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51st State - Master Set€42.95
The world you know no longer exists. There is no government. No army. No civilization. The United States has collapsed, and now thirty years after the war started, new powers finally try to take control over the ruined country, try to establish a new order, try to control others and create a new country, a new state: the 51st State.
51st State is a card game in which players control one of four powers trying to build a new country. Players put new locations into play, hire leaders, and send people to work in buildings to gain resources and new skills. To do this, every card in 51st State can be used in three different ways:
Raze a location to gain many resources once.
Deal with this location to gain one resource every turn.
Build the location so that you can use its skill each turn.
51st State: Master Set marks the rebirth of the 51st State line, with this set containing 88 cards from the original base game, and 50 cards each from both the New Era and Winter expansions; one of these expansions can be mixed with the cards of the base game, but not both at the same time. The entire set has been rebalanced to offer a cohesive experience no matter which expansion you choose to use.
The Abyss power is once again vacant, so the time has come to get your hands on the throne and its privileges. Use all of your cunning to win or buy votes in the Council. Recruit the most influential Lords and abuse their powers to take control of the most strategic territories. Finally, impose yourself as the only one able to rule the Abyssal people!
Abyss is a game of development, combination and collection in which players try to take control of strategic locations in an underwater city. To achieve this, players must develop on three levels: first by collecting allies, then using them to recruit Lords of the Abyss, who will then grant access to different parts of the city. Players acquire cards through a draft of sorts, and the Lords of the Abyss acquired on those cards grant special powers to the cardholder — but once you use the cards to acquire a location, that power is shut off, so players need to time their land grabs well in order to put themselves in the best position for when the game ends.
Alien Artifacts€42.95
Alien Artifacts is a 4x-style card game in which you play as an interplanetary corporation, sending your research vessels into uncharted space to expand your knowledge and power. Build your ship, research tech, and explore the galaxy for anything — or anyone — you can exploit.
Each turn you will have 3 Resource cards in your hand and you will decide how best to spend them. Each resource card has two different resource types for you to use. You can only use one side and only two cards per turn! Using these resources, you will build Ships, develop Technology, discover Planets, or Trade for currency!
Alien Artifacts provides a true 4x experience in under an hour.
Arkham Horror: The Card...€29.95
You thought the cases were closed, relegated to a past that was best left forgotten. Beginning with a search for two missing Miskatonic University professors, your inquiries in The Dunwich Legacy launched you on a campaign that led from the decrepit streets of Dunwich to the infamous Clover Club and realms beyond. But questions from these strange investigations still linger, compelling you to board the train to Dunwich once more.
Return to the Dunwich Legacy invites you to re-open your old cases and experience the first full-length campaign for Arkham Horror: The Card Game with fresh eyes as you encounter new challenges and new surprises. Across this expansion's 81 new scenario cards and 23 new player cards, you'll explore new locations, face more ghastly treacheries, and enhance your investigator's abilities as you face even more unspeakable terrors. Finally, Return to the Dunwich Legacy also features a premium box and thirty-two divider cards to conveniently store your complete campaign in one place.
Arkham Horror: The Card...€31.95
The Dunwich Legacy is a deluxe expansion for Arkham Horror: The Card Game.
Several months ago, three Miskatonic University professors armed themselves with secret knowledge, traveled to Dunwich, and brought an end to the strange and terrifying creature that had been terrorizing the secluded village. Their heroic efforts brought peace to the region—for a while—but also left the men scarred by the horrors they had witnessed. Now, one of those professors, Dr. Armitage, has need of your assistance. His colleagues have gone missing, and he fears the worst…
With five mini cards and 156 full-size cards, The Dunwich Legacy challenges you to find the missing professors and launches you into a campaign that leads to Miskatonic University, the notorious Clover Club, and beyond. Five new investigators arrive to offer their services, armed with fifty-nine new player cards (including a complete playset of each) that allow you to pursue new deck-building strategies and new styles of play. Finally, you'll find all manner of new terrors arrayed against you—from backroom thugs and bad luck to arcane hexes and wholly unnatural abominations.
Ashen: Rise of the Phoenixborn€46.95
In Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn, a two-player expandable card game, players take on the roles of Phoenixborns, demi-gods and protectors of this world. These characters are the great saviors of their civilizations. Before they came into existence, the humans were plagued by monsters like chimeras that took away their lands and forced them to live in walled-off cities. When the Phoenixborns came, they fought off the chimeras and freed the lands for humans to take over once again.
But the time of peace was short-lived. A prophecy arose that if one Phoenixborn was able to absorb enough Ashes of others, they would ascend into full gods and take mastery over this world. This, as well as humans' greed for land, fueled the War of Ashes. The great cities now fight among each other, each one of them with a Phoenixborn at its helm, and you will decide who will rise and who will fall to ashes.
Century: Golem Edition€34.95
Centuries have passed since the first humans arrived on Caravania. Legends have been shared from one generation to the next explaining Caravania's most exotic and rare mysteries – the soul crystals. Legend has it that the souls of the planet's original inhabitants were so pure that after death they were preserved as mesmerizing and powerful crystals. Simply holding a soul crystal, one could feel the essence of life radiating from deep inside. It wasn't long after the discovery of the soul crystals' power that humans used them to build and activate towering golems. After many forgotten centuries, those pure souls are able to breath life once again. In Century: Golem edition, players serve as traders attempting to collect crystals to create the most ornate and powerful of golems.
Cry Havoc€44.95
Cry Havoc is a card-driven, asymmetric, area control war game set in a brutal science fiction setting. Each player commands one of four unique factions with varying abilities and units. The game includes 54 custom miniatures, a large format board, and over one hundred unique cards, all with stunning new artwork.
Dark Souls The Card Game€39.95
Dark Souls: The Card Game is a cooperative deck evolution card game for 1-4 players. Players must explore the Encounters around them, defeating a myriad of enemies to gain Souls and Treasure.
They must use these to evolve and adapt their deck to better fight their enemies. When the players are ready, they must challenge the powerful bosses that lie within.
The players must walk a narrow path, however, since their decks allow them to attack their enemies, but also represent their health. Decks are only refreshed when the players rest at the bonfire, so players must defeat their enemies while husbanding their strength for the greater challenges ahead.
Thinking quickly and adapting to the enemy's attacks is key for survival. A misstep can be fatal, but the rewards of success are great. Adapt your deck, evolve your strategy, and prepare to die.
Dark Souls: Forgotten Paths...€29.95
The myriad paths of this sprawling world are legion, each one branching out into a thousand others. Many of these paths are peaceful, untouched by the wars that rage around them. This journey, however, will take you to far darker places.
These are the paths, shattered and crumbling, which have fallen from memory and sight of the Flame. These are the paths, dismal and cursed, where traps and ruin lie around every corner. These are the paths, chilling and treacherous, which are paced only by the monstrous tread of things best left forgotten.
These are the paths you must walk.
Forgotten Paths is an expansion for Dark Souls: The Card Game. This expansion features exciting new encounters, powerful new enemies, and all-new rules for terrain and traps to ensure that every battle is a fresh challenge. Four distinctive, unique bosses and a brand-new exploration board provide thrilling adventure for even the most experienced players of the core game.
To aid you in conquering these trials, this expansion also includes brand-new, powerful weapons and equipment as well as providing two completely new characters to play, the Pyromancer and the Thief, both of which bring their own play style to enhance your Dark Souls experience.
A copy of Dark Souls: The Card Game is required to play with this expansio
Death Over The Kingdom€19.95
Welcome to Death Over the Kingdom, a fantasy world where Death lurks in every corner. A fantastic game with two di erent modes, in which you'll have to play your characters the best you can to get away unharmed and destroy your enemies.
Sudoku meets steampunk!
Gearworks is a steampunk strategy card game featuring card placement, hand management, and a "twist" on area control. Strategically position your gears to fix a mysterious clockwork machine in the corner of the workshop.
Your task is simple - play gear cards into the grid to fix the broken machine. If you are the last to play in a given column or row, you will be rewarded with various parts you need! You must follow 2 rules: each column may only have 1 card per color and each row must have cards in ascending or descending order. Easy enough? Oh right, your rival machinists may have something to say about that...
HMS Dolores€14.95
Eric M. Lang and Bruno Faidutti have joined forces to create the ultimate prisoner's dilemma game. Do you cooperate and risk getting outsmarted by a greedy player? Or do you compete and risk losing everything?
You are pirates who just looted a ship and must negotiate how to split the treasure. There are seven types of loot with values from 1 to 3. At the end of the game, you only score the treasure types you have the most and least of.
On each turn, open four new treasures: two in front of you and two in front of your neighbour. Simultaneously decide how to split them. Choices:
Peace (I want the 2 in front of me)
War (I want them all)
First pick (I want just one, pick first)
If both players choose peace, split the loot evenly. If both choose war, lose all treasure. If both choose first pick, lose all treasure and one of your gained treasure columns.
The game continues until the Dawn Card is drawn. 15 minutes!
Legendary Creatures€44.95
The objective of Legendary Creatures is to win the trial and advance to the rank of Druid. Players do this with the aid of fantastic creatures who assist them in their quest for renown, whatever form it may take. An apprentice's final rank in each elemental realm, renown earned through great feats, and expeditions to distant landmarks determines who becomes the next Druid!
Legendary Creatures is played over three days, each of which consists of AM, Afternoon, and PM turns. Players draw 4 creatures from their individual decks, then play 3 into their stable and send one on a solo expedition. Order and types of creatures determine initiative and resource generation for the round. Players then take turns selecting the realm they'd like to travel in, the resources they generate, and the spells they cast. This is repeated each portion of the day with a final expedition at the end of the PM portion. Ultimate leadership in each realm and via their expeditions reward victory points to determine the winner.
London (2nd Edition)€39.95
A brand new edition of a popular classic, London will appeal to the strategic thinker among board game fans. Tasked with rebuilding London in the decades following the great fire, players juggle building requirements, bank loans, and poverty as they strive to realize their vision for the city.
The game features a unique mechanism of playing cards to develop the city, then "running" the city by taking all the card actions simultaneously. Players have to repay all their loans before the game ends, but need to worry only about how much poverty they're creating relative to the other players.
In Oriflamme, the players find themselves in the middle of a medieval feud over the French royal crown. The King is dead! Long live the King! As heads of influential families, the players strive to come to power with cunning and malice, power and strength, virtue and infamy. Their goal: the king's throne!
In the tactical card game, hidden cards are played in turn. By tactically uncovering and activating their effects, players can outdo or get them out of the way, because all players have the same goal in mind — to collect the most influence points for their family and thus win the game.
Sherlock Files Elementary...€24.95
Are you a modern mastermind detective?
The Sherlock Files: Elementary Entries includes three confounding cases for you to solve. First, you need to discover the cause of a fatal heart attack aboard Flight TJ1309. Next, you dig up a cold case from 1923 involving the violent and unexpected death of a famous explorer and archaeologist. Last, unravel the story behind the mysterious body that put a damper on one family's 4th of July party.
Decipher clues to determine which are relevant to the case and which are not. Share the clues you deem relevant with your detective partners. Which theories will you chase?
How will you fare compared to the world's greatest detective? Work together to solve each case to find out!
Star Scrappers: Cave-in€33.95
Star Scrappers: Cave-in is a game for 2 up to 4 players who take roles of Galactic entrepreneurs - some of rival mining bosses who compete in this difficult, sometimes even merciless, industry. Your job is to excavate the Hexis crystals.
The goal of the game is to get as many victory points as possible before the mine collapses!
To overcome your competition you will have to recruit mercenary labourers, use their skills, and collect precious artefacts. However, you'll have to keep looking over your shoulder! Your competition is only waiting for a chance to buy your trusted men off and steal the bounty from under your nose!
Every turn you can perform two out of four possible actions:
recruiting mercenaries
sending mercenaries to collect crystals
sending mercenaries to find artefacts
using special action of a chosen mercenary
Mechanics of Cave-in can be described as "discard building game". With every action players put mercenaries into their discard. Now, the order of the discard also matters, because your top discarded card gives you a special action at the beginning of your next turn. But beware! If your discard grows too interesting, another player may forfeit their entire turn just to steal the discard from you!
The player that collects most Victory Points wins.
Vikings Gone Wild€35.95
Each turn in Vikings Gone Wild — a deck-building, resource management game based on the online real-time strategy game — players can either buy permanent buildings sitting in front of them (resource factories, resources containers, etc) or buy units, towers and special cards that improve their deck and offense/defense capacity.
The only way to win is by successfully attacking each other, and each attack involves interesting bluffing mechanisms in which the attacker doesn't know the defense capacity of their opponent...
Vikings Gone Wild: Guild Wars€17.95
Guild Wars contains 110 cards and adds a new team play game mode to Vikings Gone Wild.
4 new types of Buildings (Forge, Boost Tower, Guild Tower, and Wall Builder)
3 new types of Units (Fairies, Wall Breakers, and Bear Riders)
1 new Defense Tower (Pig Anti Air)
8 new Odin's Path cards (Cow Trap, Transporter, War Axe, Valkyrie Wings, Mini Cannon, Hero Trap, Dwarf, and Goblin Copter)
1 new Divine Favor (Ragnar)
4 Guild War markers
2 new end-game bonuses
5 new Missions
Vikings Gone Wild: It's a...€17.95
It's a Kind of Magic contains 110 cards, including a new card type: Spells. When included in the game, Spells replace Defense, Units, or both.
1 new Building (Sorceress Tower)
4 new Units (Shaman, Sorceress, Dreki, and Dreki Eggs)
6 new Spells (Shield, Thunder, Magic Manipulation, Ice Trap, Magic Potion, and Gold Touch)
1 new Divine Favor (Hel)
8 new Odin's Path cards (Necronomicon, Destruction, Sheep Storm, and Zap Trap)
2 new end-game bonuses
5 new Missions
Vikings Gone Wild: Masters...€26.95
In the land of Vikings, a new kind of warrior has surfaced. The Druids. These mysterious individuals are capable of powerful manipulations. Basing their strength on sacred artefacts, they can invoke terrifying creatures and get them to work on their behalf. Welcome to Vikings Gone Wild – Master of Elements expansion.
This expansion introduces a new type of resource: Elements.
All cards from Units, Odin's Path and the newly introduced Artefacts, provide alternative effects triggered with these Elements.
This expansion offers a completely asymetric start thanks to 3 permanent Artefact picked through a draft mechanic at the beginning of the game, offering a chance to pick some top card and build a strategy early on.
Vikings Gone Wild: Ragnarok!€12.95
A solo/cooperative mode for Vikings Gone Wild.
It includes:
18 undead units card
15 undead buildings
5 bosses
6 tasks
8 objectives
1 Ragnarok!
1 helper card


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Ellie Goulding Covers Justin Timberlake's 'Mirrors'
Ellie Goulding and Justin Timberlake are both incredible talents in their own rights, and now we can see (or, rather, hear) what they may come up with should they ever join forces. The British chanteuse performed a cover of the Renaissance man's new classic 'Mirrors,' and it was just as beautiful as you'd expect.
Goulding performed her stripped-down rendition on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge today (Sept. 3).
Goulding's haunting lilt is accompanied by background singers, a piano, an acoustic guitar and not much else. Her vocals are just as powerful as Timberlake's, if (obviously) in a much higher register and with her clear, adorable U.K. accent.
Goulding always sings with feeling, too. Wonder if she had Ed Sheeran on her mind when she recorded this cover!
Listen to Ellie Goulding Cover 'Mirrors'

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Missouri man charged with traveling to Maine with several guns to threaten estranged wife
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � A Missouri man federal authorities say drove to Maine with a car full of guns intending to kill his estranged wife has been ordered held without bail.
Benjamin Lee was ordered held pending a detention hearing at his initial appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland on a charge of interstate stalking.
The 52-year-old Lee was arrested in September.
Authorities say Lee was stopped after his estranged wife called police to say she saw him drive past her home in Limerick.
Police say they found five guns and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, a machete, a bayonet, a folding knife, handcuffs, duct tape, rubber gloves, camouflage face paint, a map of Maine with Limerick circled, and other items in his car.
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2 Corinthians 12:1-10 New International Version (NIV)
Paul's Vision and His Thorn
12 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Last night I was struggling with a knot in a pair of shoes. Pulling. Tugging. Trying very hard and getting seemingly nowhere other than really, really frustrated. Finally, in my I"M FREAKING OUT IF I CAN"T GET THIS UNTANGLED AND IT"S TAKING WAY LONGER THAN I ACCOUNTED FOR AND…insert your own expletives here.
In retrospect it was a small matter but at the time it was taking all my energy, both mental and physical. It was silly really that I was getting that worked up over a knot. Ridiculous that I was giving it so much energy. And even more absurd that I was working up a sweat.
Finally I paused. I put the shoe down and went to do something else.
Later on, calmer and not in a panic of momentary overwhelm, I picked up the shoe again. I grabbed both ends and pulled. Not hard but hard enough.
And the knot came out. Easy as that.
The struggle. The freak out. The panic. It did nothing towards my cause.
The pause. The letting go. Then the returning with a new state of mind?
Yes, that was just the thing.
Lesson learned. From a shoe.
So either I'll learn to pause when things feel out of control, or I'll switch to Velcro.


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You've seen the ads already. You've seen the buildings collapsing. You've seen the cities flooding. You've seen a car somehow manage to outrace an earthquake in Los Angeles, WITH NO TRAFFIC OF ANY KIND standing in its way. You've seen John Cusack, reaching the nadir of a career that began falling off a cliff sometime around High Fidelity, on the phone with Amanda Peet, delivering the line, "CALIFORNIA IS GOING DOWN!" You've seen all that going into 2012, and surely you've thought to yourself, "This movie will either be mildly diverting, or the suckiest movie that has ever sucked." Well, judgment day has arrived for destructo-porn auteur Roland Emmerich's epic. And many critics agree that, yes, 2012 is pretty sucky. WE WERE WARNED. The New York Times:
I know what I have against Roland Emmerich, but what does he have against us?
The Wall Street Journal:
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operates in a dead zone roughly equidistant between parody and idiocy.
USA Today:
a cheesy, ridiculous story.
But all is not lost for fans of apocalyptic popcorn cinema. 2012 also got a handful of good reviews from the New York Post, the Washington Post, and the one and only Roger Ebert:
This is fun. 2012 delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year."
Ebert's got a good point. You're not going into this movie expecting Taxi Driver. In that sense, a film like 2012 is virtually critic-proof, and will almost certainly make a mint this weekend. The problem with that is that Hollywood now seems to churn out NOTHING but critic-proof films. Transformers 2. GI Joe. And such and such. I'm not talking about mere popcorn films. I'm talking about a class of films that are basically product, used to restock theaters each week because you'll go no matter what's playing. They're just THERE. It's fun to go out with your friends for a couple of hours and revel in all the CG and bad dialogue. That's a good time. But it's also nice, sometimes, to want MORE out of a flick. It doesn't have to be some horrid period drama where a governess is concerned she can't marry her benefactor. That's worse than death. It can just be a genuinely GOOD movie, one that's slightly more intellectually engaging than 2012. But those movies are becoming harder and harder to come by. If we're not careful, mindless filler will be all we're left with. WE WERE WARNED.


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Choreographers celebrating before the opening of the Home Port festival. Photo by Dorit Talpaz.
This may sound a bit extravagant, but I don't think I am exaggerating. Last night I witnessed dance history – and I hope that the opening night of the Home Port Festival (and the festival itself) will go down in the books not as an isolated moment in time but as the recognized beginning of a new stage, figuratively and literally, for Israel's independent choreographers.
The excitement was palpable when I arrived at the festival last night, and the energy only grew as more people streamed into the enormous hangar. While Oy Division played a rousing klezmer set, I mingled with choreographers, dancers, administrators, government officials, dance writers, and dance fans. Everyone seemed to recognize that this collective celebration of individual creation was a momentous occasion. The dream for a permanent home for the Amuta's artists, though still not fully realized, no longer seemed like an impossibility; indeed, the possibilities of what the dance scene would gain in the next weeks at Home Port emboldened the choreographers to dream anew.
After the enthusiastic crowd overflowed the risers, a one-of-a-kind dance marathon commenced. 39 choreographers from the Amuta presented a total of 33 solos and 3 duets, and 38 of the choreographers themselves delivered electrifying performances.
My intention was simply to watch and enjoy, but as each piece sparked snippets of ideas, I started scribbling furiously. What follows is my ode to the Amuta, a series of one-line impressions from each selection. Please read on . . .


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Is anyone else out there too busy for much genealogy this month? The one thing I have done is read "Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power" by Derek Wilson, which didn't have as much mention of the Wing branch of the family as I would have liked but was quite interesting all the same, particularly the early years in Europe and England. I've also read "The Rothschilds At Waddesdon Manor" by Mrs James de Rothschild, which was obviously about Waddesdon rather than Ascott - this had some great photos and descriptions of the construction of Waddesdon Manor.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The Rothschilds
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Mention the word Bak Kut Teh and images of aromatic medicinal soup prepared with a concoction of herbs and spices with chunky meats spring into my mind. While many food lovers will tend to have their favourite Bak Kut Teh shop (including yours truly), my good friend, Yeong recommended me to try out Yeoh's Bah Kut Teh at Klang. On the side note, I always thought the proper spelling for this dish is Bak Kut Teh but somehow Yeoh's version is spelt differently.
Apparently, Yeoh's Bah Kut Teh is located just at the back of the Hokkien Association Building along Jalan Batu Tiga Lama which makes it very inconspicuous to motorists traveling along the Federal Highway. Still, I was told by my friend that they are very famous among the locals and even have a branch in Hong Kong.
Putting fame aside, I was keen to see how good the Bak Kut Teh is at this place. The staff recommended us to try their Yeoh's Signature Big Bone and Claypot Bah Kut Teh. Yeoh's Signature Big Bone deserves a special mention. The first thing that struck me was how HUGE the bone of meat was.
It was so big that I could almost picture it as Titanic sinking into the sea of herbal soup. Putting my silly comparison aside, the meat was soft, tender and flavoursome.
One of the pre-requisite for me in tasting Bak Kut Teh is the soup itself. To tell the truth, I did not fall in love with the soup on my first sip. It was certainly thick, rich and full of herbal taste but somehow, the flavour was a wee bit bitter for me. Perhaps my taste buds were off tangent that afternoon but it certainly did not knock me off my socks.
However, as our lunch discussion went on, I was unconsciously taking spoonfuls of the soup to drink. Strangely, the taste became better! I somehow appreciate the thicker texture of the soup with rich content of herbs.
The claypot Bah Kut Teh was also yummy. Apart from a mixture of fat and lean meat, there were tau fu pock, cabbage, fu chok and etc.
The soup has a slightly different taste. It was less bitter and not as thick with herbs as compared to the Signature Big Bone.
There was also a slight tinge of sweetness. As for the meat, it was also nicely cook. No complaints there.
I read somewhere that there are almost 500 different Bak Kut Teh shops/stalls in Klang alone. This will invariably produces different version of the traditional dish which in turn will divide people's opinion on which shop is the best. As for me, Yeoh's would ranked among the top tier of Bak Kut Teh shops I have sampled so far.
For a meal of RM 31.00 inclusive of Chinese tea, I would say it was certainly worth the price of the meal.
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Rain, Rain, Go Away....
We have had a lot of rain lately. I try to change up what we do for indoor recess so the kids don't become bored. We have a variety of activities that they request. Inevitably, the activities they request are lacking in large motor movement. When we miss outside time, those little bodies still need the activity, so I try to compromise and provide a large motor activity and still have time for a quick BINGO or board game.
Our indoor activity one day last week was bowling!
I got a few empty 2 liter soda bottles from our recycling bin (sent in from parents) and filled them with water and few drops of food coloring. We usually do this twice a year---the bottles hold up well and last a long time. Use a few long blocks to make an "alley", set your pins and you're ready for a strike! We've found that a kickball or standard playground ball works best with the weight of the pins. Since all the materials used are classroom materials, this can be set up in a flash---even when you weren't counting on inclement weather.
We were so busy playing with our homemade bowling alley that I forgot to get out the camera! Here's a shot of the bowling pins, just to show how they look.
Here are a few of the things we've done to get our blood pumping on dreary days:
My little friends love to do obstacle courses! I have built them myself, but I've found they can be even more creative than I, so I like to let them help plan it. We've used large hollow blocks as balance beams, tunnels under tables, carpet squares as "islands". The possibilities are endless!
Indoor snowball fights using recycled paper can be fun. Be sure to set clear ground rules beforehand. (No aiming at faces, etc....let students help devise the rules!) We've used cardboard blocks as "forts" for protection. Make the clean up afterward a game.
Indoor basketball using rolled socks or a small foam ball and a storage bin can be a great way to get little bodies moving.
Twister is a fun game for indoor gross motor movement. You can use several preschoolers at one time, and practice colors and left and right body parts. We usually vary it to one or two parts on the board at a time so more friends can play.
Ice skate on wax paper. Place a small square under each foot and skate away! Works well on hard floors or carpet!
Our parachute is too large for our indoor play area, so I have an old small round tablecloth that works just as well. Put a balloon, foam ball, Beanie babies,or bean bags and "Pop" like popcorn. Have students take turns crawling under to the other side.
And of course, we dance! As I talked about in my earlier post Do You Dance?, we dance to everything and really enjoy movement songs!
Be creative and take a cue from your kids. If you see that they enjoy a particular type of movement, try to find activities that incorporate that type of movement. Change it up, have fun! And if you have anything you do indoors on dreary days, I'd love for you to share!
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Your indoor snowball fight idea is awesome and so easy. The best part of all these ideas is that there isn't a lot of prep needed, which is always a plus for me!ReplyDelete
Although we live in a part of the world where if we didn't play in the rain, we'd never go outside (current spectacular weather aside) I have a few indoor large motor winners as well. Wrestling is a blast and, I've found, not just for boys, and the kids love to give me sponge balls then run away as I try to bean them -- seriously!
But the indoor large motor activity we're most known for is the balloon cage, which I always set up the week of my birthday. I enclose a corner of the classroom, floor to ceiling, with caution fencing, lay down gym mats, they fill it up with 100+ balloons. It's crazy fun. I'll blog it, with pictures in a couple weeks.
I love those bowling pins! So colorful!ReplyDelete
Those are great ideas.ReplyDelete
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A former Catholic brother and convicted pedophile will fight an attempt to extradite him from New Zealand to Australia where he is facing 252 child sex charges.
Bernard Kevin McGrath, a former St John of God brother who was jailed in 2006 for sexually abusing boys at Marylands School in Christchurch in the 1970s, appeared in Christchurch District Court on Monday.
McGrath, 65, is alleged to have repeatedly raped, molested and abused dozens of young boys at church-run institutions in the Newcastle-Maitland diocese of NSW during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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When Buffett Was Right, but We Were Too Scared
Just over five years ago, global financial institutions appeared on the verge of collapse and stocks were sinking, Warren Buffett wrote an op-ed in The New York Timesthat seemed, at that time, out of touch with the pulse of the market. He encouraged investors to buy. Buy? Mr. Buffett, then 78, appeared to finally have succumbed to a senior moment. Of course, it was great advice. Unfortunately, not enough of us followed it."The financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad," Mr. Buffett wrote. "Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity will falter and headlines will continue to be scary."
But, he added, he was buying stocks for his personal account.
"A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful," Mr. Buffett wrote. "And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors."
We all know what has transpired since. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has nearly doubled. It is up 88% and closed Tuesday at a record high of 15680. The S&P 500 Index has performed even better. It's up 97% to above 1770.
Mr. Buffett was not only right – and right in a big way – about the buying opportunity. He was right about the fear. Most of us stayed fearful for too long.
After pouring an average of $404 billion annually into mutual funds through 2008, investors pulled $150 billion out in 2009, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Since Mr. Buffett told investors to buy, investors have pulled $309 billion from total equity funds and a whopping $448 billion from domestic equity funds, according to ICI.
But what's alarming is the fear has persisted.
A survey released this week by asset manager BlackRock Inc.BLK +0.94% found that most Americans still are skittish when it comes to investing in anything. They keep 48% of their investible assets in cash, just 18% in stocks and 7% in bonds.
Now, there's a feeling among investors that they've missed out. Thirty-six percent of respondents said they wished they had invested for retirement sooner.
Investors have come back this year, as the year-long rally suggests, but they've come back after most of the gains were made.
Investors so far this year have added $106 billion to equity funds, but it has hardly made up for the selling of the last three years. From August 2010 to August 2013, investors have pulled $195 billion from equity funds, according to ICI – and that includes recent buying.
There's really only one conclusion to draw from this. Despite Mr. Buffett's reputation as an "oracle" of investing, we don't listen.
To be fair, there was plenty of evidence to ignore him. Less than six months after his advice was published, the S&P 500 fell another 24%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 20%.
Even after the rally started slowly and surely thereafter, a series of events made stock investing appear dicey.
There was the Greek and European debt crisis. French, Cypriot and Italian bank crises. Falling home prices. The "flash crash" in May 2010. The federal government budget "sequestration." There have been multiple stand-offs in Washington over the debt ceiling and, most recently, a government shutdown that put a kink in the recovery.
Yet none of these troubles really sank the broader market for an extended period of time. Volume was light in the markets, but what little action that was happening was predominantly buying.
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Stephen Jesse Jackson has been marked by three life-changing altercations. Most people know of two of them—or think they do—and, as a result, have tagged him Exhibit A in the case for the NBA as a safe harbor for stone-cold thugs. There was the nationally televised brawl three seasons ago in Auburn Hills, when Jackson followed Ron Artest into the stands and fought with fans, earning him a 30-game suspension and the NBA an everlasting scar. Two years later, Jackson was in the news again, charged with criminal recklessness for firing a gun outside a strip club. But those events look different in the light of the third, which occurred long before either. It's the one in which he didn't take part, and the only one in which he wishes he had.
The housing project in Port Arthur, Texas, now quaintly named Gulf Breeze, was known simply as Longs 15 years ago. Donald Buckner Jr. took the younger half-brother he called Stevie a lot of places but Longs was not one of them. Stevie understood, well aware of what drugs and poverty could drive folks to do; no one grows up in a town surrounded by six prisons and misses that lesson. Stevie was a 14-year-old burgeoning basketball star when Donald hooked up with a new girlfriend living in Longs. Only she had an ex who hadn't conceded that their relationship was over. Donald visited her one night and the ex called him out to settle it Port Arthur style. "In my neighborhood, no one minded catching a fair one," says Jackson, "and my brother didn't back down from anyone." So they fought, with Donald getting the best of it until the ex's brother and a cousin jumped Donald from behind, attacking him with a bottle and lead pipe. By the time Stevie heard about the fight, Donald was lying comatose in an ICU, 17 staples in his head. Stevie was bedside when a single tear slid down Donald's face as he exhaled for the final time. "You can't tell me seeing his brother die that way hasn't had an effect," says Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh. "To me, it's why he is always coming to the help of his teammates."
And before you write this off as one more athlete apologia, consider this: Security tapes outside that Indianapolis strip club show a group of men, one with a hand in his back pocket and another under his shirt, approaching Pacers guard Jamaal Tinsley and threatening to "spray his car," Walsh says. (The two groups had exchanged words inside.) When a scuffle broke out, Jackson retrieved his licensed 9mm from his car and fired it in the air to scatter the combatants. The men ran for their car and Jackson walked to his. Thinking the confrontation over, he barely had time to jump as the attackers' gray Chrysler plowed into him. Jackson flipped over the windshield, landed on the trunk and fell to the ground before, as he recalls, he choked on his blood and passed out.
That part of the story didn't garner much attention. Walsh knew the details, but he also knew they wouldn't matter to fed-up Pacers fans. First the brawl, now this? So he built a package around Jackson and got back a quartet of choirboys from Golden State. "Jack got booed every time he stepped on the court," Walsh says. "I didn't want to trade him; I had to."
Jackson was raised a devout Baptist—his grandfather rebuilt a church where he worked as a deacon—and he believes in a God who keeps a running score. As he sees it, all that went wrong in Indiana was a test. That the chaos landed him in Oakland—a city that feels like a bigger Port Arthur—on a team with a personality as fiery as his and with a coach who respects him enough to make him a captain, is proof he passed that one. "God spared me because I wasn't there for any drama," he says. "He knows what could have happened, and didn't."
As Al Davis can attest, Oakland has a soft spot for outlaws. Jackson's new franchise was filled with men seeking redemption: Baron Davis, who had battled two head coaches in New Orleans; Don Nelson, who had ruined the Warriors in a previous stay as GM/coach; even Chris Cohan, whose purchase of Golden State had coincided with a 12-season
playoff drought, the longest in team history.
Their collective frustration evaporated last spring amid a sea of yellow shirts inscribed "We Believe." Davis and Nelson got the props after the Warriors toppled the Mavericks, the regular season's juggernaut. But it was Jackson who put all 6'8" and 218 pounds of himself under Dirk Nowitzki's chin, mad-dogging the league MVP into a playoff career-low 38% shooting, while scoring 33 in the series clincher.
Over the summer, Jackson did his time for the gun charge—100 hours of community service. He picked up roadside trash, assembled carnival fences, counseled inmates and reflected on the tricky gap he'd shot to get to the NBA. After wasting a scholarship to Arizona in 1996 when he couldn't score high enough on his entrance exams in five tries, he was stranded in Phoenix until then-Suns GM Bryan Colangelo saw him playing pickup and decided to make him a second-rounder. But the Suns released him at the end of camp, and what followed were two broken feet—one while playing for Australia's Sydney Kings, the other trying out for the Bulls—and stints in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. By Jackson's estimate, he was cut by 15 teams before sticking with the Nets in 2000.
So don't tell the man he doesn't belong in the league—"A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug"—or that he's bound to flip out again. As Jackson (who received a seven-game suspension for the gun charge) sat on his couch in early November, watching the Warriors lose their first rematch with Dallas, he heard his former Pacers teammate, TNT analyst Reggie Miller, say, "I'll give him a clean slate until something happens." Jackson leaned toward the TV and barked: "Nothing's going to happen! You gonna be waiting a long time!"
Judy Jackson worked graveyard at a refinery so she could spend days shepherding Donnie, Stephen and sister Bianca to school and church. But Donald Sr., according to Stephen, didn't let fatherhood get in the way of running in the streets. Jackson inherited both parents' inclinations, a fact hidden by a demeanor more street-lovin' than God-fearing. The hunched shoulders and tattooed arms, the splay-footed shuffle and a smile that borders on a sneer—not to mention the languid launch of a three in an opponent's grill and the high-risk, high-dribble crossover—radiate a get-off-me-chump 'tude. Of course, fans take one look and think, Well, no wonder. "I've told him he's his own worst enemy," Walsh says. "How he looks isn't who he is." Walsh's advice has had little effect, although Jackson no longer keeps a red bandanna in his locker as a shout-out to his Blood-haunted hood.
Fans also don't see the respect Jackson has from every coach and teammate he's had. "Love him," Tim Duncan says of the man he considers one of his all-time favorite teammates. "He's had his issues, but he's got the right thing in mind." No matter how many minutes he played when he was with the Spurs, Jackson would kick chairs and sling towels whenever coach Gregg Popovich pulled him from a game. Still, says Popovich, "I know his heart. He's a sweet man."
The Warriors, who have seen both sides of the man, have done their best to cultivate his accessibility. When the Oakland Public Library passed on having Jackson as a guest reader in a kids' program, the team suggested that this told kids there are no second chances. Jackson ended up being such a hit when he read that his picture will grace the library's annual report. More recently, a request to photograph the new tattoo on his torso, two hands holding a gun framed by a church window, was stiff-armed by his squad. The artwork symbolizes his hope of never having to use a firearm again.
Back in Port Arthur, he's a one-man economic development program. His music label, Secret Society Entertainment, signed a handful of local rappers. His school, the Stephen Jackson Academy, is "An Education Your Child Needs with the Care He Deserves," as the banner over the door of the three-story building states. Running K-6, it will reopen next fall after a year hiatus, and ground will soon be broken for a gym. All of it has been funded by Jackson. "Stephen is finally maturing," his mother says. "What I have a problem with is, if you learn from your mistakes, shouldn't that count for something?"
It's not that easy. The two faces of Stephen Jackson are so distinct he has names for each. Stack Jack, a nickname his rappers hung on him as the man with stacks of cash, is the hyperanimated side, forever riding to the rescue, on the street or in the game. Stephen is the relaxed, charitable jokester. "The guy everybody loves," he says. Almost everybody. On Halloween, Jackson's high-rise pad was busy with friends and team officials. While waiting for the first group of trick-or-treaters, he tried to get a kiss from Sofia, the 14-month-old daughter of a front office member. Stephen leaned forward, lips pursed. Sofia pulled back, turning her head as if she'd been presented with a forkful of liver.
Goodbye, Stephen. Hello, Stack Jack. Triggered by the snub, he donned a mask, a crazed clown with snaggled teeth and a bulbous nose, and stuck the terrifying mug in little Sofia's face. Sofia, without hesitation, kissed the clown. "Let me see this again," Jackson said. When he took off the mask, Sofia turned away, squinching her nose; when he put it back on, he got another smooch. "Ain't that a … I've got to put on a mask to get a kiss," Jackson said, his lips twisting as if Stephen and Stack Jack were wrestling in his mouth.
It's a battle not likely to end soon. While it might cost him the affection of most, Jackson says keeping Stack Jack around is vital. "He's the better basketball player."


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"If we don't get agreement, (the VSB) will return to a one-week spring break next year," said Kurt Heinrich. "The (district) has a significant budget shortfall of $10 million. But by closing schools for five days, you save $500,000."
Gerry Kent, president of the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers' Association, said the dispute centres around fair compensation for on-call teachers, who don't get paid during the two-week break but are required to work the longer school day that results from it.
Vancouver, which traditionally had one-week spring breaks, switched to a two-week break three years ago as a cost-saving measure. Other school districts have also moved to a two-week spring break to save money, lengthening each school day by about 15 minutes to make up for the lost time, with most of the money saved through reduced on-call teacher costs.
"We had an agreement we signed last year, but this year our members felt that agreement wasn't sufficient," Kent said, arguing the on-call teachers should receive pay that's commensurate with their extra working hours, "probably 2.5 to three per cent."
New Westminster and Burnaby both recently approved a two-week spring break for 2014, which means that all districts in Metro — except Vancouver, if it opts out — will have a two-week break next year.
According to a March resolution, the VSB agreed that if agreement is reached with the Vancouver Teachers' Federation, the teachers' union representing the elementary teachers, then the two-week spring break would stand for 2014.
But, it added, in a proviso: "Should an agreement not be reached by March 30th, 2013, the district will revert to a five-day spring break (March 24 to 28 in 2014)."
Heinrich said that agreement has not been reached, so the two-week break is no longer planned for next year.
He also noted that while the dispute is with the elementary teachers, secondary schools would also see their spring break cut back to one week from two.
"Right now, we're hopeful that the union will reconsider and come back to the table, so we have our proposed two-week spring break," added Heinrich. "We find the (two-week) break positive and hope this could continue. But it appears we'll have a one-week break because we can't get agreement with the union."
Kent said that although the on-call teachers received improved seniority recognition and pension benefits for working the extra time that resulted from the two-week break, they didn't get additional financial compensation.
"The board has said it won't negotiate," Kent added. "They want a rollover of last year's agreement.
"We haven't given up and continue to talk (to union representatives) about ways around it. But at this point, we haven't been able to come to an agreement. We're still hopeful for a two-week spring break, but with a slightly different agreement.
"We're proposing that (on-call teachers) get recognition for working a longer day."
Asked why the current agreement is no longer good enough, Kent said: "Last year, the agreement was signed under pressure and duress, because teachers enjoy a two-week spring break. That was the best agreement we thought we could get and we signed off on it. Since then, our members have said it doesn't meet the needs of our (on-call teachers)."


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"You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch."
"Up on the rooftop, reindeer paw."
"Walking through a winter wonderland"."
Songs of cold are more than welcome. The heat of summer is strong on us in the States. I complain about snow, but right now, I'd accept some of the cold, wet stuff.
The reasons the songs are stuck in my head has nothing to do with a desire for cold! GingerScraps is proud to announce the re-release of the December 2011 buffet, revamped! It was taken down as a precaution, and now it's ready for release.
Our designers that weren't part of the store back in December even created some amazing buffet pieces!
The signs of the season really inspired the CT! They went a little crazy with the layouts!
Ginger couldn't leave it at that. No way! Nope! She got together with the designers to bring on an incredibly fun adventure called Christmas in July!!
There are Christmas/winter-themed challenges! I don't know about you, but I'm always at least a year behind on scrapping those special Christmas memories. Now you'll have a chance to get caught up!!
Look at all those SPEED SCRAPS! Seriously, I'm excited for all of this! Truth or Dare. Oh, that ends up being some hilariously funny stuff going on then. If you've seen some random Facebook status updates from designers and members of the forum, and they disappear at the end of the week, or something, that's usually a Truth or Dare dare. They're always fun, and humorous, guaranteed to leave you in stitches!
There are special prizes to win for doing those challenges and speed scraps and chats! You can win a goodie bag full of coupons from the designers at Gingerscraps! Could you think of a better present to be found under the tree? You'll find more information at the forum!!
Oh! Did you think I was finished? No, there's a Facebook Hop!! The designers all worked together, even our Guest, WendyBird Designs!
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Battery Energy Storage System to Helen in Finland
Helen Ltd, a major energy utility in Finland, is heading a research project that will explore innovations in using and controlling energy storage as part of the smart grid initiative. The energy storage technology chosen for the project will be delivered by Landis+Gyr and Toshiba. The 1.2 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) will be the biggest of its kind in the Nordic countries.
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Ann talked me into riding with her out to Murphy Hanahan (sp) park in Lakeville today for a good hard run. I'm glad I went. It was fun to run with a group of people. There were 7 of us that met up at 8 AM for a 2 hour run.
I run so many miles by myself; sometimes I find I prefer running with Topaz more than running with people. I guess it is not that I prefer it that way, but I am just more comfortable that way since most of my miles are completed solo.
I'm glad Ann talked me into running with the others. It's good to socialize once in a while and have some fun!
Went to the gym to lift chest/shoulders for 50 minutes. Then spent the afternoon swimming with the boys.


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Passing / Territory Data
Overall, the Blues had more possession (55.4%) and kept the ball better (82% v 75%) than our visitors. Our pass completion was also better in Swansea's half although Swansea's retention was superior in the final third (82% v 76.6%). Territory wise, we also bossed things with 56.9% of the game played in Swansea's half and more than double the amount of touches in Swansea's final third (278) than they made in our defensive zone (122).
Teams and Approach
The two sides lined up in similar 4-2-3-1 systems with Pienaar for Oviedo the only toffee change from the 5-1 rout at Cheltenham on Monday night. Swansea had a re-shuffle given their cup heroics on Wednesday night, with Dyer playing quite centrally with Michu behind and Hernandez on the left. It was on the right side where most of the tactical stuff happened, with right back Angel Rangel selected in an advanced right sided midfield role with Tiendalli at right back. Rangel's role was predominantly to pick up Baines and stop his forward surges, as shown below when he picks up Baines in the right back spot.
A feature of our game's this season has been what opposition managers do to counter act the numerical advantage we instigate by overloading down the left side. More reactive tacticians such as Steve Clarke and Portly Rafa have deployed a 'shuttler' (Dorrans / Ramires)in the midfield zone to track Baines up and down the pitch – a move similar to that deployed by Moyes regularly on Gareth Bale with two full backs doubling up on their opponent. Other manager's like Villas-Boas have played attacking players like Lennon to push him back whilst some like Pardew have opted for the 'hide under the table, close your eyes and hope for the best' method. Interestingly, two of the three sides who have beaten us WBA and Chelsea have been the ones who have best neutralised the Baines threat.
Overall, I'd say overall Rangel provided more cover to his fullback than Hernandez did for him in the game earlier this season at Goodison when the Spaniard was repeatedly over-run. Figures wise, Baines/Pienaar on average create 6 goalscoring chances per game between them whilst yesterday they created 11 so I'd say this approach alone didn't stifle us as we created enough chances to win the game.
Did Swansea 'park the bus' ?
Firstly, apologies for the bus cliché.
We spoke in the preview of how there would be few goals in this contest and so it proved. Swansea's defensive operation is amongst the best in the division and statistically the best on the road with just 9 goals 'shipped' all season. Their approach when not in possession was a 'stand by' operation rather than an aggressive one, i.e. they looked to induce the opponent to lose possession through positional play rather than persistently look to win the ball back.
When sides line up in similar formation as we did yesterday, the difference is usually which side can 'shift' players more effectively to create numerical advantages in certain areas of the pitch. Moyes approach is heavily weighted on such 'shifts' , usually down the left side of the final third. Moyes said post match that we passed the ball too slowly; this speed is implicit in developing such situations and catching opponents up-field when their shape is compromised. Due to our movement of the ball being too slow Swansea were able to get back into their shape and outnumber us, as shown in the above visual where they have 5 players to our 3 in the key zoned area we look to exploit.
Final word
This was a frustrating afternoon for the Toffeemen against a stubborn, compact opponent. Our best chances where from crosses when we could use our aerial advantage, but sadly our finishing was not at its best. On a positive note we secured our first clean sheet since September – incidentally against the same opponent – in what was the first goal-less Goodison draw in 49 games, a run going back to December 2010. With Arsenal losing and Spurs only drawing it hasn't been a critical setback and with our key rivals facing Chelsea and Man United next week our trip to Southampton could represent an opportunity to see us return to fourth spot.


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Stevens 3 (30, 30, 30)
Farmingdale State 0 (17, 05, 27)
Farmingdale State women�s volleyball fell to 7-11 overall, 2-2 Skyline after losing a conference game to Stevens 3-0 on Monday night in Hoboken, NJ. The Rams were swept by scores of 30-17, 30-5 and 30-27.
Stevens was led by Melania Volk with 10 kills, 5 aces and 12 digs. Rachel Ostroff finished with a game-high 18 digs for the Ducks. Setter Gina Joyce had 22 assists.
Megan Cranmer (Hicksville, NY/Hicksville) finished with 12 assists for Farmingdale. Cathryn McLean (East Northport, NY/Northport) tallied four kills, four aces and eight digs for the Rams.
Farmingdale State travels to Newburgh, NY on Wednesday night, October 12th, for another conference game against Mount Saint Mary College.


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SACRAMENTO — A state report reveals 2.5 million Californians have had Social Security numbers, credit card and bank accounts and other sensitive information exposed in 131 data breaches dating back to 2010.
The San Jose Mercury News says (http://bit.ly/11eSVPY) the disclosure was made Monday by Attorney General Kamala Harris, in the first report of its kind in the state.
The breaches occurred at companies ranging from Barnes & Noble to American Express, at banks and universities, and within government agencies.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Do you feel lucky, punk?
And Jossie? What a cop out! I asked you your favorite uncle from Full House and you couldn't even pick one? Disgraceful! (I still love you.)
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Since you're a freelance writer, what's your dream publication/site to write for?
- February 17, 2009 at 9:18 PM
- Kyla Bea said...
What has been your biggest surprise in planning your wedding so far? What are you learning about you, Andrew and your families?
- February 17, 2009 at 9:23 PM
- Unknown said...
If you could be Rainbow Brite, Punky Brewster or Strawberry Shortcake for a day, who would you be and why?
They are both just too good to choose one!! It was totally a trick question and you know it ;-)
- February 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM
- Laura said...
slip-n-slide or sprinkler?
favorite historical figure?
& most importantly, what's the secret behind your famous grilled cheese?
- February 17, 2009 at 10:12 PM
- Hillary said...
what is the last thing you do before you go to sleep every night?
- February 17, 2009 at 10:53 PM
- Maxie said...
Lets see...
So many questions.
If you could have one extravagant thing that you cannot afford at your wedding, what would it be?
- February 17, 2009 at 11:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Fast forward ten years, what are you doing if this were your ideal world?
- February 17, 2009 at 11:45 PM
What is one thing that makes you smile no matter what, every time?
- February 18, 2009 at 12:54 AM
- B said...
What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done?
- February 18, 2009 at 7:51 AM
- Unknown said...
Where did your love for cats in funny hats come from? ;)
- February 18, 2009 at 9:07 AM
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Do you have a good ginger snaps recipe? Favourite colour? Best book you've read so far this year?
- February 18, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- thatShortchick said...
ok, couple questions:
what's your typical order at starbucks?
favorite vacation destination? (real or hypothetical.)
favorite breakfast food(s)?
- February 18, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- Jane said...
What's your favorite 80's hair band?
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One day in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
If we're planning to spend a few days in Gran Canaria and want to have a good idea of the island as a whole, we need to leave at least one day to explore the capital: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This great city has beaches, but it also offers interesting cultural activities, spacious areas for strolling and a wide range of leisure options to guarantee a great day out.
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El Tiempo
MORNING: Exploring the Historic Centre
Patronat de Turismo de Gran Canaria
We'll start by visiting the oldest and most typical area of the city, the Vegueta district, with numerous narrow cobbled streets lined with houses in the traditional architectural style of the Canary Islands. We stroll through the streets like Balcones or Espíritu Santo until we reach the Plaza de Santa Ana square, the site of the Santa Ana Cathedral. The best way to really get to know a city is by mingling with the locals, and the Vegueta market, a stone's throw from the cathedral, offers a fantastic chance to do just that. Morning is the ideal time to experience all the usual hustle and bustle while we pick up a few typical local products such as cheese. Things to remember. This area is also home to the Museum of the Canary Islands where we can learn all about the history of the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Other buildings of interest in this area include the Episcopal Palace, the Town Hall, Casa de Colón (Columbus' house) and the shrine of San Antonio Abad.
Shopping and tapas area
At around 12:30 is a good time to explore one of the main shopping and business areas: Mayor de Triana street and the surrounding area, with its numerous Modernist buildings. There is a wide range of shops of all kinds, including crafts shops and big-name boutiques. The area is also full of outddor cafés where you can enjoy a few tapas and even have lunch.
Among the most delicious Canary Island recipes to try are the papas arrugadas (baby potatoes boiled in their skins) with mojo (a spicy sauce) and sancocho (poached fish). If we visit any of the restaurants in the area around the Hurtado de Mendoza and Cairasco squares we are guaranteed to be served a delicious meal. One of the architectural highlights of the Plaza del Cairasco square is the beautiful building which houses the Gabinete Literario cultural centre. It is well worth visiting one of its exhibitions in order to see inside. Also recommended is a visit to San Telmo park, and particularly if we've got children with us. While they play in the park, we can relax at a table near the Modernist pavilion and the small shrine there. Things to remember. So far we haven't covered any great distances, so the tour can easily be done on foot. It's also the best way to browse these quiet streets, many of which are closed to traffic (as is the case of Calle Mayor de Triana)
AFTERNOON: A little peace and quiet
After lunch we're sure to feel like taking a quiet hour's rest and to make the most of the pleasant weather which is such a constant feature of the city. We can choose between an outdoor café in the marina, surrounded by recreational boats and the sea; or the Pueblo Canario leisure and culture centre in the Parque Doramas, where we can enjoy our coffee in a typical Canary-islands courtyard.
A trip to the beach in the heart of the city Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is always the ideal place for relaxing, but visitors find this option particularly attractive when they discover the Las Canteras beach. This is the city's main beach, and has over three kilometres of golden sand. A swim in the crystal-clear waters is practically compulsory, and we're bound to see some fish. The ocean is usually as calm as a millpond, so the beach is perfectly safe for bathing. After cooling off, we'll make for an outdoor café in the Paseo de Las Canteras promenade to have a little refreshment on the seafront. The attractive scenery and the mild climate make this the ideal place for a stroll, so we can walk along to the end of the beach until we come to the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, from where we can enjoy beautiful views all along the beach.
Patronato de Turismo de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is the busiest city on the island for nightlife, and we're bound to find whatever entertainment we're looking for. If we feel like something more leisurely after our day's sightseeing, we can opt for something from the programme of musical events in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium or in the Pérez Galdós theatre. If we feel like dinner and a few drinks in a soothing atmosphere as night falls, there are a multitude of restaurants and outdoor cafés of all kinds in the Vegueta district. In the area around the Triana neighbourhood there are venues offering live music, or salsa and commercial sounds. Finally, if we've got any strength left for a long night of music, the place to choose is the area of the Port, the Las Canteras beach, the streets around the Plaza de Santa Catalina square and the marina.
Things to remember
A good way of getting around the city is in the tourist bus, which stops at most of the points of interest.
One of the main bus depots is in San Telmo Park, and offers excellent connections between the area where we've spent the morning and where we plan to spend the afternoon.
The Pueblo Canario hosts folklore shows every Sunday morning.
If we are travelling with children, it is well worth visiting the Elder Museum of Science and Technology, which features an interactive tour and is very near the Las Canteras beach.
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I'd like to say I think like the hero, and mostly I do. I tend to follow the rules, try to help people out, and just in general be an annoying goody-goody. I'm so bad at lying that I have to call my sister when I need a whopper. I won't tell you which sister, and I have three. But one of them is a genius at lying. Simple lies, complicated lies. She's got the gift. She doesn't lie all the time, but it's there when she needs it, and it's also there when I do.
So, I think I'm mostly a hero.
But recently I borrowed a friend's car. A non-writing civilian with a real job. He was having problems with his boss and told me not to put anything in the trunk so it would be empty when I picked him up from work. Without missing a beat, I said, "So you can put in a body?" He looked at me in total astonishment and said, "So I can put in the boxes if I have to clear out my desk." And that was when I realized that maybe I think a bit like the villain after all.
I'm trying to pass that off as a good thing, so pay attention here (and, no, I didn't call my sister before coming up with this explanation). Every hero has some bit of villainy he needs to vanquish in himself and conversely every villain has noble reasons for her actions (yup, I'm messing with the pronouns just for fun).
Hero? My main character in A TRACE OF SMOKE thinks long and hard about taking in an adorable five year old orphan who appears on her doorstep one night. She doesn't send him out into the darkness alone in the middle of the night, but she thinks about it.
Villain? My main villain is based on a historical figure, top Nazi Ernst Roehm, who was sure that he was the hero who was going to restore Germany to greatness. He did terrible, reprehensible things. He also had a warrior code that he lived by, he suffered horribly in World War I, and he was a highly decorated soldier. Like all villains since the dawn of time, he was human. For better and for worse.