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On this day in 1963, The Beatles second album With The Beatles became the first million-selling album by a group in the UK. The album stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that The Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks.
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On This Day: In 1973 Ringo Starr Went #1 With Photograph
In 1973, Ringo Starr went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Photograph'. His first of two US chart toppers as a solo artist.
Written by Starr and George Harrison, the promotional film shot for the single showed Starr walking around his new house at the time, Tittenhurst Park, which had been previously the home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and where the 'Imagine' promo film was shot.
On This Day in 1965: Beatles' Final Recording Session for "Rubber Soul"
On this day in 1965, The final recording session for Rubber Soul by The Beatles took place at the ever so famous Abbey Road Studios in London.
They needed three new songs to finish up the album so 'Wait' was pulled and the group recorded two new songs from start to finish.
Paul McCartney's "You Won't See Me" and John Lennon's "Girl," the basic tracks for both songs being completed in two takes. Rubber Soul was completed, and finished copies of the album were in the record shops by December 3rd in the United Kingdom and December 6th in the United States.


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TJR023: How to Sell More Music
Today on Teen Jazz Radio I'm going to talk about how to boost your music sales. If you enjoy today's episode, we have more information available on the production and marketing of your music available at Teen Jazz. I'll mention it again later in this episode, but if you're interested, you can get The Album Checklist at adviceformusicians.com.
A transcription is available here.
In this week's episode, you heard the music of:
- Ryan Saranich "Snow" from Story
- Adam Larson "Too Much, Too Soon" from Overdue Ovation
- Bastian Weinhold "Mole Hunt" from Cityscape
- Dan Higgins "Black Nile" from Voicing a Standard
- Evan Stone "Grapes" from Sticks & Stone, Vol. 1
- Reggie Padilla "The Second Round" from They Come and They Go
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I wanted to set up my sprinklers on some sort of timer so they would automatically turn on for a little while every day. I went to Home Depot, and they had some fancy looking timers for $40. But there was a more simple looking timer for $25. That was the Melnow Electronic Aqua Timer (3015). It was good for 3 cycles a day, but one cycle would be fine. I read the box, and it looked like programming it would be similar to programming a VCR. Pretty easy for me, but other people might have some difficult. You just turn a little dial, and press a single button. When I got it home, I found it needed a 9 volt battery. I looked through the house, but was able to find one. I kept fogetting to buy a battery, but I finally remembered tonight. I had to remove three phillips head screws to remove the metal back so I could insert the battery. The battery just slides. It didn't look real secure, but when I put the back on, it didn't seem to be moving around at all.
I followed the programming instructions to set the current time, the time for the sprinler to turn on, the duration and the frequency. I thought I set it to have the current time approximately 7pm, to have it turn on a 6am, and have it turn on once a day for about 20 minutes. I figured I would see if it worked when I got tomorrow morning. Interestingly, the sprinlkers turned on about 7:30 pm. Hmmm. Maybe I did something wrong. I waited to see if it shut off, but after 30 minutes, I decided something wasn't right. So I went down, and turned the dial to "off" and it shut off. I set about programming it again. We'll see what it does.
Okay, the thing turned on around 6am, ran for about 20 minutes, and shut off. Just like I programmed it to do. What I think the problem was, was that after I programmed it the first time, I turned the dial to "ON". It didn't turn on right away though maybe because I didn't have it hooked up to the faucet yet. But did turn on a little while after I hooked it up tot he faucet, and I think was going to stay on. When I programmed it the second time, I left the dial in the final position. This seemed to work.
I have been watering my lawn for about 15 minutes every morning, and it is really starting to look great. When I don't water it, it begins to look like junk. It's not like I live in Arizona or something. I live in Rochester NY which gets the same average rainfall as Seattle. Our soil just doesn't seem to hold the moisture or something. I wondered if they made a timer that I could hook up to my faucet to automatically turn on the water, and run the sprinklers for 10-20 minutes every morning.
I decided to check out Home Depot. I found the sprinkler timers alongside the sprinklers. I had to buy a new sprinlker too as the one that I had sitting near the driveway was destroyed. It looked like it had been run over. My wife said she didn't do it. It is possible that the mailman did it while delivering packages. Nonetheless, the sprinkler was destroyed, so I bought a new one that has a stake that sticks in the ground. Back to the sprinkler timer. They had a handfull or different models. They had several costing about $40. The had two faucet heads coming out that could be run indendently. But I didn't need that. The least expensive one had one faucet coming out. It cost $25. Reading the directions, it didn't sound to hard to program. I bought, and was intending to hook it up that night. But I found it didn't have a battery. And it took a 9volt battery. 9volt battery? I didn't think anyone used those anymore! So I still need to buy a 9votl battery, and I keep forgetting. I'll get one and get that thing hooked up so it waters my lawn every morning!
This morning about 4am, our burglar alarm chimes three times saying that a door was opened, or the glass break detector was triggered. We didn't have the alarm set as if someone were trying to break in, the dog would bark anyway. When the chimes went off, the dog went to investigate. I was sleeping, but my wife woke me up. I gram the big 4 D cell mag lite (a nasty weapon), and went to investigate I found the front door unlock, and standing partly open. I told my wife to get up and help search the house. I closed and locked the door, and turned on the lights. No other doors were unlocked much less open.
The dog was not alarmed at all, just curious. What I figure happened was the last time my wife had let the dog out on the front deck, she had not gotten the door all the way shut, and had not locked it. If she had tried to lock it, the dead bolt would have given her a clue that the door was not shut all the way. And since it was kind of windy otuside last night, and this morning, the wind pushed the door open. Such fun!
I stopped at Home Depot this afternoon. I picked up one more tube of window glaze, and also a few vegetables to plant in the garden.
I also tried to find someone to answer some questions about my collasped deck. But I couldn't find anyone who seemed to be free to talk to me. A few were helping other people, but some were just walking around quickly talking to each other. I didn't even see any Home Depot employees in the areas that sold what I thought I might need.
I did however find a book called Decks 1,2,3! I found a couple pages in there on how to attach the ledger board to the foundation. It described using a hammer drill to drill a pilot hole through the wood. Then switching to a masonry bit, and drilling into the mortar between the blocks. Epoxy glue is injected into the hole, and threaded studs are inserted. They are left to sit for 24 hours so the epoxy hardens. The washers and nuts are tighten on the studs to afix the ledger board to the foundation.
I don't have a hammer drill, but I might be able to borrow one. The book didn't say what size of threaded studs to use, or what kind of epoxy. And I couldn't find anyone to tell me, so I will have to do some online research. Maybe I will buy the stuff of Lowes just because Home Depot didn't help me at all!
Since the ledgerboard for our deck became detached from our house, the center part sunk. It appears to have been very poorly attached. I don't particularly want to rebuild the entire deck. I have pulled off some of the decking surface boards closest to the house to expose the problem. I hoping to lift the fallen section of deck back up, and reattach the ledgerboard to the foundation.
I already have a 2 ton bottle jack. But I stopped up at Walmart and bought a couple more 2 ton jacks. Now that I have them, and am looking at the collapsed deck, I noticed there is little space under the frame of the deck to fit the jacks. Hmmmm. I have an idea of slipping some rope under the frame in a loop. Then I can use a 4×4 as a fulcrum, and a 2×4 as a lever. I can hook the rope over the 2×4, and maybe lift parts of the frame a bit, and stick some scrap wood under it. This way I can slowly lift the frame until I can get the jacks under it. It will be a process of trial and hopefully not too many errors!!!


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Class is Back in Session: It's Time To Rethink the Number of School Resource Officers in our Schools
By Marcy Mistrett, CFYJ CEO
The end of summer has arrived. Children across the country will officially be back in school this week. Families have been busy getting ready—new shoes, uniforms, school supplies and bus passes. Children anticipate meeting a new teacher, seeing friends they missed over the summer, and routine schedules.
However, in far too many places, school leaders are struggling with inadequate budgets and public pressure to keep schools safe. Too often, these responses rely on increasing the presence of law enforcement officers, or in some cases, allowing teachers and administrators to carry weapons in school. Despite there being too many multi-victim school shootings in the U.S., schools remain amongst the safest places for children to be.
(In 1992-93 school deaths by shooting were .55 students per one-million and in 2014-2015 the numbers were .15 students). Yet, the percent of schools across the country who hire school resource officers continued to increase between the first decade of this century (from 54% of districts in 1999 to more than 70% in 2007), and has remained stable since then despite tight funding in school and police districts, and a drastic reduction in funding from the federal COPS program.
Currently, there are 25 states and 560 school districts who have adopted a 4 day academic week to save costs or attend to a teaching shortage. Colorado, Montana, Oklahoma and Oregon have the highest number of school districts running 4-day weeks. On average, school districts save up to 5% of their budgets, though by many accounts, this is the most they save. By looking at these 4 states, we can see other opportunities to save money to invest in children and families, rather than to divest:
• Despite a school funding crisis, Colorado will spend an extra $35m in school resource officers this year.
• Colorado, Montana and Oregon all have a youth incarceration rate that exceeds the national incarceration rate. (National: 152/100k; Colorado: 177/100k; Montana: 170/100k; Oregon: 286/100k). https://www.sentencingproject.org/the-facts/#map?dataset-option=SIR
• All three of these states also send children of color to prison at higher rates than the national average; a practice that is often exacerbated by having police in schools.
• Across the nation, 45,000 youth won't begin this year in their home district schools due to incarceration; 1:11 of these youth will be housed in adult facilities.
• Oklahoma ranks 48 in per-pupil-spending, yet as the 2nd- lead incarcerator in the nation, spends nearly triple the amount to incarcerate someone.
• Colorado, Montana and Oregon are part of the 18 states who spend more on incarceration than higher education.
• Less than half the states in the country require counsellors for high school students. In Colorado, the hiring of school counselors is not mandated, in Oregon localities much meet or comply with national standards of 1:250 students; Montana requires 1:400 youth; and Oklahoma is 1:450 youth.
• School counselors have been shown to help increase academic achievement, college and career readiness and social emotional learning in students. Furthermore, they have developed culturally-appropriate curricula in many states.
As schools are forced to make tough decisions about how to spend scarce resources, they should consider where their resources have the biggest impacts. Investing in school counselors and positive behavioral interventions, and engaging families in solutions are a great investment in public safety. Police in schools are just more likely to drive up costs in incarceration in the long run.


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aletho | March 21, 2010 at 3:55 pm | Categories: Civil Liberties, Full Spectrum Dominance, Islamophobia | URL: http://wp.me/
By Tariq Ramadan | NEWSWEEK | From the magazine issue dated March 29, 2010
When the American embassy called in August 2004, I was just nine days away from starting a job at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. I had already shipped my possessions from Geneva, Switzerland, where I was living, to Indiana, and enrolled my kids in a school near our new home. Suddenly, however, an embassy official was telling me my visa had been revoked. I was "welcome to reapply," the official said, but no reason was offered for my rejection. Sitting in a barren apartment, I decided the process had become too unpredictable; I didn't want to keep my family in limbo, so I resigned my professorship before it began. I launched a legal battle instead.
It was hardly a fight I had expected. Less than a year earlier, the State Department had invited me to speak in Washington, D.C., and introduced me as a "moderate" Muslim intellectual who denounced terrorism and attacks against civilians. Now it was banning me from U.S. soil under a provision of the Patriot Act that allows for "ideological exclusions." My offense, it seemed, had been to forcefully criticize America's support for Israel and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. accused me of endorsing terrorism through my words and funding it through donations to a Swiss charity with alleged ties to Gaza. Civil-liberties groups challenged my case in court for almost six years until, in late January, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dropped the allegations against me, effectively ending my ban.
In early April I will make my first public appearance in the U.S., at New York City's Cooper Union, participating in a panel discussion about Muslims. While it's a victory of sorts, the fight is not over. Numerous foreign scholars remain banned from U.S. soil. Until the section of the Patriot Act that kept me out of the country is lifted, more people will suffer the same fate. Although the exclusions are carried out in the name of security and stability, they actually threaten both by closing off the open, critical, and constructive dialogue that once defined this country.
In my case, criticizing America's Middle East policies cast doubt on my loyalty to Western values and cost me a job. But prejudice may ultimately cost the U.S. more. By creating divisions and disregarding its values, even in the name of security, America tells the world that it is frightened and unstable—above all, vulnerable. In the long term, it also reinforces the religious, cultural, and social isolation of minority groups, encouraging the very kind of disloyalty that these ideological exclusions are meant to prevent.
It's not the first time America has tried to shield itself from dissenting opinions. During the Cold War, dozens of overseas artists, activists, and intellectuals—
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Thanks to Dudley Walker for this Preview of the Scottish National XC Relay Championships at Cumbernauld
Worth a look!
"This weekend sees the Scottish XC Relays Championships taking place in Cumbernauld.
We have a pretty decent record in this event as you can see from the link below….
It's the traditional beginning of theScottish Championship XC Season and it's where new talent has the opportunity to show what they can do.It's a selector's nightmare trying to get the teams just right…and the day always ends with "if only!!….well it usually does for me.
Our girls have topped the podium on three occasions ,boys twice ,senior women once…….however our senior men have still to climb onto the podium.
It's a great day with clubs from all over Scotland descending on Cumbernauld to do battle against each other.
Look out for results,which will hopefully feature a few familiar names."
Report from Dudley Walker Lead Coach for Middle Distance /Endurance athletes at the club . Thanks Dudley!
Meanwhile, a large contingent of Club athletes Ages U11 to Under20 are headed to the Emirates Arena for the 1st Match in the SAIL [Scottish Athletics Indoor League. Good luck to all our athletes as John Beattie was wont to say on Radio Scotland "breaking a sweat for sport this weekend "


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Repeatedly turning this knob will instruct the radio to "seek", skipping frequencies where it does not find a strong signal. If the tuning knob is not touched for approximately two seconds, the radio will interrupt the program to announce the frequency, the HD subchannel if present, and if provided by the HD broadcast, the call letters of the active station.
Pressing any of the buttons on the radio will yield an announcement as to the action taken. For example. Pressing preset 1, the radio announces that it is switching to preset 1, followed by frequency information for that subchannel. Holding down a preset for about 2 seconds will save the active channel in the memory, and an announcement to that effect will be spoken.
Speech is also provided to set both the clock, and the alarm. When the alarm goes off, the radio will announce the time and begin playing the active radio station.
This radio also includes the capability to receive Radio Reading Service broadcasts. Pressing the RRS scan button will begin scanning the active band, AM or FM, for a Radio Reading Service signal. Note that this feature may require you to register our radio's serial number with the RRS, if this is the case, hold down the RRS button for 2wo seconds and the serial number will be spoken.
For those interested in exploring the world of digital radio, the Dice ITR100A is an accessible, easy-to-use, radio that will get you started.
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It was nearly five months ago that I saw a group of EMTs wheel my grandmother into the back of an ambulance. She hadn't been able to eat much and her body had become weak and frail. She often complained of stomach pains and said nothing tasted like it used to. We seemed so far from the days when I used to watch her standing in front of her seventies era green oven range preparing meals for the family.
I always loved the Saturday fish dinners and any other day where I could fill my plate with her Southern-style cabbage and collard greens. Those days, she seemed to dance around the kitchen, knowing exactly what steps to take without any instruction. Each movement only accompanied by a soundtrack of Carolina beach music blaring from a radio that sat on a table near the window.
But that day, seeing her—one of the strongest women I'd ever known—lying sunken in her bed without enough energy to reach the kitchen or the front door on her own, was heartbreaking. I knew she needed more help than I could ever give her inside that aging townhouse. With EMT's guiding her every step, she had to will every muscle in her tiny body to make it down the narrow staircase to the outside where they loaded her onto a stretcher. I stood in the warmth of the summer heat and watched. And as the engines roared and emergency sirens screamed announcing their exit, I hurried back inside and grabbed her purse, prepared to follow in my car.
At the time, I had no idea that would be the last time I would return to that little townhouse to visit her.
She passed away about a week later.
I knew it had been a rough couple years for her, losing three of her four siblings in a span of about three months and a son some time before that. That, on top of losing her husband just days before Thanksgiving in 2014. It's no doubt she was still grieving—with each day tickling her mind with memories of times shared and moments she wished she could enjoy right then.
She often talked about how she missed her siblings and joked about my grandfather, saying things like, "Man, he drove me crazy, but I sure do wish he was here right now."
We all felt the sting of his absence every Thanksgiving after my grandfather passed. And this year, my family will feel the sting of missing many others, including my grandmother.
It's never fun to have a place setting at the table of the grieving over the holidays. It can be hard to cultivate a heart of thankfulness when you're forced to deal with unexpected loss and the heartache that can often come with it.
But God…
He also makes a place for us. At His table, He offers us an abundance of grace and love and comfort. Because of God, the hurt that burns within us doesn't have to stay there forever. But on the days it remains, He is still there to walk with us. After all, God loved the world so much He sent Jesus to die for our sins. Then, when Jesus walked the earth, he came to know our suffering and was willing sympathize with us (Hebrews 4:15). Just as he wept with Mary and Martha over the death of Lazarus (John 11:35), he continues to weep with us, and he intercedes for us when we cry out in the midst of our mourning. And he makes his grace sufficient for us.
It's a grace that covers us on the days it feels a little too hard to get out of bed.
It's a grace that covers us on the days we just don't have the strength to force another smile.
And it's a grace that covers us when we want to question God's plan or shutdown when we hear another well-meaning scripture.
It's also a grace that covers us when we try to keep ourselves busy to keep from breaking down. Or when we just want to be alone with our memories, fearing a day may come when we'll forget.
So, as I stand in my own kitchen, blaring the music I love, I can cook for my own family and give thanks for the moments I spent with my sweet grandmother, knowing that God understands there is a time and a season for everything, even grief.
Andrea ( aka rokinrev) Stoeckel
As a minister, we've run "Blue Christmas" services in some of my churches over the years. Thanks-for-living, Friendsgiving and the like are wonderful, but some of us eat pizza and read, or eat @Denny's and go to a movie to try to forget the "familiness" of this Thursday.
Try to be nice to your elders this week. Skip Black Friday and be aware of how important family of choice or of chance is. Just.Be.Here.Now…oh, and bring a camera. The worst family pictures are those that we take at funerals.November 21st, 2016 9:1101
Nancy Wolfehttp://livingcenter.me/
So lovely and true. Fresh grief, memories of long-past loss, hurtful words, broken relationships… All hard in their own ways, especially during these 6 weeks of holiday happenings.
Yes, Just be here now…xoxoxNovember 21st, 2016 9:3602
Nancy Wolfehttp://livingcenter.me/
I trust God will help y'all read this with tender eyes, knowing my heart wants to comfort those who hurt.
My mom is 95 this year, in pretty good health. But her eyes and balance are failing her and I can tell her mind is losing the ability to track what once was easy to remember and do. She lives in a lovely place (and not with me by her choice), but even there, she is lonely. Mostly for my dad, who died over 20 years ago. She has seen her friends suffer for years as their bodies wither. And, yet others pass quietly and peacefully while sleeping.
It's not easy to be 95.
And it's not easy to find comforting words when all she wants is to see Jesus and the love of her life.
I pray this season for not only the grieving, but also for the lonely.
Bless all of us as we celebrate in our own ways, with our own stories.
Dear sweet Jesus, help us be kind and understanding. Everybody is somebody.
xoxoxNancyNovember 21st, 2016 9:3303
Leah Adamshttp://www.leahadams.org
Claresa, this resonates with me so. My precious Mother died three days before Thanksgiving two years ago, and my Daddy died in late October 12 years ago. While Thanksgiving remains one of my favorite holidays, there is always a tinge of sadness to it…an emptiness of heart because my parents no longer sit at the table. I'm so thankful we will one day share a meal around the table of our Lord in heaven. Lovely post.November 21st, 2016 9:4804
Ally | The Speckled Goat Bloghttp://thespeckledgoatblog.com
We lost my dear aunt on Saturday. (I say "lost," while knowing that she is found eternally and forever in the arms of Christ… but we grieve her deeply here). This post was so needed today– thank you for your sweet words and comfort during this difficult time.November 21st, 2016 11:2405
But God…
Yes & Amen, Claresa!
Thank you for this post – God does understand our every grief and gives us His grace to grieve and to heal.
We just said good-bye to my husband's father – a wonderful man, a wonderful life – he would have been 90 in Dec.
My mother is 91, all her friends have passed on and my father as well.
She so wants to see her Jesus and rest in His arms.
May we love those still with us while we can.
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Commissioner of Revenue
1255 Franklin Street, Suite 102
Rocky Mount, VA 24151
Phone: 540-483-3083
Fax: 540-483-3089
Margaret S. Torrence
E-Mail: Commissioner
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Personal Property Tax Relief (PPTRA)
The Personal Property Tax Relief Act of 1998 provides tax relief for any passenger car, motorcycle, or pickup or panel truck having a registered gross weight of less than 7,501 pounds. The vehicle must be owned or leased by an individual and NOT used for business purposes. A vehicle is considered to be used for business purposes if:
- More than 50% of the mileage for the year is used as a business expense for Federal Income Tax purposes OR reimbursed by an employer;
- More than 50% of the depreciation associated with the vehicle is deducted as a business expense for Federal Income Tax;
- The cost of the vehicle is expensed pursuant to Section 179 of the Internal Revenue Service Code;
- or the vehicle is leased by an individual and the leasing company pays the tax without reimbursement from the individual. Vehicles qualified for tax relief are noted on your tax bill and show a reduction for the portion of the tax the Commonwealth will pay.
For qualified vehicles, your tax bill is reduced by the applicable tax relief percentage for the tax year on the first $20,000 of value. If your vehicle is improperly qualified or you are uncertain whether your vehicle would be eligible for car tax relief because it is used part of the time for business purposes, contact the Commissioner's Office at 540-483-3083. When you pay your taxes on qualified vehicles, you are certifying to the County that your vehicle has been qualified correctly.


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Two steps forward and one step back on the road to harmonisation?
The European Union ( ) 'Regulation ( ) No 260/2012 establishing technical and business requirements for credit transfers and direct debits in euro', commonly referenced as the Single Euro Payments Area ( ) Regulation, effectively mandates migration to Credit Transfer ( ) and Direct Debit ( ) in the euro area by 1 February 2014. The Regulation provides certainty as to the timing of migration, which is an essential precondition to successful completion of the harmonisation exercise. At the same time, the Regulation - in an attempt to respond to a broad range of requests for flexibility articulated by various parties throughout the legislative process - has introduced several possible exemptions regarding the use of the International Bank Account Number (IBAN), the Business Identifier Code (BIC) and the ISO 20022 XML message standards by the February 2014 deadline. Member States have discretion as to whether they will use any or all of the options to derogate from the 1 February 2014 deadline with regard to the use of the IBAN, the BIC and the ISO 20022 XML message standards.
To recap three essential provisions of the Regulation:
- Article 5 details the technical and business requirements that should be observed when carrying out euro credit transfer and direct debit transactions. These requirements relate, among other things, to the use of the IBAN, the BIC and the ISO 20022 XML message standards.
- Articles 6 (1) and (2) stipulate that credit transfers and direct debits in the euro area shall be carried out in accordance with the relevant requirements set out in Article 5 and in the Annex to the Regulation by 1 February 2014. (Article 16 (2) clarifies that non-euro countries will have to make the transition to by 31 October 2016.)
- Article 16 permits individual Member States in the euro area to extend the deadline for compliance with some of the regulation's provisions; i.e. use of the IBAN, the BIC and the ISO 20022 message standards, to 1 February 2016.
Market participants who supported inclusion of these exemptions in the Regulation expressed the view that a degree of flexibility would be required to support migration at national level to the new harmonised payment schemes and technical standards. As highlighted in an earlier Newsletter article on the impact of the Regulation on payment service users ( ) by Dermot Turing and Maria Troullinou (see 'related articles in previous issues' below), it is however arguable that this attempt at flexibility breeds confusion and risks translating into a prolonged patchwork of national variations. The experience of pioneers on the demand side that have already successfully concluded the migration exercise indicates that the benefits arising from the migration are proportionate to the level of harmonisation achieved (see case studies with the 'related articles in previous issues' below). This is in line with the findings of a study carried out at the request of the European Commission (the Commission) in 2007, which demonstrates that the potential benefits are dependent on swift migration to harmonised payment schemes and technical standards by the demand and supply sides (see Capgemini study with the 'related links' below).
Article 16 (7) of the Regulation states that Member States must have notified the Commission by 1 February 2013 of the derogations that they intend to use. With publication of the Newsletter in April 2013, notification by some Member States however remains outstanding. The expectation is that Member States lagging behind the deadline will deliver this information as soon as possible. To ensure a smooth transition to by 1 February 2014 in the euro area, market participants urgently require clarification on which derogations will apply, when, where and how.
IBAN and BIC: possible derogations from the February 2014 deadline by Member States
In accordance with Article 5 (1) (c) of the Regulation, payment service providers ( ) must ensure that (i.e. payers and payees) "use the payment account identifier specified in point (1) (a) of the Annex", namely the IBAN. A payee accepting credit transfers must communicate its IBAN and the BIC of its "but only where necessary", to its payers (see Article 5 (4)). Similarly, a payer wishing to make a payment by direct debit must communicate its IBAN and the BIC of its "but only where necessary" (see Article 5 (5)). The Regulation stipulates the timelines for application of the so-called 'IBAN only' rule. Article 5 (7) of the Regulation states: "After 1 February 2014 for national payment transactions and after 1 February 2016 for cross-border payment transactions, shall not require to indicate the BIC of the of a payer or of the of a payee."
Article 16 (6) however, provides that Member States have the option to defer application of the 'IBAN only' rule for national transactions to 1 February 2016. Moreover, the Regulation allows Member States to derogate from Articles 6 (1) and (2) by allowing to provide consumers with conversion services for national payment transactions, enabling them to continue using the national account identifier (Basic Bank Account Number - BBAN) instead of the IBAN until 1 February 2016 (see Article 16 (1)). According to Article 2 (14) BBAN means "a payment account number identifier, which unambiguously identifies an individual payment account with a in a Member State and which can only be used for national payment transactions while the same payment account is identified by IBAN for cross-border payment transactions."
ISO 20022 XML message standards: possible derogations from the February 2014 deadline by Member States
Article 2 (17) of the Regulation defines the ISO 20022 XML message standard as "a standard for the development of electronic financial messages as defined by the ISO, encompassing the physical representation of the payment transactions in XML syntax, in accordance with business rules and implementation guidelines of Union-wide schemes for payment transactions falling within the scope of this Regulation." The 'implementation guidelines of Union-wide schemes' referred to in this definition would include, for example, the implementation guidelines published by the with regard to the and Schemes, which are available on the Website (see ' Credit Transfer' and ' Direct Debit' included with the 'related links' below). Article 5 (1) (d) of the Regulation states that "must ensure that where a that is not a consumer or a micro-enterprise, initiates or receives individual credit transfers or individual direct debits which are not transmitted individually, but are bundled together for transmission, the message formats specified in point (1) (b) of the Annex are used." Point (1) (b) of the Annex to the Regulation specifies that such message formats are the ISO 20022 XML message standards.
Article 16 (5) of the Regulation allows Member States to waive the requirement to use the ISO 20022 message formats for that initiate or receive individual credit transfers or direct debits that are bundled together for transmission until 1 February 2016, except in cases where a requests such a service.
Other possible derogations from the February 2014 deadline by Member States
Article 16 (3) allows Member States to waive all or some of the requirements established with the Regulation for those credit transfer or direct debit transactions with a cumulative market share, based on the official payment statistics published annually by the European Central Bank (ECB), of less than ten percent of the total number of credit transfers or direct debit transactions respectively, in that Member State until 1 February 2016.
Article 16 (4), finally, allows Member States to waive all or some of the requirements established with the Regulation for those payment transactions generated using a payment card at the point of sale which result in a direct debit to and from a payment account identified by the BBAN or IBAN until 1 February 2016.
ECB and Commission make available information on the use of derogations permissible under the Regulation by Member States
The Commission published the document 'Usage of Member States Options - Article 16 of Regulation ( ) N°260/2012' on its website. The ECB provides country-specific fact sheets on the transitional arrangements chosen by individual Member States. These documents published on the websites of the Commission and the ECB, respectively, can be downloaded by following the 'related links' below.
Etienne Goosse is the Secretary General.
Related links:
Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 establishing technical and business requirements for credit transfers and direct debits in euro and amending Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
European Commission Website: see PDF, entitled: 'Usage of Member States options' (Article 16)
European Central Bank Website: Fact Sheets Providing Country-Specific Information Related to Regulation (EU) 260/2012
Payments Regulatory Expert Group: Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 Establishing Technical and Business Requirements for Credit Transfers and Direct Debits in Euro and Amending Regulation (EC) No 924/2009
Capgemini: SEPA (2007): Potential Benefits at Stake. Researching the Impact of SEPA on the Payments Market and its Stakeholders
EPC Website: SEPA Credit Transfer (see 'EPC technical documents / implementation guidelines')
EPC Website: SEPA Direct Debit (see 'EPC technical documents / implementation guidelines')
Related articles in this issue:
UNION TANK Eckstein: "SEPA Credit Transfer and SEPA Direct Debit Allow Everyone to Do More and Better Business across Europe". This company looks forward to 1 February 2014 when migration to SEPA will be completed in the euro area
Learn to Love SEPA: the 1 February 2014 Migration Deadline Mandated by European Union Law Will Not Go Away. The focus must now be on joining forces to ensure that every market participant in the euro area required to achieve SEPA compliance will meet this deadline
If You Have Not Migrated to SEPA Yet - Get Ready and Get Inspired: SEPA Pioneers on the Demand Side Share Best Practice. The SEPA deadline will not move from 1 February 2014 so act today to ensure your compliance
SEPA Migration - Don't Count on a Plan B. European Central Bank publishes first SEPA Migration Report and warns against risks of late migration
Sign up! The European Commission's Proposal for a Regulation on Electronic Identification and Trust Services for Electronic Transactions in the Internal Market. European Commission follows up on key actions defined with the 'Digital Agenda for Europe' to boost cross-border e-commerce
Related articles in previous issues:
The Time to Act is Now: Impact of the SEPA Regulation on Payment Service Users ( Newsletter, Issue 14, April 2012)
EPC Newsletter: Case Studies Highlighting Successful SEPA Migration Projects of Bank Customers
EPC Newsletter Articles Published in the Section 'Legal and Regulatory Issues'
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VIDEO: Steve Lamontagne National Champ at BCC, Former PGA Tour Player, Coaches College, Pro Players
By Maria Sonnenberg // May 7, 2017
SPACE COAST DAILY TV: Brevard's Steve Lamontagne competed in 124 PGA Tour events from 1989 until 2012. He continues to play PGA section events through PGA of America, but Lamontagne has focused on training the next generation.
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The saying goes that golf isn't a matter of life and death, but rather much more important. For Steve Lamontagne, coaching golf is indeed one of the most important aspects of his life, after his family, of course.
Lamontagne, general manager of Suntree Country Club, has plenty on his plate with his day job, but he still makes time to coach the next generation of golfers.
He himself started the sport as a kid, and it served him well, earning him a golf scholarship to Brevard Community College, the precursor of Eastern Florida State College.
When he graduated in 1985, Lamontagne was the National Junior College Champion.
"That was a great year for me, because the team won the championship and I also set the school record of nine wins in two years," he said.
The University of Florida followed, where Lamontagne cemented his place on the links as the All-American captain of the golf team in 1987, the same year he later turned professional.
From 1990 to 1994, Lamontagne was part of the PGA tour and he remained a pro until 1999, when he decided it was time to put the suitcases away.
"I wanted to be a full-time dad, and you really can't do that on tour," he said. "You live out of a suitcase 40 to 45 weeks out of the year and you're virtually never home.
It was the best decision of my life."
He tried being a stockbroker, but golf kept calling him back.
Lamontagne headed to Palm Bay to teach at the Majors Golf Club, where during his stint from 2002 to 2005, he coached Billy Horschel, who currently plays on the PGA Tour.
In 2005, Lamontagne accepted the position of director of golf at Suntree, and by 2009, he had been promoted to general manager. He has owned a home in Suntree since his PGA days.
Lamontagne competed in 124 PGA Tour events from 1989 until 2012. He continues to play PGA section events through PGA of America, but Lamontagne has focused on training the next generation.
"I got a lot of people started in the game and I've taught hundreds of high-level junior players, who have gone on to college and then turned professional," he said.
This consummate golfer remains the lone duffer in his family. His wife, Joanne, prefers tennis, while his 18-year-old daughter, Shannon, opted for cheerleading and his 17-year-old son, Brett, went for football and basketball.
It doesn't matter if the rest of the family doesn't want to join in, for Lamontagne has enough love for the game to spare.
A member of Arnie's Army, Lamontagne was a high school caddie for 1954 U.S. Open champion Ed Furgol at the 1983 Suntree classic when he first saw Palmer in person.
One of Lamontagne's career highlights was competing in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in 2009, when Palmer chatted golf with Lamontagne and signed his children's hats.
"It was unforgettable," he said.
The vest worn by Lamontagne's caddie during that very special tourney hangs prominently at his office in Suntree, a golf club that Palmer helped bring to the limelight by including it in the original stops in the Champions Tour.
It is the great heart of players such as Palmer that keeps Lamontagne pumped on golf.
"Golf is something I cherish," he said.
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THE 2017 SPACE COAST SPORTS HALL OF FAME Banquet and Induction Ceremony will take place at the Cocoa Beach Country Club on Friday, May 12.
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Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2017 Announced, Induction Ceremony Set May 12
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame selection committee announced Thursday an impressive array of outstanding individuals to be inducted into the 2017 Class of the Hall of Fame.
Dozens of nominees were considered for the 2017 class in four categories including professional sports, college sports, high school sports and amateur sports.
Special honorary recognition will also be bestowed upon individuals and teams that have made significant contributions to sports on the Space Coast.
Space Coast Daily created the Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, and has so far inducted more than 100 of Brevard County's most outstanding athletes, coaches and sports personalities.
Serving on the committee are Space Coast Daily President & Publisher Tom Palermo, Vice President Giles Malone, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jim Palermo, Managing Editor Zach Clark, Assistant Editor, Space Coast Sports Talk host Alan Zlotorzynski, local youth sports advocate and promoter Mike Cadore, Friday Night Locker Room Founders Steve Wilson and Orville Susong, former Health First COO Larry Garrison, Cocoa Beach City Manager Jim McKnight and AAU Vice President Rusty Buchanan.
"The list of inductees for 2017 induction include athletes and coaches everybody knows – and some that may have been forgotten with the passing of time," said Tom Palermo.
The 2017 Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet and Sports Awards will be held Friday, May 12 at the Cocoa Beach County Club.
The festivities include a meet and greet with the area's sports royalty, dinner and the induction proceeding which includes compelling video tributes of each of the inductees.
The 2017 Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame induction event, and the 2017 High School Breakfast of Champions recognition awards, are sponsored by Community Credit Union, First Choice Medical Group, SOAR, Clear Choice Health Care, BioCellular Therapies, Savings Safari, Spectrum Sports, Friday Night Locker Room, Dr. Sangiv Patel, Dr. Mark Pinsky and Rock Paper Simple..
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SPACE COAST DAILY TV: Tim Wakefield talks about his induction into the first class of the Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame.
• PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY INDUCTEES: Joe Kohlbrand, Football; and Cory Philpot, Football
• COLLEGE CATEGORY INDUCTEES: Jason Arnold, Baseball; Michael Coffey, Bowling; Reggie Hannah, Basketball; Paige Kearns, Swimming; and Charles Wilson, Football.
• PREP CATEGORY INDUCTEES: Kristen Gordon, Softball; Ray Herring, Jr. Football; Katie Jackson, Soccer; and Hunter Pingston, Football.
• AMATEUR/REC CATEGORY INDUCTEES: Richard Chapman, Little League; Todd Erickson, Softball; Al Genchi, Youth Soccer; and David Kilgore, Running.
• COACHING CATEGORY INDUCTEES: Skip Arrich, Soccer; Tom Dooley, Baseball; Chuck Keener, Tennis; Steve Lamontagne, Golf; and Mike Soliven, Basketball.
• SPORTS DEVELOPMENT INDUCTEES: Jeff Carr, Eastern Florida State College; and Steve Englehart, Florida Tech.
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT INDUCTEES: Linda Anderson, Athletic Director; and Les Stafford, Volunteer
• SPORTS OFFICIALS INDUCTEES: Neely Dunn and Bob Walton.
• SPORTS JOURNALISM INDUCTEES: Hillard Grossman.
• SPORTS AMBASSADOR AWARD INDUCTEE : Gary Gregory, PAL Boxing.
• CHALLENGER AWARDS INDUCTEES: Brevard Special Olympics – Coach Cindy Dropeski, Athlete Chuck Conway and Volunteer Kathi Madden.
• TEAM OF THE YEAR: Cocoa High School 2016 Football State Champions.
• SPECIAL TRIBUTE: Jim Grimes, Basketball, Eastern Florida State College


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First of all, I don't deserve the mention by Shakespeare's Sister. Totally flattered and diggin' it!
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This Five Ingredient Basil Cashew Pesto is so easy to prepare and ready in under 10 minutes. Fresh basil and cashews are the star ingredients in this pesto. And it's Gluten free & Vegetarian.
Hey and Happy Thursday friends!
And Happy almost Labor Day weekend to all my American readers! Yesss to a long weekend 🙂
So whether you have exciting plans or just planning a low key weekend, hope you'll Enjoy some good food & lots of R&R!
Because that's what long weekends and Holidays are for…OK.
No major plans here, but that's fine by me since that's kind of the way I like it.
As long as I have some tasty food, a few drinks and maybe a big bowl of this Five Ingredient Basil Cashew Pesto I'll probably get by...
Haha..Oh and of course the hubby to hang with me.
And since basil has always been one of my favorite herbs, then of course pesto would naturally happen here soon.
As much as I wish I could say I grew this myself…no green thumb here..you can pretty much find an abundance of fresh basil at your local market.
I usually like to buy the living basil and I absolutely love the smell of it as I'm driving home with it.
Not to mention the smell of fresh pesto in your kitchen. If you haven't made pesto at home you really need to try this.
Don't let another basil plant pass you in the store..it's waiting to be made into pesto.
And the husband thought he didn't like pesto, cause I only fed him a few of the store bought brands.
He is now on board as an official pesto lover Thanks to this Five Ingredient Basil Cashew Pesto. He said, "I think I just didn't like pine nuts, but this is REALLY good"!
And better yet this, Five Ingredient Basil Cashew Pesto is….
- Ready in under 10 minutes
- Great on sandwiches, wraps, & mixed in dips
- Even on crackers or veggies
- A great source of nutrition and High in vitamin K & manganese
- A perfect addition to entertaining
- Gluten free & Vegetarian
Five Ingredient Basil Cashew Pesto
- 2 cups fresh basil leaves packed tightly
- 1/3 cup raw cashews
- 4 cloves chopped garlic
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese shredded
- salt & pepper to taste
- Place basil leaves and cashews in food processor and pulse till combined.
- Add chopped garlic and pulse again till incorporated.
- Slowly add in olive oil and continue to pulse
- Add parmesan cheese and pulse again till everything smooth and incorporated.
- Season with salt & pepper.
- Store in airtight container in fridge for up to 5 days.


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Then again, so is Half-Life. It might not seem that way now, but when it came out it was absolutely groundbreaking in several ways. A huge milestone in the FPS genre.Half life is a great game, to be sure, and I actually finally beat it recently, but Metroid Prime 1&2 is something special indeed.
Thank you for pointing that out.
P.S. Oh by the way this poll is kinda bogus since each suit augments the next so why vote for Varia or Power suit when Gravity includes their functions?
SIRWhat's Metroid? loljk
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The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges . AMATYC, founded in 1974, is a national forum for the improvement of mathematics instruction in the first two years of college. AMATYC has approximately 2,500 individual members and more than 100 institutional members in the United States and Canada. The AMATYC Office is located at Southwest Tennessee Community College on the Macon Cove Campus in Memphis, Tennessee. AMATYC Region and local affiliates:
- Central Region Kansas , Minnesota, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming
- Mid-Atlantic RegionDelaware, Pennsylvania West Virginia
- Midwest Region Illinois , Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin
- Northeast Region Connecticut,New England, New York
- Northwest Region Oregon, Washington
- Southeast Region Alabama, Florida, Georgia , LA- Miss,South Carolina Tennessee
- Southwest Region Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
- West Region Northern California, Southern California, Hawaii, Pacific Islands, Nevada.
AMATYC and the MAA are two of the seventeen member professional organizations comprising the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS). The purpose of the CBMS is to promote understanding and cooperation among these national organizations so that they work together and support each other in their efforts to promote research, improve education, and expand the uses of mathematics.
Publications(from AMATYC)
- MathAMATYC Educator a refereed journal published three times per year
- AMATYC News a newsletter published five times per year (and available online)
- Crossroads in Mathematics: Standards for Introductory College Mathematics AMATYC's first standards document for two-year college mathematics
- Beyond Crossroads: Implementing Mathematics Standards in the First Two Years of College AMATYC's second standards document
- See also newsletters by AMATYC local affiliates
Listservs and networks(from AMATYC)
- The MATHEDCC discussion group has been active for about two decades.
- AMATYC now has both a Facebook and Twitter (@MathAMATYC) presence.
Knowledge Exchange Networks Community college faculty supported in sharing content, connections, conversation and collaboration.
(from AMATYC)
- The AMATYC Webinar Series is new but already very popular. Free to both AMATYC members and non-members, but members get early notification of enrollment.
- The AMATYC Traveling Workshops bring professional development to two-year college math faculty directly to a requesting campus. As funding and interest have diminished, so AMATYC is looking for ways to revitalize the program.


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Stories We Tell - I grabbed this one at first opportunity as I've been attempting to see the film all winter. It kept popping up at various venues at the exact times I was unable to go. Sarah Polley was a Canadian child star before morphing into a serious actor and writer/director/producer. Stories We Tell is a documentary following a series of discoveries she made about her parents, also actors. You don't have to be Canadian, or interested in family history to find it interesting, but these were an added bonuses for me.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Demeter attempted to watch this in the cinema last winter when practically everyone she knew recommended it. She was only able to make out what the older actors said, so I got this out and played it for her with subtitles. I think we both agreed that she hadn't been missing much. A rather formulaic rom-com approach to the challenges of aging.
Harold and Maude (Criterion edition) - I've mentioned this movie before in a list I made four years ago of thirty-five of my favourite films, but I'm a sucker for DVD extras, so I got this out for the commentary, which didn't tell me much that I didn't already know, so I'll be hanging on to my own unadorned copy.
Spies of Warsaw - Yes, I watched it for David Tennant. Other than that, it's your run-of-the-mill spy story. Decent acting.
Shakespeare High - This was a gem I spotted on the shelves at Pic a Flic and grabbed on a whim. It's a documentary about an annual competition put on by the Drama Teachers Association of Southern California. Teams of four from area high schools compete in compact interpretations of various Shakespeare plays. This has been going on for several decades and alumni of the programme include Richard Dreyfus, Kevin Spacey, Mare Winningham, and Val Kilmer, who all make an appearance. The film focuses on a sampling of schools: one from a rough neighbourhood, an all-girls Catholic, the school which has a history of producing famous actors, and the school from a remote small desert town which always seems to win. Good fun.
Angels in America - I saw this when it originally aired on television in 2003, but my children were quite young then and I lost bits to the bedtime routine. This time, I could give it my undivided attention. It's glorious and it's got Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep, and Al Pacino (among others) in multiple roles. If you haven't seen it, you really should, and not just for the girl-on-girl action between Thompson and Streep. (Although I'm sure there's a market for that out there somewhere...)
A Merry War - This is an odd film that I hadn't heard of, probably because it came out in 1997 and I was up to my neck in diapers and kindergarten. Also, the British title was Keep the Aspidistra Flying, which makes a helluva lot more sense than "merry war" -- don't know by which title it appeared in Canada, if at all. It's set in the 1930s and based on a novel by George Orwell. Not quite a drama, sort of an anti-rom-com with Richard E Grant and Helena Bonham Carter heading the usual rather wonderful British cast.
Elaine Stritch at Liberty - A 2002 performance of her one-woman show, filmed in London. Quite entertaining, of course, with an almost racy anecdote about Marlon Brando.
Insignificance (Criterion edition) - I'm not sure why I don't have this on my list of favourite films; it certainly has one of my favourite quotes: If I say "I know", I stop thinking. I first saw this film when I was taking my Master's and whenever one of my classmates jumped on her/his invisible soapbox, I thought: "S/he knows. S/he has stopped thinking." (To be fair, I do my share of soapbox-clambering.) The story takes place on a fictional night in 1954 when a famous blond sexy actress visits a famous wild-haired physicist while on the run from her famous and estranged baseball player husband. Oh yes, and the scientist is being harassed by a famous Communist-hunting senator. None of the characters is named, but you know who they're supposed to be. Once again, I got this mainly for the DVD extras which reminded me that the Cold War tensions of 1954 had something in common with the Cold War tensions of 1985, the year in which this film was released. In a neat twist, Tony Curtis, who knew Marilyn Monroe, plays the senator.
The Big C - I've been watching the odd episode of this on television complete with editing, bleeps and commercials. Such a relief to watch this black and unsentimental comedy without interruption (and with DVD extras such as deleted scenes and interviews). I adore Laura Linney, here a 42-year-old woman sandbagged with the news that she has Stage Four melanoma. Oliver Platt, another favourite of mine, plays her bewildered husband. All four seasons have aired, and now I've seen the first two seasons and am dying (a bad choice of word, I know) to see the final two. I rather suspect it doesn't end well, as there is no Stage Five.
The Descendants - I don't fancy George Clooney, but I think he appears in a number of rather fine films, and is a perfectly good actor. (O Brother Where Art Thou is on my aforementioned list of favourites.) I think this was up for an Oscar or two, but didn't win. It's a pleasure just the same, another difficult-to-categorize film about loss and family set in a Hawaii the tourists probably don't get to see.
Cradle Will Rock - This was one of my favourites from a past Persephone's Summer Film Festival -- probably in 2005. I wanted to see this again because 1) it isn't available at the Ottawa Public Library (it is in the Greater Victoria Public Library); 2) I had just seen another rather good film involving Orson Welles -- Me and Orson Welles which is available at the OPL; 3) I wanted DVD extras -- and didn't get them. It's a remarkable movie anyway, a huge cast directed by Tim Robbins playing out the historical context of an 1937 theatrical event that rung down the curtain on the Federal Theater Project.
The Mill and the Cross - I watched this at the end of my Victoria stay after having it out of the library for weeks. I was scared, because I had read the reviews and I am squeamish. On the other hand, I love Brueghel. And Michael York. When I finally summoned up the nerve to watch this (mainly because I was running out of time and the DVD was due back at the library), I was mesmerized. We enter the painting The Procession to Calvary three ways: as a living tableau visited by Breugel the Elder (Rutger Hauer) and his patron (York); as a typical day in Flanders in 1564; and finally, a contemporary Crucifixion. I meant to watch only twenty minutes of it, to avoid the violence I was fearing, and ended up watching the whole thing.
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In short? Skip the Marigold Hotel and the spies in Warsaw. See Stories We Tell, Angels in America, The Big C, and The Mill and the Cross.
Oh heck, see the others too.


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It appears that constantly meeting new people and being surrounded by beautiful and aloof people all the time simply takes its toll and isn't really helpful when it comes to keeping it in your pants.
Some celebrities on our list only had a onetime thing that went public, while others managed to even fall in love and to start a brand new relationship with that special someone else.
Hollywood is a cruel place to be in a serious relationship, even if you happen to be one of the most gorgeous celebs on the market.
1. Charlie Sheen (Cheated on Denise Richards)
It would be just plain wrong not to open with this guy. Charlie Sheen has done some pretty nasty stuff throughout his colorful career, but one of the craziest among them is definitely cheating on gorgeous Denise Richards.
The actress gained her status as a bombshell and very much pleased everyone's eyes the moment she appeared on big screen back in a 1998 hit "Wild Things" alongside Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell and Kevin Bacon, and at that time it was pretty much inconceivable that anyone would need something on the side when you are already having a piece of that.
Well, Charlie Sheen is not anyone. The actor decided Denise just wasn't enough, so he seduced his own assistant. No matter how beautiful she might have been, we doubt she was sexier than Denise.


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Archive for November, 2009
100th rock concert!
I saw the Pixies tonight! They were awesome! It was also the 100th rock concert I've been to (not counting local bands). RAD!!!! They did the entire "Doolittle" album, as well a a bunch of B-sides. They started by showing "Un Chien Andalou" on a screen behind the stage. They also showed pieces of it during the song "Debaser" (cuz it's about that movie). All in all, such a great show! It would have been better if (1) the dude next to me didn't reek heavily of hot greasy unwashed hair and (2) the couple in front of me didn't keep making out and thus blocking my view of the stage, but hey. you can't have everything! Seriously, though– the dude next to me smelled really bad. It didn't help that the venue itself smelled of old sponge with a hint of pee, either. Oh well!
In other news, Victor is no longer my significant other. Saw that one coming, didn't we? I don't know what his problem is. I think he's just messed up. Whatever. Don't have to deal with him anymore!
Caution: Whining Ahead
What priority do I expect to be in a relationship? certainly not #1. That never happens. I'm never more important than the dude's work. Work always comes first. Family should come second, but usually it doesn't, depending on how messed up a dude's family is. With Victor, family is way up there (parents and the like). His kid is up there, probably before parents, so I'm down to #4. Wait, he has a lot of friends that he likes to hang out with. I don't expect to be more important than friends; I'm always bitching about people who don't put bros before ho's, so why should i expect any different treatment? Then there are hobbies. I'd like to be at least equals with hobbies, but somehow I never am. With Victor, I'm definitely below hobbies (i.e., the Theramin he's building) and keep going. I'm less of a priority than sleeping; Victor is always tired and has to get his sleep. Then there's booze. Rather than call me after work to "unwind," he'd rather just bust out a bottle of whiskey.
So there you have it. I'm less important than 1. work 2. kids 3. parents & siblings 4. friends 5. hobbies 6. sleeping 7. booze. I'm #8. Wait, have I forgotten anything? I guess at least I'm in the top 10–that's more than I can say for where I stood in Saki's world! I'm used to being ignored and taken for granted, and in fact I HATE it when i get stuck with a clingy whiny leech like some exes. However, there has to be some kind of middle ground, right? Maybe not. This is probably nature's way of telling me I'm going to die alone and I should just deal with it. Truthfully, I'd rather be single for the rest of my life than have to deal with these extremes. Seriously.
2 Movie Day!
I was feeling kind of sad and lonely today. I don't know why; I just get like this. Perhaps it has something to do with my so-called boyfriend and how I've seen him for a total of about 4 hours in the past 3 weeks. Funny, the last one did that too. I got to thinking– what is it about me that makes dudes want to completely ignore me all the time? I'm not that annoying, I don't think. At least, *I* don't find myself that annoying. I think I'm pretty awesome, to tell you the truth. Anyway, the few men on earth who don't find me completely repulsive end up avoiding me for weeks on end. WTF?
So because of this I went to see a movie. I saw Where The Wild Things Are. Here's a word of advice: if you're feeling lonely and a little down, and feel like nobody listens to you and the world is a sucky place: DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE!! I don't know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't this. Don't get me wrong, I really liked it a lot. It was awesome. however, I found it to be a totally harrowing and painful nihilistic downer. It's about Max, a lonely boy with a busy divorced mother who feels like nobody pays attention to him. He "acts out" and annoys his mother. He finds a boat and sails to Where The Wild Things Are. The Wild Things are a commune of giant neurotic child-like beasts who are in the midst of all sorts of interpersonal strife. They think Max can help them. In the end, he just ends up making everything worse. The End. The Wild Things were like watching a gigantic hairy family reunion complete with cranky old Jews (two of the Wild Things were a couple named Ira and Judith), gross failures in communication, tears, fighting and various shades of awkward silence. My family doesn't actually ever have Wild Rumpuses, but perhaps I should introduce one!
When I got home, the last thing I wanted to do was work on my stupid vampire novel (yes, I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month), so I went and saw another movie: 2012. It was long, and had kind of boring stretches, but basically was the Disaster Movie To End All Disaster Movies. There was fire! There were volcanoes! There were earthquakes! There was stuff blowing up! There were airplanes in peril! There were tsunamis and flooding! The special effects were super awesome. The plot was thin and peppered with feel-good moments like any good disaster should have. Plus, in the end it turned out that after they saved all these rich people and heads of state, the only place on earth that wasn't destroyed by the flood waters was Africa, so everyone could go happily live there. Awesome.
Last week was the Week of Rock! Sunday I practiced with my theoretical "band"– it was really awesome. Every time I jam with people I feel like I evolve on the bass several levels. I actually picked out a bass line all by myself to go with what YuppieJeff the guitar guy was playing! Go, me!
Wednesday I went to Clinton to play Rock Band with Lil' Bitch– he just bought it (the video game). It is really fun. I've been playing the drums a lot in this game and it rules! I still can't play the guitar on it though, but singing is pretty rad.
I need to do more musical things. I could join the SCA dance band again; I have all the info on that. Or, I could join the old Renaissance ensemble again except for the fact that all the super cool people have died (seriously. I'm the junior member by at least 20 years in this group). Actually, Hope might still be in the group. I don't remember if she practiced on Tuesdays with everyone else. Hope is pretty rad.
All I know is that I need to get off my lazy butt and do something before the musical part of my brain atrophies.
Fun With Pets
My apartment is a feline vomitorium right now thanks to my lack of a kitchen. Let me elucidate… I don't have much counter space, so after I made a nice dinner of George Forman-grilled salmon, I had it on my plate and went to balance the plate on the tiny piece of counter I have. It went crashing to the floor, flaking into little bits. I rescued most of it, but the rest got in the carpet and the cats had a fish gobbling orgy before I could even reach for a rag to attempt to clean it up.
Now they are discovering that salmon doesn't really agree with them and are leaving me gooey little fishy-smelling presents all over the apartment. Oh boy do I love having pets right now!
On another note, I went to Norwood today to pick up a couple of African Dwarf frogs that Dana, this chick I know from Allston was giving away. Norwood is about 30.2 miles away on mostly highway and Google Maps estimated that it would take 39 minutes.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHA!!! I am laughing so hard right now! I'm delirious with laughter! It took me just short of an hour just to get on the non-Boston side of the Ted Williams tunnel! The entire way there I didn't go more than 40 MPH and most of the time I didn't even get out of second gear. Oy vey.
ANYWAY, I now have 2 adorable little frogs + 2 "janitor" snails that keep the tank clean.
I'm not sure what to name them. They ARE frogs, so I was thinking Olivier and Françoise. I was toying with Janet the Janitor for one snail and perhaps Jan the Janitor (Yon the Yonitor like Jan Hammer) for the other one. Hmm.
Oy vey.
So… per the bowl of water-bed thing below… guess who I dreamed about last night? VICTOR. He has never so much as made a cameo appearance in one of my dreams before! Hmmm.
New Computer!!!
Lil' Bitch came over yesterday to build me a new computer. I figured the time had come; my old computer had been acting annoying for a while. So, we went to micro Center and I bought a new motherboard & processor and some kick ass RAM that was on sale:
(it's so shiny!)
We got it all home… and the power supply on my old case wasn't compatible.
AND, the new motherboard didn't have enough IDE slots to accommodate my 2 hard drives + DVD-ROM drive.
AND, it didn't have an onboard video card, like we thought.
AND… what else? Oh yeah, we went and bought a SATA – IDE converter instead of an IDE to SATA converter by accident…
So, after several false starts and 4 trips to Micro Center I now have an awesome new computer that runs and is even running Windows 7, which seems pretty OK so far. Yay! It's SO FREAKING FAST!!!!!


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Tonight, I came heart to heart with a wounded heart. One that looked and felt like mine not long ago. My heart is still hard, dark, and wounded, by the way, but these days I'm way more inclined to weep profusely in prayer (Praise God) about its poor condition than rationalize and defend it.
Consider this malady called pride and a few of its choice manifestations. Not long ago, when I would be offended and had opportunity to vent my offenses, I proved harsh and ungracious--like the guy who was forgiven his million dollar debt only to choke the servant who owed him ten dollars. My ungracious spirit, wanting my offenders to pay, was cloaked in mild diplomatic rhetoric but inwardly I was a lion ready to bite off heads--because I was a slave to my hurt feelings.
And even though my tone of voice was relatively mild; the things I chose to focus on revealed my tone of heart was adversarial, weak, and self-righteous. The ladder reared its head in my compulsory need, in my arguing my case, to compare myself to others who offended me. That is pointing out how "unreal" and insincere they were juxtapose to how fearlessly honest and sincere I was. I took pride in my ability to "be honest."
In my mind, as long as I was keeping it real and being honest, I was justified in my all conclusions about the matter. Keeping it real and being honest is of the essence and utmost importance, of course, but the tone underneath my honesty was bitter and censorious. One didn't have to be too discerning to pick up on it.
It was obvious in the records of wrongs I kept. I was the sacrificed victim, of course. I gave and gave sacrificially of myself to no like exchange. Plus, I was 100% accurate in my version of the story. Conveniently forgetting the proverb that says it is foolish to come out blazing in your position without the HUMILITY to hear the other party's version. In other words, it is perfectly okay to say,
Hey when you did this, it made me feel like that--while being HUMBLE enough to be open to the slightest possibility that your feeling this way may just be about the condition of your heart and not an intentional offense. For many things can be done to hurt someone's feelings--UNINTENTIONALLY.
That said, often times feelings prove to be absolutely correct. But how different would the conversation go, if in saying how you honestly felt about something, you are not ascribing evil to the person at the same time? What if your heart was tender instead of hard when you communicated how you've been hurt? How well would it go over, if we kept in mind that we all stumble in many ways and are imperfect? How well would it go over if we could just accept "I'm sorry", turn the page, and begin new?
The foremost reason this is a dose of my own medicine is that recently I've had a very hard time forgiving someone who hurt me. When they said they were sorry, it wasn't good enough. I didn't believe them. And honestly, I still don't as there is hardcore evidence to suggest that I was accurate in concluding that they were NOT really sorry for or about me, but sorry over how embarrassing the matter made them feel and look in front of their valued peers. They were sorry for wasting more of their time.
Now that is okay with me--I saw and accepted what was and forgave as Christ gave me desire and power--genuinely wishing this person well. I even think I've grown in forgiveness to a point that I could be in the person's presence and enjoy them with no NEED or desire to recall the matter. I already pray affectionately for them. But at the time, I felt the nature of the situation demanded more--and so did my pride. I gave up so much; I trusted their word and they let me down big time. My anger and hurt were justified by all the spectators watching the situation. In other words, it was not just me or just in my mind. There was a cloud of witnesses, if you will, and a trail of similar fall out to confirm.
But when they said sorry, I judged their motive to be insincere, perfunctory, self-righteous and self serving--just like my friend did with me tonight. Even if we talked, my bitter heart would have poisoned them to death with a cocktail of my record of wrongs brewed from my hurt and misery.
With strong doses of self-righteousness and bitterness like I received tonight, the proverb that says everyone seems right in his own eyes until another comes and examines him--puts me in my place and sets a guard about my mouth. It makes me think twice about how I frame my concerns--even legitimate ones. How humiliated I've been when I had to concede that my version and perception of events were skewed by a hard, unclean heart--full of bitterness, envy, and self-righteousness!
While talking with this person tonight, I was horrified as I replayed the exact same critical stance I took with others (when I felt offended by them). How trapped, in my conclusions, I must have made them feel. I was trapped tonight. I felt defeated; like I could not win. I totally understood how they could have felt the way they did, but they were holding me to a standard that I didn't even know I was being expected to meet. But more than that, my friend was wrong in the conclusions they drew. Their conclusions about my actions were exaggerated based on partial information at best. It left them the victim of my implied selfishness as they didn't seem to concede how some of the legit conclusions they drew about my behavior were warranted by their critical "attitude." It felt very "tit for tat."
I was way more relaxed in the relationship and they were keeping score. I realized tonight that, like me at one point, I had been sized up and measured and didn't pass their constant tests of friendship. Instead of humbly telling me what they needed from me as a friend, they held it against me when I didn't deliver to their expectation. Not fair or fun and a way to set yourself up to be a very lonely person.
The scary thing about all this is such a hard approach to friendship is often rooted in unresolved hurts that morph into pride and self-righteousness because these feelings have no other outlet. There is no concept of forgiving and moving on--just because I CHOOSE to love and accept you when you are unacceptable. Or just because life is short--and in the grand scheme of things, this is trivial and not worth losing a solid friendship over. Because these type A personalities, of which I am a kind, follow all the rules, they do everything right the first time; therefore, they expect others to do the same. They are intolerant or impatient with those who do not follow the rules. Three strikes and you are out. They cut you off easily and quickly. They rarely look back and if they do, there will not be any movements of any kind toward reconciliation on their part. They are great responders but poor initiators. They are the elder brother in the story of the prodigal.
Legitimately wrong, yes, some of my offenders were, but I had to realize that we are all humans capable of horrible mistakes.
Therefore, I had to ask a hard question of myself and make a choice. First, am I not human, too, capable of the same errors? Second, the choice: Forgive or not to forgive? That was the question and bottom line if I wanted freedom. I had to do the hard work of struggling in prayer in order to get God's perspective on the situation or continue isolating myself and becoming a critic of all things good--like friendships. For make no mistake about it--these kind of personalities are UNHAPPY ISOLATED PEOPLE.
Another contemplation is I have to wonder if a large part of my being single has to do with the roar I left off when some unsuspecting person stepped on one of my landmines of insecurity or pride. For I actually remember someone responding to me the exact same way I responded to my friend's hardness toward me tonight.
You know when I brought up some past minor detail that the offender forgot, thought was resolved, or thought nothing of, I was "hurt" over it and ascribed an evil motive to it and used it as "Exhibit A" to justify why I'm right for feeling like I felt. Like them, I was horrified and perplexed. Again, I see why the Lord says we must be quick to forgive. It causes problems.
My lessons learned tonight are not new--just reinforced.
- As much as it depends upon you--let there be peace.
- Some relationships are for a season.
- Some people are not at the same level of abandon to Christ which is often the chief reason for relational breakdowns.
- Trust God with the lives of His own people and keep in step with Him.
- Don't be afraid to lose and let go.
- Learn how to hold my relationships--not to tight, not too loose.
- Be thankful for a light heart and one quick to turn the page--even if the other party refuses to turn it with me.
- It only takes one to forgive. It takes two to reconcile.
- Let God add to or subtract from my life.
- Let God choose my friends and He shall strengthen the ones that remain!


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Sydney Café Racers
Blitz Motorcycles
Hugo and Fred from Blitz Motorcycles have been sending us their bikes for years now. The funny thing is, we didn't really know much about them. We obviously knew they were French. We knew they were building some unconventional looking bikes out of a small garage in Paris. We also knew they loved leaving the rust, dents and original paint on the vintage tanks they use. But we didn't know much else. It's great to hear their story and the sacrifices they have been through to fulfil their dream of building motorcycles for a living. It's also great to see Hugo rocking a Sydney Café Racers trucker cap – the French being know for their impeccable taste in fashion.
Pipeburn and Sydney Café Racers – Group Ride
Here's something we haven't done in a very long while; a good old-fashioned group ride. It's been more than a year since we did our last one with the lads from Sydney Cafe Racers, and that was a bit of a wash out. Not being ones to take such metrological insults lying down, we have decided to get together and do it all over again. And this time we're inviting you.
So what do you have to do to join the fray? If you live in Sydney and you are free this coming Sunday, the 17th of February then all you have to do is meet us at Audley car park in the Royal National Park at 9am. From there we'll cruise down south for a spot of lunch in Kangaroo Valley. Easy. All bikes types and skill levels are welcome. There will be a support vehicle, photographers and a film crew on the day. More details here. Feel free to ask questions in the comments below.
(As always, sorry to our interstate and international readers. If you start pulling your bike apart now and sending it via FedEx, you just might make it in time.)
Photos: "On One Particular Sunday"
Ever had a day, riding or otherwise, that ends up etched into your petroleum-stained brain and a kind of surreal movie that you can't believe actually happened? The days where completely without the aid of silly biscuits, you have to think twice about them just to make sure that you aren't about to relate the experience to someone as if it was a real life event when it was in fact just a dream that your memory cortex hadn't filed properly. The days where you just suddenly get this moment of crystalline clarity burst into your head like a sniper's bullet from a thousand yards and you ask yourself, "how the Keith Richards did I get here?" The days where you are just waiting for some unseen director to yell "cut" and then you suddenly see behind the facades and through the fog and realise that it's all a show for a secret audience and somehow you have been in the starring role all along. Have you? We all did. It was last Sunday, and it was pretty fucking strange to put it mildly. Weird weather, weird bikes, weird people. Weird scenes inside the goldmine? Almost, my friend, almost. Cut.
PS. Many thanks to the Sydney Cafe Racer crew for staring along side us. Next time bring the sun with you.
Photos: Sydney Café Racers Royal National Park Run
I was lucky enough to get an invite to tag along with the uber fun Mister Mark Hawwa and his band of merry Sydney Cafe Racers rebel rousers (yes, them again) last Sunday for their first ever ride-out. Unfortunately Scott couldn't make it (he has his macramé classes every Sunday morning) so I was left holding the fort, or handlebars and camera in this case. Though not at the same time. Mostly. There were some silly cool bikes along for the ride, including the super slick Matt Machine Yamaha XS with her new owner Rob – but more on them soon. In the meantime, here's the best of snaps. We please hope you do like very muchly.


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in trying to mount an iso torrent file (without security scaning) the iso app window it srarted overtaking and altering all the programs in my laptop (signs of virus infection)
From then on no exe. file opens i can't run anything.... any sugestions?
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You apparently downloaded an infected file from the torrents. It happens all the time. Why wouldn't you scan it 1st? You will likely have to create an AV Rescue disc on another PC, then boot off it on the infected PC to wipe out the virus(es) from outside of Windows.
Another way.
Run ESET Online Scanner, Copy and Paste the contents of the log in your reply please. This scan may take a very long while, so please be patient. Maybe start it before going to work or bed.
Make sure these options are checked/ticked in Advanced settings.
Remove found threats, Scan archives, Scan for potentially unsafe applications, Enable Anti-Stealth technology.
If your comp is unbootable, or won't let you download, you will have to download ESET from a good computer, put it on a flash/thumb/pen/usb drive & run it from there.
Create a ESET SysRescue CD or USB drive
How do I use my ESET SysRescue CD or USB flash drive to scan and clean my system?
Configure ESET this way & disable your AV.
How to Temporarily Disable your Anti-virus
3: Which web browsers are compatible with ESET Online Scanner?
Online Scanner not working
My ESET product detected a threat—what should I do?
Once onto a machine, malware can disable antivirus programs, prevent antimalware programs from downloading updates, or prevent a user from running antivirus scans or installing new antivirus software or malware removal tools. At this point even though you are aware the computer is infected, removal is very difficult.
5: Why does the ESET Online Scanner run slowly on my computer?
If you have other antivirus, antispyware or anti-malware programs running on your computer, they may intercept the scan being performed by the ESET Online Scanner and hinder performance. You may wish to disable the real-time protection components of your other security software before running the ESET Online Scanner. Remember to turn them back on after you are finished.
17: How can I view the log file from ESET Online Scanner?
The ESET Online Scanner saves a log file after running, which can be examined or sent in to ESET for further analysis. The path to the log file is "C:\Program Files\ESET\EsetOnlineScanner\log.txt" (on 64-bit systems this directory will be "C:\Program Files (x86)\ESET\Esetonlinescanner\log.txt"). You can view this file by navigating to the directory and double-clicking it in Windows Explorer, or by copying and pasting the path specification above (including the quotation marks) into the Start > Run dialog box from the Start Menu on the Desktop.
If no threats are found, you will simply see an information window that no threats were found.
To Johnw
Thanks for a prompt responce,...
i"ve used the first url http://www.eset.com/us/online-scann... and i agreed to save the download in a folder
i clicked the open choice and i follow-up to RUN it
but a window popted-up asking what application should i use to opene it...it looks like a "cach 22" loop here, it das'nt run the "eset " app.
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That's why it's best to do it from outside of Windows by using a bootable rescue disc.
I'm with riider on this. Why would you give a computer virus the option to fight back?
"and i agreed to save the download in a folder"
That's why I gave you the option to run from a flash/thumb/pen/usb drive.
Create a ESET SysRescue CD or USB drive
How do I use my ESET SysRescue CD or USB flash drive to scan and clean my system?
Configure ESET this way & disable your AV.
How to Temporarily Disable your Anti-virus
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Try the EXE file association fix for Vista from here:
It's a .reg file not an exe so you can use the Merge option to install it. Instructions are on that page. I doubt it'll fix everything but if that association is fixed you can run virus and malware scans that should help.