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My Real Dad
Last Thanksgiving my dad almost died.
I was climbing into bed when the phone rang. I didn't rush to get it because even on a good day I hate talking on the phone. I stand in front of a ringing phone and pass through all the Kubler-Ross stages of grief before I answer it: shock, denial, anger, betrayal, bargaining and, ultimately, surrender. I checked Caller ID that night and saw it was my mom but I let it ring. Whatever she needs to say she can leave on the machine or tell me tomorrow, I thought to myself and I closed my eyes. I had so much to do for Thanksgiving. The phone rang again five minutes later. Mom. I picked up with a small sigh.
Come down as soon as you can, she said. Dad's in the hospital.
I hung up the phone and woke my husband and kids. We threw some clothes together and got into the car. I am terrified of flying and normally I'll fake any kind of illness to get out of it but this time I really had a bad cold and an ear infection so I had an acceptable excuse. I sent up a guilty little prayer of thanks.
"It's going to be okay," Robin whispered to me in the front seat. "So let's not make this a morose seventeen hours for the kids. No matter what's going to happen with your dad." But I couldn't help it. I had let the phone ring when my mom called.
"Just do me a favor," Robin's voice was suddenly tense. "No matter what, don't scream. I have to concentrate." Then he maneuvered our station wagon around the line of trucks, SUV's and four-wheel drive Jeeps waiting out the storm, and turned onto the mountain road. I married Robin because he is so macho but I wasn't sure about this. The Highway Patrolman waved him on and wished us luck as we proceeded up the icy pass. I made sure he got a good look at our faces so he'd recognize our stiff, frozen corpses when they found us in the spring.
My sister was waiting for us in my dad's hospital room. When she heard me cough she put a surgical mask on me and another one on my dad, and then put one on herself, just for solidarity. "Ah, now I see the family resemblance" my dad joked when the three of us looked at each other. He was wearing two bathrobes over his hospital gown because he is always cold. His eyes were small and sunken. I don't think I had ever seen him without his glasses
It had been only a few months since I had visited him, and only a few days since I had talked to him on the phone. Well, not really talked to him. My dad has never had an actual phone conversation with me. He answers the phone, says hello and then tells me, "Hold on, I'll go get Mom." He calls impatiently for my mom as though I have urgent news, even though I didn't even ask to talk to her. "Hurry, Sylvia," he yells, "Ann's on the phone!" She's been through this. She knows it's not urgent. She knows he just doesn't know what to say to me. She's probably on the toilet, mouthing to him, "Jesus, Murray, just talk to her for a goddamn minute and let me finish here!"
"Hold on, Mom is coming." He reassures me. And then there's silence until my mom gets to the phone. I can hear him breathing. I used to feel a little weird about that, a little rejected, but then my sister told me he does the same thing to her, too.
In the hospital, the surgeon explains my dad's operation to us. "An aortal aneurysm is a very simple procedure although there is risk in every surgery," he begins. He doesn't even make eye contact with my dad, who is straining to hear him. "Now, with your husband's heart condition there is a greater risk, of course…" he says, glancing at my dad and then turning again to my mom. "How advanced is Mr. Brown's dementia? Can he sign his name?"
My dad tugs at my sleeve. "What is dementia?" he asks me.
Late that night in my parent's house, while my mom slept alone in her bed for the first time in over fifty years, my sister and I wandered through our old home. We touched the paintbrushes my dad had used that week. We pored over the stories and plays he'd written, now in wrinkled manila folders piled high in all corners of the room. We sat in his chair and we stood at his easel. We tried to recall every memory we had of him.
We remembered the Saturday morning game of chase he used to play with us. My sister and I always hid in the hallway closet and waited - she, giggling hysterically and me, fighting a panic attack - until he lumbered down the hall and flung open the closet door. Those Saturday morning chase games were, I am certain, the beginning of Karen's lifelong love of danger and my lifelong struggle with claustrophobia. We remembered how he built us matching easels and showed us how to mix paints on a palette, always adding the dark to the light, drop by drop. And we remembered when he punched out our neighbor the summer I was ten years old because the man had pulled me into his garage and shook me by the shoulders after I told his little Republican daughters that Barry Goldwater was an idiot. Which was just repeating what I had heard my dad say at the dinner table.
But nothing in our memories revealed the man we hoped to discover that night; the man inside the archetype, my real dad. I really didn't know him when I was a child but I'm not bemoaning that. I don't think I wanted to know my dad's secrets and weaknesses then. I am still squirmy about it even now. It was weird enough seeing him in the hospital without his glasses.
My dad's surgery was scheduled for six o'clock the next morning. At five thirty, everyone went ahead to the hospital but I was stuck in slow motion. I couldn't find my toothbrush. I lost the directions to the hospital. I finally got out to the car but then I ran back in the house to get a sweater from my mom's closet in case it was going to be cold in the air-conditioned hospital. I drove slowly and carefully on the LA streets, talking to myself, stopping at all the yellow lights, pissing off the other drivers.
The entrance to the hospital lobby was blocked by a dozen gray-haired volunteers wearing yellow jackets and buttons that exclaimed, "I CAN Help You!" The volunteers chatted merrily amongst themselves, nervously ignoring me. I approached a gentleman manning the coffee cart. It took me two tries to get his attention.
"I'm looking for my father," I told him.
"You need help?" His enthusiasm bordered on hysteria. I don't think he had counted on a challenge like this when he signed up for the "I CAN Help You!" job. He motioned to the other yellow jackets. They hurried over and struck various poses of helpfulness.
"This young lady is looking for her father," he explained. Murmurs of concern rumbled throughout the group. This might have been their biggest case yet. Send for Matlock.
"My father, he's in surgery. Murray Brown. Yes?" I don't know why I spoke to them in loud, broken English. A clipboard was produced and consulted.
"No Murray Brown in this hospital, dear. Why don't you try Cedars?"
My throat was beginning to close up. I let out a little sob. The yellow jackets buzzed around me and scratched their heads, like the apes around the monolith.
"We do have a Mary Brown, however," one of them murmured. I read the name. Murray. Fourth floor surgery.
I bounded up the stairs two at a time, to remind myself that I am strong and capable, but then my thigh cramped up and I had to limp the rest of the way holding on to the rail. I turned the door handle to the fourth floor but it was locked. I pounded the door with growing urgency until the woman behind me gave it a little push and it opened. I walked into the waiting room. My mom and my aunts and cousins were already there, sitting on the couches making quiet, careful conversation. My sister got up and gave me a hug.
"What took you so long?" she asked. "They already took Dad in to surgery."
"I don't know," I said, "it was like I was underwater or something."
Karen nodded. "Yeah. This is so weird." We were quiet for a moment.
"Is that mom's sweater?" she asked.
The phone in the waiting room had a sign next to it that read, please do not call into the O.R. A nurse will call you . My sister and I called into the O.R. five times from that phone during my dad's surgery. "We are really sorry to bother you," we'd say, "but we are just really worried and we want to know how our dad is doing." Then we'd cry. Stoicism has never been our strong suit. We were the biggest babies in the waiting room.
There was a family in the waiting room that had been at the hospital since the day we arrived. They hardly moved, waiting for news, taking turns going home to sleep, keeping vigil over their nineteen-year-old son, the victim of a drive-by shooting. The boy was in a coma and the prognosis was not good. As our group became more relaxed and animated, adding extra couches and chairs to accommodate the growing stream of visitors we received, their group retreated further into the corner. I tried not to look at them when the doctors came by to give us encouraging updates on my dad.
I was in the bathroom one afternoon with the boy's sister. She was washing out bowls of soup they had brought from home. "How is your brother doing today?" I asked.
She shrugged. "They say he can hear us so we talk to him. We tell him that he needs to wake up." She went back to washing the bowls. I repeated the words that were a constant presence in the waiting room, "I'll keep your brother in my prayers".
It was a new experience for me, to use the word "prayer" so freely. My family did not pray. We were secular, scientific - believing freethinkers. We put our faith in the collective power of people, not in God. The first few times someone said they'd pray for my dad, I winced. "And I'll keep your son in our thoughts" I'd reply, or "we'll keep a good thought for your wife". In moments of deep fear, however, or if my dad took a turn for the worse, I nodded my head when someone said they'd pray for him. Then I was a believer. I opened my arms and ran into the fold, accepted the fellowship of these welcoming people who trusted in God to heal their loved ones. I began using the words, telling people I'd pray for them. The words felt strange and new and exotic and a little rebellious in my mouth. I felt powerful and magnanimous when I said I'd pray for someone. And a little disingenuous, because I never prayed for those people. I used up all my prayers for my dad.
The boy in the coma was dying. His friends came to see him each night; around four or five in the afternoon a handful of young men in bandanas and tattoos and brass knuckles began streaming into the waiting room and soon more kept coming, long past visiting hours were over, until the waiting room was filled with maybe twenty of them. They sat in a straight row of hard chairs against the wall, facing us. I watched them out of the corner of my eye, scared of their youth and their anger. The mother of the dying boy kissed each one, called him by name, fed him soup.
Our group moved our chairs and couches closer together, circling the wagons around my mom. We had a huge basket of gourmet cookies with us, a gift from one of my cousins. The first day they arrived at my parent's house we ate ourselves sick, so we brought them back to the waiting room with us each day for the friends and family who came to sit with us.
I wanted to share the cookies with the scary young men sitting against the wall. I wanted the cookies to be the answer to LA's race problem. I picked up the enormous, beribboned basket and walked to the middle of the room. The moment carried all the anticipation of Tony holding out his hand to Maria at the dance. I looked right into the face of the scariest looking guy I could find, and held up the basket to him. He looked away.
Oh shit. Maybe he thought I was just showing it to him, just teasing him. Neener, neener, we've got a two hundred dollar basket of white chocolate macadamia nut cookies and you don't. No wonder they hate white people. I crossed the invisible line in the middle of the room, walked the basket over to the mother and smiled. She chose an oatmeal raisin cookie.
I turned to the young man sitting next to her and offered him one. He shook his head no. Now what??
I couldn't just slink away, everyone was watching me. So I made my way down the long line of scary young, tattooed men with my stupid basket of cookies, like the Queen Mum in a soup kitchen. Some of them took cookies, some didn't. No big deal. Hands Across America wasn't going to happen that night. I walked back to our side of the room and chose a giant coconut macaroon for myself.
Suddenly, the guy who had refused a cookie walked over to me. What was this? Was he going to ask me to dance or punish me for offering cookies to his gang? Maybe they were an anti-cookie gang, what do I know from such things?
He put his hand in his pocket and - after my heart started up again - pulled out a pack of gum. I don't chew gum because I have crowns in my upper molars but you can bet your upper middle class, white, bourgeois ass I accepted his stick of Wrigley's. With a smile.
And I chewed it all night long. We sat facing each other on the fourth floor waiting room of the CCU, keeping vigil, chewing our Juicy Fruit. I nodded at the scary guy, acknowledging our new bond, but he ignored me. No matter. In my mind, I was one of them now as we waited together, each praying for a miracle, through the cloudless, starless LA night.


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When she was 16, Anne Hathaway decided she was a failure.
Tara Lipinski, the figure skater only five months her senior, had recently won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. And Hathaway was being rejected by nearly every casting director she auditioned for.
"She started crying and told her father and I that she couldn't even land a Clearasil commercial while Tara had a gold medal," Hathaway's mother, Kate, recalled. She and Anne's father tried to ease their daughter's anxiety but quietly took pride in her resolve.
"What I admire the most about Anne is that she keeps challenging herself," said Kate, a former stage actress. "She's always been that way. She just can't settle."

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Alexander Gavrylyuk
Melbourne Recital Centre
Rebruary 16
STEERING clear of sensational effects - a change from his 2010 program in the Murdoch Hall - Ukrainian-born Alexander Gavrylyuk played a straight-down-the-line series of well-known masterworks for keyboard in Saturday evening's first half. He showed a reassuring maturity of insight, keeping the scores' evolution continuously to the fore and making difficult progressions and challenges merge into the fabric rather than following the virtuosic crash-through attack favoured by many of his peers.
Bach's Italian Concerto was given spacious treatment, its middle andante an essay in restraint with no urging at its two dramatic pedal-point climaxes, while the rapid finale preserved its jubilation along with a welcome clarity of texture and an unashamed variety of articulation and timbre employing the piano's resources with intelligent musicianship.
What brought the ready-to-be-appreciative house to its feet was a white-hot reading of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, packed to the brim with interest from the opening personality-full Promenade, through a menacing Bydlo and benchmark vision of Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle, the suite climaxing with a sumptuous, pounding The Great Gate of Kiev.
For my money, Gavrylyuk showed at his best in Schumann's C-minor Fantasie, one of those rare delights where interpreter and music are in absolute synchronicity. This young pianist's grasp of Schumann's triptych of canvases was enriching.


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One speaker brought on to replace another speaker who had been forced out surprised the students by castigating those responsible in no uncertain terms.
The stunning move by a commencement speaker at Haverford College on Sunday to use the celebratory occasion to lambaste students who had protested against another speaker drew a standing ovation but also sharp criticism.
William G. Bowen, former president of Princeton, called the protestors' approach both "immature" and "arrogant" and the subsequent withdrawal as a speaker of Robert J. Birgeneau, former chancellor of the University of California Berkeley, a "defeat" for the Quaker college and its ideals.
Bowen's remarks to an audience of about 2,800, plus nearly 300 graduates, added a new twist to commencement speaker controversies playing out increasingly on college campuses. Bowen — one of three speakers who received an honorary degree — faced no opposition, but chose to address the issue, calling it "sad" and "troubling."
The controversy arose over Birgeneau's leadership during a 2011 incident in which UC Berkeley police used force on students protesting college costs. A group of more than 40 students and three Haverford professors — all Berkeley alums — objected to Birgeneau's appearance, noting that many of them had participated in Occupy protests as well and wanted to stand in solidarity with Berkeley students. (source)
I went to college in the 60's, an era rife with student protests and the clash of political ideas. But we invited and listened to one speaker after another. Today's students often appear to lack enough confidence in their own ideas to let their minds be exposed to alternative ideas. Most students were eager to hear opposing ideas. Sure there were the few who tried to shout down a speaker, but most sat and waited for a chance to talk to those they oppose either in a question and answer session or in a reception or by debating about the speaker in the student newspaper.
Why to do so many of today's students just want silence alternative ideas?
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The outcome, not the intent, is the legacy.
The university chancellor approved violence against peaceful protesters? Secretary Rice led the charge in a war of aggression in Iraq, when they didn't even attack us? The IMF guy represents the 1% big money elite, the epitome of have vs have-not?
I don't think you can say the students want to silence the alternative ideas. I think those speakers all represent the establishment. The students in those cases ARE the alternative point of view.
Did he specifically approve violence, or did he just tell the police (campus police?) to remove the protesters? And did the "peaceful" protesters incite violence by not removing themselves.
Being peaceful does not in and of itself guarantee peaceful police.
Here is your lesson
Leadership 101:
A leader is ALWAYS responsible for what happens or does not happens under his watch even if he is directly or indirectly connection to the scenario.
Fact is he ordered it and the end blame lies with him.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Sounds like a pretty absolute statement to me.
Adam, thanks for the reminder.
I was new in the Navy when I asked an old salt why captains often go down with their ships. He explained Leadership 101.
Since then I took Leadership 102:
Blame lies with the leaders on whose watches things happen until they persuade folks that the blame lies elsewhere.
I'm now in Leadership 103, learning how to persuade folks that nothing happened.
There are different kinds of responsibility. There is personal hands-on responsibility and organizational responsibility. Personal responsibility requires intent and foresight. Organizational responsibility is technical and in terms of culpability, very dilute.
Imagine an IRS agent is illegally doing favors for family and friends. What is his responsibility vs. Pres. Obama's?
Unless the guy told the cops to go out and crack heads, his responsibility is limited. Indeed, he may be well within his rights even if he did.
And, speaking of responsibility, the protestors had hijacked an area that other organizations may have gone to the trouble to reserve. There's no kind of protest I'm aware of that absolutely requires that the protestors take over an area and prevent other people from using it legally.
Merely being "peaceful" doesn't give one license to break law or rules.
It seems like Berkeley, of all places, would be adept at handling peaceful protesters in a sensitive manner. So, did the chancellor suspend the rules of engagement? Or did he just overlook it when the police didn't follow them?
I've been reacting to comments, and haven't really thrown in my own opinion regarding the OP, so…
Today's students often appear to lack enough confidence in their own ideas to let their minds be exposed to alternative ideas… Why to do so many of today's students just want silence alternative ideas?
I've been reading about this type of thing, but don't think it is so much a generational issue as it is an issue of ideology. The Post Modernist idea that the "personal is political" has been warped into the idea that an individual's feelings should be of importance to others, and a part of political dialogue. The result has been that ideological echo chambers are developing, and those who don't buy in cannot simply be considered to be in disagreement. Their disagreement is considered a personal attack on the feelings and person of who they disagree with.
The result has been the reliance on emotional argument over data, in-group vs. out-group hostility, the whole 'trigger warning' fiasco, labeling people as misogynists or homophobes of those who disagree, attempts to police other's language, and varying degrees of shaming, shunning, and witch hunting. These are the hallmark tactics of the Social Justice Warrior movement, who are pretty much the political left equivalent of creationists (a good example of them is the Atheism+ circus from a year or so ago).
I see the bulk of every demographic as being pretty decent, but each also has its fringe screw heads. I'd put a good share of this problem at the door of these particular screw heads, and their politically right mirror images.


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A sauna is more than just a place to sweat, bathe and relax. Finnish people may read in the sauna, hang clothes to dry in the sauna, wash a newborn baby in the sauna, do yoga in the sauna and even cook in the sauna.
The most common way to prepare food in a sauna is to wrap some sausages in tinfoil and roast them on the sauna stove. Add some garlic or cheese and voilà, dinner cooks itself while you are enjoying the löyly (literally "steam," but in a wider sense the word stands for the whole feeling and atmosphere of the sauna).
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Tefnut (Tefenet, Tefnet) was an ancient Egyptian goddess of moisture, but was strongly associated with both the moon and the sun. She was known as both the left (moon) and the right (sun) "Eyes of Ra" and represented moisture (as a lunar goddess) and dryness (or the absence of moisture, as a solar goddess). Her name means "She of moisture" and its root can be found in the Egyptian words for "moist" and "spit".
Tefnut was generally depicted as a lioness or a woman with a lion's head. Less often, she was depicted as a woman. She always wears a solar disk and Uraeus, and carries a sceptre (representing power) and the ankh (representing the breath of life). She also occasionally took the form of a cobra. She was originally considered to be the lunar "Eye of Ra" linking her to the night sky as well as to dew, rain and mist. However, she also took on the aspect of the sun as the solar "Eye of Ra", the protector of the sun god (also known as the "Lady of the Flame" and the "Uraeus on the Head of all the Gods"). She shared this role with a number of other goddesses including Sekhmet, Hathor, Mut, Bast, Isis, Wadjet and Nekhbet.
Her family background is fairly complex. She was originally associated with a god called Tefen. The Pyramid Texts inscribed in the tomb of Unas suggest that Tefnut and Tefen were closely involved in the weighing of the heart of the deceased by Ma´at. The text states; "Tefen and Tefnut have weighed Unas and Ma´at has listened, and Shu has born witness." However, Tefen seems to have disappeared into obscurity (one of the scorpions who accompanied Isis was called Tefen, but this may be a coincindence) and Tefnut´s role changed somewhat as time progressed, although she retained her connection with Ma´at. In Heliopolis (Iunu, On) and Thebes (Waset) she was generally described as the daughter of the creator god (Amun, Atum or Ra), the sister-wife of Shu, and the mother of Geb and Nut. She was sometimes shown helping Shu to hold Nut (the sky) above Geb (the earth).While, in Memphis she was also known as the "Tongue of Ptah" who had apparently helped him create life. Part of the city of Denderah (Iunet) was known as "The House of Tefnut" and she was worshipped in her lion form at Leontopolis (Nay-ta-hut).
According to legend, Shu and Tefnut went out into the waters of Nun (chaos). Their father, Ra, thought that he had lost them and sent his eye to find them. When they returned Ra was so happy that he wept, and his tears formed the first human beings.
Another legend states that Tefnut fell out with her father, Ra, while he lived on earth as the Pharaoh of Egypt. She left Egypt for Nubia taking all of the water and moisture with her. The fertile land soon dried up and the people suffered. Meanwhile, Tefnut was rampaging through Nubia in her leonine form. Ra eventually sent Thoth and Shu to get her back. When she returned (bringing the inundation with her) she visited each town in Egypt and there was much celebration and rejoicing throughout the land. This story may have originally referred to Anhur (also known as Onuris, who is associated with Shu ) and his wife Menhet (who also took leonine form). In another version of the tale it is Hathor or (Sekhmet) in her form of the "Eye of Re" who has left for Nubia and she has gone because she was tricked with blood coloured beer to prevent her from destroying mankind.
During the reign of Akenaten when many of the old gods were rejected, Tefnut and Shu remained in favour and Akhenaten and Nefertiti were often depicted as the twin lion gods. This suggests that Atenism was not in fact a monotheistic religion, but a henotheistic solar religion.
- Hornung, Erik (1999) The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
- Pinch, Geraldine (2002) Handbook Egyptian Mythology
- Redford Donald B (2002) Ancient Gods Speak
- Watterson, Barbara (1996) Gods of Ancient Egypt
- Wilkinson, Richard H. (2003) The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
- Wilkinson, Richard H. (2000) The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt


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David Grewal needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 147 designs submitted by 45 freelance designers.
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Pope Signals Greater Acceptance of Gay Priests
Pope Francis opened the door Sunday to greater acceptance of gay priests inside the ranks of Roman Catholicism as he flew home to the Vatican from his maiden trip overseas. Fordham University Professor of Catholic theology Terrence Tilley discusses the implications. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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It's time! :)
It's been a long time coming--I am pretty sure I started this room when I was still pregnant--but the Guest Room is finally done!
Here's how it looked before:
No paint on the walls, another room that was kind of a hodge podge of items from Mr. V and my collective pasts. There was nothing offensively ugly or anything... just....blah. It needed some freshening up and some color.
After all, if we wanted people to actually stay there, it should be inviting, right? ;)
Here's the after:
The color is Sherwin Williams Agreeable Grey. It's a light and airy grey with a bit more blue undertone than the Mindful Grey I used in the guest bathroom. I'm not really a huge fan of blue on walls in general and tend to steer away from blue-greys, but in this room this shade really works perfectly with Blue Betty up against the wall.
I have been in a yellow state of mind for the past 6 months and I think it's the perfect, cheery color for a guest room. Since I knew I was going grey on the walls, though, I was wary of doing yellow. The yellow/grey combo was so popular this past year, and I really was shooting for timeless, not trendy.
This bedding really spoke to me, and I deliberately chose the quilt and shams because the toile pattern gave it a very rustic feel - just the opposite of the modern design that has been trending.
To avoid the bed looking like a sea of yellow pattern, I broke up the color with a crisp white duvet and a simple white sham with yellow detail. I am still working on accent pillows for this bed - just haven't found the perfect combination of patterns just yet.
I swapped out the slightly contemporary headboard/footboard for this simple metal headboard with a vintage farmhouse feel.
Blue Betty is holding court against the wall and still needs some real accessorizing, but I have to think about that one for a bit.
I know I need to update that mirror, but it will probably have to go back on the wall... I think it's a little too big for a leaner on Betty.
In the opposite corner is one of my made-over dining chairs. This is where it lives when we don't have the leaves in the table downstairs. It's mate is chilling out in the basement.
I added the rug at the end of the bed for a little grounding with the black, but also to introduce a graphic contrast to the toile in the quilt. It helps keep the bedding from reading too feminine or "old."
I am still trying to figure out what to do with this blank wall opposite the bed.
Right now I'm in the "sit on the bed and stare at it" phase...we'll see if any inspiration whacks me upside the head.
Walls: Sherwin Williams Agreeable Grey
Headboard: Target
Blue Dresser ("Betty" ;) ): Antique via craigslist
Lamp: Found in my basement, new shade from Target
Curtains: Pier 1
Bedside stool: Gordman's
Rug: Pottery Barn clearance
Bedding/Pillows: IKEA, Pottery Barn, Target, Etsy
Overall I am really happy with the room.
It's still a work in progress so I know there will be changes coming, but for now I think at least it is a marked improvement over the "before!"
Hopefully our guests agree! :)


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As soon as the weather gets a little nicer, I would be interested in playing tennis with you. I also live in Plano. I usually play at Plano West Sr. High Schoool, but can easily go to High Point or PSHS.
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Hi Maria,
Did you find any one to play with, I can play in the evenings from next week once it warms up. I play at high point if you are interested please let me know. My rating is 2.5+ and still learning...my email address is [email removed - see profile]
Hi Brooks,
My name is Vi. I'm also around a 2.5 and live in NE Richardson. If you're interested, I play at the courts of Spring Park sports club (3330 SpringPark Way Garland 75044). Any day is ok, preferably around 11 AM.
Please let me know, my email is [email removed - see profile]. -Vi
Hi Brooks,
Here is my email so we can schedule when to meet: [email removed - see profile]
Have a nice day.
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How will this year's Bulls team do with Derrick Rose back? Can the team make a leap into the "genuine contender" category, or will their style of play lead to more injuries at just the wrong time? Will the team make a trade or stand pat?
These are the obvious burning questions and they are boring. I want answers to the itching questions nobody else is asking.
10. Why is coach Tom Thibodeau so cagey about his favorite composer?
In an offseason interview with Grantland's Zach Lowe, classical music buff Thibodeau declined to answer a question about his favorite composer or piece. Probably because he didn't want to sound gauche by admitting it's the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's rendition of "Chelsea Dagger."
9. What was the senior manager of interactive marketing's childhood like?
According to the staff directory, his name is Adam Fluck. That sounds like kind of a rough one. Hopefully he turned it to his advantage. I wish him plenty of Fluck.
8. How come Kirk Hinrich doesn't have gray hair?
I know Hinrich is only 32, but he has one of those dignified "premature gray" faces. Everything you hear from the Bulls about Hinrich talks about how much of a calming, professional veteran presence he brings to the team. He should dye his hair gray. Or stop dyeing it, if that's what he's doing, which I have no information about and am in no way insinuating. If Carlos Boozer can spray paint his bald head, Hinrich should be gray. That's all I'm saying.
7. Will the Bulls trade for a foreign player with an unpronounceable name to trip up radio play-by-play man Chuck Swirsky?
As it stands, this roster is depressingly pronounceable, which means Swirsky will resort to extensive nicknaming. In contrast, look at Milwaukee. The Bucks picked up a Greek kid named Giannis Antetokounmpo. I already have this year's Bulls-Bucks games circled on my calendar. "Brandon Knight to Anteto…koku…mempo… swish!" I'm going to go listen in the car and laugh my head off.
6. What games this year are you most likely to be given tickets to?
One of my favorite traditions in Chicago sports is the giving away of tickets to games that season ticket holders are OK with missing. The stands are full of teenagers and affable guys from the mailroom and there's a great "happy to be here" vibe to the proceedings even while the game itself is awful. Think Wrigley Field in early April when there's danger of a sleet delay. Looking at the schedule, I see Cleveland will be in town Dec. 21. That will be the Bulls' eighth game in a 12-day stretch, including road games in Milwaukee, New York, Houston and Oklahoma City. That looks especially brutal. My money's on that one.
5. How often will injuries to Noah and/or the ineffectiveness of Nazr Mohammed force the team into small-ball lineups with Carlos Boozer Taj Gibson at the five-spot, and can those lineups remain effective?
I'm just kidding, you guys. I don't know enough about basketball to know or care about things like this. I like it when they shoot and they score and then they dunk and they win! Basketball!
4. Why does the team need five dental consultants?
Back to that staff directory. How come the Bulls have five dentists on hand? Are the dentists divided by position? Are we sure five is enough? The way the NBA is evolving, should they also hire an additional dentist for small-ball lineups with a shooter at power forward?
3. Will the NBA do another Noche Latina promotion where they slap "Los Bulls" on the uniform, or will this finally be the year we get the full "Los Toros" treatment?
Don't get me wrong, I love Los Bulls, it's just that there's a word in Spanish that means "bulls." As much as it's nice for the NBA to say they love taking Latinos' money, it'd be even nicer to honor Latino heritage by forcing Americans to learn that "calor" means "heat," because that's what LeBron's jersey says.
2. Speaking of promotions, can I have an advance copy of the Jimmy Butler bobblehead?
I did not realize until I looked at the promotional schedule that my life is in sore need of a Jimmy Butler bobblehead. I would ask it yes or no questions to pump myself up. "Did you overcome a difficult childhood, including a brief period of homelessness?" (nods yes) "And are you now one of the most exciting young guard prospects in the entire NBA?" (nods) "And do you think I should drop out of grad school?" (shakes head vigorously). That is JUST what I need.
1. Will Joakim Noah hang out with Slash?
Noah should not cut that hair. What he should do instead is wear it down and top it off with a giant top hat that has a belt around it. That would be awesome.
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Oil field services firm Halliburton will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill in exchange for a fine and probation, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Halliburton has agreed, subject to the court's approval, to pay $200,000, the maximum-available statutory fine, and to be subject to three years of probation, the Justice Department said. The stunning development follows testimony at a civil trial earlier this year at which a former company lab manager admitted that he was asked to throw away his notes on some cement testing the company did after the spill.
It comes as a federal judge in New Orleans is weighing whether Halliburton, Transocean and BP were grossly negligent in connection with the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
A gross negligence finding would open the companies to potentially billions of dollars in punitive damages. Attorneys for victims suing the companies have suggested in court that Halliburton's conduct after the incident should be factored into the gross negligence finding.
Because the questions the former company official was asked at the civil trial involved cement samples and the charge announced Thursday involves centralizer modeling related to the cement, it was not immediately clear whether that testimony forms the basis, at least in part, of the charge to which Halliburton is pleading guilty to. The Justice Department declined to comment on the issue.
Halliburton said in a statement that the Justice Department has agreed that it will not pursue further criminal prosecution of the company or its subsidiaries for any conduct relating to or arising out of the well incident.
"The Department of Justice acknowledged the company's significant and valuable cooperation during the course of its investigation, and the company has agreed to continue to cooperate with the Department of Justice in any ongoing investigation related to or arising from the incident," the company, which is based in Houston and Dubai, said.
Authorities did not immediately say whether individuals also could face criminal charges for destroying evidence. Further court documents are expected to be filed as early as Friday. It wasn't immediately clear when Halliburton would enter its plea.
Separately, Halliburton made a voluntary contribution of $55 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation that was not conditioned on the court's acceptance of its plea agreement, the Justice Department said.
Halliburton has signed a cooperation and guilty plea agreement with the government.
BP owned the undersea well that blew out off Louisiana, triggering an explosion on the Transocean-owned Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers. Millions of gallons of oil spilled into the sea for nearly three months before the well was capped. Halliburton supplied the cement that failed to prevent oil and gas from seeping out.
Federal prosecutors say that after the well blowout, Halliburton established an internal working group to examine the Macondo well disaster, including whether the number of centralizers used on the final production casing could have contributed to the blowout.
Use of centralizers can help keep the casing centered in the wellbore away from the surrounding walls as it is lowered and placed in the well. Centralization can be significant to the quality of subsequent cementing around the bottom of the casing.
Halliburton had recommended to BP the use of 21 centralizers in the Macondo well. BP chose six centralizers instead.
Prosecutors say that the month after the blowout, a Halliburton official directed a senior program manager to run two computer simulations of the Macondo well final cementing job. The simulations indicated that there was little difference between using six and 21 centralizers. The program manager was directed to, and did, destroy the results, the Justice Department said.
The allegation is noteworthy because Halliburton has long publicly argued the opposite, that since BP didn't follow its advice on the number of centralizers the cement didn't hold and that BP should be liable for the disaster.
In June 2010, similar evidence also was destroyed when Halliburton's cementing technology director asked another, more experienced, employee to run simulations again comparing six versus 21 centralizers. The employee reached the same conclusion and, like the program manager before him, was then directed to "get rid of" the simulations, federal prosecutors say.
Efforts to forensically recover the original destroyed computer simulations during ensuing civil litigation and federal criminal investigation were unsuccessful, prosecutors say.
In March of this year, during the civil trial former Halliburton lab manager Timothy Quirk testified that a company official asked him not to record results of a cement stability test related to the blown-out well.
Quirk said that while the request was "a little unusual," he complied.
The test was conducted shortly after the spill, using ingredients similar to those used to seal the undersea well that blew out. Quirk said he told the results to the company official that asked for the test, then he threw away his notes.
"He did not want them reported," Quirk testified, referring to his former colleague. Quirk left Halliburton and was working for Chevron at the time of his testimony.
The testimony came a week after a Halliburton lawyer, Don Godwin, acknowledged that officials had recently discovered cement samples possibly tied to the ill-fated drilling project that weren't turned over to the Justice Department after the oil spill.
Plaintiffs attorneys have been seeking to show there was a cover-up over the cement samples in an effort to deflect attention away from Halliburton.


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Worth a mention: Fake Motshekga Twitter account emerges
The basic education department was in a fluster on Wednesday afternoon after it was alerted to tweets coming from what it said was a fake Twitter account under Minister Angie Motshekga's name.
On Tuesday the newly created @AngieMotshekga account tweeted: "Parents, make sure your children are on time tomorrow for the first day of school! Those mud schools aren't going to fill themselves!"
John Allers (@john_allers) responded: "And the text books won't walk to school by themselves."
The legacy of three court orders, a media furore, and pupils who went without the textbooks they needed for months last year appears to be holding strong.
The account could hardly be described as having followers en masse, however, although it was followed by some influential tweeters such as Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba and Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
On Tuesday the spoof account tweeted: "I got a call from an EC school that was on fire, I told them THERE IS NO CRISIS. Teaching to carry on as normal #backtoschool #nocrisis."
'Don't buy private education'
More tweets include: "Reports of a tjatjarag grade 1 kid in Limpopo refusing to come out from under his desk. We give them desks and you see what they do!" and "Don't buy private education, don't buy."
On Wednesday the department sent out a media statement saying Motshekga wanted to distance herself from a Twitter account claiming to be her own.
"Bogus news items, such as comments, were posted on the fake account; giving the mistaken impression that the minister was using that platform to engage with South Africans," departmental spokesperson Panyaza Lesufi said.
"We warn the public and those using social media to ignore the account as it does not represent the department, the minister or government.
The creator/s of this account are disrespectful and seek only to tarnish the good name of the minister, that we will not allow."
The department also tweeted this from its own Twitter account, @DBE_SA.
The fake @AngieMotshkega tweeted back: "There is a fake Twitter account out there that is trying to tarnish my good name! #mxm #mynameisverygood" and "I am my own person!"


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We are having beautiful autumn weather here at the moment. The nights have been quite cold and I have been searching Ravelry and planning things to knit (and once again the to do list will probably take the next 200 years). I have been wanting to make a Selbu Modern for a couple of years and recently bought some Rowan Fine Tweed which I think will be perfect for it. I haven't done any Fair Isle knitting for many years (and I think the small bits I have done were self taught) so I have been reading Mastering Color Knitting by Melissa Leapman which seems to explain everything really well.
With the mornings being very cold at the moment the front verandah in the sun has been the perfect place to be in the mornings. The girls and I spent the last days of the school holidays out there. They played and rode scooters and I spun. My lack of practise over the last few years is showing a bit, but hopefully it will knit up ok.


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National Hockey League Player Arrested For Repeatedly Grabbing Male Cop's Butt
This may count as a personal foul??
Claude Giroux, the Philadelphia Flyers captain, spent a night in a prison cell after celebrating Canada Day in his local Ottawa bar.
When he reportedly repeatedly grabbed a male officer's buttocks, he was hauled off to a local jail.
But following an investigation, and Giroux apologized for the 'prank', criminal charges will not be filed.
"I regret my actions on Canada Day and sincerely apologize to my fans, teammates and the Philadelphia Flyers organization for my misguided attempt at humor," he said in a statement.
"Following an investigation, law enforcement determined that charges are not warranted.
"I have the utmost respect for law enforcement and apologize to the Ottawa Police Department and specifically the individual officer. I will be making no further public comment on this matter."
Keep those butt grabs in the locker room where they belong, Claude.
Waiting at a traffic light some years ago, I wanted to compliment a motorcycle cop on his new bike. He was in the left-turn lane next to me. I rolled down the window and wanted to say "Nice bike!", but what came out of my mouth was "Nice Butt!". Immediately I wanted to melt into a puddle behind the wheel. He could have ticketed me for that. Instead he turned his head and with a wide grin said "Thanks!" Then the left-turn green arrow came on and he proceeded forward.
The cop's job is to serve the people and keep the piece of ass available for the public at all times.Cops usually like to beat ass not have their posterior fondled by a in heat, cute man.The cop should have bent over and gladly served his admirer. What would it have hurt? Just a bit when the head went in. Owe,..oh so good,..work that baton.Slobber pig. N.


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A sideways price pattern between two converging trendlines in which the lower line is rising while the upper line is flat. This is generally a bullish pattern. See ChartSchool article on Ascending Triangle (Continuation).
Also known as the "offer", the price that the market maker guarantees to fill a buy order. A buy order placed at the market will usually be filled at the current asking (offer) price. The ask price is usually greater than the bid price.
Any possessions that have value in an exchange.
An option whose strike price is equal to the price of the underlying security.
Part of the Directional Movement System developed by J. Welles Wilder, the ADX line is based on the spread between the +DI and -DI lines from that same system. See ChartSchool article on Average Directional Index.
An indicator that measures a security's volatility. High ATR values indicate high volatility and may be an indication of panic selling or panic buying. Low ATR readings indicate sideways movement by the stock. See ChartSchool article on Average True Range.


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Well, we're talking about very profound and rarefied levels of spiritual development and abilities here. Simply stated, these subtle obscurations are the cognitive obscurations which differentiate an eighth to tenth stage bodhisattva from a buddha, in terms of realization, powers, etc.kalden yungdrung wrote:What is subtle here?
Whatever system of practice one engages in: Yogācāra, Mādhyamaka, Pureland, Chan, Vajrayāna, etc., the bodhisattva stages are still valid. Just because someone has entered the Vajrayāna doesn't mean that they have the realization of a first stage bodhisattva, let alone a tenth stage bodhisattva or a buddha.
The purified portion of the basis (āśraya) is revealed by correctly and successfully engaging in the five paths and progressing through the ten stages according to the pāramitāyāna teachings.kalden yungdrung wrote:Is defiled and purified not based on karma?
Yes. And even though the skillful roots are said to be stored in the ālayavijñāna, they are not part of the ālayavijñāna per se, because they impede and eliminate defilements.kalden yungdrung wrote:I guess that you mean here the Alaya Vinjana where all karmic traces are stored?
Yogācāra.kalden yungdrung wrote:What is in your opinion the better name for Cittamatra?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Open will be held at Winged Foot for the sixth time when the second major golf championship of the season is staged at the New York course in 2020.
"We're thrilled to bring the U.S. Open back to this outstanding club," said United States Golf Association vice president Thomas J. O'Toole Jr in a news release on Monday.
"Winged Foot offers a spectacular setting in a dynamic market and has justifiably earned its reputation as one of the premier U.S. Open venues in the nation."
The course, located 25 miles north of New York City in Westchester County, last hosted the U.S. Open in 2006 when Australian Geoff Ogilvy pipped American duo Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk and Colin Montgomerie of Britain to the title.
Winged Foot also staged the championship in 1929, 1959, 1974 and 1984.
The Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, the venue in 2016, has staged the tournament eight times.
Baltusrol in New Jersey hosted the U.S. Open for the seventh time in 1993 while Oakland Hills in Michigan staged the championship for the sixth occasion in 1996.
Pebble Beach in California will be the venue for the sixth time in 2019.
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Libraries Building and Unit Updates
The UW Libraries seeks to provide facilities that are responsive to a variety of student and faculty needs. Libraries are being reframed as more flexible spaces for collaborative work, individual study, teaching and learning, and integrated research. We hope that any inconvenience resulting from the facilities work over the summer will be offset by the new and improved space in the fall.
As Libraries units consolidate, move, re-organize and relocate materials, the location of some materials may change on a daily and hourly basis.
So if you can't find the materials you're looking for in a specific location, please ask at an information desk for up to date location. You may also reserve materials online and have them sent to a specific library for pick up. This typically will take 24-48 hours. Please note that if some materials have been moved to closed stacks, you will have to request the items.
Suzzallo Espresso and Market
- July 22 & 23: wireless upgrades for laptops will be installed in Suzzallo 101 and 102. Workers will have to access the ceiling, so ladders will be in use.
- Suzzallo Espresso and Market is now open, with expanded food choices and a larger espresso counter plus a new seating area across the hall in Room 102.
Suzzallo Ground Floor
- Ongoing during summer: Maps, Microforms and Newspapers (MicNews) and Government Publications area will be undergoing movement of furniture and materials, and consolidation to one service desk.
- August 23-27: Maps, Microforms and Newspapers (MicNews) and Government Publications will be CLOSED.
Anticipated completion date: September 29, 2010
Allen Library Research Commons (Allen South Ground Floor)
- Ongoing during summer: Construction work, wiring upgrades, painting, carpet installation, and movement of panels and furniture. Expect limited access to public areas on the ground floor of Allen South later in the summer. We will post firm dates when the construction schedule is set.
Anticipated completion date: September 29, 2010 (more)
Foster Business Library and PACCAR Hall
- A temporary entrance to the library is through Balmer Hall basement. Expect a reduced number of PC stations and seating, and no study rooms.
- Ongoing during summer: Construction work to physically connect the Foster Business Library and PACCAR Hall and create a new library entrance from the mezzanine of PACCAR Hall.
- Sept 14–21: Foster Business Library will be CLOSED. Relocation of materials and furniture from Balmer Hall back to renovated Foster Business Library.
Anticipated completion date: September 29, 2010 (more)
- 2010-2012: Balmer Hall demolition and replacement.
Health Sciences Library
- Ongoing during summer: movement of materials and shelving, reconfiguration of Library. Expect limited access to certain areas.
Anticipated completion date: September 29, 2010
Social Work Library
- Social Work Library has been permanently closed. Materials relocated to Suzzallo and Allen, or to closed stacks. Book drops are closed.
- School of Social Work will maintain the space as a reading room and research commons. Angela Lee, Librarian, will maintain her office in the current location.
Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUGL)
- University Book Store branch is open on OUGL's ground floor, behind the information desk. Textbook buyback is available at this branch.
- Ongoing: Electrical and wireless enhancements for student laptops will be underway during the summer, along with fire safety upgrades. Expect noise in areas of the library, and limited access to certain areas.
- Ongoing during summer: By George cafeteria will be upgraded and expanded.
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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RFMD (Nasdaq:RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, today announced that multiple upcoming 4G reference designs and 4G smartphones will feature RFMD's envelope tracking (ET) power amplifiers (PAs) and power management integrated circuits (PMICs). RFMD's ET-capable RF solutions enable next-generation 4G smartphones and tablets to achieve significantly enhanced power efficiency, resulting in enhanced battery life across modes and bands, increased network coverage, and higher data throughput.
The upcoming 4G baseband reference designs featuring RFMD's ET-capable RF solutions will support global multimode, multi-band coverage and feature advanced multi-core processing capabilities. The upcoming 4G smartphones will incorporate multiple RFMD ET-capable RF solutions, including MMMB and discrete satellite PAs and ET PMICs. RFMD estimates its ET-capable RF solutions will support the leading ET-capable LTE devices scheduled to ramp in 2014. As an example, in an upcoming ET-capable flagship Android smartphone, RFMD's content will include RFMD's ET MMMB PA (covering bands 1-5, 8, 18 and 26), three ET satellite PAs (for bands 7, 17 and 20), a PA module for TD-LTE (band 41) and 3G/4G antenna diversity switches.
"RFMD is uniquely positioned to expand our content in the world's leading 4G devices throughout 2014, as major new programs are introduced and ramp to volume production," said Eric Creviston, president of RFMD's Cellular Products Group. "By combining our deep systems-level expertise with the breadth of our PA product portfolio and our leadership in RF power management, cellular switching, and antenna control, we are designing, manufacturing and delivering the broadest portfolio of scalable, end-to-end RF solutions, and we are helping the world's leading smartphone manufacturers to progress quickly and efficiently from design and layout through to mass production."
RFMD is a pioneer in the development of RF power management and ET technology. Unlike traditional PAs designed to operate with a constant supply voltage, the supply voltage applied to RFMD's ET-enabled PAs is continuously adjusted so that the amplifier operates at maximum power efficiency. The result is much lower battery power consumption, particularly in LTE platforms. RFMD's growing ET product portfolio is tailored for today's leading LTE chipsets and provides full ET compatible coverage of all FD-LTE and TD-LTE bands (1-14, 17-21, 25-28, 38, 39, 40, 41, and 44).
RFMD provides customers and reference design channel partners the broadest coverage of cellular modes and bands across all major RF functions, including ET- and average power tracking- (APT-) capable multimode multi-band (MMMB) and discrete (single-band) PAs, APT and ET PMICs, cellular switches, antenna tuners, impedance tuners, routing switches, low noise amplifiers (LNAs), antenna switch modules, switch filter modules, and switch duplexer modules. RFMD is leveraging its deep engineering resources to combine best-in-class products and technologies into complete RF front end solutions that are tailored to each individual customer's applications.
RFMD is presenting the Company's expanding portfolio of high performance RF solutions for smartphones, tablets, and other broadband mobile devices at the 2014 GSMA Mobile World Congress, held February 24 to February 27, 2014, in Barcelona, Spain.
About RFMD
RFMD (Nasdaq:RFMD) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions. RFMD's products enable worldwide mobility, provide enhanced connectivity, and support advanced functionality in the mobile device, wireless infrastructure, wireless local area network (WLAN or Wi-Fi), cable television (CATV)/broadband, Smart Energy/advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and aerospace and defense markets. RFMD is recognized for its diverse portfolio of semiconductor technologies and RF systems expertise and is a preferred supplier to the world's leading mobile device, customer premises, and communications equipment providers. RFMD is an ISO 9001-, ISO 14001-, and ISO/TS 16949-certified manufacturer with worldwide engineering, design, sales and service facilities. For more information, please visit RFMD's web site at rfmd.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about our plans, objectives, representations and contentions and are not historical facts and typically are identified by use of terms such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential," "continue" and similar words, although some forward-looking statements are expressed differently. You should be aware that the forward-looking statements included herein represent management's current judgment and expectations, but our actual results, events and performance could differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. We do not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements or publicly announce the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements, other than as is required under the federal securities laws. RF Micro Devices' business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including variability in operating results, the inability of certain of our customers or suppliers to access their traditional sources of credit, our industry's rapidly changing technology, our dependence on a few large customers for a substantial portion of our revenue, our ability to implement innovative technologies, our ability to bring new products to market and achieve design wins, the efficient and successful operation of our wafer fabrication facilities, assembly facilities and test and tape and reel facilities, our ability to adjust production capacity in a timely fashion in response to changes in demand for our products, variability in manufacturing yields, industry overcapacity and current macroeconomic conditions, inaccurate product forecasts and corresponding inventory and manufacturing costs, dependence on third parties and our ability to manage channel partners and customer relationships, our dependence on international sales and operations, our ability to attract and retain skilled personnel and develop leaders, the possibility that future acquisitions may dilute our shareholders' ownership and cause us to incur debt and assume contingent liabilities, fluctuations in the price of our common stock, additional claims of infringement on our intellectual property portfolio, lawsuits and claims relating to our products, security breaches and other similar disruptions compromising our information and exposing us to liability and the impact of stringent environmental regulations. These and other risks and uncertainties, which are described in more detail in RF Micro Devices' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports and statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause actual results and developments to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any of these forward-looking statements.
CONTACT: At RFMD(R) Doug DeLieto VP, Investor Relations 336-678-7088 Media Contact Brent Dietz Director of Corporate Communications 336-678-7935 email@example.com
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RockstarVisible needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 115 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
My Jewelry Boutique
We sell high quality costume jewelry (not Halloween) that consists of jewelry using Austrian and Egyptian Crystals. We have full time designers on our team that really try to incorporate trends from fashion into our jewelry. We try our best to make customers feel special!
Our current target audience seems to be older Americans. However with this new Online Jewelry Site, we want to go after a younger more diverse population, specifically the 18 to 29 year old market of females in the US.
Our name is My Jewelry Boutique.
Tagline: because you deserve it
Color Scheme: incorporating purple and pink and more feminine colors rather than the black or light blue.
we were thinking of calling ourselves just My JB for short, so maybe a logo that emphasizes My JB and the ewelry and outique go downwards below the JB respectively.
We do own the domain name: MyJewelryBoutique.com so maybe incorporating the .com would be good.
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Yahh today was another bonus end of season session at crissy. IM soo stoked f or costa rica in 2 weeks.. damnn im gonna be so tired when i come back!
My Photography ==> www.Loscocco.com
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Eyewear:Kurtis Surf Goggles www.KurtisUSA.com
It's tough now though, if you need to get some work done during the day, anyway. When is sunset now? 5:15 or so?
Speaking of the dark we used to kite at night in PR during a full moon. Awsome time. Probably not an option here but for all you going away to some place tropical and flat during a full moon might be something you would wanna try. We put glow sticks on out boards with zip ties and attached 2 more to each side of our kite so we could see each other. We also always had someone on the beach watching. Was definitely and experience.
Glow sticks are for wimps.
Bruce S. rode from Little Baja to Rio Vista on a full moon night, au naturel.
That was before the CG shut down nighttime riding at Sherman. Hey wait, didn't you say you're in the CG?
aka Pablito
It says 10M, but it's really a 9.
Yeah, full moon is plenty, especially if you are already on the water. It's different when you are riggin at night and going out, thats a harder adjustment.
Why did they shut down night riding at sherman. I know that boats have to have a light on it after sunset so If you put a glow stick or light on your kite and board to satisfy that rule, I dunno if they can stop you if your obeying sailing nav rules at night. Remember put your red glow stick on the left green on the right .
but seriously im gonna ask around work about this and see if theres a way around it or something we can do
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Highlights of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic children's novel, Little House on the Prairie, provides passages where hypothermia is evidenced. It is suggested that these passages can be used as examples within a general unit on health and the human... (View More) body, or even as an introduction to a writing assignment on observations. This resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications. (View Less)
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Hope you are having a nice Friday!
Today's post is all about the fab dress deftly embroidered with exquisite
floral details.
This dress from Miss Selfridge is the perfect combination of feminity and
As you see the original dress from the link below, you will notice
that I cut the length and took off black tapes to fit my size and taste.
I do often diy my outfits, even labeled ones.
This time I wanted to make it for more casual-use, and lighter for the super-hot
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At least Jeter didn't have to do what Federer did.... lol
Staying Alive featuring Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter, Roger Federer by Gillette.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Derek Jeter, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer
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tbh, those guys must like doing commercials, because there is no way Woods or Jeter or Federer need Cash. This is just extra chump change. Wish I could make money that easy :(
- April 20, 2009 at 5:24 PM
- Roberto said...
lol you are right !
- April 20, 2009 at 5:30 PM
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Dizm Eco Eyewear: A brand that is making a difference in fashion and the environment, welcomes Cheyne Magnusson to the Dizm Dayz Movement.
"When I'm walking down the beach and I see a piece of trash, I pick it up. No one likes a dirty beach. I'm stoked be a part of the Dizm Dayz family making a difference… and the shades are sick!" Cheyne Magnusson.
Dizm is not just another sunglass company, it's an movement. The Dizm Dayz movement is about taking 5 minutes out of your day to do a little extra. Our mission is to participate in and promote environmental & socially conscious acts each day. With everyone pledging to do their part, 5 minutes adds up to a world of difference.
At the age of sixteen, Magnusson was the 2000 Men's Hawaiian State Champion in surfing. In June of that year, he then represented the state of Hawaii in Brazil at the world championships. In 2007 Cheyne starred in the reality TV series Maui Fever.


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Staggy wrote:The team played exactly the same way in front of Vokoun in the first period of Game 5 and all of Game 6 that they did in Games 2-4 in front of Fleury. Vokoun let in 3 goals in 4 periods, Fleury let in 14 goals in 9 periods.
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The Rutgers Plant Science Research and Extension Farm in Adelphia (Monmouth County) supports research and extension programs advancing fine and athletic field turf directly applicable to turf and agronomic crops and to plant and soil interaction. The center's research is used in solving problems relating to the production of food, feed, or fiber and problems relating to environmental or aesthetic quality.
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Director: William Meyer
Phone: 848-932-6222
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