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Main Entry: bit·ter·sweet
Pronunciation: \ˈbi-tər-ˌswēt\
Function: noun
1 : something that is bittersweet; especially : pleasure alloyed with pain
There are a lot of bittersweet things lately.
Let's start with my dog, Buoy.
He's so cute. So sweet. So adorable.
But He is NAUGHTY.
He is sneaking out of our fence all the time. He literally tears that fence up. He hides under the bed all the time and growls at me. I give him baths every day because he is so muddy from trying to dig his way out of the backyard. Oh, Buoy...He makes me so mad. But I just love him.
Although I'm allowed to drink Starbucks again, my drink no longer tastes good to me. So sad. Might not seem so to you......but really....I loved that drink!
Picture Taking. For some reason, lately, I just cant' get things to be in focus...I can't get the lighting correct....I just can't make it right. Why? it could be that I did something to mess up my camera (very likely) or that I need to spend more time with it (also likely)....or I could be un-focused...but it makes me sad to miss special moments because I am not a proficient photographer.
Celebrating the sweetest friends and babies... who I LOVE SO DEARLY. EnjoyIing them and enjoying the act of celebrating. I cannot wait to meet Catherine and Adam's baby..."Little Miss" since they are having trouble deciding on a name we are calling her that for now :) I LOVE LOVE LOVE Emma Jane....Rebecca and Travis' baby...she is awesome. She is adorable and tiny and sweet.
Knowing that my sweet Briar will not be truly celebrated....people won't be able to pass him around and hold him at a party...that is tough. I know that we will have other babies, but it is bittersweet to know that our little man is not going to have a long life here on earth. He will go straight to be with the savior of the world...and he'll miss out on this world and the things in it. I guess I consider that quite a blessing...and I love that I will meet him there and spend the most time with him there. AG and I went to the doctor on Monday and we got to see the sweet guy kicking around and moving like crazy. It was wonderful! We loved seeing that. We also saw the problem. It has not changed. I definitely prayed for healing. For change. Unfortunately that is not what we saw. But I feel as though the Lord has told me this is his purpose for this baby. And it is not to be fixed, but to show others that he and his mom can persevere and seek JOY in the midst of pain.
To tell you the truth...I have been having a tough time lately. It feels so overwhelming.
But I know we will make it! But if you know anyone with a pool...I could use some relaxing days.. :)
Love to all....


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Members of Cadbury's board of directors are talking to their counterparts at the American chocolate maker Hershey about the possibility of a "white knight" tie-up to rescue Britain's biggest confectioner from takeover by the food multinational Kraft, according to reports in the US.
Cadbury directors have opened up "back-channel" discussions to see if a friendly deal could be agreed. The British firm sees Hershey as a better fit than Kraft, and board members are exploring the possibility of a more even-handed merger that could give Cadbury an element of ongoing control, sources told Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.
The development came after Kraft revealed that only 1.5% of Cadbury investors have so far accepted its £10bn takeover bid, which is for a mixture of cash and stock amounting to about 771p per share. Kraft's largest shareholder, Warren Buffett, this week criticised the company's use of stock to fund the deal, and many analysts believe that Cadbury's investors are likely to hold out for at least 800p per share.
Famous in America for its bite-sized Hershey's Kisses, the group is only half the size of Cadbury, and, although it disclosed in November that it was considering its options, it has hesitated to make a formal bid. Hershey already has a licence to make many of Cadbury's products in the US, including Dairy Milk bars and Creme Eggs.
Cadbury issued a statement brushing aside talk of a friendly deal: "We are not looking for a white knight, and remain focused on demonstrating the value and potential of Cadbury as the world's greatest confectioner."
The Middlesex-based company has dismissed Kraft's offer as "derisory". It added that there was nothing further to comment upon "unless and until we have a credible bid that adequately reflects the strength of this business".
But Cadbury's statement did not address the possibility of talks between individual directors of the two companies. As well as chief executive Todd Stitzer, Cadbury's board includes heavyweights such as the former Hong Kong governor Lord Patten, the former Downing Street policy adviser Baroness Hogg, and Rio Tinto's finance director, Guy Elliott, who has a background in deal-making as a former investment banker.
Unions have expressed alarm at the prospect of a cross-border takeover of Cadbury, which has a British heritage dating back a single shop selling cocoa opened in Birmingham by a young Quaker, John Cadbury, in 1824.
Although a deal with Hershey would provide a degree of geographical logic by mixing the US company's strength in north and south America with Cadbury's presence in Europe, Asia and South Africa, the deal could worry workers as Hershey recently shifted a large slice of its production to take advantage of cheaper labour in Mexico.
The business secretary, Lord Mandelson, has warned foreign bidders against trying to make a "quick buck" out of Cadbury. In a speech this week, Mandelson urged any companies making acquisitions to set out "transparently and publicly" their plans for factories, research and development sites, and corporate offices.


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It's late. I don't think I can make blog posts at normal times. I'm actually feeling sort of restless tonight. I feel like doing some writing but I never know where to start. But that is a topic for a different blog.
I think I left off with Jeremy and I getting dinner at the food court in Providence. I got spaghetti from Sbarro. It was meh, but spaghetti is a reliable pre-race food for me. After we finished, we headed over to the GNC to sort out my liquid breakfast situation. A store associate guided me right to the section that everyone else in the triathlon had been hitting all day. It was the section with the new Gatorade G Series line. I got a couple of the Step 1 products that had a few hundred calories each. Hefty, I know. But I figured it would be necessary. And I think it would have been had I made the bike cutoff and been able to finish. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
I spent the evening preparing all my stuff for the morning and solidifying the plans with Jeremy. I then did what I do most evenings, watched a lot of tv. I probably should've been in bed by 10, but of course I was not. I was busy watching Harry Potter IV. I don't know that I would have been able to fall asleep at 10 but I should have at least tried. I ended up going to sleep at midnight (approximately 3 hours before I was supposed to get up).
Each of my five alarms went off unmercifully at the right time.
Man, I'm getting tired. But this story is taking so long! Now I'm going to have to switch to the condensed version and then maybe get back to it if I ever feel it's necessary. We got up at 3, left to catch the shuttle at 3:30, caught the shuttle at 3:45 and arrived at T1 a little before 5. Once there,I set up my transition area. It was a "clean transition" area, which meant that they didn't want anything on the floor and everything had to be hung up on the rack or bike. Almost everyone had a wetsuit and, although I'd ideally like to get one, the one I saw at the check in convention was priced at $400. No way am I paying that much money for that. I found one website that sells one for $99, but it's still something I'm going to have to think about.
Honestly, though, the water wasn't that cold. I was okay in just my tri suit. The race itself started at 6am with the professional men. My start came 45 minutes later. I knew I was way out of my league when one of the girls I was talking to said she intended to do the swim in 35 minutes. The one standing next to her mentioned that she was slow and would be doing it in 45. My anticipated time was 1 hour. No joke. But I calmed myself and kept thinking about how I'd practiced and timed the swim and thought I had definitely given myself enough of a cushion.
And I had, the swim did take me a little bit over an hour, but I was still one of the last ones out of the water and that just does not bode well for the rest of a race...alright I can't do this anymore as I'm too sleepy. Will have to make it a 3 parter. TTFN - ta ta for now.


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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
New flash: There is still time to make these!! Do it now, find some very dear friends to share them with, and enjoy with a hot cup of coffee/tea/cocoa sitting around the fireplace Christmas eve (or in my case, frantically finishing wrapping my presents Christmas Eve after the church service). Either way, make these. Soon.
Granted, these won't be the most beautiful, elegant cookie you serve. In fact, they look rather sloppy and at times, ugly. That doesn't matter. Sometimes, beauty is more than skin deep and appearances don't matter.
One of my favorite things about this recipe is that the name sounds like arugula, with the "ah" sound at the beginning. Thus, if tell someone that you are going to eat only rugelach for supper tonight, they'll be impressed with your desire to eat a salad for supper. You will want to eat just these for supper. Curtis has named these his favorite dessert that I make (his apple pie is his favorite dessert ever). For the record though, he has deemed several desserts as his favorite dessert.
This will make 32 cookies. If I know I am sharing these with anyone outside my family, I make a double batch, otherwise, Curtis starts to whine. When you make these, allow yourself time to let the dough refrigerate for 2 hours (or freeze it until you are ready to make it if it is going to be days or weeks).
adapted slightly from Baking: From my Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan
4 oz cold cream cheese, cut into 4 pieces
1/2 c cold butter, cut into 4 pieces
1 c flour
1/4 t salt
2/3 c raspberry jam (you want this to be a rather thick kind)
2 T sugar
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 c pecans, chopped
4 oz bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (2/3 c mini-chocolate chips)
1 large egg
1 t cold water
2 T sugar (preferably turninado or coarse decorating sugar
To make the dough: Let the cream cheese and butter rest on the counter for 10 minutes so they are still cool, but a little softened. Put flour and salt in a food processor and pulse briefly to blend. Scatter the cream cheese and butter over top. Pulse the machine 6 - 10 times. Then process, scraping down the sides of the bowl, until the dough forms large curds (you don't want it to become a ball on the blade). Put the dough on a lightly floured work surface, gather it into a ball and divide it in half. Shape each half into a disk, wrap with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours (you can also put the disks in the freezer and save it to finish much later).
To finish rugelach: Mix together 2 T sugar and 1/2 t cinnamon. Set aside. Remove one disk of dough from the fridge/freezer (if it's been the freezer, let it warm up on the counter for a little while). Remove the dough from the plastic wrap and place between two sheets of parchment paper (this makes for much easier rolling--you can also just lightly flour a work surface, but I've had better results with parchment---unlike what is pictured). Do the following as quickly as possible so the dough doesn't get to warm. Roll the dough into a 11 - 12" circle. Put dough circle back in the refrigerator for a few minutes to make it easier to handle. Remove dough from fridge and brush or spoon a thin gloss of jam over the dough. Sprinkle half of the cinnamon sugar over top. Scatter half of the pecans and half of the chocolate over jam/cinnamon sugar.
Using a pizza cutter (that's right, friends! Multi-tasking kitchen tools!!), divide the circle into 16 wedges (in half and in half again and so on). Starting at at the fat end of each wedge, carefully roll up the dough (like a cinnamon roll, kind of). Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment or silcone mats. Once the baking sheet is full, refrigerate for 30 minutes before baking.
To bake: Remove rugelach from the fridge. Combine egg and water in a small bowl. Brush each rugelach with egg and water. Sprinkle with a little sugar. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees oven from 20 - 25 minutes, rotating sheets from top to bottom at the midway point, until they are puffed and golden. Transfer to rack and let cool to just warm or room temperature (so jam/chocolate doesn't burn your mouth).
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At AIB, we're busy planning our activities for 2010. Mobile is something that continues to be important for us as we try to forge relationships between mobile companies and broadcasters. We'll be at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, facilitating meetings between broadcasters and mobile operators and manufacturers, ensuring AIB members' content is high on the agendas of mobile companies.
We're involved with a range of conferences this year, starting with RadioAsia in New Delhi towards the end of February, FICCI Frames in March, the FT Digital Media conference in London, and digital TV events in Moscow and Beijing. We'll be chairing events, starting conversations and reporting on developments in many different markets to AIB members.
It's going to be a busy year, with lots going on - including the sixth annual AIBs, our international media excellence awards, which we'll launch at MIP TV in Cannes in April. The Awards will be presented at our gala evening in London in November - you can get a flavour of last year's event with photos at Flickr.
So, back to work...


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The Japanese yen (NYSEARCA:FXY) experienced a quick plunge after Akira Amari, Japanese economic and fiscal policy minister, expressed concern about the yen getting too weak. According to The Japan Times Online, Amari stated on television that he thinks USD/JPY at 89 is a "fairly good level" and triple digits would be excessive. Amari is apparently concerned that at some point soon the negative impact of higher import prices, like for fuel, will outweigh the benefits to exporters of the weaker yen.
Amari's assessment hit the pause button on the yen. Since the persistent sell-off began in earnest two months ago, the yen has fallen with breathtaking speed (rising USD/JPY). While I anticipated that "this time" the weakness in the yen would last, I did not come close to anticipating just how fast and how strongly the sell-off would unfold. In mid-December, I even recommended paring down bullish positions on the Australian dollar versus the Japanese yen (AUD/JPY). It is as if many years of a stubbornly bullish bias towards the yen is trying to unwind all at once in anticipation of an interventionist government doing what it takes to end Japanese deflation. At the time of writing, the profit-taking on short yen positions has not even come close to denting the current uptrend in yen crosses, but I will be watching for key breaks in the momentum.
Weekly chart demonstrates the steepness of the current run-up. Is a pullback finally at hand, thanks to Amari?
Since I have been unwilling to chase the momentum higher, I have instead been relegated to buying small positions in whatever shallow dips the market has offered and then selling into the subsequent rally. I am assuming that the current dip will also be temporary, especially when some other Japanese government official clarifies that a weaker yen is indeed good for the economy. However, since this is the first time (I believe) during the run-up that a Japanese official has publicly expressed doubts about an ever-weakening yen, the chances of a steeper sell-off are higher than ever. I am scaling my latest position accordingly. The following daily chart shows the steep uptrend remains well intact. A pullback to about 87.5 (20-day moving average (DMA)) would mark a very good buying opportunity. An even larger pullback to 85 (the 50DMA) would be a gift. Ultimately, Amari has given the market a "free range" from around 89 to 99 on USD/JPY although most analyst price targets I have seen peg USD/JPY around 90 for the year.
A daily close-up of a near-unstoppable rally
Source: FreeStockCharts.com
Be careful out there!
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Additional disclosure: In forex, I am long USD/JPY


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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
A Touch of Lace
It's a beautiful, fine, baby alpaca and silk yarn from Eden Cottage Yarns which I bought at the Knitting and Stitching show in October.
The pattern is from Ravelry (Daisy Chain Shawl)
I've never used beads in knitting before but they were surprisingly easy to do and add a nice weight and slight sparkle to it. There's one in the centre of each flower and one at the end of each point.
And just as I was wondering what I could knit next the latest Brooklyn Tweed pattern book fell into my inbox, so that sorted that one out - new yarn ordered and pattern downloaded, oh and more knitting needles ordered as despite having a drawer full I don't have the right size ones to knit Merle (how can that be?)!
As for said cat, he's fine, 100%! Enjoying a little snooze in amongst some fabric earlier on
10 comments:
- Janneke said...
This shawl is gorgeous, love the pattern, the colour and so on. It looks a bit like a big cob web.
- April 22, 2014 at 8:15 PM
- Celia Hart said...
Absolutely gorgeous! And it will look stunning and glamorous.
- April 22, 2014 at 9:05 PM
- rusty duck said...
Wow, that's beautiful!
- April 22, 2014 at 10:59 PM
- Gina said...
That is so pretty!
- April 23, 2014 at 8:56 AM
- Miriam Weaver said...
I love the shawl, I've never knitted a lace shawl it's something I'd like to do. I'm the same never have the needles for the project despite having my own collection and my Mums! So glad that your cat is back on form!
- April 23, 2014 at 9:41 AM
- elaine said...
That is so beautiful and delicate like a spiders web
- April 24, 2014 at 7:00 PM
- Jo said...
It's absolutely beautiful. I've never knit with beads before, they give such a lovely added touch. It's a beautiful colour too. Glad to hear that your puss is better.
- April 26, 2014 at 11:51 AM
- Yvonne Moxon said...
Oh what a lovely shawl I love the soft colours :)
- April 26, 2014 at 10:05 PM
- Anna said...
Janneke and Elaine have taken the words out of my mouth. Glad to read that the cat is not worse for wear. Hope that you have recovered from the shock Su.
- April 27, 2014 at 10:19 PM
- Annie @ knitsofacto said...
Your shawl is exquisite. And good news about the cat too. The whippets eat knitting ... it ruins by ta-dah rate but at least it doesn't cost me at the vets!
- April 29, 2014 at 11:54 AM


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Well, here it is! My second finish of 2010! What can I say? It's been a slow year for finishes. But I'm super excited to have finished this, and am hoping to squeeze in a couple more before the year's over. This is "Little Cups of Friendship" by Lizzie Kate.
Today I started to stitch what I'm hoping will eventually be a pillow to give to a friend as a gift. I had a "vision" and sketched it out on graph paper. It looks pretty good so far...I thinking it'll only take a couple weeks.
I had a great relaxing/working weekend. I had turkey dinner with my parents after work on Saturday, and turkey dinner with my "second family" at their cottage after work on Sunday. It was a beautiful drive up to Apsley- the leaves were breathtaking...but so was the traffic. Today I slept in, then went back to my parent's house to hang out. I stitched all day, and had some mroe pumpkin pie, of course! Here's a pic for you to ponder:
Yep, there's a turkey under that pile of romaine! My Mom's friend swears that covering your left-over turked in lettuce leaves keeps it fresh and juicy. Imagine that!


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So. The dejligt week in a dejligt review. (A little fun fact about den Danske folke - they use the word dejligt all the time! So if we have a really positive lesson and a member is there, afterwards when we go over how it went they'll say something like "det var dejligt!" (that was delightful))
On Monday after we e-mailed we went to the old/original church building here in Aalborg. It's been converted into apartments now, isn't that crazy?
After we finished p-day, we had language study with the Bishop's daughter, who is super awesome and is thinking about serving a mission! She came with us to a lesson with a less-active who thinks he is no longer a member of the church. But... he still is. So that's awkward! Also, he is slightly in love with Sister Bishop and has proposed to her in the past. We're probably going to give him to the elders to visit from here on out, just to be safe. :)
But it was a really good lesson about President Uchtdorf's talk in conference, Come, Join With Us. We invited him to come back to church and as we were talking about returning to church, I had a really cool thought! Sometimes people leave the church because they feel like they aren't loved in the ward. But Heavenly Father loves us! And even if it feels like no one else notices, He misses us when we don't come to church.
That's the talk that we shared in all of our less-active appointments this week, and all of our less-actives responded really well to it! President Uchtdorf does a really good job of addressing the fact that we are all human, and we are not perfect. I think that many people who leave the church or struggle with their testimonies do so because they've seen someone in church do something un-Christlike. It's hard when that happens! But no one is perfect! So hopefully in the next few weeks we can bring some of our less-actives back.
We work with a lot of less-actives and I want you all to know, they are JUST AS important as investigators! And when they come back, it's JUST AS exciting as a baptism. Let's be honest, everything about missionary work is pretty dang exciting!
On Tuesday we went to an appointment with a physical therapist for Sister Bishop, and... he did acupuncture! It was super weird seeing him stick needles into Sister Bishop's leg. I'm not sure how much I buy into acupuncture, and so far it hasn't done much to help her, but we shall see what comes of it!
That day we also took a bus to an outlying area to visit a less-active who was referred to us by his sister. He wasn't home, but we talked to his wife who isn't a member and she told us to come back when he isn't working! So come back we shall next Monday night.
While we were out there, and since we don't get to go that far out very often (for clarification - our area is very big and in order to reach some of it, we have to take long bus trips or trains which can be very expensive so we don't get to do it that much!), we did some door-knocking in the area. It was really good! We had some great conversations with people and they were all very nice to us. And since we have a reason to go out there (to visit our less-active!), we can spend some more time knocking and contacting which we feel really good about!
We had a meeting in Fredericia (down in Sydjylland) where all of the new missionaries and their trainers came together to talk about their experiences so far! I SAW SISTER GRANT AND SISTER HALE!!!! Oh it felt like heaven to see them again. It was SO FUN to catch up with each other and see their beautiful faces! They're doing so well! I'm a little jealous because they're both on Sjælland (that's the island where Copenhagen is) and in the same zone as each other so they see each other all the time, but then again I love love love being in Aalborg!
|Seeing Søster Grant and Søster Hale! (my MTC companions)
At the end of the meeting President Sederholm shared a spiritual thought that really touched my heart. Haha I sound like a Grandma! But it really did get me. He shared the story of Hannah and Samuel from the Old Testament. Hannah hadn't been able to have children, so she prayed to the Lord to have a child and told Him that she would give her child to His service. The Lord blessed her with Samuel! She raised him up until he didn't need her anymore, then she sacrificed her time with him so that he could be the Lord's servant.
President Sederholm related that to us as missionaries. So you, Mom and Dad, prepared me to be a missionary and a representative of Jesus Christ, and when I was ready to go, you sacrificed your time with me so that I could come out here to Danmark and serve the Lord. And now it's my responsibility to serve with all my heart, might, mind and strength. So that I can be like Samuel and, when the Lord calls me, say "Speak, Lord, they servant heareth." I love it! Thank you for being so supportive and willing to send me here.
Ya know, before I came here I was told a lot of negative things about serving a mission in Danmark. That it would be really really hard, and no one would listen to us, and that I would maybe plant seeds but never see anyone actually join the church. It's not true! Serving a mission is only really hard, not really really hard. ;) People do listen to us. Our schedule is full and we have really great investigators. There are baptisms happening all over the mission and this week we're going to commit two of our investigators (a married couple) to baptism with a baptismal date.
|Another really pretty church in downtown Aalborg.
And, I just remembered, this week on either Friday or Saturday our Ward Mission Leader has arranged for Sister Bishop and I to be interviewed by a TV program! Uh... let me just say that any and all prayers would be appreciated because I'm still not actually that great at speaking Danish, much less answering questions about being a missionary in Danish on TV. ;) Good luck to us!
Mom, I got your package! I love having my winter coat - it's like having a little bit of home. And you TOTALLY read my mind by sending cheez its! I have been missing those delicious crackers so much! I loved it. Thank you so much. Sister Bishop and I are going to do facial Friday with the facials this week! Woo woo!
|Cute stone-walled church in an outlying area.
Anyways, it's been a great week and I am getting a lot more comfortable talking with people on the street! I'm getting so much better at seeing my purpose as a missionary and actually doing it. I'm working really hard on following the Spirit and I have seen it working!
We had a lesson with a less-active on Saturday morning who has a REALLY strong, amazing testimony, but lives really far away from church and up until recently hasn't really had a way to get there. We were talking with her about starting to come to church and I felt a really strong prompting to tell her how much I looked up to her for how strong she has stayed even though she can't go to church, and how much her testimony has helped me. She started crying and gave me a really big hug! It was so surprising and such a great moment! I can't wait until we have our next lesson with her.
About the bike - unfortunately, I mentioned the yellow bike to the ægtepar (senior couple) because it's in their storage unit and I needed to use their key to get it out. They were so excited to hear that they have bikes in their storage unit, that they're going to use them! So... I can't actually take the bike. Desvar. Which means that next week we're going to Bilka (I think it's kind of like Target or Wal Mart) for to buy me a bike! Sister Bishop got hers for 200 dollars so that's kind of what I'll be looking for. Anyways, fun times! I can't wait to be able to actually bike hopefully, when Sister Bishop gets better! :)
PS don't mind my awkward little self in all the pictures. I'm just not very photogenic, ok?!


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NASA will pay $US5000 for your best ideas on what you'd need to survive on Mars | Business Insider
NASAs mission to put humans on Mars now includes crowdsourcing ideas about how they could survive the 500-day resupply schedule while living on the Red Planet. Today, the agency announced it would award three $US5000 prizes, asking members of the public to write down their ideas, in detail, for developing the elements of space pioneering necessary to establish a continuous human presence on the Red Planet." This could include shelter, food, water, breathable air, communication, exercise, social interactions and medicine, but participants are encouraged to consider innovative and creative elements beyond these examples.
If youre interested, your idea for a surface system should be technically achievable, economically sustainable, and minimize reliance on support from Earth." NASAs aiming for humans to step onto the surface of Mars some time in the 2030s. It officially launched its Next Giant Leap programme in December last year, taking the wraps off the next-generation Orion spacecraft and announcing that the Space Launch System (SLS) launching it will be the largest rocket ever built.
NASA is currently running its Evolvable Mars Campaign, which deals with how to break apart habitation challenges both in transit to Mars and on its surface. And astronauts aboard the ISS are currently researching the health impacts of extended space travel. The agency hopes to build reusable space capabilities and in maintaining a permanent human presence in deep space, it hopes humanity be able to push out into the solar system to stay.
Youve got until June 7 to pitch your ideas.


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Kevin George and Samuel Johnson, the two teenagers who police say were nabbed with a haversack that contained grenades, an M-16 assault rifle and ammunition, were yesterday found guilty of the crime by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
George, 18, of Lot 21 Castello Housing Scheme and Johnson, 17, of Lot 158 Curtis Street, Albouystown, had both pleaded not guilty to the charges. They will be sentenced on Tuesday.
According to the Chief Magistrate the court reached its verdict based on the testimony offered by the police ranks, who had observed the activities of the two youths on January 22. It was alleged that on that day, the two young men were walking along Aubrey Barker Road when a police patrol observed their suspicious manner. They noticed that George handed a bulky black bag to Johnson, who upon seeing the ranks approaching, dropped the article. The two were later subsequently apprehended and the illegal articles were discovered.
Magistrate Sewnarine-Beharry related that a constable established the articles in their possession were in fact explosives with detonators which the youths had in possession without legal permission.
Defence counsel for George, Peter Hugh, asked that the sentence for his client be the bare minimum. However, Prosecutor Bharat Mangru countered this statement by positing that the sentence should take cognisance of the fact that the youth possessed 61 rounds of ammunition and he asked that the sentence be used as a deterrent for others.
This motion was rejected by Hugh, who explained that George, a first time offender, should not be subjected to this reasoning as sentences should not be based on the amount of rounds in his client's possession, He added that numerous crimes are committed everyday regardless of those who are serving sentences which were meant to deter them.
Roysdale Forde, counsel for Johnson, echoed Hugh's call for minimal sentencing and also requested a probation report for his client. Since there was no probation officer available, sentencing for the teens was postponed until next Tuesday.


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The honorable Mr. hanauer tells the truth when he says that confident consumers are the job creators. Hiring more workers is the last thing a business wants to do. It only hires more workers when demand, demands it. He also puts a nail in the President Reagan "Trickle Down" economic theory. He points out with a graph, that since the rich's income has been driven up so much by the Republican's reducing their fare share tax contribution to TeamAmerica, we should be swimming in jobs, were not.
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About a month ago, I was cruising Gamespot (something I do more often than I'd like to admit) when I came across an article about how a lot of sequels were coming out and being talked about when they made reference to Baldur's Gate III. That's right all you long time gamers who hadn't heard about this yet, it looks like a Baldur's Gate III is in the works. This, or course, made the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I clicked the link faster than you can say "Bob's your uncle!" and got nothing but,
And a quote from Baldur's Gate II. And that was it. No link. No real information. Just the BG skull and a quote. That was cool though. I knew that BGIII was being worked on, and that was good enough for me.
Last night, I visited Gamespot again, and remembered BGIII and how I wanted to know more about it, so I looked it up. Nothing really, but I did find a link back to where the skull and quote were. Sure enough, more information existed. Is BGIII coming out? Yes, but not for a while. More information had come out about what they are during currently, and what was it? Remaking Baldur's GateI and II, including expansions. The website reads, "Running on an upgraded and improved version of the Infinity Engine, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition™ will include the entire Baldur's Gate adventure, the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion pack, and never before seen content including a new adventure and new party member."
I don't know if I can fully express how excited this made me. I didn't game much growing up, but I did get Baldur's Gate I and II, and loved both of them. I remember playing for hours, soaking in the story, trying to talk my way out of conflict, and listening to Smashing Pumpkins in the background. It had wonderfully memorable characters, and the idea that more characters are coming only makes me happier.
The big drawback, and why I felt like posting something about this: they have only announced one platform. Those who know my gaming habits are probably thinking it's coming out on Playstation, because I don't own one. Oh, no. Not yet anyway. The only device (and that's what it should be called) that has been announced is the iPad (it honestly took me a while to finish typing that). I don't own an iPad. I've never wanted an iPad. I have no use for an iPad, until now. but I'm certainly not paying $500 just to play Baldur's Gate.
So, this is my call to Overhaul Games and Atari: PLEASE, have it come out on Xbox Live. If and iPad can handle the game, Xbox Live could. I would gladly download it. It's a game that should be regularly paused to decide tactics in battle, so I'd gladly use Left Trigger (or whatever) and use my joystick as a mouse. I have no problems with that. I don't even care if it comes on PC, I just want it on Xbox Live. Anyway, if you're a non-gamer, and still read through all this, thank you. If you are a gamer, are you as excited about this news as I am? Let me know in the comments.


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OKWIT is ready to #IGNITEandINSPIRE and kick off your summer with a preview of the amazing and thought provoking film Code: Debugging the Gender Gap by Robin Hauser Reynolds. Come see this amazing film which discusses the need for women & under-represented groups in STEM and why it's harder than ever to get great talent to work in tech.
CODE Synopsis – Tech jobs are growing three times faster than our colleges are producing computer science graduates. By 2020, there will be one million unfilled software engineering jobs in the USA. Through compelling interviews, artistic animation and clever flashpoints in popular culture, CODE documentary examines the reasons why more girls and people of color are not seeking opportunities in computer science and explores how cultural mindsets, stereotypes, educational hurdles and sexism all play roles in this national crisis. Expert voices from the worlds of tech, psychology, science, and education are intercut with inspiring stories of women who are engaged in the fight to challenge complacency in the tech industry and have their voices heard. CODE aims to inspire change in mindsets, in the educational system, in startup culture and in the way women see themselves in the field of coding. View Trailer


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Leslie also read (and reviewed) Cat Patrick's debut Forgotten and LOVED it. She is eagerly awaiting to read more by her.
As a little girl, Daisy Appleby was killed in a school bus crash. Moments after the accident, she was brought back to life.For more info about Cat Patrick and her books, visit her website. Click on the cover to go to the book's Goodreads page.
A secret government agency has developed a drug called Revive that can bring people back from the dead, and Daisy Appleby, a test subject, has been Revived five times in fifteen years. Daisy takes extraordinary risks, knowing that she can beat death, but each new death also means a new name, a new city, and a new life. When she meets Matt McKean, Daisy begins to question the moral implications of Revive, and as she discovers the agency's true goals, she realizes she's at the center of something much larger -- and more sinister -- than she ever imagined.
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"We are delighted to once again receive this recognition from Food Logistics magazine," said Brad Huff, EVP and General Manager of TAKE Supply Chain. "Our food and beverage customers face a growing number of challenges. We are honored to have long-standing partnerships with some of the world's leading brands and to provide solutions that drive their ongoing supply chain improvements. Delivering innovation, focus and an unparalleled commitment to the success of our customers remains our top priority."
"Developments in the software and technology sector are generating new opportunities for growers, food manufacturers, grocery retailers and the many logistics providers that support them," notes Lara L. Sowinski, editor-in-chief at Food Logistics. "Moreover, cloud-based solutions and mobile connectivity are helping create tools that are more flexible, affordable and responsive, making software and technology even more valuable to those in the global food supply chain."
Over 150 companies applied for this year's FL100+, more than any prior year. The FL100+ is designed to serve as a resource guide for the readers of Food Logistics. Companies who earned a spot on the FL100+ list are featured in the November/December 2015 issue of Food Logistics, as well as online at http://www.foodlogistics.com.
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We knew Teen Mom 2 star Chelsea Houska's ex Adam Lind and Taylor Halbur welcomed baby Paislee Mae (yeah, that name ...wow) back in September, but it wasn't until now that we got a glimpse of little Aubree meeting her half sister for the first time.
MTV shared a sneak peek of the heart-stoppingly cute moment, in which Aubree delicately holds the baby and declares, "I'm your big sister!" And it only gets more adorable from there.
Check it out ...
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So sweet, right?
We know Chelsea doesn't adore the idea of Aubree spending lots of time with Adam and Taylor, but in light of just how excited her little girl is to be a big sis ... and perhaps more recently, considering the tragic and terrifying accident Adam just went through, let's hope they can find a way to make peace and amends to move forward as one big happy family. At least for the sake of these two precious sisters!
Do you think Paislee and Aubree are destined to be super-close sisters, despite their parents' troubled relationship?
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Monday, October 29, 2012
15 Things A Beginning Cyclist Should Do
I have a new piece for active.com online now. You have actually already read it, it's the Things a New Cyclist Should Do blog I wrote a few weeks ago. I liked it so I sent it to my editor, who also liked it and put it online. So even though you've already put it into your eyeholes and brain matter I'd appreciate if you clicked on the link anyway so active knows people read my stuff. Someday I will be famous. Then they'll see! You'll all see! Bwaahahahahahah!!!!
Seriously, click the link. This one here. Thanks.
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One of the most televised and attended events in Utah's history takes place today, when Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the LDS Church, is buried at 11am. With no disrespect to Hinckley, whom I have great admiration for, or the significance of his passing, three stories in today's Salt Lake Tribune illustrate how those of us who don't practice the dominant religion find it perplexing to live alongside its fervent participants.
1) This BYU baseball star has, according to the paper, been kicked off the team for not attending church enough. If you read the article, he claims he's attended his Provo ward six of the past 11 Sundays, missing only when he attended another ward, came to SLC for General Conference or was ill. I'm sure there's more to the story, but if anything less than 75% attendance gets you kicked off the baseball team, isn't that a little strict? Can anyone tell me if the Jim McMahon's of BYU history attended church so diligently? On the other hand, a more cynical observer immediately thinks, "It's probably drug abuse or alcohol indiscretion, but they're covering it up and blaming it on church attendance." Which doesn't make it better, but smacks of a pervasive culture here to make things look nice on appearance, regardless of true circumstances. This frequently is raised in the much more serious realms of prescription drug abuse and rape.
2) Now this guy reflect the other side of the prism - non-Utahans who just can't come to grips with the dominant religion's influence on state institutions. He argues that we shouldn't fly the flag at half mast for Hinckley since he wasn't a veteran and never served in public office. Point taken, but such blurring or church and state is an unfortunate byproduct of life here at LDS World Headquarters. I had the same thought initially as the letter writer, but it's not likely to change any time soon. Don't agree? Move back to Oregon.
3) Finally, in the "yes, you have good intentions, but your business is ILLEGAL" department, there's this story rife with hypocrisy. Recently, a dude named Thompson was arrested for soliciting teen girls for sex. Turns out he was the manager of a video store that was shut down by the feds because it was cleaning up Hollywood films (deleting the sex and violence, dubbing over off-color language, etc.) and then renting them to clean-minded citizens. Too bad Hollywood thought that this was an egregious violation of their copyright, and the courts agreed. Anyways, the guy who launced the Clean Flicks brand and concept (and lost to Hollywood) is suing the sex offender for defaming his good name. He's trying to relaunch his video store with only G- and PG-rated movies (and no porn studios in the back). Whatever.
OK, off to buy skis for the boys while 30,000+ head to the funeral and millions more watch on FIVE different networks.
By the way, I get a break from shoveling. It didn't snow last night! But a "major" storm is due tomorrow.
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Things are going well for Kanye West and adidas. Not only has he designed over 20 sneakers for the brand, per his own admission, but he's all rubbing elbows at the brand's parties.
With Paris Fashion Week going on, adidas threw a party last night, January 16, in Paris for the re-release of the Stan Smith. And, surprise, Kanye was in attendance.
Does this mean that a Yeezyfied-Stan Smith is on the way? It wouldn't the first time that someone else's name was on the sneaker.


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1 Maccabees 7 – It is 161 BC. Demetrius, a son of Seleucus and older brother of Antiochus IV, challenges Antiochus V and Lysias. Demetrius had been the true heir of Seleucus but had been held as a hostage in Rome; his younger brother had used this as an opportunity to seize the throne. In 161 Demetrius escapes Rome and is here trying to reestablish his authority over the kingdom.
The young Antiochus is killed along with his protector, Lysias, and Demetrius takes the throne. The "godless men" of Israel - the Hellenistic party – led by man named Alcimus join him.
The first thing he does is accuse the brothers Maccabee of hurting the kingdom. Demetrius sends a friend, Bacchides and also Alcimus, whom he made High Priest to bring order. Alcimus is of the tribe of Aaron, and the Hasideans [anti-Hellenists] trust him foolishly. He seizes 60 of them and kills them in one day. Bacchides puts Alcimus in control of Judah and returns to the king. The people who join with Alcimus and try to control the land of Judah do great damage. Judas begins to take revenge on those who are part of Alcimus' regime. Alcimus turns to the king eventually for help with Judas.
The king sends Nicanor, an honored prince who hates Israel and tells him to destroy the resistors. The people try to placate Nicanor, but he tells them if they don't turn Judas over, he will burn the Temple. When the armies of the two meet, Nicanor is crushed. They cut off his head and right hand and put them on display. The Jews gain another holiday to celebrate.
2 Timothy 1 – Paul encourages his "dear son" Timothy to be patient and faithful even in the face of opposition and suffering. He recalls Timothy's "sincere faith . . . the kind of faith that your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice also had" (1:1). He tells him not to fear the suffering that might come as it has come to Paul. He speaks of how "everyone in the province of Asia" has deserted him (1:15). Phygelus and Hermogenes are mentioned, but we know nothing specific about the reason for their hostility.


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I found a trivet like this at my mother-in-laws house and thought "I can make this!" So I brought it home, looked at it, and looked at it … and looked at it somemore. After about two weeks of just looking at it my granddaughter and I figured out how to set up the router and proceded to make dust.
We used recycled maple (from the first furniture my wife and I purchased 44 years ago) burr oak and walnut.
-- "How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatos, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
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#1 posted 11-09-2009 03:37 AM
Great looking trivets. I found the exact same thing the other day and my wife wants me to make some. Guess what I'll be doing in my spare time this week….........LOL How big are yours? I'm looking to make mine about 6" sguare.
-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps
#2 posted 11-09-2009 03:43 AM
Mine is a 7" by 7" it works for most casserole dishes. and the old lady's fry pan lol!
-- "How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatos, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
#3 posted 11-09-2009 04:07 AM
Thanks. Sounds like we are in the ballpark as to size….................LOL
-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps
#4 posted 11-09-2009 04:28 AM
very nice. I like those.
#5 posted 11-09-2009 04:53 AM
Love it and I need a trivet or two! Perfect timing!
Looks great!
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#6 posted 11-09-2009 07:29 AM
Nice… sometimes it takes a while for the light-bulb to warm up. hahaha
-- I didn't go to college, I was too busy learning stuff - Ted Nugent
#7 posted 11-09-2009 10:55 AM
These are similar to ones I made 15 or 20 years ago from plans in Woodsmith Magazine, but the grooves were rounded with a core-box bit. Yours look squared. you might try the core-box bit instead – easier to clean tuna noodle casserole out of rounded grooves… They also had a modification of the design for round trivets. Those were the challenging ones. I made a lot of kindling getting that process down. (But only because I don't follow plans very well. I take "short cuts" that either cost me time or even the project itself.)
Nice work…
-- Many things in this life can be taken from you. Your integrity is not one of them. It's yours until you give it up... Steve, Bakersfield, CA
#8 posted 11-18-2009 09:58 AM
Neat, they cover this in therouterworshop.
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The manifestation of your genetic form is your choice. If you are really fat, you can choose to not be fat. If you are scrawny, you can choose to increase your muscle mass. It might be much harder for you than someone else who is "blessed" with genetics that predispose them to whatever figure that you want. If you want to lose weight, your genetics might necessitate a diet of beans, chicken, and carrots for the rest of your life. Is that fair? No. It's not fair. It sucks. But just because the choice is more difficult for you doesn't mean that the choice doesn't exist.
Previously, I put the word "blessed" in marks because it's not necessarily a blessing. Lots of medical research shows that people who are super-skinny regardless of diet are prone to dying of every malady imaginably, aside from diabetes, than those who are predisposed to weight gain. Being predisposed to extensive muscle growth burns more calories Having a healthy pile of fat on your body makes you more likely to survive extended medical problems. Being fatter keeps you warmer than someone with a BMI of 4. These are legitimate advantages and only get glossed over in our image-conscious popular world.
But back to the concept of choice. Much of how you look is determined by your genes. The extent to which certain aspects of your genes are represented is a choice, though. Again, in our image-conscious world, helped along by a healthy dose of religious moralizing, the opposite of the ascetic existence, one in which we indulge pleasure and taste, is seen as necessarily bad. Think about that. When you eat a slice of cake instead of doing sit-ups, you are making a choice. You are choosing that the pleasure of eating that cake is of higher value to you than not eating the cake and conserving caloric intake.
This is not an inherently bad choice. It is our society that tells you that it's a bad choice. You are being a bad person for indulging your desire for pleasure. It's one of the sins, and was written explicitly by Saint Thomas Aquinas as something to be avoided. We eat to live, we don't live to eat. But why? Why shouldn't we live to eat? It's great! We don't do it because abstinence in all things is the Christian ideal, which gets us closer to God. If you don't happen to believe in the Christian god, then you're hosed, because you're still subject to the social expectations that this ingrained value programming has injected into the zeitgeist.
Problems for people arise when they choose cake and then feel bad about it. They then get sucked into diet scams. I went to Amazon and searched for diet products in the Health and Beauty section. I found over 4,000 items. Certainly not the largest section on Amazon, but remember, NONE of these products have been shown in a reputable study to be any better than simply eating a better diet. That's why they all, I'd wager 100% of them, if they make a claim about weight loss on the packaging, print in absurdly small print a disclaimer saying that this must be combined with an exercise routine. It's a scam. Plain and simple. You might very well have lost weight with these products, but I say with nearly complete certainty that the product had nothing to do with it, it was you and your dedication to a healthier lifestyle. On a funny note, I found the pictured Atkins mix to so resemble a bag of "Atkins Chow" as to warrant a new package design firm.
If you want to be thin, and you can't seem to manage it, you have to move even further towards the ascetic lifestyle of 24/7 salads. You might NEVER be able to eat cake. Cheese, cookies, pastries; they're all right out. But no matter what you tell yourself, you can be thin. Jogging five miles, every day, salads with grilled chicken every day. That doesn't sound like something that I'd like to do, frankly, and if that's what you would need to get thin, then that's unfortunate, but still your choice. You are making the choice to continue eating cake, cheese, and cookies. And that's not bad! If I had to make that choice, I'd pick cake on any day of the week. But I am making the choice explicit and do not regret my choice. I embrace it.
That being said, very few people need to make that choice. Do you have a glandular or hormone problem? No you don't. You're lying to me and to yourself. Alright, yes, some of you certainly do have medical problems that result in your body turning even carrots into fat. People with severe glandular problems make up less than 1% of the population. People with moderate glandular problems and depression included only bring that number up to 1%. That means you are fat because you are making the choice to be fat.
Weight loss is a simple equation of fewer/better calories and more exercise. Every day. You need to integrate it into your life. Going to the gym once or twice a week will DO NOTHING. You need to go every day and make a fundamental shift in your diet. If you can't find anything that is acceptable on a daily basis, then you either need to change your expectations or accept the fact that you are choosing to not lose weight. I've lost nearly 50 pounds from my greatest weight of 260 pounds. I woke up early to make sure I was able to eat a high-fiber breakfast. I made sure to walk or jog multiple miles every day. I stopped drinking sweetened drinks of any kind. I do pushups and pullups randomly throughout the day. I integrated all of this behavior into my day. It stopped being exercise and diet and simply became part of my life. If you can't do that, stop fooling yourself. You'll fail, and then you'll go back to complaining about how you can't keep the weight off.
I have been discussing fat at this point, but many of the same criticisms also apply to those who wish for greater muscular definition but find it hard to achieve. Some people can lift a weight once per day and look like Hercules. Others can lift weights all day long and still only see middling results. These people have it easier than those who are overweight because of our focus on an ascetic ideal, but it can still be difficult for them.
These poor saps are taken for a ride in ways that dieters aren't. Magic pills and powders intended to make you FREAKIN' 'UGE sell for silly amounts of money and usually don't do anything. At least lots of the diet foods out there are still food. It might be terrible food, but it's at least a meal. Pills, powders, shakes, creams, bars, and all of the other things promising you an Arnold-like physique only work with extreme work-outs, and then you don't need them. The difficult part is already done. Just eat chicken and rice.
Our world is an Eden of excess. Our primordial drives don't know what to do with what we've wrought. Food and pleasure is everywhere, so we indulge it. We then feel bad about it. The problem is not the desire, or even the indulging, it's the regret that we as a society feel afterward. We eat like crazy and lie about, then we say that we simply can't avoid it! We say that we'd have those six-pack abs, only if this or that was different. We'd be thin, only if. We'd run every day, only if. All excuses for a choice that you are making but then pretending like you didn't. No. You made the choice, and it's time to stop whining that you did so.
My father has given me a few choice pieces of wisdom. I'd say the one that has had the greatest effect on me is that a loser is not defined by what they have achieved in life, but whether they whine. If you spend all day long complaining, it doesn't matter whether you live under a bridge or in a palace, you're a loser. By rendering the choices we make explicit and taking responsibility for them, we lose the ability to whine and complain, because it was our choice. It is our power. And they are our bodies.


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I had to go to the DG Market and decided to take a few pictures on the way home.
Welcome to my world. Such that it is. Out here, Among The Joshua Trees.
I had to go to the DG Market and decided to take a few pictures on the way home.
I made a run to the Rite Aid for Missus ORPO and these were in the sky. We are actually located in the Fremont Valley and not the Antelope Valley.
I took these on the way home from Lancaster this afternoon. It was snowing when we left but this one was really heavy duty.
I took these on Friday. It was in poor light with a very low battery in the trusty old Nikon.
I stuck my head out in the chill and grabbed a few shots with the Galaxy Note 7.
It was quite crisp and cool but there was no wind to speak of for a change.
It was a pleasant morning and I took the liberty of spending time on the front verandah at Casa de Sharon y Glenn here in the Southeast Kern County Desert.
When I stopped at the Shopette on Edwards AFB this morning to fuel the Titan, I discovered that they had a small variety of decent cigars………………
California's third-largest city by area is an urban-planning disaster, a sprawl of empty grids that aspired to become a megacity—and failed. But as the desert works to reclaim the land, it's become a mecca of another kind.
Rosecrans Baldwin
As most of you readers know, this is where I live. Here is a story from Mental Floss that details it.
This story originally appeared in the July/August 2016 issue of mental_floss magazine.
"It was June in the Mojave desert and the sun was blistering. The land around me was empty, scorched, and flat, dotted by brush and the occasional piece of windswept trash. Judging by the map, the intersection where I'd stopped was a busy crossroads between two major thruways. But when I shifted into park in the middle of the road, no one honked. No one looked at me funny. I hadn't seen another car in an hour at least.
It was probably the safest intersection in America to pull over and take a nap.
According to the map, I was surrounded by cul-de-sacs and neighborhoods. In reality, there was nothing but sand and more sand—and roads. Endless roads. Roads in all directions, marked by white fence posts and the occasional lonely pole. Some were paved. Some were dirt. Some had long ago been reclaimed by the encroaching sand.
California City, California, is the third-largest city by area in America's third-largest state, and most of it barely even qualifies as a ghost town—a ghost town needs people to have lived there first.
California City is a ghost grid"
The big fire down by Santa Barbara is at 4,000 plus acres. This morning the smoke showed up in the Antelope Valley. At sunrise we realized it wasn't high thin clouds.
I had to fuel my pickup and stop at the exchange before heading home. When I left the exchange, I could smell the smoke. Jets taking off were disappearing in short order on climb out from the base.
On the way home, I broke out my Trusty Nikon and grabbed a few pictures at the California City Boulevard turnoff. I give you those pictures.
I also decided to include the link to the latest on the fire from KTLA 5 out of Los Angeles.
Brush Fire Burning in Santa Barbara County Grows to 4,000 Acres; 5 Percent Contained
Grabbed a few pictures on the way home this morning. The sky was clear and punctuated by the sound of jets overhead.
I had to get up in the bed of the Titan to get them as the shoulder on this part California City Boulevard drops off at a substantial angle. Not to mention that I am only 5'3″ tall……………..
I actually remembered to grab the Nikon so I could get some pictures.
The CA 58 is closed from Mojave to Bakersfield over Tehachapi due to the snowfall.
Our immediate forecast includes winds up to 75 mph according to the Wind Warning, with the rain. For those who think the desert is a dry and warm place should come here at this time of year………….
It has snowed a handful of times since we came to California. When I was working the ballast trains, it snowed at Amboy out there along the old 66/A T & S F in December of 2007.
I left the house earlier than usual as the sun does rise later in the latter half of August. I was lucky enough to catch the sun as it broke above the mountains to the East. I got a few of the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains to the East with the Grey Light Of Dawn hitting them and the hill on California City Boulevard as well.
It is interesting how the mountains to the East, West and South have a bluish tint in the early morning. The Air Force Rocket Lab is a bit ethereal at this time of day…………….
This Desert, where I live and work is an amazingly beautiful place.
In the mix is a BNSF Train going East to Barstow with three GE's on the head end and two GE's on the rear as pushers………………..22,000 Horsepower!


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About two years ago, I went through a really traumatic experience as a teacher. It just made me want to give up. It made me want to quit. All the stars had to align and things had to happen just the way they did or I am sure that I would have quit. I didn't ever think my heart would be completely in teaching again, and although I have healed more than I thought I would, I never did fully regain the heart for teaching that I had prior to that experience. I am more cynical, jaded, and skeptical because of what I went through.
At the time, and for a while after, I really believed it was a pretty unique experience. I am starting to realize that it is more unique in teaching to NOT ever have an experience like that.
I was talking to the other teacher at the training with me this afternoon and she was telling me about her experience like that and then the other teacher at the table chimed in about her experience like that. In this age of accountability we all get held accountable for things we don't deserve at some point. Most of us have anxiety that we will be held responsible for things well beyond our control. AND it is a reasonable anxiety.
It just made me wonder why we are all so quiet about these things. I started this blog because I needed to talk about that experience. It has grown into something more now, but I wish I hadn't thought I was the only one who experiences this kind of thing in teaching.


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1. The plaintiff-appellant brought a suit against the two sets of defendants, namely, defendants Nos. 1 to 10 who may be described as the Mandals and defendants Nos. 11 to 18 who may be described as the Chatterjees in order to have it declared that certain alienations made by her mother after the death of her father were invalid as affecting her reversionary right to her father's property. The Court of first instance decreed the suit with costs against both sets of defendants. Against the judgment and decree of the Court of first instance the Mandal defendants alone appealed to the lower appellate Court; the Chatterjee defendants did not appeal. The lower appellate Court reversed the judgment and decree of the Court of first instance and, dismissed the plaintiff's suit with costs in both Courts. The learned District Judge does not appear in his judgment to have recognised that the appeal was by one set of defendants only. The ground on which the lower appellate Court reversed the decision of the Court of first instance was that the plaintiff's claim involved two distinct and separate causes of action against two separate sets of defendants and, therefore, the suit was bad for misjoinder of causes of action. In arriving at that decision, the learned Judge relied on the judgment of this Court in the case of Ram Prasad v. Srimatee Sachi Dassi 6 W.N. 858. The decision in that case is, however, not in accordance with the decision of this Court in two other cases, namely, the cases of Ishan Chunder Hazra v. Rameswar Mondol 24 C. 831; Nundo Kumar Naskar v. Banomali Gayan 29 C. 871. The learned District Judge, in dealing with this question of misjoinder, remarks that the facts of the case of Nando Kumar Nuskar v. Banomali Gayan 29 C. 871 differ from those of the present case which, in his opinion, are similar to the facts of the case of Ram Prosad v. Sachi Dassi 6 C.W.N. 585. We do not think it necessary to discuss these decisions in full; for, we think that the point, on which the learned District Judge has set aside the judgment and decree of the Court of first instance, is, in fact, concluded by the judgment of the Privy Council in the case of Lala Rup Narain v. Musammat Gopal Devi 36 C. 780 : 13 C.W.N. 920 : 10 C.L.J. 58 : 3 Ind. Cas. 382 : 6 A.L. 567 : 5 M.L.T. 423 : 11 Bom. L.R. 833 : 19 M.L.J. 548 : 93 P.R. 1009 : 36 I.A. 103. That case was one brought by a reversioner to have certain alienations made by the widow set aside on the ground that they were invalid as against the reversioner's estate. In that suit were included four sets of persons in whose favour four different alienations had been made and the question was raised whether the suit was bad by reason of misjoinder of causes of action. That case is on all fours with the present case except that, in the present case, there are only two alienations which the plaintiff seeks to have declared invalid. In dealing with the question of misjoinder, their Lordships said that they thought it was very doubtful whether upon the strictest construction to be placed upon the Procedure Code, it could properly be said that there was any misjoinder in that case. Their Loraships went on to add: 'if there was any such misjoinder, Section 578 of the Code has, in their Lordships' opinion, the effect of preventing such defect from being made a ground of appeal and from being dealt with on appeal as it was dealt with by the Chief Court.' Following that decision of their Lordships of the Privy Council, we are of opinion that the present appeal should be decreed and the judgment and decree of the lower appellate Court set aside. We are unable to agree with the learned Judge that the present suit was bad for misjoinder of parties or that, of there had been any such misjoinder, the defect was not amply covered by the provisions of Section 578 of the old Code, which are reproduced in Section 99 of the new Code. We, therefore, set aside the judgment and decree of the lower appellate Court and direct that the case be sent back to that Court for being dealt with according to law. Costs will abide the result.
2. As the date of the institution of the suit appears to bathe 18th of November 1901, we direct that the lower appellate Court do, with the least possible delay, take up and dispose of the case.


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I came back here today.
I was checkin on my lists of beers I'd tried.
I nearly crapped my pants to find comments waiting for me.
I was so touched, that
like Ozzy Osbourne, I'm back for another tour.
Stay tuned for more hilarity. In the meantime though, enjoy my latest video blog effort;
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
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La Russa and McGwire Return to Cardinals
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Tony La Russa has signed a one-year contract to remain the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Mark McGwire will replace Hal McRae as the team's hitting coach. La Russa's contract is for one year and a mutual option for 2011. La Russa managed McGwire for the Oakland A's and the Cardinals. La Russa has managed the Cardinals to 8 postseason appearances and a World Series Title in 2006. He is also 3rd on the career wins list. La Russa had been deciding his future since the Cardinals were eliminated by the Dodgers in the NLDS. McGwire retired as a player after the 2001 season and has been involved with steroid allegations ever since. He fell short in the balloting for the Hall of Fame despite hitting 583 career home runs.


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Tonight, I put music on the AppleTV. & I caught myself skipping down the hallway. I was headed to undo my bed, brush my teeth, and blow dry my hair. Mundane tasks. But the songs that were playing made me want to skip, and sing, and dance, and cry. Happy tears.
I remember what its like to be truly, genuinely, 100% really hopefully happy.
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Review | Rimmel Kate Sculpting Palette in Golden Bronze8:31 AM
I'll admit it, I would love to have prominent cheekbones but then again I'm not blessed with them, and that's okay. So many beauty brands have come out with contouring/ highlighting products whether it be to elevate or add structure to the face. I have not been the biggest fan of contouring to start with, partly because I'm quite incapable of the buffing the contour products well to make it look subtle and natural. I end up disliking the big brown splotch on the sides of my face, so I opt for highlighting than contouring on most occasions.
When Rimmel London, one of my favorite beauty brands, released their sculpting kit, I knew I had to try it at any cost. Even if it meant I had to learn how to contour properly minus the kitchen utensils. ASOS had a sale back in April which is when I picked up the Kate Sculpting Palette in the shade No. 03- Golden Bronze. It was on sale for just $7.91- absolute bargain!. Apart from the Golden Bronze palette, there is also one other by the name of Coral Glow.
The palette contains:
Soft shimmer powder to highlight the cheek bone, brow bone, center of the chin and bridge of the nose.
Shading powder to contour the sides of the nose, jaw line and forehead.
Powder blush for color and definition.
I mean who wouldn't be attracted to that packaging. Mine is somewhat battered because I stuff it in my makeup bag which is on the verge of explosion. The palette comes with a clear lid with rose-gold diagonal lines separating the 3 shades. The purpose of the product as highlighter, contour and blush written on the lid in rose gold is a nice touch. It is compact and easy to carry in my makeup bag.
The details on application are illustrated on the back of the palette which I found to be a rather helpful addition.
The three shades in my palette compliments my tan skin tone very well. The highlighting powder is a beautiful champagne color. I have to say, it isn't the smoothest to touch, so I'm not the biggest fan of the texture. If you know how to work with it though application is not an issue. It lasts on average about 4 to 5 hours on me.
The contour powder is a neutral toned matte brown which I find is perfect to contour with. It is both smooth to touch and in application. It blends really well and I feel as if I don't have to work with the product for too long to make it look natural. It has good pigmentation, it's not a kind of in-your-face pigmentation, so it can be very forgiving. It lasts for about 5 to 6 hours on me.
The blush color is my personal favorite out of the three and I have been using it religiously. It is a beautiful iridescent pink shade with gold shimmer. On most days I skip the highlighter and just apply this instead because I find that owing to the gold shimmer, this can work both as a highlighter and a blush. It applies very smoothly and is easy to blend. In terms of pigmentation it isn't exactly what it looks like in the pan, as in you would want to pick up more product to get that pink. I personally don't go for bright pink cheeks, so the subtlety of this product works for me. This lasts around 6 hours on my skin.
|Totally went overboard with the highlighter on the cupid's bow.
If you are looking for a sculpting palette to create a natural everyday look, emphasis on natural, then absolutely. I think that blush alone is worth getting the palette for. Besides the palette is so affordable, it would be the perfect fit if you're new to sculpting or makeup in general.
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- "You are to man the outer perimeter with my Gorums. Warburton fears you are Imperial spies."
- ―Tormey
Warburton was the Wookiee commander of the rebel group that lived in the sub-facility on the planet Tol Ado.
In 0 ABY, Warburton was working alongside several escapees from the Deathblock, the Imperial prison on Tol Ado. His rebel group harassed Imperial patrols that swept through the sub-facility to attempt to recapture escaped prisoners. During one of their planned raids, Warburton was encountered by Luke Skywalker and his allies, Sidney Shortfang and Erling Tredway who had been discovered wandering through the sub-facility by Warburton's scout, Tormey. When Imperials began to attack the sub-facility, Warburton ordered Skywalker and his friends to defend the facility to prove they were not Imperial spies.
The attack was successful, but due to the incompetence of Erling Tredway during the attack, Warburton's men wanted to execute him. However, Skywalker gave Warburton evidence on a spy within their ranks. Warburton's lieutenant, Santo was revealed as a traitor, as Skywalker had seen him conspiring with Imperials. Warburton quickly had the Twi'lek executed for treason.
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Warburton was created by Troy Denning and appeared in one of the role-playing strands of the 1990 West End Games role-playing supplement Jedi's Honor. During the scenario, the outcome of the attack against the Imperials is dependent on the reader's choices. If Skywalker allows Tredway to botch the ambush, the attack does not fully defeat the Imperials, and Warburton's men are left to create a last-ditch defense plan against an better equipped Imperial force. If Skywalker stops Tredway from botching the ambush, the Imperials are soundly defeated by Tormey and his Gorums, leaving the sub-facility forces in a position of strength for the future.


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Before when digital camera is not yet usable, we have the film era days J. During these days we have no choice but to print out the photos and put it on a free album, yes free I remembered that time the more pictures developed the more chance to have an album for free. Anyway on this generation there are different gadgets that can be use to take a picture and even keep the file like for example digital camera. Because of this gadget we don't need to buy a film or print it right away to view the photos. We prepared to save our photos in the computer but I think it's still much better to print them out so you can view them from time to time. Imagine if you want to view your photo that has been saved in the computer there is a chance that a trouble will occur while viewing it, so I'm still considering to print the photos and make a photo book so viewing is no hassle at all. And aside from that you can make different design it's not just the usual album photo but something that you can treasure. Storing all your fondest memories in one photo book is much fun and you can even personalize it for your convenient.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Keeping memories on a photo book
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Nice article photo book is better than saving on computer coz its more cheaper.
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pretty well said sis...korek! I remember those days...ngayon very convenient na!
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Song of the Sea," an Irish animated feature by Tomm Moore (who also did "The Secret of Kells"). We've been waiting to see this film since we saw the poster and trailer for it at the IFC Center in NYC back in December. And, the wait was worth it. This film is so beautiful. The story is moving, the details are breathtaking, and, the soundtrack, perfect. The artwork and the characters are pure magic. We really loved every single second of it and I imagine we'll be watching it again. It's not your typical Disney fare, so if you're in the mood for something different, this might just be what you're looking for! :)
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Sam Bradford Has New Target As St. Louis Rams Trade For Mark ClaytonSeptember 6, 2010
The St. Louis Rams have acquired wide receiver Mark Clayton from the Baltimore Ravens today in a trade, shortly after the Ravens signed the recently-released T.J. Houshmenzadeh.
The Ravens have loaded up on offensive weapons this offseason, adding Pro Bowl wide receiver Anquan Boldin through a trade.
Additionally, they decided to take a chance on another wide receiver in Donte Stallworth, who was recently released from jail. The Ravens continued to bolster their offense by signing Houshmenzadeh, as well as adding rookie tight ends Dennis Pitta and Ed Dickson via the NFL Draft, to eventually take over Todd Heap's role.
Someone had to leave, and thankfully for the Rams they were able to trade for Clayton, in return for an undisclosed draft pick.
Clayton is entering his sixth season in the National Football League, and although he's never caught 70 passes in a season, he's a consistent and reliable target, which will be a great benefit to the young rookie quarterback Sam Bradford.
Throughout his career, Clayton has averaged over 13 yards per reception, so he will definitely be a "go to" guy when Bradford needs to move the chains.
The Rams were desperately in need of another option at wide receiver, due to the young and upcoming talented wide receiver, Donnie Avery, being placed on injured reserve, leaving Laurent Robinson as the No. 1 wideout in St. Louis.
Although Clayton is better suited as a No. 2 wide receiver, he will be a reliable target for a young quarterback who has a lack of weapons at his disposal.