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Toronto Real Estate Board President Larry Cerqua announced that TREB REALTOR® Members reported 9,989 home sales through TREB's MLS® System in July 2016. At just shy of 10,000 transactions, this was the best result on record for the month of July. While sales were up on a year-over-year basis, the number of new listings ...

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It's Eczema Season- How to Beat The Winter Itch
Dermatologist - Dr. Alexandra Kuritzky November 28, 2016 14
As the weather cools down and we move indoors and turn up the heat, the dry air can wreak havoc on sensitive skin. Here are a few tips to get your child through the winter more comfortably. Moisturize! Applying a moisturizer helps to restore the barrier function of skin.... Read more
Halloween's candy haul is pretty much a dentistry fright fest. But are some sweets worse than others when it comes to our teeth? The answer is Yes! The WORST candies The WORST candies for our teeth are those that stick around for a long time. Sticky candies, like toffees and... Read more
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Can we ignore that I haven't posted in months and pickup where I left off?
Teckie and I returned Wednesday from Morro Bay. The quaint beach community is located on California's central coast and known for it's 23 million-year-old volcanic plug (huge rock) that is parked on the beach. Our lazy getaway felt like a reward for keeping up my energy and adrenaline the first two weeks of June.
In this big transition, he has left "the bubble" of a small private Christian school that he's been floating through since pre-school. As sad as it was to see his class sprout in all different directions, I know he is ready for his next big step at Newbury Park High School.
Very exciting stuff.
Very exciting stuff.
|Check out the dollar bill lei I learned how to make. It was a very time consuming craft,
folding money back and forth like an accordion and sewing all pieces together,
but Daniel LOVED it!
Soooo, Daniel graduated on a Tuesday and the following Monday my mother-in-law (MIL), sister-in-law (SIL) and brother-in-law (BIL) arrived from Arizona for Lucas's graduation.
It was wonderful having them with us for the week and they were troopers to attend the Westlake High School graduation in intense afternoon heat. It was a well done ceremony and worth every drip of sweat down my back and under-wire bra.
|Grandma Fish and Overboard
That was on Thursday and on Saturday we hosted a celebration with friends and family to acknowledge his accomplishment. Lucas was miffed on what a "big deal" we all made of high school graduation.
I explained that almost half of California kids don't graduate from high school. I pointed out he worked hard, that he never gave up, screwed up, became a father or went to rehab. He kept on the straight and narrow (from what I know) and is a GREAT kid who excelled in high school and we are so proud of him.
After that explanation he understood why all the hoopala around him. It's a huge (think bigger than the Morro Bay rock!) step toward his independence and bright future. We gave him his grad gift early and he loved his new banjo. He is still in the "making music scene" and wants to incorporate the banjo. It is such a cool-pickin-hee-haw sound!
So, on Saturday, the grad party we anticipated for months arrived. It can only be described as a spectacular night. My SIL, who is an excellent cook, whipped up a ton of chicken enchiladas, made a vat of beans and a yummy Mexican salad for fifty hungry loved ones. She is amazing that way!
|My SIL, Queen of the Kitchen :)
I ordered carnitas, rice and salsa from our favorite Mexican place, Overboard assemble beautiful flower arrangements and led us in a game of Body Bingo ( I can explain what Body Bingo is in another post as you should know!).
The night was packed with joy, blessings and so many special people. My MIL and SIL ran the kitchen during the party. They cleaned everything up and proved the point that "many hands make light work."
We could not have handled all the details of borrowed tables, chairs, linens, amazingly creative invitations by Uncle Lui (Visit Spiffypress.com to check out his work) without the help!
|Our five Body Bingo Winners won a gift card to In and Out. That's where Lucas is working
and spends most of his time these days, so it seemed appropriate!
We could not have handled all the details of borrowed tables, chairs, linens, amazingly creative invitations by Uncle Lui (Visit Spiffypress.com to check out his work) without the help!
|Thank God that Families Are Forever
Then our Arizona peeps packed it up and headed back to the 105 degree desert heat. We sent them off with left over floral arrangements. It was an exhausting, joy-filled and emotional two weeks. I felt blessed, sad and glad it was over ... and THIS is what brings you, the reader, to Morro Bay.
Teckie and I escaped for a much needed reconnect-relax-rejuvenating retreat. We laughed a lot, listened to live music, ate too much yummy food, explored and I bought a bag of my favorite salt water taffy!
Why yes, sugar remains a weak link for me. I wish it wasn't.
Why yes, sugar remains a weak link for me. I wish it wasn't.
With two graduations in our dust, my summer calendar is now clear until work starts back up mid-August. The most anticipated parts of my Summer 2015 have passed and now it's time to hit the gym, sit on the beach and cart Daniel to water polo practice. Maybe I will tinker on the new banjo? Who knows?
Truth be told, I haven't unicycled since I brought Blanche into fourth grade the week school ended. The kids LOVED it! Blanche still fascinates adults and kids, as it is a unique bike that never ceases to bring out interest and big smiles. Afterward, the fourth graders had so many questions and most of the boys wanted to try riding it right there in the school parking lot!
Um, no go!
In the big life picture I have struggled to keep centered and balanced whether on or off my single wheelie. There's ALOT going on in my head and heart these days.
Sidenote: Growing up my parents told me "You think too much!" and said I was "over-emotional" so perhaps not much has changed. I still think too much ... I believe that is called OCD?
Sidenote: Growing up my parents told me "You think too much!" and said I was "over-emotional" so perhaps not much has changed. I still think too much ... I believe that is called OCD?
I would love to blog more as I definitely have the extra time, stories and topics to share. Plus, my collection of "things that make me laugh" has only grown the last few months! Perhaps I will share it all here?
I love that thought, but for now, I am writing from Hollywood where I'm babysitting my beautiful precious niece. So, the story stops here.
I love that thought, but for now, I am writing from Hollywood where I'm babysitting my beautiful precious niece. So, the story stops here.
Peace and keep the Balance!


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Everyone knows that bad posture can lead to muscle and join pain, but what was a surprise to me is that breathing can not only affect blood pressure, and stress levels, but also energy, mood, concentration, and even immune function. This little wellness gadget could, therefore, really help improve your health, so I hope it does reach its campaign target.
In addition to gentle reminders, Prana comes with an app that trains the wearer by offering two minute relaxation exercises in the form of a game that tracks and visualises breathing patterns.
Prana isn't the first wearable to focus on the well-being vertical. Other trackers such as the Olive and Spire monitor stress, and Lumo, like the Prana, also aims to promote good posture.
If you'd like to see the Prana go into production, you can support their campaign by pre-ordering it for $129, and the expected shipping date is July 2015.


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Sensitive Topic: post deals with death by suicide.
Today Ken would have turned 38. The boys wanted to eat pumpkin pie covered with whipped cream because it was their Daddy's favorite. They also wanted me to put the whip cream right in their mouths like Daddy did. We thought about singing very loudly so we could be heard in Heaven. Instead they decided to sing to their Daddy Bears.
(Remind me to add a picture next week.)
The entire thing is even harder for me because I left him 6 years ago this week. We had a 2nd huge fight on his birthday in 2010. Two days later I went to a friends house. By the end of the month the boys and I were in Flagstaff.
Later this week also marks 6 months since he committed suicide. Weeks, even a month or more will go by, and I feel nothing. Then one day I am overcome with anger, frustration, grief and sadness.
You can read other posts that deal with our reactions, feelings, and how we took care of ourselves.
Saying Goodbye
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Directed by Jason Butler (Butchers), the feature wrapped shooting in Maynooth, Co Kildare, last Saturday and stars Scottish BAFTA-winner Iain Robertson, English actors Bella Heesom, Jamie Maclachlan, Lucy Cudden and Portuguese actors Teresa Tavares and Marco Costa.
Picture post-production on the feature has now got underway at Tangerine in Dublin with Michael OSullivan editing. Sound post is taking place at beActives production hub in Portugal.
The feature tells the story of six people transported to a post-apocalyptic 2018, where they have to fight to discover how they got there, how to survive, and how to get back to the present.
Already being told across several platforms - including comic books, webisodes and a computer game available for iOS, Android and Facebook - Collider continues Irish/ Portuguese company beActives multi-platform approach to storytelling.
The feature was written by beActive co-founder Nuno Bernardo, who is also producing alongside his beActive co-founder Triona Campbell and John McDonnell.
Eleanor Bowman served as the director of photography on the feature, which was shot over three weeks on location in Kildare and Dublin.
Caroline Harrington was the costume designer; Stephanie Clerkin the art director;
Gill Brennan was on hair and make-up, while Mairtin De Barra was the line producer.
Content Media Corporation will distribute the low-budget feature, which has been funded privately and through section 481.
Keep an eye on IFTN next week for a full report from the set of Collider.
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LoanMart Helps Customers with Auto Title Loans in Santa Ana
Sometimes it is difficult to find the funding you need, especially when you are in a crisis. There are times when you may hit a financial shortfall that causes you to struggle to make ends meet or you may need some additional funds to make a few improvements in your life. For whatever reason you need to find extra money, LoanMart is ready to assist you with auto title loans in Santa Ana. You may be eligible to borrow up to $30,0001 in as little as one business day3, depending on various factors including the equity of your qualifying vehicle and your ability to make regular monthly payments on time.
LoanMart can do this for you because they allow you to use your qualifying vehicle' free-and-clear title as collateral for the loan.
LoanMart has been a leader in alternative financing since 2002. Thousands of customers have said they keep coming back because of the ease of our application process and the quickness with which they get their funds. They have also reported loving the flexibility an auto title loan offers them. For example, LoanMart customers have used their auto title loan funds to pay bills, make some emergency repairs or take a vacation.
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Advances in Computers, Volume 44
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R.N. Charette, Managing the Risks in Information Systems and Technology (IT). F. Walkerden and R. Jeffery, Software Cost Estimation: A Review of Models, Process and Practice. S.L. Pfleeger, Experimentation inSoftware Engineering. R. Duncan, Parallel Computer Construction Outside the United States. R. Hauser, Control of Information Distribution and Access. R.J. Vetter, Asynchronous Transfer Mode: An Emerging Network Standard for High Speed Communications. E. Kushilevitz, Communication Complexity. Chapter References. Subject Index.
Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in hardware and software and in computer theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributorswith a medium in which they can examine their subjects in greater depth and breadth than that allowed by standard journal articles. As a result, many articles have become standard references that continue to be of significant, lasting value despite the rapid growth taking place in the field.
Researchers and graduate students in computer science.
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How I lost my keys in the family piano
Kids say and do the darndest things! All parents know that kids have their unique way or organizing and helping clean up. Ben decided the best place to put his mom's keys was in the piano - obviously. Tile key finder to the rescue!
"I was playing with my three-year-old nephew last night with some of his new birthday presents. After he went to bed and I hung out with my sister for a while, I looked for my keys to head home. I couldn't find them anywhere so I activated the Tile on the keys. The Tile sound was coming from the piano. Weird. We looked all around it, behind it, under the case where the piano keys are... The sound appeared to be emanating from INSIDE the piano. I figured out that the top part opens up to reveal the inner workings of the piano and there the keys were! "Benjamin!" I said out loud although he had been in bed for some time. "How did you do that?"
If not for Tile, my keys probably would have been found by some piano repair man many years in the future. :)"
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G.T. Bynum was sworn in as the 40th Mayor of Tulsa on December 5, 2016.
Prior to his election as Mayor, Bynum served for eight years on the Tulsa City Council. During that time, he was elected as the youngest City Council Chairman in Tulsa history.
Throughout his time in Tulsa city government, Mayor Bynum has focused on fiscal restraint, public safety, and infrastructure. He led the successful effort to enact the largest streets improvement package in the city's history, authored the first city sales tax cut in Tulsa history, crafted budget amendments putting Tulsa Police Department helicopters back into service and doubling the number of Police academies, authored legislation creating the first municipal rainy day fund in Oklahoma, and coordinated efforts to establish the first municipal veterans treatment court in the United States.
Mayor Bynum and his wife, Susan, are the proud parents of Robert and Annabel – the sixth generation of Bynums to call Tulsa home. He previously worked as the managing partner of Capitol Ventures, and before that in the United States Senate for Senators Don Nickles and Tom Coburn. He has also worked on the senior management team of a national real estate firm and for the American Red Cross.
Mayor Bynum has served on the boards of directors for Leadership Oklahoma, Leadership Tulsa, and the Tulsa Historical Society. He also served on the Board of Regents for the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, and is currently a member of the Augustinian Advancement Advisory Council.
In 2011, Mayor Bynum was selected as an Aspen Institute Rodel Fellow, a program which seeks to bring together 24 of the nation's most promising young elected leaders on a bipartisan basis, explore the responsibilities of public leadership, and assist them in achieving their fullest potential in public service. In 2014, he was selected as the only city councilor in the nation to participate in the Moneyball For Government Fellowship Program, which aims to assist local governments in achieving better results with limited budgets through increasing the use of data, evidence and evaluation when spending taxpayer money.
Mayor Bynum attended Eliot Elementary in the Tulsa Public Schools system. He is a proud graduate of two institutions operated by the Augustinian Order of the Catholic Church: Cascia Hall Preparatory School and Villanova University, where he served as Student Body President. Mayor Bynum is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma and Leadership Tulsa. He is a member of Christ the King Parish and earned his Eagle Scout designation in high school as a member of Troop 73.


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Apostle Bartholomew of the Twelve - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 3
Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas, / entreat the merciful God / to grant our souls forgiveness of transgressions.
Kontakion — Tone 4
You have appeared to the universe as a great sun, / shining with the radiance of your teachings and awesome miracles. / You enlighten those who honor you, apostle of the Lord, Bartholomew.


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Paymentech, a business unit of JPMorgan Chase, and a global leader in payment processing and merchant acquiring. On the Internet or at the point of sale, our unique combination of outstanding service, innovative solutions and financial strength offers solid benefits to companies both large and small.


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Q: Where can I donate old books?
Where can I donate old books? Cleaning out our basement and have boxes of books to donate; cook books, gardening, engineering text books, novels, all kinds.
Book Sale Donations: http://www.jocolibrary.org/support/donate-materials
Small donations of gently used items can be made at most Neighborhood Library locations.
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As well as her career-making bathtub performance in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Elizabeth Banks has had roles in both TV and film: from Scrubs to Spider-man, to Modern Family to the upcoming Brian Wilson biopic Love And Mercy.
Hot off her second appearance as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Elizabeth Banks has landed yet another gig - as the director of Pitch Perfect 2. It'll be her feature-length directorial debut, but as she came up with the idea for the first film, served as a producer and acted in it, the sequel seems in pretty safe hands.
Here are ten facts you may not know about the Hunger Games star.
1. Elizabeth Irene Mitchell was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and is the eldest of four children. Her father worked for General Electric and her mother worked in a bank. When she tried to join the Screen Actor's Guild she discovered that there was already an actress called Elizabeth Mitchell, and so changed her surname to Banks.
2. She met her husband Max Handelman on her first day of college, but when she gave him her number she didn't realise he genuinely didn't have a phone. Smooth. Fortunately they met again three weeks later, and are now married with two children via surrogates.
3. Not only is Banks herself a keen follower of fantasy football, but she married one too: her husband co-wrote the book Why Fantasy Football Matters: (And Our Lives Do Not).
4. Before her breakthrough performance (and that bath scene) in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Banks acted in a number of television commercials. Here she is in 2000, convincingly perplexed by a pregnancy test.
5. She has a Barbie doll of her Hunger Games alter-ego Effie Trinket that she takes with her around the world and uses to photobomb her co-stars. It's brilliant, and you can follow the adventures of Effie Barbie here.
6. As if she doesn't already have enough to do, Banks has a YouTube channel where, among amazing other things, she answers people's 'Really Important Questions' from Twitter. See what happens here when one hopeless romantic and slightly delusional fan asks her to call him.
7. Banks is a big fan of Shakespeare and one of her favourite films is Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation of Romeo And Juliet. She says not being in the film is probably her greatest regret.
8. Based on one raucous hen night that she organised for a friend as her maid of honour, Banks created Unveiled, a party game and guide for bachelorette parties. Buyer beware: you may end up swapping underwear with a total stranger.
9. In 2008 she attended trapeze school with a friend, you know, because she can. There's a video on her old blog of her swinging through the air and it looks utterly terrifying.
10. She can act, she can trapeze, she can design rude hen night games... is there anything Elizabeth Banks can't do? Sadly, yes: she can't wink. But credit where its due, she did try to teach herself. Watch the results below and prepare to feel immense pity.


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December 06, 2017
This week, ASAP (the Association of Serviced Apartment Providers) will host Sean Worker (BridgeStreet CEO), Steve Burns (Managing Director, EMEA & APAC) and Aaron Turner (CTO) to share new supporting technology that will enhance the simple journey of connecting the Forbes Global 2000 companies to world-class serviced apartments, homes and extended-stay hotels. It's clear, serviced apartments, homes, and extended-stay brands are seeking new channels to connect with qualified clients. Travel managers and business travelers all want personalized communication, seamless planning, flawless execution, and an authentic customized travel experience that they trust. BridgeStreet is responding to these needs by offering their supply partners, travel managers—and business travelers new technology that addresses these demands on BridgeStreet.com.
Supply Partners
When supply partners sign on to BridgeStreet.com they will now be able to create a customizable, digital experience to introduce travel managers and business travelers to their properties. This electronic guide will communicate essential information--from where to pick up keys, how to run the dishwasher, to the best place for dinner and coffee. By using this application, suppliers will be able to deliver the promise of a seamless stay and an authentic experience for each stay. Supply partners will also be able to take advantage of BridgeStreet's world class photography partner when they sign on to BridgeStreet.com. Living rooms, kitchens and amenities will pop as travel managers and guests view each room. These photos will also illustrate BridgeStreet's commitment to their extensive portfolio of clients, which include Forbes Global 2000 companies, to curate the most trusted suppliers of serviced apartments, homes and extended stay hotels.
Travel Decision
Makers For corporations located around the globe with needs as wide ranging as short- and extended-stay business travel, relocation, project-driven travel, and intern groups, these new applications will be impactful tools for providing peace of mind and duty of care by removing the guess work of new accommodations and new locations, guaranteed every time.


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The Saint Paul Tree Advisory Panel's (TAP) mission is to serve as a link between Saint Paul Forestry and the citizens of Saint Paul to preserve, promote and enhance the urban forest of Saint Paul. TAP partners with St Paul Forestry on the following initiatives:
Landmark Trees
The Landmark Tree program was created to locate, document, and compile a record of remarkable trees within the City of Saint Paul. Inducted trees will be recognized on this webpage containing interesting, unique facts about the tree species and any historical relevance.
TAP actively promotes and recruits nominations and votes on the final nominees. Any person, organization or agency can nominate a special tree on public or private property within Saint Paul city limits. Saint Paul's Department of Parks and Recreation accepts nominations for the Landmark Tree Program through November 1st of each year and works with TAP to select the winner(s).
Nominations for the 2016 Landmark Tree Program are now OPEN.
St Paul's Elm Trees
TAP's Elm Subcommittee worked on preserving the legacy of the elm. With help from the University of Minnesota and City Forestry, the TAP subcommittee compiled information about elm trees in the state, including the history of elms in the state, the catastrophic Dutch elm disease, personal stories, and the current research and species of elm in the state to create an educational tree outreach presentation.
SPPS Outreach
Every year, TAP votes on art submissions from St Paul Public Schools students. St Paul Urban Forester Karl Mueller leads a cool tree outreach program with the schools, including the Arbor Month Poster Contest. Every year he teaches third graders about trees then the students put their new knowledge to artistic interpretation. The result? Amazing posters portraying a message about trees. TAP members vote on the posters. Then the winning posters are on display at the annual Arbor Month event.
Arbor Day Celebration
This is an annual celebration held in St Paul in the spring. There is How to Plant a Tree and other free educational presentations, tree climbing activities, information on pests and disease, demos, awards, family-friendly activities, and free tree give-aways.
Citizen Pruner Program / Tree Steward
What began as the Citizen Pruner program is now evolving into the Tree Steward program. The University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources, Tree Trust, the Conservation Corps of Minnesota and Iowa, and HandsOn Twin Cities have partnered with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to provide support for the "Improving Community Forests Through Citizen Engagement" grant. Funding for this project has been provided by The Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR). Initial trainings are scheduled for this summer 2016. The 2014 and 2015 Citizen Pruners were trained in tree identification and basic pruning techniques. All volunteers receive training from the University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources in proper and safe pruning methods.
Climate Adaptation
TAP is looking at different climate-related initiatives around the city that focus on trees. Recently a Health Impact Assessment was released by the Pollution Control Agency and TAP members participated in that study.
Connecting Branches
TAP is comprised of a representative of each ward in the City as well as advisor members from the University of Minnesota Forestry Dept., local tree companies, local business, Friends of the Parks, the Park Commission, and the City of St Paul. We touch base with St Paul Public Schools, MNDOT, and other organizations and share resources/opportunities/information with the citizens of St Paul with a goal to preserve, promote, and enhance the urban forest.
Blooming St Paul
Blooming Saint Paul's mission is to beautify Saint Paul through supporting the communal creation of a healthy natural environment in order to enhance touring, living and working in the city. Blooming Saint Paul's beautification efforts have since reached over 120 sites with almost 600 hanging baskets and more than 8.5 acres of garden beds receive care from city staff and hundreds of volunteer gardeners.


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I am asked this question on occasion (enough that I thought it was worthy of a post) and feel I need to talk about a few things regarding this subject.
If you have a brand new site, and are trying to get the search engines to notice you and crawl you regularly setting up a blog could be a good thing if done correctly. You can't just create a blog and do nothing with it for it to be effective. You need to be an active blogger, and post something at least every 3 days (daily if possible). Make sure you are not posting about what you ate for breakfast either. You need to provide useful, unique content related to what your website is about (and make it worth reading!!)
When doing this you are creating what is called "spider food" for the crawlers. When you give them reasons to keep coming back and indexing your site they will. Most often, when your site is brand new, and you don't have anything but products, and an about us page its good to have content from a blog that keeps it fresh. Think about it, your products (or services) have been added to your website, and that information is not going to change that often, so the spiders will not visit you as often as they would if you were blogging about topics related to your site.
Even if your site is older and you have content that does not change that often its good to start blogging to get the crawlers coming back to your site on a regular basis. it could help improve your rankings and turn into more traffic.


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Book: The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee
Author: Tom Angleberger
Published: 2012
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With Dwight off at a new school and Origami Yoda retired, Tommy, Kellen, and their friends think that life is going to become boring. But that's only until Dwight passes along the Fortune Wookiee, and his trusty interpreter Han Foldo. Now the kids of McQuarrie Middle School have a mystical origami puppet to consult about all the burning problems.
In between how to avoid Grandma's scary meatloaf and how to get the attention of the person you like, Tommy is also trying to figure out what's wrong with Dwight. Because even though they don't see him much anymore, Tommy knows that there's something wrong. Call it an imbalance in the Force, call it millions of voices crying out in terror, call it whatever you like. Dwight's just not . . . Dwight anymore.
Seriously, how can you have an Origami Yoda book without Dwight? Luckily, that's a question we won't need to answer, because Dwight pops up here and there. Only this time, he's the one who needs help. The third book in this enduringly popular series is still fresh, funny, and realistic. And anyone who didn't hear the Imperial March as they read the last page . . . well, they just aren't in tune with the Force.


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The E30 M3; arguably the pinnacle of what embodies the Ultimate Driving Machine. Lightweight chassis, a normally aspirated engine willing to rev past the sky, and seating for you and three of your friends. This is about as good as a car can be.
But not only is the E30 M3 the benchmark for most auto manufacturers it is also the benchmark by which our own enthusiasts compare every BMW to exit the factory since. Admittedly not many have been able to hit the mark however. A few cars do come to mind here and there; the 2012 1 series M Coupe as well as the E46 M3 CSL. But these BMWs are so rare these days that it's actually easier and less expensive to just buy the real deal, an E30 M3.
Yes, recent clean examples of E30 M3s are being offered for upwards of $25,000 US but the truth is they're worth every penny. The E30 M3 is THE icon of motoring perfection! This and the fact that the E46 M3 CSL was never available here in the US. So rare is the E46 M3 CSL that a recent search of the usual internet sales sites turned up nothing.
So that leaves us with the 1 Series M coupe from last year. There's only 700 plus examples that made it to the U.S. in 3 different colors all with the same interior, Valencia Orange, Alpine White, and Black Sapphire. The problem is that even with very low miles they are being offered at ridiculous prices from not only private owners that know what their car's potential value could be, but also from dealerships looking to cash in on the greatest small BMW to come from Munich in a long time.
Ok I agree both the E46 M3 CSL and the 1 Series M coupe are both far more capable cars on the open road but do any of them offer the sheer visceral driving pleasure of the E30? I've been fortunate enough to have driven 2 of these cars at length on the street as well as spent time with them on the track. The only one that has eluded me is the E46 M3csl, because as I stated earlier, they were never available here in the states. I do however plan on experiencing this Nurburgring conquering monster some time in the near future. Hopefully before they become too valuable and no one will let me drive theirs.
Today's Super Bild is a sea of E30 M3s. Though it may look like a casual gathering of like minded BMW owners out for a Saturday afternoon, to me it looks like heaven.
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The chief executives, some of whom ranked among the highest-paid public officials in the country spent public money on fine dining, expensive hotel bills, "corporate gifts" for staff and even self-help books.
Thousands of pounds were charged to the taxpayer despite the heads "retiring" from their local authority, in some instances just a few months later.
The disclosures are contained in the financial records for 340 councils across England and Wales, obtained by The Daily Telegraph under freedom of information laws.
Expenses claims and credit card bills show that Maggie Mooney, the former CEO of Carlise City Council spent £85.12 on Amazon.co.uk for six self-help books six months before retiring.
Among her purchases included "Starting Up On Your Own: How to Succeed as an Independent Consultant or Freelance", "What Color Is Your Parachute?" and "A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers".
Mrs Mooney, who earned £104,462 a year, also spent £10.67 on a publication called "Talking to a Brick Wall: Why We Don't Believe Politicians & How to Make Them Listen to Us".
Her expenses bills show the majority of the book purchases were made on January 31. She retired on August 26, having led a major restructure of the cash-strapped council.
Mrs Mooney, 60, of Stanwix, Cumbria, also spent a total of £267 on champagne, whisky, wine, chocolates, gift wrap and gift sets as "leaving gifts for senior management" on her corporate credit card.
Ron Hilton, the former Staffordshire town hall boss charged exclusive hotel bills to his council credit card on 31 separate occasions, costing the public £5,416 while his council struggled to reduce its budget.
Mr Hilton, who was the highest paid Chief Executive in the West Midlands with a £242,842 a year salary, stayed at a string of five star London hotels including Millinnium Mayfair, Grosvenor House and the Park Plaza before his retirement in January last year.
Expenses claims and credit card bills show Mr Hilton stayed at the Millennium Mayfair on nine occasions between 2008 and 2010. The hotel describes itself as being "amongst the most elegant and luxurious Mayfair hotels".
He also stayed at The Belfry, a golf and leisure resort in the West Midlands, and Combe Grove Manor, a Georgian mansion in bath.
Staffordshire is struggling to cut £136m in three years and has so far slashed £2.5m from children's services, £2.2m from highways and £650,000 from road safety. Mr Hilton, 65, now operates his own consultancy.
John Foster, who was paid £210,000 to run Islington Council, in north London, before recently retiring claimed nearly £15,000 including more than £1,700 on his credit card entertaining other public officials at top local restaurants.
Mr Foster, who left the council in May, entertained other chief executives at restaurants such as the Almeida in Islington and Browns.
He treated the leader of Wakefield Council, his former employer, to lunch at the renowned Israeli restaurant Ottalenghi just before his departure in May and also dined at the Butlers Wharf Chop House, La Petit Auberge and the Fig and Olive.
Mr Foster, 63, drew heavy criticism for accepting a £545,000 pay-off when he left his job as chief executive of Wakefield Council in November 2007 only to take up his new post at Islington in April 2008.
Earlier this year this newspaper disclosed that town hall bosses presiding over spending cuts have run up credit card and expenses bills of £2.6 million since 2008, spending on items including golf days, spa breaks and first – class flights.
They showed that some bosses ran up tens of thousands of pounds in expenses and credit card bills on top of their six-figure salaries, despite being ordered to slash their pay and perks by Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary.
Other chief executives, some of whom earned more than the Prime Minister, used their taxpayer – funded expenses to pay for trivial items such as burgers, Christmas cards and biscuits.
Bob Neill, the Local Government Minister, said that using the taxpayer to fund "some long goodbye is simply unforgivable".
"These chief execs are some of the higheset paid public officials in the country and quite frankly they should pay for and can afford their own lavish meals and hotel stays," he said.
"Whilst thousands of hard working public sector emplyees are subject to a pay freeze this kind of wining and dining is insulting to them and shows a complete lack of respect for public money."
Mrs Mooney claimed some of the books were bought in her role as "Mentor" to a council employee, who she did not name, while others were used as council resources. The books, she said, were bought before she knew she was going to retire.
In a statement issued through her former employer, she said the book about the councillors "did not reflect at all my relationship" with them although she found it "useful".
She said the money was "legitimately spent on leaving presents" and was cleared by council officials.
The new administration at Staffordshire County Council condemned their former chief executive and pledged that officials would stick to cheaper alternatives in future.
Ian Parry, the deputy leader of the Tory council, said: "These expenses would not, and have not, been tolerated since we took control of the finances in June 2009."
"We take seriously our job of representing Staffordshire people and this sometimes involves attending events and conferences. The hotel choice will, however, always offer the best value for Staffordshire taxpayers."
An Islington Council Spokesman confirmed Mr Foster had left the council but declined to comment further.
Maggie Mooney's books. £85.12
• Starting Up On Your Own: How to Succeed as an Independent Consultant.
• What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual For Job-Hunters and Career Changers.
• Bounce: Use the Power of Resilience to Live the Life You Want.
• How to be Assertive in any Situation.
• Beyond Authority: Leadership in a Changing World.
• The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey – How management can effectively rid themselves of 'monkeys' – other people's responsibilities that cling to them and prevent them managing efficiently.
• £10.67 on a publication called Talking to a Brick Wall: Why We Don't Believe Politicians & How to Make Them Listen to U.
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Yesterday I came to a point where I felt very anxious, because I realized that I don't even know myself that well, I don't know what I really like or want in life, I feel like I have no identity, and I'm worried about choosing a path in life that isn't satisfying enough. I look everywhere around me and notice guys my age or younger doing stuff they love, being successful and having this own identity and for a brief moment I desire to be them, I'm always imagining myself in those circumstances even though it may not be what I really want. All these years I've been disconnected from the present moment. I want to be passionate about something and BE someone, you know, not as in "succeed in life" or figure out my future (I'm 22) but as in having this identity where I know myself and everyone around me does too, know what I'm good at, etc. I frequently look at lots of guys around me and feel I want to be them, I want to have their friends, their experiences, their bodies, their voices, their styles, their success... it happens all the time! When in reality they may not be something my heart desires to be! And when listening to reaally good music or seeing successful young artists with a style I like and all the things mentioned before, I wanna be like them too! When in reality fame may not be something I'm interested in. It kind of feels like jealousy, I feel too disconnected from myself. I don't know what I want my personality to be, I don't know what I want my style to be, I don't know what I want my hobbies to be, etc. I also want to mention, I feel like I am a different person with however I am spending my time, I may be different around girls, different around boys, I've even noticed my voice changes depending on who I am around with! Talk about having no identity...
Sometimes many of my desires also come from a place of just wanting to impress people.
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I was reading you post and it felt like if I had written it when I was you age.
I normally don't write here, I don't have much time, but I really feel the urge to try to help you a little bit.
I'm only 5 years older than you, but I've been through a lot. When I was exactly 22 my life fell apart and everything I thought that defined me disappeared: I had to leave college, my friends moved to different parts of the world, the financial crisis hit my family in the most brutal way and I was trapped in a life I loathed with all my heart. I had to stay home and be the emotional support, but I felt my time was slipping away.
Then came the disassociation.
My days were repetitive routines of self-pity and daydreaming about -as you've said- things that I envied from others. I wanted to be a different person so bad I was literally blocking all good things that could happen to me. I didn't feel myself, I felt like a stranger in my own skin and I couldn't stand my own reflection. It was hell.
Around 2015 I had an emotional crisis that made me think I was going to die, not in a suicidal way, but as if something told me death was close. And it was close, but not as I thought.
The pain came as a purification and all those things you've described died. Then, and only then, I discovered who I am.
I want to tell you that you have all the time in the world to figure it out. Your worst enemy is that feeling of 'I don't have time, I'm getting older, everyone does this, everyone is doing that, I'm lost, I'm nothing, I'm disappointing...'. That's your ego comparing itself to the life of other people, and that never works. It only your mind and what the society expects, not what you must be.
I felt different depending on the situation or the people around me too. I wanted to impress rather than be myself. I was scare of being less than others. I had a little bit of social anxiety.
Your first goal is to empty yourself of the dreams of others. You don't see it now, but you stand in an excellent starting point. Stop comparing yourself, become a clean white canvas and love that. Love yourself just because you exist. You are, and that's all that matters. It's imperative: you must love yourself, even your emptiness, even your shadow.
You don't have to be like the rest, you can appreciate things you like about other people, but you have the opportunity of being original, of being you.
Read, read, read. That saved my life. That will make you sharpen the desire about who you want to become.
Remember: this is an endless becoming, we are empty vessels and if we stop evolving and refilling ourselves we die in a static life.
Stop focusing on what you don't have and stop wasting your time daydreaming. I wish someone had told me that before, but now I see all I had to go through was for a reason and made me better.
I'm in a rush, so sorry in advance if there are any grammatical mistake: English is not my native language and I have my mind somewhere else today.
If you want I can be more specific about whatever you are interested about, but right now I live in a place with no internet -for the moment- and I read the forums only twice a week, more or less.
I promise everything will get better.
I've realized I've done too much blahblahblah.
As I said, I don't have time, but soon I'll tell you all kind of practical things I did.
Meditate! It's the best help you will ever have.
Are you the intellectual type? Philosophy helped me a lot.
There's an exercise, write down all kind of things you admire in others. Those things are inside yourself, if they weren't you would not be able to see them.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply, it's really comforting to see someone else has been there. I love meditation and I forget how much it helps me, I should do it daily. Every small detail I envy from other people has something in common, in the end it's something I would like to have. I guess the universe knows exactly what I like and who I want to become, so I should relax and let go of everything right? I can relate to everthing you said. I'm scared of not being interesting enough being myself and forgetting about others. I guess there's a catch here, the more perfect I believe I am just the way things are, the more I truly become it and ressemble those things I admire, no?
Much love.
After all this time I've come to the same conclusion as you: the universe knows and our only work is to be happy, to love ourselves and let go of all the goals, expectations and nonsense.
Accepting oneself right now, even with the things we don't like, is the fastest way to be who we truly are. I don't know if this happens to you, but when I meditate I lose all my sense of identity, and those moments are pure bliss, then, why we worry so much about being 'someone'? It's a paradox, but when we feel the unity with the universe and forget about the rest two things happen: we start being true to our true self and gain identity and we start being magnetic to other people. But when we compare ourselves with other people and focus on our lacks and our personality we become shady and lose our self-confidence.
I was unable to be in the now, I always daydreamed about stupid situations that were and are unlikely to happen. All the good things and all the solutions came when I gave up and accepted my now, when I meditated and accepted me. One fun manifestation I had was my skin. When I was a teenager I had acne and since then I hated my skin, because it had a couple of scars and a terrible complexion. I was so obsessed that it even affected my social life. I got tired, I gave up and bam, my skin changed completely in a week. My obsession and negative thoughts were the ones that kept me from my desire. The same mechanism works for everything else.
You have all those good things you want inside yourself, but you must let them emerge. When you interact with others and can't stop wondering what they think about you, you automatically act weird, I know it because it happened to me. And I got home and I hated myself for being such a weirdo, feeding the vicious circle.
It's good to find things you like in other people, but do it in appreciation and knowing you can have them, never envying or you will be pushing your desires away. There's a subtle difference, so be careful and only do this kind of exercises when you are in a good mood.
Let me tell you something about my friends. A couple of years ago I thought I was a failure because I had just figured out what my talent was and what I wanted to do in life and my friends were already established in their careers. Well, two of my closest friends have quit their jobs and are on their personal quests to find out who they really are, another one has leaved it all behind because she has found out religion is her path, and I have a couple of them in therapy because they hate their jobs and their careers and feel trapped. And I thought I was the one that was late, when it was quite the contrary. You are in an excellent position to get what you want earlier than other people, if you work on yourself and your desires, forgetting about what everyone else does.
And even if we fail, who cares. My mother reinvented herself in her 50's due to the crisis, it taught me that this is a never ending precess and we should be enjoying every single minute of it.
Sometimes we've gathered so much information that we collapse because it looks like choosing a path will be closing the remaining doors. Choosing actually opens your way to new experiences and it gives you the power to integrate all the things you would like to be or do or have.
It can happen that we've put so much expectation and have dreamed situations is such an utopic way that we can feel fear when it comes time to actually live the life we are creating. Then, again, meditation is your best friend, it helps to overcome those fears and to remember who you really are.
If you want to find your purpose think about it as two different things: one is what you want to offer to yourself and the other is what you want to offer to the world. When you are in your happiest mood, who you are in that moment? What do you have to offer then? What moves you? What makes you feel invincible? Your true self can be found there. You can visualize a moment in your life when you have been really happy, and try to feel that emotion, the only important thing is the emotion, the situation is only a tool here. This is why our only work is to be happy, because then we are the best version or ourselves. Once you have got that you can start thinking what do you want to offer to the world, and there you find your purpose, your dream. And everything may change over time, that's the point, to grow, to evolve.
Start with being passionate about yourself and everything will flow to you.
Remember we are in a play and we shouldn't be taking everything so seriously.
Have fun during the process! And yes, you are perfect as you are, and if you forget about what others may think or what their expectations are you will be spontaneous and happier and you will be a natural magnet to people and situations. I've experimented with it, I know it's true, this works, don't hesitate! Build your trust in the universe and in yourself, you will know what to do.
Experiment! For example, your style. The most stylish people experiment all the time, that's the only way to know what works with you, which clothes, which haircut... I know something about that (fashion design has been one of my 'failures' before I accepted I could be an artist after all) and I've found out that I could be a different person everyday without losing that sense of being me. But before I knew what 'being me' meant I had many catastrophes. When I was in high school I was a gothic girl, and somehow I'm only comfortable when I dress in black, even if the clothes are not gothic anymore. I fought against that and tried to dress as everyone else and follow the trends in terms of color, but guess what, it didn't work, I felt ugly and ackward. I accepted that some part of me was still a little bit dark and defined my style around it.
It's the same with the rest of personality traits, I find people that are loving and warm incredible, but I'm not comfortable being too affectionate, even though that accepting that I'm as I am has made me more open with my feelings than ever, another paradox.
Remember to meditate every day, even 15 minutes, and just love who you are. Being happy is your only job, and the rest will take care of itself. This is the fastest way I've found to make my dreams come true.
I hope I've helped you a little bit!
I think my brain has stopped working, I said leaved instead of left...I swear I'm not analphabet, it's just I'm always on a rush and the summer makes me idiot or something, hahaha.
Oh my God, you are a blessing. I will take time to let all this sink in. I got teary reading it, it's as if you were my higher self communicating, you hit the nail on the head in everything. Thank you thank you thank you.
I will not talk about my "problems" in present tense, because I believe I now know everything I need to know to shift my perspective. But wow, I feel so grateful right now.
Muuuch love to you! I would love to talk to you more often.
It makes me really really happy that my experience has been useful for you! I personally think that we all have a higher being connected to a higher consciousness we all share, so maybe I was inspired by your higher being through mine, who knows! Because I never thought I'd write in the forums, I was a sporadic reader, but I felt an inner urge to answer you, it was like if I was talking to myself from the past or something, one of those really weird- yet marvelous- things that happen when we open our minds to different realities.
Whenever you want, just send me a message and I will answer as soon as I can.
Your replies are so full of love & wisdom! And i love your nick!
Aww, thank you! As I said before, I never thought about writing in the forums, but you are encouraging me to do it more often.
When I discovered the concept of ataraxia I loved it, philosophy has always been such a help for me.
Your avatar always makes me smile!
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! We are pleased to invite you to come to the Healing for the Nations International Convention 2016 [HNIC 2016], there will be over 4000 people from over 50 countries worldwide. The convention will run from 11th – 15th May 2016 at World Shine Foundation School Primary Rwentobo – Ntungamo District. The Convention Theme is "Arise and shine" based on Isaiah 60:1-5. Uganda, Africa and the world at large is bleeding with broken walls of Revival; we would like to see the Light of the Lord shine upon all the Spheres of influence including the Government, Judiciary, Economy, Education, Media, Religion, Music and Entertainment and the Family.
The Convention Objectives are:
- Mobilising, Motivating and Preparing the Church for Revival and Healing of the Nations;
- Empowering, Imparting and Equipping the Church for Ministry;
- Networking, Partnering and Collaborating for Ministry;
- Fellowshipping, Renewal and Revival of Apostolic Christianity;
- Reaching Ugandan Cities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ;
- Bringing Christians Together for the Common Aim of Shining for Christ.
May God be with you as you prepare to come and be part of the HNIC 2016.
The Healing for the Nations International Convention 2016 ended successfully and a general report is coming up soon on our ministry-download's page. More than 8,000 people attended the convention, thousands accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior, the deaf started hearing, the lame walked and many other miracles.


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CONGEALING SKY (photo) & AT THE RESTAURANT (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila
why did I guilt her
into giving me some of her ham?
not only is it
totally cold and greasy now
but she doesn't owe me anything
yeah, the serving I paid for and gobbled down
was much smaller than hers, but that's life,
and envy of another's portion
leaves a bitter taste indeed
[tanka capped by two two-liners on a dream of 1-22-16. Photo "Congealing Sky" (1-23-16 001v3) by Roswila]
There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers, as the above is), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.
[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under "View my complete profile"). Roswila's other blogs: ROSWILA'S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA'S TAIGA TAROT; TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT; and THE MARKER TAROT.


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I adore this bib. But it's not really a bib. It's a placemat (that cost a dollar). At least it was a placemat until luvinthemommyhood turned it into a bib. Here's how she did it.
You'll need these materials to make your own bib:
1. Water-resistant placemat consisting of 2 pieces. (luvinthemommyhood used a 13" x 19" PEVA placemat from Wal-Mart)
2. Matching thread
3. An existing bib in the size you'd like to make
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Feria de Abril was something that everyone had been talking about since I started my internship experience here in Sevilla. "During Feria this... In the Feria that.." Actually they started to build up the Feria area for over two months before the actual happening! So I figured it's probably quite a big party and when you think about it, party that lasts for a week is probably pretty big!
Feria de Abril is a weeklong festival, held in April as the name tells. It's about eating and drinking good, wearing your best clothes: all the men wear suits and ties and all the women wear usually the flamenco dress. Also, EVERYBODY in the city participates the festival! For instance, if you walk in the city, everyone is dressed up! It's unbelievable!
We decided to participate the party with the personnel from the company where I have my student placement the next day. Our company gave us interns shorter working days so that we could go to the Feria. On Wednesday, we interns headed out to change nice clothes and went to have a work lunch in the festival. It was really interesting and nice to see all that. The place was full of people, horses and tents.
Yes, tents. People can rent a tent for themselves for the week. Only the cost is at least 2000 euros for one! Not something that student who is doing internship can afford! Usually you can't enter a tent, if you are not invited and that makes the tents really desirable for people to get. For those people, who don't have access to any tent, there are public tents (where to buy food and drinks). Only the prize might get pretty high!
Also, there are a LOT of horses around. All the people bring their own horses from the country side and ride them in the festival. You can even buy a horse ride for yourself – if you have the money, because it costs 200 euros for one hour - another thing that interns probably cannot afford!
In the night time, the Feria area is lit by over 300,000 light bulbs. Actually the whole Feria area consumes as much energy as a city of 50,000 people. In addition to the tent area, there is an amusement park in the area! All this combined, lasting for a week, it is a big party!
I'm working, all week long,
I dream the days away,
I wanna... sing my song
so let the music play
I have to get my fix, and fly tonight
and when the clock strikes 6, on Fri-day Night
I need to blow it all away
I Can't wait.. for the weekend to begin...
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Homegrown to perform at Hard Times Cafe-Four Mile Fork to benefit Veterans Moving Forward on December 19th
(FREDERICSKBURG, VA) Homegrown will perform at Hard Times Cafe-Four Mile Fork on Saturday, December 19th to benefit Veterans Moving Forward (VMF). Homegrown is Fredericksburg's iconic classic rock and country band and have been the tri-county's most popular band for over a decade.
The band will return to Hard Times Cafe for their first public appearance this year. The cost of the concert event is $7 at the door, starting at 7 p.m., for ages 21 and up. Drink special wristbands will be available, with a $2 donation to VMF.
VMF's mission is to provide service dogs and canine therapy services to veterans with physical and mental health challenges at no cost to the veteran. Their vision is to be a leading source of canine therapy and assistance dogs provided at no cost to veterans with physical and mental health challenges. For more information on VMF, visit http://www.vetsfwd.org
Hard Times Cafe Four Mile Fork opened in Fredericksburg, October 2004 and is owned and operated by Glenn Melvin. Hard Times Four Mile Fork is a 14,000 sq. Ft. restaurant, sports bar, billiard room and the largest live music venue in the tri-county area. The establishment is a first class sports viewing facility and live entertainment venue that attracts sports and music fans from near and afar. National touring music artists such as Saving Abel, Fuel, Alien Ant Farm, Drowning Pool, We Are Harlot, 10 Years, Nonpoint, The Fighting Jamesons, Saliva and Confederate Railroad have all played the Hard Times stage. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/HardTimesCafeFourMileFork


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Investment in Media Production and Audio Visual Industry (€200m)
Under Pillar 4 of the Creative Ireland Programme, the Government is committed to developing Ireland as a centre of excellence in media production through supporting the development of the Irish film, television and animation sectors. It will do this by continuing to provide tax incentives for film production in Ireland and by providing capital funding to the Irish Film Board, which in turn will support and promote Irish film, television and animation. One of the challenges will be to increase funding to the sector through the Irish Film Board. This will, in turn, allow it to fulfil its remit and help position the sector as a strategically important contributor to the cultural and economic life of the country.
The audio visual sector
We are experiencing an international revolution in the audio visual sector, driven largely by new internet platforms such as Netflix and Amazon, and the continued success of the traditional TV and film industry. There are major opportunities for growth in the sector. Ireland is an attractive territory for internationally mobile audio visual investment combining as it does fantastic locations, an English-speaking population, a skilled workforce and a competitive fiscal incentive. Additional capital funding in the sector will exploit this potential and will focus primarily on film production, High End TV drama and animation under the following headings:
• Co-production funding to support the development and production of more projects such as Room and Brooklyn which were Irish and international coproductions;
• Development funding to increase the value of Irish productions in the marketplace by ensuring they are fully developed before entering production;
• Funding to encourage the production of new Irish TV drama content. In recent years, there has been very little Irish domestic TV Drama and new funding will allow Ireland to take its place in this growing international market as well as reflecting our own cultural experience;
• A Regional Production Fund aimed at assisting with the cost of filming outside of the Dublin and Wicklow regions The recently announced production of George RR Martin's Nightflyers in Limerick was made possible by an Irish Film Board and will unlock the potential of other regions to support high-end productions;
• Additional Training of film workers and crew particularly in the regions.
The full details on the breakdown of the investment programme is provided in the sectoral plan –Investing in our Culture, Language and Heritage – which is available here
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AUGUSTA � Acknowledging defeat within their own party at the Republican National Convention, some Ron Paul supporters return to Maine while others pack their bags for the return trip. But one of the activists says their work is not done yet. Next priority is to build a party of "liberty leaning individuals" and work to elect like-minded individuals, including Gov. Paul LePage. By Glenn Adams.
SACO � Formal documents, letters and pictures are part of the latest list of Maine's Most Endangered Historic Resources, which also includes school buildings, a lifesaving station and a former bank building. The nonprofit group Maine Preservation has released its annual list in hopes of raising public awareness of the importance of not losing historic properties and materials.
PORTLAND � A soldier from Maine who served in the National Guard has died in Kuwait.
� ACCIDENT APP � Maine insurance regulators say a new WreckCheck mobile application outlines what to do immediately following an auto accident.
� BABY DEATH � Police say the death of 3-month-old girl while under the care of a baby sitter in Fairfield is now being investigated as a homicide.
� POLICE DEPARTMENT-ELIMINATION � Officials in Damariscotta are weighing whether to eliminate the town police department and hand over law enforcement duties to the county sheriff.
� CEMETERY VANDALISM � Police have charged two 16-year-old boys in connection with a vandalism spree at a Livermore Falls cemetery.
� KITTENS DUMPED � Police say a Lewiston woman is facing animal cruelty charges for allegedly dumping four newborn kittens in the trash earlier this month.
� GRANDMOTHER-ARSON � A Standish grandmother has been sentenced to four years in jail for setting a string of fires in York and Cumberland counties.
� STUDENT-ATHLETE KILLED � A Pittston man police say was behind the wheel of a car that crashed in Standish last April, killing a St. Joseph's College varsity basketball player, has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and other charges.
� HEALTH CENTER � A new community health center for Maine's York County that will serve 6,000 patients a year is scheduled to open in January.
� AIR SHOW � Organizers say 40,000-plus people attended the Great State of Maine Air Show over the weekend at Brunswick Executive Airport.


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For Americans watching events unfold on television late last month, the arduous evacuation of New Orleans and the grandeur of the Olympic Games couldn't have made for a starker contrast.
However one feels about its other policies, the Chinese government is clearly not afraid to invest in the future of its cities. The array of architecture it created for the Beijing Olympics was only part of a mosaic of roads, bridges, tunnels, canals, subway lines and other projects that have transformed a medieval city of wood and brick into a modern metropolis overnight.
Meanwhile, three full years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, much of the city remains a wasteland. As Hurricane Gustav raced toward the Gulf Coast, it became clear that the city's patchwork levee system could not guarantee the safety of its citizens. The evacuation of tens of thousands of residents was cheered as some sort of victory.
But for those with a sense of urban history, the tragedy of New Orleans is not just about governmental disregard for the welfare of the city's inhabitants. It is about a lost opportunity. All of the great challenges that confront the 21st-century city from class, race and environmental issues to the continuing duel between history and modernity are crystallized in New Orleans.
Yet the kind of visionary urban plan that could address these issues in a bold and thoughtful way has yet to materialize. Instead, some of the country's greatest architectural minds are inventing the future in cities like Beijing, Shenzhen and Dubai, where their talents are more appreciated.
The signs pointing to this tragic turn of events were there for anyone who cared to read them. The great urban planning experiments that transformed America in the early 20th century were both triumphs of engineering and dazzling monuments to a free, mobile society. Anyone who has watched the film "Chinatown" knows the story of William Mulholland's aqueduct, which transformed Los Angeles from a desert wasteland into a sunny paradise of trim lawns and orange groves. Less known is the story of modern New Orleans, which exists because of the system of canals, levees and pumps the largest in the world that were used to drain acres of marshland.
This kind of bold government planning died long ago, of course, a victim of both the public's disillusionment with the large-scale Modernist planning strategies of the postwar era and the antigovernment campaigns of the Reagan years. The consequences were obvious as soon as Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. And they have been reaffirmed many times since, with the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis and myriad accounts of our country's crumbling infrastructure.
Still, many Americans stubbornly regard any kind of large-scale public works project with suspicion. Three years ago, for example, the nonprofit Urban Land Institute unveiled a master plan for New Orleans that would have transformed large parts of the city into wetland areas. But the proposal, which was released as thousands of people were struggling to make their way back to the city, caused a public outcry and was immediately dropped. The institute compounded the problem by not including a workable proposal for how to house those dislocated by the plan.
Since then, the most concrete proposal has been a plan by the official in charge of the city's recovery, Edward J. Blakely, to identify 17 projects, from schools to community centers, that could be used to spur further development. But with a mere $400 million of public funds committed to the project, the plan is not likely to go far. (The city has hired the Boston firm Goody Clancy to prepare a citywide plan, but it is not scheduled for completion for another year.)
The lack of a coherent vision for the city's future means that some of the most critical reconstruction decisions like where to build are left to private homeowners. The notion of concentrating the bulk of new construction on higher ground, an approach that would be both safer and environmentally sound, rarely comes up. Instead, FEMA's distribution of relief money has sometimes encouraged people to rebuild in the most vulnerable low-lying areas, since it is used for repairing structures damaged by the storm, not for relocation. The perversity of such an approach can be seen in areas like Lakeview and the Ninth Ward, where the few scattered houses that have been rebuilt stand surrounded by acres of barren land, sometimes directly in the shadow of the levees.
When the government has been involved, it has often shown a callous indifference to the city's architectural history. A few months ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development began tearing down thousands of low-income housing units built in the late 1930s and early '40s, including several low-rise brick apartment blocks in the working-class neighborhood of Tremé that were among the best early examples of public housing in the country. There have also been threats to demolish Charity Hospital, a towering Art Deco landmark near downtown, as well as several Modernist schools built in the 1950s and '60s.
Not surprisingly, what little progress has been made has been the work of a few determined nonprofit organizations. In the Holy Cross neighborhood, Global Green built a prototype for a sustainable shotgun house, complete with solar panels, natural ventilation and recycled materials. The house is the first step toward creating a planned sustainable community, organized around a town green that is designed to collect runoff water during a storm.
Brad Pitt's Make It Right foundation recently completed a competition for the design of several sustainable single-family houses, the first of which are now under construction in the Ninth Ward. And other organizations, like the local Preservation Resource Center, have been painstakingly restoring a number of historical houses throughout the city.
Yet these scattershot efforts, however noble, do not constitute a thoughtful, coordinated urban plan. Shoring up existing levees will not magically transform New Orleans into a model for the contemporary city.
To accomplish that, the city will have to start with a blueprint for preserving the historic fabric that was not destroyed by Hurricane Katrina not just in tourist-friendly areas like the French Quarter, but across the city. It will need to tie efforts to rebuild the city's infrastructure to a broader plan that takes into account its shrinking population, the realities of global warming and the racial and social patterns that have shaped New Orleans for decades. And that plan will have to integrate the needs of those who are still suffering the most: working-class people who don't own their homes and can't find an affordable place to live.
This will take real brainpower, of course. But the idea that it can't be done or that Americans can't afford it seems more ludicrous than ever, given the example of China. Sometime later this year, Steven Holl, one of the brightest talents working today, will complete his Linked Hybrid residential complex in Beijing. The project is both a model of sustainable design and a breathtaking example of how to build an urban community in the 21st century. The London-based engineering firm Arup is working on a master plan for an entire sustainable city, Dongtan, in a wetland area near Shanghai.
New Orleans, too, could become a bold vision a laboratory for how to rebuild America's faltering cities. It could evolve into a model for the future as compelling and optimistic as the one America offered to the world a generation ago. Or it could remain an emblem of how far we've fallen.


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Fun Judo Facts
Letter To Parents
Click HERE to read a letter to parents written by a martial arts instructor with 30 years of teaching experience.
He provides a good explanation of how martial arts can help your child throughout life.
About JudoJudo, which means "The Gentle Way", is a Japanese martial art based upon the ancient techniques of jujutsu. In 1882, Dr. Jigoro Kano developed a scientifically balanced system to build the mind, as well as the physical body. Kodokan Judo was started as a result of Dr. Kano combining the best techniques, modifying and eliminating the dangerous elements of several Jujitsu styles. He gave Judo strong moral orientation with physical emphasis. Judo emphasizes controlling an opponent by turning their attacking force against them. Dr Kano created Judo as a lifelong sport and discipline to develop the mind, body and spirit to it's fullest potential.
An exciting Olympic contact sport, Judo teaches body awareness and self discipline and provides developmental structure. Judo perfectly combines aerobic with anaerobic exercise. It develops strength, speed, agility, flexibility and endurance for all ages.
Judo is known for its spectacular throwing techniques but also includes numerous techniques for controlling an opponent while on the ground. Judo is often compared to freestyle wrestling and while the two share many techniques, Judo retains many dangerous self-defense maneuvers.
A good judoka, one who practices Judo, will first use timing and leverage to bring his opponent off balance and execute a throw. Once the judoka has thrown his opponent to the ground, he will use painful hold-down techniques, chokes, strangleholds, and armlocks to control and subdue the opponent. If the opponent does not surrender, he will either have his elbow joint dislocated by means of an armlock or will be rendered unconscious with a chokehold. A judoka first learns "ukemi", the art of falling properly to avoid injury. All Judo practitioners wear a judogi and a belt. Judo is practiced on mats for safety.
The main principles of Judo are "Maximum Efficiency" and "Mutual Welfare and Benefit." The goal of maximum efficiency teaches the judoka to use the least amount of physical strength necessary to throw an opponent. This is accomplished by proper use of technique and timing. The goal of mutual welfare and benefit was an extension of Dr. Kano's belief that Judo could help the individual become a better member of society. Dr. Kano felt that the personal discipline that Judo taught would extend beyond the dojo into daily life and could allow the judoka to become a more productive member of society.
Seiryoku Zenyo (Maximum Efficiency) and Jita Kyoei (Mutual Welfare and Benefit) represent the fundamental principles of Judo. Judo is also a method of training for the mind and the body, to be used throughout one's life and daily affairs. The development of self-confidence, interpersonal relations, and the mutual respect for oneself and others remains the hallmarks of Judo and are the goals for which we strive.
In 1964, Judo became the first martial art to be sanctioned as a medal sport in the Olympic Games. Judo competitions are also held throughout the world. Points are awarded for throwing an opponent, holding an opponent on his back while on the mat for a designated amount of time, or forcing an opponent to submit via "tapping out" to an armlock or choke or rendering the opponent unconscious with a choke. A match is won with a "perfect throw" called an Ippon, two near perfect throws called Wazari, holding an opponent on his back on the mat for 25 seconds, a combination of one Wazari and holding an opponent down for 20 seconds, or submitting an opponent with a choke or armlock.
Both competitors and recreational players are ranked by belt. There are opportunities for competition at all levels, from grass roots to the Olympics. Practiced in 182 countries, Judo has been enjoying immense popularity as a chosen method of physical fitness and means for competition.


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Service Dogs Part 2: Psychiatric and Medical Response Dogs
Friday, August 31, 2012
This is the second part of our discussion surrounding Service Dogs, as previously we discussed dogs which help people with mobility issues. Today we are going to talk about Service Dogs which help people with with psychological or mental health issues, and also discuss medical response dogs.
- Dogs can be trained to retrieve medication from a specific location, whether it be a special bag, cupboard or even in a hotel room or dresser
- Bring a beverage from the fridge to swallow the medication
- Bring the phone if it is an emergency, or call 911 with a K-9 rescue phone
- Summon help from a family member or co-worker
- Dogs can be trained to remember what time their owner needs to take their medication, they can remind with a nudge or ask to be fed themselves
- Carry a card for when their owner has a speech impairment that may be related to their condition or medication - the dog can give the card to other people so they know what is happening
- Alert a sedated person of a doorbell, smoke alarm, or someone else in distress
3. Help Cope With Emotional Overload
- Provide stimulation: being with their owner after a night terror or hallucination can serve as an affirmation of reality, vigorously licking their owners face can help bring the person back to full awareness of their surroundings
- For children with autism, a dog can be trained to constantly nudge their owner to help bring them out of inappropriate repetitive behaviour
- The dog can turn on lights, TV or initiate a game to break the grip of obsessive thoughts or memories
- Help find an exit for their owner to get out of a stressful situation or panic attack
- By applying pressure on their owners - usually through sitting on their chest - they can impose a calming effect on their owners who may be having an anxiety or panic attack
4. Enhance the Personal Security of their Owner
- Asking their dog "who's there?" allows for them to have their fears alleviated if they are feeling anxious about an intruder being present
- Bringing an emergency phone to call a friend of 911 when their owners are feeling fearful
- Keep suspicious strangers away
- Using teamwork in public to alert the owner of others approaching or to watch owner's back when using an ATM or check out stand
Once again we would like to note that if you see a service dog in public, please don't approach the dog without the owner's permission. Service Dogs which help with mental health conditions or chronic illnesses are working and provide their owners with a measure of security and distracting them could have serious consequences.


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International Journal of Agricultural Policy and Research
Vol.2(5),pp.203-214,May 2014
Article ID JPR058/14/12 Pages
Copyright © 2014 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 International License
Original Research Paper
Spatial-temporal dynamics of population structure for macro invertebrates families in a continuum dam – effluent – river in irrigated system. Volta Basin (Burkina Faso)
Accepted 25 April, 2014
SANOGO Souleymane1, KABRE Tinkoudgou Jean André*1 and CECCHI Philippe2
1Laboratoire de Recherche et de Formation en Pêche et Faune (LaRFPF/ IDR), Université de Bobo-Dioulasso,BP. 1091 Bobo 01, Burkina Faso.
2Institut de Recherche et Développement, France.
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A monthly sampling of benthic macro invertebrates was carried out at the hydro-agricultural dam of Boura in the Volta watershed basin (Burkina) during the period of February through July 2012 in order to describe the structuring of insect succession along with changes occurring in habitats of this irrigated dam farming system. The samples of insects were collected from 6 stations located inside the littoral (Station I), the sublittoral (Station II), the sewage channel or effluent (Stations III, IV, V) and the Mouhoun River (Station VI). The sampling method employed is a conventional method by the European Union named " Directive Cadre sur l'Eau (DCE) " recommended for the survey of benthic macro invertebrates. The survey reveals a community composed majorly of insects (more than 75%) variously distributed. On one hand at the shoreline and the coastal- adjoining zone in the dam, 23 families of macro invertebrates were identified; mostly belonging to the shoreline except for 10 families identified as endemic to the adjoining zone of the coastline. These two zones of the dam shelter the same malacological fauna consisting of the Unionidae, Lymneidae, Ampullariidae, Planorbidae, Valvatidae and Bulinidae families. The survey reveals otherwise that the differences between the Shannon biological diversity indices for these two zones were more pronounced during the month of July, the rainy period in the basin. On the other hand, concerning the dam-effluent-river continuum, a total of 35 families are sampled: 27 from dam water and stations near the irrigated zones; and 32 from the station of the sewage channel far from the irrigated zone and the river. The identification of individuals belonging to the family of the Baetidae and the Ephemerellidae (order of Ephemeroptera) in the river water highlights a subsequent reconstruction of the biodiversity in the river as the presence of both families is an indicator of fertile water. Further analysis on the spatial and temporal distribution involved 17 families out of the 35 sampled not common to all habitats. This lead to the conclusion that changes in natural habitats dictate the clustering patterns of macro invertebrates populations during the year long.
Key words: Macro invertebrates, succession, continuum, irrigation, dams, effluent, river, Volta basin, Burkina Faso
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'The Hairforce featured in The British Library's Annual Accounts'
The British Library featured The Hairforce in their 2008 Annual Accounts as one of its entrepreneurial success stories. Dee Wright has used the Business & IP Centre extensively to help develop her nit and head lice removal service.
"My name is Dee Wright and I'm the founder of a company called The Hairforce – Lice Assassins, a nit and head lice hand-removal service, a complete innovation in the UK.
"The British Library has been very significant in the development of my business in a number of crucial ways. It has given me access to the data and information that I needed to put together my business case.
"I met a number of fantastic people here who guided me towards the information that I needed quickly and efficiently – something that was quite important, given I hadn't been in a library for some time. They also guided me towards the Business & IP Centre, where I had access to business reports and data that would have cost me thousands to buy externally.
"The British Library has also allowed me to attend a whole raft of courses for free that could enable me to develop my skills in areas where I felt I was weaker or I needed reminding that I was a small business, not a big one – and how, therefore, to use my resources more efficiently.
"Crucially, I've also attended many talks and events given by important entrepreneurs and that led ultimately to me being mentored by both Anita Roddick and Tim Campbell. All of these resources at the British Library have contributed to where I am today. I am currently cogitating on a new business idea, which is an extension of The Hairforce and it's to the British Library that I'll turn to first to do my research."
Dee's company now employs 12 staff and she plans to build a network of hundreds of Lice Assassins over the next five years.
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