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BY Fraser Tennant
Beleaguered Greek prime minister Alexis Tspiras has announced that he expects international lenders to return to Greece soon to conclude a review of how the country has complied with reforms agreed as part of a eurozone bailout.
The bailout, signed up to by Greece in August 2015, was worth in the region of €86bn (£67.2bn) and allowed the country to stay within the eurozone as well as avoiding the much-discussed and much-feared 'Grexit'.
During an interview with Greece's Star TV channel earlier this week, Mr Tspiras (who possesses a small parliamentary majority) stated his belief that official lenders will "return in the first 10 days of March" to conclude the review so that he can begin debt relief talks designed to assuage the Greek public and encourage investment.
The plans of the prime minister's left-wing Syriza party have been frustrated thus far by the reluctance of lenders to return due to disagreements over the likely size of Greece's fiscal shortfall by 2018. The Greek government says 1 percent of GDP, EU lenders say 3 percent and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts a gap of at least 4.5 percent.
Calling on the likes of the IMF to "return to realism", Mr Tspiras added that there had to be agreement among lenders before Greece could continue with its recovery programme, which includes tackling the crippling effects of corporate tax avoidance and widespread corruption.
"The Greek government is implementing the fiscal consolidation program abiding by its commitment," said Dimitris Papadimoulis, vice president of the European Parliament. "It is putting forth a broad reform agenda, including media, public administration and pension reform, wrapping up the chaos previous governments left behind after 30 years of corruption and clientelism. In this respect, the fight against tax evasion is crucial and it is evolving dynamically.
"The firm determination of the Greek government to pull Greece outside the financial struggle is proved by a specific program destined to provide millions of citizens with health coverage and basic safety nets. This is of paramount importance for the government and one of the major, critical aspects for bringing back, step by step, social justice.
"Following Greece's very important progress, the institutions should also implement what has been agreed and conclude with the first review of the program as soon as possible."
The Greek MEP also stated that the conclusion of the bailout review is vital so that sky-rocketing unemployment can be addressed and growth brought back, allowing Greece to leave behind one of the hardest periods in its history.
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Stage I of the Historic Trees Project has now been completed with the installation of this directional sign, designed and constructed by a local craftsman.
Stage II will be commencing soon with the installation of gates and an all-weather path. This project is being funded by a City of Geraldton-Greenough Community Grant.
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The little plaster dude stands there, wrapped in fuse and layered with fine grade gunpowder.
I'm thinking. Maybe this is wrong.
I pour more gunpowder on the sculpture base and brush some into the cracks.
Does plaster burn?
The plan was simple enough.
Read some books on sculpture.
Then read Elon Musks favorite book.
J. E Gordon's "Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down"
I learn things like, "In hard solids like metal or concrete or bone (or plaster) the elastic shearing strain is likely to be less than 1/57 radian. Beyond this, the material will generally break or else flow like plastic in an irrecoverable way like butter".
Like butter?
That has got to help my wire and plaster human.
I pour more gunpowder on.
My exploded paintings and fusographs are awesome. I want to do this in space, though.
Moving beyond 2 dimensions has got to be fun, right?
I have this thing about trying new things.
I light the fuse.
Dude, this is gonna be good!
Artist Stick Vega studied mathematics and economics, earning a B.S. in economics from UW-Madison and an MBA from Edgewood College. He owned and was CEO of online apparel retailers WinterSilks and Venus Sportswear. However, upon selling the companies more than a decade ago he headed straight to his studio - The Blast Factory in Madison, WI - to create explosive, modern art with gunpowder and high-speed fuse. Stick's current work includes paintings, drawings, fusographs (exploded photographs), sculpture and writing. Please follow Stick on Facebook and/or Twitter.


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Happy Holidays, everyone! I hope you have enjoyed the season so far and look forward to the coming new year.
My apologies for being among the missing during the past week or so but I've been seriously under the weather with a sudden visit from the flu bug or something I hope never returns. Having finally shaken it off, it is sweet to be feeling more like myself again.
Speaking of sweet, today's image is a night shot taken some weeks ago of the Domino Sugars factory in Locust Point. It's iconic neon sign is a huge tourist attraction and you can often see folks aiming their cameras in that direction. On this particular night, the temperatures dropped rather quickly after sunset and a light fog was just beginning to form.
Here is another image of the sugar factory that was posted in September of 2011.
Thanks so much for clicking by.
I will be catching up on many of the post and creative works I have missed during the next couple of days.
Happy Holidays and safe travels to all!


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I feel like the alternate title to this post could be "How to Dress Like a Popsicle". Or maybe a bowl of sherbet. (By the way, who else says sherbert? I always thought that's what it was!)
T-shirt: Target; skirt: Old Navy; necklace: c/o Swell Caroline; belt: Old Navy; sandals: Steve Madden via 6pm.com
I remember when this trend emerged, and I was nervous about wearing so many bold, bright colors together. Now, I love trying new and unexpected color combinations. The bolder, the better!
Are you embracing the color-blocking trend?


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Yoga Instructors: Would you like to network with fellow teachers worldwide? Here is a resource to find answers for every possible question regarding continuing education, improving your classes, student safety and much more.
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About yoga for children with special needs: The therapeutic system of yoga offers numerous benefits to everyone who implements this form of physical activity in daily routine. It is basically a slow paced, non competitive team workout approach that promotes synchronization between mind, body and soul also provide healthy and active life style.
The physical poses, controlled breathing and mindful meditational techniques included in yoga therapy are said to be highly beneficial for adults as well as for children of all age group and also to those kids having some developmental disorder, disabilities and special needs. Several scientific studies and clinical researches have proved enormous advantages of practicing yoga for growing children. For kids with special needs and developmental disorders like Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, ADHA or dyslexia special yoga classes are formulated and designed to improve their motor, cognitive, communication and social skills.
The regular practice of yoga exercises offer children suffering from these types of problem a safe, effective and therapeutic treatment physically and mentally to cure their health issues. Mostly other therapeutic treatments and physical activities work on a particular area of child progress but yoga works on all aspects of child development. This activity integrates whole body parts and mind to improve body balance, strength, flexibility, coordination physically and memory, awareness, concentration and self esteem mentally.
The yoga session for children having special needs is designed according to their required needs, it include a comprehensive program structured for these kids, the poses or asanas are helpful for enhancing children natural growth and promoting body awareness to kids which are suffering from disorder affecting their physical growth. The breathing and meditational processes assist in boosting memory and power to concentrate. The basic yoga class for kids having physical or mental disabilities involves series of balanced bodily postures to improve body alignment and strength, eye or sound exercises for speech and hearing therapy, specialized paranayama techniques and deep relaxation procedure for achieving calmness and reducing hyperactivity. In these classes music, art work and rhythms are used to improve their emotional, verbal, communication and expressing skills. It is important that these kids should perform yoga exercises under the complete supervision of a skilled professional related to the field, because these kids are very much sensitive and prone to injury or harm due to their health conditions.
Before starting yoga practice it is better to remember some key points to prevent special children with any mischief or health problem. The first thing parents should do is to consult and take advice of related physician or pediatric doctor also take approval for child to attend the session with appropriate safety measures. Teacher should have knowledge and be aware of all problems and health conditions related with child so that he or she should deal with them on one to one basis. The young practitioners having disorder like cerebral palsy should perform slow and gentle movements; avoid doing strenuous or challenging poses like inversions. The area or environment where these kids practice should be neat, clean and airy with leveled floor. The yoga mats used should easily stick to the floor to prevent slipping. Props, support system and other physical adjustments are provided with modified versions of poses for comfortable practice.
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Nobody was coming. Katie Zeferelli dropped the phone on the carpet and flung herself backwards onto the sofa. A poof of Salvation Army special wafted upward and the Charlie Brown Christmas tree dropped a few needles in response to her sobs. Her career as an actress (possibly as a human being) had been stillborn; her family had gone on a cruise for Christmas, and the last of her fabulous new friends had just cancelled on her Holly Jolly Christmas party.
"What do I have to do to make my life work?" she demanded. Her cat Zed briefly opened one eye, then twisted and licked his butt.
"That's not an option." Katie snapped. The Titanic was her current life metaphor. Lots of self-proclaimed fanfare and then Blam. Disaster. Well, maybe not as much a disaster as the old guy clerking at the convenience store. His badge didn't say Tom, or Jose, or Billy-Bob – it said MR ZADROOZNY. The end of the alphabet (she related), the tag-end of life, the bottom of the business barrel and he insisted on being a Mister. Katie liked that. She liked it a lot.
Tapping her teeth she sat up. What about the other people who had hit bottom like her and MR ZADROOZNY? To hell with her friends who were too busy doing something cool. She would throw a party for non-cool people. Like MR ZADROOZNY. Like herself. Zed tormented a dream mouse and then disgruntled, woke up. Katie ignored him.
The invitation template and mailing list hummed to life. A quick delete of RSVP and addition of Pot Luck. Flipping to the back of the phone book included in her rent, Katie started with Florence Za...
"The people at the end," she told Zed. More needles fell off the tree as she typed. Seeing her at work, Zed jumped up and strolled across her computer keys. He left welts when she pushed him off.
Two hours later Katie jogged down to the convenience store and dropped 51 envelopes in the mailbox. MR ZADROOZNY glared at her through the window.
And then the day came. With slightly shaking fingers, Katie lit a couple of festive candles, fiddled with the lights, and rearranged plastic cups and napkins. 7:55…8:00…8:04…
"Zed," she wailed, "what if nobody comes! What if even the end of the alphabet rejects me?" Zed waved his tail and wandered across the table in search of something worth eating. "None of the food is here yet," Katie told him.
And then the bell rang. Katie froze and then when the second knock came, sprinted for the door. She pulled it open to a young man holding a package of store-bought cupcakes.
"Zach…I need help!" came from down the hall. He thrust the cupcakes into Katie's hands and dashed down the corridor where a young woman wrestled with a stroller.
"Hi Katie!" she called. They got the buggy under control, she grinned, and then her smile faded. "You aren't Katie," she accused. "You don't have a baby!"
"I have a cat…"
The woman fished out the invitation, looked at it and looked at her. "I thought you were Katie from our Lamaze class."
"No, Katie Zeferelli." She pointed at the flickering candles. "I'm having a Christmas party for the end of the alphabet." No question, she realized. She'd fallen over the edge and was seriously crazy.
Zach stuck out his hand. "Zach Zorzi. This is Patti and Kaeden."
Just as the Zorzis were getting a start on the cupcakes, the doorbell chimed again…and again.
Zanon…Zander…Zehner…Zenhuang….Zumwalt…Zyback…Zamora…Zymanski…and finally Mr. ZADROOZNY gripping a huge steaming casserole, with a tiny Asian woman in a nurse's scrubs beside him holding out a bottle of wine.
"You?' Mr. ZADROOZNY muttered. "I brought boeuf bourguignon," his face folded and molded into a smile. Sort of.
"Florence Za," the nurse said. "Thank you…thank you for inviting me."
They were all lonely, or curious, or thinking she was someone else, Katie realized. And they all thought she was crazy… but the food was so good. Vietnamese, South American, German, plus a lot of storebought cheese and vegetable trays. Wine flowed. So did conversation among the nurse, convenience store clerk, office manager, electrician, teacher, construction worker, unemployed, and wannabes.
And a few were even cool – like George Zehner a producer for a new TV show. He coaxed Zed from the closet and while the cat purred in his arms and the rest of the guests toasted the season, he offered Katie a job as a goofy best friend on his new series.
It was long past one when Mr. ZADROOZNY left with Florence Za and the others drifted to their homes.
"Merry Christmas," Katie told Zed. He fluffed his fur and plunked onto her pillow. Leaning back against the spare, with "Joy to the World" playing on the TV's crackling fire, Katie texted all her friends about the amazing party they'd missed and her very cool new job.


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God's Inconvenient Will
When was the last time God called you to act? When was the last time you were willing to let Him shape and guide your day to accomplish His purposes?
Often times, we get so caught up in our "To Do" lists, that we hardly have time for "inconvenient" moments that require soul flexibility to lovingly serve others.
It might be a moment when our child makes a theologically off-base statement that would be easier to dismiss or ignore, rather than stop and explain.
It might be a time when a slight comment like "help me understand what you're saying" turns a conversation at church from a quick "touch and go" chat into a 45 minute heart-to-heart discussion.
It might be a time when a phone call in the early evening (when the person is actually home) yields a far deeper, though far longer, conversation than a short message on their answering machine at 2 in the afternoon.
There are times each day—each night—each week—when we have the opportunity to serve God versus serve self. Often times, these are moments of inconvenience.
I saw this principle this morning when I was reading in Genesis 14. It's an account of a dicey situation where Abraham (then known as Abram but I'll just call him Abraham for simplicity) was called upon to rescue his nephew named Lot. This whole account is fast-paced and laden with obscure geographical landmarks. Unless we read Genesis 14 with a map in hand, we'll miss the practical lesson for our lives today. But have no fear, I've included a satellite map here to help us appreciate the action!
In Genesis 14, verses 1 through 3 list the enemy forces and explains how they converge in a region called the Valley of Siddim ("A" on the map). The Valley of Siddim is a flat, dessert-like area south of the Dead Sea. It's near to where Lot lived, which also happened to be a city called Sodom of the infamous "Sodom and Gomorrah".
As the events unfold, we find out that these enemy forces capture the man named Lot. Now, Lot was Abraham's nephew and somehow news of this event finds its way to Abraham who was living in a town called Hebron ("B" on the map). Verse 13 tells us just that it was the "Oaks of Mamre"—but here's where a good map helps because they'll also call that place Hebron.
Now at this point in story, we begin to see how God's call for us can at times be inconvenient. If you look on the map, you'll see that Hebron is pretty far away from Sodom. But what's worse, Lot's captors have actually taken him far north, up towards Syria ("C" on the map).
If Abraham is going to act, it's not going to be convenient. Think about what a journey like that would require. Abraham was looking at several days of travel. That probably meant a day or two for preparations—probably various challenges for his equipment and expenses for bringing servants and food, etc. Plus it was going to take time to enter the coordinates into his GPS, to get the PriceLine hotel rooms bought, etc! So clearly, Abraham's rescue effort was definitely not easy.
As the biblical account goes, Abraham and his men went north and went to the hill country of Dan ("C" on the map). There Abraham divided his forces at night and snuck up to the enemy. The enemy fled out towards Hobah which is beyond Damascus ( "D" just off the map). This was not an easy place to go--the whole region is mountainous and sparse.
But thankfully, by God's grace, Abraham defeats the enemy, rescues Lot and returns all the way back towards home ("B" on the map). There he goes to the Valley of Shaveh which was near Jerusalem (which was called Salem back then). The king of Salem was named Melchizedek and comes out to meet Abraham. There Melchizedek blesses Abraham and the story wraps up (by the way, this Melchizedek was an important dude for understanding how Jesus is our High Priest presenting His own life as an atonement for our sins).
But going back to our story, if you read this account without a map, it might seems to just be a quick route—the enemy captures Lot, Abraham goes and rescues him, and then they all return home to laugh and talk about it. Instead we see that Abraham went to great efforts to save his nephew.
This all points to the principle that there are times when God calls us to do hard things. Life in Christ is not always easy. There are challenges on God's path for us.
But we have to remember, that those challenges don't necessarily mean that we are out of favor with God. Indeed, there may be times when those challenges are exactly what God has in store for us! God's will is God's best for us, but that doesn't mean that it will be easy, clear and pain-free. If we find that following God is hard, we must remember that Jesus told us that if we are to be His disciples, we must be willing to pick up our cross and follow Him (Luke 14:27).
So my friend, what is God calling you to do? What changes does He want for you? Are there preparations to make? Are there mountains to climb? Are there roads to travel?
Look to your own situation and ask yourself, "How do I approach this with the faithful righteousness of Abraham?" Prayerfully seek to honor God in all that you do and then step out and see what God does in and through you, for His glory and your joy.
Well, those are some of my thoughts, I'd love to hear yours.
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Based on a Leeds University survey of over 80 academics, here are the worst seven UK prime ministers since the end of World War Two.
Since 1945 there have been fourteen prime ministers – five Labour leaders and nine Conservative leaders. After the Brexit vote, a survey was released, in which academics ranked all thirteen ex-prime ministers. The results of the Leeds University survey can be found here.
Theresa May was not included in the rankings although if her term ended now it's hard to imagine her not ending up in the bottom half of the league table.
According to Leeds University, "Respondents were asked to rate the performance of each prime minister during their tenure in Number 10 on a scale of 0-10, with 10 representing the top score of 'highly successful'."
Here are the seven worst prime ministers since 1945, according to the survey.
7th – Winston Churchill (1951 – 1955)
The survey only asked academics about prime ministers after 1945, so Churchill's first term in office – during World War Two – was excluded, which explains why he only makes it to the middle of the league table. The mean score (out of 10) given by the academics was just 5.4.
He resigned before the following election to make way for another member of this list.
6th – James Callaghan (1976 – 1979)
Callaghan took over as Labour leader and prime minister following Harold Wilson's surprise resignation in 1976. Callaghan's place in the bottom half of the rankings is possibly explained by his weak government.
Labour soon lost its majority, which was followed by the Lib-Lab pact and then support from the SNP. Furthermore, weak economic growth, high inflation, and strikes all likely contributed to his low rating of 5.1, according to the UK government's records.
5th – Edward Heath (1970 – 1974)
Heath led the Conservatives into four different general elections, but only won one, in 1970.
His low rating by academics is perhaps determined by the years of increasing unemployment and the infamous three-day week. He received a mean rating of just 4.8.
4th Gordon Brown (2007 – 2010)
The only other Labour leader to have made this list is Gordon Brown.
The most recent Labour prime minister took over from Tony Blair in 2007 and was in power when the world economy collapsed and the UK fell into recession, something which has likely helped determine Brown's low ranking in the survey of 4.6.
3rd – David Cameron (2010 – 2016)
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron with his mother Mary Cameron in the royal box
It's not hard to imagine why Cameron makes it as one of the worst three prime ministers since 1945. He held an EU referendum, which backfired and became his legacy, hence his poor mean rating of 4.0.
Professor Theakston, who conducted the research, said that: "For all his achievements as a successful coalition prime minister, David Cameron's reputation and place in history seems destined to be defined by Brexit and his calling and losing the referendum."
2nd – Alec Douglas-Home (1963 – 1964)
Douglas-Home took over as prime minister when Harold Macmillan left the post in 1963. His short-lived term as prime minister likely explains his poor ranking in the survey. His ultimate score was 3.8.
He then led the Conservatives to defeat in 1964.
The WORST prime minister since 1945: Anthony Eden (1955 – 1957)
After years of waiting in Winston Churchill's shadow, Eden finally became Conservative Party leader and prime minister in 1955 when Churchill resigned due to ill-health.
He may have strengthened the Conservatives majority in an election when he took over, but Eden's premiership was short-lived and ended in failure thanks to the Suez Crisis in which Eden attempted to take the Suez canal. Things did not go to plan and he received "widespread international condemnation", according to the UK government website.
This surely explains his poor ranking of 2.4, a whole 1.4 points lower than Douglas-Home.
Where should Theresa May fit in?
With her failed referendum gamble and her struggling government, Theresa May would likely be somewhere near the bottom of this list.
My rating for the prime minister: 3/10.
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Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
A Podcast with Ruth Haley Barton
Welcome to the Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast with Ruth Haley Barton. In each 30-minute episode, you will discover how forging and maintaining your own life-giving connection with God is the best thing you bring to leadership.
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The seasons of the church year are meant to teach us something about the spiritual life we need to learn. In fact, by entering into these seasons we experience the deeper dynamics and rhythms of the spiritual life by walking closely with Jesus and learning from him as we go. In this season of the Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast, we are privileged to prepare and walk through the season of Lent together.
In Season 6, Steve Wiens and Ruth Haley Barton walk through Ruth's new book, Invitation to Retreat. Why did Ruth write another book? How does it relate to Invitation to Solitude and Silence? We start with a delicious word – invitation. Ruth moves in to define our terms and discuss how retreat has been compromised in our culture. Ruth and Steve even discuss who should go on retreat. Let's reclaim the word retreat!
In Season 5: Invitation to Solitude and Silence, Steve Wiens and Ruth Haley Barton will walk through Ruth's book by the same name. Join us for a rich conversation, and grab a copy of the book to take a deeper dive into solitude and silence.
It was 10 years ago that Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership was published by InterVarsity Press. Last year we launched this podcast by the same name, and this year to celebrate the 10th anniversary, InterVarsity released an expanded edition with a group experience and an assessment tool (check it out). Ruth and Steve will focus this podcast season on seeking God in the crucible of ministry.
Many of us are carrying a lot of baggage regarding Christian community. Ruth has often commented that it is one of the most over-promised, under-delivered aspects of the Christian life—which means that Christians who have been deeply involved in church are often the most cynical and disillusioned. In Season 2 of the Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership podcast, Ruth and Steve will discuss how to cultivate communities where people regularly and routinely experience spiritual transformation. Season 2 follows the book Life Together in Christ by Ruth Haley Barton.
You're invited on the journey of transforming leadership! Sacred Rhythms in the Life of the Leader is Season 1 of Ruth Haley Barton's podcast Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership. Each episode highlights a quarterly theme of the Transforming Community experience. Join Steve Wiens (a Transforming Community alum) for a lively dialogue with Ruth Haley Barton about forging and maintaining a life-giving connection with God in the midst of leading.
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I am so happy that he finally feels able to after so many years, and yet at the same time I find it terribly sad that he felt the need to hide it at all…
Having been in a relationship with his manager for 40 years, Barry Manilow has finally, and officially, come out to his fans – and the world today – at the grand age of 73!
He told People Magazine that he was pleased with the reaction from his fans "When they found out that Garry and I were together, they were so happy. The reaction was so beautiful -strangers commenting 'Great for you!" I'm just so grateful for it."
Speaking to ETonline he also added: "I have not read one negative response… I don't know, maybe they care about everybody, but for me, it is so moving, it is so deep that these strangers were so happy that I was happy.
Manilow, famous the world over for such classics as 'Copacabana' and 'Mandy', met Kief in 1978. They were married in a private ceremony on their Palm Springs estate in 2014.
Manilow was briefly married to Susan Deixler while he was studying at the New York College of Music – he said he was "in love" with her but was "not ready for marriage". He revealed he's been in a relationship with his manager Garry since the pair met in 1978, "I knew that this was it. I was one of the lucky ones. I was pretty lonely before that."
Well Barry…and Garry… I am over the moon that you are finally able to be yourselves in all your glory. May this continue to signal the end of the dark years where any gay man feels the need to hide his true self and may it finally be the start of a more accepting world.
Finding love, whatever form it comes in, is always, ALWAYS, something to be treasured and congratulated.


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Mother Goose Christmas at Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre
A sweet story that follows a family on an adventure through Mother Goose's Realm of Romp and Rhyme. Dec. 8 is "Pajama Night"—one more opp to wear those matching Christmas jammies! (arkansasartscenter.org)
Holiday Open House at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center
There'll be live music and a kiddo-friendly craft-making station, but the star of the show is sure to be "The Say It Ain't Say's" sweet-potato pie baking contest, inspired by Robert "Say" McIntosh's legendary confection. (mosaictemplarscenter.com)
Jingle Dogs Pup Parade at Garvan Woodland Gardens
Every dog should have his Christmas Day—or, at the very least, the one glorious night Garvan Woodland Gardens allows man's best friend to sniff around their 18 acres of holiday-light heaven. Caveat: short leashes only. Bonus: pictures with Santa. (garvangardens.org)
The Santaland Diaries at The Rep
Something for all the Scrooges out there: a dark comedy about a "martini-swilling, foul-mouthed, Santa-denying department store elf" written by the hilarious David Sedaris. (therep.org)
Food, Libations & Conversations at Capital Hotel
We can't think of anything more joyeux this Noël than a French-themed wine dinner led by one of our favorite sommeliers, Jonathan Looney. (capitalhotel.com)
13th Ever Nog-Off at Historic Arkansas Museum
The holiday edition of HAM's popular Second-Friday-Art-Night fêtes features our most favorite contest of the year: the quest for the best local 'nog. (historicarkansas.org)
Caroling in the Forest at Pinnacle Mountain State Park
Sing "O Tannenbaum" among the tannenbaums along the park's Kingfisher Trail, and then warm up back at the Pinnacle Pavilion with a campfire and hot chocolate. (arkansasstateparks.com/pinnaclemountain)
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It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at TheatreSquared
This fun twist on everyone's favorite holiday flick brings Bedford Falls to the stage, care of a 1940s-esque radio show. (theatre2.org)
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Stewart Family Christmas Lights in Fayetteville
Clark Griswold, meet your match. His name is Carlin Stewart, and this year he's bringing his A-game: 750,000 twinkle lights, 350 inflatables and a whole heap of jolly. And a train ride. (facebook.com/stewartfamilylights)


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Blue Louisa: A blog Covering Central Virginia & national politics from a progressive perspective
People today make sweeping statements about political parties or the direction of the country, but they often misrepresent the facts and engage in labeling rather than rigorous research.
Then again, political change may often only be seen in hindsight. We all remember Republican Joe McCarthy — the spinner of tales that found communists under everyone's bed. He destroyed himself in the 1950s when he attacked the U.S. Army which was still remembered fondly as useful during World War II.
One of the first Republican Senators to call him to task was Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. The Senate record quotes her as saying, "I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American. I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny — fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear."
After the marches in Selma in 1965, the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act later that year. The 16 Democratic Senators (plus Harry Byrd of Virginia) who voted against the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were all from the South. Over the years, southern Democratic voters and party leaders moved to the Republican Party, as Strom Thurman (SC) and John Tower (TX) had already done. Except for Virginia and Florida (Senator Nelson), all of these "Confederate" states are today represented by Republicans in the U.S. Senate. Abraham Lincoln would be appalled.
Nevertheless, Republicans pridefully boast that that the Voting Rights Act was a model of bipartisanship and that Republicans should be given credit for their supportive vote. Indeed, they should be, except that none of them were from today's core Republican base — the South.
Nor were they today's ultraconservative Republicans. They were northerners and westerners from the states that brought down the Confederacy and preserved the Union. Those Senators — a different breed entirely — included such luminaries as Everett Dirksen of Illinois, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, Clifford Case of New Jersey and Jacob Javits of New York.
The reality is that the Republican Party of today would not welcome those centrist Senators of 1965. Today's Republican Party enacts voter suppression measures throughout the United States, just like the old Democratic party of Reconstruction and Massive Resistance. In the case of North Carolina, the court noted that the barriers were put into place with "surgical precision" to suppress the black vote.
Today's Republicans, including Trump, insist that there was massive voter fraud in the last election, although no such evidence has been found. Trump's claim that 3 million fraudulent votes were cast in the last election is an insult to state-run elections and all those who put their integrity on the line to make them fair.
The Republicans of today are asking the states to turn over the crown jewels of each state's voter rolls so that it can find fraud where none exists. This is all done in the name of a political party that has prided itself on the narrative of creating fear about government overreach. This is the new Republican Party: frozen in ideology, dismissive of public discourse, creating "alternative facts" and further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.
We just celebrated our 241st Independence Day — a day when we remember Thomas Jefferson's ringing words about freedom and the rights of the common man. Which party is truly for freedom? Is it the party that offers new and creative restrictions on universal suffrage, or is it the party that would continue historic expansion of the vote?
As Pennsylvania Republican House Leader Mike Turzai bragged in 2012, his state's voter ID laws were specifically designed to disenfranchise as many citizens (primarily minority, elderly and urban voters) as possible.
This is now typical of a party that displays racism and xenophobia, embraces Jim Crow and the KKK, supports government intrusion into personal decisions, takes health care away from millions of Americans, robs the poor to give to the rich, destroys the environment, defunds education, impoverishes college students, colludes with Russia to interfere in our last election and emboldens a man who has become the laughingstock of the rest of the world.
If you don't believe me, just look at the good country doctor's column in last Sunday's paper, or read some of the truly despicable hatred and ignorance exhibited by a few select online commenter's in this paper. For shame.
Mike McClary
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- You should always, ALWAYS wait until the last week of the month to re-new your car registration. Otherwise, you might do it at the start of the month, for $124, and then end up with a $426 bill on top of that just three days later, and realize, shit. This is what John means when he talks about "sunk costs" and it is just TIME to get a new(ish) car. (Especially when said car has an $1800 problem that gets worse every day and there is no WAY you're ever going to fix that!)
- Car salesmen really need to make a sale these days.
- Car salesmen now use text messaging, phone calls and emails to hound you.
- Car salesmen do not have the thick skins they say they do, and when called out on their pricing, with a better deal at another dealership, they are not happy.
- He is married to someone who wants more car than she can afford, and she has a very hard time figuring what should be compromised and what should be stuck to. She may well stick to desired color, logic be darned.
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The sources from the Xbox Store told us that NHL 17 would be unlocked as the clock strikes 12 am Tuesday. However, it is still known if it is 12 am EDT or what as they didn't mention the time zone. If it is EDT, it means that the West Coast can download the game right now and will be able to start playing at around 9 pm.
The game is a little heavy. The NHL 17 file size is about 29.65 GB on Xbox One and 19.4GB for PS4. As you have now got to know the disk size, it will cover, so it will be better to clear your hard drives before downloading and installing the game. (check: WWE Raw Results.)
If you are too impatient to wait until the official release, then you can start playing with a 10-hour free trial right at this moment. For doing this, you will need to sign up for EA Access, and you will get started. All the progress made during the trial account will be carried over when the game officially launches, and you buy a full copy of the game. However, PS4 gamers will get disappointed as EA Access is not available for them as of now.NHL 2017 Release Date
The major changes to gameplay for this year include the Hockey Ultimate Team's big overhauls; a new game mode has been added, Draft Champions. It will be faster than its predecessors, lighter approach to HUT is given, and it gives more of the fantasy draft feel.
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Editor's note: Gloria Borger is a senior political analyst for CNN, appearing regularly on CNN's "The Situation Room," "Campbell Brown," "AC360°" and "State of the Union With John King," as well as during special event coverage.
Washington (CNN) -- Democrats in Congress, already worried about their dim prospects in the 2010 midterm elections, have been thrown in a tizzy about something else that could reduce their majority: retirements.
They are four departures down and worried about more members leaving districts that have grown more competitive. And they're right to be concerned: Districts without any incumbent running often wind up switching to the other party.
But there's much more to worry about. Consider the results of a recent "open seat" special election for the state senate in a Democratic district in rural eastern Kentucky: Republican Jimmy Higdon beat the Democrat Jodie Haydon by tying him to, of all things, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.
"Congress is out of control," one effective ad intoned, "and [Haydon] will bring Nancy Pelosi's one-party control of government to Frankfurt."
Republican Higdon won by 12 points.
Sure, the Democrats say, there are local reasons their guy lost: The district itself is trending Republican. There were only about 20,000 voters. Obama himself only carried 38 percent of the vote there.
And while both candidates oppose abortion rights, the Republican Higdon was endorsed by the local right-to-life groups -- a big plus in this socially conservative region -- which he trumpeted in TV spots. So, they claim, all politics is local, right?
But wait. How do you explain the good GOP turnout? Or the fact that the Democrats won a prior special election in Kentucky earlier this year -- when no national issues were interjected -- but lost this time when the themes centered on Washington? "The country likes and wants balanced government," says Brad Todd, a GOP political consultant who worked on the Kentucky race. "And they feel the country is out of balance right now."
In other words, it's easy to nationalize even a state senate race when the locals don't like the way things are going in the country.
And it's not only the economy, although that is a big part of it -- with unemployment at more than 11 percent in Kentucky. The health care debate, which was supposed to be a huge plus for Democrats, has instead become a huge political albatross. "It's a polarizing issue," says Todd. "The Democrats have been pushing on this issue for an extended period of time now -- in the face of public opinion against it. The length and content of the health care fight has hurt the Democratic brand."
O, the irony: The Democrats -- who run the Congress and the White House -- have to pass health care to prove they can govern. If it falls apart, after all this time, they will look weak and ineffectual. Yet while they toil long days and nights trying to put together the votes, the bill itself has morphed into something the public fears. So passage could well become a short-lived political victory.
Some numbers: According to CNN polls, almost 8 in 10 believe it will add to the deficit. When asked whether the Senate bill would help your family a resounding 75 percent said no. And will it increase your taxes? Eighty-five percent said you bet it will.
So why not have a GOP candidate in Kentucky inject health care into a state senate race? "Keep the big hand of government out of our personal health care decisions," one Higdon ad warned ominously. One Democratic strategist familiar with the race says the ad didn't matter much since not enough people saw it to have a real impact.
Beyond Kentucky, the Democrats also protest on health care: The issue is misunderstood, they say. We are just losing the spin war and that will change, they say. Even if all of that is true, there's something else to understand: Once health care passes, it's still going to be unpopular. At least until the Democrats can prove why it works, and that could take a very long time.
The Republicans haven't exactly covered themselves in legislative glory, either. They might have had a real shot at success -- if that's what they really wanted -- if they had called the president's bluff. They might have looked for some areas of agreement on health care that could be passed with bipartisan votes. Instead, they opted for the "just say no" strategy.
It's a bad idea, but it's working. Why? Because "no" works when you're opposing something that is unpopular.
So maybe, as the Democrats say, this GOP Kentucky state senate victory was an outlier. "Since inauguration, there have been five races where national issues have been on the ballot and in each and every one of them ... Democrats won," says Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Hari Sevugan. "The real harbinger of things to come ... is the deep split in the Republican Party that is allowing a right wing fringe to take over, purge moderates and present a fundamentalist agenda to voters."
Gee, sounds like the Democrats are also happy to nationalize the upcoming midterm elections -- against the Republicans. As for the voters, they're just looking for results.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gloria Borger.


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'A GREEN fireball' streaked across the sky above Beaconsfield on Friday night, according to motorist Graham Lee.
The freelance photographer thinks he might have seen a meteor while driving home on the M40 and discovered several others had reported the sighting online.
Graham, from Whiteleaf near Princes Risborough, told the BFP: "I was on the M40 coming to the Beaconsfield junction at about 11.30pm and it came from left to right....
"It only lasted a few seconds and I thought it was a firework, but thought crickey that's far too large and far too fast.
"It was as bright as the sun and looked like a green fireball. I felt quite privileged to have seen it."
A website called The Latest Worldwide Meteor Reports lists several sightings of 'fireballs', 'flashes' and 'green lights' at about the same time, in various locations around Oxfordshire.
Ralph Campbell, Chairman of Aylesbury Astronomical Society, said Graham had probably seen a meteor, which is also known as a shooting star.
He said: "They are not very frequent but occasionally you do see them. It's basically a lump of material from outer space coming into the earth's atmosphere. Because it's going so fast it heats up and melts away.
"Very occasionally they will reach the earth and make a big hole in the ground, but fortunately we've avoided any really big ones up till now."


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BMW Group was proud to report another landmark month in total sales with over 165,000 vehicles being delivered to customers worldwide, bringing total 2016 sales up to over 1.5 million overall.
"The BMW Group's ongoing sales success across all our premium brands underlines the strength of our product line-up," says Dr. Ian Robertson, Sales and Marketing Manager for BMW. "Sales are increasing across the range and our electrified models are proving extremely popular – we've already sold more alternative drive vehicles this year than in the whole of 2015."
Electric vehicle sales were strong, along with many models in the X range, including the BMW X1, X3 and X4. The BMW i Subdivision has already sold more than all of 2015 combined, with 34,664 electric cars delivered this year.
In 2015, the BMW Group sold approximately 2.247 million cars and nearly 137,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax for the financial year 2015 was approximately € 9.22 billion on revenues amounting to € 92.18 billion. As of 31 December 2015, the BMW Group had a workforce of 122,244 employees.


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Have you ever finished making dinner, plated the whole thing, corralled everyone to the table in record time, actually had a still hot meal and looked over at your baby and realized everything was too hot for the baby to eat? It's a nightmare. Then you have to get up and find some fruit or crackers and hope to pacify the baby until the food is safe. Or – what I invariably used to do – cut the pieces of the meal smaller and smaller, hoping that by exposing more and more of the food to air, the food will cool more quickly.
Nothing works. Truman is always annoyed.
Enter COOLIT – an ingenious food cooling dish designed to save time for busy parents.
COOLIT is a blue dish that you keep in the freezer (or put it in at least 3 hours before you need it) and then you put hot food on the dish, stir a few times and it is cooled to perfect eating temperature in just a minute.
I tried it out with all sorts of things: pasta, oatmeal, more pasta, smoked gouda mac and cheese (sometimes I get creative!) even our St Patrick's Day feast of corned beef, cabbage and potatoes.
A COOLIT would make a great gift for the mom-who-has-everything shower or a care package for busy working parent about to head back to work. COOLIT was developed by parents for parents and is a powerhouse time saver at mealtime.
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text: crossfitredondo May 17, 2012 Friday May 18th. 2012 Dealer's Choice Excuse Resting Every one of us has done this. It's not a bad thing, it's not detrimental to your body, it's just a pet peeve I've had since the Paulina Fitness days. When I first started doing CrossFit I was guilty of it too. Here's what I am talking about: You are doing "Helen". You get back from the run, thinking to yourself you deserve something; maybe some praise, maybe some extra rest, maybe a nice, long drink of water. There it is. That damn water bottle just calling your name, "You need me, you're doing so good, you deserve this!." It's like a little devil on your shoulder. You've been working out for 3 minutes. I promise you, dehydration is about 30 minutes away under the worst of hydration circumstances. You are not running the Death Valley Ultramarathon and do not need water every 10 minutes. There it's off my chest. Some of the stuff above is said in jest, but there is a tone of seriousness there. By the time the workout begins, you should be very well hydrated. Your hydration should start the day before an event or workout, by consuming at least half your body weight in ounces every day. During the warm-up, drink away, that is a good time to get fluids in. Once the workout starts, you are frickin Randy Johnson or Mia Hamm for the next 15 minutes. Dialed in, perfect focus, getting the job done. Do you think Mia Hamm leaves the field every 5 minutes to grab a sip of water? F No. It is unnecessary to gravitate to your water bottle after every round of "Cindy" and sit there for 20 seconds and gulp down it done. I promise, it will be there after the workout. I'm not saying drinking water during a workout is not allowed. I just ask that you not use it as a crutch for "excuse resting". Excuse resting consists of chalking up after every set of 7 pullups, looking around at other people pretending to see where they are at, and of course the dreaded water rest. During long workouts, especially those lasting longer than 20 minutes, I actually encourage you to take in some water. Hot days, long workouts, and sweaty workouts surely deserve a water break. If you do decide to take a break please try to humor me and make it fast. A quick swig will do. In conclusion, you should be so focused on rocking the workout, the thought of water does not even enter your mind. Watch any CrossFit workout video on the main website or youtube and I guarantee you will not see any water intake during the workouts.


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After Yui is forced to bring together all the gods before the end of the summer break, she decides to trigger a "beach event" in order for everyone to have fun memories together. Unfortunately, as they get there Zeus decides to change seasons and brings them in fall, making everyone unable to swim. Desperate to bring everyone together, Apollon tries to figure something out, and in the end him and Yui buy fireworks and everyone can happily enjoy the evening.
If I were to describe this episode in two words, one of them would be "good", the other "awful". Honestly, I am getting extremely mixed feelings about this show. Although it follows quite a generic and cheesy main plot, I can't help but enjoy myself thoroughly when watching the show; at least, when you take out the bad parts, that is.
The story so far seems promising; although it is extremely cheesy at times, it seems like the producers went and settled for a single route – Apollon's – in order to give the story a much stronger plot overall. The fact that we even have a good plot going for this type of show is already pretty miraculous, but to add to that some better quality romance and one single main character definitely makes this show stand out from the others.
Some parts of this episode, however, honestly made me want to punch myself in the stomach because they were so bad. The magical reunion of everyone in the group through a firework viewing was idealistic, cheesy and simply ridiculous, and the poor excuse for swimsuits was, indeed, a very poor excuse (although very fun to watch) for unnecessary fan service.
Meanwhile, the characters are gaining in solidity, and my attachment to them is slow but does not stop increasing. If characters like Hades stop acting solely as comic relief through their over-used lines and if they become more complicated characters, I will definitely be entertained throughout the whole 12 episodes that this show is supposed to be going for.
Heck, somehow I'm even getting attached to Apollon. Although I still believe that having any other character as the main route would have been a better choice, somehow I'm getting used to his idealistic, reckless self. That's just the way he is – despite his personality being frankly annoying, he is still fairly well-built, making me get used to him despite what he represents.
I also decided to go look through the voice actors hired for this show. The surprise I got when I realized that I knew every single one of these voices except Tsukito's! The list is impressive for every single one of them, and raise my respects for the show. Although budget doesn't say everything in a show, the fact that producers put in this much effort at least signals to us that the show wasn't meant to be simply a filler, and raises my hopes that the show will do in a good direction in general.


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I'm A Big Brother
This one is the simplest of the 3 books we're reading. My 4 year old has it memorized, and my 2 year old loves it. It's perfect for his little attention span! It does a really good job of explaining the difference between what big boys can do and what babies can do (which is great since I know my 2 year old is going to have a really hard time giving up the "baby position").
The Berenstain Bears: New Baby
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Baby on the Way
This is by far the most informative book we've read. Maybe a little too informative, although it's easy enough to "censor" for younger readers (maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think my 2 year old needs to be worried about how the uterus works quite yet). There is an illustration of a baby in mommy's belly, which my boys LOVE looking at; realizing that's what their baby sister looks like too.
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CBS Sports to offer free streaming March Madness coverage
CBS Sports will present exclusive out-of-market coverage of the 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship tournament via live streaming video.
NCAA March Madness on Demand will be offered free of charge. Beginning March 16, 2006, fans can watch live CBS Sports broadcasts of the tournament from outside their viewing area via NCAAsports.com, the official NCAA Web site, produced by CBS SportsLine.com. NCAA March Madness on Demand will be supported by advertising sales.
The game of primary regional interest will be shown exclusively on the local CBS affiliate. NCAA March Madness on Demand will feature the out-of-market games being played concurrently.
In addition to promotion on the CBS Television Network, CBS SportsLine.com and NCAAsports.com, CBS will offer a portal to NCAA March Madness on Demand through CSTV.com. CSTV.com includes all of CSTV's more than 250 official college athletic Web sites, which are maintained and managed for the institutions by CSTV. CBS announced in November its planned acquisition of CSTV Networks.
NCAA March Madness on Demand will offer live and on-demand streaming video of up to the first 56 NCAA Tournament games on an out-of-market basis through the regional semi-finals, streaming video of interviews and pre- and post-game press conferences, and video highlights. Webcasts of games broadcast by CBS Sports in fans' local markets will be subject to blackouts.


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Material of beanie is nice, breathable, yet warm. Helps keep the head toasty when walking out into the cold weather. Very happy with purchase, will buy more.
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Everything is great with this hat but one thing. The lining they use does have a slight crinkle sound to it around the ears. Not bad but it does make for a different ride.
Just got my second Sptitsbergen hat in White....I have a year of abuse from my first one...(black)Just wanted to start the season fresh with a white one....
Comfortable and warm on cold winter ski days....Style is not everything,but this hat has great style.....
I have an earlier version of this hat, love it, and want another color. Looking at the pictures it seems there are 2 different stlyles (for example the Evergreen/leaf looks like my old one and the baltic/typhoon looks much deeper). Are the different colors different lengths/depths, or does it just look that way in the images?
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It's made of merino wool but lined with "WindStopper" lining. Not sure what WindStopper lining is. Is it soft? I love wool hats, but they're scratchy so I always end up with cheap polyester stuff. Really prefer something that's mostly natural fibers.
The exterior is wool and on the interior, there is a Windstopper fleece band around the ears/forehead region. Windstopper is a highly wind-proof fleece so it will be warmer than just wool alone.
But also, this will help keep you forehead/ears from becoming itchy by contact with the wool.
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is it wahing machine? would it schrink?
It is washable. I personally usually wash things on the gentle cycle though just to be safe. As far as shrinkage, I've never really had any hats that I've washed really shrink at all.
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Despite the Federal Reserve's near zero interest rate policy, most in the housing industry expected interest rates and therefore mortgage rates would be going up in 2014.
But just last week mortgage rates hit a six-month low of 4.2%.
Job growth continues to disappoint, affordability remains an issue, and sales of almost all single-family home types are weak. Mortgage applications are slow. Wage stagnation remains a challenge for both housing and for the economy in general.
Over at MarketWatch, Diana Furchtgott-Roth makes the case that the artificial pressure on keeping rates down isn't doing anyone any good.
Five years after the beginning of the economic recovery, after rock-bottom interest rates and trillions of dollars of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, the economy is growing about 2%.
No country has attained prosperity by printing money and weakening its currency, and the United States appears to be no different. Monetary stimulus might be useful in the initial stages of a recession and recovery, but zero percent interest rates for years on end are a different matter altogether. Under Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his successor, Janet Yellen, the dollar has fallen about 15% against the euro.
Pimco's Bill Gross, manager of the $230 billion Pimco Total Return Fund, is among a growing group of investors and economists to suggest that the drop in bond yields since the beginning of the year reflects expectations of a lower Fed lending rate.
No one has explained the danger of endlessly low rates better than Columbia University professor Charles Calomiris, coauthor of "Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises ," an insightful new history of the financial crisis recently published by Princeton University Press.


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This is a lovely Lancome Color Fever Gloss in shade #322 Pink but not innocent. I saw a tester for this at my local Lancome counter and fell in love with it straight away, however, as luck would have it, this shade is now discontinued and completely unavailable in the UK. After weeks of searching for it online I finally found a seller on eBay from Italy who was selling these at a very reasonable price (it is a boxed unused tester). So I quickly bought one and it arrived today. :)
It is a gorgeous coral-y pink shade, very natural and very lovely. I don't think I own a gloss in this shade and i have over 300 glosses (I kid you not!). So I am very pleased.
See more photos of this gorgeous product and one of me wearing it. I tried to take a close up of my lips too, but I can't use that because *ahem* I need to get rid of a few little hairs here and there. ;)


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More Summer Reading Programs for Children/
I can't write enough about the importance of having your children read during the summer. The diagram with this blog today illustrates how children can actually drastically lose reading skills during the summer months if they do not have access to books. For children in high and low income households who read during the summer, their reading skills improved up to 25%. For children in low income households who do not read, their reading skills actually dropped by almost 10%.
On an online article, Liz Haskins lists 10 free summer reading programs. She also explains how to access free books on a Kindle or E-Reader. Read her article by CLICKING HERE. There is no excuse for not having your children read, and read, and read this summer. Your child's performance in school during the coming year depends on it.


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Actor Farley Granger has died aged 85. Granger was known for bringing a surprising vulnerability to performances that could have otherwise been dismissed as bland handsome leading man roles.
Granger is best known for his work on two of Alfred Hitchcock's acclaimed thrillers – 1948's "Rope" and 1951's "Strangers on a Train". He also worked on at least three dozen features including Lewis Milestone's 1944 war film "The Purple Heart", Nicholas Ray's 1949 film noir "They Live by Night" and Luchino Visconti's 1954 period romantic drama "Senso".
The actor came out about his bisexuality in a 2007 memoir and revealed his affairs with the likes of Shelley Winters, Ava Gardner and Patricia Neal as well as playwright Arthur Laurents and musician Leonard Bernstein. He lived with his longtime partner Robert Calhoun since the 1960's through to Calhoun's death three years ago.


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HIV/AIDS Volunteer Projects in Ghana
- PLACEMENT LOCATIONS: Accra
- ROLE: Counselling and testing patients, community outreach
- REQUIREMENTS: None
- TYPE OF PLACEMENT: Teaching hospital
- ACCOMODATION: Host family
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- WHAT'S INCLUDED? Food, accommodation, transfers to and from our specified airport, transport to and from work where required, insurance, personal webpage, induction and orientation, 24/7 support
- WHAT'S NOT INCLUDED? Flights, visa costs, spending money
- LENGTH OF PLACEMENT: From 1 week
- START DATES: Flexible
Volunteers now have the opportunity to work with a pioneering HIV/AIDS programme in Ghana. As a volunteer you will not only learn about the HIV/AIDS situation in Ghana and the stigma surrounding this virus, but will also get to observe and work directly with patients who are suffering.
With an increase in the number of AIDS cases, Ghana has been forced to respond to this issue and is now working towards finding a lasting solution. The goal is to prevent new HIV infections as well as to mitigate the socioeconomic and psychological effects of HIV/AIDS on individuals, communities, and the nation.
HIV/AIDS Control Programme in Ghana
Our HIV/AIDS project is based in the capital city of Accra. Volunteers will work in a variety of different departments and on an array of different outreach projects. These may include the following:
Counselling unit: this department helps prepare patients before they have an HIV/AIDS test and when they receive their results. The counselling units are also mobile and work with HIV positive patients in their homes.
Anti-retro viral therapy clinic: for HIV/AIDS patients who are receiving treatment.
Prevention of mother to child transmission: antenatal cases are counselled and screened for HIV/AIDS. Mothers who are infected follow a programme to prevent them from infecting their unborn babies.
Diagnosis and testing unit: a special laboratory solely used for testing and diagnosing HIV/AIDS.
Community outreach: hospital staff and volunteers work together to educate local communities and schools about HIV/AIDS.
Volunteers also have the opportunity to join the general medical outreach programme twice a week travelling to schools, care centres and disadvantaged communities to do awareness presentations about HIV/AIDS, as well as conducting basic health check-ups.
This project will often be emotionally demanding, but as a volunteer you will be working towards a very worthwhile goal and will work alongside some inspiring people.
You can join the HIV/AIDS project in Ghana for one, two or three weeks if you don't have time to join us for four weeks or more. This project has been selected by our local colleagues as being suitable for short term volunteering for both the host community and the volunteer Although you will gain a valuable cultural insight and work within the local community please be aware that you may not be able to make the same impact as someone volunteering for a longer period.


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If the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon has a downside, it's that the spotlight on vintage Cuban music has left the island's contemporary sounds in the shadows. In the 90s the dominant style in Cuba has been timba, an electric and eclectic elaboration on son practiced by acts like NG La Banda, Manolin, and Charanga Habanera, and while superb modern groups like Los Van Van and Adalberto Alvarez--who've exerted a strong influence on timba--have come through town in the last year, we haven't really had an opportunity to hear the stuff most Cubans actually groove to these days. But that's only one of the reasons this weekend's appearances by Bamboleo are exciting. Led by pianist and composer Lazaro M. Valdes Rodriguez, Bamboleo has a sophisticated pop sensibility, weaving traditional rhythms through funk, R & B, and jazz to produce a slick, relentlessly propulsive mix. The band--which for this tour also includes four horn players, two percussionists, a drummer, and a bassist--can stop on a dime and leap from slow-jam balladeering ("Candil de nieve") to hot instrumental Latin jazz ("El manisero") in a single bound, and the flexible four-singer front line, distinguished by its lush soul-derived harmonies, can go from emphatic to suave in a click of the claves. The production on Bamboleo's new Ya no hace falta (Ahi-Nama) is a little shiny for my taste, but this stuff is made to be experienced live anyway. Friday, 6 PM, African Festival of the Arts, Washington Park near the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Place; 312-955-2787 or 312-955-7742. Friday, midnight, HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo; 312-362-9707. PETER MARGASAK
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The Department of Physics started in 1961 and since then has been one of the most popular physics departments among other institutes across the country. The department has an international research reputation, with a many research contacts across the globe. In the last ten years, the department received more than Rs. 25 Crores worth sponsored research projects and our faculty strength was nationally and internationally recognized through many awards/fellowships. Apart from excellent facilities from individual and/or research groups, the department procured many cutting-edge technology instruments as central facilities.
Research in our department is traditionally organized within the Broad research areas of:
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Our department has potential for innovative and multidisciplinary research focusing on emerging areas such as nanoscience research , data storage & information technology, optoelectronics and optical communications. We respond to recent trends in research to provide expertise, tools and information to our students and collaborators, to conduct research beyond our departmental boundaries. Our emerging areas , though not limited to, are :
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- From McSweeney's: Classic movies changed to not be sexist. I think my favorite is "Gone with the Wind." Maybe "Rear Window."
- My colleague Sean Axmaker is leading a discussion at SIFF in November on Orson Welles' classic, "Touch of Evil." Should be good. My thoughts on the film.
- Beginning in January, Major League Baseball has a new commissioner: Rob Manfred. Tyler Kepner wants to be more impressed.
- Did Billy Beane make a mistake trading Yoenis Cespedes for Jon Lester on July 31? John Branch looks at the A's subsequent dive.
- Julia Louis-Dreyfuss hocks her Emmy .. to Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. Love the supporting vs. lead/ comedy vs. drama discussions. But my favorite is JLD's look at 2:14 to 2:18. "It's sort of refreshing .... when they don't." She's so, so good.
- A big biography of Bill Cosby, written by former Newsweek editor and FOP (Friend of Patricia) Mark Whitaker, is being published this fall. An excerpt.
- How the chief of police of Jonesboro, Ark., harassed a newspaper reporter out of her job.
- Guess what? That police chief didn't make friends in Americus, Ga., either.
- I'm no fan of Gov. Rick Perry but I get the feeling it's Special Prosecutor Michael McCrum who will be saying "Oops" over the indictment. On the other hand, according to the WSJ law blog, McCrum is admired by friends and colleagues.
- If you need to get caught up on Ferguson, the New York Times has provided a handy timeline.
- More from Jelani Cobb on Ferguson.
- And here's the private autopsy on Michael Brown: six shots, two to the head, none apparently at skirmish range.
- The editor in chief of RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz, with a straightforward, personal account of understanding white privilege.
- I'm sure you heard the white, female CNN anchor who said of the cops at the Ferguson protests, "Why not perhaps use water cannons? At least it's not going to have the same kind of effect [as tear gas]." What I like is the double-take of the black male anchor sitting next to her. Give the guy credit. He remains professional even as he can't help but be stunned by how little she knows of recent American history.
- Finally, Open Carry Texas is back, and this time they're black! The Huey P. Newton Gun Club is marching through South Dallas to protest the police killings. No word yet from the NRA on this development.
Birmingham, Ala., 1963. "Not the same kind of effect."
Touch of Evil, Billy Beane, Bill Cosby, Race Matters, Rick Perry, Ferguson, Matt Zoller Seitz, Open Carry
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Switching From Windows to OS X - Just Let It Go• • ☕ 1 min read
I've been a Mac user now for about a year and a half, give or take. As is common, I'm completely happy I took the plunge and will never look back. There is very little I dislike about my MacBook and OS X. If you're looking to convert yourself I'll tell right now, you won't regret it. The rumors are true. It is a fantastic experience overall.
But there are certainly some possible areas of frustration. As an advanced Windows user, I found many aspects of OS X to be overly-simplified, and really quite alien. Today, I'll be outlining a few of these examples – and explaining the best way to deal with this source of frustration!
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PITTSBURGH — When students return to Duquesne University Law School next semester, Donald J. Guter will be back, as a tenured professor after three years as dean.
But controversy over his dismissal from that post is likely to continue, with students planning protests and some prominent alumni threatening to withhold donations.
Mr. Guter (pronounced GOOT-er) was dismissed by the university's president, Charles J. Dougherty, on Dec. 10.
In a letter explaining the move a day later, Mr. Guter's immediate boss, Provost Ralph L. Pearson, wrote that he had failed to meet expectations, had lacked leadership and was disloyal to the central administration.
"His removal was based solely on his failure to fulfill his responsibilities and live up to the expectations of his position," Dr. Pearson wrote.Continue reading the main story
But supporters of Mr. Guter argue that he had done a good job and that his only failing was his inability to get along with Dr. Dougherty.
They cite a list of improvements under Mr. Guter, like raising bar exam passage rates to 97 percent, from 68 percent, and success at national moot court competitions.
"Everybody I've talked to thinks it's a bad move," said Colin Morgan, a third-year law student and vice president of the Student Bar Association at Duquesne. "People are confused, frustrated and hurt, and they still want to do something about it."
Concern spread beyond the law school. The day after Mr. Guter was dismissed, the universitywide Student Government Association, in a 21-to-13 vote, adopted a "no confidence" resolution against Dr. Dougherty.
"In hindsight, I think I was doomed before I came," Mr. Guter, a retired rear admiral who served in the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Office, said in an interview. "In my opinion, he didn't want me to be dean to begin with, and we had too many times I didn't agree with him."
The root of the tension between the two men, many at the university say, was Dr. Dougherty's desire to centralize the administration when he came to Duquesne in 2001, making sure that all major decisions and communication came through his office.
Dr. Dougherty's efforts included emphasizing a longstanding practice that none of the university's deans could have any contact with board members — which Dr. Pearson told Mr. Guter he had run afoul of when he sent postcards to the Duquesne community announcing a law professor's new book, further straining his relationship with Dr. Dougherty.
The most difficult dispute — which many believe set the tone for everything thereafter — came during Mr. Guter's first year, when Prof. John T. Rago sought tenure. The faculty and Mr. Guter approved of tenure, but Dr. Dougherty opposed it.
"The president wanted me to align my stance with his, but I said I'd stand with Rago," Mr. Guter recalled. "He wasn't happy."
After several student protests on campus, Dr. Dougherty relented and granted Professor Rago tenure.
"There was a lot of bad blood in that dispute," said David J. Millstein, a law school alumnus and major donor who has stopped giving to the school in the wake of Mr. Guter's ouster. Other donations have also been pulled, but no one has an accurate number of how many and their value.
Mr. Guter and others said it had long been thought that Dr. Dougherty wanted Ken Gormley, a professor at the school, to be named dean three years ago. On the day Mr. Guter was fired, Professor Gormley was named interim dean.
Professor Gormley said he had not decided if he would be a candidate for the permanent post and denied any conspiracy to replace Mr. Guter.
Dr. Dougherty declined a request for an interview. But a university spokeswoman, Bridget Fare, said that if Dr. Dougherty had wanted someone else to be dean, "he could have thrown out the list of finalists and chosen who he wanted, but he chose Don Guter. It just didn't work out."
Bruce Ledewitz, a professor at the school since 1980 who said he was not an early fan of Mr. Guter's, said it was obvious that Mr. Guter simply "didn't toe the president's line."
Reading from a list of improvements he keeps on his desk, Professor Ledewitz said: "Bar scores are up. The moot court team won national titles. Alumni giving is up. The research and writing program was nationally ranked. Faculty scholarship is up. If you have a list like this, it isn't rocket science; he's good at what he does."
But on a faculty that has long been broken into factions, not everyone sees it that way.
"I'm relieved to see the change that has come to the law school," said Robert S. Barker, a professor at the school for 26 years. "The folks under Guter have driven away two faculty members, marginalized another, and done serious damage to the academic programs, particularly for international students."
At least one student group, calling itself Duquesne University Students for Integrity, said it would hold a mass protest of Mr. Guter's ouster next month, but members of the two boards that run Duquesne said such efforts would have no effect.
Dr. Dougherty has improved the university in almost every way, said Tony Carfang, a member of the university's board, from raising the average SAT scores of incoming students, to pushing up the number of applications, to improving the school's bond rating.
"That implies that President Dougherty has earned the latitude to make high-level decisions," said Mr. Carfang, an alumnus who owns a consulting firm in Chicago. "And if Charlie and Don are oil and water, and Charlie is our man and he's executing on every other cylinder, it's unfortunate, but you've got to go with your man."Continue reading the main story


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1.Nettles and Turkey Tail Mushroom Ghee
Nettles (Urtica diocia) and Trametes Versicolor (Turkey Tail)
USE: Throw into a pan for cooking, sautée as you would butter or cooking oil.
Medicinal properties: Nettles with its nourishing properties can also be draining with the exception of when it is binded with fat or oil. Ghee itself has been traditionally used medicinally in Aryuveda for its nourishing properties and it doesn't contain lactose!
Turkey tail as a mushroom has endless benefits as an adaptogen, which helps our bodies deal with stress. It also helps support our immune system.
2.Cedar Salve (Thuja plicata)
Use/Medicinal property: Apply externally when necessary for skin irritations like eczema or for healing wounds. Thuja has antiseptic properties but also anti fungal and her smell takes you back to our Cascadian forests.
3.Spring Tonic Tincture
Horsetail (Esquisetum arvense ), Nettles (Urtica diocia), and Cleavers (Galium aparine)
These three herbal allies grouped together offer a cooling and nourishing overall effect on the lymphatic and urinary systems. Caution should be used with this axis leaning towards drying a person out since all three can be categorized as diuretics. In small doses during the allergy season, this tonic can prove to be useful to help reduce and cool inflammation associated with allergy symptoms. Take as needed, but more importantly examine deeper other possible food allergens that could have your body unable to handle environmental irritants like pollen.
4.Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridum) tincture
Root bark, fresh 1:2
Use: Traditionally used by natives for respiratory ailments, rheumatoid arthritis and balancing blood sugar levels. As part of the Araliaceae family, like Siberian Ginseng, Devil's Club has also been considered an adaptogen to help one's body cope with stress. Psychospiritually: Helps with boundaries, 'awakens energetic/sensory perception'.
Dosage: 10-15 drops 3x a day for Adaptogenic properties: 1 x a day, 15 drops. Psychospiritual: 1-20 drops whenever needed


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I thought Hunter would be a great listen for me and unfortunately it fell short of my expectations. I've only read one other book by Mercedes Lackey (House of the Four Winds which she co-wrote with James Mallory) and I loved that book. Oh Joy, you weren't a Joy for… Read more »
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Even with the amazing horror descriptions and Mary Worth's wonderful letters (all consisting of 10 pages or so), Mary: The Summoning fell short with the plot–being both predictable and dull. That, and having weakly developed characters along with tedious dialogue, doesn't help in the least. There's very little substance of plot… Read more »
Review: The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre
By no means is The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things a terrible read, but due to the massive amounts of cheese and the difficulty of suspending my belief…this was not my cup of tea. This is essentially about two teenagers who confide in one another about their troubling past and… Read more »
Review: A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Based on the book description I thought A Thousand Pieces of You would be more of sci-fi thriller but it was essentially a romance. If you're in the mood for traveling thru a few alternate worlds all from the perspective of a teenage girl who might have the hots for… Read more »
Review: Blood Crown by Ali Cross
It really pains me to say that Blood Crown wasn't the book for me. I've had a few trustworthy friends rate this high, so it really sucks when I don't feel the same way. Doesn't that just suck? Strike #1: Instalove–there's no relationship build-up for either male as they both… Read more »
Review: Suspicion by Alexandra Monir
An intriguing story was promised but a disappointing letdown was delivered Suspicion couldn't help my catch my book cover loving eye with its gorgeous muted purple and grey tones and the blurred image of the girl running through the maze. Even the description sounded tasty with a gothic mystery of… Read more »
Review: Cursed Moon by Jaye Wells
I loved book one in this series, Dirty Magic. I gave it 4.5 stars, actually. So, you ask, what happened that we are all the way down to 2 measly stars for Cursed Moon? A loss of 2.5 stars? What happened? I'll tell you what happened, in Cursed Moon our… Read more »
Review: 10:04 by Ben Lerner
I'll be honest and say that I don't think I was smart enough to understand 10:04. I don't get how this was supposed to be so thought-provoking and powerful. I went to the University of Las Vegas and got my associates and bachelors in English Literature. Yeah sure, I didn't… Read more »
Review: The Ultra Thin Man by Patrick Swenson
I really wanted to like this one, but ultimately when I feel like DNFing a book and I don't, I feel obligated to be as honest as possible. The Ultra Thin Man was a bit hard for me to rate, so when I have difficulty rating, I always go to… Read more »
Review: Amity by Micol Ostow
Picture every single horror cliche, roll it into a ball, and shove it down your throat. That's that this book felt like for me. Amity is marketed toward Stephen King AND American Horror Story fans, which is a big mistake in my opinion because it amps up the hype too… Read more »