text:
Skip to comments.Another shake-up at CNN... Will veteran John King be pushed out for political dynamo Jake Tapper?
Posted on 02/01/2013 3:54:52 AM PST by nuconvert
CNN chief national correspondent John King could be ousted from the network in favour of new Chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper, MailOnline can reveal.
King, 49, has already moved out of his office to make way for Tapper, 43, who was poached by new CNN boss Jeff Zucker from ABC. And now sources have revealed that King has not signed a new contract - and has instead signed an extension to his existing deal, leaving his future at the network unclear.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Soledad questionable;
Matalin & Carville out;
Chris Cuomo will reportedly be paired with Erin Burnett
There's only one reason Jake Tapper is so popular- he's the only reporter whose questions for Obama don't start with, "Master, may I tongue-wash your feet?"
So why is the Wolfman still there?
Bingo!! Tapper is still a liberal Democrat, but he's not as much of an Obama ass kisser.
We are watching the 're-assembly' of players for the resurrection of the "C"linton "N"ews "N"etwork as preparation for Slick Hillary's prezidential campaign adventure . . .
Nothing new to see here folks . . .
Please just keep moving along . . .
It's just the media reorganizing for control of your mind . . .
How is it, UK papers are first to report this?
The Daily Mail seems to report a lot of stuff first.
John King is an ugly, annoying douche.
He is. I can't stand to look at him.
Because our Pravda Press is essentially state-run.
>> Theres only one reason Jake Tapper is so popular- hes the only reporter whose questions for Obama dont start with, Master, may I tongue-wash your feet?
He's one of the very few journalists I have any respect for.
Hope he doesn't lose his mojo.
More than that — hope a few others drop the footwashing routine and emulate his example!
If we had just a dozen *real* hardball journalists with access, we might begin to turn this thing around.
CNN is still a bunch of whores for the left. They just have a new pimp.
BJ's in the alley for dem's is CNN's main role. That's why Blitzer has a beard... makes his face look like a -
Thats why Blitzer has a beard... makes his face look like a -
You're killin' me. LOL
In the words of John King:
"I think Thee NN doeth not want me anymore. I mutht look for other jobth"
So, in about 18 months, when CNN's ratings are even WORSE, what are they gonna do then?
CNN is clearly eliminating the ex-Clinton people, and I expect they will be replaced with people from Obummer's first administration.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.


text:
curtain finial: by Price - £80 to £100: Page 1
Selection: curtain finial Products > by Price - £80 to £100 > Page 1
You are currently viewing a selection of curtain finial products filtered by your selection of 'by Price - £80 to £100'. You can use the page links below to continue to view this selection.
curtain finial: Filter by Price
curtain finial: By Product Category
curtain finial: Popular Shops
curtain finial: Popular Brands
curtain finial: Colours
curtain finial: Bed Sizes
curtain finial: Materials
You are currently viewing a filter of all the 'curtain finial by Price - £80 to £100', to view the full results of curtain finial click on the page links below
Curtains Shops
Helpful Information
We will Donate £20 for each sign up to Cancer Research UK
Furnishings Shops

subset: commoncrawl


text:
This is my first post and I want to say that I am new to even the idea of making a break from my religious upbringing and training. Though I grew up in the south, I was always devoted to my religious participation in a very humanistic anti dogmatic sort of way. Public expressions of faith nonsense always bothered me, and it made me worry that there was something wrong with me, so I tried to devote myself even more, eventually earning two graduate degrees in theology and a career working in church.
Slowly though I have been even drifting away from the concept of religious faith itself, until one day last week I heard some Texas school board bozo who was saying on television that his religious faith informed him about what should or should not be taught in Texas, and something just clicked. "What the hell is this guy talking about?" I thought. At other times in my life I would have just rolled my eyes and ignored him, but this time it really pissed me off.
So I come here with all sorts of questions, mostly along the 'how do athiests treat morality and ethics without god" sort of line. In browsing here I've noticed that those questions get treated with everything from amusement to disgust, so please be kind.
Throughout my life, the thing that inspired me most about christianity is something the christians inherited from the ancient hebrews, which is the idea that all humanity is created in the image of god (you can read it in Genesis), and so therefore all humanity is somehow sacred, everyone from Mitt Romney and Barak Obama, to the homeless guy who asked me for bus money the other day. All sacred, and so all deserving of respect and basic dignity. I'm wondering how does an atheist understand that there is basic dignity in all human life, and that all of us are afforded respect and just treatment simply by virtue of our common humanity.
Please understand I'm not joining this forum trying to play 'devil's advocate' or anything, or looking to dust something up on an athiest site. I'm honestly seeking this understanding because of where my life and thought has taken me, and I'm looking for new answers outside of religion that make more rational sense.
Thank You.
Views: 950
clear your mind and look in the mirror..
"All sacred, and so all deserving of respect and basic dignity." I quote you and say that you must use this same logic for the member of the Texas BofED. What you will find is very few people who call themselves Christian really search for Jesus, few really seek understanding. In this case, and what is the case in a lot of the south is religion is a status issue and nothing else.
I think you will find that atheistic thought cannot bring about dignity in human life. If we just exist free of the supernatural, then we have no purpose, not dignity, and no reason for life. We are simply empty vessels taking up space. It is only through Christ that we have purpose. So it is only through Christ that we have worth, because we are created in the image of God. If you really look at the logic behind Christianity and not just the fluff that a lot of people throw at you, I promise you that you will find rational thought. I would love to talk more about this with you! I obviously respect that you have studied theology and would never try and talk down to you, I simply would like to here your story more!
We could just as easily find 'purpose' by believing that our President was the manifestation of The Grand Creator here on Earth - hey, it works in North Korea. That we might find purpose in an idea does not attest to its truth. In point of fact, we can find purpose in any fiction. I happen to define my fiction has humanity and find purpose, dignity, and self-worth in the idea of elevating the human condition.
So, what makes your fiction better than mine?
We do not define our purpose. I could find purpose in whatever I set before, however, it is still empty and lacks substance. Purpose comes from God. If God exists than our ethics and morality are found solely in Him. If you would like to have a conversation about the the reality of God, than I would gladly talk to you about that, the rest however, is simply semantics.
If a god existed then I suppose our ethics and morality could well be sourced from it - but our ethics and morality vary greatly between cultures and over time so it would seem that our ethics and morality are not based on some unchanging, universal source.
That you have not defined your morality and/or ethics yourself is evidenced by your Christianity - that those who've believed before you have defined a set of doctrines for you to follow. That set of doctrines has evolved, over time, across cultures, and into different sects based on the same book, however - also evidence against an unchanging, universal force behind even Christianity - let alone Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, etc.
Please tell me about the reality of Yahweh/Jesus/the Holy Spirit. I'll ask that you name the god of whom you speak, however, rather than obfuscating your theology with generic deistic nomenclature.
Mark, you should take the time to read everyone's responses. If you do that, you'll see that your assertions have already been discussed.
We do not accept the claim that purpose, meaning, or dignity are handed to us from some god. You cannot tell me that I do not, or cannot, assign purpose to my own life because I actually have done just that. I have decided that my purpose is to fight for human rights through various outlets, and so I carry out that purpose as best as I can. My (self-assigned) purpose is to create art, learn to cook, build and enjoy relationships, enrich the lives of others, defend the defenseless, debunk mysticism, etc... I have many, many purposes. I simply do not need someone else to give meaning to my life. I'm very sorry that you feel incapable of choosing what your purpose is; that's actually a tragedy. Those of us on this site, however, can choose and do choose. Your denial of that fact doesn't change it.
I do not think that he is incapable of choosing his own purpose. I feel that many theists tend to label their personal purpose that they have assigned to themselves as the purpose that their god has put them on the Earth for. This is just a mislabeling of where the purpose comes from. I also think that this gives a 'self righteous' feeling to one's self assigned purpose, which elevates them above others in their perspective. We can see this feeling in Marks words, and his view that those without god can have no true purpose. This does not say to me that he respects all human life, as religion says he should, but that's just my opinion.
@Mark Bujarski,
If God exists than our ethics and morality are found solely in Him. If you would like to have a conversation about the the reality of God, than I would gladly talk to you about that
If you'd really like to have a discussion about the "reality of God" as a source of ethics and morality, then come to this new blog post. I guarantee you an interesting conversation.
You should read Nonzero.
The first thing you should realize is that no one here has answers, were all looking for them too.
I believe there is no such thing as basic dignity, human rights, etc. that are afforded us simply because we are human.
Rights are given to us by society - other people. If a person decides not to afford you a right, there's nothing other than societal pressure that might make them change their mind about that.
I don't believe that humans are "special", in that they automatically get rights just by being human. Humans are animals, who just happen to be in a privillaged position.


text:
It's been over 4 years since I last allowed myself to take part in the traditional holiday frenzy. Each year I would jump on the band wagon of racing around the city to various shopping malls and spending so much money on gifts. I bought all the seasonal store-bought decorations and wrapping paper and shipped boxes all over the world to family. I over ate, over drank and over spent feeling utterly spent …and bloated come the New Year. Even as a green lifestyle educator I somehow justify all the my consumerist without a care in the world mentality. My new year's resolution was always to "deal with " the holidays differently the following year.
And then one day I did. I decided that the Christmas holidays would have a different meaning to me. I did not want my children learning from me how disposable and frenetic the holiday season was, especially since the rest of our lives were not. I decided to slow down, buy less, get more creative and reflect on what the spirit of the holidays meant to me. It meant harkening back to my childhood. Walks in nature, baking cookies with friends, watching A Christmas Carol, playing board games, giving to charity and making lovely little handmade gifts. I wanted the magic to return, not just for my children but for myself too.
So this year, in the spirit of being green, yes, but also in the spirit of love, peace and joy find ways that you can slow down (for real), spend time with loved ones and cook or craft together or simply walk out out in the snow alone or with a friend. What is something you do for yourself around the Holidays? Have you made any changes around the Holidays for the better?


text:
Drawing inspiration on the recent vampire television and movie craze, the latest 60-second Audi Super Bowl commercial features the brand's newest S7 Sportback. Though the ad features an exclusive cast of vampires, these Audi luxury car TV spot have not be the blood-like elixir fans of the myriad of romantic drama-based vampire flicks will enjoy.
Capturing the modern vampire depiction as young and stylish rather than the legendary Dracula, this latest Super Bowl advertisement has the popular nocturnal creatures partying in the woods around a bonfire. As the crowd of vampires celebrate in the darkness, one of their comrades was rushing to the party in the five-door coupe. Showing up with the vampire's equivalent of a keg of beer (a cooler of blood), the 2013 Audi S7 Sportback illuminates the night with its available LED headlamps. Serving as one of the more recognizable features obtainable on Audi vehicles, the LED headlights are not only four times more efficient than convention halogen light but project a much higher intensity of white light. As the vampire drives his S7 Sportback to the 'blood-sucker's' social gathering, the pure white light energy from the Audi S7 Sportback (an innovation that helped Audi win the 2010 and 2011 Le Mans 24-Hour race) resulted in a side-effect from the partying clan. Once arriving at his destination, the vampire driving his Audi S7 Sportback unknowingly brought a plague to forest. The bright light of the S7 Sportback's LED headlamps destroyed almost every vampire around the bonfire.
The 2012 commercial isn't the not time Audi has attempted to poke fun at pop culture signatures. In 2009, the automaker make light of the culture trend that made words like "Going Green: and "Carbon Footprint" a nemesis to many automobile fans.
In the commercial that ran during Super Bowl 44, Audi rose against a fictional force of near draconian environmentalist. The advertisement depicted an environmentally friendly world radically enforced by a large and forceful squad called the "Green Police". To the musical background of a rerecorded version of the Cheap Trick classic "Dream Police", the Green Police aggressively carried out arrests of people deemed to be making decisions harmful to the environment. At the end of the 2010 Super Bowl commercial, a Green Police member at a highway checkpoint observed the German luxury brand's newest Audi A3 TDI Clean Diesel. Satisfied with the clean diesel powerplant, the Audi A3 TDI was allowed to proceed.
The 2012 Super Bowl advertisement is the 5th year that Audi has provided a car commercial during the most-watched annual sporting event on television. Since launching this promotion during an American football broadcast, their objective has always been to break into the lucrative United States premium car market. Achieving record sales in 2011, Audi has shown a winning ability to score touchdowns in the marketplace.
Information and photo source: Audi USA
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw9ZeXB2uKs&w=560&h=315]


text:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Kentucky has seven lakes suspected of having excessive levels of toxic algae, but state officials aren't revealing which bodies of water are being targeted for a second round of tests.
Kentucky environmental regulators are drawing water from the lakes for a second time for more rigorous laboratory analysis after initial samples showed concentrations of blue-green algae worthy of health advisories.
Kentucky Division of Water official Clark Dorman said the lakes involved in the most recent advisory aren't run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Five Corps-run lakes were the subject of a recent advisory.
Even though the state's initial tests suggested health risks to the public, dogs and farm animals, state officials are declining to identify those water bodies.
Read more: http://www.wlky.com/news/local-news/louisville-news/ky-has-more-lakes-suspected-of-having-toxic-algae/-/9718340/22411324/-/x31yeb/-/index.html#ixzz2hZAxiMlo


text:
by Tom Utescher
Both the host Lions of Springside School and the visiting Tigers of Germantown Friends were looking to climb back towards the .500 mark when the two girls lacrosse teams met last Tuesday afternoon.
The battle of the big cat mascots was won by GFS in convincing fashion, as the visitors charged to a 10-3 halftime lead and continued on to a double digit victory, 16-6. Senior Lyles Swift-Farley and junior Iris Williamson each fired five goals for the winners, who improved to 1-2, while Springside slipped to 2-4 despite three goals and an assist from junior Ellie Stout.
A graduate of Springside, Lions coach Lyida (Barber) Imperiale remembers the traditional lacrosse rivalry with GFS, but her charges didn't rise to the occasion.
"If we came out with the intensity that GFS did we could've won the game," she said, "but clearly they wanted it more.
"I really wasn't expecting that from how we've been playing," she went on. "We stayed right with Hill School and Lawrenceville, and lost those games by two goals, so this was a big shock."
Germantown coach Katie Bergstrom noted, "Our starters came out on fire and we never had to play catch-up. It was a really good team effort, and they couldn't really double or triple-team anybody because we would dump the ball to players they didn't expect to score."
The Tigers' total was rounded out by two goals from senior Lilly Tyson and four from junior Annie Morrissey, whose sister, Kitty, is a sophomore starter for Springside.
"Annie did a great job on the draw," Bergstrom said. "We knew where the ball was going and people stepped off the line quickly. Lilly and Isabella [Didio, a junior] played well, and [sophomore] Anna Bezahler stepped up today."
Veteran goalie Hilary McDonnell made five saves for Springside, and on the offensive end the Lions received two goals from junior Libbie Maine, and a goal and an assist from her classmate Casey Sullivan.
"We've already had 13 different players score this season," Imperiale said, "but you wouldn't' have known that from watching us today."
GFS graduated three-year starting goalie Samie Francis, and in the early going this spring the netminding duties have been shared by seniors Alex Gilliam (the Tigers' field hockey goalie) and Elena Karras, and sophomore Lauren Shinn. Shinn played against Springside and recorded six saves.
"We tell them whoever has the best warm-up is going in," Bergstrom explained. "A goalie can have an off day, but three goalies aren't going to have an off day all at once. The nice thing is that the other two are very supportive of the one who starts on a given day."
Williamson and Swift-Farley each scored in the first five minutes, and soon after that Maine put Springside on the board with an assist from Sullivan higher in the arc. Over the next five minutes Williamson, Morrissey, and Tyson fashioned a 5-1 lead for the visitors, and they remained in command. The only time Springside scored consecutive goals was at the very end of the game, after GFS had gone up 16-4.
"We didn't play cohesively, we didn't hustle to all the ground balls, and we weren't cutting hard on offense," Imperiale pointed out. "Our defense had good moments, but we were letting them drive way too much. They spread out their offense and that threw us off a bit, because we were always a step behind dropping back in and making our slides."
There was an encouraging improvement on the defensive end for the Tigers, according to Bergstrom.
"We had been fouling a lot and we weren't as patient as we needed to be," she related. "Today, it was back to basics. We really concentrated on body positioning, so we weren't reaching and fouling.
"We have some nice speed in transition from [sophomore] Sophie Mercuris and [senior] Sierra Carter-Gordon, and [junior] Alex Clarke communicates very well and helps direct our defense. I'm also really happy with Caroline Myran; she's our only freshman starter, and she's adjusting very well to the pace of the varsity game."


text:
There was a time, now seemingly very long ago, when the GAP brand stood alongside the likes of Nike and Apple as heavyweights in the advertising world.
Remember: this is the company whose in-house ad agency showed off the use of bullet-time special effects, before the Wachowski Brothers supposedly introduced the technique for the "Matrix" films.
That was back in the late 90's, a time when GAP had roughly 35,487 stores located in the continental US. My kitchen cabinet even had a GAP chain inside of it, stocked with 45 employees milling about and only one employee actually working the register.
Those days, of course, are long gone. This decade has seen a slip in GAP's popularity. Approximately 30,000 of those old GAP stores eventually became Starbucks chains, and then became empty spaces for hoboes to sleep in. With that drop, both the company and its brand have suffered.
U.S. & World
Well, this year the chain has stumbled down to a new nadir. I speak, of course, of the GAP carolers. Or cheerleaders. Or whatever the hell they are:
While GAP's overall corporate sales have been improving (thanks largely to sister store Old Navy), their advertising has not. Oh man, those kids in plaid are brutal. It's not that they are clearly a transparent ploy to cater to the "Glee" and "High School Musical" crowd. It's that they do it so badly. Are those kids doing the robot? Are they voguing? Are they doing some unholy mix of the two? LOOK! MY ARM IS HANGING LIMPLY! Oh, man.
Then there's the product they're selling. This marks the tenth straight year that GAP has banked all their advertising on a certain color or style (rainbow scarves, anyone?), and guessed horribly wrong. Plaid? Really? That's the hot new thing? Lumberjack chic? Are we all gonna get together this year and make pancakes? I'm not buying a plaid shirt for $45, not when I have 37 plaid shirts that I owned back in 1992 sitting comfortably in my attic.
These aren't even the only company carolers I have to deal with on TV every week. Best Buy has awful carolers, too. This has to stop. Dear GAP, please justify your status as America's top clothing retailer, by going back to making kickass ads with an unusually diverse and hip group of celebrities playing the tambourine or something. Then, maybe I'll be able to buy a gift at your store that someone won't end up returning.


text:
+91 99286 86346 , +91 94131 74160
— Main Menu —
About Us
- Blog
Our Event Work
- Wedding Event Management
- Corporate Event Management
- Rajasthani Folk Dance
- Birthday Party Event
- Mahila Ladies Sangeet Wedding Event
- Corporate Event
- Birthday party
- Hiudaipur Videos
- Rajasthani Folk Dance Udaipur Rajasthan India
Event Management
Contact Us
About Us
Our Event Work
Wedding Event Management
Corporate Event Management
Rajasthani Folk Dance
Birthday Party Event
Mahila Ladies Sangeet Wedding Event
Corporate Event
Birthday party
Hiudaipur Videos
Rajasthani Folk Dance Udaipur Rajasthan India
Event Management
Contact Us
12 June 2014
mohit sharma
0 Comment
About the Author
Anchor Emcee Host VJ Music Wedding Corporate Party Event Emcee Udaipur Rajasthan India "FOR ANCHORING, SHOW HOSTING, PUBLIC SPEAKING, EMCEEING, EVENT PRESENTING AND HAVING A COMPLETE ENTERTAINING EXPERIENCE and Well accomplished emcee/anchor/compere/show host. CONTACT ANCHOR MOHIT +919928686346 AT THE Earliest". We offer range of Host/ Hostesses in various grading for Exhibitions, Event, Promotion, various other activities as per client requirements. We Provide Manpower in terms of Managing Emcees ( M.C's ), Hostesses, Host, Promoters, Artist for Conferences, Seminars, Events, Promotional Campaigns, Road Shows etc. Besides Complete Execution & Production of Events, exhibition, promotion and other activities in India. We offer grande of people to suit your requirements in terms of quality and budget of manpower. • Hosts/ Hostesses for Exhibitions, Events • Promoters • Emcee/ Compere • Artists for Performances if you are searching anchor in Ajmer Alwar Banswara Baran Barmer Bharatpur Bhilwara Bikaner Bundi Chittorgarh Churu Dausa Dholpur Dungarpur Hanumangarh Jaipur Jaisalmer Jalore Jhalawar Jhunjhunu Jodhpur Karauli Kota Nagaur Pali Pratapgarh Rajsamand Sawai Madhopur Sikar Sirohi Sri Ganganagar Tonk Rajasthan India. ANCHOR FOR WEDDING IN UDAIPUR,ANCHOR IN INDIA,WEDDING ANCHOR IN RAJASTHAN, LADIES SANGEET ANCHOR IN UDAIPUR,CORPORATE ANCHOR,BOOK ANCHOR, EMCEE (MC), HOST FOR EVENTS,BIRTHDAY PARTY,Sagai-Mehandi, MARWARI ANCHOR UDAIPUR RAJASTHAN INDIA , BEST ANCHORS INDIA, MALE/FEMALE ANCHOR, CHEAPEST ANCHOR MP GUJARAT AHMEDABAD just call 09928686346 to Book Anchor Now
Social Share
Leave a Reply
Cancel reply
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Copyright © 2013 |
www.bndindia.com | All Rights Reserved | Website Design, Developed & Seo By
Dimira Infotech
| Hi Udaipur
Contact +91 99286 86346


text:
Emeryville, CA: Playing Hot or Not with the Pizzas at Hot Italian
Hot Italian
5959 Shellmound Street, Emeryville, CA 94608 (map); 510-922-1369; hotitalian.net
Pizza style: No one style
Oven type: Electric
Price: $10 to $15 per pie
According to the mission statement for Hot Italian, the owners have constructed the restaurant to, "celebrate Italy's new generation of art, music, design, sport, food, and wine." It appears that they also want to celebrate really, really good-looking people, with each dish on the menu getting named for a famous attractive Italian. (Hence the restaurant's name.)
Hot Italian's menu also offers up a neat little coding system, with symbols to let you know the different ways a topping combination can be prepared. For instance, you can get a Bellucci—tomato sauce, mozzarella, sausage, ricotta cheese—as a pizza, or as a calzone. The Aquilani—arugula, kabocha squash, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, pomegranate—can be a pizza, or a salad.
This playful menu, along with a sleek design job, can make one wonder whether Hot Italian prizes style over substance, but thankfully the food itself offers some pleasure as well.
The Hot Italian we visited in Emeryville, California, land of shopping malls, IKEA, and other big box stores, represents a second location for owners Andrea Lepore and Fabrizio Cercatore. It's Cercatore's upbringing in the Italian Riviera that provides some of the restaurant's pizza bona fides, at least in the publicity materials. However, despite having an authentic Italian on the management team, Hot Italian's pizza doesn't seem to hew to the ideals of any one pizza doctrine.
The original Hot Italian, in Sacramento, uses a wood-fired oven, but zoning rules wouldn't allow that at this second location, so the restaurant instead uses a Cuppone electric oven. At least based on pictures, the pies served at the two restaurants nonetheless appear remarkably similar. The crust we tried arrived light and airy, with an attractive crispness to it. The slices, dusted lightly with cornmeal and speckled with char underneath, stand straight out when held from the rim.
The pizzas we chose during our visit might lead you to believe that I have a thing for strapping Italian athletes, but really we just found ourselves inclined towards the more traditional pies on the wide-ranging menu. Among the pies we did not order, Hot Italian offers one with pureed pumpkin and another with smoked salmon.
The Cannavaro, besides paying homage to an Italian soccer player, is Hot Italian's version of a Margherita. Other than some ribbons of basil on top and a bit of garlic hiding in the sauce, this pie does not offer many bells and whistles. In fact, they employ shredded mozzarella rather than the puddles of cheese we have come to expect on upscale pies. Either way, Hot Italian gets the ratios right on their toppings, creating a layer of intermingled cheese and sauce that strikes that this-is-pizza chord. If you feel the need to spice up this basic offering, Hot Italian provides jars of red pepper oil and rosemary oil to each table.
On the Bortolami—this time, an Italian rugby player—Hot Italian combines tomato sauce, housemade sausage, cheese, mushrooms, and radicchio. The smokey scamorza cheese wafts to the table well before the rest of the pie. When it actually comes to eating, this pie offers a more riotous amalgamation of flavors than one might expect, with the fennel and heat of the sausage, a slight bitterness from the radicchio, and the smokiness of the cheese.
I admit, I wanted to discount Hot Italian when I was confronted with its carefully packaged facade, but the restaurant doesn't try to get by on just its looks alone. Besides, who am I to get all high and mighty? As I sat there, perusing the menu, I ended up turning the ordering process into a giant game of Hot or Not, staging a referendum on the owners' choices of hot Italians. When the waiter originally came to our table, I realized I had been so busy searching Google for pictures of the different names on the menu, I had no idea what kind of pizza those pretty faces represented.
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


text:
Alvis and Lavie are watching the Oscars tonight and I'm along for the ride.
I wasn't able to come even close to getting out some of the posting I wanted. Nothing like a short weekend, a bit of weed-pulling in the yard, and the regular mix of loving on the girls to wear a weekend out.
Couple that with my curiosity and dogged determination to note a few problems for research, then spend a few more hours or two researching those things. Next thing I know I've quadrupled the number of links…and post topics....I was planning to work on.
Here are some miscellaneous links I've collected this past week.
The nominees this week are…
U3 Removal Tool – The link to remove this enhanced feature from some USB drives has been changed. This is the new one. I always keep this handy and remove U3 from our family USB drives if purchased so equipped.
<--InGuardians --> Defensive Intelligence – Great collection of some good cheat-sheets on Windows Command Line Tools, Super Netcat Cheat Sheet , and Useful Attack Tools. While you are there picking up those PDF's, take a look around and consider some other pen-testing papers while you are at it.
The Deployment Guys : Working with Crashdumps - Debugger 101 – Really good and approachable post on some basic Windows crashdump information and handling. Good stuff for sysadmins.
Engineering Windows 7 : Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation – Who knew that so much went into the design and engineering of the Windows boot sequences. There is a lot going on in the process as well as how it has been enhanced and optimized for Windows 7. Read it and appreciate it. Then move on.
Sunbelt Blog: New Sunbelt research site – Alex Eckelberry and his team have been hard at work developing a useful portal for researchers of virus/malware related items over at (beta page link).sunbeltsecurity.com. Research information on current threats, submit a wild threat, submit a false-positive report (for Sunbelt products), upload a suspicious file to their automated sandbox server to see what the system might do on a live system, and much more. Certainly a site worth bookmarking.
Highlighter v1.0.1 Released – Mandiant M-unition Blog – Miscellaneous fixes and performance gain for Highlighter, a great and cool-featured log-file parser and text file viewer. They also gave notice they are working towards large file (1GB+) log-file support. Neat.
MindSniffer, Updated Audit Viewer released – Mandiant M-unition Blog – MindSniffer is "…a tool that will allow the user to translate snort signatures to either XML jobs or python plugins that can be used to identify processes containing strings that match snort signatures." While Audit Viewer got a large number of strong modifications and feature enhancements including the ability to launch Memorize another free and useful memory image capture tool for system investigators. "Audit Viewer is an open source tool that allows users to examine the results of Memoryze's analysis. Audit Viewer allows the incident responder or forensic analyst to quickly view complex XML output in an easily readable format."
And the award for the most cool tools in single post this week goes to….
Harlan Carvey at the Windows Incident Response blog for his post
Looking for "Bad Stuff", part I – Last but not least, Windows forensic expert Harlan Carvey has a great post full of all kinds of awesome links (including a GSD post) for getting starting on looking for baddies on a captured system. I've been heavy on imaging these past weeks so this particular section was very interesting reading!
Mounting The Image
One of the first things we can do to make our analysis somewhat more efficient is to gather some tools. As such, we'd like to mount our image as a read-only file system...to do so, we can look to commercial apps such as ASRData's SmartMount, or you can use freeware tools such as ImDisk or VDKWin. The VDK executable will let you get the partition table information from within the acquired image, as will the GUI-based Partition Find and Mount (discussed at the SANS Forensic Blog)...however, Partition Find and Mount does not appear to have the ability to mount a partition read-only; it will reportedly allow you to mount a potentially corrupted partition, so this may be an option...in order to recover data for analysis, mount the partition, and then acquire an image of it.
Harlan then goes on to targeting the value of Log files, Event logs, Registry analysis, and some very specialized malware hunting and busting tools well worth remembering and becoming familiar with such as missidentify, sigcheck, LADS (see also Nir Sofer's tool ), and YARA and Scout Sniper.
Awesome contributions in all fields!
--Claus V.


text:
Jenny Craig Diet Led to 1,000 Gallstones, Customer Alleges
Comic Mara Shapshay is suing the diet company, which counters that she's trying to force an unfair settlement
L.A. comic Mara Shapshay isn't finding her life very funny right now.
On May 29, Shapshay filed a negligence lawsuit in L.A. Superior Court against Jenny Craig, claiming she got 1,000 gallstones after using the weight-loss program.
Shapshay, an L.A.-based stand-up comedian who is also a contributing writer to the Huffington Post, says in the lawsuit that about one year after signing up for Jenny Craig, she "developed severe pain in her right abdomen" that sent her to the emergency room in October 2012.
Shapshay underwent surgery during which the gallstones were found, the lawsuit says.
Since then, Shapshay has been "required to undergo multiple surgeries, and suffered and continues to suffer from severe abdominal pain, fatigue, weakness, nausea, vomiting, and other injuries," according to the lawsuit.
The comedian is seeking an undisclosed sum for damages allegedly caused by Jenny Craig's failure to disclose that rapid weight loss over a prolonged period of time could result in health complications, including the development of gallbladder disease.
In a statement, Jenny Craig – which has used Valerie Bertinelli and Sara Rue as spokeswomen – calls the claims "irresponsible" and "extreme."
"While Jenny Craig is sympathetic to any person suffering from medical conditions, it is irresponsible to claim that the Jenny Craig program was the cause of these issues," says a spokesperson. "Jenny Craig's program, whose clinical trial was published in JAMA in 2011, is designed by registered dieticians in close consultation with a medical advisory board and reflects the guidelines of major health organizations."
The rep adds: "This lawsuit is a clear attempt to incite the public and seek a quick settlement."
Dr. Tim Church, one of the company's board members as well as the Director of Preventative Medicine and Research at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, argues that linking Jenny Craig to gallstones is unfair.
"Gallstones are extremely common," he says. "You could buy a new car, get gallstones a week later and then claim the new car gave you gallstones. [It] doesn't mean they're connected."
Patricia Bannan, an independent dietician and the author of Eat Right When Time Is Tight, says that rapid weight loss can increase the risk of gallstones and women whose waistlines yo-yo are also at a higher risk of developing them.
"There is no sure way to prevent gallstones," adds Bannan, "but eating a balanced diet, getting exercise and maintaining a healthy weight can reduce your risk."
Calls to Shapshay's lawyers were not returned.
When one of Shapshay's Twitter followers reached out to talk about a similar experience, the comedian wrote: "Glad I could help. That's the reason why I went pubic."
• With reporting by JESSICA HERNDON and KEN LEE


text:
Sideshow Collectibles is now accepting pre-orders for Medicom's 12" Boba Fett statue and 12" Jango Fett statue online, part of the upcoming San Diego Comic Con buzz. Both figures are expected in Winter 2010 and will retail for $150. Boba features his "Jedi" garb and Jango, who was released earlier, features a newly modeled jetpack. These figures are slightly smaller than the Sideshow Collectibles 12" statues.
(via Galactic Binder)
Entertainment Earth is now pre-ordering a new Boba Fett piggy bank. It sells for $19 and is expected December 2010. The statue is based on digital files from the Lucasfilm Archives.
(via Technabob)
Entertainment Earth is also selling new Boba Fett Fold Up Headphones. Made by Funko, they're $28. "This Boba Fett Fold Up Headphone is compatible with most MP3 players, iPods and portable and console games with its standard 3.5mm audio jack. The headphone is lightweight, compactable, fully adjustable and feature 40MM stereo sound speakers. Comes with 1 year limited warranty."
There's also the Boba Fett "Back Buddy" Jet Pack. It's also available for pre-order at Entertainment Earth. It's selling for $35 and will be in stock this August.


text:
Creamy veggie korma
Creamy and healthy - a winning combination for this curry, which can be easily adapted to suit all the family if some want to add meat
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Healthy
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal257
- fat11g
- saturates5g
- carbs31g
- sugars16g
- fibre7g
- protein10g
- salt0.42g
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 3 cardamom pods, bashed
- 2 tsp each ground cumin and coriander
- ½ tsp ground turmeric
- 1 green chilli, deseeded (if desired) and finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- thumb-size piece ginger, finely chopped
Mainly grown in Jamaica, Africa, India, China and Australia, ginger is the root of the plant. It…
- 800g mixed vegetable, such as carrots, cauliflower, potato and courgette, chopped
- 300-500ml hot vegetable stock
- 200g frozen peas
- 200ml yogurt
Yogurt is made by adding a number of types of harmless bacteria to milk, causing it to ferment.…
- 2 tbsp ground almonds (optional)
Make it non-veggie
- ½ small raw chicken breast per portion
To serve
Heat the oil in a large pan. Cook onion with the dry spices over a low heat for 5-6 mins until the onion is light golden. Add the chilli, garlic and ginger and cook for 1 min, then throw in the mixed vegetables and cook for a further 5 mins.
Divide the mixture appropriately between two pans if serving vegetarians and meat eaters. Chop the chicken into small chunks and stir into one pan. Add the stock, dividing between the pans appropriately, and simmer for 10 mins (if only cooking the veggie version in one pan, use 300ml stock; if dividing between two pans, add 250ml to each). Divide the peas, if necessary, and add, cooking for 3 mins more until the veg are tender and the chicken is cooked through.
Remove from the heat and stir through the yogurt and ground almonds, if using. Serve sprinkled with the toasted almonds and coriander, with basmati rice or naan bread on the side.
Recipe Tip
If you want to use a slow cooker...If you want to make the vegetarian version of this curry in a slow cooker, firstly cook off the onions with the dry spices in a frying pan for 5-6 mins. Add the chilli, garlic and ginger and cook for 1 minute, then tip into your slow cooker. Throw in the vegetables and 400ml stock, cover and cook on Low for 4 hours until the potatoes are tender. Stir in the peas, yogurt and ground almonds with seasoning, stand for 5 minutes then serve as above.


text:
The Aplachicola & Chattahoochee rivers, rendered as an urban transit network. River names are frequently arbitrary — there is one continuous flow of water from the north of Georgia all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, so I treat it as one stream with the name of both.
Click the image below to view/download a free PDF, which you may use according to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you wish, you can pay me what you think my work is worth, via PayPal.


text:
J.P. Wiser's De Luxe Canadian Rye Whisky
Review: J.P. Wiser's Deluxe Canadian Rye Whisky (84/100)
Review By Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted May 14, 2010 (Revised and re-scored September 26, 2016)
John Philip (J.P.) Wiser, purchased a distillery in Prescott Ontario in 1857, and began to produce Wiser's Whisky. In fact, it may have been J.P. Wiser who first used the term "Canadian Whiskey" on a whisky label when he introduced his spirit to the World at the Chicago's World Fair in 1893. From the beginning J.P. Wiser established his brand as a quality whisky with high standards of production. As a result, the distillery grew side by side with the popularity of Wiser's style of whisky, and by the early 1900′s Wiser's was the third largest distiller of whisky in Canada.
The Company merged with the H. Corby Distillery Company sometime after the death of J.P. Wiser in 1917. Shortly after in 1932, production of the Wiser's brands moved to the Corby distillery. A controlling interest in the Corby distillery was acquired by Hiram Walker several years later, and by 1989, the Corby distillery was closed, and all production was moved to the Hiram Walker Distillery. Today Wiser's is distilled at the Hiram Walker Distillery in Walkerville, Ontario, and aged in their facilities at Pike Creek near Lakeshore Ontario. Through all of these changes the Wiser's Brand has been recognized as a vital component of each company's portfolio of brands.
Wiser's De Luxe Canadian Whisky has undergone a bit of a face-lift recently as a new bottle and label have been rolled out. In fact the entire Wiser's family of whiskies has undergone a bit of a re-branding as the company now refers to itself as J.P. Wiser's rather than simply Wiser's. This ties the whisky more directly to the founder, J.P. Wiser and perhaps signals that the whisky company is beginning to see the ties to its historical past as something to be embraced rather than ignored.
Additionally the whisky now carries the name 'Rye' upon the label. Thus we now refer to this particular brand as J.P. Wiser's Deluxe Canadian Rye Whisky. This could signal a stronger rye presence in the whisky, or just be an acknowledgement that all Canadian Whiskies which carry a rye forward flavour profile may be labeled as 'Rye".
J.P. Wiser's Deluxe Canadian Rye Whisky is the flagship of the J.P. Wiser's Brand. The whisky carries no age statement and is bottled at 40 % alcohol by volume.
In the Bottle 4/5
Wiser's De Luxe Canadian Whisky arrives in the tall rectangular bottle pictured to the left. This is the standard bottle for the J.P. Wiser's lineup used for all of their economy and mid tier bottlings. These bottles serve their function well, as they are easy to grab off the shelf, easy to open and easy to pour which serves to make them favourites of bartenders world-wide.
The label is quite nice with fonts and a colour scheme which work well together. My only niggle with the presentation is the pressed on metallic screw cap which has replaced the plastic cap the brand used a few years ago.
In the Glass 8.5/10
When I poured the whisky into my glencairn I saw that it has a nice amber colour and almost immediately I can sense strong rye and wood spice rising into the breezes above the glass. I gave the glass a quick tilt and a twirl and saw the whisky imparted a light sheen upon the inside of the glass, the crest of which gave up long slender legs very quickly.
The breezes above the glass now are tainted with maple and butterscotch scents however the dry wood and rye spices continue to pour out. There is a bit of orange peel mixed into that spiciness as well as impressions of fresh grain and light impressions of baking spice (mostly speckles of vanilla and cinnamon). As one who loves Canadian Whisky, I am pleased by the aroma although I must be fair and note that a light touch of astringency accompanies the rye and wood spice.
In the Mouth 50.5/60
My initial impression when I take the first sip is that the whisky is very rye-forward with accents of lightly sweet butterscotch and fine wood spices. There is an appealing dry rye-like bitterness which presents itself alongside flavours of wood sap, almond and tobacco. Dry fruit, orange peel, bits of vanilla and hints of cinnamon round out the flavour profile. Despite the apparent youth of the whisky (I would guess 3 to five years), I find the spirit moderately complex and quite enjoyable to sip over ice.
Because of its rye-forward nature, the J.P. Wiser's Deluxe is a natural to mix with a splash of ginger ale (see recipe below). I believe the whisky is also suitable for Whiskey Sours, Manhattans, and if you enjoy long drinks, nice refreshing Whisky Fizzes.
In the Throat 12.5/15
The exit is peppery with ebbing wood spice and maple flavours teasing the palate afterwards. The resulting finish is moderately dry; although there is enough sweetness to carry the spice. Sipped neat, I notice a touch of astringency and a very light alcohol burn; sipped over ice the whisky is smooth with added flavours of milk chocolate and fruit pith.
The Afterburn 8.5/10
J.P. Wiser's Deluxe Canadian Rye Whisky remains a solid Canadian Whisky despite the name change. It has a full complex flavour that may easily be enjoyed over ice or with a splash of ginger-ale. The dry finish allows for so many options when making a cocktail that you really cannot go wrong with any classic whisky cocktail.
You may read some of my other Whisky Reviews (click the link) if you wish to have some comparative reviews.
Suggested Serving:
Canadian Rye Whisky Splash
2 oz J.P. Wiser's Deluxe Canadian Rye Whisky
3 or 4 Ice-cubes
Splash of Ginger-ale
Slice of Lime
Add the Ice-cubes to a rocks glass
Pour the J.P. Wiser's Whisky over the ice
Add a splash of Ginger Ale
Garnish with a lime slice
If you are interested in more of my original cocktail recipes, please click this link (Cocktails and Recipes) for more of my mixed drink recipes!
As always you may interpret the scores I provide as follows.
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be more familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)
5 Responses to "J.P. Wiser's De Luxe Canadian Rye Whisky"
June 27, 2011 at 4:03 am
Where can I order Wiser's Whiskey de Luxe? Does anybody know which seller ships Wiser's Whiskey also to Germany?
March 8, 2011 at 7:32 pm
I've heard Wiser's compares favorbaly to the taste of Crown Royal but far cheaper. I'm sure you've had occasion to at least try both. Whats your take?
February 25, 2011 at 5:34 pm
I my 80years I have never tasted a finer whiskey. Due to developing health problems It is important that I know if there is any ingrediants that have been prossed with sulfer dioxide such as a dried fruit. I have copd and a Atrial Fibrillation problem and it seems sulfers are a trigger problem. Thanks for any help.


text:
Posts Tagged 'Queen Latifah'
OMG! The return of Kanye West is just around the corner. The rap mogul who avoided spotlight following his much-criticized stage crash at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards has been officially announced as musical guest at this year's BET Awards.
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, 2010 BET Awards, DJ Khaled, Drake, JAY-Z, Kanye West, Ludacris, Nicki Minaj, P. Diddy's Dirty Money, Queen Latifah, Rick Ross, Rihanna, T.I., Trey Songz


text:
Is it possible that "Jack and Jill" did what hypnotherapy was unable to? Make Dunkin Donuts unappealing?
Yup. It sure did.
Flooded with blatant product placement for Dunkin Donuts, Carnival Cruises and Pepto Bismol, which actually would have helped our churning entrails after sitting through what might be the most painful 91 minutes of 2011, we emerged from witnessing Adam Sandler play twin versions of himself—the dull, sardonic Jack and nails-on-a-chalkboard, forgotten Bosom Buddy Jill—with one burning question: Why?
U.S. & World
Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world.
Why make a film this rancidly unoriginal? Why pretend it's a movie and not a commercial? Why did all those big names agree to cameos? And why release it in America when it was so obviously made in the international language of "Funny man in a dress fall down," where every time the box office hits another overseas $100 million dollar ca-ching, an angel cries?
But then came the how's?
How did they get Al Pacino—an Oscar winner, Michael Corleone for crying out loud—to sign on for this dreck? How could Katie Holmes have possibly thought playing the near-mute, cardboard standup, bobble head wife of Sandler would be a good career move? How many fart jokes can one movie have?
Recently we ran into "Jack and Jill"'s co-screenwriter Steve Koren, a former "SNL" writer who went on to pen both the failed Will Ferrell vehicle, "A Night at the Roxbury," and Molly Shannon's nonstarter, "Superstar," as well as "Bruce Almighty" and "Click." A little bitterly, when we he told us he had a hand in "Jack and Jill," he added, "I'm sure you'll hate it but, like [Adam Sandler] always says, the lower the Rotten Tomato meter, the higher the box office."
As much as we hope audiences will prove him wrong, the sad truth is, "Jack and Jill," for all of its painful execution and middling humor, will probably kill at the box office even as it tops many critics' Worst of 2011 lists.
And the worst part is; now we can't even eat a donut to make ourselves feel better.


text:
- Parent Category: News
Hoopeston Police Report Sword Attack
The Vermilion County State's Attorney's Office is reviewing charges brought against a Hoopeston man for an alleged sword attack.
Police in Hoopeston arrested a man who authorities say attacked some citizens with a samurai sword early Sunday. Hoopeston Police say they found one victim who suffered severe lacerations to his arm. That victim was lying in the street in the 500 block of West Main Street when they arrived at 4:00 a.m.
22-year-old Curt McKinsey is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Police also arrested 22 -year-old Sarah Warren for allegedly attacking people with a baseball bat.
Two victims….both males, ages 22 and 23….were treated at Hoopeston Hospital and released. The 25-year-old Hoopeston man who suffered severe lacerations was transferred to Carle Hospital in Urbana.


text:
Seven years after his days as "The Bachelor," Aaron Buerge is getting married, People reported.
The former reality show star proposed to Helene Eksterowicz in the second season finale, but the couple split by the end of 2002. Now, Aaron told the mag he's left the "drama of dating" behind with fiancee Angye McIntosh, a commercial insurance agent. They're set to wed on Aug. 8.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: A Look Back: Jillian's 'Bachelorette' Search For Love
"I'd like to have a family," Aaron, 35, said. "I'm not getting any younger. At this point, when you're in your mid-30s, most of the drama of dating has gone away. There's a lot more maturity in your relationship. I know from my experience what I'm looking for, what makes me happy. I'm not gun-shy. I'm amazingly calm about the whole situation, believe it or not. That's kind of a good sign."
The two have been together for what Aaron calls "a couple of years" after an incident that the latest "Bachelorette," Jillian Harris, an avowed hot dog fan, would probably approve.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Access' Top 10 Reality Romances Gone Bad!
"Long story short, I got some hot dog mustard on her the first time we met," Aaron said. "I was chowing down."
But he said his bride-to-be didn't mind.
"She's really a genuine person, and that's really hard to come by," he said. "She's hard-working, she's a smart girl, she's driven, she's independent… She's just a very quality gal."
Related Content from AccessHollywood.com:
VIEW THE PHOTOS: People's Hottest Bachelors Of 2009
PLAY IT NOW: Ed & Jillian Talk Life After 'The Bachelorette'
PLAY IT NOW: Jillian Harris & Ed Swiderski Dish Details Of 'Bachelorette' Finale (July 28, 2009)
MORE ACCESS ON THESE TOPICS: The Bachelor - Couples - Engagements - Reality TV - TV


text:
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Is Writing Your Outlet?
Many of us write because we love the creative process. Other like it because we get to play god and manipulate the worlds and lives of our characters. We can experience a fictional first love, first kiss, save a dystopian universe. And of course, we can get lost in the hope of becoming published, a powerful force of motivation.
For these and other reasons, writing can be the ultimate outlet and escape.
Or are you one of those people whose writing is so intense, you need to escape back into the real world to run away from the pressure of imperfect plotlines, creepy characters, and a gazillion revisions?
Which camp do you fall into? Do you need to escape to your writing, or escape from it?
Don't forget to check out this week's blog chain post on Goals! by Laura Diamond!
Posted by Lydia Kang at 6:30 AM
59 comments:
- Matthew MacNish said...
For me it lies somewhere in between. Writing is so much fun when going well that it cannot be avoided.
Then come revisions.
- June 2, 2010 at 6:44 AM
It's total escapism for me, all the way. Which is why I'm suffering horribly at the moment being separated from my manuscript while I let it sit before another round of revisions. Suffering. Seriously.
- June 2, 2010 at 6:48 AM
- Francine Howarth said...
My stories and characters come to me by way of dreams in cinematic glory, so I tend to be obsessive until I have recreated the movie (in words) on the laptop. Often as not a figurative painting will lodge in the subconscious and evolve into a story about the people in the image!
I do love writing, and miss my characters like hell when I complete their story, but there are always others to take their place.
- June 2, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Candyland said...
I need to escape from it. I write edgy contemporary and at times it's too much.
- June 2, 2010 at 7:30 AM
- Unknown said...
Interesting question! I think I need to escape into my writing. Although, I'm always thinking about my stories when I should be living in the tangible world (like at dinner time, or driving the car). So, I guess my answer could be both!
- June 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM
- B.E. Sanderson said...
I write because I need to get these stories out of my head. I don't know if I can say it's a form of escape for me--I have reading and TV for that--but sometimes it does get intense enough that I need to walk away from the keyboard. My neighbors probably think I'm nuts - watching me pace the front patio and talk to myself.
- June 2, 2010 at 7:41 AM
- Susan Fields said...
I definitely escape TO my writing. On days like today, when I slept in and missed my morning writing time, the universe just seems off. Seriously, those couple of hours I get to write before the day gets started are the best part of my day!
- June 2, 2010 at 7:48 AM
- Aubrie said...
Good question! I escape TO my writing. It helps me deal with real world troubles.
- June 2, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- Anne Gallagher said...
I escape TO my writing as well. Real life is just not what I want it to be at the moment.
- June 2, 2010 at 7:53 AM
- Jaydee Morgan said...
I'm in the escape into my writing camp. Although my family may say I spend too much time of my real life thinking about my writing.
- June 2, 2010 at 7:55 AM
- Jayne said...
Escape to, definitely. Writing has always been like that for me, never had to run from it! Nice post.
- June 2, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- Karen Jones Gowen said...
Good question. It is making me think. I believe I'm a bit of both. Right now I am definitely in the please let me escape to my novel phase. But when this draft is done, I'm going to be wanting escape FROM it!
- June 2, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- JE said...
To it! To it! Writing is my escape.
- June 2, 2010 at 8:00 AM
- Christine Fonseca said...
Writing is definitely my outlet - the TYPE of writing is based on my relationship with my novels at the time...when I am freaked out about this biz, I write in my journal until I can "stomach" jumpingback into my story!
- June 2, 2010 at 8:08 AM
- Jennifer Walkup said...
Great post! I am in both camps but I cannot go a day without writing. It is most def my escape from reality and a day without my characters just feels... weird. BUT, when I am plotting/before writing, it drives me quite crazy and I sometimes wish I could turn my brain to the "off" position.:)
- June 2, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- Joanne said...
Writing is such a part of who I am, I'm not sure I'd consider it an escape. It's more the place I step into each day and become who I really am, communicating and creating with words.
- June 2, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- Slamdunk said...
I am also a "tweener." I enjoy writing to take a break from everything, but then get frustrated when it takes to so long to get even a short work that I can live with.
- June 2, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- Mayowa said...
Great post.
I might fall into both camps. My writing is like a cruel mistress. It's frustrating and annoying but I always come back for more.
- June 2, 2010 at 8:26 AM
- DL Hammons said...
For me, writing is more like creating my own cross-word puzzle and then feeling the joy of filling the whole thing in. I'm not sure which camp that would fall in? :)
- June 2, 2010 at 9:02 AM
- Faith said...
You know... I think it's both, and it depends on the project and my mood. Sometimes I go to it to escape everything, and other times I have to get away from it to regain some measure of sanity. Eee. I guess that means there's no true escape for me anywhere!
- June 2, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- Erinn said...
I write to escape reality.
The real world is stressful or completely mundane that my writing is my outlet. When I escape into my head and I play with my imaginary friends for a while when I come back to the real world it's with new eyes. I see my daughter in a completely different light and think, "wow, you're a pretty cool kid."
When I need to escape from my writing I normally get trapped by the time vampire known as facebook or twitter.
- June 2, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- Tahereh said...
mmmm i'd say writing is definitely more of an escape for me, but then again, i don't see it as something that tears me away from the real world. i don't hide from the real world, either. i try to maintain a healthy balance.
i love my fictional characters, but i love my real-life characters more :D
- June 2, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- Amparo Ortiz said...
Call me weird, but I don't see writing as an escape. I see it as my version of the real world. My thoughts are a part of me, so I don't see them as something that disconnects me from everything else. They just absorb whatever they can and screw it up even more.
It's like a quote I heard in a movie (or a song, or TV show, or something...): "I live my life in my head".
And that's where I'm happiest.
- June 2, 2010 at 10:10 AM
That's a great question, Lydia!
Currently, I escape to my writing, but I am looking forward to the moment when I'm escaping from it. :)
- June 2, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- Giles Hash said...
I'd have to say it's both for me. Sometimes the only ting I want to do at the end of a long day of writing is sit down and play video-games, and other times, I want to sit in front of my computer until I fall asleep from writing so intensely! I love it, and sometimes I loath it. :)
- June 2, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- Jessica Bell said...
Funny question for me actually. I've got two projects on the go at the moment. One is a fast paced women's fiction, not too depressing fun kinda story, the other is a dark and slit your wrists kind of memoir. So, I guess I use my women's fiction to escape the memoir and visa versa depending on my mood. And um ... Oh my life? Where did that go? Who stole it?
- June 2, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Jamie Grey said...
Great question! I think it depends on the day and the WIP...I have one that's a total escape - fun to write, I get lost every time I start in. The other I need to escape from, it can get a little intense!
- June 2, 2010 at 11:41 AM
- Janna Leadbetter said...
This may sound like the easy answer, but I don't know that either way best describes me. It's a happy medium for me, a balance that finds me content and even-keeled.
Great post, Lydia!
- June 2, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- Southpaw said...
Uh…depends on the day. :)
- June 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- Nicole Murray said...
I sit between these camps. I have my moments of possession to which I need to take a breather from and then somedays--weeks,what I write feels like the only thing I did right.
Though I have got to say, being possessed by your writing can be such a high.
- June 2, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- Lindsay said...
I think writing is my outlet too and I fall into both camps. Sometimes I need to escape to writing. :)
- June 2, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- Talli Roland said...
Generally escape from! It requires a lot of concentration for me to write, so at the end of 3000 words I need to get away!
- June 2, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Krispy said...
Generally, I escape TO writing. That way I can feel productive while also dodging Real Life things I'd rather not think about. XP
But sometimes writing takes too much brain power if I just want to chill for a bit.
- June 2, 2010 at 2:45 PM
- Lisa_Gibson said...
Great question! To me, writing is my escape. It's my thing I do for me. I enjoy it and miss hanging out with my characters at times. I can sometimes lose myself (and track of time)when I'm writing.
- June 2, 2010 at 3:54 PM
- Zoe C. Courtman said...
Definitely a great question! For me, it's the latter: I definitely need to escape the intense pressure that I place on myself to get it right, get it right, get it right...ack!!
- June 2, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- Natalie Murphy said...
I escape by writing. The real world is often full of stress that we can do nothing about. A story, however, can be manipulated and changed by us, even if it does give us stress sometimes =)
- June 2, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- Vicki Rocho said...
I'm such a Libra. I can't commit to one side of any coin. My answer is "depends". When real life gets intense, I escape into writing. It helps me process what's happening.
But sometimes my writing seizes me and I have to escape into real life to get back in balance.
- June 2, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Sherrie Petersen said...
Both. The stories are always running through my head. But some days I just need to close the computer and not think about writing at all.
- June 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM
- Jackee said...
Depends where I am in the process. First drafts are definitely a beautiful escape. I also notice I'm a lot happier on days I write. It is a great release and cheaper than therapy. Ha!
- June 2, 2010 at 9:26 PM
There are days when writing is a joy, and I can't wait to get back to it. Other times I have to make myself sit down in front of the laptop. I think it mostly depends on how well the writing went the last time I wrote.
- June 2, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- Michelle Santiago said...
i'm not a writer but i do journal (unfortunately not as much now as i did back in high school). nowadays i journal mostly to de-stress. if i have a problem, i write about it and afterward i feel better. :)
- June 3, 2010 at 3:06 AM
- Rachna Chhabria said...
Lydia...sometimes when my writing gets too intense I need to escape into reality...sometimes when reality becomes monotonous and boring, I escape to my fictious world. Works in two ways for me.
- June 3, 2010 at 6:19 AM
- JEM said...
Wow, that's an intense question. I think...I use writing as an escape more than the reverse. Mostly I daydream about fun stories anyway, so putting them down on paper is just another step.
- June 3, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Shannon O'Donnell said...
Hmmm...I am a little of both sometimes, but more often I escape TO my writing. Interesting post, Lydia! :-)
- June 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
I think I write to escape to a different time and place. Right now two of the pieces I'm working on are based in England. I think it's because I'm missing my grandparents. They were able to come to the States at least once a year until about 5 years ago when my Nanny's health got worse. I went to see them twice last year, but don't expect to get to go at all this year...Writing about England and their history helps...
Thanks for stopping by my blog. :)
- June 3, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- erica m. chapman said...
Oh I totally escape to writing. It's a wonderful escape. Life gets... hard, and writing, although hard, it's such a joy to live another life for a while, ya know?
Great post ;o)
- June 3, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Dr. Mohamed said...
Yes, an outlet for cathartic relief, almost an exhibitionist diary.
- June 5, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- Nicole said...
Heaps of crazy daydreams and writing means I can actually 'make something' of them :)
- June 5, 2010 at 6:32 PM
I love putting fantasy on paper. It's an adventure!!!
- June 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM
- Jo Schaffer said...
My writing is the great escape...but it is also the work I sometimes dread.
I really enjoy your blog. I left an award for you on my blog--drop by and pick it up and then pass it on if you like! (=
- June 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Melissa said...
I fluctuate. Sometimes it's a complete escape. Then it gets too intense and I find myself crying (because my characters are), raving (because my characters are), etc. I get so wrapped up in them and their world sometimes its hard to differentiate. Then I need to escape back to the real world and watch some mindless TV or something.
- June 6, 2010 at 1:36 AM
- Theresa Milstein said...
I escape to my writing and imagine most writers must do that too.
- June 6, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- angelarene said...
I escape from writing, it's always this chunky monkey hanging onto my back that I have to throw off and get away from for awhile!
- June 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM
- Munk said...
- June 7, 2010 at 4:37 PM
- Unknown said...
Writing is not a easy work for all. Everyone can't do this. But If they try for this so hardly then they will do better in this place. Even I also try more and more for this. After that I can now a little.
- December 25, 2018 at 1:19 AM
- Ean24 EAN-Codes said...
Writing is my hobby. I write more and more. It is the best way to share something to the other person. I think so. When you write something you need to think about this and really know about this.
- December 25, 2018 at 12:08 PM
- Unknown said...
Actually if you think that you will write without any rules and with out any thing that not gonna be happen. this site also share this post about this. I love this so much and I think this will help you in this time.
- December 26, 2018 at 2:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
Excellent post, I think this kind of the breeze is remarkable and support to the broad framework. Individuals should purchase the https://www.paraphraseservice.org/paraphrase-generator/ site which limit is for the lifetime and it respects kind of the hypothesis.
- January 23, 2019 at 1:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
Such a good blog post, I figure everybody should do draw in since it is the framework for the discharging up and https://www.paraphrasingonline.com/how-to-reword-a-sentence-online/ site your mind will work so wonderful.
- January 23, 2019 at 2:19 AM


text:
One million iPhone 4S units sold on its first day. And then sales grew even more, per day, through the weekend, meaning 4 million units were sold in three days.
The iconic device's demise, anticipated by some last week, is greatly exaggerated.
The new iOS is faring well, too, with Apple reporting 25 million users now rocking the operating system.
U.S. & World
The first iPhone 4 was exclusive to AT&T for a period, and then migrated to Verizon, as well. This version adds Sprint as a carrier.
Apple intends to roll out the phone in 22 more countries by Halloween, too.
The company didn't give the device a facelift, but it amped up the guts signifcantly. With faster dual-core processors, upgraded cameras and better video -- not to mention the hypnotizing voice-activation software, Siri.
The new array of carriers and models of the phone means Apple can move up and down the consumer chain, with options for late- as well as early-adopters, and of varying income levels.


text:
There are no Upcoming Shows listed for this artist.
Rudyard's British Pub
2010 Waugh Dr
Houston, TX 77006
Food, Beer, Music, Comedy, Darts. We have it all.
Frankie J
Tijuana-born and San Diego-raised contemporary R&B artist Frankie J was raised on a steady diet of Latin music and American artists like Michael Jackson and Run-D.M.C. At the age of 15, he was involved with the Latin freestyle scene and released a series of singles on a Canadian dance label. A 1997 signing with Jellybean Benitez's Hola label never panned out, but he landed on his feet when he became a member of los Kumbia Kings. After a few years with the group, J went solo with 2003's What's a Man to Do?, a collection of ballad-dominated material that was released on Columbia. One (2005), Un Nuevo Día (2006), and Priceless (also 2006) followed. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi


text:
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected through our website.
We are committed to protecting your privacy lawfully and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. We use the information we collect from you to process orders and provide a more personalised participation.
The only information we collect are the following: your name, address, contact number and card payment details
We DO NOT sell, share, pass on or rent this information to any other party.


text:
Of course, we've long used up the chemistry set's supplies of baking soda and citric acid--fortunately, since we often bake and preserve, we've got both of those materials in our kitchen stores, and I tend to buy vinegar six gallons at a time when it's on sale, since it's about all I use for cleaning. Nevertheless, whether or not you own a chemistry set, I still highly recommend a good stock of nice glass test tubes and cheap plastic eyedroppers; the eyedroppers allow children to have more control over the amount of water or vinegar that they add to their mixtures, and the test tubes are really ideal for observing the chemical reaction.
Experiment #1: Small Scoop of Baking Soda, Eyedropper of Vinegar
It's nice to keep the amounts very small so that the chemical reaction between the sodium bicarbonate and the ascetic acid is easy to observe. Notice the bubbling, notice the fizzing, notice the foam!
Experiment #2: Small Scoop of Baking Soda, Small Scoop of Citric Acid, Eyedropper of Water
I think that this version is even more fun, because the two powders, one an acid and one a base, nevertheless do not react--
--until you add water as a catalyst!
- Look up the chemical formula for each ingredient, then explore the elements that make up the formulas.
- Write an illustrated tutorial for each experiment.
- Use the chemical formulas and the scientific notation of the chemical reaction as copywork or memory work.
- Compare other liquids to water when conducting Experiment #2. Does rubbing alcohol affect the reaction? Does orange juice?
- Play with the reaction as a sensory experience, as long as you don't have any cuts on your hands. Neither vinegar nor citric acid are strong enough to hurt healthy skin, so get out a big baking pan (or go outside--I wish!) and make big piles of baking soda, on which you drop vinegar rain.
- Add powdered tempera to either the baking soda or vinegar to make fizzy paint.
- Make and erupt the traditional baking soda and vinegar volcano.
- When the kiddos were finally finished with their play (nearly an hour later!), they asked me what they could do with all their test tubes and mason jars of vinegar. I suggested that they use it to scrub the kitchen floor--and they did!


text:
We Treat Your Pets the Way We Treat Our Own
Your pets are important to us. That's why we employ the best doctors, one of which has been practicing since 1985. Located in Mechanicsburg, PA, the veterinarians and staff at Silver Springs Animal Clinic are committed to your pet's healthcare and well-being. Our services and facilities are designed to assist in routine preventative care for young healthy pets; early detection and treatment of disease as your pet ages; and medical and surgical care as necessary during his or her lifetime.
Exams and immunizations are the cornerstone of high quality health care
Improving the lives of pets and their families with the safest possible procedures
Using modern treatments and professional techniques for the best rehabilitation results
BOARD and GROOM
A safe, doctor-supervised, comfortable and caring facility for your pet