car on. He looked at the dashboard...no oil light on. He put it in reverse...it moved backwards. He sat there for another minute or so and then said...Martha there does not seem to be anything the matter with your car. What???? How is that? Is it not doing it for you? No Martha it is not. It works and acts fine. Are you sure you had it on when you were sitting here? On?? Well of course I did...of course I....did....??? I stopped in my tracks as I started thinking about what he said. Did I have my car on?? When does the oil light come on in the process of starting I asked? The first click he said. Will the gear shift move on the first click? Yes he said but you will drift forward when you take your foot off the brake. Ohhh... I said. Then sheepishly I said... I guess I did not have the car ON after all. Oh my....how embarrassing. I guess I was so preoccupied with that phone call and my list and the snow that I thought I had but.... Then I started laughing and before long he was laughing too. As we parted ways I couldn't help but think how lucky I was. Lucky my car was really not broken down, lucky I have a fabulous mechanic, lucky he has a sense of humor. Lucky, lucky, lucky. That was a first for me and hopefully the last LOL. But at least I know one thing for sure now.... Christmas Rushing DOES Cause Weird Thoughts.
By Jenna Lazenby Southwest Virginia’s rich musical heritage is steeped thick in traditional bluegrass and Americana Roots Rock music. Roanoke band Blue Mule embodies the traditional Appalachian genre, but incorporates its own unique flavor. A quintet of masterful stringmen, Blue Mule has fostered a progressive newgrass sound that has become a staple of the local music scene for well over a decade. Tom Ohmsen (mandolin/vocals), John McBroom (bass/guitar/vocals), Tim Rhodes (banjo/vocals), Eli Williams (guitar/bass/vocals), plus recent addition Jerry Wood (fiddle/vocals), play a hybrid of intricately woven jazz, rock, blues, and country jams, all from a bluegrass platform. “We’re a little bit of an oddity in traditional bluegrass circles,” said Ohmsen. “Back when I started in the 70s, if you weren’t playing straight bluegrass, you’d get run out of town, tarred and feathered. And usually it wasn’t the audience that objected. It was the old guard musicians who would listen to us and say, ‘That ain’t no grass.’ While what it is, or what it ain’t, can be left for others to argue, the true harmony behind this group is how well the musical styles and their personalities blend. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with members of Blue Mule (minus Williams, who was unavailable that evening). The band holds practice each Wednesday at Flat 5 Press and Recording Studio in Salem, which Ohmsen owns and operates. It was a spirited conversation, filled with the members taking turns to share their stories and thoughts, complete with jokes, laughs, and a little banjo picking from time to time by Rhodes. The chemistry of the members was a topic that arose several times throughout the conversation. McBroom, who toured with the popular Roanoke rock ‘n’ roll jamband Red Weather throughout the early and mid-nineties, commented, “Musicians are mostly a bunch of misfits, but this group has gotten along better than any I’ve ever seen. I don’t quite understand it, but I don’t question it anymore.” Wood chimed in that joining Blue Mule has been a dream, “There’s just no egos in this room. It is always a team effort.” Through their years and their friendships, Blue Mule has cultivated an extensive repertoire of well-crafted originals and a wide-range of fan-favorites. They have also produced five full-length albums and have played with a range of revered bluegrass acts that include Tony Rice, Larry Keel and John Cowan. “Currently, we have about 200 songs that we can play,” commented McBroom. “We forget a lot of them, but thankfully the hands kind of remember the songs. At the best of times, the music plays the band. We’re on stage or practicing together and the music bubbles up and everyone (in the band) gets in that place, where everything is perfect. It is something I’ve chased since it first happened to me back in college.” While the originals are a group effort, Ohmsen, who also teaches music theory and composition at Roanoke’s Community High School, writes the most. During practices, if one of the members has a new song they’ve written they share it with the group for feedback. Some songs develop, others die. “There’s an old adage that a band is four guys holding a fifth guy back, and everyone thinks they are the fifth guy,” said Ohmsen. “This band just doesn’t care about who the fifth guy is. If somebody brings a song, and the rest don’t like it, it slowly sinks into oblivion. Whatever percolates to the top is what makes it onto our albums or to the stage.” Blue Mule’s latest album, “In a Hurry” is a sixteen-song collection that showcases their range in style. Songs like “Walls of Time” have a decidedly traditional feel, featuring Omhsen’s lonesome vocals paired with the steady drive of the banjo and fiddle. The tune “Cherokee,” which employs a heavy dose of Django Rienhardt style jazz, exhibits the band’s ability to combine genres to create truly unique pieces. More diversity is on display with a beautiful cover of the Fastball 1998 hit “The Way”, which sounds brighter and more upbeat than the original. The instrumental, “Belleville South,” with its playful amble created by the interplay of banjo, guitar, and fiddle, rolls easily from the speakers and will have even the grumpiest person tapping toes and swaying to the music. Then there’s the whimsical Parkway Brewery Spot, a 45 second track the band recorded for its namesake that has the nostalgic feel of a 1950’s radio spot. Whether you’re listening to this, one of their other albums, or hearing the group play live, it’s immediately evident that they’re not the average bluegrass brothers they might appear to be. It also comes as no surprise that the group sometimes hears that they’ve broken ground for younger bands who want to do their own thing. “Play to please yourself,” is McBroom’s advice for other musicians. “If you are not pleasing yourself, you won’t please anybody else. Plus, it will be apparent you are faking it. Just play for the love of music.” Locally, there are a few places you can always find Blue Mule. They have played every single FloydFest, and they’ll be back again this year on the Pink Floyd Garden Stage. They are also the host band for Floyd Fandango, a one-day “old-skool” festival being held next weekend on the FloydFest grounds. Then, on the second Friday of every month, you can find them picking away at Parkway Brewing Company. Check out Blue Mule’s official website for more event information and to sample and purchase their music. I promise you, this “ain’t” your daddy’s bluegrass.
In the social media team we’re always looking to reach new audiences with a vested interest in statistics and while we’re open to trying new approaches a tried and tested way of reaching a wide audience engaged around our statistics is tweeting along to the annual Budget announcement. As part of our commitment to inform debate and encourage greater use and understanding of our stats, we decided to tweet along live again this year, monitoring the Chancellor’s speech and signposting to our statistical content using Twitter. Keeping up with the tradition from last year, this year’s Budget announcement once again fell on Labour Market day and the social media team was back down to a team of two, but with four successful live tweetalongs under our belt we were prepared for the challenge and keen to go even bigger than before. Our social media presence continues to grow; we reached the milestone of 200,000 followers in January and the growth rate has been huge with our mentions, queries and engagements continuing to increase each month. The ONS Twitter channel has a strong and engaged follower base and we try as much as possible to shine the spotlight on our tweeting statisticians as experts in their fields. We decided to use the Budget this year as an opportunity to really bring them to the forefront. We’ve trialled slightly different approaches when we’ve tweeted along to previous Budgets/Autumn Statements and we’ve found striking a balance between using the corporate Twitter account alongside our statisticians’ works well, with a mixture of pre-prepared and live content. We reached out to our ever growing list of tweeting statisticians and gave them the option to either prepare content in advance with us or to actively tweet along live and compiling tweets on subjects as they’re mentioned. We had prepared over 100 tweets before the event, thanks to experts across the organisation we had a good idea of topics that were likely to come up during the speech. We’ve found having these experts and our statisticians in the room with us extremely useful for compiling tweets on the fly and reactively tweeting areas as they were being discussed- it helps us to get relevant statistics and charts quickly with the people that know the stats inside out. We did some promotion before the tweetalong, including some tweets and email promotion that included a nice image pulling together our tweeting statisticians’ Twitter profiles; showcasing their usernames and tagging them in the image so people could easily follow them. For the week around the Budget our tweeting statisticians had a combined total new followers of 311. Our Visual.ONS site recently passed the 100 articles mark so we’ve got a strong back catalogue of easily digestible articles and interactive pieces aimed at the citizen user that continually perform well on social media. We find there is a clear demand for ‘explainer’ type content around Budget day, and as terms like ‘debt’ and ‘deficit’ are being thrown around, so we try to aid understanding of these terms and put them into context for people. The most popular piece from our Visual website that we tweeted was our ‘How is the welfare budget spent?’ interactive with 413 total page views throughout the day Metrics for the site showed 32% of users that clicked through to this navigated to more than one page on the visual site meaning it was a useful signpost to the site to expose other content. The metrics for page views for the site as a whole on Budget day also showed a clear peak in traffic at 1pm with 358 page views when our tweetalong was in full swing. 82% of visitors to the visual website that day were new visitors while 18% were returning visitors, demonstrating that we reached a new audience with interesting and relevant content. Of the top 10 visited pages on visual that day, 6 were ones we’d directly pointed to during the Budget. We launched the new ONS website in February and Budget day was an opportunity to highlight new features such as individual topic pages for each area so we pointed to these as the general areas came up. A lot of our engagement stays on Twitter although we still to drive traffic to the main website. The website referral metrics showed 665 visits to the ONS website came via Twitter on Budget day. There was a real buzz around the office ahead of the tweetalong so this time around we invited colleagues in other areas to observe in the ‘control room’ to see firsthand the impact that our statistics can make and live engagement and reactions to what we post to the ONS Twitter feed. As we’re so closely involved and it can be manic on the day it was nice to hear the perspective from areas that don’t usually get involved in this type of thing and we received some great feedback. Comments from colleagues who came along included: “Wow – what a (very organised) statistical whirlwind! The team worked at such a lightning fast pace yet so cohesively, it was a treat to see. As soon as key words left Mr Osborne’s mouth (internet, house prices, sugar tax), the word was picked up, the relevant statistics discussed and promptly tweeted” “The amount of preparation for this event was evident, I did not bear witness to a single fumble over finding a relevant survey to use! It’s one thing to know your own survey like the back of your hand, but to be able to reference so many in the space of half an hour is something else entirely. A range of statistics, graphs, infographics and retweets were thrown into the mix to keep things varied and followers engaged. It was fantastic to see not just how the team works like a well-oiled machine, but how the data we work with gets packaged and presented to the public via social media. This isn’t something I would have had the chance to do get involved in had the opportunity not arisen, and I’d like to thank the team for letting me sit in, you were brilliant!” “The team worked so well together and it was exciting to watch such fast paced, innovative work within the office. It proved to me the use of our data in the real world and has improved my perception of our organisation because of it. Keep up the good work guys. Impressive work, buzzing atmosphere and positive working environment” “Having never attended events such as this before I was completely unaware of the amount of preparation that goes into ensuring their success. Not all tweets came from the central ONS account, instead many came from but the statisticians within each business area which the central ONS account could retweet. This created variety in the twitter timeline, allowing users to engage with the statisticians directly. As a previous user of twitter to inform me on budget day this is exactly what you want. I would like to thank the social media team and statisticians for having me along.” We also received a good amount of external feedback from users who engaged directly with our statisticians: We sent out around 120 tweets in the hour and a half and tweets from the ONS Twitter account received a total 445 retweets throughout the day while the total retweets for our tweeting statisticians was 398. It was a real success in widening the awareness of our valued experts and promoting our statistics in current debate. Social Media Manager
March 23, 2016 Alright so I only have like 10 minutes to write, I'm a little frustrated, so I'll just skim through your email and answer the more important questions and things, sorry. It's most likely that I will stay here in this sector, or president would have to do a white wash here. President and Sister Cook are from New York, so you probably won't be able to go, they said that they were going to go to Utah at the end of August and have a mini mission reunion, so that will be fun. Oh that's awesome there is a pool at Snow College, I'm looking forward to being able to swim. I think that I will swim like three days a week in the morning, and the other days go running or something like that. I want to stay in shape. That's good that Oma is moving to Utah, she'll love it for sure. Well fine I'll buy my own TV haha, I don't think they're that expensive. Speaking of Oma, how's Lucky doing? Haha it will be fun to talk to Connor in Chilean Spanish, because believe me, it's not like other Spanish. Even some latinos have a hard time understanding Chileans. This week we also had stake conference and the elder Teixeira came and he gave a great talk. We are really going to focus a lot this week on getting people to come to church, and he talked a lot about that. Thanks mom, I hope that you have a great week, if you need anything, tell me and I'll respond next week! Elder Baker will be gone next week, so I'll have more time haha. Elder Stam 😁
Mondays have become unofficially ‘cafe day’. Since it’s our only off day and with both the girls in school, we are free to explore the different cafes in Singapore. So far, we have been to a few in Tiong Bahru, Beach Road, Orchard, etc. Last Monday, Kless recommended The Reading Room (TRR). It’s situated along Bukit Pasoh Road. The look from outside may not be too inviting, but once we entered the cafe, we were immediately greeted by the old deco in the place, especially old telephones. Hearsay from the staff, the boss of TRR especially like old phones but sadly, none of them are usable. If are like to read a book while enjoying your afternoon tea or coffee, this is the perfect place to just pick up a book of the shelves and you will be lost in time for hours. Or pick up one of those card games / board games, you and your friends will easily have a wonderful time. What about a game of chess on a mini board? Ask my wife and she will vouch that I am totally in love with such wooden stuff. Interesting decos found in every little corner. My usual cup of latte. Even the accompanying cookie is the old-fashioned ‘flower biscuit’. Look what I found hidden in a corner? Walkman! If you have never seen one before, you are definitely not my era. Or one of these? I’m not sure what is the actual name but it’s those film thing where you can insert a round film and toggle the switch besides to change your view. Some of the books are for sale if you found something interesting. If not, you can just be like us, bring a book and settle into one of the comfortable armchairs or sofas. Or if you are feeling stress, they have a special wall for you. Directions for use provided. It’s a happy cafe and I can foresee myself going back more often. The Reading Room 19 Bukit Pasoh Road, S(089833) Tel: 6220 9019 Opens daily from 11am to 2am They are also available for corporate events, private parties, film/photography shoots, art exhibitions, book signings, etc..
Tonight I went to my dance class. The class is every Wednesday. This summer was busy so I only went once in July and once in August. Before that, I hadn't missed a single class since December! To say that I was a little out of shape or forgot a few moves would be an understatement. And to make it all the more difficult, a new girl had joined our class tonight. Now, having a new girl in the class might not seem like it would make the class harder, but it does. My teacher likes to show off. She likes to show that her class can do lots of things. Her class has endurance. Her class knows dance moves backwards and forwards. So whenever there is someone observing or trying out a class, the class is always more difficult. We end up doing 150 sit-ups instead of 100. Or we do dance moves leading on the left side instead of the usual right side. It's confusing and tiring when I had been going to class on a regular basis, but having been absent from class for so long, I felt so out of shape and so confused. I'm glad its over and looking forward to going back next week. I love a challenge!

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