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Chapter One
The sun was only half as hot as he had known sun to be, but it was hot enough to keep him confused and dizzy. He was very weak. He had not eaten for seventy-two hours, or taken water for forty-eight.
Not weak. He was dying, and he knew it.
The images in his mind showed things drifting away. A rowboat caught in a river current, straining against a rotted rope, pulling, tugging, breaking free. His viewpoint was that of a small boy in the boat, sitting low, staring back helplessly at the bank as the dock grew smaller.
Or an airship swinging gently on a breeze, somehow breaking free of its mast, floating up and away, slowly, the boy inside seeing tiny urgent figures on the ground, waving, staring, their faces tilted upward in concern.
Then the images faded, because now words seemed more important than pictures, which was absurd, because he had never been interested in words before. But before he died he wanted to know which words were his. Which applied to him? Was he a man or a boy? He had been described both ways. Be a man, some had said. Others had been insistent: The boy's not to blame. He was old enough to vote and kill and die, which made him a man. He was too young to drink, even beer, which made him a boy. Was he brave, or a coward? He had been called both things. He had been called unhinged, disturbed, deranged, unbalanced, delusional, traumatized, all of which he understood and accepted, except unhinged. Was he supposed to be hinged? Like a door? Maybe people were doors. Maybe things passed through them. Maybe they banged in the wind. He considered the question for a long moment and then he batted the air in frustration. He was babbling like a teenager in love with weed.
Which is exactly all he had been, a year and a half before.
He fell to his knees. The sand was only half as hot as he had known sand to be, but it was hot enough to ease his chill. He fell facedown, exhausted, finally spent. He knew as certainly as he had ever known anything that if he closed his eyes he would never open them again.
But he was very tired.
So very, very tired.
More tired than a man or a boy had ever been.
He closed his eyes.
Chapter Two
The line between Hope and Despair was exactly that: a line, in the road, formed where one town's blacktop finished and the other's started. Hope's highway department had used thick dark asphalt rolled smooth. Despair had a smaller municipal budget. That was clear. They had top-dressed a lumpy roadbed with hot tar and dumped gray gravel on it. Where the two surfaces met there was an inch-wide trench of no-man's-land filled with a black rubbery compound. An expansion joint. A boundary. A line. Jack Reacher stepped over it midstride and kept on walking. He paid it no attention at all.
But he remembered it later. Later, he was able to recall it in great detail.
Hope and Despair were both in Colorado. Reacher was in Colorado because two days previously he had been in Kansas, and Colorado was next to Kansas. He was making his way west and south. He had been in Calais, Maine, and had taken it into his head to cross the continent diagonally, all the way to San Diego in California. Calais was the last major place in the Northeast, San Diego was the last major place in the Southwest. One extreme to the other. The Atlantic to the Pacific, cool and damp to hot and dry. He took buses where there were any and hitched rides where there weren't. Where he couldn't find rides, he walked. He had arrived in Hope in the front passenger seat of a bottle-green Mercury Grand Marquis driven by a retired button salesman. He was on his way out of Hope on foot because that morning there had been no traffic heading west toward Despair.
He remembered that fact later, too. And wondered why he hadn't wondered why.
In terms of his grand diagonal design, he was slightly off course. Ideally he should have been angling directly southwest into New Mexico. But he wasn't a stickler for plans, and the Grand Marquis had been a comfortable car, and the old guy had been fixed on Hope because he had three grandchildren to see there, before heading onward to Denver to see four more. Reacher had listened patiently to the old guy's family tales and had figured that a saw-tooth itinerary first west and then south was entirely acceptable. Maybe two sides of a triangle would be more entertaining than one. And then in Hope he had looked at a map and seen Despair seventeen miles farther west and had been unable to resist the detour. Once or twice in his life he had made the same trip metaphorically. Now he figured he should make it for real, since the opportunity was right there in front of him.
He remembered that whim later, too.
The road between the two towns was a straight two-lane. It rose very gently as it headed west. Nothing dramatic. The part of eastern Colorado that Reacher was in was pretty flat. Like Kansas. But the Rockies were visible up ahead, blue and massive and hazy. They looked very close. Then suddenly they didn't. Reacher breasted a slight rise and stopped dead and understood why one town was called Hope and the other Despair. Settlers and homesteaders struggling west a hundred and fifty years before him would have stopped over in what came to be called Hope and would have seen their last great obstacle seemingly within touching distance. Then after a day's or a week's or a month's repose they would have moved on again and breasted the same slight rise and seen that the Rockies' apparent proximity had been nothing more than a cruel trick of topography. An optical illusion. A trick of the light. From the top of the rise the great barrier seemed once again remote, even unreachably distant, across hundreds more miles of endless plains. Maybe thousands more miles, although that too was an illusion. Reacher figured that in truth the first significant peaks were about two hundred miles away. A long month's hard trekking on foot and in mule-drawn carts, across featureless wilderness and along occasional decades-old wheel ruts. Maybe six weeks' hard trekking, in the wrong season. In context, not a disaster, but certainly a bitter disappointment, a blow hard enough to drive the anxious and the impatient from hope to despair in the time between one glance at the horizon and the next.
Reacher stepped off Despair's gritty road and walked through crusted sandy earth to a table rock the size of a car. He levered himself up and lay down with his hands behind his head and stared up at the sky. It was pale blue and laced with long high feathery clouds that might once have been vapor trails from coast-to-coast red-eye planes. Back when he smoked he might have lit a cigarette to pass the time. But he didn't smoke anymore. Smoking implied carrying at least a pack and a book of matches, and Reacher had long ago quit carrying things he didn't need. There was nothing in his pockets except paper money and an expired passport and an ATM card and a clip-together toothbrush. There was nothing waiting for him anywhere else, either. No storage unit in a distant city, nothing stashed with friends. He owned the things in his pockets and the clothes on his back and the shoes on his feet. That was all, and that was enough. Everything he needed, and nothing he didn't.
He got to his feet and stood on tiptoe, high on the rock. Behind him to the east was a shallow bowl maybe ten miles in diameter with the town of Hope roughly in its center, eight or nine miles back, maybe ten blocks by six of brick-built buildings and an outlying clutter of houses and farms and barns and other structures made of wood and corrugated metal. Together they made a warm low smudge in the haze. Ahead of him to the west were tens of thousands of flat square miles, completely empty except for ribbons of distant roads and the town of Despair about eight or nine miles ahead. Despair was harder to see than Hope. The haze was thicker in the west. The place looked larger than Hope had been, and teardrop-shaped, with a conventional plains downtown mostly south of the main drag and then a wider zone of activity beyond it, maybe industrial in nature, hence the smog. Despair looked less pleasant than Hope. Cold, where Hope had looked warm; gray, where Hope had been mellow. It looked unwelcoming. For a brief moment Reacher considered backtracking and striking out south from Hope itself, getting back on course, but he dismissed the thought even before it had fully formed. Reacher hated turning back. He liked to press on, dead ahead, whatever. Everyone's life needed an organizing principle, and relentless forward motion was Reacher's.
He was angry at himself later, for being so inflexible.
He climbed off the rock and rejoined the road twenty yards west of where he had left it. He stepped up onto the left-hand edge and continued walking, long strides, an easy pace, a little faster than three miles an hour, facing oncoming traffic, the safest way. But there was no oncoming traffic. No traffic in either direction. The road was deserted. No vehicles were using it. No cars, no trucks. Nothing. No chance of a ride. Reacher was a little puzzled, but mostly unconcerned. Many times in his life he had walked a lot more than seventeen miles at a stretch. He raked the hair off his forehead and pulled his shirt loose on his shoulders and kept on going, toward whatever lay ahead.
Chapter Three
Despair's downtown area began with a vacant lot where something had been planned maybe twenty years before but never built. Then came an old motor court, shuttered, maybe permanently abandoned. Across the street and fifty yards west was a gas station. Two pumps, both of them old. Not the kind of upright rural antiques Reacher had seen in Edward Hopper's paintings, but still a couple of generations off the pace. There was a small hut in back with a grimy window full of quarts of oil arrayed in a pyramid. Reacher crossed the apron and stuck his head in the door. It was dark inside the hut and the air smelled of creosote and hot raw wood. There was a guy behind a counter, in worn blue overalls stained black with dirt. He was about thirty, and lean.
"Got coffee?" Reacher asked him.
"This is a gas station," the guy said.
"Gas stations sell coffee," Reacher said. "And water, and soda."
"Not this one," the guy said. "We sell gas."
"And oil."
"If you want it."
"Is there a coffee shop in town?"
"There's a restaurant."
"Just one?"
"One is all we need."
Reacher ducked back out to the daylight and kept on walking. A hundred yards farther west the road grew sidewalks and according to a sign on a pole changed its name to Main Street. Thirty feet later came the first developed block. It was occupied by a dour brick cube, three stories high, on the left side of the street, to the south. It might once have been a dry goods emporium. It was still some kind of a retail enterprise. Reacher could see three customers and bolts of cloth and plastic household items through its dusty groundfloor windows. Next to it was an identical three-story brick cube, and then another, and another. The downtown area seemed to be about twelve blocks square, bulked mostly to the south of Main Street. Reacher was no kind of an architectural expert, and he knew he was way west of the Mississippi, but the whole place gave him the feel of an old Connecticut factory town, or the Cincinnati riverfront. It was plain, and severe, and unadorned, and out of date. He had seen movies about small-town America in which the sets had been artfully dressed to look a little more perfect and vibrant than reality. This place was the exact opposite. It looked like a designer and a whole team of grips had worked hard to make it dowdier and gloomier than it needed to be. Traffic on the streets was light. Sedans and pick-up trucks were moving slow and lazy. None of them was newer than three years old. There were few pedestrians on the sidewalks.
Reacher made a random left turn and set about finding the promised restaurant. He quartered a dozen blocks and passed a grocery store and a barber shop and a bar and a rooming house and a faded old hotel before he found the eatery. It took up the whole ground floor of another dull brick cube. The ceiling was high and the windows were floor-to-ceiling plate glass items filling most of the walls. The place might have been an automobile showroom in the past. The floor was tiled and the tables and chairs were plain brown wood and the air smelled of boiled vegetables. There was a register station inside the door with a Please Wait to Be Seated sign on a short brassed pole with a heavy base. Same sign he had seen everywhere, coast to coast. Same script, same colors, same shape. He figured there was a catering supply company somewhere turning them out by the millions. He had seen identical signs in Calais, Maine, and expected to see more in San Diego, California. He stood next to the register and waited.
And waited.
There were eleven customers eating. Three couples, a threesome, and two singletons. One waitress. No front-of-house staff. Nobody at the register. Not an unusual ratio. Reacher had eaten in a thousand similar places and he knew the rhythm, subliminally. The lone waitress would soon glance over at him and nod, as if to say I'll be right with you. Then she would take an order, deliver a plate, and scoot over, maybe blowing an errant strand of hair off her cheek in a gesture designed to be both an apology and an appeal for sympathy. She would collect a menu from a stack and lead him to a table and bustle away and then revisit him in strict sequence.
But she didn't do any of that.
She glanced over. Didn't nod. Just looked at him for a long second and then looked away. Carried on with what she was doing. Which by that point wasn't much. She had all her eleven customers pacified. She was just making work. She was stopping by tables and asking if everything was all right and refilling coffee cups that were less than an inch down from the rim. Reacher turned and checked the door glass to see if he had missed an opening-hours sign. To see if the place was about to close up. It wasn't. He checked his reflection, to see if he was committing a social outrage with the way he was dressed. He wasn't. He was wearing dark gray pants and a matching dark gray shirt, both bought two days before in a janitorial surplus store in Kansas. Janitorial supply stores were his latest discovery. Plain, strong, well-made clothing at reasonable prices. Perfect. His hair was short and tidy. He had shaved the previous morning. His fly was zipped.
Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on. They're picking on the wrong guy.
Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide?
With just one ally—a mysterious woman cop from Hope—and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town, hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edge—a man with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose?
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The charge for ordering a copy of a birth, marriage or death certificate from the GRO will be going up from 6 April from £7 to £9.25. While I don't have a problem with them needing to cover their costs, I will certainly be dipping into the piggy bank and seeing how many I can order before then, as that's quite a difference once translated to to my current NZ-dollar purchasing-power.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
BMD certificates
Posted by Unknown at 7:23 pm
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2 comments:
- Purple Heather said...
From the latest Lost Cousins newsletter about the cost of certificates:
According to the announcement the increase is to ensure that they cover their costs. However, I find it hard to believe that they don't make a thumping great profit even at £7 a certificate, especially considering that they sell around 2 million a year. How much can it possibly cost to print an A4 sheet of paper, fold it in half, and put it in an envelope?
Fortunately there is no need to conjecture, because in 2008 somebody very perspicaciously wrote to the GRO and used the Freedom of Information Act to get the answers - you can see the response here (http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/files/ips/live/assets/documents/FOI9902_response.pdf). Looking though the numbers it's hard to come up with a cost of more than £2 a certificate, including printing, labour, postage, and envelopes. No doubt they will claim that there are all sorts of other expenses which aren't listed, but my suspicion is that they are asking us to pay for their failed digitisation projects, DoVE and MAGPIE, which were abandoned a couple of years ago.
- 12/3/10 5:39 am
- Alex said...
Thanks for that link Purple Heather. I find it interesting that they state within that response that historic data is already digitised (unless they are just talking about the indices but it does sound like they are talking about the central certificate info itself) - in which case why not offer a cheaper non-certified, internet-accessible version of this data for family historians?
In their favour, I know from personal experience that if you give them a reference that is incorrect they will search wider than just the quarter/year combo stated in an attempt to find it for you, and they also don't charge more for overseas postage.
- 13/3/10 7:06 am

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Oregon State at the 2013 College World Series.
Rea's blow into the right-center field gap with two outs scored Alex Detz and Hunter Renfroe ahead of him, putting Mississippi State ahead. Bulldogs closer Jonathan Holder struggled to hold the lead in the ninth, allowing a single and a walk. But he retired Danny Hayes on a long fly to end the game as Mississippi State advanced to Monday's winners bracket.
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There are a number of applications on the market with a wide range of features, functionality and prices that can successfully address the above pain points. This guide will help explain the benefits that can be realized with dashboard software, the top features and functionality offered and common buyer scenarios to be aware of.
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|KPI visibility
|Allows users to access key performance metrics from a single dashboard. Also gives them the ability to create department-specific dashboards, or create reports for executives so they can access the most important metrics instantly.
|Interactive dashboards
|Enables users to quickly create new dashboards and reports from a set of regular data sources. You can also define how users can click on any metric to drill-down further for additional information.
|Timeframe comparison
|Gives the ability to compare key metrics over time so users can quickly identify trends and areas for improvement.
|Customizable permissions
|Enables the definition of multiple permission levels to customize which dashboards and reports different employees can access.
|Alerts and notifications
|Alerts can be configured to notify users of immediate changes in performance. These notifications can be sent to an email address, or notify users directly within the application.
|Web accessibility
|Many BI dashboards are Web-based, meaning they are accessible from any device with a Web browser. Users can log in from anywhere to access their dashboards and reports.
|Native mobile apps
|As smartphone and tablet devices have increased in both popularity and functionality, vendors have invested in the development of beautiful, fast mobile apps. Many vendors now offer native solutions for Apple iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
|Data integration
|Dashboard users can pull data from their own database, other business applications or a variety of other sources. The dashboard then becomes a central analytical tool for the entire organization.
Dashboard software offers organizations a host of benefits. The top three benefits that can be realized with dashboard software applications include:
Increased visibility of key metrics. Interactive reports and scorecards mean users can quickly slice-and-dice data in interesting ways. Anyone with access to the dashboard software can review historical KPIs to inform future decisions.
Customizable reports (without IT assistance). In the past, IT professionals were likely the only team members with technical capability to build new, customized analytics reports. Today, dashboard solutions make it easy for less-technical workers to build powerful reports tailored to their needs.
Real-time access to data. Data can be integrated from a variety of sources, providing dashboard users access to key business metrics in real time. Dashboard software users only need to log-in and select a few parameters to quickly obtain up-to-date analytics. And once a new dashboard is built, the report will update in real-time, reducing the time spent crunching numbers and leaving more time for the analyst to analyze trends.
As you begin your research for a new dashboard software solution, it's important to know what type of buyer you are so you can make the best decision for your organization. Consider if you fall into any of the following categories, as these different buyer types will require specific functionality in their dashboard applications.
Department managers and business users. Many dashboard software providers offer pre-built, department-specific scorecards and reports to help business users quickly find the most important metrics. These dashboard applications are often built into or built on top of popular customer relationship management (CRM), human resources (HR) suites and many other business applications.
Corporate executives. Executives need the ability to track KPIs from a bird's-eye view, but should still be able to drill-down and investigate specific metrics. These buyers will often need dashboards that can be highly customized, with a back-end infrastructure that can support data integration from a large number of systems and databases.
Software vendors. Analytics functionality is a common feature in many business software applications. Vendors can choose to embed dashboard software directly within its own application, or provide the functionality via another means, such as a custom portal. Customer service solution vendor Zendesk, for example, offers dashboard functionality by embedding the GoodData business intelligence platform.


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There's a bunch of backstory here, but chances are if you've never seen an episode of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey," you won't care anyway. Just enjoy this nuclear dinner freakout, courtesy of Teresa and Danielle.
On last night's ridiculous season finale, dishes flew, one called the other a "prostitute whore" and a table was nearly tossed over.
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St. Peter, Minn. – On what was a drizzly Saturday afternoon at Hollingsworth Field, the Gustavus football team suffered a 16-0 loss to Valley City State University on Homecoming. With a 9-0 lead following three field goals by kicker Thomas Cortez, Valley City State added a late touchdown to hand Gustavus its second straight loss.
With the loss, Gustavus drops to 4-2 overall, while Valley City State is now 5-2.
Relying on a fast and physical defense that bottled up Gustavus quarterback Muresuk Mena (Sr., Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) for much of the afternoon, Valley City Sate made few mistakes on offense and took advantage of its opportunities in the red zone. The Vikings held the time of possession advantage 41:01-to-18:59 and scored on all four of its trips to the red zone.
After a pair of long drives on their first two possessions of the game, the Vikings grabbed a 6-0 lead after Thomas Cortez nailed 31-yard field goal at 10:10 of the first quarter and a 32-yard field goal at 13:39 of the second quarter. Valley City State tallied 132 yards of offense on its first two drives while eating up over 14 minutes of clock.
Gustavus had possession of the ball just four times in the first half, punting three times before time expired on its last drive of the half. The Gusties gained 86 yards of offense in the first half, as Valley City State took a 6-0 lead into halftime.
Gustavus' offense began to pick up late in the third quarter. Mena led a drive to the Valley City State 24-yard-line, where Gustavus elected to try a field goal after an incomplete pass on third down. From 41 yards out, Tom Huepenbecker's (Sr., Middleton, Wis.) field goal try was blocked by Matt Craft and the Vikings took over possession.
Valley City State used the momentum from the blocked kick to drive 54 yards on 13 plays the very next possession. After a third down stop by the Gustavus defense at the Gustie 20-yard-line, Cortez knocked through his longest field goal of the day from 37 yards out to put the Vikings on top 9-0 with 14:50 left in the game.
The Gusties threatened on their next possession, but came up with no points once a 45-yard field goal attempt by Huepenbecker came up just short.
After Gustavus turned the ball over on downs halfway through the fourth quarter, Valley City State capitalized once again. Running back Taylor Cino scored the game's only touchdown when he broke free for a 17-yard touchdown run that brought the score to a final at 16-0 with 5:15 on the clock.
Cino was the leading rusher in the game with 118 yards (4.5 ypc) on 26 attempts. Fellow running back back Derek Elliot followed behind Cino with 85 yards (5.3 ypc) on 16 attempts. Valley City State totaled 199 yards on the ground in the game.
Gustavus gained a total of 224 yards (96 rush, 128 pass) on the afternoon. Phillip Butler (Jr., St. Paul, Minn.) led the Gusties on the ground with 40 yards (6.7 ypc) on six attempts, while Mena gained 36 yards (2.2 ypc) on 16 attempts.
Mena went 11-for-27 for 128 yards with an interception through the air. He connected with six different receivers, yet was sacked three times. Mena's top target was Michael Hintze (So., Brooklyn Park, Minn.) who caught three passes for 54 yards.
Viking quarterback Tommy Zinke was 14-for-23 for 151 yards passing. His top receiver was Ken Ellacin who made five catches for 37 yards. Valley City State tallied 350 yards of total offense, 151 of which were through the air.
Leading the Gusties defensively was Lucas Kleinschrodt (Sr., Alden, Minn.), Joe Haas (Jr., Mission, Kan.), and Xavier Fust (So., Columbia Heights, Minn.). Kleinschrodt recorded a game-high 13 tackles (5 solo), while Haas had 11 (3 solo), and Fust had 10 (2 solo).
The Gustavus football team will look to get back on track at home next Saturday when it plays host to Bethel University at 1:00 p.m. on Hollingsworth Field.


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Your post brings up a really good point. For all of our concern about protecting our children from religion, they may very well believe in a god, in the end. As a pretty open-minded freethinker, I have no problem with my son believing in a god. As long as he's well-informed of his choices and has come to those conclusions with some sense of reason and rationale, I'll except his opinions.
I was listening to NPR this evening, and there was a story about the pledge. They were talking about a school district where they were trying to get the pledge removed. I was on my walk, so I couldn't take notes, but it was in California. Their objection to the pledge was more about not making children vow their allegiance to this nation. The didn't even mention the "under god" part, but I agreed with them. Apparently, in the school district they were dealing with, most of the children don't say the pledge anyway. The children are "invited" to say the pledge, and the report said that only about three or four students usually stand to say it. Where I live, students aren't "invited" to say it, but expected to. My daughter says it, but remains silent during the "under god" portion. I wonder what would happen if she didn't even stand?
I talked to my girl about it before she went to school, and gave the same 3 options as were mentioned - saying it as the principal does, leaving out the god part, or not saying it at all. We also have heathen friends who say "under gods" and she mentioned that might be an option for her, a mild dissent.
When it actually came up though, she was very upset and angry, she said "It's like they are saying atheists aren't patriotic, aren't real Americans!" she was very angry and wanted me to go down there and put a stop to it. I explained that I probably couldn't do it, that many people have tried to have that part removed, that it wasn't an original part of the pledge, etc, and she just got madder and madder & even cried. She pointed out that the speaker system belongs to the government, (and the electricity it takes, and the floor she stands on while she reads it, she went on and on...) and that they are using our tax dollars to pay the person who is reading this pledge, and that this was un-American and rude and unfair. She insisted I should try to get the police to go down to the school right that minute and rectify things. It was really sad and frustrating, she really thought the police would immediately fix it.
Later she came up with the idea of saying "One nation, under Godzilla" because we are huge fans of Godzilla, as she said "He's just as make-believe and way cooler than god!" but then when the time came she just whispered it because she doesn't want to actually mock the flag or the pledge, she's just super pissed that the school is doing this pledge reading which she feels is deliberately disrespectful to a huge number of people, which I have to agree it is, and she hates that people are doing that with tax dollars and getting away with that. So now she sits quietly, and no one gives her any grief about it, but it is still pretty sad & obnoxious.
As a Brit ex pat in Canada I find the Pledge to be a bizarre and uniquely American quirk anyway. I imagine that they would simply say the Pledge as is, in order to fit in, especially at a younger age. My three year old came back from daycare with a "prayer" to say before meals.
There was no mention of gods or anything, and it consisted of saying thankyou for the food. She finished the "prayer" with a triumphant "All Men!" which was fun. I then asked her who she was thanking. She said "Monica. She does the cooking."
Credit where it's due!
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In response to this worrying and dangerous trend, First Lady Michelle Obama is taking action with her recently launched campaign, Let's Move, which aims to solve the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation. Mrs. Obama is seeking to provide families with the simple tools needed to help kids be more active, eat better, and become healthy. The campaign involves the federal government working with local officials to help provide more nutritious meals in schools and to help give communities easier access to healthy, affordable foods. In addition, Mrs. Obama is highlighting the importance of being physically active by expanding the President's Physical Fitness Challenge and enlisting professional athletes from twelve leagues to promote "60 Minutes of Play a Day" through clinics and public service announcements.
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I'm thinking my plan of attack will be as follows:
- anything with a crown = jubilee
- anything with a flag = olympics
Do you think you could come up with an Olympic biscuit idea? I'm carrying the Olympic torch on 9th July and will be having people back for tea and cake after. I've got cake in mind and will do cupcakes in union jack wrappers but how to make biscuits fit in with the theme?!
Oooh, lovely! Such good fun to use special cases for special occasions, can't wait to see what you come up with!
Since you've already visited my little blog would you like one of my 'Queen for the day' union jack inspired cards? Your foodie celebrations sound super!
What about biscuits like the olympic rings?
I was just in Lakeland the other day and had to stop myself from buying everything! Cant wait to see what you make with this box of goodies :)
Yay - looks like a fun collection.
I love the crown cutters! I keep meaning to buy more baking supplies. You have reminded me :)
what a fantastic parcel, I'm off to Lakeland today, do hope they have some things left on their shelves!
parcels from lakeland = pure, unadulterated joy + unbridled happiness. enjoy!
I love getting things in the post - even better if they are things from Lakeland! I can't wait to see what your are going to make:)
I'm away that weekend so won't get any jubilee baking, very jealous!
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An inquest has been opened and adjourned into the death of a medical student who was stabbed in Borneo.
Neil Dalton, from Ambergate, and pal Aidan Brunger , both 22 and students at Newcastle University, were three days away from completing a six-week placement working at a hospital in Kuching when they were attacked .
Neil, a former Belper School pupil, and his friend, from Kent, had reportedly argued with a group of local men over complaints they were being too noisy in a bar.
It is believed some locals followed the pair in a car as they headed back to their hostel and stabbed them multiple times before leaving them to die in the street on August 6.
Neil's inquest at Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner's Court was opened and adjourned on Monday.
The inquest of Mr Brunger was opened and adjourned at the same time.
In a statement released through police, Neil's parents Jan and Phil Dalton said: "We are just a normal family and we cannot believe what has happened.
"Neil was a caring, thoughtful and witty young man, who never thought twice about helping others.
"He achieved so much and made so many friends in such a short time.
"We are so very proud of him."
The two men have been awarded posthumous honorary degrees by their university.
Malaysian fishmonger Zulkipli Abdullah has been charged with stabbing the pair to death.
Four other suspects who were arrested have not been charged and will be witnesses.
A guilty verdict carries the death penalty.
The attack happened in the Jalan Padungan area of Kuching in Sarawak province.


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Peaches have been used to treat acidosis, anemia, asthma, atherosclerosis, constipation, cough, gastritis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, indigestion, kidney stones, nephritis (kidney inflammation), obesity, ulcers, and to rid the body of intestinal worms. They are used to improve skin tone, lubricate the intestines, strengthen the lungs, promote circulation and reduce excess perspiration.
Peaches are cool, sweet and sour. They are antioxidant, digestive, diuretic, expectorant, and laxative. Peaches are high in beta-carotene, vitamin C, calcium, boron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and flavonoids.
Look for fruits free of blemishes. Yielding to pressure indicates ripeness. They will ripen faster if placed in a paper bag and sealed for a day or two. Store ripe unwashed peaches in the refrigerator. Enjoy peaches alone, in fruit salads, cold soups, ice creams, jams, pies and cobblers. . Mashed peaches can be applied as a facial for radiant skin. In the Orient peach kernels are used to inhibit cancer cells, though large amounts can be toxic.


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|About 1945
Mommy was one of the reasons I started genealogy: she knew nothing about any of her grandparents and she especially wanted to know something about her mother's ancestry. Later, my research showed that only one of her grandparents had lived to see her birth and that grandmother died when my mom was 18 months old.
It was only when we were clearing out the house after my mother died that we found an old letter literally stuck between two boards in a high closet. That 'find' eventually led me to connections that proved that my mother's mother's parents were Patrick Keating and Catherine Dooley. My mother would have been so tickled to have that info.
|Summer, 1948; Temple City, California
With every new thing I find, I think about what she would have said and how her face would have looked when I told her. Here's the earliest surviving photo of the two of us.
I miss you, Mommy.


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Changing Lives Through Sport
SportCares Foundation (SportCares) is at the heart of a growing national movement to use sport for social good. In partnership with corporates and community groups, SportCares has organised programmes and projects that have touched the lives of more than 9,000 children, youth and adults. While each programme has its unique characteristics, SportCares' mission has never varied: to activate sport for social inclusion, personal empowerment and community bridging.
Since June 2014, SportCares has run the Love Singapore girls tennis programme that empowers at-risk girls with confidence and physical and mental capabilities for life. Through the unyielding support of partners like the United States Embassy in Singapore and the Women's Tennis Association, SportCares is able to provide meaningful and enriching experiences through sport that foster friendships, bridge communities and build resilient families.
As an Official Social Cause of the WTA Finals, the Love Singapore girls and their families are also able to experience court time with some of the best women's tennis players in the world, through specially organised clinics as well as meet-and-greet sessions. These sessions have included meetings with fan-favourites Simona Halep, Garbine Muguruza and Eugenie Bouchard, rising star Shelby Rogers, and Doubles players Abigail Spears and Raquel Atawo.
During the 2015 tournament, Venus Williams shared an inspirational chat with youth volunteers from across SportCares programmes. The children and youth from SportCares programmes continue to be inspired to live better through sport, through the amazing event of the WTA Finals.
A snapshot of some of SportCares' programmes include:
- Love Singapore girls tennis programme
- Saturday Night Lights football programme
- CareRunners athletics programme
- NTU SEA Lions water-sports programme
- Travelling Hoops basketball programme
- Young ChangeMakers youth leadership development programme
Want to do your part for SportCares?
SportCares is looking for partners to help them fund-raise, develop and deliver programming to help people live better through sports.
You can join the SportCares Movement by volunteering your time and expertise, or by playing on Team SportCares.
SportCares also accepts donations made through SimplyGiving or Giving.SG. Donations above $50 will generate a tax credit of 2.5 times the original amount for the donor.
To find out more about SportCares and their latest happenings, connect with them on their SportCares Facebook page.


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Mayor Don Wesely today announced that his office and interested corporate citizens have created the Mayor's Community Conscience Award to honor a local business for its participation in meeting the human service needs of our city. The first award will be presented at an awards breakfast Friday January 28, 2000 at the National Bank of Commerce (NBC).
"The strength of our community depends on help from all segments of the city - government, business, foundations, unions, socials service agencies and more," Mayor Wesely said. "This new award will draw attention to the significant contributions the corporate sector makes to our quality of life in Lincoln."
The winner was selected by a panel of business people, headed by Roger Larson of NBC, Topher Hansen of CenterPointe and Steve Schmidt of Union Bank. Corporate leaders are invited to the breakfast, which will feature Ira Jackson, a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he previously served as Associate Dean. He is also a former Executive Vice President of BankBoston. He is writing a book titled "Capitalism with a Conscience" and has created award-winning programs in the field of corporate citizenship. He is in Lincoln to attend the annual meeting of CenterPointe.
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Because Blake's Worth It
L'Oreal announced their newest ambassador in Paris last night— via Instagram! Blake Lively, the sun-kissed California blonde who rose to fame via Gossip Girl—and the world's best use of highlighter—will star in the brand's ads for both hair and makeup starting next year. Lively says her love of the brand started young, as soon as she heard the "Because you're worth it" tagline. "What an important value to instill in women, that beauty is rooted in confidence," she says. No time is better, we thought, to take a look back at the beauty looks that got her here.
Lively was honing her signature look back in 2008. She arrived at the premiere of one of her first big films, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, in New York with textured hair and glowing skin.
In a rare hair transformation, Lively wore her always-messy tresses slicked back for a party in New York.
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Lively has been rocking the unexpected braid long before it became a 2013 trend, this time at the Los Angeles premiere of Green Lantern.
The press tour for Savages produced Lively's best beauty looks. Serge Normant was manning her locks and here, at the New York premiere of the film, he wove an epic fishtail braid.
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At the Los Angeles premiere of the same film, the actress went an entirely different direction, channeling old Hollywood with a deep red lip.
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At the PUNK: Chaos to Couture Met Ball earlier this year Lively wore a messy, sectioned-off pony.
Lively wears highlighter better than anyone we know. Here the actress attends a movie premiere in New York with her signature glowing skin and lived-in locks.


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Wild Head North Of The Border Tuesday
The Minnesota Wild are in Montreal Tuesday night to take on the Canadiens (6 pm, 1390 The FAN).
The Wild improved to 13-4-4 on the season wth a 2-1 win Sunday over Winnipeg at the X.They will face a quick turnaround on Wednesday when they head to Ottawa for a game with the upstart Senators.
The Canadiens are 10-9-2 on the season and lost 1-0 to the Rangers on Saturday.


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Yesterday, I gave myself a challenge. I wanted to finish this chair in one day. I was packing for a quick trip down to The Florida Keys and had to finish all the laundry in the house as well. I also needed to get a mani/pedi so that I looked presentable to my husband's business contacts on this trip. Somewhere in between, I wanted to redo this chair. I didn't have a clue what I was going to do with this chair. I had no preconceived notions or hang ups. It's was a clean slate. I was winging it...... I started with this chair that I got for 2 bucks at a yard sale last weekend.
Out came my acrylic paints. (I am always thankful at this point for my art degree. Oh!!! All the hours spent perfecting mixing paint colors does actually pay off!) I matched the color mixing two shades, taped on the stencil and went to town.
I decided to take a huge risk and mix up a wash out of my dark blue acrylics. I added a ton of water to it, got a junky brush out and a few rags with extra water. I thought, "What the heck! I got nothing to lose." I knew that I would be posting the results on my blog and I decided to let the chips fall where they may. This Annie Sloan's paint has a seriously powdery surface and I didn't know how the wash was going to 'take' to that surface.
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by the glazing.
I finished up the entire chair, buffing the surface one more time rubbing more blue off in certain areas to let the grey show through. I think it is done and here are the results with the "before" and "after" images.....
I did get the huge piles of laundry done, with the help of my daughter who was playing hookie. The packing got done late last night and I probably forgot to include something important in the overnight bag due to my sleepiness. Oh well.... One thing I didn't accomplish....Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnnn.......the seriously needed mani/pedi. Normally I wouldn't care, but this trip is a husband work related excursion. Yep. I'm in trouble. We drive out of here in just a few hours..... I gotta run and get these tootsies done and get this leftover Paris Grey paint and blue acrylic wash off my skin! Arg!


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Changing aliases for nodes in Drupal 8
When working with your nodes (content unit such as Articele, page, etc), they are assigned a default node identifier. This identifier becomes part of the URL that specific page. For example, the first node you create, whether it be an Article or a Basic Page, the identifier will be /node/1 as it is the first content node created. Subsequent nodes are always numbered sequentially so the next one would be node/2. The URL for the first node will be http://example.com/node/1. This is not very descriptive, however. You may wish to have more descriptive identifiers in the URL, such as http://example.com/firstpage. This can be done by creating an alias. The alias can be customized so that the URL will be more understandable by humans. Below is a guide on how to add custom aliases to your nodes to increase user-friendliness in your Drupal 8 website.
How to change node aliases in Drupal 8
- Log into your Drupal 8 interface.
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See http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/mayweb-only/119-52.0.html
They quit proselytizing in the 70s. The new organization is the old Christian Children's Fund and five other children's help organization under the new name.
I have a problem with donating money now because I associate it heavily with churches. Honestly I feel like one of the reasons I'm atheist is so that I don't have to participate in organizations like that. I would be more than willing to donate my time, but not my money. I understand that it's going to important causes, but I still don't like the idea. I would elaborate but my opinion on this is more emotional than one coherent argument sadly.
Brendon - if you live in the United States there are two really fine 'organizations' (American Atheists & Freedom From Religion Foundation) that use your 'membership' dues to produce fine monthly newspapers which keep you up-to-date on all things atheist.
One very important thing these two organizations do is fight state/church problems. Forced prayers in schools - infringements of Christians attempting to put their 10-commandments in all public places/buildings etc. This often requires law suits on behalf of all non-believers to STOP these aggregious infranctions.
You're not 'donating' money - you are becoming a member of an organization that fights directly for you against god-believers who certainly want to assimilate you. (Borg)
One of these also publishes 'Black Collar Crime' listing all those priests and pastors that continue to commit pedophalia against minors. You are in the loop of knowledge.
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New Texas taxes on horizon
For years the battle cry for almost all politicians, Republicans and Democrats alike, has been, "No New Taxes." Actually, Gov. Briscoe from Uvalde, a Democratic, coined the phrase. At the time Gov. Briscoe made that commitment, Texas' economy was booming, sales taxes were bringing in more money than ever expected and oil and gas was still large enough to produce a significant amount of revenue. Things have changed. I have always maintained the pledge of no new taxes was silly because such a pledge kept us from examining the old taxes for fairness, adequacy or any other reason.
When I went to the Legislature in 1962, Texans who owned property paid some of the lowest property taxes in the nation and the sales tax had been in place for only two years. Texans had relied for many years on taxes on our natural resources but were forced to take a new course of action in 1960. Since 1962, property taxes in Texas have risen from fifth from the bottom to near the top. The primary reason has been that the Texas Legislature has continued to shirk its responsibility to public education. The state has done less and less, handing over more and more of the responsibility to local property owners. A dramatic shift in the responsibility for funding public schools has occurred in Texas since 1949. At that time, the state provided the majority of funding for public schools. It was truly a state system of education. Unfortunately, what we have lapsed into is a state system in name, funded by local property taxes. The reason for this, in my opinion, is current politicians' dedication and pledge of no new taxes. They seem to turn a blind eye to the fact local property taxes are new taxes, increased tuition is new taxes, and increased charges for every license imaginable in Texas is a new tax.
The protests of homeowners, business owners and property owners finally motivated the state to try and address this problem. Gov. Perry's effort and pledge to significantly reduce property taxes and improve the fairness of business tax led to the repeal of the corporate franchise tax in Texas. The franchise tax was replaced by a business margin tax dreamed up by Perry and his Democratic buddy, John Sharp, a former state comptroller. Severe cuts in property taxes were announced, but have rarely been truly realized by property owners in Texas. Even worse, the leadership in Texas at the time ignored the warnings from State Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander, who predicted the new business tax was wholly inadequate to provide for the needs of public education and its growth in Texas. Rylander said the tax would come up about $5 billion a year short. Gov. Perry dismissed the warning, saying an economic boom would take care of the estimated shortfall. (It appears to be the same kind of argument Gov. Perry now puts forth in support of his flat tax, saying the $250 billion shortage in revenue would be taken care of by economic growth).
Because of the miscalculation, Texas faced a drastic shortfall, particularly in education, during the 2009 legislative session. Luckily, the shortfall was alleviated by the federal government's $16 billion, which was used to balance our budget and hold cuts in education to a minimum.
Unfortunately, during the 2011 session, Texas was not so fortunate as to receive a windfall from the federal government. The fallback position was to tap into Texas' rainy day fund, which at the time contained about $9 billion. At the governor's insistence, only a portion was used. And our leaders have chosen to balance the budget at the expense of Texas school children, cutting school funding by $4 billion. The legislative leadership and the governor maintain if Texas does as well economically as they forecast, the $4 billion can be made up in a year or two. What seems to be forgotten in this process is that in a worldwide race for quality education and all that it brings, our state cannot afford to spend a year on the sidelines.
Recently, Rep. Joe Strauss, Speaker of the Texas House, has recognized and publicly announced that some attention needs to be given to gaining enough revenue, or making enough cuts elsewhere, so that the state budget is balanced and that Texas will be able to provide for public education and projected growth thereof. This will call for very hard choices. Texas and its citizens have chosen to place in our constitution a provision that there cannot be the imposition of an income tax without a vote of the people. I do not believe Texas' taxpayers will tolerate any substantial increase in the taxes on their small businesses or homes. Couple these facts with the reality of lawsuits pending in the Texas Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of the level of funding for education, and the challenge filed to declare the current business tax an unlawful income tax. Texans are then left with even harder choices: legalize gambling; increase the business tax, if constitutional; increase the sales tax, or remove many of its exemptions; or opt for some new and innovative tax not yet presented to the public.
Another black cloud on our state's fiscal horizon has to do with funding for highways. Our highways and bridges are getting older. Demands on our transportation system are growing. Population in Texas is exploding. And traffic in our bigger cities is beginning to be clogged.
Our highway system is funded, in theory, by a "user" system. A tax on each gallon of gasoline is divided between funding for highways and a small portion for education. The growing problem is that pressure to conserve energy has caused the auto industry to make better and more fuel efficient automobiles. We are looking forward to more and more hybrids or pure electric vehicles running on our highways. Even though the Texas constitution provides against bonded debt, the current leadership in Austin has persuaded Texans to amend our constitution to allow bond issues so we can borrow money to build new highways or improve those we have. Unfortunately, that debt has now grown to more than $170 million. Our governor has basically given away state property to a Spanish company so that several toll roads could be constructed, all of which are far behind their projected revenue production. With growing highway needs and shrinking revenue, something must be done in the very near future; otherwise, Texas will face transportation gridlock. A paralyzed automobile and truck transportation system in the state would quickly translate into devastating results on our local economies.
It is essential that Texas and its leaders begin very quickly to change the whole attitude and idea about revenue. For more than 100 years, the Texas Legislature has lurched from crisis to crisis, addressing whatever short-term need there was concerning revenue shortfalls, and never has addressed a long-term policy of taxation adequate to fulfill the needs of a modern and rapidly growing state. The most logical and fairest revenue gathering measure is a state income tax. A state income tax taking only a small percentage of your net income relieve most of our state's problems. To ever impose such a tax will require responsible leaders of our state to demonstrate to Texans that a state income tax would be far less onerous than other choices such as increasing the tax on your home that you have already paid for. For such a drastic change to be made, it will take examination by thoughtful citizens of this state as to whether or not we want to be a modern, vibrant state or one patterned after some Third-World country.


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For the second straight game the Revs fell behind in the opening 10 minutes and failed to recover from the early hole
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – The New England Revolution has had issues with conceding the first goal throughout the 2010 season, going behind 14 times in 24 regular-season games. Only three times have the Revs been able to erase the one-goal deficits, earning two wins and one draw while suffering 11 losses.
Those first-goal woes have been taken to a new level in the last two weeks, however, as the Revs have fallen behind in the opening six minutes twice in a pair of shutout losses to Chivas USA and the Colorado Rapids.
On Saturday night at Dick's Sporting Goods Park it was the speedy Omar Cummings who did the damage, giving the Rapids a 1-0 lead with his 10th goal of the season in the fifth minute. Colorado went on to win the game 3-0.
"You're not going to win games when you when you put yourself in a hole like that, (especially) that early in the game," said central midfielder Pat Phelan. "It was the same thing that happened against Chivas USA and we couldn't come back."
"When you take a goal in the first five to 10 minutes, then it's really difficult to come back, especially on the road," added forward Ilija Stolica. "We have to put more effort and press more. When you start to press, you wait for their mistakes and counter. It's really hard when they have an advantage in the beginning."
Both Phelan and Stolica noted the Revolution's game-plan was to stay organized and not chase the Rapids when the home side was in possession, but the result was too much time and space provided to Colorado's wingers – especially the consistently dangerous Jamie Smith – to feed the dynamic forward tandem of Conor Casey and his strike partner Cummings.
Casey and Cummings punished the Revs with first-half goals, finishing from an almost identical area in the left side of the box. According to head coach Steve Nicol, both goals could've been prevented if not for fundamental errors.
"Two of the goals were avoidable," he said. "If we had cleared the first one correctly and then followed the run on the second goal – it was basic stuff.
"This is a hard enough place to come anyways without giving them goals, but it's basic stuff," Nicol continued. "It's not rocket science why we've lost tonight. We've made too many basic errors, which just encourages the opposition to come after us."
The Revs did show improvements in the second half as they increased their time on the ball and raised their shot total from one in the opening 45 minutes to eight after the interval, but they never found the breakthrough and were ultimately shut out for the second straight game.
From one point of view it was encouraging to see a second-half improvement, but there's also concern that it's become a habit for the Revs to wait until they're in an insurmountable hole before they turn it on.
"Even though this game was disheartening and it's tough to lose like this, there were some positives in the second half," said Phelan. "I think if a couple things went our way, we could've pulled one back. We had some spells of good attacking soccer and I think it was the same story as it's been all year long. If we do that in the first half, we'll be in a much easier position to make a run for the game."
The Revs don't have much time to regroup, as they'll head directly to Texas for a meeting with FC Dallas – currently toting a 15-game unbeaten streak – on Wednesday night at Pizza Hut Park. In order to have a chance against the Hoops, the Revolution must improve from the opening whistle.
More plainly, the Revs must play with pride.
"It's just looking inside you and saying that you're not going to let this happen," said Phelan. "It's heart – or lack of it – right now.
"It's been the same all year long," Phelan continued. "Teams come at us but we've let them do that. We haven't played with enough heart and passion, and it shows."
Nicol's assessment of the midweek match against FC Dallas was simple.
"We'll either sink or swim," he said, "and we better swim."


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ONU Law Announces Search for New Dean
Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, seeks applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the Claude W. Pettit College of Law. Founded in 1885, the College of Law is preparing students for 21st Century practice. The college provides the ultimate small law school experience through personal attention and direct involvement with faculty. Readily accessible faculty, consistently strong bar passage and employment statistics, and a curriculum that blends theory with practice all define the College of Law. Ohio Northern University seeks a dean who will continue to build on its strengths. The new dean will begin his or her responsibilities on July 1, 2013.
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