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Last week I explained how I was signed off work and was told "no one else has a problem" which given I tried to kill myself only four months ago is at least 'unhelpful'. I went on to make some good connections with MIND, the mental health charity, and with the Huffington Post; this is why I am buzzing. I wrote an article called Perhaps I Can Survive which has been liked on Facebook over 40 times. One person called my article "shocking", another said "painfully honest" and a third called it "inspiring".
I feel quite excited that the negativity that surrounds mental health in general and my current situation can be used in such a positive way. My new radio show has some fantastic ratings (the second show is this Friday so please do listen!) and my blog is steadily growing in visits along with my followers on Twitter. With my birthday only a week or so away and I'm signed off work until at least November, why am I nervous and sleepy?
|My new DFS sofa! :)
I am signed off sick with a formal complaint lodged so I am hoping I am being paid. If not, how will any of this pay my mortgage? I am not sick enough or disabled enough to get any benefits, yet anyway so what hope do I have. Either my illness or love of gadgets, or both, is trying to get me to buy a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge +. It's my birthday right? I've had a hard year, I almost died. I deserve this right? Yet, when I look at my credit card, I already have a debt, unless I get lucky and I do get a few radio interviews or whatever, how I will I clear it?
I don't want to rely on my parents. I don't want to beg to the state. I feel like i'm sponging meals off family and friends already.
Yesterday my washing machine passed away by creating a small swimming pool in my kitchen. I ordered a new one with fitting but that's more money I can't risk on my credit card. That is why I am nervous -being sleepy is the side effect my illness has decided is the best reply.
Still... lets focus on the positive. I have a new washing machine dryer coming, the kickstarter for our community drama club is going really well (although there is a few more adverts and VIP ticket available). I have an amazing set of family and friends and I am 'healthier' today than I was 3 weeks ago.
I guess I better go get a Euromillions ticket!
Thank you for reading and sharing my blog - keep scrolling for more!! :) xx
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FAQ's For Body Creations Ink, Springfield, MO
Do tattoos hurt?
Generally, no as tattoo equipment has come along way. Some feel them more than others depending on the placement. Remember this, if they were so painful no one would ever get tattooed. An experienced tattoo artists, not tattooist, will have a light hand and not go to deep. This does make all the difference in the world as the needles will be set to graze the surface of the skin. You do not need to go deep to have a great looking tattoo.
Where is the most painful place to get a tattoo?
Each individual is different from the other meaning, not everyone feels pain the same as the other person. I can tattoo someone on the front shoulder and he/she might not feel it as the other person might say it was intense. Keeping this in mind here are a few places that people tend to complain more often than not
Under arm pits
Stomach or lower hips
Lower back
Under the buttocks or back thighs
Between the thighs
Achilles Heel or back calf area
Can I go in the sun after I get tattooed?
We do not recommend it for 30 days as this will dramatically affect the healing process. Yes, the sun does fade the tattoo over a period of time. Sun damages the skin by pulling all the nutrients from the skin and that is why over exposure to the sun can make skin look like leather or aged. The best protection for your skin/tattoo is to avoid sun altogether, but if you are going to be in the sun make sure you use all natural/organic products as they are non toxic and biodegradable which is better for you and the environment. Look for products with either zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, natural minerals for sound UV protection or choose plant-based ingredients, such as green-tea extract, which are high in antioxidants, and their anti-inflammatory properties can help prevent sun damage and minimize burn damage, if it does occur.
Can I go swimming or the lake after I get a tattoo?
Not for at least 2 weeks or 30 days as this can cause serious infection due to bacteria in the lakes and chlorine in pools. The tattoo is an open wound for several weeks and needs to heal and develop a scab or close over.
Do color tattoos fade more than solid black or black and gray tattoos.
No, this is a myth and if any tattooist, not tattoo artist, tells you this does not know what he/she is talking about. The difference between a tattooist and tattoo artist is experience in the field and being able to do custom work as oppose to just being able to do flash work, which is tracing. An experience tattoo artist will be able to give you the best advice and aftercare for your tattoo. Now, ultimately the tattoo is your responsibility. Meaning, what you do with the tattoo when you leave the shop is your responsibility. We can only give you advice and aftercare and this should be followed to the letter. If you do not follow the instructions given, there is a greater chance that your tattoo will not heal properly.
Can you tattoo over scars and or stretch marks?
Yes, depending on the severity of the scar and or stretch marks. We often call this camouflaging. Which means taking away or drawing attention away from the scar and or stretch mark. Depending on the severity of the scar it can take a while to heal and lay down. Some scars are raised (keloid), which means the scar is deep and is very hard to tattoo over. This means, the cells of the skin are damaged (depending on the severity) and will have a hard time accepting the ink as opposed to healthy cells accepting the ink with ease. Tattooing over scars and or stretch marks takes a very skilled tattoo artist. Knowing this, please make sure the tattoo artist has proven ability through his/her portfolio.
Can I tattoo a mole?
We do not recommend it. More often than not moles are benign, but if the mole indicates a change in color a problem may be arising. If the mole is tattooed over you can not see the change in color. If the tattoo artist is skilled in this area he/she shall recommend tattooing around the mole and incorporating the mole into the tattoo.
Can you use numbing cream?
Topical antiseptic only works with broken skin and generally does not last long ( 15 – 30 minutes). The skin does not accept the ink as well due to the numbing ingredients in the topical solution. Most tattoo artist will not recommend it or even carry the topical solution.
How much do tattoos cost?
The saying, "you get what you pay for" is absolutely correct. Quality work does not come cheap. We have been in the business for over 15 years and seen many tattooist care more about the money than the quality of the tattoo. The clients are like a herd of cows get them in and get them out. The more tattoos I do the more money I make. The faster a tattoo goes the quality of work goes out the window. Tattoos are not about how fast they can get done, but the quality of the tattoo. We have seen many customers come in and regret their tattoo because they went cheap and it shows. We do many cover – ups from tattooist that have no business calling themselves tattoo artists. Never, ever, ever haggle over a tattoo. We are not a pawn shop and it is very disrespectful to the artist.
Are tattoos safe?
Absolutely, as long as you are in a reputable licensed and health inspected shop. Here is your safety check list:
Is there an autoclave (Sterilizing machine)?
Ask to see the shop and how they sterilize everything. You have a right to ask for these things and the shop should never hesitate to show you around
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Can you keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen IT?
Ongoing feedback from the searchWin2000 Career Center salary survey suggests that the agricultural industry worldwide is a profitable and challenging place for Windows professionals. Whether they are stationed in the Pacific Rim, Europe or the United States, their $60,000 average salary is among the survey's highest. Armed with MCP and MCSE certifications, between two and five years of Windows NT/2000 experience, and titles like NT administrator, IS manager and CTO, survey respondents report that their 60-hour work week is a full 10 hours over the survey average.
Major forces are at play worldwide to foster these trends. For one thing, information technology is becoming pivotal to farmers' ability to manage resources. Through the combination of biotechnology, precision farming, satellite imagery and computers, agribusiness today has an unprecedented collection of technology tools at its disposal to turn data into relevant information for critical decision-making.
But despite those forces, the agricultural sector, compared to other industries, has been slow to staff in-house IT departments, which may be one reason salaries are high and work weeks long. "Commonly what you'll see is the sales manager charged with finding outsourced talent," says Michael Bachner, a recruiter for Canadian-based Bestard Agricultural Placements. The industry has also been slow to adopt the Internet as a business solution, Bachner says. "Agribusiness is not B2B yet, but it's coming."
Nevertheless, whether they insource or outsource, agricultural companies will increasingly seek IT expertise to automate sales and accounting functions and to manipulate and interpret competitive data. "Look to the livestock feed industry and grain elevation sector to trigger the growth of IT jobs," Bachner predicts. He says those segments are being driven by demand for nutritional packages that require sophisticated coding and analysis and automated inventory systems, which will be key thrusts in grain elevation.
You can also expect increased demand for IT people with Windows OS skills among high profile multi-nationals that currently place many agricultural engineers fresh out of top schools like the University of California at Davis. "Our graduates will find work at companies like Monsanto and Archer Daniels & Midland," says UC Davis professor Dick Plant, noting that entry-level engineers are expected to be fluent in Windows NT/98/95, relating to the platform as an end user rather than a system administrator.
Consolidation represents another trend impacting IT employment in this $200 billion industry. Cargill, the largest grain buyer in the US, recently bought the second largest buyer, Continental Grain Co. Today, the merged company offers roughly 85,000 employees in 60 countries a hefty portfolio of IT career opportunities in its far-ranging operations as an international marketer, processor and distributor of agricultural, food, financial and industrial products and services. A few recently advertised Windows-related jobs include senior technical analyst with expert knowledge of Windows, UNIX and Oracle; storage networking analyst familiar with NT and NetWare file server; and client support for second and third tier development and support for PC hardware and MS-centered software. A critical attribute requested for this latter position is the ability to evaluate and plan Cargill's migration to Windows 2000 in their grain division.
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If you're anxiously awaiting the return of Comedy Central's South Park, we have a snippet of the upcoming season premiere/return, which is titled "Ass Burgers."
South Park returns for the second half if its fifteenth season this Wednesday night (October 5th) at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Proving that nothing is off limits on this series, once again, it appears South Park will present a sensitive subject in a way that some will find funny, while others may find offensive. Whether or not viewers find it funny likely depends on their ability to laugh at inappropriate humor. Given the series' continued success, I suspect there are a lot of us out there who fit that description.
When the series resumes, Cartman may be battling Ass Burgers syndrome, which he may be confusing with Asperger's Syndrome. Is Asperger's (or any type of autism) a laughing matter? For those who deal with it, no, probably not, but when has that stopped South Park from poking fun at something? Glee seems to have beat South Park to the punch on this one, with their recently added character who has "self-diagnosed Asperger's," which she uses as an excuse to be rude to people.
Cartman has a hamburger in his buns? I'm pretty sure that's not a symptom of Aspergers, but "Ass Burgers" on the other hand... that makes sense.
If you're a fan of Matt Stone and Trey Parker's work, check out our preview for the upcoming documentary 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park, which airs on Comedy Central next Sunday. And tune into MTVu (or MTVu.com) tomorrow at noon (EST) to see Parker and Stone's episode of Stand-In.


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In the digital world, DVI (digital video interface) is a digital interface often employed in connecting a video source to a display unit, for example, a computer screen. In a move to shift from the analog to digital transfer of data, DVI was developed as the industry common set standard for transferring digital visual data.
The video technology optimizes the picture quality from the current video graphic cards and LCD screens. Due to their video quality, it is very rare nowadays to find a video card with no DVI ports. For a brief period, the home entertainment industry employed the DVI connections in the high-end TVs (HDTV), DVD players and satellites.
Currently, DVI format is more common in the computer world and the home theater resolving to HDMI use.
Different DVI formats
There are three types of digital interface connections;
DVI-D (digital)
The format employs a direct link between the data source and the display unit. The best example here is the relationship between a desktop computer and the LCD screen. The connection is made via a digital cable and no digital to analog conversion takes place. The data transmission is, therefore, faster and maintains its high quality.
DVI-A (Analog)
The digital format interfaces DVI signal source to an analog display format for example to a cathode ray tube screen. Unlike DVI-D, there is a deviation in the signal quality on account of the digital-analog conversion. The most common use of the format is through the VGA ports.
DVI-I (Integrated)
This format uses DVI-integrated cables which can handle the two types of data transmission; analog to analog or digital to digital transportation. DVI-I cable is hence used in more cases due to their dual transmission capability.
It is wise to note that DVI-A and DVI-D cables can not be used to replace the other without an appropriate converter first.
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Both DVI-D and DVI-I have a single link and dual link connectors. The DVI cables transmit data using the TMDS (meaning transition minimized differential signaling) technology.
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- NTNU JAVA Virtual Physics Laboratory – Includes English and Chinese languages
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- Virtual Physics Labs – At Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). It's a link directory to other educational physics sites
- The Interactive Library – This EdInformatics.com site is a list of links to interactive physics sites. Some Java applets are standalone and some come with lesson plans and notes
- Physics Classroom
- FearOfPhysics.com
- Physics Applets – From the University of Oregon
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I have been searching for a vintage farm table for what seems like the longest time. I've been from thrift store to thrift store, yard sale to yard sale and have come up with nothing.
Then, something spectacular happened. As I'm driving by an old used appliance store, sitting outside is a thing of beauty. It's a table. And not just any table. It's a table to be admired, enjoyed and bring a family together every evening.
After some haggling with the appliance guy, we got him to come down from $300 to $60. Yes, you read me right. The guy kept going on like it was some table from the 1700s…um I think not. I'm not easily deceived. More like from 1970. Could be older, but no way is this from the 1700s.
Well, without further ado, here's my masterpiece:
It's rough in some spots, but it adds to the charm don't you think? I'm already working on the table, and can't wait to show you an after reveal. So any guesses as to how old you think this is? And don't tell me it's not a farm table, because I'm pretending it is. Ignorance is bliss!
See my organic grocery "haul" from this week here.
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by the Left Coast Rebel
Are we supposed to care a whit that the holier-than-thou, pampered bourgeoisie in Hollywood are signing off of Twitter (for what, a day?) to make a statement for World AIDS day on November 30 and raise $1 million for the Keep a Child Alive charity? They make it sound like it's a big deal that they will have to survive without Twitter for a day.
Oh, the humanity!
If only our lives were so tough these days.
Here's a picture of an advertisement showing Kim Kardashian dead and in a coffin, for the event:
Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Usher will quit social networking sites, including Twitter to raise money for the charity as well.
Back to Kim Kardashian. At least she's beautiful.
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PRINCE George couldn't help but show off his cheeky side by picking his nose and giggling with the bridesmaids as he arrived at Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's Royal wedding.
As part of the bridal party, being a pageboy, Prince George was dressed in an angelic sailor-type outfit designed by Amaia Arrieta of Amaia Kids.
But even though he looked all cute and innocent, he couldn't help but show off his naughty character.
Before walking up the aisle with seven-year-old Savannah Philips and his sister, Princess Charlotte, five-year-old George was spotted messing about as Savannah pretended to play the trumpet.
Giggling with Savannah, George then got a bout of the fidgets before he was spotted picking his nose.
Viewers found this hilarious and Twitter was flooded with memes and posts about the heir to the throne.
This is the third time this year that Prince George has been a pageboy and the lucky young royal managed to also get a day off school to fulfil his special role.
Clearly excited to be part of the celebrations George looked comfortable and relaxed as he arrived at St George's Chapel, despite 850 guests watching him and the bridesmaids walk up the aisle.
Other members of the bridal party included Isla Phillips, Mia Tindall and Robbie Williams' daughter Theodora.
Prince George's cousin and classmate at St Thomas' Battersea, Maud Windsor, was also a flower girl.
Earlier this year Prince George was a pageboy for his uncle, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle's wedding where he was spotted mindlessly chatting as he walked up the aisle.
He then was also seen playing toy soldiers when he was part of the bridal party for the wedding of Sophie Carter and Robert Snuggs, close friends of Kate, at St Andrew's Episcopal Church in Letheringsett, Norfolk.
Back in 2017 George was also a pageboy for his aunt Pippa Middleton's wedding to James Matthews.
Once again George got into trouble and was told off by Mum, Kate for being too noisy before they entered the church.
Princess Charlotte, on the other hand, melted hearts of all royal fans once again as she waved to the crowds on arrival.
The three-year-old cutie was also very close to taking a tumble as she walked up the St George's Chapel steps as the wind nearly toppled her over.
Thankfully she managed to make it into the church without a bump, after having a helping hand from her nanny.
For more on the Royal wedding click here.
In even more Royal Wedding news, this is how Princess Eugenie's title will change when she marries Jack Brooksbank.
And this is why Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's wedding guests can't use the loo after 10am... and more things they're banned from doing.


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Windows 7 multi-touch: does it "just work"?
Funny movie showing Windows 7 and its multi-touch capabilities.
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Funny movie showing Windows 7 and its multi-touch capabilities.
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Go to www.mtvmusic.com and enjoy the best videos transmitted by MTV.
Sorry for this flash post, but I'm watching videos :-D
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ZDNet publishes a really interesting article comparing Apple and Microsoft from a economical point of view: is Apple becoming as big as Microsoft?
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Live form PDC, the embargo is over and first screenshots of Windows 7 are you. Check this sites:
(More links coming as PDC goes on)
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I hope you are knowing that next week Microsoft is presenting new things at PDC. The main thing that will be presented is Windows 7, and this is the real reason you should follow what will happen in Los Angeles.
To follow it live the right links are:
Check their sites out and you can discover what is the next big thing form Redmond.
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Imagine the infamous "I am a Mac" advertisement with the products in place of the silly Apple's actors. Imagine a fight on features instead than on myths.
If you are able to imagine this it means that your reality distortion field is weak today, so you may also know who is going to win and who is going to lose.
Samsung made a clever series of advertisement for its Instinct. Have a look and tell me what are you wanting right now.
Sorry Tcid, next time you have to let me play more with your iPhone… while playing I wasn't looking at defects of the iPhone. And don't forget to install some extra games and take a stronger battery or a longer power cord. I and Swanz can't stand too many hours of boredom while we are at lessons.
Thanks to FolBlog for the post about this ads.
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To celebrate a university course where I should learn to do Linux system programming in C I'd like to tell the world what really UNIX is.
I'm not going to write down anything, someone did it years ago but since UNIX is old, terribly old, I don't think someone is going to experience something better than the hell is described in the book. :-D
The good thing of the book is that has also some bad words for C programming language, so I didn't had to look for another book telling how crappy is C. By the way I don't mean that if you want search you are going to find nothing. Just try and tell me what you found.
If you are a UNIX fan and you think that what is written in the book isn't true you just have to add a comment.
If you are a UNIX fan that wants to help me even if I'm a bad boy you should tell me a small (I mean really small) Linux distribution to run in a virtual machine. Your help would be really appreciated.
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Today just a link, but I think you should spend few minutes to look at it. I'd never thought that a laptop could ever have been so useful!
Are you still thinking that laptops aren't useful?
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Sorry, this post is in Italian...
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Some days ago I posted the announcement of the myRadio development. Now the program finally reached a good level of functionality (At least it works on my machine) and I packed it the first jar of the project.
Even if it is far away form perfection, especially in the user interface, I think that you should give it a chance and report the feature you want, the bugs you find (I hope you aren't going to find too much bugs) or other suggestion to the sourceforge tracker of myRadio.
With myRadio you can enjoy creating your favorite radio, mashing-up the radio program you like with the podcast item downloaded by myRadio. I'm doing it and I can assure you that, using last.fm or a shuffled library for the soundtrack, you're going to forget what a old-style radio is.
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I've just found this video and I've found it astonishing.
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Happened in 1994:
In 1994 was also released the first version of Netscape, since Google Chrome revamped world interest on browser war I'm going to dedicate the first episode of Computer History to it, one of the main characters of the original browser war.
Before the .com bubble, the first browser war, and the web as we know it
After Netscape died his code was taken by Mozilla Foundation to develop Firefox, but this is another story, you are going to know more when we are writing one of the next computer history stories.
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Tupelo Honey has a bright and unique floral burst with a distinctive anise flavor that dissolves easily on the tongue, and has a very pleasing finish.
Years of experience and good beekeeping skills are required to produce great Tupelo Honey. This raw unfiltered honey originates in the many rivers, lakes and wetlands in the middle section of the Florida panhandle. The Apalachicola, Ochlocknee, Choctahatchee, and Chipola river basins, which run from North to South in Gulf County, contain some of the highest concentrations of tupelo trees in the world.


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I've been captivated by this video of Hans Rosling, a professor of global health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, singing the praises of the washing machine.
Who knew that the humble washer had such far-reaching influence on society? For while people concerned with the state of the environment would willingly give up their cars (or at least use them less often), who among us would surrender her washing machine for a tub and washboard?
Next time I do the laundry (which should be this afternoon) I'll do it with pride and respect.
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Hey, I just came back after a bit of a hiatus, and have found that I pretty much HAD to turn on my work laptop and use internet exploder to post. The textbox where I am entering this text right here, is not working on Firefox. I can type text, but there's no "cursor" so I can't go back to edit, or anything like that. If I press enter (say to end a paragraph), the whole block of text just shifts down.
Is this a known issue? When will it be fixed? Please be considerate of us Linux users by always testing changes in FF as well. 😀


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After a season-long watch, discussion, ranking and reporting, we are very honoured to announce our three worthy winners: Justin Almeida in B.C., Jaret Anderson-Dolan in Alberta, and Brandon Saigeon in Ontario.
These three exceptional hockey players play in North Vancouver, Calgary and Hamilton, and they all bring different strengths to their teams, but the one thing that made them stand out above all others is their character. All the finalists in all three regions were top notch hockey players and good people. Our selection team had many discussions and debates when it got down to finally judging. In fact, it took longer than ever to come to a decision due to the need to talk to people on the players' teams and those who know these guys the best to help make the right call.
As many of you know, HockeyNow has named a Minor Hockey Player of the year in B.C. since 2000. The list of winners include Stanley Cup winners, Memorial Cup winners, provincial champions, NCAA scholarship winners, first round NHL picks and beyond. It's an impressive list. One of the common threads of all the winners has always been character.
Over two years, we worked towards enhancing and improving the selection process. We created a selection team of world class people and scouts that know hockey players and can analyze character and what a good hockey person is. We endeavoured to make the process transparent and very in depth. Launching the award in Alberta and Ontario and adding Dave Babych as our Chair as well as Dennis MacInnis and his team at ISS have been an incredible part of the evolution of the Minor Hockey Player of the Year award. A huge thank you to the whole selection team. And of course, congratulations to all the finalists and the three winners.
It will be fun to watch these three men progress in their hockey careers over the coming years. Make sure you check in regularly to our events page at hockeynow.ca, we will be updating it with news on our winners and in September we will begin the process of selecting next year's winners.
We hope you enjoy our first print instalment of HockeyNow: Crave. We know that the vast majority of our print and online readers are hockey players or family members of players and we all buy gear.
Rather than create another product guide that is full of tech specs and interviews with product managers—not that stuff like that isn't neat for hockey dorks like me—we wanted to have first person experiential takes on gear.
After this issue, we will continue to get reviews and tips from players—including men's league, prospects, pros and formers pros—about their favourite equipment, why they choose it and how it helps them play great hockey. No matter what level of hockey we play, we all need equipment that works for us and is comfortable to use.
Last month, we at HockeyNow tested out some Bauer sticks, skates and gloves for an online HockeyNow: Crave feature. It was a lot of fun trying out the latest and greatest and then giving our take on why we liked certain pieces and why it helped our "game" (low division men's hockey!).
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Beef Stew and DumplingsFrom npgale 11 years ago
- Stew shopping list
- Half a kilo of stewing beef or any cut you prefer chopped into 1 inch cubes shopping list
- 2 or 3 onions Chopped roughly shopping list
- 3 carrots sliced (not to thin) shopping list
- 1 medium sized swede (chopped) shopping list
- 1 fennel bulb (chopped) shopping list
- 1 Small pumpkin (skinned and chopped) shopping list
- 4 Sticks of celery (de stringed and sliced) shopping list
- 4 Meduim to large old potoatos (chopped) or 10 new potatos cut in half. shopping list
- 4 Minature marrows (sliced) shopping list
- 250 grams button mushrooms left whole shopping list
- Half a cup of red lentils shopping list
- Half a cup of pearl barley shopping list
- Good pinch of salt and pepper shopping list
- 2 tablespoons of dried herbs shopping list
- 1 vegetable stock cube shopping list
- 1 beef stock cube shopping list
- gravy thickening granuals shopping list
- Enough water to just cover the stew ingredients for cooking shopping list
- Dumplings shopping list
- 6oz of self raising flour shopping list
- 3oz of vegetarian suet or beef suet shopping list
- Good pinch of salt and pepper. You can add herbs if you wish but use sparingly. shopping list
How to make it
- Stew
- Place all the Vegetables, stock cubes, seasoning and beef into a pressure cooker
- Place on the lid and bring to full pressure (as per manufactures instructions) and allow to cook for 5 minutes.
- Dumplings
- Blend the flour suet and seasoning in a bowl.
- Gently add enough water to make to a firm dough.
- Devide into meduim sized balls and leave to rest whilst the stew is cooking.
- Stew
- When 5 minutes cooking time is reached depressurise the cooker as per the manufactures instructions.
- Return the cooker back to a reduced heat and add the dumpling balls, gently pushing them under the gravy in the pot.
- Place the lid loosely back on the pressure cooker and leave to simmer for 20 mins.
- When the dumplings are cooked remove themplace in a bowl and keep warm.
- Add thickening gravy granules to the stew and stir until the mixture is thickened and the granuales have dissolved completely.
- Put the dumplings on a plate and serve the stew with them .
- Eat with big chunks of fresh bread.
- Great meal for Autumn and Winter to ward off the chills.
- You can omitt the beef and beef stock cube but add another vegtable stock cube and a squeeze of tomato puree to make this a vegetarian dish.
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Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 9 (ANI): Seems like Justin Bieber and Haley Baldwin are all set to take their relationship a step forward.
The 24-year-old singer and the 21-year-old model got engaged recently during a trip to the Bahamas, according to TMZ.
A source, speaking on the same, told People magazine, "It's kind of a surprise, but kind of not. Justin has been extremely happy these past few weeks."
Adding, "He has known Hailey for a long time. This might seem sudden, but they know each other very well."
Meanwhile, Stephen Baldwin, father of Halley, congratulated the two and tweeted, "Sweet smile on my face! me&wife (Kennya) Always pray 4 Gods will !! He is moving in the hearts of JB&HB Let's all pray for His will to be done Love you 2 so much !!! #Godstiming #bestisyettocome Congrats @JeremyBieber @pattiemallette #PraiseJesus."
Speaking on the proposal, a source told E! Online, "Justin made arrangements for the ring when they were in NYC and knew that he wanted to propose to her. It was a sudden decision but Justin always knew Hailey and him had a special bond that was incomparable."
"The proposal was a very happy moment and Hailey was taken off guard," the source added. "Her face was in shock but you could tell they are both so in love."
The couple first sparked romance rumours three years ago and had been linked together on and off since then. (ANI)
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Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 9 (ANI): Seems like Justin Bieber and Haley Baldwin are all set to take their relationship a step forward.


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Why stop at just military aid? Our monthly welfare checks to that Apartheid nightmare should also cease. And all of those lucrative Pentagon contracts and DHS funds that either buys military equipment from Israel or sends our police chiefs there for hate training should be cancelled.
And all those 501 c dummy tax free fronts that shovel hundreds of millions each year to Apartheid Israel that is used to expand illegal West Bank settlements should have their tax free status revoked.
The American 5th Fleet that keeps close by in the Mediterranean to guard Apartheid Israel should return home.
And all of those 'training' depots that stash billions of dollars of US weapons in Israel in case the US needs them, but are actually used by Israel when attacking Gaza and Lebanon should be closed and their inventories shipped back home.
All of those anti-missile batteries operated, funded and staffed by the Pentagon in Apartheid Israel should be rolled up and shipped back home.
All of the past money we 'loaned' to that state of hate, that always get written off the books and turned into grants should be immediately called on for payment.
But that would require American politicians who have an actual spine and whose first allegiance is to America and not some SLC. Good luck finding those. As for the rest?
You'll find some of them slinking back home, after spending part of their Congressional break in Israel.
The gawdly 'Christian' Zionists that start braying like a pack of rabid donkeys can just move to their favorite Apartheid state, Israel. Just let them know ahead of time they won't be able to buy any land in Apartheid Israel, since they're not Jews.
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Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland continues to rake it fat stacks of cash, so it's only natural that the film's screenwriter Linda Woolverton would once again team with Disney. This time, the classic tale is that of Sleeping Beauty, or rather, the 1959 animated Sleeping Beauty's villain, the evil queen Maleficent. The plan is to make a live-action adaptation where the Sleeping Beauty story would be told from Maleficent's perspective. Heat Vision explains that it would be "offering a new take on a classic tale as she did with Lewis Carrol's Alice." I take that to mean the original tale is good where as her new take would be bad.
As much as I ragged on Burton's creative stagnation in my review, I feel that the larger culprit was Woolverton's script and crafting Alice as a borderline inert protagonist who's shepherded by various characters for stakes she doesn't even think are real for most of the movie. Granted, Woolverton also wrote better Disney films like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. And if in doubt on this project, she can look over to Wicked, which is also a classic tale told from the villain's perspective.
As for whether Tim Burton will reunite with Woolverton, Heat Vision confirms Aint It Cool's report from January that it's one of the projects the director is circling.
For more details on the character Maleficent, hit the jump.
Here's the character's bio from the Disney Archives:
The evil fairy Maleficent is responsible for all misfortune that befalls Stefan's kingdom; even the merest killing frost bears her mark. So when only the good fairies are invited to bestow gifts upon the newborn princess Aurora, the slighted sorceress arrives in a thunderclap to bestow her own "gift." "Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die." For 16 years, the Forbidden Mountains thunder with wrath and frustration as the meddling good fairies keep Aurora hidden from Maleficent's searching minions. Beyond a matter of honor, this has become a matter of ego. Her pride, her evil will not be denied. So Maleficent sends her beloved raven to search for Aurora. Just as the curse is about to expire, Maleficent finds her quarry and strikes. Savoring her victory over the weeping good fairies, she gloats, "You poor simple fools, thinking you could defeat me, me! The mistress of all evil." But Maleficent had best not underestimate her virtuous adversaries. Before the day is done, she'll have to assume her most fearsome guise, as a fire-breathing dragon, to defend all she's won.


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Like many people who get into Silverlight, I quickly caught the bug and enjoyed this technology that allowed me to create robust business applications in the client relatively quickly. With a few months under my belt I then started looking into different development patters and grabbed ahold of the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) design pattern… I shared my experience of how I learned MVVM here.
Over the last year I spent some time talking about leveraging Silverlight and MVVM with SharePoint 2010 at a few user groups & did a webinar on it that you can watch on YouTube. One thing that surprised me was that many folks in these sessions were under the impression you couldn't use MVVM with SharePoint. It seemed the CSOM or OData/REST piece of the puzzle was confusing to some. Of course you can!
The next few posts are going to talk about a few things related to SharePoint, MVVM and SharePoint. In here I'll talk about a few different challenges I ran into and some techniques I've adopted. I'll use this post as the table of contents for all those posts. One thing to keep note of is that most of the topics discussed here are not SharePoint related at all… they are mostly Silverlight & the MVVM design pattern. I'm simply using SharePoint as my app host, deployment vehicle & the thing that holds my data (which is exposed via the SharePoint client side object model (CSOM) or an OData service).
Throughout this series I'll refer to a reference implementation (RI) I've got that you can grab from my company site, www.CriticalPathTraining.com. Just navigate to the Members section & login (create a free login if you don't already have one) and look in the code samples for the AC's SharePoint+Silverlight+MVVM Sample Product Browser download. I plan to keep updating it with new stuff.
By the way, these days there's a lot of noise about the future of Silverlight and Microsoft's stance and how HTML5 plays a role going forward. I addressed this in a previous post. For now I'm just going to stick with the technology discussion.
So here we go… here are the posts in this little series on Silverlight, MVVM and SharePoint 2010:
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - About this Series…
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - How I do MVVM
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - My favorite MVVM toolkit - MVVM Light Toolkit
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - Working with Commands
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - Working with Messages
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - Working with Dialogs
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - Testing the Business Logic
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - Testing the User Interface
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint - Using Data Services


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Here at 420 Skatestore we're now stocking bigger and better skateboard brands online and in our stores!
These include hardware and clothing from Stance, Sour, Isle and Alltimers!
Here's an introduction about each below…
Spitfire Wheels was started back in 1988 under the umbrella of Deluxe Distribution, and over the years has grown into skateboardings #1 wheel brand. The original bighead logo was created by Kevin Ancell and to this day remains one of skateboardings most iconic logos. Spitfire offers the largest selections of wheel sizes and durometers for any and all varieties of terrain.
420 is thrilled to stock a wide range of Spitfire skateboard wheels.
Stance was founded in 2009 by Jeff Kearl, John Wilson, Aaron Hennings, Ryan Kingman and Taylor Shupe. The original founders saw an opportunity to address a category of fashion they felt had been overlooked by many brands and the majority of the industry. The company first began shipping product in 2010, and has since shipped over 15 million pairs of socks.
420 has a huge range of Stance socks, including their popular Star Wars range.
Isle was created in 2013 by Brits Nick Jensen and Paul Shier. These friends joined up to form an experimental skate/art collective.
420 now has a range of Isle decks and clothing.
An American brand (New York) perhaps best known for their quirky shaped decks and popular culture references.
420 now has a range of Alltimers decks and clothing.
Originally out of Scandinavia Sour Skateboards is now based in Barcelona. Boasting a range of first-class hardware and streetwear as well as a formidable team of riders.
420 now has a range of Sour decks and clothing.
* See our sister skate store Wallride UK for further new arrivals and products including Crooks & Castles clothing and Reason.
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Meanwhile, AnandTech has already performed a variety of benchmark tests on the Nexus 4 – but also on the Nexus 10 – and today we're going to focus on battery life. According to the publication, the Nexus 4 isn't apparently ready to offer great battery life, despite being an LTE-less handset. That's certainly interesting considering that Google cited battery efficiency among the main reasons for not including 4G LTE support in its latest Nexus, while downplaying the fact that its relationship with carriers is actually the one to blame for this decision.
We regularly load web pages at a fixed interval until the battery dies (all displays are calibrated to 200 nits as always). The differences between this test and our previous one boil down to the amount of network activity and CPU load.Other factors, such as "aggressive browser caching," baseband idle state and CPU workload were also taken into consideration when performing the test:
We also increased CPU workload along two vectors: we decreased pause time between web page loads and we shifted to full desktop web pages, some of which are very js heavy. The end result is a CPU usage profile that mimics constant, heavy usage beyond just web browsing. Everything you do on your smartphone ends up causing CPU usage peaks – opening applications, navigating around the OS and of course using apps themselves. Our 5th generation web browsing battery life test should map well to more types of smartphone usage, not just idle content consumption of data from web pages.The battery tests were done on "multiple air interfaces" using 3G, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi, and all Android tests were performed using the Chrome browser and 5GHz Wi-Fi "unless otherwise listed."
The results? The Nexus 4 can offer from 4.18 to 6.27 hours of web browsing over 3G and Wi-Fi, respectively. The device was outperformed by its most important Android competitors, including the HTC One X, the Samsung Galaxy S3 or the new Motorola RAZRs but also by iOS devices, with the iPhone 5 topping the tests at 8.19 and 10.27 hours of browsing over 4G LTE and Wi-Fi, respectively.
As always we test across multiple air interfaces (3G, 4G LTE, WiFi), but due to the increased network load we actually find that on a given process technology we see an increase in battery life on faster network connections. The why is quite simple to understand: the faster a page is able to fully render, the quicker all components can drive down to their idle power states.It is also worth pointing out that certain early Nexus 4 reviews out there are saying that Nexus 4 battery life is quite healthy (The Verge), while others seem to disagree (Engadget).
Naturally, we'll see more Nexus 4 tests once the handset comes out, at which point we'll be able to better determine its power efficiency.


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My thanks to Ned Nikolov, who has sent me a paper by Richard Lindzen, recently retired professor of Meorology at MIT. This work is of prime importance to those interested in the issues surrounding the development of science in society, and the outcome in climate science. Names are named, and some dirty washing hung out to air.
Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?
Richard Lindzen 2012 www.euresisjournal.org
For a variety of inter-related cultural, organizational, and political reasons, progress in climate science and the actual solution of scientific problems in this field have moved at a much slower rate than would normally be possible. Not all these factors are unique to climate science, but the heavy influence of politics has served to amplify the role of the other factors. By cultural factors, I primarily refer to the change in the scientific paradigm from a dialectic opposition between theory and observation to an emphasis on simulation and observational programs. The latter serves to almost eliminate the dialectical focus of the former. Whereas the former had the potential for convergence, the latter is much less effective. The institutional factor has many components. One is the inordinate growth of administration in universities and the consequent increase in importance of grant overhead. This leads to an emphasis on large programs that never end. Another is the hierarchical nature of formal scientific organizations whereby a small executive council can speak on behalf of thousands of scientists as well as govern the distribution of 'carrots and sticks' whereby reputations are made and broken. The above factors are all amplified by the need for government funding. When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research. This paper will deal with the origin of the cultural changes and with specific examples of the operation and interaction of these factors. In particular, we will show how political bodies act to control scientific institutions, how scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate politically correct positions, and how opposition to these positions is disposed of.
1. Introduction
Although the focus of this paper is on climate science, some of the problems pertain to
science more generally. Science has traditionally been held to involve the creative opposition
of theory and observation wherein each tests the other in such a manner as to converge on
a better understanding of the natural world. Success was rewarded by recognition, though
the degree of recognition was weighted according to both the practical consequences of
the success and the philosophical and aesthetic power of the success. As science undertook
more ambitious problems, and the cost and scale of operations increased, the need for funds
undoubtedly shifted emphasis to practical relevance though numerous examples from the
past assured a strong base level of confidence in the utility of science. Moreover, the many
success stories established science as a source of authority and integrity. Thus, almost all
modern movements claimed scientific foundations for their aims. Early on, this fostered a
profound misuse of science, since science is primarily a successful mode of inquiry rather
than a source of authority.
Until the post World War II period, little in the way of structure existed for the formal support
of science by government (at least in the US which is where my own observations are most
relevant). In the aftermath of the Second World War, the major contributions of science to
the war effort (radar, the A-bomb), to health (penicillin), etc. were evident. Vannevar Bush
[1] noted the many practical roles that validated the importance of science to the nation,
and argued that the government need only adequately support basic science in order for
further benefits to emerge. The scientific community felt this paradigm to be an entirely
appropriate response by a grateful nation. The next 20 years witnessed truly impressive
scientific productivity which firmly established the United States as the creative center
of the scientific world. The Bush paradigm seemed amply justified1. However, something
changed in the late 60's. In a variety of fields it has been suggested that the rate of new
discoveries and achievements slowed appreciably (despite increasing publications)2, and it is
being suggested that either the Bush paradigm ceased to be valid or that it may never have
been valid in the first place. I believe that the former is correct. What then happened in the
1960's to produce this change?
A personal memoir from Al Grable sent to Sherwood Idso in 1993 is interesting in this regard. Grable served as a Department of Agriculture observer to the National Research Council's National Climate Board. Such observers are generally posted by agencies to boards that they are funding. In any event, Grable describes a motion presented at a Board meeting in 1980 by Walter Orr Roberts, the director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and by Joseph Smagorinsky, director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton, to censure Sherwood Idso for criticizing climate models with high sensitivities due to water vapor feedbacks (in the models), because of their inadequate handling of cooling due to surface evaporation. A member of that board, Sylvan Wittwer, noted that it was not the role of such boards to censure specific scientific positions since the appropriate procedure would be to let science decide in the fullness of time, and the matter was dropped. In point of fact, there is evidence that models do significantly understate the increase of evaporative cooling with temperature [3]. Moreover, this memoir makes clear that the water vapor feedback was considered central to the whole global warming issue from the very beginning.
Data that challenges the hypothesis are simply changed. In some instances, data that was thought to support the hypothesis is found not to, and is then changed. The changes are sometimes quite blatant, but more often are somewhat more subtle. The crucial point is that geophysical data is almost always at least somewhat uncertain, and methodological errors are constantly being discovered. Bias can be introduced by simply considering only those errors that change answers in the desired direction. The desired direction in the case of climate is to bring the data into agreement with models, even though the models have displayed minimal skill in explaining or predicting climate. Model projections, it should be recalled, are the basis for our greenhouse concerns.
That corrections to climate data should be called for, is not at all surprising, but that such corrections should always be in the 'needed' direction is exceedingly unlikely. Although the situation suggests overt dishonesty, it is entirely possible, in today's scientific environment, that many scientists feel that it is the role of science to vindicate the greenhouse paradigm for climate change as well as the credibility of models. Comparisons of models with data are, for example, referred to as model validation studies rather than model tests.


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Have you ever wanted to know God's will and plan for your life and truly experience it? As I read Ephesians 3:16-21 today, it became very clear to me that I was reading our Heavenly Father's perfect will for every one of His children. The Apostle Paul said in verse 14, "When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I bow my head and pray," and then inspired by the Holy Spirit He prayed that you and I would really come to know and believe the love of Christ and be filled with the fullness of God. Besides John 10:10, Ephesians 3:20 is the only other place in the whole Bible where the Greek word that describes the abundant life that Jesus came to give us is found. It is in this passage of Scripture we discover that it is in receiving a revelation of His love that God is able to bring to pass His plan for us and do superabundantly far over and above all that we dare ask or think- infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desire, thoughts, hopes or dreams. This is the life Jesus came for us all to live. This is what our Heavenly Father dreamed for us all along.
In today's lesson I share how when I asked the Father, "How do I receive a revelation of your love? How do I learn to live loved by you and truly experience this abundant life?" He responded with three simple words, "Ask, Listen, Respond."
Jesus said, "Ask and keep on asking and you will receive (Luke 11:9)." Wow! My whole life began to change when I simply began to ask, "Lord, show me the truth that will set me free." Give me a revelation of your amazing love for me." How simple is that? Just ask!
Do you desire a deeper revelation of your Heavenly Father's love? Do you really want to experience the superabundant life He has planned for you? Begin today asking Him to show you the truth of His great love. Listen as He begins to reveal to you who you truly are in Jesus. Respond by thanking Him for what He has done for you. Your life will never be the same!