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Suppose I should do this also…..here goes!
I'm T.C. (yes I actually go by my initials out in the real world) and I'm out in the rainy Pacific Northwest. I'm a lover of nature and being out in it. Perfect way to spend a summer day for me is with a dirt trail at my feet and a pack on my back.
Just got hooked on teas a few months ago. One of my Asian friends kept offering me tea when we went to her place. I'd always thought "tea" was just tea….you know…that brown junk in a bag you put in boiling water? I'd tried that years ago and it tasted like crap soo…..
Anyway, she had a ton of loose leaf teas (said her Asian genes made it a requirement lol) and got me hooked on chai's and green tea.
Now, a few months later, my tea stash puts hers to shame and I can't seem to stop buying the stuff. I'm still in the "exploring" stage and just want to try any and every tea on the market. So all that leads me here to all you other tea addicts…I don't feel so "tea crazed" when I'm chatting here with the rest of the gang.
I just joined Steepster after recently discovering loose leaf tea. It all started with a Christmas gift swap at work. When I unwrapped my package, it contained a set of teacups and three little tins of tea. They smelled delicious, so I immediately bought a tea ball so I could try them out. Less than two months (and many tea and accessory purchases) later and I am hooked! Sadly, my friends and family don't understand this new hobby (obsession), so I was super excited when I discovered Steepster. There are others like me out there! I'm looking forward to learning more about tea and meeting some fellow tea addicts, er, enthusiasts ;)
Didn't know this was a thread. Well I'm Art, senior in college (graduating in may). I started drinking Brazilian mate for studying when I was a freshman, and kinda got hooked. I got to be known around campus for "tea dates"- whenever someone's having a bad day they end up in my room for a mug of tea and an encouraging chat.
I got really into tea because of the tea dates. Something about a hot mug of tea makes people so much more comfortable, so I had people who I had only known for a day or two tell me their entire life story because I put a mug in their hands and became a listening ear.
I tried loose leaf in August and could never go back.. Over the summer I was working at a church in New Jersey that was a block from the train station, and after work I would pay $2 to take a 30 minute train ride into Greenwhich Village to the DAVIDSTEA. Then I discovered the Harney and Sons shop in Soho which became my favorite thanks to their low prices and free samples. Sundays I'll usually take a group from the church into soho just so we can have a group tea tasting.
Steepster has been awesome, especially because of the swaps and the fact that y'all share when there's sales.
I love to read, CS Lewis is my favorite, and I love working with students.
I love the idea of the tea dates!! After college people will be coming to your office for calming breaks during the day too, welcome to Steepster!
The tea dates are the best; some weeks I had 8 in one week. I kinda appreciate the excuse to down tea like it's no one's business
You are right, tea makes people feel more comfortable! I used to never have people over, I didn't know what to say or do. Now I say, come have tea! And they often do.
It is a huge part of my life now!
So true! I use it to welcome new students in my department at college
hi everyone,
health issues (high blood pressure & kidney failure) forced me to give up my coffee addiction (over 12 cups daily). and go back on tea, my childhood addiction. I quit drinking tea when i went away to university.
At 44, i am now back on teas and cannot see myself drinking anything else.
My taste is quite 'set', I tried almost every Chinese green tea in the book, but have to admit my true love lies with Japanese green teas for good. :)
Call me a tea snob, as i prefer and mostly drink high grade gyokuro tea.
I recently placed a rather large tea order with Teavivre for Chinese black teas that i would to try. I can't wait. My order ships after the Chinese new year holidays.
i stumbled upon steepster by accident, but have come back reguraly to read your reviews. i hope to add a few myself soon.
I am a mom of 3 and live in the Netherlands.
i have a Yulan Dancong magnolia grade AA, 2012 to trade (sampler 5gr)by the way. tried one cup (1.5 gr. but this is not my cup of tea lol).
waving waving from across the pond :0
Sandra, hello! How is the BP going now that you're off of coffee? If that's a totally personal question, don't mind me. I'm in nursing school and very curious about how caffeine levels can affect the body systems. Hope you are doing well!!!!
Great story – tea saved my life. A coroner in New Zealand recently found that drinking 8 litres of coca cola every day may have contributed to a young woman's death ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/20/coca-cola-new-zealanders-death ). I can well believe that a 12 cup a day coffee habit was causing problems for you.
Hi all!
I've been on Steepster for a little over a month now, but was not sure if I should go ahead and introduce myself on here…I'm a little shy. Anyway, I'm 27, a mom to my astoundingly beautiful and smart 20 month-old daughter, and a student-nurse out here in the upstate of New York. I'm working on my second bachelor's degree, and am pretty busy with clinicals, general school-work, and my daughter.
I've always enjoyed herbal teas (tisanes, now that I know better), chais, and black teas (tame, bagged), but recently started expanding my horizons into multiple loose-leaf varieties. I'm now hooked, and absolutely love testing out new teas.
Hi elizabeth,
i don't mind at all. My BP was 280/150. Deadly i was later told. I am not overweight, so the levels came as a big oh my for the doctors.
I changed my diet drastically and skipped coffee & meat, and now drink liters of green tea daily.
my gp wants to learn how and why my levels have dropped so drastically. (i come from a family history with kidney issues along with high blood pressure).
i personally think drinking green tea literally saved me. Feel better than before!
also notice that now that I am off coffee, my heart beats slower. my bp level is now back to a normal 130/75 :)
Wow! That's pretty amazing. A BP at that level is indeed very dangerous, and can lead to organ failure. It sounds like you've truly changed your habits around and are making an admirable effort to get and stay healthy. Your pulse certainly must be lower with such a great drop in BP! I wish we heard more stories like yours here in the U.S.!
What types of green teas have you been drinking?
I'm new here, too. I'm a graphic artist and printmaker and I live in southern Indiana. I have always enjoyed tea but got really hooked on loose leaf this past fall. Steepster reviews have been very helpful in picking out new teas so I decided to join in the fun! I really love trying out new teas :)
Hello from England :)
Welcome to Steepster. If your trying to find new and delicious teas then you have come to the right place. Enjoy.
Hi neighbor – also in Southern Indiana. Depending on how close you are to Columbus – Empire Tea Services blends some awesome teas.
Hi Stephanie! I'm a graphic designer & illustrator. Yay for artists who love tea!
Hello, fellow Steepsters! My name is Emily, and I'll be graduating this year with my Bachelor's in Psychology and an English minor. I'm also currently working part-time as a hostess, though hopefully not for much longer. I've lived in Upstate NY my whole life and really can't wait to explore a little.
I was first introduced to loose leaf teas by a friend who bought me some Strawberry Kiwi blend from Teavana for Christmas. While excited about this new way of making tea, I wasn't a huge fan of the blend, so I kind of forgot about it. I went off to school in NH, so any tea I had was in bag form. It was when I transferred schools, moved back home and found the tea tin with the seriously old Strawberry Kiwi tea in it that my interest was really sparked. I threw that out, but it got me thinking about trying new kinds. I don't know how much loose tea I bought that fall/winter, but it was awesome! Since then (almost 2 years ago) I've been on a roll, trying various teas from many different vendors. I'm still trying to get a footing on what I really enjoy (OOLONGS!). I found steepster when I was looking for teas I wanted to try. I finally became a member about three months ago (I think), so I'm still relatively new. It's been tons of fun so far!
Anyway, that's a little background. I like this thread! Cool way to get to know people.
Hi, everyone. I'm a first year grad school student studying to receive my MFA in nonfiction writing. In my last year of undergrad, several friends of mine and some other people formed the Tea Time Club. We would meet every Sunday afternoon, bring our teas to share, and play Scrabble or do homework. I liked tea before the Tea Time Club (I had only a few teas, bagged), but it ignited my obsession. It was how I was introduced to loose tea and the world of the possibilities of blended teas.
I found Steepster last month. I'm really glad I did, since everyone is knowledgeable and friendly as heck. But it's enabling my addiction to buying tea D: Oh well, I keep coming back anyway.
Hi, I'm a culinary student from sunny (Northern) California. I found this site about six weeks ago. I'm still trying lots of new tea companies, and flavours. So far, my favourite types of tea have been masala chai and rooibos/ honeybush. Since I'm a bit of a night owl, I enjoy a cup of red bush tea late at night while watching Stargate or Doctor Who.
Maybe. That's worth a lot of rooibos. Not sure how that would ship though.
Cookies work! (do I sound like a starving bachelor who spends all their discretionary income on tea?)
….sorry for the thread hi-jack.
I've been re-watching stargate recently, up to season 5. Poor Daniel.
I just got into Stargate SG-1. About to start season 3. This series so entertaining and bizarre, I don't know how I didn't see it before.
Hello fellow Stargate fans! You've got a ways to go. And if you can, check out Farscape too.
I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a thisclose to 30 year old living in Eastern Canada. I'm new here, but I have been creeping for awhile as I find the tea reviews very helpful, particularly when considering placing orders online. I don't like unfortunate surprises! My tea experience so far ("teaxperience"??) has been predominantly inspired by Davidstea, which opened up in my city 2-3 years ago.
I'm a big fan of dessert teas, and that's how the obsession started. Always trying to be healthier and whatnot I like drinking a cup of dessert based tea to try and stave off cravings for actual desserts. I'm broadening my tastes though and have 2 orders on the way, one from Harney&Sons and one from Kusmi. With the help of all these awesome reviews of course!
I also just bought a Bonavita Gooseneck Temperature Control Kettle, just got it yesterday and I'm pretty much in love.
People in my life think i'm obsessed, which I am of course, but it's an obsession that they don't really understand. Hopefully I will find some kindred souls here! I'd love to get into some swapping as I sure have lots of tea :)
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Being jammed into a plane for 10 hours can certainly feel like being stuck in a foreign country. But that's not the reason Michael Rosen's U.S. dollars were rejected on a recent flight from Hawaii to New York. As many travelers know, dollars — the physical kind — are useless once you board an airplane in most cases. You'll need plastic to buy a headset, a drink or a snack. Rosen, a New Jersey lawyer, thinks that's discrimination, so he's filed a lawsuit aimed at forcing airlines to treat greenbacks, and consumers who carry them, with more respect.
A New Jersey state judge will hear arguments Friday to decide whether the case has any merit. Rosen is likely to get support from consumers who seem lodged in an endless battle with the airline industry, but he faces an uphill battle in court.
The case began with a situation that captures a typical traveler's nightmare: stuck on a 10-hour flight with no form of distraction and no way to buy a drink or a snack. Rosen's attorney, Nathan Kittner, said Rosen few from New York to Hawaii on Continental Airlines last year and purchased a headset with plastic. He was told the headset would work on all future Continental flights. So when he boarded his return flight, he checked his credit cards in his luggage and took the headset with him. He got bad news as soon as he sat in his chair.
"It wasn't compatible with that airplane," Kittner said. "Now he's stuck for 10 hours." Rosen tried to pay $3 in cash to get a new headset, but the flight attendant wouldn't budge. No cash.
"This is not a small thing," Kittner said. "It was a very long flight."
Most airlines went to cash-free cabins two years ago. Kittner thinks it's just another example of the industry forcing consumers to suffer through poor service.
"They feel like the airline deregulation act gives them enough authority to make their own rules," he said. "It doesn't seem they should be allowed to tell a passenger, 'Sorry, we can't take cash.' "
There are practical reasons airlines don't want to handle coins and bills at 30,000 feet. Flight attendants hate making change, and cash accounting is a hassle.
"But that shouldn't be the consumers' problem; that's their problem," Kittner said. "We hope to send a message to the airlines."
Rosen's case includes several claims — Kittner thinks Continental broke a contract with his client when the initial headset failed to work on the second flight, for example. The lawsuit also alleges false advertising and violations of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
On Friday, an Essex County judge will hear arguments on Continental's motion to dismiss the case. Continental didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
But the case raises important larger issues. Should consumers who don't have credit cards be barred from in-flight purchases? Some don't hold plastic for philosophical reasons; others may have poor credit and have been denied credit cards.
The airlines are engaging in "unlawful discrimination against individuals who do not physically possess a debit or credit card," the lawsuit claims, according to North Jersey News.
Consumers who use cash already face some tough treatment. Paying in cash can cause added fees to kick in (see "Paying cash? That'll cost extra"). As firms experiment with blossoming new alternative payment mechanisms, such as cell phone payment, the potential for even more discriminatory policies will only increase. Starbucks, for example, now employs a smartphone payment system that serves as a digital gift card for iPhone and Android users. What if Starbucks began refusing all other payment mechanisms? What if other stores began requiring payment through Google's Android phone? That's farcical, of course, because market forces wouldn't allow it; consumers would just spend their money at the nearest competitor's coffee shop. Few businesses can afford to turn down money.
But this competitive element makes the airline situation unique, Kittner argued. Consumers who don't like Continental's cashless cabins can't exactly get off the plane and spend their dollars at a competitor.
"You are pretty much a captive audience on the plane," he said.
The basic argument against cashless cabins is one you've probably already heard: that "U.S. coins and currency are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues." The language comes from the Coinage Act of 1965, but it has roots that reach back much further in dollar history.
The clause seems to indicate that someone owed a debt must accept greenbacks as payment. The Treasury Department, however, says otherwise — and with a clarity rarely found in U.S. regulations.
"There is ... no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services," Treasury says on its website. "Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise."
There are plenty of situations in which private businesses — and even government entities — dictate the way consumers can pay. Businesses can refuse to accept bills that are larger than $20, for example. Buses can accept only change for automatic fare collection machines. Plenty of parking garages or rental facilities require credit card payment.
Of course, the Treasury's clear-cut policy may not prevent a New Jersey state judge from finding a violation of the state's consumer protection law — or at least entertaining the larger case — and any kind of victory for Rosen may force airlines to reconsider their policies. He's considering filing a class-action lawsuit over the cash-in-cabin policies.
At a minimum, the legal battle might inspire airlines to give flight attendants a little more flexibility when dealing with petty cash issues.
"All they had to do was be a mensch about it — say, 'We see you already bought a headset. Here's another one.' And this all could have been avoided," Kittner said.
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I have a small scenario where i want to fetch values from a lookup table.
I have gone through some previous posts here to find a solution but could not find one.
So the scenario is :
I have 2 tables src and tgt
when i insert data into tgt from src i want to check if that particular value already exists in the tgt or not .If the value exists in the tgt then i would not insert the src row into the tgt else i will insert into tgt.
For this i thought i could use a left outer join and check if the value that i have got from lookup table is null or not if it is null then value does not exists in tgt else it exists.
How can i achieve this ?
Please help !
Hi i did what u said.
And it seemed fine to be working for the first time.
When i ran for the first time :
tgt table had no rows so all rows from src got inserted into tgt.Which even reflected in the DB
Now from DB i deleted the table as in delete from src
Now again i ran the mapping and this time it did not insert any rows .
So i checked the tOracleInput(which i have for tgt to lookup) here when i fire the Query and check it shows all the rows which i had deleted from DB.
Why is that not getting reflected when i run the components again ???
i m trying to post the pics .But the pics are not getting uploaded.Do not understand the reason.
i committed it to the database.
Here,i will try again
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I m attching my job and tMap view in 2 pics
Last edited by vital_parsley (2011-12-19 16:44:25)
Here even though there is no data in the tgt still when i check the tOracleInput(GRADE_CODE_MAP) and execute Query in Talend SQLBuilder i get rows that i had already deleted from DB.
The Query Type here is Built-In
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Hi i did what u said.
So i checked the tOracleInput(which i have for tgt to lookup) here when i fire the Query and check it shows all the rows which i had deleted from DB.
Why is that not getting reflected when i run the components again ???
Did you commit the change after doing the delete? The rows can't magically reappear in your table.
i know that theres no magic!
I m just asking if u can figure out from the pictures what i m doing wrong.I think in the job it shows i m using a tOracleCommit to commit chnages.If that is how a commit is done.
What Query type should be kept ? built - In or Repository ?
Please let me know if any other pics u want me to post to figure out the problem.
How to commit the connection ??
I have an tOracleCommit but the Component List is empty ?
I have connected the tOracleCommit to tgt using On Component OK
Ok.Thanx for all the help !Appreciate it
I have got it sorted out.
But i would like to know how to commit a transaction ?
Because when i run the job i see rows passed on to the tgt but when i check it in DB i dont see the rows inserted.
So,how do i commit ?
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Binghamton Shooting Massacre
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Around 10:30 EDT yesterday morning [April 3 2009], a man entered the building housing the American Civic Association on Front Street in Binghamton, New York. He shot the two people at the reception desk and then went to a room just off the reception area and continued shooting. The remaining door to the building was blocked by a car, presumably driven by the gunman.
The Binghamton police have not released a great many details at this moment. I watched the first press conference. The Chief of Police in Binghamton stated very firmly that the suspect used two handguns and not a rifle as has been widely reported.
37 people emerged alive from the building. Four of them were wounded, and the chief described them as being in critical condition. Fourteen bodies were found.
It is unclear what activities were underway at the time of the shootings. Some reports say that a class preparing for the US citizenship test was in progress. Other reports have said that the test was being given – unlikely since that test is usually administered at a government office. A survivor on CNN says that she was in an English class.
The media have named a suspect. The Chief refused to discuss a name until the investigation had progressed.
The suspect named by the media is Jiverly Wong, also seen named as Jiverly Voong. So far the media has not covered itself with distinction in their reporting. As I write this piece Fox News continues to report the use of a rifle, as do other media. I saw the police chief firmly deny that to be the case.
Other media reports have the suspect being recently laid off by IBM in that area. IBM denies any connection with the named suspect and CNN has reports that he once worked at Endicott Interconnect Technologies and was now working as a vacuum cleaner repairman.
Most of the people uninjured hid in a boiler room until police cleared the building. Binghamton city police, Broome County Sheriff's deputies, New York State Police and a number of federal law enforcement officers from various agencies responded.
Fox News attempted to cover the story from their newsroom, with multiple on-air personalities working the story at the same time. It looked awful, very unprofessional, and the amount of information being conveyed was scant. Out of their dust emerged some factual errors that they have yet to correct.
Fox cut away from the first news conference to Glenn Beck. He proceeded to rant about the reason that the story was being covered. The meaty portion of the press briefing was not broadcast on Fox so that Glenn could flap his gums.
The conference was delayed nearly an hour so that NY Governor Patterson and others to arrive from Albany. It opened with statements by Binghamton's mayor, the Governor and the local Congressman before actual news was presented. Broome County deputies were very prominent on scene, but the mayor, the Governor and the Congressman all neglected to name the Sheriff's Department as they thanked the law enforcement agencies involved. Their speeches were all puffery and could have been skipped for a short, pithy expression of support and concern.
Of course, the mayor of Binghamton, the Congressman and the Governor are all Democrats and the Sheriff is a Republican. If a deputy had been killed, would they still have refused to recognize the department?
I am sure that much more will be revealed in the next few days. I would suggest that the Binghamton police department develop a press relations / media liaison position for these types of incidents to make available accurate and timely information. The police have done a rather poor job to this point. The media, by and large, should be mortally embarrassed by their performance.


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This statement is being issued from the Catoosa County Chamber of Commerce in response to the Aug. 13 hearing with the Georgia Public Service Commission and Ringgold Telephone Co.
The purpose of the Catoosa Chamber of Commerce as stated in the by-laws is "to advance the general welfare and prosperity of the Catoosa County area so that its citizens and all of its business community shall prosper." As such, the Chamber cannot and will not take up a position for one member over another. However, the Chamber can and should address issues whose outcome could potentially be contrary to our purpose.
It is the belief of the Catoosa Chamber of Commerce that a forced rate increase for Ringgold Telephone Co. would hurt Catoosa County citizens and be detrimental for business. While we appreciate and indeed support the profitability of our county businesses, we also believe in the right of each business to set their own rates, so long as they are reasonable.
We believe this issue is complex and should be addressed by the communication companies and the Georgia Public Service Commission at a level that does not attempt to solve it by a forced and unwanted rate increase to our county residents and businesses. It is also the Catoosa Chamber's belief that all businesses should practice and follow fair business principles and expect payment for services provided them.
The Catoosa Chamber supports all its members and will continue to do so.
The Catoosa County Chamber of Commerce is the visionary leader of the county unified to promote and enhance commerce and community development in Catoosa County and the surrounding region.
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Dead Space 2 PC Not Planned
Get ready to be cheesed off. We've already mentioned EA's financial results in our previous news about DA 2. Well, the publisher doesn't have Dead Space 2, Visceral Games' action horror sequel, in its Fiscal Q4 2011. Entries for consoles and handhelds were noted, but no word on a PC version at all.
Having the PC edition at a later date seemed like a logical idea; that is until EA public relations revealed: "As of right now a PC sku is not in the plan" (thanks, Blue).
No explanations were offered for the time being. We were recently informed that Dead Space 2 will focus more on action and less on horror elements.
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GDC 2012: Double Fine, Gravity Rush, Rocksteady talks added to schedule
GDC organizers have announced three more panels for the main conference, with visual arts tracks from Rocksteady and Sony, and a production track session from Double Fine.
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Quick Quotes: Double Fine aren't "averse to making sequels"
"I don't think we're averse to making sequels. I just think we haven't had a real mega breakout hit. If Brutal Legend had done five million copies we'd probably still be working on Brutal Legend 2 right now. It would have been a slam dunk for EA to immediately sign it. So, I wouldn't rule it out but there's still this passion and hunger to make new shit here that I absolutely love. Tim is so good at attracting really creative talent. These four games – they're so different, they're so creative, they're so out-there, and they don't come from Tim. They come from the brains of other people who are here at the studio. And that's super-cool, so I'd hope we can keep doing that." – Iron Brigade project lead Brad Muir to Eurogamer on the possibility of sequels in Double Fine's future.
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Double Fine says to expect a less bountiful release slate next year
Iron Brigade's project lead Brad Muir has said not to expect as many game releases back-to-back from Double Fine in 2012, as the firm plans on implementing a more "staggered release schedule."
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Double Fine: Iron Brigade "really close" to passing certification in Europe
Double Fine's Brad Muir has said Iron Brigade's European release is "close" to passing certification in Europe.
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"Do you know what's in the products you use on your baby daily?" asks Tawna Hill, founder of Tawna Hill Baby
In these trying economic times, it's difficult for families to decide what is important enough for them to spend that little extra money on. Keeping your home and family free from environmental toxins costs a little more, but the benefits of shielding your children from chemicals & phthalates is worth every penny.
Rising cancer rates and other illnesses have long been linked to the ever increasing amount of chemicals we are exposed to everyday. "If you have the option not to begin your child's life by slathering them in chemicals, why wouldn't you choose the safer path", says Tawna Hill. "Read the labels, if you don't know what all of the ingredients are or can't pronounce all those chemical names, why would you put it on your baby?"
Tawna Hill is the passionate founder of Tawna Hill Baby, after being diagnosed with and successfully treated for a malignant brain tumor while pregnant with her little girl, she used her skin care industry background to create her all natural product line.
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Thanks! I was going to stay away from disney tho, because last year there was a disney sing-a-long and I dont want to steal anything form them. I want to try to keep the songs generally popular so that way people know them,
A great idea for a panel! I thought so ever since missing the opportunity to sing along to "Zydrate Anatomy" at Portcon last year by a few minutes...I also suggest Nightmare Before Christmas, especially Oogie Boogie's Song. My favorite!


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Lavada E. Whitehead, age 76, formerly of Caneyville, passed away on Friday, January 4, 2013 in Leitchfield, surrounded by her family.
She was born in O'Bannon, Kentucky on October 24, 1936 to the late Charles T. and Anna Belle Burgin. She dedicated her life to taking care of others, working for several years at the former Aid Acres Nursing Home and then retiring from Lincoln Trail Home Health.
Her passion was caring for others and showing her strong faith in Christ throughout her life. Her husband, children and grandchildren were her life and she lived every day proving that to them.
Other than her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Joseph J. Burgin.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Neal Whitehead; one son, Randy (Marsha) Whitehead, of Clarkson; two daughters, Kathy (Bruce) Haycraft, of Leitchfield, and Gerri (Tony) Webb, of Caneyville; one brother, Doran N. Burgin, of Caneyville. She is also survived by 15 grandchildren all of whom she held very dear to her heart, 23 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild along with her very dear brothers and sisters-in-law and several nieces and nephews who were very special.
Lavada attended church at Centertown Holiness Church.
Funeral services were held on Monday, January 7, 2013 at Oak Ridge General Baptist Church in Butler County, with burial in the church cemetery, with Rev. Kenney Sapp and Rev. Timmy Hall officiating.


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Jon Adams, prior owner of the Byron Hot Springs and currently residing in Hawaii, said the construction and architecture of the buildings is similar to that of the resort's salt-water-plunge facility cottages built in the 1870s and '80s. Longtime East County resident Norma Lewis suggested the subject of the image is the Souza and Pimentel home on Camino Diablo Road.
East County historian Kathy Leighton identified the building as the Byron Hotel, which was built in 1885 by Fred Holloway. The hotel stood where the town's post office is currently located. The hotel property underwent a succession of owners and often accepted overflow guests from the overbooked Byron Hot Springs Hotel.
Leighton believes this photo was taken sometime after 1913, when electricity came to Byron (note the electric utility pole to right of the building) and before 1917, when the Byron Hotel – along with most of the town – burned to the ground.
Readers interested in the history of Byron and other East County communities can learn more in Leighton's "East Contra Costa County: Footprints in the Sand," published by the East Contra Costa Historical Society.
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A foreclosure sign hangs on a fence in front of a foreclosed home on April 6, 2011 in Richmond, California. (Justin Sullivan / November 15, 2012) |
Almost 8 percent of home mortgage loans in Illinois were delinquent at the end of September, and the state remains one of the worst in the nation for foreclosures, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday.
The group's quarterly delinquency survey was one of three reports issued Thursday that show the housing market in the Chicago area and the state remains challenged.
In addition to delinquent loans, foreclosure proceedings were started against 1.29 percent of Illinois homes in the third quarter, and the percentage of loans in the foreclosure process totaled 6.83 percent, according to the trade group. The percentage of loans in Illinois that entered the foreclosure process was higher than in all states except New Jersey and Florida.
Nationally, on a not-seasonally adjusted basis, 7.64 percent of all mortgage loans on one- to four-unit residential properties were delinquent at the end of September.
Meanwhile, the foreclosure rates for judicial states like Illinois, where foreclosure actions are processed by court systems, decreased slightly, to 6.6 percent, while the rate for nonjudicial states was 2.4 percent.
"Illinois is one of the states that we highlighted as a slow-moving judicial process," said Mike Fratantoni, the association's vice president of research and economics.
Economists at the trade group said the numbers pointed to continued improvement in the country's housing market, with recovery accelerating more in some states than in others. On a national level, foreclosure starts are at their lowest point since 2007.
"We've had a significant drop in the shadow inventory of distressed homes, which I view as a real positive for the housing market," Fratantoni said.
But the outlook for many of the delinquent mortgages remains pessimistic. Almost 60 percent of mortgages that are considered seriously delinquent were originated from 2005 to 2007.
"It's unlikely that many of these loans are going to cure at this point," Fratantoni said. "It's just a matter of resolving them."
Meanwhile, RealtyTrac said mortgage foreclosure notices were issued against 12,212 properties in the six-county Chicago area in October, an increase of 3.6 percent from September and 18.6 percent from October 2011. During October, 3,117 homes in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake and Will counties were repossessed by lenders.
Separately, Zillow said that negative equity remains a larger problem in the Chicago area than elsewhere. During the third quarter, the percentage of Chicago-area homes that were upside down, meaning more was owed on the loans than the value of the properties, fell to 36.6 percent from 39.2 percent in the second quarter. The total equity loss for those 639,495 homes was $51.1 billion, Zillow said.
Nationally, negative equity fell to 28.2 percent of homes with a mortgage during the three months ended in September, from 30.9 percent in June.
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Aikido training helps us unify our mind, body and spirit in our center, and connect with others from that unified whole. When done together, Zazen and Aikido practices can blend, rub, spark, inspire and reinforce each other in subtle and far-reaching ways. In this workshop we will apply basic Aikido practices to learn two profoundly useful life skills: (1) unifying our whole being to touch and be touched by others; and (2) how to fall safely. We will also practice basic Aikido sword movements to learn stance, centering, and body alignment. Designed for Aikido beginners, the practice will be gentle - the movements will involve the whole body and may be moderately aerobic.
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Olympian Brigetta Barrett broke the NCAA record in the women's high jump Saturday in the Pac-12 Track and Field Championships.
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A relatively new feature on high-end paintball markers:
The player simply presses the trigger 5 times a second for the first second, then the marker will speed up to a 15 balls per second rate of fire after the first second. This has caused much controversy as it is being allowed in some professional paintball leagues, even though fully automatic fire is not, and ramping, at its core, is not a semi-automatic rate of fire, the only rate of fire previously allowed. Ramping is generally considered a crutch of weak players and cheaters who don't have the skill or dexterity to shoot their markers at a fast rate of fire without having to rely on ramping or automatic fire. Ramping is for pussies.
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To sit around and do nothing and then complain about it. "What are you up to?" "Not much bro, just ramping."
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Ramping is a setting on Mid to high-end markers(paintball guns). Ramping is when a player reaches his kick-in rate usually set at 2 or 3 pulls in a second, after these pulls the gun will then start to shoot 3 balls for every pull on the trigger. So 2 pulls = 6 balls. Usually looked down upon at a local field, ramping has changed the way paintball is played today. After it was legitimately made legal in the psp and millennium league every high end gun and some mid range guns now have the ramping presets available with setting configurations. These Configuration, though covenant, have opened a new door to cheating in the tournament scene. some players may adjust their guns so much that it is no long ramping and is full auto, or at the nppl and its feeder series the xpsl, some players will turn their kick-in value high to about 5 or 6 pulls a second to hide their ramping gun at the inspection table.
This marker comes preset with psp and millennium ramping.
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The process in which one sticks his/her finger inside their own, or someone else's, anal cavity and then proceeds to dig deeply inside one's nose to embrace the smell of fecal matter while also pulling out a tasty treat. "Hey Camaron, did you hear about Julio ramping with that Turn-Off Tammy again the other day?!"
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NEWmatica is a site-specific, multi-disciplinary exploration of the power of percussion through new music, dance, and a National Historic site venue: the Mill Concentrator at the Britannia Mine Museum. Featuring soprano Heather Pawsey, flutist Kathryn Cernauskas, and contemporary dancers. Some members of the public will also be participating as musicians throughout the concert. Not to be missed! Performance is in the Historic (and unheated) Mill building. Please dress warmly. Tickets: adults - $25, students & seniors - $18, all prices subject to service charge. Click here for more info or to purchase tickets. Tickets available at the door, cash only sales.
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Britannia Mine Museum is a National Historic Site because of the major role it played in the country's past. As the biggest copper mine in the British Commonwealth, Britannia was a big contributor to the economy. On Canada day we will be giving away flags and pins. If you are proud to be in Canada - whether you live here or are travelling through - come to the Britannia Mine Museum to show it. Free for members or with regular admission.
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The general store at Britannia Beach was one of the first cooperatives in the province. This meant that the prices came down and the people who lived here were paid dividends each year. Curator talks, showing photos from the archives, will happen in the theatre at 11am and 2pm. Free for members or with regular admission.
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Copper & Fire festival of art is on July 21st this year. There will be a great line-up of artists showing their work and demonstrating their craft. Try hands-on activities while you are here and bring home some art of your own. From 9am to 5pm. Free for members or with regular admission.


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Every company from ADP to your hosting company is calling themselves cloud now. The question is: Was the service built for cloud or just stuffed into cloud?
Did the cloud services provider design the service to be in the cloud? Or are they shoveling gear in a data center and calling it "in the cloud"? Most stuff is the latter.
Made for the cloud means being built to take advantage of cloud technology, like Amazon Web Services and other distributed computing platforms. Cloud means Access Anywhere, which means big pipes of bandwidth. The 24/7/365 access means redundancy and resiliency have to be architected in, baked in if you will – not plugged in later. You don't add the chocolate chips AFTER you baked the cookie dough.
One of my clients likes to say that the difference between hosted and cloud is the number of data centers. You go from hosted to cloud when you go from 1 to 2 POPs. I disagree. Having a second data center doesn't ensure resiliency or failover or data replication or availability – elements crucial to a cloud service delivery.
Mike Doherty, CTO at Sonian, states that you have to design from the ground up using advanced cloud computing technologies. Sonian and Netflix did that. Vidtel was designed from the ground up for cloud video conferencing.
Slapping your box in a data center is not cloud. It gets called that, but it's not.
Scott Wharton, CEO of Vidtel, a pioneer in cloud-based any-to-any® video conferencing, adds, "It's also about your back office, auto provisioning, mutli-tenancy, etc. A PBX is not a Class 5 switch just because they both have call forwarding."
That's why channel partners and prospective customers have to be smart about what they are buying. They have to ask some questions about the architecture of the service.
- How many POPs?
- What about data center replication and failover?
- How did you design resiliency?
- Have you experienced any outages? Why not?
Questions like that will give you some insight into the type of cloud service.
I remember seeing a "data center" of an MSP in Tampa who had baker's racks and white box computers connected to cable modems. Technically, the checklist was marked off for computers, racks and connectivity; but in the end would that be the data center you picked?
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The Sheriff's Department worked on moving thousands of inmate files, and due to confidentiality issues, inmate work crews could not be used for the job.
The inmates themselves will be moved into the jail Tuesday.
Since the construction and operations of the jail were connected to the state jail facility next door that was never populated by the state, it was unknown if the jail would ever be occupied.
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