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Sparkle Of Hope
It's been quite a while.
I guess it's hard when you're keeping contact with your first born a secret from all other family members.
Really - I'm just glad that I haven't been forgotten.
He's putting together a longer letter for me - about family and medical history.
I don't want to get my hopes up too high - but it's good to have some contact once more.
He also wants to call me this week - just to have a wee friendly chat - as it's been a long time since our last phone call. Hopefully we'll tee that up for Friday.
So - there is a spark - a faint glimmer of hope.
Fingers crossed dear friends.
Please send out your strength and happy thoughts to wee Possum this week.
I hope he doesn't break my heart like my mother/his wife has done too many times before.


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As I was sitting here on the couch beginning at 545 am thanks to our youngest who just has to get up and into our bed at about 515, I realized after having put the computer away that not only had I not produced my picks but I hadn't a clue on this week's matchups other than knowing it was a crap week - the worst, by far this year.
Boston College +17 at Florida State
Mark is correct, betting against FSU each and every week would prove profitable. They are targets. They are in many eyes, numero uno. They have that Heisman guy as their QB. BC has had a week off after losing to Louisville at home by 19. Is Florida State looking ahead to next week's game against in-state rival Florida? Could THIS be the week FSU finally stumbles and is shocked by the far less talented catholic fellas from the Northeast? It's highly unlikely but they'll cover.
Boston College
Missouri +3.5 at Tennessee
At 8-2 with a head scratching loss to Indiana, Missouri heads to Knoxville for the game of the day. At 5-5 Tennessee is fighting for its life and bowl eligibility. Should be an interesting one. For more insight and analysis on this one, give me a call today and I'll walk you through it.
Louisville +3 at Notre Dame.
Ahhhh fuck it. The implosion that is happening before our eyes in South Bend brings joy to many and literal madness to others. Why on earth would anyone bet against a "trend" of turning the ball over more than 3 times per game over the last 7 and simply not assume that trend is a habit, learned behavior that for whatever reason is impossible to alter for this team and more specifically their QB? Faith, I guess. Do you know this line started at -9? Touchdown Jesus H. Now, it would be very surprising if Louisville hasn't watched the tapes of the last month+ to learn how to score a shit ton of points against the Irish. I'm sure they did, but with adjustments and coaching of the young'uns that have had to fill in for the wounded, along with a W in the turnover battle, ND wins handily.
Mark is working today. Sucks to be him. Here are his picks.
Eastern Kentucky +30.5 at Florida
Finally, our long statewide nightmare is over. Will Muschamp is no longer the Head Coach of Florida Football. Well, technically he still is for another week but he's not coming back and, maybe, Florida will hire a coach who doesn't treat offense like the proverbial red headed step child. I think the Gators rally around Muschamp and give FSU a game next week. This week though? I expect a sloppy unfocused effort. Florida probably won't lose to EKU like they did to Georgia Southern in this spot last year but they're not winning by 4+ TDs. EKU.
Stanford at Cal +5.5
Missouri at Tennessee -3.5

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Vallée de Mai (May Valley) is home to the rare Seychelles Black Parrot, and it contains a well preserved palm forest made up of five endemic species, one of which is the Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica). Coco de Mer (sea coconut), also called double coconut or love nut, because of its unique shape exists presently only in two places, Praslin and Curieuse (both in Seychelles), with the largest intact forest of the fruit in the Vallée de Mai.
A 19th century myth claims Vallée de Mai was the exact location of the biblical Garden of Eden, and supposes the Coco de Mer to be the forbidden fruit (Coco de Mer is shaped like a woman's pelvis and buttocks). It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983, and is maintained by the SIF.


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Back in October, we celebrated our 2nd Annual Square Reunion with Jordan's friends & their wives in the ever fabulous
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Las Vegas, Nevada.
It was my first time ever going to Vegas & also my first time crossing or seeing, for that matter, the Hoover Dam (which I did not get a picture of or even get to get out of the car & see due to time constraints.) So we'll just pretend I haven't seen it yet. Better luck next time I suppose. Anyway, Meet
THE SQUAREVery cute aren't they!? Well the square happens to be a very lucky group of boys who met & married some pretty awesome girls.Now they are the Square Squared?
I don't know I get confused.
Okay so now that everyone is married & away at school or work, they try to plan something annually where we can all get together. Last year was the first year & we all went to Coronado Island, CA. This year we ended up in Vegas because Aaron & Jenna are living in Las Vegas while Aaron is working for Deloitte.
The night we arrived, Aaron treated us to dinner at Bucca Di Beppo.Thanks again Aaron & Jenna for dinner & everything else! You fed us & gave us a very comfortable air mattress to sleep on that fit perfectly in your dining area. I don't think anyone ever had such a good time & spent so little money in Las Vegas.
Total $ spent at the casino = $1.00
My favorite site to see was the Bellagio. The Bellagio has everything necessary to entertain. Of course the most spectacular site to behold was the fountains & the Dancing Water. AMAZING!!! And totally FREE!!!
We are anxiously awaiting...
and finally...Breathtaking at both Day& Night.It's incredible how Vegas can change these fantastic & beautiful structures during the day...to spectacular & indescribable masterpieces at night. This is the ceiling at the entrance into the Bellagio. There are 2,000 hand blown glass flowers! It is, I'm running out of words,very cool. Then there is the Bellagio Conservatory. They decorate the conservatory depending on the seasons. The next 3 pictures are all of the same room (the conservatory) & the pictures do not do it justice.
Everything I saw pertaining to the Bellagio baffled me. I was awed at the talent people have & by the many unique things people can create.
The last picture of the trees is particularly inspiring. The trees are actually fountains. The pitter patter sound they make & the appearance given off creates the idea that it's raining.
We only had 1 full day to see all the sites & honestly, that was enough time to see what I needed to see (& plenty of what I did not need to see).
We rode The Big Shot ride (located at the top of the Stratosphere) twice. Jordan & I also had the opportunity to go off on a wild goose chase to find the Venetian, which we did eventually find, so I could see the Gondola
(Thank you my love).
On that little adventure we happened to run into a Ghiardelli Chocolate Ice Cream Shoppe & enjoyed an ice cream sunday.
We never had one while in San Francisco because of the cold weather.
My first trip to Vegas was a success. We had a really good time & are excited to someday come back & maybe even enjoy staying at the Bellagio.
Pretty please Jordan?
Oh, & thank you Brittany for taking all the awesome pictures!


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I ordered all my books off Amazon this semester. I got some great deals. There was one though that never came. I waited until yesterday I emailed the seller and said "I have never received your book. Please rectify the situation or I will be forced to leave negative feedback." The next day he refunded my money with a note saying that he was sure he sent my book but is refunding my money anyway in hopes I would hold off of negative feedback till he figured out what happened. Then the next day I got a note from him saying "I have refunded your money. It looks like I did mess up on your order. I have ordered the book in a better condition from another source and am having it sent expedited. I hope this will allow you to avoid giving me negative feedback." Something to that effect anyway. :-) So, yeah. I got my cake and I'm eating it.
I have another story. This is sort of a success story, but it is actually a setback. I went to Cafe Rio yesterday with my gift card from Christmas. After waiting in line for a while I got my salad. I drove home and realized that they didn't include my house dressing. I also didn't have any salad dressing at home. Surprisingly (to me at least) I got really frustrated and mad. It really ticked me off that I had to drive back to Cafe Rio just so I could enjoy my salad. So on the way I called Cafe Rio. Staying on hold for 8 mins didn't help, however, it did give me the chance to decide that even though I wanted to be rude on the phone, it wasn't worth it for either party. So I just told them my situation and Whitney, the manager working at the time, put me on a list to get my next meal free. They also gave me two things of dressing.
Cool right? No. Despite getting the free meal, I was actually really disappointed in myself that I let such a little thing control so much of my mood and emotions. It was ridiculous. However, there is a bright side to this. I realized that I had really been stressed about Jonnie coming home from his mission and about another situation in my life. The dressing was just the catalyst. The fact though that I was so disappointed in myself for getting frustrated is a good sign though. After letting my emotions go like that for those few minutes, it made me realize that I used to be like this a lot more. Little things used to set me off. Just the fact that it seems very out of place that I got that frustrated is a sign that I have made huge progress the last 3 months. What do you think? Am I different? I hope so.
Anyway, I need to redouble my efforts on curbing my unhealthy emotions lately. Today actually, I had some really good thoughts run through my head and I decided that I want to start putting my tips and tricks on my blog. They may not work for everyone but I like the idea of sharing the insights one gains to others. There is actually a site called lifehacker.com that is similar to what I would like to see, but it is more tech based. I will post a couple tips in subsequent posts.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
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- Morebadger said...
good post...and yes it is 5:22 am. I haven't slept yet, but I have been introspective a bit. I found it suprising that my emotions towards one thing or another affect me on such a large scale. Learning where or what caused the affects is interesting and a good test of (i can't think of the word, but it is like...) clarity of self or site, possibly the ability to remove, analyse and change. I think that ability is amazing. sorry for the long comment, but I am up late thinking, so there ya go.
- January 21, 2008 at 4:26 AM
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MaggieMays "Pink Tourmaline Earrings" are designed with genuine Nigerian rubellite high quality pink tourmaline 2.2ct gemstones with a deep raspberry natural color set in 14K white gold stud earring settings. Pink Tourmaline are in a brilliant cut that shimmer red, pink, purple pleochroism of color depending on light source. The tantalizing pink tourmaline studs go well with every type of attire and are also a alternative October birthstone.
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HCL Treasures is having a Christmas in July Sale also, if you spend US $15.00 you get "Free Shipping", Use Coupon Code CIJ2012HCL! HCLTreasures is a husband and wife team that work together and have been creating all sorts of creation's; anywhere from ceramic pieces to crocheted scarves and baby blankets. They really enjoy designing bracelets and brainstorming new ideas. Lola and her husband have great interest in creating: Key chains, Dream catchers, Crosses, Rosaries, Pandora Style Bracelets, Lampwork Bracelets, Earrings,Scrabble Tile Pendants, Glass Pendants,Macrame Bracelets. With encouragement from family and friends, Charlie and Lola have been doing Craft Shows, Festivals, Home Parties and E-Parties. Here's a few design's that you will find at HCLTreasures:
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Swarovski Beaded Bracelet with Red White and Blue Bicones #737
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I hope you have enjoyed such a cheerful Christmas collection and a article about HCL Treasures studio who put wonderful ideas for your holidays!


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Citigroup co-President Manuel Medina-Mora has been telling colleagues that he is close to retiring as the Mexican unit he helped build fights fraud allegations, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
Bloomberg News reports that Chief Executive Officer Michael Corbat, who described a fraud discovered in Mexico as 'appalling' on Tuesday, respects Medina-Mora and the business he developed, the person said.
Medina-Mora turns 65 in August, and his retirement at that age wouldn't be a shock, the person said. The decision could be made in coming months, the person said.
Banamex, the Mexican division that has been held up as an example of profitable banking business at Citigroup, has suffered this year from fraud accusations, including one disclosed Tuesday.
Hit the link below to access the complete Bloomberg News article:
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Saturday, 1 September 2012
Pink Gem DT Card #54 "A Boy Thing"
Good morning I Hope you are all well,
As you read this I should be on my way to my holidays! Yay!
We are heading to Southampton to board our Cruise around the Mediterranean!
Yay! I'm so excited,
So this is a scheduled post, as it's the start of our new challenge
over at pinkgemchallengeblog This time the theme is "A BOY THING"
So here's my card,
I've used,
"Dragon Josh" Digi image from pinkgemdesigns
Coloured with Prisma pencils,
Nestabilities Circle and Scalloped Circle die,
So make sure you check out the fab work from the rest of the Design Team,
and the full challenge details at pinkgemchallengeblog
Thanks for having a look and as always your comments are really appreciated,
Hope you have a great weekend,
Wendy x
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- Sandra H said...
Oh you lucky girl Wendy enjoy your holiday and hopefully your weather is going to be better than we have been having here, Brilliant card too love the image and the design and the coloures used too! xx
- 1 September 2012 at 08:41
- Doreen said...
This is gorgeous...fabulous image and colours...have a great holiday.xxx
- 1 September 2012 at 08:48
- Pia S said...
What a sweet card for a little boy. Love the soft color tones and the beautifully colored image!
- 1 September 2012 at 08:53
- Donna Mosley said...
A verrrry cute card Wendy, love it! Hope you have a lovely holiday.
Donna x
- 1 September 2012 at 10:02
- Sue - bearhouse said...
Gorgeous card, such a sweet image and I love the colours and layout
Hugs Sue
- 1 September 2012 at 13:11
- coops said...
so gorgeous wendy.i love your colours and adorable image :D
xx coops xx
- 1 September 2012 at 21:35
- Wendy said...
Fabulous boys card Wendy, so cute.
Wendy xx
- 1 September 2012 at 22:43
- Sarah's Little Snippets said...
Enjoy your holiday Wendy! Love your card, perfect for a little boy :) Sarah x
- 2 September 2012 at 18:25
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Cream and pink Art Deco clutch evening bag
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The future of information interfaces
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing an innovative work environment specialized for the management of emergency responses. A PIE system consists of a combination of novel interactive interfaces that aim to transform the way stakeholders, ranging from first responders to policy makers to the public, engage with each other and with dynamic information.
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for the coming year. It is appropriate to recite psalms at the graveside and also the Memorial Prayer (El molei rahamim).
Judaism is a life-affirming and joy-affirming religion. At the same time, it recognizes the preciousness of each individual and for this reason prescribes rites of mourning that proclaim to the world the irreparable loss that a single death brings to the family, the community, the Jewish people, and the entire world. The laws of mourning also recognize the difficulty a mourner has in confronting the rupture of a valued relationship, the finality of death, and the emptiness left in its wake. Rites of mourning that take the mourner through the first few days, the first week, the first month, and the first year ease the transition, enabling him or her to come to terms with death and return to life in the real world in a gentle, incremental way.


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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Another Reason to Hate Jury Duty: Post Traumatic Stress
Much of the cable news business has been obsessed, over the last few weeks, with the murder trial of the mother accused of killing Caylee Anthony. It was a very highly publicized case when it first broke, and the trial has had lots of salacious details and conspiracy theories to keep Nancy Grace and the like buys for the foreseeable future.
Branching off in a different direction, CNN.com ran a piece yesterday about the symptoms often experienced by jurors following these trials. According to the article, some jurors in murder trials,
report symptoms reminiscent of post-traumatic stress disorder, such as flashbacks and intrusive thoughts. Whether you're in the courtroom or at home watching TV, repeated exposure to the details of a horrific events can lead to a phenomenon called vicarious traumatization -- you're so connected to a tragedy that you feel emotional trauma as if you'd been directly involved.To those of us in the trauma biz, this is not a particularly surprising phenomenon. In fact, it's so accepted that people hearing about trauma can themselves be traumatized that every training or workshop you go to through the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation includes a warning about the level of distress you can expect to experience. I don't know anyone who has been to significant numbers of these things (including myself) who hasn't found themselves unexpectedly upset by a role play or case study. Jurors have it worse, because they aren't just pretending something happened -- it really did.
What should we call what is going on with these jurors? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV,TR) is the bible by which mental illness is diagnosed. As the article states, these jurors have some of the symptoms of PTSD -- some of them may have all of them. has two relevant diagnoses listed as "official" psychological disorders that occur following trauma. But do they have PTSD?
By current standards, they can't. In order to have PTSD, the person must have
experienced, witnessed or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others.Most (but not all) diagnosticians would say that being on the jury in a grisly murder trial does not meet the threshold of being "confronted" with the event.
It just so happens, however, that the DSM is undergoing revision as we speak. The proposed guidelines for PTSD in the DSM-V define traumatic exposure as follows:
The jurors would most likely come under #4 in this definition. Their work, for the duration of their jury duty, is serving on the jury. They experience repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the murders. When the new manual comes out, they'll be eligible for a PTSD diagnosis.
The person was exposed to one or more of the following event(s): death or threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violation, in one or more of the following ways:
- Experiencing the event(s) him/herself
- Witnessing, in person, the event(s) as they occurred to others
- Learning that the event(s) occurred to a close relative or close friend; in such cases, the actual or threatened death must have been violent or accidental
- Experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the event(s) (e.g., first responders collecting body parts; police officers repeatedly exposed to details of child abuse); this does not apply to exposure through electronic media, television, movies, or pictures, unless this exposure is work related.
This raises two important points. First of all, it's absurd to think that what actually is going on for these people will miraculously change because a new book is published. This is somewhat like deciding that in order to be diagnosed with a cold, you now have to have a stuffy nose and a cough, whereas before you just needed the nose. Unlike a virus, bacterial infection or broken bone, there is no way to objectively define a mental illness. We classify disorders by symptoms, and every now and then we decide to reclassify. We pretend we're defining an actual thing, but really we're just describing what we see in people that have the thing.
The second, and perhaps more important point, is that most of these jurors will not have PTSD under the new definition, either. In addition to describing the symptoms and the definition of traumatic exposure, both the old and new guidelines require that the person experience
clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.This would mean that, for an extended period of time, their symptoms significantly interfere with their ability to love, work, have friends, care for children, etc. Thankfully, even those with symptoms will mostly not reach this threshold.
Just because they don't and won't have PTSD, however, doesn't mean they don't need or deserve support. One of the most helpful things courts could do is, following a grisly trial, sit the jury down and tell them they may have a rough time for a while. That way, if and when the symptoms come, people won't add thinking they're going crazy to their stress. I think it's the least we can do for those whose misfortune was simply to be civic-minded and conscientious enough to show up for jury duty, and fair enough to be chosen to hear the case.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
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Bilkent University has been ranked 46th in the inaugural Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, and among the top three universities in Turkey on the list.
The 2017 THE Asia University Rankings, which compile a listing of the top 300 universities in Asia, are based on the same criteria as the THE World University Rankings, but with modifications to better reflect the characteristics of Asia's universities. Employing 13 separate performance indicators, they judge world-class universities on the continent across all of their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The National University of Singapore ranked first.
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I've been counting the days, to this and tomorrow can't come soon enough! This week Torontonians have not one but three opportunities to experience the Dystopian Tour 2011. I am planning on heading to Yorkdale right after work with my bestie & fellow book blogger Jackie from My Ever Expanding Library.
Anyone else as excited as me for this? Are you planning on hitting up one of these stops? Hope to see you there!
Monday, May 16, 2011
The Dystopian Tour hits Toronto This Week
About Author Mel Boulrice
Mel created the book blog He Followed Me Home...Can I Keep Him? to share her love of reading. She is a number cruncher by day and word nerd at night.
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I'll be attending the Yorkdale one tomorrow as well... SO EXCITED! Maybe I'll get the chance to see you! :)ReplyDelete
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She: The Dangers of Dark Chocolate
His smile is so confident that it's almost arrogant, and it makes me blush to imagine what his lips would taste like.
"May I get you a drink?" The teeth gleam predator-like in his face.
"Thank you, no. I already have one."
Such a simple exchange: cliché even. So why does it make my heart race and my skin yearn for his caress?
"So I see," he replies. He himself is also a cliché: very tall, very dark in the expensive-chocolate way, extremely handsome. "Except that your drink looks like a pumpkin."
I laugh. "Of course it does. It's meant to look like a pumpkin. What with it being a Halloween party and all. Gina went to a lot of trouble to set the scene."
"She did a great job," he brushes an imaginary cobweb strand off his sleeve. "Tell me, does it taste like pumpkin too?"
His voice is rich and intense, like the soul of a double espresso. And his lips… his lips are driving my hormones wild with desire.
I take a languid sip of my cocktail, let the orange liquid coat my tongue and throat. "Now that you mention it…"
The way he looks at me makes me hungry, too. The small red horns -- his only concession to the dress-up theme -- hint at unspoken taboos. My kind of guy.
His hand, when it touches mine for a second, sends a wave of heat through my body. I don't even know this man, but his sheer magnetism can only mean one thing for me: trouble.
Make that Trouble with a capital T.
I sigh. That's not for me, I can't help thinking wistfully. I said goodbye to Trouble when I was twenty-one.
And now this man is threatening to destroy the peace I've worked so hard to attain.
"A girl like you should be drinking champagne," he says. "Soup cocktails are not enough challenge for you."
His eyes are flirting with me. Now is my chance to say that there is no champagne at my sister's party, to which he will suggest going to his place where he undoubtedly keeps a selection of bottles on ice, and then….
"A man like you is dangerous," I reply before my brain kicks in. Damn.
I expect him to ask why, but he surprises me. He takes my hand and places the briefest of kisses inside my palm. Electricity zips through me at the speed of light.
"Danger, madam, is my middle name." He turns to leave.
I want him so much it hurts. I know I could stop him with a single word. Instead, I watch the man who could have been the man of my life walk away from me.
I should be relieved.
I'm not. My body is tingling all over, my heart is pounding in my ears. Damn me and my silly sense of what's proper. Damn my parents, my upbringing. Damn it all.
I don't even have his phone number.
The pumpkin cocktail beckons with promises of oblivion and drowned sorrows. I swallow, drink up, grab another.
"There you are, Clare." It's my sister. "I've been looking for you. There is this guy, a very nice man, I work with him. Anyway, he spotted you and is now dying to meet you. Come, let me introduce you."
"Gina, I -" My heart is pounding in my chest. I'm sure she means the owner of the cutest set of buns. The one whose middle name is Danger.
As though in a dream, I follow her down the pumpkin-lined corridor and into the den.
"I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance," I hear a thin, gallant voice.
I don't even bother to raise my eyes. It's not him.
I can see why Gina described him as a nice man, though. Courteous, attentive, without an ounce of naughtiness in his body or soul. My parents would approve: a perfect son in law, somebody who would reign in their rebellious child. Gina chose well on their behalf.
In fact, he reminds me of my first real boyfriend. My family chose that one too. He was kind and eager to please me. He treated me like a queen. I almost died of boredom.
And now here stands his exact replica, chosen by my well-meaning sister.
Nobody cares if I want my man to have little red horns.
Disappointment bitter in my mouth, I excuse myself as politely as I can. Then, having waved goodbye to Gina, I make a point of inspecting every room.
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But my handsome devil is not there.
I try to tell myself it's for the best. Goodbye Trouble.
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I recently attended a bloggers conference in which one individual asked the presenter, "If PR isn't about spin, then what is it?"
That question could open up a whole can of worms, but what it implies is that PR professionals lack ethical standards. As a member of PRSA and a board member of the Hoosier Chapter, I pointed out to this individual, and the rest of the audience, that we have a code of ethics that the Society takes very seriously.
Unfortunately, there are some practitioners out there there giving PR a bad name because of their flawed ethical standards (or lack thereof). Perhaps you've been following the debacle around Sigg and whether its older-model water bottles contain BPA, or maybe you've heard about the PR agency that was having its interns post positive reviews of client apps on Apple's App Store. There was also a kerfuffle recently about a small PR firm's handling of accidentally CC-ing a pitch to several bloggers, journalists and industry leaders--the firm's reputation was shattered in minutes.
With these thoughts in mind, you are invited to attended the Hoosier Chapter's monthly luncheon meeting on September 9 (090909). The luncheon will star some of our own member professionals posing ethical dilemmas – real problems they have faced. The presenters will include Shari Morey of Batesville Casket Company, Inc.; Erik Johnson, APR, Fellow, from Borshoff; and David Shank, APR, Fellow, of Shank Public Relations Counselors.
The audience will be the ethics evaluators at each of your luncheon tables. Together, you and your colleagues will discuss the cases presented and create solutions to the problems posed.
PR educators Debra Worley, Indiana State University; Ray Begovich, Franklin College; and Jim Bright, Indiana University, will facilitate the table discussions.
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Location: Hilton Indianapolis, 120 W Market St (map/directions)
Parking: There is free parking at the Hilton on Market St. Parking vouchers will be available at the registration desk. Note: If the Parking Garage says, "FULL" please pull up and tell them you are with PRSA and you will be able to park there.
Time: Registration and networking -- 11:30 a.m., lunch -- 12 p.m., program -- 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Cost: Member, $25; Guest, $40; Student, $18
Note: Each attendee will receive an official copy of the PRSA Code of Ethics.


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From the time I've got contact grill I've gone crazy grilling anything and everything possible and every time I grill I am shocked to see the fat drip from the meat and I had been eating all that for such a long time, so guys wake up and check on what you are eating and get healthy. A small change in lifestyle can make a big difference.
Ingredients for Grilled Fish:
salt and pepper to taste
1 clove of garlic
1 tbsp of chopped parsley
dash of olive oil
fish fillet
toasted bread crumbs to coat
Pound all the ingredients and apply it over any fish fillet, and live it for half an hour and then dab it on the bread crumbs and remove off any extra. Grill on both sides till u get golden colour if required u can drizzle olive oil while grilling.
Ingredients for salad
2 tbsp of tomato
2 tbsp of apple
2 tbsp of onion julliens
half cup of parsley
1 small size cucumber roughly chopped
1 tsp lemon juice
pinch of thyme and pepper
1 tsp of olive oil
Just add all the ingredients in a bowl n toss.
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Monday, April 13, 2015
ImYaBoyBigD Ft. Young Scooter - Face It [Download x Promo Video]
Dip (formally known as ImYaBoyBigD) gears up for his new release "Lets Work Vol. 2" due out May 19th. The tape will be hosted by DJ Swamp Izzo, DJ Victoriouz, and DJ Lil Keem. Watch the in-studio video for "Face It" and download the song featuring Young Scooter's verse below.
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This guide seeks to be an inclusive hub for information, which is sometimes hard to locate, relating to Black. Asian and Minority Ethnic communities in the UK, particularly with reference to education but also as a way to provide a snapshot of some of the vast range of international resources available.
October is Black History Month. You will find the Black History Month website is teeming with activities, talks and events. The site also has some wonderful resources that you can tap into for your studies and/or for interest.
This guide was created to highlight some of the resources available which are of particular relevance to Black history and Black experiences of education. The resources detailed in this guide were identified through personal knowledge, via mailing lists and consultation with librarians and academics. It is hoped that the guide will be built upon as more resources come to light and that it may become a one stop shop for information on education relating to Black history and Black educational experiences.
Additionally, this guide includes resources pertaining to Asian educational experiences also as 'BAME' refers to both Black and Asian within the UK. Resources and organisations have been selected to illustrate the range and content available and encourage wider knowledge of and usage of these resources.


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Don't have any proper photos of this one as I only have the chassis to work on. Decided to leave the cabinet elsewhere. It's a big amp and I have little room!
I've worked on many of these. I quite like the sound of them. Big and trashy!
They are a bit tedious to work on. One needs the proper approach to get them right. In this case the amp didn't work at all. That part was easy (6EU7 tube in place of what should be a 12AX7!). The rest isn't difficult at all, you just need to be patient and re-cap the thing.
When I say re-cap I usually mean change those dried up electrolytic capacitors. That part is obvious and on one of these amps quite easy. But for these amps you'll need to change EVERY CAPACITOR along with every load resistor. They are noisy. Every Sanagamo cap was leaking or dead. The tremolo was completely dead. That entailed replacing an open 330k resistor along with all the tremolo circuit caps. Also need to replace the load resistors. The 6AU6 tube was good, they usually are.
Tremolo circuit:
The 330k 'feed' resistor I'll be replacing with a 25k trim pot. Once I got the tremolo to work it was simply weak. I reduced that resistor to 50k and it's way better, but it can be great so let's go for that.
More shots inside the chassis:
Phase inverter/driver circuit:
One of the peculiarities of these amps is the filament arrangement for the 12AX7 tubes. Those are D.C. and powered from the cathode resistor on the 6L6 power tubes. They are wired in series with about 28 volts going across both tubes. The nice part about this was I have 2 modern Tung Sol 12AX7 tubes that hummed under any normal arrangement. I couldn't sell them. But in this amp with the DC filaments they run nice and quiet.
Bloody modern tubes! Got a set of modern Tung Sol 5881 tubes I dropped in this amp. One is bad....
I couldn't find a schematic so here is one that has some similarities:
Tremolo circuit is 90% identical along with the preamp....
Amp runs pretty quiet now. These will never be as quiet as a good Fender but don't let that stop you from considering one. If you get one don't bother trying to trouble shoot the issues, just bank on spending a few hours replacing every cap and every load resistor in the house. No sense in playing whack a mole with your valuable time! And please don't buy into that "but the original sound" bullshit! You can buy carbon composition resistors all over the place now thankfully, and I like those Mojo Dijon capacitors for my signal path. Get in there, get your hands dirty and get it right! Worth the effort!
I can say the same with every other Silvertone amp I've worked on. They were pretty crappy amps to begin with but that is their charm. They used the cheapest parts available so 55 years later......


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Last night I did some work on the Answer Machine, and today I'm working on adding topic detection to AutoSummary.
Check out the entry in the Answer Machine project log for details about its new functionality. As for AutoSummary, I came up with a good idea about how to implement topic detection within the current framework of the program. I was checking out this post at the Search Science blog that I read, and thought "I can do that."
What I plan on doing is after determining the likely sense of a given word, I'll build a list of all of the possible topics that word is connected to (using the WordNet domain function). From that I'll be able to find the topic of a sentence by taking the best intersection of all the anchor words (not "the" or "and" etc).
You can probably see how it will scale from there, building intersections of sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into entire texts. So very shortly I just might be able to take an fully body of text and determine just what the heck it is all about. Could be an interesting step forward in search relevance and data mining...
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Moving Forward
Posted by Charlie at 11:48 PM
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It's been so long since I've blogged. I've stopped posting my homework blog for my students too. Somehow the two must be connected. A good friend asked me yesterday morning if I was still blogging and had to admit that I wasn't and this got me thinking. I really don't want to let this go. So, tonight while searching for a poem online from a well loved poet I found this, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did:
Feel Sorry for Jesus
By Naomi Shihab Nye
People won't leave Him alone.
I know He said, wherever two or more
are gathered in my name…
But I bet some days He regrets it.
Cozily they tell you what he wants
and doesn't want
as if they just got an e-mail.
Remember "Telephone," that pass-it-on game
where the message changed dramatically
by the time it rounded the circle?
People blame terrible pieties on Jesus.
They want to be his special pet.
Jesus deserves better.
I think He's been exhausted
for a very long time.
He went into the desert, friends.
He didn't go into the pomp.
He didn't go into
the golden chandeliers
and say, the truth tastes better here.
See? I'm talking like I know.
It's dangerous talking for Jesus.
You get carried away almost immediately.
I stood in the spot where He was born.
I closed my eyes where He died and didn't die.
Every twist of the Via Dolorosa
was written on my skin.
And that makes me feel like being silent
for Him, you know? A secret pouch
of listening. You won't hear me
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It's that time of the year again! If you're anything like me, you start to notice the fruit flies floating around your kitchen. Since I have a compost bin on my kitchen counter, and rarely do the dishes I think they love my kitchen more so. Every year it's same battle of combat, I try to kill them by clapping them in my hands. There are two things wrong with this. 1: They are quicker than you think and I rarely get one. 2: When I do get one I'm always grossed out by it's dead body on my hand.
So what are your options? You can use bug spray, but those are so toxic and chemical laden (not to mention expensive!) I try to stay away from that stuff. You could put up one of those yellow fly paper things. Hello? can you say gross!? Or you can try this little trick of mine. All you need is two simple ingredients that you probably already have.
First of all you'll need a small bowl and plastic wrap. Pour just enough apple cider vinegar in the bowl to cover the bottom. Then add a drop or two of dish soap. This will break the surface tension so the fly can't just sit on top of the vinegar. Next cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and poke several holes in it. Place the bowl where the flies frequent your kitchen. I put mine by the fruit bowl first because we had a peach that over ripened and they were all over it. Later I moved it to be near the compost bin. When I first placed it, I caught four flies with in an hour!
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I will include a caption under the photography just the time frame it was taken within, and the quantity of photographs it was selected from; I've also added brief explanation of why they were included.
Ironically enough these may not the best of the day - as I am now starting to see possible sets, and saving greater images for different posts that will follow. Hopefully however this will reflect 12 hours on the streets of this amazing city.
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12. The light was failing I visited the 'Blue Mosque' you could photograph anything but people praying. The roof structure inside was amazing. I'll post image from this later, however for me this symbolized the end of my day. With a low angle I was able to highlight this couple, once again pure poetry for twelve hours work.


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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Other Chair Election – RNC Chair
The similarities between the debate going on here in Iowa for the RPI chair race, and the debate centering around the RNC race are very similar. In fact some of the questions at the RNC debate were how many "tweets" each has, and how many facebook friends they have. Again, just like here in Iowa, I don't think these are the things that win elections, and this level of discourse sounds like something you might hear around the lunch table at your local high school. We need to be talking about mechanics not gadgets if you ask me.
Anyway here is my Krusty Korrespondent's take on the candidates.
Mike Duncan – Current Chair seems to be the national version of Ray Hoffmann. Duncan is now pledging to be an agent of change which one would think is a tough sell for him to make. In his favor however is the fact that the 168 members of the RNC he is seen as one of them could be reelected.
Michael Steele – GoPAC Chairman and former Rudy supporter is hands down the most eloquent speaker of the bunch. However from an Iowa perspective he said some discouraging things about our state's status during the 2008 campaign which should make us nervous.
Saul Anuzis – The Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party is always on the move and breaks the mold of what many consider to be your average Republican. People like his no-holds-barred attitude, but Michigan is a blue state and also broke the RNC rules which caused havoc in the 2008 nomination calendar. As chair of the RNC would he be enforce the rules against his own state if they attempted to move up again?
Ken Blackwell – Former Secretary of State in Ohio and gubernatorial candidate. Blackwell is also articulate and we all know how important Ohio is to the general election. While Blackwell has been supported by numerous conservative groups, he's performance wasn't that great on Monday.
Katon Dawson – Chair of the South Carolina GOP, has turned around his state in a short period of time. Dawson represents the southern conservative, and with South Carolina's status of 1st in the South firmly in place he probably wouldn't be hostile towards Iowa. Dawson wasn't memorable on Monday.
Chip Saltsman – Former Chair of the Tenn GOP, Bill Frists main man, and Huckabee's campaign manager. Anyone who stereotypes Chip by only looking at his work with Huckabee would be doing themselves a disservice. Chip is young, bright, and has some major accomplishments under his belt, like beating Al Gore in his own state in 2000. Chip did a great job on Monday, but it might not matter. It seems as if the RNC members are going to discount him as a candidate which is unfortunate.
So who will our Committeeman and Committeewoman support? All signs point to Dawson followed closely by Blackwell who is followed up by Saltsman. Both did attend the debate on Monday, which could explain why they were not at the RPI forum on Saturday. I'm glad they were there.
Who would I vote for? Blackwell. Those Ohio guys always seem to have our back and Blackwell is a conservative who shouldn't bother the moderates in our party.
Vilsack to Commerce?
Seems like it's an option being explored. We all know that Tom doesn't have any farm experience, but did come from an Ag state so I was supportive of him in that position. I think Commerce is a real stretch for him.
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- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Kim Lehman, who was censured as the Iowa Republican National Committee Woman, should not have attended the National Committee meeting, nor any other Party function. She is to be held ineffective as per the Iowa State Central Committee's vote. Perhaps the State Committee will wink at her participation because they were only kidding about their judgment of her crimes against the Republican Party, its duly elected Primary candidate, and her general incompetence?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Gopal and Scheffler were at a Funeral on Saturday not at the RNC, Kim may be a different storyReplyDelete
11:26 - Kim is a member of the RNC and the SCC and no legal autority to take her voting rights away. She is our National Committeewoman for through the next national convention. Deal with it, she's not going anywhere.ReplyDelete
11:18 - Scheffler was not at the funeral, Gopal was.
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 11:48 AM
From what I am told, it looked like Scheffler and Lehman were leaning Blackwell. You'd have to ask them.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 12:06 PM
They are supporting Dawson. It has been reported publicly. You can ask them...or do some research.ReplyDelete
Iowa need to give up it's first in the nation status. It is attracting to many under qualified hacks and killing our party. It would also get a bunch of liberal groups out of our state who want to promote their agenda on us every four years.ReplyDelete
How about Vilsack to head the CIA? Hahahaha I'm just kidding.ReplyDelete
If only Jack Bauer were available...
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Jeff thats crazy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Jeff you need start rpoof reeding.ReplyDelete
You guys are idiots.
OK Anon, Why is that crazy? Are you one of the overpaid hacks?ReplyDelete
We may not have a choice. There's a lot of very po'd states that want to get rid of our first in the nation status. States a lot more powerful than us. We can fight to keep it, but don't be surprised if we lose it in the near future.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 2:06 PM
I think the guy from Michigan would definitely try to steal Iowa's thunder. Dawson, in South Carolina, surely is happy with their first-in-the-south tradition. Saltsman ought to be the most friendly to Iowa after our state gave Huckabee a win. Duncan seems to be OK with our status, as he was the Chairman last time around and left it the way it is. Blackwell and Steele are the wildcards with regard to Iowa.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Any Iowan who thinks Iowa losing its first in the nation status is a good thing is a damn fool!ReplyDelete
It is not just a political thing it is an entire Iowa economic thing.
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 3:12 PM
don't forget it is also one of the few things the two parties agree on- and look for Obama to also support it next election.ReplyDelete
If we loose it, it will be because of the two we elected to National Committee positions.
They spew single issues as their priority and are both green. Their acceptance in DC will be the key. I would bet they will fumble the ball and with no alliances left from the past that Steve Roberts built we will loose much prestige and our First status.
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Agreed. The president-elect owes all of his success to Iowa, so we aren't going to lose it.ReplyDelete
IF, however, we do lose it, we will have nobody to blame but our national committee man and woman.
They have nothing to do that's more important than keeping us first. Nothing.
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2009 at 5:13 PM
The job of the RNC chairman is not to keep Iowa's first-in-the nation status.ReplyDelete
The chairman's job is to get Republicans elected.
I'd gladly give up our first-in-the-nation status to get Republicans back in the majority.
One good question is who would the candidates for Chair of the Iowa GOP vote for RNC Chair? The Chair is the 3rd vote in IA.ReplyDelete
good question Jeff. When is the vote for RNC chair and will our current or new chair be the 3rd vote for our state?ReplyDelete


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On Friday the Africa Mercy ward officially closed. One by one, the remaining patients trickled out, being either discharged or transferred to a local facility.
Us nurses have been very busy during the outreach. We have had a grand total of zero vacation days since June, we have worked various amounts of overtime (when we are short staffed or have an increased acuity there are no other floors to pull nurses from), and are all pretty tired and ready for a break.
But it was very sad to see the patients leave and later walk through the empty wards. We been taking care of the most adorable collection of African children.
In the after noon, we celebrated with an ice cream party which was followed by a ward nurse dinner. Nursing is one of the most unglamorous professions I think of. I won't go into details as to why, but there have been many times in my short nursing career that I have thought, "I don't get paid enough to this"(Now I think, "Paying volunteers should never have to do this").
After seeing your co-workers live in scrubs and pony tails, it's always fun and surprising to see each other dresses nicely. There were about thirty lovely Mercy Ships nurses, not in scrubs, looking lovely at the Royal hotel on Friday night.
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Erin warned me yesterday afternoon.
"You'll ache tomorrow," she said.
"Why do you say that?" I asked.
"Because scraping old paint off of ceilings and painting overhead uses a lot of muscles that aren't used often, except when working out of course....."
She was right. I ache. I slept a lot of today away. I took a long soak in the tub with really hot water. Had dinner with Mom. I feel better. Just a little.
I'll be fine tomorrow, really.....
Sunday, April 30, 2006
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Hello and welcome to the premier post of Friday's Feature! I'm really excited about this new party!
Here's a brief rundown of how it works:
1. Every other Friday there will be a new Friday's Feature posted at midnight.
2. There will either be a sketch to inspire you, or a technique for you to try.
3. Save 15% on the Friday's Feature product(s).
4. You'll be able to link up your projects so everyone can see what you create. (Feel free to use anything in your stash.)
Ready? Here we go:
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Here's the sketch for you:
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Ready to play along? Just create a card/project based on the sketch using any products you want and add a link! That's all there is to it! I'm looking forward to seeing what you create!
Friday, April 02, 2010
Friday's Feature #1
Posted by Cat Arenzana at 12:00 AM
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- Mary Friederichsen said...
This will be fun Cat!
Thanks for starting a challenge feature!
Happy Easter!
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Oh hello blog, it's been a while.
So today I feel a bit like a turd for missing the deadline to the upcoming Merure 3. I'm out this round due to a exhausting work schedule. I've recently been working on a rooftop kitchen down in the Old Port of Montreal and it's been 45 degrees in there all week, and when you combine that with back to back eleven hour shifts, it just doesn't leave much time for creativity.
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Peach gets back from Italy today. Josh is coming over to record demos, and Tha D will be back from NC. What a day.
It's been a lonely week. For the last month we've been hard at work as a band, and all this week, I;ve been at work alone. This is good, but with Josh's work schedule and the other two out of town, the communication has been minimal or non-existant. It makes a musician feel lonely. But thats ok. Everyone will be back today.
I guess I feel that way because we've been hitting practice hard lately. Even during the wedding rehearsals, we managed to get some band stuff worked on. From April to June 6th we were playing together alot. I want more of that. Especially now Ive got close to 5 new songs to bring to the table and we have Commodity sitting in the queue.
The more I listen to the Commodity demo, the more I think it will be easy to do. It could be longer (as I mentioned before) but its a very basic song. For some reason, I'm not sweating it. Plus, I realized, that song is kinda depressing....seriously....Not in a "sad bastard" way, just in a sort of "reality" kind of way......
Come out to Blue Coast Burrito to hear me play all Tito Puente covers, and maybe a few history songs.
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In my Challenge group our challenge is to work with orange, purple and blues, mostly orange
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Bulletin Column for April 2
Fr. Sean's Weekly Column
by Rev. Sean Horrigan
Dear friends in Christ,
This is the 5th Sunday of Lent, but our Lenten journey is not over. In fact we're entering the home stretch. We've got one more full week of Lent this week, and then next week we celebrate Palm Sunday and the
beginning of Holy Week
. In today's Gospel we hear a precursor of Easter with the resurrection of Lazarus. Just as Jesus raises Lazarus from the realm of the dead, so too shall Jesus Himself rise from the dead.
How about us? Are we prepared to die and rise with Jesus? If your Lent has been less than spiritually fruitful, fear not. There is still time to have "a good Lent." Recommit yourself to your prayer, fasting and almsgiving the next two weeks and see if you don't see an improvement in your walk with the Lord. I'm always saddened by those who say, "Well, I broke my Lenten promise, so I'll just wait until next year and try harder then." Nonsense! Remember the words of Ash Wednesday: "Now is an acceptable time!" The time is now to return to the Lord. There are still plenty of good days ahead to prepare yourself for the coming Easter celebration.
Today at the 9 a.m. Mass we celebrate the third and final Scrutiny for our Catechumens who will be baptized at the Easter Vigil. Please remember to keep them in your prayers, as well as our Candidates (those who have been baptized already and now seek full communion with the Church). Those candidates will be received into the Church on
Divine Mercy Sunday, April 23
It's not too early to begin looking ahead to next Sunday and the beginning of
Holy Week
. Of course it begins with Passion (Palm) Sunday next week. Palms will be distributed and blessed at all Masses. Remember that the 9 a.m. Mass on Palm Sunday begins outside on the plaza as we remember Jesus' procession and entry into Jerusalem. A nice tradition that has developed over the years at CtR is the wearing of the color red on Palm Sunday by members of the congregation. It's the liturgical color of the day, of course, and a good reminder of the Passion and suffering our Lord endured for us.
We'll cover more of the
Holy Week schedule
in next week's bulletin, but to help you prepare our liturgy schedule for Triduum will be as follows: Holy Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m.; Good Friday, April 14, 3 p.m.; Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil), April 15, 8:30 p.m.; and Easter Sunday, April 16, 7 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., with additional Masses in the Parish Hall at 7, 9, and 11 a.m. There is no 5 p.m. Mass on Easter Sunday. Again, we'll have more details next week, but plan now to join us for these most holiest of days.
As always, I make a special appeal to our
ushers, greeters,
Eucharistic Ministers of Holy Communion
and other liturgical ministers to please sign-up in advance to assist at these liturgies. Easter Sunday, with our double schedule in the church and the hall, is an especially busy time. If possible, I encourage you to sign up for multiple services. I assure you the Lord will double the graces you will receive if you do!
Today is one of our most eagerly awaited weekends of the year – the unveiling of the
2017 Spring Festival
T-shirt and opening of the advance ticket booth. Our chairpersons, Mike and Camille Havelka, and the core committee will be on hand at all Masses this weekend in the Parish Hall. Stop by after Mass to get your shirts and tickets for the 32nd annual Spring Festival which will take place two weeks after Easter on April 29-30. All signs point to this being a very special year. I know Mike has lots of tricks up his sleeve that will entertain us and bring us even more enjoyment at our Festival.
It's no secret that what makes the
Spring Festival
such an awesome event for our parish and community is the great number of people who volunteer their time and talent over the weekend. It is Stewardship in action. Your help is especially needed to staff a shift or two (usually in a block of two hours each) in one of our many booths, rides and games. The help and support of every one in the parish, both young and old, is most needed. It's a great way to give back to the life of the community. I highly encourage you to
make your commitment to helping our parish at the Spring Festival
In particular, I would ask that you please consider taking one of the open spots to be a booth chairman. We have several to choose from, and it's a great way for a family or team to be involved in the Festival. You don't have to do everything – in fact, our committee has done a great deal of the work already. We just need folks to share the load by chairing a booth. You can get your friend and neighbors involved, too.
I ask that you take a moment and do your part to help our community at the Festival. Beginning today you can turn in
raffle tickets
for a new Ford vehicle (and pick up more), buy advance barbecue tickets, get discounted tickets for rides and games, and sign-up for donations to Plant Booth, Sweet Shop, Auction Tent, and Flea Market (it's a great opportunity to do some spring cleaning). There's no shortage of ways to get involved! Mark your calendar now for April 29-30. We look forward to seeing you here!
Finally, remember our final
Lenten Fish Fry
is this Friday, April 7 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. They've been enjoying record crowds this year, and the fish and service is better than ever. My thanks go out to all the Knights for their hard work. What a great community event it is! Come support them one final time before Holy Week, and stay for our last celebration of the Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m.
Fr. Sean
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Insurance companies make more money by denying health care claims. When their first responsibility by law is to their share holders, this is always going to be the real issue. I think it's simply immoral for health care to be organized on a for profit basis.
Senator Clinton claims that the only way to achieve "universal" coverage is to require everyone to have insurance. Senator Obama says people don't have insurance not because they don't want it, but because they can't afford it. Both are skipping the main problem.
It's true that no plan can be called "universal" unless everybody is in. It's also true that skyrocketing costs have priced millions of Americans out of access to care. A Kaiser Family Foundation 2007 survey found that average family premiums are now $12,106 - not including the additional charges for deductibles and co-payments for everything from doctor's appointments to prescription drugs to emergency care.
Costs are the central story today, cited by most Americans as their major worry about their health coverage, and are why health care is the leading domestic issue in the presidential race.
The trouble for most of these families is not the lack of insurance, though; it's the insurance they already have. Consumer Reports in August reported that four in 10 Americans are "underinsured." Half postponed needed medical care because of cost. One quarter had outstanding medical debt. Only 37 percent said they were prepared to handle unexpected major medical bills.
It's hard to imagine how forcing more people to buy insurance solves these problems, especially when none of the top three Democratic candidates has advocated any cost constraints on the insurers, drug companies or other industry giants.
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Martin Pebble is the story of a little boy whose face keeps turning red for no particular reason. When he meets Roddy Rackett, a little boy who keeps sneezing for no particular reason, it's the beginning of a great friendship. This book features text and illustrations by Jean-Jacques Semp
A gift that was sent to Hannah from my friend MrsMac, who we are going to adopt as a surrogate Grandma as she is so good to Hannah.
This book was a French classic since 1969 and has now been translated to English and it is just an adorable book. The illustrations are very simple pen sketches but just so much to see in them. The story is a great moral story for children while being an amusing tale for adults as well.
The book itself is a lovely square hardback which would look great as a coffee table book although it is a bit cumbersome while trying to cuddle a two year old and hold it up for her to see as well.
One of those books that you just stumble across while browsing that will become a classic in your own household and I am so glad that MrsMac did come across it and was kind enough to pass it onto us. Booklovers keep your eye out for this one. 5 out of 5 for me.


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PETA Asks Gamers To Be Kind To Zerglings
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This would be hilarious is PETA didn't actively kill more real animals than they "saved," or if the founder of PETA wasn't the apparently one of the world's most prolific euthanizers.
Because as it stands it seems like one of the worst hypocrisies I've ever heard.
They do indeed have feelings.
Then they don't feel much at all.
Aren't we all just being trolled here? Isn't PETA just a giant meta-troll trying get a rise out of gamers for the sake of controversy?
well if we do ever discover that we share this vast mostly empty universe with murderous zerg-esque aliens, we can send PETA to try to make nice and immediately get rid of them all in one fell swoop before we start fighting them properly
Yeah, I don't think this is PETA as a whole, to be honest. It wasn't the entire PETA company who made Super Mario Fuck You Gamers You're Supporting Animal Abuse and Cooking Trauma and such. It was one (or maybe a few) people who classify as gamers and PETA supporters making it and then sending it over so PETA could trumpet it as proof that we're worse then everyone else or... Whatever their point was.
I'm not sure "parody" would work either. You assume they know enough to know that hugging Zerg = really bad idea, and given the whole "Mario Steals Tannoki Skin" thing and "Yoshi is being exploited" and such, it's clear they know about as much about video games (Or Mario, at the very least) as they know about how killing 2/3rds of the animals you save and then dancing about supporting people who firebomb animal research labs might just be a tiiiiny li'll bit hypocritical. The people that makes this stuff, kinda like PETA in general, either really are that stupid - In which case, they're stupid - or they're just acting stupid to get our attention - in which case, they're pretty much bastards.
And besides which, the whole "cute zergling" thing has been done better at least twice before now, if you ask me. (To wit, NerfNow and that parody of the HotS trailer with the li'll purple licky zerg things.)
Something like this shows me that at heart, PETA knows that what they do is bullshit. Because caring for zerglings in the context of the starcraft universe is batshit insane.
Now I'm definitely not saying that caring for animals is batshit insane: It is barbaric to cause hurt without reason. Because it's clear that animals can suffer and if you have a shred of empathy, you know that it sucks to suffer.
But PETA's stance is batshit insane to me.
To which I would like to reply:
Why is their stance batshit insane?
It would mean that fashion and a whole other range of cool leather products would disappear (use for wearing)
It would mean that all movies be completely animal-free (use for entertainment)
The effects on joy of life would be immense for almost everybody and the economic effects are incredible.
But the single worst result is that these changes would possibly extinguish species of animals and reduce the amount of animals in a really dangerous way.
Animals have evolved in a reaction to how humans have resculpted the world. There are plants that can now only reproduce if they're being cut by a threshing machine and if the economic reward of leather and meat would dissappear, so would the farming industry's incentive on keeping their animals.
What would happen is a large scale animalcide, much like PETA does with animals themselves.
Well I have their support. If they want to save the zerg, let them. They would do an immense social service by getting themselves infected. After all, an insect based hive mind is way better than a mindless colony hive mind based on murder and hypocrisy.
By the way, has anyone noticed that PETA's been aiming their campaign at the gaming community?
Look PETA, I know we're supposed to love our enemy and all, but this is kinda ridiculous.
To PETA's credit, this is WAAAAY better than most of the bullcrap they've pulled in the past.
To PETA's credit, that is one of the cutest zerglings ever drawn.
I took their message to heart and individually named all of my zerglings, but it got troublesome to keep track of them so I just started calling them 'Ken'
Godspeed, all you Kens. Your sacrifice to the Swarm will be long remembered!
i hate to break it to them but billions or so have already died and there are always more
Well it can't be worse than the Hug-A-Hydralisk movement, nobody really considered the scythe-claws..
PETA...weren't they the same peeps that made the Pokemon game and are getting sued by Nintendo??
Bleh, I think the Zerg are cute and/or cool anyway, I don't know why PETA is selling them short.
Okay, so, I'm working off the idea that the Zerg are all about consuming compatible essences (read: other Zerg) and the assumption that they're all at least as smart as your average... I don't know, raven, maybe. Based on these two assumptions, I would conclude that the Zerg would figure out pretty soon that humans aren't really their prey of choice. SO, working off THAT assumption, I can believe that, as long as I don't go out of my way to antagonize a Zerg, I'll be able to get along with them.
Also, if they could merge with certain Earth creatures... Kitty Zerg! Do want!
Oh, and we can make like Dr. Egon Stetmann and study them until we can improve out stuff and people with Zerg properties. VERY cool
Kinda surprised by how many people are taking this seriously.
people are taking this too seriously. i have no love for peta but i think this is a silly and cute idea. i wish they did more stuff like this. it wouldnt make me support them but i would at least find them more entertaining than annoying
PETA trolls the gaming community yet again.
It seems I'm slightly contributing.
I wish the RSPCA did this, but with less dickness.
While they're at it remind them that flash-eating bacteria and parasitic worms are also being horribly mistreated.
Let's release few zerglings in PETA headquarters to see if love is mutual.
Y'know what? I'm done.
If zerglings existed in this world, the LAST thing we'd try to do would be understand them. The first thing would be working on or survival and extermination of them. That's like saying we should try to understand Tyranids. No! You don't do that.
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Lung Banks of America applauds White House effort to boost organ transplants
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Lung Banks of America receives subcontract
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August 30, 2013
Lung Banks of America, a Chapel Hill-based organization, will receive a subcontract of $209,136 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for work on a National Institutes of Health grant to study use of a… Read More
Egan wins $4 million grant for assessment and transplant
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August 8, 2013
A researcher at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $4 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study assessment and transplantation of lungs from victims of sudden death. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded a $4,185,275 clinical trial grant… Read More
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We were exiled to the cavernous, vacant, dark, odiferous upstairs at Valentines while a band flogged away downstairs. We had about the usual bar-hanging crowd, but now we were out on the steel fire escape for air & light (& warmth -- it was actually warmer outside than in the bar), in an old factory looking setting with the olfactory stimulus of pizza & oven smoke. Poems are so hard to write about smells. But there is something about bad environments that seems to bring our spirits closer (or are we just afraid?).
I tried to fit my poem "Dina's Hummingbird" to the thundering of the drums in the club below, then read for the first time my new poem commemorating Kent State & Jackson State (1970) "44,000."
Immortalis … The Last Poem."
Ed Rinaldi's poem "I Don't Mind Claiming These Pages" piled up race horses & jazz & pot, followed up by the very short "The Water Spray" & "Old Home New Road."
Some of the women poets here tonight didn't read, but dear Prudence wandered up bored from the bar below to read a silly tossed offed piece about patchouli & sex , then quickly retreated -- at least, as the song says, she came out tonight.
Actually, Jason Crane's first poem ("Red Is") was about one of the poets in the gallery, but "Insane Clown Pose" was, he said, not about the band.
Jill Crammond Wickham read a poem about Spring & crows fucking, then one of her "June Cleaver" series, this about whipping a souffle with strangers in her kitchen -- or did I get that mixed up?
This is usually the first Tuesday of the month at Valentines on New Scotland Ave. usually downstairs, but then we're poets, we go where we are towed.
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Monday, September 11, 2006
Today being September 11th, I think today's blog should be about remembering.
Remembering the things that are the most important to us, and things we all take for granted every single day, until something happens that changes our state of being and then changes our lives.
I am sure that the people we lost five years ago would think that the things we do not want to do everyday, and complain about, would be a pleasure if they were still here to do them.
Going to work and seeing co workers everyday. Being able to get up and go outside and breathe fresh air, and choose the place you would like to go to eat, or to shop or to just be at for fun. To be able to be with loved ones everyday, and have the chance to make and fulfill goals. Yes even to work and pay taxes and pay bills, because it would mean they were alive and well, and still on this planet.
I feel we all get so wrapped up in our lives, and we are just spinning so fast most of the time, that we have a hard time living in the now, because we are either trying to catch up for the things we did wrong or did not do yesterday, or we are aiming at the things we need to do, and the stress associated with trying to get past tomorrow that is not even here yet. I think the things we take for granted the most are things associated with our health, things we do not even think twice about until we get a bad check up, or we get ill, or find out something is majorly wrong with us.
We need to appreciate the simple things like being able to get up out of bed in the morning and walk across the floor without having to use a cane or a walker, or need assistance. Being able to eat all of the foods we love, without gastric side effects. Being able to drive by the pharmacy without having to go in every two weeks and fill hundreds of dollars worth of the prescriptions. The ability to be able to read and see clearly, to sleep at night, to remember everything you do during the day and not have memory lapses. To be able to be at this stage in your life and not go through surgery, or doing chemotherapy or radical radiation. These are a few of the grateful things we forget about, and probably should be remembered on a daily basis.
Let's face it life is going so fast, and I know we all are in a hurry, but take just a few minutes every day and be happy that you are still able to keep going and be active, and then maybe, just maybe, you will take a little better care of yourself, so you can keep going for years and years to come.
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Mantilla the Hon
Famous ecclesiastical fashionista, Mantilla Amontillado comments on her particular headgearThere is more at the website linked above. Check it out. Photo above is from the link too, so just click on the title link to read the story and see a larger version of the photo.OK hon. You asked me why I wear the mantilla. It's easy. I wear the mantilla first of all because it looks good and because it is ridiculous. You think hats are simply to keep your head warm? You're crazy, then everybody would just wear a woolen stretchy hat.No a good hat is something, you know, slightly crazy. A good hat stands the world upside down. A really good hat is totally useless and reminds everyone that not everything has to be useful and that useful is usually another word for ugly.Still. This is not ugly. No. This mantilla is to look good. So what's wrong with looking good? Also, it is for something else. The Bible says women should cover their heads in church. When I wear the mantilla I'm saying, "Look here. I believe the Bible." In this day and age, that's ridiculous too. You see, it is the way I fly the flag. It is my way of saying, "I'm a Christian, and what are you going to do about it?"
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