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Inside my apartment suite at the Institute, Rad leaned against my chest of drawers, his face a storm cloud. "So you're drinking from the bastard directly now?"
How many times were we going to have this conversation? His tone rubbed like sandpaper and I didn't want to fight. Fight we would though. Being a blood slave to a Master vamp was my worst nightmare, even if Dru and I were friends, but it was also the least of my worries at the moment.
"Direct from the source is the most satisfying. You know that." I stalked over to him, flipped him around so his hands were on the wall and withdrew the silver dagger he kept hidden at the small of his back. Scoring my wrist, I tossed the dagger aside and slipped between him and the wall, lifting my bleeding wrist to his mouth. "Drink, slave."
His aura flashed with need, a hot, pulsing sensation that engulfed me and started a throb between my legs. Pressing me against the wall, he kissed my lips thoroughly, parting them and teasing me with his tongue. I returned the ardent kiss and encircled one of his legs with mine.
He sucked on my wrist next, gently tormenting the edges of the wound with his tongue and lapping at the blood. His talented fingers had no trouble de-robing me. One hand toyed with my breasts, the other slid up and down my inner thigh, building a terrible, wonderful craving between my legs.
I arched into him, slamming my hips against his and feeling the bite of his belt buckle into my bare skin. His mouth left my wrist and he lifted me, carrying me to the bed. I'd just unzipped his pants when a sharp knock sounded on the apartment door.
"Kali? What's taking so long? Everyone's waiting."
Yasmin. I searched the floor for the dagger I'd tossed away. "It hasn't even been five minutes," I added bitch under my breath. "I'm getting cleaned up."
"It's been twenty minutes. Get your ass in gear." Slut, she said under her breath, just loud enough for me to hear.
Time had slipped away from me. Always did when I was with Rad.
He chuckled softly as I gave Yasmin the middle finger and the front of his very full jeans a disappointed look. "I am going to kill her one of these days."
"We could leave. Get out of town for a while. Fly out to Hollywood early for the awards ceremony."
"What ceremony?"
He frowned. "The People's Choice Awards. Remember? I told you the Chaos Demons had been nominated for a couple of awards."
Oops. "Sorry, I forgot. Awards ceremonies are not on the top of my list right now. You know I can't leave town."
He was pissed, but he helped me off the bed, slapped one of my ass cheeks as I headed for the bathroom. "At least Yasmin's honest about hating you."
Change of subject. Definitely pissed.
I stopped in the doorway and grabbed my chest, doing my best Maddy gesture while trying to lighten the mood. "Yasmin hates me?"
"I know your job comes first, I just wish you could take a vacation." He motioned at my hair. "Probably need to brush that."
"I need a shower and three days of uninterrupted sleep, but neither is going to happen. I'd kill for a vacation. That's not happening either." Avoiding the mirror over the bathroom sink, I washed off my wrist, which was already healing and snagged my hairbrush, attacking the tangled mess the same way I attacked everything else in life.
The simple act of straightening and smoothing the hairs into a ponytail calmed me. I snapped a hair band around the base and got dressed. Rad watched me with his golden eyes. His aura was contained, the emotions forced down behind a wall. He was still thinking about Dru and stewing about it.
I sat on the bed next to him, tugging on a pair of thigh-high boots with a bevy of weapons hidden in their silver hardware. "Jealous much, demon?"
My tone was light and teasing, but his response was all heat and desire. His gaze dropped to my feet, then traveled up my legs, lingering on the juncture between my thighs before continuing its slow perusal upward. One of his fingers traced the top of my cleavage now held up by a leather bustier. My nipples tingled, the pulsing sensation returning to my lower body. His fingers trailed up behind my ponytail, latching onto my neck, and his lips stopped just short of mine.
They grazed my cheek, trailed down to my neck. His low words vibrated against my skin. "The vampire's blood may give you sustenance, but I'm the only male who will ever satisfy you, demon."
My head spun, my nipples puckered. I licked my lips, thinking about all the ways Rad could satisfy me. A shudder ran through my body and his magic gripped me like a vise.
Rad lifted his face to look me in the eye. Sex magic snapped between us, but there was more. Much more. "Tu me comprends, mon couer?"
Did I understand? That I was his heart? His only love? The one and only thing that could damn him to hell?
"Mais oui," I answered in French the way I had two-hundred and eighty plus years ago. "I understand."


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Last week the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a British think tank, released a startling chart comparing the current slump with past recessions and recoveries. It turns out that by one important measure — changes in real G.D.P. since the
Nor is Britain unique. Italy is also doing worse than it did in the 1930s — and with
And it's a failure, in particular, of the austerity doctrine that has dominated elite policy discussion both in Europe and, to a large extent, in the
O.K., about those caveats: On one side, British unemployment was much higher in the 1930s than it is now, because the British economy was depressed — mainly thanks to an ill-advised return to the gold standard — even before the Depression struck. On the other side, Britain had a notably mild Depression compared with the United States.
Even so, surpassing the track record of the 1930s shouldn't be a tough challenge. Haven't we learned a lot about economic management over the last 80 years? Yes, we have — but in Britain and elsewhere, the policy elite decided to throw that hard-won knowledge out the window, and rely on ideologically convenient wishful thinking instead.Continue reading the main story
Britain, in particular, was supposed to be a showcase for "expansionary austerity," the notion that instead of increasing government spending to fight recessions, you should slash spending instead — and that this would lead to faster economic growth. "Those who argue that dealing with our deficit and promoting growth are somehow alternatives are wrong," declared
How could the economy thrive when unemployment was already high, and government policies were directly reducing employment even further? Confidence! "I firmly believe," declared
Such invocations of the confidence fairy were never plausible; researchers at the International Monetary Fund and elsewhere quickly debunked the supposed evidence that spending cuts create jobs. Yet influential people on both sides of the Atlantic heaped praise on the prophets of austerity, Mr. Cameron in particular, because the doctrine of expansionary austerity dovetailed with their ideological agendas.
Thus in October 2010 David Broder, who virtually embodied conventional wisdom, praised Mr. Cameron for his boldness, and in particular for "brushing aside the warnings of economists that the sudden, severe medicine could cut short Britain's economic recovery and throw the nation back into recession." He then called on
Strange to say, however, those warnings from economists proved all too accurate. And we're quite fortunate that Mr. Obama did not, in fact, do a Cameron.
Which is not to say that all is well with U.S. policy. True, the federal government has avoided all-out austerity. But state and local governments, which must run more or less balanced budgets, have slashed spending and employment as federal aid runs out — and this has been a major drag on the overall economy. Without those spending cuts, we might already have been on the road to self-sustaining growth; as it is, recovery still hangs in the balance.
And we may get tipped in the wrong direction by Continental Europe, where austerity policies are having the same effect as in Britain, with many signs pointing to recession this year.
The infuriating thing about this tragedy is that it was completely unnecessary. Half a century ago, any economist — or for that matter any undergraduate who had read


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Originally Posted by Malohs
I finished with Ledgend status and didnt recieve ledgend Chest it kicked me down to hero about 12 hrs after end of time and gave me crap gear I worked vry hard and spent ALOT of cash money to have my status changed and be given lesser item. This is no longer worth playing this game if you arent going to award the prize you earned.
Your "issue" has been discussed in this thread:
I say "issue" with quotation marks because what happened to you is not a bug, it's how Arena has always worked.
You probably noticed that every day you were falling down from Legend to Hero (I guess). It's the same on the last day, before they send the rewards.
The ranks aren't updated in real time, they're updated once every day.
However the way this works should be stated way more clearly somewhere in-game because there are several people who are disappointed like at the end of the Arena every year simply because they didn't understand how the rank updates work.
Edit: Just realized you posted your meesage in the thread I linked. Idk how this "blog" thing works...


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TV3 will shun IFTA Award coverage
The embarrassing row over the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) sunk even further today with TV3 set to boycott the event.
The station has already decided not to put forward any nominees to this year's IFTAs and will also offer no coverage of the event.
The hit show Xpose is set to be issued with a firm order from management not to cover the event which was launched in Dublin.
Hailed as the Irish Oscars, the bash at the Burlington Hotel on Saturday, February 14 is one of the glitziest events on the showbiz calender, with the guest list reading like a 'who's who' of the Irish media and entertainment world.
TV3 has decided not to put forward nominees as they feel it's unfairly biased against them, given that they haven't won anything in the past five years.
As proof of their conviction, a photoshoot with the Xpose team was organised at the same time as an IFTA press launch in the Shelbourne this morning.
A show insider said TV3 doesn't want to cover to an event that they feel is weighted in RTE's favour.


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Essential Film Directors, Russell Mulcahy
A Lifetime television movie, Prayers for Bobby is a tragic and heartfelt story directed by Australian director Russell Mulcahy. As part of a conservative Christian family, a young man named Bobby does his best to follow his church's teachings, and especially the teachings of his devout Christian mother, Mary Griffith, played by Sigourney Weaver.
Bobby soon discovers that he might actually be gay. Distraught with feelings of discomfort and indoctrinated shame, he shares his secret with his brother Ed. The Griffith family soon comes to terms with Bobby's homosexuality, with the exception of his mother. Mary Griffith believes his "sin" of homosexuality may be cured by the church, and urges her son to participate in as many church activities as possible. Not wanting to disappoint his mother, Bobby agrees, yet he is soon conflicted by the church's unacceptance of homosexuality, deeming it impure and shameful. Bobby ultimately falls into depression, which only comes to an end with his suicide.
Russell Mulcahy is an openly gay Australian film and music video director, who first made a name for himself in the early 1980's. After moving to the UK in the late 1970's, Mulcahy began directing music videos for several popular British acts, including Elton John, Duran Duran, and The Rolling Stones. In 1981, Mulcahy became a household name when his video for The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" premiered as the very first music video to ever appear on MTV.
While working with the music industry, Mulcahy also embraced opportunities to direct feature films, working alongside big name stars like Sylvester Stallone, Denzel Washington, Sean Connery, and Christopher Lambert.
Throughout the 1990's, Russell Mulcahy continued working in film and music videos, while also taking on opportunities to direct television series and direct-to-DVD projects. Mulcahy still actively directs and lives in Sydney with his partner.
Beginning with 1981's debut music video on MTV, "Video Killed the Radio Star," Russell Mulcahy became one of the premier music video directors of the 1980's. The director worked with some of the biggest talents of the decade, including multiple videos for Duran Duran, Bonnie Tyler, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Billy Joel, Culture Club, The Rolling Stones, and an astounding 20 music videos with Sir Elton John.
In film, Mulcahy is most famous for his Highlander series, starring Christopher Lambert. The cult classic made way for new opportunities, including Ricochet, Blue Ice, The Real McCoy, and Resurrection. Mulcahy was also tapped to direct part of the Rambo series, but backed out due to creative differences.
The director has also experienced much success in television, directing popular series such as Tales from the Crypt, Skin, and Teen Wolf.


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Samsung Mobiles recently introduced two new GSM mobile phones here – the Samsung Galaxy S (I9000) and Samsung Wave (S8500).
There are lot of features that are common between Wave and Galaxy S. For instance, both are powered by a 1GH processor (ARM Cortex A8), they have a 5 megapixel still camera and both support 720p HD video recording and playback.
There're however some major differences as well. Samsung Galaxy S has a 4" screen while Wave is smaller with has a 3.3" display. Wave has a built-in Flash which is missing in Galaxy.
Samsung Galaxy S is powered by Google's Android OS (it runs 2.1 Éclair version though the latest is 2.2 or Froyo) while Wave runs on BADA, Samsung's own OS for mobile phones. Therefore you'll have a wider selection of app for Galaxy as every app available in the Android Marketplace should ideally run on that phone.
The prices difference is huge. You can have a Samsung Wave for around 17k while the Android powered Galaxy S is around 28k in India.
Considering that some tech experts, who have reviewed the Galaxy S in detail, find it a worth alternative to the iPhone, it may be something worth exploring.


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SUBJECTS: Labor funding for Townsville Super Stadium; Labor's plans for Townsville; Labor's positive plans for education; Liberal Party's division and dysfunction; Labor's united team; Labor's 100 positive policies
KATHY O'TOOLE, CANDIDATE FOR HERBERT: Labor truly cares about the North and Labor truly cares about Herbert and can I say today we have proven beyond doubt in the Townsville Bulletin that federal governments do fund stadiums. And our $100 million commitment to the stadium will match that of the State Government and when I am elected on 2 July, all going well, we will have our stadium, but I would now like to hand over to Tanya Plibersek.
TANYA PLIBERSEK, DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION: Well, thanks so much, Kathy. It's so great to be in Herbert with you and all of the campaign team. I can see you've got a great number of volunteers out here happy to celebrate the launch of your campaign. We're so proud to have Kathy O'Toole as our Labor candidate for Herbert because even before being elected to parliament, Kathy has delivered for this community. She's already got a commitment from Labor for $100 million towards the Townsville Stadium. We are committed to that stadium because we know that there is immediate growth and jobs from the construction, but that this stadium will make a big difference to the future of Townsville over the long-term, too. Kathy has also been working on water policy and secured a $4 million investment for a better plan for water. I've seen myself how dry things are around here, much drier than last time I wa s in town, and Kathy has been working hard with Labor on that $4 million commitment for a water plant. But of course the thing that we've been working very hard on right across the country is investment in education. If Labor is elected on 2 July, schools in Herbert are better off to the tune of $48 million over the first two years alone. The two years of Gonski funding means a $48 million difference for schools in Herbert. Now, it's really exciting to be here, we've got a lot of people waiting to launch this campaign, so I might just take two very quick questions.
JOURNALIST: First of all, Peter Dutton has suggested that Labor candidates are giving messages of hope to asylum seekers because they are publicly showing they are unhappy with Labor's boat turn back policy. Does your party have a problem with discipline, Tanya Plibersek?
PLIBERSEK: Well not at all. We've got a very clear policy. And if you're interested in discipline, you've got Sophie Mirabella, the candidate for Indi, today saying that Liberal Party headquarters is leaking against her. You've got Tony Abbott, the former prime minister who is running a presidential-style campaign, haunting Malcolm Turnbull. You've got today's backflip on the backpacker tax, a 6-month delay. You've got a Prime Minister who says we need a backpacker tax, a Treasurer who says we need a backpacker tax, a Deputy Prime Minister who says we don't and an Assistant Treasurer who says we will delay it for six months. They are absolutely all over the place on a policy that was in their budget just two weeks ago. You've got breakouts all over the place of the Liberal Party on climate change; you've got climate change deniers. You've got candidates that are so em barrassing for Malcolm Turnbull that he won't even stand up with them. He wouldn't stand up with the candidate for Fremantle a couple of days ago, and last week he cancelled a shopping centre walk with one of his Western Sydney MPs because she wouldn't back him as Prime Minister. And it is extraordinary. Two and a half years of division and dysfunction from the Liberals and the Nationals in Canberra and they are trying to point the finger at us? I don't think so. We're a strong and united team with 100 clear and positive policies for the future, all of them laid out for people to have a look at, all of them costed.
JOURNALIST: If Labor is elected on July 2nd, will you be lobbying your state counterparts to add more money to the super stadium commitment. Townsville Enterprise has says said the state does need to contribute more money than they already have to get this project off the ground?
PLIBERSEK: Well look, it is certainly a project that we believe needs to go ahead. Our commitment is for $100 million, and that's a very substantial commitment from the Federal Government. It is, of course, up to the State Government and to other interests to make sure that the stadium can go ahead. I heard Ewan Jones today saying that Federal Governments don't invest in stadiums and so it should be all up to the State Government. We don't think that at all. We think this needs to be a joint project, but it needs to be delivered for the people of Townsville.
JOURNALIST: Aren't you concerned about the $50 million funding gap though for just the stadium alone?
PLIBERSEK: I'm sure this project will go ahead, with a commitment from the State Government, a commitment from the Federal Government for the bulk of the funding, I'm sure we'll find a way to make sure this stadium gets built. Now thanks very much, we've got a party to go to.


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A few weeks ago, discussions emerged among BMW owners of a faulty oil pump issue that could lead to catastrophic engine failure, without warning, in the 2013 BMW M5 and M6, including both Coupe and Convertible. Today, that issue has become a recall.
The official NHTSA notice explains the problem:
"Due to a manufacturing process error, the tolerance between the engine oil pump's drive shaft and the pump's rotor was not within specification. As a result, the pump's driveshaft could separate from the rotor."
The result of that separation would be a sudden loss of oil pressure, potentially leading to complete engine failure, and thereby increasing the risk of a crash--not to mention a very expensive engine replacement.
The recall affects only vehicles manufactured between July 19 and September 11, 2012. BMW will soon be notifying owners of the issue this month, and will offer free replacement of the oil pump.
If you own one of the affected cars, you should not drive it at all until it has been serviced. There may be no warning before the engine is irreparably damaged. Owners can contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236, or go to the NHTSA's SaferCar website for more information.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority
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We are very grateful to the Fullworks team for everything that has been achieved on our behalf with our New Zealand branch operations. Our dealings have always been a pleasure, the service level very accommodating and varied. The arrangement for an outsourced branch has been a great solution and service to our company for operating seasonally and in another country.
Fullworks International have been incredibly helpful to us getting our new subsidiary business in New Zealand up and running. They have been a constant source of information and advice and have significantly reduced our establishment time cost and risk. All of the Fullworks team have shown an ongoing commitment to our business and all our requirements. We consider we were very fortunate to have found them when we did. Our sincere thanks to Bob and the entire team at Fullworks.
We have been dealing with Fullworks International for many years in New Zealand. Thanks to Bob and his staff, our business has grown and maintained a high level of sales for our company. The service offered by Fullworks is a seemless replica whereby our customers would believe they are dealing directly with Kluwell Publications. Due to Fullworks' extensive global network, our company has now expanded into the UK
In 2005 we decided to expand into the New Zealand market, our products are part of an extremely competitive market and Fullworks International offered us a cost effective option to expand without compromising the viability of our Australian business. Fullworks have been an integral part of our success in the New Zealand market, by using many of the services offered by Fullworks no additional personnel were required in our Australian office to manage the New Zealand expansion. For companies that are looking to expand into the New Zealand market or wanting to outsource operations I have no hesitation in recommending Bob and his team at Fullworks International.
Hamish, Bob and the team at Fullworks have seamlessly allowed our small business to expand into New Zealand in a way that we would not have otherwise been able to do, at least not in a cost effective way. Fullworks acts as our businesses virtual office in NZ to the point where our customers barely (if at all) notice their not dealing with us direct. Fullworks have been able to handle perishable goods, from an import perspective, management of a small inventory and timely despatch onto our clients all around NZ. This was one of our original short falls in trying to deal with NZ clients from Australia, our aquaculture hatcheries need their feeds yesterday!
A big thanks to the team at Fullworks, we would (and do) recommend them to any prospective clients.
A big thanks to the team at Fullworks, we would (and do) recommend them to any prospective clients.


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Hola chief!
Congrats to the first Hispanic Chief in the history of the Boston Fire Department. I'm sure this guy will do a great job. You have to wonder though….how many guys that have been serving in Boston their entire careers are absolutely pissed they got passed over for some dude from Florida.
Hey…it's still better than being a cop right?


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I have a dom0 machine running
CentOS 5.4 with all the latest updates using Xen as my hypervisor. I am using Xen in part because this machine was set up prior to KVM being included in RHEL, and in part because KVM's network bridging configuration is not nearly as simple as Xen's. The dom0 machine is headless and I do all of my VM management via
virsh from the command line. I have two hvm domU's:
- A web server running CentOS 5.4
- A mail server running Gentoo
Both VM's are backed by LV's on the dom0 but do not use LVM in the domU. Both have virtually identical libvirt configurations (differing by expected things like name, UUID, NIC MAC, VNC port, etc).
The web server domU (WSdomU hereafter) does not start since applying the most recent kernel update (
kernel-xen-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.x86_64 and
kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.x86_64 for the dom0 and WSdomU respectively). By 'not start' I mean it appears to be running but it does not use an CPU cycles, does not bring up a graphical console, and does not respond on the network. The WSdomU is listed as no state rather than the normal running or blocked in
xentop. The mail server domU starts fine and functions normally.
Here are the steps I have taken so far that did not solve the problem:
- Reboot the dom0 to see if things come up on their own
- Attempted to connect to the WSdomU's graphical (VNC) console from the dom0
- Check
xen dmesgon dom0
- Check
xendlogs (a cursory viewing did not show anything blatant; specific suggestions of things to look for would be appreciated)
- Shutdown the mail server domU and attempt to start the WSdomU
- Use
kpartxto access the partitions of the domU
- Tried switching grub to use the previous kernel
- Check the SELinux labels on backing LV's (they're the same)
- Set SELinux to
permissiveand attempt to start the WSdomU
- Use
virsh editto try tweaking the WSdomU config
virsh undefine, reboot,
virsh definethe WSdomU config
- Use
fdiskon the LV to ensure it has the correct partition layout
ddthe WSdomU LV to an .img file, copy it to my Fedora desktop and run it under KVM (works fine)
ddthe .img file to a new LV and create a new libvirt config xml (fails to start)
Sample config used to attempt a reconfiguration:
<domain type='xen'>
<boot dev='hd'/>
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='xenbr0'/>
<script path='vif-bridge'/>
<disk type='block'>
<source dev='/dev/mapper/SystemsVG-Webserver'/>
<target dev='hda'/>
<graphics type='vnc' />
What steps should I take next to debug this?
I will edit in any additional configuration's requested in the comments.


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Houston, TX - Joe Paterno, the 46 year veteran coach from Penn State, left this world last Sunday. It was a shock to those outside the family. People knew the coach was ill, but his demise was not expected this soon.
Papa Joe was assaulted in the media by righteous bastards with high sounding words about "moral duties." People felt Paterno owed more to the alleged juvenile victims of a sexual assault. Those very same people did not give so much as a nod to the fact that Paterno followed policy to the letter. Apparently the rules don't matter to them.
The cowardly trustees of Penn State University, hiding behind secret meetings and looking for scapegoats to throw under the bus fired the beloved coach. Just in case further proof was needed that none of these people have any measurable back bone what so ever, they fired him with a phone call. Not one of these trustees are worthy of the title.
Joe was sick at the end of his career. Fighting a lethal disease like cancer requires a strong will to live. You cannot help but wonder how much of Paterno's will was sapped by the unwarranted personal attacks on him. Having the remainder of what was to be his last season snatched away from him in the name of lining up sacrificial lambs almost certainly did not help that will.
Rest well Papa, you more then earned it.
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
- Joe Paterno


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Not sure why what you connect to the switch contacts of the relay should interfere with the usb opration, unless they stupidly connected the Common of the USB section of the pcb to one of teh switch contacts of the relays??? Gnerally a relay should provide decent isolation.
Finally, the secret to getting this device to work.
Although it took me a week of frustration, knowing a few simple facts is all it takes.
I will be providing a tutorial that simplifies how to transmit data to a serve, sens sms msgs and make calls later, but for now, here's how to get connected to a Tmobile network in a minute of two.
I am using TMobile as my carrier. A Prepaid SIM
The ONE most important thing is using the proper antenna. TMobile uses 1900Mhz band in US. DO NOT use a cellular antenna designed for 850-900Mhz. It will not work, unless maybe you have climbed a cell tower and placed it next to its antenna.
Use an antenna designed for 1900Mhz. This is critical.
The second thing is to set your device to the right frequency band.
Use the AT+SBAND=7 command.
Once set, this setting will remain until you change it, even if you remove power from the device.
With proper antenna connected and band set, recycle power to your device.
Wait a bit and you will eventually see the infamous +SIND: 11 response indicating that you are sucessfully connected to your network.
After this, the rest is easy!
Good luck.
More to follow...
can you tell me how you set up your device for a Tmobile SIm.
HAving no luck getting the device regeistered to the network. Freq band is set right.
Have you gotten this to work in the US on T-Mobile? If so, what settings do you use.?
Purchased 3 SM5100B boards and two of the dev boards.
I am able to talk to the SM5100B but cannot get it to authenticate with a good T-mobile SIM card to the network.
Yes, I have a good antenna, a good power supply etc.
I am in the US and have the Frequency set for GSM 850.
T-Mobile says that perhaps these devices are "blacklisted" for their network.
Has anyone been able to get these to connect to T-Mobile in the US? If so, what are the settings I need to do this.
No public wish lists :(


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The birthday giveaway is still going strong! Click here to enter one of SEVEN awesome prizes. And be sure to stop by my sponsors' shops for great deals on early holiday shopping: you get a great deal and support other women entrepreneurs.
Chalk this quick little post up to impulse shopping at it's finest. Sheesh.
I was walking through Wal*Mart yesterday on my way to the toilet paper isle when this $2.24 wonder practically blinded me from cosmetics.
Wow, that's bright.
I am so, so not a make-up person — a minimalists at heart who skips make-up all together most days. But for some reason, the freakishly-bright-Halloween-hey-why-not mood came over me and into my cart it went. And while the kids where down for naps and I was supposed to be folding laundry had free time, I started playing around on my otherwise un-prepped and un-plucked eyes.
The result?
A little something I like to call The Candy Corn Cat Eye
What do you think? Kicky or creep?
Obviously I'm no 16-year-old YouTube make-up tutorial wiz, but for some reason I really enjoyed brushing wide strokes of garish color all over my eyelids with reckless abandon.
And stepping outside my everyday routine makes me want to do other wild and crazy things today … like take my hair out of a clip, wax my upper lip and get some bangs-ha!
Or maybe go someplace special with my all-dolled-up-self … like Target.
Ah, the power of make-up.
So what are you doing for Halloween?
Do you dress up?
Do you do fun little things like wear funky socks, play with your make-up or drag out the black polish?
Linking up to:
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All teens, regardless of their gender/sex identity, worry about the same
things: grades, making friends, dating, getting into college. But LGBTQ
teens face an extra set of stressors that most straight teens do not.
- Being outed – Having someone identify your sex/gender identity before you're ready.
I first came out to my dad, sister, and two really close friends. One of those friends decided to tell pretty much everyone on our baseball team because, in his words, he wanted to warn them. I was really mad at him. My teammates started acting kind of weird around me, they stopped inviting me places, and things like that. It was my senior year of high school so I decided to just stick with it. I stoppedbeing friends with the guy who outed me after that.
It is NEVER okay to out someone without his/her permission.
- Rejection by family and friends
In "Growing Up LGBT in America"—a 2012 survey among more than ten thousand LGBT youth ages thirteen to seventeen—the teens were asked to describe the most important problem facing their lives."Non-accepting families" ranked number one, with 26 percent of the respondents. When they were asked to describe one thing in their lives they would like to change, 15 percent said "my parent/family situation." For those teens—particularly those who are not out to their family—they often fear how their family will react, knowing they are homo-/bi-/transphobic or swayed by their religion that condemns homosexuality. Still, given the fear of rejection and the disappointment they may well cause their family, more than half of the teens surveyed said they are out to their immediate family, about half said they have an adult in the family they could turn to for help, but less than a third chose their family among a list of places where they most often hear positive messages about being LGBT.
When families reject their LGBT children (even if unintended), they may try to change their child's sexual orientation or gender identity, assume it's just a "phase," or prevent them from having LGBT riends. The results? Suicide attempts. High levels of depression. Using illegal drugs. High risk for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.
• Physical Safety at School and Beyond —LGBT youth are twice as likely as their peers to say they have been physically assaulted, kicked, or shoved at school. More than one third say they don't come out at school because they will be treated differently or judged. "Growing Up LGBT in America" supported the fact that growing up lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender can be a rough ride with all kinds of challenges. When asked what the most difficult problem they were facing in their lives "these days," 21 percent said "trouble at school/ bullying." (Interestingly, 22 percent of non-LGBT youth listed "trouble with classes/exams/grades.) The report found that 51 percent of LGBT youth are twice as likely as their peers to say they have been physically assaulted, kicked, or shoved at school, verbally harassed and called names at school. That number compares to 25 percent of non-LGBT students.
Despite these statistics, a healthy 75 percent of LGBT teens say that most of their peers don't have a problem with their gender identity.
• Harassment & Abuse
August's Story—Nineteen-year-old August, who identifies as a non-binary transgender, was sexually abused at school from the time she was ten until age twelve. She doesn't remember much from that time: "Probably a survival mechanism. I felt like a robot. I figured my abuser would either leave or that I'd go to another school." August didn't know the word rape, didn't even hear the word until a year after the abuse began. To this day, she is deeply upset that the school withheld information because the teachers and administrators didn't want to upset the students or add to their own discomfort.
A Happy Ending:
August is now involved in a youth program for LGBTQ teens. It's the first time she's been around "queers" her age and heard them talking about abuse, self abuse, gender. It has, she says, affected her mental health in a very positive way. "I am not alone."
- Homelessness—It's easy to jump to the conclusion that because somewhere between 20 and 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT, they must be delinquents who cause tremendous discord at home or who are running from the law or unable to abide by rules set by their parents. Not true. The majority of homeless LGBT youth are what David Bond, vice president of Programs, The Trevor Project, labeled "refugees or asylum seekers" who are escaping really bad conditions at home or have been rejected, often kicked out. According to one study, 26 percent of gay teens were kicked out of their homes when they came out to their parents. Their only way to "survive" has been to choose the worst of two evils: fend for themselves or stay in a toxic, often dangerous situation.
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So, uh, that lucky dog Arun Nayar got married to Elizabeth Hurley last week in England and again this week in India.
And what lovely events they turned out to be; so lovely in fact that even Hugh Grant who had nothing better to do since splitting up with Jemima Khan didn't show up. The fact that Hughie didn't show up was almost as newsworthy as the wedding itself. Heh. (Go Hugh!)
Now, what was I talking about... Oh!
Here's the ring, finally. Remember when we last spoke about her she didn't have an engagment ring yet, was allergic to her intended's entire country and wasn't washing her hands?
Well, she's got one now and it's real purty.
It's a 15.09-carat Asscher-cut diamond set in white gold with a pavé band. According to British Vogue the ring,
"...was bought by the couple from the "Haute Joallerie" collection at Chopard's Bond Street store. Elizabeth's close friend Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, who is also the creative director and co-president of Chopard, designed the engagement ring especially for the occasion. The jewellers also created the bride's wedding band - 20 square-cut 3.91 carat diamonds also set in white gold."
Okay. Two things.
1. Bought by the couple from Chopard? No. I think not. Liz Hurley is a hired shill for Chopard. She is forever seen wearing Chopard everything. Earrings, watches, necklaces, rings. Tiaras. Especially tiaras if she can get her mitts on them.
2. Twenty square-cut 3.91-carat diamonds set in white gold for a wedding band? Must be a typo. Her finger would have to be the girth of my wrist to handle twenty nearly 4-carat diamonds in band form. I think that's 3.91 carats total carat weight.
I hope you're all as thrilled as I am that this affair gave her the opportunity to dress up like a "pretty, pretty princess" (thank you, Bingley) and have many, many wardrobe changes over the course of eight or ten days.
As well it allowed her to drag her already spooky-looking-and-not-ironically-named-Damian kid, expose him to more flashbulbs all, I suppose, in the name of family.
Ugh, poor kid... with a mother like that and an absent sperm-donor priapistic billionaire for a father?
And now a new stepfather who says their life on the farm in Gloucestershire is rather idyllic:
"I'll take Damian out on the tractor while Elizabeth cooks. It's a bit like the Waltons."
Right... Just like that. Can you hear it now? I can.
Damian: G'night Mummy.
Elizabeast: Damian, have you seen Mummy's ring?
Damian: Oh, no, Mummy. What ring?
Elizabitch: Mummy's shiny, shiny ring from her wedding.
Damian: The ring you wore at the wedding that lasted for six thousand ten million months and years?
Elizzardbreath: Yes, Damian, sweet Little Lord Fauntleroy, that one, where Mummy wore the tiara on nights 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7.
Damian: The big knuckle-buster ring you wore at the wedding where they sacrificed the goat and Shilpa Shetty danced until she puked and some weird ladies painted me with mustard paste and Uncle Hugh didn't come because he has some sense?
Eslatternly: Yeeeeees, that one. Have you seen my pretty, pretty ring?
Damian: Uhhh... nope. And neither has Paddington.
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I do not think this INDIAN ODI team is strong.
Except sewag , no one is good in raising RUNRATE in above 6 per over.
Especially in slog overs , we should be scoring 10 runs an OVER but current Indian batting line up in slog overs can come up with only 6 per Over. Average.
Also i do think PARTHIV patel is unfit for ODI team. He is in the team because of INDIAN cricket politics. This kind of bad selection is the one really killing indian team. Like picking rohan Gavaskar because of GAVASKAR pressure.
I am looking in Kapil DEV level Big Hitting Big All rounder. Is indians are still eating vegetables? Why there is a lack of powerful all rounders in indian team?.
if you remove Dravid, this indian team is bunch of chokers especially in big occasion.
They got humiliated badly in World Cup and VB series. Still playing with same choker players? why ? why there is no change to adjust for Aussie Team?.
Indian TEST team can rival Aussie Test Team. Not in One Day.
In One Day International Srilanka is above India even with jayasuriya's bad batting form.
I bet India will lose to srilanka today. Then you will listen to me.
Here is my new modified Batting line up.
-need BIG Hitting wicket Keeper (not parthiv patel kid - not strong enough) or Super BIG HITTING all rounder.
Zaheer khan or Nehra.
Can you please list 5 best All rounders / 5 best wicket keepers and their current records in domestic cricket
Lets see who really deserves by talent not by geography or Blood connection.
Counter argument welcome.
(note : i have n't forgot tendulkar, he is not that good in big occasion until he proves otherwise. He is yet to win the world cup for India or any cup on his own shoulders.He is a great batsman on his day(?) but not in lara level )


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Working with Words and the 3-Period-Lesson
Besides doing Montessori I'm also using a few workbooks with Ella which are grade-specific. Usually she enjoys doing them and it means that I can compare what she is able to do with what the public curriculum expects.
What she is learning in Montessori I supplement with the workbooks and what she is learning in the workbooks I supplement with Montessori. Here is an example of the latter.
The workbooks have been going over nouns and verbs. I have not yet got the material for grammar through Montessori (though I plan to), but I did make up a couple hundred word cards that she could use to make sentences.
I used cardstock in three colours. The nouns are on red paper, the verbs are on yellow, and what we are currently calling "helping words" are on blue. I have told her that there are a lot of different kinds of "helping words" and they have names, just like verbs and nouns do, but for right now we're just focusing on the verbs and the nouns.
To present the material I began laying out all the nouns that were the names of places. I asked her to explain what was the same about these words. Didn't take her long. Then I began to lay out nouns that referred to people or were people's names and asked her to say what she thought they had in common. Finally I laid out all of the words that identified objects and again got her to point out what was similar about them all.
"All of these words are called nouns," I explained. "Nouns name either a person, a place, or an object."
We repeated the lesson with verbs and talked about how verbs were an action or what someone or something is.
Then we began to make sentences. Very soon she knew how to use the cards and made longer and longer sentences, sometimes making them rather complex.
Although I had made all the verbs to be present, third person, singular she found that too confining and began to use the word that came after a verb to cover up the superfluous "s."
During our second lesson using the word cards Ella learned the difference between subject and object. For this I used the 3-period-lesson. If you're not familiar with the 3-period-lesson here it is in simple form:
First Period: Tell the child what he or she is touching/experiencing. E.g. This is the subject. In a sentence the subject is what does the action. This is the object. In a sentence the object is what receives the action done by the subject. The key to the first period is keeping it simple and to-the-point. With a younger child, such as my sons, I would endeavour to use as few words as possible and keep the emphasis on the word I am trying to get them to learn. So, when I am presenting the colour red from the first set of colour tablets, I lay the tablet on the table in front of the boy I'm working with and say, "This is red. Red."
Second Period: Get the child to indicate the correct object when you ask. E.g. Where is the subject? Show me the object. With my boys I'd ask, "Where is red?" or "Which is red?" (if I had already presented more than one colour. If the child has difficulty then you go back and repeat the first period lesson again.
Third Period: For this you want the child to do the explaining and to use the correct vocabulary without prompting. E.g. I would point to the subject and ask "What is this?" or "What part of the sentence is this?" Then Ella would answer "It's the subject. The subject is what's doing the action." With the very young you are simply trying to teach them to identify, they can learn to explain later. So I would ask, "What is this?" or "What colour is this?" Henry is my talker and he will usually answer verbally, "Wed!" Or, sometimes, "'Ellow!" and then I have to correct him. Eli may or may not answer and after giving him a chance I will give him the answer, "It's red!"
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In this article I will go over in detail everything I do when doing keyword research with google keyword planner. Some people say keyword research should begin even before building a website. I tend to agree but this is of course not a set rule, every website can be optimized but there are some advantages in getting a domain which is already powerful and has keywords you may wish to rank for in it. Anyway that's a bit more involved than I'm going to get into right here.
So the first thing to do would be find the most prominent searches for keywords your going for. For this we would pick the most obvious keywords and begin looking at search volumes. I pick 4 or 5 keywords which are obvious when I think about what to rank the site for. By taking these 4 or 5 and looking at how much volume is searched monthly in google (get search volume and trends) you may be surprised at which searches have the most volume, or you may confirm what you already know.
The next thing I like to do is search each of these terms in Google and look at the bottom of the serps page for the similar searches. This is a goldmine for long tail searches. If a term shows up here we also know that it has some search volume. So for the original 4-5 terms I then get long tail variations for each of those by looking at the related searches. All the while I am putting these into a file for using in a bit. I can further research by looking at how much competition there is for each of these. When I click the related search what types of websites are showing up? If there are lots of high power websites I know that probably isn't the keyword I want to focus on with a new website.
I also like to use search modifiers like inanchor:"keyword" or intitle:"keyword" you can also put a + between them and look at the results. At the top of the page when you do these searches look at the # of results. If there are millions of websites with backlinks with the same keyword showing up in the inanchor search, this will mean high competition. The same goes for intitle searches, this means people are regularly building pages specifically targeting that search. You are nearly always going to have lots of websites with the anchor or title text for any higher volume searches, but there are plenty lower volume searches that are ignored. What we are looking for is search volumes between 100-1000 with low competition, but what we hope to find in this process is one of those gems with a couple thousand searches and no competition.
So we have an ever growing list, and now we're ready to… wait we're going to make the list we have much larger? Yep. So the next step is putting the list of keywords we have expanded into the keyword planner (search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category), but not all at once. What we want is the list to multiply numerous times so we'll put each term into the planner and download the results. we put the downloaded files into a folder for compiling in just a bit. We will create a batch file, by creating a file with the extention .bat and holding the text"copy *.csv importfile.csv". We save it into the folder which holds all of our downloaded data from Google and when we click it will create one single file for us to work in.
See my newer post about a browser extention named Keywords Everywhere to see search volumes and related keywords right in Google.
Now that we have a list of thousands of terms we can filter out to see those terms with some search volume, and look at the cost per click to see which may have less competition but may convert well. I like to try to combine 2 keywords when possible. Just as an example say "best florist delivery" gets 400 searches and "florist delivery fast" gets 250 searches. I will create the page to target "best florist delivery fast" and therefore actually be optimized for both.
There are some tricks I like to do such as, creating a column which can show the characters in the keyword column. I can then order it by that column and find longer tail searches which will have the higher search volumes with a quick visual scan of the document. I can quickly find long tail keywords with enough search volumes to create a website around. With a website targeting 10 long tail searches with 200 clicks per month it is easy to rank pretty quickly and and a great starting point for building up the traffic in that niche.


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Zemřel otec gore filmu Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Za Francii bude o Oscary bojovat rape-revenge thriller Paula Verhoevena Elle.
Novinka Martina Scorseseho Silence vstoupí do omezené distribuce ještě letos.
BBC zveřejnila názvy prvních dvou epizod 4. řady Sherlocka.
Mindy Kaling a Emma Thompson si spolu zahrají ve filmu.
Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) a Jessi Klein (Inside Amy Schumer) pracují na společném seriálu.
Připravuje se televizní antologie podle Hitchcocka.
"In her new stand-up, when Ms. Schumer says something happened to her, she wants you to believe it. She also doesn't play dumb. She speaks in a confident, savvy voice that doesn't sound that different than the one you might read in interviews with her."
Nové stand-up vystoupení Amy Schumer.
"The show is the darkest of comedies, funny in the way the twist of "Gone Girl" is funny — an examination of how marriage makes fools of all of us, when it doesn't entirely estrange us from ourselves."
HBO seriál Rozvod od autorky britského klenotu Catastrophe."
Shyamalan is back, baby, and the best he's been in decades."
M. N. Shyamalan se filmem Split zřejmě vrací do první ligy.
"Allen's first new writing for television in half a century feels more like a drip-fed feature film, in which 90 minutes of ideas are needlessly (and clumsily) spread across six half-hours."
První seriál Woodyho Allena Crisis in Six Scenes nedopadl moc slavně.
"Nocturnal Animals is trash – artful, glossy trash – and enjoyment will depend on one's appetite for junk."
"Quantum Break feels like the first action game taking real lessons from the Netflix binge-watch era, and in that respect, it's a surprising success."
Videoherně-seriálový experiment Quantum Break.
"There is no familiarity or gravitas. American Honey is too restless and impatient to establish anything and instead rides high on an obviously fabricated atmosphere."
Rozporuplně přijímaný film Andrey Arnold American Honey.
"At its playful best, the screenplay by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey sends up crime-movie clichés with a light touch, and Hess shows uncharacteristic restraint in letting those moments play out without reaching for punchlines."
Několikrát odložená komedie Jareda Hesse Zilionáři.
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"So the movie is about the rape, but it's also about how people live. I think I look at it in a critical way, or maybe in an amused way. But I don't ever look at the rape in an amused way. The rape is extremely harsh, direct, and violent. There's nothing comical about it!"
Paul Verhoeven v rozhovoru o Elle.
"Besides making a horror film, I wanted to make a science-fiction film. I wanted to make melodrama. I wanted to make camp. I wanted to make a comedy. I wanted to do everything that I was fetishizing about at that time when I was making the film and of course seeing it through the eyes of a young girl."
Nicolas Winding Refn si povídal s Jamesem Francem.
"Cable television caters to certain fairly conservative expectations of visual storytelling; movies produced outside the studio system present a superior arena for creative risk. Their audiences will always be smaller, but that may be enough."
Polemika s názorem Davida Lynche, podle kterého je kabelovka novou platformou pro artfilmy.
"But in sticking to the source material's ending (which is admittedly so iconic it would've been difficult to change), the movie betrays the more complex version of McMurphy that Nicholson has worked to create, even as it tries to justify the decision."
Komparace Přeletu nad kukaččím hnízdem s jeho knižní předlohou.
"Despite the hiring of a different cinematographer for almost every film, it achieves unity in a multiplicity of ways, including its setting in and around a single apartment block (…); the recurrence, in minor roles, of figures central to earlier films (…); a frequent use of mirrors to introduce characters; a foregrounding of certain colors, most frequently blue and green (…); a concern with adult-child relationships; a focus on faces and on where they become masks; and, to an incalculable extent, the continual presence of the musical personality of Zbigniew Preisner, who scored all the films. In its abstraction, his music may suggest an essence of the metaphysical."
Obsáhlá esej o Kieslowského Dekalogu.
"It's interesting to watch the Bridget Jones franchise withdraw from the game that it helped define fifteen years ago. "Bridget Jones's Baby" is aimed at women who have grown tired of all that subversion and commentary, particularly as it applies to their romantic narratives. Enough with the attempts to flip the gender script, as in Amy Schumer's "Trainwreck," and enough with the political story lines, like the abortion plot in Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child."
Čím je nová Bridget Jonesová konzervativnější než první díl.
"Looked at as an issue of workplace discrimination, then, the decision becomes one of best practices. Just like you wouldn't, and in fact can't, require a job candidate to reveal how old they are on a resume or application, mandating that age must remain on a subscriber-based professional database seems to run counter to labor laws."
Proč stojí za pozornost, že IMDb umožnilo odstranění věku hereček a herců.
"Sully is a rousing piece of entertainment, but the film's resonant and touching glory is that it's the celebration of a rock-solid '50s man who has grown taller than the world around him because he relies, in a tight spot, on nothing but himself and therefore — irony of ironies — now looks like an outlier. "Sully" has become the story of a countercultural hero."
Co Sully vypovídá o době, ve které žijeme?
"Their protagonists are treated far differently in the end: one is celebrated, the other wanted for prosecution or worse. But both films take their central dilemmas and the firestorm around them seriously, acting as pleas for greater consideration for those authoritative bodies."
A co má Sully společného se Snowdenem Olivera Stonea?
"There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema. And I felt like when it came to fighting in the movie that just made sense to certainly to go in that direction and stay away from gunfire and things like that."
Režisér Scott Derickson o své komiksové adaptaci Doctor Strange.
"Among the handful of 30-something exceptions, Blunt might have the widest range, from biting comedy (The Devil Wears Prada) to sexpot (Charlie Wilson's War) to ass-kicker (outshining Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow)."
Emily Blunt, Paula Hawkins a Dívka ve vlaku.
"Americans want heroes who succeed in spite of others, but in Britain, sometimes it's OK for those heroes to succeed because of others."
Jak se liší američtí a britští filmoví hrdinové.
"A je zajímavé, že Vláda přilákala Dány k obrazovkám, ale taky je inspirovala, aby diskutovali o problémech, které se jich bezprostředně týkají. Každou neděli se na něj dívalo skoro 1,7 milionu diváků, což je třetina obyvatel Dánska."
Překladatelka Helena Březinová o dánském seriálu Vláda.
"Under this system, even the earliest films of Charlie Chaplin, produced over a century ago, will be kept out of the public domain until 25 December 2047. Merry Christmas; many of us will be dead by then."
O (i)legalitě používání cizích filmových záběrů.
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After I recovered a bit, I was shown up to my room (The Maple) with a great view of the lake.
After a shower in my private bath, I took a nap. I woke to the smell of cooking from downstairs so I went to investigate. I had mentioned to Lynn in my earlier correspondence that I would probably order a pizza from town and have it delivered for dinner, but when I went into the kitchen I discovered that Ruby was making homemade pizza instead of having me order it from town. Home made pizza with fresh ingredients from their garden.. squash, zucchini, tomatoes plus some sausage and cheese... I was in heaven.
While waiting for dinner and relaxing in their very comfortable living area. The conversation is great and both Lynn and Ruby have been around and have some great life stories
I met Harry Potter.. their dog. He is so named because when you are not looking food disappears!
and as you can see, we became good friends
The beds are very comfortable and they have spent a lot of time and money fixing up the house to be very inviting.
Waking the next morning to a great sunrise. Early birds got treated to hot blueberry scones.
Breakfast was in the dinning area with fresh yogurt/granola/berries followed by blueberry pancakes made with blueberries picked from outside and turkey sausage.
After breakfast Lynn offered to drive me all the way back to Gooseberry Falls State Park and my car.
If you are going to visit Grand Marais, MN. Stay here! you will not be disappointed.
Pincushion Mountain
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All right It was a rainy day, where Myself and Fadh met up @ Tampines Mall for a quick lunch over at Food Culture. Go for the Chicken Rice.. Hmmm.. nt bad lah.. My cuzzie join us and off to Tampines 1 to crave for some desserts.We went to Fro Lick for some flavoured Yoghurt and had some laughs over there.
And It had come to an end, where Octo Jet Dishwasher been with us for all these while. They are bunch of nice fellas, who's been washing all the plates and cutleries all these time. And we have come to a decision, where we bought them a cake. May you guys work with happiness alwaes, in yr new environment. Thkx for yr contribution lots. Now with the Sri Lankans, We try our best to communicate ~ hehs =]
Now you see it ~
Now you don't
Brudder lurrrve ~
Wif yr Brudder. OMG.
Wif the Staffs.. Zeela.. Oops !!
Uncles & Aunties ~
Till we meet again >.<
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Editor's Note: We are publishing this letter at the request of the Associated Students of Lane Community College Student Government. The views and opinions expressed within do not necessarily reflect those of The Torch or its editorial board.)
We, the Associated Students of Lane Community College Student Government
(ASLCCSG), stand in solidarity with the Portland State University Student Union
(PSUSU) and their requests to Portland State University in response to the fatal
shooting of Jason Washington by two PSU campus police officers. The shooting
further fueled protests against a policy the school implemented in 2015 to arm part of
their campus safety force as sworn officers. Their requests are as follows:
"We, the Portland State University Student Union will be occupying the space
directly in front of the Campus Public Safety Office (CPSO) on PSU's campus at
633 SW Montgomery St. until;
1. PSU immediately disarms all of their campus public safety officers
2. PSU fires officers Shawn McKenzie and James Dewey, the two officers who
murdered Jason Washington
3. PSU creates a permanent memorial for Jason Washington, and allow this
process to be led by the Washington family"
Of the 17 shots fired by the two campus police officers, 9 struck Jason, and the
other 8 bullets flew down the street toward campus, demonstrating the use of
excessive force and the irresponsibility of the officers in this situation. The US
Department of Justice has released reports of investigations into police brutality in
cities across the country, including Portland, Oregon. These reports have shown
patterns of abuse and excessive force by police officers, particularly against people of color and people with disabilities. These communities deserve equal protections and
equitable support from those sworn to protect.
We, the ASLCC Student Government, believe it is in the best interest of
students to refrain from arming campus safety officers with lethal weapons. Feeling
safe on campus is an integral part of every student's ability to learn & the presence of
armed officers on campus can disproportionately affect the safety of students of
color, victims of gun violence, and students with disabilities. Students deserve an
inclusive and equitable campus where they can feel safe and supported so that they
may be successful in achieving their dreams.
As fellow Oregon student body representatives, and representatives of
students who may transfer to PSU, we stand in solidarity with PSUSU in doing what
they feel is best to support the safety and success of the students they represent. We
commend those leading the #DisarmPSU movement and all those taking part in the
occupation for the amount of organization & dedication that goes into standing up for
the best interest of students and demanding justice for victims of police brutality.
Our hearts go out to the family of Jason Washington and all those affected by this
tragic situation.
In Solidarity,
Keely Blyleven
ASLCC President
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Revised July 2013
While it appears that physicians are retiring later and many are phasing-in their retirements,1 eventually all members must face the decision of when and how best to retire.
It can be difficult for physicians to discuss their pending retirement with patients, especially patients they have treated for years. News that a favoured or long-time physician will be retiring is often difficult information for patients to receive. For this reason, it is important to provide as much notice as possible of a pending retirement to patients and their families.
Reasonable notice gives the patient time to adjust to the news and to seek out a new doctor. Given the demand for physicians across the country, patients are better served by a longer notification period. Effective ways to notify patients include a notification letter to each patient, a notice posted in the office, a voicemail message about the planned retirement, and even a notice in a local newspaper. Physicians with websites could also consider this communication vehicle.
When physicians close or transfer a practice, some patients may ask to have their medical records transferred. This should be done in a timely fashion. Physicians must obtain authorization from the patient before a copy of the medical record is transferred. In most jurisdictions, an appropriate and reasonable fee may be charged for copying and transferring files. Physicians should check on the exact requirements for transferring records and charging fees in their province or territory.
Doctors should review their medical regulatory authority (College) guidelines regarding the transfer and retention of medical records. Physicians should retain the original records, whether in paper or digital form, for a period of at least 10 years from the date of last entry or, in the case of minors, 10 years from the time they would have reached the age of majority. Retiring physicians are responsible for the retention and safe storage of records. In a group practice, the retiring physician should be clear about retention of records by the group, as well as future access to the medical records.
Retiring physicians should attempt to transfer their patients to another physician in the community. Some patients may prefer to find their own new doctor. Physicians should try to assist the patient in this search process. Some Colleges and certain municipal authorities maintain lists of physicians accepting new patients. Physicians should document these discussions and decisions with patients in the medical record.
It is especially important to attempt to make arrangements for alternate care and follow up for patients who require it. Special attention should be given to patients who are being actively investigated or treated. All work in progress should be reviewed and appropriately acted upon. This will help to avoid delayed or missed diagnoses.
Physicians working in rural and remote settings may find it particularly hard to transfer patient care to another doctor. In these cases, physicians should inform regional health authorities to try to assist in the development of a suitable plan. Sharing information about retirement dates, patient needs, and patient caseload can help the health region attract new physicians or find locum tenens. Since the loss of rural doctors can be particularly harsh for small communities, it is important to provide advance notice of retirement plans. In addition, physicians who are willing to talk to prospective replacement doctors can help regional health authorities in the recruitment process.
Physicians planning their retirement should inform their colleagues, partners, and employees in a timely manner. Healthcare organizations such as hospitals and specialty medical centres (e.g. mental health or cancer) should also be informed, as should other healthcare professionals such as local pharmacists. In many cases, this additional step can help to ensure continuity of care for patients.
If a retiring physician wants to continue practising any medical acts, even on a very limited basis, the physician must maintain a license. Most Colleges do not have a retired category for their members. Many Colleges require members to resign when they quit or retire from practice. This ends their license and a physician would have to reapply under the current requirements to resume any practice.
If a physician wants to retire completely from medicine, then written notification should be sent to the licensing body, the provincial or territorial paying agency, and professional associations. The CMPA should also be informed of a member's retirement, as well as any plans by a member to do a different type of medical work or even part-time medical practice. Health plans, accountants, suppliers, and landlords should also be notified.2
If you are an owner or partner in a clinic or medical facility and intend to retire, this generally requires maintaining a license to practice as well as CMPA membership until you divest your interest. Members who wish to maintain an ownership interest in a clinic or medical facility on retirement should call the CMPA.
Some physicians may be practising under employment or contractual arrangements with hospitals or health authorities. In these cases, physicians should review their contract or service agreements to fully understand their responsibilities leading up to and at the time of retirement. Physicians should discuss their contract with their personal legal counsel before retirement. Physicians who have contracts with research organizations, governments, or healthcare agencies should do the same.
Physicians will be comforted to know that CMPA protection continues, even in retirement. Because the CMPA provides occurrence-based protection, if a medico-legal difficulty arises for care provided while a CMPA member, physicians remain eligible for assistance. In fact, the physician's estate is eligible for protection, as long as the difficulty pertains to care provided while the physician was a CMPA member.
Physicians planning their retirement should take the time necessary to make this important change as easy as possible. Advance preparation and notice to patients will benefit all parties. Some patients may take the news of a physician retirement particularly hard. If a physician senses difficulty transitioning care, or if the patient is making the situation unnecessarily challenging, members should call the CMPA for advice.
Physicians may also be interested in the Association's article, "Considerations when leaving a medical practice." Physicians with specific questions or concerns should contact the CMPA directly. Experienced medical officers can provide guidance to help ensure a smooth transition for all parties.
DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this learning material is for general educational purposes only and is not intended to provide specific professional medical or legal advice, nor to constitute a "standard of care" for Canadian healthcare professionals. The use of CMPA learning resources is subject to the foregoing as well as the CMPA's Terms of Use.


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Ten minutes into the first Democratic debate on Wednesday night, while six of the 10 candidates had still yet to speak, Elizabeth Warren was asked her second question.
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Not long after that, Hawaii Sen. Tulsi Gabbard's sister Vrindavan had some thoughts about the time distribution, and tweeted it out on Gabbard's account
"...They aren't giving any time to Tulsi at all. -V (Tulsi's sister)"
In the end, Warren didn't take up the most time - she spoke for 9.1 minutes, third behind New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (10.82 minutes) and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke (10.25 minutes). Gabbard got in almost 6.68 minutes of talk time.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee had the least time, at 4.83 minutes.
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"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."
I caught small son in the very act of aiming at "nothing"! The other day I told him it was time to go potty. Next thing, I know I'm hearing a crinkly sound. Here he'd decided to make potty time more exciting by going in the waste can instead. Ahh, what delightful sound effects! And what a mess! I was annoyed with him but I've been thinking how often I'm just like him! If I don't plan out my day, very little happens. If I don't aim for connections with those around me, it just doesn't happen! If I aim half-heartedly at exerciseing, be assured I will find every excuse in the book not to do it. What should I be aiming for?
Philippians 3:14
"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
When we aim for anything other than Jesus, we have messes to clean up just like I had to clean up after little lad! What is your aim going to be today?


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Those obnoxious nasty women in the pink pussy hats have NO IDEA what they started.
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"
This is not my opinion.
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Mom's March Launches National Movement to Counter 'Women in the Pink Hats'
Palin said in all her travels around the country, meeting "important people with maybe really big fancy titles and fancy offices … none impress or impact more than you who are America's moms."
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I've had a craving for warm creamy food.
Usually when it starts to get chilly outside, the comfort food cravings kick in. Creamy comfort in the past had been pasta with sauce, enchiladas, lasagna, scalloped potatoes. You get what I'm talking about, right?
When I was a kid, my favorite Mac n Cheese was the Velveeta Brand. My mom would never buy that for our house so it was when I visited friends that I got to taste it. I thought their family was rich because I was eating the Kraft variety with the powered cheese.
Later, when I started to cook, I was elated when I learned how to make a Bechamel cheese sauce. So good going down but my stomach was not happy. Creamy goodness with a high health price tag.
I've managed to change up some of the favorites in the past but I miss cheese.
Lo' and behold, when I started researching, I found people have been so creative and incredible when feeding themselves through different challenges and changes in their lives. There are a number of varying recipes for "cheese" sauce.
Here are the basics:
Step 1: Pour cashews into a bowl and cover with boiling water for 1 hour.
Step 2: Boil some water and cook your pasta until al dente. Drain and put back in the pot.
Step 3: Dice up some potatoes, carrots, and shallots. Add water. Boil until soft. Drain.
Step 4: Add seasonings, butter, cashews, and veg to a blender. Blend until smooth.
Step 5: (Optional) Pour the cheese sauce in with the cooked pasta and put in a 13 x 9 baking dish.
Step 6: (Optional) If you want to add meat or veg, now is the time.
Step 7: (Optional) Bake for 30 minutes or until browned and bubbly.
How to get the 'creamy':
The creaminess of this sauce comes from the cashews, the potatoes, and the butter.
If you haven't tried any kind cashew sauce, you're in for a pleasant surprise. When making this, be sure to get raw cashews. It will still taste fine if you use roasted and salted. Just omit the salt called for later in the recipe. Most instructions say to soak the nuts in hot water over night. Personally I don't like to wait that long so I boil water in my tea kettle and soak them for an hour. No problem. The cashews are like mushrooms or cauliflower in that they don't have much flavor on their own but take on the flavors of everything you mix with them. No cashews? Almonds work too.
Oh-the-butter, how I miss your flavor. The great thing about this recipe is that you can use regular butter or vegan butter. I use the Earth Balance brand or Spectrum. Both are good alternatives.
How to get the flavor:
There are several flavoring options. The recipe I started with called for onions. They were really strong even though I used the amount called for, the onion flavor stood out with the finished sauce. I've switched to shallots as they have a mild taste. Some people omit both and use onion and garlic powder instead.
My family tends to love a sharp cheddar flavor. The ingredients that give the tang to the sauce are the mustard, lemon juice, and (optionally) Nutritional Yeast Flakes.
Nutritional Yeast Flakes? What the heck are Nutritional Yeast Flakes? Susan Voisen, over at Fat-Free Vegan Kitchen explains it. Doesn't sound very appealing, I know, but, they add that extra "cheese" flavor that puts this sauce over the top. It is optional however. You be the judge.
Some friends turned me on the flakes when they served it with popcorn. Pretty good and no pain afterward. Hoorah! If you want to try it, I suggest going to your local health food store (Whole Foods) and buying roughly a ½ cup in the bulk section, or if you know you like them, click on my link here.
Family approved!
I have to say that my husband and my son LOVED this recipe. We ate it two nights in a row and I doubled the batch of sauce both times.
The great thing about this healthy Mac n Cheese recipe is that you can dress it up for a special occasion by adding breadcrumbs and baking it. You could add seafood, chicken, or green veg to make it special. Or for family weeknights, you can eat it like I did when I was little, with canned tuna or just plain. Whatever your budget, this meal works.
Happy Days. Mac n Cheese, Scalloped potatoes, and nachos, are back on the menu. All healthy versions, of course.
Craving satisfied.
~ Carmen
Adapted from Pamela Salzman's Kitchen Matters & Recipes
See the original here.
|Prep Time
|6 as a side dish
|40 minutes
|Cook Time
|30 minutes
Gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, vegan Easy, creamy, healthy, cheese sauce for mac n cheese, nachos, scalloped potatoes and more.
- 8 oz macaroni pasta or try a gluten-free pasta
- 6 tbsp butter
- 1/4 tsp paprika
- 1/4 cup shallots chopped
- 1 cup Yukon Gold potatoes diced, peel is optional
- 1/3 cup carrots diced, about 1 small carrot
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup raw cashews soaked in very hot water for 1 hour, then drained
- 1/4 tsp garlic minced, about 1 medium clove
- 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes heaping tablespoons
- pinch of cayenne pepper
- Optional Bread Crumbs 2 slices of bread, torn into pieces and blended with 1 tbsp of butter until crumbly
- In a medium saucepan, add the shallots, potatoes, carrots, and water and bring to a boil. Lower to a simmer and cook, covered, for 15 minutes, or until vegetables are very soft.
- Cook the pasta in salted water until al dente, drain and put back into the pot.
- Place the cashews, salt, garlic, 5 Tablespoons butter, mustard, lemon juice, black pepper, and cayenne in a blender or food processor. Add the softened vegetables and cooking water to the blender or food processor and process until perfectly smooth.
- Pour the "cheese" sauce over the cooked pasta and combine until completely coated.
- BAKED OPTION: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. After completing step 4, pour the pasta and cheese into an 11 x 8 ungreased baking dish. If you add meat and veg before baking, use a 13 x 9 dish. Bake for 30 minutes or until browned and bubbly.
For the photo shoot of this recipe, I chose to bake the mac n cheese. I actually prefer to eat it right out of the pot once the noodles and sauce have been mixed.
We sprinkled on some paprika and drizzled on some Sriracha Sauce for a little heat. Yum!


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