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wordpress | I am fully aware that Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, is not the only one who lost a spouse at a relatively young age. However, watching a major personality deal with a dramatic change in life is a big lesson for many of us. We look to people like Sheryl for guidance. This is what she posted on Facebook yesterday.
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I am saving her post forever. | 2019-04-24T18:20:09Z | https://digidame.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/total-heartbreak/ | Porn | Business | 0.787537 |
wordpress | Our plum trees are looking so pretty this year! . . . . . . . . | 2019-04-22T03:59:23Z | https://unclespikes.wordpress.com/tag/plum/ | Porn | Home | 0.551004 |
wordpress | When the Kiker-Sutton family had a special event to celebrate, the entire family went to La Louisiane (aka “La Lou”).
La Lou was certainly tops of the “frou frou” with white cloth covered tables, elaborate place settings and a fine dining menu, including favored treats like Steak Diane.
During the La Lou meal, my cousins and I would snort-laugh (in that order) as we tried to secretly place empty cracker wrappers underneath plates only to find that the wait staff’s magically darting eyes were too quick to pick them up and discard them. Butter arrived pre-sliced and placed on your personal butter dish by the waiters who had a butter-flicking device I’ve never seen since!
La Lou opened in 1935 during the Great Depression. It survived for almost 60 years but sadly is no longer around. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have La Lou grace our kitchen compliments of this recipe from Mom’s recipe book.
I made this recipe on the 2 year anniversary of this blog. This recipe and the blog hold a special place in my heart … and most importantly my belly. Give Steak Diane a try and you’ll see!
1. With a meat mallet, pound steaks to 1/3-inch thickness.
2. Sprinkle one side of each steak with salt, pepper and 1/8 teaspoon of the dry mustard; pound into meat. Repeat on the other side of the meat and continue until all steaks are done.
3. Melt the butter in a skillet or chafing dish. Add the meat and cook 2 minutes only on each side. Transfer the steaks to a hot serving plate.
4. To skillet, add the lemon juice, chives, and worcestershire sauce; bring to a boil. Pour sauce over meat. Garnish with cooked, fluted mushrooms, if desired.
♥ Don’t overcook the meat. Go with the flow and follow the directions. A pink center is a tasty center.
♥ “Fluting a mushroom?” At first I thought it meant you held a jam session with mushroom to mouth, while wiggling the fingers. Not so much. Here’s a video and a blog that will help you turn mere fungus to life of the party. I couldn’t determine if you cook the mushrooms before or after fluting (per recipe) but they are really more for decoration so I’d suggest keep them raw and real and basting with lemon juice after cutting for a fresh presentation.
♥ This steak goes great with my newest favorite spud ~ the blue cheese bacon potato! I loved how the blue cheese taste didn’t punch you in the taste buds!
♥ Wiki says that Steak Diane is typically made with brandy. Somebody’s been holding out!
♥ Note that this recipe hails from Better Homes and Gardens, March 1968. Why, I was just a young tot of one way back then!
a spirit who teaches us all to savor the great steak of life!
…You better have a couch nearby after eating this foodie family fave!
Probably the best part about creating an online haven for mom’s recipes is that my brother “Roger” chimed-in with this San Diego Steak recipe, which wasn’t in mom’s cookbook. So this recipe hails from mom to Roger’s kitchen… and now, to your belly.
Roger says San Diego Steak was a real treat growing up ~ usually partnered with mashed potatoes.
San Diego Steak really hits home as showcased above on mom’s actual table sporting sparkling water served from her own “Special Occasion” glasses.
The food and the ambiance of yesteryear is still kicking today, so let’s eat!
1. Begin by frying the small cuts of the bacon ’til CRISP. Drain the bacon bits on a paper towel(s).
2. WHOA! Save the bacon drippings for cooking the steaks, coming up next.
3. While the bacon is cooking, mix the four next ingredients (above) by hand until you can’t wait any longer and form into two or four patties (depending on the growl).
4. Cook the steaks in the bacon drippings. When done, let the San Diego Steaks rest on a paper towel or two.
Foodie Fact ~ San Diego Steak was the first “missing recipe” added to Betty’s Cook Nook, compliments of my brother Roger. Foodie props to you, big bro, for remembering how to make this tasty dish! Almost lost, the San Diego Steak recipe is now in the family’s digital cookbook. | 2019-04-23T17:05:33Z | https://bettyscooknook.wordpress.com/tag/sirloin/ | Porn | Reference | 0.157054 |
wordpress | to your PYTHONPATH (or link it to directory in which you will run supybot).
there are some more options but those above should be enough to get started.
I wanted to write a proper summary, but it’s almost 2am local time for me and I have to get up in 3 hour or so to leave, so I’ll just give a short-yet-covering-everything sumamry I wrote for README of the project. I’ll try to write something more once I’m back. Also you may be interested in README and bug for deploying to Gentoo Infra.
Website written in Ruby (using Rails and Hobo). This site helps to prepare meetings, collect ideas and feedback from community.
to view help for each command.
Reminder plugin. This supybot plugin pulls reminder information from the website and sends messages to all council members to remind them about upcoming meeting.
What you can do in the webapp depends on your role. You can be guest or a registered user. Once you register administrators can give you administrator and council member roles.
As administrator you can manage users – give them new roles and take away old roles.
hopefully command names are self-explanatory. In addition bot obtains agenda items, voting options and timelimits for each item from website when you #startmeeting and sends voting option changes and voting results to webapp when you #endmeeting.
This is my last weekly report – I started working on my project earlier because I’m leaving on Thursday morning (plane takes off on 7:40 a.m. local time, ouch). I’ll write a final report summing up what I did during the project before I leave, this report is summary of what I did last week.
I added license information to webapp.
For short description of project and sources, read this.
Preparing database seed for demos.
Made some more changes to Hobo to make it easier to use.
Council members can edit summaries.
Council members can approve summaries.
All approvals are canceled after summary changes.
Regular users can view a summary after 4 council members approve it.
Opened bug asking for deployment to Gentoo infrastructure.
Worked to push some changes I made to packages maintained by someone else (capybara-webkit, MeetBot, Hobo).
If you enter url to message on gentoo-archives as “discussion” for agenda item application will use it to calculate how long discussion took.
I worked to use Doodle to help planning meetings. Doodle REST API is pretty easy (my code words with doodle-test ) but I didn’t manage to finish authentication. Authentication is oauth-based but I couldn’t authenticate with oauth(2) gems.
If for some reason there was no current agenda(for example it was removed when application was running) the application crashed. Now whenever it tries to access current agenda application will check if there is a current agenda. If there is no current agenda it will create one.
When council didn’t have any meetings yet.
Some buttons were in weird places, now they are where they look nice.
Now all users will be able to vote using the webapp. Those votes are just to let council know what community thinks.
Now it’s possible to use markdown when describing ideas.
Also bot will give meeting log to agenda and it will store it for later use.
I added support for #changeitemcommand – it allows you to move through agenda items faster then #netxitem/ #previtem.
or set them in web application before meeting. Changing item removes all reminders.
Last week I used metrical on the web app and improved tests coverage and variable naming. I also removed some stuff it reported as “code duplication”. Metrical warned about some stuff, but I couldn’t find a reasonable way to fix it.
I tried to switch to capybara-webkit for cucumber tests but I couldn’t find a way to remove session cookies (and I need it to test “Remember me” feature) so I made a feature request (including a suggested patch) and I’m waiting.
commands to MeetBot to allow changing voting options during meeting (I must do some work on the webapp end to handle added and removed option properly).
I also improved tests for my changes to MeetBot and wrote test for Reminder (the Supybot plugin I wrote last week).
Wrote Supybot plugin that regularly fetches JSON data from given location. Then it checks timestamp, if timestam is newer then previous it sends message to listed users.
Application now tracks slaking properly – it marks participation after meeting (council members who voted at least once are present). Then it calculates “slacking status” for current council members based on council term start date and participations. | 2019-04-26T06:31:24Z | https://ahenobarbi.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Business | 0.067927 |
wordpress | The state of California, which has the sixth largest economy in the world, is getting a billion-dollar hit to manage the increasing effects of climate change. The golden state has seen many droughts and environmentalists are sure that humans’ emissions have intensified them from fifteen to twenty percent. As an effect, California’s agriculture industry, which is responsible for producing the majority of the country’s fruits and vegetables, is suffering because of the poor soil conditions. The reduction in production caused a drop in supply and an increase in price, leading to a stump in the state’s economy. California has had to turn to alternative methods, such as groundwater pumping, to access enough water to continue cultivation. Even though this method works, it is an expensive and ineffective solution for long-term issues, such as climate change.
The cause of the drought is because high pressures in the Western Pacific are blocking the path of storms that reach the state during winter time, leaving the area without the needed rainfall for proper crop cultivation. Agriculture uses up to 80% of the state’s water availability, but in 2014, California saw a 6.6-million-acre-foot reduction in the surface water available for agriculture. This caused a loss of around 1.5 billion—this amount includes the losses incurred in potential crop value, potential dairy and livestock value, and groundwater pumping costs. Groundwater was the “saving grace” for the 2014 drought, supplying water to 75% of the aforementioned 6.6 million-acre area, and currently provides around 30% to 46% of the whole state’s water supply.
Groundwater is dependent upon surface water, meaning, that not much groundwater will be available if there is a dry-year. Groundwater wells collect water that would’ve otherwise ended up discharged to streams or lakes as part of the hydraulic process. This is not a convenient long-term solution, as it reduces the same groundwater quality, increases the possibility of sinking ground, and, as groundwater levels decrease, significantly increases energy costs to extract this water. Despite these contraindications, some communities in California are completely dependent on groundwater for both commercial and agricultural use.
The current season has brought more rain and snow to the area, which has relieved the state’s groundwater stores; however, this is only a temporary fix as California has more dry years than wet years. There have been over 40 trillion gallons of groundwater extracted from the Central Valley from 1920 to the present. This caused subsidence, or ground sinking, to occur at a record pace; it also caused bridges to sink, and canals to crack. These fixes cost around $1 billion during the 70’s. Adding to the negative effects of groundwater extraction, according to the U.S Geological Survey, it will take around 50 years for the Central Valley aquifers to refill naturally, but only if groundwater pumping stops immediately. This is because groundwater pumping empties the aquifers faster than natural systems can replenish them. The state is drilling so deeply to find water, it is permanently damaging the soil and even destroying future groundwater extraction possibilities in the area, in case of future excessive droughts.
Groundwater pumping is poorly regulated and there is little information on the total availability of groundwater for the present and future. Though they will be required to do so in the future, farmers are not currently required to report how much groundwater they extract. In addition, information on groundwater used for non-agricultural purposes is out-of-date and unreliable. The new regulations on groundwater pumping are controversial to some farmers, as they believe it interferes with their property rights. Some of those who reject regulation, such as the California Farm Bureau, believe that excessive groundwater extraction, and its negative effects, are not occurring because of lack of regulation, rather because of “outdated environmental policies”, population growth, and climate change. Needless to say, as many Californians depend on farming as their main source of income, they are hesitant to comply with policies that will make them reduce their water usage, which is essential to their cultivation.
Groundwater pumping is not a long-term solution to the California drought issues. The only way to see bettering in the state’s situation is if greenhouse emissions reduce, causing the droughts to be less intense as an effect of man-caused contamination.
“6 Industries Hurt by the California Drought.” Fortune, fortune.com/2015/04/09/6-industries-hurt-the-most-by-the-california-drought/.
Bland, Alastair. “How Wet Weather Impacted California’s Groundwater Deficit.” Water, News Deeply, 4 May 2017, http://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/05/08/how-wet-weather-impacted-californias-groundwater-deficit.
California, State of. “Groundwater Information Center.” CA Department of Water Resources, http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/gwinfo/.
Gillis, Justin. “California Drought Is Made Worse by Global Warming, Scientists Say.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 Aug. 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/science/climate-change-intensifies-california-drought-scientists-say.html?_r=0.
Palmer, Brian. “What Would We Eat If It Weren’t for California?” Slate Magazine, 10 July 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2013/07/california_grows_all_of_our_fruits_and_vegetables_what_would_we_eat_without.html. | 2019-04-21T11:26:08Z | https://eco310classblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/excessive-groundwater-pumping-in-california-plausible-solution-to-states-drought/ | Porn | Business | 0.732229 |
wordpress | ← It’s time for: Silly Mash-Up of the Week!
Before Steely Dan was Steely Dan, they were called The Leather Canary and Chevy Chase was their drummer. Fortunately something happened to change that. They also were sampled from time to time (albeit sparingly). Here’s their song “Peg” followed up by “Eye Know” by De La Soul, where Peg is sampled. “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding is also sampled in “Eye Know” (the whistling). De La is definitely up there among the top samplers of all time–just check out 3 Feet High and Rising to see what I’m talking about.
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It amazes me how few of the players in Steely Dan were actually members of the band. Don’t get me wrong, I love Steely Dan’s work for the first eight years of their career. But this group was dependent on outside talent to give flavor to their best songs.
I agree. I’m a huge Steely Dan fan…I feel like very few people even know that it’s just the two of them.
For my biggest fans. If you exist. | 2019-04-25T12:43:48Z | https://biffwooten.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/peg-de-la-soul-steely-dan/ | Porn | Kids | 0.114916 |
wordpress | I’m into a bit of everything at the moment, and here’s another drawing with my trusty Pentel brush pen (just a photo rather than a scan as its pretty big, just over A3). It’s based on one of my favourite song lyrics, from ‘These Days’ by Nico and again i’m trying to get a bit of depth into the drawings and concentrate on the whole picture rather than just the characters. There’s things about it that i can improve upon i think, but i like the woodcut/etching style you get with the thick black lines, and i like the monster so i’m pretty pleased with it overall. | 2019-04-20T07:05:08Z | https://banalpigarchive.wordpress.com/category/monsters/ | Porn | Arts | 0.838474 |
wordpress | Everyone’s got their lists – the best, the worst, the funniest, the cutest, etc. My approach was totally different.
Here’s my play-by-play/color commentary on all the commercials shown during this year’s Super Bowl. I was live posting these on Facebook during the game and there was plenty of debate. Real-time discussions were very interesting and many comments are still coming in.
What is below is just a quick thought on each commercial’s ideas, production value, brand stewardship, effort, etc. and finally a FINAL SCORE of each and how I thought it scored 1 to 10. 10 being the best.
THIS WAS MY FAVORITE! It was great because it was unexpected, unlike most of the other commercials that you knew what was coming. The music got you to tap your toe and snap your fingers, the dogs were great bouncing to the music along with the driver, of which had a great smile, and you could tell he REALLY BELIEVED in the decision he made. He knew he had made a great decision for his family…even though his wife may not understand…the family would be in a better place with this car.
DETROIT/ DIRTY HARRY: ANY COMMERCIAL ABOUT THE REVITALIZATION OF DETROIT, I LOVE IT. The messaging is SO strong and I love the way they have positioned themselves with IMPORTED FROM DETROIT.
CADILLAC: really? if you have to call out your competition (BMW 3 series) in your commercial, you’ve already lost. Nice try GM.
CAREERBUILDER.COM/ MONKEYS : monkeys, deprecating humor = funny. Funny gets you points for the SB voting.
KIA/OPTIMA/MISTER SAND MAN/ADRIANA LIMA/ great production value! great idea: concept: ok.
BUD LIGHT: HEREWEGO THE DOG! I think my little boy needs a dog. Just like this one. Oh…and since there’s a dog in the commercial it will do well in the voting….
HYUNDAI/ONE WORD GENESIS COUPE: weak…348 Horsepower…now that’s impressive. I didn’t know they could make a Hyundai with such a strong engine…but isn’t a little overkill for that brand?
DISCLAIMER: MOVIE TRAILERS AND ‘THE VOICE” commercials DON’T COUNT AS SB COMMERCIALS…even though the Betty White commercial for THE VOICE was adorable…any thing with her in it always gets props.
BRIDGESTONE TIRES #2: Nice evolution of the campaign. Production value: spot on. Keep up the great work Bridgestone!
BUDWEISER #2: BETTER THAN the first ad…more relateable to most people watching. I didn’t understand the 2011 music in a commercial that didn’t obviously get past the early 1990s? Nice evolution of the campaign AND with some of the same venues as the first commercial..the time evolution connection is subtle but well done.
GE #3: Great Pride in America’s manufacturing! This campaign will be around a while. I approve! I wonder if Jack Welch had anything to do with this new idea.
ACURA NSX/JERRY SEINFIELD; FUNNY…HUGE PRODUCTION FOR CAR THAT’S NOT REALLY FUNNY. Acura’s NSX is one of the worlds most spectacular cars and they pitted Leno and Seinfeld against each other. Sort of on target.
CENTURY 21: SMARTER. BOLDER. FASTER. : eh…Deon Sanders was in his 2nd .
OIKOS GREEK YOGURT: Any time John Stamos gets knocked out, it’s a good thing.
COKE POLAR BEARS #3: COKE MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER: duh?!
FIAT/ABARTH: You’ll never forget the first time you see one. A nice way to keep your attention. Gratuitous legs, heels, cleavage, and a mini car tearing it up on a closed course.
JUSTFAB.COM : it’s a shoe commercial for a website: boring: production value low.
AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE: People talking on a white background. no production value w no concept.
HALF TIME COMMERCIALS: NFL.COM FANTASY: EH. A little too ghetto for me.
ETRADE: SPEED DATING BABY: stick with what works. last years commercials were better: this iteration lacks real humor. Maybe eTrade needs to move on from the talking babies.
CARS.COM/MY CONFIDENCE/FLOATING HEAD: funny, a little creepy.
SKETCHERS: MR. QUIGGLY: funny, unexpected, and it features a Tone Loc tune…good but not great.
CHEVY SONIC: It’s amazing what a car company will do to appeal to its demographic. I guess they want to be like Red Bull.
COKE POLAR BEARS #2 NO DROP: Cute. Nice idea. SUSPENSEFUL I’m a COKE man so their brand promise lives strong in this commercial: AGAIN!
H&M: BECKHAM UNDERWEAR Does everyone really need to see Beckham in his tightie whities? I thought H&M was a ladies clothing store?
VW BUG/FAT DOG: Back better than ever: Nice idea. Emotional. Everyone loves dogs…I love VWs so I’m biased that I like the commercial. but the switch into the Darth Vader/Star Wars…whats up with that? a flashback to last years Kid Vader commercial?
TAXACT.com FEEL THE FREE funny story, great suspense…I’m sure their servers just exploded.
GE TURBINES #2: Turbines that make the beer…Budweiser Beer. Great idea to make GE relevant in today’s world. Too bad I can’t afford to buy a turbine.
DORITOS/MAN’S BEST FRIEND : I have a cat and I think it was funny! I think this was one of the customer created commercial.
BUDWEISER: Since 1876: Great production, HUGE PRODUCTION… and amazing how the shaving cream stayed on the guys face! It’s no field goal kicking Clydesdale, but good.
LEXUS GS: THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING: of what? Big/cool production for a car that looks like the rest of the pack.
GO DADDY.COM: .co – we all know there’s never ever going to have anything revealed in these commercials so why bother watching them.
BRIDGESTONE TIRES #1: Good, funny idea to make a point. Cameos by Deon Sanders and Troy Aikman.
COKE POLAR BEARS: Cute. Nice idea. I’m a COKE man so their brand promise lives strong in this commercial.
BEST BUY: All mobile phone carriers are available at one store. Who cares…the word on the street is that Best Buy is going out of business soon.
M&MS/Chocolate Naked M&M: Funny! not to mention the Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle song…who wouldn’t like an M&M commercial.
BUD LIGHT PLATINUM #2: An evolution of the first spot, but no real idea here, just people at a party…just like half of the other beer commercials on tonight.
BUD LIGHT PLATINUM: huge production for little pay-off, a new beer intro needs more.Why would I buy a beer that is portrayed as something crafted in a high-tech foundry? It almost looked like a cell phone commercial.
Hyundai: Rocky Movie Theme Song: toe tapping idea, little payoff.
What Can Google+ Do For Health Care Marketing?
Google+ is brings yet another social media site that companies need to join. However, don’t be sour about it just yet, Google+ might actually bring something different to the health care industry in regards to online marketing.
CMI Media just completed a research study, discussed in the article What Will Google Plus Mean for HealthCare. They found surprisingly promising results that will only further help health care reach individuals online.
The biggest benefit is that Google+ can help health organizations and companies “affect unbranded searches, such as for a disease state rather than for a medication.” This could be a new brand new development for online marketing because branded searches are what its all about. In order to use Google+ to the fullest, marketers need to focus on targeted search marketing and encourage companies to add the +1 button to all of their important pages on their websites.
The +1 button attached to Google+ is also something new to the social media world. With Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin, you have a link somewhere on the website of a company where you can “Like” a page or post a page to your account. With Google+, users can add all the stuff they “Like” immediately at the search page and not have to search for a like button somewhere in the websites domain. However, just to be on the safe side, Google has allowed the +1 button to be placed next to any Facebook/Twiiter Like buttons on company websites. By having the +1 button readily available on the search engine this increases the “ease of use” of the new social media and in the online world, “ease of use” is one of the most important factors of a website or platform.
So as with any new big social media platform, new analytics must be looked and researched when looking at online campaigns. Make sure you add Google+ to your analytics data especially by logging your volume of +1’s.
What do you think about Google+ and how will you change your marketing efforts? Let us know by commenting, following us on Twitter @Weise_Ideas or finding us on Facebook at Facebook.com/WeiseCommunications. | 2019-04-19T23:03:49Z | https://thesidenoteblog.wordpress.com/category/pr/ | Porn | Reference | 0.881968 |
wordpress | Well: I’ve cancelled my Netflix subscription. Season One of “Checks & Balances” is shaping up to be a stompingly good show.
From news articles here and here.
Q: Is Trump Really That Incompetent as a President?
Full disclosure: this is not a question that was put to me directly or personally. It’s one I elected to answer, so you, Dear Reader, may prepare yourself for the partisan revulsion that follows.
Well, it seems that even post-shutdown (Pelosi-owned shutdown of the Tangerine Toddler, not the latter’s shutdown of government), Trump’s acolytes are still holding out hope for a southern monument to their xenophobia.
Whether by some contemporary magick (which I’m informed these days is called an “algorithm”) or by sheer serendipity, this piece on Colin Kaepernick and the idea of respect appeared in my social media feed. | 2019-04-24T14:54:19Z | https://babelbricks.wordpress.com/tag/donald-trump/ | Porn | News | 0.970889 |
wordpress | This entry was posted in city and colour and tagged city and colour, dallas green, for folk's sake, fragile bird, little hell on June 8, 2011 by kredcarroll.
One of these days, I’ll make it to Coachella. The main problem (other than the fact that this year’s tickets sold out like that) is that Cal Day is the same weekend, every year. Cal Day is the main event for incoming freshmen at Berkeley–so all of us club participants try to entice them with our info sessions and obvious coolness.
The only good thing about Cal Day is that they’ve been bringing bands up for the occasion. And not lame bands, either. Last year was Cold War Kids, and this year it’s the Dodos. Not to mention, the Bay Area gets a flood of concerts known fondly as Fauxchella–so I’m not left completely high and dry (we also have The Lonely Island coming to Amoeba Berkeley for Record Store Day).
Who doesn’t want to see Alice Glass go batshit on stage?
The Australian synthpop band is actually coming to the Bay Area on Saturday and Sunday, but tickets sold out faster than you can say “shrimp on the barbie”. Their most recent album, Zonoscope, is fantastic from start to finish, and has dominated my iPod since its February release.
The Grammy-winning blues rockers need neither an introduction nor justification: I’m sure they’re making most people’s Coachella list.
The Drums’ lighthearted songs have lodged themselves in my brain for aaaaages now. And even though I’ve been perfectly okay with that, I feel like the only solution would be to see them live. Their brand of catchy pop would be perfect for the Indio heat.
I’ve got to support a band from Berkeley–and thankfully, they make it really easy by creating wonderful music. I fell in love with the Yours Truly session above, as well as their cover of Talking Heads’ “Pull Up the Roots”. But obviously all of debut album Big Echo is fantastic.
I reviewed the music video for their most recent single, “Heart In Your Heartbreak”, for The Owl Mag. It’s totally adorable. I’m also going to try to catch their free in-store at Amoeba SF on Tuesday the 19th.
Maybe I’ve spent too much time working in a quirky yet upscale retail establishment (Anthropologie), but I know the Rural Alberta Advantage was in my consciousness before I realized who they were. I’m about 99.9% positive that “Don’t Haunt This Place”, from 2009’s Hometowns, made it onto the Anthro radio station, and I would bet a good deal that you’ve heard it somewhere too. But the rest of that album, as well as their March-released sophomore album (Departing), is just as excellent as their most well-known song.
Double duhhhhhhh. Can you say ‘Grammy Winner’? Also, saw these guys a billion years ago promoting Funeral, and a marching band showed up while a fight broke out on stage. It was awesome.
Full disclosure: I’ve never given Freelance Whales the listening time they deserve. The genre-bending New Yorkers get rave reviews from, well, everyone. I’d love to check them out live.
The catchy electro tunes of Here We Go Magic may veer from Luke Temple’s folk beginnings, but it’s great stuff. For us stranded Bay Areanites (Bay Areans just sounds terrible), we have to wait a bit longer–the band is going to be at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco on May 2nd.
This blog could probably be renamed “An Ode to Mumford & Sons”. So obviously they’d be pretty high up on my list of Coachella must-see bands.
No joke, I would probably buy Coachella tickets JUST for the Swell Season. I fell in love with all things Glen Hansard several years ago, and the Oscar-winning Once is without question my favorite movie. I remember, my first year of college, they were playing somewhere in the Bay for around twenty bucks–but, being an ickle freshman, I didn’t have anyone to go with and didn’t want to trek into the city alone. I still kick myself for missing such a steal. This pair has almost superhuman passion, and I would love to see them live.
The Tallest Man On Earth is the beautiful folk project of Kristian Matsson. I’m in love with his gravelly voice and lovely songs–this Daytrotter version of “I Won’t Be Found” gives me the heebie jeebies, it’s so gorgeous.
The fast-paced bluegrass/alt-country band Trampled By Turtles would be a blast to see live. Just listen to the instrumentals on “Wait So Long”–these guys have crazy energy.
I feel like Coachella is MADE for bands like Best Coast. Hipsters will be drawn to this stage like…well, hipsters to fountains of free PBR.
City and Colour, the solo project of Alexisonfire’s Dallas Green, has generated quite a bit of buzz for his sweetly-sung tunes. I’d love to make a clever Canadian joke, but I can’t think of one at the moment–but let’s just say Coachella may be a better indicator of success than one of those ‘JUNO’ things (which he won in 2006 for Best Alternative Album. And I’m totally kidding, by the way).
Uh, they’re Duran Duran. ‘Nuff said.
Uh, it’s Kanye. ‘Nuff said.
The above video should actually be all the explanation needed. Especially for everyone at Coachella who might be…under the influence. Of anything.
The National is another one of those bands that I haven’t really given its due. I missed them at 2010’s Treasure Island Music Festival, but I’ll catch them one of these days.
Check out this remix. It’s addicting.
Also: Angus and Julia Stone, Ellie Goulding, Jack Beats, Phosphorescent, the Strokes.
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wordpress | For those of you who didn’t know, Fitness Club consists of top notch Parisian producers Jupiter, Anoraak, Zimmer and Le Crayon.
Fitness Club has a high concentrate of quality nu disco ready to enter your ears and speed up your cardio workout through dancing. To celebrate, they put together a 47 minute mixtape and they’ll be performing this coming Thursday at the infamous Paris Social Club. Try to guess who is playing each track in the mix!
French producer Anoraak definitely met our expectations and successfully remixed “Trying to Be Cool” from Phoenix’s latest album “Bankrupt.” It’s hard to decide which remixes we enjoyed with extreme competition from other remixes by RAC, Poindexter and Breakbot. Anoraak made our cool list giving “Trying To Be Cool” a fresh new approach which is as good as the original version.
We were truly amazed when we found out Anoraak had released another remix this month! Here’s Anoraak remixing Parisian duo Trésors track “Pleine Lune” which was given an 80’s chillwave beat. Grab a free copy and also check out the last blog we posted on Anoraak.
Here are the latest grooves by Anoraak. Check out a remix they did called “It’s too Late” originally by Wild Belle. The track is given a funky groove with a chill piano that goes a long way. Anoraak is a French indie dance band who’s singer Frédéric Rivière does DJ sets. Also check out the latest Venice Mix we had posted on our Facebook page. The last track is “Pleine Lune” by Trésors which is remixed by Anoraak and will be out March 25th! | 2019-04-21T22:36:12Z | https://ftoastblog.wordpress.com/tag/anoraak/ | Porn | News | 0.457935 |
livejournal | Oooh, those are lovely! We have to get back to our GW rewatch.
It required much thinking about Atobe to maintain sanity. Not that anything went wrong, it was just full of KIDS. | 2019-04-19T04:26:17Z | https://prillalar.livejournal.com/447293.html?thread=8187197 | Porn | Kids | 0.506894 |
sfgate | Some flavors belong in cocktails, not tea.
We all know that tea has become a craze these days, both medicinal and gustatory. There’s a reason that “craze” and “crazy are” only one letter apart — it’s ridiculous what they’ve done to the drink that kick-started the American Revolution.
I love the way tea is celebrated at places such as Imperial Tea Court and Modern Tea, both in San Francisco. I also have found it enticing in such things as tea-smoked duck and even the green tea eclairs at Chez TJ in Mountain View.
There are also flavors like Apple Pie, Blueberry Pie, Candy Bar, Caramel Rooibos, Chocolate Cream Pie, English Breakfast, Japanese Sencha, Mint Chocolate Chip, Mint Julep, Orange Sherbet and Pina Colada.
I think it may be time to toss this trend overboard. | 2019-04-25T18:43:58Z | https://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2008/07/24/tea-flavors-that-make-one-seasick/ | Porn | Reference | 0.189206 |
wordpress | There are a lot of sound effects associated with props, character animation and emotes. Sometimes the sounds that are made are not useful to you and you may want to change them. Here is how to change sounds to your own choices. I have shown the kode for characters but the same principle also works in weapons and props. | 2019-04-23T03:54:55Z | https://schoolofkode.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/changing-sounds/ | Porn | Reference | 0.31423 |
wordpress | Stress is everywhere. Good or bad, without proper self-care, stress can feel like it might swallow us alive. Why? Any time a change occurs causing an adjustment or interruption in our life, stress results. We then produce physical, emotional, and mental responses. However, certain exercises can activate the body’s natural “relaxation response,” which slows breathing, lowers blood pressure, and makes for a calmer and healthier you.
Let’s practice on relaxation technique known as progressive muscle relaxation. To begin, slow tense and relax individual muscles. Start with your feet and work up your body to your head. This helps you become aware of muscle tension when you are stressed.
There are a variety of other relaxation techniques, such as meditation, art therapy, massage, yoga, and deep breathing. These activities can be done alone or with the help of another person. Consider downloading an app or free guided exercise. You may find one technique does not work well for you. Be persistent until you connect with one yielding results.
Relaxation techniques may not completely eradicate the stress in your life, but they can lighten your stress load. They are often low-cost, low-risk for injury, and easily performed almost anywhere. So, why not try it? There’s everything to gain and nothing to lose, except maybe some extra stress. | 2019-04-21T14:05:46Z | https://soundsidewellness.wordpress.com/tag/progressive-muscle-relaxation/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.422639 |
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wikipedia | This article is about the poet. For the philosopher, see Blossius.
Blossius Aemilius Dracontius (c. 455 – c. 505) of Carthage was a Christian poet who flourished in the latter part of the 5th century. He belonged to a family of land proprietors, and practiced as an advocate in his native place. After the conquest of the country by the Vandals, Dracontius was at first allowed to retain possession of his estates, but was subsequently deprived of his property and thrown into prison by the Vandal king, whose triumphs he had omitted to celebrate, while he had written a panegyric on a foreign and hostile ruler. He subsequently addressed an elegiac poem to the king, asking pardon, and pleading for release. The result is not known, but it is supposed that Dracontius obtained his liberty and migrated to northern Italy in search of peace and quietness. This is consistent with the discovery at Bobbio of a 15th-century MS., now in the Biblioteca Nazionale at Naples, containing a number of poems by Dracontius (the Carmina minora).
The most important of his works is the De laudibus Dei in three books. The account of the creation, which occupies the greater part of the first book, was at an early date edited separately under the title of Hexameron, and it was not till 1791 that the three books were edited by Faustino Arévalo. The apology (Satisfactio) consists of 158 elegiac couplets; it is generally supposed that the king addressed is Gunthamund (484–496). The Carmina minora, nearly all in hexameter verse, consist of school exercises and rhetorical declamations, amongst others the fable of Hylas, with a preface to his tutor, the grammarian Felicianus; the rapt of Helen; the story of Medea; and two epithalamia. It is also probable that Dracontius was the author of the Orestis Tragoedia, a poem of some 1,000 hexameters, which in language, metre, and general treatment of the subject exhibits a striking resemblance to the other works of Dracontius.
Opinions differ as to his poetical merits, but, when due allowance is made for rhetorical exaggeration and consequent want of lucidity, his works show considerable vigour of expression, and a remarkable knowledge of the Bible and of Roman classical literature.
De Deo and Satisfactio, ed. Arevalo, reprinted in Migne’s Patrologiae cursus, lx.
Carmina minora, ed. F. de Duhn (1873).
Pamphlets by C. Rossberg (1880, on the authorship; 1888, materials for a commentary).
Lejay, Paul (1909). "Blossius Æmilius Dracontius" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
A. Arweiler, "Interpreting cultural change: Semiotics and exegesis in Dracontius’ De laudibus Dei," in Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation. Eds. Willemien Otten and Karla Pollmann (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007) (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 87).
Luceri, Angelo (ed.). Gli epitalami di Blossio Emilio Draconzio (Rom. 6 e 7) (Roma: Herder, 2007) (Biblioteca di cultura romanobarbarica; 10).
Galli Milić, Lavinia (ed., comm.). Blossi Aemilii Dracontii, Romulea VI-VII (Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 2008) (Testi con commento filologico, 18). | 2019-04-21T01:26:36Z | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracontius | Porn | Reference | 0.725761 |
wordpress | I’m a runner. I love creating (especially from fabric and yarn) and baking (mostly so I can eat the stuff I make). I’m a practicing Catholic Christian (always grateful for the word “practicing,” because it means it’s okay to be a work in progress). I’m the stay-at-home mother of a six year old boy, four year old twin girls, and a toddler boy, which means things are usually crazy here. Parenting lots of little people is not for the faint of heart. I don’t have it all figured out. I’ve always been good at improvising, though, and so far, everyone is alive and thriving. Something must be working.
I am blessed. I am also (at various times) sleep-deprived, silly, frantic, frustrated, accomplished, angry, discouraged, uplifted, desperate, enlightened, overwhelmed, baffled, resigned, mortified and inspired. Sometimes I’m several of those things in the same day. Parenting is not an easy gig. It’s hard, and it takes discipline and skill and sacrifice and energy.
I’m not always particularly grateful for my blessings. Sometimes, they just feel heavy on my shoulders. Gratitude is like faith, though- it’s a practice, so I’m practicing. There’s always a reason to celebrate, always something for which we can be thankful, even if it is hard to see sometimes. This blog is about practicing gratitude…about finding reasons to be grateful in the midst of the mundane, daily events that make up our lives. Since our families and our homes are the first places our children learn about love and about God and about life, we try to make our home the kind of place where daily life is both sacred and celebrated. We do this by celebrating the feasts of the Christian liturgical year and various other days. Even ordinary days are gifts.
When I’m not writing here, you can find me at Blessed Is She and CatholicMom. I’m also thrilled to be a contributor to As Morning Breaks: Daily Gospel Reflections , a daily devotional which was published last fall.
I hope you’ll enjoy your visit here and stick around for a while with us. I’d love to connect with you. Here’s how you can reach me. | 2019-04-26T04:18:16Z | https://dereabbey.wordpress.com/about-me/ | Porn | Home | 0.578297 |
wordpress | India has been toying with doing things in ‘The New American Way’ for some time now. Our present almost misadventures with the 1-2-3 Nuclear Power Treaty has clearly indicated our own Junta’s leanings. We too seem to be actively seeking ways to democratically subvert our democracy, but thankfully have so far failed.
Still the Dickied Rice Bush has had a visible measure of success with our neighbour Pakistan.
America kept insisting that this Mushy stuff was the closest that the Pakistani people could get to democracy. Instead, with the decle3ration of Emergency Rule, what was all along a dictatorship in democratic guise has now reverted to form and proved that it was indeed a full blown military dictatorship all along.
Musharraf is a suave, smooth, polite, educated, and eminently reasonable dictator, but a dictator and a ruthless and brutal one nonetheless. He is photogenic, soft spoken, and charismatic (wonder where I’ve heard that before) and an ideal stooge for the U.S. State Department’s deeper designs in this part of the world.
The last time Musharraf needed to consolidate his power he engineered a war (the ’99 Kargil War) with India. The then democratically elected Pakistani leader (Nawaz Sharrif) had to flee for his life.
This time Mushy has been concentrating on his Afghany front, and let’s hope that he stays focussed there. The chances are that as long as the current U.S. administration is wooing India, Mushy will have to bite his tongue and wait, but nothing is certain in todays global village.
It’s too much to hope that India would have learned anything substantial from this, except that there’re always ways to make a quick buck. The depth of the pocket is actually what drives politics in India anyway.
Statesmanship is a thing of the rather distant past – a blurry, fading, black and white memory of what was always something of a hazy backlit dream.
“Do, you know that the U.S. tried ever so strongly to dissuade Mushy from such a drastic step?” At least that’s the current spin, being disseminated through the hidden alleyways of a ‘leaky’ State Department.
What everyone here does know, is that Mussharraf would never have dared unless he was offered tacit U.S. support.
We have blown it with Tibet; we have shamed ourselves, the Tibetan people and the Dalai Lama.
But it is not too late to change tack.
Gen. Pervez Mussharaf had exported Pakistan’s supreme court justices to the U.S. under the Democracy Re-education Program (DemRep) sponsored by the US Department of State. | 2019-04-20T12:46:17Z | https://bartramia.wordpress.com/category/dictator/ | Porn | Society | 0.618564 |
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wordpress | My wife is an artist. She does not use brushes and paint, pen and paper, chalk, needle, or camera. She uses spades and flowers. Our yard is her canvas. She loves to dig in the dirt to plant new and move old plants.
My Master Gardener spouse does not trim shrubs or cut grass, although she can and she has. These chores are left to the yardman. Recently she expressed concern that the tasks were too much for him in the scorching temperatures and high humidity. I appreciated her sensitivity to his situation but assured her that he was alright and could accomplish his work with little difficulty.
I am thankful that we have a small yard. Still it requires a lot of work and it is pretty costly to maintain it properly and retain the beautiful environment that has been created. If it was much bigger, the work load might be too much and the expense to high but for now it is manageable, even for the aging yardman.
There are 85 houses in our subdivision but none of them have a garden like ours. We live in a tree lined neighborhood and the homes are relatively neatly landscaped with low maintenance shrubs and trees. The lawns are all pretty well kept most of the time but most, if not all, of the neighbors have a lawn service- except us. My wife is the gardener. I am the yardman. She has the knowledge and the creative eye. I take care of the menial tasks of grass cutting and shrub trimming.
I am grateful that I am still healthy enough to mow the grass weekly and occasionally give the shrubbery a trim. The yard is small and the work load is manageable. Besides, my wife says the chore is saving my life by keeping me somewhat physically active.
I don’t enjoy the yard work but I don’t really mind it either At times it is an inconvenience but it is not a burden. On the other hand, Lena loves to work in her garden and I am grateful for what she has created. Every time I pull into our driveway and view the landscaping I am appreciative of her dedication and skill. As I sit on the patio watching the birds and enjoying the beautifully serene setting of our back yard I thank God for her love for gardening and her hard work.
Lena and I have been married for 46 1/2 years and I hope to have many more anniversary celebrations with her. So if the minimal work that I put into our yard contributes to longevity, so be it. And if her long hours of hard work in the heat and humidity bring her satisfaction, that is good. I know that there will come a time when we will not be able to maintain our current level of physical activity (as minimal as mine is) but until then I am thankful to God for our health and to Lena for her labor of love.
God created the first garden and then entrusted it to human beings. I don’t know God’s assessment of their care for this new creation but I am sure that God is pleased with the garden my wife has created. .
In 1958 a novelty record featured three singing anthropomorphic chipmunks. Within three weeks of being released The Chipmunk Song had sold over 2.5 million copies, making it the fastest selling record of 1958. It hit #1 on December 22, 1958, and stayed there for 4 weeks. This is the last Christmas song to hit #1 in the US. A remixed version of this song returned to the American Hot 100 in the first chart of 2008 after a gap of 45 years, thanks to the box office success of the film Alvin And The Chipmunks.
The song was written and produced by Ross Bagdasarian. The inspiration came to him from his youngest son, Adam, who in September would regularly ask if it was Christmas yet. He figured if his son was asking that question, other kids probably were too.
Bagdasarian, whose stage name was David Seville, performed all the voices of the group by speeding up the playback to create high-pitched voices. That process resulted in two Grammy Awards for engineering. After his death in 1972, the characters’ voices were performed by his son Ross Bagdasarian, Jr and Ross. Jr.’s wife, Janice Karman, in the subsequent incarnations of the 1980s and 1990s.
The singing chipmunks were mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore- all named after the executives of their original record label. The trio is managed by their human adoptive father, David (Dave) Seville. The characters became a success, and the singing Chipmunks and their manager were given life in several animated cartoon productions and films.
I have had the privilege of having my grandchildren (and their parents) visiting with us for over two months as they transition from living in Asia to their next destination in southern Spain. We have spent a good bit of time visiting and eating meals on our patio and looking out on the beautifully landscaped back yard created by my wife.
We have enjoyed the cardinals, finches, doves, and other birds as they play and sing in the tree and around the feeders. As we have watched the birds I have observed that Alvin, Simon, and Theodore also live in our back yard. At least the chipmunks that scurry around look a lot like them.
These cute little creatures scamper around and scavenge for food everywhere. They are a joy to watch most of the time.
The birds are attracted by the feeders that we have placed in our yard and a couple of years ago I discovered bird feeders that stymied the squirrels. They finally gave up on their efforts to rob the birds of their food but last week I discovered that the chipmunks have found a way.
As I sat on the patio the birds were fluttering all over and feasting on the food I had provided. The chipmunks were playfully chasing each other along the ground and eating the seeds that the birds dropped. Simon, Theodore, ALVIN! One of them had climbed onto the bird feeder and was hanging upside down in such a way that his weight did not close the feeding openings. He was enjoying the safflower seeds until I yelled at him and he scurried away.
After a few times of scaring “Alvin” away when he tried to eat the bird’s food, I decided to leave him alone. After all what he ate was a small price for the enjoyment he and his friends provided as they entertained us with their playfulness. I am happy to have the chipmunks and I am willing to pay the price.
A lot of life is that way but often I forget that the good times come with a price. | 2019-04-19T05:04:26Z | https://thoughtsforthursday.wordpress.com/2015/06/ | Porn | Arts | 0.480077 |
wikipedia | Eckerö is a municipality in the Åland Islands, Finland. As of March 2006, there are 926 people living in Eckerö.
Eckerö is the westernmost municipality of Finland. Mariehamn, the capital of Åland, is located 35 km away. 95 % of the people in Eckerö speak Swedish as their first language.
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wordpress | Good Morning, The Skunks Have Awaken!
Are You in Need of Live Trapping?
Ned And Auckmed Grabbed Another Beer & Stumbled into the Trailer.
CARDBOARD CUTOUTS DO MAKE GOOD FRIENDS:AUCKMED LIVES!!!!
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yahoo | Equinor's Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea, which was shut on April 8 due to a gas leak, is expected to restart production on Wednesday, gas system operator Gassco said on Tuesday. The Equinor-operated field which can produce up to 23 million cubic metres of gas per day is expected to operate at about half of its capacity on Wednesday, Gassco said on its website.
The Caesar Tonga field divestment deal is in line with Shell's (RDS.A) ongoing $10-billion divestment program.
The operator of the Mariner heavy oil field, one of Britain's largest offshore developments in years, postponed its start-up to summer 2019 on Wednesday for safety checks on the platform's electrical couplings. The latest, pushing the expected launch back from the first to the second half of this year, follows a decision taken in November by Norwegian operator Equinor to inspect all of Mariner's 40,000 couplings. Initial tests showed the couplings' failure rate was too high, Equinor's vice president for major projects, Morten Ruth, told Reuters on Wednesday.
Production at Equinor's Aasta Hansteen gas field remained shut on Tuesday after a gas leak the previous day. The Equinor-operated field in the Norwegian Sea has capacity of up to 23.2 million cubic metres of gas per day. Equinor's partners in the field are OMV, Wintershall and ConocoPhillips.
Does Equinor's (OB:EQNR) Share Price Gain of 52% Match Its Business Performance?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said crude stockpiles grew by 2.8 million barrels last week. The increase, which topped industry and analyst estimates, was blamed in part on a closure of the Houston Ship Channel that’s disrupted American exports. “It’s a little bigger build than everybody thought we’d get," said Rob Thummel, managing director at Tortoise, a Kansas-based money manager.
Shell (RDS.A) declares that entire electricity supplied by First Utility will now come from renewable sources.
Tanzania says it plans to conclude talks in September with a group of foreign oil and gas companies led by Norway's Equinor on developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the East African country. Construction of an LNG export terminal near huge offshore natural gas discoveries in deepwater south of the country has been held up for years by regulatory delays. "The government has officially decided to begin talks in early April for construction of the LNG project," Tanzania's energy ministry said in a statement issued late on Friday.
Shell spends $84.8 million on 87 high bids, the highest in each of the categories.
The talks are aimed at reaching a so-called Host Government Agreement, the pact that governs the rights and obligations of parties with respect to the development, construction and operation of the project. Negotiations between the government and international oil companies, which started in 2017, have so far failed to lead to a deal. The project is meant to enable the export of gas from Tanzania.
Apart from putting an end to the 'transfer-of-rights' dispute, the $10 billion payment from the Brazilian government would help Petrobras (PBR) trim its debt levels to a considerable extent.
Equinor's (EQNR) contract with AcuPetroleo will facilitate it to operate through class Suezmax and VLCC vessels.
Petrobras' (PBR) committed efforts to improve production, liquidity and operational efficiency, along with its ambitious five-year plans make us optimistic of the stock.
Equinor (EQNR) is reportedly seeking buyers for holding in the Eagle Ford shale after an unsuccessful attempt in 2014.
Norway's biggest oil company has held talks with potential suitors for its stake in the Eagle Ford business.
ASA said Friday that its production of renewable energy rose in 2018, while its carbon intensity was unchanged from 2017, in line with the company target. The Norwegian energy firm increased its production of renewable energy to 1,251 gigawatt hours from 830 GWh. It said it spent $500 million on new energy solutions.
Helle Oestergaard Kristiansen will replace chief executive Henrik Lind from April 1. Lind's replacement will not mean a change of strategy, Oestergaard Kristiansen told Reuters, but the firm will look into entering U.S. power trading next year. Equinor has submitted a bid to supply New York with offshore wind power from its Empire Wind project south of Long Island, the company said in February, and the state is expected to choose a supplier in spring this year.
Equinor made 905 new hires in 2018, according to the company's latest annual report. | 2019-04-19T13:59:13Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EQNR?ltr=1 | Porn | Business | 0.402958 |
wordpress | It’s been almost 2 weeks since I last wrote. Even though I had others intentions, life & my illness got in the way. I had a flair up, which took me a week or so to recover from. And it took me another week or so to catch up with my life. It can be very overwhelming playing catch up, while staying current with my life. But I didn’t let it get to me, instead I just went with the flow. It is what it is.
Before my illness, things would stress me out if what I had intended or pictured didn’t come out a certain way. It really ruined my day because I let it get the best of me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t plan on writing once every 2 weeks. I plan on writing as much as I can, hoping for at least 3-5 days a week. And if I can’t then I can’t, I’m not going to stress. Going with the flow isn’t about my failure or inability to write my blog or live my life, it’s actually the opposite. It’s learning how to live with my chronic illness in a way that gives me the best quality of life. It’s my ability to work with the hand god gave me and making the best of it. Instead of stressing about things that are beyond my control, I focused on the things I can control & let everything else go. I embraced the flow of life and the direction it was sending me on. And in doing so, it created more inner peace, which helped me fight my recent flair up. Isn’t interesting how everything works together, how everything intertwines?
Today’s post is short and sweet since I am still not feeling well.
Never underestimate the power of a true friend. During my road to recovery & my weight loss journey, my true friends have been one of the greatest blessings for me. They are my muscles when I am weak. They are my motivation when I’ve lost mine. Within each of us, lies the power to heal or to hurt, to make or break, to be true or to be fake. Remember the old saying, ” you are who you surround yourself with.” What kind of friend are you? What kind of people do you surround yourself with?
Intentional living to me means “to consciously live our life in a way that drives our dreams and goals. To consciously make choices for our lives instead of leaving it to chance. Not allowing the world’s distracts take me away from my dreams and goals.” I found a great quote from one of my favorite writers out there. He said, “Don’t just drift through life. Live intentionally and on purpose.” taken from http://www.becomingminimalist.com.
In the same article as the quote, Joshua Becker stated that living a simple life, you need to be intentional about it, in which you need the proper foundation & steps. Since I am new to all of this, his steps helped guide me in the right direction. The hardest part of my journey was figuring out how to begin. This is a great place to start. To read more about each step, please click on the link below that will bring you to his article.
I strive to live intentional and by doing so I have noticed a few beneficial side effects. Living with as little distractions as possible, we are also able to save our money, save our time & energy, save our “real” relationships, and save the things that are important to us. Talk about some great benefits for being intentional, living a simple life.
Where did you begin your journey? What are some other practical steps you could add to the list above? What are some other beneficial “side effects” that you noticed? I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
If you meet me in real life, you wouldn’t be able to tell that I am sick and live with a chronic illness. You wouldn’t be able to see how I struggle some days, to do the simplest of tasks because of my illness. How bending over to pick up my kitchen floor, is so painful, I have to have my children do it for me. Or when I can’t move other than from the bathroom to couch and back, because the pain is uncontrollable. How for the longest time, my life revolved my throw up bouts which lasted weeks on end (throw up bouts-I get sick a lot and puke sometimes everyday for a few weeks at a time) because who wants to throw up anywhere but their own home? No, I don’t look sick on the outside, but looks can be deceiving. Unless someone knows me, they don’t know how my days are a struggle because of my chronic illness in some shape or form. I stopped complaining for two reasons: 1. no one wants to hear me complain every single day of my life……..talk about depressing and 2. this is my life, this is what I have been dealt with……..it’s a part of who I am today. Sure, sometimes it gets the better of me and I start to feel sorry for myself and cry like when I am out in public and I get my stomach pains from a flair up, which is similar to Chrone’s disease, and I literally run to the bathroom where I explode. Usually, I have my 2 little ones in tow.
Unless you have a chronic illness, or have a close loved one who does, it’s hard to understand what people like me go through on a daily basis. The last few days have been hard for me because I’m having a flair up, but life keeps moving, whether you’re sick or not. Even when I am in the trenches, with little hope, grasping to whatever I can to keep me up, I always try to move forwards, no matter how small my steps are. It’s a hard road to travel on, but it’s one that I am grateful for, since it showed me the way to living a healthier lifestyle. Along the way, I have discovered a few things, that has made my travels a little easier. Below are 5 tips or mental notes to help others out there like me.
Once you accept that this is your life, you will be able to move on. For the longest time, I fought that this was how my life would be. I was determined to get my old life back before I was sick, which made things worse for me. Once, I realized that this is how it’s going to be, I was able to move on and learn ways to cope with my illness so I could start reliving my life. This step took me awhile, so don’t expect overnight realization. My aha moment was when I thought I was going to die. Sitting in the hospital all alone thinking about leaving my 5 kids and hubby, really woke me up. I felt like I was given a 2nd chance, and no matter what my limitations are, I am still alive living a healthier happier life with my family. And I try to live each day to the fullest because I know just how precious and short life really is.
This is an ongoing learning experience. There will always be things to learn that will make my life easier. When I 1st got sick, I was determined to keep up with everything as if I wasn’t sick. Once I accepted my situation for what it was, I was able to figure out ways to help me get things done like simple chores. For the longest time, I couldn’t bend down much if at all. I couldn’t lift and do my normal household duties. So, my children had to step up and help me. To this day, there is still a lot I can’t do, but my children do it without complaining because they know I physically can not.
No matter how alone we feel at any given moment, there are others out there going through the same situation you are. If you are looking to interact with others who also suffer from chronic illnesses, look to local and/or online support groups. For me personally, since my illness is rare and no one has it here in the states, I went overseas to find a support group. There was a small inactive one. So I broadened my perimeters and found a support group that was more general. There are others out there, you just need to find them.
It’s important to take care of our whole self, especially if you suffer with a chronic illness. Living a healthy lifestyle isn’t just about eating properly and exercising, it’s about taking proper care of your mind, body, & spirit. Do what you feel is right, to take care of yourself, & never apologize for it.
The simpler our life is, the easier and happier to seems to be. Or at least that’s how it is for me. Over the last year or so, I have been trying to simplify all areas of my life. I began by cutting out the negativity that surrounded me including my self talk (which was a game changer on its own), decluttering my house, & putting memories & experiences in its place.
Living with a chronic illness is challenging but it isn’t the end of the world, unless you let it. We are stronger than we think, and don’t know how strong we are till we are put into challenging situations. Life is what we make of it, so make it a good one.
This misconception is one that I wished I addressed before I got sick. It’s sad that it took me getting sick to get set on the correct path. But it is what it is. All I can do now is educate my family, hoping they don’t follow my unhealthy path to sickness.
Eat a Low-Glycemic Load DIET — Lean animal protein (chicken, fish, and eggs), nuts, seeds, beans, vegetables, fruit, and small amounts of non-gluten grains.
Power Up with Protein — Start the day with protein and at each meal. This makes your metabolism run hotter and cuts hunger. Incorporate eggs, PROTEIN SHAKES , nuts, seeds, chicken, or fish.
Don’t Drink Your Calories — No sodas, juices, sweetened drinks and no more than 3-4 glasses of wine or alcohol a week with meals.
Avoid the Deadly White Powder or Flour — Including gluten-free flour products. Even whole grain flour acts like sugar in your body.
Beware of Frankenfood — Factory-made foods are often science projects with fake ingredients including MSG (which causes ravenous hunger and is hidden as “natural flavoring”), high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, preservatives, and chemicals.
Eat From the Right Plant — If it was made in a plant stay away, if it was grown on a plant it is probably okay.
Get an OIL CHANGE — Eat omega-3 fat-rich foods including sardines and wild salmon and avoid REFINED and processed vegetable oils except olive oil.
Get Going and Get Strong — Both cardio and strength training are key. Cardio builds fitness and IMPROVES metabolism, and strength training BUILDS MUSCLE so you won’t be a skinny fat person.
Take Supplements — They grease the wheels of your metabolism and help BURN CALORIES and balance blood sugar. A good multivitamin, fish oil (EPA/DHA,) and vitamin D do the trick for 95 percent of people.
Today’s topic (simple living) is something I find very interesting and is something that has been a priority of mine more and more as the years go on. I have read a ton of books and sites regarding this topic. Over the last 4 years, I have really acquire a big interest in it. Is that a sign of maturity? Am I finally growing up? Ya, maybe. But last summer reinforced my interest with living a simple life. Why? Because it was the 1st time in my life & our family’s life, we are able to go out on numerous adventures further away, actually go on a vacation, be together, and had a blast creating memories. Sure we couldn’t eat gourmet meals when we went on one of our adventures, but no one cared while we were at the Cape playing at the ocean or when we were at the Patriot’s game, not buying beer. It was just amazing being able to travel & go on adventures memorable together. This is what we will remember and talk about for years to come, not what new thing we bought.
This was my wake up call saying STOP with all the unnecessary items and start putting our attention to spending time with one another & putting our money towards meaningful things, not the next best material item. I want to travel the world with my family. I want to see as much of the world as I can and expose my children to as much of it as possible. Why can’t we go to Ireland for a few weeks? We couldn’t before, because it wasn’t important or a priority to us. Having what I now call “junk” meant more. It’s sad but true.
Now, I am finally at a point in my life, where I can concentrate on what is important to me. I can start making an effort with continuing my “stepping stones,” in order to reach my ultimate goal: spending meaningful quality time with one another while exploring the world around us.
There are numerous things you can to along your journey to make life simpler, but where do you begin? For me that was the hardest question to answer. Once I found my beginning, it was clear sailing from there. Remember progress may seem slow. There isn’t any need to rush yourself, since this is about what you feel is in the best interest of your family. This isn’t a race or competition. And by all means NEVER compare yourself with others…………we each are living a unique life that is exclusively ours. You can’t compare apples to oranges.
Before you take any steps toward living a simpler life, you must first be honest with yourself and figure out where your priorities are. The best way for me to do that, was to list what was important to me now (in the moment) according to things around me (what story does your home say) & things I have bought VS what I really thought was important. For example: based on things around me it would seem that electronics are important to us, but in reality they aren’t. We could live without all of it, if that meant we could do activities & vacations to amazing places together.
If the whole family isn’t on board, it will make for a harder transition, if you are even able to. The best advice I can give you, is to have a family meeting, have the entire family there, sit down, and discuss everything together. No matter how young the kids are they should still be a part of whats going in on the family. You may just have to put it in their terms, so they can understand.
It seems nowadays everything is a race, competition, or popularity contest. Living a simpler life will only work, if this is something you truly want and you are doing it for the right reasons. If you want to change your lifestyle because all the other moms you know are doing it, it’s obviously isn’t the right reason. And the change won’t last long. Remember, you can have a simpler life by doing a little or going to extremes. For us, the 1st big step, is getting rid of the unnecessary clutter in our lives that don’t matter and getting rid of it all (I am talking about physical possessions & mental baggage.) Clutter is clutter, which needs to go.
Nothing stays the same, NOTHING. Everything changes, which is a fact of life. No matter which season of your life, you are in, don’t forget to enjoy the little things. Its the little things that you look back on and realize just how big and important those little things were. Enjoy yourself and who ever you choose to surround yourself with.
Our world today is so attached to material possession, we encourage each other to get more and more through so many different avenues. Seldom do I see any ad or commercial saying ” less is more”. We as a whole, have emotional attachments to our possessions. I know I did for the longest time. And as soon as I started cutting my emotional attachments, I realized just how much time I spent on things that weren’t important to me.
Once you realize what you don’t need around you, start getting rid of the items either selling, giving away, or throwing it out. Can’t do it all at once, set a specific number like 3 and get rid of that many things a day. When getting rid of those items, make sure you really do. Don’t just throw them in your car or put it in the trash, if the item is reusable, give it to a place or someone who can use it. Recycle it. And don’t forget to get the kids involved and explain everything you are doing and why. This is a great chance to teach them, less is more.
Just like with anything of importance, it takes time. Nothing happens overnight but after working hard slowly towards your goal, you will reach your destination. Remember: slow and steady wins the race.
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wordpress | The worst part about RVing over in the Eastern Sierra is that we have to travel over a pass to get there. Tioga Pass is the best choice; however, it is still a nail biter. Going over is worse for me because we are on the cliff side. And the grade going down after we reach the summit is steep. Which means coming back we have to climb that steep summit… towing over 12,000 pounds! It doesn’t help that there is a sign at the start of the grade that it’s not recommended for big loads.
We have to go over those mountains!
This is the second time we’ve done it towing our RV, so I know we can do it. But I still had a lot of anxiety. Thank goodness Dave had a co-pilot.
The road takes a turn to the left and climbs up, up, up.
When we reach the Yosemite Park pay station the worst climb is over. Now we get to drive the narrower road through Yosemite!
I guess Kari felt it was finally safe to relax.
She’s not allowed up front. We have an ice chest on the back floor board in the center and she lays on that with her head on the front center console.
Yosemite was thick with smoke. Add to that the remnants of the Rim Fire a few years ago, and it felt like we were driving through a very different Yosemite.
We made it home safe, unloaded and returned the RV to storage. We are already looking forward to our next trip in less than two weeks to Nevada Beach.
Our beloved Yosemite has taken such a hit. So sad. Kari looks so satisfied to be traveling with you both.
Kari is a great little trooper ! I’m glad she takes such good care of you!
I remember when Ron would ask me if I care to tow the trailer on our trips. I said NO! I was toooo…nervous. The pictures of Kari are adorable.. | 2019-04-18T22:26:14Z | https://judyholmphotography.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/tioga-pass/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.960006 |
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wordpress | Caffeine, colas, energy drinks—they’re everywhere. Signs of our eternal quest for more energy.
But what if you could get more energy with just a couple of tweaks to your diet?
You can. The way you eat can make the difference between being on a roller coaster ride of high and low energy and maintaining consistently high energy levels, day in, day out.
1. Eat more often. This is probably one of the best ways to increase your energy over time. When you eat four-to-five times a day, and in smaller portions (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks), you give yourself a full tank of gas to run on all day long. Eating throughout the day prevents mid-afternoon energy dips and post-lunch food comas. Plus, when you stretch your eating over the course of the day, you have a chance to take in more important nutrients. Nutrients = fuel to keep your motor running! And no, you won’t gain weight.
Try one of these energizing changes: If you eat two meals a day, shoot for three. Eat something first thing in the morning, with protein (eggs; yogurt with mueslix; peanut butter on an apple; a smoothie). Eat a snack in the afternoon (nuts and fruit; celery with almond butter; yogurt topped with berries).
2. Eat real food. Fill your glorious human engine with whole, real foods—meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruits, and grains. Look for whole foods that are unprocessed. You can find them in the perimeters of your grocery store (no additional ingredients = unprocessed). Think of yourself as an amazing car that only runs on the best-quality gas.
Try one of these: Instead of a frozen dinner, bake a piece of fish and serve it on a bed of spinach; instead of white pasta or pizza, whip up some couscous and top it with chicken and sautéed veggies. Eat your favorite fruit for dessert. For more ideas, check out these Chef by Request menus.
3. Eat the right amount of calories. Sometimes we realize we’ve eaten too much when it’s too late. And then the food coma settles in. Zzzzz. Knowing the right amount of food for your body type and exercise volume helps keep your energy and blood-sugar levels balanced. If you’re a Chef by Request customer, all the calories are figured out for you ahead of time. Otherwise, you can search for a calorie calculator online or see a nutritionist for a professional evaluation.
Try one of these: If you’re a member of the clean-plate club, start serving yourself smaller portions. If you eat over the sink or on the run, STOP. Put the food on a plate and sit down with it, so you can see how much you’re taking in. If you’re dining out, ask for half the serving size.
4. Eat a protein with every meal. Infusing meals with protein is the “open sesame” to energy sources. Protein also has the essential fats that stick with you and keep the motor humming for a good long time (but it’s still better not to go too long between meals). Put walnuts on your oatmeal. Eat a stir-fry with meats and vegetables. Instead of pasta-only meals, make a smaller portion of whole-grain pasta, pile on your favorite sautéed veggies, and add shrimp.
Try one of these: Put walnuts on your oatmeal. Eat a stir-fry with meats and vegetables. Instead of pasta-only meals, make a smaller portion of whole-grain pasta, pile on your favorite sautéed veggies, and add shrimp.
5. Cut back on processed sugar and white flour. Reducing or even eliminating foods like white pastas, rice, baked goods, and sugary fruit juices will do wonders for your energy. Sugar and white flour have a tendency to spike your blood sugar, hold it there and then . . . craaaaaaaaaaash—all your mojo comes tumbling down.
Try one of these: For a sweet tooth, eat sweet potatoes, yams, or yogurt and raw honey (a superfood). Instead of white pasta, try quinoa (also high in protein). Eat your fruit instead of drinking it—all that extra roughage is good for you, and the feeling of chewing can be more satisfying too.
Remember, changing eating habits takes time. You don’t have to do it perfectly or all at once. Making one small change after another will begin to make a difference. And once you start to experience a steady stream of energy running through you day after day—it’s going to be hard to want to eat any other way.
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These are lovely. We lived in Carson, NM years ago and returned for a visit about a year and a half ago – and yes, we did visit the ranch as well. Love that area of the world, and you’ve really captured the colors the desert shows off during certain times of year and day. Beautiful.
Thank you Bela. It is a stunningly beautiful place isn’t it? How the light changes throughout the day and that special quality it has, no wonder O’Keefe loved it there. Sedona has that same quality of light I think. Visiting there last December I was repeatedly delighted with the warm glow that seems to underlie the sunlight there.
Yes, I’m spoiled, as I remember Oak Creek Canyon on into Sedona from many years ago. Too crowded for me anymore, and so I prefer Abiquiu 😉 Aloha. | 2019-04-20T12:35:50Z | https://angiesart.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/ghost-ranch/ | Porn | Arts | 0.971904 |
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When you have some 11,297 persons living in a square kilometer in Delhi and on an average 70% of them would burn firecrackers, with some 50 lakh kgs of fireworks stocked in and around Delhi NCR, one wonders if we are preparing for the ‘festival of light’ or ‘festival of pollution’? And please don’t give me the deal about Hinduism. I am a practicing hindu who waits entire year for Diwali. For me Diwali means, wearing new clothes, spending time with family, cooking traditional poori-sabzi and kheer, making rangoli, doing the laxmi pooja (and praying fervently to Goddess Laxmi to bless me the year round), meeting friends and family and exchanging gifts and of course a lot of laughter.
I have always been scared of loud noises and even though Diwali is my favourite festival (not too much of a holi person, you see) and having met with a terrible cracker accident when my husband was burning that blue atom bomb thingy, some hot pellet-like thing hit right below my eye, leaving me thankfully, not blind, but scarred for life. Even now, the sound of loud cracker, leaves me terrified to the extent that I don’t want to attend a marriage primarily because there will be fireworks.
So why am I going on and on about my not-so-important saga of a scarred Diwali when I should be talking about the firecracker ban that Supreme Court imposed yesterday. At the outset, let me inform that the Petition filed was seeking wide range of reliefs against use of fireworks (including fire crackers) as also prevention of harmful crop burning, dumping of malba and other steps towards environmental purity. The ban on fireworks was but one of the reliefs sort as part of interim relief, with prayer to ban it for just one Diwali. I have always believed that saddi dilliwallas have always been so large-hearted as to give that much concession.
I remember one of the steps taken during last Diwali by Supreme Court was to direct Schools, NGOs and Government of NCT to take steps to promote ‘Green Diwali’. My niece all of 7 then, did not even touch a phuljhari telling us how she was observing a ‘Green Diwali’. She suffers from respiratory problem and especially around Diwali, she requires nebulizer to be able to breathe.
So instead of giving me the argument that it is a ‘knee-jerk reaction’, ‘ban should have been imposed in phased out manner’ or that ‘when you ban, the citizenry becomes defiant’ or the over-used ‘it is a war against hinduism’, please look at it as one Diwali which will be ‘Green Diwali’ where we will be upholding the Hindu tradition of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam and away from the prevalent tradition of ‘Me-before-You’.
Happy Diwali everyone! May you have a beautiful, Green Diwali just this once! | 2019-04-19T12:38:17Z | https://pallavipratap.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/fireworks-ban-a-citizens-perspective/ | Porn | Kids | 0.538871 |
wordpress | On Friday night torrential rains steadily pounded the roof and windows of my house all night. When I got out of bed Saturday morning, the rain had stopped and the sun was reclaiming its place in the sky. Absentmindedly I traipsed down my basement stairs to retrieve a towel from the laundry room. I stopped on the last stair right before stepping into a pool of water on the floor. Every inch of our basement was flooded with about 3 inches of water. Mark had just gotten home at 5:30 that morning from a business trip. The storm delayed his flight and the flooded streets made a 30-minute drive home take two hours. I didn’t have the heart to awaken him and tell him what task lay ahead of us for the day.
My mother and sister Julie were visiting. I came upstairs so disappointed that the day of relaxing, talking and just being together I’d envisioned for us had to be changed. As soon as my mother and sister took a look at the basement their only response was, “Well let’s get started.” I found rain boots for all of us and we began carting rain soaked items from the basement. Our basement is unfinished except for the laundry room. We’ve lived in our house a little over two years and the basement has been the repository for everything from furniture from our old house, moving boxes filled with “don’t know what to do with” items, to out of season clothes in plastic containers. We laid the items that we could salvage on the driveway even though the forecast called for more rain. With each rain soaked item that we brought to the driveway, the sun shone brighter and we felt assured that we would be able to finish clearing out the basement without the threat of rain.
As Mama, Julie and I continued to haul items from the basement, Mark awoke and after having breakfast joined us. Most of the boxes and plastic bags I looked through held items that Mark and I had been meaning to give away or throw away. We gathered up the clothes and books that were not damaged and put them in the back of the car so they could be given to a charity we routinely gave donations. Mark and I said in amazement to each other more than once as we cleaned, that the storm forced us to handle a task that we had put off for far too long.
Just as the motions of clearing, sorting and cleaning started to feel routine, Mama pointed to several plastic bags under a workbench and asked me, “What’s in those?” I told her I didn’t know and continued talking to her as I opened the first bag just like I’d done so many others that morning. I peered in and saw the backpack Jordan used in college. I dropped the bag and started moaning, “Oh no, oh no.” I stood by the bags and cried, regretting that Jordan’s backpack had been ruined. My mother came over and held me as I cried.
I finally took a deep breath and looked through the other bags. They held some of Jordan’s clothes and towels from his belongings that were shipped home after he died. I’d gone through his things and washed all of the clothes I knew we wanted to keep. Several times I’d tried to throw away these bags that I stood crying over. Each time I tried, I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away. I knew they would never be used but they were Jordan’s and that was my rationale for keeping them. Now they were soaked with rainwater. Mark came over to me and gently asked what I wanted to do with the bags. Through tears I told him, “We have to throw them out. They’re all ruined. We have to throw them out.” I took one of many deep cleansing breaths that day to calm myself so I could keep working.
We continued working only breaking for lunch. As we sat eating, Mark said he thought we were pretty much done with clearing out the basement. I reminded him as I had earlier that water also got into the small room directly across from the stairs. He looked at me after I spoke and sighed. I held his gaze because like him I knew the hardest part of the day was before us. The room I referred to held the moving boxes from Jordan’s room in our old house as well as the computer that he used in high school.
When we moved I’d told Jordan that he would have to sort through the boxes from his old room. He joked with me that he didn’t mind if I wanted to unpack them. We’d gone back and forth about his boxes; him hoping I’d unpack them for him, me letting him know that they’d be waiting for him when he came home. We moved in January of 2008. Jordan was home for a few days during his Spring break and only a few weeks during the summer. He never got around to his boxes. Even when he left for his sophomore year of college, I teased him saying his boxes would be waiting for him when he came home. Six weeks after leaving for school Jordan was killed in the car accident. He didn’t get to come home from school anymore.
Even though I tried to normalize the storage room that held Jordan’s boxes by storing other household items there it was still a wistful place. Every time I went into that little room to get a roll of paper towels or to retrieve snow boots or snow pants for the girls, I looked at Jordan’s boxes. I would sometimes peer into them but I always stopped myself from looking further. I wasn’t sure I could take such a long look at all the memories of Jordan’s childhood and adolescence that those boxes held.
As we set out to clean the storage room, Mark and I felt foolish and reckless for potentially losing mementos of Jordan because we were too filled with sorrow to go through his boxes. Then the storm came and the choice of cleaning out the boxes was made for us. As Mark and I started opening boxes I saw so many books that Jordan cherished! Just looking at the eclectic assortment, from Homer’s “The Odyssey” to “The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” by Tupac Shakur I was so proud of my “Renaissance Man” son. I wept over the books that could not be salvaged; and I wept as I painstakingly dried the pages of other books I was determined to keep.
Mark continued to clear the room and then he came across a box that held a folder with essays Jordan wrote during a summer internship and his high school backpack. Inside the backpack were a computer keyboard, the cord to Jordan’s drum machine, his swimming trunks from his pre-college summer as a lifeguard and a partially used tube of sunscreen. He held up each item with his mouth downturned and tears in his eyes. The backpack with all its contents looked as though it was just waiting for Jordan to return and hoist it over his shoulder.
I cried as I was transported back to the summer before his freshman year in college. I remembered so vividly all the times he took the keyboard and drum machine to his friend Matt’s house so they could compose music and “make beats.” I could hear his voice telling me where he was going and how long he’d be gone just by looking at the backpack. I sat on the stairs wailing, wanting to have my child back. Mark held the backpack and headed toward the garbage with the swimming trunks and backpack. I cried out, “No, I want to keep it. It’s his backpack.” Mark handed me the swimming trunks so I could wash them and put the backpack on a shelf in the storage room. He kept his head down, working as I sat on the steps with my mother two steps below my sister and me two steps behind me. I cried and cried as they rubbed my knee and my shoulder.
As I sat there trying to regain my composure so I could keep working, I heard Mark let out a moan and looked up to find him crying. He’d stumbled across the Oakland Raider’s helmet which was as part of a football uniform he’d given Jordan as a Christmas gift when he was three. I knew he was thinking of all the times he and Jordan played football together and how many games they watched together.
He bent over with his hands on his knees and wept, not wanting to be comforted, just to cry. I watched him as he wiped his eyes and took a deep breath calming himself. We were almost done with the room. We looked at each other knowing that our cleaning was also cleansing. That day we’d wept over the beautiful son we lost, but were comforted by the wonderful things of Jordan’s that we found.
As I headed upstairs to shower Mark told me he was going to see if the computer still worked. It didn’t get wet and he was ready to see what was on it. When he came upstairs he told me that there were lots of my files on the computer as well as Jordan’s. One file of Jordan’s that peaked his interest was entitled, “Memories.” He told me that he’d briefly looked at the first paragraph and then emailed the essay to me. I sat down with my laptop and opened up Jordan’s, “Memories.” It was an essay in four sections spanning ages 3 to 16. He began by talking about his earliest memory of staying over at his friend Travis’ house the night I went into labor with his brother. He went on to say that although the memories were fuzzy he remembered climbing up on the hospital bed where I held his brother to get a good look at as he wrote, “the newest member of my family.” His “Memories” also included being told at the age of ten that I was pregnant with twins. He remembered that he and Merrick made a special request for sisters.
I read and reread Jordan’s essay so grateful to have a son who catalogued so exquisitely for his siblings his wonder and excitement at their addition to our family. Jordan’s 21st birthday will be here in less than two weeks. We his family are struggling to accept that August 9th will come again without Jordan here with us. On his birthday, I know I’ll read Jordan’s “Memories” essay again and be so grateful that a rainstorm and a flooded basement focused our attention on the amazing gifts he left for us. | 2019-04-26T11:53:20Z | https://alwaysmomof4.wordpress.com/2010/07/ | Porn | Home | 0.947381 |
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2. Create a delicious recipe using any of our cheeses.
On July 8th, we will choose the winner! The winner will receive 1 mixed case of our string cheese and a 50.00 Visa Gift card. | 2019-04-23T10:05:25Z | https://sunnicheese.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/the-sunni-food-star-challenge/ | Porn | Reference | 0.379808 |
wikipedia | The 1943–44 Chicago Black Hawks season was the team's 18th season in the NHL, and they were coming off a 5th-place finish in 1942–43, failing to qualify for the playoffs.
The Black Hawks would once again finish just under .500, with a 22–23–5 record, good for 49 points, and 4th place in the NHL. The Hawks 178 goals would rank them just ahead of the New York Rangers for 5th in the league, while the 187 goals they let in ranked 4th. The team would qualify for the playoffs, as they would have 6 more points than the 5th place Boston Bruins.
Doug Bentley would have another huge season, breaking the Black Hawks record for points in a season, which he set in the 1942–43 season, by earning 77 points, along with a club record 38 goals, which led the NHL. Clint Smith, who the Black Hawks acquired from the Rangers in the off-season, would set a club record with 49 assists, and win the Lady Byng Trophy. Bill Mosienko would have a break out season with 32 goals and 70 points. Earl Seibert would anchor the defense, leading all defensemen with 33 points and had a team high 40 penalty minutes.
In goal, the Hawks would begin the season with Hec Highton in goal, however, after a 10–14–0 start, and a GAA of 4.50, the Hawks would trade him to the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League for former Hawks goaltender Mike Karakas. Karakas would put together a 12–9–5 record with a 3.04 GAA, helping Chicago clinch the final playoff spot.
The Black Hawks would have a first-round playoff date with the second place Detroit Red Wings, who finished 9 points better than Chicago in the regular season, in a best-of-seven series. The Hawks and Wings would split the opening two games in Detroit, and Chicago would take a 2–1 series lead by shutting out the Red Wings in game three. The Black Hawks would dominate game four, winning 7–1 and take a commanding 3–1 series lead. Chicago would then complete the upset in game five, defeating the Wings 5–2 in Detroit, and earn a spot in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1941. Their opponent would be the Montreal Canadiens, who dominated the NHL with 83 points, 34 points better than the Hawks in the regular season. Chicago would prove to be no match for the powerful Canadiens, as they would sweep the Black Hawks, including a Stanley Cup clinching win in overtime in the 4th game, to win the 1944 Stanley Cup.
^ "Standings: 1943–1944". National Hockey League. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
This page was last edited on 6 November 2018, at 16:37 (UTC). | 2019-04-21T01:01:31Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943%E2%80%9344_Chicago_Black_Hawks_season | Porn | Sports | 0.96355 |
wordpress | All because I was trying to keep you…..
From Photography to Poetry. From Tea to Travel. From late night study to Lifestyle. Follow me as I try spread positivity and love through words and pictures. | 2019-04-19T02:40:51Z | https://mariamikayla.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/had-to-let-you-go/ | Porn | Arts | 0.982172 |
wikipedia | About 20-30 species, see text.
Alder is the common name for about 30 kinds of trees and shrubs of the Alnus genus. They are a part of the birch family (Betulaceae). Most of them are smaller in size. Leaves are mostly deciduous, only very few alders are evergreen.
Alder trees are found in all parts of the northern hemisphere and they are often found on poor and/or wet soil. Alders have alternate simple leaves with a toothed edge. The male flowers are in the form of hanging catkins and the female flowers are much smaller catkin-like structures (see image). The pollen is transferred from the male to the female flower by the wind. The female flower parts develop into little, green, rounded cone-like fruits which turn brown in autumn and open to release the seeds.
The best known species are the Black Alder, which can be seen throughout Europe. The largest is probably the Red Alder, native to North America. It reaches about 32–35 metres in height. The widespread Green Alder is a shrub, rarely more than 5m high. The commonest alder in the UK is the Black Alder, also called the Common Alder or European Alder.
Alder is a preferred tree for bees, especially in spring. It is also used to make charcoal.
Wikispecies has information on: Alnus.
This page was last changed on 4 February 2014, at 13:25. | 2019-04-18T10:45:12Z | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder | Porn | Reference | 0.599786 |
wordpress | I’m joining Novels and Nonfiction again with sharing my favourite posts of the week.
The Belgian Reviewer’s Help Out Santa!
I loved Cleopatra Loves Books Reading Bingo earlier this week and posted my results. It’s great fun and so much easier than other Reading Bingo challenges.
I posted reviews this week for two very similar sounding books, The Scandal by Fredrik Backman and Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan.
Wow How Did That Happen?!
Thanks for including me in your post Nicki. I am honored.
Do you think it is because I have a FREE WordPress site?
Mine’s free as well so I doubt it.
Aw yay thank you for including me! I’m definitely going to check out some of the other stuff you mentioned!
Thank you again! A great present to wake up to!
Lots of wonderful posts this week! Thank you for including mine too!
Wonderful post as always ❤ It helps me catch up after a long week. Thank you for including me among so many great posts and bloggers! | 2019-04-20T07:03:24Z | https://thesecretlibrarysite.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/blog-posts-ive-enjoyed-this-week-2/ | Porn | Arts | 0.120447 |
wordpress | Continuing on from yesterday, I’ve met even more interesting people. I chatted with Dianne Mueller about some interesting ideas for gluster+openshift. More to come on that front soon. Hung out with Jono Bacon and talked a bit about puppet-gluster on Ubuntu. If there is interest in the community for this, please let me know. Thanks to John Mark Walker and RedHat for sponsoring me and introducing me to many of these folks. Hello to all the others that I didn’t mention.
Initially, each host doesn’t know about the other nodes.
Puppet runs and each host exports host information to each other node. This opens up the firewall for glusterd so that the hosts can peer.
Now that we know which hosts are in a common pool, we can open up the firewall for each volume’s bricks. Since the volume has not yet been started (or even created) we can’t know which ports are needed, so all incoming ports are permitted from other gluster nodes.
Once the volume is created, and started, the TCP port information will be available, and can be consumed as facts. These facts then refine the previously defined firewall rules, to only allow the needed ports.
Your white-listed firewall setup is now complete.
For users who wish to avoid using this module to configure your firewall, you can set shorewall => false in your gluster::server class. If you want to specify the allowed ip access control manually, that is possible too. | 2019-04-22T03:09:38Z | https://ttboj.wordpress.com/tag/openshift/ | Porn | Reference | 0.278401 |
wordpress | This is a special Culturezoo episode where we are joined by Sam (11), Jane (9), Lucy (8), and Charlie (6) and talk about one of our family’s favorite comic trilogies, Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke. We cover all three books Zita the Spacegirl, Legends of Zita the Spacegirl and Return of Zita the Spacegirl. We learned a lot of lessons from these books and had a great time talking about it. | 2019-04-21T16:04:59Z | https://onedrawingaday.wordpress.com/2018/04/ | Porn | Kids | 0.787588 |
wordpress | Hey all! Check out the update that I added at the bottom of my earlier post to see how Bella and Chester are doing!
Here are some pictures to hold you over!
I haven’t been posting much lately, in part because I have been busy taking care of the two new additions to my little family!
To be honest with you, adopting these wonderful balls of love was one of the best decisions my fiance and I have ever made! We brought them home on 10/5/12. They bring joy to our lives every single day. Watching them play and seeing them grow and learn is so fulfilling. I can’t even explain how happy they make us!
I would like to sincerely thank Centre County Paws for all of the work that they do. Without their hard work and dedication, we would never have found our new kittens, and they would have never found a loving home. While I can understand the appeal of choosing a new pet from a breeder or pet shop, I would highly recommend adopting them from a local shelter, like we did! There is no way that I could love these little furballs any more than I do. There are tons of benefits that come along with adopting pets. For example, you get a great feeling knowing that you are rescuing an animal that someone else left behind. In addition, it is much less expensive to adopt than to buy a new pet. Adoption fees are usually reasonable, and you know that the money is going to a great cause. I would recommend getting to know the animal before choosing to bring it home to make sure that it fits your needs and abilities to care for it, but if you’re patient you can find the perfect pet!
Please keep in mind that, while having pets is absolutely fantastic, it is also a lot of responsibility. Different types of animals require different levels of attention, and all pets deserve to have a family that takes good care of them. It’s about more than just feeding them and making sure they have fresh water (which, of course, are both important aspects of pet ownership). You also have to make sure they are healthy, keep up with vet visits and immunizations, make sure they have comfortable places to sleep, make sure that they feel safe and loved… there’s a lot that goes into pet ownership!
With all of the stress and difficulties that law school and life bring, it is so wonderful to come home every day knowing that these two are waiting for us. Cuddling up with them at the end of a long day really just makes life a lot better!
If you have any questions about having new pets or about adopting, please let me know in the comments, and I would be happy to answer whatever I can!
At first, we were a little concerned that the two wouldn’t get along. It took a couple of weeks for them to get used to each other (they came from different litters), but now they are BEST friends. It is so sweet how much they cuddle and play together. They even groom each other! Chester follows Bella just about everywhere that she goes… unless he’s just too sleepy. hehe. I am so glad that we decided to choose two kittens to become part of our family. It is clear every day how much they love and need each other, especially considering that we are in class and at school for at least a few hours per day, so it’s nice to know they have each other. Plus, they have very distinct personalities and each bring different things to our lives. Chester is the snuggler and the gentleman, always posing and looking proper. Bella is always prancing around like the princess that she is, but she’s also quite the little huntress and loves pouncing on her toys… especially that darned red dot!
Here are some updated pictures! | 2019-04-25T06:28:07Z | https://aptaadcreandum.wordpress.com/tag/pet-adoption/ | Porn | Home | 0.363958 |
typepad | A bit cool. But still May.
The Man reduced the size of one of my worktables. To better fit the now Warmer back room. More space. Space has become my new and most important tool. Easily said. Just cut a third off and move the legs over. OK.
8 hours later. Rebuilt. Big job but Good. Sealer still drying.
Alphabet Soup (remember that one?) Washed and drying. And still not done. Soul-o used it as a bed over the winter.
I will be back to Small Journeys tomorrow. (For those who are subscribed and have patiently waited through my April break).
I guess I was laughing that day too, way back in 2008. That's when I began with the patchwork beast style.
Thinking about how much I have changed. And then how much not. I can't cut this cloth up, too much work in it. It could be a functional cloth really. A child's blanket. Many letters are still to be detailed with story. It is only half quilted. I have some ideas that might help me like it more. Maybe more smiles. Making cloths for kids is nice.
And I might have another go around at the alphabet thing. Maybe. It was fun. i am sure it will be different this time. Because that's how it goes. | 2019-04-24T04:01:14Z | https://spiritcloth.typepad.com/spirit_cloth/alphabet_soup/ | Porn | Kids | 0.963744 |
cnn | Morlock: "No, not that we were aware of."
Investigator: "So, you pulled him out of his place?"
Morlock: "I don't think he was inside. He was by his little hut area ... and Gibbs sent in a couple of people. He sent Rodriguez off a little ways, far side security. As I said, I'm not even sure Rodriguez knew what was going on and them."
Investigator: "Where did they stand him, next to a wall?"
Morlock: "Yeah, he was kinda next to a wall, so where Gibbs could get behind a wall when the grenade went off and then he kind of placed me and Winfield off over here so we had a clean line of sight for this guy and, you know, he pulled out one of his grenades, an American grenade, popped it, throws the grenade and tells me and Winfield, 'Alright, wax this guy. Kill this guy, kill this guy.' "
Investigator: "Did you see him present any weapons? Was he aggressive toward you at all?"
Morlock: "No, not at all. Nothing, he wasn't a threat."
The Army alleges that three Afghan civilians were killed between January and May of this year.
Morlock's civilian attorney, Michael Waddington, did not deny that his client killed for sport. "That's what it sounds like," he told CNN.
Waddington said his 22-year-old client was brain-damaged from prior IED attacks, was using prescription drugs and smoking hashish and was under the influence of and in fear of his commanding officer, who is also charged.
A hearing is set for Monday for Morlock, the first of five soldiers charged with the premeditated murder of three Afghan civilians. The hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington will determine whether the military has enough evidence against him to proceed with a court-martial.
Over this summer, 12 U.S. soldiers were charged for a variety of crimes in what military authorities believe was a conspiracy to murder Afghan civilians and cover it up, along with charges they used hashish, mutilated corpses and kept grisly souvenirs.
Five soldiers face murder charges, while seven others are charged with participating in a coverup. All of the men were members of a 2nd Infantry Division brigade operating near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010.
According to the military documents, Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs and four other soldiers were involved in throwing grenades at civilians and then shooting them in separate incidents. Three Afghan men died.
Authorities allege Gibbs kept finger bones, leg bones and a tooth from Afghan corpses. Another soldier, Spc. Michael Gagnon II, allegedly kept a skull from a corpse, according to charging documents. Several soldiers are charged with taking pictures of the corpses, and one – Spc. Corey Moore – with stabbing a corpse.
Five soldiers were originally arrested in June and seven others were charged last month.
The five facing murder charges are Gibbs, of Billings, Montana; Pfc. Andrew Holmes of Boise, Idaho; Winfield, of Cape Coral, Florida; Spc. Michael Wagnon, of Las Vegas, Nevada; and Spc. Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska.
The five are from the 5th Stryker Brigade of the 2ID, based out of Fort Lewis, Washington.
In May, CNN reported that the Fort Lewis Stryker Brigade, known as the "5-2," had been the subject of controversy for months inside Army circles. The unit has suffered some of the highest casualty rates of the war. Several senior U.S. Army officials had told CNN there has been a growing belief inside Army circles the brigade was not embracing McChrystal's counter-insurgency strategy and was too heavily focused instead on combat operations.
In one of the most comprehensive analyses of the 5-2's troubled tour in southern Afghanistan, the Army Times reported in January that the brigade commander Col. Harry Tunnell replaced one of his company commanders whose group had suffered high casualties.
But the Army Times, a privately-published newspaper, quoted several soldiers who said that company commander was very popular with the troops, and that the unit's deep-set troubles and casualties resulted from a lack of training for the type of counter-insurgency warfare now being called for.
"What we're doing is not working, and we need to go on a different tack," the Army Times quoted one soldier as saying.
A senior U.S. Army official directly familiar with Stryker operations said the command of the 5-2 has been a concern to the Army for months.
The predictiable, inevitable loss of moral compass of burnt-out soldiers caught in a mindless war,–as depicted in "The Valley of Elah," a must-see film for Americans who have been duped into believing that all our "boys" in Iraq and Afghanistan are there building schools and fighting for democracy. The time is long-overdue to bring them home.
I see but it's o.k. for the ragheads to be high on heroin & kill American servicemen for sport but God forgive if we do it. Bunch a B.S.
Yep, this folks is why war is hell. Our military is not lily white, they are warriors, capable of being just as bad as the bad guys, and some worse than others. We try to hold ourselves to higher standards than anyone else, but this sort of thing will still happen no matter where in the world it takes place. The main difference between us and them, is that we will hold the crazy ones accountable, if they are caught.
Hmm, makes me think of the "silent genocide"... look it up, you might learn something. (doubtful).
This is why they should make Army Basic training and predeployment training harder. Or just send in the Marines, you cant go wrong with them they are made for this kind of stuff and we as soldiers know this.
I thought Obama's Rule was going to be different...the military keeps doing things that isnt right...guess obama is finding out it is easy to critisize abd hard to change. Another promise that hasnt been keeped!
Does it surprise you why other countries hate us? We go to war, and we kill innocent people, and then our own soldiers who worked hard at protecting us and there are these soldiers that make other countries hate us.
War, indeed. What were we expecting? War is violence. War is negation of humanity. War brings destruction and death. War destroys principles, ethical values, anything that makes us human in the good sense. War is giving in to the worst humanity has to share with the animal kingdom. What were we expecting? Warrior glory? The 'enemy' bowing to our conquering feet in acknowledgment of our superiority? We are just as human as any enemy we choose to fight. The morally correct choice is not to choose war. We lost the moral upper hand. There is no US vs THEM. Every politician who uses the pronoun 'They' to refer to non-US people is morally corrupt (sometimes unawares).
Evil begets War begets Evil begets war ....... it is a vicious cycle! like the song says, "War, what is is good for? Absolutely nothing!" When will the leaders of the world regions realize this? War creates a killing mind set for all involved!
As the wife of a service man who will be heading to Afghanistan soon, this is really upsetting. Lets pray for the hearts and minds of all of or servicemen and that they stay and come back healthy in mind and spirit.
these soldiers are a discrace to the uniform, and the professionalism. bring the disipline of the 80s back to the US army. teach these young ncos how to lead from the front all of them are a discrac,e and dont use the excuse of im stressed out theres plenty to do over there, the mwr is outstanding compared to the past. some of these soldiers just want to sit back in 100 plus degree weather and drink sodas .hell some of them thats all they do in garrison anyway is spend a weekend getting drunk. some soldiers want to represent and enhance there career, others want to just waste the armys time. the jigg is up discharge all the ragbags, ncos soldiers if you a ragbag your a ragbag.
I blame Canada, this is all Canada's fault. | 2019-04-26T05:52:54Z | http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/27/background-u-s-soldiers-charged-with-murder/?hpt=T1 | Porn | Sports | 0.092548 |
wordpress | I am trying a new pizza dough. I saw a couple of different recipes that inspired me to create this recipe. I have merely mixed the dough at this point and am refrigerating it overnight. I will continue with the pizza listings tomorrow; it smells phenomenal though and I can’t wait to make pizza for lunch. I have been craving pizza for a few weeks and I am so glad I didn’t break down and go out for pizza because this will be so much better than any pizza I can find around here I am sure!
Dissolve yeast and sugar in the 1/2 cup warm water. Allow to rest for about 8 – 10 minutes until mixture begins to foam.
Pour flour in mixing bowl.
Add kosher salt, the remaining warm water, and olive oil. Pour in yeast mixture and begin mixing over low-speed for 3 minutes.
Dough will still be sticky. Add garlic and italian herbs; increase mixer speed to medium and mix an additional 3 minutes until dough begins to pull away from sides of bowl. Dough should be tacky and not too sticky ~ mix in a bit of additional flour if needed.
Place dough in oiled bowl and flip dough over to coat. Cover with plastic wrap and rest on counter 30 minutes. Refrigerate overnight. | 2019-04-19T10:59:08Z | https://charlesandkimberlysrecipes.wordpress.com/tag/herb/ | Porn | Reference | 0.362948 |
google | Kaibab Lake sits among the diverse landscape of Kaibab National Forest of northern Arizona. The lake is a popular spot for fishing and picnicking, as well as for RV and motorhome campers. With Grand Canyon National Park just 60 miles north and several other cultural and historic sites nearby, the location is a hotspot for recreation, learning and sightseeing. Kaibab Lake Roundup began in 2008, with a group of Flagstaff drunks, we wanted another summer event that included fishing & fellowship & meetings. The group site is limited so it is a small roundup around 200 or less, Come join the fun, great food, meetings and fellowship.
Kaibab National Forest is nestled on the Colorado Plateau, on an area of land that was uplifted by geologic processes. The lake sits at an elevation of 6,800 feet, and pine forests and grass line its shores, while wildflowers add extra color to the landscape in late spring and early summer.
Summer temperatures range from 50 degrees at night to 80-90 degrees during the day. Summer thunderstorms, known as the monsoon, can build up quickly, especially during July and August. Snow is common from December through March.
campground, such as overlooks, dams and hiking trails. A nature trail wanders through the facility. Swimming is not allowed in the lake, but anglers can take to its shores or deeper waters via an accessible fishing pier and small boat ramp. On clear nights, campers can turn their eyes to the night sky to enjoy spectacular views of summer stars.
The campground offers individual, double and group campsites with picnic tables and campfire rings. Tents, trailers and motorhomes up to 40 feet can be accommodated.
Campers have the convenience of a group picnic area, restrooms, trash bins and water faucets. Drinking water is provided, however motor homes and RV water tanks cannot be filled due to limited water supply. Firewood bundles, ice, bait and ice cream are can be purchased on-site.
Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim is about one hour north of the campground. The cities of Williams and Flagstaff have amenities such as shops, restaurants and cultural and historic sites.
From canyons to prairies, peaks to plateaus, Kaibab National Forest offers layers of opportunity for peace, solitude and discovery. Over 300 miles of trails, some clinging to the rims of the Grand Canyon, allow visitors to step off the beaten path into uncrowded landscapes.
What's Best About Kaibab Lake Roundup? | 2019-04-26T08:57:14Z | https://sites.google.com/site/kaibablakeroundup/home | Porn | Recreation | 0.922447 |
booklocker | Stevo leaves his successful life to find something better.
Destiny upends the lives of the Vladeslav Family in Croatia.
Struggle of Croatian Immigrants to U.S. in the early 1900s.
A girl's dangerous journey to find her real home.
A detective hunts for a murderer who scalps his victims.
A humorous children’s book with pictures and multiple sight words.
Gay Mormon short stories by an important Latter-day Saint writer.
Peggy Gilman investigates a shocking death in Vienna over Christmas.
A small town, a boisterous fireman, and the adventures of a young boy. It's all here!
A previous case rears its ugly head when Dr. Jake Phillips and Agent Chad Allen receive a call. During the investigation they discover their lives are also in jeopardy. They are drawn back into the world of terrorism and murder. With the help of a hacker they uncover the unimaginable.
The adventures of Clarence and his friends (they're cats).
“Do You Know?” contains 160 multiple sight words for children.
Do-Over is a book of YA fiction set in Massachusetts.
Dognapping and murder solved by clever dogs with mystical touch.
Two black women search for identity in 1920s New York.
Abused boy finds loving father in World War Two veteran.
Double Identity is an "edgy" detective mystery.
Two men bring two women to America illegally. Ugliness follows. | 2019-04-22T22:32:49Z | https://booklocker.com/BECA/catalog/search.php?category=Fiction;page=12 | Porn | Kids | 0.856723 |
wordpress | Yes, it’s been forever since I blogged. It has NOT been forever since I THOUGHT about blogging, though! Life has just been insane this past year, and I’ve given up trying to guess when it’s going to settle back into normal. Hence, there will be no resolution about blogging more regularly in this post. I’ll do what I can. However, I just really need to blow off some steam tonight on a topic that has been very much on my mind recently – propriety.
This first sprung to the forefront of my thoughts last weekend when I attended a wedding shower. I’m still totally blown away when I think back to some of the things that happened. When did it become acceptable for wedding showers to become pornographic? The worst part of the event came when all the attendees, which included some people who barely knew the bride-to-be, along with some of her older relatives, were handed a “How Well do You Know the Bride?” quiz. Questions included asking what was the bride’s favored conjugal position, where was the most unusual location she’d engaged in same, and with how many different men. It made the question about her preferred style of undies look tame. To be quite blunt, I don’t know that information about another person on this earth, nor do I really want to. And yes, I found it offensive to even be asked to speculate about it – and I was shocked to be put in such a position that I had to decide how to handle something like this in a social situation with people I didn’t know well, but who put on a front of doing everything just so.
Not having really gotten past the surprise and discomfort of that situation, tonight I got a message from the bride’s mother, whom I’ve seen only twice in my life, and to whom I’ve never even been formally introduced, that I was not to knit at the wedding OR the reception. Note: she’s seen me two times, and one of those two times, I was knitting in public. I’m not even sure the woman knows my name. Now whether or not I would actually have considered knitting at either of the two events doesn’t really matter (would definitely NOT have knit at the wedding, but if the reception is a bore, it would have at least crossed my mind…). The thing that gets me about this is that this woman clearly believes she has the right to tell ME how to behave in a social setting, and that very seriously offends me! If I didn’t happen to care very much for the groom, I would NOT be going to the wedding at all – period. I’ve got better things to do with my life than hang out around controlling, judgmental people. How can someone believe it’s more socially acceptable to exercise that sort of control over someone they don’t know than it is for that person to sit quietly knitting in public? However, there’s a part of me that feels extremely sorry for this woman. Just imagine how terribly unhappy she must really be inside if she honestly believes she has to make all the people in her visible world live up to her personal standards of perfection! Glack!
There was a time in the not to distant past when a woman who did not carry her needlework with her was considered lazy and what happened behind bedroom doors between a husband and wife was considered private. If it wasn’t a married couple, it was considered scandalous. I’m having a tough time seeing the changes I’ve encountered this past week as being progress. | 2019-04-21T08:26:15Z | https://facefromthepast.wordpress.com/2012/07/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.339275 |
wordpress | Going to Target unsupervised has to be one of my favorite activities.
Today’s trip for 4 work binders mission) ended with 2 pairs of espadrilles, some nail polish, 4 baby outfits for niece R, a can of Chef Boyardee for dinner and a much better mood. Priceless.
Sun was shining. Temps were in the 60s. It was a coral candy necklace kinda day!
Check out more my dear friend Amy Carroll on Facebook. Her candy collection comes in the BEST colors and is a great statement piece.
I thought I was sold by the online Tiny Toms pix, but our order came In today and they are even better in person. Three adorable pairs came in a box smaller than a adult sized shoe box. I die. So cute.
Cheers to chevron! From home accents to wardrobe accessories, I am ga-ga over these zig zags lately. Chevron is a perfect, modern pattern that adds just a pop of pizzaz — anywhere you crave it.
What do you think of these bold stripes?
5. Love the curtains, spotted on Live. Like. You.
Wedding Wednesday: I Deal Eeee!
Thanks to my online shopaholic friend, Ingrid Gerdes, today’s Wedding Wednesday ties to Ideeli’s Ready, Set, Wed sales event! And, when they have wedding boutiques, I love looking and seeing what prices are – of course, because when you tack the word “bridal” to anything, the cost exponentially increases by a jillion percent and you need a little more than a piggy bank.
I admit, I check discount shopping sites like Ideeli and Rue La La daily, too. Shopping on these sites gives you the thrill of scouring garage sales or flea markets. There’s so much out there, but what do you really need?
Well, after browsing through today’s Ideeli sale, I realized that with the right timing and theme, you can probably actually outfit yourself and a bridal party with some of the incredible deals available – if you’re flexible when it comes to a certain look/feel of your wedding.
Today, I’m going to a beachy destination wedding. Who’s with me?
So, what do you think? Have you or would you ever buy your wedding gear from a one-day online sale?
Oh, and if you need an invitation to any of these types of sites, let me know!
Style Saturday: Is It Spring Yet?
Now that Snowmageddon has turned to Slushmageddon, I’m officially over winter.
I’m counting down the 43 days until the Spring equinox and the new season arrives. We all know, it’ll still be too cold to ditch the jackets and scarves for skirts and sandals, but I can daydream, can’t I?
If I could, I’d trade in my puffy coat and Hunter wellies for these right now. What spring pieces are you loving?
Cory and I picked these matching Puma sweatshirts out at the store a few years ago and did not realize it until we got to the register. It’s happened a couple of times before, but always makes me laugh when we randomly choose to wear the hoodies on the same day without knowing it.
Wedding Wednesday: Mani, I Do!
So, as I was thinking about what today’s #WW should be, I looked down at my wintery dry hands, crunchy cuticles and bare nails on my keyboard and realized that the last time my nails got some tender lovin’ was the week of my wedding.
I’d probably have better #WW ideas if I had some color on these nails, right? Maybe I’ll save you all the suffering of a lame post next week, take one for the team and have a blog brainstorm session while getting a mani. Sounds like a plan to me!
I wore a one-two punch of Bubble Bath + Pop Art Pink on the ol’ wedding day, but I’m curious what everyone else wore? | 2019-04-25T17:45:53Z | https://thi2.wordpress.com/tag/style/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.905379 |
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tripod | Welcome to Sellabi Button Quail + Farms. This webpage is dedicated to those 'cute as a button' birds who have captivated me and many others. The button quail, or chinese painted quail, is a cute energetic little bird that is a good pet, and great aviary companions to other quail, small parrots, finches, soft bills and lots of other bird species.
Currently, I have around 30 buttons. I have a few different colors including white, splash. blue, and silver. They all live in either colony groups or paired for color breeding. I have had few problems with feather plucking, aggression or terratorial behavior unless on of my hens is sitting. They get mean when they sit. I have had problems when I introduced birds to an established flock. | 2019-04-23T06:05:21Z | http://button-quail.tripod.com/index.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.608372 |
wordpress | Are your kids looking for something fun to do this summer? Well if so, we are still accepting registration for our Summer Recreation Day Camp for those entering grades 1-6 in the Fall of 2016.
The camp will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. starting Monday, June 20th through Friday, August 12th at Duncan and Monfort Elementary.
Cost per family is $250.00 for the 1st child, $150.00 for the 2nd, and $85.00 for each additional. Non-residents must add $25.00 per family to the above rates.
Trinity Community Care is hosting its ‘I Care 4 Healthcare’ 5K Run/Walk Fundraiser to benefit its free medical and dental clinic for the uninsured and under-insured in metro Detroit at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 21 at Crossfit Edge 94 at 4775 25 Mile Road.
The annual 5K is the primary fundraiser for Trinity Community Care in its mission of serving Shelby Township and its neighboring communities.
“It is an honor to have Trinity Community Care within our borders, and the work the Trinity Community Care staff does for others is a great example for all of us,” said Township Supervisor Rick Stathakis, who sits on the Trinity Community Care Board of Directors.
The walk/run is the third annual fundraiser for Trinity Community Care, and will feature medals for the top three male and female runners, a raffle, BBQ, and goodie bags for all participants post-race. The course will follow the Macomb Orchard trail.
Trinity Community Care’s vision is “strong and healthy individuals, families and communities through access to care.” Their services are delivered with unconditional Christian love. They strive to do this in a manner that creates positive health outcomes for their patients in the township and throughout the entire Metro Detroit Area.
Supervisor Stathakis is encouraging people of all ages to come out and join him in supporting this worthy cause.
The event will also be providing hot dogs, ice cream, a bounce house, and much more for its participants to enjoy.
“This fundraiser is a great way to engage and unite the members of our community to make a positive difference while also having a good time with family and friends,” Stathakis said.
Shelby Township residents are invited to attend Shred Day sponsored by Shelby Twp. Solid Waste & Recycling Committee from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 14th, 2016. The event is in the parking lot of the Shelby Twp. Municipal Building located on 52700 Van Dyke (south of 24 Mile Road).
The vendor for this event is Absolute Shreds of Auburn Hills.
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wordpress | A friendship as unexpected as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella: Salvador Dalí and Harpo Marx.
This is really fantastic: ancient Greek vases turned into animations.
And this artist uses Baltimore as his canvas as he draws with two wheels.
New discoveries on a 500-year old Da Vinci painting: The Lady with an Ermine didn’t always include the ermine.
The secret diaries of American artists, not so secret anymore. | 2019-04-24T18:15:57Z | https://artstor.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/friday-links-dali-and-harpo/ | Porn | Arts | 0.504001 |
wordpress | Most of you know I lost my dear Georgie last year, in November. My holidays were blurry that first month…and so this year is my first holiday without my Georgie and the sadness and feeling of loneliness has been hard for me.
I enjoy hearing from all of you and I have been returning emails and helping anyone in need of a good talk through…but I have not been posting. I am in hopes that I will be able to concentrate and get posting again on a good speed in the new year. Its one of my first of the year goals.
Its my birthday…and New Years Eve and New Years Day used to be a happy time for me. I felt the whole world celebrated my birthday…so I always looked forward to it. In good times…George would always take me out dancing. Parties in cities close and far away. We were in the travel business…so traveling to a wonderful city for New Years was part of the excitement of the holidays. I am so aware of those memories when life was good and times were special with my guy. But what I want to share with you…is the fear and pain that took over when George started suffering from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
This idea that you give care until someone passes is really not true. The truth is, mental health issues mean that a person changes in personality and in their memory on a daily basis. So way before any end of life issues pop up…you are starting to lose the person you love. Each day their brain changes and in bits and pieces they leave and never return. So in essence you lose your loved one every day. It’s a very hard thing to live with and hard to understand. But you have to be aware its the truth. Doctors, nurses they do not tell you these things…they do not give care like you do. They treat and diagnose — you do the care giving so you feel and see the changes. It could be a forgotten name, or a forgotten word and you watch them try to find another word to use in the conversation. It could be an emotional outburst or a series of days when nothing is said at all…quiet! It could be a strange walking gait, or a repeated action over and over again.
The doctors don’t see it, your family doesn’t see it…YOU see it and FEEL it and it scares the beegeebies out of you! What can you do…how do you make it better? Can you exercise it out…can you calm them down…can you change how you have conversations with them. Can you take the car keys away, can you put alarms on the doors to hear when they just walk out…can you put up signs to help them remember things? Your mind starts to race and you feel. ALONE.
I can not take that feeling away from you. But I can tell you…that you must keep your mind on the goal. That goal is to give your loved one the best “end of life” that you can. It may be a year or ten years ahead…but just take a step at a time and try hard to get support. Write to me, join a support group…ask a few good friends to meet at your place each month so you can express your fears and upsets. YOU need to be strong…because the ride is not pretty and it’s not short.
You also need to have as much help as you can. Trying to be quiet about the struggle will only hurt you and your loved one. Telling family and friends and asking a few of them to be your mind and heart is what is needed. Do you have a friend that is good on the Internet…well ask them to look up the details of problems you are finding and working through. There are wonderful tips out there, but they have to be found so ask that friend to be your eyes on the world.
Do you have a friend that will drive you around? Ask them to take you to the hospital, doctor appointments and therapy treatments. That way you can control your loved one, keep them calm and the driving can be safely done by your friend. You have to ask, you have to say…I NEED HELP. If you don’t you are hurting yourself and your loved one.
The brain of a dementia patient is not going to magically heal…so you simply have to be verbal to people about the situation. I told everyone in the neighborhood. “If you see George walking in front of your house without me next to him. Go out and get him to come in for coffee and call me…please!” Who are you going to impress by being quiet? Let your village know that you have a situation that needs their help…and you will get it back. People want to help…they just don’t know what to do.
I know my loss of George, after his death, has been hard on me. I adored the guy and we were bestest friends and I feel empty. I have to heal and begin to bring new things into my life to feel whole again. I know that…but for me…its been a slow heal. What do I do?
I talk to family and friends about my sadness…I look at pictures of him, I have a little area in my bedroom that has an enlarged picture and candles that I burn each night. It calms me and I feel close to George when I do that…even though he is not there…I feel him there and it comforts me. You need to do the same thing….but in your own way. Find little routines that make you feel safe and start to fill up time in your life. Plan your days, have future events on the calendar and bit by bit…be a part of life around you.
I still pull away from big events. Sometimes in a big family gathering I feel more lonely than in a small one. So I say no…if I feel the event is too much for me. But I force myself to say YES…to events that are smaller with people I know well and love. I am trying to develop a new me and still give myself the honor of the old me that was a part of my duo relationship with George.
Just remember…do not do this alone. Do not think a nurse or doctor has emotional and physical answers to the day by day tasks of your care giving. Do not get upset of friends or family leave you all alone…and rejoice in the friends new and old that will stand by you when you ask for their help. Know that money is not going to grow on trees and you have to stick to a budget because it can be a long, long ride. Know that answers to help you are there…ask me or others that have gone through care giving to help…and be a trooper…ask again and again. Life is meant to live with others not on your own….ask!
I know you can do it…and I honor the fact you are standing there day after day giving someone who is unable to care for their own life…care. You are a good person. No one will give you a thanks…nor will you get a reward for your care. In the mind of your loved one they think they are still…just fine. Nothing has changed…you know better…you know life is now upside-down…yet they think their life is in control. Be brave…force yourself to be honest and talk about the dementia as if it was the flu…let out your voice and keep the honesty of the situation everyday. Hurting feelings is not the point, honesty is the point.
You saw the path to the end of their life was laid out…you stepped up and took their hand and walked next to them.Your loved one is not alone. That makes you a very special and loving person and I am proud to know you. I know you will be honest with them, your friends and yourself and not stand alone. I want you to remember the world does not know you have a problem or you need help…without your voice shouting it out. Be brave and shout and keep shouting till you have a group around you to help you in your journey. No one will say it…but you are loved. Your loved one does love you…even if they can not put that into words…so just hold the honestly of knowing they love you and you are doing the best job you can…each and every day.
Just returned from training for a few days had a great crowd and did a nice class in senior emergency preparation. It’s always enjoyable to train a good group that are active in their minds and bodies even at advanced ages. The word is aging, but trust me – they’re doing it with grace. For all of you that are joining my blog today…thanks for the good time hope you enjoyed all the new information. By the way you will find my Care-Givers Workbook 101 on the products page of my website and it has loads of tips for caring for dementia and Alzheimer seniors.
Dear Francy: My husband does not want to take any medications for his Alzheimer’s. He has good health and he does not want to “feel funny” – I care for him in our home and I am so worried about it all.
Well, bad news for your husband, his Alzheimer’s has impaired his ability to make decisions for his own health and you get to choose if he needs different medications or care. Your husband’s demeanor is only going to get worse. It will either go into highly frustrated and intense anxiety or it will slow into a non-responsive or retreating mode. Either way, they are not good for him or you.
Now, I know you have been a good kid and gotten a Health Care Directive and Power of Attorney to cover your husband. If not…this is the moment to do it. Go on the net and buy the Borderbund software called Family Law– it’s very inexpensive and it has a step by step program to take you through the legal part of the Health Care Directive. (Or buy a hard copy of the directive at Office Depot) Then go and get it notary stamped at the local bank and then make copies for his doctors so there is not question on who is making the decisions.
Then sit down and write your doctor ( a neurologist) a letter. On the top it will say. Please have doctor read this before our appointment on Thursday and then put into my husband’s file – his name here– Then you begin. You tell the doctor how your husband is acting at home. Is he upset and worrisome, or super quiet and not interacting with you? Just slowly go through a few things that bother you about it and ask the doctor to begin your husband on an emotional drug to keep him calm or keep him engaged in the world and a Alzheimer’s mediation that works for mild Alzheimer conditions. Always remember to ask for generic if he can so you can afford the medication. Then you will fax the letter (go to a Copy Shop for faxing if you need to) and make sure it is sent off and they receive it before your appointment. If you do not have an appointment make one and send the letter to arrive a couple of days head of your appointment.
This means the doctor has time to review your letter and make a review of your husband and his condition and when you arrive you will find him informed and ready to help you. Because this is really about you. You are the care giver, you are your husband’s only life line! Without you, he is not able to do anything. So, you are the important party here. If you are feeling overwhelmed and unable to give him good care, there is a problem. If the overwhelmed is from no medications, that is just not fair to you.
I have to help my husband with his meds twice a day. He would never, and I mean never remember, on his own. I had a day when I was training and then came home tired and he went all day without his meds. Morning and night. I had put them out, but I was not there to remind him. So, by the next day he was acting strange and I checked and was so disappointed in myself for not remembering to check on him. It’s hard for us as care givers. After all – I was tired and stressed with the training class and all that went around it and was gone, then home to be exhausted and losing my voice after training for five hours a day for three days…so, I was in need of a little TLC too! No one can be perfect, but we can try to do as good a job as possible. The next morning we started again, I gave him his meds and he went forward on his plan. But his body did not, he had a very bad reaction to the meds with diarrhea after the body had gone a day without them. So, this is why meds are so important to take on time and for us, as care givers, to have a plan in place if we get tired or sick.
My husband had a cell phone, so if I am not going to be handy…I set the alarm for his pill time. He is still well enough to remember what the alarm is when it rings. But if he moves out of that stage – and into a deeper problem with memory – I will just call my friend or sister and ask them to call him and remind him and ask him to take the pills while he is on the phone.
George’s Zoloft is so important to his emotional health that it reflects right back on me if he does not take it. So, I always say if George misses the morning pills, that “I have missed my Zoloft” – Even if I personally do not take the meds, they effect my life so negatively if he forgets to take them- it feels like we are one with this medication. Medications for emotional and mental conditions are simply to be prescribed and taken. There is no excuse other than selfish behavior- the reason for so many homeless people is that they have problems taking their meds and it reflects so badly on their abilities they can not function properly without them. Dementia and Alzheimer’s is a combo of emotional and mental conditions that have to be cared for and treated with medications to ease the symptoms.
Explain the changes in your spouses behavior to the doctor in a letter – sent before his appointment. Then you will not have to have an embarrassing confrontation in front of the doctor. This will allow the specialist (neurologist) to make a better choice of medications. Sign the letter with your name and Power of Attorney on the bottom…so he knows you have the ability to make these decisions.
Make sure medications are taken on time, everyday…no matter what is happening in your life. Most of these drugs are taken with food, so after breakfast and dinner is better. Ask for generic for your budget and if they are too expensive- tell the doctor to give you a slip that you can fill out and send into the drug company and they will gift you the drug – if you’re on a tight income range.
Remember the care giver is just as important as the patient. You are the reason for his health and well being. You are the strength that is going to carry him on for a long time in your own home. If he wants to be in his own home, you get to set the rules and taking meds and keeping him safe is your job. You make the decisions now. That can be hard for people that have had long time marriages and the husband has been the power point of the relationship. But life changes, you now have to stop being the nice girl that listens and follows and become the assertive lady that sets the pace and keeps the care level high.
Think of yourself as part of a care team. Your husband, then you, as the care giver, and then the doctor…that’s the triad that is going to make this tough situation of giving care for the long term, to Alzheimer’s spouse – successful in your home.
I applaud you for your kindness and patience in your care giving. Alzheimer’s takes more than a Seniors mind, it takes the once sweet relationship of husband and wife and turns it on it’s head. It leaves the care giver lonely and feeling alone before the spouse has even died. But you are not alone, you have so many others that are right behind you and you need only ask questions and we will all try to help.
Please go and enjoy the rest of the Alzheimer blogs on my Dear Francy blogs and visit my website www.seniorcarewithspirit.comto get more information. Don’t forget, when you get to the stage that you need care facility help for your loved one, please contact me and let me help you through that process with our Loving Memories – Senior Care Facility Placement Service that is FREE for you to use. | 2019-04-19T01:30:15Z | https://seniorcaretips.wordpress.com/tag/alzheimer/ | Porn | Health | 0.926411 |
wordpress | Previous Post Take books instead of taking dumpers .
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wordpress | Last week I posted a recipe for Pumpkin Spice Coffee, not to be confused with this recipe for Pumpkin Spice Latte, although both are incredibly delicious and perfect for wrapping one’s self in the feel of fall. The latte version differs in its use of espresso as opposed to coffee, a slight decrease in the sugar department, and a larger serving size. Regardless, if you like Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte, you can’t go wrong with either recipe. As an added bonus, for those who aren’t coffee drinkers or who are looking for a nice hot drink to serve to the young ones after their noses have been nipped by the frosty air, consider serving “Hot Pumpkin Spice” without the addition of espresso or coffee–a tasty alternative to hot chocolate.
It’s that time of year again (earlier this year than last, it seems) when Starbucks reintroduces its wonderful Pumpkin Spice Latte. I indulged yesterday. But today…the frugal me kicked in and I modified a recipe found on Pinterest to satisfy my craving for a repeat performance. I still enjoy Starbucks’ version more, but not $3 more. This is quite tasty! | 2019-04-24T21:01:21Z | https://tamaraleighauthor.wordpress.com/category/drinks/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.641914 |
wikipedia | Débhliantóg a fhásann 20-120 cm ar airde is ea an bhóchoinneal nó an ghairleog fáil. Alliaria petiolata a hainm eolaíochta. Dúchasach don Eoraip is an Áise. A duilleoga bánghlas croíchruthach, ceann bláthanna beaga bána i gcruth croise. Boladh na gairleoige as an bplanda, nuair a bhrúitear é go háirithe. Faightear i bhfáil sceach í.
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tripod | 1. Lucienne Amelia Amanda Cayouette, born LIVING in Waterville, Maine, United States. She was the daughter of 2. Arthur Henry Cayouette and 3. Cora Georgiana Poulin. She married (1) Ralph Edward LACASSE in Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United States. He was the son of John Lacasse and Delina Lilla Boivin.
i. Constance Irene LACASSE, born LIVING in Waterville, Maine; married (1) Clyde Frederick Waite LIVING in Notre Dame De Lourdes Church, Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United States; married (2) Richard CRAVEN in LIVING in Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United States.
ii. John Arthur Lacasse, born LIVING; married Susan CONROY LIVING in St Marys Church, Rutherford, New Jersey, United States.
iii. Nancy Ellen Lacasse, born LIVING; married (1) James BURNS LIVING; married (2) Walter GALLANT LIVING in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine.
iv. Richard Alan Lacasse, born LIVING in Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine; married Karen J ane BLAISDELL LIVING in Notre Dame Lourdes, Skowhegan, Maine United States.
vi. William Olin Lacasse, born LIVING; married Lucy LEE LIVING.
vii. Thomas Joseph Lacasse, born LIVING; married Laurie HARRINGTION LIVING. | 2019-04-19T19:02:36Z | http://gelfahel.tripod.com/Lacasse/id3.htm | Porn | Reference | 0.591577 |
wordpress | Psychopaths are not the ones who take an automatic weapon into a shopping mall or grade school to kill hoards of people. Some of these killers are psychopathic but most psychopaths are devious and enjoy harming others in different, often indirect, ways. Purposefully creating catastrophic situations for which only they have a solution might be a display of this aberration. Sometimes the intentionally created casualty goes unrecognized for some time.
Psychopaths lack empathy and white collar psychopaths are especially hard to identify because, while not particularly empathetic, they do not display the attributes we associate with crazy people. They just don’t seem to care, but they do not necessarily display craziness.
Some of the symptoms of psychopathy are pathological lying, arrogance, narcissism, irresponsible behavior, lack of remorse or guilt, a sense of entitlement, dominance and desire to control others, superficial in words and actions, extreme egocentricity and failure to learn from experience. Psychopaths may also show amoral or antisocial behavior when away from social settings.
When I learned this I shuddered with the recognition that this is the ultimate description of our president. | 2019-04-19T05:06:48Z | https://bizarroworldusa.wordpress.com/2014/01/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.389448 |
google | Mr White has spent some time compiling a list of all of the local Irish place names and also the meaning of each name. He has also shared his knowledge with the pupils of the middle and senior classes. This information can be found inside the school or as part of the google map shown below. We still have one or two more places to add. | 2019-04-21T06:41:11Z | https://sites.google.com/a/scoilshinchill.com/schoolblog/local-area | Porn | Reference | 0.762759 |
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1. What is Angemon's attack?
2. Who is the eighth child?
3. What is Garudamon's attack?
4. What is Kari's crest?
5. In which episode do they meet Devimon?
6. Which digidestined is adopted?
7. What colour are Matt's eyes?
8. What is Gomamon's attack?
9. What does Botamon digivolve to?
10. Which digidestined was voted most likely to chicken out?
11. What colour(s) are Izzy's socks?
12. Which of the following is not a champion?
13. What colour are Tai's underwear?
14. What did Pumpkinmon and Gatsumon steal?
15. Who warned Agumon about the mushrooms of forgetfulness? | 2019-04-25T16:07:12Z | http://digi-place.tripod.com/id100.htm | Porn | Kids | 0.449268 |
wordpress | Now dance to its light.
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It can be clear as mud most times! | 2019-04-18T19:10:05Z | https://justsylph.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/ro%E1%B9%A3%C8%A7-haiku-%C6%B9/ | Porn | Reference | 0.472605 |
wordpress | After script-writer, Aline Brosh Mckenna, had worked her magic, on the film version, (2006) and Meryl Streep had given a finely balanced performance as the brilliant Fashion editor, Miranda Priestly, then, perhaps, the interloping intern, Weisberger, was, partly, forgiven.
I did not expect my book to cause any such ripples. How wrong I was. Christian Dior’s Wikipedia page is currently running a line, quoting ‘Fashion Media Promotion, the new black magic’, saying that the designer was not the only Parisienne making clothes, for Nazi officers and collaborators, during the German occupation in WW2. That anyway they were doing it to keep the French Fashion industry afloat.
Fans of ‘Gone with the Wind’ hate the idea that costume designer Frances Tempest thinks the clothes were not democratically designed and that a ‘particularly repellent Salmon pink’ was featured.
A curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art loathes my tongue-in-cheek description of Malcolm McLaren, as a Dior-scholar, and the irritating computer misspelling of Karen Dunst’s name makes one of her fans furious.
These petty squabbles and angst are a stroll in the park compared to the Vivienne Westwood museum fiasco, filmed on British Style Genius. We may all be too polite, and subtle, to raise it, but I’m still holding my breath! | 2019-04-21T08:56:14Z | https://jaynesheridan.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/sweets-for-the-sweet/ | Porn | Arts | 0.886026 |
wordpress | If you are looking for something to haul cargo around long distances, then take a look at the 2016 Lincoln MKC Select. With the 2016 Lincoln MKC Select, you can easily put your cargo into the trunk with the help of the power liftgate. Better yet, if you need incredible pull power, the MKC Select is well-equipped with a maximum tow capacity of 3,000 pounds.
The Select edition was made for those who want that little extra for their driving to be even better. Because of that, it comes with power-folding and auto-dimming side mirrors. Also, the leatherette and aluminum cabin appointments are replaced with Bridge of Weir leather and premium wood. If that’s not enough, it also has ambient interior lighting so you can drive as comfortably as possible.
2016 Lincoln MKC introduces an updated Sync 3 / MyLincoln Touch. With the updated hardware and software, your control over the Lincoln features will be easier than starting the car. The smartphone-like interface has a pinch-to-zoom feature and swiping motions to make your navigation easier.
The Select Edition comes with a Plus Package, which greatly helps your navigation on the road. To make your driving better it includes blind spot monitoring. With this feature you’ll have greater awareness on the street, and worrying about hitting objects while you’re parking will become a thing of the past.
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wordpress | I arrived to a bustling Borough market on chilly November evening, Thanksgiving in fact! The warmth in company and temperature of Bedales was gratefully received, as was the glass of bubbles as we settled into our surroundings. A beautifully worn room, with exposed brick features, and boasting a pretty nifty view over the market itself. | 2019-04-22T08:10:00Z | https://bonnieinwonderland.wordpress.com/page/2/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.889523 |
wordpress | As mentioned in my last post, I’m way behind on my blog. There are things I made in August that haven’t been added yet! I decided to start the posting with something quick and easy. A coworker asked if I could create a beer bottle koozie that looked like a carrot for his Bugs Bunny costume. Challenge accepted! I improvised the carrot using alternating groups of rows of knits and purls to give the carrot texture. I also created a large cartoony leaf that snapped to the bottom to give the effect of Bugs’ carrot. It turned out great!
Yesterday I posted that I had made a series of dachshund-related gifts for my friends including this miniature crocheted dachshund. I also knitted some adorable dachshund koozies.
Cast on 48 stitches with S. Distribute stitches evenly on four of the double pointed needles.
R1: Knitting in round being careful not to twist the cast on stitches, (kS 2, pS 2) 12 times.
To finish, pull a loop through all 6 stitches on needle and pull tight. Work in ends. | 2019-04-18T11:22:50Z | https://engineeredcreations.wordpress.com/tag/koozie/ | Porn | Reference | 0.182761 |
wordpress | The iconic Tsukiji Fish Market was the top item on my must-see list, especially with the impending closure of the current location. My knowledge of the market is limited to what I saw in Jiro Dreams of Sushi, along with the occasional blog photos/entries of the neighbouring sushi bars. We had hoped to witness the spectacle of the fish auction, where fishmongers bid on the morning’s tuna haul. Most guidebooks and websites recommend showing up an hour before the auction, as the line begins to form at 4:30. Daily admission to observe the tuna auction are limited to 120 per day (60 people per session, at 5:30 and 6:15). I had friends who were already in line that morning — arriving at 4:06am, they were already 75th in line; by 4:20am, the line was closed.
We roll up to the market entrance at 4:30am, where other tourists had already gathered. With some signage in English, they indicated that we were free to visit the outer markets, where we could find the sushi bars, vegetables, and other culinary items/tools. The fish market, however, was not open to the public until 9am. At least officially, that was the statement. We started towards the direction of the outside markets, taking in the balletic whirlwind of pedestrians, carts, trucks, and mopeds.
We passed this imposing mountain of styrofoam containers, and the day morning had only just started.
Led by our fearless friend Eugene, we infiltrated the sacred sanctum of seafood, the interior market. While officially restricted before 9am, there were probably a small handful of other tourists also in this market (though no more than 5-6 others).
It turns out that we entered the market through the back entrance, via Kachidoki Gate on Harumi dori. The blue X marks our cab’s drop-off point, as we walked along the dotted line towards the outer market, but sneakily detoured into the intermediate/interior market.
Words do no justice to how overwhelming and endless this market seemed. Rows upon rows of seafood vendors, with no signage or obvious geographic markets to indicate where we were. These rows of vendor stalls followed a gentle curve along the building, intersected by 6 or 7 wide laneways for motorized carts and trolleys. The vendor rows were roughly two people-width wide, and it’s easy to see why the market discourages tourists from disrupting the organized chaos. We managed to stay out of harm’s way, only getting shoved aside by one frustrated vendor making his way through a brief bottleneck.
Traversing these laneways was always an adventure, awaiting Frogger-like opportunities to weave between vehicles. The drivers heeded pedestrians no mind, slowing down just enough to avoid collisions, but never at a standstill, always in perpetual movement.
As we walked, fishmongers would rarely take a second glance at us, much less a first. They’re gruff, sporting galoshes, slinging a hefty black smock. Some kept warm with toques, others with a cigarette dangling from a stern frowning mouth. The look is so iconic, there was Tsukiji-branded merchandise featuring a fishmonger mascot, wearing that exact ensemble. Buyers and sellers logged their sales on small ledgers, though these interactions only happened during the later half of our visit.
Anyone who’s been to a Chinese supermarket can attest to the smell, or stench, of seafood. I’ve never had issues with the smell, and I was fully braced to be walloped by that intense olfactory assault. Most chefs will tell you that the pungent smell of seafood only happens if it’s not fresh. Despite the cartons of water sloshing on the floor, and the countless variety of fish, crustaceans and mollusks, there was never an unpleasant scent the entire morning.
There was certainly temptation to purchase and binge on a tray of sea urchin, if only I had brought a pair of chopsticks with me. Trays upon trays, tanks upon tanks of aquatic species I’ve never even heard of before. Without exaggeration, the sheer variety and volume of seafood was overwhelming, and in time, numbing. After walking through 3 or four rows of vendors, I was no longer sure if we were retracing our steps, experiencing deja vu, or the subjects of an elaborate Tsukiji prank involving repositioning vendors.
Styrofoam containers were ubiquitous — a vendor strolls through the market, stylishly slings a styrofoam box over his back.
By 6am, frozen tuna began rolling in, literally, on trolleys. These ocean tuna needed the combined lifting of two or three men. In some cases, it was easier to carve the tuna on trolleys or wooden pallets, though that still required significant teamwork. Most of the tuna tails have been sliced off — tuna bidders would inspect the fish before bidding at the auction, feeling the texture of the exposed flesh, and gauging the meat’s translucence with a flashlight.
The fishmongers were intensely focused on their work, whether carving tuna with arm-length blades, or filleting finger-length fish.
On our way out of the interior market, we marveled at the monstrous stacks and piles of styrofoam.
The activity started to die down in the market by around 6:30am, with fewer vehicles rushing across our paths. We were both hungry and numb, comatose from the bludgeoning of sights and sounds. We trekked out of the market, passing by towering heaps of empty containers, and towards the public market. Made up of 7 lanes of shops and stores, the busiest was the lane featuring the top 2 sushi bars, Sushi Dai and Sushi Daiwa.
My friends, who attended the auction that morning, went off the beaten path to dine at the sushi bar flanked/sandwiched between Sushi Daiwa and Sushi Dai. The line-up was far shorter, the prices slightly cheaper, and sushi looked/gleamed just as succulent/meaty/chubby/generous/juicy. Lining up at Sushi Daiwa, we found that they actually owned two venues, side-by-side; each only had room for the sushi bar itself, with 10 stools, so cramped that backpacks had to be kept in a separate area.
The allure of food voyeurism drew me to the windows, watching the chefs place piece after piece of sushi in front of the customers. I tried to contain my head-shaking and eye-rolling, trying not to cringe whenever tourists recklessly dunk their sushi in soy sauce.
We opted for the 3500Yen omakase sushi, which seemed to be the most common selection here. There may have been a 5500Yen omakase sushi set available as well, but we opted to be more economical.
Each chef was responsible for the handful of patrons in front of them. Mostly stationary in their posts, fully sufficient in their own mis-en-place, rarely would they get in each others’ way. The entire restaurant would be served and cleared in waves, Space Invaders dispatched with volleys of sushi ammunition.
Each pair of fish would be hand-placed on our wooden trays. The service was reasonably paced, a new pair of nigiri sushi delivered as we cleared the preceding pair. Occasionally, our preoccupation with foodtography and attempts to savour and imprint to memory would cause backlogs.
The starter miso soup was rich with tiny clams – in fact, it was predominantly a clam broth, its natural bitterness deftly balanced by sweetness and saltiness of the light miso. Calling this miso soup would be a disservice – both components of this hybrid contribute equally to its whole.
The first pair of sushi was a bold chuotoro (medium tuna belly) and a mild ika (squid). The chuotoro was the most memorable, with texture and flavour that you could taste. Rather than the usual slightly metallic, firm lean tuna, the chuotoro was a lot more mild in metallic flavour, with a light fattiness and creaminess, requiring only the occasional chew. The ika was pre-brushed with soy sauce, as were most of the other sushi. 4 months later, it’s hard to recall the details, but I remember it being cooked just done, crunchy without being chewy.
A pairing of ebi (cooked shrimp) and maguro (tuna) followed. Both as expected — fresh, great firm texture, but neither surprising – great fresh ingredients, not a single complaint.
6 pieces of rolls appeared – 4 pieces of maguro (tuna), with 2 pieces of ikura (salmon roe). My memories of the ikura are almost as impactful as those of the chuotoro. It may be the first time I’ve had ikura in a maki/roll, as opposed to the traditional nigiri/gunkanmaki style (atop rice, wrapped in an oval ring of nori). The delivery as a maki is far less overwhelming than nigiri, and there’s an appropriate balance between the rice, nori, and the sparser amount of roe.
Tamago and uni joined the party. The tamago was competent, and the uni was as fresh as I’ve ever had. Again, as fresh as expected, but I couldn’t pinpoint any specific “wow” sensation.
Anago (seawater eel) and Kampachi (amberjack) rounded out our meal. This was the first time I had anago — it had a substantial meatiness, and needed far less seasoning and cooking, compared to unagi.
The meal was perfect – every ingredient stood on their own, and a few items even exceeded my expectations and left a lasting imprint. It’s definitely worth the effort and extremely reasonable price to dine here. Reflecting back, everything was flawless, I can’t call it mind-blowing – which really frustrates me, and I feel I’m not doing the restaurant justice.
On our first steps out of from Daiwa Sushi, we came across wasabi root vendor. It looked like there were a few different varieties and price points for these. I had definitely considered buying a root to nibble on. I’m not sure if restaurants typically used grated wasabi, or opted for the powdered form. In fact, I think all three sushi restaurants I went to simply applied the wasabi on our behalf, under the fish, rather than leaving it to the customers.
I’ve seen plenty of bonito flakes in my time, but never looked into how they were manufactured. The smokey fishiness, looking reminiscent of pencil shavings, are shaved so thin, that steam from the food will often make these flakes dance and twirl. At this particular Tsukiji vendor, they sold several varieties of bonito flakes, all made on the premises. They feed dried/smoked bonito fish into the machine on the right, churning out handfuls of the bright pink shavings, to be weighed and sold in airtight packages.
Tamago, a block of mildly sweet egg, is not an easy dish to make. The egg is folded on itself again and again, to create multiple layers, so that it’s evenly cooked throughout, without overcooking the edges. Of no surprise, they have their own dedicated shop, with variations like eggs with crab meat or other herbs.
At a glance, I thought this gentleman was digging through crates of vinyl records. Of course, dried seasoned seaweed would be sold here at the outer market, alongside all these other sushi accompaniments/mainstays/tools/equipment. It was very cute that every specific good had its own dedicated store — nori, bonito, fishmongering equipment, wasabi root.
Many restaurants showcase their menu selection in a large storefront window display, from ramen to tempura to sushi. These displays would have plastic replicas of their dishes, along with description and prices. It’s not something that’s taken off anywhere else in the world, at least, not to the same prevalence as in Japan. It was no surprise that they would have dedicated stalls selling plastic replicas. While some of these can be found as magnets in souvenir stores, the ones here are definitely for replica purposes, and feature some very specific sushi types.
I was told that there is a large strawberry industry in Japan, with many regional varieties grown in highly specialized facilities . I picked up a strawberry mochi (ichigo daifuku) from a stall, mainly for the novelty and unsure what to expect. The exposed nib is a cute way to differentiate it from other mochis. I was absolutely unprepared for the burst of strawberry fragrance and flavours, and the strawberry itself was shockingly ripe, tender, and sweet. I was equally surprised at how well red bean paste (anko) and strawberry complement each other — both bold enough to play equally prominent parts in the taste. The juiciness of the strawberry danced and swirled in an otherwise one-note anko, and the moisture and tenderness playing against the smoothness of the paste, chewiness of the mochi. Incidentally, I had picked up red bean Kit Kat bars, and red bean and milk chocolate also go well together, resulting in a slightly grittier, earthier, and less sweet chocolate.
Of course, there were also a significant number of restaurants, catering to visitors and locals alike, and I wish we had a lot more stomach space to try them all. By around 8:30, many of these restaurants had line-ups upwards of 20 people, even for ramen or other non-sushi places.
On our way out of Tsukiji, we passed these wonderfully illustrated signs near the proper main gate. It slowly sunk in how lucky we were, realizing that our taxi driver had dropped us off at the less secure back entrance.
It was only 8:45am, and while people were still making their way to work, we already had a full day’s adventure.
I would put the market visit as one of my top 3 moments in Japan.
omg! love the pictures. makes me so hungry. craving for some sushi now!
I’m so impressed by the number of photos taken! The close-ups of the nigiri are especially good.. I think we went to the same sushi place actually 🙂 The market is so overwhelming, but very interesting.. though I’m sure they’re all very annoyed by the number of tourists who are always in their way.. haha.
I know this would be a “first world problem”, but I’m having trouble finding sushi that comes marginally close now. I went to Taro’s Fish, and was so sadly disappointed. Heeeelp!!
I took so many photos during my two-week trip to Japan, I have no idea when I’ll ever manage to post them all up. I was a bit shocked at the line-ups at Sushi Dai, 2 doors down, they seemed to wrap around the entire building!
Great pictures Ken! Didn’t know you were in Japan in August too.
Monday morning, we got into line around 6:45am. The line-up took around 30 minutes? It definitely helps that they have two stores, side-by-side, to get people through. Have a great time! | 2019-04-26T00:01:23Z | https://torontofoodies.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/tsukiji-fish-market/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.399091 |
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Opinions expressed are your own. The consequences are not.
This isn’t a new thing, but there are more and more professionals (and you may take that word with as much weight as you like) who put this disclaimer on their Twitter page, Facebook or whatever other time-wasting watering hole for trite exists these days. “The opinions expressed are my own and not of my [employer, goat-sacrifice-accepting-deity etc…]” The idea is that no matter what I say, only I should be held responsible for what was said and not the people who help me pay bills.
But that’s not how it works does it?
The truth of the matter is that no matter what kind of disclaimer, warning, magic spell, enchanted stick figure you affix to your name, what you say can and always will be used. For you or against you depends on who’s ire or approval you’ve aroused. Arouse deeply enough in either direction and plenty of it will spill onto third parties even remotely associated with your name.
The internet is a magical pixieland with mounds for domains wherein each cluster of pixies hang out in popular mounds to spew and absorb whatever the firehose of kitty pics and strife that piques their fancy has to offer. [Most] people don’t like drama unless they’re third party observers (there’s a reason TV shows about women who have everything, including plastic faces, bickering over manufactured drama is popular).
The takeaway from all that build-up is simply this: What you say will spill over to who you associate, be it employers, friends or the like. You can choose to blog/tweet/share under a pseudonym (made more annoying lately by Google and Facebook’s real name policies), which is something I’ve decided to give up since Ghostnetworks went bust, or you can avoid any mention of your employer. How deeply it will affect them, as mentioned previously, will depend on who’s taken interest in you and in what form.
There’s a reason the name of my current employer or my boss’ name (who I affectionately refer to as “Boss” on Twitter) isn’t listed on Facebook (the info is several years obsolete), Twitter or this blog. Unless someone really spends the time and effort to hunt through my information, I can plausibly deny who I work for. Therefore what I express can not only be mine, the consequences for what I say really are limited to myself as well.
Oh, hi there blog! I didn’t forget you existed, but you did become the lovable aunt who likes to talk too much and so you were avoided.
Meanwhile, I’ve been hanging out in place called NeoCities, a throwback to GeoCities, which sadly shut down.
This is a huge deal! Why?
The Web is the said nutrients and sewage. Now we have all been told what nutrients are by the owners of the web. Media, social or otherwise, have fed it to us labeled “nutrients”, but lately we’ve come to understand that this is a whitewashed molasses of contrived crap. You can’t blame these outlets alone since the owners of the web will do whatever they please with their property.
Who are the owners? Facebook, Google(G+) et. al. And yes, even WordPress to a degree. But I sense some of you have a niggling twitch on the back of your mind. The power of the “owners” of the web has increased in recent years and the alarm is compounded by the fact that the web wasn’t supposed to be owned by anyone. “Wait, it’s my blog/Facebook page/account!” Surely what is “your” property should be yours to do as you please, no? Well, that’s very true, but here we have a hiccup with what exactly “ownership” entails.
You do not own what you do not control.
Side amusing factoid: Everyone I know, who uses Facebook, hates it.
I use it to keep in touch with friends ‘n stuff and once-in-a-while, I’ll play a game, but it’s such a timesuck, dude!
Back to the awesomeness of NeoCities.
The early to mid 90s was an era of the www (Wild, Wild, Web) when anyone and everyone can create any sort of a jumble of content – and this is the operative word, folks, “content” – with muddled HTML, dancing Hammer gifs and whole assortment of unwholesomeness that (mostly)everyone loves.
Above all else, you “Owned” your page. You could download it, edit it as you please, share as you please, link who you please and most certainly, the host didn’t “connect” you to people you know or secretly gather usage data on who you visit or bookmarked. These are also features.
Note: A “like” is an acknowledgment. A “share” is a public bookmark. See how the new owners of the web have used existing features and renamed them?
NeoCities captures the www (second definition) to a T and I encourage everyone else to join the club. You’re not a network, you’re not a product. You’re a human being. Please express yourself as one. Right now the service is limited to editing HTML files and uploading small images, but there’s no reason you couldn’t use an outside image hosting service like Imgur.com (which is also free).
I started my experiment with NeoCities a week or so ago and it was still being tweaked at the time. However, you can see the end result. I don’t plan to stop here, of course.
Learn HTML (it’s not terribly complicated, but if you need a place to start, you can copy my layout and stylesheet). Everyone who feels like it should try it out, experiment, mould, create and do whatever.
Let the creator of NeoCities explain it better.
Last week, I wrote a simple function for obfuscating a string that can be used to shorten URLs. I got a few emails from people who would actually like to obfuscate an ID key (E.G. a numeric primary key) of a large size (E.G. a PostgreSQL ‘bigserial’ type which can go up to 231). So many examples out there, but they seem convert the input to integers first, which can lead to loss of precision, especially in PHP.
I use Postgres too and I’ve moved around the big number problem by appending a random digit or two to the front and then encoding the whole thing. So when I need the original, I just decode it and remove the front digit(s). This does two things: It obfuscates the ID (no one needs to know 10001 and 10002 are neighbors) and makes sure each one is unique as long as the key given to it is unique. Of course if it’s a primary key from a database, you won’t have to worry too much about uniqueness; it already is. And since I’m always appending the same number of digits as I’ll remove when decoding, it doesn’t matter how large the number gets.
Of course, you’ll need to keep in mind that the generated key will be different each time you run it, however the end result after decoding will be the same.
I also wrote a post on encryption with… *ahem*… colorful comments and, thankfully, most people stuck to the actual code itself when contacting me about it. Yes, I did change the encryption mode from CFB to CBC. CFB doesn’t need padding so I wasn’t lying about the sleep-deprivation. Thanks to those who wrote to me about it. | 2019-04-24T06:44:14Z | https://eksith.wordpress.com/tag/internet/ | Porn | Business | 0.441945 |
wordpress | Being a candidate for gynecomastia cosmetic procedure (a type of male breast reduction surgery), it is necessary to understand all aspects of it beforehand to go ahead for this surgery with a clear concept and expectations. If you are well informed and understand the procedure you will be in a better position to cope with the recuperation and other phases.
It is the responsibility of your plastic surgeon to make you aware of the entire process, costing, side effects, different phases and other necessary details but you may also create a list of questions that you should ask from your cosmetic surgeon before going under the knife.
Am I a suitable candidate for this surgery?
This should be your most basic and necessary question you should put forth before your surgeon. Ask yourself: does your present physical condition bother you psychologically, socially and physically? If the answer is affirmative, it’s time to consider this surgery. I am sure your surgeon would also like to know your own answer on this.
You may get the answer from your surgeon that Gynecomastia is caused by an altered ratio of estrogens to androgens mediated by an increase in estrogen production, a decrease in androgen production, or a combination of these two factors. Estrogen acts as a growth hormone to increase the size of male breast tissue or it is developed due to steroids, drugs, or marijuana and it may also have many other causes. Immediately discontinue these things before surgery to cut down recurrence.
Am I right age to undergo this Surgery?
Your surgeon would probably recommend waiting until the age of 18 years and it is a general recommendation. But in some circumstances, it may also be considered before that. Your surgeon is the right judge to decide if you should opt for it or not in your current age.
How many surgeries of similar nature have your surgeon performed in his career?
Know his career insights by asking this question. Make sure that your surgeon has significant experience, and has good quality pre and post-operative images and references as well, as proof of their career growth.
Is your hospital capable to perform this surgery?
Just cross check with your surgeon if the recommended hospital is licensed and well-equipped to conduct such surgeries. It is necessary to make sure that the hospital can manage any such surgeries and the complication that may occur.
You must have a clear and comprehensive idea about the expectations that you should keep from this surgery. Do not forget to ask this from your surgeon before surgery, and understand each and every smallest thing involved to keep your expectations viable and practical.
What types of the scar is expected?
On this question, your surgeon would probably help you understand that the scar would ideally of 1 inch in the lower portion of the areola which is mostly not visible. Often tiny scars may remain in the chest or armpit after liposuction. So, get all the detail information about scars from your surgeon prior to surgery.
Should I be on Painkillers to subside the pain?
Ask about the pain reliever that you might have to take. Your surgeon would let you know that although the pain is minimal, just to ensure you are free from the slightest pain he may prescribe light pain medication.
How long should I take off from school or work?
On asking this question you may get an answer that it entirely depends on your nature of the job and the extent of the cosmetic procedure. Generally, it may range from 3 to 10 days as the recuperation time may vary for every individual.
What types of anesthesia do you apply?
You should also get the right answer to this question from your surgeon. Usually, local anesthesia is administered but again it also depends on the type of surgical procedure and the level of patient’s tolerance. Sedation is the preferred general anesthesia where the patient is just asleep. Make sure the anesthesia is administered by an experienced Anesthesiologist.
What preparation should I do for the surgery?
Before the surgery, just do not forget to get the detailed instructions from your surgeon about the preparation that you should consider before the surgery. He may recommend some pre-operative testing, ask you to stop certain medications like aspirin, a blood thinner, Advil etc. He may suggest not to eat or to drink anything eight hours prior to the surgery; reach the clinic in most comfortable clothing; accompany someone with you who can take you back home post surgery.
What nature of dressing would you use?
Your surgeon may help you understand that usually it is an elastic bandage or else it could be a surgical vest. Often gauze dressing is also preferred, depending upon the requirement.
Your surgeon may suggest you it depends on the bleeding severity or the discharge. You may be suggested to use surgical tape or sterile gauze at home.
Will this surgery be covered by my health insurance?
Make it clear but most of the time, it is not.
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wordpress | How to rank skeptical arguments.
As somewhat a copycat, I’m taking after the Crackpot Index and making it unique to climate change skepticism. Looks like someone made one for evolution as well. It is a similar point system and designed to see who ranks where, and how various claims on the web should be taken. Much like crackpots and golfers, the higher the score, the more shame to your correspondent. Many of the claims themselves are not bad, but when put in the popular context of why AGW is a farce then if you see people using these arguments, please let them know how many points they scored and link them here.
41) 35 points– For each misapplication of well-established physical principles such as Kirchoff’s law, Clausius-Clapeyron to show that GHG’s cannot cause further warming.
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conserve points 1 through 7 word for word, and thereafter edit no more than needed. You’ll want more original wording toward the end of the list.
Following the same pattern keeps crackpot lists recognizable as a genre, which I think would be valuable. And it honors the original.
That too belongs on a crackpot index somehow.
Apparently there is something in the air. Perhaps because it is Autumn the nuts are falling thick and fast? I did the “Climate Denier Crackpot Index” http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/climate-denier-crackpot-index/ back in mid-October.
You clearly did more work, although as you say our goals were a little different. I sought to show how little one needed to change the index to get a good fit, whereas your’s is specifically tailored to Climate Crackpottery.
Many of those points are valid.
Your skeptical arguments, while incomplete and full of half-truths, make a pretty strong case against the globalist foundations financing the warming argument.
Hey, this sort of thing applies to both sides. How many people tell us that such and such weather event is due to global warming. Or that genocide is due to global warming(an actual statement from the UN Secretary General with regards to Darfur). Or that the other side all is paid by the oil company, or are deniers.
Plus they love to point out record warm temperatures for this particular place.
That’s just silly. It’s true the IPCC report AR4 doesn’t have the word catastrophe in it. However, the language they use is close enough, with ‘unprecedented’, ‘disturbances’, ‘extinction’, ‘vulnerable’, ‘exacerbate stress’, ‘adverse consequences’, ‘disappearance’, ‘detrimental impact’, plus their members who write the report use such language in other venues, and they shared a Nobel Prize with a guy who talks that way.
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Die China-Abteilung des Ostasiatischen Seminars (OAS) umfasst 4 Arbeitsbereiche, die von drei Professuren abgedeckt werden: Kultur Chinas/Chinastudien, Moderne China-Studien, Chinese Legal Culture sowie Sprachausbildung Chinesisch.
Ausführliche Informationen zu Personal, Forschung und Lehre finden sich unter „Arbeitsbereiche“, das Studienangebot wird detailiert unter „Studiengänge“ dargestellt.
Alle Studierende des OAS sind zu einer Führung durch die Ausstellung "Alles unter dem Himmel" im Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (MOK) eingeladen. Die Führung ist kostenlos; der Eintritt in das Museum muss jedoch von jedem selbst bezahlt werden.
Begleitet wird die Ausstellung von Tim Trausch und Angelika Michels.
When the Chinese communists came into power in 1949, they promised to “turn society upside down.” and to create a truly egalitarian society in the future. However, the state established systems of classification by class, ethnicity, gender and urban/rural divide among the population that created new forms of inequality. Felix Wemheuer focuses on intersectional hierarchies to understand the social history of Maoist China in a new way. Last but not least, Wemheuer will explain why policies of “affirmative action” based on class and ethnicity failed in Maoist China.
In der Gemeinsamen Fachbibliothek Asien des Ostasiatischen Seminars und der USB ist ab dem 01.06.2019 eine SHK-Stelle mit 10 Stunden pro Woche zu besetzen. Die Stelle ist bis zum 31.12.2019 befristet.
The Chinese judiciary’s push towards the use of new technologies and automatisation in recent years rests primarily on mass digitization of court decisions and the development of smart courts. Under the auspices of the Supreme People’s Court, an open-access database with currently almost 65 million documents has been established. The availability of this massive pool of new data allows researchers to unfold a whole new dimension of empirical approaches and to re-examine findings about Chinese law. However, it also poses challenges for research designs and methodologies. The development of smart courts envisions that law is enforced through and combined with technological management mechanisms and that judicial decisions increasingly rely on data processing routines. However, the potential ramifications for the legitimacy of the legal system, judicial decision-making and law enforcement remain unclear and require further research.
The conference will (1) analyse changes of law and legal institutions that are triggered by big data, AI and data-driven assessment systems of behaviour; (2) seek to develop new approaches of doctrinal and empirical legal studies for exploring data-driven changes to law and courts; (3) investigate challenges for legal studies posed by court generated big data such as the databases of court decisions; (4) present new research of any area of Chinese law that makes use of court decision databases and (5) discuss automated assessment systems of individual social behaviour that relate to compliance with legal standards and law enforcement.
The conference is hosted by the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne in partnership with the Chinese Law Programme, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Faculty of Law of Jilin University.
Participants are invited to submit paper abstracts in English by 30 April 2019. Abstracts and proposals should be limited to 500 words and should include the title of the paper and name, institution and email address of the author(s). Decisions of either acceptance or rejection will be communicated by 15 May 2019. Full papers should not exceed 8,000 words, and be produced by 1 July 2019.
Submissions and enquiries concerning academic contents or visa issues should be addressed to Dr. Daniel Sprick at dsprick uni-koeln.de. Conference participants will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. However, we have reserved a certain number of affordable hotel rooms in Cologne. Please indicate at your earliest convenience whether you would need one of the reserved rooms.
The 14th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS/www.ecls.eu) will be held in Durham in the United Kingdom from 26 to 28 July 2019. The conference will be hosted and organised by Durham Law School (Durham University) and its newly established Centre for Chinese Law and Policy (CCLP).
The ECLS was founded in 2006 and its members are dedicated to the ECLS’s goal of advancing comparative and interdisciplinary research on Chinese law. The ECLS annual conference is a leading international academic forum for the exchange of information and ideas on Chinese law, as well as a platform for the initiation of research collaboration. Each year, the conference will gather a large number of scholars, professionals and policy makers from around the world to discuss Chinese law and policies. It has turned into a major international event for scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the study of Chinese law, from both comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Certainly, submissions are not confined to the topics above. The conference welcomes submissions that address a wide range of interdisciplinary issues concerning China’s recent legal development.
Authors are invited to submit paper abstracts and panel proposals in English by 30 April 2019. Abstracts and proposals should be limited to 300 words for a paper and 1,000 words for a panel. They should include: 1) the title of the paper or panel; 2) name, institution and email address of the author(s); 3) up to five keywords. The CCLP will cooperate with the ECLS in peer-reviewing the submissions. Decisions of either acceptance or rejection will be communicated by 30 May 2019. Full papers should not exceed 6,000 words, and be produced by 15 July 2019.
Submissions should be entered via the submission page "The 2019 ECLS Annual Conference”(https://www.dur.ac.uk/event.durham/eventmanagement/abstracts/ecls/).
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newgrounds | well... i aint got nowt much to say..
watching an innocent lamb get tortured for a whole day, then being taken to safety..
that song for the end credits was Brackish, by Kittie, if im not mistooken.
do all the creatures meet their demise in your fables (;_;), the lil screams are funny though (^^), the ending music was cool too!
This movie was pretty funny, and the ending was good, but it kinda lasted forever.And in the end the violence was a bit tedious. It leaves room for improvement. A solid 7.
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wordpress | I joined a webinar last week for the new national archives catalog and learned about developments in their site. The most interesting feature is that anyone with internet access can transcribe digitized federal records. One user has taken virtual volunteering to the fullest, having transcribed 500 documents last month [Article Link]. It could be a great project and a way to develop an important genealogy skill; interpreting primary sources. I myself have decided to start working with Records of the Customs Bureau. What has been digitized seems to be from New Bedford in the 19th Century. I will use this as an opportunity to learn about more record groups. You can make an impact on history as a citizen archivist.
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In my diligent search for the direct Freeman line, I have decided to contact as many historians and genealogists as possible.
In Wisconsin, LuAnn Elsinger a genealogist from Portage County, Wisconsin (Stevens Point Area Gen. Society) found some great clues on Azro Freeman. In a compiled history of early Belmont residents, Azron Freeman was the first postmaster of the town from 1856 to 1864. Not only is it a great insight into his life experience, but provides further evidence to the date of his arrival of Wisconsin since he migrated from New York.
I also contacted genealogists from Dayton County, Sue Dunbar (Waupaca Area Gen. Society) did not find any probate or death records of my ancestors at the Waupaca County Courthouse, she suggested I contact the Parfreyville Church which may have more information, so I wrote to them recently.
Thanks to everyone who has helped in my research and have a wonderful holiday! Plenty of exciting finds to this day and will be posting soon.
“Notice of Trial, Ephraim O. Dewey v. Dewey et. al” dated 14 October 1884. Franklin Gazette (Fort Covington, NY) Feb 1885. Online at NYS Historical Newspapers.
Jake Fletcher, “Help from Genealogists and Historical Societies,” Travelogues of a Genealogist, posted 23 Nov 2014.
Copyright (c) 2015 Jake Fletcher. All materials protected under copyright. Do not copy or reproduce without author’s permission. | 2019-04-22T12:55:42Z | https://fletcherfamilytree.wordpress.com/tag/19th-century/ | Porn | Computers | 0.144055 |
wordpress | Ok, so the title is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, healthy Sweet Potato Mash is part of the equation found below (which is indeed potatoes!), however, the 2nd recipe is actually Cauliflower Mash, which technically isn’t a potato. The genius of this, however, is that you can indeed transform said cauliflower into something as hearty, delicious and comforting as the ol’ mashed potato classic.
So have fun in the kitchen and enjoy these wonderfully warming comfort foods with a healthy twist!
Preheat oven to 400. Coat sweet potatoes with olive oil. Roast until tender, approximately 1 hour.
Remove potatoes from oven and allow to cool slightly. Depending on preference, you may choose to remove the skin or leave on.
Cut the roasted sweet potatoes into chunks and transfer to a large mixing bowl.
Add fresh parsley, rosemary and black pepper to taste. You may also add sea salt to taste.
Eat Clean Health Tip: If you’re craving something sweet instead of savory, forgo the parsley and pepper, and substitute 1-2 tablespoons of maple syrup instead. This will satisfy your taste buds AND keep your healthy eating goals on track.
Steam cauliflower in large pan or roast in the oven on 400 for 20 min, or until tender.
Drain cauliflower and/or transfer cauliflower to food processor.
Add olive oil and garlic.
Process until smooth, pulsing in some more olive oil if necessary.
Salt and pepper to taste. Just before serving, stir in chives, if desired.
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Yum, it’s time for the comforting foods of fall. If sweet potato’s are on your list of tasty foods, you’re going to love this recipe.
On medium heat, melt the coconut oil in a large pan, then add the onion and garlic with a pinch of sea salt. Cook, stirring often, until translucent, about 5 minutes.
Add the sweet potato and broth and simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until sweet potato is almost tender, about 20 minutes.
Add the broccoli, and cook until just tender, about 5 minutes.
Add the soup, lemon juice, turmeric and cinnamon to a high-speed blender and process on high until silky smooth. If the soup is too thick, add a little water to thin it out.
Return the soup to a pan and warm gently. Add sea salt and black pepper, to taste. Adjust seasonings if need be.
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wordpress | We’re all so busy and virtual messages are much faster, I agree. But real cards, or real stationery are just so fun. They are, without a doubt, smile provoking. Coming home to a mailbox stuffed with something that isn’t a bill is one of life’s greatest small pleasures.
So I’m trying to get better at this dying form. I’ve been searching for the perfect stationery but haven’t found theone yet. However, while perusing Etsy, I did come across these amazing wax seals. I think I loved wax seals before I even knew what they were actually for.
I’m not even sure when people started using this ridiculously pretty form of sealing but jeez, they totallyunderstood the whole art of letter writing. A real letter AND a beautiful adornment on the envelope– perfection! That is, without a doubt, worthy of two smiles.
The sealing and stamp kit I found on Etsy allowed you to choose one initial and offered 3 font options. The shop (Black Market Intl) also sells stamps you can fully customize (would be perfect for sealing wedding invites or even a company logo), wax in 23 colors and even rubber stamps. The kit comes with 2 tea lights, a metal scoop, 2 sticks of wax and your stamp for $15. Shipping to Korea was $9.99.
When I first found the sealing kit I expected the price to be higher so I was a little weary of the quality. But, once I got it, I tested it out and on the first try, a beautiful stamped wax seal was created. It was so easy and came out flawless. I was seriously impressed.
I’m so in love with this look. I wanna put a little wax seal on everything now! I really have the extra urge to start on all those letters now. Buy a stamp/seal kit. They are timeless, unique, and just so darn pretty. You won’t regret it. | 2019-04-23T03:52:56Z | https://blackmarketintl.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/shared-wax-seal-review-by-the-lovely-nest/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.993838 |
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wordpress | For some time I’ve wondered where my inner child has gone. She stayed with me way beyond the time most adults have forgotten what it is like to delight in kids toys (especially the wind up ones that send the dog mad), play hide and seek with the cat, go out to a public field with headphones on and have one person rave in the middle of it., build a snowman for the sheer delight of knocking it down again and run through ankle-deep multi autumn coloured leaves in the fall. She kept me abreast of current music trends and fashion styles, persuaded me to ride a motor bike and go back to university as a mature student, taught me that wearing a mini skirt and stilettos over the age of 30 is not a bad thing. She never tired of watching fireworks, blowing bubbles or marvelling at rainbows. She was wild, fun, led me astray from the path of respectability and I loved her to bits. Then little by little she faded away, her voice became a whisper easily overridden by sensibility, her energy and zest for fun suffocated by work and tiredness and her joy and delight dulled by loss and tragedy. Eventually she upped sticks, left me to my routine enmeshed life and we lost touch. What I didn’t realise at the time was that her mischievousness, appetite for adventure and youthful presence enhanced my life and stopped me from becoming mentally ‘old’. Then just as I thought I’d never write my name with a sparkler again or blow a multitude of bubbles in the summer breeze and run around like an idiot trying to catch them, she came back. I think it might have been the aquamarine stilettos that caught her interest or the two nights of partying in them that gave her hope that I was not a lost cause. Whatever the reason we are together again and she is now trying to persuade me to get my nose pierced and dye my hair a candyfloss pink. This time I don’t intend to ever let her go.
This is so true we sometimes lose touch with ourselves….
I am smiling and am little teared up at the same time..
I love the child in me too. I do try to put her in a box at times but she springs up every time. And when she does not I open her up when i read such beautiful words as yours..
Oh how I relate! I’m digging deep to reconnect with my inner-child, too. Best of luck to you, and I look forward to reading more!!
thank you ds – my child is on the move again and it will be soon!
Go for the pink hair and post a photo!!!
Seize the day Wild Child. You sound like a very interesting person.
This is what I have been feeling, but just didn’t know how to explain it as well as you did. Your post really puts things into focus for me.
Beautifully written! I think all artists have an inner child that guides us.
Delighted to meet you, Wild Child…you are creating a wonderful life.
I had to smile to myself when reading your reflections of your inner child and your references to blowing bubbles. I too am a bubble lover (they are just so awesome) and an artistic/creative person. Sadly, many ‘mature’ people think that my pleasure in such things is a touch of eccentricity 🙂 Little do they know what fun they are missing out on!
Perhaps the inner child is really our umbilical connection to our original selves as we were born. As children we sometimes still have memory of the time that preceded birth, of the etheric sphere. The inner child keeps us connected to that most sacred spiritual zone that is unique to our individual experiences. If you are lucky, that ethereal sphere stays with yo has strong intuition all your life – that feeling about taking a chance on turning left instead of right – not easy to touch or define but it definitely exists. I reconnected with my inner child a year or so ago when I started by blog – for me I found my voice again through my inner child. Thanks for posting.
I think an inner child is the key to living happy and free. So many people lose them and become lost in the bland and colorless world of adults. I’m glad you found yours again! | 2019-04-26T03:59:59Z | https://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/weird-stuff-happens-to-me-stories-of-friends-family-and-life/my-inner-wild-child/ | Porn | Reference | 0.25713 |
tripod | “It’s not your fault about Seaview, sweetie,” Mrs. Crane cooed as she spooned out another helping of turkey dressing and gravy.
“They’ll be lucky to have Macaroni and Cheese ,” Lee pouted, her ministrations to no avail.
“You’re impossible, did you know that?” she rose and hugged him with a kiss on the forehead.
“Part of my job description,” he rose and began to pull on his boots and coat.
“Perhaps it’s time I paid Bill a visit,” he simply grinned, and checked his wallet for the bus schedule.
“Devine Salvage is going to serve Thanksgiving dinner to Seaview. And we’re going to help. Get those brownies baking Mom. Love you!” he dashed out of the door.
“Brownies?” Bill whispered. He remembered the few times Lee brought some to school and traded them for his purloined Playboys.
Lee could tell that Bill remembered all right. There had been fights among his schoolmates on what to offer Lee for the famous turkey and dressing sandwich’s for lunch after the brief holiday. He could also tell the effect his ‘wounded puppy’ look was having on Bill. He couldn’t count how many times it had helped him get his way from various friends and/or unsuspecting victims.
“Well, we got plenty of creamed corn and…”he hesitated.
“Top of the line sir. I’m sorry you don’t like it. As for today, well, Like I said about the damage, the freezer’s busted and most of the dry goods got waterlogged except for a few things, so it’s, well, Macaroni and Cheese, or nothing,” Cookie said sadly, watching Morton wilt. If there was any food in the known universe that the XO didn’t like, it was Macaroni and Cheese. Even the Skipper had kidded him saying that if he were ever stuck on a desert island with a year’s supply of the stuff, he’d starve.
The boys were in the kitchen, scarfing down some of the brownies and dunking cookies in milk, while they packed the goodies up. Not friends, they sure were acting like it as trails of milk dribbled down both their chins and they discussed Bill’s new helicopter amicably. It reminded Mrs. Crane a lot of better times, before she’d been widowed, and she was angry. This was supposed to be a special day for she and Lee. He was finally home for Thanksgiving, and what did he do? It was bad enough when Nelson or the Navy purloined him away from their holiday or vacation plans, but did he himself have to interrupt what little time they did have together to talk Devine into helping him get to his damn boat? Today of all days?
He’d tried his best to convince her that they’d already had a few weeks of quality time including their mid-day Thanksgiving dinner and he’d make it up to her over the Christmas Holidays (providing Seaview’s repairs had been completed) and that she was doing her patriotic duty supplying home-made yummies for men in uniform even if they weren’t exactly on official business with the Reserves just now. Had a real gift of the gab, so he had.
In the end she’d had no choice but to use up what was left of the flour, butter, eggs, and vanilla she had on hand, along with all the rest of the peanut butter, oatmeal, and chocolate chips in the pantry.
Well, they’d better enjoy the brownies and cookies, all those men aboard Seaview. She’d stocked up on the baking supplies for Lee, not them she’d argued, but when he’d looked up at her through those eyelashes, the little hooligan, he knew damn well she wouldn’t be able to resist.
It was a talent he hadn’t known he’d had at first, when her husband had first brought the battered and abused child home to foster. And she’d had no idea at the time that she’d later agree to make it official. But the fates had taken a hand and the soon renamed Lee Crane had learned quickly enough that all he needed to do to for a second helping of cookies was to look at her with his eyes half hidden through the dark lashes. Puppy like, half hopeful, half afraid. Damn. He still had the touch.
Yes, when Lee returned, she was going to have a little talk with him (and with Nelson, whose fault it all was) about the sanctity of family obligations and how his blasted boat was no friend of hers.
“What do you have Chip?” Nelson approached.
“Battle Stations! Battle Stations!” the Lt. ordered, the klaxton ringing.
“It’s dumping something! “Ski yelled.
“All hands brace for impact and clear out of all damaged compartments!” Morton ordered.
“Chopper’s moving off,” Ski said.
“Hey! Whatever it dropped is settling on the hull!” O’Brien yelled.
“Still no response, sir!” Sparks added.
“He’s got a large crate or something with him,” O’Brien said.
“Could be a couple of bombs, ” Ski said to Patterson at the console next to him.
“Bet we’re going to nuke it with a charge through the hull,” Patterson said to Ski.
“Still no response to our hail sir!” Sparks called out.
“I don’t like the sound of that,” Chip said.
“Can’t tell anything for sure from this camera,” Ski said.
“If it is…are you thinking what I’m thinking, Chip?” Nelson rubbed his chin.
“You risked life and limb, not to mention complications to your head injury on a deep dive, dropped from a helicopter no less, for…for…some kind of food delivery service?” Jamison yelled.
Morton rolled his eyes heavenward. He’d hated cranberry salad almost as much as Mac and Cheese. Until he’d tasted Mrs. Crane’s. A true convert now, he’d drooled just thinking about it when Lee had told him what she’d probably be cooking for Turkey Day.
“You sure he’ll want to bite the hand that feeds him?” Lee smirked.
“Next time, Lee, just call us ahead of time,” Nelson said.
“I get dibs on the green bean casserole,” he grabbed Lee’s arm and pulled him down the corridor.
A few weeks later, Bill Devine found an order for 10 Zebo suits, prepaid and signed for by Admiral Nelson himself, his check from Lee Crane’s NIMR account already having been deposited for Crane’s little adventure. Perhaps he could do more business with the fellow kid from the track team after all.
Meanwhile, several blocks away, Mrs. Crane grinned as she heard Lee, Chip, and Nelson discuss and argue about the pro’s and con’s about the correct way to decorate the Christmas Tree as it stood patiently waiting to be ‘clothed’ for the season. She’d had every intention of scolding Nelson about Seaview keeping Lee away so often, but had quickly changed her mind seeing her son so happy in his friends’ company.
While she hadn’t expected the company, she kept quiet about the inconvenience of putting up two additional people for his Christmas leave. If Lee was happy, she was happy. That’s what motherhood was all about.
“We haven’t even put the lights on yet, ” Chip said, untangling the lights Lee had brought down from the attic.
“By the time you weigh all the logistics, Christmas will be over,” Lee said.
“Ouch,” Chip laughed. “Santa won’t bring you any presents, Lee, if you’re naughty to Nelson. Hey, that’s a good lyric for a song…let’s see, yeah, Riley could do it…’oh, the Skipper was naughty to Nelson,’ he began to sing.
“Why him?” Lee pretended to whine.
“Oooooh,” both men joked, and gathered up their coats.
Just then a snowball hit the window and they saw Lee and Chip in a snowball fight, laughing like kids. | 2019-04-21T08:47:22Z | http://seaviewzine.tripod.com/It2.htm | Porn | Kids | 0.19096 |
livejournal | Finished DH early this morning after a minor reading marathon. And all I can say right now is that it was brilliant. Even better than I had hoped it would be, in fact.
I am already planning to write my thoughts on certain parts of the book (or maybe on the book as a whole) once I've had some time to calm down and recover from the awesome madness that is DH.
Oh, and I do believe the ship can safely sail on.
Anyway, hope the job's going well. It had better be worth messing with your reading.
Poor Moody, yeah. Though I was almost certain he would snuff it in this book. Me and mustntgetmy both did the same prediction meme and said that he'd die, but what she saw coming while I didn't was Hedwig's death. I'd never have thought about that! And it happened almost in the beginning.
I kind of thought he would too, but not so close to the beginning. I freaked out when I thought Hagrid died though and yelled "Hell no!" quite loudly, disturbing my family. lol Hedwig's death struck me because I love animals. It looks like Harry will be feeling a lot of guilt in this book.
Okay, I'll look at the details as you say.
Believe me, this is not the first time you're freaking out over Hagrid. He seems to be in constant danger in this book...but I shall not say any more, mwahaha!
And about the meme...I'm afraid I cannot be modest when it comes to my Snape/Lily prediction, but you definitely pwned on the case of Neville or Harry surviving OR Malfoy or Snape surviving. I was very, very wrong when it came to Snape surviving. Good call.
No, you definitely can't be modest about that. Or about Hedwig, for that matter! And thanks for reminding me of some of my successful predictions - I'm going to repost the meme later to see what I else got right or wrong or half-right. Now that's going to be fun. | 2019-04-25T14:46:47Z | https://oudeteron.livejournal.com/17393.html | Porn | Reference | 0.180823 |
wordpress | Handshake at the bus stop. A jaunt to a Soviet carriage. Modest. Scrapes with dings. Off-white paint. Passenger side door opens from the inside. No apologies. None needed. I duck out of the cutting spring wind. Anatoly commands the wheel. We scanter over dips and hollows. Small wood domiciles, still crouching after winter, populate our peripheries. We roll to a stop, and pop out, doors clicking behind us. Anatoly opens the gate, where the ubiquitous (to Russia) scruffy necessary wags his tail to greet us. One level, dark, self-constructed. Solid. Anatoly’s son chops wood in front of the outlying bathhouse turned “music studio”. We enter. He lays out tea. Sweet biscuits, milk whitened black tea. The interior is spare, one light bulb per room, rough wood in shades of natural brown. Simple.
We conversate, offering small pieces of the experiences that brought us to our point of intersection. Patiently we dig, sifting fumbled human words, for the chance to touch the face of meaning together. As we warm to our task, our lingua franca, wells up, filling in and smoothing over the cracks of our utterances. She leaps cultures, weaves viewpoints, she reveals that golden spark that hides under life’s ashes. We bend in, wondering. And now colors crackle, theory and influence, history, philosophy, passion, image-spirit-flow-connection. Art. Life blood of creation.
Expounding upon the finer points of perfecting visual communication.
Pregnant with possibility, Anatoly the creator struggles to birth new offspring from the long forgotten *Buryat School, buried in ashes of the scorched earth policy of Bolshevism in Siberia. But first he had to dig. He had to understand where to dig.
He studied four years of graphic arts at the Pedagogical Institute here in Ulan-Ude, three more in the Ulaanbaatar college of Art and Culture. From 94-96 he learned how to draw Buddhist tankas (Tibetan icons). Then wife, children, mouths, shelter, rat race for survival. He resurfaced in 2001 for breath, studying long distance at the Eastern Siberian State Academy of Culture and Art here in Ulan-Ude in tandem with manual labor for sustenance. In 2006 with a home built, and his art foundation sound, he filled his lungs, spread his pencil-feather wings and leapt.
Original vs Reproduction. Anatoly uses the reproduction to spot places in his drawings that need shoring up.
His creations are cold fusion. Intricate scenes from the East, with Western technique applied for depth and emphasis. His human subjects are demure, slightly cheeky, his countrysides sprinkled with references bowing East and West, just as his people have done now for centuries, turning first toward Beijing, Ulaanbaatar, and Tibet, then toward Moscow. Buddhist temples, and Orthodox churches, Buryat and Russian children building snow men together. Anatoly wields tools of cosmic significance, calling things into being that have yet to be, at a table by the window of his wooden cottage.
What started as a “get to know you” conversation transfigured incrementally. Anatoly and I meet as strangers in a space that becomes sacred as our communication reveals one to the other. This communication transcends speech, flashing and flowing all imagery and color, the white hot могущество (able-power) of creativity coupled with community unveils shared marvel; apprehends the magnificence of a knowable beyond. This is recognizing the Creator in another creative. Real. Holy communion.
Nothing in Sunday school prepared me for this. Meeting the power that anchors stars in the sky in a person of another faith, this tangible presence of a consuming fire contained in the dust of another man. Why should I be surprised? Aren’t we all image-bearers? But I am surprised. When did I become so sure of where and when the Creator would put majesty on display? When did I think I could nail down Mystery? And when did Protestants give up the privilege of communicating in the divine tongue?
Art flows. It flows from a throne. | 2019-04-20T07:06:49Z | https://transformsiberia.wordpress.com/tag/traditional-art/ | Porn | Arts | 0.960679 |
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wordpress | You can waste an awful lot of time farting around for great occasions. Pete and Henriette carried on the social game . . .all the artists I’ve ever known did it, except maybe Edward Hopper.
Please don’t interpret tonight’s post as a complaint–it isn’t. Over the past decades, I have sought this indefinable center between the public and private side of an artful life. I love living after the examples of the Thoreaus, the Hoppers and the Wyeths of the art and literary world, one steeped in creative solitude and contemplation. Winters are especially wonderful for that (especially now that my furnace is repaired, after six days of frigid living!). But I also ache for that creative collaboration among kindred spirits. I love the cafes, the salons, the gatherings of inquisitive minds who feed off one another’s inspirations. Tonight I am headed for the latter, a monthly salon gathering that I enjoy to the depths. What I wish is that I could return to my studio and work on some art pieces after the meeting, because a number of ideas have been percolating with me over the past several days and I just cannot seem to catch a break to pursue them in solitude. Part of my teaching load this semester is an online college course and tonight I have promised myself that all assignments submitted over this past week will be graded before I retire to bed–the students deserve that. And so, perhaps tomorrow I will get back into the studio. Tonight I can only salute those artists that managed to balance their solitude with their society. I am just as much charmed by Thoreau’s Walden cabin as I am Picasso’s Parisian Cafe Gerbois. The former looked into the face of nature and drew unlimited resources; the latter listened to the poets, artists and philosophers in the cafe around him and transformed their ideas into art.
I blog to remind myself that I am never alone.
After the morning plein air excursion into Granbury, I next turned my Jeep further south, and arrived in Hico, Texas as the sun waxed hotter. What a fabulous town for painting! Ghost signs were everywhere to be found on the sides of buildings of brick and rusticated stone. I turned down a major street, and was delighted to find it divided, with a tree-shaded island featuring park benches and gazebos. I found plenty of space to set up my easel on the island, without blocking sidewalk traffic (not that there was much, in that small town!). As I painted, I found the residents of Hico to be exceedingly friendly. A number of men and women approached me, looked at my work, said affirming things, and chatted with me about life in the small town, and also asked how things were in my large city, and I found it pleasing to cover a number of conversational subjects with them, all of the talk pleasant. I even had the pleasure of meeting an acrylic studio painter who owned a business on the street where I painted. A lady in a passing car rolled down her window, took a look at my work, and expressed admiration for my attempt at architecture. She was a painter of animals and thought it would be difficult to paint buildings. I guess I should have mentioned to her that I find it difficult, painting animals!
I loved this street intersection vista. The light rusticated stone building contrasted nicely with the darker buildings across the street on the left, and I was fascinated with the tree on the right invading the compositional space. I took a reference photo of this site and am seriously considering taking another shot at this in the studio.
The day was hot, the travel exhausting, but I’m glad I got out and did this. Last night I looked at the website of the Weiler House Gallery (http://www.weilerhousefineart.com/#events) and saw that my Solo Show for this fall has been posted. My first reaction was that it was time to “find another gear” in producing art work. Showtime is in two months.
Today marks the end of the plein air competition in Waxahachie (for me). The deadline for entering work is tomorrow (Friday) at 2:00, and I will be stuck in school for the entire day. The last week of public school is a total waste of time and resources, if I may offer my frank opinion. Prime time every day this week has been spent in a high school where everyone–student and teacher alike–has already mailed it in. I’m happy that I managed to crank out seven paintings since last Friday–six of them between Friday and Monday, and then the past three days on this one (again, prime time spent in school, and left-over, late-afternoon time, painting).
Zula’s Coffee House is my favorite place to land when I’m in Waxahachie, Texas. Terra, the proprietor, has this way of making any patron comfortable and grateful for setting up in this coffee haven, any time day or night. It has become a popular venue for folk singing, book discussions and various other small group activities. Wi-Fi makes it a great place to work on the laptop when deadlines are pressing. The coffee house is located on Business Highway 287, on the north side of downtown Waxahachie (Main Street). It is far enough away from the town square to escape the traffic noises of midday, and has a life of its own (which the town square lacks after 5:00 p.m.). The open meadow across the street provides plenty of space for anyone with an active eye and a dreamy imagination. During the fall of last year, I painted the meadow in all the bright colors that the late afternoon sun yielded. Again, this is a sweet spot to land for anyone who is a lover of art, books, music and of course, coffee!
Thanks Terra for a very rewarding three days. I’m glad I finally got around to painting this splendid venue.
I just got my painting framed at the Weiler House Gallery (http://weilerhousefineart.com) and will soon deliver it to the Eureka Springs School of the Arts for their first faculty art show. I haven’t seen the town since I left it last June, when I was privileged to teach a one-week plein air watercolor class to an outstanding group of painters.
I’m glad the painting is finally framed, and that I am at the beginning of a one-week Spring Break from school. Already I’m in the garage planing out my next composition, and hopefully will have it posted soon.
A Shout Out to the little town of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois!
I am posting a watercolor that I completed in 1999, the first completed watercolor from my intensified quest to become a “professional” watercolorist, rather than a novice or Sunday Painter type. The actual setting is a composite of three places I had visited throughout my life. The Switzer building I always knew from downtown St. Louis, near where I grew up (sadly that building/landmark has since been torn down). The buildings on the left margin came from New Bern, North Carolina, a town I visited only one time in the mid-1990’s, and actually used the interior of a coffee shop there (the Trent River Coffee Company) to compose a mural at Arlington Martin High School (that mural can be viewed under the “Murals” tab of my website http://www.recollections54.com).
The building on the right, with the Budweiser and Busch ghost signs, I only knew as coming from a town in Illinois. I scoured a number of those towns very early in the 1990’s with my father, but did not take good notes in my journal. Since 1999, I have been unable to tell people specifically where I found that striking building to anchor the right side of this composition.
All of that changed at Open House last Monday night. Parents of one of my A. P. Art History students were visiting with me, and as we shared our backgrounds, it was established that the father had grown up in Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, near Fort de Chartes. I recognized those names immediately as two of the places I had scouted with my father during that summer excursion in the early ’90s. I told this gentleman about my painting titled “Turvey’s Corner,” explaining that one of the buildings came from a small Illinois town in his general area. Today I received the surprise email from him, informing me that he had looked up my painting on the website and immediately recognized this “phantom” building as Lisa’s Market Street Grille in downtown Prairie du Rocher!
Thank you, Mike and Karen, for providing this information for me.
Trying to unwind and get to sleep. Earlier today I posted the Red Goose Shoes sign from a low angle, reflected in a store front window, and just now recalled this low-angle Jazz sign I painted last year with a reflection off the window. This marks the first time I ever tried to paint a window reflection.
This original watercolor, unfortunately, was either lost or stolen last summer. The organization that had possession of it made good and paid me the listed price of the painting, and fortunately I had images of it to make limited edition giclee prints. But it always sickens me to have an original piece come up missing like this.
It’s very likely that I could finish the Red Goose Shoes painting tomorrow. I’m ready to move on to another composition. Red Goose gave me headaches, with all the detail called forth. I’m ready for something looser and more atmospheric. We’ll see what transpires.
The good news today was that the aunts are going to be just fine. After only 4 1/2 hours sleep last night, I decided I needed to nap this afternoon if I had any hopes of finishing this painting today. I’m glad I did. Sleeping from 2:00 until 4:00, I rose and resumed work on this in the garage (my Man-Cave!) with a beautiful afternoon Texas sun shining in the open door. The light was exquisite for working on this painting. Once it got dark, the winter temperatures plummeted, and I was forced to lower the door and continue work under house lights (I hate that!). But . . . I did not want to tinker with this another day. So . . . here it is . . . signed and out of my hands!
Tomorrow I plan to take it to the Weiler House Fine Arts Gallery (http://www.weilerhousefineart.com/#home). I already have my next watercolor composition lined up, and I just may get after it tonight–I’m in the mood.
Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoy this one.
At last, the weekend! Immediately after school, I had a nice visit with my gallery director, Bill Ryan, at the Weiler House Fine Art Gallery (http://www.weilerhousefineart.com/#home). I dropped off my large Eureka Springs cafe painting for framing. Then, I dashed over to Texas Wesleyan University (my night job!) to retrieve some materials from the library. In my garage studio, I’ve enjoyed immensely the Voices and Visions series of video documentaries on American poets. Over the past week, I’ve listened to T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and today am listening to Walt Whitman. I also picked up the Autobiography of William Carlos Williams, two volumes of his poetry, and the Cantos of Ezra Pound. I have before me a weekend of books and painting!
If you’ve been following my blog, you will see that I have sketched in the pavement along the bottom of the composition, using a series of washes along with plenty of salt and water-soluble graphite pencil work. I’m now waiting for all of that to dry so I can get back to work on the cars and the newspaper vending machines along the front side of this diner. I fully intend to finish this piece over the weekend.
Thanks for reading. I’ll get back to you soon.
Though it’s been two months since I left St. Louis, my heart still stirs at the memory of a bright winter morning at Spencer’s Grill in Kirkwood, Missouri along historic Route 66. My wife and I had just ducked inside this historic cafe from the late 1940’s for breakfast of fried eggs, bacon, scrapple and coffee. This historic sign at Spencer’s Grill I had seen since my pre-literate childhood, and will always remember, Proust-like, as a monument from my remote past.
For over a decade, I’ve been fascinated with the Presocratic fragments, particularly the pieces from Heraclitus. I mused over this phenomena of traffic perennially rushing north-south on Kirkwood Road, while the ageless, changeless Spencer’s Grill remains. With my company Recollections 54 (www.recollections54.com) I try to capture in watercolor the images of an America from the 1950’s that remains in spite of the changes that nearly sweep the ground out from under us as we live out our fast-paced, deadline-driven lives. | 2019-04-20T06:22:12Z | https://davidtripp.wordpress.com/tag/cafe/ | Porn | Society | 0.165832 |
wikipedia | Books written or published in 1907.
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wordpress | You will never have more delicious bbq spare ribs than the ribs from this recipe. The crockpot gets the meat tender and juicy while the barbecue finishes them off with some nice grill marks for texture. Whenever I ask Michael, “What do you want for dinner?” his usual response is, “ribs.” We have a little white board on our fridge so we can write grocery list items we need and “ribs” ends up there a lot too. Although the other day I saw “ambrosia” written up there which was a new one. The little white board on the fridge really does work because I did actually make that ambrosia. Hello 1960!
Salt & Pepper both sides of your spareribs. Place ribs in a large crockpot and set on low. Slather BBQ sauce over both sides of the ribs. Set the crockpot for 8 hours. After 6 hours check the ribs and if they are falling off the bone you can take them out. If not, keep them in for another hour or two. Once they reach the desired doneness transfer them to a platter. Place the ribs on the barbeque heated to a medium high temperature. Cook just long enough to get a few grill marks on each side. Remove from grill and serve. Enjoy!
Okay okay, I know that ombre is the big thing right now but I really couldn’t resist. I mean, how delightful is cake with pink, blush and ivory roses piped on the outside? So sweetly romantic and darn easy too. All you need (besides the obvious) is a large icing star tip, and icing bag (see my video on how fill an icing bag mess free!) and some food coloring. The trick with the icing is to make the consistency firm enough that the icing keeps its shape but not so firm that you can’t get it out. (So with your basic buttercream icing recipe, keep milk and powdered sugar on hand for firming or loosening the icing). And the trick with food color is to use ONE DROP at a time until you get the desired color. More than one or two drops of red food coloring in white icing can create a barbie pink VERY quickly. (I like slightly more subtle colors myself). Below are few more specifics on how to get started. Enjoy!
Divide your frosting into three parts and color with food coloring until you’ve reached your desired look. (Make SURE before you color the frosting that you have enough! Its almost impossible to get the color exactly the same if you run out….) Cut the end off your icing bag and put in your large star tip until bag is tight around the edges of the tip. Make sure that no icing can get out. Take a large piece of saran wrap and lay it flat on the counter. Spoon in as much frostings (from the color you want to use for the top) as will fit while leaving enough room to wrap up like a sausage. Wrap saran wrap around the frosting and twist the ends until tight. Cut off one end of the saran wrap and put the cut end into the icing bag first (so the icing can get out and through the star tip). Twist the top of the icing bag until there is enough tension to pip the icing out.
With a circular motion make a rose in the very center of the cake. Continue making roses evenly until you reach the point where you want to switch to the next color. Continue with the next color and switch again when necessary.
My college age sister calls me up and starts explaining a vegetable that she has and isn’t sure what it is. She’s like, “Its white with long green things coming out of the top.” Finally she texted me the picture and I instantly knew what it was. Can you guess?
Quitting Diet Soda. A 6 Step Program.
Even though I’ve quit diet soda it doesn’t mean that I have any judgements on those that haven’t. I drank it for so long (see figure 1 below) that I had my share of people warning me and wagging their fingers at my bad habit. Let’s be real, we all know diet soda is bad for you! Its not really a secret. So, if you have found this page because you are looking to quit, are curious or merely feeling guilty and wanting to see what other’s have done, then welcome! Whatever stage of your diet coke relationship just know that its possible to have a successful break up if you want. I’m sharing what I did and hope that it helps those looking for a solution. Just for the heck of it I listed some additional adverse affects of drinking diet soda just in case there’s a few you haven’t heard. How cool would it be if in the future diet coke was only used to make explosions with mentos!?
Quitting Diet Soda. 6 Step Program.
4. Stock up with replacement drinks that are aspartame free. Sparkling water naturally flavored with lemon or lime is great as well as Zevia (Zevia is sweetened with Stevia which is a natural sweetner). If necessary you may allow yourself to drink a little regular soda (like one bottle of mexican coke) to take the edge off in the beginning. I found this helpful since I don’t really like sugary drinks and am not in danger of overindulging. However, if you feel this will result in another addiction then steer clear.
5. Keep caffeine pills on hand for emergencies. I know this also sounds like a recipe for another addiction but hear me out. My hypothesis is that those that overdo it on diet soda aren’t the same people that overdo it on caffeine. Those are the energy drink/espresso drinkers. Diet soda people have more of a thing with eating and the caffeine addiction is a residual of that. Taking a little caffeine in pill form isn’t nearly as fun as drinking a diet soda and definitely not as delicious. So if you are putting off quitting diet soda because your concerned about your caffeine headaches then just take a little caffeine in pill form until you can wean yourself off. A diet soda has about 50 mg’s of caffeine. The pills I found are 200 mg’s so I just cut them in half and then in half again with a butter knife. Easy!
6. Congratulate yourself for your victory over diet soda and recommit daily to staying diet soda free!
Metabolic Syndrome results in some pretty scary symptoms. This was the least scary picture I found but if you google “metabolic syndrome” you’ll get the idea. Not cute.
The origins of aspartame are unfortunately just as suspect as aspartame itself. Here is a timeline of how and why aspartame was approved by the FDA. I hate to bag on the government as I know Washington is normally full of people with integrity (note sarcasm) but here are the FACTS.
Hope you enjoyed and please update me on your progess! | 2019-04-19T08:23:52Z | https://annacostafood.wordpress.com/2013/07/ | Porn | Science | 0.104105 |
wikipedia | William Clark "Bill" Steinkraus (October 12, 1925 – November 29, 2017) was an American show jumping champion.
Steinkraus participated in five Olympic Games. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, held in Mexico City, he won a gold medal in individual jumping with the horse, Snowbound. He obtained two silver medals in Team Jumping, first in 1960 on his mount, Ksar d'Espirt, and 1972 on Main Spring. Steinkraus also won a bronze medal in Team Jumping at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland on Hollandia. He was also slated to ride on the 1964 Olympic Team until his horse, Sinjon, was injured.
Steinkraus was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He first rode at the age of ten while at summer camp, after which he took lessons with such well-known horsemen as Gordon Wright and Morton W. "Cappy" Smith. He rode sales horses for Smith, allowing him to hone his skills on various mounts. In 1941 Steinkraus reached the highest level of equitation competition when he won the ASPCA Maclay Cup in Hunter Seat Equitation and the Good Hands Finals in Saddle Seat Equitation at the National Horse Show.
Following his early successes, Steinkraus left to attend Yale University. After his first year of college, he joined the cavalry branch of the Army and was one of the final classes to receive their training on horseback. He was then shipped to Burma during World War II, where he served as part of the 124th Cavalry Regiment from 1943–1945. He then returned to the United States and finished his education at Yale, being graduated in 1949.
After college, Steinkraus focused on his riding career, and went on to join the Olympic team at the 1952 Helsinki Games. He also was a true amateur during this time, working as a businessman. Steinkraus retired from international competition at the end of 1972, following the show season, but continued to remain involved in the horse showing industry. This included involvement in the USET, either as president or chairman, from 1972–1992, and as an "Honorary Member" of the FEI Bureau. He also was a television commentator from 1976–1988 and a judge at the 1992 Olympic Games. As of 2008, he was still riding and playing chamber music.
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wordpress | A moment as I was walking through a doorway, my eye picked up a glance of a window, and as I continued to walk, that glance remained in my attention as a brand new memory. It was kind of abstract in design, a corner of light. And looking at it, I went over it in my mind what was going on, because I recognized within it that there had been a sort of reaching out towards maybe some specific kind of energy, as if it were like a nostalgic opportunity, so interpreting thus in a way I had gone into a judgement of the motives of the mind, and in so doing separated me from seeing that also there was within that, connecting to a feeling from my childhood, a part of who I am that exists within me as fresh and light immediacy with what is here. How to live this word fresh, as the immediacy of what is here, this word that I have lived in times when I was young, like for a moment access into a no-strings-attached perspective of the world. No strings, meaning: unconditional. So it was like a choice that I could go into with this corner of light: as a prospecting energy design in which were available to me hope and longing and regret, reminders of loss, or else a reaction to this in which, and this was what I did, I sort of recognized a signature of this design but then brushed it off, with a judgement, but also made a note of it. And this is the note that I am making here. That it would support me to live this fresh and immediate with what is here, just as I have done before, that I created in me – way back then – this potentiality that is still here for me and as a part of me, something I can now deliberately live.
It’s interesting to me that it’s happened a few times when I looked into the heart of a memory and into a specific timeframe moment within it, at the point within that moment, in which I made a significant decision, that what my eyes were focused on, were words, was some physical writing that was before me in the physical world, and persisted in the memory.
Same as in this example to come: and even though I see the words upon the paper, I can yet so far within my memory not access the words specifically. But the words together: they represented to me an expression of myself in imaginary skills and ingenuity, as part of a school exam, it had seemed to me this had been a question that was made for me, and I had dived into it, and written extensively.
It was a piece of work that I was proud of, and I had been glad to hand the paper in. Getting the paper back, a few days later, was not such a happy story, where instead of good marks or praise, I got instead what felt like a physical assault on my writing; a red diagonal line pressed deep across the page, where what had once been like a reflection of my treasure had been brutally dashed out, I imagined, in a stroke of irritation – as being irrelevant.
This example of mistake had been that I had also imagined the exam question, and not double checked what exactly had been asked; in that moment I had been distracted, been elsewhere. In the classroom I was constantly longing for the time to pass, my eyes would rove towards the windows, and a day that was meanwhile going on outside, that I was missing, out there.
So I had developed habits of momentarily slipping away, and I was now showing myself that this had got to such an extent that now I had completely messed up this exam. So I was quite alarmed about that, seeing that I had put my trust into an idea in my mind as a reference to what the question was, in reality, and as a consequence seeing and realising the magnitude of this mistake, writ large, in my mind as a reference to the experience that I was as and in, so that the word mistake contained all of this, together with wrong, and I took the teacher’s apparently terse graphic as a judgement on me, I took it as a definition of myself, that who I am through the frame of mistake, seeing that the teacher had no other comment, I interpreted that to be contempt, that is who I am as the self created experience of contemptible, within the domains of my design within and operating as the word Mistake.
Looking into it now, it seems astonishing how a miss take could gather up such emotional baggage, where in the simple processes of learning, the miss takes are such natural components. But back then, in this commissioning process in a way, of this, my accepted upgrade of the word mistake, with my experience of myself within it, was one of diminishment and shame.
And who I was in relation to the word mistake was to avoid it, to avoid experiences in which the word might arise within me. Structuring the word thus, I was unknowingly setting up a pattern for my future life, in which I was to shape my life by the decisions that I made in relation to learning, where within the learning process there would necessarily arise the word mistake.
But back then, or within this memory now, what was going on was that I had taken in judgement of contempt, derived from my interpretation of a single red line of ink, and I had gone into shame, and within that, in relation to shame, it was: keep quiet, keep it secret, from the boys behind my back before whom I had erected a front of understanding to protect me from their taunts.
My acceptance and allowance of this whole blame design gave to me the delusion that what I was experiencing was an inner truth about myself, like an unpleasant revelation, and I was upset inside myself with this collapse of good feeling about myself as part of this school experience into a shrinking self contempt, and again, the longing for the time to pass.
And walking through the door and down the corridor after the end of the lesson I was being mindful of this new development within me, something serious that I must now take into consideration, as if it were a new fact about this me I did not previously know or realise, but must now accommodate and in that shame I made the decision that I must now get away and be alone.
The process of self definition itself: I had given into the hands of others: getting away from proximity with the reactions of others was a priority. Getting away to a place in which I was not being defined, by mockery for example, in the face of which looking back now, I see I had separated from the strength to stand.
It was thus to me as if in this alien environment of School, I was like a water that could be poured into a vessel of any shape, and I needed to get away and protect myself from that, consolidate the latest information, see how I could possibly go on, touch base within myself in my relationship to the world, that was beyond the gates of the school, beyond the town, up to the very edge of the sea, where the breathing pulse of crushing waves and cries of birds became like a comfort to me.
This was the experience that my longing reached for within the constrictions of the classroom, when my eyes would flick from the clock to the window and then to the sky beyond it. My perch upon the cliffs was like my place upon a stadium to watch the natural powers at work within the world, where through Stadium I fashioned this observational relationship to the world, to the incident of life and to the living edge of darkness.
That I was actually creating my life through these words that I was living out, did not occur to me. How through making a miss take in miss reading an exam that I had then, in shame imprinted into the word Mistake my emotional reactions, that would then become from that time onward, until I changed it otherwise, a part of my living vocabulary, was an awareness that I did not have.
That my path through life that was to follow on from this would be shaped by my relationship to School and Learning and within that, to Mistakes, was a perspective that I did not have. Immediate developments within my life at school were that I would use my imagination and my ingenuity to fashion systems of truanting and cheating, so as to avoid the experience that I had put into the word mistake.
An extract from: Interdimensional Technology of Deception and Manipulation – One of the Reptilian series of Portal interviews available at Eqafe.
What does Desteni stand for?
The above paragraph of information could be seen as a compact response to this question; showing how Desteni is opening and addressing a global issue, both internally and externally, and how and why it is that human beings are coming to Desteni and gathering as a group, having realized that a platform of real assistance and support is in place for those who wish to now at this stage in their process learn how to take directive principle and absolute responsibility for their minds.
This Journey to Life blog comes out of my responsibility to myself to face these systems that I had previously accepted as who I am, and in facing them, understanding them, and taking responsibility for them, and thence changing them. Along with this commitment to change myself, comes the responsibility of sharing this process, what it is that I am walking, what it is that I am facing, exposing the systems that I find within me in the realization of the assistance and support that I have found in others sharing their processes with me, the points they have faced, the resistances that have come up, the changes that they have brought about ultimately to a Mind Consciousness System that is common to all of us, and because of this, sharing solutions which are applicable by all of us.
Going back to the quote, and related questions: What is the primary function of my mind? What is the primary function of my external environment? What is my primary relationship to myself? How do I see myself in existence as a whole? Why is it that I have lived a life and not asked myself such questions? Is it really that my presence here in existence is a closed book, or is it that I have not opened the book and looked inside? What is it that happens when I open the book of me and look inside? What are these reactions that I have, these feelings, thoughts and judgements that come up, these sentences, these warnings and advices, these persuasions to desist?
The Question itself is like a kind of interdimensional technology – it is a probe – I can use this tool – I can ask myself these questions – and yet there is a fear – do I dare to question what I trust? That is do I dare to re-define what I have defined as unquestionable? In many ways I am the consequence of an unquestioning existence, that I have sort of washed up on the shore of where I am, rather than to have travelled here by my own direction. I have sort of arrived at who I am, not knowing how, having lived a sort of existential insecurity and placed my trust into the systems of the mind.
‘Placing my trust’. I mean what questions are raised writing this combination of three words? I mean how is it that I have become separate to trust in my existence, and thence to require a word for it, and a placing for it? Was it that I required for this word to exist? So that I could live it deliberately, knowing what it is, knowing what its value is so that I could live it in awareness as me?
Placing my trust into the mind, into consciousness, I have lived unquestioningly of what it is that I have done. So this question – why is it that I have lived a life and not asked myself such questions? – the implication of it is in this resort of placing my trust into the systems of the mind – where there are few self directed questions – but only systems of acceptance and allowance – where things are just the way they are.
So now, coming into specificity – there is a resistance here – as I open up the points of who I am as judgement – and so I breathe – I do not accept this experience of myself as the judgements that I have placed my trust in – I do not accept this experience of fear as I look upon the source of this fear, I breathe and stay with myself beside myself in the sense of me in support of me – so that I can enable myself to look upon these energies without slipping into them and becoming them.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that judgements are real, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to put my trust into systems of the mind, and then to have lived them as who I am, and then through that, experiencing myself as a consequence of how I have defined myself in judgement of myself, as not good enough, as wrong, as bad and so through that experienced fear of looking in myself and seeing me.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that fear is real. I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to put my trust into the systems of the mind and into judgement and through this to put my trust in fear. I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to trust in fear.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to trust in fear and to define this fear as protection from experiencing myself as the definitions of who I am that I have accepted and allowed through my trust in judgement.
Therefore I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to create a loop of energy creation in the service of the mind where I go from judgment to fear and from fear to judgement, and for not seeing and realizing that I have accepted and allowed a systematization of myself in which at no point in the cycle is there any assistance and support for who I really am, but only the depletion of my physical body and the subjugation of my being.
The finality of judgement – where the multiple dimensionality of existence is reduced by consciousness into various moral compass points and levels of comparison, such as good and bad and more and less, and then things are defined in finality, in total – such as I am in the totality of myself, not good enough, and then the experience of me to go with that, belief of who or what I am according to this trusted mind, what is this experience, a belittling, an underminement, a destabilization, a disappointment, a shame, a core feel-bad experience. And then a ‘let’s not go there’ directive in relation to this experience, so that doors are closed and the enquiry is over. This is the finality of judgement, that the investigation is blocked, the enquiry does not happen, the questions do not get formed or asked, the book is not opened.
Here is where my walking through myself in self forgiveness stumbles, where I have not seen or realized that my self forgiveness has not been absolute – and there is no opening or unfolding of the statements, no ‘within this’ to them anymore.
Considering that in an entire existence that is in reality and in all parts one and equal, there is a mind system defining what is and what isn’t according to the interests of the energy out of which it emerges, assuming the authority and the singularity of a god and within and as this act of absolute defiance of reality, here accepting and allowing this there is in some deep awareness of self in this posture of arrogance and defiance – there is fear. There is an awareness of self in opposite alignment to the one and equal reality of existence.
How judgement engenders fear is a primary question for me, because I can see when I look into my history how I have resorted to and evolved into this trust in the mind, so that within this I see myself using same as my father, as my family, as my culture, unquestioningly judgements as a compass, as a tool to answer questions, and as a way to dismiss questions, as a way to close the enquiry, to block investigation, so as to hide the emptiness of my position that I have suppressed my option of checking within myself what is here – how in my external world I rarely received answers to questions that were not tempered in some way by judgement – it was the way of the environment in which I grew up – within which I became defined – so that in asking a question, I was ready to receive judgements, to resort to judgements and to knowledge and information in my mind – I gathered up a way to approach and to interpret this reality using my mind, following without question those around me into trusting the mind, rather than seeing and realizing that I am here stable within myself, a point of trust within and as my own awareness.
A photograph of my hand luggage, last thing to remove from my accommodation before travelling to the farm. As such, this picture represents that point of leaving, having finished a whole process of clearing away my belongings, putting things in storage, sweeping and cleaning and wiping and organising, doing last minute jobs to get the money. Standing in the emptied room with my hand luggage on the table, about to walk out of the door, seemed like a significant moment. Taking a photograph of this was like a note or a memo to look at this later. But in fact I had already looked at it and seen it, and I had seen what I had put into my bag, and I had seen the bare physical reality of the room in which I had lived amongst and in my personalities and other distractions, and now I was standing next to the chair that once I’d sat in, standing next to a window that once I’d looked through, standing in a structure that I had not really noticed in my life. It was like a question had half-formed in my mind – does it take such a drastic leaving process to really notice the predicament of my physicality, that like the objects in this room, my physical body was placed here and there, moving this way and that amongst them, and as one of them. Perhaps I’d never really noticed that my body was a physical object in a room of a building in a town on a piece of land, during a period of time within existence. So busy in my mind and paranoias of relating to the energies within it as if they were actually real, that I’d overlooked over and over again the plain fact of my physical existence, had become habituated to this, had lived amongst and as relationships rather than the things, had lived amongst the thoughts and feelings, the memories, the past, the images that came into my mind. And now I stood within this empty room, on the point of leaving through a door, as a body wrapped in various fabrics, and shoes designed to protect the feet, and a bag designed to sling the strap across a shoulder.
Looking at this now I see it’s like a transition out of a relationship possession, where one discovers in an extraordinary moment that one is simply here, actually with a physical being, or actually simply alone for a moment in awareness of the stability of the physical environment, and all of those concerns that seemed so real have turned out to be ephemeral and like a dream, and melt away, because the substance that was given them is now withdrawn – and another thing – that in this physical environment, I am also here.
How ‘extra-ordinary’ has become ‘bizarre’ is in a way an indicator of how I have become habituated to a simulation of reality that has no self. Where awareness of self in and as a part of physical reality has come to seem, strange, or alien, that no longer fits into the system.
Well it’s not as if I left my personalities behind, packed away in storage in another country – I brought them all along with me! – my baggage – and one of the things that I have realized is how intensely I have accepted and allowed myself to judge these personalities when and as I become aware of them in action, in the records of my memory, in interactions with the people on the farm. As in moments of becoming aware of my moments of unawareness, that I then judge myself for what I have accepted and allowed myself to become, rather than seeing myself within these moments of unawareness, and seeing this as an opportunity for understanding of myself and supporting me with seeing how I can change these things, take myself from unawareness and into self direction, use the tools provided, be grateful for the opportunity that I am showing myself. Whereas what I realise now is that standing in and as judgement of myself in unawareness, in my personality designs, that I allow myself to be directed into these episodes of self attack and bad feeling, not only that but I realise how much my behaviour is and has been shaped by a strategy of navigation in which I avoid the situations that lead into bad feeling.
Here is a locked down system of self-sabotage: I show myself the points that I need to look at and to realign, but I avoid to look at them or I avoid the situations where I might be confronted with them, because I believe that I will automatically go into self judgements and consequential experience of feeling bad, so that in a strategy of avoidance of feeling bad experience, I also avoid the opportunity of self correction, realignment, and thus of expansion and growth and self strengthening – I have accepted and allowed myself to be trapped in a system that cannot change.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to give this reaction of self judgement such power, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to define myself as the victim in relation to self judgement.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to judge the personalities that I have accepted and allowed myself to embody and to become.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed a personality as me that judges and attacks other personalities within me.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that ‘I should be perfect’, or that as this personality that judges things, that I know what is ‘right’, and how I ‘should’ be. I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to go into reactions of impatience or irritation or anger at myself for not being the way I think I should be. I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe in my mind an image of myself as perfection, and to want others to see me as perfection. I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear being seen as not perfect. I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear situations where I might be exposed as not perfect, and to fear seeing situations in my mind as memories in which I might have exposed myself as not perfect.
Within all of this, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have fallen into accepting and allowing a personality as me to be directing my own process of self realisation, in which I follow and align myself with images of perfection in my mind, as if there is some part of me that already knows where process leads, and what it is that I must simulate, in order to arrive at some place that it has already been. Within this, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I know in my mind where process of self realisation leads, that all that I must do is match myself with this appearance or image in my mind.
Day 219: Fear of Commitment.
Extract from Heaven’s Journey to Life: Fear of Commitment. This whole post is a great gift to everyone.
Interesting, and, concerning, how I as it were spotted telescopically this self forgiveness statement (quoted above) from a distance as my eyes homed in on the text, and a fear came up, a fear warning me to not look at it too carefully, closely. (Orange Alert: Mind Destruction Threat) This itself is an aspect of the fear of commitment that is the subject of this post. I am writing here about my reaction to these words, and how I slowed myself down to read them slowly and in breath. I have now read this post through a few times and sounded the words out loud. This self forgiveness statement is in fact a gift, and yet I was unable to see it so until I had debunked the threat which was the interpretation of my mind. Interpretation of my mind? This sentence contains a blame and hence more separation … well so instead of accepting this, I take responsibility for this, it is my interpretation as the consciousness that I have accepted and allowed as who I am within the structures of the mind, because in accepting who I am ‘as’ fear I remain as energy, and in energy production terms, to blame the mind is pretty cool because it keeps the mind alive with and as more energy, it upholds the whole illusion.
So, reading this – reading slowly and deliberately word by word and learning how to read again, really, not as I have read before where I have read the words as energy, moving in a hurry through the experiences dictated by my judgements, but slowing down to meet the words, as words in the simplicity of what they actually mean. Then there is time and space to read a sentence, there is time to see each word within a sentence, to notice reactions to the words that trigger the diversion into my experience of myself as energy rather than with what is actually here. So learning to actually read, within awareness of what are words, learning to put my judgement/experience system to one side, and to hear what is actually being said. And hence the realization of what is being given. What is the gift of realization within these words: the gift for me reading this post has been direct assistance and support in understanding my fear of self commitment, and it has thus by showing me this, given me the opportunity to walk this point.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself not to see realize and understand that in being shown how the mind is structured and how this who I am as consciousness works within this and so accordingly how practically I can change, that having proved to myself the reality of what it is that I’ve been shown, that change is my responsibility, that self forgiveness and self correction and self commitment as the tools of change are therefore also my responsibility – I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see and realise and understand the function of this fear of commitment of myself to change, is fear of loss of who I am according to the commitments that I have already throughout my history written into me and by which I have abided – so therefore I commit myself to walk my fear of changing the decisions I have made which have not been in support of me but for myself as energy, as consciousness within the structures of the mind, as commitments to the judgements I have made of me through which I have defined myself into and as the personalities that I have lived. Therefore in my walking of my fears of self commitment, I commit myself to see and realise and understand that I must face who I am as the consequence of the commitments that I have made in order to understand the components of these commitments, and so to change them for renewed commitments of myself in support of me in alignment with who I am in the context of equality and oneness here, rather than the context of an energy reality, a mind world. And so therefore as I self forgive myself and move from this to realignment of myself in self correction and self commitment, I commit myself to seek out and to state clearly to myself the out of line commitments that I have made to who I am as energy and as a system of the mind, so that commitment to myself within reality is in not in conflict with commitments to myself as energy, and therefore as a source of fear. I forgive myself that I have accepted as real this reaction of fear towards the changing of my commitment, and I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see and realise and understand that in acceptance and allowance of this fear as real, that I stand as energy, as commitment to myself as energy, in protection and defence of commitments I have made and have suppressed within me. Therefore I see and realise and understand that to walk this fear of self commitment, to this self here rather than to a self that I have imagined and resorted to within my mind, that I must specify the commitments I have made that I have hidden locked and sealed within me, that I must look in breath upon the equations, the decisions the beliefs that I have amalgamated and suppressed, that I must walk out of this experience of myself as a confused reaction of energy and specify myself in understanding of who and how I am and how I came to be and to become, and from there to walk a self commitment that is laid in clarity.
Accepted popular definition of psychosis, the guy screaming, You’re All Mad, You’re All Mad. Likewise, the statement, You are All Brainwashed, because they both come over as statements of comparison and judgements of the value of my perspective of reality over my perspective of your reality. Which would actually be a statement covering only my experience in my mind of me, and believing this judgement to have a reference to reality, yes that would be paranoia, that would be insane.
And yet it is obviously possible for entire populations to be mad or brainwashed, in the sense of having lost touch with physical reality, and then to develop a culture in which a consensual alternative to reality is accepted as what is real.
Such as religion, nationality, spirituality, examples of this are ‘rife’; the fact that there are so many examples of this tend together to disguise the fact of what they are examples of, especially as they tend to become synchronised and justify each other. ‘Rife’: a reference here to the infectious nature of brainwashing. It is in our nature to justify our own accepted reality, and hence to impose it on others. Taking the ‘You’ out of the equation, and then we have, ‘We are All Mad, and We are All Brainwashed, and then the comparison, and conflict between us has been removed and we can focus on the subject of this statement which is not primarily the compared relationship between you and me, or the rest of us, but the nature of this brainwashing itself, and this madness, and then we can verify for ourselves whether or not this is the case, and we can look towards solutions, such as in ‘how’; how does it work, how does it accumulate, how can it be removed, how have we accepted this. The ‘How’ involves investigation, research, and practicality, a cool approach to points raised rather than a reaction of denial which immediately excludes the opportunity of closer inspection in favour of defence and protection of beliefs, and possible battle between egos as personalities.
The point of ‘how’ we have accepted and allowed the programming of ourselves and by ourselves and how to deprogram ourselves is explored in massive detail in the Desteni materials information and research, this is why the topic of brainwashing comes up over and over again among Destonian blogs, and will continue to do so. The how of how to spread and promulgate and publicise this Desteni message is for me – any way that I can – because this is literally a VITAL message for everyone. Changing the direction of Humanity involves taking responsibility for ourselves and changing ourselves, and time is short.
1 absolutely necessary or important; essential: secrecy is of vital importance | it is vital that the system is regularly maintained.
• indispensable to the continuance of life: the vital organs.
2 full of energy; lively: a beautiful, vital girl.
3 archaic fatal: the wound is vital.
the body’s important internal organs, esp. the gut or the genitalia.
• short for vital signs.
ORIGIN late Middle English (describing the animating principle of living beings, also sense 2 of the adjective): via Old French from Latin vitalis, from vita ‘life.’ The sense ‘essential’ dates from the early 17th cent.
See here how in the history of this word, the root of ‘life’ and ‘essence’, has become ‘archaic’ so that in modern usage ‘vital’ can be applied to anything seen as ‘important’ to the mind or consciousness – while the root connection to life has become almost anecdotal. This dictionary definition serves as an illustration of the shift of meanings in our words, the words which are the components of our reality.
The vital message of Desteni is a message of life, about life, in relation to our life, and information as to exactly how we have accepted and allowed ourselves to separate from actual life, and how to take direction of ourselves and walk the process back to life. | 2019-04-20T08:57:47Z | https://adamsjourneyintolife.wordpress.com/tag/creation/ | Porn | Reference | 0.119912 |
wordpress | With Sam (Noel Clarke) facing up to the new world, he realizes it also comes with new problems and new challenges. Ones that will require old friends to help him survive new dangers.
From the moment the Grime music blared through the speakers and Fekky’s track Gossip ft. Giggs was booming around the living room, I was sure that this wasn’t going to be my cup of tea.
My brother and cousin chucked it on. Challenging my film critic title to assess Clarke’s latest foray into the East London underbelly.
I’ll own up and admit that I haven’t even seen the other two films (Kidulthood and Adulthood) BUT as the events unfolded and the story got going, I actually didn’t mind it.
A surprisingly watchable and entertaining (if predictable) gritty Brit gangster flick.
I didn’t even need to watch the other two to grasp what was going on. It might fill in gaps and deliver little nods for fans of the trilogy BUT the back stories were quite easy to piece together. PLUS it helped that Clarke threw in a quick flashback here and there.
Clarke was very good as Sam. The man desperate to make things right. Only for his past misgivings to punish the ones who are close to him yet again.
He was an interesting protagonist that made you feel just as conflicted as himself. Cheering as he tried to turn his life around and then yelling at the idiot for making the same mistakes.
I had to laugh at how easily he fell for the alluring Janette (Tonia Sotiropoulou). A femme fatale if ever there was one. Like watching a car crash. She really has a strange way of washing a shirt (People who have seen it will know what I’m talking about).
Inevitably, it wasn’t long before Sam was thrown into trouble. Jason Maza (Welcome to the Punch) and Leeshon Alexander were brilliant as the head honchos Daley and HUGS.
The Essex duo could have easily come off as really bad stereotypes BUT they mastered the balance perfectly and were highly unpleasant villains.
You could feel yourself getting riled up at Daley’s cockiness and HUGS’ slimy demeanour as they tore Sam’s world to pieces.
BUT it was Henry (Arnold Oceng – The Good Lie) who stole the show for me. The reluctant friend roped into helping Sam during his hour of need.
Saving him from a good kicking by a group of thugs with nothing more than a TN cap and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toy under his coat.
There was a lot more humour in this than I expected with Oceng delivering every time. Mocking up a fake argument with a traffic warden to evade the suspicions of his wife. Brilliant!
BUT Oceng wasn’t just the comic relief. Henry’s confrontation with Yardz (Stormzy) was funny and heartbreaking at the same time. Prepared to face his fate and put everything on the line.
I was actually surprised at how good Stormzy’s cameo was. Not every music artist can deliver on the big screen. I mean I could write a list. We all could.
David Ajala left little to be desired as Detective Desmond ‘BUDS’ Lynch. I expected more from the Starred Up actor. Finally getting a meatier role. Only to be nothing more than a stocky copper.
The lines were terrible and his delivery didn’t make things any better. Especially when BUDS vowed justice against Daley. Laughable.
And that was part of the problem. For every good sequence, we had several poor ones. The plot was predictable. The middle act spluttered along which killed the pace.
Olivia Chenery’s (Penny Dreadful) subplot felt tacked on and wasn’t explored at all. Her character Sariya’s revenge mission was completely overshadowed by Sam’s melodrama that it felt unnecessary.
Sam’s reunion with an old foe should have been a tense affair. Thankfully, the frantic finale made up for the cliched exchanges and silly dialogue.
The quick-cut punch ups were fast and furious (Even if it was all a little hokey). However, despite all my nitpicking, I was pleased with the ending. It ticked all the boxes and wrapped everything up perfectly.
It did the job, killed the time and was better than I expected. | 2019-04-24T18:17:25Z | https://youtheman77.wordpress.com/tag/brotherhood/ | Porn | Reference | 0.359085 |
wordpress | Does the Heftberger Correlation exist?
Cinemetrics is the statistical analysis of film style (Salt 1974), and has the potential to make a significant contribution to film studies in identifying trends in film style (shot length distributions, shot scales) that will allow scholars to explore questions of individual style, genre, studio style, national differences, and changes in style over time. However, the potential of cinemetrics is hamstrung by the poor quality of the statistics practised by film scholars. For example, in a discussion of Salt’s (2006) survey of shot length distributions, Buckland (2008) recently confused the coefficient of determination (R2 as a measure of goodness-of-fit of a regression line) with the correlation coefficient (r) – although the two are intimately related. Similarly, O’Brien (2005: 88-93) has argued that the introduction of sound technologies in Hollywood and France in the late-1920s led to an increase in average (mean) shot lengths (ASL) but does not employ any tests (e.g. t-test, one-way ANOVA, chi-square, or their nonparametric equivalents) to determine if changes in ASL are significant, does not provide confidence intervals for estimates of ASL in a particular country or time period, and does not consider the use of the median as a measure of central tendency or data transformations for skewed shot length distributions. Here I discuss a particular mis-application of statistics in the analysis of film style: the so-called Heftberger Correlation between cutting rate and type of motion represented in Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929).
The herculean effort of a meticulous statistical analysis of Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (MWMC) offers the potential for a rich and detailed understanding of this complex film’s intricate style, and has been undertaken by Yuri Tsivian, Adelheid Heftberger, Barbara Wurm, and Gunars Civjans. As a part of this project, data has been produced that covers the distribution of shot lengths for each reel and for the film overall, for the use of point-of-view shots, and for the relationship between shot length and the type of motion represented by the film. It is as a statistic of this last element of film style that the Heftberger Correlation (HC) has been proposed as a measure (Cinemetrics 2008).
The researchers hypothesised that the cutting rate would increase with the intensity of movement within a shot, which was defined as belonging to one of seven categories: black frames (BF), fast motion (camera) (FastC), fast motion (naturally) (FastN), freeze-frame (FF), no motion (NM), normal motion (naturally) (NormalN), and slow motion (camera) (SMC). Once the dataset employed was reduced to exclude the category BF, it was claimed that there is a correlation between cutting speed and intensity of motion. For MWMC, the value for HC including NM is 0.2, and excluding NM it is 0.4. A further step was to remove the category FF, so that only data for shots with movement were included to give the Particular Heftberger Correlation (PHC), and is was claimed that this produced a stronger correlation but no figure was supplied. The conclusion arrived at by the researchers is that (1) the HC exists; (2) the HC for MWMC is weak and nonlinear; and (3) the PHC is MWMC is stronger than the HC and is linear.
It is far from clear what statistical processes have been used in the calculation of the HC and the PHC, and I have been unable to reconstruct the process by which the above quoted values for HC were derived. The researchers themselves acknowledge that the processes involved in producing the plots of shot length and intensity of movement in Figure 1 are not ‘mathematically sound,’ and it is precisely these plots that are employed as justification that the HC exists. It does not appear to have occurred to anyone involved that the lack of mathematical ‘soundness’ would present a problem in employing a statistical analysis.
What is clear is that correlation is not an appropriate statistical method to be employed in this analysis. Correlation is a method of analysing if pairs of variables are related and the strength of that relationship. The pairing of the variable is important: each point on the graph represents a value on the x-axis and a value on the y-axis For example, if we measure the height and weight of ten people, we will have ten pairs of data, with each pair consisting of a measure of height and a measure of weight – it is the relationship between these measures that we call a correlation. The Heftberger Correlation does not exist simply because it is not possible to calculate a correlation for pairs of data when the number of categories of motion intensity is seven and the number of shots in the film is 1729 – there are no pairs of data to correlate. Data does not appear to be ordinal – although order exists for some categories (FastC is quicker that SMC) it does not exist for others (BF) and the distinction between some categories is not ordinal (FastC and FastN). The data labels used in Figure 1 must be considered nominal and a re not tractable. The decision to proceed despite the lack of mathematical ‘soundness’ is compounded by a lack of understanding of the mathematics of correlation.
The appropriate statistical approach to be used in analysing the relationship between shot length and motion intensity is to look at the variance of shot lengths in each category. In this case the data does not meet the requirements for a parametric one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and a logarithmic transformation of the data is no help either. The best approach, therefore, is to employ a nonparametric analysis of variance of ranks using a Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann-Whitney U as a post-hoc test (α = 0.05).
Shot length data was sorted by category of motion intensity, and the descriptive statistics are presented in Table 1.
In analysing this data I include only four of the motion categories: FastC, FastN, NM, and NormalN. The distribution of shot lengths in these categories are represented in Figure 2.
BF is excluded as the data includes several shot lengths of 0.0 seconds (due to a technical error in data collection); while the number of shot lengths in FF (13) and SMC (32) are too small to be reliable. The results show that there is a statistically significant relationship between shot length and intensity of motion (Hc = 289.7, P = <0.0001); and the post-hoc tests show that each category is significant different from one another (Table 2).
These results show that Tsivian, et al. were correct in their hypothesis that there is a relationship between shot length and motion intensity in Man with a Movie Camera; in fact, the results presented here indicate that this relationship is stronger than that identified by the HC. Focussing on the median shot length (see Table 1), we can see that FastC (0.4 seconds) has a quicker cutting rate that FastN (0.9s), while NormalN has a value of 2.8s. Although they were not included in the above test, median shot length increases as motion slows in SMC (3.7s) and FF (4.0s), and this confirms the overall relationship between shot length and motion intensity. Only NM does fit this overall pattern, with a median shot length of 2.2s. Data for BF is unreliable at the low end where shot lengths equal 0.0s.
Ben Goldacre, the GP and journalist who publishes the Bad Science blog (see Goldacre 2008), has made a distinction between scientific medicine and alternative therapies that employ scientific terms inaccurately to sound ‘sciency.’ The Heftberger Correlation sounds good, it sounds scientific, it sounds statistical; but it is not based on a sound understanding of statistical methodology. Following Goldacre, I think this use of statistical terminology should be labelled ‘sciency’ rather than science and film scholars should be discouraged from declaring the existence and relevance of such ‘statistics’. It is incumbent upon film scholars to understand the statistical methods that they wish to employ in cinemetrics and to respect the use statistical terminology. Cinemetrics can make a positive contribution to film studies, but before it can be good film studies it must first be good statistics.
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