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Lifestyle · Restaurant Reviews
"Tommy Bahama Restaurant celebrated their 20th Anniversary"
By Sandy Zimmerman
(Photos by Sandy Zimmerman unless marked)
Twenty years ago the first Tommy Bahama Restaurant opened in Naples, Florida.
Currently they have 14 restaurants in the United States and one near the Ginza, in Tokyo, Japan.
Tommy Bahama Restaurant's private anniversary party ran from 3 to 7 p.m. June 28, at the Town Square Shopping Center.
The companies' vision statement, "Make life one long weekend," had universal appeal, a feeling of joie de vi·vre (enjoyment of life).
That is the perfect description of the Tommy Bahama Restaurant.
Just because their name refers to Bahamian cuisine that is not all they serve.
Executive Chef Jason Talbott explained, "Our cuisine is from the islands of the Caribbean, Hawaii and with our own Spanish flair as well.
We try to balance the flavors to create island-inspired cuisine."
You can tell by the names of the dishes on the menu they are from the American islands of Captiva, Sanibel and Key West.
The international selections are from Cuba, Boca Chica/ Dominican Republic, Cook Islands, Barbados and Jamaica.
There is traditional Hawaiian and American comfort food all with an island twist.
The appetizers are fun to eat, every bite bursting with tropical flavors.
This is food you can share.
Rob Aspaas, Restaurant General Manager, commented, "We offer a unique experience you do not get anywhere else.
The Tommy Bahama Restaurant's cuisine is on such a high-level we exceed expectations in every facet.
I bring in seafood every day because we want to have fresh items.
Our restaurant follows the Monterey Bay Aquarium Sustainable Seafood Program.
We oversee our purchases to make certain that all the seafood we use is approved and stable."
We want the couple coming in for a date night, a family, business lunch and the party of 80 for a celebration."
Besides seafood, the menu includes salads, burgers, sandwiches, steaks, pasta, tacos, slider, vegetarian and Bungalow favorites. (Caribbean terminology: Sitting in a pool, at a cabana or bungalow.)
The Tommy Bahama Restaurant is health-conscious and will adjust their dishes to suit your needs.
They serve grilled, baked and raw appetizers with just a few fried.
The circular dining room has large windows with outside views.
Tommy Bahama arranges parties in their Golden room or the Bahama room.
The cocktail lounge offers the same menu as in the restaurant. They stock the largest rum collection in Las Vegas, 240 rums.
Happy Hours are scheduled from 4-7 p.m. daily, island time.
Tommy Bahama Restaurant is located in the Town square Las Vegas Shopping center, 6635 Las Vegas Boulevard, Suite. #125, around 1 mile from the Mandalay Bay Resort.
Award winning Sandy Zimmerman has been involved in producing television programs, TV commercials, and travel specials for 28 years.
Sandy is a syndicated Show and Dining Reviewer, travel writer, Health journalist, professional photographer and talk show host of the Las Vegas Today Show and Discover the Ultimate Vacation travel specials. For information or questions about any of Sandy's columns, contact Sandy Zimmerman at: (702)-731-6491.


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Episode 21 of the pulse project podcast and Brendon and Colin are joined by Chris Riley a writer, film maker and broadcaster who has worked in science engagement for the last fifteen years. Apologies for the sound on Colin's Mic the problem has been fixed.
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As I'm entering my third trimester of pregnancy I've had a burst of creativity in the kitchen! I have been cooking, quite a bit actually, since my last recipe post but with my camera nowhere in sight and my motivation nonexistent. Turns out working all day and then trying to tire out a puppy takes up most of the evening. I have a bone to pick with that internet article that claimed yorki-poo puppies take care of their own activity needs…we need to talk! But she is the cutest love muffin around and the best excuse to get outside to take a walk.
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The balsamic beef recipe came from Pinterest (who isn't obsessed at this point, right??) from the Add a Pinch blog. Crock pot recipes are the perfect transition from summer food to fall food, and also happen to be perfect for a pregnant lady who is pooped after her evening dog walk. The sauce of this balsamic beef is so easy to throw together and is super flavorful after simmering the beef to tender perfection. Check out the original recipe here; my modified pot roast version with the veggies is posted below.
- 2 lb. chuck roast (we prefer grass-fed, if you can find it)
- 1 c. beef broth
- 1/2 c. balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp. soy sauce
- 1 tbsp. honey
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- pinch red pepper flakes (increase or decrease based on your spice tolerance)
- 1 rutabaga, peeled and chopped into large dice
- 4 large carrots, peeled and chopped into large dice
- 1 lb. fingerling potatoes
- 1 large sprig fresh rosemary
- 10 sprigs fresh thyme
- salt/pepper, to taste
Begin by mixing up the sauce: combine beef broth, Worcestershire, soy sauce, honey, garlic, and red pepper flakes into a measuring cup and whisk to combine.
Whisk until the honey is well incorporated into the other ingredients.
Place the beef roast in the bottom of a slow cooker (I used my medium crock pot; 4-5 quart size). I rarely identify my crock pots by their actual quart size; I tenderly refer to them as the small, medium, and big one. As in "hey honey, will you grab the medium crock pot for me please?". Use your judgment.
Peel and chop the veggies then sprinkle them evenly over the beef; it will look like a lot of veggies at this point but they will cook down a bit as they become tender.
Pour the sauce over the meat and veggie mixture, adding a little more beef broth as needed. I did add a splash or two more of broth to help the veggies near the top cook more evenly. Nestle the sprigs of fresh rosemary and thyme on top of the veggies and cover with the lid. I am constantly looking for opportunities to use up the last of the herbs from my veggie garden before the frost completely takes over; please hold out until Thanksgiving little herbs! Cook on HIGH for 4-5 hours or LOW for 6-8 hours until the veggies are fork tender and the meat is falling apart tender.
Remove the meat and shred with a fork; I like to keep it in larger pieces so it has a heartier feel. Return the meat to the crock pot to soak up the sauce.
Serve a heaping pile of meat and veggies and enjoy sitting down to this comforting fall meal. FYI; leftovers are great too!


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Donald Trump And the Sadness of American ChristianityPar orangeneptuneon dans Accueil le 27 Décembre 2016 à 02:26
Donald Trump is a Christian. The majority of the Klu Klux Klan is Christian. Let that bake your noodle for a bit.
donald trump is a race baiter and professional divider. The kkk needs no introduction or further discussion.
Question: how do you pray "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." When they know full-well "what they do?"
The year is not 1960. We're living in 2016 – in the dawn of the new millennium. We have advanced technology and gadgets and gizmos aplenty. But our minds are in retrograde.
The Argument: you shouldn't judge a whole tree by a few rotten apples.
The Reality: the rotten apples make the loudest noise, have the largest influence and upon closer inspection are actually not few but many.
This nation has been a house divided for decades now, apparently Christians are hell-bent on keeping it that way. And some wonder why the label Christian makes others cringe.
We're great at sending missionaries overseas. Maybe its time we sit still and get our own house in order before trying to clean up someone else's.
Forgive us Father for we know not what we do. Amen.
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Stella, North West Province - Botswana off-road star Ross Branch (KTM) and Pretoria quad champion Brian Baragwanath (Yamaha) became the first winners of the inaugural Vryburg Stella 400 off-road race at the Youth Day weekend.
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André Park (Yamaha) fought his way up to fourth place overall (he was also fourth in Q1) with David Hollis (Yamaha) rounding off the overall and Q1 top five, Stuart Freeman (Yamaha) finished only 15 seconds behind Hollis to claim his third Senior Class victory with his team-mate and the Senior Class leader, Russell Ferreira (Honda), finishing second in the class and eighth overall.
Jaco Venter (Honda) missed the previous two Nationals but made up for it by finishing seventh overall (sixth in Q1) with Paul dos Santos (Suzuki) ninth overall and third in the Senior Class and Hannes Annandale (Suzuki) 10th overall and the Q2 winner.
The Combined Ladies Class Championship was won by Liezel Barnard (Can-Am) who also claimed the victory in the Ladies Quad Class. Chardri Monk (Yamaha) was second on four wheels and in this new championship with Maryna Venter (Honda quad) third. Taye Perry (Bert KTM) won the Ladies Class in the motorcycle category with the schoolgirl Anais Steenkamp (Kawasaki) second; they were classified fourth and fifth respectively in the Combined Ladies Class Championship where the results calculated by a handicap system.
The fifth and penultimate round of the series will be run on 23 August in the Frankfort / Reitz area of the Free State.


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Batch Editor Suggestions
1. The ability to exclude main categories from filtering results. In other words, I might want to filter for all my items EXCEPT "DVDs & movies". Kind of like a search equal to >> NOT DVDs & movies
2. The ability to filter items using multiple categories simultaneously. For instance, I might want "DVDs & movies" PLUS "Music" categories to be displayed at the same time. I know that I can do the filtering separately, but combining them would be helpful.
3. On both of the above suggestions, allowing more than one criterion would be helpful.
4. How about a way to quickly identify items that are missing one or more of the three main traits that Google is looking for: Brand, MPN, GTIN (UPC/ISBN)? When you have lots of items, it can be difficult to go through all the items, looking at all the traits. Maybe this would work... have those required trait fields displayed even if the values are missing. Also, display them in RED so that sellers can instantly see which items are missing those trait values.
5. AND finally... if there's a way to allow filtering by a seller's custom booth categories too, that would be great.
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I like the search filtering options suggested here. It has been a really long time since I saw this on a few sites not counting e bay.
Heck we had some nice options here before that I miss; where we could eliminate multiple listings from sellers we didn't want to see in our searches for whatever reason, be it cost, location or service concerns.
The missing trait highlight idea sounds good, too.


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I love lip scrubs and like to keep them in my shower because they tend to be messy and I can just wash it off my face in the shower. This smells just like candy...like a lollipop! It's edible too. However, I found it would cause me to break out around my mouth :( The scrub it's self was nice and made my lips soft. However, I wonn't buy this again because of the breakouts.
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A guy I was seeing broke up with me cause of the distance, but I'd love to be able to open him up to trying again. I don't see it as that far, considering he had his own car and can drive.
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Nope sure isn't try sitting through multiple deployments a year at a time with a couple of weeks if your lucky to be side by side. Think there might be another issue with him besides the 1hr drive. He'd travel the world to get to you if he really wanted too.22|00|0
I agree. If he liked me enough he would do it. I guess he didn't have the balls to give me the real reason lol
And guess what you don't even need him to give you the real reason take the 1hr as his reason its an easier answer for the heart to handle. Chalk it down to so is life and move on to bigger and better things. can't force whats not meant to be.
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Brendan and I saw the Cohen Brothers' remake of True Grit at the Little Art Theater. Hailee Steinfeld was brilliant as 14-year-old Mattie Ross. Every father should hope his daughter will face the world with such brio. When she rode her pony across the river, I felt like I was running away with her, with Huck, lighting out for the territory. Jeff Bridges as one-eyed Rooster Cogburn sounded like a force of nature. Eat your heart out, John Wayne! The ornate, 19th-century diction, carried over with some fidelity from Charles Portis's novel, was astounding and hilarious. The Cohen Brothers do Violent American Weird better than anyone. After two hours of gunfights and mayhem, the Yellow Springs Sunday matinee crowd cheered as the credits rolled.
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About the Flaneur
I walk through my blindness the way I wander down streets in Paris: unfettered and alive, alert to the raw material of the senses. I am a flaneur. Come along with me. Just don't try to take my arm, unless I ask. What's a flaneur? Read the first post, Return of the Flaneur to Galerie Vivienne. After that, try Foot Rage and the Blind Flaneur. Then stay tuned.
Letting Go of Sight
I've canoed on Lake Superior for almost as many years as I've been losing eyesight. I return year after year like a migrating loon to learn the other side of a slow, uncertain process that we could call "going blind." After 35 years with the lake as my teacher, I know what lies on the other side. I call it letting go of sight. Read Big Water. See more about the Great Lakes.
Not This PigIf there is an emerging genetic underclass, I could run for class president or class clown. Read more in Not This Pig (2003).
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Disabled Americans today have to negotiate for the kinds of accommodations made for FDR, and the caveat "reasonable accommodation" is built into the law. President Franklin Roosevelt did not have to negotiate. He could summon vast resources of the federal government – money as well as brains – to accomplish the work of disability. And it was accomplished with such thoroughness and efficiency that its scale could be called the Accessibility-Industrial Complex had it been directed toward public accommodations and not solely the needs of a single man. Read FDR and the Hidden Work of Disability [MiT8 2013]
Shepard Fairey claimed that his posterization of a copyrighted AP news photo of Barack Obama was a transformative work protected by the fair use doctrine. In other words, it was a shape-shifter. I claim fair use, too, when I reproduce and transform copyrighted works into media formats that are accessible to me as a blind reader. Read Shape-Shifters in the Fair Use Lab [MiT6 2009]
The social engineers who created a system for licensing beggars in New York never imagined that a blind woman had culture or could make culture. She herself may not have imagined it, either. In the moment when Paul Strand photographed her surreptitiously on the street in 1916, he could not have expected that one day blind photographers would reverse the camera's gaze. Read Curiosity & The Blind Photographer. [MiT5 2007]


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Schumacher 12 Volt Battery Charger Instructionsby Chris Weis
Schumacher brand battery chargers are highly regarded by automotive repair professionals and home-based enthusiasts alike. The reputation this brand enjoys has been earned over the years by the reliable and capable character of the products. Many different models of chargers are available, with features that meet any needs anticipated. Small models can provide a slow charge to bring a battery up to par, while larger models can jump-start most cars and trucks in short order. The information and instructions provided in company produced literature is well researched and complete.
Ensure all vehicle electrical devices are turned off to avoid arcing at the battery. Observe battery polarity and determine if the negative post is grounded to the chassis. Negative-grounded systems are most common in passenger vehicles produced in recent times. Connect the positive battery charger lead to the positive, ungrounded battery post.
Connect the negative battery charger lead to a ground source on the car chassis or engine block. Avoid grounding to fuel lines or fuel delivery devices such as carburetors or throttle bodies. Clean any rust or corrosion from the grounding site selected with a wire brush, if necessary.
Plug in the AC power cord of the charger into a 120VAC electrical outlet and observe the charger indicator(s). Some models display battery voltage on a meter. The meter display can be analog or digital, depending on the model. Select the charging rate recommended by the manufacturer, for models equipped with this feature.
Monitor LED indicators on chargers that display an amber light for charging in progress. A green light will signify charging is complete. Unplug the AC power cord when charging is complete, or if a red LED illuminates. A red LED indicates internal battery problems. Seek professional testing to determine exact battery condition. Remove the charger leads after the power cord is unplugged.
- check Check the battery acid level and add distilled water to the proper level before charging, if necessary. Check the sightglass on maintenance-free batteries for minmum acid content. If no liquid is visible in the sightglass, do not attempt charging the battery.
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A Wedding at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum by Chicago Wedding Photographer Victoria Sprung of Sprung Photo
Here is another featured post about my favorite Chicago area venues!
The Notebaert Nature Museum is a unique, fun venue. It's also in a great location, basically inside Lincoln Park.
Below is a Chicago wedding I photographed at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum at their website linked here, and you can contact Victoria Sprung of Sprung Photo as well! Sprung Photo is Victoria Sprung, who is a unique, creative, documentary wedding Photographer in Chicago. Check out the website!


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China's Davis Cup singles tennis players both came from behind to win the opening matches in the Asia/Oceania Group 1 tie against New Zealand on Monday.
In the first rubber in the northern port city of Tianjin, the home side's Wu Di needed five sets to overcome Michael Venus, despite sitting 180 places above him in the world rankings.
World number 383 Venus took the first set but Wu, listed as 203, drew level on a tiebreak in the second, eventually winning 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, 1-6, 6-3.
In the day's other match, the first set also went to New Zealand, with world number 287 Rubin Statham taking it on a tiebreak, before Zhang Ze, ranked 253, ran out a 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 winner.
New Zealand are newly promoted to Group 1 after beating the Philippines in September, while China had to face Chinese Taipei in a relegation play-off in April to stay in the division, which proved to be a comfortable 5-0 whitewash.
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| 2013 Winter | story by HANK BOOTH | photos by STEVEN HERTZOG |
When it comes to retail shopping districts, just about everybody thinks ours here in Lawrence is pretty darn good. A recent Topeka Capital Journal poll said our downtown was the best in NE Kansas. It must have been hard for the Cap Journal Editors to print that one. Even a national publication gave us top marks for our downtown and all that it provides. Now we're in the process of making it even better with major new projects that will provide apartments and town homes right in the middle of everything.
Calls are coming in regularly at the DLI office from people ready to sign contracts for living quarters, months before they are even ready to show. East Lawrence, Old West Lawrence and other nearby neighborhoods are looking much more attractive to local realtors. Just a few blocks from downtown the Warehouse Arts District is being created out of the ashes of the old East Lawrence industrial district and it will be a sensational boon to the downtown. It started with the rebuilding of an old warehouse, the Poehler Building, into affordable apartments that were all leased during the first day they were displayed. Creative arts studios, built in an old popcorn packaging plant and entrepreneurial offices, cubicles and work stations are in strong demand at the renovated Cider Gallery which is also open for business as a site for parties, receptions and meetings. On the century-old stonewalls of that building, art creations of nationally known artists are on display. Hooked to all of that is the renovation of the Santa Fe Train Depot. Wrap it all up and the package is a downtown business district that is a natural draw for all ages, but Boomers really like the idea of living right in the middle of the action.
It certainly isn't the Massachusetts Street I grew up with, pedaling the old Schwinn bike from one end to the other, often stopping for a quick refreshing pause at one of the soda fountains at Round Corner Drugs at the north end at 8th and Mass (now Intorno Restaurant and Intorno means round corner, by the way), Raney's Drugs in the middle, and Rankin's Drug Store on the south end at 11th and Mass. Just thinking about the changes at those three locations gives a snapshot of the evolving market place that is downtown Lawrence.
When I was a kid, nobody had a better toy department than Malott's Hardware and I worked for Ruby and Dar Malott putting those toys together when I was a teenager. Guys went to Ober's (Boy Scout stuff upstairs), Lawrence Surplus for jeans where the owner Hal Keltz seemed to always have a partially smoked cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth, Campbell's Men's' Wear and Whitenight's. The ladies found their fashions at The Jay Shoppe, Terrells, and of course, Weaver's. Shoe stores were plentiful, The Royal College Shoppe, owner Bunny Black personally swept the sidewalk out front every morning, Gordon's Shoe Store, Ober's, Weaver's (again), and Arensberg's (still there).
There are a few other of the old classics still around with Ernst and Son Hardware at the top of the list and the son is still behind the counter.
The old movie theaters where Saturday afternoon matinees cost a quarter now house other entertainment venues. The Jayhawk Theater is now Liberty Hall and back in my college days was the wonderful Red Dog where we saw Ike and Tina Turner, the Kingsmen (remember "Louie, Louie"?) and many other national acts and great local groups like the Fabulous Flippers. The Granada is still the Granada, but the movies have been replaced by bands of all kinds. Across the street was The Varsity and it's now a clothing store. The balcony of the old Varsity was a great place to take a date as "necking" was ok. If a guy's date said she only wanted to sit downstairs he knew he was out of luck.
Downtown Lawrence had maintained a state of constant evolution and today is a classic mixture of retail shopping with specialty shops of all kinds, fine eateries with varied menus and late night bar stops for the younger generation. Add in the latest development of new housing and you can live a trip down the elevator and a short walk to anything you might want to sample. The "Boomer's" are going to love it. The Final Friday's Art displays have been added to KU and Fine Arts events to bring visitors to town from all over the Midwest. When they get a firsthand look at what's going on in downtown they'll want to stay and find a place to live. The future is bright for business throughout the city, but downtown will be a magnet. ■


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Too many goals conceded and far too few scored. It was the recipe for disaster which ultimately lay behind Hibs crashing out of the Scottish Premiership, a mere 31 netted in 38 games, the lowest of any of the top 12 clubs.
And while the 51 lost was far from the worst, the Easter Road club's shortcomings in the opposition penalty area resulted in a deficit of 20 goals, only Kilmarnock suffering a wider margin in the goals for, goals against columns.
By that barometer of Alan Stubbs' squad would appear to be halfway there, one solitary goal lost in six pre-season matches, the obvious fact arising from that statistic being that five clean sheets were clocked up. Ten goals were scored, the downside being that in half of their games, Hibs failed to find the opposition net.
The no-scoring draw against Leage Two East Fife which wrapped up the Easter Road club's preparations ahead of Tuesday night's Petrofac Training Cup clash with Rangers which kicks off their new season, again prompted head coach Stubbs to identify the need for a greater ruthlessness in the penalty box, demanding that the possession Hibs enjoyed in the majority of their matches produces many more chances.
However, like Stubbs, central defender Jordon Forster is confident the goals will come, pointing to the acquistion of Farid El Alagui – who netted 27 in 43 matches for Falkirk at Championship level – veteran hitman Paul Heffernan's return from injury at Bayview and the emergence of teenage strikers Jason Cummings and Lewis Allan.
Forster said: "Obviously we were disappointed not to score against East Fife, but the positive stat was that it was our fourth clean sheet in six games. Last season we conceded far too many and didn't score enough so it's a matter of getting that balance. As a defender, not conceding is what you are looking for in any game and defensively I think we are looking a lot better.
"But I am confident we have goals in the team. We've brought in Farid, Paul is coming back while there's Jason, Lewis and Danny Handling too. Scott Allan is a creative midfielder and we'll be looking for him to slip passes in to claim a few assists to his name."
Despite the wholesale departures following relegation, Hibs will have a familiar look at the back as they head into the new campaign with Forster, Paul Hanlon, Michael Nelson and Lewis Stevenson surviving the cull adminstered by former manager Terry Butcher, while the return of Callum Booth after two seasons on loan at Livingston and then Raith Rovers, allied to the signing of right back David Gray, has added competition for places.
A new goalkeeper has also arrived in the shape of Mark Oxley, the on-loan Hull City player filling the vacancy created by the axing of Ben Williams, Sean Murdoch and Paul Grant and to that end, Forster believes the ten-day delay in facing Rangers with Ibrox having been used for the Commonwealth Games Rugby Sevens tournament, will benefit Hibs following the massive upheaval of the summer.
He said: "It's given us the chance to get another game under our belts, another week's training to tune our fitness even more. It's been a big thing since the gaffer's come in, he wants us to be a very fit team, to make the pitch big, to get the ball down and play good football.
"And when we lose it we are to get it back as quickly as possible and as high up the pitch as we can. I think the fans who have been at our matches will have liked seeing us go about getting the ball back with hunger, aggression and desire.
"It was always important with a new goalkeeper coming in that we get to know him having had Ben behind us for the past two seasons. As a back four, you want to have a good relationship with your goalkeeper and having this extra week or so has allowed us to work together and it will benefit the team as a whole.
"David's a good player who, when we've played together, has helped me through games and I'll learn from him. And, hopefully, having been asked to play out there quite a lot last season, his arrival will allow me to predominantly play in the centre where I prefer.
"On the other side there's good competition for places with Callum back at the club to no doubt battle it out with Lewis."
But Forster believes Stubbs' signings won't be the only ones turning up the heat in the battle for places with fans having been given a glimpse of a raft of promising youngsters, Lewis Allan, Callum Crane and Aaron Dunsmore having started against East Fife.
Still only 20 himself, Forster, along with the likes of Sam Stanton, Alex Harris and Handling are being considered among the more senior members of Stubbs' squad. Like Forster – who made his debut in a derby win at Tynecastle only 15 months ago – the new kids on the block appear to have come from nowhere but, the big defender insisted, they are already catching the eye of the head coach.
He said: "The gaffer is one who if you are doing well you will be involved, if you are doing well in training then you will play, and I think he has shown that in pre-season. There's the group of us who are still only 19 or 20 but now we have these 17 and 18-year-olds keeping us on our toes.
"They've had a taste of it – Tom Gardiner is another who has come in and done well – but while the season will be a bigger test for them, they'll be looking for that chance. And, for the rest of us, we know that if we don't perform then they are there waiting which can only benefit us in the long run."
Forster accepts Hibs couldn't face a tougher start to the season than to travel to face the favourites for the Championship title, but he also insists it's an opportunity for him and his team-mates to lay down a marker for the rest of the season. He said: "Obviously the league itself and doing our very best to win promotion is the priority.
"But when the draw was made the gaffer immediately said it would be a good game for us. We want a dressing-room full of winners, guys who believe every game is as big as the next one. The boys are confident, looking forward to the game with the belief that if we go out and perform, then we'll come away with the victory."


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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
That's my final count.
I wanted 30, but 2 minutes of straight burpees is challenging enough, I will take 23. For Now.
I've been slacking on my push-ups the past few weeks, so today's burpees were actually harder than my first few attempts. Plus I mysteriously gained 5 lbs in between Friday and Saturday (I'm sure it had nothing to do with two night eating out and hockey game food/drinks).
My first attempt tonight I only got to 20 and I was kinda bummed because I didn't get a video of my previous 23. So I took a little rest and tried again. 23. Except I think the first set looks better.
Grammy's music themed burpee videos:
You've still got a few hours left to join the fun.
. . .and thus far I am true to my word, I DID get more than Kovas, Patrick and Mr. Manly combined (since none of them did it :P)
11 comments:
- Melissa Cunningham said...
great job!
im about to do my 2nd attempt with a video...
30 on first try..
WAS shooting for 40---
willsee what i can get here in about an hour-just got done working out and am weeble wobbley,so we will see how much i got left!
goal is 35 ormore!
- February 20, 2011 at 8:00 PM
- Jim ... 50after40 said...
Wow, great work! I don't think I could do 10! But 43 in a short period is awesome!
- February 20, 2011 at 8:04 PM
- californiadreamin said...
your awesome!! Id kill myself lo
- February 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM
- Kittee I am a Runner! said...
Impressive.. Burpees kick my booty!!!
- February 20, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- pseudoally said...
haha, you inspired me to try and I could only do 10 - timed or not, although I have horrible form on my pushups so I'm not sure any of them count :) I'm going to have to work these into my routine, the Mike Rowe video sold me. Love him!
Btw, just found your blog and I really like it. You're very motivating!
- February 20, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Shannon said...
Great job! Burpees make me nauseous.
- February 20, 2011 at 9:35 PM
- RoseRunner said...
Holy crap, I got tired after watching about 30 seconds of that. It looks so friggin hard!
I'm kind of out of the loop on this whole burpee contest. I'll just watch from the sidelines.
- February 20, 2011 at 11:07 PM
- Amanda@runninghood said...
Okay, what's in it if I win it?! This just sounds fun to say ...in it if I win it. I just did my first burpees ever. Always up for a challenge but sometimes I'm a little late. darn, wish I would have started earlier. I ran 12 miles today and 8 yesterday so I'm a little tired. I did 10, gave up and then realized it was only 34 seconds so I tried again. I think I got 20 in 1:30 but now I'm too tired to try again. Darn. Maybe in an hour or two. I might just post my vids now. :) I'm off to check out your contest again.
- February 21, 2011 at 12:11 AM
- Chris K said...
Not my fault. We were going to do a "live" burpee contest but Kovas can't do our race in April.
Actually, I guess that's kind of a lame excuse, eh?
- February 21, 2011 at 12:44 AM
- Amanda@runninghood said...
okay, nevermind, it was 20 in 1:10. Darn, the competitive side of me says that I need to get out there in the living room and try again but my arms and legs say NO NO NO!
- February 21, 2011 at 2:07 AM
- Teamarcia said...
Wait you mean that gnat in my face called manly didn't even do it despite his 'challenge' to me? Darn it I had my bikini all set to go.
Nicely done girl!
- February 21, 2011 at 9:29 AM


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Today is Day 3 of a 30 Day Challenge – NaBloPoMo!
What is NaBloPoMo?
It stands for National Blog Posting Month. Coinciding with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), NabloPoMo encourages bloggers to post new content everyday. The idea is to get into the discipline and habit of "writing with a clear end-goal in place."
I must be crazy to commit to such a goal, but here I am. I joined BlogHer's NaBloPoMo, so it'll be a great way to connect with other BlogHer bloggers, which I am thrilled to learn along with them.
The challenge will be post something meaningful everyday (except Saturdays and Sundays). I want to be upfront and say that taking Saturday and Sunday off will help me keep my sanity. Wisegeek says that most bloggers will drop from their NaBloPoMo commitment within a few weeks. My hope is that I'll find inspiration from other bloggers and appreciate the blogging process.
What does this mean for you?
You'll get to see a few more posts on Hometown Betty. Although I'll be taking a short break from sharing tutorials, I'll still have a few more Star Wars party posts to share. I've already scheduled some posts from my digital photography assignments, which I've been furiously working on since September. I'll also be posting things I've learned from the course and things I'm thankful for. After all, Thanksgiving is this month. There are always plenty to be thankful for.
So I say, "Won't you read, write, or share along with me?"
Day 1 The Halloween Aftermath of 2014
Day 2 How the Book of Life Teaches Us About Mexico's Beautiful Culture
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text: Combined Measurement of Cerebral and Cerebellar Blood Flow on Preoperative Brain Perfusion SPECT Imaging Predicts Development of New Cerebral Ischemic Events After Endarterectomy for Symptomatic Unilateral Cervical Carotid StenosisOikawa, Kohki MD; Ogasawara, Kuniaki MD; Saito, Hideo MD; Yoshida, Koji MD; Saura, Hiroaki MD; Sato, Yuiko MD; Terasaki, Kazunori PhD; Wada, Tsukasa MD; Kubo, Yoshitaka MDClinical Nuclear Medicine: December 2013 - Volume 38 - Issue 12 - p 957–961 doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000279 Original Articles Abstract Author Information Purpose The aim of this study was to determine whether the ratio of blood flow contralateral-to-affected asymmetry in the cerebellar hemisphere to blood flow affected-to-contralateral asymmetry in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory (ARcbl/ARMCA) on preoperative brain perfusion SPECT could identify patients at risk for new cerebral ischemic events after carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for symptomatic unilateral cervical carotid stenosis. For the purposes of this study, new cerebral ischemic events included neurological deficits and cerebral ischemic lesions on diffusion-weighted MRI. Methods Brain blood flow was assessed using 123I-IMP SPECT in 101 patients. A region of interest was automatically placed in the bilateral MCA territories and in the bilateral cerebellar hemispheres using a 3-dimensional stereotaxic region-of-interest template, and the ARcbl/ARMCA was calculated. Diffusion-weighted MRI was performed within 3 days before and 24 hours after surgery. Patients were neurologically tested before induction of general anesthesia and after recovery from general anesthesia. Results New cerebral ischemic events after CEA were observed in 12 patients (12%). Multivariate analysis revealed that only high ARcbl/ARMCA was significantly associated with the development of new postoperative cerebral ischemic events (95% confidence interval, 1.945–8.452; P = 0.0070). The ARcbl/ARMCA provided 75% sensitivity, 84% specificity, and 39% positive and 96% negative predictive values in predicting development of new postoperative cerebral ischemic events. Conclusions The ARcbl/ARMCA on preoperative brain perfusion SPECT could identify patients at risk for new cerebral ischemic events after CEA for unilateral cervical carotid stenosis. From the Department of Neurosurgery and Cyclotron Research Center, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan. Received for publication June 11, 2013; revision accepted September 3, 2013. Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: none declared. Reprints: Kuniaki Ogasawara, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, Iwate Medical University, 19-1 Uchimaru, Morioka, 020-8505 Japan. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. © 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins


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The practice of setting New Year's resolutions can be traced back to the ancient Babylonians, who promised to their pagan gods to return borrowed objects and pay their debts. Later, Christians would reflect on their previous mistakes and resolve to do better the coming year in watchnight services held on New Year's Eve. In the modern world, people make resolutions concerning everything from their health to finances to housework. But what about homeschooling? Should we make resolutions about improvements we can make in our homeschool? I can't say whether or not you should make any resolutions, but if I was going to make some, here's what they might be.
- Keep Record Book Updated Regularly – I sometimes get behind on inputting our time spent into the spreadsheet I use to keep track of the totals. It really is much easier to do when it is done regularly.
- Go on More Field Trips – When our kids were littler, we went on lots of field trips. Everything was new and interesting to them. Now that they are high school age, field trips are a bit trickier to choose. We have only been on one so far this school year. Time for more!
- Evaluate Our Curriculum – Before I choose curriculum for the next school year, I would like to evaluate what we have been using to see how effective it is in teaching my children.
I'm sure your resolutions, if you make any, will be different from mine. But, no doubt, we all have areas in which we can strive to improve!


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Michael's afraid the TV will blow up again. Two others have burst right here in this living room. He pads his fingers against the TV's black face. He loves the television. When he pulls his fingertips from the screen, they're gray, powdered in fine dust. He drives his hand down the power cord all the way to the socket, acquiring a trace of dustbunnies in his palm.
"Be a big boy," his mother says. "Good rain coming. Good, bad rain."
He stands, moves to the living room picture window, and kisses his cheek into the windowpane until raincold sinks into his jaw. In the side yard, a wet haze — thick, the color of his watered-down pee in the toilet — spreads from gray clouds to the driveway and a pair of jeans on the line turns green. The pants change color, as Michael once thought his pet chameleon would do, but it doesn't. The chameleon disappoints him. He thinks it might be sick, or broken, or that maybe he just got a bad one. That's what Lindsay next door would say. Lindsay two years older, almost nine, and she won't ever play with him, only when he brings out his basketball.
"All the time," she says, "your house gets struck by lightning. Because it wants to be struck. Your house asks lightning to come inside and lightning says yes."
The pants on the line transform, and Michael imagines that chameleons have made them. Good, working chameleons. A block over, he sees wind bending a stand of pines, the tallest trees in the neighborhood, and he cranes his neck, hoping to see their tops. Raindrops fall fat and hard against the window glass, and runnels of water distort his vision. Hail on the grass, misshapen chunks like lead slugs. In the drive, they batter the Oldsmobile's hood. He sees tiny, angry men fighting in the clouds. They throw snowballs to make the hail.
His mother runs out for the jeans. Michael runs for the television cord and yanks it from the wall, not because he's agreed on this responsibility: to be big, to swear off cartoons in the rain, to unplug the television on thunder, but because he's afraid of more than losing another TV.
When the picture tube blows — this is what happens, his father says — he's afraid that shards of glass will catch in his eyes and he'll be blind. Michael knows what blind is. Blind means you see nighttime in daytime. He's old enough to know that his mother can't kiss his eyes, as she kisses his scrapes, and bring back green, or blue, or magenta. The Oldsmobile is magenta, she says, and if he forgets to pull the cord and the television explodes, magenta is only a word for him to remember, and not something to put into his eyes, like grapes into his mouth.
He wanders to the porch. He's never seen this, all so yellow. It's on everything, on Lindsay's house — she must be afraid inside, as old as she is — on the car, the front oak, on his mother, cradling the jeans and two clean sheets from the line. She winces from pelting hail.
"Bad one," she says. "Get inside, silly boy."
He looks up. Clouds melt, and the whole sky becomes a single, pale sun. A slab of butter, spread thin over leaves, the trees of his street. He raises his arms and his fingers become yellow antennas.
The lightning strike sounds like a tower of blocks, falling flat against the kitchen floor. The biggest tower of blocks he could ever make. His mother has already whisked him into the yard by the time their house catches fire. She clutches him, turns his head away from the blaze, into her shoulder, but he looks beyond her to watch. Fire is dancing with the walls of his room.
Michael huddles with his mother, the both of them soaking through. Even the insides of his knees feel wet. He wants to tell her that he unplugged the cord. He wants to prove this, but she won't let him go, and slowly, he understands. Inside, his chameleon is changing.


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Letter: History is repeating itself in Mideast
To the editor of THE EAGLE:
It has been said that if we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, the 21st century has seen great historical blindness already. As Americans, we tend to see the rest of the world as simply not quite up to our current outlook and self-perception. This is myopic.
The rise of violence in Africa and the Mideast is result of changes that have been inflicted on the region by Europeans and Euro-Americans. One factor we regularly disregard is the effect of modernity and capitalism on traditional culture. When we look at the Mideast, we should see how this phenomenon has disrupted traditional social and economic systems. This is one key source of unrest and violence there. It should be no surprise that Western capitalism was targeted on 9/11.
A second factor is that the state boundaries in the Mideast and Africa are the product of colonial and imperial domination, rather than ethnic, social or economic commonalities. Like the Austro-Hungarian empire, these states, like Iraq, are held together by force of power, not the common bonds of a people. Preservation of these states is an imperial ambition.
Third, states like Afghanistan are essentially pre-modern tribal cultures, not unlike the early tribes of northern Europe. Attempting to treat them as modern states is dangerous and foolish.
Fourth, the use of religion to rally the sides in so many conflicts today is not unlike the lengthy "religious wars" of Europe following the Reformation. Those wars were about various princelings vying for territory and power and using religion as a battle cry. The same is true in the Mideast today. When we speak of the combatants as religious groups, we strengthen their propaganda and help to hide the real narrative at work, which includes the factors already mentioned.
Fifth, the collapse of imperial states in Europe and in the Mideast have been driven by the concept of the "nation state," itself a relatively recent invention. While the nation is usually defined in ethnic and cultural terms, it ultimately comes down to what one scholar has called the monopoly to kill and exploit your own people. Iran shows this well.
Sixth, the narrative of "former glory" has appeal in Russia today and it will soon afflict the Mideast. Combined with the above factors, it is a prescription for national socialism and genocide, like that of 20th century Germany.
Seventh, the nice narrative of innocent settlers being attacked by vicious Native Americans was never the whole or real narrative, which also included an intentional and consistent pattern of provocation, retaliation, deceptiveness and deprivations practiced by the U.S. to push Native Americans to either extinction or tiny worthless reservation prison camps. Israel's leaders have acknowledged that this has been a main part of their strategy in dealing with the Palestinians. It does work to shift control and power, but is it what we should support?
From the perspective of history, it is time to reassess our foreign policy, our rhetoric and our future. Perhaps, this will even lead to an opportunity to tap the resources of peace, hospitality and divine compassion that stand at the heart of all three great monotheistic religions. In this, Pope Francis may be the voice of true leadership today.
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I know I do LOL, sometimes anyways.
Anyone else say "lol" or "lmao" with a straight face?
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Not always on Here, @CisScum. I also will Smile all the While at Times.
There are Other times, with some of my Buds on here, dear, I will Laugh so Hard that I have Tears running down my face.
More than a "LMAO," More like "LOL!!!
Good luck and Great question. xx10|10|0
Thanks for the Like and next time, bring me a tissue. Still laughing and crying. xxoo
LOL np
LOL!!! Ya have to have had to be there. xxoo
All the time. I say it to seem friendlier. If I ended a sentence without "lol," then someone might assume that I'm upset or angry. It really depends on who I'm talking to or what the conversation is. About 40% of the time, I do actually laugh out loud.10|10|0
Same actually, or I find it funny but I just never laughed.
Who even laughs or is actually "laughing out loud" when they're going
"LMAOOOOOOOO" or "LOOOOOOL" or "DYIIIIINGGGGG"
I'd just look like a stupid idiot smiling at an electronic screen.10|10|0
Yup! I do it all the time lol I JUST DID IT LOL! AND AGAIN OML. 💀 I'm kinda an emotionless person so ey! That's just kinda how it is lol (smh rn).10|10|0
Haha, at times. Other times, I really am laughing.10|10|0
Yes. Sometimes.10|10|0
I end every sentence with lol and I always smile like the Cheshire cat when I do. People think I'm crazy lol but we know better... we know better lol.20|20|0
Smiling when you're on your phone is always awkward LOL.
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Its more awkward in school. All your teacher sees is you looking down your desk and smiling xD
@Pac-Man best to keep people wondering about you.
yeah all the time10|10|0
I do that if someone cracks a really poor joke or tries to roast me☺10|10|0
Yup, all the time10|10|0
Yeah, but when I actually laugh or smile I usually type "xD" or "omfg"21|10|0
Most of the time I do so people know I'm not being serious.10|10|0
"Tbh" "lmao" "lol" I can't do it10|10|0
Yeah I sometimes do10|10|0
Abbsolutely. And a nice deathstare to spice it up. Esp if they really think they are amusing. I'm just a persona non grata. *snigger*10|10|0
most of the time especially when I got nothing to say10|10|0
Yah all the time10|10|0
Some times with Lol but when i use lmao its usually gotta be pretty funny10|10|0
Hey can I ask you something
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@Bjjyfhug Well if y'all love each other than maybe y'all should find a counselor to talk to.. Maybe someone whom is impartial to you two and is a professional could help both of you understand each other's point of view
Thank you so much
Yes sometimes10|10|0
Very rarely I normally smile and laugh all the time with some exceptions when I have a bad day10|10|0
Yeah, haha10|10|0
Sometimes but usually not.10|10|0
It's a pet peeve of mine when someone says slang out loud10|10|0
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Lmao all the time.10|10|0
I say the whole thing cause I feel accomplished. Why? Because laugh out loud/lol has the same amount of syllables 😛10|10|0
I've done it, I'll admit it. ;)10|10|0
a straight face with a sharp exhale of air through the nose 😂 Sometimes though it will be a genuine chuckle. Even more rarely i will laugh till my eyes tear up. happened a few times on here10|10|0
More for me it might be like a small smile, sometimes a laugh thoughm
I sometimes do10|10|0
LOL yes. I just did.10|10|0
yup, it happens. especially when being online10|10|0
Every time, except most times, when I'm not laughing about a time when something was funny at a time...10|10|0
That's really annoying lol, yeah i may do it sometimes, rarely.10|10|0
I dont do it10|10|0
I say "lol" when I at least laughed through my nose, but when I say "lmao" I at least chuckled.10|10|0
Always lmao10|10|0
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A pair of Denver-based food manufacturers have been acquired by a Florida investment firm.
An affiliate of Boca Raton, Florida-based New Water Capital Partners LP said today it has acquired Custom Made Meals, at and Custom Corned Beef Inc., at 2600 Walnur St., Denver.
Jason Neimark, partner at New Water Capital, said terms of the deal are confidential and the price will not be disclosed.
Custom Made Meals makes pre-made entrees and appetizers that are sold in more than 6,000 retail locations across the U.S. The purchase of Custom Corned Beef, which manufactures raw and cooked corned beef, roasts and deli meats, was part of the transaction.
Read more at Denver Business Journal.


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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
- somewhere i have never traveled, e.e. cummings
"I'm tired of this," he says suddenly, and it occurs to her, if only for a moment, that she is too.
Curiously enough, it's like they're waiting for something, for anything. They call it inertia, the reluctance to change a state of rest or motion; she feels it's become an inability, now, fueled by habit and inevitable degeneration.
It isn't the faceless souls they find, stripped of dignity, hollow bones anguished in silent death that she pores over and makes attempts to lower into marked ground. It isn't the people who are left behind to carry the weight of a never-written ending; a photograph to accommodate forgetting fingers and minds. Strangely enough neither can pinpoint exactly when—perhaps somewhere between her burial and The Execution Of The Clown, he thinks. Perhaps.
There's a moment—not enough to be significant but sufficient to further expand this quandary—a moment where she feels she should tape her belongings into a cardboard box and leave, if only to curb gradual self- destruction, slowly and surely as the beetles debride the thousandth skull.
The moment dissolves as quickly as it arises—she watches him lift his son onto the garish horse, barely holding this masquerade of necessity together; reassuring Parker as much as he needs to placate his own demons.
The carousel starts off then, the music ringing in her ears. She watches the horses rise and fall in perfect synchronization, like the ebb and flow of a tide.
It occurs to her, then, in the way it always does—with science and logic, and this time, she thinks, the answer to this conundrum.
I feel like I have to set things right again, he says. I just don't know how.
At any moment in time every organism; every object is attempting equilibrium, to achieve delicate balance—like they both are, a step back occasionally and the quiet admittance of defeat:
her fingers tighten on the lapels of his jacket, bringing the warm pliance of their breaths in soundless collision. He feels (imagines) the subtle prickling of the bramble-mistletoe on the top of his head as red-brown wisps of hair tickle his chin and the thumping in his chest slows to a dull thud against the alternating curves of his ribcage.
For the first time since Dulles International he pulls back seeing her in a different light—no, a completely distinct spectrum of color altogether, and he blinks, hard, bringing the remnant of gum to flushed pink fingertips and thinks: Mulder and Scully, without the aliens, but he's more than a little dazed and doesn't remember much of that for a while.
He thinks they should have that talk, the one where he tells her she'll always be Bones, his Bones (this he'll think but won't verbalize) and nothing changes. She'll smile in that way she does and he'll smile too, before ordering a piece of pie, loathing each bite but knowing it'll make her think things are all right again. It's important to set things right, after all.
One can smile and smile and still be a villain, he thinks, and hates himself for it.
They're at a crime scene, and she's kneeling beside the body as usual, when the sky pours forth torrents of clearwater and the rain scours the bones of a man they haven't yet avenged. The water permeates his twelve hundred dollar suit, running in ice-cold streams down his back.
She's soaked, too, and the one of the first things that occurs to him is thank God for Tyvek, because he wouldn't have been able to keep his adolescent gaze off her otherwise, certainly not long enough for her not to pick up on it.
The second is that he used to be able to think of weather like his is grim satisfaction: a salve for his conscience, washing the lingering scent of copper from foreign dust into the water-bloated gutters, rather than dreary afternoons and dead remains baked into soil and her closeness. The only difference, he concedes, is that he isn't the one rendering a sharp, silent death.
He shuts his eyes, heels sinking into the rapidly dampening ground, until he feels the warmth of her hand on his shoulder.
She feels the soft throbbing of a tiny heart against her cheek, fingers grasping her hair, the rhythmic breaths clouding against her back, feels a peculiar tightening in the abdomen, like handing this child over is of a twisted sort of significance, and she can find nothing anthropological about it.
The baby laughs, Andy laughs and his phalanges brush the empty air, like he's reaching for her, but she knows—wishes she didn't—that it doesn't mean anything, because babies this young can't see more than eight to twelve inches in front of them. He can't see her, not in any way that matters.
It's a strange sense of comfort, knowing she'll be one less person he remembers enough of to miss.
The night they get blown up he stops by her apartment on the way back from the shooting range. This time he hasn't anything to offer; no takeout, no silly little gifts that mean nothing during times like these, and even his throat burns dry with words that never come.
His knuckles stop short of the door as his breath catches in his chest.
Under the half-light he glimpses the bluish-black streak of gunpowder on his palm, awakens to the dull ache in his side and the cold concrete of her doorstep. He knows all he desires from her is sordid consolation, more psychologically than biologically so; one damaged soul tempering the tragedy to another. His fist drops to his side, head shaking slowly as he gives a half-sigh and a murmur moments later—not tonight, Bones, then as an afterthought halfway down the stairs: I'm sorry.
From the unlit living room she watches his car back out of the parking lot and brings a hand up to her forehead, running a finger over the tender protrusion of the thread that closed the wound.
This pain is ordinary, nary one of loss or longing—it is the pain of consciousness, the pain of knowledge. He knows she feels it too; the vulnerable, raw quality of it. He knows it frightens her—she fears darkness and isolation, he fears clowns and the loss of trust, and it only becomes inevitable that they fear each other.
It is the inevitability that scares her.
(He runs first, though.)
He runs and never looks back.
It presents itself as an opportunity, at first, and only as something he toys around with and knows, if only at the back of his mind, that he isn't really considering it seriously.
They offer him a place as Head of the Field Office in Virginia, and he laughs it off over pie and coffee with her.
The day he looks into her eyes and finds nothing of significance—no subtext, no deeper meaning, it's like the final nail in the coffin he's constructed to bury those skeletons in his closet (he never started mixing his metaphors until he met her). His final verdict, the one Max never got because his daughter looked Booth in the eye and told him without words what she had to do.
He packs his bags and books the flight before he goes to see her, so he can't change his mind.
They're at the diner, again, and he wonders how everything begins and ends in a single place; with a single word. He tells her about the job, eyes artfully dodging hers, languishing over details so he won't have to tackle the bigger picture.
"Tomorrow," he says, before she asks.
She nods; says congratulations, Booth, her hands tightening on the coffee cup.
The goodbye comes a little later, after he's half gone, down the street and she whispers it; the fork drops to the table as the pastry sours her insides.
The sky is overcast the morning he leaves, and for the first time in years Temperance Brennan goes to her office feeling like she's been gone for a long time, somehow.
Somehow, like it means something.
He returns every few months, to see Parker—the boy's older now, and frequents the museum instead of the zoo. Parker's eyes light up at the sight of the dinosaur exhibits, and Booth's do the same as he sees the no unauthorized entry sign on the swing doors familiar to the touch.
Her office is in the same place, and he strides through her door like he did a long time ago.
"It's been a while," he says, exuding a casual air he doesn't feel.
"Yes." She looks at him mildly, although her pen, slipping from her fingers, makes a blue streak across the file she's working on. "Yes, it has."
Everything begins and ends there; a beginning and ending like every other.
(endings are built into beginnings, she thinks.)
(his arms around her don't mean anything.)
It's a single call that brings him back to D.C. for good (he can't stop thinking about the lexical paradox this phrase stirs; for good as permanence and not as the word suggests).
She's got a case, a case unlike any other, yet nothing he hasn't seen: a man bludgeoned to death and thrown into the river. Nothing about the case compels her until Angela renders the victim in the grotesque glory only holographs provide, and then she recognizes the face.
It's been eight years, but the database confirms what she already knows.
"I found this-" Zack holds up an oddly-shaped scrap of metal in an evidence bag "-at the victim's house. It 's a metal contraption, well, it used to be part of a metal contraption, and what it does, basically, is manipulate-"
"That's really nice. What does it do exactly? The whole gizmo-thing you're talking about here."
"I was just expla-"
"In terms that people can understand."
"Oh. I reconstructed the entire contraption based on several blueprints the technicians found-"
"You did that-" Booth gapes "-with this?"
"I thought that was apparent." He sets a hand on the metal bob of the giant pendulum-like structure occupying half his workspace. "This device is able to apply an extremely large amount of force on any object in its path, owing to its substantial mass. In this case-"
"The victim," Hodgins finishes. "This… brilliant structure was attached to the area just above the doorway to the late Mr. Taylor's workshop. It was obscured from view by some tarpaulin, virtually invisible in such an environment.
The 'arm' of the pendulum would be held up by this section, preventing the bob from swinging down unless activated remotely. This remote," he pauses, glancing at Booth, "was found, only partly intact. The parts were matched to a batch of equipment sold to schools and educational institutes. This particular batch-"
"It was matched to the Walker-Jones Elementary School."
He waits—the significance of this eludes him, suddenly.
"Andy goes to Walker-Jones Elementary, Booth," Brennan finishes.
"Andy. Andy Grant? Andy the-"
"Dr. Brennan was his primary caregiver for a short period of time, eight years ago," Zack helpfully supplies.
"That's him?" he murmurs, and she nods.
He pulls a chair on the opposite side of the table in the interrogation room.
"Andy," he says. "Andy Grant."
The boy nods; his blond curls slip onto his forehead, blue eyes resplendent under the glare of the overhead light.
The diner's gone now, closed, so they settle for coffee in the hatchback of his car.
"Booth," she begins. "I—"
"I missed you, too," he says, and adds a Bones for good measure. It hurts him to smile like that, barely hours after the boy, the little guy (their little guy) became all grown up and offed his-
"You left," she says. "It should be easier to leave."
"It wasn't. Not in the least. It's just- sometimes, Bones," he looks over- she's about to say (please) don't call me Bones, because they're not those people anymore, "the hardest thing to do is the right thing."
"It felt right? To leave, just like that?"
"They offered me a job," he sighs. "And I couldn't handle-"
"I thought about it too, you know," she says suddenly, and he starts. "About leaving."
"I know," he says, even though he doesn't; didn't, and she laughs; slowly, suddenly, bitterly.
"You know," she says, "a friend of mine once said that it was important to set things right."
"That was a long time ago, Bones," he says wearily.
"The center will hold," she murmurs, a breath catching in her chest.
"The center," he smiles wistfully. "We're the center."
(mere anarchy, she thinks, mere anarchy.)
Note: 'Mere anarchy' (as well as Booth's 'the center will hold' in Widow's Son In The Windshield) is a reference to W.B. Yeats' Second Coming:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
Thank you for reading.


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The Islamic cloud over Brennan and Hagel
Two key national security nominations by President Obama are up for confirmation following Congress' recess this week: former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense, and John O. Brennan, the president's key counterterrorism adviser, to be the director of the CIA. Both candidates have had to address issues based on their past and current activities and associations. Troublingly, a number of questions still remain unanswered.
One explosive issue is a report by John Guandolo that broke last week on Tom Trento's "TrentoVision Show" and also was carried by Glenn Beck on Feb. 11. The report stated that Mr. Brennan was converted to Islam while CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia from 1996 to '99. Let's be clear: In America, a man's religion can never be a condition to his holding a government position. It is protected by both the First Amendment and Article 6 of the Constitution. Therefore, even if it is true that he converted, Mr. Brennan's religion should not be an issue.
However, according to Mr. Guandolo — a former SWAT team leader at the FBI, counterterrorism and Muslim Brotherhood specialist and Marine platoon commander — what should be an issue was the Saudis' targeted recruitment of Mr. Brennan to the ideology of Islam while he was serving as the CIA station chief in Riyadh. This was not just a conversion but a political act by a foreign intelligence service.
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text: How much would you guys charge to install 40 yards of topsoil. The land is unlevel and has to be graded. Its a 6,075 sq ft area and all the dirt has to be moved and new seed has to be planted. I came out with like $3,700 for the estimate is that too high or too low.


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One of my favorite editors to work with is Kenrya Rankin, the lifestyle editor at Latina magazine. Kenrya is direct, insightful, funny, and on a quest for truth in all that she does so I am especially excited to share her new project with all of you in the hope that some of you might be interested in participating.
Here's Kenrya's call for submissions:
As an editor, I'm basically paid to be an avid reader. But in the course of all that reading, I've realized that there is an area I haven't seen much anything about, a topic that's important to me: Black fathers. Now, wait. I know there are a few books that examine this topic, however, they either approach these men as some quandary to figure out, examining the sociopolitical reasons why fathers are unable to stand by their offspring, or bash the hell out of them. The thing is, I refuse to believe that's all there is to the story.
It's time that we tell the positive stories, the ones that depict Black dads far outpacing the expected, trampling the norm underfoot as they run toward their children's futures, Father's Day ties flapping in the wind, eyes red with hours unslept. My book, Celebrating Black Fathers: Essays and Insights from the Women Who Love Them, will be dedicated to these men—our fathers, our husbands, our brothers—with essays written by the women who know them best, each focused on a different aspect of the positive/complicated/bittersweet/hilarious/awe-inspiring relationships Black women share with the fathers in their lives.
Are you a great writer with a story to tell about a Black dad in your life? It could be your father, your hubby, your brother or the dude you see at the park with his kids everyday—as long as you can tell us about him with an intimacy and wit that the world needs to hear, I want to hear it. Email me at email@example.com by Sunday, October 19, 2009, with your:
Résumé (or bio);
2 writing samples (links or attached scans);
And one quick paragraph explaining your essay idea.
If you're a good fit, your story will appear in the book and you'll receive a share of the profits.
Kenrya Rankin Nassel is the Lifestyle Editor at Latina, where she has her plate full heading the health, fitness, travel, family, career, money, technology, entertaining, home, food, political and education coverage. She even edits the monthly essays. Whew! Her Latina highlight? Interviewing Senators Barack Obama and John McCain for her election blowout. Kenrya is also the Sociopolitical Columnist for Parlour Magazine, an international online publication for women in the know. Before joining the Latina team in early 2007, she spent nearly four years editing humor and serving as technology advisor at Reader's Digest, where her work was translated into 21 languages and published in 50 editions around the world. Kenrya was also the Research Director for UPTOWN Magazine, helping to build the magazine into a national brand in just two years. A quick Google search will reveal that her writing has appeared in several publications, including The Plain Dealer, Vibe's Prodigy, Soul of Virginia, The Hilltop and The Yard. Her editing expertise also extends to books, including Faces & Voices IV, When Butterflies Kiss, 2nd ed. (copy editing) and Stories of Survival (and Beyond): Collective Healing After Hurricane Katrina (copy editing). And her love of all things beautiful led to the founding of her design company, KMR Words + Design, through which she designs political and e-commerce websites. She was an American Society of Magazine Editors intern and did a five-year stint in public relations in a previous life. Kenrya graduated at the top of her class when she earned her Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Howard University, and did it again when she finished her Master of Science in publishing at New York University. She's proud to be from Cleveland, Ohio, and currently lives with her husband, Tahad, in Manhattan.


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Wearing a dress from Urvashi Joneja's latest collection, Priyanka attended the GYFAs. A wispy updo and dark lip color is all that it took to finish out her look. It might not be for everyone but she sure made the look work for her.
Priyanka Bose At Grazia Young Fashion Awards 2016
Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani