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Thursday, August 20, 2015
Time is Running Out!
Time is running out for 'Early Bird' nominations. Our judges have a huge task coming up - reading/judging all the books that are nominated for the Feathered Quill Book Awards. To encourage early nominations (so our judges can start reading some of the books now), we offer an early bird reduced nomination fee. Just $65 for the first category, $35 for each additional. Learn more and nominate YOUR book at: http://www.featheredquill.com/awardprogram.shtml
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2017 Lodging Sponsors
We are proud to announce this year's lodging partners, check any of them out for lodging in and around Grand Lake
The Western Riviera is located 2 minutes on foot from the launch point! The Tompkins have very generously donated lodging for our out-of-town Referees!
Shadowcliff offers comfortable, relaxing guest rooms in their Rempel and Cliffside Lodges. Within our Rempel Lodge, we also have a small men's and women's hostel with 6 and 4 beds respectively. Shadowcliff also offers three cabins – Riverbend, Fireside (which can be divided into Upper and Lower) and Overlook.
The Daven Haven Lodge is nestled inside the Village of Grand Lake, two city blocks off the main street. Their 12 cabins offer a comfortable sense of seclusion and afford each traveler the opportunity to relax in a home-away-from-home atmosphere. Their individual cabins will sleep from one to eight guests all have fully equipped kitchens and some have wood-burning fireplaces. The folks at the Backstreet Steakhouse will be happy to guide you through an evening of tantalizing tastes!
The Sunset Motel is located on the main street in Grand Lake Village.
Visit the Grand Lake Chamber of Commerce web site or your favorite travel web site. To explore more of this wonderful setting, be sure to check in at the Grand Lake Chamber for more outdoor activities.
Enjoy your visit and thank you for coming!

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Hosting an Event
The Town of Castle Rock is proud to host hundreds of events each year, from sporting events, live music concerts, festivals and races, to parades. The Special Events Division was created to guide you through the Town's permitting processes.
if you are looking to host an event in Castle Rock, the Special Events Division, is responsible for ensuring your event is safe and compliant. We are here to help you through all the steps in planning a successful event.
if you are looking to host an event in Castle Rock, the Special Events Division, is responsible for ensuring your event is safe and compliant. We are here to help you through all the steps in planning a successful event.
Planning a special event in Castle Rock?
Special Events Planning Guide
Castle Rock Town Code, the Town of Castle Rock's Events Policy and other policies govern the administration of special events within Castle Rock.
The Special Event Planning Guide was created to take that information and provide it in an easy-to-use format for event organizers. It will direct you through the Special Event Permit process and provide you with requirements associated with special event management.
As you read through the Planning Guide and complete the Special Event Permit Application, please be aware that these documents have been developed to address a wide span of event types and elements. You need only provide information regarding the elements of event planning that relate to your particular special event.
Permit application
Events or organized activities for 50 or more people that involve utilize Town property, parks, trails, and/or street closures or include event components requiring the coordination of a number of Town departments and other agencies. The sale or use of alcohol, on-site cooking, food sales, or large-scale temporary structures will be reviewed through the Town wide Special Event Permit Process. Examples include festivals, parades, runs / walks, farmer's markets and other planned group activities.
We are currently accepting Special Event Applications. Please allow at least 10 business days for your event request to be processed.
NOTE: If your event involves alcohol, you must submit additional forms and information to the Town Clerk's Office at least 30 days prior to your event.
Please email us.
Community resources
The Events Office strives to improve communication about special events in Castle Rock and their impacts on the community. We have initiated the following communication mechanisms for the benefit of residents and event organizers:
Feedback form: Tell us what you think about Castle Rock events! We welcome resident and participant feedback and will use this information in future event planning.
Enewsletter: Sign up for email updates, which will include a brief description of upcoming special events in Castle Rock as well as road closure information.
Online calendar: View up-to-date information about all events within the Town that are regulated by the Events Office. When possible, it will also include road closure details and contact information for specific event organizers.


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Scamell Coaching is run by Grant Scamell who is a BCU Level 5 Coach.
Our aim is to provide high quality kayak and open canoe coaching as well as river trips in Kent and on the river Canche in Northern France. Most of our courses are run during the week when the river is much quieter than at weekends.
We use Wavesport Crossover kayaks which are very comfortable for adults.
We have two types of open canoes available for our customers, Mad River Explorer 16s which are ideal for river trips, and Venture Canoes Prospector 15s which are perfect for developing both tandem and solo open canoeing skills.


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Jan Kodet, Martin Kukučka, Lukáš Trpišovský
Choreography: Jan Kodet
Music: Zbyněk Matějů
Stage director: SKUTR (Martin Kukučka a Lukáš Trpišovský)
Sets: Jakub Kopecký
Costumes: Alexandra Grusková
Light design: Daniel Tesař
Projections: Jakub Kopecký
Animation: Erik Bartoš, Jan Kolegar
Musical preparation: Andreas Sebastian Weiser
Conductor: Andreas Sebastian Weiser
Ballet master: Michaela Černá, Zuzana Susová, Radek Vrátil, Tereza Podařilová
Far away, at the very bottom of the ocean, which no anchor can reach and no human eye can see, is the home of marine beings. Dolphins, mermaids, the Sea King, his old mother and his daughter, the Little Mermaid, whose skin is as clear and smooth as a rose petal, eyes as blue as the deepest water, and whose greatest pleasure is to listen to stories about the human world far above. When she stands by the window and looks up through the dark blue, the Little Mermaid thinks of a big, noisy city on the land. No one else longs as much as she does for that world. Thus begins the story of the Little Mermaid's true love for the terrestrial Prince, for whom she sacrifices the most precious things she has – her voice and her life. The new ballet production, based on Hans Christian Andersen's famed fairy tale and to music by the Czech composer Zbyněk Matějů, delivered by the National Theatre Orchestra, will be choreographed by Jan Kodet and directed by the acclaimed SKUTR tandem (Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský). The performance, abounding in poetic dance scenes, is intended not only for parents and children but for everyone who loves this immortal story.
World premiere: 10 November 2016 at the Estates Theatre
Soloists and corps de ballet of The Czech National Ballet
Orchestra of the National Theatre
Approximate running time, including intermission:
2 hours, one 20-minute intermission
The most successful production of the year 2016 according to europravy.cz
General media partner of the production is Czech television.
Photo of the visual image: Martin Stranka
Photographers for production: Martin Divíšek, Pavel Hejný, Anna Rasmussen


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* Afghan authorities say no evidence against released prisoners
* U.S. says freed detainees linked to attacks, could pose new threat
* Kabul examining fate of 23 more detainees (Adds Afghan official comment, background)
By Hamid Shalizi and Abdul Saboor
KABUL, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The Afghan government released 65 detainees on Thursday who the United States has warned pose a serious security threat, a move that further strains already tense U.S.-Afghan ties as the international mission in Afghanistan winds down.
Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said the prisoners had been released from a detention facility near the Afghan capital, Kabul, and would be sent back to their respective home areas throughout Afghanistan.
The U.S. embassy called it a "deeply regrettable" move that ran counter to a 2012 agreement on detainees.
"The Afghan government bears responsibility for the results of its decision," the embassy said in a statement.
Abdul Shakor Dadras, head of the Afghan board charged with reviewing the prisoners' cases, said their detention had been unjustified from the outset, despite information put forward by the United States.
"We could not find any evidence to prove that these 65 people are criminals, according to Afghan law," Dadras told Reuters Television.
"I believe the release of these 65 people will benefit the Afghan nation, and it will benefit the American nation and American government."
The prisoners were transferred to Afghan authority last year as part of the U.S. and NATO transition out of Afghanistan. A coalition of foreign forces has been battling the Taliban since the Islamist group was ousted in 2001.
The fate of another 23 prisoners who the United States contends should not be released is being examined by the Afghan government, the U.S. official said.
The U.S. military has said the released men should be tried in Afghan courts.
"Detainees from this group of 65 are directly linked to attacks killing or wounding 32 U.S. or coalition personnel, and 23 Afghan security personnel or civilians," the U.S. military said in a statement.
A U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States had provided Afghan officials with "hundreds of pages" of what he described as "hard evidence" or investigative leads against the prisoners.
Some of the detainees, he said, had been linked by biometric data to the production or placement of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), sometimes through fingerprints left on adhesive tape used to assemble homemade bombs.
The detainees have become one more issue fuelling tension in U.S.-Afghan ties ahead of a presidential election in April and the planned pullout of most foreign troops by the end of the year.
The Obama administration has been pressing Afghan President Hamid Karzai for months to sign a bilateral security agreement with Washington that would allow some U.S. troops to stay beyond that deadline.
The United States says the prisoners released on Thursday could now pose a threat to Afghan civilians.
Last week, the United Nations said that civilian deaths had increased in 2013, as fighting intensified between government forces and insurgents. The U.N. said that bombs accounted for a third of the total civilian death toll.
While U.S. officials have said that U.S. forces would try to kill or capture the men if they took up arms against them, it remains unclear if U.S. or coalition forces would try to apprehend or target them pre-emptively. (Writing by Missy Ryan; Editing by Paul Tait and Ron Popeski)


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The FOEC podcast slips on its gauntlets and fighting wedges to kick ass for Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman, which has opened big around the world with a rallying cry for fans of female superheroes. After we review the strengths and weaknesses of WW, we discuss the state of female superheroes on screen in the era of the shared cinematic universes of DC Marvel and the X-Men.
SPOILERS for Wonder Woman begin around the 13-minute mark!
You can share your thoughts on all things super-heroic and cinematic by writing to email@example.com and you can find more episodes of the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, A-cast and Mixcloud.
00:00 – Intro + trailer audio clip
03:50 – Review of Wonder Woman (SPOILERS begin around 13:00)
31:20 – Audio clip (Suicide Squad) + discussing female superheroes in the movies (Suicide Squad, Black Widow in the MCU and the X-Women)
THEME MUSIC: 'Film Film Film!' by Vladimir Golovanov, Fyodor Khitruk and Sokol from Film Film Film! (Фильм, фильм, фильм, 1968)


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Compliance with tax and superannuation obligations involves correctly registering in the system, lodging tax information on time, reporting complete and accurate information and paying tax obligations on time.
We are confident that almost all public businesses and multinationals who should be registered in the system are registered.
There has been a steady and sustained increase in on-time lodgment of income tax returns by all types of business entities over recent years. This has been achieved through our more effective early engagement and 'prevention before correction' approaches.
Tax transparency, as an emerging key focus area for government and tax authorities globally, and our own efforts to engage earlier with larger taxpayers has resulted in more complete and accurate information being provided to the ATO. Sophisticated data analytics and risk modelling tools also help identify and review returns that may contain incorrect or incomplete information.
The majority of larger taxpayers pay the right amount of tax at the right time and we have continued to support them to make it easier for them to comply. Where we have seen tax avoidance, we have taken firm action against both domestic and multinational taxpayers alike to ensure that they are paying the right amount of tax at the right time.


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Hey Liz, this blog's for you!
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Life Happens.......
Hey Liz, this blog's for you!
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I love the Canadiana theme you've got going on! I don't know which project I want to tackle next, but there are several in pieces all over my room....ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Diane, you came up as a no reply blogger so I hope you see this! Thanks for stopping by and I am loving all things Canadian right now, I think I am really looking forward to next year!Delete
I love your green maple leaves, especially the green one, but I expect you'll be seeing a lot of red ones next year: more than usual, that is!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 September 2016 at 21:32
I love the quilt you made for the library project. I was missing your blog......happy you are back. LizReplyDelete
Lots of lovely things and a great way to use scraps and great to use them in a creative way. Thanks for linking up to #scraptastictuesday.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed seeing your WIP's... Love that Loon wallhanging especially!ReplyDelete


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Professional Fellowships
Bridging the Skills and Education Gap
Nest Professional Fellows play a critical role in transferring their skills and knowledge to global handworkers. Through cross-cultural exchange and pro bono development, fellows are helping to reenergize the craft sector, generating increased economic opportunity for artisans.
Find the Fellowship That's Right for You
Fellowships can take place from your desk or via exciting travel around the world—and they work within a flexible time frame to fit your schedule. Based on your skills, experience and professional background, Nest invites you to find an artisan project that is right for you.Fill out the Fellowship Intake Survey
How it Works
- Sign up for the fellowship you are interested in
- Be contacted by a Nest team member to discuss your goals and qualifications
- Get matched with an artisan business
- Prepare for your fellowship with a Nest team member
- Get started mentoring
A Targeted Approach
Nest Professional Fellowships are mapped directly to specific needs expressed by the Nest Guild community. Nest matches fellows and artisan business leaders directly to work together on solving unique business challenges.
Common Artisan Business Needs
- Small Business General
- Website Building
- Market Testing
- Marketing and Sales Strategy
- Brand Storytelling
- Photography
- Business Modeling
- Financial Planning and Accounting
- Production Efficiency
- Quality Control
- Design Elevation
Fellowship Impact
13,121 hours
2016 fellowship Hours
Total dollars equated to hours worked
based on hourly rates determined by
experience level of our volunteers
In Their Words
"I really feel like my very wide retail and customer experience is something important here. The best part has been establishing a relationship with Laddy, the store coordinator. Without my having any Spanish language skills, we were able to communicate; and whatever improvements I have suggested, she has accepted openly."
Magda Tomaszewksi, Kering
"The Meso Goods artisans welcomed us into their homes and workshops, and we were able to collaborate with them for a purpose greater than the average travel portrait. It was a wonderful feeling, not only to be able to capture some beautiful images, but to know that these images would tell the wider story of their astonishing skill and deep cultural heritage, and through that legacy, illustrate the value of these one-of-a-kind pieces."
Tai Power Seef, Professional Photographer
"Although I thought I was simplifying their original designs, the weavers initially felt like they were more complex! It was important for me as a designer to understand their weaving process and to collaborate to achieve the result I wanted. While my designs were a departure from what the artisans were used to, we needed each other to strategize for success."
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If you are looking for a fun, different and yes – affordable ! – hands-on birthday party for up to 12 kids, try ours! (Or bring us to your Scouts troop or your school or camp!!) Parents and kids love us. Check out our reviews.
Book Now: Our price? Our 75-minute parties start at $225 for up to 12 guests. For 13-24 guests, the price is $350. Read on for information about discounts.
Distance charges apply if you are more than 20 minutes from our base. In DC, our base is Wheaton, Maryland. We reserve the right to reject any venue where we feel safety and security cannot be maintained. Details below.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Basic Robotics party is best for 7- to 9-year-olds, though plenty of 10- to 11-year-olds enjoy it too. You can read all about it here.
If your child or several guests have already participated in our basic Lego Robotics or parties, consider our Robo Challenge party.
If your child is 10 or older, or has significant previous robotics experience (Lego or not), you may want to consider a Mindstorms party. Keep in mind that Mindstorms parties are capped at 10 guests.
If you would like to host the party outside of your home, consider renting a residential clubhouse/ community center, or a community center from your local parks & rec department. If you live in Montgomery County, here's a link to community centers you can rent.
The safety of our workers, clients and guests are of the utmost importance. We reserve the right to reject any venue where we feel that safety and security can't be maintained. However, we can suggest alternate venues if this is a problem.
Note: we can't do any of our Lego robotics parties at swimming pools or other venues that aren't suitable for electronics.
Note: we CAN do Storybook Science parties during school hours in your home (for age 4+). We also book weekday parties during some school holidays and summer.
Our part of your Basic Robotics party runs 75 minutes (90 minutes for Robo Challenge or Mindstorms robotics parties) including 5 minutes for clean-up, which involves properly shutting down netbooks and stowing all our Lego pieces.
Exception: If you are redeeming a party voucher for a 60-minute party, the party will run for 60 minutes. If you'd like to upgrade to a 75-minute party (it may not be necessary, depending on the age of your participants), contact us for information on how to upgrade.
Our part of your Crime Scene party runs 60 minutes, including five minutes for cleanup. (We pay our instructors a little extra to stay longer for any additional cleanup).
Setup is simple: Before a Basic Robotics or Robo Challenge party starts, we will need about 5 minutes to unpack our netbooks and Lego robotics kits, ideally while you are entertaining your guests in another room.
For Crime Scene parties, we require 15-20 minutes to set up.
For Storybook Science parties, we require 10 minutes to set up.
After our activity ends, we need the participants to stow their parts. Please give us ten minutes to pack our equipment before setting out food near our equipment.
For Basic Robotics parties: We provide one instructor, six netbooks and six Lego robotics kits for use during the party. (For larger parties of 24, we provide two instructors, 12 netbooks and 12 Lego robotics kits). For Robo Challenge parties, we also supply Nano Hexbugs for use during the party only.
For Crime Scene parties, we provide crime scene clues and all the equipment needed for analysis, including microscopes and professional fingerprinting tools.
We do NOT provide goody bags, invitations, cakes or other items.
- For Basic Robotics or Robo Challenge parties of up to 12: one adult who can focus exclusively on assisting children who need help. For the best possible party, this person should be actively involved, not using a cell phone, not managing other aspects of the party and in the room with us for the entire length of our activity. If you prefer not to provide a helper, we can provide one for an additional cost of $50 per hour ($62.50 per helper per 75-minute party). We'd rather keep costs low for you, though! The helper's chief job is to help kids find the right Legos for their robots (Our Lego robotics kits are in constant use, so yes, parts tend to hop from one kit to another).
- For Basic Robotics or Robo Challenge parties parties of 13 to 24, we'll need you to provide two attentive and present adult helpers, or we'll provide them for an additional cost of $50 per helper per hour. Save money and provide your own!
- Adequate table (or floor) space. Table must be clear of all items, especially food! You should be able to put one seat around a table for each participating child. So for 12 children, you should be able to fit 12 adult seats comfortably around the table/s you plan to use. This ensures that each pair of children has enough room to work comfortably with our netbooks and Lego robotics kits. If you're short of table space, a coffee table will usually accommodate two children. (For Mindstorms parties, we'll need floor space: about 6-feet by 8-feet on a wood floor is ideal).
- Access to an outlet – for those rare times when our netbooks run out of battery power. We provide our own power strips and extension cords.
- For Crime Scene parties: time on the phone with our instructor before the party to discuss the mystery to be solved and logistics for setting up the clues at your venue. No, we do not splash fake blood all over your walls! We use only the types of evidence we discuss with you on the phone. Everything is non-toxic and everything gets cleaned up. Many of us are moms, too, so we know this is important!
- For Storybook Science parties, featuring all non-toxic materials! If we're doing the volcano project, we need a space where you would feel comfortable having children work on say, a messy art project. We will clean up when we go, but we will not conduct these parties near expensive flooring, furniture or tapestries, etc.
- Please keep your own Lego pieces away from the area where we'll be working, so we don't take any of your pieces home!
Our party fees do not include distance charges (if applicable), party venue, invitations, decorations, cake, or goody bags, etc. – but you'd probably rather do those anyway! Want some Lego cake or invitation ideas? Or if you want to get really fancy, ask about our Mindstorms robotic (non-edible) cake! We can build one for your party for $25, but we have to take it home with us, unless we build it with your child's Mindstorms kit.
Repeat: we do not provide any take-homes. We have to take all of our Legos with us so kids in other parties and classes will have the pieces they need to build their robots.
There is no distance charge if your party venue is located within a 20-minute drive of our base, as calculated by Google Maps. In the metro DC area, our base is Wheaton, Md. Parties at venues locate more than 20 minutes from our bases are subject to a distance charge per instructor.
**For the safety of our instructors and party guests, we reserve the right to decline invitations to lead parties at venues where security cannot be guaranteed. However, we will happily work with you to identify alternative venues that you can rent for our parties.
For parties more than 20 minutes' drive from our base (as calculated by Google Maps), we add a distance charge based on round-trip driving time.
Note: if your party requires a distance charge, that charge applies for EACH instructor. So if you are in a location that requires a $25 distance charge, but your party is for up to 24 guests and therefore requires two instructors, the distance charge for your party will be $25 x 2 = $50. That is because the distance charge compensates each person for commuting time and costs.
For examples of distance charges, look here. **Actual charges will vary depending on your address. In rare cases, when the fastest route requires tolls, we add the cost of the tolls to the distance charge. We won't take a route that requires tolls without your approval.
If you would like to book us for a Girl Scout/ Boy Scout or other large event, we can serve up 48 to 60 participants at one time. But we need plenty of advance notice! Please contact us for details.
Sorry, no. When you book a party for 13-24 kids, we dedicate an extra instructor and an extra set of Lego robotics equipment and netbooks to your party, which means we can't assign that instructor or that equipment to another party. And believe us, we are quite booked! We have to turn down a few requests every weekend.
However, if you know *at least TEN DAYS in advance* that you will only need one set of equipment and one instructor (i.e. for up to 12 kids), let us know. We'll change our plans accordingly and you will only be charged for the smaller party.
If you feel your instructor did an excellent job, gave you a little extra time or went out of his or her way to accommodate your particular needs, a tip is a great way to show your appreciation. Obviously, our instructors will never ask or hint for a tip.
Please keep in mind that distance charges, when applicable, are not tips; they reimburse the instructor for driving time in excess of 40 minutes round-trip, and corresponding gas and vehicle expenses.
- up to 15% off selected parties for current or recent students of our after-school, evening or summer programs (or siblings of those students). See individual party descriptions for details. This discount can't be used with other promotions.
- OR, if you have hosted one of our parties, you and your guest are each entitled to $10 off your next party when your guest purchases one of our parties. Hosts may "stack" up to three referral discounts for a total of up to $30 off the host's next party. We hand out these discount cards at parties; we also email them to the host/ess immediately after the party. If you hosted a party and didn't receive one, please contact us.
Want discount codes for our parties and other services? Join our mailing list. We won't share your info with anyone else; we promise we won't spam you. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Look here. This will take you to our booking software, provided by BookFresh. Select "First Available" and choose a date. You will then see the same calendar we see if you call us on the phone. Go ahead and request the time and date you'd like. Within a day or two of your request, we'll send you an email confirmation (or a note saying you need to try a different date and time).
If you don't see your desired time available, don't panic. Put in a request for any time on the same day, and in the notes section, tell us your preferred time. We'll get back to you in a day or two.
We do our very best to accomodate such requests.
If you want a particular instructor, say so in the comments field. Be sure to name a second choice. Bear in mind: we are not going to ask a particular instructor to commit to a party that is more than 8 weeks away. When we confirm your reservation, we can guarantee that one of us will be there, but you will have to wait to closer to your party date to verify the availability of a particular instructor.
Even then, please realize that there are factors beyond our control that affect the availability of any particular instructor, including illness, family emergencies, etc.
Yes! We also offer:
- Robo Challenge party, a Lego robotics party for children ages 8 and up.
- Mindstorms Robotics party, a much more challenging Lego robotics party for children ages 9 and up.
- Crime Scene party, for children ages 7 -101.
- Storybook Science party for children grade K-1. Fun with volcanoes or goo … or fossils …. you choose! All non-toxic materials.
About a week before your party, we'll send you an email reminding you of the date, time and address on record for your party, and the name of your instructor. That reminder instructs you to call us if you have not heard from your instructor by the Tuesday before the party. We promise: a human will respond within 24 hours; and your actual instructor will call soon after, to go over any details including parking, stairs, balance due, etc.
This is a great time to alert us to any unique needs related to your guests or venue, or any changes since you made your reservation. If you have changed your venue, we may have to recalculate your distance charge. If you've decided to have the party outside your house as opposed to inside, or vice-versa, we need to know. If you hope to upgrade to a larger or different party, we need to know. Tell your instructor when s/he calls!


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Iron Mike's tell-all autobiography is every bit as crazy as you'd imagine it to be. But what's even more shocking is just how insightful and enlightening a read it ultimately turns out to be.
"Whenever the last trumpet shall sound, I will present myself before the sovereign judge with this book in my hand, and loudly proclaim, thus have I acted; these were my thoughts; such was I. With equal freedom and veracity have I related what was laudable or wicked, I have concealed no crimes, added no virtues; and if I have sometimes introduced superfluous ornament, it was merely to occupy a void occasioned by defect of memory: I may have supposed that certain, which I only knew to be probable, but have never asserted as truth, a conscious falsehood. Such as I was, I have declared myself; sometimes vile and despicable, at others, virtuous, generous and sublime; even as thou hast read my inmost soul: Power eternal! assemble round thy throne an innumerable throng of my fellow-mortals, let them listen to my confessions, let them blush at my depravity, let them tremble at my sufferings; let each in his turn expose with equal sincerity the failings, the wanderings of his heart, and, if he dare, aver, I was better than that man."
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau,
"The Confessions," 1782
"This book is dedicated to all the outcasts -- everyone who has ever been mesmerized, marginalized, tranquilized, beaten down and falsely accused. And incapable of receiving love."
-- Mike Tyson,
"Undisputed Truth," 2013
I don't think anyone other than Mike Tyson himself can fully grasp the unbearable guilt that willed "Undisputed Truth" into existence. His almost 600-page autobiography is less a standard recounting of his life as it is a typed confession, a laundry list of the sordid deeds that both nourished his monstrous ego and rattled the most decent part of his soul to its breaking point. Reading "Undisputed Truth" is like watching a flooded vessel explode from the inside out -- the only thing more tragic than the sight is its sickly beauty, the kind of destruction so spectacular you can't help but stare at it in awed amazement. Your personal opinion of Mr. Tyson probably won't be altered by the contents of the book -- if you think he's a megalomaniacal fruitcake now, you'll still hold such as self-evident -- but after reading the tome, you'll at least partially understand Tyson's demeanor and attitude. His stories herein may not absolve him of his many, many debaucheries and disgraces throughout his lifetime, but the the book does do something almost as astounding: it actually allows you to rationalize his actions and doings, and eventually come to empathize with one of the most universally despised public figures of the last quarter century.
The book -- which was essentially ghostwritten by "Private Parts" scribe Larry Sloman -- begins with Tyson discussing his 1991 rape case against Desiree Washington, and how he tried to do some Santeria rituals to sway the outcome of the trial. He then starts recalling his childhood, growing up in Brownsville, New York, in the late 1970s.
Folks, all I can say is that after reading about Mike's childhood, nearly everything he went on to do in life -- no matter how depraved or disgusting -- is kinda' understandable. He claims to have been doing home invasions at the age of 10 and spending much of his elementary school years living in abandoned buildings -- perhaps its worth noting that he says that he never actually "attended" school in the traditional sense, arriving only to eat breakfast and lunch before playing hooky.
Up until the age of 15, he said he slept in the same bed with his mom, even while she had sex with men. On one occasion, he recalls her scalding one of her lovers with boiling water, and watching his mom pop his pustules with a blowtorch afterward. His after-school activities consisted mostly of scaring pigeons off roofs as a gofer for local drug runners and snatching gold chains off subway passengers. At the tender age of 11, he was fist fighting grown men (his mentor, he claims, was some dude that used to shadowbox while high on weed), constantly getting the shit beat out of him by his mother (who loaded him up on Thorazine to control him) and robbing special ed students for gambling money. Perpetually in trouble with the law, he said he basically had a "time share" at the local juvenile detention center.
Eventually, Mike was sent to the Tryon School for Boys, where he was taught how to box by Bobby Stewart -- a guard that had a proclivity for engaging in fisticuffs with the center's underage residents. Displaying impressive raw talent, Tyson was then sent to live with elderly boxing trainer Cus D'amato -- a paranoid socialist that hated Ronald Reagan and was so fearful that International Boxing Commission goons would plant drugs on him that he sewed his own jacket pockets shut.
Training with Cus and Teddy Atlas, Mike Tyson said his fascination with pugilism began to flourish after watching the first Ray Leonard/Roberto Duran bout. Patterning himself after Muhammad Ali, a young Tyson said that he spent his teen years reading Tolstoy, Adam Smith and Nietzsche (so he could better understand "the hearts of men") and absorbing all of D'amato's aphorisms -- including the battle cry of making all his opponents "causes a lie" before the opening bell sounded. Battling a major eating addiction, he said one of the hardest parts of his regiment was abstaining from sexual activity; as such, he describes his life as revolving around "training and jerking off" for several years.
As a junior amateur, a 14-year-old Tyson was battling 22-year-old men. After his mother's death, Tyson returned to Brownsville, and mourned her passing by smoking PCP and going on a robbing spree. In Dec. 1982, Tyson experienced his first loss at the U.S. Amateur Championships. He was 16, while his opponent was nearly a decade older.
Tyson talks about his shortcomings at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and we get a role call of his first 8 professional fights -- all knockout wins, by the way. He recalls hanging out in the New York social scene, meeting people like Raul Julia and Drew Barrymore, the celebrity that impressed him most being former WWF Champion Bruno Sammartino.
Tyson discusses his early philosophy on boxing, parroting D'amato's famed "the way you fight your fights is the way you live your life" quip, as well as describing how he feels his opponent's "spirit" prior to a fight -- before the bout even starts, he claimed to have been able to tell whether or not a competitor was "a pussy," or "oh shit, he's coming here to fight." He had an undercard bout scheduled at Madison Square Garden once; after it was cancelled, he gleefully talks about visiting a whorehouse to celebrate.
D'amato then dies, and Mike talks about speaking to a photograph of him, and how being at the bank reminded him of his mentor and always made him weep. "I fight my heart out, give it my best," he said. "But when it's over, there's no Cus to tell me how I did, no mother to show my clippings to."
From there, Mike's handlers becomes a trifecta of individuals -- Steve Lott, Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Cayton. As Mike keeps chalking up more victories, he continues to party with prostitutes, go out on lavish drinking sprees in upstate New York and steal quotes from his biggest idols; among them, football great Jim Brown and Apocalypse...as in, Apocalypse, the X-Men villain.
On Nov. 22, 1986, Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to claim his first World Heavyweight boxing championship -- at the age of 20, making him the youngest such champ in the sport's history. Even more impressive? He said that he was "leaking" from a bad case of the clap throughout the entire bout. On the precipice of international stardom, he recalls a foreboding quote from Lenin: "freedom is a very dangerous thing. We should ration it very closely."
Immediately after winning his first belt, Tyson said he found himself torn between his dual lives in high society and his old Brownsville stomping grounds. He recalls hanging out with Rick James and Carlton Banks at bars and having sex with groupies while literally wearing his championship strap; he also talks about trekking to his home turf, where he would buy sneakers for the homeless and pass out $25,000 a night like Robin Hood. The money he got from doing an anti-drug PSA, he said, was used to fund the coke distributing operations of his childhood friends.
Tyson continues to tear through challengers left and right: Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, Michael Spinks, Larry Holmes. The last one, he said, was revenge on behalf of his childhood icon, Muhammad Ali. He encounters Barbara Streisand, and tells her how sexy he thinks her nose is.
Tyson then marries sitcom star Robin Givens, whom he said had a "Herdipus complex." He pays for the funeral of famed pimp Iceberg Slim, and Jimmy Jacobs passes away. Drama with Givens and her mother begins almost instantly, with Tyson alleging that their goal was to either goad him into a pricey divorce or take over his finances by having him locked up in a mental institution. Meanwhile, Tyson gets into a series of street brawls with a guy named Mitch Green, and after an infamous 20/20 interview, he and Givens officially call it quits. He says the president of his bank held a party the day Givens and her mom was officially taken off his bank account -- "fuck them bitches," the pres allegedly stated.
After the divorce, Tyson took his man-ho exploits to dizzying new heights. Waxing poetically, he said his excesses were borne of a broken heart -- "love leaves a black mark " on it, he said. He hooks up with fight promoter Don King, whom he calls "a reptilian motherfucker" who hates whites and an individual guilty of "contaminating his barometer." Mike visits Mexico, and he's upset that there are people in the world that actually live in conditions worse than his as a child. "That shame of being poor gave me more pain in life than anything," he said.
As a PR stunt, he was baptized in an event which featured Reverend Jesse Jackson. Immediately afterwards, Tyson said he went back to his hotel and nailed a choir girl. He then recounts tales of punking out Kennan Ivory Wayans, Brad Pitt and Wesley Snipes, and this one time he showed Frank Bruno his pubic hair.
Prior to a bout against Carl Williams, Tyson experiences his first of MANY HIV scares, and talks about being so upset with Don King this one time, he ended up kicking him in the head. That actually becomes something of a recurring motif throughout the book -- every time Don gets the shit beat out of him, feel free to do a shot, kids.
Then we come to Tyson's 1990 bout against James "Buster" Douglas in Japan. He says that he lost because he was too busy banging Japanese maids and that Douglas got a slow count on a previous knockdown. Following his first pro loss, he returns to the Catskills, and spends some time with D'amato's widowed wife, Camille. His sister dies, his first son is born, and he trains for a bout against Razor Ruddock. Tyson accuses King of placing Thorazine in his food, and making him watch Nazi documentaries when all he wanted to do was watch cartoons.
Then we come to a lengthy passage about the Desiree Washington rape trial. All you need to know there is that Tyson had arguably the shittiest defense team anyone has ever had, and most likely, ever will have.
Before going to Indiana for a five year prison stay, we're introduced to Daddy Tyson, an absolutely impossible deacon-pimp who once drove all the way from New York to North Carolina and back to retrieve a shotgun to shot a dude that pissed him off once. His pa, whom said "all I know is pimping and the bible," dies shortly thereafter, and Tyson recounts his years behind bars.
Alongside another inmate, Tyson said he cooked up a grandiose commissary scheme using fan-sent money. He reads the work of Che, Mao and Arthur Ashe while having furtive sex with visitors sporting crotchless undergarments, and other inmates pay Mike to listen to his friends on the West Coast have sex over a phone line. He ends up having an affair with an in-house drug counselor (even getting her knocked up), while receiving visits from the likes of James Brown and Tupac -- whom once tried to start an impromptu concert during one of his visitation stays. In a lot of ways, the book does seem to read like a Bizarro version of "Forrest Gump" at times.
And so, Tyson is released early, and one of the first things he does is buy some lion cubs, whom proceed to piss and shit all over Don King's townhouse. By now, keeping up with all of Tyson's out-of-wedlock kids is sort of like following the Dewey Cox life story; after chalking up some easy wins over the likes of Buster Mathis and Frank Bruno, the first Tyson/Holyfield bout is arranged, and Mike blames that particular loss on the following things: Evander kept headbutting him, his opponent was probably on steroids and the referee was most likely drunk.
Mike remarries, and he continues to ho it up, anyway. Holyfield/Tyson II goes down -- the infamous "ear biting" fiasco -- and Tyson claims referee Mills Lane was biased and didn't call a couple of pre-chew headbutts on Holyfield's behalf. Riots ensue, and Tyson gets banned by the NSAC for an entire year.
Shortly after the bout, Tyson gets in a motorcycle wreck, tries to stab Don King with a fork and is diagnosed with dysthymic disorder. He makes a mint off an appearance at WrestleMania, claiming that his erroneous promos about "Cold Stone" Steve Austin could simply be attributed to the fact that he had munchies at the time of the interviews.
Owing $13 million in back taxes, Tyson ultimately winds up with a 2-year prison sentence in Maryland. He receives visits from JFK, Jr., whom he said was largely responsible for his early release. After doing some community service at Tent City, Tyson is reinstated, and he beats up a less-than-impressive gallery of tomato cans, like Orlin Norris (whom he said used to stare at him from the crowd at press conferences, Clubber Lang style) and Julius Francis, whom was actually paid by a U.K. newspaper to place an ad on the bottom of the boxing shoes he wore heading into the bout.
More lawsuits follow, and after reading a book about Alexander the Great, Tyson starts walking around in the desert while high. He threatens to eat the children of Lennox Lewis, beats up some more cans, and talks about using the Whizzinator to cheat on pre-fight drug screenings. Apparently, he forgot to do that for his Andrew Golota bout, though.
From there, he starts incorporating the terms "convicted rapist" and "Zoloft" into his fight promos, and he gets accused of raping a K-Mart employee. After 9/11, his Las Vegas compound is raided -- Tyson alleges that a well-known, yet curiously unnamed, boxer was trying to set him up by sending his girlfriend over to claim to be kidnapped. Despite the incident, Tyson says that he would later go on to smoke weed with the mysterious fighter, as something of an peace offering.
He hangs out in Europe for awhile, stating that sex clubs in Germany are too much, even for himself. Then, he travels to Jamaica and fears that he contracts AIDS from a Cuban prostitute. That last one kinda' resulted in his divorce, surprisingly.
In the build-up to his 2002 Lennox Lewis bout, he said that he did numerous promotional stops -- including the one that predicated the infamous "leg-biting" brawl" -- while high on coke. Referring to his infamous "Until you love me" post-scrap statements, he said he was simply channeling his mother, and her colorful way with terms such as "punk white boy." He said that he did at least one interview with Rita Cosby while completely strung out on Maui Wowie.
After his loss to Lenox, Tyson pretty much bottoms out. He said he started hanging out drug dens, with 20 girlfriends at a time. It was around this time that he got his Maori-inspired face tattoo; he said he wanted to cover up his own face, which he hated, with anything. His original idea, he recalled, involved hearts.
After a facile bout against Clifford Etienne (who is quite possibly the only athlete in the world to ever have a life story more gloriously fucked up than Mike's), Tyson talks about getting into a fight with Don King in Florida, in which he chased him across I-95 while carrying a half pound brick of weed in his pocket. He beats up some Puerto Rican fans, declares bankruptcy (he said his staffers had to Google what "Chapter 11" meant) and said he had to start eating Frosted Flakes and Twizzlers for dinner...while still having lavish shopping sprees at Rodeo Drive retailers.
After flirting with never-to-transpire K1 bouts against Bob Sapp and Jerome Le Banner, Tyson recalled visiting Michael Jackson, whom he said was hanging out with some straight up "thug kids." He then loses fights to Danny Williams and Kevin McBride, pretty much spelling the end of his boxing career.
Post-retirement, Tyson starts doing drugs and alcohol like crazy, while hanging out with a lot of rich Jewish people. He starts seeing a counselor named Marilyn Murray in 2005, who explains to him how he's "an egomaniac addicted to chaos." Tyson likes her so much, he said he wanted her to move to Russia with him.
He then takes a Eurasian tour, where he claims to have turned the Romanian mafia onto cocaine. He talks about how smart the call girls in Chechnya are, and recalls taking several arduous "cocaine dumps" in Portugal and Amsterdam. He soon starts passing out at strip clubs (where he said dancers hopped up on"sissy drugs" like MDMA stole his fried chicken) and begins experimenting with both morphine drips and Cialis.
In 2006, he gets busted for coke in Phoenix, and gets sent to a rehab facility in L.A. for sex addiction and drug use. He works on his "mother issues" and stars in a 2008 documentary (which he said opened his eyes to the "Greek tragedy" of his own existence) and balloons all the way up to 360 pounds. At the time, he meets a new lover named Kiki, who gets sent to jail while pregnant with Tyson's child.
Shortly thereafter, Tyson said he falls back into "cocaine hell," where he gorges himself on coke, hookers and cookies nonstop. At the time, he recalled having just $7,000 in his bank account, when he owed at least $8,000 a month in child support payments. His child Exodus dies, and he has to bury his own kid using fan-sent contributions. He winds up marrying Kiki in Vegas, noting that their pastor looked like one-time WWF manager Slick.
He gets sent to an extremely shitty rehab center, where patients live in a glorified trailer park and he accuses his counselor of stealing his eight ball. As lackluster as it was, you can't argue with its results, though; he said he spent half a day there, and has only had one cocaine relapse since.
Tyson converts to veganism shortly thereafter, and makes appearances on Oprah and the Italian version of "Dancing with the Stars." At one point, he was scheduled to star in a satirical HBO program called "Da Brick," but sadly, it never really came together. Between the filming of "The Hangover" and its sequel, he said he lost nearly 100 pounds.
On a trip to Mecca, Tyson has some profound thoughts about the afterlife, stating that he would much rather burn in hell with his friends than commingle with strangers in heaven. He gets inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, makes guest appearances on "How I Met Your Mother" and "Law and Order," and starts doing a one-man show in Vegas, from which the title of the book is derived. Ironically, his first stop on a 2013 national tour of "Undisputed Truth" was in Indianapolis, the same city where he was imprisoned for nearly half a decade. He revisits the facility and reflecting upon his current lot in life, makes the following observation: "I won't make much money, but I can do what I love to do. And just by doing what you love to do, out of love, good things happen."
Towards the tail end of the book, Tyson discusses starting his charitable organization, and heckling Mitt Romney at the Pac/Marquez IV bout with some street kids. Stating that self-destruction is in his genetic code (he compares his parents to two deep roller pigeons -- as Hannibal Lector told us all those years ago, the offspring of such pairings have an unfortunate tendency to splatter themselves on pavement), he now goes to bed at 7 pm, constantly assailed by the fear that his wife and children will leave him. "Dying on your shield," he concludes, "is a sucker's game."
Of all things, Tyson elects to close the book by talking about famous love letters throughout history. He compares Robin Givens to Napoleon's distant lover, and said that a suicide pact letter sent by Heinrich von Kleist to Henriette Vogel always makes Kiki cry. His life, he said, has been "one foot in heaven" and "one foot in hell." It's a fitting closing simile, no doubt, for a man whose entire life has been a mad swing between polar extremes; from untold wealth to unfathomable poverty, from international glory to virtual bankruptcy, from disciplined asceticism to maddening excess.
I've read a lot of books from 2013, and I'd have to say that this one has probably been my favorite. Like the bleakest epic poem you could ever read or the most dizzying near-crash experience once could imagine, "Undisputed Truth" is a traumatic, no-holds-barred descent into the pit of one's greatest fears, a tome that not only confronts a platoon of personal demons, but actually revels in the one-by-one admission of past sins.
Mike Tyson's life story is about the quest for greatness, the individual will to survive and the fallibility of our desires. As such, "Undisputed Truth"is really about a different kind of fighter; not the multimillionaire celebrity that boxes on Pay-Per-View, but the guilt-ridden, conscience burdened brawler that, whether we'd like to admit it or not, resides in all of our souls. Mike's story is so distressing, and exhilarating then, for obvious reasons; it's because his story, for better or worse, just so happens to be our story, as well.


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Vintage cream lucite cross and chain. The lovely fancy gold tone chain measures 67.5cm, and has the Avon hang tag.
The beautiful cross is 6.1cm x 3.6cm and features a simple chain design. The reverse is in pale gold tone metal.
The name of this Avon design was 'Juliet Cross' and it was made in 1975.
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So. Much. Homework. Mind you this is not your standard college workload, this is a SLC learning-on-steroids workload. Never fear. What Sarah Lawrence lacks in social space, it makes up for in study space (who needs friends when you've got three books to read by tomorrow?) So how do we cope with our unnecessarily long homework assignments? We study like mo-fos, that's how.
The key to a good study session is location, location, location.
My own study habits resemble more of hibernation than anything else. I hole away in the library with a cup of coffee and whatever reading I need to get done. And I don't come out. Ever. I just spread out and type/read/cry until the assignments over. No breaks, no sleep. Just work. That's my motto.
Others aren't as psychotic and just need a quiet place to sit and read their handouts in peace. For those people, I have some suggestions. The following is a sampling of study spaces around campus, where the weary student can hunker down and finish that book…that you haven't started…that's due tomorrow. Whoops.
The Library
The library is a perfect place to study. So quiet (usually) and there are SO MANY CHAIRS. Unless it's conference week, then you'll be lucky to have a table to burrow under. Also most chairs are accompanied by a nifty little footrest, I mean awkwardly low table to spread all your study materials on. Another plus, there is enough foot traffic for some decent people watching, but not enough to cause an actual distraction. Winner! The computer lab and other library resources, such as DVDs and reference collection, make the library the one-stop shop for all your studying needs. All in all this is my go to place when I need to get huge chucks of a book read or draft an entire paper in one night. Upside: there are vending machines in the basement and one serves coffee.
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The Back Porch of the Pub
Ah yes, the unintentional study space. I usually end up here, when I remember I have to feed myself and leave the library. The front terrace isn't as ideal. Too many people milling about and I'll probably just end up watching them or pulling up YouTube. The back porch is more secluded, and is a nice sunny spot (at least for the next few weeks) to sit and get your work done. Major pros include, eating while reading, coffee, fresh air, the occasional baby raccoon, more coffee and plenty of vitamin D. It is also a good group study/meeting space, with no noise constraint and plenty of chairs. Overall the scenery and the proximity to the pub make this a good place to get a jump on your conference work or draft an email to your don.
Dorm Lawns
If you're lucky enough to live or befriend someone who lives in any of the converted-house dorms, you're in luck. The lawns outside the Mead Way houses, Lynd, Morrill, and Tweed are brilliant places to study. They're like mini South Lawns minus the odd tour or ukulele player. Just add a picnic blanket or towel and you've got a great spot to stretch out and get some serious reading done (and come on, let's be honest, what else do we have to do but read?) For those who don't mind the occasional bug bite or skunk scare, lawns can be your own little oases. On a good day, they're a sunny spot away from the bustle of main campus where you can lounge enjoying the outdoors while you suffer through your reading. On a bad day, they're flooded, because surprise, surprise it's raining AGAIN.
To give you an idea of what people like, here's a list of places other SLCers study:
On Campus:
• Dorm room
o Pro: Guaranteed space
o Con: House centipedes and roommates
• Dorm Common Room
o Pro: Your own couch and food supply
o Con: Housemates and other distractions
• The Black Squirrel
o Pro: you get to drink ALL the Milkshakes
o Con: you actually drank all of the Milkshakes
• The Pillow Room
o Pro: giant pillows to lay on
o Con: you WILL fall asleep
• Library Study Rooms
o Pro: Nobody can see you, you could study naked if you felt like it
o Con: If nobody can see you…ew.
Off Campus:
• Starbucks / Slave to the Grind / Haagen-Dazs
o Pro: WiFi (minus Slave to the Grind)
o Con: Bronxville bros
• New York Public Library
o Pro: ALL the books
o Con: Train fare
Sipping and studying at the 'Bucks
Whether you choose to get your work done the week before or the night before it's due, there is plenty of space on campus to accommodate you. So go forth- study!


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I met Susie's mom when I was 18 ( that was a WHILE ago); we were assigned as roommates our first year of college. We were impossibly young and naive. We didn't much like each other at first, instead arguing over little things like laundry and big things like life experiences. Over time, we fell into a friendship and ultimately she remains a dear piece of my heart.
Since I moved to Denver and we both had kids, we haven't had a chance to see each other. On a trip back home to see family, I had the most amazing chance to spend some time with Tara, Sergio & darling little Susie!
It was so amazing to see all the best parts of Tara and Sergio blooming in their daughter, the joy, the fearless enthusiasm for life, the bold and silly personality, the intensity towards language and reading. What a pure joy it was to spend this time together.


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FC: The Monkey and the Camel Alex Lane Megan Rowe
1: Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, the animal kingdom was in dire need of help. You see, this was an animal kingdom in the middle of a jungle where no humans are. They have been without entertainment, food, drink, and every necessity.
2: With no apparent help from outside the kingdom to their yelling and screaming, (which sounded like dog barking at night to humans) the kingdom had lost hope.
3: To rally the spirits of his royal subjects, the king had mandated that they must dance. He hoped that with the forced dancing, the depressing and hopelessness would evate.
4: As the only one in the room not afflicted with the undeniable hopelessness, Marco (the monkey) gets tired of being the only one with uplifted spirits. So, he proceeded to dance. First slowly, but with time it grew into a pretty good dance. It definitely got everybody smiling again.
5: But soon that smile grew into laughter at Marco. This was a result of Cory, the Camel. With the spotlight on Marco at first, jealousy ran throughout the room; eventually landing on Cory. Who soon completely outdid Marco. Marco looked on as he stole away the hearts of the on-lookers.
6: As soon as Cory finished his show, the eyes turned to the lonely monkey slowly walking out the door. As soon as their eyes hit him, they started to riot in a fashion which could only be described as animalistic. | As Marco ran away from the mob, Cory was left thinking what he had done. "it was just a dance" he said, not realizing the potential result of his actions.


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5 Ways You Can Be Considerate Of Others In The Outdoors/
One of the reasons why people head into the wild is to experience the peace and solitude that nature offers. That is why it is so important to be considerate of others while exploring outside. In fact, maintaining courtesy towards others while camping, hiking, or backpacking is one of the most crucial, but often times overlooked, ethical components of adventuring. Here are five ways in which you can #ProtectTheWild and make sure you are being considerate of other visitors: (Click here to read the full article at The Outbound.)


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We've had Something Wicked This Way Comes weather these past few days, but overall it has been an unseasonably warm October. Someone turned five in our house, and we've seen lots of kids and pumpkins and costumes and fun family moments. And yet, I did manage to sneak out for some time on my own here and there. My one shot this month is of a dear friend as we headed home past curfew one night. While we aren't riding the carousel backwards, we can still be young at heart.
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The Bridge Club / What do Sharon Osberg, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates share? A love of bridge
Sometime today, Sharon Osberg, 55, will partner up with Warren Buffett for a game of bridge. Since he is in Omaha and she in Forest Hill, west of Twin Peaks, they'll play online. When she plays offline, her bridge partner is Bill Gates.
Where did you learn to play?
At Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn.
Nothing else to do there?
Our coed dorm had games that went all night long.
How long would you sit?
Until we dropped. There was a buzzer system. As soon as somebody passed out we'd start buzzing rooms for somebody else to come down and play.
What year was this?
1970 or '71. I was the youngest generation still playing. My ex-husband, David Smith, stopped for 25 years. Now that he's started playing again, he says, "We're still the youngest generation playing bridge."
Is bridge good for couples?
Probably not. You have naked ego out there.
What will bring bridge back?
We have big names. We have Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Martina Navratilova.
How did you meet Mr. Buffett?
Through bridge, 15 years ago at the Empire State Building. I was with Wells Fargo. He said, "The next time you're traveling east, stop in Omaha and we'll play bridge."
What did you say?
Where is Omaha?
How did it go?
I was scared to death to meet him. I couldn't breathe for days. I stayed in a hotel and he gave me a thrilling driving tour of Omaha, in an old Lincoln.
How did you hit it off?
Warren Buffet is my best friend. We talk every day.
Has he been to your house?
Many times. His wife, although they were separated for 35 years, lived in San Francisco. During her illness, Warren came every week. I'd pick him up at the airport. He'd come here and watch football.
Did he give you any investment advice?
No. They've adopted me as a member of their family. I go there every Thanksgiving. We had his 75th birthday in Tiburon.
Where in Tiburon?
At my significant-other's, David Smith's.
I thought he was your ex-husband?
He was. We were married for less than a year and then we were apart for 30 years.
Are you as friendly with Gates?
Yeah. I just went to his 50th birthday party.
You and Warren and Bill?
I'm working my way down the Forbes 400. I don't now who is No. 3.
Bridge really advances your position?
I'd like to think it's my sparkling personality. But it probably has a lot to do with the way I play bridge.
Are you being modest?
I was fortunate enough to be on the winning team in '91 and '93, in Japan and Chile.
Where is your card table?
I play online.
Don't you miss the camaraderie?
You can play in your bathrobe.
When will you and Gates play next?
I was his 50th birthday present. His wife, Melinda, asked for ideas and I said "give him time to go play in a tournament." So she wrapped this whole thing up in a box...
And you popped out?
I wasn't in the box but there was this little certificate.
Will Gates pick up the hotel tab?
Probably not.
Is he cheap?
Definitely not.
So who do you like better?
Bill and Warren are similar. They don't much care what they eat.
Do you?
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Sept. 19, 2005
Fairfield, CT - Former Sacred Heart goaltender Kevin LaPointe (Quebec City, Quebec) has made it past the first round of cuts at Detroit Red Wings training camp. He participated in the Red Wings annual Red-White scrimmage on Sunday in Travese City, MI.
LaPointe was in Red Wings camp today for the continuation of practices. He was expected to work out with a group of Wings that included NHL veterans Brendan Shanahan and Mathieu Schneider.
The Red Wings will play nine preseason games beginning tonight and concluding October 1st. Teams must cut their rosters to 20 players by the opening night of the regular season, October 5th.
LaPointe is also scheduled to attend training camp with the Grand Rapids Griffins, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Red Wings later this month. He has also signed a contract to play professionally for the Muskegon Fury of the United Hockey League.
LaPointe graduated from Sacred Heart University in May with a degree in Finance and he was a member of the 2003-04 and 2004-05 Atlantic Hockey Association All-Academic Teams.
Over his career with the Pioneers, LaPointe played in 71 games with a career save percentage of .902 and a goals against average of 3.08.


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This story starts in a hotel elevator in the middle of England.
Sam Burgess and James Graham have piled into a tiny lift after a few ales. They were midway through an England Test tour.
Burgess maintains Graham can never remember this particular story, but he giggles and tells Fairfax Media anyway.
"We'd given it a bit of a nudge and were rooming together when we got into this tight lift,'' Burgess says. "When he's drunk, he loves swinging his shoulders into people.
"He started to swing into me so I moved out of the way and he ended up punching the side of the lift.
"He then turned to me and said, 'What you doing?'.
"I said, 'What am I doing? What are you doing? You tried to swing into me'.
"He said, 'You made me punch the side of the lift'.
"We got back to our room and he kept carrying on about how he could have broken his hand and it was all my fault.
"He loves his moisturiser, he moisturises every morning, so I picked up this moisturiser he had in a case and threw it against the wall. It shattered everywhere. He blew up deluxe.
"The next morning he wakes up and says, 'We right for brekkie?' Then he asked why his moisturiser was everywhere."
This isn't a story about the friendship between two of the game's best English imports. And it's certainly not about glorifying rugby league players drinking.
It's about Graham, the man with the tough exterior who looks intimidating to rival players and even some fans. He plays hard. He doesn't back down from confrontation, even with his mates. His run-in with Dragons fullback Matt Dufty recently is another example of a fiery incident. An incident that dissipated just as quickly as his friendly fight with Burgess.
The strawberry-blond enforcer forgives and forgets. He has a wonderful sense of humour. He is a larrikin.
"He's a legend. He is one of the best blokes to play with. He competes hard, he's good to have around the team," Burgess says.
"He is a guy you need in your team to be successful."
Consider that the ultimate rap from one of the biggest names in the game.
Burgess and Graham are so tight, six hours after the 2014 grand final, when Burgess fractured his cheekbone in the opening minute after running into Graham, they enjoyed a beer together on FaceTime.
Graham was happy to repay the love for Burgess when he recalled how a few words from the Rabbitoh made him play through pain during a Test against New Zealand.
"I banged my knee, I was hobbling and signalling to the physio, but he said, 'C'mon mate, we need ya'," Graham recalls.
"It was his words, and I was like, 'Yeah, OK, you've told me, so I'll get on with it and deal with it later'.
"I can see him looking at me now. He has that influence on players. Those lads at Souths would love having him there. He instils a lot of confidence in players around him."
Graham is also the key man who can help St George Illawarra cause a Sunday afternoon boilover against the Broncos.
If Ben Hunt and Gareth Widdop are to fire, they need some go-forward from the 32-year-old Graham.
Graham was loved at Canterbury. He once asked former chairman Ray Dib if he could take a pay cut so the club could have a little bit more money to keep favourite son Josh Reynolds.
You could feel the pain in his voice when talking about the fallout from the Bulldogs' Mad Monday saga during the week. He was far from impressed with the "outrage culture" around the game from some of the "cheap media".
It has been 12 months since Graham was squeezed out of Belmore, but some of his former Canterbury teammates still hold a special place in his heart. And they certainly haven't forgotten him.
"He's a great leader on and off the field; he's similar to Sam [Burgess], except Sam is a little more relaxed," Rabbitohs hooker Damien Cook recalls of his time with Graham at the Bulldogs. "I enjoyed playing with Jamma [Graham]. He's tough. He's the second-best Pommy prop in the game at the moment, behind Sam.''
Graham's St George Illawarra teammates have come to appreciate the giant Englishman too.
He will lead a rep-stacked Dragons front line into battle against a young Broncos pack.
Graham is intimidating on the field, but clearly approachable off it, given his teammates are happy to poke fun at him.
Like Tyson Frizell did when telling the story about Graham and how he thought homes did not require timber frames, and he could simply get away with double brick.
"Did Friz really say that?" Graham asks. "That bloke did renovations and was moaning about paying for a fence. He neighbours a council alleyway and he was saying, 'Council won't pay for it'.
"I'm like, 'Friz, you're on $30,000 an Origin game, $20,000 a Test, what you whingeing for?' I might move down to Wollongong so I'm away from him."
Graham has added plenty of experience to the Dragons pack. He is no stranger to the big stage.
"We need 'Jamma' there playing the footy he has been playing," Frizell says. "He's been consistent and great for us."
Graham will know exactly what to expect from 50,000 screaming Broncos fans and how Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett will have his players pumped for finals. Graham has seen first-hand how Bennett operates, playing under the master coach for England.
While the Dragons limped into September rather than marched, Graham says there was a genuine belief they could go all the way.
For starters, the Dragons proved on more than one occasion how devastating they can be when at their best, even if it was in the first half of the season. That quality doesn't just disappear.
"One win separates first to eighth," Graham says. "Some teams have had their losses spread out throughout the year; ours have been bunched together at the latter stages of the year.
He's a legend. He is one of the best blokes to play with. He competes hard, he's good to have around the team.Sam Burgess on James Graham
"We've got ourselves into a position where we're playing in September.
"It's clear to see our team's potential and we've all witnessed it already this year, especially early on. Everyone knows it's still there.
"I'm trying to do my job for the team. Personally, I've been striving for consistency and that's probably been down the past couple of months.''
Graham was with Canterbury when they came from the bottom half of the finals to reach the grand final in 2014.
But it's clear he is in no mood to discuss a campaign from four years ago. Nor does he want to go through the oft-repeated story of his exit from the Bulldogs.
When Burgess signed his extension to stay at Souths this week, Graham said there was no way he could have seen his Pommy pal in any other strip.
Did it make him envious his own loyalty was never rewarded?
"Not really. Not at all," Graham says. "I'm really happy with the move. For me personally, it's refreshed me. Sometimes it's part of sport. For me, it's been a good move."
Dragons fans are delighted they have him on deck. So are the players.
As Sam would say, ''He is a guy you need in your team to be successful".
Christian covers rugby league for The Sydney Morning Herald.


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I've been hearing about Phong Ding off and on for years now, primarily for the "famous baked catfish", but also due to their extensive menu featuring more unusual meats. When I posted a dinner outing to check Phong Ding out, I jokingly mentioned that while I don't necessarily want to eat the entire zoo, I'm open to trying some new things.
Upon being seated and given the menu, we were overwhelmed with all the choices. There were various dishes that featured everything from boar to kangaroo, from ostrich to quail, from snake to frog legs and so much more. It was amazing that we were even able to settle on the 10 dishes we finally ended up ordering.
Of course, I had already called and pre-ordered the baked catfish and wow, what a feast that was. We could have easily just had the catfish for dinner without anything else. First, came out all the fixin's which included all sorts of veggies as well as vermicelli noodles and the wrapper. Soon after, the catfish arrived in all its glory and in what seemed like moments, was stripped clean.
The fish was delicate, moist and tender and I really enjoyed the group's interactive eating. There's just something about eating with your fingers and hands that seems so liberating.
We were all getting kind of full with the catfish, but there were still 9 dishes to go. Of the other 9 dishes, two really stood out for me.
First, there was the charbroiled goat spare ribs glazed with spicy bean curd marinade. I've never had goat spare ribs before and my thought that the ribs probably wouldn't have much meat to it, but surprisingly, the ribs weren't as lean as I thought they would be.
The marinade for this dish was amazing. There was a little bit of heat, but it was a sweet heat. It also had a subtle smoky flavor to it that made it even more appealing. Other than the catfish, this was one of my favorite dishes.
Second, there were the quail eggs wrapped in shrimp paste and battered with crispy sweet rice flakes and served with ginger plum sauce. Once you get over the surprise of seeing green eggs appear before you, this is a really tasty dish.
Quail eggs to me, generally have a gamier taste to them than regular chicken eggs, but the combo of the strongly flavored shrimp paste and sweet rice really cut a lot of that gamey flavor out and just left an egg with really interesting flavor profile.
Another dish that I liked included the kangaroo sauteed with black and pepper and prepared flambe style with wine. This was my first time having kangaroo and it reminded me of goat or lamb just because it had a strong taste to it. I would have preferred less wine but overall, I thought the meat was tender and cooked well.
Overall, we didn't stray too much into the real exotic meats, except maybe for the Kangaroo, but still this was an enjoyable meal and I know that if I ever want to host more of a "Fear Factor" kind of dinner, Phong Ding is the place to go.
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Score: No. 22 Wichita State 1 – Oral Roberts 2
Records: WSU (9-2) – ORU (7-3)
Location: Tulsa, Okla. (J.L. Johnson Stadium)
TULSA, Okla. – Three pitchers combined for a brilliant effort in the Oral Roberts baseball team's 2-1 upset of No. 22 Wichita State Wednesday afternoon at J.L. Johnson Stadium holding the Shockers to three hits.
The Golden Eagles got five innings from starter Taylor Varnell before giving way to Grant Townsend and Kyler Stout from the bullpen for the final four. The trio shut down one of the nation's top power-hitting offenses surrendering three hits and one run in the victory.
Noah Cummings brought home the first run with a RBI double off the wall in right center plating Cal Hernandez, who started the frame with a double of his own, in a two-run third inning. A sacrifice fly by Spencer Henson allowed Nick Roark to slide head first into home plate as the eventual winning run.
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"We're getting closer. When you can pitch like we've been pitching to this point in the season, you're always going to give yourself a chance. We hung on. This is a good club, and it's a really offensive club. To be able to hold them to one run; shows the really good pitching performance and we got just enough offense to get it done." – Head Coach Ryan Folmar
Turning Point
ORU scored its only two runs of the afternoon in the bottom of the third and held off the nationally-ranked Shockers the rest of the way for the upset. The Golden Eagles tallied two of their three extra base hits in the inning as Hernandez ripped a double to start the frame. Roark followed with a walk and Cummings stepped in and delivered a RBI double off the base of the wall in right center. Henson followed three pitches later sending a sacrifice fly into shallow right and Roark raced home to beat the throw and give the home side a 2-0 advantage.
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- Varnell was excellent in his second start of the year striking out seven and allowing just two hits and one run over five innings. The senior matched his career high with five frames pitched and seven strikeouts in his first win of the season.
- Townsend gave up one hit and struck out five in 2.2 innings of work as he increased his team-leading strikeout total to 19.
- Stout entered in the bottom of the eighth and picked up a four-out save, his fifth of the season, which ties him for the NCAA lead. He struck out two and allowed his first base runner to reach this year on a lead-off walk that was erased on Riley Keizor's caught stealing throw to second.
- Cummings took over sole possession of 10th on the all-time RBI list for ORU with the 148th of his career. The senior recorded his first extra-base hit of 2018 with the double in the third.
- Freshman AJ Archambo recorded the first hit of his career with a single in the second as six different ORU players tallied a hit in the contest.
- The Golden Eagles had chances to break the game open, but stranded 11 runners on base, having the bases loaded in the second and third innings.
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ORU hits the road for its first series away from home facing the Patriots of Dallas Baptist in three games March 9-11. Game one is set for Friday night at 6:30 p.m., while Saturday's action will be available on Fox Sports Southwest at 2 p.m. The Sunday finale is slated for 1 p.m. at Horner Ballpark.
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Monday, 18 February 2008
I used tiny beads and tubular ones in pale pink and brighter pink wooden ones for the bracelet and omitted the wooden ones on the ear-rings. Would I wear them? If I could wear silver and they weren't a present, I do believe I just might. Wonder if I can get jewellery bits in 9ct gold? Anyone know?
8 comments:
- tee said...
Sarah these are really pretty, well done you! Looks like you have another crafty hobby :)
- 18/2/08 12:53
- Pinky said...
very pretty Sarah. I used to go a huge bead shop in Covent Garden (about 15 years ago!!) I used to make my own necklaces & earings. Beads are just as nice to touch as stash!!
- 18/2/08 13:02
- Sian said...
Wow, great jewellery, really pretty. I've been really tempted to start, but I must control myself for now anyways LOL
- 18/2/08 13:08
Those are lovely Sarah! Another talent you have. I agree with pinky, beads are as nice to touch as stash;)
- 18/2/08 17:20
- bubblegum said...
Sarah these are really gorgeous - well done. :)
I want to make a bracelet and ear-rings fro a pressie too, but maybe try a protor type first as I don't really know what I'm doing LOL.
Debbie x
- 18/2/08 21:34
- Marlou said...
wow!!! Sarah, great job on the jewellery making!!! a woman of many talents :) x
- 18/2/08 22:11
- Joani said...
Very nice, well done girl:)
Yes you should try thr inchies they are fun xx
- 18/2/08 22:17
- SmileyJo said...
Wow! I was sooo impressed to get these, and now knowing how long it took you to stick the beads is incredible! Thank you so much for your patience and perseverence in making me some beautiful jewellery that will actually fit!!
I really wanted to wear it last night but was wearing red, so unfortunately couldn't :-(
- 20/2/08 13:12