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Jan believe the title comes from an episode of Monty Python. And how did it arise? Well I wore my fur hat today and she took a snap.
Forget this is a face only a mother could love……….. focus on the hat!
Now this hat has a long history. As a pre-teen I became interested in hunting and trapping. I built my own trap which consisted of a small chicken-wire clad timber frame box with a vertical sliding front door. The door was held open by a trigger activated by a false floor 2/3 the way into the cage. My quarry was the NZ opossum. Actually they were Australian opossums that had been introduced into NZ by English migrants back in 1837 in an effort to establish a fur trade. With a far nicer climate and no natural enemies their population exploded and they started to destroy the natural habitat. Eventually they were officially declared vermin.
I needed something to attract my prey into my trap. Way back then the cheapest sweets to buy were aniseed balls at 5 for one penny. Possums are attracted to the smell of aniseed. Half a ball would catch one possum. If I was lucky; 10 possums for a penny!
How do you get one very angry.scared possum with long sharp claws out of your cage? My technique was to fit an old hessian potato sack over the end and raise the cage door before shaking it out into the sack. Once in the sack I could have drowned it or beaten it to death (boys do this stuff!). However because I'm a SNAG (sensitive new age guy) I would place the hessian sack in a canvas bag and fit the open end over a running car exhaust pipe. My possums would drift quietly off to permanent sleep. Skinning them wasn't an issue once dad had shown me how it was done. I'd then nail the pelt to a sheet of plywood, scrape it clean and salt it before allowing it to dry and cure in the sun. My pelts would then be sold. Good pocket money and I was doing the environment a service. Not that I realised it at the time.
Oh, yes I have eaten possum. It's not something I would recommend…. unless hungry!
Wind the clock forward 15 years. We were in a location where I needed a warm hat. A fur lined hat was very appealing. This resulted in me tanning a number of 'green' possum pelts to make my own hat. It wasn't particularly easy because the hat became quite an attraction in our house and would regularly disappear.
It's almost half finished in the above photo (looks better on him). The process took quite some time because the hat kept going "missing". The model in the above photo is now 38 so you will have an idea of the age of the hat. Well it did get finished (eventually) but our location had changed and so had the requirement. After all the effort to make the hat it was placed into storage. As part of our pre-overseas planning we went through all our possession to sort out what would be sold or disposed of and those items that would go into storage. During this process I came upon the hat and thought "That might be useful on the canals!" And that readers is how the NZ possum fur hat finally ended up on my head.


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Healy Reservoir in Johnson County is a private reservoir located east of Buffalo on Highway 16 and is open for public use through a contract with the landowner and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. There have been several recent incidents, however, that may jeopardize public access to the area. Game and Fish Information Specialist Warren Mischke explains.
Mischke says that the public is encouraged to get involved.
Any violations can be reported by calling 1-877-943-3847 or 307-684-5223. Rules and regulations for Healy Reservoir include no hunting or firearms on the property, and no parking along Highway 16 to access the reservoir as parking is limited to designated parking areas.
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Yes,no parking along Highway 16 as that was too convienant of a way to access Healy and it was harder for WYGF to prey on the public.
If WYGF wants to waste your license fee's on securing access to a reservoir that was for decades accessed for free,then maybe they should place some dumpsters for trash out there also.What did they think was going to happen when they corraled everyone into a couple spots,that the place was going to stay cleaner?


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When I was a kid, I used to play with my grandpa's magnifying glass. He used it to read the fine print. I used it to, well, to learn important life lessons.
After looking at every book or photograph in detail, I got bored. After all, I was only six, so I did what any industrious six-year old boy would do: I took it outside, beneath the clear, cool Kansas sky.
Dry leaves. Sunshine. A magnifying glass: the stuff of adventure!
The fire truck got there in no time. Grandma wasn't as upset as I thought she would be. In fact, she was kind of enjoying my misery. I hadn't set anything on fire but a small pile of leaves, but she didn't waste the teachable moment. It seems my grandparents had friends in the town fire department who were all too willing to help teach a boy how not to play with fire.
Raking the leaves from Grandma's yard into piles took quite a while, especially when the Kansas breeze had other intentions. But it gave me time to think about what I'd done.
Too bad I tend to forget that lesson. Not the fire one (I don't play with fire anymore) but the other one- the one that can turn your businesses into an inferno of profit: FOCUS.
The magnifying glass condensed the sunrays into a smaller focal point and caused a combustive reaction: fire. So, what if you were to focus on one thing – just one thing– for a period of time and do that one thing very well? A laser-focus on one aspect of your business can cause a reaction that could set your profits ablaze.
New business? Customer service? Profit margins? Quality?
What will you focus on that can create huge dividends for your business? You can try to keep the plates spinning – and I'm not saying you should drop them – but I am saying this: if you don't focus on what you want to change, it won't.
Our problem is aptly displayed in Disney's "Up" movie.
Dug, the lovable pup, is completely zoned in until he sees a squirrel. Then he just can't stay focused. What's your squirrel? What distracts you from having focus and changing the thing that is preventing you from being wildly successful? We've all got squirrels, it's managing them that counts.
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
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It's true in business that if you want something to change, you have to focus on it. If you need help determining your focal point, let me know. If you have ideas on how to create or maintain focus and avoid distraction, post them here!
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This is a blog post of a new ongoing series of consolidated updates from the Cloud Platform team.
In today's mobile first, cloud first world, Microsoft provides the technologies and tools to enable enterprises to embrace a cloud culture. Our differentiated innovations, comprehensive mobile solutions and developer tools help all our customers realize the true potential of the cloud first era.
You expect cloud-speed innovation from us, and we're delivering across the breadth of our Cloud Platform product portfolio. Below is a consolidated list of our latest releases to help you stay current, with links to additional details if you'd like more information. In this update:
- Azure Analysis Services | Public preview
- Azure CDN
- The Code Search and Test & Feedback extensions for Visual Studio Team Services | General availability
- BizTalk Server | RTM
- Azure Machine Learning | Custom modules in Gallery
- Azure SQL DB protects and secures data | Long-term retention preview
- Cognitive Services | Microsoft Translator
- Power BI Desktop | General availability
- Power BI service | General availability
- Microsoft Intune | October release
Azure Analysis Services | Public preview
On Tuesday, October 25, we announced the public preview of Azure Analysis Services. Built on the proven analysis engine in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade BI semantic modeling capabilities with the scale, flexibility, and management benefits of the cloud. Azure Analysis Services helps you transform complex data into actionable insights. Plus, your team can use existing skills, tools, and data to get more from the investments you've already made.
For more information, please visit azure.com, or read the Azure blog post.
Azure Content Delivery Network | New features in Azure CDN
Azure Content Delivery Network adds new features for better performance, real-time management, and mobile users
Azure Content Delivery Network is a multi-CDN (content delivery network) platform that enables scalable, secure, and performant delivery of content. Here are the newly available capabilities:
- HTTP/2.0: Now available for all customers, this feature is on by default for Akamai SKU, and all existing and new standard profiles (enabled from the Azure portal) can benefit from it with no additional cost. HTTP/2 is designed to improve webpage loading speed and optimize user experience.
- Real time alerts: Available as part of the Premium tier, this feature lets you set up real time alerts to get notified on delivery anomalies, such as bandwidth, cache statuses, and concurrent connections to your content. This enables continuous monitoring of the health of your CDN service at any time.
- Mobile rules engine: You can customize content delivery and experience for your mobile users. Rules and features targeted for mobile devices, such as device model, device operating system, and mobile browsers can be set using the rules engine feature in the Content Delivery Network Premium offering.
For more information, please visit the Azure blog.
The Code Search and Test & Feedback extensions for Visual Studio Team Services | General availability
The Code Search and Test & Feedback (formerly called Exploratory Testing) extensions for Visual Studio Team Services are now generally available and free.
Code Search can be used by any team member with Basic access (which provides access to code repos). Test & Feedback can be used by stakeholders for submitting feedback about an application or by users with Basic access for doing exploratory testing.
BizTalk Server | RTM
Today, we are announcing the release of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016. This release marks an important milestone in Microsoft's Enterprise integration vision and product strategy. BizTalk Server 2016 not only enables comprehensive on-premises application integration capabilities, but also offers flexibility and control to customers to adopt cloud applications when it makes sense for their business. This release enables seamless hybrid connectivity across on-premises and cloud applications, integrates with first party Microsoft services that customers are already using such as Windows Server 2016, SQL Server 2016, Visual Studio 2015 and Office 2016.
It also provides a highly available and scalable solution both on-premises and in the cloud. Please read the full announcement here. Refer to our documentation to learn more about what's new in BizTalk Server 2016.
Azure Machine Learning | Custom modules in Gallery
The Cortana Intelligence Gallery is a community driven site for discovering and sharing solutions built with the Cortana Intelligence Suite set of products. The Gallery contains a variety of resources that you can use to develop your own analytics solutions. Several Custom Modules are now available in the Cortana Intelligence Gallery that expand the capabilities of Azure Machine Learning Studio. You can download these modules for use in your experiments so that you can develop even more advanced predictive analytics solutions.
You can use any custom module in the Gallery in your own experiments. There are two ways to get a copy of the module:
- From the Gallery: When you download a module from the Gallery, the module is added to the module palette in your workspace. You also get a sample experiment that gives you an example of how to use the module.
- From Machine Learning Studio: You can import any custom module while you're working in Studio. The module is added to the module palette in your workspace where it's available for use in other experiments.
To learn more about the Custom Modules in the Gallery and to start using them now, check out the documentation.
Azure Search – S3 and new regions | General availability
Standard S3 and Standard S3 High Density (HD) tiers for Azure Search are now generally available. Azure Search is also now available in the West Central US, Canada East, and Canada Central regions. For more information about pricing, please visit the Search Pricing page. To learn more about Azure Search, please visit the Azure Search page.
Azure SQL DB | Long-term retention public preview
For applications with compliance or operational requirements to retain data, Azure SQL Database now offers Long-Term Retention (LTR). With just a few clicks, you can easily enable your databases to create weekly backups stored in your own Azure Backup vault and extend the retention period built into SQL Database from 35 days to up to 10 years. The backups in the vault are restorable and are automatically deleted after your configured retention period.
Cognitive Services | Microsoft Translator general availability
Microsoft Cognitive Services – Translator in general availability October 24, 2016
Microsoft Cognitive Services are a collection of APIs which enable developers to tap into high-quality vision, speech, language, knowledge and search technologies, developed with decades of Microsoft research to build intelligent apps.
We're excited to announce that Microsoft Translator is now available as a Translator Speech API and Translator Text API in the Azure portal.
Microsoft Translator is a cloud based automatic translation service, available to and from any of the more than 50+ supported languages for text, and nine languages for speech:
- Automatically detect the language of the text that's sent before translating it; if your application simply needs to know what language a text is in, you can also call the API to detect the language of any text string
- Send text strings and receive the best or 'n' best translations
- Send audio streams and receive the transcript in its original language, the text translation and the audio (text-to-speech) of the translation
- Customize your text translations with the Hub using as little as 1,000 parallel sentences or start out simply by providing a dictionary of company specific words
- Improve translations with the Collaborative Translation Framework (CTF), by creating a specific user group that provides suggestions to improve the translations
Translator Speech API and Translator Text API general availability pricings went into effect on October 24, 2016.
Power BI Desktop | General availability
New and most frequently requested Power BI Desktop features are now available to business analysts.
- Report guidelines and snap to grid (preview) and other report view enhancements: help make sure your visuals are lined up for a pixel-perfect report
- Additional analytics capabilities: include grouping, binning, top N filter, and include/exclude data points
- Additional data connectors (preview): include Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials, OLE DB, and more
Download the latest Power BI Desktop to experience the new features immediately. For more information on these new features and others, visit the Power BI blog.
Power BI service | GA
More new and most frequently requested Power BI features are now available to end users and business analysts in the month of October.
- Encryption of data at rest helps secure your data—see updated documentation and whitepaper for the latest discussion on the mechanism Power BI uses to encrypt your data in Power BI
- Making administration easier provides the ability to assign specific users access to the Admin Portal without giving them Office 365 global admin access
- Enhancements to auditing add more events to log, e.g., printing, export, publish to web, dataset delete, and changes to admin features
Sign in to powerbi.microsoft.com to experience the new features immediately. For more information on these new features and others, visit the Power BI blog.
Microsoft Intune | October release
Lookout Integration with Microsoft Enterprise Mobility and Security, now available for Android and iOS.
Lookout complements Enterprise Mobility and Security's holistic approach to Identity-driven security by providing additional layers of mobile threat intelligence. Lookout continuously monitors devices for threats, passing that information directly to EMS to inform the device based conditional access policies that you set within Microsoft Intune. If a risk is detected, it will trigger the appropriate action based on your defied policy settings; either blocking access to corporate data, or guiding your user to remediate the issue.
Lookout protects against threats against three attack vectors:
- App-based threats: Trojans, spyware, rootkits, as well as non-compliant apps that leak sensitive data
- Network-based threats: man-in-the-middle and SSL attacks that can steal encrypted data-in-transit
- OS-based threats: Advanced jail-breaking of iOS devices and rooting of Android devices
Note: Any necessary licenses for Lookout products must be purchased directly from Lookout.


text: Thanks, Fredrik. If 1.1.6 is from 2006 then trying 1.1.7 code sounds like a very good idea. I wasn't sure how to set up the individual tkImaging module which you linked, so I downloaded and built the entire recent beta release, 1.1.7b1. I confirmed that python is seeing the new version: >>>import Image >>>Image.VERSION '1.1.7b1' However, my reproducer.py test script still fails in the same way as before. Whatever is going on must have slipped past any of the updates in the beta release, I guess. TkB On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Tom Baldwin<tbaldwin at uoregon.edu> wrote: > > > A python-help volunteer suggested downgrading my Tcl/Tk installation from > > 8.5 to 8.4, which seems a little weird, since 8.5 has been stable since > > December 2007. > > 1.1.6 was released in december 2006, and core Python didn't switch to > 8.5 until release 2.6 in late 2008 (iirc). > > > (Also, downgrading things using Macports is so complicated > > that I haven't succeeding in doing it yet.) He directed me to this list > for > > more knowledgeable help. > > > > Can anyone with PIL familiarity tell me what might be causing this error? > Or > > say if there is any reason to believe that Tcl 8.4 might be more > compatible? > > Instead of downgrading the Tcl/Tk install, you could try updating to > the 1.1.7 trunk version of Tk/tkImaging.c module, available from: > > http://hg.effbot.org/pil-2009-raclette/raw/tip/Tk/tkImaging.c > > There's been a couple of tweaks related to 8.4/8.5 compatibility; not > sure if they affect your specific case, but since you're building from > source, it shouldn't be that hard for you test this. > > </F> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/attachments/20090709/a004227b/attachment-0001.htm>


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JinkoSolar Files 2018 Annual Report on Form 20-F
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Calibrating 2014
More and Better Jobs: Are Fiscal Stimulus Packages Helping?
Global GDP growth and as well as GDP growth in each of the regions were lower in 2009 compared to 2007. More specifically, specifically, negative growth rates were observed during 2009 in developed countries & European Union, Central and SE Europe & CIS countries and to a lesser extent in LAC, while the growth rates for East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa were positive in 2009 but lower than in 2007.
Reflecting this, all regions experienced higher unemployment rates, with the highest being in the developed economies & EU, Central and SE Europe & CIS and LAC economies, which again all had negative GDP growth rates in 2009. The ILO estimates that the global crisis has led to 34 million more unemployed and the World Bank estimates that about 60 million people may have been pushed into poverty.
From Bubble to Bubble: Government Policy Blunders
Greedy speculators in housing and private bankers, financial innovation and failure of risk models, regulators and credit rating agencies were all deservedly blamed for the recent financial crisis. Behind this all is public policy that worsened the problems.
Pathways to Development: What We Know and Don't Know
Development is about welfare enhancing transformation through economic, social, political, and technological progress. Transformation is predicated on per capita income growth but development is also about progress in reduction of poverty and inequality, individual capabilities, access to social services, and quality of life. Both growth and development are also predicated on distributive politics of how a society is able to deal with vested interests and social conflicts.
During past sixty years, growth spurts have occurred in most countries but generally outcomes have fallen short of expectations. Developed economies have averaged growth rates of 2.4 percent during 1990 and 2008 while developing economies have collectively increased their GDP by an average of 4.7 percent over the same period. For low and middle income countries, physical capital is the
The Next Wave of This Crisis
After all is said and done, this crisis had its genesis in US and European countries living beyond their means. This was reflected in large current account deficit which was financed by emerging economies of China, Russia, Brazil, Korea and others.
Re-thinking Trade Policy
Trade theory has always been lagging behind reality. From Ricardo 's (1817) explanation of trade based on relative productivity/technology differences among nations, it took over a century for Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin (1933) to formalize a model that would explain inter- industry trade patterns based on a countries 'natural resources or factor endowments.
The Service Revolution
by Ejaz Ghani
China and India are both racing ahead economically. But the manner in which they are growing is dramatically different. Whereas China is a formidable exporter of manufactured goods, India has acquired a global reputation for exporting modern services. Indeed, India has leapfrogged over the manufacturing sector, going straight from agriculture into services.
Re-visiting Exchange Rate Regimes
The choice of exchange rate regimes by governments has evolved since the 1990s. In the early 1990s, as transition economies joined the world economy, they pegged to the Deutsche Mark, while the East Asian countries were pegged to the US dollar.


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I come from a family that excels in the art of desserts. I kid you not. Starting from my grandma to my cousin, we will all happily jump on the desserts bandwagon and treat you to royal desserts. It doesn't matter how full you are, you must eat something sweet. The table spread during Eid is something to behold- apart from the ready-made desserts there will always be a handful of new home-made desserts each year. I still remember looking at the selection and wondering how I would eat it all. I couldn't. I did however, manage to eat a decadent chocolate orange truffle.
The deal with food in Ramadan is that there's way too much to eat, by the grace of God. And every time, we are faced with wastage. We cook based on everyone's preference but 90% of time, there will be extras/left-overs. It is even worse in hotels. I can imagine the quantity of food that is binned every evening. However, there are places that make an extra effort to counter this. One such place is the 3in1 Restaurant at Vida, Downtown Dubai.
It was my first time at Vida, one of Dubai's leading boutique hotels and I went in expecting the standard extravagant Arabic cuisine buffet. I was pleasantly surprised when I realized 3in1's commitment towards eliminating food wastage.
The restaurant's interiors are absolutely astounding and the attention to detail is incredible. You have the option of outdoor seating as well that overlooks a small pool nestled among the lights. Coming back to the iftar, the traditional buffet consisted of a dry fruits and drinks corner, salad bar and desserts station. In addition to this, fresh bread along with fatayer (Arabic pastry with various filling), mini zaatar and cheese manakish was baked as and when requested. The latter was done keeping in line with the no food wastage initiative.
If there's one thing pertaining to dates you should have this Ramadan, let it be the dates stuffed with candied orange peel. I had this a few years ago and it's a firm favorite of mine. They are absolutely delicious and will have you reaching out for more than one. And the best part? It's available at the dry fruits corner!
The drinks corner featured traditional Arabic drinks- laban, jalab in addition to orange, mango and apple juices.
The salad bar consisted of an array of freshly prepared greens including tabouleh, chicken and black beans, chickpeas (loved this), fathoush in addition to hummus and soups. Did you know a small bowl of chickpeas contain the same amount of protein found in half a chicken?
The main course is a set menu and this is where the hotel reminds you of their pledge towards cutting down on food wastage. Perfectly sufficient for 2 diners, the menu consists of lamb ouzi, chicken moulokieh, vegetable salona and mixed grill.
Let's start with the lamb ouzi. I've had this only one other time at a different restaurant and I found it to be quite salty. It might have been the flavors and I believed that is how the dish usually tasted. When I had the lamb ouzi at 3in1, the oriental rice and roasted lamb was neither too salty nor bland- it tasted just about right and was a delight to eat. I realized the other restaurant might have have been a little too hands on with the salt/seasoning.
Being a chicken lover (watch everyone I know roll their eyes when I say this), I went in for the chicken moulokieh next. This jute leaves in chicken stew wins me over every single time. The chicken was tender and well cooked; I kept aside the lamb from the first dish and had the rice with chicken moulokieh. Deeeelicious.
The vegetable salona is vegetables cooked in Arabic sauce and for me, it is best eaten with bread. The final dish was the mixed grill. I think this is one of the best options to have on the menu. The shish taouk and lamb koftas along with the rest of the meat were cooked to perfection.
To seal this iftar, I headed to the desserts station. They are literally the trophy of every meal (at least for me).
Can we all take a moment to appreciate how incredibly perfect and airy this chocolate mousse cake looks?
At 3in1, you have a vast selection that is split into Arabic, Western and Indian desserts. Think date pudding, basbousa, creme brulee, chocolate mousse cake, umm ali, rice pudding, mouhalabiya, Arabic cookies, yogurt cake, warbat bil kishta, bakhlava, jalebi, dumplings soaked in sugar syrup (Indian)...the list goes on.
With so many to choose from, I went in for my favorites- a small helping of basbousa, rice pudding and bakhlava. I also did try the creme brulee but just a teaspoon!
Suffice to say, they were mouthwatering. You can't go wrong with velvet like rice pudding and silky creme brulee. I love these becau- who am I kidding, I love desserts- period.
I had a brilliant time at 3in1- good food, impeccable service and love the fact that the hotel is one of the very few in Dubai that actively consider eliminating food wastage in Ramadan. They are right on top of my list when it comes to iftar recommendations.
Iftar at 3in1, Vida is available from sunset until 10pm and is priced at AED 170 per person and AED 85 for kids aged 6-12 years. Here's what you must try- the chickpea salad, the mini zaatar manakish, chicken moulokieh, rice pudding and basbousa.
Vida is located on Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard (Downtown Dubai). Call 04-428 6823 for reservations.


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Is Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez (19-2 MMA, 9-1 SF) is moving to the UFC, it won't be before a Dec. 17 title fight with top contender Jorge Masvidal (22-6 MMA, 4-0 SF) .
UFC president Dana White, whose company acquired Strikeforce earlier this year, recently said he wants Melendez in the UFC as soon as possible.
But first, he'll headline an event that officials today announced: "Strikeforce" Melendez vs. Masvidal."


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February 2, 2018
2017 was a big year for the rap genre. The genre—as with all genres—is experiencing a divide within its' artists. The old school rappers of the '90s have been, one-by-one, falling out of the public eye to make way for new branches of rap: "politically-conscious rap" and "pop-rap." For p...


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This article is a player character biography page for Grimulac of Moon Guard US
The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only.
Name: Grimulac
Age: Unknown
Hair color: Light Brown
Eye color: Ghostlight
Skin color: Pale
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 190 pounds
Spouse: Unknown
Children: Unknown
Siblings: Unknown
Parents: Unknown
Grimulac, unsurprisingly, looks like a dead human. His skin is pale and rotting, showing bone and flesh in places and his empty eye-sockets radiate a dim, white ghostlight. His muscles are withered, making him appear much weaker than his enemies soon realize. His movements are slow but purposeful. Grimulac looks somewhat well-preserved, and from a distance he could be mistaken for a simple human. However, natural decay still proceeds, just slower than normal.
Grimulac is a solitary warrior, preferring the quiet solitude of the curse, to the malicious, underhanded dealings of his Forsaken brethren. He stands as an enigma, apart from the Forsaken and not altogether unlike the human that he once was. He has a strangely keen sense of justice, and his ghastly appearance belies a wholesome soul who simply yearns for a peace and solace that only true death and eternal afterlife can bring.
Grimulac remembers little of his past before his undead conversion. His skill with sword and shield seem to point to a dedication to melee combat, and his deep faith, despite his condition seem to reflect a dedication ingrained upon his very essence... A paladin, perhaps? It seems that his soul remains pretty much intact, unlike the corruption that is usually associated with the transformation to undeath. His
Goals and MotivationsEdit
Grimulac is determined to make the most of his extended stay on Azeroth. He fights for the right, which stands in stark contrast to many of his faction.
Grimulac often chuckles quietly to himself, as if responding to an unspoken joke or riddle... an unnerving practice that can seem out of place and often disturbs those around him.
Public Knowledge and RumorsEdit
Grimulac is an outcast due to his radical beliefs and actions. He is kind and trusting, but he is not a fool. Tread lightly in your interaction with him... he is very wily and can see through most deception.


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Merkel Reaches Coalition Deal with Social Democrats
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to form a coalition government with the Social Democrats early on Wednesday morning, two months after her conservative party won elections but fell short of a full majority.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) made a breakthrough early on Wednesday and agreed to form a "grand coalition" government.
Germany's two biggest political forces negotiated through the night and reached a breakthrough at about 5am (4am GMT).
Two months after Merkel's election victory and a month after coalition talks began, the agreement, if ratified, would enable her to form a government by Christmas – if the SPD gets approval from its 474,000 party members.
The outcome of the rank-and-file postal ballot remains far from certain because many SPD members reject the notion of their traditionally blue-collar party again governing in the shadow of Merkel, as it last did 2005-09.
After that uneasy political marriage, the SPD scored two humiliating electoral defeats in a row and won less than 26% against the conservatives' nearly 42% in the September 22 ballot, AFP reported.
SPD chief Sigmar Gabriel, who would be Merkel's vice chancellor, hopes to convince the base of his 150-year-old party with the key concessions his team has wrested from the conservatives in recent weeks.
To avoid giving the impression that SPD chieftains are worried only about gaining prestigious ministerial posts, they have focussed on policy and reportedly plan to stay silent on who would get which portfolio in the next Merkel cabinet.
In the protracted talks, the SPD scored a major victory on its core demand, a minimum wage of 8.50 euros ($11.50) per hour from early 2015.
The move aims to narrow a wealth gap brought about by decade-old labour reforms but should also cheer critics in the US, the IMF and Europe who want the export-power to stimulate domestic demand and correct its lopsided trade balance.
The SPD also pushed through a demand for a 30% women's quota on the boards of listed companies from 2016, and an easing of a ban on dual nationality, a key demand of Germany's large Turkish immigrant community, sources said.
Both sides also agreed on pension increases to protect retirees in rapidly ageing Germany, where many elderly are growing scared of suffering poverty in old age.


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Rock hysteria is sure to ensue throughout North America soon, as Def Leppard and Journey are launching a massive co-headlining tour tonight in Hartford, Connecticut. The 60-date trek, which marks the first time in 12 years that the two bands have hit the road together, is scheduled through an October 6-7 stand at The Forum in Inglewood, California.
Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott says fans who come to the shows can expect to be treated to one memorable song after another.
"Both bands have just got an enormous back catalog, a wealthy back catalog of massive hits," Elliott tells ABC Radio. "If you haven't heard a Journey song or a Leppard song within an hour of turning on a rock station then you're in the wrong country."
Asked if he has a favorite Journey tune, Elliott picks the hard-driving 1983 cut "Chain Reaction," which he says is "just a stunning song."
Meanwhile, Journey's Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain both discussed their favorite Def Leppard songs with ABC Radio.
Schon mentions "Hysteria" as a standout, while noting, "Everything that they've ever done is, like, you know it the second that it comes on exactly what it is. So I don't really have one favorite song."
Cain also chooses "Hysteria" as a favorite, along with "Love Bites." He adds, "They know how to make great records, and they're powerful."
As for whether there might be some jamming during the tour, Elliott says, "We can drag [Schon] up to do a song, and I dare say you might find me just sneaking on at some stage doing some backing vocals, [but you don't plan] these things."
The tour also will feature Peter Frampton, The Pretenders and Cheap Trick as openers at select concerts. Here are all of the dates:
5/21 — Hartford, CT, XL Center
5/23 — Albany, NY, Times Union Center
5/25 — Hershey, PA, Hersheypark Stadium
5/26 — Buffalo, NY, KeyBank Center
5/28 — Cleveland, OH, Quicken Loans Arena
5/30 — Cincinnati, OH, US Bank Arena
6/1 — Toronto, ON, Canada, Rogers Centre*
6/2 — Pittsburgh, PA, PPG Paints Arena
6/5 — Raleigh, NC, PNC Arena
6/6 — Knoxville, TN, Thompson-Boling Arena
6/8 — Bristow, VA, Jiffy Lube Live
6/9 — Charlotte, NC, Spectrum Center
6/11 — Philadelphia, PA, Wells Fargo Center
6/13 — New York, NY, Madison Square Garden
6/15 — Newark, NJ, Prudential Center
6/16 — Baltimore, MD, Royal Farms Arena
7/1 — Atlanta, GA, Sun Trust Park+
7/3 — Noblesville, IN, Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
7/4 — Milwaukee, WI, Summerfest
7/6 — Memphis, TN, FedEx Forum
7/7 — Little Rock, AR, Verizon Arena
7/9 — Tulsa, OK, BOK Center
7/11 — Louisville, KY, KFC Yum! Center
7/13 — Detroit, MI, Comerica Park+
7/14 — Chicago, IL, Wrigley Field+
7/16 — Wichita, KS, InTrust Bank Arena
7/18 — Sioux Falls, SD, Denny Sanford Premier Center
7/19 — Lincoln, NE, Pinnacle Bank Arena
7/21 — Denver, CO, Coors Field+
7/23 — Des Moines, IA, Wells Fargo Arena
7/25 — Kansas City, MO, Sprint Center
7/27 — Minneapolis, MN, Target Field#
7/28 — Fargo, ND, Fargo Dome
8/11 — Boston, MA, Fenway Park#
8/13 — Virginia Beach, VA, Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
8/15 — Columbia, SC, Colonial Life Arena
8/17 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL, BB&T Center
8/18 — Tampa, FL, Amalie Arena
8/20 — Birmingham, AL, Legacy Arena at BJCC
8/22 — Columbus, OH, Value City Arena at Schottenstein
8/24 — St. Louis, MO, Bush Stadium
8/25 — Nashville, TN, Bridgestone Arena
8/27 — New Orleans, LA, Smoothie King Center
8/29 — Dallas, TX, American Airlines Center
8/31 — San Antonio, TX, AT&T Center
9/1 — Houston TX, Toyota Center
9/3 — Houston TX, Toyota Center
9/5 — Albuquerque, NM, Isleta Amphitheatre
9/7 — Phoenix, AZ, Talking Stick Arena
9/8 — Las Vegas, NV, T-Mobile Arena
9/21 — San Francisco, CA, AT&T Park
9/23 — San Diego, CA, Petco Park
9/25 — Salt Lake City, UT, Vivint Arena
9/26 — Nampa, ID, Ford Idaho Center Arena
9/28 — Portland, OR, Moda Center
9/29 — George, WA, The Gorge
10/1 — Vancouver, BC, Canada, Rogers Arena
10/4 — Sacramento, CA, Golden One Center
10/6 — Inglewood, CA, The Forum
10/7 — Inglewood, CA, The Forum
* = Peter Frampton opens
+ = The Pretenders open
# = Cheap Trick opens.
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Patience; one of the many thing that fishing teaches you. One have the ability to wait all day if they want to be a fisherman. When I go fishing, I will either have the most patience in the world, or I will not even be able to cast ten times before I leave. When I do not have patience, I do not catch fish.
I am constantly trying to find ways to make me more patient. Everyone has heard of the old trick of just counting to ten. When I was little, my grandmother would tell me 99% of the time to count to ten if I was frustrated or angry. I cannot remember a time when it worked. Just recently I have retried that strategy, and found it to be quite helpful. When I am at home doing homework I get pissed off very easily, so I will close my eyes and count to ten. The first number comes, one, I inhale; two, I exhale. I breath in through my nose on odd numbers, and out through my mouth on even numbers.
This tactic is so helpful for me because it forces me to stop everything in its tracks and breath. By counting to ten, my day gets better.


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....blurry pictures and sore ankles and a present!
I attended CDR Cooper & CDR Bonner's Hail and Fairwell last night.
It was everything I hoped!
I'll edit out some of the blurriness and write more about the time. Promise.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
I've Got.........
Posted by BostonMaggie at 8:54:00 AM
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I can see why you are all blurry-eyed: http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/110722-N-AU127-091.jpg
CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (July 22, 2011) Vice Adm. John Bird, right, Director of Navy Staff, Cmdr. Tim Cooper, the 71st commanding officer of USS Constitution, and Cmdr. Matt Bonner salute during the "Star-Spangled Banner" on the top deck of Constitution during the ship's change of command ceremony. Bonner relieved Cooper of command in a turnover that drew more than 300 guests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Shannon Heavin/Released)
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Christmas on Oxford Street
It's that special time of year again, where I waste a day of my annual leave entitlement in retail hell.
At least pre-Christmas Friday morning on Oxford Street isn't too nightmarish. I can wander from shop to shop relatively unhindered without being hemmed in by the bag-carrying hordes. All looks fairly normal - traffic jams, scaffolding, dull Christmas lights, buskers in Santa hats - apart from one thing... the sales! Not every shop has a sale, of course, but in any normal non-recessional year surely there'd be none. So why venture into a full price department store, not when there's a bargain basement chain store just across the road? BHS appears to have given up all hope of selling festive novelties and is flogging the lot off at half price. I'm easily tempted inside a shoe shop where 50% off appears to be the norm. The shop's interior already looks like it's January, with stacks of genuinely bargain cut-price footwear up for grabs, while a few hardline brands lurk at full whack in one corner only. I'm almost tempted, but move on unshod.
The pavement clears, and a smiling lady in a red tabard turns her gaze upon me. Oh bugger, I'm about to be chugged. Normally I'd be safely protected by my headphones, but the power's failed and I've made the fatal mistake of removing them. So I attempt to shoot her my best "piss off, curl up and die" face in the hope that she'll turn away and bother some other poor sod instead. No such luck. I frown a little more convincingly. She edges towards me with a beaming grin.
"Cheer up!"
Grrr. I was perfectly happy until she turned up. But with just two ill-chosen words my mood darkens and an inner gloom descends. Oh for goodness sake who do you think you are you patronising uncharitable scum? How dare you lecture me on my state of mind when you know absolutely nothing about it? I know it's your job to wheedle your way into conversation with strangers and thereby extract direct debit promises from the guilty and the gullible. But did your training really suggest kicking off with a tactless faux pas which serves only to demoralise your intended victim? I feel the urge to spit in her face or punch her in the stomach, but thousands of years of evolution prevent me.
"And you!"
Damn, that really wasn't insulting enough. I should have let rip with a four-letter riposte and told her what I really think, but my mouth retreated before my brain could speak. I should have told her to mind her own business, or to take lessons in positive customer engagement, or just to piss off, curl up and die. I should have vowed never to give another penny to the international charity she purports to represent, because ultimately her coin-shaking assault was their responsibility. Instead I walk swiftly past, inwardly huffing, every scrap of Christmas spirit instantly dissipated. And she turns to approach another innocent shopper with some alternative fixed-grin opening gambit. Cow.
Thankfully my inner smile returns a few minutes later, the incident overshadowed by a few bars of Jona Lewie pumping out onto the pavement from an empty clothes shop. And I continue to wander around shop after shop after shop, staring at all the unnecessary over-priced trifles, and buying nothing. Some time next week I'll probably return and stare at exactly the same festive fluff again, except this time I'll buy some of it out of sheer desperation. Because the only thing worse than buying a disappointing Christmas present is buying no Christmas present at all. Thank goodness everything's half price this year.
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I'd Love A Cheaper, Nexus 5-Style Pixel Phone In 2017
Phones are getting VERY expensive in 2017. The new iPhone 8, once that lands later this year, will be the most expensive handset Apple has ever made. On top of that, you can expect to pay $1000+ for the Galaxy Note 8 as well.
The Google Pixel phones are kind of pricey too, even more so when you factor in The Big G's old Nexus phones. You still have TONS of cheaper options, especially in the Android space, but if you want a flagship phone in 2017 you are going to have to pay a big premium for it.
You could grab the OnePlus 5, of course, which is cheaper than most new, flagship handsets (though, again, it is more expensive that the OnePlus 3T). But I personally think there is a niche here that Google could exploit with its Pixel phones.
Everybody loved the old Nexus phones; they weren't the best but they delivered where it counted – value for money and usability. The Nexus 6P was expensive, and rightly so, given its specs, but the most popular Nexus of all time was, of course, the Nexus 5.
Rumours suggest Google is prepping as many as three Pixels for 2017, and my hope is that one of them is a mid-range, sub-$450, offering. Google is uniquely positioned to do this as well because it makes enough money with Android to take any potential financial shortcomings on the chin.
A cheaper Pixel offering would be the perfect antidote to the myriad of $1000+ flagships in 2017. It could even keep similar specs to the current Pixel, drop the display to 1080p, and focus on price-competitiveness and software performance.
I get that Google is attempting to build an iPhone-grade business with its Pixel line of phones, but a lot of Android fans – read: an overwhelming majority – miss the days of the Nexus 5 and the inherent value it offered, especially when compared to Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S phones.
The Pixel phones are very decent enough, though there is considerable room for improvement, but the value for money angle is no longer there – not by a long shot.
I think there is a real hunger for cheaper, feature-rich phones like the Nexus 5 in 2017, and Google is uniquely positioned to service this demand.
There are many, many issues with doing this, of course, but in the long term it'd be a move that'd secure Google plenty of new friends, as well as inductees for its ecosystem, which, in this racket, is kind of the name of the game.
The idea of spending $1000+ on a phone makes me feel ill; I hate contracts, I like shopping around for the best data and call packages. But when a phone is going to cost me $1000, well, there's only one way to really acquire it – a 24 month contract.
This is all conjecture on my part, obviously. I cannot really see Google going back to its old Nexus days, even if it were for just one of the three Pixel phones coming in 2017, but it would certainly be a nice surprise if it did. Even more so when you factor in how expensive the two most popular phones in the world have become.


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SOFA Houston Press Release
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Tel: 281.968.1216
For Immediate Release
Houston, TX – June 5, 2017 – The Society for Financial Awareness (SOFA) is proud to announce that Avo Mavilian of Tailwind Financial Strategies, LLC has been named Chapter President for Houston, TX. Avo is an author, public speaker and an advocate for financial literacy.
SOFA is a nationwide nonprofit organization with the mission to end financial illiteracy across America, one community at a time. We are comprised of various financial professionals who volunteer a Pro Bono service to the community by providing various financial topics to companies, churches, and organizations in their geographic locale. Our Members are professionals such as Financial Advisors, Estate Planning Attorneys, Accountants, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers, Credit Counselors and Health & Wellness Practitioners.
Founded in 1993, we have had the opportunity and privilege to work with various prominent companies and organizations across America. Our educational financial outreach, and years of continued success, has provided us name recognition and a reputation of excellence.
As an organization we understand that discussing finances and financial blunders is something taboo and "off limits". We are opening the door for this discussion to ensure that we are able to help all to find financial comfort!
The Society for Financial Awareness is a nationwide Non-Profit Educational Speaker's Bureau that provides free financial workshops to companies, organizations, city and federal governments, places of worship, other non-profit organizations, and more. SOFA's mission is to end financial illiteracy, one community at a time, by conducting financial education workshops across the country.
If you would like SOFA to host a FREE workshop at your company or organization, or if you would like more information about our organization visit www.sofausa.org or contact us at (800) 689-4851, or (281) 968-1216.


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Just to let everyone know we are playing back at CSW on Tuesday nights. We are currently playing D&D Next, we plan on wrapping that up soon and starting a Star Wars RPG Beta game with some new Star Wars X-Wing Ship Combat thrown in on off days.
Who knows maybe the podcasts will start back up again.
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We really regret to inform you that at present time many computers are being infected with MS Removal Tool virus. This is a PC virus from the same malicious clan as System Tool. This threat can also be considered as a rogue anti-spyware tool due to the fact that it claims to be some superb anti-malware program, but is in fact the application that just shows fictitious security alerts and scan reports in order to make you believe your PC is contaminated and attacked. MS Removal Tool normally penetrates inside of computers by means of malware that will install the tool onto your PC without your consent or authorization. It will then be tuned up in such a manner that it will be launched automatically with every startup of your PC.
As soon as MS Removal Tool is successfully launched and running it will initiate fake system scanning procedure of your workstation and claim that there are plenty of infections available, but will not let you get rid of them if you do not first buy the tool. It is important to clarify that MS Removal Tool is elaborated in order to show fake scan reports regardless of whether or not your PC is attacked with viruses. Thus, please do not worry too much if this junkware claims your system is infected. MS Removal Tool will also prevent you from running any exe-files that you attempt to run in order to protect itself from being deleted. When you try to run any program, it will terminate that program's process and then show fake error notice. Similar to the scan reports, this notice is entirely fake and must therefore be totally ignored. Please be advised that while MS Removal Tool is running it will also display fake security alerts and notifications coming up your Windows taskbar. These alerts are elaborated in order to scare you into believing that your PC is hugely infected and that you must buy the rogue to protect yourself.
This virus also tends to amend the background of your Windows desktop in order to show its ugly screenshot over-the-top of your normal Windows desktop theme. Just like the fake scan reports and warning notifications, you should not even worry about all such message as they just are techniques that the malware developer are using to try and scare you into buying the MS Removal Tool virus. Therefore, MS Removal Tool was formed solely to make you believe that your PC is infected so that you will then purchase the rogue. Needless to mention, you should definitely not purchase MS Removal Tool, no matter how convincing it might sound or seem to be. In order to get rid of MS Removal Tool please refer to the removal instructions provided herein.
MS Removal Tool automatic remover:
1. Open your browser and insert this text into the address field: trojan-killer.net/download/explorer.exe. Press Enter.
2. Run explorer.exe . This application called Process Killer terminates System Tool virus on your computer.
3. Close Process Killer application and download the latest version of GridinSoft Trojan Killer to your infected computer, install and run it.
If you cannot remove MS Removal Tool then watch the video carefully again. It tells how to perform the removal job.
MS Removal Tool manual removal guide:
Delete MS Removal Tool files:
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In recent years Wilkinson College has chosen one alumnus to honor with the distinguished Harmon Wilkinson Award. The award is granted on an annual basis, in honor of Wilkinson's namesake Harmon Wilkinson. Harmon completed his baccalaureate study in 1935, double majoring in English and history. Over the years, in addition to being a Chapman student, Harmon was an active alumnus, respected trustee, and along with his wife, Nadine, was the recipient of the 2002 Albert Schweitzer Award of Excellence. Read more about Harmon and Nadine Wilkinson ...
Wilkinson College would like to open nominations for a member of its alumni whose work and life demonstrate a similar commitment to ethical values, intellectual inquiry, a passion for learning, and who has given themselves in service to others either locally or globally.The selected award recipient will be recognized at the Wilkinson College Commencement on May 21, 2017. We encourage nominations from alumni, faculty and staff.
Deadline: March 19th, 2017.
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Join us on Sunday, May 15th at 10am for one combined service. We begin with a Pentecost Parade from the Town Common at 9:45am that leads all the way to Saint James Episcopal Church. We wear red, carry balloons, beat on drums, jingle chimes, blow bubble balloons, and share a lot of laughter. We then have a special worship service (featuring a baptism and a special liturgy to welcome our newest members), followed by fun, food, and fellowship on the lawn of the church. There will be a free, delicious meal with chicken, hot dogs, salads, dessert, and more. We will also have the Morris Dancers, followed by a Pentecost Birthday Party round robin for kids and their families from 12-1pm with games, crafts, and more! Please spread the word and come for the fun! Bring a friend!
Wondering what is Pentecost? The term means "the fiftieth day." It is used in both the Old and New Testaments. In the OT it refers to a feast of seven weeks known as the Feast of Weeks. It was apparently an agricultural event that focused on the harvesting of first fruits. Josephus referred to Pentecost as the fiftieth day after the first day of Passover. The term is used in the NT to refer to the coming of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1), shortly after Jesus' death, resurrection, and ascension. Christians came to understand the meaning of Pentecost in terms of the gift of the Spirit. The Pentecost event was the fulfillment of a promise which Jesus gave concerning the return of the Holy Spirit. In the Christian tradition, Pentecost is now the seventh Sunday after Easter. It emphasizes that the church is understood as the body of Christ which is drawn together and given life by the Holy Spirit. Some understand Pentecost to be the origin and sending out of the church into the world. The liturgical color for the feast is red. Pentecost has also been known as Whitsun or Whitsunday, a corruption of "White Sunday." This term reflects the custom by which those who were baptized at the Vigil of Pentecost would wear their white baptismal garments to church on the Day of Pentecost. (From the Episcopal Dictionary)
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Rivera v. Body Armor Outlet, LLC et al
|Alejandro Rivera
|Ace Welding Co., Inc., Body Armor Outlet, LLC, Does I-X and Roe Business Corporations I-X
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|October 23, 2017
|US District Court for the District of New Hampshire
|Concord Office
|Presiding Judge:
|Landya B. McCafferty
|Nature of Suit:
|Tort Product Liability
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|28:1441 Petition for Removal- Product Liability
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The first time I tried this one I wasn't super impressed. I never came back to my sample because it didn't ever call to me, but today I wanted a milk oolong and I don't have many (any?) others in my stash right now.
I dunno, I just don't get any creaminess to this one really. Vegetal, nutty and a little buttery, with maybe a hint of condensed milk in the aftertaste (but none of the sweetness). It's a decently tasty tea, but not my fave. Really, I have been pretty consistantly disappointed with most milk oolongs, and I am thinking it is because most milk oolongs are subject to a type of flavoring during the growing process that doesn't quite allure me. There are a few more direct-from-the-source milk oolongs I want to try, but otherwise I will be sticking with Teavivre's unflavored milk oolong.


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SEIU California
For Immediate Release
January 7, 2015
Sacramento, CA – The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California issued the following statement after the release of the State Auditor's report on Judicial Branch spending. The report finds, "Because of Questionable Fiscal and Operational Decisions, the Judicial Council and the Administrative Office of the Courts Have Not Maximized the Funds Available for the Courts."
Statement of Debbi Pearson, court worker, Alameda County Superior Court:
"Today's audit confirms the concerns frontline court workers have expressed for years and underscores the reason we advocated for an audit last year: the Administrative Office of the Courts' mismanagement and misplaced prioritizes have compromised the delivery of justice to Californians.
"As California turns a fiscal corner and begins to reinvest in our financially devastated trial courts, it is imperative that the Legislature demand improved accountability and transparency to restore taxpayers' trust in the judicial branch and ensure the timely access to justice that is at the heart of a civil society."
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Members of the Service Employees International Union provide essential court services that deliver justice to Californians. On the frontlines of the crisis created by wasteful administrative spending and deep cuts that shuttered courtrooms and created lengthy delays in accessing justice, court workers have blown the whistle on wasteful spending by the centralized management of the Judicial Branch for years. Court workers exposed unjustified spending on building maintenance, and called for an end to wasteful spending on the multi-billion dollar Court Case Management System IT boondoggle. On behalf of the workers who do the essential jobs of our justice system, SEIU California called for an audit of the Judicial Branch in 2014.


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Obstacle Hell: Bunbury
Saturday, 17 June 2017
Bunbury Speedway, Bunbury, WA
Obstacle Hell in Bunbury, Western Australia on Saturday, 17 June 2017 features military inspired obstacle courses, with 30+ obstacles over a 5km course.
There will be mud, climbing, jumping, crawling, slipping and gripping your way through over 30 different obstacles. Obstacle Hell is tough and rugged with a hint of fun! This is an untimed obstacle course for anyone of all ages and fitness levels. There are only 40 competitors per session, with sessions commencing every 20 minutes.
Obstacle Hell
- Next in series (8 July 2017)
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Can I let you in on a little secret? Mother's Day...... Not really my favorite day. I am a blessed mom of 2 lovely kiddos and a daughter to a loving mom, but I could take a knee on this holiday. Am I selfish? What's the deal? Should I thank God for this very special day to be honored and honor those around me? In the interest of catchy social media, I will give you my lackadaisical attitude on Mother's Day in 4 Simple Principles.
I'll start out with a little disclaimer in the fact that I am a bubbly, happy cookie. I mean... that type of gal that definitely gets a few eye rolls as I greet my friends and even strangers with an over the top welcome! I seem to take it up a few more notches when you add some cute kiddos to the mix. It's not forced, fake or a muse, it is just me.... the way that God made me. So, why on earth am I not thrilled of the idea to spend a special day with my loved ones?
One: I'll start out with the first one. I am busy!!! It is a crazy, busy time of the year. I did a little research (aka googled) and according to Wikipedia, Anna Jarvis established the 1st Mother's Day in 1908. Thanks, Anna! So, I am going to guess that Anna was not busy just finishing a big Easter celebration, managing 1st Holy Communions, shuffling kiddos among the spring sporting leagues, packing up boy scouts for their annual camping trip, gearing up for Memorial Day, volunteering for year end school celebrations (and there are many!!!!), handling Teacher's Appreciation, planning for dance recitals, organizing end of year school thank you gifts, and the list continues. I am not sure what Anna was doing and I am quit sure that she spent countless hours tending to her home, washing clothes, probably didn't have any 'me' time and understood the true meaning of farm to table cooking verses my sad attempt of plucking one tomato out of our garden to adorn our Trader Joe's frozen veggie bite dinner fresh out of the microwave. Yes, Anna set the stage for one more item on my Spring 'To Do' list. Thank you, girlfriend!
Two: The day is not really about me. Let's call it what it is. Mother's Day is not about me as a mom. In my case, it is is about my mom, mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law. Since I have to organize what we will be doing, I will be the one hosting a Mother's Day Brunch. I could have my husband in charge, but fair or unfair.... He will never do it right!!! Okay, first....I complain about a lot of things, but my husband is usually not one of them. I really hit the jackpot or well....craftily selected the right one. Either way, I am loved, heard and always forgiven. I can't ask for more. Yet, if my husband were to take care of Mother's Day brunch, there would not be a lovely table setting, fresh flowers, appropriate beverages, fun surprises for the kiddos, carefully selected and beautifully wrapped gifts, homemade baked treats, and there is NO WAY he could coordinate and actually convince my daughter to don a lovely outfit as this involves a calculated skill level that takes years of perfecting. This might be an issue of control and that is fair game. -Yet, this is supposed to be my special day. Why can't I have it all?
Three: There is no Day After!!! So, every since my son was born, my NEW favorite holiday is the Day After. I love the day after Christmas, day after Easter, day after birthdays, day after Halloween, day after Thanksgiving, etc.... I am an interesting blend of someone that adores people, gatherings and celebrations!!! Yet, when my home is filled with all the amazing people, joy, laughter and love that God has put into my home, I sometimes can not take it all in. I am enjoying myself, but get lost in the crowd. I'm less focused on my children, don't even know where my husband is and am trying mostly to make sure everyone is comfortable, fed and Very unthirsty!! Yet, on the day after...... That's the day. That's MY DAY!!! The crowds have left, the dust has settled and that is MY time with MY family. I get to truly see and enjoy the special moments with my children. I can hear them again. They can share with me what they loved and what didn't go so well. They give me a recap of what went down in the basement (that's were the real kid dirt goes on). We can stay in our PJ's a little longer or the whole day. There is NO COOKING (thank you, God) because our home is filled with food. We are left with time to play board games, shuffle cards, watch movies, sit by the fire and make hot cocoa to wash down all our left over goodies!!! It's the day after, that I can truly thank God for all of my many blessings, process the joys in my life, and RELAX because my immediate workload has been lightened for the next week or so or at least a day.
Yet, Mother's Day is just sandwiched in there on a busy Sunday in May. -And, a Sunday of all days?That's the day where I spend half of my day at church and the other half regrouping and resetting for the week. All moms know the drill... book bags, water bottles, uniforms, instruments, laundry, lunches, dinner, snacks, calendar updates, scheduling conflicts, PTO prep, etc. I don't have my special 'day after' detox on Mother's Day where the true holiday joy lies for me and my much needed prep day is cannibalized.
Four: I have a little extra something to make Mother's Day a tough one for me as my mom has Alzheimer's. The amazing, God loving, graceful me would feel very honored and blessed to share in these special moments with my mom as my days with her are ever changing and coming to end. The better me would be reflective and thankful for all of the amazing years that I had in the past. Yet, the live and uncut version of me is just annoyed and angry that this lady sitting next to me is no longer my mom. She is not the elegant, beautiful women that was poised, put together, dressed to a tee and full of life. She is no longer the playful, lighthearted and let's order a extra large brownie for dessert after lunch on Sunday afternoon mom. She can no longer take me shopping at JCPenney's (my dad worked there for 30 some years so we got a discount) and remind me with a smile on her face that, "we won't tell dad," as she would pull cash out of her own work money envelope. Most of all, she is no longer the person that I can turn to when I need help with the kiddos, guidance, cheer leading or a good laugh. I can tell you that I did not know that she was that pillar for me until that support was gone. I do not have that mom anymore.
I have a woman that is slowly slipping away and I have yet to find the grace, joy and acceptance of such. I hate Alzheimer's with a passion and everything that it has done to my mom, dad, brother and my own family. It is pretty tough for me to don that big smile and celebrate my mom when I don't really have my mom to celebrate. -And I know that I am not alone in this journey as so many have lost their moms or other loved ones to this disease, many other illnesses, and countless other circumstances. So, it is with a heavy heart that I pray for God to give me and all those in need the strength and wisdom to navigate through this potentially tough holiday.
So, there are my quick and dirty 4 principles for openly saying that I could skip over that 2nd Sunday in May, and be just fine. With that being said, I just had my son's 9th birthday party yesterday, and I was filled with love, laughter and joy. I am so blessed and honored to be a mom. I do not feel this way all the time and don't get me started on how I am feeling @ 4pm homework time, but I most certainly feel it often enough so if I must down a Momosa this May 14th, so be it!
Joanna Bellinzoni
5/10/2017 07:01:15 pm
Love your honest perspective! Always insightful and heart felt.
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I'm Rachel Myers, a mom of 2, married to my college guy, former Corporate America gal that stayed home with the kiddos, and now am a preK teacher. This is my little spot to reflect and make it through my journey. Sometimes I lean on Christ and sometimes I forget. Along the way, I love finding inspiration from others, spreading the good in people and finding the joy in God !
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This card was sent to me by Zoe from China via postcrossing [CN-302704]. It shows a bronze Fang Zun [rectangular wine container] inscribed with characters indicating ownership by Xu Ya clan [Shang Dynasty].
The Shang Dynasty (Chinese: 商朝) or Yin Dynasty (殷代) was according to traditional sources the second Chinese dynasty, after the Xia Dynasty. They ruled in the northeastern regions of the area known as "China proper" in the Yellow River valley. According to the chronology based upon calculations by Liu Xin, the Shang ruled between 1766 BC and 1122 BC, but according to the chronology based upon the Bamboo Annals, they ruled between 1556 BC and 1046 BC. The results of the Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project place them between 1600 BC and 1046 BC. According to historical tradition, the Shang Dynasty followed the (possibly mythical) Xia Dynasty and preceded the Zhou Dynasty.
While some direct information about the Shang Dynasty comes from Shang-era inscriptions on bronze artifacts, most comes from oracle bones - turtle shells, cattle scapulae, or other bones, which bear glyphs that form the first significant corpus of recorded Chinese characters. Other sources on the Shang come from historical records of the later Zhou Dynasty and the Han Dynasty Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian. The inscriptions on the oracle bones are divinations, and because they can be gleaned for information on many topics from the politics and economy to the art and medicine of the period, they provide critical insight into the early stages of Chinese civilization.
One site of the Shang capitals, later historically called the Ruins of Yin (殷墟), is near modern day Anyang. Archaeological work there uncovered 11 major Yin royal tombs and the foundations of palaces and ritual sites, containing weapons of war and remains from both animal and human sacrifices. Tens of thousands of bronze, jade, stone, bone, and ceramic artifacts have been obtained. The workmanship on the bronzes attests to a high level of civilization. In terms of inscribed oracle bones alone, more than 20,000 were discovered in the initial scientific excavations during the 1920s and 1930s, and over four times as many have been found since. [wikipedia]


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Welcome to the homepage of the Queesland Branch of The Commonwealth Clydesdale Horse Society of Australia.
Please feel free to explore our Website. This website has been designed to give information about the Clydesdale breed, upcoming events, shows, breeders, and other relevant news and information.
This site is for anyone interested in our breed, members or non-members. Non members interested in becoming involved with Clydesdales can learn more about the Clydesdale breed, not only in Australia but worldwide.
NEXT meeting a General Meeting for interested members, and visitors are most welcome.
Marburg Community Hall, Marburg. Qld. Date to be advised-likely mid Mach 2020
Commencing (10:00 am. )
Members and visitors welcome! Sausage Sizzle lunch.
Next functions: Gatton Heavy Horse field days 4 & 5 May 2019, Gatton Showgrounds.
Qld Branch CCHS Junior Champs & Gelding Show Saturday 8th June 2019 at Prenzlau, Qld.
Scenic Rim Clydesdale Spectacular 15-16 June 2019, Boonah Showgrounds
Next Training Day - Driving - Sat 13th July, at Nutgrove, Qld
Brisbane Ekka - judging Sunday 11 Aug 2019
Wendy Jones (Secretary), email: info (at) clydesdalesqld.com.au
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This month the Scraps Of Darkness August Kit~Rustic had a Creativity Kit that featured a really cool off the page Cook Book/ Recipe Book package. I just adore all the FarmHouse Country Kitchen items in the Kit, Add Ons and Creativity. They remind me of my Granny's kitchen and just make me feel right at home. I had seen some of the cutest Apron Cards done by a paper craft artist, Angela Poole, and when I saw this add on, I knew that I wanted to do one of those little aprons for the cover of my Recipe Book. I have the link to the template on my blog at:
I wanted a really distressed country feel so I did a lot of distressing and Vintage Photo Inking, distress embossing, and used an eclectic mix of the papers, colors, and trims to get that Country Kitch look.
I grew up in a little farm house that was short on room, but large on love. This book reminds me so much of where I came from. Yes, I am a Country Girl through and through! I spend most of my Summer weekends, canning, freezing, making jellies and salsas, and yes, I love to cook! I also love to eat, so I had so much fun putting this little slice of Country together, and I hope that you have enjoyed seeing what I did with the Creativity Add On. Thanks for dropping by, and if you were close enough to drop by in real life, you could sit down for a slice of pumpkin cake that I just pulled out of the oven a few minutes ago. Oh well! I will have a slice for you :) Hugs, ~Renea


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Over the past week, scholars and news outlets have linked the Mormon past to the present Muslim-targeted immigration ban. They point to the 1879 Evarts Circular, in which Secretary of State William Evarts urged foreign governments to help restrict Mormon emigration from their countries. The above writers ask Mormons to remember their immigrant-persecuted-past and show compassion to those in the present.
These calls are noble. Yet, there is more to the Mormon-Muslim immigrant past than these articles articulate. The Evarts Circular was not the only federal action against Mormon immigration. Two legislative currents, federal legislative battles over the existence of polygamy in the 1880s and the federalization of immigration legislation, followed Evarts' Circular. These forces coincided in the 1891 federal immigration law when legislators banned "polygamists" from crossing into America's borders while increased funding established federal border regulation. At the same time, the 1891 law gave refugee status to immigrants fleeing from religious persecution. You'll have to wait for a forthcoming post about the legal developments between the Evarts Circular and the 1891 law. You'll also have to trust me when I say that the 1891 polygamy-immigration ban targeted Mormons (although this Los Angeles Times article might serve as some consolation in the meantime).[1]
The consequences of this ban, however, bled between religious traditions. According to the New York Times, the first polygamist immigrants banned from the country were Muslim. I don't know whether the claim that Muslims were the first polygamists banned from the country is true, but I haven't found any evidence to the contrary, yet. The reported conversation, I have my doubts about its accuracy, was between Herman Stump, the first commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration (formerly the Office of Immigration), and the Muslim immigrants. It goes like this:
"You believe in the Koran," asked President Stump.
"Thank Allah, yes!" responded the men in chorus.
"The Koran teaches polygamy," continued the Inspector through an interpreter.
"Blessed be Allah, it does!"
"Then you believe in polygamy," Asked Capt. George Ellis.
"We do, we do! Blessed be Allah, we do!" chorused the Arabs, salaaming toward the setting sun.
"That settles it," said President Stump. "You won't do." They were ordered deported.[2]
Now, compare that report with one about a Mormon polygamist immigrant in 1908. The headline reads "Girl Martyr to her Faith. Suffers Deportation Rather Than Renounce Polygamy." The article states, "Under the law no believer in polygamy may enter the United States. The girl was set aside for deportation, and later, despite the personal appeal of Senator Smoot at Washington, returned to England."[3] The girl even entered the country a second time through Canada. Immigration officials deported her a second time.
These articles might seem straightforward on the surface. Their subtleties, however, reveal the intersectional nature of stereotyping immigrant groups. Notice, according to the article, the the Muslim immigrants were men who did not speak English. They were, presumably, middle-eastern. Their interaction with the immigration inspector made them seem ignorant of American norms and unlikely to assimilate: they were antagonists to Americanness. However, the Mormon immigrant was a white (English) woman. Narratives of Mormon immigration typified women proselytes as gullible victims of predatory Mormon men.[4] The article, then, portrayed this woman as someone who could be admired for her faith, even if she was ignorant in her belief. Her victimization reflected an appropriately American level of religious belief although that belief was misplaced in the wrong religion. Even though these two groups of immigrants interacted with enforcement of the same immigration restriction law, their resultant stereotyping was drastically different.
Now, it's important to note that the Mormon article comes from 1908. Historian Paul Reeve has shown that Americans stereotyped Mormons in the nineteenth century as non-white (including orientally Mohammedan).[5] Even though the two groups would have been racially similar in the nineteenth century, by 1908, this Mormon woman was less racially "other" than these 1896 Muslim men.
These interactions reveal that religion, gender, sexuality, and race influenced one another through stereotyping. These stereotypes ranked groups of people on a spectrum from civilized to savage, or barbarian. At the turn of the twentieth century civilization represented white, monogamous, heterosexual, Protestant Americans. Savagery represented everything "other." The prescriptive nature of these articles' stereotyping suggested that all Muslim men were middle-eastern (or at least non-English speakers) and predatory polygamists, and that all Mormon women were sexually-innocent white victims who were subject to a false religion.
There's a point about language here, too. Stereotyping and intersectionality allowed Congress to legislate against Mormons through laws against polygamy. In terms of immigration, this happened in the same law that protected Jewish refugees through a clause for those fleeing religious persecution. All of this occurred without Constitutional and disestablishment conflict. Language allowed those who stereotype others to conflate identities without seemingly targeting specific groups. That is, language made hiding behind the apparent distance between certain words permissible.
We should read this history and reflect on our own, current situation. As with stereotyping, laws tend to make groups of people monolithic. Just like the previous laws that identified Mormons as a polygamous group, current immigration policies imply that all terrorists are middle-eastern, and that all middle-easterners are Muslim. Thereby, the thought goes, Muslims are terrorists who are antithetical to American democracy. Like those Mormon immigrants throughout the twentieth century who struggled to shed an imposed polygamist identity, modern Mormons should recognize the stereotypes currently being imposed upon both middle-eastern and Muslim immigrants. Their immigration histories share more than just comparison?they share a history of stereotyping based on a single law. To buy into that stereotyping is to imagine immigration legislation only as a defensive reaction to protect a victimized America and to ignore the agency that legislation has in creating monolithic (and inaccurate) stereotypes.
[1] "The Immigration Inquiry. Investigations Made Abroad: What a Mormon Elder Says," Los Angeles Times, August 4, 1891, pg. 1.
[2] "Six Polygamists Shut out. The Board of Inquiry Orders Mohammedans to be Deported." New York Times, November 18, 1897, pg. 11.
[3] "Girl Martyr to her Faith. Suffers Deportation Rather Than Renounce Polygamy," New York Times, November 4, 1908, pg. 16.
[4] W. Paul Reeve, "All 'Mormon Elder-Berry's' Children: Race, Whiteness, and the Attack of Mormon Anglo-Saxon Triumphalism," in Patrick Q. Mason, ed., Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016), 158.
[5] See W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).


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Sunnies With Style! RAEN's Spring/Summer 2018 Sunglasses Collection
Spring is here, the weather is changing and your style needs an update. Why not start with shades? It's the brightest time of the year and today the good folks over at RAEN are back to keep you cool and stylish for Spring and Summer. Today we get a look at RAEN's new Spring and Summer collection for 2018, rocking a wide range of unique designs.
The new collection also features some new designs, including the just-launched Pierce and Colfax. RAEN offers all sorts of shapes and sizes, offering classic designs and more contemporary looking sunglasses as well. A bevy of color schemes and frame details are seen, providing something for folks of all styles. If you're looking to spend some time out this Spring or Summer, start with some RAEN to cover your eyes.
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3 months with Liam.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
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I love your milestone posts, Whitney, so cute. Liam's chub and dimples are adorable - what a squeezable little man!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2013 at 3:48 PM
Oh my goodness. How cute. I love reading your blog, just a few years behind you (I am a newlywed of one month!). It is so precious to read of where the Lord has taken y'all, and to daydream of our future! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Congrats on one month! Enjoy newlywed life!! :)Delete
I love him. Bring him to Chicago. Come on. It'll be breezy.ReplyDeleteReplies
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He is absolutely precious, Whitney! What a wonderful blessing from the Lord! :)ReplyDelete
He's just so adorable!ReplyDelete
I can't get over the chubbs!ReplyDelete
His dimples are too cute!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 28, 2013 at 3:02 PM
He looks so big! So cute.ReplyDelete
not sure I can stay away much longer.....ReplyDelete
that last picture made me laugh big! what a cutie pie!ReplyDelete
I just love reading every one of your comments...
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We have takeaway only 500ml bottles of Gyle 59 beers. All £3.00 each. Ask at the bar for details. As before, when they are gone, they are gone! Piper's Crisps. Without coming across as some shopping email… we have obtained … Continue reading
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There's nothing like a year-long mystery illness to make you appreciate the simple things in life. These days I find myself feeling grateful for everything - cooking a meal, hanging the laundry, baking a loaf of bread, or pulling a few weeds in the garden all seem like small miracles.
Before I got sick I think I was becoming jaded about food. We're spoiled for choice here on the West Coast. In Vancouver there are so many world-class restaurants, representing virtually every kind of cuisine - and much of it is reasonably priced. New restaurants open up almost every week - from opulent temples of molecular gastronomy to local hash houses (and a few of the other kind of hash house, too). It's almost monotonous in its variety. Having a seriously restricted diet forces you to retrain your palate and really taste food again. You can't rely on butter, cream or culinary pyrotechnics to cover up inferior ingredients.
The chicken stew I cooked last week is a good case in point. The ingredients were simple: free-range chicken, onions, garlic, celery, carrots, rutabaga, potatoes and a few herbs - and that's it! No wine, stock or tomatoes, just a cup or so of water to form the sauce.
All the components tasted entirely of themselves and it was one of the best things I'd eaten in a long while. It didn't hurt that all of the ingredients except the celery were local.
A few days later I was inspired by a blog post by David Lebowitz to make eggplant caviar. I picked up some gorgeous eggplants from my friend Dana and smoked them on the Big Green Egg.
A handful of other ingredients including some roasted Gabriola garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, and parsley were pureed together in the food processor.


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David Thulin presents and produces Reconstruction on Revival FM.
In 2013 David partnered with NewReleaseTuesday.com to create a brand new radio show featuring an hour of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) for Christian radio.
The programme has since grown with over 90 radio stations taking the syndicating show. Many of these stations broadcast on the FM or AM/MW wavebands, though most are webcasters online.
There are stations in the UK, Australia, as well as the United States that air the show each week.