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Saturday, September 5, 2009
love songs
justin timberlake just made all my teenage dreams come true.
i don't know what else to say, i'll never wash my dirty feet again? :D
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omg even JT loves you you lucky gurl :)))ReplyDelete
we all can't get enough of your romatic quirky world hannah & landon <3
you two are one step closer to taking over the world with your amazing lifestyle :)ReplyDelete
x Ingrid
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2009 at 4:56 AM
WOW that is exciting!! he wrote such sweet things, it made me love your blog even mooore!ReplyDelete
oh my god. this is amazing, it almost made me cry at its cuteness!!ReplyDelete
haha his songs are dirty but his blogging is really gay. How nice of him. I actually feel the same way, but I have no lyricism.ReplyDelete
hahahahaha this is SO funny! haha,really crazy thing...Justin if you come over my blog,leave me a comment <3ReplyDelete
OH MY GOD. that's really bizarre and sweet and funny!! i love that he loves your dirty feet.ReplyDelete
OH MY GOSH. you are so lucky. and you so deserved it(:ReplyDelete
my respect for justin timberlake just increased trifold.ReplyDelete
my respect has also increased for jt as well. wow. funny, but extremely kind.ReplyDelete
oh my gosh.ReplyDelete
you two are royalty!
That is so crazy! I am jealous. I feel like this deserves congratulations! Once upon a long time ago, I made Justin Timberlake buttons and sold them on my livejournal. Landon might remember that.ReplyDelete
Ps. Holly said she met you in NY and may be seeing you again soon. I am even more jealous of that.
you two ARE the cutest, even JT knows. I was surprised at how down to earth and beautiful his words were. Just another reason to <3 him! Congrats cuties!ReplyDelete
are you fucking serious??!ReplyDelete
pretty dreamy, yeah?ReplyDelete
alyson - we did meet! she's lovely! i hope she left out the part where i introduced myself twice and was completely out of it :( too much travel has destroyed me! when will you be coming for a visit?
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
WOW!!! that's awesome.ReplyDelete
That is so extremely great!!ReplyDelete
oh gosh I don't know! you're living in new york now, aren't you? I am leaving for germany in two weeks, but have been missing the city so much lately. perhaps I can visit sometime after christmas!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM
this just blew my mind! sooo good xx LoulouReplyDelete
Dood, what?!? Everything about this just blew my mind.ReplyDelete
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! Justin Timberlake loves you!!!!ReplyDelete
Hello Friends! I do my best to respond to all of your thoughtful comments on your blogs, I apologize in advance if this is not always done in the most timely manner! Thank you for reading!

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text: I will be turning a quarter century this Tuesday. Birthdays have always been special to me, so when Colton's rolled around this year we took a day to ourselves and just celebrated. I planned a surprise day in Fort Worth: we waited in line for some delicious BBQ, explored a new area of the city, and hung out at a brewery. So as my birthday started nearing and Colton started keeping secrets, I knew he was planning something. He revealed his plans on Friday night, and we spent yesterday celebrating. His plans involved going back to Highland Park where we took our engagement pictures, having lunch at TNT (Tacos and Tequila) in uptown, grabbing coffee, getting pedicures and manicures, and then coming home to change and finishing up the night by having pre-dinner appetizers at UMBRA Winery in downtown Grapevine and then dinner at BRIO Tuscan Grille. The entire day was special and we had such a great time together celebrating the start of another year for me. Cheers!


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Art Symposium in Yelabuga
In the end of June (20-29) I took part in the XI International Art Symposium on modern art organized by the Yelabuga State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve.
Yelabuga is one of the largest cities of the Republic of Tatarstan, with a huge history formed by the different ethnic groups (Finno-Ugric, Turkic and Slavic) and religions who lived here. Also Yelabuga is the hometown of the world famous painter Ivan Shishkin.
The purpose of this international symposium is the "approval of interest to cultural traditions of peoples as an important part of national identity in modern art through the popularization of ethnic folklore in modern Russian and foreign artists' painting and drawing." During these 9 days, beside the actual work, we visited art and history museums, national parks, historical ruins, took part in master classes, open discussions, and least, but not last, get to know each other, each others art better.
The symposium first gained its international status in 2010 and since it was attended by the artists from 18 countries, such as: Canada, Serbia, Ukraine, Montenegro, Scotland, Egypt, China, India, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Russia. This year artists from Russia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Czech Republic and Belarus took part in the symposium. This multiculturalism inspired the name of the symposium – "Yelabuga Ark".
Organizers of the Symposium include: The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, Yelabuga State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve.
This years' theme was: "The sacredness of folk songs". The themes include artistic interpretation of songs dedicated to the historical events, folk, epic songs, lullabies, couplets and so on.
All works created during the symposium by its participants were exhibited at the Yelabuga State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, and then given to the funds of Yelabuga State Museum-Reserve for replenishing the museum fund of the Russian Federation.
I must thank again the organizers for inviting me to the symposium. I've spent an amazing 9 days in Tatarstan and made a lot of new friends, who I hope to see again as soon as possible!


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As news filters out from the first riders to hit the boards at the new Olympic velodrome that it is possibly the world's fastest, elsewhere in London the fight goes on to save what is undoubtedly one of the most historic.
Built in 1891, Herne Hill Velodrome is the sole surviving venue from the 1948 London Olympics and as they battle to guarantee its survival, the Save the Velodrome campaign has just gone live with a new website.
The campaign has quickly gathered momentum since its launch in October last year and news is expected of further positive developments later this week. Stay tuned!


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This year, at our Halloween Party, more than anything, I wanted an absolute avalanche of pumpkins all around the house. By now, everyone has seen those foam pumpkins for sale at Michael's, the Dollar Store, and everywhere else.
There are dozens of cute tutorials one Pinterest and other places for decorating them and dressing them up. I went a little crazy this year, because I wanted to create the above-pictured avalanche of pumpkins around the house.
So, I attempted 4 different types of decorated pumpkins. Three turned really well. One experiment went very badly, and I ended up tossing it, and buying the same thing pre-made.
These are the three I successfully made myself:
All three start with a foam pumpkin, of course.
For this one, I bought some black ribbon flecked with orange. And I found a scrap of fine burlap in the scrap pile at Michael's. I shredded the edges myself by making tiny cuts around the edge, and pulling out the threads between. Once I had created a thick "ribbon with a shredded edge" I simply hot glue it in place. Then I tied the black ribbon around it, tied a bow, and glue that in place too.
The next one was even easier. Again, I started with ribbon from Micheal's, and just ran it down the crevices in the pumpkin sides, hot gluing at the top and bottom of each. Man, did it come out dramatic! Kind of like a cross between a pumpkin and a spider.
The third one was a bit more involved. I had a pair of fishnet hose with a tear. so I wrapped them around the pumpkin and tied a knot at the top and cut it off. They did not make it easy! Also, it did not follow the contours of the pumpkin down into the middle divet by the stem. I had to glue it in place to get it to do so. Then, there was a bunch of glue at the top. SO I used some extra ribbon to cover it up. BY far the hardest of the three. But it also looks the coolest!
Finally, I attempted to pull off the now-ubiquitous glitter pumpkin. All I can say i s- those tutorials were not meant for foam pumpkins! the spray glue sort of melted off the paint, and I proceeded to get glitter all over our deck and living room. They looked awful, and ended up in the trash. And I bought some for $2 each at Michael's instead.
Here is the end result of my pumpkin adventures – a house full of pumpkin cascades!


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BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowls
Y'all know I love my "bowl" meals! Everything you need in one easy to eat (and transport) bowl, no need to worry about what side dishes go with what. Plus, they're easy for you to customize if you have special dietary needs. Today's BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowls is even more awesome because it's actually quite delicious either hot or cold. So, all of you who don't have access to a microwave at work, this one is for you!
I bought a rotisserie chicken this week and am using one of the breasts for all four bowls. If you don't have a rotisserie chicken, you can cook up a boneless, skinless breast quickly in something like a George Foreman Grill, chop it up, then mix it with the BBQ sauce as I did with mine.
Not into chicken? No worries. I think roasted sweet potato cubes would make an awesome addition to this dish and a nice filling alternative to the chicken. Here are some other fun add-ins that go along with the BBQ theme if you don't like one of the other ingredients I used: pineapple, diced red bell pepper, jalapeño, red onion, corn chips or tortilla strips.
BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowls
BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowls
- 1 cooked chicken breast* ($1.50)
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce ($0.53)
- 4 cups cooked rice ($0.88)
- 15 oz can black beans ($1.00)
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed ($0.44)
- 1 small zucchini ($0.58)
- 4 oz pepper jack cheese ($1.00)
- 2 green onions ($0.20)
- 1 small avocado ($1.00)
- Chop or shred the chicken breast and mix with 2-3 tablespoons of BBQ sauce until the meat is well coated.
- Drain and rinse the black beans. Cut the zucchini into small cubes (1/4-1/2"), shred the pepper jack, slice the green onions, and pit and slice the avocado.
- To build the bowls, place 1 cup cooked rice in the bottom of each bowl. Divide the chicken, beans, corn, zucchini, shredded cheese, green onions, and avocado slices equally among all four bowls. Drizzle one more tablespoon of BBQ sauce over top and serve, or refrigerate until ready to eat.
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Prepare 4 cups of cooked rice, if you don't already have it on hand (FYI extra rice freezes really well, so you can always have cooked rice on hand).
Chop or shred the chicken breast. Rinse and drain the black beans, cut the zucchini into small cubes, slice the green onion, shred the pepper jack, and pit and slice the avocado.
Add 2-3 Tbsp BBQ sauce to the chicken and stir until it's well coated in sauce.
Then just build your bowls! Place 1 cup of the cooked rice in the bottom of each bowl and then divide the remaining ingredients equally among each bowl. Drizzle about 1 Tbsp more BBQ sauce over top. (I didn't say it, but ranch will also go really well with this bowl).
I packed mine into resealable containers to keep in the fridge for easy lunches the rest of the week (the messy looking one on the bottom right is the one that was in the bowl in the photos above. :P)
Nommers! ❤ BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowls ❤


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Thursday March 20 2014
The smiles on their faces can be deceptive. They appear lively and determined to make it to the top as elite athletes.
Every morning, they wake up to train with the hope of flying Uganda's flag in international competitions. But some of these national long distance runners are nursing deep wounds in their hearts.
In the aftermath of the Africa Cross-country Championships held at Kololo Airstrip where Uganda performed below average, several female athletes have accused a national coach of harassing them sexually and physically. Daily Monitor has withheld the coach's identity for legal reasons.
The female runners spent a month camping in Kapchorwa alongside their male counterparts preparing for the continental competition, which was dominated by Kenya on Sunday. Three male coaches conducted the camp.
"He would wake up in the middle of the night and come to our room," a runner told Daily Monitor but preferred anonymity for the fear of being reprimanded. "He threatened to chase us from camp if we ever said anything or turned him down. We didn't have any female coach to run to. It was horrible," the female runner added. "On some days, he would call one or two of us to his nearby house. If you refused to do what he wanted, he would beat you up."
The coach's actions put him at loggerheads with his other two counterparts and team captain Moses Kipsiro.
But it's only Kipsiro who took it upon himself to save the girls from the horrifying ordeal.
"When one of the girls confided in me, I was so bitter," Kipsiro, who finished 10th in the 12km senior men's race, revealed. "I confronted him but that resulted in a big wrangle. What I discovered after engaging the girls was so shocking. One day, I think it was March 4th; he gathered the junior women's team in a secret place and told them that to run well, they must have sex or give birth.
His theory was that if a woman's private parts are wide, their legs move easily. I was so shocked to hear such silly talk. Unfortunately some people believe he is a good coach. They continue to defend him," Kipsiro added.
Junior runners are aged 19 or younger. Three of the girls confirmed to Daily Monitor that the coach advised them to engage in sexual activity and get pregnant.
Kipsiro is furious that the Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) didn't assign a female coach to handle the women athletes in camp.
"There is no way male coaches can handle females. I have been in running for a long time but I haven't seen something like this in my life. I even feel ashamed to talk about some of the things that happened in that camp. We were told there are very few female coaches in Uganda but that can't be an excuse," the former world 5,000m bronze medalist, said. UAF general secretary Beatrice Ayikoru refused to admit that it was a mistake not to send a female coach to the camp.
"In most cases when we have senior women athletes in camp, we ask them to take care of their junior counterparts," Ayikoru told us on Monday. "But those accusations against the coach are false. I met the athletes in Kampala and no one mentioned such a thing."
The runners though revealed they had informed UAF verbally and through a letter, copied to other authorities including Central Police Station (CPS).
Daily Monitor obtained a copy of the letter, dated January 21, 2014. In the letter, the athletes claim that the coach has for many years engaged in uncouth behaviour.
"He has been persuading our ladies to get pregnant and abort at three months so they can run better," the letter, typed in broken English, reads in part. "He is the reason, Uganda is not performing better on the side of ladies," added the letter.
It is also copied to the RDC-Kapchorwa, Chairman LC5 Kapchorwa, DPC Kapchorwa and Assistant IGP Andrew Sorowen.
Ayikoru and Sorowen, the director of general duties in Uganda Police, both denied knowledge of the letter. "I haven't seen the letter but will inquire from my people at office in case they have come across it," Sorowen noted. "But I have heard about the rumours.
I never believe in rumours though. That's why I want to go there (Kapchorwa) and find out what is on the ground. I would have gone there earlier but I didn't want to interfere with the athletes' residential training," added Sorowen, who was hugely involved in the awards ceremony during the Sunday event. For long, the athletes, most of them naïve, claimed they have tried to seek help in vain.
"UAF promised to deal with the matter but there is no hope because some of the officials support the coach," one of the runners, offered.
On Monday, after they checked out of Imperial Royale Hotel where they had stayed for four days and freed themselves from the watchful eyes of UAF officials, the aggrieved runners said they went to CPS but left without making a statement.
They claimed they were made to wait for far too long at the station. One of the runners said they then headed to Makerere University police post where they met Robert Chelimo, the OC CID. Chelimo hails from Sebei Region like most of the aggrieved athletes. Chelimo, however, told Daily Monitor he was busy and couldn't meet the runners.
"There was a strike at the university which we were trying to quell. The runners called me and said they had an issue to discuss with me but I couldn't meet them. I got some time in the evening but they had left. They were impatient and wanted to travel back to Kapchorwa," Chelimo said. "But I am going to find time and get in touch with them on phone and find out what's wrong."
Kipsiro led the athletes for a meeting with the Kapchorwa RDC and LC5 chairman yesterday.


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Book reviews
Albert Einstein once said 'Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.' This, in my opinion, also applies to reading programming books. However, it seems that programmers today have stopped reading books. Instead they use sites like StackOverflow side by side with their IDE and feast on collective wisdom of the internet. Don't get me wrong, I like sites like StackOverflow and they helped me many times, but the impact of using solely this approach to solving problems without any deeper thought or further studying has certain crippling effect on us, programmers. In one of the most legendary books in our field, Peopleware, authors DeMarco and Lister uncover ugly truth that:
The average software developer, for example, doesn't own a single book on the subject of his or her work, and hasn't ever read one. That fact is horrifying for anyone concerned about the quality of work in the field; for folks like us who write books, it is positively tragic.
For me, reading books is a great way to improve my skills and to absorb the knowledge collected by more skilled and advanced professionals then I am. But reading alone is not enough. To truly advance one must be able to question his believes and put them to the test to see what is really best and also be willing to change. This process takes time and effort but the resulting improvement is a great reward for this investment. Books are usually best resources to study and advance since a lot of afford and collective knowledge were put in their production. By reading good books one can explore the minds of great people in our field and explore their way of thinking and solving problems.
Having said that I welcome you to my collection of reviews of the books I have read. I hope this will help you decide whether something is worth reading or not or simply provide a helpful tips for some useful books to read.


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Too many people these days tell us the importance of "self-love."
But, what does this really mean, anyway? And how does one really do this, in a practical, day-to-day way?
Ayurveda, the ancient Indian science of health promotion and disease prevention, has many wonderful insights for the meaning and practice of self-love.
Ayurveda explores three primary relationships in life. One is our relationships with objects, including our car, clothes, computers, phones, televisions and teddy bears. Another primary relationship we all have are those with other people. This is where family members, friends, partners, colleagues and acquaintances come into the picture. Then, there is a third relationship Ayurveda teaches us about the importance of cultivating. This is the relationship we have with our own higher self.
Developing a strong foundation of a relationship with our higher self is critical not only to our spiritual journey, but to the prevention of many diseases, as Ayurveda recognizes the role that adverse relationships play in the creation of health problems of all kinds.
Many of us, sadly, never even become aware of the possibilities associated with nurturing this third relationship. Or, we may hear about how important it is to "love ourselves," but no one really tells us how to do this.
Like so many of us, from a young age, I, too, was conditioned to believe that everything I sought, everything worth having, exists outside of myself. So I spent exorbitant amounts of time, energy and resources trying to manifest love, safety, health, and happiness from some socially acceptable external source, whether that was my work, achievements, relationships or even through giving and service.
Developing a "designer relationship" with our own Self is really exciting, because, in doing so, we not only prevent all sorts of imbalances; we actually get to learn to fill ourselves up with what really matters.
I have found that, in mindfully cultivating a relationship with my own higher self, I am no longer so hungry for the approval, love and attention of others. My ongoing studies of Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedanta have revealed to me that my own higher Self is the eternal source of all the love, safety, happiness, health and hope I seek in my life.
Here is my personal list of the top five practices that help me connect to those higher aspects of my own being: Continue reading


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Founder's Cup Tournament
Please join us for the 2018 Founder's Cup Tournament on Saturday, September 22 at 11:00 Rules review by Umpire Dan Healy at 10 am Admission is Free Lunch Tickets $20
Founder's Cup Information
Come play with us! The 23rd Annual Founder's Cup Tournament is coming up next weekend! We'll kick off Saturday (9/22) with a rules review from USPA Umpire Dan Healy at 10am. Games will commence at 11am (the schedule of games and teams will be published on Friday). This year, the festivities will continue on Sunday with a 2 hour classroom style Umpire Clinic starting at 9:30am. This is a great way to learn more Read more…
Polo Arena Improvements
With a generous contribution from the Shanahan Family, to the Horse Park's Capital Campaign Fundraiser, the Polo Arena has been spruced up and improved with new viewing structures, official's booth and a newly installed electronic scoreboard. This will add excitement to the games as scores will be electronically posted remotely from the official's booth and the time clock on the scoreboard will visibly count down the minutes remaining in each Chukker. In May, Read more…
2013 Founder's Cup Tournament – Sept 7th
On Saturday, September 7th the Horse Park Polo Club will be holding its annual Founder's Cup Arena Polo Tournament. Please join us for a fabulous day of polo, lunch and great fun. Date: Saturday, 9/7/2013 Time: 10:30am to 3:00pm Location: Horse Park Polo Club 3674 Sand Hill Road Woodside, CA 94062 Spectators: Free Lunch Fee: $20 Player Fee: $75 (includes lunch, umpires and trophies for winning teams) To register, email your name, USPA handicap and # of chukkers (2 Read more…
Order HPPC Team Shirts
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Both Adults and your children follow your example! Praised be Jesus Christ! St Alphonsus tells us that he, as a child, saw his father and mother kneeling, and praying the Rosary, and going to confession, was he formed to a life worthy of God. In Our Lord Jesus and Mary Immaculate, Fr Stephen


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Good food, good wine and good friends. A perfect weekend in the Niagara Peninsula. These photos were taken at Good Earth Winery where we had an amazing dinner on the patio. I felt like I was back in Europe!
Thanks for following and happy shopping!
Dress: Zara - $30, Belt: Anthropologie - $45, Sunglasses: Presence - $16, Necklace: Stella & Dot - $70, Heels: Forever 21 - $32, Clutch: Thrifted - $3, Earrings: Nomadic Ant - $33, Hat: Borrowed.
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If the success of date night revolved around spending a lot of money, 99% of us would be single. Be smart, be strategic, and go out to a meal that has good food and good vibes without breaking the bank. We'd say just be yourself, but, let's qualify that and say only be the good parts of yourself.
Here are 16 affordable restaurants that will win over any date.
the spots
La Scarola
It's best to put yourself and your date in a situation where you can both loosen up, and La Scarola will help you do just that. It's our favorite old-school Italian spot where you can settle in over a bunch of pasta and wine. And the key to any successful relationship is more wine.
Spacca Napoli
Pizza for a date? Oh yes, pizza for a date. If you're going out with someone who doesn't like pizza, then you shouldn't be going out with that person at all. Spacca Napoli is the perfect Neapolitan style pizza place where you can easily have a conversation, but it's also upbeat enough so you don't have to worry about awkward silence. If the date sucks, at least you'll be eating some of the best pizza and burrata in town.
Big Jones
Southern Comfort isn't just a sh*tty liquor, it's a lifestyle. And while Chicago is as Yankee as you can get, Big Jones is bringing a bit of Southern charm to Andersonville. You're charming in your own right, so show that side of yourself over a meal here.
Date night doesn't have to be so serious, so keep things lighthearted and fun at Kimski where you can bond over Korean-Polish bar food and quality drinks. If poutine with kimchi beer gravy doesn't set you up for a successful night then it was doomed from the start.
Topo Gigio Ristorante
There's something we like to talk about here at The Infatuation called The Feel Good Factor™. The Feel Good Factor™ is reserved for places that make us happy, and Topo Gigio is one of those places. It's easygoing Italian food in a friendly and familiar environment. You'll be happy, your date will be happy, and hopefully the two of you will live happily ever after. Good luck.
Pub Royale
There are a lot of great Indian restaurants in Chicago, but none are really great for a date night. But Pub Royale is perfect for a date, and it's serving Indian-inspired food with a British pub vibe. Eat some mussels with naan and cucumber raita alongside the delicious house cocktails, and then try and taste your date's tongue.
If you're caught in between wanting to take someone to dinner or drinks, hedge your bet at Moneygun. It's a cool cocktail bar in Fulton Market that will make you seem in the know, but there's also a menu with reasonably priced small plates and a couple sandwiches. If things are going well, suggest sharing food. If he or she is a vegan, skip the food and run as fast as you can. Sorry, vegans.
Saint Lou's Assembly
Nature is fantastic, particularly in a city. And by nature we mean a patio in the midst of a lot of concrete where you can sit outside and enjoy nice weather. So take this potentially special person to St. Lou's Assembly, the 1950's style meat and three cafeteria that has a great backyard. An entree and three sides is less than $20, and it will hopefully lead to a blossoming courtship like Danny and Sandy on a summer night.
Davanti Enoteca
Nothing says romance like a fine Italian restaurant, but fine Italian also screams expensive. Go with the in-between Italian instead, meaning nice enough to sit and hang but not so nice it'll bleed you dry. That's what makes Davanti in Little Italy an ideal date spot - it has the charm of a classy Italian restaurant without the high costs. Hopefully your date has similar style.
Before you start planning trips to the Greek islands with someone you barely know, test the waters over Mediterranean food at Ēma first. A few small plates like spicy hummus, crispy halloumi and dates, and chicken kefta are a much more reasonable commitment than a couple of plane tickets.
Cold Storage
Cold Storage won't be affordable if you blow all your money on a couple dozen oysters, but everything else on the menu is very reasonable. Stick to the plain pieces of fish, sandwiches, and a few other entrees like clams and chorizo while you sit at the bar and try to figure each other out. Then again, oysters are an aphrodisiac, so you can always go that route.
90 Miles Cuban Cafe
Hit 90 Miles to do it big on a Friday or Saturday without having to spend your entire month's paycheck. The Cuban entrees are all less than $20, music is lively, and it's BYOB. Bring a decent bottle of red to mix with their great sangria mix and don't be afraid to share your feelings.
Mott St.
Mott Street isn't a guaranteed cheap meal, but there are are a lot of ways to pull it off. You only need a good mix of three or four shared plates to fill you up, and the interesting Asian flavors make that more than possible. Try the "everything" wings that taste like an everything bagel, kimchi and oaxaca cheese empanadas, and boat noodles in a beef shank broth that are incredible. The dining area is usually fun and loud, but there's an excellent patio that's more quiet.
Keep it simple with a tried and true cocktail bar like Scofflaw. The drinks are excellent, the bar food is always way above average, and they serve free chocolate chip cookies at midnight if you can make it that far. Hopefully you can make it that far because chocolate chip cookies should be the key to anyone's heart/pants.
Green Street Smoked Meats
Nothing will impress another person like proving you can eat a couple pounds of brisket. Alright, maybe not, but that doesn't mean you can't take a date to Green Street Smoked Meats. The Texas-style BBQ spot has a cool warehouse vibe where you can eat casual food off a tray and linger for drinks at a picnic bench. Not the creepy kind of lingering, but the let's keep hanging out and keep talking to each other lingering.


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Negligence has been defined as the failure to observe for the protection of the interests of another person that degree of care, precaution, and vigilance which the circumstances justly demand, whereby such other person suffers injury.[34]
The elements of simple negligence: are (1) that there is lack of precaution on the part of the offender; and (2) that the damage impending to be caused is not immediate or the danger is not clearly manifest.[35]
The standard test in determining whether a person is negligent in doing an act whereby injury or damage results to the person or property of another is this: could a prudent man, in the position of the person to whom negligence is attributed, foresee harm to the person injured as a reasonable consequence of the course actually pursued? If so, the law imposes a duty on the actor to refrain from that course or to take precautions to guard against its mischievous results, and the failure to do so constitutes negligence. Reasonable foresight of harm, followed by the ignoring of the admonition born of this provision, is always necessary before negligence can be held to exist.[36]
In Philippine National Construction Corporation v. Court of Appeals,[37] the petitioner was the franchisee that operates and maintains the toll facilities in the North and South Luzon Toll Expressways. It failed to exercise the requisite diligence in maintaining the NLEX safe for motorists. The lighted cans and lane dividers on the highway were removed even as flattened sugarcanes lay scattered on the ground. The highway was still wet from the juice and sap of the flattened sugarcanes. The petitioner should have foreseen that the wet condition of the highway would endanger motorists passing by at night or in the wee hours of the morning.[38] Consequently, it was held liable for damages.
In an American case, Hernandez v. Lukas,[39] a motorist traveling within the speed limit and did all was possible to avoid striking a child who was then six years old only. The place of the incident was a neighborhood where children were playing in the parkways on prior occasions. The court ruled that it must be still proven that the driver did not exercise due care. The evidence showed that the driver was proceeding in lawful manner within the speed limit when the child ran into the street and was struck by the driver's vehicle. Clearly, this was an emergency situation thrust upon the driver too suddenly to avoid.
In this case, the courts below zeroed in on the fact that petitioner did not stop the jeepney when he felt the bouncing of his vehicle, a circumstance which the appellate court equates with negligence. Petitioner contends that he did not immediately stop because he did not see anybody go near his vehicle at the time of the incident.[40]
Assuming arguendo that petitioner had been negligent, it must be shown that his negligence was the proximate cause of the accident. Proximate cause is defined as that which, in the natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient, intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have
- [41] In order to establish a motorist's liability for the negligent operation of a vehicle, it must be shown that there was a direct causal connection between such negligence and the injuries or damages complained of. Thus, negligence that is not a substantial contributing factor in the causation of the accident is not the proximate cause of an injury.[42]
The head injuries sustained by Dayata at the point of impact proved to be the immediate cause of his death, as indicated in the post-mortem findings.[43] His skull was crushed as a result of the accident. Had petitioner immediately stopped the jeepney, it would still not have saved the life of the victim as the injuries he suffered were fatal.
The evidence on record do not show that the jeepney dragged the victim after he was hit and run over by the jeepney. Quite the contrary, the evidence discloses that the victim was not dragged at all. In fact, it is the other way around. Bongolto narrated that after the impact, he saw Dayata left behind the jeepney.[44] Actub saw Dayata in a prone position and bleeding within seconds after impact.[45] Right after the impact, Mellalos immediately jumped out of the jeepney and saw the victim lying on the ground.[46] The distance of 5.70 meters is the length of space between the spot where the victim fell to the ground and the spot where the jeepney stopped as observed by the trial judge during the ocular inspection at the scene of the accident.[47]
Moreover, mere suspicions and speculations that the victim could have lived had petitioner stopped can never be the basis of a conviction in a criminal case.[48] The Court must be satisfied that the guilt of the accused had been proven beyond reasonable doubt.[49] Conviction must rest on nothing less than a moral certainty of the guilt of the accused. The overriding consideration is not whether the court doubts the innocence of the accused but whether it entertains doubt as to his guilt.[50]
Clearly then, the prosecution was not able to establish that the proximate cause of the victim's death was petitioner's alleged negligence, if at all, even during the second stage of the incident.
Therefore, petitioner must be acquitted at least on reasonable doubt. The award of damages must also be deleted pursuant to Article 2179 of the Civil Code which states that when the plaintiff's own negligence was the immediate and proximate cause of his injury, he cannot recover damages.


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by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths … All images in this article © Yaakov Naumi/Flash90
A Digg grabs a photoset from an interesting photographer, Yaakov Naumi. Mr. Naumi is a charedi ultra-orthodox Jew from Israel, and specializes in taking news style photographs of charedi life and charedi news events. It notes that because Mr. Naumi is part of the community, it opens the doors for him to come and take the photos. I've decided to grab a few photos and give interesting details…
This is one is very unusual…
This chassidic charedi man is wearing a partial blindfold, so he can only look down (not to trip). He's at the airport.
There is a holy strict Jewish custom called Shemiras Aynayim, which literally means "guarding ones eyes" – meaning one shouldn't see things that are inappropriate. Generally this means things like one shouldn't go to a mixed beach or look at women while walking down the street.
The most extreme version of this is practiced by the kabbalists, the Jewish mystics, and they basically seclude themselves to keep themselves in a holy and pure environment. A small subsect of certain chassidim, mostly Breslev chassidim, will practice this by literally partially blindfolding themselves whenever going out into public.
This stands out as an unusual and rare practice, as it doesn't make much sense to attempt to isolate oneself while going through the airport or to stores and in crowds of people. Regardless of whether I think this makes sense or not, it is a known practice of this narrow sub-sect.
On Lag B'Omer, the 33rd day after Passover, there is a custom to light a bonfire and have a small celebration. This is in honor of a great sage from history, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, completing his life and leaving this world (and telling everyone to celebrate).
Within Israel there is a small group (small is a few hundred) that believes the creation of the secular State of Israel is delaying the coming of the righteous redeemer, Moshiach tzidkaynu. Therefore opposing the existence of the State of Israel, whiling living within it's borders, is part of their religious beliefs.
The above picture, most likely taken in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, Israel, is them holding their Lag B'Omer bonefire by burning Israeli flags – combinging the religious celebration with their religious objection to the existence of the State.


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A Novel Radio Station for Glasgow.
A new RSL group is forming in Glasgow with plans for a new kind of radio station to celebrate upcoming Scottish celebrations.
With so many events and festivals that are close together, such as St Andrew's Day, Hogmanay and Burn's Night, all of which are recognised as being "Scottish" celebrations, ambitions are well underway for a radio station that intends to promote local and national events, including concerts and live broadcasts, which will be held throughout Scotland between November and January.
Headed by Jack Thomson, who has been appointed as station manager, the radio station will have a unique sound by playing only musicians and acts that have been born in Scotland, or raised or formed in Scotland, and have had chart hits over the past six decades.
With the tagline of "All Scottish Hits, All Of The Time", listeners can expect to hear classic tracks and recent hits from acts such as the Alan Parson Project, the Bluebells, Donovan and even new music from artists such as Yasmin and Nina Nesbitt.
The station will be called Jock FM (not to be confused with similar named stations in England) and according to Jack the playlist rules will be very strict.
"You will only hear Scottish artists - nobody else," said Mr Thomson (who, he points out, is often nicknamed as Tamson). "That means that Rod Stewart will NOT be included because he was neither born nor raised here - although we will make an allowance for one of his tracks, when he dueted with Perthshire's Helicopter Girl."
"Whilst celebrating all things Scottish and playing the best in Scottish music, we intend to be a fun station with a little satire to go with our Saltire. Presenters will also have tongue-in-cheek names with a Scottish flavour that our Scottish listeners will understand and be amused by."
One presenter, Robert Campbell, a hospital radio presenter and a self professed fitness fanatic who calls himself Big Thin Boab, said he was looking forward to the station being on air around Christmas time and before Go Radio launches in early 2017.
Robert said, "The good burgers of Glasgow will get to hear real music, live from Scotland and entirely from our studios that will be located beside the Clyde, with a powerful transmitter situated in the heart of Glasgow. For a whole month we intend to bring your favourite Scottish hits and promote great events that celebrate our culture. Things are going quite smooth so far in our plans to bring a novel station to the airwaves. "
The station will be available on FM and online.
Glyn Roylance3 years, 9 months ago
Nice one - only just seen this.
I guess they'll be playing lots of Rod Stewart too ! ;-)
Art Grainger3 years, 9 months ago
If I spent another five minutes writing it, I could have added a few more names of radio stations that broadcast from studios within the Greater Glasgow area, such as Capital, Pulse, Insight (although it's no longer called that), Celtic and so on. You may have noticed Your, Smooth, Clyde and Heart in there.
By the way Rod Stewart would NOT have been included - he's not Scottish - but ironically there would have been a few acts that have or had lead singers and prominent band members who were definitely born in Scotland, including Dire Straits, John Paul Young, Talking Heads, AC/DC, Jimmy Barnes, Glass Tiger, Blow Monkeys, Cream and so on. Snow Patrol would also have been included because as well as having Scottish members, they were formed in Scotland.
Jack Thomson - aka Jock Tamson - because in Scotland we're all Jock Tamson's bairns.
John Laurie3 years, 9 months ago
Lol Arthur they will have stiff competitition as they will be up against '96.3 The Hits'.
Yes I can exclusively make up that that after EMAP's success with their trial Hits RSL in 2002 then Bauer now intend to replicate The Hits heady mix of out of work jocks and one or two not getting enough gigs from their current employers or shortly to be sacked at any rate, plus of course the big tunes on 45-90 min rotation, and all from the basement of a Church on Dumbarton Road......so at least you have a few decent pubs nearby to escape to.
In the sales office I worked in back then I made sure we had The Hits on and it was only 3 weeks later that one of my colleagues finally turned round after lunch and said 'they keep playing the same bloody songs over and over again' So to me that's a winner.
Art Grainger3 years, 9 months ago
I so remember The Hits RSL in Glasgow - and being quite annoyed that it didn't seem to offer any more choice on the dial from what we already had.
I also remember ranting and raving on a radio forum and saying that if Emap really wanted to bring The Hits to Glasgow, then they should just buy over Radio Clyde (they later did) and either turn Clyde 1 into The Hits or even create a third station for Radio Clyde and put it on DAB, calling it "The Hits for Glasgow and West Central Scotland". ..........erm!!!!!
John Laurie3 years, 9 months ago
May 26th ( or thereabouts) is the day as then we will find out who is prepared to spend the 10k/more likely 25k to attempt to bring these various local dreams to fruition on 96.3. The other side of Summer will see the award.
Art Grainger3 years, 9 months ago
Since my very shiney crystal ball seems to have demonstrated how well it can predict outcomes (more than a decade in advance if you read my post above), then Septic Peg is fairly confident that if the licence is given to a local group or a group that is offering a service with more local programing, then certain other radio groups will abandon daytime networking from Englandshire.
As for me - I couldn't really care. I made the conversion to DAB 15 years ago, so a new FM station (other than community radio) is of little interest to me. The chances are that it will be given to a station that is already on DAB - that's broadcasting , not testing!!!
Art Grainger3 years, 9 months ago
Y'know, I started this thread as an April Fool joke. However, the idea actually came from some Spotify playlists that I compiled about a year ago. I was quite surprised at how they grew.
Taking almost all of the Scottish bands and artists that have had chart hits over the past 60 years, I have a full charted hits playlist of over 4,000 songs. Many of those songs are what I describe as "evergreens," timeless classics that are very regularly played on daytime radio and also feature in various radio stations' Top 100's that have been voted by listeners.
Then I got a bit more diverse and started creating playlists for Scottish Electronica, which now stands at 9,000 tracks and includes releases from the likes of Limbo Records, Slam and so on.
My Scottish Dance and Trance playlist features mainly tracks form the Tom Wilson era and features the Happy Hardcore and Handbag House of that time, as well as the likes of Nightcrawlers, Blueboy, The Shamen, KLF and so on, with a list of 4,000 songs.
I also have a Scottish Indie/Modern Rock playlist (7,000 tracks), Scottish soul (1,000 tracks), Scottish rock & metal, Scottish jazz, Scottish ballads and love songs and so on.
The real big surprise, with more than 30,000 tracks spread across three playlists, was Scottish Classical music.
In all, what started off as a single playlist ended up being 19 playlists, across many music genres - and none of it includes bagpipes or accordians.
James Cridland3 years, 9 months ago
I bet it includes this
Art Grainger3 years, 9 months ago
I have to admit that when trawling through of my music collection, I realised that I was short of an artist.
So I bought Owen Paul's Greatest Hit (and 18 other songs) on CD the other day. Pleased To Meet You was a Radio Clyde and Radio Luxembourg favourite in its day but it never charted. Unfortunately, YouTube keeps bringing up that disasterous Pebble Mill moment.
Art Grainger3 years, 9 months ago
James, Donald Where's Yer Troosers is NOT included.
Indeed, there are no tartan-clad clowns included, so that Lauder bloke is well and truly excluded as well.
Unfortunately, for the past two hundred years or so, some daft eejits have portrayed a hideous image of Scottish people being kilt-wearers, porridge munchers and bagpipe players, despite the fact that absolutely NONE of those things are traditionally Scottish. Bagpipes were introduced to Scotland by the French. Kilts were introduced to Scotland by an English Quaker (and were originally worn by Egyptians).
We did invent lots of things though - but unfortunately those English Victorian tourists weren't interested in that and preferred to believe that Scotland was like what some kind of novelist (falsely) wrote about it. Few Scottish men wear kilts (I've never worn one). Few people play bagpipes (I hate the noise) and the vast majority of us will go about our lives for entire weeks and never see heather.
Art Grainger3 years, 9 months ago
After me slagging off Rod Stewart for pretending to be Scottish, I noticed a few years ago that one of the Appleton sisters (of All Saints) had developed a Scottish accent. She's Canadian! She said on that program that she had "picked-up" her new accent from her children (???!!!). She was on the One Show the other night and she's still got it. Why is she doing that?
Then again, there's a certain Scottish actor who flips between an American accent and his actual Scottish one - depending what show he is on.
We all know that Scottish people are superior to everyone else in the world - but there's really no need for imposters. :-)
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BEIJING (Caixin Online) — A 21-year-old Foxconn Technology Group employee died after falling from the sixth floor of a dorm building at the company's Shenzhen complex in southern China's Guangdong province on July 18.
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The man, surnamed Cai, attended a friend's birthday party where he left slightly inebriated the night of his death, according to his cousin.
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Pear Crumble
- Yield: 8 servings
Firm pears, such as Bartlett, work well for this crumble.
- Crumble
- 2/3cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4cup granulated sugar
- 1/4cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4cup butter, chilled, cut into small pieces
- 1/3cup chopped walnuts
- Filling
- 6cups firm, peeled pears, cut into small chunks (about 2 1/2 pounds)
- 1/3cup apple cider or juice
- 1tablespoon lemon juice
- 2teaspoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4cup orange marmalade
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- To prepare crumble, combine flour and sugars in a large bowl. Cut in butter with two knives or your fingers until crumbly. Stir in walnuts.
- To prepare filling, combine pears, cider, lemon juice and flour in a large bowl. Spoon into an 8-inch square baking dish. Dot with marmalade. Sprinkle with crumble mixture.
- Bake 40 minutes or until fruit is bubbling at edges and top is golden brown.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 260
- Fat 9g
- Cholesterol 15g
- Sodium 5mg
- Carbohydrate 48g
- Fiber 4g
- Protein 2g


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Inspire Truth Music Festival produced by Beloved Presents~ It was such an incredible evening to share New Year's with so many talented artists- Rising Appalachia, Sasha Rose, Eskimo, & so many more! Medicine for the People played main stage at the midnight hour, and visionary artists, Alex and Alison Gray joined us for a powerful invocation to the earth and setting positive intentions for 2014!
Australia- here we come!
Headin out to the land of Oz, for a couple months musical tour, hopin' to make new friends and share some musical love... and a bunch of new Australian adventures- the finale will be Medicine for the People headlining at the Byron Spirit Festival March 1st!
We are grateful to be connecting with this incredible continent of ancient people. We have been warmly welcomed by the Byron Spirit Festival, but will be continuing on to tour throughout both east and west coasts of the country.
Dec 31st- New Year's Eve 2013
7 pm -2 am
at WaterBom Bali in Kuta
Hope is playing with Medicine for the People - on New Year's Eve~ opening for Michael Franti in Bali, Indonesia!
This event is a benefit for the Bumi Sehat Birth Center- that does amazing support , free healthcare, education, and relief work for families in Bali, Indonesia! It is an incredible opportunity to play with amazing musicians and support something very close to my heart~ natural birth and holistic birth centers. Bumi Sehat has been internationally recognized for its effective human rights activism and community work.
Palace Theater- 12/12/12
Gettin ready for our big Medicine show on the Big Island of Hawaii! 12-12-12!
Our community is growing and we are hoping to show all of them our Aloha here, at the beautiful and historic Palace Theater!
Lots of our friends from Alaska to Minneapolis, are coming out to play this evening with us! This is a powerful time, and we are ready to share spirit with our island ohana!
Yoga Roots Fest
It was great to be back in Portland, Oregon- one of my homes- and play with our extended Medicine for the People crew at the Yoga Roots festival at the Bossanova Ballroom!
This community event was a wonderful collaboration of the extended medicine crew!
Summer Tour with Medicine
Medicine for the People had a great summer tour, journeying from Oregon to southern California and out through Montana, the Dakotas and to Minnesota! We played a lot of great shows, had a lot of great adventures, and made a lot of awesome new friends!
Project Earth
Project Earth music festival- an event put on by the WookieFoot crew in the midwest, and their Be the Change Foundation.
Performing with Nahko of Medicine for the People in Harmony Park, we will be raising money for charities through music!
Other musicians that performed included the Luminaries, Trevor Hall and Wookiefoot!


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Singer Andrea Celeste and pianist Fabio Gorlier give birth to a musical encounter under the sign of eclecticism.
Both musicians' artistic world is rooted in the studies of classical music and opera and in afro-american music. This made Andrea and Fabio two curious artists, interested both in the musical and literal contents of the songs in their repertoire.
In fact, the set list of this concert is a journey into their favorite songwriters and composers' universe, a celebration both of diversity (Andrea sings in English, Italian, French and Portuguese) and unicity, a journey through Brazilian poets, European composers and Jazz improvisation conceived to enchant and to tell stories of profound humanity.
From Billie Holiday to Joni Mitchell, from Milton Nascimiento to Luigi Tenco and Henry Purcell, the voice and the music of Andrea Celeste and Fabio Gorlier is the perfect combination of passion, generosity and music.
Andrea Celeste, vocals
Fabio Gorlier, piano


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Today, Nokia announced that they would be shutting down the doors to publish new games on the N-Gage gaming platform. All the new games will be now submitted to the OVI store.
You can still purchase games from the N-Gage platform until September 2010, but you won't find any new games on N-Gage.com. The OVI store will now become the new hub for the games. Currently there are more than a thousand games available in the OVI Stores, published by developers from over 65 countries, which are supported by 100 Nokia devices. The feature that we would miss from N-Gage platform is the community system. Nokia mentions that it would try to integrate community feature in the OVI Stores in the near future. So, the games that you purchased would be fully functional on your N-Gage game compatible device but the community feature will be disabled after September 2010.
Nokia will continue to sell devices with N-Gage application pre-installed for some time. However, we will no longer ship new devices with the application pre-installed.
A few popular games from OVI Store:


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Lærdal kommune
View of Lærdalsøyri
Lærdal within Vestland
|Coordinates: 61°03′04″N 07°35′52″E / 61.05111°N 7.59778°ECoordinates: 61°03′04″N 07°35′52″E / 61.05111°N 7.59778°E
|Administrative centre
|• Mayor (2011)
|Jan Geir Solheim (Sp)
|• Total
|1,342.48 km2 (518.33 sq mi)
|• Land
|1,275.81 km2 (492.59 sq mi)
|• Water
|66.67 km2 (25.74 sq mi)
|Area rank
|66 in Norway
|• Total
|• Rank
|316 in Norway
|• Density
|1.7/km2 (4/sq mi)
|• Change (10 years)
|Lærdøl [1]
|Time zone
|• Summer (DST)
|ISO 3166 code
|Official language form
|Nynorsk [2]
Lærdal is a municipality in the southeastern part of Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the south side of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Lærdalsøyri. The old Filefjell Kongevegen road passes through Lærdal on its way to Valdres and later to Oslo.
The 1,342-square-kilometre (518 sq mi) municipality is the 66th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway (with over half of this area consisting of mountains). Lærdal is the 316th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,159. The municipality's population density is 1.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (4.4/sq mi) and its population has increased by 0.3% over the last decade.[3]
The Lærdal river valley is long, running from Hemsedal (Høgeloft mountain) and the Filefjell mountains in the east to the Sognefjorden in the west. About half of the municipal residents live in the main village of Lærdalsøyri; the rest in the small villages in the surrounding valleys such as Borgund, Ljøsne, Tønjum, Erdal, Vindedalen, Frønningen, and Strendene. The Old Lærdalsøyri village has 161 protected buildings. Some of the houses there date back to the mid-18th century. On the night of 18–19 January 2014, a major fire destroyed at least 30 buildings.[4]
General information[edit]
Lærdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). In the 19th century, the name was sometimes spelled Leerdahl or Leirdal. The municipality of 1838 was created to be identical to the Lærdal parish (prestegjeld) that included the sub-parishes (sokn) of Borgund, Tønjum, Hauge, and Aardal. In 1863, the northeastern sub-parish of Årdal (population: 1,791) was separated from Lærdal to form a separate municipality. In 1864, the eastern sub-parish of Borgund (population: 963) was separated from Lærdal to form its own municipality. This left Lærdal with 2,777 residents.
During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, Lærdal (population: 1,755) was merged with the municipality of Borgund (population: 492) and the Muggeteigen, Luggenes, and Bergmål farms (population: 11) along the Sognefjorden from the municipality of Årdal. After the merger, Lærdal had a total of 2,258. On 1 January 1992, the Frønningen area (population: 32) of Leikanger municipality was transferred to Lærdal municipality.[5][6]
On 1 January 2020, the municipality became part of the newly created Vestland county after Sogn og Fjordane and Hordaland counties were merged.
The Old Norse form of the name was Lærardalr. The first element is the genitive case of the old name of the river Lærr (now the river is called Lærdalselvi) and the last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale." The meaning of the old river name is unknown.[7]
The coat-of-arms is from modern times; they were granted on 18 December 1987. It is red with two gold-colored Norse dragon heads. The dragon heads are based on the wooden dragons seen on the gables of the historic Borgund Stave Church in Lærdal.[8]
The Church of Norway has three parishes (sokn) within the municipality of Lærdal. It is part of the Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
|Parish (Sokn)
|Church Name
|Location of the Church
|Year Built
|Borgund Church
|Borgund Stave Church
|c. 1150
|Hauge Church
|Tønjum Church
All municipalities in Norway, including Lærdal, are responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elect a mayor.
Municipal council[edit]
The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Lærdal is made up of 17 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the council is as follows:
|Party Name (in Norwegian)
|Number of
|Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)
|Conservative Party (Høgre)
|Centre Party (Senterpartiet)
|Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti)
|Total number of members:
|Party Name (in Norwegian)
|Number of
|Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)
|Conservative Party (Høgre)
|Centre Party (Senterpartiet)
|Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti)
|Liberal Party (Venstre)
|Total number of members:
|Party Name (in Norwegian)
|Number of
|Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)
|Conservative Party (Høgre)
|Centre Party (Senterpartiet)
|Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti)
|Liberal Party (Venstre)
|Total number of members:
The mayor (ordførar) of a municipality in Norway is a representative of the majority party of the municipal council who is elected to lead the council. The mayor since 2011 is Jan Geir Solheim of the Centre Party.
Twin towns – Sister cities[edit]
Lærdal has sister city agreements with the following places:
Lærdal is located southeast of the Sognefjorden and east of the Aurlandsfjorden. The municipality is centered on the Lærdalselvi River with the Filefjell and Hemsedalsfjell mountain ranges on its east. Lærdal is bordered in Vestland county by the municipality of Aurland to the southwest, Sogndal to the northwest, and Årdal to the north. It is also bordered on the east by Vang (Innlandet county) and Hemsedal (Viken county), and in the south by Ål and Hol (both in Viken county).
The lakes Eldrevatnet, Juklevatnet, and Øljusjøen are located along the southeastern border, south of the mountain Høgeloft.
Lærdal tunnel[edit]
The Lærdalstunnel was built through the Aurlandsfjell mountains dividing Aurland from Lærdal. The tunnel is the worlds longest (as of 2008[update]) at 24.5 kilometres (15.2 mi). Construction began in 1995 and was completed in 2000.[12]
Lærdalselvi river[edit]
The River Lærdalselvi was traditionally one of the most exclusive salmon and sea trout rivers in Norway. Known by the Norwegian King Harald V as his second Queen, the river has established Lærdal as one of the meccas of salmon and sea trout fly fishing, among others for the unusual fact that the river offers daylight fishing and dry fly fishing for sea trout. The salmon population was drastically depleted after an infestation with the salmon parasite Gyrodactylus salaris in the fall of 1996. After several treatments with aluminium sulfate, there are still problems with the parasite. In fall 2007, a smolt was again found infected by the parasite, and new treatments started in late March 2008. Because of this parasite, the river will be closed to angling for the 2008 season.
The river has formed a large delta at Lærdalsøyri, where huge amounts of silt and sand have been deposited by the river. Although the area has been spoiled by some unfortunate landfills it is still a sight worth seeing.
Lærdal has long traditions in farming, with the lower region of the valley being great for vegetable crops. Because of its dry climate it was one of the first places in Norway to begin the use of artificial irrigation. Despite having an inland climate, the water in the fjord keeps the winters from getting too cold.
The local Western Norway Regional Health Authority hospital provides medical care for Lærdal itself and seven of the surrounding municipalities. The hospital, together with Opplysningen 1881 (directory assistance company), Østfold Energiproduksjon A/S and Norsk Hydro Aluminium Production Facilities in Årdal, are the major employers in Lærdal. The local government and health authority is trying to close this hospital due to cost cutting, which may have negative effects on the area.
Photo gallery[edit]
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå (2017). "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-10-22.
- ^ "Blaze threatens historic wood village in Laerdal Norway". 19 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
- ^ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
- ^ Natvik, Oddvar (9 February 2005). "Some historical data on the 26 Kommunes". Archived from the original on 13 June 2008. Retrieved 15 June 2008.
- ^ Rygh, Oluf (1919). Norske gaardnavne: Nordre Bergenhus amt (in Norwegian) (12 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 60–61.
- ^ "Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
- ^ "Tall for Norge: Kommunestyrevalg 2019 - Vestland". Valg Direktoratet. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ "Table: 04813: Members of the local councils, by party/electoral list at the Municipal Council election (M)" (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.
- ^ "Tall for Norge: Kommunestyrevalg 2011 - Sogn og Fjordane". Valg Direktoratet. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ "The world's longest tunnel". Statens vegvesen. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lærdal.
- Official website: Lærdal Kommune (in Norwegian)
- Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway (in Norwegian)
- NRK: Fylkesleksikon – Lærdal Kommune (in Norwegian)


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UPDATE: The Big 5 schedule at the bottom of the post has been corrected. Apologies for the initial error.
The Atlantic 10 announced Tuesday morning that it has signed an extensive set of television broadcast deals with ESPN, CBS and NBC. They will all start in the 2013-14 season and run through the 2020-2021 season.
Among the highlights is the fact that the men's and women's conference tournaments will be broadcast nationally from the quarterfinals on, instead of the semifinals. But there won't be any more games on over-the-air network television as has been the case in recent years with CBS.
Let's start with ESPN, which will regain the rights to the men's and women's basketball tournament championship games. Bristol will get 14 regular-season men's games and two regular-season women's games each season to spread across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU.
All of those games will also be streamed online via ESPN's various digital platforms and apps.
Regarding the basketball tournament title games, ESPN's release notes something that the Atlantic 10 office's release does not. The women's tournament final will be on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU, and the men's tournament final will be on ESPN, ESPN2 or "via sublicense."
That clause about sublicensing is significant. According to the A-10's release, the men's tournament championship game has technically been sublicensed to CBS as part of the current deal that has been in place since 2010.
A spokesperson for ESPN told me that the network is looking at options to sublicense the game again, but hasn't decided yet whether to do so or to where.
CBS gets 25 regular season men's basketball games and eight regular season women's basketball games each year, plus the men's and women's basketball tournament semifinals. All of those games will air on the CBS Sports Network.
NBC gets 25 regular season men's basketball games and six regular season women's basketball games each year, plus the men's and women's basketball tournament quarterfinals. All of those games will air on the NBC Sports Network.
As a welcoming present, the Peacock will also get six men's basketball games this coming season, including one non-conference game and five conference games. All of those games are contests that were previously scheduled to air as part of the Atlantic 10's regional syndication package.
Three of those six games include local teams, leading off with Lehigh at Virginia Commonwealth on Saturday, January 5. The Big 5 and the Palestra will get national exposure on Saturday, January 16, when Saint Joseph's and La Salle square off on 33rd Street; and the Explorers will be featured again on Saturday, March 9 when they travel to Saint Louis.
Here's the full slate:
Saturday, January 5: Lehigh at Virginia Commonwealth, 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 12: Butler at Dayton, 12:00 p.m.
Saturday, Febuary 2: Dayton at Saint Louis, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 16: Saint Joseph's vs. La Salle at the Palestra, 1:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 7: Butler at Massachusetts, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 9: La Salle at Saint Louis, 1:30 p.m.
The three-way division of conference basketball tournament rights means that there will be a different TV channel televising each of the three days of action. Remember that the men's tournament heads to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., starting this season, with all 12 teams making the trip.
That's a departure from the last few years, when the first round was played on campus and the quarterfinals and subsequent rounds were played at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
The women's tournament championship game will also be played at the Barclays Center. The three previous rounds will take place at Hagan Arena on the Saint Joseph's campus here in Philadelphia.
In addition to its national broadcasts, NBC also gets the rights to what the Atlantic 10 office calls "additional commitments through NBC Sports Network's Regional Sports Networks."
What that means isn't entirely clear yet. From the people I've talked to, it sounds like NBC might be taking over the production of regional syndication broadcasts from CBS, but the details haven't all been worked out yet.
At the very least, don't be surprised if you see NBC/Comcast graphic sets on those games instead of CBS graphic sets when the deal kicks in.
I'll post more details when I have them. All in all, it seems that once this deal kicks in, it's going to be a lot easier to watch our local A-10 teams on TV than it has been.
Given the news that the St. Joe's-La Salle game has been bumped up to national TV, I thought it would be a good idea to put together the full City Series slate for the coming season. As of now, eight of the 10 games will nationally televised. No matter which team you root for, that's a great thing for the Big 5.
I wrote yesterday that Penn at La Salle will be on CBS Sports Network. That was incorrect. Apologies.
Sunday, November 25: Villanova at La Salle, 1:00 p.m. (CBS Sports Network)
Wednesday, December 5: Temple at Villanova, 9:00 p.m. (ESPN2)
Saturday, December 8: Villanova at Penn, 8:00 p.m. (no TV as of now*)
Tuesday, December 11: Saint Joseph's at Villanova, 7:00 p.m. (ESPNU)
Saturday, January 5: Penn at La Salle, 2:00 p.m. (no TV as of now)
Saturday, January 19: Penn vs. Saint Joseph's at the Palestra (ESPN2 or ESPNU)
Wednesday, January 23: Penn at Temple, 7:00 p.m. (no TV as of now)
Saturday, February 2: Temple at Saint Joseph's (CBS Sports Network)
Saturday, February 16: Saint Joseph's vs. La Salle at the Palestra (NBC Sports Network)
Thursday, February 21: Temple at La Salle (CBS Sports Network)
* - I don't know anything for certain, but given Penn's past history of getting this game televised, I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen again this season. We'll see.
It's worth noting that NBC now has significant rights deals with three of the four conferences that have teams in Philadelphia: the Atlantic 10, the Colonial Athletic Association and the Ivy League. Given the passion for basketball in the Philadelphia market, it wouldn't surprise me if we see the Peacock come through town a lot in the next few years.


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The 2003-04 all-sports rankings are out, and The University of Tennessee finished 14th in overall excellence in varsity sports among NCAA Division I-A schools.
Stanford won its 10th straight Directors' Cup, the trophy for No. 1. Michigan finished second and UCLA third.
Along with UT, three other Southeastern Conference athletic programs played their way into the top 15. Georgia ranked fifth, Florida sixth and Louisiana State 11th.
After finishing 12th for 2001-02, Tennessee fell to 27th after the 2002-03 season. The highest finish for UT was 11th in 1994-95.
This past year, Tennessee ended in the top-10 in women's basketball, women's soccer, women's indoor track and men's swimming. The Vols ranked 16th in football.
Vol athletics program ranked 14th in nation
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The Irish guy I sit next to at work is super nice (translation: he doesn't get annoyed by my endless stream of questions). And he loves language and literature like nobody's business. Yesterday he shared this Ogden Dash poem, which is quite perfect, after I said, "Absolument."
I wander through a Paris shower.
Off to inspect a flat à louer.
The water pours as from a pitcher
On walls inscribed Défense d'afficher.
If I had splashed through such a pond,
I don't remember where or quand.
With raindrops glistening on my garment.
I reach my goal, I don't know comment.
I ring. I do not wish to trespass;
For trespassing is naughty, n'est-ce pas?
The stairway irks my fallen arch.
Because one learns l'ascenseur ne marche.
I like the flat: with cheerful mien
I murmur to the man, 'Combien?'
He mentions his idea of payment,
I say that it's exorbitant, vraiment!
Have I misunderstood his statement?
I do not speak the French parfaitement.
He mentions a reduced emolument,
I cry that it's a deal, absolument.
And now I think a glass of wine
Would not be too unpleasant, hein?


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The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class The "proletariat" of Marx was radically misrepresented by Lenin to include the Russian peasantry and labourers, without whom no revolution would have been possible in Russia as it was at that time, and most Marxists following Lenin have continued to include these groups. Marx though specifically distinguished the new… Continue reading A Response to "The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class"
Month: December 2015
The Mythos of 'Modern' Science
When we think of creationism, there are two basic models. The first is a faux-naive 'taking literally' texts that were not even written as literal. (The very word 'literal' undermines itself, since it signifies 'as written' rather than 'as actual', the way we generally understand it). The second is known as 'intelligent design', and contains… Continue reading The Mythos of 'Modern' Science
A Quick Response to "Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu? – symposium, Coventry University, 8th December 2015"
Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu? I don't personally find academia.edu's basic business model to be as inherently "parasitic" as the main participants in the above forum. Though I'm wary of the new proposition on academia.edu of peer reviewing for free, (although to have one's work peer-reviewed is not free) I'm actually wary of the notion… Continue reading A Quick Response to "Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu? – symposium, Coventry University, 8th December 2015"
Thinking The Historical (and The Non-Historical) "Historically"
The main reason that people don't think history "historically" enough is that what separates the historical epoch from others is not the existence of written records. Many written records exist in earlier times and other cultures from what is considered "historical". This failure also results in non-historical texts not being thought in an appropriately historical… Continue reading Thinking The Historical (and The Non-Historical) "Historically"
Subjectivity, Rational Thinking and the Inabiility to Understand Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorders present us with an immediate ontological problem: given the wide diversity of symptomology, how is it that we are easily able to view this diversity as fundamentally one issue? While it perhaps took a number of studies to demonstrate the notion that the diverse symptoms were somehow related, even those studies… Continue reading Subjectivity, Rational Thinking and the Inabiility to Understand Autism


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I've been reading Professional WordPress Plugin Development the last few weeks and I finally got around to putting some of what I've read (a tiny bit) to use.
I've written my first WordPress plugin. It's part of a larger project of mine to replace my [[http://orgmode.org]] powered static site with WordPress and learn about WordPress plugin development along the way.
Right now, it only shows the 5 latest posts, much like the widgets in the side-bar and admin area do (except with less options I'm sure). My plans are simple, just a number of posts and possibly a tag or category.
For now I don't have any place for you to see it in action, but
hopefully soon. To use it just add
[[recent]] anywhere in your post
or page. It is meant to be used in pages, but there is no technical
reason why it couldn't also be used in posts.


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(DDO) Update 30 Release Notes, 29 Feb 2016
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Celebrating the Anniversary, Dungeon-style!
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The Founder's Fountain has returned!
Challenge Rules can now be read by clicking on the question mark in a Challenge UI panel.
Party member voice volume can now be adjusted individually on a slider when in a party.
The scale and opacity of floating names can now be adjusted with sliders in the Options > UI Settings panel.
Guild Airship Amenity icons will no longer change to flask icons when clicked.
Bags will no longer automatically gather items if they do not occupy a backpack slot. This prevents an issue where destroyed bags could gather ingredients.
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