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Yours Truly, Lucy B. Parker: Girl vs. Superstar
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Sixth grade is hard enough for Lucy B. Parker, but it gets so much worse when her mom announces that she's going to marry Laurel Moses's dad. Yes, that Laurel Moses—the TV-movie-music star who makes Hannah Montana look like some random kid from the sticks. Suddenly, Lucy's life is turned upside down and sideways. All Lucy wants to do is get through the day without totally embarrassing herself too much, but that's hard to do when you're the less-pretty, less-talented not-quite sister of a mega superstar.


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Originally posted by tombstone charlie
: email me at tombstonecharlie and i'll be glad to give you information, if no off roading, removing of buildings and destroying the site
Originally posted by Turquoise Kid
: Howdy ! I'll be traveling from Las Vegas down Hwy. 93
: to visit these ghost towns in Arizona and would like to know if anyone has been to any of them ( are they worth visiting?) and do you have specific directions on how to get there ? These are the towns : White Hills, Cyclopic,Gold Basin, Chloride, Mineral Park, Golconda, Cerbat, and Katherine ( which is off Hwy. 68)
: I looked up all the info on these towns on this site already and all look like they'd be worth visiting except for possibly Cyclopic ( only 1 pic on this site ) and Gold Basin ( no pictures on this site )Does anyone have any info on any of these towns ?? THANK YOU VERY MUCH !
Originally posted by tombstone charlie
: email me at tombstonecharlie and i'll be glad to give you information, if no off roading, removing of buildings and destroying the site
Originally posted by Dean
: well if you interested in ghost internatioally
: I will garuntee you ghost sightings in India a place called Coonor the second most haunted place in the world. Man this place has the works the complete works and Ive seen it for myself
: Dean
Chloride is on the map, I visited it in the fall of 2004. Its not really a ghost town, but has lots of old abandoned buildings and a really interesting atmosphere. Stop at the little general store and the guy working there will tell you how to find the old miners cabins and a few other interesting buildings.
I highly recommend that you follow the directions given on ghosttowns.com about how to get to Nelson (Nevada) since its not far from where you are going to be, and then keep driving and on the left hand side of the road, there is an old mining camp, which is somewhat restored and really neat. Actually, the pictures on ghosttowns.com for the town of Nelson are pictures taken at this old mining camp. I have not yet figured out this discrepancy, all I know is that the camp is interesting, and they offer a mine tour which was fun and educational.
I also visited Mineral Park. Follow the directions given on the page here in ghosttowns.com and watch for a sign at the beginning of the road. When you get to the end of the road, on the right hand side you will see the current mining operation and on the other side, you can see the old buildings from years ago. Go into the new buildings on the right hand side and ask permission and then you can drive right up the dirt/stone road and then go over to the buildings, if you don't mind climbing down into a ditch and back out of it to get to them. Very neat!
I almost went to Cerbat, but a guy getting his mail at the entrance discouraged it, saying there was no ghost town down that road.
Like I said, I found these places using the directions given on ghosttowns. com and a regular Arizona road map, so I don't think you will have any problems.
Are you considering visiting Oatman?
I have shot you an email too as I had trouble finding Gold Basin. While Cyclopic had GPS coordinates available, the access routes had signs that said "private land" everywhere. We were able to see Mineral Park, Cerbat (there is a lot to see if you drive all the way down Cerbat Rd) and Chloride though, and they were all great. We were there two days ago.
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You may recall me posting a picture earlier this month of Matt Kenseth and this year's Goodyear SUPPORT OUR TROOPS tire. Well this weekend is the Coca-Cola 600 (or The World 600 if you are Dale Jr.) which will feature the last appearance of this tire at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
However- you can get in on the action by helping Goodyear give back to the troops by bidding on several auction items through the NASCAR FOUNDATION. Proceeds will go to support the troops. Some of the items up for auction include autographed tires from many NASCAR Drivers including Carl Edwards, Danica Patrick, Jimmie Johnson, an autographed piece of the #11 Fedex Car driven by Denny Hamlin, and what is probably the coolest auction item I have ever seen- a ride for two in the Goodyear Blimp (which NO you would not catch me doing- I am hard pressed to get in an airplane- like HELL am I getting in a blimp- but my father however- would LOVE this). This particular set of auctions will end on May 27th, so get your bids in now at the NASCAR FOUNDATION GOODYEAR GIVES BACK page today! There are even Support Our Troops hats and shirts that you can purchase for a reasonable price.
You can also visit the GOODYEAR GIVES BACK page for a link to the auction site, a page where you can leave a message to thank the troops, a donation page and other ways that Goodyear is giving back to our troops and how you can help through July 31st!


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Welcome to the Student Counseling Center website. The staff of the SCC are dedicated to student well-being and providing services collaboratively with compassion, respect, and sensitivity to students' unique challenges and cultural backgrounds.
The SCC is staffed by Masters and Doctoral level professional licensed counselors, a registered dietitian, Professional Graduate Student Interns (in a professional Masters program) and Professional Counseling Externs (recently graduated from a professional Masters program) who provide counseling assessments, referrals, brief therapy, relational counseling, nutritional counseling and more.
The SCC provides mental health and nutritional counseling for undergraduate students at SPU, free of charge. We are located in Watson Hall and are open every Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm with later evening and Saturday appointments available. Questions? Contact (206) 281-2657
To make an appointment please come into the SCC Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm and schedule with the administrative team.
If this is an immediate health-related emergency, call 911 or Campus Security at 281-2911. If this is a mental-health crisis, call the Crisis Clinic 24-hour crisis line at (206) 461-3222.
Please review the rest of our website to learn about the many services provided by the Student Counseling Center.
What We Provide
Our office is located in Watson Hall on the first floor. Follow the steps up into Watson Hall (off of Bertona Street), past Health Services, and into our office.
If you are in crisis, please immediately call 911 or 2911 if you are on campus. You may also call the Seattle 24-hour Crisis Line at 1-866-4-CRISIS or go to any hospital emergency room. Please see our Resources page for other options.
We are open from 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, but stop taking new client intakes at 4:30pm. We are also open by appointment only from 5-8pm Tuesdays-Thursdays and 9am-1pm on Saturdays.
Student Counseling Center
Seattle Pacific University
353 West Bertona (physical)
3307 3rd Ave. West, Ste. 118
Seattle, WA 98119-1922
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Family Team Conference
Devereux Florida - Family Team ConferenceIn Circuit 5, serving Marion, Lake, Sumter, Citrus and Hernando counties, Kids Central, Inc. has contracted with Devereux Kids to coordinate and facilitate the engagement and involvement of community partners to build the local capacity for prevention and diversion since May 2005.Its purpose is to engage the larger community so that families in the 5th Judicial Circuit are more likely to be supported at the community and neighborhood level before there is harm to a child, mitigating the need for the child's and family's involvement in a publicly funded child welfare system. The services include facilitation at the community, neighborhood and family levels, engagement of people interested in enhancing prevention and diversion resources, and community education for awareness building and skills development.
Family Team Conferencing (FTC) is a solution-focused method that draws on the families past success in solving problems, determines circumstances when the family is currently able to solve the problem and develops the family's vision for a preferred future. FTC utilizes principals to provide services to residents referred from Child Protective Investigators (CPI's) after the investigation determines that the safety risk to the child is low but the family is in need of support services in order to maintain the child in the home. The staff works with the residents to identify their support system, their strengths and their needs, and then develops with the family a plan that addresses immediate needs of the family and connects the residents to community support resources. The model used, facilitates a process in which the resident's strengths and needs are identified and put together to develop a support plan. The contract also provides financial resources that Devereux Kids' staff uses to leverage community donations that are tied directly to families.
Devereux Kids offers both prevention, diversion and reunification family team conferences. Families who experience the removal of a child often need a variety of supports both formal and informal to experience a successful reunification. The family team conference process is used as a "best practice" to connect families to resources in their community. This process can occur prior to reunification or it may occur after reunification has been complete. The primary intent is to connect families to resources that will help them complete their reunification case plan, return the children to them as soon as possible and assist them in maintaining a safe, nurturing and stable environment for their children.
What Happens at a Family Team Conference?
What families would benefit from a FTC?
How are Families referred to the Family Team Conference?
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Botched Balloons
When it comes to cake decorating, you can't get any more basic than the balloon. One roundish blob of icing, a string, and voila! You're done! This staple of icing decor is so simple that even the most inexperienced of decorators couldn't possibly Wreck it up.
BWAHAHAHAH! Hah, did you see what I did there? How I managed to keep a straight face? Hoo boy! [wiping eyes] Heehee!
Ok, seriously, let's count down the ways in which Wreckerators have managed to destroy the seemingly simple balloon, shall we?
1) Gravity Need Not Apply
I suppose you could say the writing is what's upside down, but even then those balloons look more like wrinkly piles of fresh paint than anything else. Yech.
2) Floaters, or Swimmers?
I see this problem a lot, and I don't think it's just 'cuz I have that V-day post on the brain.
It doesn't help when the "balloons" are swimming in a circle, either:
4) Too big.
Multicolored swirls look, at best, like lollipops. At worst, we're facing the Teletubby poo debacle all over again.
6) "You may use any icing color in the kitchen. EXCEPT THIS ONE."
Ooh, could those be a gaggle of failing organs*, or perhaps hacky sacks made from old pantyhose? Here's hoping!!
Janice L., Nezuko, Troy K., Helen D., Jessica G., & Bex, thanks for taking us up, up and away.
* Geese, organs - they're practically interchangeable, right?


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Department of Revenue News Release
February 20, 2014Bonne Terre License Office contract awarded
JEFFERSON CITY - The Office of Administration, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Revenue, has awarded the management contract for the Bonne Terre License Office to the Bonne Terre Chamber of Commerce. All license office contracts in Missouri are awarded through a competitive bid process.
The Bonne Terre Chamber of Commerce has been the agent of the Bonne Terre License Office since 2009. The Bonne Terre License Office will remain at its current location at 30 N. Allen St.
In fiscal year 2013, more than 47,000 transactions were conducted at the Bonne Terre office, generating $124,752 in agent processing fees. The Bonne Terre Chamber of Commerce's contract includes an annual commitment to return 2 percent (approximately $2,495) of future processing fees to the state.
All local license offices are overseen by the Missouri Department of Revenue, but each is operated by an independent agent.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Another pumpkin jam, this time with flowering quinces
My loyal readers may remember that photo collage of flowering quinces from last summer, when I made flowering quince extract and flowering-quince and apple jam. Well, I made several other jams using flowering quinces from my mum's backyard this autumn. One of our favourite ones was this pumpkin jam (yep, just as nice as this ginger and pumpkin jam) . It's a lovely thick jam - flowering quinces are very high in pectin, with a beautiful yellow colour (well, it's mostly pumpkin after all), with a nice acidity lended by the flowering quinces. Another excellent jam to be spread on your breakfast or afternoon toast or English muffin.
NB! Note that flowering quince (Chaenomeles Lindl) and quince (Cydonia oblonga) are related, but NOT the same fruit (quite confusingly, all quinces flower, but that's another topic altogether).
Cleaning flowering-quinces for jam-making can be quite a pain. The fruit are hard and small. The best result is to find a comfortable place to sit on, put on your favourite album or switch on your favourite TV channel. Place three bowls in front of you - one filled with washed floweringquinces, one smaller bowl for piths and seeds, and one for cleaned flowering quince slices. Take a small, sharp knife (a vegetable peeling knife works well), and work away :)
Pumpkin Jam with Flowering Quinces
1 kg pumpkin flesh, cut into small cubes
1 kg flowering quinces, deseeded and cut into quarters
500 ml (2 cups) of water
1 kg caster sugar
Place the pumpkin and flowering quinces into a large saucepan. Add water. Bring to the boil and simmer on a low heat for 15 minutes, skimming any froth that appears on the surface. Stir every now and then.
Add sugar and bring to the boil again. Remove from the heat and cool.
Bring everything to the boil again and simmer for 10-15 minutes, stirring every now and then, until the pumpkin is soft and the jam has thickened.
Distribute into hot sterilised jars and close. Keep in a cool place.
5 comments:
- Siri said...
I just discovered your blog today & I'm SO glad that I did! I came across it when I did a search on Cloudberries. Your tastes seem to be right up my alley and you take great photos on top of it. I might mention that I spent a week-long study trip in Estonia (a few years ago, before you were in the EU) and found Tallin to be a really charming town with great food. I'll be sure to keep up with your posts.
- 10:45 pm, October 29, 2008
- ChichaJo said...
ove all your jams Pille and this is no exception...sounds delicious!
- 8:15 am, October 30, 2008
- Andrew said...
Dont recall every seeing flowering quince in the UK. 'Normal' quince indeed and I've made a couple of small jars of membrillo this year but flowering quince...
- 10:26 am, November 02, 2008
- Marie said...
Lovely post about quince - one of my favourite fruit (cydonia) and flowers (chaenomeles!).
Thank you ...
- 2:24 am, November 06, 2008
- Pille said...
Siri - it's always nice to 'meet' somebody who's been to Tallinn & Estonia - welcome!!
ChicaJo - oh, you're so sweet!!
Andrew - I'd be surprised if they sold the fruit, but you might want to peek into your neighbourgh's back garden :)
Marie - thank you!!
- 10:43 am, November 17, 2008


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The Adelaide Costume Shop in Adelaide CBD has a wide range of face paints including Kryolan Aquacolor, Wolfe FX Essentials, TAG face paints and split cakes.
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What Is The Future Of The Film?/
On Tuesday last week Brian Newman and I conducted a conversation on the topic of "The Future Of Film" at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. I had an extra shot of espresso and we spoke for over an hour. You can re-live 8 minutes of it and see just how revved up I can get on this topic. There's a lot more to say about this subject. Brian said some of that here.


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Having chronicled the pain of losing loved ones to war in "The Messenger," writer-director Oren Moverman is moving on to the life and death of Kurt Cobain.
Moverman is in talks with NBC corporate partner Universal Studios to rewrite and direct a script originally developed by David Benioff ("The 25th Hour") about the late Nirvana frontman, according to The Hollwood Reporter. Benioff reportedly did extensive research in Aberdeen and Seattle, talking to those closest to Cobain, beginning in 2007.
For folks of a certain age, this is hallowed ground. Whether you like the band or not, there's no arguing with the fact that Nirvana was one of those rare bands that changed popular music with a sound previously unheard.
Adding to the anxiety surrounding the project is the fact that Courtney Love, Cobain's widow, is one of the film's executive producers.
Theories that Love had Cobain killed are stupid, cruel and baseless, but the woman has a history of being self-serving when she isn't being self-destructive, and the last thing Cobain's memory needs is to paint her in as flattering a light as possible.


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Of Jane Fonda and Pope Francis
The pontiff understands the power of moral example. Today's liberal high priests do not.
In the same week that Pope Francis was named Time's Person of the Year, word arrived of the charitable contributions made by the Jane Fonda Foundation. Grand total for the years 2007 to 2011: zero dollars. The last time Ms. Fonda's Foundation made a charitable gift, reports the Smoking Gun website, was in 2006, to the tune of $1,000.
The Foundation itself has $800,000 in assets. Ms. Fonda's representatives insist she's made larger gifts, particularly through her family foundation, which in 2011 made about $350,000 in contributions...


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The first two operators of the Boeing 787-8 are seeing better-than-anticipated fuel burn, despite prior expectations of below-par performance as a result of data from predelivery flight tests.
The numbers, though based on early experience with a relatively small fleet on a variety of routes, are surprisingly positive given the early configuration of the airframes and engines. The operators have not yet incorporated all the planned weight and fuel burn improvements of follow-on production versions.
Four of the current active 787 fleet are from an early production block in which each is thought to be around 8,800 lb. over specification weight, while the remainder are lighter aircraft built from the block point change introduced from line No. 34.
Boeing, which is expected to comment officially on the 787's in-service fuel burn numbers at the Farnborough air show next month, is in the midst of introducing weight reductions and other enhancements to compensate for what was expected to be a relatively significant shortfall in the planned 20% improvement over the 767.
Yet figures from launch airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) show fuel savings are up to 21% on long-range flights, while figures for the General Electric GEnx-1B-powered aircraft at Japan Airlines (JAL) indicate potentially slightly better numbers.
GE says initial performance data show its GEnx-1B engine has a 2% fuel burn advantage over the competing Rolls-Royce Trent 1000, not counting an additional 1% benefit from expected performance retention in terms of sustained exhaust gas temperature margin. The first GEnx-1Bs are in service with JAL, while 787 launch operator ANA uses aircraft powered by the Trent 1000.
ANA earlier this month was the first to reveal that its aircraft were producing around 21% lower fuel burn on international flights compared to the 767-300ER that the 787 is designed to replace.
The airline, which accepted its ninth aircraft on June 24, is believed to have been anticipating a 17-19% improvement, based on the Trent 1000 Package B that Rolls introduced to counter some deficiencies seen in flight testing.
After its first six months of service, ANA says the 787 efficiency levels are slightly up on the 20% savings originally expected at the beginning of the program. On domestic routes, the saving is 15-20%, which meets expectations, say ANA officials. The short-haul sub-fleet includes four early delivery aircraft powered by the interim Trent 1000 Package A standard engine. ANA's long-haul configured 787s operate between Tokyo Haneda Airport and Frankfurt Airport, with additional transpacific routes from Tokyo Narita International Airport to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport in California due to be launched by early 2013.
GE's claimed advantage over the Trent 1000 comes as it monitors the early performance figures from the first eight engines in service with JAL. Meanwhile, the FAA certificated the 75,000-lb.-thrust variant of its GEnx-1B PIP1 (product improvement package) upgrade on June 14. The engines already in service with JAL are also built to the PIP standard certificated in August 2011, but are rated at a lower thrust level.
PIP1 was designed to improve fuel burn by around 1.6% compared to the baseline GEnx-1B, although the latest in-service data suggest this may have been conservative. PIP1 included a new low-pressure turbine, a revised control schedule and hot section upgrades. GE is currently developing a second PIP package which is aimed at an additional 1.1%.
The upgrade builds on PIP1 and adds 0.5-in. to the fan diameter, optimized outlet guide vanes, improved high-pressure compressor aerodynamics, upgrades to the low-pressure compressor and durability enhancements to the combustor and high-pressure turbine. The second PIP will be certificated in the fourth quarter of this year and will enable thrust growth to 78,000 lb.
GE also is ramping up production of both GEnx-1B and -2B engines to support accelerating delivery rates at Boeing of 787s and 747-8s, respectively; Chuck Nugent, the general manager of GEnx programs, says rate increase is two to three times that of previous large engine programs such as the CF6-80C2 and GE90-115B. Approximately 150 GEnx engines will be delivered this year, rising to more than 200 in 2013 and eventually 300 annually in coming years. Roughly 1,300 GEnx powerplants have been sold to-date, and with more than 250 787s yet to be allocated an engine, GE says the competition is intensifying. GE is "still early in the program, so we expect this is just the start," says Nugent.


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Name: Denise
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Location: Colorado
My husband and I have two beautiful sons, 11 and 13. We are a naturist family. Our children have grown up in this way of life and they have a healthy appreciation for the human body and are comfortable with nudity. Recently, both our sons said they did not want to join my husband and I at our yearly naturist retreat. We are honoring their wishes, but we are disappointed by their decision. Any thoughts on were we may have gone wrong?
Let's give our readership a little background first, shall we Denise? For the uninformed, nudists or naturists practice social nudity. While nudity is an obvious aspect of nudism, it is just part of a much larger lifestyle and life philosophy.
The nudist/naturist lifestyle promotes a wholesome appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit. They believe that this wholesomeness comes easiest to those who shed the psychological and social encumbrance of clothing.
Naturists also promote health through complete contact of the whole body with the natural elements. Nudism is practiced, as much as possible, in environments free of the pollution and the stress of modern living. It also involves a holistic approach to nutrition, physical activity, mental health, and social interaction.
As Denise suggests, nudism fosters family participation. Children in naturist families learn to appreciate the human body as part of their natural environment. They often grow up with healthier attitudes toward the physical body and do so with much less fear or shame their non-naturist peers.
Now on to your concern, Denise. I don't think you've done anything wrong. On the contrary, I think you are navigating this seeming change of heart by your kids very well. You've decided, and rightly so, to honor their wishes to not participate in the whole naturists thing for the time being.
Your boys are going through puberty and that alone is enough to set their whole world on its head. They may also be facing intense peer pressure from their non-naturist mates. Societal pressures to fit in and conform, even to unhealthy cultural dictates about "proper" behavior and injurious hyper body consciousness is particularly demanding during the early teenage years. Somehow the desire to be popular distorts a kid's perception and can screw up his/her self-esteem.
Ideally, your son's nudist upbringing would give them the ability to look past these superficial elements, and maybe they will in time. Right now, they need to feel they have more of a control over some of the externals of their life. And it is easy enough for you and your husband to grant them this. I would hasten to add that you and the hubby ought not sink to the lowest common denominator. I encourage you to continue to live your lifestyle as before. Your kids need to know that if they want their wishes respected, they'll need to respect yours.
With a little luck, the body acceptance, self-respect and confidence you've instilled in your sons will once again kick in once their hormones simmer down. Just know that the anxiety you and your husband are experiencing is simply part and parcel of being parents to teens…nudist or non.
Name: Ed Clarke
Age: 52
Location: Chicago
Dr. Dick, Please settle a bet. I say that a man with an 8 inch dick has more nerve endings than one who has only 5 inches of meat, and that means he gets more sexual stimulation of his joystick and greater pleasure. What do you say, Doc?
Ahhh, a betting man, are ya Ed? Ok, simply put, an 8-inch dick has indeed more skin than a 5-incher, but not more nerve endings. Just like a guy with a long neck has more skin than a guy with a short neck, but both guys have the same number of neck bones.
The nerve endings in a relatively short dick are more concentrated than those in a longer dick, but they function just the same. If you need further proof, consider a woman's clit. It's tiny compared to an 8-inch boner, but it packs more wallop per square centimeter than that big boy.
I also hesitate to endorse any notion that a bigger dick enjoys more sexual stimulation than a smaller dick. Skillful stimulation has less to do with size than it does with technique. And the notion that a bigger dick may somehow be the source of more pleasure than one that's not so big…is also a myth. Once again, I refer you to that marvelous creation — the clit.
So I guess it's time to pay up, huh Mr. Clarke?
Name: Katrina
Age: 26
Location: Dallas
Dear Dr Dick: I am a 26 year old woman and want to trim my bush but am scared to go to the waxing salon. Is the salon safe? Do you have any recommendations for how I could go about this myself? Are there home kits?
Have you considered using the old weed-whacker, darlin'? Oh wait, not that kind of bush trimming, huh?
OK, let's see, are salons safe? I suppose if you entrusted your precious bush to a licensed establishment you'd be fine.
Any recommendations for how you could go about doing this yourself? I haven't talked to too many women about this, but most of the men I know who manscape their pubes do so with a disposable razor while in the shower. Some submit to waxing, but most say it hurts way too much. Men are such PUSSIES!
Waxing has been around for centuries. People used to rid themselves of their pubic hair to cut down on infestations of lice and other unwanted vermin. Nowadays waxing and shaving are merely cosmetic in nature. I'm personally a big fan of the natural look, but to each his own, right?
Waxing can be done at home, and yes, there are kits available. I don't know too much about these kits, so I can't advise you further. What I can offer you is the basics — hot wax is applied to the hair infested areas of the skin, and a strip of cloth or paper is pressed into the wax. The strip is then quickly pulled away, taking the hair with it. OUCH! What price beauty???
This method is fast and relatively inexpensive…at least as one compares it to a salon job. But for the novice at-home waxer, this can also become very messy and if the done improperly the hair can break off below the surface of the skin and cause unsightly red bumps that look like prickly heat. This can also lead to an infection. And that's never a good thing.
At-home kits can cost from $25-$75. Professional wax jobs can run from $50-$200 depending on the area treated.
Name: Marti
Gender: female
Age: 27
Location: Seattle
Is there such a thing as an asexual? The reason I ask is that I think I am one. I'm happy and well adjusted, but sex does nothing for me. I can't orgasm. My genitals are icky. My marriage seems fine. I love my husband; we share the same values. And even if there's nothing in it for me, I'm apparently pretty good at fellatio. We don't do intercourse. Is this normal for some people? Are some people simply not wired to be sexual? I have no problems with love. I'm passionate about my husband and my friends, but it's more of a cerebral thing.
Yeah, Marti, I do believe there is such a thing as an asexual. But I don't think you're one. Ya know why I say that? It's because an asexual has an indifference toward sex. You, dear lady, exhibit disgust toward sex and things sexual…including your very own pussy. And that tells me you have an aversion to sex, which is completely different from what an asexual feels about sex.
I'd also have to challenge you on your statement that you are happy and well adjusted. I just don't buy it, darlin'! And here's a tip, if you have to go out of your way to tell someone you are happy and well adjusted, you're probably neither.
In my estimation, a young married, albeit preorgasmic, woman who denies her hubby the old in and out, but begrudgingly blows him when absolutely necessary is NOT happy or well adjusted. SORRY! Since you have never known the joys of sex, you can hardly dismiss them as unimportant.
If we had access to your long-suffering husband I think he would tell a different tale than you, Miss Marti. I'll betcha he's withering on the vine for lack of nookie — the odd semi-obligatory blowjob he gets doled out to him on occasion not withstanding.
Listen darling, you got issues…big fuckin issues that need to be addressed ASAP. Don't go trying to cover your shit with a happy face like asexuality. You'll give all those real sexual ascetics a bad name if ya do.
Begin by resolving your anorgasmia, or as other call it preorgasmia. Because that, my dear, is the root of your sexual aversion. Work with a qualified sex-positive therapist. Learn to masturbate in a way that will bring you sexual satisfaction. Once you and your trusty vibrator slams yourself your first screamin' meme of an orgasm, I believe you will change your tune about the rest of sex and your much maligned pussy too.
We can only hope that your deprived spousal unit will stick around during this remedial period. But you're gonna have to level with him. Tell him you've finally accepted the fact that you have a problem that you need to get to the bottom of it, so to speak. With his help and support and that of your therapist, you'll find your way to real happiness and being an authentically well-adjusted person, not just someone who says she is.
Anything short of this kind of honesty will continue to rob your husband of the full-fledged sex life he ought to be enjoying with you his wife. If ya don't you can be sure 'ole hubby will find his satisfaction in a more welcoming pussy than yours…if he hasn't already.
Good luck ya'll


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I would love to hear if you have experience in this area and how you accomplished this task.
i need your help regarding this issues for my project.
i have to control two DC motors each for X & Y direction motion.
and also want to know which programming software can i use to create GUI that can communicate with Arduino.
for those issues, I use Lazarus. Lazarus is the IDE, FreePascal its language which is like Delphi.There is a library called Synapse and you need the synaser unit and its TBlockSerial.http://synapse.ararat.cz/doc/help/synaser.TBlockSerial.htmlThen, if you are able to program with Delphi like languages, you can use Mouse.CursorPos.X and Mouse.CursorPos.Y ...
The control will be through Serial comm-- between Arduino and PC through rs232 port by following methods:a. From mouse courser motion like that in Games orb. From keyboard arrow keys
Secondly i want to create GUI for different action to perform:e.g1. Reloading (GUI should have Reload button)2. magazine changing (GUI should have magazine change button) etc..
please give me the solution in each case
control means, if i press right arrow key from keyboard the motors should rotate in one direction and vice virsa [...]by holding arrow key the motor should keep rotaion unless the key is release
/* KARLOK, 28/7/2012 */void setup(){ Serial.begin(9600); Serial.println("\n[Arduino-Motor] started with 9600 baud ...");}void loop() { byte rx_data; if (Serial.available()) { // read the most recent byte (which will be from 0 to 255): rx_data = Serial.read(); Serial.print("Received command: "); Serial.println(rx_data, DEC); switch(rx_data){ // intentionally omitted 0 because it should be the "set idle mode" command, see below case 1: // move motor left case 2: // move motor right case 3: // move blablabla case 4: // move whatever case 5: // arbitrary commands... } // Clean up last received command. // Otherwise you would have a non-stop run of your command after sent once! rx_data = 0; // 0 (zero) is the "set idle mode" command }}
by pressing arrow key once... the motor should responce (jerk)by holding arrow key .... the motor should keep rotaion unless the key is release.
2) GUI will have Buttons each will send info (byte) to Arduino serially and check that byte for respective actions that willbe perform by Arduino by sending signal to actuators( Servos, steppers etc) to perform1) loading bullet from magzin2) cahnging magzine etc


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- A weird candy tin that my friend had gifted me. It was the perfect soap size, except washing out that cheap metal tin afterwards was awkward (and it has never recovered).
- An old Lush soap bag. Although it worked very well for about one night, the paper started to shred before I even got it home.
- Paper Towel (we got from my parents cottage as we don't have any in our house) or toilet paper. This was a sad moment in my soap carrying- why did I even think it could work? The paper stuck to the soap for days.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Eco Soap Carrier
7 comments:
- Dea-chan said...
One thing that you might also like to think about. My fiance and I have (combined) had 5 bouts of strep in a row. We'll see if we STILL have it after this batch of antibiotics. But his mother (a nurse practitioner) said that a place where germs hide and you don't look for them is on your bar of soap.
We, sadly, have a pump of liquid soap in our bathroom at the moment in an attempt to cut out strep.
(Also LUSH bags are biodegradeable -- and are designed to disintegrate upon contact with water. This is coming from a former employee.)
- April 27, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- Eco Yogini said...
@Dea-chan: on no! Strep throat is not fun :(
Weirdly though, I'm not quite sure I understand how bacteria could survive on a bar of soap... since soap kills bacteria? It's a very good point- and one that I'll look into more.
Thanks very much! :)
- April 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM
- Betsy (Eco-Novice) said...
According to this article, it's unlikely you'll acquire harmful bacteria from even a contaminated bar of soap: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/science/10qna.html?_r=1
- April 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM
- Dea-chan said...
@Betsy We're willing to try almost anything to get rid of it. We've been checked to see if it's mono hiding under the strep or something, but nope -- it's just a persistent strain of strep.
And it's probably more likely that it hides on the soap tray where it's nice and damp. But that's just my own speculation.
Sorry that I rerouted your comments page! :-P In light of the ACTUAL content, I've always used a soap tin that I got at LUSH. And to wash it out, I just take the whole thing into the shower with me, use the soap (put it back on the tray), and wash out the tin under the shower spray. I'm not picky about how immaculate my soap tins remain.
- April 29, 2012 at 9:09 AM
- Eco Yogini said...
@Betsy: yeah... i figured as much
@Dea-chan: oh i don't blame you- persistent strain of strep is not fun at all. I don't feel that i could 'get' strep from my bar soap- i'm fairly realistic about where I get my colds or infections (all from my preschool client caseload most likely). Since with pump soap you have to push down on the dispenser, turn the faucet, flush the toilet and open and close the door with your hands, unless you have a 100% hands free bathroom there are plenty of places for bacteria to hide.
I feel you though and I hope you both feel better soon!!
- April 30, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- Christine Newhook said...
This is an awesome idea! I used to use Lush's soap tin containers and always had problem with soap build up/gunk in the tin. I'll have to see if I can find some kind of cloth bag that will do the trick. :)
- May 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM
- Cindy @OnePartSunshine said...
Love the cloth bag idea. I always just wrap my bar soap in a baby washcloth and then toss it in the wash when I get back from the trip. I imagine it works pretty much the same way as the cloth bag but might be a nice money-saver if you don't have a bag handy.
- May 4, 2012 at 8:24 AM


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Cookbook Gifts | 2012
Last-Minute Gift Guide: Cookbooks For Everyone on Your List
Last-Minute Gift Guide: Cookbooks For Everyone on Your List
Still hunting high and low for that perfect gift? Try a cookbook tailor-made to your special someone's personality type, proclivities, and lifestyle. The minutes may be ticking away till Christmas morning, but many of these inspiring reads can be found at a local bookshop and can also be delivered to the recipient's door via Amazon, provided you shell out for its reasonably priced one-day shipping by 3 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, Dec. 21).


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It's ScuttleButton Time!
Lots of people have been inquiring about the future of ScuttleButton. While I wish I had an answer — I don't, not yet — I'd like to suggest that you sign up for the Political Junkie/ScuttleButton mailing list. That way, I will be able to share the information once I have it (see info below).
And what exactly IS ScuttleButton, you may ask?
It is, of course, that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Monday or Tuesday I put up a vertical display of buttons on this site. Your job is to simply take one word (or concept) per button, add 'em up, and, hopefully, you will arrive at a famous name or a familiar expression. (And seriously, by familiar, I mean it's something that more than one person on Earth would recognize.)
For years, a correct answer chosen at random would get his or her name posted in this column, an incredible honor in itself. Now the stakes are even higher. Thanks to the efforts of the folks at Talk of the Nation, that person also hears their name mentioned on the Wednesday show (by me) and receives a Political Junkie t-shirt in the bargain. Is this a great country or what?
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Here are the buttons used and the answer to last week's puzzle:
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I am having problems with wifi, I tried everything with bad results.
Anyone find the correct firmware?
Thanks a lot
This is a guide to running Linux with the HP 6720S laptop.
This guide is intended to provide you details on how well this laptop works with Linux and which modules you need to configure. For details on how to actually install and configure the required modules have a look at our guides section for distribution specific instructions.
This page is just for discussing using Linux on the HP-Compaq 6720s. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the HP-Compaq 6720s page on LapWik.
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|Intel Celeron M CPU firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com or Core 2 Duo firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com,email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com
|15.4" WXGA Widescreen (1280×800)
|1 - 4GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (Limited to 533MHz by the Celeron Processor)
|80 - 250GB 5400 rpm SATA with SMART
|Optical Drive
|DVD+-RW SuperMulti with DualLayer or DVD/CD-RW Combo
|Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (Up to 386 MB from RAM), Intel Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller
|82562GT 10/100 Network Connection (e1000)
|56K Modem
|V.92 56K Data/Fax Modem
|Intel or Broadcom 802.11abg, Optional Bluetooth 2.0
|Input devices
|Synaptics Touchpad with Scroll Zone, 101/102-key compatible keyboard with 12 function keys and an integrated numeric keypad
|1 x MemoryCard Slot (mini SD/SD/MMC), 3 x USB2.0, 1 x VGA, 1 x RJ45, 1 x RJ11, 1 x Express Card/56, 1 x Stereo headphone/line out, 1 x Stereo microphone in, 1 x 1 AC power, 1 x Kensington Lock
|Out of the box
|Out of the box
|Input Devices
|Out of the box (Also all of the function keys)
|Out of the box
|Optical Drive
|Out of the box
|See Notes
|Out of the box
|With current BIOS works out of the box, else see Notes
|See Notes
|Not Tested
|56K Modem
|Not Tested
|MemoryCard Slot
|SD - Out of the box, MMC - Not Tested
|ExpressCard Slot
|Not Tested
For proper support for the 6720S you should use kernel 2.6.22 or greater. Ubuntu 7.10 is a good choice for this laptop.
To install older Ubuntu, or from Alternative CD you must chose 1024×768@16bit option, or manually add vga=791 to the kernel line, then the instalation will go smooth, and sweet :). Of course install the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver, when you finish the installation.
In Hardy compiz works out of the box.
You must upgrade to the newest BIOS, because the F.07< bioses, were known to have trouble with ethernet drivers in Linux (and also in Windows XP). After that you don't have to add `noacpi` options on boot, as it is said in some forums.
* The Intel 3945ABG wireless controller uses the iwlwifi or the older ipw3945 module. Most recent Linux distributions should support this controller properly.
* The Broadcom BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02) does not have a properly working native linux driver, so you must use ndiswrapper in distros like Feisty, and Gutsy. In Hardy Beta if you want make it work, you must patch the linux kernel with a proper patch (see forums), or the other, TEMPORARY, way is to remove the b43 nad b43legacy module with `modprobe -r b43` (i don't know why, but blacklisting just don't work), so you must do this every time you start ubuntu hardy and want to use Wireless, without the patch of course), and then use ndiswrapper.
It is better to disable them from the beginning, as they won't work well on almost all linux distros, and can be really troublesome.
Ubuntu Feisty 7.04, Gutsy 7.10, Hardy Beta 8.04, Xenial Xerus 16.04
As long as you use a recent stable Linux distribution (such as Ubuntu 7.10 or Fedora 10) you shouldn't have major problems with this laptop, because Wireless, and Graphics have an excellent community support.
I am having problems with wifi, I tried everything with bad results.
Anyone find the correct firmware?
Thanks a lot
i have kali Linux running on my 6720s with the Broadcom 802.11abg wireless card but where can i get the drivers i cant find them anywhere
Installed Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon 32 bit, works fine but don't overdo it
At times huge CPU use.
Using 64 bit not advised, extremely High iowat% >90% and CPU > 93%
my laptop is hp compag6720s.and i installed ubuntu12.4.and in this message showing that "firmware missing"hardware address :00:1b:77:3b:7f:13.wi-fi problem..can u tell me the solution o
Hi everyone !
I just installed centos 6 in my hp 550 and it does not recognise the graphic card
[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
Can anyone please help me in what to do ? i wish to use compiz with all it s effect .
Best regards,
Try this page, it's what I used to fix graphic errors.
It's a BIG thread on Ubuntu's forums:
I have an issue with the SD slot working on Ubuntu 11.10. Everything else works pretty well except that. I just wanted to see if anyone here has any solutions.
Hi i installed ubuntu 11.4 in my hp compaq 6720s
the system has no trouble except the wireless connection
i've tried many ways to solve this proble but i could not
i need a help to know why no internet access
Hi dude I had same issue so I plugged it to Ethernet, then download wireless driver. Updated software turned the computer off (this is the important part) made a cup of tea with a biscuit and dunked x3 then with out Ethernet cable turned back on the machine logged in and told it smelt my wifi
I think I have finally reached the right place. Can you help with this:
I have upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 on HP Compaq 6720s notebook. Everything was working fine with 11.04. The widescreen aspect and actual resolution info has somehow been lost either during upgrade or my tweaking.
Supported resolution of the Compaq 6720s is 1280×800.
Some info about the system:
$ sudo lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
$ sudo xrandr -q
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024×768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024×768 61.0*
800×600 61.0
I tried to manually add the resolution (1280×800) but that didn't work. Here is the result:
$ sudo xrandr –newmode "1280x800_60.00" 83.50 1280 1352 1480 1680 800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
$ sudo xrandr –addmode default 1280x800_60.00
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
$ sudo xrandr –output default –mode 1280x800_60.00
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1024×768 (desired size 1280×800)
(Note: While max size reported by xrandr above is less than 1280×800,
ddcprobe detects everything correctly)
$ ddcprobe
vbe: VESA 3.0 detected.
oem: Intel®GM965/PM965/GL960 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
vendor: Intel Corporation
product: Intel®GM965/PM965/GL960 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
memory: 7616kb
mode: 1280x1024x256
mode: 1280x1024x64k
mode: 1280x1024x16m
mode: 1024x768x256
mode: 1024x768x64k
mode: 1024x768x16m
mode: 640x480x16m
mode: 800x600x64k
mode: 800x600x16m
mode: 640x480x256
mode: 800x600x256
mode: 640x480x64k
edid: 1 3
id: 2774
eisa: AUO2774
serial: 00000000
manufacture: 1 2006
input: analog signal.
screensize: 33 21
gamma: 2.200000
dpms: RGB, no active off, no suspend, no standby
dtiming: 1280×800@60
monitorid: AUO
monitorid: B154EW02 V7
Presently I have display in the middle of my wide-screen with black on either side. Also OS detects lower max resolution of 1024×768.
Help is required.
I hope that you can help!
When ever I turn my Compaq 6720s on instead of going to boot my os it goes strait to Memtest86 and wont allow me to do anything else.
What maybe the issue?
hello everyone
i just installed ubuntu 11.04 for the first time and i'm allmost delighted, my touchpad doesen't work, i all system options for touch are enabled, but it still woun't give a go… does any one have a solution ?
HP-Compaq 6720s
tnx :)
Hi, all my devices are intel,and I've installed ubuntu since 2 years ago, there is only a problem, i can't hear the speakers of laptop and i must use some external, someone could help me?
I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 32-Bit Desktop Edition on my old HP-Compaq 6720S.
Install went great and the only thing I had a problem getting to work was the wireless connection.
I used the following command to find out my wireless chipset in Applications / Terminal
"lspci -vnn | grep 14e4" - In my case "broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g"
I enabled Broadcom STA wireless driver (System / Administration / Hardware Drivers / activating "Broadcom STA wireless driver"). - Needed an ethernet connection for download.
With my wired connection plugged into my Netgear WNR2000 router, I opened a webpage and went to the router address "192.168.1.1"
There was a router firmware update available which I downloaded after which my wireless worked with Ubuntu
Not 100% sure if just connecting to the router with the wired connection or the firmware update done the trick (most likely the FW update).
Hopefully this may help someone else who is having problems getting their 6720S wireless to work.
Here is native drivers for Broadcom in 6720s
And here is how to compile the driver:
I have hp 6720s, in my opinion, this model not optimized for linux. Main disadvantage is integrated graphic card. I tried all hints, all kind of drivers, raw, old, new - result always the same, laptop work very slowly (tested on kubuntu, fedora, ubuntu). I hope that my next laptop will be more computable with linux.
I guess that it just depends on what kind of a graphic controller you get. Mine is Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller, and it works quite well. Unfortunately, when buying such things, it has become almost impossible to know what sorts of hardware one'll get. My 6720s variant is KE109EA (all Intel parts)
/sbin/lspci says
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562GT 10/100 Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Mepis 8 works very well, fast and smooth, good battery life…even keyboard shortcut for display brightness (other shortcuts don't work); suspend and hibernation not tested
my have problem with my hp 6720s is that the power manger doesn't contain the on battery tap so when i remove the ac power supply the brightness decrease and after a moment it dims so every minute to increase the brightness
UBUNTU 9.10 works perfectly on my HP 6720s.
Including hibernation and suspend.
The only problem that it eats my battery,Windows XP can stay for 4 hours..with Ubuntu i am lucky if the battery lasts for 2 hours.
Would you please write to me what have you done to make Slackware working on HP 6720s?
The chart above is a lie as is.
I'm having the aforementioned laptop HP Compaq 6720s.
After installing Slackware I'm having problem with the screen resolution,
I tried 'xorgsetup' 'xorgconfig' still I'm having two black lines both sides of the display.
I would be glad if Slackware would eventually would work on my laptop.
Backtrack uses Slack and I have never had a problem with that,- so Slack should work too.
Thanks for anyone in advance who can help to solve this problem.
openSuSE 11.0
ethernet works if acpi=off in kernel
wifi doesn't work without ndiswrapper
touchpad doesn't work when you turn on 3D acceleration
Test by me
Ubuntu Hard Heron : works great . but it crash on the x server … wireless ok
Sabayon 3.5 : excellent , it need to install wi-fi ;)
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04
I've found all the infos I needed here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5211201#post5211201
Tested Distros
Fedora Core 8 - everything works out of the box. except the wireless .. requires ndiswrapper
Mandriva 2008 - everything works out of the box, except the wireless .. ndiswrapper required use the gui tool provided - very easy
Suse 10.3 - Works great .. needs ndiswrapper for wireless.
Slackware 12.0 - video needs tweaking. wireless needs ndiswrapper
Sabayon 3.4 - experimenting on it now


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NBC has picked up comedy pilot "Guys With Kids" on Wednesday, according to sources, hours after ordering drama "Chicago Fire" to series and renewing "Law & Order: SVU."
"Kids" is from Universal Television and Jimmy Fallon shingle Holiday Road. Fallon is executive producer with Amy Ozols and Charlie Grandy, who wrote the pilot. Cast includes Anthony Anderson, Tempestt Bledsoe and Jesse Bradford.
Series centers on a group of dads in their thirties who don't feel mature enough to be parents, despite having kids.
"Kids" is a multi-camera comedy unlike the four single-camera half-hours the Peacock ordered Monday, including Justin Kirk starrer "Animal Practice," the White House-set "1600 Penn," gay domestic comedy "The New Normal" from Ryan Murphy, and "Save Me," a comedy starring Anne Heche as a housewife who comes to believe she's a prophet. Last month, NBC also ordered the Matthew Perry comedy "Go On."
Another multi-camera half-hour still said to be under consideration at NBC is 20th Century Fox TV's "Daddy's Girls," though its chances are likely dependent on the fate of "Whitney" or "Up All Night" renewals.
The "Fire" order puts the Peacock in business again with Dick Wolf, the executive producer of the "Law & Order" franchise. "SVU" will go into its 14th season, the sole remaining series in a franchise that had as many as four different versions on the air at one time on NBC.
From Universal Television, "Fire" is an action series exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago fire department. Cast includes Charlie Barnett, Merle Dandridge, David Eigenberg and Lauren German.
This is the second drama series pickup NBC has made from its development slate, the first coming earlier this week from Warner Bros. Television, "Revolution," from J.J. Abrams. Peacock had already made a straight-to-series order on another hour, "Hannibal."
Another Universal hour expected to get a pick-up is Jason Katims' "County," in addition to a renewal for his current NBC series, "Parenthood."
In addition to Wolf and his top execs at Wolf Films, Danielle Gelber and Peter Jankowski, the executive producers are Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, the team behind "3:10 to Yuma" who both wrote the pilot together.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — There's April in Paris, January in Park City and November in Tokyo. There's October in New York, resplendent in Halloween oranges, its crimson leaves choking every gutter.
Then there's September on Chapel Street, which is not resplendent or especially magical at this or any other time of the year. Unless you have a thing for that moment when a college town welcomes back its meal tickets, when the streets seem silent and muggy one week, crowded with confused clusters of freshmen the next.
University art galleries, in a sluggish torpor through July and August, suddenly are occupied by cross-legged students sketching madly. Pizzerias buzz, and the languor of a college town summer welcomes autumn.
So sue me, I like college towns in fall.
You don't need to visit New Haven, home of Yale University, the prettiest urban campus in the country, to catch this residual collegiate spirit. Most college towns would work about now: Ann Arbor, Mich.; Cambridge, Mass.; Providence, R.I.; Bloomington, Ind.; even Palo Alto, Calif., home of Stanford, has a little autumn charm.
Only New Haven, though, has the Study at Yale, a 124-room boutique hotel that opened in 2008 on the Yale campus (203-599-4111, studyhotels-px.trvlclick.com). It's a modernist dorm of sorts, delivering a vague Ivy League aura to college town tourists at state college prices (starting at about $200 midweek for September). This doesn't mean that room service offers Jell-O shots or a sock to stick on the doorknob.
It means the Study is smart and bookish, with a smidge of hipster mod in the slick contemporary chairs in its lobby and Barbara Cole photos on its walls; it's not stuck up like some haughty hotels around here that think they're so great.
Its logo is a pair of eyeglasses.
The clerk slides you a fresh baked cookie at check-in (the microwave is hidden beneath the desk), and a bookmark is tucked alongside your room key. And the rooms — or "studies," if you splurge for a suite — do indeed resemble dorm rooms. Well-appointed dorm rooms. My bed was draped with a scratchy throw blanket in Yale blues and grays (the kind you would wrap around yourself at a football game if, in fact, you had the patience for Ivy League football).
My room also came with a blond oak desk that ran the length of the window; on it was a craning Tolomeo desk lamp, pencils and sheets of graph paper. Late at night, I sat on it and read, curled into the window, watching students across the street smoke outside the School of Art. Unable to sleep, I went down to the lobby and picked through the art books in the floor-to-ceiling bookcases.
I asked for a cookie and received two.
When I returned to my room, long after midnight, the studio lights still burned in the art school windows.
The next morning was Saturday. I seemed to be one of a handful on campus who was awake. On Chapel Street, I found an egg sandwich with soy bacon at the veggie-hippie-throwback Claire's Corner Copia (203-562-3888, clairescornercopia.com).
Afterward, also on Chapel, I spent an hour in the stately Louis Kahn-designed Yale University Art Gallery (203-432-0600, artgallery.yale.edu), then another hour in the massive Yale Center for British Art (877-274-8278, britishart.yale.edu), Kahn's last building and supposedly containing the largest collection of British art outside Britain.
And finally I sat on a stone bench in the quad on Yale's Old Campus, a corner of the school that dates to the early 18th century. It's full of ivy and slate and weathered carvings, and as I read a book, my attention wandered, and I listened to dorm stereos blare to life, the cacophony traveling window to window with each waking room. Frankly, though I wholeheartedly recommend campus tourism — Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, with its vaulted ceilings and carved inlays and cloistered hallways, is worth an afternoon on its own — after a while you do start to feel a little creepy.
The university may encourage tourism, but, in the end, you don't belong here.
So here are two options, and though both include eating, I suggest you take both. First, swing by the Original Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana on Wooster Street (203-865-5762, pepespizzeria.com), also know as Pepe's. You will stand in line. You will order two pizzas (just because). The pizza will be coal-fired, come out charred and served on a massive tin pan. You will sit inside a wooden green booth as old as Pepe's (founded in 1925) and eat off sweaty Formica. (Also, you will order the signature pie, the white clam pizza, which is oily and wonderful.)
And then — road trip!
Drive a half-hour north toward Hartford, pulling off at Meriden, a classic working-class New England town (think "The Fighter"). Find Ted's (203-237-6660, tedsrestaurant.com). This place is 50 or so years old, small, with locals at a counter. Order a burger. Order more than one. Watch them make them. Burgers are rectangular and coated in a gooey white cheddar. Each burger fits into a small pan that looks like an Easy Bake Oven accessory. Each pan fits into a metal thing that looks like a toaster. This is actually a steamer. The meat is steamed; then the cheese is cooked (separately) and flipped onto the meat, then the whole thing is flipped onto a bun. It's very local; you won't find burgers cooked this way outside this area of Connecticut, never mind outside New England.
Also, remember to tip the townies well. Because, in a way, you're one too.


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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Downtown Sudbury Campaign Against Poor People is Hateful and Dishonest
Here's one of the posters -- right-click on it and click "View Image" (or the equivalent in your browser) to see a larger and more legible version, or look at it as posted with the CBC story:
There is just so much wrong with this.
Speaking of the campaign as a whole, the CBC article linked above notes, "The posters warn people that panhandlers may spend the money on alcohol and drugs and recommend people avoid conversations with them." As the executive director of an agency in the downtown that responds to poverty accurately points out, this "stereotypes and generalizes." In his experience, by and large, "he's seen the money used for more practical purposes" than this campaign claims.
Those points are a good start in describing what is wrong with this hate campaign, but the problems go far beyond that. The entire framing of the poster that I've linked above is that people living in poverty who come up and talk to you are inherently dangerous. This is a disgusting sentiment to be propagating. The first piece of "advice" is, for instance, that "Panhandling in general is not illegal in Greater Sudbury, but aggressive behaviour is." Not only does this link panhandling with illegality -- as something which could be illegal and perhaps should be illegal, but which does not happen to be here -- but it makes it sound like aggressive, anti-social, illegal behaviour is something you are likely to encounter if a poor person talks to you. The next piece of advice affirms this by instructing you how to call the cops, implying that this is something that it is important to know if you have any interaction with people living in poverty in downtown Sudbury.
Just the flat-out gall of suggesting that among the most likely things that a nice middle-class person will need to know if they are approached by a person living in poverty is how to contact the police...it's mindblowing.
Anyway, suggesting eye contact is good -- if it wasn't for the rest of the poster, based on that you'd almost think the organizations circulating the poster believe people living in poverty are human and deserve to be treated with dignity. But, no, it goes on to say, "Don't encourage conversation" -- wouldn't want to interact with people living in poverty the way you would a 'normal' person, now, would you.
It also encourages you to be skeptical of people living in poverty who request assistance, by describing it as "the assistance that panhandlers claim to be looking for" (my emphasis). It is a prime pillar of poor-bashing politics that an Othered they doesn't really need money or support, and this poster is encouraging us to take such an attitude.
Framing people living in poverty as inherently dangerous and probably dishonest is bad enough. However, the poster lies through implication when it presents its claims that assistance "is already available to them in our community" and that organizations that provide assistance are "readily available within our community to assist them to meet their needs for food, shelter, health care and employment" in a way that clearly means for readers who don't know better to conclude that the existence of these organizations is somehow adequate to the need that is out there. And that is simply not true. The quote in the CBC article from the head of the business association that is spearheading this anti-poor offensive is similarly deceptive through implication. Of course, there are such organizations, and they do the best they can with the resource they have. But (speaking as someone who has worked in the agency sector myself, though in another city) anyone who actually works in those organizations and feels able to speak freely (which they may not to the media) will admit that the system is far from adequate to meet people's needs. And if you actually bother to talk to people living in poverty about their lives, it becomes very clear, very fast just how inadequate the system is, along multiple axes.
So by implying that "social services and charitable organizations" are sufficient to meet the needs of people living in poverty, this campaign is lying. It is also encouraging exactly the sort of misperception that allows people with middle-class privilege not only to react badly to people living in poverty that they might meet walking down the street, but to continue to support politicians and policies that perpetuate poverty and the violence that poverty does to so many lives.
And of course the amounts you give on the street are inadequate to fundamentally change the harsh facts of poverty. To be perfectly honest, so are social services -- you need political change to address poverty, however important it is to meet immediate needs in whatever way is at hand. But you know what the money you give directly to a person living in poverty can do? It can buy a meal. It can buy bus tickets. It can buy a chance to do laundry. More importantly, by putting money directly into the hands of people who need it, you are in a small way dignifying them with at least a little bit of power to choose, rather than the intense policing and constant indignities that often accompany social assistance and other programs.
So. This is all very off-the-cuff and ad-libbed, but I needed to respond. I hope that discussion about these questions will be ongoing.
If you want to let the Downtown Business Improvement Association know how you feel about their attack on people living in poverty and their dangerous misrepresentation of the adequacy of social services, you can visit their website, you can call them at 705-674-5115, or you can drop in and visit their offices at 7 Cedar Street, Unit 102. They claim that "the Downtown belongs to all of us" but act as though "all of us" does not include people living in poverty. Let's show them that some of us who live in downtown Sudbury are interested in relating to our neighbours, all of our neighbours, as actual human beings.
And it is my understanding that an organized response to this hate campaign is in the works. Stay tuned.
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Listen to Constable Keetch explain that the poster was really about aggressive panhandling and not panhandling. That's a big difference. What a screw up!
- 9/23/2012 10:14 pm
- Scott Neigh said...
Good lord...how awful. He attempts to clothe it in fine sentiment of various kinds, but if you listen closely he gives even more indication of how this is a campaign about poor-bashing and not much else. The officer admits that a fundamental reason for doing it is because of calls to police about "unwanted persons, suspicious persons, which panhandlers would fall under" -- that is, basically admitting that it is cops responding to calls that do not involve any kind of threat to safety but involve middle-class perception of people living in poverty as "unwanted" and "suspicious." He also admits that it is intended to "increase the perception of safety" rather than respond to an actual lack of safety.
Then he perpetuates the Orwellian, poor-bashing language of "aggressive panhandling." Even that terminology is poor-bashing. But then when you get into how it is legally defined, one major element of how it is defined is about targeting people who are not doing anything that is even vaguely threatening, they just happen to be in particular public places and asking for money -- what an Orwellian definition of "aggressive."
In other words, you have a law that significantly targets non-threatening behaviour, and you have excessive complaints from certain businesses and certain squeamish middle-class people to non-threatning behaviour, and those are fundamental to what this campaign is about. It's about targeting poor people.
And, of course, in the guise of saying nice things about the people who work hard to meet the needs of people living in poverty, he again repeats the lie-by-implication that services are anywhere close to adequate to meet the needs that are out there.
When you strip out the poor-bashing from the campaign, when you take out the extent to which this is a response to prejudice against people living in poverty, when you really focus in on actual threats to safety, the only conceivably legitimate message here is "If someone is threatening to assault you, then call the police." And, really, is this something that people need to be told? Do we need a public education campaign for that? Obviously not. So, as the officer himself admits, the major point of this is to target largely non-criminal, non-threatening behaviour by people living in poverty. And in doing so, it reproduces the lies that people living in poverty are inherently dangerous and likely to be dishonest. This officer's softpeddling does nothing to change those features of the campaign.
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For most of Mark Turgeon's first two seasons at Maryland, the focus has been on the lack of a true point guard and the problems he and the Terps have encountered as a result. As the third-year coach gets his team ready for the start of the 2013-14 season in a little less than a month, the focus has changed.
It has gone from the perimeter to the paint, from point guard to center. Despite the departure of Alex Len to the NBA after his sophomore year, Turgeon said Tuesday that he is leaning toward again using a traditional back-to-the-basket big man rather than being part of a trend to, as they say, go small.
It's a decision that is still weeks away — the Terps won't open the season until Nov. 8 against Connecticut at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn — but it's one that Turgeon has been wrestling with since the day last April when Len announced he was turning pro.
"We're going to miss Alex," Turgeon said during his team's media day at Comcast Center. "If you followed us closely down the stretch last year, Alex was pretty special, especially on the defensive end. We don't have that this year. ... He covered up a lot of our mistakes."
Turgeon's decision ultimately will depend on a number of factors, not the least of which is the condition of sophomore center Shaquille Cleare's back and the progress of his game. After being kept out of summer workouts and off the floor during a three-game trip to his native Bahamas in August because of lower back issues, the 6-9, 265-pound sophomore returned to the court last month.
"Shaq's been great," Turgeon said. "If we threw it up today and had a game, Shaq would be our starting center. There might be some teams we're playing that have a 6-5 center — like Denver, they had a guy who made four 3's, that might be a little bit different. But traditionally Charles [Mitchell] or Shaq will be our starting center throughout the year. We'll try to have a big guy on the floor most of the time."
Cleare, who was also plagued by a hamstring injury during the offseason, understands that Maryland fans might have been disappointed by his overall performance as a freshman when he averaged just 3.7 points and 2.7 rebounds in 12 minutes per game. But, like his coach, Cleare is confident this season will be different.
"I don't think people have really seen what I can bring to the table," Cleare said Tuesday. "I've always been a dominant force, that's what I'm going to do this year. I'm just going to play my game. I'm not going to try to play the Alex Len game, I'm going to play the Shaq game. Do all the dirty work and be physical and defend. The offense will come. I'm not concerned about it right now."
When the Terps go small and Turgeon tries to get his five most versatile offensive players on the court, it could mean that Evan Smotrycz, a 6-foot-9 235-pound junior forward known mostly as a long-range shooter, will be Maryland's de facto big man.
Smotrycz presents some interesting options for Turgeon, but what appears certain for the Michigan transfer is that he will likely play a lot more and in a much larger role for the Terps than he did in Ann Arbor, where he averaged seven points in a little under 20 minutes a game while starting 42 times during his two seasons.
"He's a major weapon — he can really shoot it from deep, he has mid-range game and he can post up," Turgeon said of Smotrycz. "He can also really pass and he can really figure out how to get guys open in our offense. He's a huge asset that way. On the other hand, he can guard a big man because he had to do it at Michigan. He can also get out and guard the little guy. He's a pretty valuable piece in our puzzle."
Smotrycz, who shot a little over 40 percent on 3-pointers with the Wolverines, will open the driving lanes for perimeter players such as fellow junior Dez Wells and Nick Faust as well as sophomores Seth Allen and Jake Layman.
One of the reasons Smotrycz left was the possibility of seeing his playing time continue to decrease, as it did from his freshman to sophomore years. Another reason, ironically, was Smotrycz's reluctance to just be a designated 3-point shooter or being forced to play more inside.
"I just wanted to expand my game and have the freedom to create for guys, not feel nervous I was going to come out if I made a mistake," Smotrycz said Tuesday. "If don't hang your hat on one thing and have the freedom to play through mistakes, I think that's definitely a fun way to play."
With the opener looming, Turgeon and the Terps will use these next few weeks to figure out whether they will go with a more traditional lineup or, like everyone from high school teams to the two-time defending champion NBA champion Miami Heat, go small.
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Minicozzi travels improbable road back to Giants
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- As a seventh-grader in Wayne, Pa., Mark Minicozzi received a career-assessment survey and treated it like a hitter would regard a curveball in the dirt.
He completely ignored it.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- As a seventh-grader in Wayne, Pa., Mark Minicozzi received a career-assessment survey and treated it like a hitter would regard a curveball in the dirt.
He completely ignored it.
Under the list of professions matching the survey's possible responses, "ballplayer" wasn't among them.
"My whole life, that's what I wanted to do," Minicozzi said. "It's awesome to be out here and still do this."
Many players share Minicozzi's passion. Few have sustained the effort and savored the adventure that Minicozzi, 31, endured to stay in uniform. He underwent three significant surgeries, nearly quit as an active player due to health reasons, spent three years with independent-league teams after sitting out a season to heal himself, played in Nicaragua essentially because he'd go anywhere to find a game and rejoined the Giants organization largely through happenstance.
The baseball gods whom Minicozzi worships obviously want him on the diamond. A non-roster invitee to big league camp, Minicozzi went 2-for-4 Wednesday as the Giants outlasted the Los Angeles Angels, 3-2. His Cactus League performance, highlighted by a home run last Friday against Milwaukee, includes a .556 batting average (5-for-9) and team highs in slugging percentage (.889) and on-base percentage (.667).
Primarily a first baseman, Minicozzi's destined to begin the season with Triple-A Fresno. But his mere presence is something to appreciate.
"The fact that he's here in big league camp is indicative of how far he's come," Giants assistant general manager Bobby Evans said.
Minicozzi's improbable journey took a dramatic turn in May 2012. He was at home in Wayne, between stints in the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League and awaiting the start of the Can-Am independent league, when he realized that the Giants' Double-A Richmond affiliate was playing in Reading, about 35 miles away. Having entered pro ball with the Giants in 2005, Minicozzi hoped to see coaches he knew, such as Richmond manager Dave Machemer and Shane Turner, San Francisco's player development director who was then the organization's coordinator of Minor League instruction.
By coincidence, Richmond needed depth at first base. Minicozzi made his visit and happened to mention that he hit .328 with 15 home runs in 86 games the previous year with Worcester. It didn't matter to Machemer that Minicozzi compiled those numbers in an independent league. Machemer asked Minicozzi to take batting practice the next day.
After watching the right-handed batter take two or three swings off Machemer, Richmond hitting coach Ken Joyce murmured, "Wow, he can hit." Evans quickly engineered Minicozzi's signing -- or re-signing. Minicozzi played 15 games with Class A Augusta to get in shape before joining Richmond and hitting .284 with eight homers and 45 RBIs in 81 games.
Minicozzi thrived in an encore appearance with Richmond last year, hitting a franchise-record .309 to lead the Eastern League in that category. His is a story of perseverance and more than a little luck.
"I went up there not expecting anything," Minicozzi said. "I always had in the back of my mind, man, it would be awesome to get back with the Giants or get any kind of chance to get back. That's all you want as a player, a second chance to prove to yourself that you can play at the highest level. I will never forget that day. I will never forget making that decision to go up there and see those guys. That's been the best decision of my life so far."
The Giants initially acquired Minicozzi by selecting him in the 17th round of the 2005 First-Year Player Draft out of East Carolina University. Two years later, he was hit by a pitch on his left wrist on the last day of camp. He tried to play through the discomfort but ultimately needed surgery.
Minicozzi missed the entire 2008 season after undergoing Tommy John elbow surgery and being released by the Giants. He resumed playing in the independent Northern League in 2009, playing for Kansas City and Winnipeg. The impact of that year lingered with him in the form of an aching back, which was caused by an early-season dive into second base.
Though virtually each waking moment was excruciating, Minicozzi hit a combined .313 for Camden and Worcester in 2010. He finally had emergency back surgery before the 2011 season.
"I had sciatica running down my [left] leg," he recalled. "I couldn't stand for more than five, 10 minutes before I had to kneel or lay down because I had so much pain."
A healthy Minicozzi returned to Worcester in 2011 and delivered the performance that drew the Giants' attention.
"Once that pain went away, it became realistic that maybe I could keep playing and follow my dreams," he said. "At that time I didn't know it could be something like this. In the back of my head I knew I could play and I wanted to find anywhere to go play and keep improving."
Minicozzi's life then became even more intriguing. Needing more at-bats, he spanned the globe to play for the Orientales de Granada in Nicaragua. The following season, Minicozzi jumped to the Indios del Boer.
"Wherever there's a baseball field, I try to play on it," he said.
During Minicozzi's second stint in Nicaragua, his club had some road games switched to home games because volcanic eruptions had spewed lava too close to the ballparks. He also recalled one night when a spectator was stabbed in the grandstand.
"There was some crazy stuff," Minicozzi said. "... Other than that, the fans there were awesome. It was a great experience for me."
For Minicozzi, any moment on any field is a great experience.
"Once you get on the other side of those [foul] lines, you're free," he said. "And you just love being out there."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Haft-Baked Ideas, and follow him on Twitter at @sfgiantsbeat.


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Lease was up on my 2013 Leaf SL in September, in which I elected to extend for 6 months. I originally was planning on going with the Bolt, but didn't think it would be ready in the Great Lakes region by March 2017 when I was required to turn in the car and was still a bit uncomfortable ordering a car that I had not test driven. I know reviews have been very good overall, but there have been notes that the Bolt is lacking a bit in interior quality and comfort - two aspects I have been very pleased with in the Leaf.
Anyway, I decided to get the 2016 Leaf SL. Yes, the range is not where I would like it to be, but the Nissan NCTC program actually mitigates this pretty well for me, as a lot of the miles I put on are between Milwaukee and Madison and both are part of the program. Here is how the deal panned out:
2016 Nissan Leaf SL with Premium Package
36 month lease
15,000 miles
Down payment of $2500
Monthly payment of $299.05 (includes taxes and fees)
Residual of $12,400 (not sure on this one)
In the end, I was pretty happy with the deal. It was only $9 per month higher than what I had with the 2013 SL, but now have the increased range, NCTC, and I know the reduced residual makes it harder to keep the payments static from 2013. Dealer (Gordie Boucher in Greenfield, WI) claims he lost $2300 on the deal, but who knows.