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The Nekron are one of the most disturbing humanoid races. In height, weight, and build, they are somewhere between Human and Elf (classic fantasy Elf). There fingers are long and delicate. Their ears are small and somewhat pointed. This is not what makes them disturbing. It is their other features.
Their skin is ashen white and nearly translucent. One can almost see their organs and bones beneath. In a bright light you can. Their eyes have no iris or pupil. They are a solid milky white. They can see in near total darkness (and see heat). While their skin is smooth, it is very dry.
Their faces would be quite comely, if they had noses. It is if their noses are partially cut off, or like a corpse who's nose retracts as it desiccates. There is a slight ridge and two slits there. Some of the females have very, very petite noses, but that is a rare trait.
They have slightly elongated canines as well.
Their hair ranges from white to black, with various shades of steel grey in between.
Their bodies are cool to the touch. While not room temperature, they are many degrees below Human and Elven norms.
Their voices have an odd vibrato. It could be musical, in a way. But it is off. Like they should not be using their voices.
In terms of society…
They live underground or in windowless buildings. They are not fond of the sun. Prolonged exposure to the sun and the heat of the day is tiring at best, painful at worst. They will often cover their eyes with gauze when travelling outside during the day.
Their society is rigid and orderly. Their system of laws is legendary. It is complex and inflexible, but it covers every possible situation.
There word is more than their bond, it is their life. However, they will only stick to the letter of their word, not the intent.
They are people based on law and letters, not feelings and morals. They do not have friends, they have people they transact personal elements with. You don't do things for your friends. You do things for people who will do things for you (or have done them in the past).
The Nekron came from somewhere else and are not sure how they got to this cursedly bright and warm place. The world above is like a hell to them.
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Even the Duerga, the paramount of law and order, have feelings. Pride: in their craft and 'offspring'. Honour. Fear of silence. Determination to make the world a better place (not necessarily better for ALL, but still)
What drives the Necron?
Wish to survive?
Perverse delight in defiance of the world that was forced upon them?
The drive to be better than all others?
The voice may have sounded a little different in the cradle of their race, the air compostion being different.
This could lead to some things, like a special Necron solarium that has light 'just like real'. I guess their music will either not have vocals, but be extremely precise intrumental art, or they might have special chambers with different (toxic to others?) air where they can sing.
You know, you could fill them with nostalgia and a sense of superiority, with disdain and disgust of all that is this world - they might even yearn to shed their bodies to return home.
Still, they should have SOME reason to interact with others as to be playable.
What might that be?
So far, I like it- no constant slaughter or chaotic intrigue. They sound like a bizarre, disturbing, somewhat sad race.
I am also reminded (by the physical description) of Lily Lazer from HIM. He would be the very picture of a Nekron, to my mind, if his nose was just a bit more skull-like.
What do the Nekron worship, if anything at all?
Do they work magic? Do they keep slaves or whatnot?
Perhaps the main drive of their existence as a culture is to find the way home. All of their necromantic strength is bent on getting away from the Overland.
Enlightened Self Interest is what drives them. In short, these are people who need strong leaders or lacking that strong laws/ codes to follow. I see a web of legalism to hold their society together. If they want anything more than the basics, they need to work and work hard within the rules to get what they want. If you sit back and don't try to get around the rules, you will probably get squat. So everyone is working an angle, edging to get those things they want.
Are they greedy? Not really. Their culture is one that restricts and prevents people from getting things. You have to work hard underneith these rules to get anything beyond the bare basics. Thus they are all trained from an early age to work on it.
A society based on a serious codes of law is a good thing. A society where basic goods are distributed fairly is a great thing. It is only when these societies develop and develop that the weight of the laws begins to hold the people down that there is problems. Since this society is an old one, the burden of laws is probably pretty heavy.
Resources being a touch scarce, and with no law against it, they may eat the dead. It might even be seen as a touching gesture to feed your family one last time.
And since they are immortal or long lived, they have a long time to remember things. They remember the hungry times (lets face it undground dwellers are short of food, water, and space most of the time). They remember the person who stopped them from getting what they wanted (grudges). You can see where this is going.
Voice and Music
As for music... they may have singing. It just would sound awful to us. Imagine an Wagner-esk Opera with choppy vocals and most of the musical instruments being metal percussion and wind. The mind will just go ... "huh".
As for the sunlight issues. images of underground metropolises of Gothic-gargoyle-covered buildings, made from basalt, with diffuse purple halflight. It makes the cities errie. I like that. Perhaps they swish two chemical together in balls to make these purple glows.
aside: Perhaps they have domesticated gargoyles or are allied with their gargoyle race?
I would think the Nekron work magic. There are probably serious rules about its use to. They have a strong magical tradition, in a supporting role for their society (just like the Elves). They might do necromancy and other morally offensive magics because they are not illegal to them. (Maybe a minor Undead economy?). Perhaps they have towers that absorb magic, so their mages may use it more efficiently. Those towers might disrupt the Elven (and common) magic above ground. Hence part of the hatred people might have against Nekron.
They might have slaves. Why idle a resource in jail, when they can work off their violation of the rules. Minor infractions will have fines. Major infractions will have indentured servitude. True Crimes will have a death penalty. Yah, walk on the grass here...
Nekron worship... hmmmm. A heavenly buracracy. Thousands of Gods that have to be worshiped just so. Even their afterlife would be a tangled web of laws and punishments.
Bad Reputation
(You know, these people might have such a bad rap topside because the people who are escaping this oppressive society go beserk in the effective freedom of topside).
I think eating the dead would be more a matter of pragmaticism that could take on a religious nature, an interesting twist on the feast of the dead.
What do they eat? Farming and aquaculture are rather out of the question lacking in the sort of light required to grow plants, and with no plant life
Cop out: It's a fantasy world.
More creative: Create a non-photosynthetic ecology. Earth has sulpher-binding bacteria near super-heated deep ocean vents that form the basis of an ecology of sheet algaes, giant tube worms, crustaceans and fish - no light, except for some bioluminescence. Do the same thing underground.
Start with slime growing on hot underground pools, organisms (fungi) that bind the slime, critters that eat the organisms, things that grow "leaves" to capture air-born nutrients on larger surface areas, animals that feed on the leaves, predators that feed on the leaf-eaters, bioluminescence to cast a nice eerie glow over it all. The further from the source of nutrients, the rarer and more "desert-like" the flora and more ambulatory the fauna. Add flood-cycles and modest eruptions to create a local "weather system" that could even be cyclic (think 'Old Faithful', but on a longer cycle).
Large, very weird and outrageously smelly (to terrestial noses) "farms" could develop along with "irrigation" and so on as Nekron agriculture takes hold. The Nekron toss their waste back into the hot pools as fertilizer. They can also have a pharmacology ('Rust wort cures burns'), breed for increased yields, and have herds of leaf-eaters to provide meat, bone, hide, milk/cheese or whatever. And lap-squoggles with glossy tongues and distinguished pedigrees.
Or something like that.
Then, if you look into how chlorophyll works, you see it is a chelate, a molecule with a central copper atom (correct me if I am wrong) that gets 'excited' when hit by sunlight, e.g. energy and passes the energy on to create ATP, the life's universal energy currency ... you just have to have a different molecule that reacts to a different kind of energy. Heat. Motion. Magic. Thoughts (think hard, son! these crops have to be ready 'till next week!). Whatever.
Perhaps they take a yeast and make a tofu like suppliment out of it. It could make their food truly odd tasting to the lightsiders (while they are the darksiders).
This whole Lightsider/ Darksider thing could be mistranslated by many peoples, thus adding to the "oh, they are Evil" opinion.
Back to Agriculture
They may have nocturnal farming on the surface. Or foraging/ gathering parties at the very least.
These ecological issues are the same ones I have with Dwarves. If they lived in clan/ extended family sized unit, they could more redily support themselves in a region of mountain. City sized production takes special processes or a leap of faith.
I keep feeling their society is very Cold War Russian. Lines. Scarcity. The same morbid views of the world.
Being Darksiders, they will have interactions with Dwarves and other subterranean races. They might not be cordial, as they are all competing for the same scarce resources.
Many things have been implied that sort of "fills in the blanks" for these people. Our scary looking, underground dwelling, Stalin styled Socialists, with a legal system from Hell, who horde magic from above ground to be used underground, seem to fill in all the nitche need for Drow.
Elves hate them because of the magic/ energy absorbing towers.
They are incomprehensible to most people and do what most seem as "Evil". They are not Evil but perhaps evil by the measures of the surface folks. They have their own way of looking at the world.
They are night people because of the lack of daylight (Question, why aren't dwarves nocturnal then?)
What do the other subterranean people think of them? How do they interact with those people, especially since they will be in conflict over resources?
What else should we touch upon?
Being an elder race, the nekron have rather advanced, but not exaggeratedly advanced technology compared to the other races. Living in a subterranean enviroment, surviving in a thermal driven biosphere, they have easy access to both large amounts of natural heat and raw materials.
The Nekron, with their access to thermal vents and magma veins are easily able to reduce ore to liquid metal. It is a small step to introduce bellows to blow oxygen through a crucible, replicating the bessemer process, or the blast furnace. Nekron steel is likely to be one of the best grades of steel available. If the dwarves knew, they would be sick with envy. With this abundance of steel, Nekron warriors are always clad in full metal armor, often llamelor, or scale armors, and some articulated plate armors. Given the high grade of the metal used, these armors are likely much lighter than surface comparable, and also likely to be stronger, and more resistant to corrosion.
Weapons are also heavy with metal. Picks might be the predominant weapon as they have mining connotations, but given the elder status of the race, all weapon types could reasonably be encountered. They would likely use bone, or shell from vent worms and such for the hafts and handles of weapons, but it would make pole arms, and regular bows very rare as such large pieces would be either very rare, or prohibitively expensive. Enter the Arbalest, or steel crossbow. The weapon is 99% metal, and packs a heavy punch, able to defeat armors at short range with ease.
Combat is going to dominated by individuals of exceptional skill at arms. The Nekron would not field large armies as subterranean enviroments offer insufficient room to maneuver, and too many places for bottlenecks and other impediments. In small unit actions, they wuold be nigh unstoppable. Downside, they have poor morale, and there is little fervor in battle. The Nekron are more interested in holding what they have rather than expanding their domains.
Their religious system is the worship of the Universal Order. Their religious view reflects their political and social organization: law, order, and bureaucracy. Each diety (and there are two thousand known ones) is in charge of one small segment of reality, like a bureaucrat in charge of a department. Each one has appropriate spirit minions doing minor function. Each diety is responsible to his superior.
It should be noted that most other race's deities are included in the Universal Order. They are normally in small sub departments for a specific race or a specific race doing a certain function. Part of their superiority complex is that these silly other peoples are worshiping these minor functionaries AS IF they were really in charge.
Prayers and interaction with the appropriate diety follows the pattern of introduction to diety, asking for petition, performing the required task to achieve the results desired. In short, much the same way one deals with their complex bureaucracy.
The moral system of the Universal order have the following high points
*) Structure, Order
*)Completion of duty/ responsibilities. If people don't do this, the whole system falls apart. Those who are weak and can't must be removed, lest everyone fall.
*)Living up to the letter of your responsibilities (as no one can judge the intent of others without crawling into their head).
Let us remember that these people live in a Stalinistic socialist society. There are scarce resources. What resources there are, are distributed from a central source and by the rule of law.
(of course, we all know that the real world requires people to angle and finesse to get what they want in such a system. Thus these people are always working within the rules to get what the need/ want).
How does this reflect in their use of magic?
In their underground lairs they create towers of magic. It is actually a form of technology, a manna transducers. These "manna transducers" draw in and absorb magical energies. These energies are stored in capacitors for future use for the good of the Necron.
From an outside observer, unaware of the tower's functions, Necron territories would feel totally devoid of magic. Normal spell casters, using internal or cosmic power sources would be either cut off or restricted in their ability to cast spells in these areas. In fact, these towers should be pulling magical energies away from the surface, weakening their magical fields. This could be part of the mutual hatred between the Elves and the Necron. Elves believe that their power should be free and flow naturally, while Necros suck everything in and control it for everyone's good.
Magic users of the Necron will then use "channels" or rods that pull energy from the Manna Transducers to empower their spells. Thus there are no "excellent" necron magic users but no weak ones either.
They might have magical items empowered by small manna capacitors. Heck they might have huge items that are empowered by them. So they will have a magical society in what seems to be a non magical zone.
I like the translucent skin thing and would use it more. My take is the same as the albino creatures that live completely in the dark, there is no need for durable skin for protection from the sun so they don't have it. Perhaps that being in the sun can actually injure their insides. Their skin burns within minutes being exposed to the sun and if they stay too long in direct sunlight then their innards start getting the effects. Any type of covering will fix this though. I see them dressing like people in the middle east when coming above ground. Full draping clothes and wrapped head to cover everything.
Being entirely underground I also seem them perhaps being slouched. Honestly, I pictured a translucent gollum but larger. Scurrying more then anything. Even their gothic purpley cities would probably still conform to the caves natural creations. In that case their buildings would not all be on a single level either, wherever a natural opening or opportunity exists to create a dwelling then that is where it is made. So buildings would be at numerous different levels and at all types of angles depending on the cave. I just don't see everything on a single plane, it should be multileveled and ordered in an organic way, not a methodically.
Continuing on this train of thought then the creatures would be a more scurring race that an upward standing one. They would be constantly crawling and climbing up walls or improvised staircases to get to whichever oddly built building or dwelling. Their law and ordered lifestyle strike a complete oppositve with the way their cities are developed.
The setup of the cities might have a great seperation as well (following my above logic of course) and different cave systems might house different 'castes' or 'guilds' or 'families' or whatever. Their structure might predestine a birth to fill a certain need. Not necessarily on who their mother or father is but on what openings are predicted when the birthed comes to age. So they expect a slot to open in the harvesters, so the next birth is marked as a harvester.
With a structure and limited availability of food it may be that at a certain age when a drow becomes innefficient they are ritually killed. Not an evil thing, an expected thing. The elderly don't want to depend on anybody and to feed a unproductive member of society is against the laws so they turn their body over to the 'whatever.' They kill themselves or are sacrificed, fed to the mold to create food for a decade or just dissappear into a river or something.
Starting to ramble now. Not sure how far offbase I went but maybe I struck an idea nerve.
Also the contrast between the beauty and their death like features makes them appealing.
Aside: I actually see these people as crashlanders... outsiders. They live under either an old red sun or in the cold sunless void of space on ships. They lived in an open place without bright sunlight. Thus they are tall and graceful surface dwellers. So unless you have a place internally shrouded in darkness, they become subterranian.
The setup of the cities might have a great seperation as well (following my above logic of course) and different cave systems might house different 'castes' or 'guilds' or 'families' or whatever. Their structure might predestine a birth to fill a certain need.
Since these "nice" people have a socialistic system, along the stalinistic model, there is probably a whole battery of tests you take to determine your place in society. That plus required quotas (we plan on going to war in the next few years, so increase the number of soldiers) determines their jobs.
In a structure and limited availability of food it may be that at a certain age when a drow becomes innefficient they are ritually killed. Not an evil thing, an expected thing. The elderly don't want to depend on anybody and to feed a unproductive member of society is against the laws so they turn their body over to the 'whatever.'
I had not thought about the culling of the stupid young, but that make sense. I did think of making criminals slaves for their the durration of their service, and maybe killing the worst of them for food. I did see these people sacrificing themselves for their family... "Eat up Toshi, so you can be big and strong like Uncle Kobi was in his youth."
They could take it a step farther. Magic could empower a native sun, bathing everything in a deep purple light, growing plants that are purple and yellow rather than green (agriculture plants native to their home "far away".
With dwarves, it is mostly implied, that they lived once above, but moved down, or at least go regularly above ground and in daylight.
The Nekron are clearly outsiders, coming from a very different place, and this world in daylight is close to intolerable. Still, there may be some adaptations over time, at least in those few, that regularly dare to go outside.
Not only Dwarf'n'Dumplings and Goblin Gulash, but more so. Think down the 'goblin soap' line of thought.
So, while filters clean the air of pollutants, those very pollutants can be put to work elsewhere. Are they biolgical? Fertilizer. Are they toxic? Weapons, or (al)chemical processing...
Likewise, faeces will be used to provide soil, old blades reforged, paper recycled.
Given their need to keep the subterranean ecosystem in balance, they will know the nature intimately, even more than surface elves...
"But those candle sticks have been in my family for two generations"
"I am sorry citizen, but we need the silver for both coinage and for the new manna condensor. You can apply for recompensation in the department of impounded recycling with form 35b/2. Then take the form to the department's requisition for endorsement. Then you know what to do, go to central disbersement, goto your ward's office......"
One magical/ technological item I have had for Elves and Dwarves are Glow Balls. Elven GlowBalls or Elven Lights are small baseball sized orbs (9 in/ 23cms in circumference). Using a static enchantment, the enhance a stone ball to glow like a firefly, with white/ green light. DeepLights of the Dwarves are larger (11 in/30 cms in circumference). These are chemical lights mixing sulfer and some mushroom based microbes, if kept warm, will continue to give off an amber glow. Necroballs are hybrids between DeepLights and ElvenLights. They are chemicals enhanced by small spells. They give off a deep purple light. The closer they are to a tower (manna transducer, the brighter they glow). They will glow for a while if kept warm away from a tower, but they will eventually extinguish.
Humans just use candles or wasteful wood fires of course.
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8-30-08 PNC Park, Brewers @ Pirates
I decided to try a new tactic today and stand in foul territory for the entire Pirates' batting practice. As soon as the gates opened at 4:30, I hurried over to the corner seat right along the left field foul line. My reasoning was that the Pirates' left handed hitters would be slashing the ball down the line, working on their opposite field stroke. Wouldn't you know, that I didn't get a single ball from a Pirates left handed hitter come remotely close to me.
I received ball #1 courtesy of Ian Snell. Snell is having a rough season, but he is an all around good guy when it comes to tossing balls into the stands. I called out his name and he fired a ball at me. It was probably about 65 mph, and it was a few feet over my head, so I had to leap for it to make the grab. In the picture to the left, Ian Snell is talking with Denny Bautista in
front of the Verizon Wireless sign.
Ian used to hang out in center
field all the time until we traded or demoted all of Bautista's shagging buddies (Damaso Marte, Romulo Sanchez, Franquelis Osoria, Yoslan Herrera, Marino Salas, etc).
Ball #2 came soon after, courtesy of Jack Wilson. Jack pulled a line drive down the line foul directly at me. It bounced one time and landed right in my glove. Wilson tends to pull balls down the line into foul territory an awful lot – I've only recently noticed it. The Pirates batting practice ended uneventfully at 5:15 and the Brewers came out to bat. I immediately made my way over to the left field bleachers.
I set up shop in my usual spot – on the aisle between Sections 135 and 135. I was anticipating a barrage of home runs from the Brew Crew. The first group yielded no positive results, as I didn't even get near any of the home runs. Many were going to right field and center field, as Prince Fielder was in the group. Fielder hit a couple out of the stadium over the right field wall, presumably sending them into the Allegheny. He also tattooed the batter's eye in Center Field, which is 450 feet from home plate.
The second group included the likes of Ryan Braun, Gabe Kapler, Corey Hart and
Weeks, so I liked my chances of getting some action. Braun didn't dissapoint, probably hitting the most home runs of any Brewer. I got ball #3 from Braun, a ground rule double that bounced on the warning track, and took a nice clean perfect hop directly to me, five rows back into the crowd. I got a nice little applause from several people close by.
A few short moments later, Corey Hart launched a line drive home run ball to the section I was standing in. The ball's path was directly in the sun for most of its flight. For those of you who attend batting practice on a regular basis at PNC Park, you know that the sun is absolutely brutal in left field. I was able to position myself in the path of the ball, but had to stare into the sun for what seemed like an eternity. I waited until the ball came out of the sun, and was able to catch it (ball #4) without even moving. I once again received a polite applause, while several people came over and asked me, "Did you see that? How were you able to keep you eye on that? I lost that one in the sun!" Never attend batting practice without sunglasses
Ball #5 was a home run by Gabe Kapler (I think) that landed on the 134 side of section 135. It landed in a group of soccer moms and little kids who ducked for cover. The ball landed and trickled down three rows. I had jogged over to take a look, as I usually do, in case of a funny ricochet, and was able to toss my glove over the ball as it was rolling towards me. I had ball #5 in my possession. Almost immediately, one of these mom's starting patting me on the arm with purpose, saying "Come on, I need that ball for my son, you already caught three!" I totally ignored her and walked away with the ball. She called me a hog. I didn't care. If I was going to give the ball away it certainly wasn't going to be to her. I don't think I would ever give a ball to someone who asked or demanded it.
At this point, a man in a yellow shirt came up to me and offered me $20 or $30 for one of my balls. He explained to me that he was from Maryland and had made a four hour drive and wanted a ball for his son. I told him that I don't sell balls, and that he could try asking one of the players for a ball. The guy ended up paying another ballhawk $20 for a warm up ball.
I had already had five balls on the day, and batting practice was going to be ending in several minutes. I had noticed a ball laying on the warning track, unnoticed by the players. I decided to get the ball to add one more to my total. I walked over, politely asked a group of youngsters if I could get the ball. They looked at me in amazement as I took out my glove with a string tied to it. I dropped the glove directly on the ball and pulled it up in a matter of several seconds. It was ball #6. I handed the ball to a 9 year old kid on my right. What made things better, was the man who purchased a ball for $20 was standing right right, three people away, there watching everything unfold. I was hoping he was kicking himself for paying $20 for a used BP ball. He could've gone into the Pirates clubhouse store and bought a brand new official MLB ball with a cube-case for $22.
After pulling off the glove trick, one of the kids asked, "Can I have that!" I told him he'd have to make his own.
Batting practice ended, and although I tried to get some extra balls throughout the night, I was destined to leave with the five that I kept. The umpires and bullpen pitchers ignored me as I stood above the tunnel in Sec 24 after the game and asked for a ball.
Game: 6 Balls (1 given away)
Season: 110 Balls
Career: 148 Balls
Streak: 7 games with at least 1 ball
Attendance: 21,931 (57.2% full)
8-26-08 PNC Park, Cubs @ Pirates
The only positive from the entire night was the beautiful pink sky at dusk.
Tonight's game was the absolute worst game I've been to all season. Although it was a nine inning game, the game lasted FOUR hours.
During the Pirates' portion of batting practice I got absolutely nothing. The Cubs' portion of batting practice was just as bad. The Cubs' fans outnumbered the Pirates fans at batting practice, so I didn't even bother putting on my Cubs gear. The Cubs players were also remarkably stingy, notable Lester Strode, who even ignored a group of young Cubs' fans when picking up two balls near the wall.
Luckily, around 5:40, Aramis Ramirez launched a homerun ball directly at me. I didn't even have to move.
I caught the line drive on the fly, making it ball #1, and my only ball of the day.
I caught the ball in my usual batting practice spot, in the aisle between Sec 134 and 135.
After BP ended, I tried to get Ian Snell's warm up ball, but bullpen catcher Herbie Andrade took it into the bullpen with him, totally snubbing me.
My seats for this game were located on the right field wall, in Sec 143 Row F. I figured that I could improve on my paltry one ball by moving back and forth between RF and CF
throughout the game. Nate McLouth throws a warm up ball into the stands at the top of each odd numbered inning, while the right fielder throws during even numbered innings. I made nine attempts to get a warm up ball.
Unfortunately, I think Nate knows who I am and refuses to throw the ball to me. On one Sunday back in June, I caught three of his warm up balls in one game. Two I had to jump for, and probably weren't meant for me, possibly contributing to McLouth giving me the could shoulder ever since.
I didn't receive a ball the entire game, so I moved down to Section 24 to attempt to get a game ball from an umpire as they left the field. By this time, it was 11:04 PM, and the only remaining fans in the crowd were Cubs fans. The place had a Wrigley Field feel to it, as chants of "Let's Go Cubbies" echoed from every crevice of the stadium. In the picture below, you can see all of the Cubs fans standing in anticipation of the final out. U
Game: 1 Ball
Season: 104 Balls
Career: 142 Balls
Attendance: 17,929 (46.7% full)

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What a great idea Natalie.
I'm a WAHM to 4 kids, 11, 9, 8 & a newborn and decided to open an online boutique; a want to help my husband contribute to the family income and my kiddos being my inspiration This Lil Piglet was born.
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What is our blog about?
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Oh my gosh Stacey, this is ADORABLE!!! You did such a beautiful job on her room, I love all the details. The book shelves are great. Everything looks just so sweet for a beautiful little girl.
That is so sweet. I love her precious room. I am in the process of redoing my daughters room too:) She will be 9 and believe me her style has changed from the sweet little Shabby Chic room she had. Enjoy her room because before you know it she will want to change it again and it will be her style:))
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Ahhhhhhhh waht a sweet room. Maggie is a doll. And even a vintage, kin of, name. We have a Mabel.
Is this just the happiest room EVER or what??? So sweet and perfect for a vintage loving little girl! Even if she doesn't know it yet!
And my goodness she is a cutie!
Miss Maggie's room is adorable and so is she!
I'm a big fan of the colors you chose. It's a very cheerful room.
And that is one beautiful little gal, too. I miss when my niece and nephew were that age. They do grow up so fast.
What a sweet and cheerful room for your beautiful little girl. I love how you used the vintage hankies to make that cute banner. The colors you decorated with are perfect!
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I love the photos of your Valentine goodies in the last post! YUM!
love, love, miss maggie's room. it turned out perfectly, love all of your special little vintage touches, especially your framed vintage storybook pages. that last picture of her is absolutely precious!
beautiful job, my friend! i am adoring the pops against the blue and white. great fabrics, wall decor, everything.
and ... HOW ADORABLE IS LITTLE MAGGIE?! sooooo adorable!
What a perfect Room for such an adorable Sweet Pea, you di a great job.. looks beautiful~
It's an adorable room! You did an amazing job. I love all the colors and lovely vintage touches. Gorgeous! Your sweet girl is darling, I love her smile.
How adorable! It's the sweetest room ever! I especially love all the little "deer" touches! Yes, I noticed! I'd be happy in this room. Hehe. =)
this is ADORABLE!!!!!! i love it all, so so brilliant! i pinned it because the whole world needs to see it! (and the whole world follows me on pinterest- totally kidding but i realized how it sounded after i said it!) seriously amazing job!!!! i am going to look at it all again because i want to soak in the details!
What a lovely, lovely room! She must love it! So cheerful, so happy, so girly, so perfect!
i LOVE IT!!!! every single little detail and color! love love love it!!!! (hugs)
I think everything looks amazing! I love the colors you have chosen and each little detail makes me smile. You are truly blessed.
This is so so pretty! I love all of those colors. Thanks for sharing!
I LOVE Maggie's new room! It is adorable! The colors you've used look wonderful and of course I love all the great vintage style! I'm sure your lil' sweetie is very happy in her new room. :)
So sweet! love the blue.Joann
Maggie is one lucky, cute little girl. Give those beautiful little cheeks a little kiss from me:)God bless x
This really is one of the nicest nurseries I have ever seen! Love the way you've captured that vintage feel and made it so colourful and cheerful!
Stacey, what a positively adorable, cheerful space for your cutie pie! I love the vintage feel and the colors are perfection!
SO gorgeous! Lovin' those bright cheery colors with the vintage vibe. great prints on the hankys and pillow too...
this room is PERFECTION!!!! AHHHH!!!!! IM in LOVEEEE!!!!!
everything is so pretty!! the whole look is so vintage and beautiful!
I am really, really loving this room!
It is so pretty! As is Maggie, of course. I've had that same Katie Daisy print on my wish list for a while! You've done a great job. :)
Maggy's room is so sweet. What a lucky little girl. She is just precious.
It sure is a happy room Stacey and Maggie looks like one happy little girl! She's so adorable!! You have incorporated so many sweet touches into a small space. The window with the book pages is too cute!
Now THAT is adorable! What a lucky little girl! I always have thought it is good to have kids in smwll rooms...then they won't spend all their time locked away in them :) Smart thinking mom!
My goodness what a sweet room for a beautiful little girl. Love the colors and all the little details. The wee sign...too cute. (my reader is messing up and I just knew I was missing a post.) Love your redos. Smiles..Renee
Maggie is one lucky (and adorable) little lady! Love the bright colors and the fun artwork -that mirror with the vintage prints is fabulous!
Your daughter is beautiful! She will be so happy in her new room.
She is so cute!! How fun this room is now~I love many things, to include the wire shelf rack, the rick rack trim on the curtians and the pink horse ribbon!!
so cute! reminds me of my dining room pre-redo! great job!
What a lovely space for your adorable angel to rest his little head at night! Well done ...
Gorgeous space for your gorgeous little girl! I love how it turned out.
What an adorable room Stacey! I love that sweet little chenille jacket too.
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Oh and I love that sweet pic of Maggie too!
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drool drool drool! This is vintage done right. It's so happy and fun and full of life. I just love everything about it. Great job!
GASP!! Oh, Stacey, this is such a marvelous room! So many thoughtful details and great vintage pieces. Had I not seen the photos on your blog, I still would have known this was a space you created. It's very much in keeping with your beautiful style in the rest of your house. Love it all!
And Maggie is so precious with those round little cheeks!
Hope she and you both enjoy her new room!
Girly and vintage-mission accomplished. The colors are perfect-just the right shades to give you the vintage look and all the wire touches you have used for your storage (that wall rack in particular) are fabulous.
That is just the sweetest little girls room. Love all the vintage touches. What a lucky little girl. I am a new FB fan visiting from Sew Crafty Tuesday. Vicky from Mess For Less
Stunning! Love, love, love! And I bought a bear for my girl at that same booth at the Country Living Fair. It's an excellent event!
Adorable and absolutely gorgeous (the room and your little one!) Thanks for linking up to Share the Love Wednesday, I'm featuring this at this week's party. Stop by and grab a feature button!
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Perfect room! I post two photos on my blog (Galeria Pixuquinha)...
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The charges against a Sioux Falls man include third-degree burglary and felony possession of stolen property after police say he was caught with nearly a dozen stolen knives and other items early Monday.
Information Officer Sam Clemens says an officer saw a man running near a strip mall in the 3100 block of West 41st Street around 3:30 a.m., with merchandise in his hands.
He says the man ran into a wooded area nearby, where he was found by other officers. Clemens says he had a total of 11 knives and other property, with some of the knives carrying tags from Knife Works.
Management was called and Clemens says officers found that the store had been burglarized with a number of items taken.
Clemens says in addition to the other charges, 30-year-old Adam Scott Wardell of Sioux Falls was arrested for possession of burglary tools, fleeing, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.
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Hillsville has been without administrators in those two positions since long-time town manager Larry South and police chief Steve Williams resigned in June before the composition of town council changed in July.
Officials have contacted two candidates for town manager to make offers, but neither of them had accepted by the Monday meeting.
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JENNIFER LIND is an Associate Professor of government at Dartmouth College and the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics. Follow her on Twitter @profLind. KEIR A. LIEBER is an Associate Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government at Georgetown University. DARYL G. PRESS is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth College and Coordinator of War and Peace Studies at Dartmouth's John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama described North Korea's recent nuclear test as a provocation that required a firm response. The intended audience for that provocation, though, is up for debate. Some commentators have posited that the test was a signal aimed at China, designed to demonstrate North Korea's independence from its great-power patron. Others think that Kim Jong-un was sending a message to the newly elected president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye. Still other North Korea experts have suggested that the test was actually meant for domestic consumption, to lift the sagging morale of a deprived public or for the regime to curry favor with the military. The intended North Korean signal is being analyzed and debated by U.S. government officials, who hold views across the spectrum.
A much simpler explanation exists. Pyongyang tested a nuclear device for the same reason it has been testing long-range missile designs: to see what works. In truth, the effort was less a signal than an attempt to master the technical capabilities that are vital to its nuclear deterrent.
This rationale should come as no surprise to those steeped in Cold War history. Between 1945 and 1992, the United States conducted 1,054 nuclear tests and fired an untold number of missiles. If the goal had merely been to show the Soviets that the United States meant business, testing nearly twice a month throughout the entire Cold War would have been overkill. In fact, Operation Sandstone -- a series of three tests at Enewetak Atoll in 1948 -- was not intended to warn off the Soviets as tensions rose over Berlin. Nor was the series of 48 underground tests launched in the summer of 1964 designed to impress the newly installed premier, Leonid Brezhnev. And the United States would not have conducted a dozen atomic blasts at its Nevada test site in the first half of 1977 -- including the Cove, Dofino, Marsilly, Bulkhead, Crewline, Forefoot, Carnelian, Strake, Flotost, Gruyere, Scantling, and Scupper detonations --


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Donald shot the lowest round of his European Tour career in the land of his father – he marked the fact by wearing tartan trousers – as he dominated the rain-shortened event on the final day.
It was his second successive triumph in Europe and now he will try to put the icing on the cake - at Sandwich - by capturing his first Major title at The Open Championship next Sunday.
"It's nice to get another victory - I can get used to this," he said. "To do it on a links is even better and when I play well I tend to do reasonably well the next week.
"I holed putts when I needed to, and it's nice to do it when it matters.
"The scoring conditions were there - Fredrik had a very low one, barely made the cut and finished second.
"If you played well it was there for the taking and with the greens being softer and very little wind. But I holed the putts when I needed to, and I holed a bunch of 20, 25 footers out there today, and had a good feel for the greens. I was seeing the lines very well and it was nice to hold them when it mattered.
"I felt good out there. I felt very comfortable and very in control, and that's a good sign for next week."
After Saturday's wash-out cut the tournament from 72 to 54 holes, Donald first of all had to play half of his second round starting at 7am and did that in three under par to close the gap on the leaders from four to one.
Then he went out again after lunch and left the rest for dead, taking the €550,249 first prize with a total of 197.
With Lee Westwood coming joint 14th Donald also stretched his lead at the top of the Official World Golf Ranking.
And it is such a gap that Rory McIlroy - next week's favourite following his amazing US Open Championship win - cannot now go to number one even if he lands back-to-back Majors.
Runner-up Andersson Hed burst out of the pack with a best-of-the-week 62, while in a seven-way tie for third Scotland's European Tour rookie Scott Jamieson was the happiest man.
That was because a ten foot birdie putt on the last gave him the one Open Championship spot on offer.
Chile's Mark Tullo, South African George Coetzee, Argentina's Angel Cabrera, Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts and Italian Lorenzo Gagli were the others to finish 14 under.
Jamieson said: "I wasn't sure how important that putt was.
"I can't believe I'm in The Open - it's great. First Major, hopefully many more to come."
In seven European Tour starts this season Donald has now earned a staggering €3,153,531.
That works out at an average of over €450,000 per week and his career earnings on The European Tour alone - he also has victories in America to his name - could go through the €11,000,000 mark this coming week.
There were four leaders with a round to go - Jamieson, compatriot Peter Whiteford, Swede Peter Hanson and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell.
Jamieson was the only one to break 70. Whiteford fell away with a 73 and McDowell was one worse than that after putting two balls in the gorse on the long 12th and running up a quadruple bogey.
Until then he had hopes of catching Donald. He finished eight behind him and 42nd.
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Newsday: Greg Logan has an article on forward Jon Sim who has looked good so far in his return from a season ending knee injury with comments from head coach Scott Gordon that he might pair him on left wing with Doug Weight and Bill Guerin as the former Thrasher dismisses any comparison to Dallas winger Shawn Avery.
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With the return of many prospects to their junior clubs and more players headed for Bridgeport we are starting to get an idea of what the battlelines are for spots based on the coaches comments.
So far we have seen a few words on:
Obviously Bailey is going to get every chance to impress this gm and coach.
Only going to get more interesting with New York returning home.
Seems like good things are happening around Trevor Smith so far.
The Guardian: Jason Simmonds has comments from Trent Hunter and Frans Nielsen along with Panthers coach Peter Deboer who felt New York had the better legs and got to more pucks.
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The time has finally come, Katy Cats! Katy Perry will make her first post-split appearance in the U.S. this Friday. The starlet will be on hand with pal Markus Molinari at a celebration in Las Vegas. What's the occasion?
Perry will be on hand at the opening party for 1 OAK Las Vegas, Us Weekly reports. The party will take place at the Mirage Hotel and will benefit the GiveLove charity, an organization specializing in housing and sanitation for Haiti. The foundation's executive director, actress Patricia Arquette, will also be present.
The party is Perry's first public appearance on U.S. soil since her split from Brand. Perry cancelled her People's Choice Awards appearance shortly after news of the divorce hit, though it's unclear whether the cancellation was because of the breakup or due to scheduling conflicts for her Adidas campaign.
Perry made her first global public debut two weeks ago, when she performed her final 'California Dreams' tour dates in Indonesia. Perry's pals said that her work is doing a good job at keeping her mind off of her ex, so it sounds like a fun night out with friends is just what she needs.
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A 33-year-old friend of mine has found a lump in her breast. What proportion of breast masses turn out to be benign?
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The likelihood of benign disease in this situation is probably 85% or greater. Breast masses in young women turn out to be benign more often than in older women, although a specific age breakdown is hard to give. To rule out the possibility of malignancy, a physician should, carefully evaluate any mass in any age patient.


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To prevent further heresies, the Congregatio pro Doctrina Temporis unanimously (1/1) declares the Papal infallibility when he starts a sentence with "Simon says".Kieryn wrote:StratPlayer wrote:Kieryn wrote:Interesting infographic: Shows number of forum posts for each TimeFrame/Newpix. The timeframes are scaled to outsider time so that they are doubly spaced after 242 when they started updating hourly.
Definitely periodic....
It's almost like something is updating on a regular basis and people are responding to it.
I didn't check, but the periods are most likely day-night cycles. Proof that however much people might be claiming otherwise, they are, in fact, comaing.
No, you can't prove that with the data you have. And even if you could somehow prove we comaed, you'd need a baseline of pre-Time comaing.
You are right, I can only show that people are more likely to post at certain times of day, and I can only theorize that when they are not posting it is because they are not present and are comaed. I do not have the right data to prove that as the cause.
What about the overall Gaussian curve distribution? Should we be saddened that we are past the Peak of Time, or seek joy in the fact that we still remain?
EDIT: Fixed the incorrect curve name -- I was distracted by the looming 9000!


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When Warners' Stellian entered in the Builders Association of the Twin Cities Chili Cook-Off, I enthusiastically volunteered to make our entry.
We were encouraged to make more than 2 gallons, with the logic being more chili means more tasters means more votes for Warners' Stellian. So, I made six batches. Observe:
When it came time for the massive amounts of chili to "simmer" for an hour, I lowered the controls on my (15-year-old) gas range to the flame's lowest point before disappearing and tended to other responsibilities.
When I returned to dutifully "stir occasionally" 55 minutes later, all three pots of my chili were not simmering, but boiling. Of course chili isn't as delicate as say, chocolate or Hollandaise sauce, but I don't like the idea of keeping my chili at high heat for nearly an hour.
Apparently, flames on most ranges nowadays can only go so low.
Astronomically high BTU burners are trendy right now, but several brands also offer cooktops and ranges with extra-low settings for safer simmering.
Wolf burners go down to 300 BTUs and absolutely will NOT scorch chocolate.
When I went to Wolf product training, a tiny Hershey's square sat in a saucepan atop a Wolf simmer burner all afternoon, perfectly happy and melted.
Dacor has burners that can go as low as 650 BTUs, but also includes a simmer plate with some models.
A simmer plate is an accessory that protects your delicate foods from the direct heat of the burner, holding it at the safest low temperature possible.
Thermador ExtraLow Simmer burners can simmer as low as 100°F at 375 BTUs.
If you're wondering, I didn't place in the top three, though I did win the prize for Most Colorful Chili (you are what you eat, right?). Of course, I blame my lack of victory on my non-simmering range.


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text: Medical homes Legacy's patient-centered medical homes All of Legacy's primary care clinics are are certified patient-centered medical homes. What does this mean for you and your family? "The medical home model shifts us from the current disjointed care to a more coordinated approach to the health of the whole person, with the primary care physician looking out for the big picture." — Melinda J. Muller, M.D., Legacy clinical vice president of primary care Download a brochure about Legacy's medical homes Choose a primary care clinic See a graphic about how our patient-centered medical homes help with preventative care and long-term diseases Legacy Health patient-centered medical homes Legacy Health patient-centered medical homes What is a medical home? A medical home is a primary care practice focused not just on treating separate symptoms and illnesses, but on helping you maintain your lifelong health. Unlike the traditional approach, where various specialists might treat you in a fragmented way, in the medical home model your personal physician leads a team that takes comprehensive responsibility for your ongoing care. Whether you receive services only at your primary care clinic, or from a specialty clinic, hospital or other source, your medical home team will coordinate your care for the best possible outcome. What benefits will you see? Much of the time, you may not notice a difference at your primary care clinic except for a special focus on wellness and prevention, such as reminders for screenings and immunizations. But if you have a chronic disease like diabetes or hypertension, your care will focus on that condition in a coordinated way. Many of our primary care doctors and nurse practitioners in our primary care clinics are recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for providing quality care to patients with diabetes. Patients with complex medical issues might also be supported with extra assistance from a health coach, nurse case manager or outside agency. In addition, the Legacy Research Institute is currently assigning a clinical research coordinator (CRC) to each medical home clinic to make clinical research more visible and accessible. By being part of the medical home team, Legacy Research hopes to involve more patients in appropriate research studies and offer more opportunities to Legacy providers to participate as principal investigators. For all patients, the hallmarks of a medical home are quality, safety and comprehensive, proactive care. Are there measurable results from the medical home approach? Legacy's medical home clinics are seeing a steady increase in patients who are up to date on their lab tests, health maintenance tests and immunizations. Our medical home patients are also requiring fewer emergency room visits and hospital stays. All of this adds up to better health care -- and better health -- for you and your family.


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May 23, 2007
Reach USA was handed their first defeat on the current tour Tuesday in a 79-76 loss to Zhe Jiang, the 4th place team in the Chinese Basketball Association. Lipscomb forward Eddie Ard scored eight points and was a perfect four of four from the field. The rising senior grabbed four rebounds, two assists and two blocked shots.
The Zhe Jiang held an eleven point advantage in the first half, but the USA group fought back and was ahead by as many as ten points early in 4th period. The Chinese team, playing their first game of the week, took advantage of a sluggish Reach squad to take a one point lead with 45 seconds remaining. A missed jumper and two Zhe Jiang free throws set the stage for late game heroics, but three missed threes in the last 20 seconds allowed the Chinese team to hold on for a victory. The local team hit twelve threes, the most given up during the 2007 tour. Three more games are set in the four games series.
Ard averaged 15.0 points and 5.8 rebounds per game during the 2006-07 season while starting all 31 games for the Bisons. A member of the 2nd team All-Atlantic Sun, Ard led the conference in free throw percentage at 83.0%.
The complete Reach USA team includes Ard, LSU's Garrett Temple, Mississippi State's Brian Johnson, Texas-Pan American's Paul Stoll, Auburn's Quan Prowell and Rasheem Barrett, and Alabama's Mikhail Torrance and Demetrius Jemison.


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As principals of manna cuisine of los angeles & london, we welcome you to our world and to london's manna restaurant, one of Europe's finest and oldest gourmet vegetarian establishments. Join our friends, old and new and from far and wide, as our primrose hill restaurant celebrates its 50th anniversary!
roger, with partner stephen hague, have had the privilege of owning manna restaurant since 1995, and over the years our menus have developed under the stewardship of a distinguished array of international chefs. Before acquiring manna we were regular customers while in London, Roger even eating here during the turbulent 1960's, a time of great change in London and around the world. A new sensibility swept the lands then; consciousness and self-awareness were explored and we questioned everything, including the effects of our actions upon others and ourselves. Our eating habits came under scrutiny like never before. While London continued its longstanding tradition of welcoming immigrants with their exotic cuisine from around the world, we investigated so many foods, philosophies and disciplines and discovered new delights and new paths to health. Quite quickly and very naturally, emerging from this, although common to many cultures and a basic philosophical dictum throughout the millennia, vegetarianism soon became the logical choice of an increasing number of people in a post-war and rapidly advancing contemporary society. A new vegetarian sensibility was born, especially in california and the major cosmopolitian cities of Europe. And in London, manna led the way
Fifty years on, health is now a prime directive in society. No longer are there any doubts that proper health maintenance is achievable in no small part through our eating habits. Few people today are unaware of the socio-ecological consequences of a toxic modern world. Responsibly produced alternatives to a world of mass production increasingly become mainstream, and those of us who with a loud voice actively supported those products and providers, demanded natural nourishment from our foods. Now, furthering even more an animal-product-free philosophy, a modern lifestyle without dairy products is resonating the same way that simple vegetarianism once did… and like the essential nature of manna cuisine, our manna is a 100% vegan restaurant
One unfortunate myth, perhaps, is that healthy eating lacks connoisseur taste and gourmet presentation. We know better. We've been eating ethnic gourmet vegan food for decades. When the opportunity arose to acquire manna, a prime motive was to provide fine dining in the international tradition but with meatless recipes and vegan alternatives rarely available in restaurants, anywhere. We travel the world compiling our recipes before bringing them lovingly to you. We use only the highest quality, ecologically and socially responsible ingredients — fair trade products when available and organic and local products whenever fresh and viable – and, of course, to the best of our awareness all our food is GM free. Peruse and sample our wine list and drinks menu also. All of our wines and beers are organic and vegan and all items must meet our highest standards before offering them to you. We carefully select and proudly offer only the finest varieties available and make essential changes when necessary
manna restaurant makes every effort to provide you with the finest healthy nourishment in a friendly, clean, harmonious and relaxing environment. All meals are individually prepared fresh every day, including our homemade organic breads. Your satisfaction is of paramount importance to us. If you are happy with us, please tell us. More importantly, if for any reason you are dissatisfied, please let us know so we can make every effort to remedy the situation and retain you as a valuable customer. We welcome feedback, and we are happy to provide a card on which to table your comments and suggestions, and to join our mailing list
manna cuisine is also very proud to offer an array of vegan services and products. A full catering service for every kind of event, large or small; wonderful cakes and products in london from our fully certified organic bakery & kitchen; cooking classes; consultations and advice tailored to your needs! We would very much enjoy bringing the manna experience directly to you. We offer the same quality cuisine, expertise and service in all related fields and can design a special program or menu based on years of successful catering and teaching for a large and sophisticated international clientele, including many celebrities
If you spot us around, please say hello... we love to meet our many friends and acquaintances to share stories and catch up with all the going's on around the world!
You can't miss us, we're the ones smacking our lips...! R&R
Nourishment refers to much more than a healthy diet. It is the care-giving function of man. Eating properly implies care for oneself; providing healthy meals in the home is a sign of caring for the family; providing healthy meals for others is a sign of caring for others. The writer of a great book, a composer of a wonderful piece of music or an artist who delivers an impression with beauty and grace, also provide nourishment - in these cases to humanity in general by caring deeply about his or her work. You can know people by observing what they choose to nourish in their own lives. Do they feed and develop their own bodies? Do they cultivate their spirits, their intellects, their moral values? Do they nourish (that is, care for) those around them, and if so, to whom do they devote their energies? The most successful people are temperate in eating and drinking, thinking and dreaming. They strengthen the world by nurturing the higher nature in man.
Pay heed to your inner thoughts and impulses, ignoring - and more importantly changing - thoughts which can undermine a healthy and persevering attitude. A wise person is temperate because to be otherwise only leads to discomfort; the fact that temporary pleasure may precede the discomfort does not dissuade the person of mature character. Inspired to be wise, we aspire to be discriminating in our words and actions and articulate in our activities and interactions, lest a desire for temporary advantage lead to pain for ourselves and others.
Enrich your own character and you will naturally nourish everyone around you
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You can solve this problem by creating a "main repair procedure." This is a manageable tool for identifying the shortest path between "broken" and "fixed."
A flowchart works well as the core of such a procedure. In fact, it works so well that the diagnostic flowchart is standard in the automotive repair industry. It gives people a quick way to determine which part of a much larger body of repair documentation to use for performing the needed repair.
For example, your diagnostic flowchart for a robotic welder might conclude one diagnostic step with, "Perform repair per Manufacturer ABC Manual 123, Chapter 4." and conclude another diagnostic step with, "This appears to be a bonding problem. Review the equipment against the NEC, Art. 250 Part V."
How can you determine which equipment will best benefit from a diagnostic flowchart?
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- Examine logs of repairs that get repeated (not done correctly the first time).
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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
My husband has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. His PSA count is only 3.7 and his Gleason count is 3+3(=6). It has not spread at all so they said he it is very early and he is "curable". A local hospital is doing laparoscopic surgery on prostate cancer. I cannot even find anything on the Internet on this procedure. Do you know of it and have any opinions or comments? My husband is leaning towards this new procedure because the procedure makes it sound so good. Shorter healing time, less chance for the undesirable complications, etc.
Alan J. Wein, MD, Professor and chair of the Division of Urology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Chief of Urology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Currently laparoscopic prostatectomy it is practiced by only a few individuals. Interested patients should accept the notion that it is not yet an established procedure. If you choose to have this I would suggest that the surgeon be an individual who has done over 50 of these in an untutored environment. Since it is such a new procedure, there is not enough follow up on laparoscopic prostatectomy to determine the rates of cure and risk of recurrence when compared to a standard radical prostatectomy.


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So now we are up to 258 blogs with about 270 bakers. We're still missing folks from nine states (DE, KS, MI, MT, NE, NM, ND, WV, and WY). Countries with bakers outside the US include Australia, Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Canada, Philippines, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Germany, England, Austria, and India! Our youngest baker (that I know of) is nine. Our first recipe posts in two weeks!
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Are people still allowed to join? I would love to! And I'm from NE ;)
Yes! You still have time, you have to send your info to email@example.com with:
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Awesome! And we have a 9 year old? SO COOL!
so cool!! I'm the one from Spain!! Can't wait to see all the results of the white loaves!!!
I love that people of all ages from all over the world are participating.
My book just arrived two days ago and I cannot wait to bake the bread this weekend! I love the smell of fresh baked homemade bread.
way nerdy….but cool:)))
As if you'd expect anything else from me.
I baked my loaves for the second time yesterday, and they turned out even better than the first! My 5 year old said, "Mommy, why are you always taking pictures of your FOOD???" Hahahaha!
Laurie and Jules, I'm a FFWD Dorista and, along with others FFWD cooks, am excited to have also joined TWD. In fact, I just did a Post for my Blog about Dorie's international cooking groups. I hope you like it and I look forward to baking with you next month.
I am sooooo excited to get started! I have been drooling over the recipes in the book since I got it and I can't wait!
Are we going to have a flickr group, too? That would be fun! I saw there was one for the last round and the photos there are amazing.
Very cool! I'll take one for the team and move to New Mexico. :)
I'm most likely moving to Montana in the summer (from CA), so don't worry about that one. :)
I am signed up and you can add Mexico to your list. Looking forward to again baking with the TWD group.
Thanks for your email Laurie.
You forgot about me! Peru is represented!
Don't forget about Belgium! :)
Delaware is also represented. No blog, but I just received my book today. Can't wait to try the first recipe!!
Greetings from far far away….the scent of your fabulous baking reached Switzerland!
I'd like to sign-up (I've sent a request yesterday) but the only blog I write
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After marrying bodybuilder and entrepreneur Joe Weider in 1961, Betty Brosmer - now Betty Weider, the couple started working together in the health and fitness business. In 1981 she co-founded SHAPE Magazine, the first health and fitness publication for women.
The photo above was taken in 2011, at the opening ceremony of Muscle and Grace at the Joe and Betty Weider Museum of Physical Culture. So you see, she still looks gorgeous! She will soon turn 79 years old, but is still active, writing two magazine columns; Body by Betty and Health by Betty, which appear in the leading health and fitness magazines around the world.
For more info about Betty, go to her website here!


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The right mentor can determine if you go to jail or achieve something greater in life.
Yoo Hye Jung (Park Shin Hye) has had a tough childhood and difficult life. She has dealt with the life challenges by becoming emotionally guarded and acting like a tough bully at school. When Hong Ji Hong (Kim Rae Won) meets Hye Jung, he recognizes her intelligence behind her gangster façade and sets her on a path to become a compassionate doctor.
Now a doctor in a neurosurgery residency at a major hospital, Hye Jung works alongside fellow residents Jung Yoon Do (Yoon Kyun Sang) and Jin Seo Woo (Lee Sung Kyung). But when Seo Woo becomes Hye Jung's biggest rival both professionally and personally, can Hye Jung overcome yet another major obstacle to her own personal happiness?
"Doctors" is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Oh Choong Hwan.


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Candle is one of the important elements when we arrange to throw a party. In a party candle help to set the ambiance, usually candle relates with classic, elegant, rather quiet, and romantic mood. Candle also functions as decoration in a party which can be placed as centerpiece at the table, as a centerpiece candle usually combine with the flowers. There are two kind of candle in the market nowadays. First is paraffin candle, from the name we knew that this type of candle is made from paraffin which is molded in a tray. Paraffin candle can be made into various colors, red, green, pink, blue, but mostly paraffin candle is colored white. Paraffin candle have various form, for birthday party we buy numeric candle that show the age or alphabetic candle which show initial name or short name of the person who celebrate his or her birthday, but a round candle is mostly use. And the size of paraffin candle can be short or long, thin or thick. And second is round flameless candle. Not like paraffin candle which have real flame from real fire, round flameless candle have no flames, only light which is operated with battery.
Using round flameless candle is safer than paraffin candle. We need to be more careful choosing the right and safe place to put paraffin candle. If paraffin candle fall out by accident, it can be a disaster because it can cause fire. With flameless candle, we can put candles anywhere, but of course we have to pay attention of the aesthetic. Flameless candle won't make fire that can create panic and ruin the party or create any damages or loss. Flameless candle is very suit for any kind of party, whether it's a wedding, graduation, welcoming, dinner, or Christmas, whether it's in-door party or out-doors party, whether it's in small space like apartment room, medium like house or huge place like ball room.Batteryoperatedcandles.net is the best place to shop flameless candle. The store offers round flameless candles in several sizes, colors, and even the candles also completed with a timer, and the battery is rechargeable. You could also find tea light candles at Batteryoperatedcandles.net.
Batteryoperatedcandles.net offers flameless candles with low price, so it's very affordable. Batteryoperatedcandles.net give special discount price for every volume of candles that you buy. These flameless candles from the company already feature in famous television musical drama, Glee.


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Professor Kristi M. Wilson
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Kristi M. Wilson received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1999 in Comparative Literature and has since then authored many publications among them Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (co-edited by Laura E. Ruberto, Wayne State University Press, 2007), an Introduction to The Satyricon of Petronius (Barnes and Nobles, 2006) and several articles and reviews for academic journals such as Screen, the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, Signs, Literature/Film Quarterly, and others.
Shortly after earning her Ph.D., Wilson was the recipient of a UC Berkeley Summer Research Institute Fellowship and a UC Irvine, Humanities Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. She the went to Stanford as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in the Humanities Program in 2000 where she taught several interdisciplinary humanities courses. She joined the Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric faculty in 2004 where she taught until coming to SUA in 2008.
Her teaching and research interests include classics (Greek tragedy, comedy, oratory, satire, epic poetry), gender studies, philosophy, literature, theater, and film studies. While at SFSU, she wrote and directed a musical adaptation of Euripides' little know tragedy The Phoenician Women called Tanguedia. Lyrics for the songs were set to "golden age" tango classics and the play was set in 1930s Buenos Aires. The musical was performed in two different productions at SF State University and in the Castro district of San Francisco.
At Stanford she founded and directed the Stanford Film Lab, a student-based group that supports the development of links between visual, oral and written rhetoric in the form of documentary film. Wilson was also a founding member of the Bay Area documentary film collective Cine Campesino, which produced two short documentary, films about rural communities in Honduras and created an international Latin American film festival. Some of her film and television work has appeared on the syndicated television show Latin Eyes.


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The lawyer for former West Bridgewater police officer Thomas Richmond has released a $100,000 settlement agreement that town officials signed with Richmond in December 2011, which the town has kept secret since then.
WEST BRIDGEWATER – The attorney for former West Bridgewater police officer Thomas Richmond has released the $100,000 settlement agreement that town officials signed with Richmond in December 2011.
Town officials had for months been refusing to release the public document requested by The Enterprise, but attorney Tim Burke of Needham faxed the six-page agreement to the newspaper Monday afternoon.
"My client and I are glad that the public finally gets to know what the case resolved for," Burke said. "I think it's important that the public knows just how many lawsuits have been brought against the management at this Police Department. There are no less than four civil rights claims filed against the chief and high-level officers, which for a department that small is nothing short of outrageous."
The town agreed to pay $100,000 to Richmond, the agreement states. The agreement, signed by Richmond, also lists the names of Police Chief Donald Clark, police Lt. Victor Flaherty and police Sgt. Christopher Werner. It releases town officials from any legal claims arising out of Richmond's employment with the town.
The Enterprise had filed repeated requests for access to the town's settlement with Richmond. Town officials repeatedly refused to release it, citing a confidentiality clause that led officials to keep the amount secret.
But Burke, in a previous letter to selectmen, said town officials had insisted on the clause because of the number of suits and complaints against the town.
Burke said Tuesday he's glad the settlement is finally public, while criticizing the town's Police Department, which he called "poorly managed." He said the town insisted upon the confidentiality agreement when the deal was signed.
"It indicates that it's a poorly managed department that operates on the theory of vindictiveness and retaliation that all four of these cases demonstrate," Burke said Tuesday.
Clark, the police chief, and Flaherty, the Police Department's spokesman, could not be reached for comment.
Town Administrator David Gagne declined comment on Burke's statements about the Police Department. Gagne said he was not aware Burke had released Richmond's settlement.
"If they have decided to release it, then they have decided to release it," Gagne said Tuesday.
The town consistently refused to release the settlement despite a previous state ruling that cities and towns cannot enter into confidential settlements with present or former public officials, and that any such settlement is a public record that must be made available.
The town previously withheld the settlement amount from an agreement officials made with former police Lt. Raymund Rogers, 60, who retired in 2008 after several closed-door hearings conducted by selectmen. In keeping that amount secret, the town cited a confidentiality agreement it signed with Rogers. Officials released the information in 2010 after being ordered to do so by the secretary of state's Public Records Office, acting on an appeal by The Enterprise.
In its decision, the state ruled such agreements can't be kept secret because they involved public officials and public funds.
Richmond was one of four officers to file complaints with the MCAD. He later withdrew both of his 2009 complaints and filed a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was dropped in December 2011 after the town settled with him. He had claimed discrimination based on disability, retaliation, civil rights violations, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The town hired Richmond as a full-time officer in 2001. He retired from the police force on Sept. 4 due to a permanent injury. He currently receives a $41,988 annual accidental disability pension.
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