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Since I discovered the joys of vintage inspired dresses about 5 years ago, I've barely worn trousers, like ever! Up until last week I had literally no pairs of trousers or jeans in my wardrobe, beyond leggings, active wear and pyjamas!
So when I realised I was going to need trousers for a costume for a dance show I'm in later in the year I started browsing my favourite plus retailers for possible options… My character is a male, old style gangster and the brief was 'black trousers' so I wanted something that would be suitable for the show (and comfortable to dance in!) as well as being a new addition to my wardrobe. (I couldn't afford to buy something to be worn once and EBay wasn't offering up any cheapy options!).
When I stumbled across these ASOS Curve chinos I thought I'd found exactly what I was after! They'd pass as men's trousers for the show and I'd be happy to wear them as part of my regular day wear. I'm never quite sure on ASOS sizing (sometimes I find they come up small) so I ordered a UK size 28. I think I would have been better off with a 26 but was worried they'd be too tight for dancing!
These trousers are super comfortable (I was worried as I hadn't worn trousers for over 2 years!) with belt loops (although the waistline is low on the hips so none of my belts actually fit to do up!) and fully functional front + bum pockets. They sit on my ankle – so I'm hoping that will prevent me slipping over on them mid moon-walk during the show!
I'm absolutely head over heels in love with these trousers and had loads of comments about them when I wore them to work. I think they're excellent value too, for £22! I might buy myself a second pair in a smaller size if I find myself wearing them often enough.
Now I need to find myself some more tops to wear with them!


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We headed up to Bristol for the Red Bull Hill Chasers 2012. It was pissing down on the drive there at points we could barely see the road ahead, but we made it there in one piece.
I managed to get a couple of pictures, it was a great day. Thanks to Red Bull, Charge Bikes and Chris from CSG for being super awesome and feeding me lots of pizza, sandwiches, booze and sorting out a hotel 🙂
I can't wait until next year! Hopefully I won't have any broken bones so I'll be able to race!

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Extreme couponing isn't only for toiletries and frozen pizzas, it can also be apply to the gardening world! Unlike most processed foods; it's very rare to find coupons for fresh, healthy produce. By applying extreme couponing methods to food producing plants; you can save tons of money on pounds and pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables to feed your family.
For example, last year I acquired 6 – 6 packs of strawberry plants totally FREE just for signing up to our local garden store newsletter. Each plant produced approximately 2 lbs of strawberries which I was able to make into jars jars of delicious homemade strawberry jam. With a little love and a lot of water, I'm hoping these tomato plants will produce lots of ripe, delicious tomatoes that I can turn into homemade pasta, marinara and pizza sauces. When combined with canning techniques; these sauces can be canned and will last us all year long! Win – win!
Here's the math:
First, I signed up for a Kmart – Shop Your Way account and received $5 in points just for signing up! Their tomato plants were on sale for $1.79 per container. While looking for the largest and healthiest looking plants, I noticed quite a few had two plants per container. So even tho I only purchased two containers, I brought home four individual tomato plants.
As you can see, I chose to redeem some of my shop your way points, which took off $2.75 from the transaction total. This made my out of pocket expense for four – one foot tall tomato plants $0.61! Plus I gave one plant to my mom so for the 3 I planted, I only paid $0.45.
Since I already had the planters and the soil I won't be calculating that into the equation. Craigslist.org has been as wonderful resource to find free and cheap gardening supplies, planters and even plants! The heavy duty colored tomato cages (pictured above) that retail for $9.99 each at Kmart, I picked up on Craigslist for FREE last year. That's a $30 savings right there!
My grand total out of pocket expense for these 3 tomato plants & set up was only $0.45! That's $.15 per plant! Love & water not included. When it's time to harvest, I will weigh out what I collect and compare prices to similar store bought tomatoes and see how much I actually got for my tiny investment!
I LOVE extreme couponing and saving money! Stay tuned for more articles on Gardening on the Cheap, Budgeting for Groceries & How to Get Fantastic Freebies.


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Written by Matt Ruddick
A radio that is loaded with features and style.
Product Review
As seen in the August 2018 issue of Model Aviation.
Bonus Video
Modulation: FrSky FrOS (supports OpenTX systems)
Power: Built-in Li-Ion battery
Weight: 2.2 pounds (980 grams)
Operating voltage: 7.2-volt DC
Operating temperature: 14° to 140°F (-10° to 60°C)
Operating current: 350 mA at 7.2 volts
Channels: 16 to 32
Display: Industrial LCD 480 x 272 readable outdoor color screen
Flash memory: 16 MB (extendible by TransFlash card)
Transmitter panel: Silver or amber available
Price: $399
• Built-in iXJT+ module (enhanced radio-frequency performance and less latency).
• Wireless trainer system.
• Support with FrSky Free Link App.
• MC12P, all-CNC, digital higher-accuracy 10 ball bearing Hall sensor gimbals and extendable stick ends.
• Beautiful design and build quality.
• Ergonomics feel nice, even with large hands.
• FrOS and OpenTX support.
• Internal diversity antennae in addition to standard external antenna.
• Support for up to 32 channels.
• FrOS is intuitive and easy to use.
• Internal battery.
• Small neck-strap attachment point.
The Horus X10S is the new transmitter from FrSky. It comes with a hard-shell carrying case, gimbal protectors, an AC power adapter, and an FrSky neck strap.
Product Review
Throughout the last few years, FrSky has become a major player in the RC world—especially with the multirotor community. The Taranis X9D, and now the Taranis QX7, have become widely adopted by drone pilots across the board thanks to the company's versatility, dependable radio link, and affordable prices.
FrSky has now brought a new flagship radio to the market with the introduction of the Horus X10S. This 16- to 32-channel radio brings all of the functionality that Taranis users are accustomed to and combines it with a modern look and feel that will surely turn heads at the flying field.
If you think this radio is only for drone pilots, however, you're going to be in for a surprise. The X10S has all of the bells and whistles that fixed-wing, helicopter, and glider pilots will love as well.
Build Quality
The first and most obvious thing you'll notice about the X10S is the build and construction quality. Although many radios on the market seem to trend toward lighter, cheaper materials, the first thought in my mind when I picked up this transmitter was how sturdy and premium it felt.
The plastic housing has a gorgeous matte finish with metallic accents. The gimbal rings even appear as though they're forged from bronze and they complement the color scheme impeccably. The sides and rear of the radio feature comfortable faux-leather grip pads that are perfect for keeping the radio secure in my hands.
One complaint about the design of the X10S is the neck-strap attachment point. It certainly feels secure; however, it's quite small. In fact, aside from the premium strap that shipped with the radio, most of my neck straps would not fit through the hole. As with radios, pilots often have a preference when it comes to neck straps, and I could see this being a problem for some. I was able to thread a key ring loop through it to make it compatible with any neck strap.
Eight switches (six three-way switches, one two-way switch, and one momentary switch) adorn the top of the radio. Each switch is smooth and secure with a satisfying click to each position. There are three potentiometer dials along the top with knurl-style knobs that can be programmed for a variety of functions. The left dial is unrestricted with no hard stops throughout its travel. The middle dial functions as a six-way switch, and the right dial features an indent in the middle of its travel.
Three rotary potentiometer dials are on the face of the radio.
Each side of the radio has a slider dial as well.
The built-in color 480 x 272 LCD screen is more than bright enough to be readable outdoors on a sunny day. Although it's not touch sensitive, there are controls on either side to navigate the installed FrOS system. I'll touch more on that later.
The radio system is able to use three different antennae. The external antenna, which you're likely used to seeing on any modern radio, is present, as well as two diversity antennae inside the top of the case. This allows you to use the radio without an external antenna attached to the SMA connector.
I can think of a couple of reasons why you might want to use the diversity antennae, including increasing portability by removing a piece of the radio that can easily be broken. If you do break the antenna, you have these internal diversity antennae to back you up. In my testing, I found that any loss in RSSI signal was negligible at best; however, you'll want to do your own range test at your local field to verify that there isn't any external interference.
Finally, let's discuss the gimbals. Gimbals are the most important thing about the feel of a radio. The X10S features CNC-machined, 10 ball bearing Hall sensor MC12 gimbals that provide higher resolution and accuracy with the inputs.
The X10S features all-CNC, 10 ball bearing Hall sensor gimbals that offer high accuracy and precision with each stick input.
According to FrSky, they offer the most precise control for your flying experience. Although you could chalk that up to product hype, I could absolutely tell the difference between the MC12 gimbals and the M7 Hall sensor gimbals in my Taranis QX7. The MC12 gimbals are incredibly smooth, and I felt as though I had far more fine-tuned control with each input I made. I've rarely felt a big difference between gimbals on various radios, but these MC12 gimbals have made me a convert.
Let's discuss the battery. I've become used to being able to swap out the battery pack in my Taranis QX7 while at the field, and I became concerned when I learned that the battery in the X10S is completely internal. It comes preinstalled with a 2,600 mAh Li-Ion pack inside that has its own charging circuit and is charged through a barrel jack on the bottom of the case. A power adapter is included with the radio.
The internal battery is charged via this barrel jack on the bottom of the radio.
I found that I could get approximately 6 hours of flight time out of the cells, and it would take approximately 90 minutes or so to recharge, so you'll need to keep that in mind as you prepare for a day of flying.
If you insist upon changing battery packs at the field, you only need to remove the four screws on the rear of the case to gain access to the battery. It simply unplugs and can be replaced.
The X10S is preinstalled with FrOS, a capable, straightforward operating system.
The X10S comes preinstalled with the new FrOS operating system, designed specifically for the Horus family of radios. I have always been partial to the operating systems of some other brand-name radios on the market because of their ease of use. One of my biggest gripes with open-source leader OpenTX is that, although it's incredibly versatile, it can be somewhat clunky and unintuitive.
I was pleasantly surprised with what FrSky was able to pull off with FrOS. The company was able to take nearly all of the versatility of OpenTX and combine it with a straightforward and intuitive interface that made programming painless and fast. Everything from assigning audio tracks to play via switches, to highly sophisticated input mixing, is present in the menus.
FrOS allows for five types of models and an unlimited number of model memory slots, provided you have enough storage via the micro-SD card slot on the bottom of the radio. You can choose between airplanes, helicopters, gliders, multirotors, and custom model types.
You have the option to use the internal FrSky protocol or a different protocol using an external module.
Each will provide you with a different set of model options. For example, for fixed-wing aircraft, you have a gamut of input-mixing options to suit any aircraft and any style. Adjustable pitch curves, aileron differential, camber mixing, and even the ability to assign a snap roll maneuver to any switch, are all available to you.
I feel that users of all radio systems out there will feel at home with the FrOS, and will find that all of their needs will be met with its functionality.
Model programming inside of the FrOS is simple, yet powerful. The large, color LCD screen gives you plenty of real estate to precisely dial in your preferred settings, such as an exponential curve.
Final Conclusions
It goes without saying that choosing a transmitter is a personal choice for any pilot. You have to hold it in your hands and know that it's comfortable to use because any uneasiness or lack of confidence can translate to your flights—flights that lack that confidence have a tendency to end in abrupt and uncontrolled contact with the ground.
The X10S is unlike most other radios out there, both in terms of ergonomics and its vast feature set. At a retail price of $399, I expect that this radio will be priced out of the budget of a lot of new hobbyists. However, if you're looking for a feature-rich radio that can allow you to grow into nearly any aircraft out there, and is, quite frankly, a beautiful piece of industrial design, I would encourage you to give the FrSky X10S a close look.
—Matt Ruddick
Ready Made RC
FrSky Free Link App
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Only 98 months later than the 3 month magazine delay. :)
The X10s was released exactly 1 year ago. https://www.frsky-rc.com/frsky-horus-x10-and-x10s-transmitters-release/
The x10s is a kickazz Tx for sure.
I thought the magazine was bad being 3+ months behind current technology.


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by Taryn "The Coop" Cooper
When I had the concept of this post a few days ago, the Mets were on a losing streak. And not just any losing streak, but one in which they were barely scoring **A** run let alone several, and poor performances by individual players were being amplified to the nth degree (I'm looking at you, Lucas Duda and Ike Davis).
At this time, it seems a bit ill-advised to go on an attack of the Mets, since they've not only won their last two games, but they've gotten contributions from Davis, Daniel Murphy, Bobby Parnell and "Team Captain" David Wright in those games. Yet, I don't forget how much malaise was involved leading up to those two games.
Nor do I forget what's been really going on since, oh, about the last out of the 2006 National League Championship Series.
And why anyone, let alone David Wright, would want to be associated with this team as the de facto leader of a sinking ship?
See, folks, this is the burning question I have.
I come not to bury Wright nor am I here to praise him.
I'm here to figure out just what, exactly, is in it for him.
Does the glamour of New York City really attract him? Is he really that loyal of a guy that because he followed the Mets farm system while a tyke in Virginia (when the Mets were still the "Tides" in their AAA affiliate) that he'd be willing to stay?
Let's take a look at the bigger picture of David Wright's time with the Mets.
He played 69 games in 2004, and became a regular in 2005. While he's been blessed with not having that many injuries in his time, he's been involved in some good teams (2005), some really great teams (2006), and then epic disappointments year after year after lonely year from 2007 through 2012.
For a team that has been around 50 plus years, Wright will be, at the end of his contract, at the top of the Mets' leaderboards. However, this is not so much a "Wright is awesome" thing but much more of a "Mets have done a really bad job of developing their talent within" thing. Look at the Houston Astros, the Mets "sister team" of 1962. They've had the likes of Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell in their hey day, and not to mention were even graced with pitching greats like Nolan Ryan.
Prior to Wright becoming the all-time Mets hits leader late last season, Ed Kranepool had held onto that honor simply because of longevity, not that he was some super power with his time on the Mets. At least by the end of his contract, Wright will have earned a lot of his stats by talent, and not by longevity alone.
But here is what gets me. During the World Baseball Classic, Wright had earned the moniker "Captain America" for coming through in the clutch. Here's the thing: he was surrounded by elite talent on the USA team, including offensive threats like Ryan Braun, Giancarlo Stanton and Brandon Phillips. The point is, Wright has proven his effectiveness when he's surrounded by other big or medium-sized bats in the lineup. If you look at the years when Wright had the likes of Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado around him, he absolutely shone as the "Wing Man."
I don't subscribe to the idea that David Wright is "unclutch," but looking at how he performs when there's less stress in the lineup is dramatic.
So I ask…what exactly was in it for Wright to commit to an eight year extension last winter?
"Wright's contract calls for him to earn $11 million next year, $20 million in each of the following five seasons, then $15 million in 2019 and $12 million in 2020.
The $15.5 million in salary that is being deferred without interest is to be paid in equal installments of $3.1 million each June 30 from 2021-25."
And furthermore, what was in it for him to defer the $15.5 million total in years post-contract (according to ESPN NY)?
Besides a financial reason (deferring payments is not a bad thing necessarily…just ask Bobby Bonilla on that one), why would Wright agree to something like that?
Here is how I imagine that meeting to go down…
SCENE: Sandy Alderson, David Wright sit at a meeting table with Wright's agent and Jeff Wilpon (because he's always around).
Sandy Alderson: David, we'd like to offer you a contract to have you potentially retire as a Met.
David Wright: Well, gee whiz, that's swell!
Wright's agent: What's in it for my client?
SA: We have a fine list of benefits. He can get free Shake Shack burgers for life! His own parking spot at CitiField…
Agent: He has that already! My client doesn't need to buy a drink in this town. What are you doing to improve the team?
SA: It's going to take some years. I can't say we'll win a pennant, and that we have anyone in the system who we are looking forward to having in Flushing. But hey! You'll be the face of the franchise…
Agent: My client already is…
SA: Yes, but officially! Oh and by the way, we're prepared to offer a significant amount but you'll need to defer it for a few years…
Agent: How many years are we talking?
SA: From 2021-25…After the contract is up, of course!
DW: Deal!
(Jeffy stares into the distance, figuring out where he'll take Wright out for the beer and burger he promised him)
/end scene
I don't know about you guys, but I'm scratching my head. David Wright being named "Captain" of this team isn't some great feat. In fact, it's almost insulting that he's the Face of the Franchise when he's presided over some of the worst seasons in Mets history. And you ALL know that the Mets have had some historically abysmal seasons.
It's not entirely his fault. In fact, it's not his fault at all. The true folly of this team has been with the way or rather lack of action in supporting David Wright in the respect of surrounding him with good players. This is not a Steve Phillips, Jim Duquette, Omar Minaya or Sandy Alderson thing. There is something going on behind the scenes that once again, a strong talent is thrown to the wayside because of lack of future insight on the team. During that meeting dramatized above, there was no Travis d'Arnaud in the system.
A Captain isn't meant to carry the team, he is supposed to set an example. Yet, fairly or no, David Wright's time with the Mets will be judged on how the team performs. And you know what, I'm judging it too.
E.J. Smith went down with the Titanic when it hit the fatal iceberg in April 1912.
Is David Wright that devoted to the Mets that he's willing to go down with the ship, rather than win somewhere else?
I don't know whether to admire him or smack him upside the head.


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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? I feel like a modern little red riding hood in my lovely red cape.
The Ramp red cape
The Berries buttondown top
H&M shorts
SM Accessories necklace (top) | Aldo Accessories necklace (bottom)
Crave More airplane connector ring | H&M bracelt
Wolford socks | Jeffrey Campbell shoes
Hype this look on Lookbook.nu here.
I wore this ensemble to the luncheon hosted by my favorite hair accessory brand, Goody. The event was held in a hotel and I was fortunate enough to be one of the guests/speakers so I made sure to dress up. But because the past week was too crazy, I didn't have time to plan my outfit. Good thing this turned out okay. It still baffles me up to now how some of my favorite outfits are actually the impromptu ones I put together at the last minute. Spontaneity has its advantages. :)
P.S. Thank you Lissa for bearing the heat of the scorching sun to take my pretty photos!
P.P.S. Today is the last day of voting for the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards! Please vote for me (best fashion blog) and my fellow Filipino bloggers: Helga Weber (best original blog design), Erwan Heussaff (best food blog), Nina Fuentes (best travel blog), Allan (best photography blog), Geek Out and Abe Olandres (best geek blog), Jenni Epperson (best lifestyle blog), Badet (best parenting blog) and Anthony and Tessa (hidden gem). Please vote for us once every 2 hours here. Thank you!


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Posts Tagged 'Pageant of Power'
Friday, July 23rd, 2010 by Rowan Horncastle
Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera hill hoonage
This is the Pageant of Power's new course record set by Nicky Falkner, driving the Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera. Nicky completed the twisting 1.2 mile circuit in 62.68 seconds and got very airborne over the second bridge. This is how you drive fast kids.
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 by Rowan Horncastle
Pageant of Power 2010: The North's big secret
We have already discussed that the Goodwood Festival of Speed is the best car show in the world. What some people don't know is that it has competition – and it is Northern. The Pageant of Power is held in the grounds of a Lord's big estate like Goodwood, but Lord Cholmondeley has one better over ...


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How To Build A Custom jQuery Selector
The other day, I wanted to build a custom selector in jQuery. I've built a basic one before, but the one I wanted to build this time was more complex; this one would required arguments to be passed into it. I looked all around the jQuery.com website and through Google and I had a really hard time trying to piece together how a complex, custom jQuery selector should be built. After a lot of searching and much trial and error, I think I finally figured it out.
The code for a custom jQuery selector can be a simple string that gets evaluated (as in my pervious example); but, this style of programming is very hard to read and is not much fun to write. As such, the jQuery custom selector architecture that I'm interested in is that which is defined as a method call. From what I could gather, you custom jQuery selector methods are passed 4 arguments:
function( objNode, intStackIndex, arrProperties, arrNodeStack ){ ... }
objNode :: HTML DOM Element
This is a reference to the current DOM element being evaluated. This is not a jQuery version of the element but the actual DOM node.
intStackIndex :: Int
This is the zero-based index of the given node within the stack of nodes that will be evaluated with this selector call.
arrProperties :: Array
This is an array of meta data about the custom jQuery selector execution. Of this, only the fourth argument (index 3) is of any real value - it contains the string data that was passed to the jQuery selector.
arrNodeStack :: Array
This is an array of the DOM elements that are being evaluated with this selector. The inStackIndex integer above is the current DOM element's index within this array.
One of the tricky things to figure out is that the data you pass to your selector (in the jQuery command) is forwarded to your function as a single string. So, for instance, if have a selector:
:foo( 'A', 'B' )
... you don't get two different arguments passed to your custom jQuery selector function. Rather, you get the one string:
... passed as the fourth argument in the properties array mentioned above. Now, as this is not very useful to us programmatically, I have found that the best approach is to convert this data string into an array that we can use internally. The easiest way to do this is it modify the above data string so that it becomes the JSON (Javascript Object Notation) version of itself as an array. This JSON can then easily be evaluated resulting in a true array that mirrors the intent of our custom jQuery selector arguments:
- var arrArguments = eval(
- "([" + arrProperties[ 3 ] + "])"
- );
Remember, when we evaluate JSON data, we have to add the parens around it to get it to evaluate without error.
Now that we have a handle on the core anatomy of a custom jQuery selector method, let's look at a concrete example. Below, I have a created a custom jQuery selector that selects nodes whose TITLE attribute that matches any one of the ones passed into the selector:
- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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In this version of the demo, we are using the jQuery command:
li:hasTitle( 'foo' )
This is going to utilize our custom jQuery selector, passing in "foo" as the list of possible titles. And, in fact, when we run this code, the Javascript alerts the following names:
- Sarah
- Molly
It has correctly found the two nodes whose TITLE attribute is "foo".
Now, if we modify our jQuery command to be this:
li:hasTitle( 'foo', 'bar' )
... when we run the code, the Javascript alerts the following names:
- Sarah
- Kim
- Molly
- Michelle
As you can see, it now matches all the nodes that have a TITLE attribute that is either "foo" or "bar" (which in our example is all of the LIs).
jQuery is probably the most amazing Javascript library that has ever been created. And, the fact that it allows us to author our own selectors makes it all the more powerful. I hope that this tutorial helps those looking to leverage this feature of the library.
Reader Comments
Got to stop using Alert. Alert is evil. console.log() ftw. :)
Got to stop using Alert. Alert is evil. console.log() ftw. :)
I appreciate that this may just be an example chosen to demonstrate the writing of a custom selector, but if not...
Why would you not just use:
And for both, you could use:
$("li[title='foo'], li[title='bar']")
The attribute matching also allows you to match substrings.
Expanding on Seb's comment, you could actually write a quick function to accept variables.
function findTitle(title) {
$("li[title='" + title + "'], li[title='" + title + "']");
I just typed that straight in, so I can't guarantee that it works, but I am sure that you get what I am talking about.
An interesting approach but like it's been said this can already be done with CSS attr selectors. I realize that your extension offers a little more because it can accept multiple titles. Just a word though, I would avoid 'eval' at all costs; it's probably okay using it here but in other situation it can have unseen results.
Here's another way it could work:
$.expr[':'].hasTitle = function(elem,i,match){
return (new RegExp('^(' + match[3].replace(',','|')
.replace(/\s/g,'\\s?') + ')$')).test(elem.title);
This would accept titles in this format (without quotes):
$( "li:hasTitle(foo,bar)" )
The example was insignificant; it was merely something quick I put together to both test and demonstrate the creation of custom selectors in jQuery; the main purpose of the post was the anatomy and walk through of the custom jQuery selectors.
That said, I'm sorry that I didn't have a better example on hand :) I got onto this topic because I wanted to build a custom jQuery selector that looked into the data() storage of elements, for which I don't think there are any built-in selectors. This was to be part of a much larger AJAX application.
Do not fear eval(). It is the basis for all JSON work in Javascript and without it, we could not have JSON-based AJAX. It is awesome.
I have never had any unforeseen results when using eval(); do you wish to expand on this?
"Do not fear eval(). It is the basis for all JSON work in Javascript and without it, we could not have JSON-based AJAX. It is awesome."
JSON and the decoding of JSON can be achieved without the use of eval. In fact, eval is one of more dangerous approaches when using JSON because it runs the JSON regardless of it's contents - i.e. it could be malicious, especially if you're using a third party API. I haven't looked into it as much as I should've but a few libraries appear to have parsing methods for JSON. (Look here for what I mean: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/jayrock/trunk/www/json.js)
Running JavaScript in a global context can also be achieved by injecting it in to the DOM inside a script tag; a pretty rudimentary approach but it seems to work, here's an extract from jQuery:
var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.documentElement, script = document.createElement("script");
script.type = "text/javascript";
if ( jQuery.browser.msie ) script.text = data;
else script.appendChild( document.createTextNode( data ) );
head.insertBefore( script, head.firstChild );
head.removeChild( script );
I've been told that eval should only be used when necessary. Obviously there are situations when there is no other simple alternative but in your particular case it's not entirely necessary.
You mentioned that you're looking for a :Data selector for jQuery. I've done something like that over here: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/extending-jquerys-selector-capabilities/ (It may not be exactly what you're after though)
I can understand the caution against using eval() with JSON for third-party API requests; that's totally valid. But, I think that that is an outlier case. I would guess that in 99.99% of cases, people are using eval() on data that is produced and consumed within in the same application (if not the same page). In that case, there are no security concerns and really, no reason that I can think of for not using eval() given that it is very fast, native to the language, and poses no security concerns.
That said, it's good to know that there are libraries that will actually parse the JSON rather than evaluating it - I did not even know that that was an option.
The script tag to me seems the same as the eval() method, just a different route?
BTW - awesome blog. In fact, I think I may have even seen that blog post; in fact, that blog post may have been what triggered my idea. Good stuff :)
Very interested in this, but I was wondering if you could explain something.
I plugged your code into a view that is rendered within one of our layout pages with a ton of other list items on the page and threw a console log of the arguments in the custom selector just to get a little more clarification as to what is coming through. When doing so, I saw it was running the log for every list item on the entire page. To remedy this, I threw a class of "test" on the unordered list and then changed your JavaScript a bit like so:
var jGirls = $( "ul.test li:hasTitle( 'foo' )" );
My hope was that it would only execute the custom selector on the four list items within the unordered list with a class of "test". However, it appears it still executes the custom selector against all list items on the page. The length of the above statement returns an accurate value, but I am curious as to why it still needs to rip through every list item on the view and not just those qualified by the selector. The concern is not the results since they appear to be correct, but rather the performance loss of evaluating elements that don't need to be evaluated.
The reason it has to run the selector on each LI is because it relying on the pseudo selector to return a true/false as to whether to include the given element in the final results. I think what you are hoping for (from what I think you are saying) is kind of placing the cart before the horse: to have the selector *only* run on the target elements would be to *already* have the elements you are looking for.
Unless I am misunderstanding you?
Well I didn't think that was the case, but it could be confusion on my part. Let me try and clarify.
What I would expect to happen based on the selector I posted above, would be for it to find a any list item within an unordered list with a class of "test" and then once it has narrowed results to this, then narrow the results down further by those that have a title of "foo".
Is it possible I am just not truly understanding how a selector works? Is the order of operation actually backwards in the selector? What I mean by this is this. Does the selector first find any list item with a title of "foo", and then within that result set, exclude those that are not contained within an unordered list with a class of "test"?
After thinking about it some more, I think what you are experiencing is the fact that Sizzle (jQuery's selector engine) now performs document queries in reverse order; this is done to highly optimize the number of document queries that need to be made. In essence, it is getting all of the li:hasTitle() elements and THEN walking up the DOM tree to find ones that have the parent, ul.test. As such, ul.test does NOT do any pre-selection.
... of course, that is just my theory.
Also, thanks for bringing this up - you got me to do some more thinking about custom selector execution in general:
Is it possible to do something like $(':someCustomSelector') ?
Yes, that does the same thing as:
$( "*:customSelector" )
... But the "*" selector must get EVERY tag in the document before the selector is applied. You should try to limit the selection with a tag or class name first.
maybe sometimes you are right, but for all browsers, alert is very good!
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Hi Ben
Could you please help me understand meaning of the following code
what these characters represent or do or means
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return /\.(jpe?g|png|bmp|gif)(\?.+)?$/.test(this.src);
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Yes, thats right folks………….it's almost christmas blah blah blah……….but that doesn't mean we can't go completely bananas down here at Gardenworld !
What, you say, down here in the "4 seasons in one day" capital of the world we're gonna grow bananas in good old Melbourne town. Well yea, we're gonna try.
Ok, so the only bananas I've ever eaten are the Cavendish and Lady Finger varieties from northern Australia – a long way from Melbourne. I must say though that I did a farmstay once up at a place called Baffle Creek, about an hour north of Bundaberg. Every morning we ate a homegrown Lady Finger banana in yoghurt, and these were probably the tastiest bananas I have ever eaten (I was pretty caught up in the moment though).
I have heard of some wise old nurseryman who has successfully grown bananas and paw paws down here in Melbourne in a rather large glass house. He swears by the sun ripened fruit that we can't possibly get from Queensland produce which is picked green so as to survive the arduous transport to our southern land.
Not only that, there is a younger wholesale nurseryman who's team grows banana seedlings right here in Melbourne. He assures me it can be done. Yes a bunch of bananas can be achieved. Not only that, they offer 5 different varieties !
Dwarf Cavendish – heavy crops of full sized, sweet bananas with a creamy texture.
Lady Finger – small bananas with a rich sweet flavour creamy texture and keep well.
Valery – heavy crops of high quality bananas – I don't know much else yet.
Pisang Ceylan – small bananas with a sweet flavour and an agreeably acidic aftertaste. Keep well and also a creamy texture
Goldfinger – heavy crops of small bananas that have a delicious tangy flavour and also keep well. Great for fruit salads as the flesh does not turn brown when cut.
Choose a sunny spot. Think about a place where you have protection from the harsh cold winter southerlies and away from frosts – so maybe in front of a north facing wall with something substantial growing either side of it. They won't like the harsh northlies we get in summer either, so don't bother planting in a windy exposed spot.
Soil needs to be rich, well draining and worked over with plenty of organic matter such as compost and aged manure – even chicken pellets like Attunga's Organic Life or Yates Dynamic Lifter. Feed this hungry monster every 6 weeks. Roots will grow nearly a metre out, so don't just put all the fertiliser at the base of the plant, and don't overdose more than what the dosage recommends, or you will burn the roots.
One of the reasons I am having a crack at these, is that I have had an old in ground swimming pool converted to a water tank and have about 25000 litres to spare. Expect to use a lot of water and definately apply mulch, as this reduces evaporation and hence water use. Thats not say you overwater, as the plants hate wet feet. Keep moist, but not drowned. In summer, it would be benficial to wet the leaves of a young plant a few times a day. This helps emulate the humid conditions they would be getting in Innisfail. I live close to the coast down here and feel that the conditions will be much more conducive than say frosty Ballarat ! Be realistic.
Remove dead leaves regularly. Suckers will appear from the base of the main stem. Retain only the strongest, usually the first one. This will be the future one, as after the main plant is harvested, we will machete it down jungle style.
It will take 2 or 3 summers until fruit appears. I am currently on my second summer and nothing is yet evident. The retained sucker that becomes the next phase of the plant will itself have a sucker and so the life of the thing just rolls on. This continues indefinately until the plant has moved so far away from where you started, that it may have to be replanted, so it doesn't end up halfway down the street – like attack of the killer banana plants !
The fruit is ready to be harvested once the bananas lose their ridges, become more rounded, and when the black withered remains of the flowers at the end of the bananas are dry and crumbly – if you haven't already cut this bit off.
To make the bunch last, just cut off a hand and put it in a paper bag with a ripe banana. Otherwise harvest the whole lot and impress a whole lot of your friends, or get out the dehydrater, dry them, and impress your friends even more. Or drop them over to my house, or, just eat too many of them and get a pain in the tummy.
If you've got this far and are still ready – don't you see – I have gone completely bananas ! You can too, as for the next couple of months we will be stocking these plants, down here at Gardenworld. For more expert advice, checkout these guys from Blue Sky. They should know, their Queenslanders ! Also check out this link at Daleys forum including some Melbourne growers.


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In the spring of 2011, Donald Trump began suggesting that U.S. President Barack Obama had not been born in the United States. "Why doesn't he show his birth certificate?" Trump asked on ABC's The View. "I would love to see it produced," he told Fox News' On the Record. "I'm starting to think that he was not born here," he announced on NBC's Today Show. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, Trump kept repeating his nonsense. To this day, polls show that some 70 percent of registered Republicans doubt Obama's citizenship. Welcome to what Kurt Andersen calls "Fantasyland."
In his new book, Andersen takes a dizzy, mordant trip through five centuries of magical thinking, bringing a novelist's gaze to make-believe Americana. The "hucksters" and the "suckers" tumble through the pages. John Winthrop announces a "City upon a Hill," with nothing less than the future of all Christianity at stake. The Puritan ministers Increase Mather and his son, Cotton, hunt witches in Salem Village. Andersen's story runs through P. T. Barnum, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Disney, Ronald Reagan, and, finally, Trump himself, who beats them all by managing an average of over five untruths a day.
As Andersen shows, fantastical thinking has always played an outsize role in American culture. But something seems different today. Running beneath the parade of con artists and manias that Andersen deftly catalogs glints something more dangerous than illusions: a bitter contest over national identity that political institutions may no longer be able to contain.
Americans have wrestled over their national character many times before. What has changed? The answer lies in how the political parties have reorganized debates over race, immigration, and the American self. For a long time, the party system stifled tribal questions; now, it inflames them.
Fantasyland begins with an inventory of magical thinking. Two-thirds of Americans believe in angels and demons; a third think climate change is a hoax, that humans roamed among
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Christmas, Solstice, Hanukkah or Humbug
Whatever you celebrate, or not at all.
Thank you for reading my nonsense this year, I've really enjoyed sharing it with you.
I hope that 2009 brings good things to everyone.
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Monday, 15 December 2008
Jetlag dishcloths and a gentle man.
Time is gradually slipping back into it's familiar ways and the brain along with it. For most of the week I could only be trusted to undertake the simplest of activies - eating sandwiches and making garter stitch dishcloths. There is a lot to be said for the simple beauty of garter stitch made into a cotton square, especially when topped with these lovely stitch markers made by Ravelry chum Wyndwitch.
I've woken up enough now to spin a little - this is a mix of shetland and rabbit from a local spinner and funnily enough, rabbit owner. I used some of my Kool Aid that was smuggled through customs from the USA to dye it and the mix of a darker shade of yarn with the zing of the Kool Aid creates something rather subtle. Or at least subtle-ish.
The gentle man of the title refers to Oliver Postgate, co-creator of some of the best childrens' television ever. He died some days ago and his leaving makes the world a sadder place. Thank you Oliver, for Bagpuss, for the Clangers, for Noggin the Nog, for Ivor the Engine and for all of the joy and imagination that you brought to my childhood. Here is an obituary in the Guardian, I defy you to read it and not wish that this man had been your friend.
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Thursday, 4 December 2008
Jetlag and Happy Memories
I am shimmering with tiredness. We flew home on Monday night, arriving in London Tuesday afternoon and finally home to Mog Towers on Tuesday night. Everything here is cold and frosty, such a contrast to the Californian sunshine.
There are so many stories to share and photographs to post that I couldn't possibly do them all justice. We had a wonderful time and felt right at home.
The inside of my fortune cookie from Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden sums it up rather nicely.
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Emma Chase, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of TANGLED, shares a sneak peek of the second book in the series, TWISTED. Kate and Drew are back, are happy in a committed relationship, and are more attracted to each other than ever before. After Drew surprises Kate with a romantic getaway in Cabo, these two somehow manage to bring the heat to Mexico to dangerously high temperatures…
The hotel is stunning. With views I've only seen on a postcard. We're on the top floor—penthouse. Like Richard Gere in Pretty Woman, Drew is a big believer in "only the best."
It's late when we get in, but after a nap on the plane, we're both wired. Energized.
And hungry.
All the airlines are cutting back these days, even in first class. The sandwiches may be complimentary, but that doesn't mean they're edible.
While Drew is in the shower, I start to unpack. Why aren't we showering together? I really don't need to answer that, do I?
I put the bags on the bed and open them. Most men look at an empty suitcase like it's some kind of physics equation—they can stare at it for hours, but still have no frigging clue what they're supposed to do with it.
But not Drew. He's Mr. I-Think-of-Everything.
He packed all the incidentals that most men wouldn't think of. Everything I'll need to make my vacation comfortable and fun.
Except for underwear. There isn't a single pair of underwear in this entire suitcase.
And it's not an oversight.
My boyfriend happens to hold a serious grudge against undergarments. If he had his way, we'd both be walking around like Adam and Eve—minus the fig leaves, of course.
But he did bring the rest of the essentials. Deodorant, shaving cream, a razor, makeup, birth control pills, moisturizer, the rest of my antibiotic for the ear infection I had last week, eye cream— and so on.
And we should pause here, for a brief public service announcement.
I have a few clients who are in the pharmaceutical field. And those companies have whole departments whose sole job is writing.
Writing what, you ask? You know those little inserts that come with your prescription? The ones that list every possible side effect and what you should do, should any of them occur? May cause drowsiness, don't operate large machinery, contact doctor immediately, blah blah blah.
Most of us just open the little paper bag, take out our pills, and throw the insert away. Most of us do . . . but we shouldn't. I'm not going to bore you with a lecture. All I'll say at the moment is: Read the insert. You'll be glad you did.
And now—back to Mexico.
Drew walks out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist, and I forget all about the suitcase. You know how some men are boob guys, or ass guys? It works the same for women. I'm a forearm girl, myself. There's something about a man's forearms that's just . . . hot. Masculine—in a manly an kind of way.
Drew has the finest set I've ever seen. Tight and toned—not too bulky, not too thin—with just the right amount of hair.
He removes the towel from his hips and rubs it over his shoulders. And I'm pretty sure I start to drool.
Maybe I'm an ass woman after all.
"You know it's impolite to stare."
I drag my eyes up to his. He's smiling. And I take a step toward him—like a cougar closing in on her prey.
"Is it, now?"
Drew licks his lips. "Definitely." A drop of water slides down the middle of his chest.
Anyone else thirsty?
"Well, I don't want to be rude."
"God forbid."
Just as I'm about to lean down and lick the droplet off him, my stomach growls. Loudly.
Drew laughs. "Maybe I should feed you first. For what I have planned, you're going to need some energy."
I bite my lip in anticipation. "You have something planned?"
"For you? Always."
He spins me around and slaps me on the rear. "Now get that delectable ass in the shower so we can go. The sooner we eat, the quicker we can come back here and fuck till the sun comes up."
He really doesn't mean to be as crude as he sounds.
Yeah—you're right—he probably does.
An hour later, we're on our way to dinner. Drew surprised me with a new dress—white eyelet and strapless, with a hem that flares out just above my knee. My hair is down with a slight curl, the way I know he loves it.
As for my boyfriend—I can't take my eyes off him. Tan slacks and a crisp white shirt, the top few buttons open, the sleeves rolled up halfway.
We arrive at the restaurant.
I've always thought the Latino culture was interesting. The music. The people. They're vibrant. Volatile.
All words that describe where we're dining tonight. It's dim—the only illumination comes from the candles on the tables and the twinkling lights on the ceiling. A pulsing rhythm emanates from a small band of musicians in the corner.
Drew requests in Spanish a table for two.
Yes—he speaks Spanish. And French. He's working on Japanese. Did you think his voice was sexy? Trust me—until you've heard him whisper blush-worthy phrases in a foreign language, you don't know the meaning of the word sexy.
We follow the robust, dark-haired hostess to a table in the corner.
Now, take a moment to look around. See all the female attention Drew gets, just by walking through the room? The appreciative glances, the inviting eyes?
I notice—I always do.
But here's the thing: Drew doesn't. Because he's not looking. At any of them.
For you guys out there who think looking doesn't hurt? You're wrong. Because we women don't think you're just enjoying the view. We think you're comparing, finding us lacking. And that stings. Like a paper cut on your eyeball.
I'm fully aware that Drew could have any woman he wants—the model in Beverly Hills, the heiress on Park Avenue. But he picked me. He fought for me. So when we go out, it's a major boost to my confidence.
Because I'm the only woman he's looking at.
We sit at the table and scan the menus. "So explain to me again how you made it through college and business school without ever drinking straight tequila?"
I laugh at the question, remembering. "Well, back in high school, we'd have these bonfires—campouts."
You ever sleep with an empty two-liter soda bottle for a pillow? It's not fun.
"So one night, Billy and the guys were drinking tequila—and Billy swallowed the worm. And then he started to hallucinate. We were working on amphibian anatomy in bio at the time, and as messed up as he was, Billy was convinced he was a frog—and that Delores was trying to dissect him. He hopped off into the woods by himself, and it took us three hours to find him—with his tongue in the dirt. I've been hesitant to try tequila ever since."
Drew shakes his head. "Confirming, once again, what I've known all along. Billy Warren is, and always has been, a complete fucking idiot."
I'm used to Drew's digs against Billy. And in this case? He's not exactly wrong.
So I tell him, "As long as you don't to make me swallow the worm, I'll give it a go."
His eyes light up, like a kid in a bike shop. "You know what this means?"
He wiggles his brows. "I get to teach you how to do body shots."
Although I don't believe you need to be drunk to have great sex, having a good buzz certainly doesn't hurt.
Drew and I are in the elevator heading back to our room, both of us more than tipsy from the tequila. I can taste it on Drew's tongue—bitter with a touch of citrus. He has me pinned against the wall, my skirt bunched up around my hips, and we're pushing and grinding against each other.
I'm glad there's no one else in the elevator—although at this point? I'm really too far gone to give a damn.
We stumble into the room.
Still groping and kissing.
Drew slams the door and spins me around. In one quick movement he pulls the dress down my body, leaving me bare. Except for my heels.
I lean over the desk, resting on my elbows. I hear the hiss of a zipper—and then I feel him. Sliding his cock between my lips—testing the waters—making sure I'm ready.
I'm always ready for him.
"Don't tease," I whimper.
Between the tequila and the elevator, I'm really turned on. Needy. He pushes in slowly but to the hilt. And I sigh.
Now, we all know the old phrase that bigger is better. And Drew is big—not that I have a lot to compare him to, but he's twice the size of Billy.
I'm not making you boys out there uncomfortable, am I? News flash—this is how woman talk. At least when you're not around to listen.
Anyway, it's not really size that makes the man. It's rhythm—the pace—knowing how to hit all those delicious spots with just the right amount of pressure. So the next time you see an infomercial for Cockgrow or Miracle-Dick?
Save your money. Buy the Kama Sutra instead.
Drew grabs my hair, pulling my head back, and moves quicker. Hard and fast. I grip the edge of the desk, holding on for balance.
He kisses my shoulder and whispers in my ear, "You like that, baby?"
I moan. "Yes . . . yes . . . so much."
He thrusts into me with more force, shaking the desk.
And just like that, I'm coming like an out-of-control locomotive.
I'm floating. Weightless.
And it's sublime.
Drew slows the movement of his hips as I come down, drawing it out—making it last. He pulls me back against his chest and his fingers skate up across my stomach and up to my breasts, cupping and kneading them with both hands.
I raise my arms around his neck, turning my head, bringing his mouth to mine.
I love his mouth, his lips, his tongue. Kissing is an art form, and Drew Evans is Michelangelo.
He pulls out of me and I turn around to face him. Backing him up to the bed. Drew sits on the edge and I climb on, wrapping my legs around his waist.
God, yes.
This is how I like it best—chest to chest, mouth to mouth, not an inch of space between us. I take him in my hand and slide down onto him. My insides stretch with the fullness and Drew moans.
I rise slowly and slam down hard. Testing the strength of the bed springs.
I move faster. Deeper. Our bodies are slick from the Mexican heat.
And then Drew is holding my face in his hands, his thumbs moving back and forth across my skin. Suddenly tender. Worshipful.
Our foreheads press together and in the dim light I can see his eyes looking down, watching where he moves in and out of me.
And I look down too.
It's erotic. Sensual.
I push his hair back from his forehead.
And my voice is begging, "Tell me you love me."
He doesn't say it often. He prefers to show me. But I never get tired of hearing it. Because every time he actually says the words, I'm filled with same wonderment as the first time.
"I love you, Kate."
His hands still hold my face. Both of us panting—moving faster—getting closer. It feels spiritual.
A holy communion.
Drew's voice is hushed. Breathless. "Tell me you'll never leave me."
His eyes are soft now, liquid silver. Pleading for reassurance.
For all his audacity and overconfidence, I think there's a part of him that's still haunted by the week he thought I'd chosen Billy over him. I think that's why he works so hard to prove how much he wants me.
To show me that I chose wisely.
I smile softly and look right into his eyes.
"Never. I'll never leave you, Drew."
The words feel like vows.
His hands grip my hips, raising me up, helping me move.
"God, Kate . . ." His eyes close.
And our mouths open, giving and taking each other's breaths. He expands inside me, throbbing, as I clamp down hard around him.
And we come together. In perfect unison.
Perfect splendor.
Afterward, Drew's arms tighten around me. I touch his face and kiss him gently. He falls backward on the bed, taking me with him, keeping me on top. We lie like that for a while until our heart rates come back down and our breathing slows.
And then Drew rolls me under him.
And we do it again.


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Family and friends celebrate safe return of 1123rd
(Local News ~ 05/12/04)
A cumulative sigh of relief could be heard last Saturday afternoon as residents gathered at the Marked Tree gym to welcome home soldiers from the 1123rd National Guard Transportation Company. The crowd broke into cheers as the soldiers streamed into the building wearing their dessert camouflage uniforms...
(High School Sports ~ 05/12/04)
Monday, May 3 Class AAAAA Soccer Jonesboro 1, North Little Rock 0 Class AAAAA Baseball Little Rock Central 6, Jonesboro 2 Class AAA Baseball Rivercrest 8, Booneville 6 Class AAA Softball Westside 1, Lincoln 0 Class AA Baseball BIC 12, Southside Bee Branch 4...
MT student receives Talley Award
(High School Sports ~ 05/12/04)
Officials at Marked Tree High School, along with a group of Marked Tree residents announced last week that a Marked Tree High School senior is the recipient of the 2004 Teddy Talley Scholarship. At the Marked Tree High School Athletic Awards program last Tuesday night, it was announced that James Kemp was the recipient of the $500 award...
MT honors athletes with awards program
(High School Sports ~ 05/12/04)
Coaches, administration, family and friends gathered in Marked Tree last week to honor the accomplishments of athletes who participate in sports at Marked Tree High School. Individual awards were presented to each athlete who participates in sports, which include baseball, basketball, cheerleading, football, softball and track...
2004 Football Schedules provide test for area teams
(High School Sports ~ 05/12/04)
Tribune Sports Staff With the weather getting warmer on a daily basis, most area sports fans do not immediately think about high school football. However, with the advent of spring football on the high school level, most sports fans are starting to look at football on a year-round basis...
Orval Robert "Bob" Glover
(Obituary ~ 05/12/04)
Orval Robert "Bob" Glover, 70, died at his residence in Lepanto on Sunday, May 9. He was a member of the Lepanto Church of Christ, where he served as an elder and the Education Director for many years. He was a retired Arkansas Highway Transportation Department District materials supervisor for 35 years and Veteran of the Naval Reserve. He also served on the board of Stevens Square...
Luvicie Ingle
(Obituary ~ 05/12/04)
Luvicie Ingle, 97, of Cabot died May 4, 2004 at Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton. Ingle, formerly of Tyronza, was a homemaker of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her husband Dolphus Ingle of Tyronza. Survivors include one daughter: Mary Sue Smith of Alexander; one sister: Willie Mae Hobson of Tiptonville, Miss.; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren...
Burton Henry "Buddy" Adams
(Obituary ~ 05/12/04)
Burton Henry "Buddy" Adams, 75, of Lepanto died Wednesday, May 5. A Marine veteran of World War II, he was a retired farmer and a member of the American Legion and Etowah Pentecostal Church of God. Survivors include his wife, Pearline Adams of Lepanto; a son, Buddy Junior Adams of Lepanto; a daughter, Patricia Hendrix of Lepanto; two grandchildren, Ronda Kaye Worsham of Wilson and Whitney Elise Adams of Dallas; and three great-grandchildren...
Billy Huff
(Obituary ~ 05/12/04)
Billy Huff, 71, of Marked Tree died Thursday, May 6, at his residence. He was retired from the Air Force and was a member of the United Pentecostal Church at Lepanto. Survivors include his wife, Mable E. Huff of Marked Tree; two sons, Jimmy Huff of Marked Tree and David Huff of Stafford, Va.; three daughters, Angela Prentice of Columbia, Tenn., Nancy Maier of Stafford and Martha O'Brien of Redwood City, Calif.; two brothers, Melvin Huff of Atlanta and Arnold Huff of Texarkana; a sister; 14 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.. ...
Painted house open daily
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The Painted House in Lepanto is now open 7 days a week, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Citizens for Progress has done a great job restoring the house. Everyone is welcome to stop by and look around.
MTPD arrests man on drug charge
(Local News ~ 05/12/04)
The Marked Tree Police Department announced the arrest of a Trumann man last Friday, on a warrant for Delivery of Marijuana. According to Det. Mark Robinson of the MTPD, Billy Joe Morgan, 32, of Trumann was arrested as a result of an investigation by the Arkansas State Police into illegal drug activity in Poinsett County in 2002...
MTHS and EPC hold graduation
(Local News ~ 05/12/04)
Both Marked Tree High School and East Poinsett County High School are gearing up to graduate the class of 2004. MTHS will hold its graduation ceremony at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 14 at the High School Auditorium. Forty-two seniors will receive their diplomas. Valedictorian for the class is Kasey Frans and salutatorian is Payton Walker. Distinguished honor graduates are Kimberly Collins, Morgan Hamilton, Kristi Houchin, Ann Webb and Matthew Woods. Honor graduates are James Kemp and Matthew McDaniel...
Marked Tree City Council discusses city's future
(Local News ~ 05/12/04)
With no major items on the agenda in last Monday night's meeting, the Marked Tree City Council meeting was short and to the point. An open agenda gave council members an opportunity to discuss the city's future and discuss opportunities Mayor Lawrence Ashlock presented the city's financial reports in the absence of city clerk/treasurer Pam Wright. Ashlock reported that things are looking up for the city financially. Sales tax for the last few months have been consistently over $20,000...
EPC School Board approves plan for architect study
(Local News ~ 05/12/04)
The East Poinsett County School Board voted 5-2 Monday night to approve letting an architect draw up a set of plans for a building project at the school. According to Supt. Mickey Pierce, he attended a facilities studies project meeting recently in Little Rock, where a discussion over improving facilities in each of Arkansas' schools was discussed...
MT track team receives awards at district track meet
(High School Sports ~ 05/12/04)
While not participating in a full track season, several members of the Marked Tree track team finished in the top echelon of the district track meet, held last Thursday at Paragould. Under coach Tim Branum, seven members of the team finished either second or third in the meet, which allows team members to compete against several more established programs. ...
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Examples include insurance for single ownership, joint ownership, and other types of accounts. (Statement stuffer: Stock No. 28540; drive-up envelope: Stock No. 29036)
It's Still 'Business as Usual' at Your CU
During a lingering recession, credit unions remain strong financial institutions. Let members know that your credit union is always a great place for them to manage their money and reach their financial goals. (Stock No. 28911)
For a limited time, both statement stuffers are available at reduced prices.
Booklet Explains Share Insurance
This 56-page booklet, prepared by NCUA, answers questions members frequently ask about credit union share insurance, and it provides examples of insurance coverage. Newly revised, the booklet describes the $250,000 level of share insurance made permanent by the financial reform legislation of 2010. (Stock No. 28539)
To order these items, visit training.cuna.org; enter the stock number in the search box. For telephone orders, call 800-356-8010, press 3.
Higher Bar for Board Skills
NCUA soon will require federal credit union board members to understand their credit union's balance sheet and income statement, and have a working familiarity with basic finance and accounting practices.
In preparation for the pending regulation, CUNA presents the Board Financial Literacy Certificate for volunteers. You can earn the certificate by:
After finishing either track, volunteers complete the appropriate assessments to earn the certificate.
Visit training.cuna.org/boardreq.
New Formats Promote CU Services
Credit unions communicate to their members in a variety of ways. These additional resources ensure that information on credit union services and benefits reaches all members.
E-statement stuffers
Here are electronic versions of some popular printed statement stuffers you can post on websites or include in e-statement notifications. Two currently available are:
• Local. Trusted. Serving You. (Stock No. 29612E); and
• There's Nothing Like a Credit Union. (Stock No. 20158E)
For more information, visit buy.cuna.org and enter the stock number in the search box.
Custom drive-up envelopes
Customization is now available for all full-color drive-up envelopes. Highlight important services ranging from security to refinancing loans, while promoting your credit union as the go-to resource.
For product details, visit buy.cuna.org and select "drive-up envelopes" under member education.


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I don't know what's gotten into me!! LOL. I guess I must have been feeling wild when I recorded this. The treehouse makes you do funny things!
I have a confession. I have an girl crush on Sia. She has sooo much talent.
But SO much talent. She writes songs like no tomorrow without getting attached, and then ships them off to never land until they fall into the artists laps like Rihanna and Beyonce. She wrote Diamonds. She wrote for Britney and Maroon 5. This girl is on fire!
Yes. I really do have a girl crush on her. Maybe it's also an art crush. A Girl-Art crush.
I really felt compelled to feel some of that art, soooo that's why I decided to make a cover.
This is what I came up with.
It's…. Different I would say. Experimental, maybe?
No instruments. No changing angles. No moving the camera — just moving my own self…. and the occasional barn cat.
I kinda had a lot of fun.
Share your thoughts with me and stay lovely!


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Allison Upshaw is a new graduate student in interdisciplinary studies at the University of Alabama. Upshaw's interests include arts based research methods, education, and aesthetic/creative embodiments as a way of reading the world. Her first auto ethnography, Battles of Wounded Me, is a performative work in music and theater. Currently, Upshaw is working on a new auto ethnography, Arias to Artist/Researcher/Teacher/
Scholar: The Academic Reformation of an Opera Singer, through music and somatics. I also work as an education consultant/Teaching Artist training educators to see literacy in and through the arts. In a parallel life, I hold degrees in opera singing and have worked as a professional actress.
PhD student, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alabama
Performing Arts Education Consultant/Teaching Artist, Classroom OPERAtunitie
Performing Arts Education Consultant/Teaching Artist, Classroom OPERAtunitie


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Film producers and distributors have been using the internet for the pre-release promotion of their movies for a long time. It's now normal for official movie websites and social media marketing tactics to be launched months before a movie is even completed. However, the practice of developing an online game as promotional material for an upcoming movie is a relatively recent trend.
20th Century Fox is one of the movie studios leading the way in setting this trend of crafting fun and beautifully-designed games as part of the online marketing campaigns for their films. We are proud be involved in the development of a browser game for their latest animated film, Ice Age: Collision Course. The 3D animated movie is set to be released at the end of this month. It is the fifth installment in the Ice Age film series.
The movie follows the adventures of the Ice Age gang, Manny, Diego, and Sid, as they try to survive an asteroid apocalypse. The cataclysm is a result of a series of events that started with Scrat, the prehistoric squirrel who has been pursuing his acorn in vain since the very first movie came out.
Together with the great people from 20th Century Fox, our team decided to create a game that featured Scrat as the main character. Since he set in motion the events that would eventually lead to asteroids colliding with the planet, we thought that a game wherein he uses his acorn to hit planets would capture that premise quite well.
The finalized game is called Ice Age: Collision Course Planet Pool. Game players get to help Scrat virtually clear an asteroid field by sinking all the planets in the collision course order. It is a pool/billiard type game, with the acorn as the cue ball, and the nine planets as the billiard balls that have to be pocketed in a specific order.
The player uses the mouse to aim the acorn, and then sets how strong the shot will be by clicking and dragging a small round ship behind it. Releasing the mouse button launches the acorn.
Planets should be hit in correct order from lowest to highest number.
Finishing the game without fouling (like hitting the wrong planet in the given order, or sinking the acorn) gives huge bonus points. Planet Earth is the 9-ball, and sinking it last will set up the next rack. A good way to set up the next rack without having to sink each planet one by one is by aiming to sink Earth by hitting it with the lowest numbered planet.
Aim at highlighted target planet with the help of guidelines, and sink it into the black holes.
Players experience an adrenaline rush as the time limit of four minutes runs out, in an effort to pocket more planets and up the high score.
Scores can be shared via facebook or Twitter
To meet the time and budget requirements of the film producers, we used the core mechanics of one of our pre-existing games, 9 Ball Pool. The game was reskinned almost completely to achieve the design and gameplay that the movie producers wanted. It retained the physics of the source game, so players still enjoy the authentic pool experience while being engaged in the movie universe.
Fans of the movie franchise will appreciate the new music and gorgeous artwork that were incorporated into the game. They also get to share their gaming experience with the built-in social media sharing feature of the game.
Game rebranding is increasingly being employed in the marketing campaigns for big and upcoming brands alike. It is a highly efficient way to create superb quality games without the exorbitant costs that otherwise come with developing games from scratch.
You also get the benefit of proven quality, since a ready-made game can instantly be evaluated, and has already gone through the rigors of quality testing.
HTML5 is the best technology available for creating stunning games that are easily deployed across different devices, whether it as a mobile phone, a tablet, a smart TV, or a digital display board. Since it is cross-platform, your games will work on any operating system.
Visitors to a movie website get an automatic interactive experience, since HTML5 games can be played without being redirected to an app store for download.
The development of this rebranded HTML5 game for 20th Century Fox is a good indication of where the future is headed for online ad campaigns of upcoming films. Indeed a movie website will now feel incomplete without interactive games for visitors to get engaged. Creating an HTML5 game by reskinning a ready-made game is a viable marketing strategy for movie producers.
Interested in rebranding one of our games? Feel free to contact us, and a member of our team will get in touch within 12 hours.
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Documents of Civil Status
Documents of Civil Status
(in Russian, Acta of Civil Status), the registration of birth, death, conclusion and dissolution of marriage, adoption, the establishment of paternity, and changes of name, patronymic, and surname.
The law connects the beginning, modifications, or cessation of substantive legal relations with the registration of a document of civil status. For instance, the rights and duties of spouses established by law arise only after the marriage has been registered in a manner provided for by legislation.
The registration of civil status documents was introduced in the USSR by the Dec. 18, 1917 Decree of the Council of People's Commissars. This decree also set up agencies of civil registry. In cities and raion centers changes of civil status are registered by the city or raion bureaus of civil registry (ZAGS) that are under the local soviets, and in rural localities and urban-type settlements, by rural or settlement soviets. The registrations are done upon the application of the interested persons. In some cases the permission of an appropriate agency is required—for instance, civil registry agencies of krai or oblast executive committees must give permission for changes of surnames or given names. Some registrations require a prior decision of a state agency—for instance, an adoption requires a decision by a guardianship agency.
Civil status documents are entered in registry books, and the citizens are issued appropriate documents of a specified form, such as a marriage or birth certificate, etc. All registrations are free of charge, except registrations of marriages, divorces, and name changes. Mandatory time limits have been established by the law for the registration of some civil status documents: births—no later than two months after the birth of the child; deaths—no later than three days after its occurrence; and violent death, suicide, accidental death, or discovery of a body, no later than 24 hours. Mistakes can be corrected and changes made in the registration of civil status documents by the decision of a higher agency of civil registry, if there is no dispute on the question; otherwise, the question can be solved only by a court.
In prerevolutionary Russia all civil status documents were registered by the church. Such registrations were first introduced in 1722, when Peter I decreed the mandatory registration of births of the Orthodox population. For the non-Orthodox, birth registration was introduced later—for Lutherans in 1832, for Catholics in 1826, for Muslims in 1828, for Jews in 1835, and for Old Believers in 1874.
In the other socialist countries civil status documents are registered by agencies of civil registry—called bureaus in the Polish People's Republic, services in the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and so on—which are under the jurisdiction of local agencies of authority. In the capitalist countries documents of civil status are registered, depending upon the type of document, at the city hall (for births) or with the police (for deaths). Marriages are registered either at church registries (Spain, Greece, Portugal) or by the city hall (France, Federal Republic of Germany) or else by a judge (in some states of the USA).


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Our Family
Our goal is to EXCEED your expectations and deliver the very best real estate transaction you will ever experience. We are available to our clients every day and encourage you to call either one of us, whenever the need arises. We are very proud of our team (family) and stand ready to serve you and your family's real estate needs, and beyond, now and in the future.


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NIT Andhra Pradesh is recruiting candidates for the faculty positions in various disciplines. The NIT Warangal is a mentor institute for NIT Andhra Pradesh and the recruitment also will be carried out by NIT Warangal.
Disciplines: Vacancies are available in the disciplines / departments of civil engineering, biotechnology, science and humanities, chemical engineering, computer science engineering, electrical, mechanical, metallurgical, and materials engineering.
Candidates need to apply online through www.nitw.ac.in . Last date for the receipt of applications is 20th October 2017.
The hard copy of the online application along with the requisite fee and all relevant supporting self - attested documents must reach the office of the Registrar, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal -506004 on or before 30 October 2017.
Separate application must be submitted for each post. The date for determining eligibility of candidates in every respect shall be the closing date for receipt of application forms (20th October, 2017).


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Son Heung-Min's stunning strike cancelled out Pedro Obiang's thunderbolt as Tottenham salvaged a 1-1 draw against London rivals West Ham on Thursday.
Tottenham winger Son and West Ham midfielder Obiang staged their own goal of the season contest at Wembley with sublime efforts that will live long in the memory.
Obiang put West Ham ahead midway through the second half with a sensational 30-yard drive.
But South Korea star Son had the perfect response, unloading a blistering 25-yard shot for his sixth goal in his last nine appearances.
Both goals deserved to be ranked among the best scored at Wembley since the national stadium was rebuilt, but the result was rough justice for Tottenham, who dominated throughout but failed to convert their chances.
Mauricio Pochettino's side remain fifth in the Premier League, three points behind fourth placed Liverpool in the race to qualify for the Champions League via a top four finish.
West Ham are two points above the relegation zone after stretching their unbeaten run to three matches.
Harry Kane was back in the Tottenham line-up after recovering from the illness that meant he was only used as a substitute in Tuesday's win at Swansea.
Tottenham are reportedly ready to reward Kane for his incredible success in 2017 by making him the highest paid English player in the Premier League on weekly wages of £200,000 ($270,000).
And, aiming for his third hat-trick in his last three league starts, Kane almost made the perfect start when he prodded a shot across goal.
That near-miss was created by a flap from West Ham goalkeeper Adrian, who fared no better moments later when he misjudged a cross, allowing Davinson Sanchez a shot that was blocked as it headed towards the empty net.
Kane went close when his curling strike from the edge of the area had Adrian diving to his left to save.
Christian Eriksen wasn't far away either with a fierce long-range drive.
When Serge Aurier picked out Kane's run, the net seemed certain to bulge, but for once the Tottenham forward fluffed his lines as the ball squirted out of his control with just Adrian to beat.
Eriksen, so clever in possession, was at the heart of all Tottenham's best moments and the Dane almost broke the deadlock on the stroke of half-time with a searing strike that Adrian tipped over.
With West Ham happy to sit deep in a bid to frustrate Tottenham, Pochettino's team had to remain patient as Son and Eriksen both had goal-bound shots blocked by the visitors.
Kane appealed for a penalty after Pablo Zabaleta's sly tug at the forward's shirt, but referee Mike Dean ignored his protests.
When Dele Alli headed over moments later, Pochettino must have wondered if it wouldn't be his night and that fear came true in the 70th minute.
West Ham had been so cautious that they hadn't managed a single shot until Obiang took aim from 30 yards.
Given time to size up his shot by Tottenham's slow to react defenders, Spanish midfielder Obiang unleashed a blistering strike that raced past Hugo Lloris into the top corner for only his second goal of the season.
Kane led the Tottenham response, but he found Adrian in obdurate mood as the keeper pushed away his fierce 20-yard shot.
Fortunately for Pochettino, Son was able to conjure up a moment of magic almost as jaw-dropping as Obiang's in the 84th minute.
Seizing possession 25 yards out, Son's rocket fizzed over Mark Noble's head and left Adrian with no chance as it flashed past him.
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I blog this morning from Cambridge, Mass., where I am sitting in the living room of my parents' apartment. Something about being here automatically regresses me to the emotional age of about 13. A time when there were no blogs.
As a consequence of this — and of the fact that I have to go and rock a local radio interview in about 15 mins — I'm just going to post a funny trailer for a new movie with some borderline nerd content. Job well done!
This is from the entity that made Napoleon Dynamite:


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In an article I wrote for the STEP Journal back in October 2014, I discussed the three factors that make a family office successful: independent thinking, the ability to mix and match financial solutions and sustainability. Independent thinking is important because the family office is the brain that helps the family make informed, independent decisions. The ability to mix and match means that the family office can find and structure the best solution for the family even though it is not readily available in the market. Sustainability is about continuity of the money, the family business, the relationships and the family office itself.
Two years have passed and all these are still true. I believe they will remain so for a very long time. However, this year, I have started to see a new dimension to the success of a family office.
A family office should be trusted by the family members to be truly successful. Otherwise, decisions made by the patriarch or matriarch are not respected and carried out. Members of the family would appear to be in harmony but in their hearts, there is no true acceptance.
How can a family create a trusted family office? We need a strong and sensitive governance system. A strong system is one that enhances the family as a whole. It is robust, well thought out, consistent in terms of responsibility, extent of authority and accountability. Such a system should also be sensitive because it must have empathy, adaptability and compassion.
By displaying these qualities, the family office becomes one to which the family members feel a strong sense of belonging rather than one just created by the patriarch or matriarch and imposed on the family members involuntarily. The best system should allow the future generations to decide for themselves, and have the flexibility to be modernized.
Another major sensitive issue is whether and when to intervene. Sometimes, family conflicts can be resolved by the family members without participation by the family office. Sometimes, the family office acts as the mediator if it decides this is a better way of handling the conflicts.
Family offices should beware of any obstacle that might result in distrust. Typically, if a family office is driven by the patriarch's ego, it represents just his super ego and an underlying assumption that others do not have the strength to be themselves. If the sole purpose of a family office is just to provide services, it is not there to motivate the family members to become the best versions of themselves.
Some family offices start with beautifully drafted rules and codes, but without the persistence to implement them, the family offices are not delivering true value. The last but the most commonly seen obstacle to a trusted family office is when the family office is feardriven, usually the fear of litigation, divorce and family disputes. A family office constantly in defensive mode is not one that the family members would trust.
Many families want a family office that can protect them and their assets from attacks originating externally, and even internally, among family branches and members, and from spousal claims. Because it can afford the best professionals and services, a family office can have in place the best documents and the most protective strategies. I acknowledge the necessity and merit of that kind of family office. However, without love, the best documents and the most thoroughly designed protective measures will not make a successful family office. At the family level, such a family office is hardly one that everyone can trust. Fortunately, many UHNW families I have worked with have started to appreciate the significance of a good governance system, and some even take it to the next level to care for the spiritual development of the family members by encouraging mediation and other methods to help the family members find inner peace and relationship harmony.
A family office should be about trust and sense of security. It is the same for employment in a company. It is the same for any interpersonal relationship. If one does not feel trusted, he or she would naturally find it hard to trust others. It is as simple as that. A trusted family office is like a traffic control tower. Many planes are in the sky and the pilots trust that the family office can provide them with information on things that they cannot see themselves and they are communicative through the family office to each other.
Like the pilots, family members can have their own directions and destinations, but if there is a family office they can trust, they will always come back for advice and information and, by doing this, the bonding will always be there.
This bonding is what one calls love.


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If there's one thing people cook at home, it's chicken. (In the US, at least. Globally, the most-consumed meat is goat.) We've gathered everything you need to know about choosing, prepping and cooking everyone's go-to dinner.
Again, window-dressing. It can mean that there were thousands of chickens in a huge barn with a 2- x 2-foot door open at one end; a hen could walk outside if she wanted to, but most never will. Or "free-range" can mean the chickens were indeed raised in large, outdoor lots, allowed to go about their chicken-y pecking. In the end, you must know your supplier if these terms are meaningful to you. Otherwise, paying the mark-up might just amount to tossing money after wishful thinking.
The best remedy is to brine the cuts before cooking. Mix 3 tablespoons salt, preferably kosher salt, with 4 cups (1 quart) cool water in a large bowl. Add the boneless skinless chicken breasts, submerging them in the brine. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or up to 1 hour. The meat will plump considerably and can hardly be overcooked. Just omit any salt in the recipe, since the breasts will already have been salted.


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Lent is about the desert really. It's the long winding journey to the Promised Land, and it can be really, really dry. I vaguely remember a story of a sister in the convent with St Teresa of Avila who was caught trying to avoid the call to chapel. She confessed that she didn't feel like praying, and St Teresa said neither did she, but they must do so anyway. There are times when praying is so dry you can wonder whether the words themselves even mean anything.
The Church as always known this of course and hence she has given us Divine Office. We don't have to try and make our own words work, when they simply aren't going to – we can offer back to God His own Words. Much better. Thankfully when He was going about inspiring the writers of the Psalms and other Scriptures, He was offering beautiful Words that are good for the soul peace and of course soul scrubbing.
Nothing worthwhile is easy so it's always good to persevere in prayer, but it is also quite true that we have what a friend of mine calls "seasons". In this season with little children, ill health and lots going on, perhaps the prayers, get a bit jumbled and ragged. Perhaps they don't even happen at all some days.
Fortunately for us we have the saints (the Church Triumphant) to pray for us. We do so every day probably, and it has occured to me a couple of times when I am just so tired, I can't even see the words of Divine Office, much less pray them, that our friends in heaven can take up our prayer and do some of it for us.
I am not suggesting we get lazy in prayer and simply say, oh if the saints and other people are praying I don't have to. That wouldn't be a good idea at all. But on those really awful days, or seasons, where we just aren't getting it together, then it's good to know that the saints are there and of course some prayer warriors here in the Church Militant.


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Soy Meal/Bean Oil Spread
On November 12th the IMC blog entered a hypothetical long position in the March soy meal/bean oil spread at +$17,044 (premium meal). This initiated the start of a reversal system where closings above +$17k trigger buy signals and closings below +$15k trigger sell signals.
On November 19th the March soy meal/bean oil spread closed at +$14,354 (premium meal) and triggered a reversal signal. Therefore, the long position at +$17,044 would have been liquidated for a loss of approximately -$2,690 and a hypothetical short position would have been entered at +$14,354. A close back above +$17k will trigger the exit signal for the short position and a buy signal for a new long position.
Currently, the mid-November breakout above the May 30th peak and the break back below it appears to be a failed breakout attempt. If so, the spread could be at the beginning stages of a multi-month decline. We shall see…


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Friday, January 21, 2011
Cushnie et Ochs Sample Sale
Cushnie et Ochs is hosting a sample sale at their showroom where you'll get 60-80% off retail prices on pieces from previous collections including fall/winter 2010. The sale will take place on January 26th and 27th from 10AM - 7PM. The showroom is located on 336 West 37th Street (btw 8th and 9th Avenue), Suite 1200, New York City.
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Women Steal the Show in this year's OSCAR nominations!
By Karen Reid, Editor, Harlequin Superromance & Heartwarming
(All images in this post have been, as usual, shamelessly stolen from various internet sights.)
Strong female roles are not always easy to find in movie theaters—and that is definitely a problem. However, this year's OSCAR nominated movies feature inspiring performances by women that must be celebrated. Yay!
Let's begin with Hidden Figures. This movie is based on the true story of the remarkable, determined, very smart women who played a critical role in the early days of the US space program. Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae and Octavia Spencer play three African-American mathematicians—Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson—who crossed gender and race barriers to help NASA send astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Senior Editor Victoria Curran gives this movie a thumbs-up, calling it "the feel-good movie that everybody needs right now". And not only is this untold piece of history a great movie, but it's also inspiring a whole new generation of girls and women to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) subjects and to pursue STEM jobs. Dream large, reach far. A must-see!
Next up is Arrival. If I were to describe this film in one word, I would call it beautiful. It may seem like a straight-up Sci-Fi movie, but it's so much more. Amy Adams portrays a linguistics professor recruited to interpret the language of aliens who've landed their spacecraft at different locations around the globe. Arrival will touch your heart as a mother, lift your soul as a human being and delight your imagination as a moviegoer. Need I say more to convince you to see this movie—a movie in which the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of one woman? I didn't think so! (Oh, and you'll love the twist!)
Of course, we cannot forget Viola Davis in Fences. I've not seen this film yet, but it's on my shortlist. Based on a Pullitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson, Fences is set in 1950s Pittsburgh. It explores race relations and the changing African-American experience at the time. Viola Davis first performed the role of Rose Maxson on Broadway, opposite her onscreen co-star Denzel Washington (um…yeah, he is another good reason to catch this movie!). She's already won numerous awards this season (i.e. Golden Globe, BAFTA), so my hopes are high for OSCAR night. Every time I watch Davis in something—either on the small or big screen—I'm enthralled by the passion and strength she exudes. And I'm sure her portrayal of a woman trying to keep her family together, through pain and betrayal, will be no different.
I could go on—Ruth Negga (adore her!) in Loving, Natalie Portman in Jackie, Nicole Kidman in Lion... but I think I've "talked" enough—so what are some of your favorite performances? Let me know!


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Hawke's Bay contributes a substantial amount of the fruit used for many Babich wines, including the iconic Irongate range, famous for its Chardonnay, and The Patriarch — our unparalleled flagship red wine. This region is blessed with a superb climate for viticulture – sufficiently cool to ripen grapes slowly, yet warm and sunny enough to promote optimum fruit ripening. It has a tradition of quality table winemaking which stretches back to the 19th century, its reputation evolving steadily as a source of deep-flavoured and slowly evolving Hawke's Bay Chardonnays, robust and tropical Sauvignon Blancs and stylish, scented Cabernet and Merlot-based reds, more recently adding Gewurztraminer, Viognier and Syrah. Babich vineyards in the Hawke's Bay region total 77.8 hectares (192.2 acres).
Chardonnay, Viognier, Sauvignon Blanc – 17 hectares / 42 acres
Enjoying sheltered and warm conditions that are perfect for ripening grapes on the deeper river soils, it produces wines with elegant fruit flavours.
Malbec, Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Franc – 9.7 hectares / 24 acres
The combination of free draining soils overlaying 'red metal' gravels with high sunshine hours and low rainfall, makes the Bridge Pa Triangle a unique viticultural area.
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah – 6 hectares / 14.8 acres
Located in the famous Gimblett Gravels sub region of Hawke's Bay, it yields small crops of grapes from free draining shingle which harbour rich, concentrated flavours. Babich Wines was among the pioneers of the Gimblett Gravels appellation, helping position this as a premium sub-region.
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Chardonnay and Gewurztraminer – 38 hectares / 94 acres
Like the Omahu Vineyard, this vineyard can be found in one of the most renowned growing districts of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Wines produced from this region are determined by the gravelly soils laid down by the old Ngaruroro River.
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah – 9.9 hectares / 24.5 acres
Again, wines produced from this special terroir in Hawke's Bay are believed to be a first for winegrowers in the New World, making for a unique blend of traditional French concepts and modern thinking.
In addition to our sumptuous Hawke's Bay New Zealand wine varietals — including our famous Hawke's Bay Chardonnays — we have invested substantially in vineyards in Marlborough and Auckland. As dedicated winemakers with an extensive family history in the industry, we encourage you to explore more varietals from the famous Babich brand.