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Hello friends! Happy Leap Day! At Bitten By The Bug 2 this week we are celebrating this once every four years event with a Leaping challenge. My sweet Design Team sister, L.B., has challenged us to create projects featuring something that is leaping. The Design Team did an amazing job interpreting this challenge - you have to go by the Bitten By The Bug 2 blog and check out their projects!
I will be the first to admit that my card is a bit unusual. I was working on last week's margarita card when I envisioned the drinks dancing. The leaping alcoholic beverages are certainly having fun celebrating Leap Day.
I used three cartridges in Cricut Design Space to create this card: Mixed Drinks, Shall We Dance, and St. Patrick's Day. I used the slice feature to remove the heads and bodies from the dancing figures and welded the drinks to their limbs. I like to think that the drinks are having an amazing time.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope that you might decide to join in us in this weeks Leap Day Challenge. Just link your project in at Bitten By the Bug 2.
This is your last day to take advantage of the February Specials at my Close To My Heart on-line store:
This is your last day to take advantage of the February Specials at my Close To My Heart on-line store:
We have two specials this month at Close To My Heart:
Get this D-Size February Stamp of the Month set for $5 with a $50 purchase! Add the stamp set to your cart for full price ($17.95), or with a $50 order add the stamp set during checkout at the promotional price!
Share The Love in February
Close To My Heart is giving you the opportunity to help us support an amazing cause, Operation Smile, an organization that provides surgeries to repair cleft lips and palates for children all over the world. With the purchase of this special stamp set, SHARE THE LOVE, you will be helping to share the love with children world-wide.
Filled with adorable icons and sentiments, this stamp set will be a great addition to your stamp collection. Not only will you get a swoon-worthy stamp set for taking part in this special promotion, but Close To My Heart will donate $7 of proceeds from each stamp set sold to Operation Smile. I hope you pick up this adorable stamp set and spread a smile on a child's face!!


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Cassandra Calogera'S PROFILE
pornstar details
- Date of Birth: 26/06/1986
- Ethnicity: White
- Height: 163cm
- Eye Color: Brown
- Hair Color: Brunette
- Cassandra Calogera on Porn-Star.com
- Cassandra Calogera on BabePedia.com
Cassandra Calogera is an American pornstar who was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up in the small town of Suffield, CT. Standing at 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing in at about 121 pounds, she boasts impressive measurements of 36DD-26-34, all the more impressive as her breasts are all-natural. Her hair and eyes are naturally brown, but she has changed her hair to blonde and red at different points of her career. Cassandra has two tattoos, a stylized rose design located on her right pelvis and a Chinese symbol on her right ankle, the Chinese symbol for 'strength.' Cassie's body piercings include her right nostril, tongue, lower lip, nipples and her navel. Over the course of her career, Cassandra had had a number of different names under which she's been credited, including Ariel Jordan, Callie Jade, Busty Ariel, Cassandra, and Tania.
Cassandra claims to be of mixed ancestry, including Italian, Polish, and Native American, and while she grew up in Connecticut, once she turned 19 she was struck with wanderlust and moved about the country a bit, living in Colorado and Arizona before making her way and settling down in North Hollywood California. It was while living in North Hollywood that her porn career began. Her long-term and live-in boyfriend at the time was a big porn fan, and they enjoyed watching XXX productions together, but over time his interest in her seemed to wane, as Cassie characterizes it, he was more interested in looking at sex onscreen than having it with her, which was a hit to her self-esteem, but going into the business and seeing how many people appreciated her got her over it, and she filmed her first feature at around 21 years of age, in 2007.
Her first few scenes in the business were lesbian sessions, but within a few months she had progressed to full-on hardcore male-female pairings, In interviews she's stated that she's heterosexual, though a little bi-curious when she's drunk, and she did the lesbian sex scenes for the experience, and her girl on girl action, while not objectionable, is not really what she's into as far as sex goes. And as one might expect, given her gorgeous big boobs, she was very much in demand for tits-centric productions. A self-admitted cum fetishist, she's a woman who not only likes, but demands, facial cumshots. In what she describes as one of her favorite scenes of her career, Cassie swallowed 30 different men's loads gulping them down one after another.
Ms. Calogera left performing in porn films in 2011, with 116 titles under her belt, and has reportedly moved back to Connecticut, joined AA, and is pursuing a career in nursing, but she does maintain contact with her fans through her twitter feed, which boasts over 46,000 followers, and she also does live webcam shows and sells recordings of her cam sessions, but you've got her best-ever performances right here at Mr. Porn Geek, all instantly available and on-demand.

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Tokeet is focused on helping you run your vacation rental business, across all your marketing channels including Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, your own website, and many others. Once you configure your Tokeet account, your vacation rental business starts to flow beautifully through the Tokeet system. This is a brief description of how everything fits together in Tokeet.
The most important element in Tokeet are your Rentals. Rentals are listings in Tokeet, which are synchronized with all your channels. You can create rentals by importing your Airbnb listings, or by manually typing in property data.
Rentals are your control and command center in Tokeet. For each rental, you can specify availability and rate (price) info. You can have different rate categories (different pricepoints) for your different channels and for your website.
Once your rentals are created, the next step is to connect them with your Channels. Each day, Tokeet's customers work across thousands of channel connections--both API and iCal.
Tokeet is integrated via API with Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia - with more API partnerships added on an ongoing basis.
Managing channels via an API integration allows you to synchronize availability, update channel rates, and track booking notifications from the Tokeet platform.
There are specific and detailed Help Center articles for connecting to API channels: Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia.
Tokeet allows you to partner with every other marketing channel via iCal, or iCalendar. Our customers manage listings on channels including Homeaway, Tripadvisor, HolidayLettings, Wimdu, Filpkey, Villas.com, Housetrip, and many others.
Managing channels via iCal allows you to synchronize availability between Tokeet and connected channels.
Once your channels are connected to your Tokeet rentals, you can synchronize availability everywhere. For example, when you receive a booking from one channel, it will block your Tokeet calendar for that rental--and update this change in availability with all your other connected channels.
You can also update rates for your API channels via Tokeet. When you make rate changes for your rentals, these changes can then be pushed to your API channels (Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia). Rate pushes need to be initiated by you to ensure you're sending rate info only when you're ready.
Tokeet Email
Every Tokeet account comes with a tokeetmail.com email address. It is recommended that you include this email address in your marketing channels and places like your Tokeet website, social networks etc. This way, any emails sent to your Tokeet email address will show up in a single location: your Tokeet Message Feed.
Payment Gateways
Tokeet allows you to connect your PayPal and Stripe accounts in order to issue invoices and have them paid online, and to take bookings through your Tokeet website or website widget.
In addition, connecting your Stripe account allows you to capture guest credit card info when they book via Booking.com and Expedia - giving you the ability to charge guests via saved card.
Your Tokeet Website acts as another marketing channel for you. You can easily create a website with the Tokeet Website Builder and use your own domain name, or one of Tokeet's included domains like housesquat.com.
Alternatively, you can use your own site and embed Tokeet's Booking, Calendar, Inquiry, and Search widgets on it.
In either case, your website or website widget loads your current rental availability info from Tokeet, as well as your designated website rate category. Guests can send you inquiries or bookings--directly from your Tokeet website or website widgets.
Inquiry Inbox
Once your channels are connected and your optional Tokeet website is live, you are ready to receive all your guest inquiries, bookings, and cancellations. All of these show up in your Tokeet Inquiry Inbox.
Your Inquiry Inbox is another key area of Tokeet. In the Inquiry Inbox, you can do many actions, for example:
- send the guest a message
- confirm or cancel a booking received through your website
- create an invoice
- send guests the link to their guest portal website.
Tokeet has a very powerful set of automation features called Triggers. Once you start to receive inquiries, bookings, cancellations, and other events in Tokeet, Triggers can be configured to perform different actions:
- Send Email
- Send SMS
- Send HTTP Post (post to a URL)
- Send Push Notifications (to users of the Tokeet app)
Triggers are a great way for sending automated emails both to guests as well as to your Admins, Property Owners, and Staff.
User Settings
You can also create different users, with different levels of permissions, and give them access to information in Tokeet. Most commonly, our customers create Staff users, who can see the Tokeet calendar--as well as Owner users, who have limited access to calendar and reporting of specific rentals in Tokeet. This way, your entire business--including Admins, Managers, Owners, and Staff, are in the loop.
Your business should now be flowing beautifully through Tokeet. There are many other options, tweaks, and configurations available to you in Tokeet. For now, these are the most important.
Please contact us with questions any time! We are thrilled to have you onboard and wish you a most successful vacation rental business.


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I want to start this post by saying such a huge thanks to...you! My lovely readers, thanks to you guys during 2014 I achieved things I didn't even dream were possible, made some lifelong friends (Kenzie, Lauren, Josie, Anouska, Lucy, Sinéad and Catherine I'm looking at you in particular) and most of all..I've had so much fun!! Writing, photographing, learning about fashion/beauty, attending events and meeting new people are all things I seriously enjoy, and thanks to you my 2014 was filled with so many amazing memories that I will cherish forever. So thank you for being warm, welcoming, kind, friendly and encouraging!
Now enough of the gushing! For the "holidays" (as they like to call them in America) we hopped across the pond to spend Christmas abroad. This is something I would seriously recommend doing, or even going to a restaurant for Christmas lunch. It takes out so many of the boring bits of Christmas (washing up, stressing about cooking etc.) and allows you to really spend "quality time" (cheesy but true) with your loved ones.


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3 Ways to Improve Accounting by Using QuickBooks Classes
Most often, you use the QuickBooks chart of accounts to achieve the level of financial granularity required for your accounting. But sometimes, using QuickBooks classes is the only way for you to gain richer data — perhaps in situations such as these:
To support DPAD accounting
For realty investments
For ABC analysis
Use QuickBooks classes for DPAD
The DPAD (domestic production activities deduction) is a big deduction for some small businesses. You should know more about this tax loophole if you're operating a manufacturing business or one of the other businesses that the U.S. Congress allows to use the tax loophole (including engineering and architectural firms, construction companies, oil and gas producers, and so forth).
Without getting too far into the weeds, the DPAD loophole lets you take a "fake" deduction equal to 9% of your profit earned in manufacturing stuff. For example, if your business made $200,000 by manufacturing stuff, you can cut 9% of this, or $18,000, from your taxable income.
Here's the deal with the DPAD deduction, though: In many cases, to take the deduction you need to break all your income and deductions into "manufacturing" and "nonmanufacturing." To break down your income and deductions, you would use "manufacturing" and "nonmanufacturing" as classes and then religiously tag income, cost of goods sold, and expense transactions by using these two tags.
Use QuickBooks classes for rental and royalty investments
Rental real estate properties and royalty properties also present situations where you probably need to use QuickBooks classes.
When you report rental property income or royalty income to the federal and state government, you need to segregate income and deductions by property. For an individual taxpayer, for example, you show this segregation on Schedule E. For partnerships and subchapter S corporations, you show this segregation on an 8825 form.
If you're an individual or partnership or small corporation that holds rental property investments, therefore, you probably want to use QuickBooks classes to breakdown the income and expense data by property. To do this, you set up a class for each property and then tag each income or expense transaction with the appropriate class when entering your data.
Use QuickBooks classes for activity-based costing
If you want to do simple activity-based costing (ABC) using QuickBooks, make sure to turn on class tracking and then religiously use class tracking to trace overhead costs to products and services. This would mean using classes when entering transactions that record overhead costs to connect the overhead to specific products or services.
What ABC basically does is individually trace overhead to specific products or services in a way that lets you more accurately gauge the profitability of those products and services. (QuickBooks and your computer make this individual tracing possible.)
When you know that, for example, product A should be allocated $8,000 of the rent expense and that product B should be allocated $2,000 of the rent expense, the bookkeeping is mechanically easy. You should use classes to assign $8,000 of rent to product A and $2,000 to product B.


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Casa Dee, Playa Blanca
Casa Dee is a self catering, no smoking villa and is location in a quiet cul de sac within easy walking distance of Playa Blanca. The Playa Blanca Bus runs every half hour and a bus stop is 5 minutes from the villa. Free off road car parking is available. The owners Jill and Helmar are available most of the time to help you enjoy your holiday but will always be respectful of your privacy. Not suitable for children under 10yrs as there is a 1.2 metre drop from the patio to the garden.
Recently refurbished Private Villa in peaceful area of Playa Blanca. Kitchen with dinning area and new Ceramic Hob, dishwasher, fridge freezer, Cooker microwave Oven, toaster and Kettle and fully equipped with all necessary utensils.
Shower room with washing machine. All linens and towels provided. Comfortable sitting room with modern Tv and patio doors leading to large open area containing under cover table and chairs. Also lounger with cushions and new barbecue area.
Panoramic views from sitting room and patio over garden, out towards the sea and Island of Fuerteventura. Free WiFi Wide selection of books, board games and jigsaws.
£440 per week, based on two sharing. Additional guests charged at £10 per person, per night. Maximum of 4 people.
Non refundable deposit
50% of Booking cost will be taken if cancelled for the future
Very good welcome pack provided. Towels changed twice weekly. Bed linen weekly. Separate beach towels are also provided.


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Mayors, police chiefs fret loss of (profitable) traffic cameras
A collection of Colorado mayors and police chiefs, led by a coalition funded by the traffic camera industry, is trying to put a red light in front of a bill to ban those pesky traffic cameras used for issuing citations.
House Bill 1098 has its first hearing Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the House Transportation and Energy Committee. A similar bill failed last year.
Nine cities and a total of 12 communities use the cameras, collectively raking in more than $14 million last year. The margins are high. Denver, for example, collected more than $6.5 million in fines and spent just $2.6 million to operate the program, according to a legislative analysis of the bill.
The Traffic Safety Coalition said the larger point is public safety and cited statistics and media reports that indicated the cameras are helping.
"Law enforcement officials understand the dangers affecting their communities, particularly the dangers we face on our roadways," according to a letter to the committee released Tuesday night and signed by officials from Northglenn, Cherry Hills Village, Lone Tree. Sheridan, Greenwood Village, Pueblo and Fort Collins. :Local police departments know the needs of their communities and understand the need for the added enforcement on our roadways. We believe they should have every available technology at their disposal to enforce the crucial traffic safety laws that keep us safe and hold red light runners accountable.


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Insomnia often affects the elderly when there is an underlying condition that makes falling and staying asleep difficult. Identifying the causes of sleeping disorders is the most effective way to find a solution that allows your senior loved one to sleep well. Switching your routine is also an easy way to address insomnia. Here are a few tips for preventing insomnia in seniors.
1. Find the Underlying Cause
Many seniors with insomnia have a health issue that contributes to insomnia. Some health concerns that can interfere with sleep include gastrointestinal issues and painful conditions like arthritis and gout. Cognitive disorders like dementia and Alzheimer's also affect the sleep cycle. Your loved one can talk to his or her doctor for help identifying and addressing the issues that prevent a good night's sleep.
Sometimes seniors have a difficult time falling asleep because of stress, which can result from growing challenges with everyday activities. Aging adults who require assistance with the tasks of daily living can benefit from reliable at-home care. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL, families trust in Home Care Assistance to provide the high-quality care their elderly loved ones need and deserve. Our caregivers are trained to help seniors prevent and manage serious illnesses and encourage them to make healthier decisions as they age.
2. Identify Environmental Causes
Your senior loved one may resist falling asleep if the home is active during the evening. Creating an environment that supports your loved one's need for an early bedtime may encourage healthier sleep cycles. Try turning the television off after 7pm, and ask guests to avoid visiting after that time. A quiet, restful environment can be paired with an evening routine to help your loved one fall asleep faster.
3. Establish a Routine
Create a routine that encourages good sleeping patterns. Begin your loved one's routine several hours before bedtime, and choose relaxing activities like taking a warm bath, having a cup of herbal tea, or reading to help him or her prepare for bed. Ideally, you should begin the routine at the same time each day.
Seniors with cognitive disorders like dementia particularly benefit from a consistent routine. For some seniors in Ft. Lauderdale, dementia care is essential. Regular mental stimulation promotes cognitive health, supervision reduces the risk of dangerous behaviors, and compassionate companionship is a wonderful solution for alleviating the symptoms of dementia.
4. Get Enough Sunlight
Sunlight regulates circadian rhythms, or the natural cycle of sleeping and wakefulness. On average, seniors only get about 30 minutes of sunlight a day, about half the amount of other adults. Increasing sunlight exposure can reset and regulate sleep cycles to reduce the symptoms of insomnia. Try spending more time outdoors with your loved one, and open the curtains during the day to let natural light into the home. Bright light therapy is an option for seniors who can't spend time outdoors. Your loved one can talk to the doctor about light therapy options.
5. Opt for Natural Sleep Aids
Melatonin is the hormone the body produces to make a person sleepy. Over-the-counter melatonin is an option for seniors who need help falling and staying asleep, but not all brands are a good option. Recent studies show that a two-milligram dosage of extended-release melatonin is the best option for seniors who can't get enough sleep. Talk to your loved one's physician to decide whether melatonin or another sleep aid is the right option. Addressing sleep issues by identifying the cause is the simplest way to help your loved one sleep better, but sleep aids are an option if other solutions don't provide relief.
Lack of sleep can lead to a number of health issues in aging adults. Living with a serious health condition can make it challenging for seniors to age in place. However, they can maintain a higher quality of life with the help of professional live-in care. Galt Ocean Mile seniors can benefit from assistance with meal prep, bathing, transportation to the doctor's office, medication reminders, and much more. To learn about our revolutionary in-home care methods, call Home Care Assistance at (954) 909-0370 today.


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Indianapolis, IN – Global Orphan Foundation, an Indianapolis based non-profit with a global mission, will be launching a new initiative in Nicaragua, Camp My Moment. This five-day camp for girls 12-18 living in orphanages will focus on issues of self-esteem building, healthy decision-making, goal setting, sexual health, and healthy relationships.
The first annual camp will take place the last week of September in the mountains of Esteli and will host 45 girls. There is no cost to campers or the orphanages that care for them – it costs Global Orphan Foundation $300 per camper to provide this service. Camp My Moment was created in partnership with Peace Corps Nicaragua Gender and Development Committee.
"Studies show that one out of every two women in Nicaragua has experienced violence in her lifetime, and only 18% of women pursue higher education," said GOF Executive Director Nicole Brandt. "Those statistics are even worse for girls living in orphanages. Camp My Moment works to show girls a world where they have choices and are the master of their own fates."
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About Us
The Comprehensive Assessment and Response Training System (CARTS) was developed to improve the quality of psychiatric care provided to DCFS wards in residential and group home placements and to enhance placement permanence. Specific objectives included:
- Helping DCFS develop policies and procedures to guide the mental health care of foster children with severe emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric disturbances;
- Providing inpatient diagnostic services, psychiatric care and extensive treatment planning services to foster children with the most severe emotional disturbances; and
- Providing consultation and technical assistance to agencies that provide residential and group home services to these youth.
The CARTS Program consists of two components, the Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Unit (CATU), a nine-bed psychiatric inpatient unit, and the Response Training System (RTS), a mobile consultation team that provides consultation and technical assistance to residential treatment centers and group homes.


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So by now you will have heard me sporadically call the fluphy twisters to arms about our next meetup.
But Lj what or who are the fluphy twisters.
I would love to say they are a bunch of rag tag superheros who meet in secret at a local yarn shop to maintain their cover. When in actuality they are our knit nighters. Its our Saturday knit day.
They meet in the shop every 3rd Saturday of the month in fluph from 10.30am - 1.30pm. There is always cake, tea and sometimes crafting!
Same rules as knit night (i should write those down)
- Completely free (there is a donations box for tea and coffee, but no pressure)
- open to crafts of all types (we ain't craftist),
- everyone over 16 welcome
- cake is always appreciated :D


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Coworking beyond community
With Deskpass, workers can try different environments to fit their needs and budgets
Whether contracting, self-employed, or full-time remote, American workers without a workplace now represent a large chunk of the workforce, and with them has come the rise of coworking spaces. Today, these shared rental offices run the gamut size- and vibe-wise, from small co-op collectives to large corporate chain spaces that offer myriad perks, private rooms, and locations nationwide.
One of coworking spaces' main benefits as surrogates for traditional offices is the sense of community they can provide in place of official coworkers. But as the trend has expanded beyond the startup world, it's clear: remote workers aren't all looking for the same thing, or even the same thing every day. That, says Deskpass founder Sam Rosen, is where his company comes in.
"The biggest problem these spaces have is getting people in the front door," he says. "We decided we could help all these little and middle guys … [by] offering a really inexpensive, accessible way to try coworking with a ton of spaces.'"
Rosen discovered coworking in 2009 when he was running a digital agency. A few years later, after founding a space in Chicago called the Coop, he and his business partner turned their sights on helping smaller spaces, which were beginning to get edged out by "well-capitalized, sophisticated marketer" chains like WeWork. They started a free directory called Desktime, but Rosen knew they could do more.
"The biggest problem these spaces have is getting people in the front door," he says. "We decided we could help all these little and middle guys … [by] offering a really inexpensive, accessible way to try coworking with a ton of spaces.'"
First in Chicago, now also in Denver and Los Angeles, Deskpass is a subscription service similar to fitness startup ClassPass. Instead of committing to one space, a monthly membership fee — ranging from four visits at $49 to full-time status — gets you access to every coworking space within the Deskpass network. Rosen's team makes discounted wholesale deals, which allow bigger spaces to sell their "excess inventory" — many spaces already offer one-day passes for $15–20 — and smaller spaces to get potential members in the door.
"Our issue was finding out ways to educate people on coworking in general," explains David Oshima, who runs Kleverdog Coworking in L.A.'s Chinatown. "It was more about visibility and education initially. And if Deskpass is really working to promote the service [with a low barrier for entry for us], that benefits everybody."
Victor Wise, who works in digital marketing, initially signed up for Deskpass to test-drive Chicago coworking spaces before committing. But even after a year at the space he chose, he still keeps the service "to explore the city and meet new, intelligent people." While a passport service like Deskpass de-emphasizes the regular coworker vibe, he explains a need for "community" can mean different things for different people.
"I love the community aspect of coworking! But you really don't need to have a dedicated workspace to meet like-minded individuals and make connections," Wise says, adding that the service is how he met one of his company's now-biggest clients (another Deskpass member).
"Real talk: the community aspect isn't as important to me, because I often have that 'these are not my people' feeling in coworking spaces," says Hawkins.
And there are plenty of people for whom a service like this is enough; they might never commit to one space, but a monthly membership makes coworking both attractive and accessible.
Karen Hawkins, for example, runs the feminist site Rebellious Magazine. Her business isn't big enough for a committed space yet, and being able to find a desk on the fly between meetings, she says, is far more valuable than any fixed home base, many of which are pretty homogenous — or, as she puts it, "Brotopian" — anyway.
"Real talk: the community aspect isn't as important to me, because I often have that 'these are not my people' feeling in coworking spaces," says Hawkins.
"I'm a mouthy black lesbian feminist journalist/entrepreneur over 40 at spaces where the vast majority of people are not mouthy black lesbian feminist journalist/entrepreneurs over 40."
People like Hawkins may never "convert" the way smaller spaces hope, but according to Rosen, that reality is yet another aspect of how the workplace and ideas around the workplace are changing.
"For a long time, the idea was, 'I go to work to do work,'" explains Rosen. "Now … work is really evolving into, 'Some days I work from the office; some days … a coworking space; some days … from home, and some days … from a café.'"
Devon Maloney's home office is her extremely comfortable couch. Oh, and I guess there's a desk too.


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With a history of over 150 years, Reichert Inc. continues to be a global leader in the design and manufacturing of high-quality, diagnostic instruments and equipment for ophthalmologists, optometrists, and retail eye care centers. The company's products are used for a wide range of applications, from common vision testing to diagnosing sight-threatening diseases such as glaucoma and macular degeneration. As the inventors of the Lensometer, Phoropter, and Non-Contact Tonometer, Reichert carries on its proud tradition by providing ground-breaking products including the highly acclaimed Tono-Pen, Ocular Response Anaylzer, and ClearChart.
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New tax to contribute up to $200 million towards transportation and infrastructure projects
In his annual state of the province speech on Feb. 12, Premier Gordon Campbell announced a $609 million, three-year program to open up transportation corridors in the province. While the program was welcomed, the decision to pay for it with a new 3.5 cent per litre gasoline tax was greeted less warmly.
"Transportation infrastructure is vital to opening up new economic opportunities for our heartlands," said the premier. "As part of our Heartlands Economic Strategy, we are going to invest in a new infrastructure all across our province so that British Columbians can reach their economic potential and access critical regional services to meet their needs."
With the province facing a budget deficit of more than $2.3 billion this year, the new gasoline tax, which comes into effect on March 1, was the only way to fund the program without increasing the deficit.
According to the province, the provincial government spent $780 million on highways and roads in 2000-2001, but only received $542 million in provincial fuel tax revenues.
"Every penny of the increased fuel tax revenue will be invested in the transportation improvements communities need to help them realize their full economic potential," said Campbell.
With the new tax, residents of Greater Vancouver and the Lower Mainland will have the highest fuel taxes in Canada at 20.5 cents per litre increasing to 21 cents with a scheduled 0.5 increase to fund Translink services. Taxes will be 17 cents per litre in Victoria, and 14.5 cents per litre everywhere else.
By way of comparison, greater Montreal has the second highest gasoline taxes in the country at 16.7 per cent.
According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the new tax will hurt the economy it is trying to help.
"Given the rapidly rising cost of fuel, it is extremely disappointing that the B.C. government would use this opportunity to make the problem worse, rather than better," said Dan Kelly, CFIB vice-president for Western Canada. "Firms in transportation, the resource sector and construction are significantly affected by fuel prices and there is no question this announcement will take its toll on the economy of the province."
Some critics also question the timing of the announcement. With the situation in Venezuela far from resolved and a war looming in the Middle East, the cost of gasoline was already expected to increase significantly.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation supports the tax as long as it can be repealed after three years. They also called on the federal government to give back more of the $700 million in fuel tax revenues it collects each year from B.C. through a 10 cent per litre tax last year Ottawa spent less than $30 million on B.C. roads.
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WWATD?!: 2010 Kdrama Awards
Ok, some might argue that we're about a month late with this review, but Lunar New Year, when Koreans celebrate the new year, is just around the corner. So we'd say the timing is absolutely perfect, and we're sticking with that!
2010 was a mixed bag for the dramas we watched. While there were many we really enjoyed, there just didn't seem to be that one that really grabbed us and made us uber-obsessed. For every disappointment like Marry Me, Mary and Cinderella's Sister, there were gems like Dr. Champ, Prosecutor Princess, and High Kick Through the Roof. If nothing else, 2010 was a year in kdrama that saw Sunnie's Park Shi Hoo infatuation grow to new heights!
So with no further ado, here are the first annual Vegan8Korean Kdrama Awards!
The Triple Shattered Hopes Award:
Named in honor of 2009's Triple, a drama with the same director and writer as the brilliant Coffee Prince, this award celebrates the kdrama that we couldn't wait to watch and then gave up on in total frustration.
Runner Up: Cinderella's Sister
Dong Yi is the natural winner for this award because it was directed by the same director as Dae Jang Geum, a firm resident in our best kdrama of all time list, and the best historical kdrama of all time. Dong Yi was a big commercial success and starred Han Hyo Ju, who we really enjoyed in Brilliant Legacy, but it was literally unwatchable for us. We tried several times and getting through an episode was excruciating and ultimately proved impossible. It just never connected with us at all, and we gave up on it pretty quickly, despite multiple attempts to re-engage. We had high hopes for Cinderella's Sister largely because of the brilliance of the lead, Moon Geun Young, one of our very favorites. And she was very good again, in a role that was a departure for her. But there was just no movement in this drama. The characters remained forever stuck in their respective spaces, and ultimately it proved too frustrating to endure. We watched over half of this drama before resorting to reading recaps.
The Gong Yoo Hottie Award:
Named in honor of Sunnie's first kdrama hunk infatuation, Gong Yoo in Coffee Prince, this award quite possibly should have a new name next year, thanks to the burning hotness of this year's winner. You wouldn't believe what percentage of the hits on our blog come from people looking for his picture and to date, we've only posted about him once. So in the interest of accurately representing Sunnie's frequent comments while watching Prosecutor Princess and Queen of Reversals last year, as well as the continued growth of our blog's readership…
The winner: Park Shi Hoo (Prosecutor Princess)
Runner Up: There can be no runner up to such total hotness. Maybe I get to be runner up…sigh.
The High Kick Through the Roof Pull-the-rug-out-from-under-you Award:
Winner: High Kick Through the Roof
Runner Up: My Girlfriend is a Gumiho
Not much suspense on this one as it is named for this year's winner. I didn't watch High Kick, but it was one of Sunnie's very favorites, and she loved it. That is until the final episode when (SPOILER ALERT- skip this paragraph if you don't want to know how it ended) two of leads suddenly die in a car wreck, with no setup, no reason, and no meaning. The director has a dark view of reality and said as much that he wanted to be true to his vision. In doing so, he took a rom-com and then literally killed the rom! And since the parting message of this drama was pretty much "Life sucks and then you die", he did a pretty good job of killing the com too! Sunnie's fond memories of the previous 125 episodes allowed her to still like the drama, but watching her suffer to come to terms with the ending (her brother, John, still stoutly refuses to recognize that it ended that way) results in an award in its honor.
The runner up is My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, a Hong-sisters drama (a sister writing duo who have penned such rom-coms as You're Beautiful and My Girl) a decently enjoyable rom-com that had a confusingly horrible final episode. After setting up story lines and expectations on a number of fronts, suddenly things stopped making sense, and the final episode became hugely contrived and broke its own rules, including suddenly using what looked like a bad stuffed animal tail after using CGI tails the entire series to that point. The final episode was so stupid, it left us with a bad taste.
The Eunchan & Han Kyul Best Couple Award:
Named for the lead couple in Coffee Prince, there were a number of good couples in this year's kdrama field. Whether the overwhelming cuteness of Moong Geun Young and Jang Geun Suk in Mary or the plaintive cry of "Shep!" from Gong Hyo Jin to Lee Sun Gyun in Pasta, there were a lot of romantic pairings to enjoy.
Winner (tie): Park Shi Hoo & Kim So Yeon (Prosecutor Princess)
and Jung Kyung Ho & Lee Min Jung (Smile, You!).
Runner Up: Kwon Song Woo & Ko Hyun Jung (Daemul)
Okay, a tie. Lame, I know, but a treasured tradition in Korean network awards shows, so back off; we're just being traditional! Sunnie votes for the Princess Prosecutor couple and the determined self-centeredness of Kim So Yeon's character paired with the blazing hotness of Park Shi Hoo. I go for Froggy and her skinny man in Smile, You!
The Painter of the Wind Losing Steam Award:
Named for one of the biggest disappointments in our kdrama history, Painter of the Wind. We loved this drama so much. Moon Geun Young was better than she's ever been. It was funny, sad, it made you think, it used traditional Korean paintings in a brilliant way, and then it just started to lose steam. It's not uncommon for dramas to lose steam down the home stretch, but this one really hurt. It was an all-time favorite for us until it started to fade around episodes 11-12 (when we convinced Sunnie's parents that they had to watch it). It started to become boring and the characters started to change and ultimately we were left feeling hollow and confused. This award is for a kdrama that we started off just loving and ended up feeling mostly sad about because it could have been so great.
Runner Up: Cinderella's Sister
A clear winner this year, we blogged about how much we loved Mary, and it quickly fell apart after that. It's ratings weren't great, so they switched writers, went for cliche and the whole thing fell apart. We went from being obsessed to not even finishing it. Everything we loved about the early episodes: the hipness of Hongdae, the music, the interesting stories of the four leads, just fizzled and became cartoonish or vanished altogether. Things made no sense, there was lots of running around in the drama and running in place in the plot. Aaaarrrgh! Cinderella's Sister had solid acting but NEVER. DID. ANYTHING. THE. ENTIRE. SHOW.
Best Job of Making us watch a mediocre drama Award:
This award goes to an actor or actress who did a good enough job to hook us into a drama and keep us watching even though the drama might not have warranted it.
Winner: Shin Mina – My Girlfriend is a Gumiho
While Gumiho was pretty good, and we enjoyed it until the final episode, Shin Mina took a character who could have been highly annoying and made her endearing. Playing a gumiho with no knowledge of modern society, her lack of understanding (and constant whining for meat, I mean c'mon, we're vegan….) could have been really obnoxious. Instead, she was believable and you pulled for her character.
Biggest Waste of Talent Award:
This award is for the kdrama that wasted its great talent.
and Marry Me, Mary!
Don't get me wrong, we enjoyed Personal Taste, and we loved the first half of Mary, but Mary went down in flames, reducing two of our favorites, Jang Geun Suk and Moon Geun Young, to weird robo-cuties and Personal Taste kept the wonderful Son Ye Jin, and kept her in a static character with little room to do much of anything other than act like a wet puppy.
OMG! Life Imitating Art Award:
This award goes to kdrama celebrities whose real lives mirror their onscreen characters' lives.
Winners: Lee Chun Hee and Jun Hye Jin (Smile, You!).
We'll have to name this award after this couple from here on out, I think. But after watching their characters in Smile, You! fall in love, face the typical refusal from the parents, and discuss getting pregnant to overcome the resistance from his family, older Lee Chun Hee announced that he is engaged to his onscreen love Jun Hye Jin! And it seems that their offscreen romance played out much like the onscreen one, with the families being against the relationship, and while Lee Chun Hee's character was unsuccessful in convincing his love to get pregnant to solve the problem, evidently, in real life, he was successful as she is pregnant! Congrats to the couple!
The Kim Chang Hwan Joy to Watch Award:
Named after Coffee Prince's Kim Chang Han, who we are currently enjoying in Queen of Reversals, we wanted to give an award to an actor/actress who is overlooked but really did an excellent job in a kdrama.
Winner: Ryu Seung Ryong (Personal Taste)
Runner Up: Kim Gab Soo (Cinderella's Sister)
Ryu Seung Ryong brought such depth and character to a show that while ok, was pretty lacking in both. He played a gay man who falls in love with Lee Min Ho's character, who is pretending to be gay. His grace and understated performance was the best thing about Personal Taste. Kim Gab Soo, a good option for the Hardest Working Man in Kdrama Award, was likewise the soul of Cinderella's Sister, playing the father who dutifully takes care of his family, even as he knows his wife does not love him.
The "Hey, he kinda looks like John!" Award:
Awarded this year to the actor who made me say, "Hey, he kinda looks like John!" (Sunnie's brother).
Winner: Jung Gyu Woon (Dr. Champ).
If you took Sunnie's brother, John, made him taller, a bit bigger, and gave him weird pointy elf ears, he kinda, sorta would look a lot like Jung Gyu Woon, I'm tellin' you….
The Coffee Prince Best OST Award:
I have doubts we'll even have another kdrama with an OST as amazing as Coffee Prince's. But there are always great songs in the kdrama world, and this year was no different.
Runner Up: Mary Me, Mary!
Sunnie recently posted on the music of Dr. Champ, and Mary's original music, setting the indie music scenes was an integral part of why we loved the drama so much early on, and the disappearance of music was part of the reason why the drama faded so much for us late.
The Queen Seon Duk Overrated Award:
Named for last year's Queen Seon Duk, which had huge ratings, but horrible overacting and just general meh-ness, this award goes to a super hyped with massive ratings drama that we didn't think was all that.
Winner: Dong Yi
Runner Up: Baker King
We've already discussed how Dong Yi was a big disappointment to us, given the director's past work. To be fair, we barely watched Baker King, but we gave it a chance (1 episode) to pull us in, and it didn't.
The Favorite kdrama of the Year Award:
And the penultimate kdrama award of the year, our favorite kdrama of the year! And the award goes to….
Winner (tie): High Kick Through the Roof
Runner ups: Dr. Champ, Smile, You!, Prosecutor Princess
No! Another lame tie, curses! Well, to be honest, Sunnie and I are fairly indecisive people, so what can you do? Despite High Kick's ending, Sunnie enjoyed the rest of the show enough to rate it as her favorite. While I didn't have a super clear favorite that jumped out at me, we both really liked Jejoongwon. If the final episode had been a bit better– it wasn't bad, just not great– this would have been a clearer choice. A historical drama tracing the first modern Korean hospital, I really enjoyed it for its coverage of the Japanese occupation, and its solid acting.
Whew, that's it. To quote the great Ringo Starr, "I have blisters on my fingers!" That was a long post. Thanks for making it this far and let us know what were your favorites and oh-no's for the year!
Julie permalinkFebruary 2, 2011 5:58 am
I loved your awards! I too so hate it when I look forward to a drama and then I just can't stand to finish episode 1. In all fairness, I have seen a few in which I wasn't crazy about the first episode and then end up really loving the drama. So I always try to watch at least the first 3 episodes before I give up.
March 30, 2011 4:27 pm
Firstly, guilty as charged…I ended up on your page after a Google search on Park Shi Hoo 🙂 But then I stayed to see your trip to the Actual Coffee Prince Shop (Which I am so kicked about because I just assumed they used a set for some reason) and the Award Categories based on Coffee Prince which were really fun!
My obsession with the Kdrama scene is fairly new…mostly because I am from India and the 'Korean wave' is still not quite here 😛 but it was really nice to read about stuff like 'Marry Me, Marry" or "Coffee Prince" or "Prosecutor Princess" and have completely emphatic reactions of "I know exactly what you mean!"
Eu.As.Us permalinkOctober 1, 2011 3:25 pm
Park Shi Hoo is very handsome, attrractive and Populr.
Park shi Hoo and JU ji Hun are very nice and lovely.
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Welcome to Caterpillars
The children have settled into school life well and have made good friendships within the class.
This year our topics will be:
Autumn term 1- Fairy Tales, Family and Me
Autumn term 2- Fantasy
Spring term 1- Space
Spring term 2- The People Who Help us
Summer term 1&2- Growing Things and Animals
We do have a weekly routine which provides for carpet time and class inputs for; Maths, Literacy/Phonics, Understanding the World (which involves learning about people and the community, the world around us and computing), Expressive Arts and Design (cooking, art, drama and dance). Also included is Personal, Social and Emotional Development where we will have planned circle times to discuss feelings, behaviour, and promote self-confidence.
Although we do have a busy day at school a lot of learning is promoted through play based activities. The children are encouraged to explore all areas of the classroom and choose where they would like to play. The adults in the class support the children by introducing new vocabulary and skills through their play.
The children will be bringing a sound sheet home to complete with you at home, these will be added to their folders daily as they learn the sound.
Once all of the sounds have been learnt your child will no longer have the sound sheets to complete.
Reading books
The children will also bring home a reading book, to begin with all children start on a picture book to encourage them to talk about the pictures and create stories of their own. They will then move on through the book stages as they develop their reading skills.
Books will be changed on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday until half term and then they will be changed more frequently. We only change books once a comment has been made to indicate the book has been read.
Please keep reading books in your child's zippy folder, in their book bags.
Show and Tell
Each group will have a set day to bring in something special from home. Please try to link show and tell items to our topic and avoid sentimental toys and valuable items where possible. We love to see photos, pictures and writing from home!
Please see the notice board for your child's day.
Any items brought in must be in a named plastic bag.
Our PE day is Thursday morning. Please ensure your child brings their PE kit in on a Monday and takes it home on a Friday. They will need their winter kit as they will be doing PE outside if it is not raining. (Winter kit- tracksuit bottoms and a jumper)
Blue Communication books
Thank you all for using your blue Communication books. They are checked every day so please feel free to write any questions in them for me to reply.
If you have any worries or concerns please feel free to arrange a meeting with me at the end of a school day. Please be aware that we have to ensure each child is given to their parent before I can give you my full attention so waiting in our small playground until the last child has left the classroom would be very much appreciated.
Thank you very much
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If you are an expert kayaker, then finding the best fishing kayak can be quite a challenge. SIK or SOK: Most fishermen prefer sit-on-top kayaks (SOK), especially for saltwater fishing. They are inherently safer, since they can roll over without filling with water, and they give the angler more room to move around or even throw a leg over the side for stability when dealing with a fish. Sit-inside kayaks (SIK) are preferable for moving waters and in situations where a lighter-weight craft is desirable. They also provide a drier ride than a sit-on-top kayak.
Propulsion: Most kayaks are propelled with paddle power, but pedals are an option in the Hobie Mirage Drive line. These leg-powered kayaks are popular with anglers because they free up the hands for fishing. Electric-motor-powered kayaks are also growing in popularity.
Length: In general, the longer the kayak, the more easily it will cover distances. The trade-off is a loss of maneuverability in tight spaces and difficulty in transporting the kayak to launch sites.
Width: In general, wider kayaks are more stable and can support more capacity. However, width is far from the only factor that affects stability. Weight: Consider your cartop capacity and what you can carry when choosing a kayak. A heavy kayak might require a wheeled cart to move it down to the launch site. Storage and Extras: Consider how much storage you'll need on board your kayak. Will you be keeping fish or a change of clothing? Is live-bait storage important to you?
Baitcasting Reel
If you enjoy fishing, you may be searching for the best baitcasting reel imaginable. Angling equipment has gone through a complete evolution over the last couple of decades and many technologies have seen significant advancements which have led to technologically superior equipment which has been especially helpful to new anglers who are taking up this hobby.
This technological advances are providing anglers like myself with so much choice when they go out to purchase angling equipment and it is especially in the area of bait casting reels where an angler like myself needs to make the correct decision regarding the specific type of best bait casting reel which I will require and such a decision will depend on where my fishing will be done whether in freshwater dams, River systems or in the ocean
Abu Garcia is one bait casting reel manufacturer which is continuing to surprise fishermen all over and the reason for that is because they have managed to produce a best bait casting reel which are of high quality and which are a pleasure to use under any condition.
My personal experience of this product is that it functions smoothly and effectively even with the minimum amount of maintenance. The product that I am referring to specifically is the Abu Garcia Pro Max Low Profile Bait Cast Reel for right-hand retrieve (Model number: PMAX2-1237070).
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The rollover of a Ford Expedition resulted in fatal injuries. A non-destructive metallurgical evaluation was requested, including examination of the subject vehicle in a salvage yard. An overall view of the subject vehicle is shown in Photograph A.
Photograph A Overall view of the subject SUV.
An overall view of the axle attachment plate is shown in Photograph B.
Photograph B Overall view of the SUV axle attachment plate.
The axle plate was removed for field stereo microscopic inspection. Upon removal, the upper two attachment bolt holes were noted to be distorted and out of round. The removed SUV axle plate and axle are shown in Photograph C.
Photograph C View of failed SUV axle. Note oval distortion of bolts holes.
A profile view of the axle assembly after removal of the axle wheel bearing is shown in Photograph D.
Photograph D Axle assembly after removal of axle wheel bearing.
The right rear wheel and tire provided additional information. The wheel rim was fractured from about the 3 o'clock to the 6 o'clock position. This area also contained heavy soil residue. The overall view of the tire and wheel rim is shown in Photograph E.
Photograph E Overall view of the tire and wheel rim.
The peeled back portion of the fracture axle, the last portion of the axle to fail, is located at about the 10:30 o'clock position in Photograph E.
A close-up view of the fracture surface, after light cleaning, is shown in Photograph F.
Photograph F View of the fractured axle after light cleaning.
Automobile and truck axles have a case hardened zone on the axle surface, for wear resistance. A soft axle core is present to allow the axle to twist and absorb engine torque applied to the wheels. These two fracture zones show up distinctively in that chevrons are observed in the outer case hardened zone. In Photograph F, the chevrons point, on each side of the case hardened zone (at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock), toward the 6 o'clock area of the fracture. This is where the axle fracture initiated. Visually, there does not appear to be any metallurgical flaw or defect at the 6 o'clock origin area. The final fracture (as the axle is presently oriented) is in the "tear back" area (shown in Photograph D).
The axle failure in question was the result of the rollover of the Ford Expedition during the accident. This Expedition rollover accident was not the result of a metallurgical defect.


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Aloha PDD Ohana,
Mahalo to Wendy and Jeremy for choosing us the Family of the Month for October. We are so honored to be a part of the PDD Ohana and grateful to be able to share our story with new families.
We are actually the Morrison/Capinpin/Cox household. As you can see just in our names, we are an unconventional family that breaks traditional norms. We consist of myself, Jennifer Ann Morrison, my significant other Joel "mommyjoel" Capinpin and our munchkins Jazmyn Cox and Jordyn Capinpin. Jazmyn is blessed to have a very involved biological father named Fred Cox that resides in Las Vegas as well as her "step-dad" Joel, supporting her in this journey of life. In 2010, the universe aligned just right and brought a local boy from Waipahu into my place of work. Three years later, we were living in paradise pregnant with our next bundle of love. Although we have yet to be married in the traditional sense, Joel and I have built our family on love, laughing and good food! Joel is a Sous Chef at Aulani, Jazmyn is an energetic 3rd grader at Kaleiopuu Elementary School, Jordyn is a curious 2-year-old that loves to sing and dance, and I am a full time student/mom getting my degree in Elementary Education.
Jazmyn's love for dance started as soon as she could stand up. By 3 years old, she was taking tap, ballet, jazz, and acro in Las Vegas. When she was 5, I was searching the internet for a dance studio near our new home in Waipahu. Pas De Deux came up and had amazing reviews. Bonus was Nina from the Imagination Movers was the studio owner. Once Jazmyn saw that, the search was over and I booked her trial classes before we even left Las Vegas. In the first month we lived in Hawaii, Jazmyn was in dance 3 times a week and PDD was becoming our 2nd home. As soon as she was 7, she added theater and voice and has been soaring as a performer ever since. In our 3 years at PDD, Jazmyn has sang Christmas carols on television, danced in parades and has enjoyed workshops with celebrity choreographers. PDD is our 2nd home with people that we consider family. I am blessed to have groups of parents, teachers, and admins that understand how a passion can ignite a fire in a young performer and nurture that fire to blaze bright. PDD offers not only training in the performance arts, but numerous opportunities for the young performers to share their talent with the community. It is the sense of Ohana that makes PDD stand out from other studios. The welcoming nature of Jeremy and Wendy is spread through the teachers and staff and that is what keeps us coming back 6 days a week. Sometimes multiple times a day.
I encourage all the families that may be just starting their dance journey to make it a Family Experience. Get involved with the recitals and theater shows. Volunteering gives you a great sense of what your child feels when they perform and what it takes to put on the amazing productions that PDD is known for. Get the whole family involved. We love having dance dads, brothers, sisters, aunties, uncles as well as Dance moms. Wendy and Jeremy are the most approachable and most involved studio owners I have had the pleasure to know so don't hesitate to ask questions. Read all the emails that are sent. They contain all important information in regards to your child and the studio. Most importantly, have fun making memories and new friends with your child. Enjoy all the experiences now because one day, they will be just memories.
Mahalo for all the support Wendy and Jeremy!
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[SPOILERS for those not caught up on Riverdale ahead.]
Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has teased the title of the season 2 premiere episode, and it could possibly hold a clue for what to expect. Riverdale's freshman season solved one cliffhanger and left us with one more. Once it had been revealed that Clifford Blossom had killed his son, Jason, the show then had to answer the question of why he did it. That was resolved in the season finale, when it was revealed that Jason had threatened to expose the Blossom family's drug trafficking ways.
Just when fans were thinking that was the end of season one, all tied up in a nice neat bow, along came a truly shocking event that set the stage for season two. When Archie and Fred Andrews met at Pop's diner for breakfast, an armed robber burst in and shot Fred, something that was later revealed to be a deliberate act.
Showrunner Sacasa took to Twitter today to reveal that work on Riverdale season 2 has begun, and that the premiere episode will be titled "Chapter Fourteen: A Kiss Before Dying":
Here we go. Season Two of #Riverdale is officially underway! Are you ready? pic.twitter.com/tPvMcRzv8t
— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) May 23, 2017
Firstly, the chapter title points toward the continuing arc of events for Riverdale as a whole; in keeping with the arc one would expect to find in the Archie comic books on which Riverdale is based. But it's the picture and title that really intrigues us. The picture of an upturned milkshake on a table flooded with blood, hints that Riverdale's season 2 premiere will pick up right where it left off - in Pop's diner.
As yet, there is no confirmation either way of Luke Perry returning in Riverdale season 2, but the title could suggest Fred Andrews' son giving him one last kiss goodbye before he dies in his arms. While Perry was present at upfronts last week, we all know better than to take that as confirmation of his continued involvement in season 2. Fred's injuries looked pretty severe, and if we couple that with Camila Mendes' comments that we're going to see a darker Archie in season 2, it's a logical progression to assume that Fred will die in the season 2 opener.
That said, this being Riverdale, full of mystery and intrigue, the title could refer to any circumstance at all; Cheryl kissing her old life goodbye, for example, as she watches Thornhill burn to the ground, or something happening to Polly as she gives birth. Riverdale's first season got progressively darker as it went on, and it seems as though season 2 will pick that right back up when it returns next year.
NEXT: What We Want to See in Riverdale Season 2
Riverdale season 1 is available for streaming on Netflix. Season 2 premieres on The CW this fall.
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