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Of all the varied skills I've taught over the years to youth of all ages, the one that I find most challenging is learning to let go. While we all have a tough time with this, it is especially difficult for kids with developing and learning differences. For example, a child who has ADHD, who hears many times in one day to stop moving, pay attention, focus, and control her body has a particularly hard time letting go of repeated reminders that she is not doing what she is supposed to. In today's video, I'm excited to show you three ways to practice this important skill.
Create a time for family check-ins where you notice, acknowledge and air out the heavy feelings. In my house, this is our Sunday ritual. This does not have to take a long time. Twenty minutes goes a long way.
Simply ask, "what has weighed you down this week?" At first, kids may not know how to answer. You can model by answering honestly. Pick examples that are easy to understand. Don't be shy to present difficult moments. Just be mindful of the words you choose. Stay safe and positive.
Here are some examples.
A. You have a difficult situation at work. You have too much on your plate, not enough help or support. You feel stressed out, tired, and overwhelmed.
You could say: what is weighing me down is feeling like I want to do a really good job at work. I have so much work to do, sometimes I really feel I could use some help. But right now it feels like there's no one around who can help me. I feel alone and sometimes frustrated. I want to acknowledge that I feel frustrated with how much work I have to do.
B. You have had a difficult argument with your child at home. You were forceful with your words, loud and irritated with your voice.
You could say: what is weighing me down is the argument we had at home. This argument made me feel like we are not fully connected. Sometimes I feel like we have this big car called family, and each one of us has an important job to make it run. I sometimes feel like I'm trying to keep the car running but it can't happen without everyone's help. I would have liked to have more patience and be less forceful with my voice.
The kids and you can write these feelings on pieces of paper, or big rocks. If your kid loves to draw, let him. You can use chalk and write on the pavement. If you have young kids who don't write (or talk) yet, try do this anyway. Take one minute, hold a rock and say what you are willing to let go of this week. The kids will pay attention (even if it seems they aren't), and after a few times, they'll look forward to seeing what you have to say. By the time they are old enough to write, they will feel excited to participate.
I believe it is extremely important to ground our learning in some kind of physical movement. Whether it is crumbling the paper and throwing it in the trash, flushing it down the toilet, washing the rocks with a sponge, or hosing down the concrete, letting go is a physical practice.
Although it may seem silly at first, the practice of letting go, is simply that: a practice. The more we do it, the more we learn to associate the physical movement with a much needed sense of lightness. We want to feel as though a weight has been lifted (or washed off, tossed in the garbage, shredded, ripped) off of our shoulders.
I'd love to hear from you! Do you have a favorite way to practice letting go? What works for you and how does your practice work inside your family?
Thank you so much for being here.
With love and appreciation,


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I should prefer a woman that is agreeable in my own eye, and not deformed in that of the world, to a celebrated beauty. If you marry one remarkably beautiful, you must have a violent passion for her, or you have not the proper taste of her charms; and if you have such a passion for her, it is odds but it will be imbittered with fears and jealousies.
Good-nature, and evenness of temper, will give you an easy companion for life; virtue and good sense, an agreeable friend; love and constancy, a good wife or husband. Where we meet one person with all these accomplishments, we find an hundred without any one of them. The world, notwithstanding, is more intent on trains and equipages, and all the showy parts of life; we love rather to dazzle the multitude, than consult our proper interest; and, as I have elsewhere observed, it is one of the most unaccountable passions of human nature, that we are at greater pains to appear easy and happy to others, than really to make ourselves so. Of all disparities, that in humour makes the most unhappy marriages, yet scarce enters into our thoughts at the contracting of them. Several that are in this respect unequally yoked, and uneasy for life, with a person of a particular character, might have been pleased and happy with a person of a contrary one, notwithstanding they are both perhaps equally virtuous and laudable in their kind.
Before marriage we cannot be too inquisitive and discerning in the faults of the person beloved, nor after it too dimsighted and superficial. However perfect and accomplished person appears to you at a distance, you will find many blemishes and imperfections in her humour, upon a more intimate acquaintance, which you never discovered or perhaps suspected. Here, therefore, discretion and good-nature are to show their strength; the first will hinder your thoughts from dwelling on what is disagreeable; the other will raise in you all the tenderness of compassion and humanity, and by degrees soften those very imperfections into beauties.
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest easy; and a marriage where both meet happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments
of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. Nothing is a greater mark of a degenerate and vicious age, than the common ridicule which passes on this state of life. It is, indeed, only happy in those who can look down with scorn or neglect on the impieties of the times, and tread the paths of life together in a constant, uniform course of virtue.
No. 262. MONDAY, DECEMBER 31.
Nulla venenato littera mista joco est. OVID.
I THINK myself highly obliged to the public for their kind acceptance of a paper which visits them every morning, and has in it none of those seasonings that recommend so many of the writings which are in vogue among us.
As, on the one side, my paper has not in it a single word of news, a reflection in politics, nor a stroke of party; so, on the other, there are no fashionable touches of infidelity, no obscene ideas, no satires upon priesthood, marriage, and the like popular topics of ridicule; no private scandal, nor anything that may tend to the defamation of particular persons, families, or societies.
There is not one of these above-mentioned subjects that would not sell a very indifferent paper, could I think of gratifying the public by such mean and base methods; but, notwithstanding I have rejected everything that savours of party, everything that is loose and immoral, and everything that might create uneasiness in the minds of particular persons, I find that the demand of my papers has increased every month since their first appearance in the world. This does not, perhaps, reflect so much honour upon myself, as on my readers, who give a much greater attention to discourses of virtue and morality, than ever I expected, or indeed could hope.
When I broke loose from that great body of writers who have employed their wit and parts in propagating of vice and irreligion, I did not question but I should be treated as an odd kind of fellow that had a mind to appear singular in my way of writing: but the general reception I have found,
1 When a participle is used instead of a substantive, the particle the should precede it. We may either say—in propagating vice, or, in the propagating of vice; but not, in propagating of vice.
convinces me that the world is not so corrupt as we are apt to imagine; and that if those men of parts who have been employed in vitiating the age had endeavoured to rectify and amend it, they needed not have sacrificed their good sense and virtue to their fame and reputation. No man is so sunk in vice and ignorance, but there are still some hidden seeds of goodness and knowledge in him; which give him a relish of such reflections and speculations as have an aptness to improve the mind, and to make the heart better.
I have shown in a former paper, with how much care I have avoided all such thoughts as are loose, obscene, or immoral; and I believe my reader would still think the better of me, if he knew the pains I am at in qualifying what I write after such a manner, that nothing may be interpreted as aimed at private persons. For this reason, when I draw any faulty character, I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it, and take care to dash it with such particular circumstances as may prevent all such ill-natured applications. If I write anything on a black man, I run over in my mind all the eminent persons in the nation who are of that complexion: when I place an ima ginary name at the head of a character, I examine every syllable and letter of it, that it may not bear any resemblance to one that is real. I know very well the value which every man sets upon his reputation, and how painful it is to be exposed to the mirth and derision of the public, and should therefore scorn to divert my reader at the expense of any private man.
As I have been thus tender of every particular person's reputation, so I have taken more than ordinary care not to give offence to those who appear in the higher figures of life. I would not make myself merry even with a piece of pasteboard that is invested with a public character; for which reason I have never glanced upon the late designed procession of his Holiness and his attendants, notwithstanding it might have afforded matter to many ludicrous speculations. Among those advantages which the public may reap from this paper, it is not the least, that it draws men's minds1off' from the bitterness of party, and furnishes them with sub
Men's minds.] Men's for the genitive plural of man, is not allowable.-We say, a man's mind, but we can only say, the minds of men, as Mr. Addison should have done here.
jects of discourse that may be treated without warmth or passion. This is said to have been the first design of those gentlemen who set on foot the Royal Society; and had then a very good effect, as it turned many of the greatest geniuses of that age to the disquisitions of natural knowledge, who, if they had engaged in politics with the same parts and application, might have set their country in a flame. The airpump, the barometer, the quadrant, and the like inventions, were thrown out to those busy spirits, as tubs and barrels are to a whale, that he may let the ship sail on without disturbance, while he diverts himself with those innocent amusements.1
I have been so very scrupulous in this particular of not hurting any man's reputation, that I have forborne mentioning even such authors as I could not name with honour. This I must confess to have been a piece of very great selfdenial: for as the public relishes nothing better than the ridicule which turns upon a writer of any eminence, so there is nothing which a man that has but a very ordinary talent in ridicule may execute with greater ease. One might raise laughter for a quarter of a year together upon the works of a person who has published but a very few volumes. For which reason I am astonished, that those who have appeared against this paper have made so very little of it. The criticisms which I have hitherto published, have been made with an intention rather to discover beauties and excellencies in the writers of my own time, than to publish any of their faults and imperfections. In the mean while, I should take it for a very great favour from some of my underhand detractors, if they would break all measures with me so far, as to give me a pretence for examining their performances with an impartial eye; nor shall I look upon it as a breach of charity to criticise the author, so long as I keep clear of the
In the mean while, till I am provoked to such hostilities, I shall from time to time endeavour to do justice to those who have distinguished themselves in the politer parts of
This looks as if the author had a political aim, even in this moral paper. But it is to be remembered, that the party in power could only profit by this expedient, and not the party in opposition, whose cause he favoured; which sets the purity of his intentions, and the merit of his work, in the clearest light.
learning, and to point out such beauties in their works as may have escaped the observation of others.
As the first place among our English poets is due to Milton, and as I have drawn more quotations out of him than from any other, I shall enter into a regular criticism upon his Paradise Lost, which I shall publish every Saturday, till I have given my thoughts upon that poem. I shall not, however, presume to impose upon others my own particular judgment on this author, but only deliver it as my private opinion. Criticism is of a large extent, and every particular master in this art has his favourite passages in an author, which do not equally strike the best judges. It will be sufficient for me if I discover many beauties or imperfections which others have not attended to, and I should be very glad to see any of our eminent writers publish their discoveries on the same subject. In short, I would always be understood to write my papers of criticism in the spirit which Horace has expressed in those two famous lines;
-Si quid novisti rectius istis,
Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.
If you have made any better remarks of your own, communicate them with candour; if not, make use of these I present you with.
No. 265. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3.
Dixerit e multis aliquis, Quid virus in angues
Adjicis? et rabidæ tradis ovile lupa ? OVID. DE ART. AM.
ONE of the fathers, if I am rightly informed, has defined a woman to be ζῶον φιλοκόσμον, "An animal that delights in finery." I have already treated of the sex in two or three papers, conformably to this definition, and have in particular observed, that in all ages they have been more careful than the men to adorn that part of the head, which we generally call the outside.
This observation is so very notorious, that when in ordinary discourse we say a man has a fine head, a long head, or a good head, we express ourselves metaphorically, and speak in relation to his understanding; whereas, when we say of a woman, she has a fine, a long, or a good head, we speak only in relation to her commode.


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Project Introduction
The idea was to develop a system for effective employee performance evolution software application. It is very important to evaluate performance of every employee and the need is for automation of this process. The primary benchmarks for evaluation are Skills, Attitude, Behavior, and Grades. It was meant to act as a solution for maintaining the employee information in an organization throughout the world.
Project Assignment Highlights
- Developing grading system
- Designing and implementing employee performance tracking
- User Roles
- Automating the employee grading process through available data for individual employees
- Accessing data across multiple locations
Technologies Used
Core Java, Spring, Hibernate, XML, Eclipse (Indigo), Tomcat 7.0, Windows, Oracle
Struts Framework was used for implementation of this application, all the UI elements were designed using Tiles framework and validations were controlled using Validator Framework. Database connections, queries and interactions were maintained by creating Helper Classes.
Final product was able to track the details of every employees collected from different sources and departments. Later on it was capable of assigning grades automatically. At the end of process every employees was assigned with certain points (index) reflecting their performance evaluation for a certain period of time.


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Keep Going Kidz LLC is an organization that creates a wide range of short series, documentaries, and educational programs to promote healthy lifestyles for kids, families, and communities. From anti-vaping education to cooking, gardening, fitness, and recreation, Keep Going Kidz covers a wide range of topics to promote wellness in all aspects of life.
We frequently partner with local cable channels, Harbor Media and Hull Cable, to make our regular programming available to everyone. Our goal is to create, educate, and inspire through our work connecting with kids and families to lead healthier lives.
CURRENT PROjects:
Taking a Toke
A documentary film that addresses the dangers of the teen vaping epidemic for adolescent and family health. Taking a Toke includes testimonies from Doctors, Public Health Officials, parents and teens who all have experience with the issue of vaping whether it be clinically or personally. To learn more about this project check out our website www.takingatoke.com.
Bow 2 Stern
Bow 2 Stern is a mini series that covers the A to Z how-tos for getting involved with boating. Our aim is to highlight boating as an accessible activity for every family. We believe that time outside and together is a remedy for a healthy family. We cover safety, beginner boating tips, types of boats, and much more. We partner with Harbor Media for this project, and have 2 live episodes. A third episode is coming soon. In addition to our normal programming we also produce PSAs on safety, to educate our viewers on the must-knows of boating safety.
Lori Tobin & Kidz
A healthy life starts in the kitchen. If we want to play well, we need to eat well. Lori Tobin and Kidz is a kid-focused cooking show that aims to teach children about eating healthy. With more than 10 episodes we have a great library of options for anyone looking for healthy tips or fun new ideas in the kitchen.
Getting a Green Thumb
Getting a Green Thumb is a project that worked with students to make school gardens. In partnership with Harbor Media and Hingham Middle School, Keep Going Kidz organized the curriculum and worked with Hingham Middle School teachers to help youth start their own garden. To learn more about this project check out Harbor Media on Vimeo.
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Sea the Marina
Sea the Marina is an exciting new project that will catalog marinas across the country online so that families planning boat trips can know exactly what is available at their marinas before docking. It will include information on everything from restroom facilities, restaurants, play areas, museums, etc.. The goal is to make traveling by boat easier and more predictable for families traveling with kids.
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SEC v. Gentile—civil / securities—reversal—Hardiman
The Third Circuit held today that the statute of limitations which applies to civil fines and penalties, 28 USC § 2462, does not apply to Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions seeking injunctions barring future violations and limiting future trading, deepening a circuit split on the question. The court remanded for the district court to decide whether the injunctions sought here are authorized by law.
Joining Hardiman were Krause and Greenberg. Arguing counsel were Dnaiel Staroselsky for the SEC and Adam Ford of New York for the appellee.


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City by the Sea
When the body of a drug dealer washes up on the Jersey shore, it's just another day on the job for Detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) and his partner Reg (George Dzundza, "Instinct") until they trace the victim to Long Beach, LaMarca's former home. A visit to his former precinct gives a chance to catch up with old colleagues and pick up the latest leads, one of which, a Chevy Nova's licence number, leads to Vincent's estranged son Joey in "City by the Sea."
Laura's Review: B
DeNiro finally returns to form in his best dramatic outing since 1995 while up and comer James Franco ("Spider-Man") proves his Golden Globe win for last year's James Dean TV biopic was no fluke. Screenwriter Ken Hixon ("Inventing the Abbotts") has fleshed out the Esquire article ('Mark of a Murderer' by Michael McAlary) which first brought to light LaMarca's amazing cross-generational saga.
LaMarca leads a singular, routine existence. Girlfriend Michelle (Frances McDormand, "The Man Who Wasn't There") who lives one floor below his Manhattan walkup dares to ask 'What's next?' one night in bed and Vincent replays their past 24 hours. When he discovers his son is a murder suspect, his emotional withdrawal prods Michelle to demand he open up to her. She gets far more than she bargained for when Vincent releases a torrent of pain, beginning with his abandonment by his own father, executed for a bungled kidnapping death, the outburst of violence that ended his marriage and the resulting difficulties that caused him to withdraw from his own son's life. His story gets even more complex when, about 24 hours later, he discovers he's the grandfather of Angelo and is left to care for the child by its terrified mother Gina (Eliza Dushku, "The New Guy"). Then his partner is killed and the murder weapon is covered in Joey's prints.
'It doesn't matter if your father was a cop or a murderer - some kids' dads aren't coming home,' Vincent tells Michelle about his incredible history, which is repeating as he speaks. Director Michael Caton-Jones (1997's "The Jackal") evenly deals the father and son parallels as DeNiro works with the complexities of shaping his character via a trio of generations outside his own. DeNiro comes to full boil delivering an emotional plea to Joey to turn himself in. The actor takes the lid off of long withheld feelings for the boy he left behind. Franco has the hollow, dead-eyed look of a hardcore junkie, but desperation fuels jittery pleas for help, first from the mother (Patty LuPone, "Heist") who's believed in him one time too many, then from a dealer who declares him a dead man.
Support is able, beginning with McDormand's strong turn as the woman who makes her lover face himself. Dushku is a far cry from her "New Guy" cheerleader with this performance as an ex-junkie trying to make a go of it for her child. Anson Mount ("Crossroads") is fine as an upstanding young cop who helps LaMarca when the rest of the police force has branded him as guilty as it has his son. William Forsythe ("Blue Streak") gives another patented bad guy turn as Snake.
Caton-Jones casts the city of Long Beach as a symbolic representation of the lives of the LaMarca men. Vincent remembers a city of the 1950's, all shiny and new, as he and Reg drive through what now resembles a war zone. The film recalls "Requiem for a Dream," where Coney Island junkies, like Joey, dream of a better life in Florida. Cinematographer Karl Walter Lindenlaub ("The Jackal") and production designer (Jane Musky, "Finding Forrester") nicely contrast the expanses of the run down seaside community with LaMarca's home in bustling Manhattan. The characters in "City by the Sea" do not appear to live on Hollywood sets, but in the real, gritty world (Art direction by Darrell K. Keister ("Finding Forrester"), set decoration by Lynn Tonnessen, costume by Richard Owings). John Murphy's ("Snatch") original music lends an air of nostalgic melancholy.
"City by the Sea" wraps a little too neatly for the messy real life tangle which it documents, but a strong sense of a particular world coupled with some fine acting make it a story with staying power.
Robin's Review: B-
Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is a street-wise New York City cop who has long been estranged from his only son. Joey LaMarca (James Franco), without the benefit of his father's counsel for most of his life, is a down and out junkie whose only goal is to just get his next fix. When he gets into a fight with and kills drug dealer Picasso, his dad is drawn into the investigation and Vincent has the chance to help his son in "City by the Sea."
Director Michael Caton-Jones adapts the true-life story, from the magazine article Mark of a Murderer by the late Michael McAlary, about Vincent LaMarca, the NYC police officer whose son, Joey, is accused of murdering a pond scum drug dealer. At first, Vincent only knows the perpetrator as Joey Novas, a homeless street guy who gets his name from the car he drives, a Chevy Nova. As the detective closes in on the killer, he is shocked to learn that the suspect is none other than his own son.
Vincent, it turns out, has a past life that he feels may be a contributing factor in his son's violent behavior. Angelo LaMarca, Vincent's father, was convicted of murdering a kidnap victim, a small baby, and was put to death for his crime in the 50's. These events have impacted Vincent ever since. Now, when he learns that his son may also be a killer, he fears that there is a genetic connection and the LaMarca men are destined to be murderers. As Vincent tries to get to his son before the other investigators, his partner, Reg Duffy (George Dzundza), is gunned down, apparently while trying to capture Joey. The younger LaMarca is not just a sociopath, he may be a cop killer, too.
While much of "City by the Sea" revolves around Joey and his life in the streets, the focus of the film is centered on DeNiro's Vincent. The elder LaMarca has, for most of his life, been plagued with the memories of his father's crime. When Vincent's wife divorces him because of his violent temper, he is convinced that the badness in his father is a part of his own makeup. The news of Joey's violence convinces Vincent that the sins of the father are visited upon the son and that the LaMarca men are the product of a bad seed. This psychological turmoil, much more than the manhunt to bring a killer to justice, anchors the film and its main characters.
Robert DeNiro, though playing a role that he has many times before as a cop hunting down a killer, puts a credible, conflicted spin on his Vincent character. The inner dual that Vincent now fights, with his son's "return" to him, is vocalized when Joey asks him, "Are you a cop or my father?" "I'm both," says the troubled detective as he struggles between his loyalty to his son and his duty as a cop. There is vulnerability within DeNiro's usual tough guy persona that I haven't seen from the actor before. There are times, in scenes between Vincent and Joey, where the elder LaMarca bares his soul to his son. The conflict within the man is palpable as he strives to, finally, do what is right as he copes with the multi-generational father-son issues.
James Franco, who won a Golden Globe award for his TV portrayal as the title character in "James Dean," propels himself to an acting A-list as junkie Joey LaMarca. Franco spends a good deal of his screen time alone as he tries to score dope for his habit while dreaming of getting away from it all in Key West, Florida, the memorable place where he vacationed with his family so many years before. Like Dustin Hoffman in "Midnight Cowboy," the Key has taken on mystical proportions for Joey as he really believes that all his problems will be over if reaches this exotic destination. Franco puts dimension into the role of a lonely and confused young man who never understood why his father left him.
"City by the Sea" is DeNiro and Franco's film but there are a couple of supporting roles that are notable. Eliza Dushku gives a solid perf as Joey's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his son, Angelo (named after Vincent's notorious father). Unfortunately, the actress falls out of the picture too soon. There is real chemistry between Dushku and DeNiro that made me want more. Veteran character actor George Dzundza fully develops his Reg Duffy role as Vincent's partner and, later, a victim, too. Totally wasted (and second billed) is Frances McDormand as Vincent's sort of girlfriend and bedmate, Michelle. The artificial character is merely a plot device to put a bit of humanity into Vincent to show him as a caring consort. William Forsythe, as Harley driving, sawed-off shotgun toting, drug dealing bad guy, Spyder, is along for the ride, so to speak, to introduce...well, I'm not sure what he introduces, except to represent vague menace and violence.
There is already controversy brewing over this adaptation of the Michael McAlary article. The "based on a true story" handle will generate lots of discussion as it comes out that Vincent LaMarca was retired from the force at the time of the murder and did not participate in the hunt for Joey. There are a number of instances of artistic license being exercised throughout the story as screenwriter Ken Hixon punches things up to give a typical Hollywood sheen to the crime story. The liberties that Tinseltown takes when embellishing any true event work should be something the average moviegoer is used to. The main character depicted in "City by the Sea" help take your mind away from the manipulation of facts.
This is an actors' film that showcases Robert DeNiro in a different light than we have seen in some time. James Franco stands toe-to-toe with the megastar and gives a strong, believable performance. These two men are the reason to see "City by the Sea." Helmer Michael Caton-Jones and his behind the camera team provide solid, though not really remarkable, techs for the film. The choice of location - the rundown area of Long Beach, Long Island - lends a different, decaying look to the film.


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Sunglass Hut: National Coffee Day
Today is National Coffee Day and in celebration of getting your coffee grind on we put together this cute little video for Sunglass Hut for their Instagram profile in collaboration with our friends RXM Creative.
The film was an instant hit, gaining thousands of views and interactions in a mere few hours. We look forward to creating more cool little videos like this for Sunglass Hut and other brands in the future!


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SimpleSwap Review
What is SimpleSwap?
SimpleSwap is an instant crypto platform registered in the Marshall Islands. It launched in April 2018.
The platform has a straight-forward and easy feeling and you can exchange cryptocurrencies as well as buy crypto for fiat. SimpleSwap was created with the main idea to make the exchange process simple and without any complications like signing up. Here's how it works:
Integration into Other Exchanges
The SimpleSwap trading system is integrated into some of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges out there, as evidenced by the picture below.
There is no deposit storage, only instant coin exchanges. This means that SimpleSwap can find the most profitable exchange rates for their customers in a very short time and in a very easy way.
SimpleSwap Supported Cryptos
Through SimpleSwap's integration with many of the biggest platforms in the world (see above), you can swap a very large selection of cryptocurrencies here. On its website, SimpleSwap states that they have more than 600 different cryptos and fiat currencies availablel. This is very impressive.
SWAP: SimpleSwap's own exchange token
The platform has also issued their own native token, the SimpleSwap Coin (ticker: SWAP). By holding the SWAP, you can get benefits when using the platform. Such benefits include a cashback feature, promotional items, participation in contests and other promotional activites and more.
The cashback feature is the main reason to hold SWAP. There are three different cashback subscriptions available, the "Swapper", the "Bitcoiner" or the "Bitcoillionaire". The Swapper is free and gives you SWAP-tokens as cashback, 0.50% of the value of your swap. The Bitcoiner and Bitcoillionaire gives you 0.15% and 0.40% back respectively and in Bitcoins, but they come at a price. Bitcoiner costs 2,000 SWAP to become a part of, and Bitcoillionaire costs 15,000 SWAP.
SimpleSwap Mobile Support
Most crypto traders feel that desktop give the best conditions for their trading. The computer has a bigger screen, and on bigger screens, more of the crucial information that most traders base their trading decisions on can be viewed at the same time. The trading chart will also be easier to display. However, not all crypto investors require desktops for their trading. Some prefer to do their crypto trading via their mobile phone. If you are one of those traders, you'll be happy to learn that SimpleSwap's trading platform is also mobile compatible. You can download it to/from both the AppStore and Google Play:
SimpleSwap Affiliate Program
SimpleSwap also has an affiliate program. Through this program, you can earn up to 40% of the trading fees earned by SimpleSwap from the trades generated by your referrals. There is no expiry date on the referrals' trades either, which is great seeing as many exchanges only allow affiliate commission for the first 12 month of a referral's activity on the platform. Accordingly, the SimpleSwap affiliate program is very competitive. You can sign up to it by creating an account here.
SimpleSwap Trading View
Different exchanges have different trading views. And there is no "this overview is the best"-view. You should yourself determine which trading view that suits you the best. What the views normally have in common is that they all show the order book or at least part of the order book, a price chart of the chosen cryptocurrency and order history. They normally also have buy and sell-boxes. Before you choose an exchange, try to have a look at the trading view so that you can ascertain that it feels right to you.
The purchase interface at SimpleSwap is in our opinion very easy to understand if you're new to crypto, yet it might not offer all the advanced buy/sell features more experienced traders might look for. It is, however, effective and intuitive. Here's a peek at SimpleSwap's interface:
SimpleSwap Fees
SimpleSwap Trading fees
This particular platform offers you the opportunity to swiftly and securely buy or sell crypto. This means that there are no charting tools, no order books, or anything like that. The trading view is the purchase interface included above in this review.
When buying at the platform, the purchase price offered by SimpleSwap will be higher than the market price. Conversely, when selling to the platform, the purchase price offered will be lower than the market price. The mark-up or mark-down is not specified anywhere. On the date of last updating this review (26 January 2023), we made a calculation by comparing the prices offered by SimpleSwap to the market prices listed by Coinmarketcap.com. These were the results:
Floating Rate Mark-up: 1.21%
Fixed Rate Mark-up: 2.02%
For comparison purposes in our Exchange List, we have used the floating rate mark-up as the taker and maker fee in our database. Please be advised though that part of the fees listed above consist of the trading fees charged by the relevant liquidity provider that SimpleSwap uses when executing your order.
It is difficult to compare the fees charged by SimpleSwap with the industry average trading fee at a regular centralized exchange (0.2294% for takers and 0.1854% for makers), seeing as they offer another type of service than most centralized exchanges do. But to conclude on the trading fees, there are definitely cheaper ways to obtain crypto than through using the SimpleSwap platform. SimpleSwap's advantages are speed and convenience, rather than price.
SimpleSwap Withdrawal fees
SimpleSwap doesn't charge any additional fees for withdrawals, seeing that they never hold any cryptocurrencies to begin with. They are an instant exchange, and the cryptos you do purchase are purchased from other exchanges (Binance, Kraken etc.).
However, there are always network fees involved with transferring crypto, which is why we have listed the network fees under the withdrawal fee section of this exchange.
Deposit Methods and US-investors
SimpleSwap does not allow US-investors on its exchange. So if you're from the US and would like to engage in crypto trading, you will have to look elsewhere.
Deposit Methods
This platform is an entry-level exchange, meaning that it is one alternative for people who would like to enter the cryptocurrency market and does not have any cryptocurrency assets to begin with.


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US seizes Liberty Reserve virtual currency website, claims it facilitated crime
Liberty Reserve is a virtual alternative currency that provided a means of financial exchange beyond the U.S. dollar. The virtual currency has been available for years, but its website LibertyReserve.com went down in recent times without explanation. It took four days, but a notice has since been posted on the website stating that it has been seized by the US Global Illicit Financial Team.
Shortly after the website went offline – but before the seizure notice appeared – it was reported that Liberty Reserve's founder Arthur Budovsky was arrested in Spain. Such information has since been confirmed via an indictment filed in New York stating Budovsky, as well as five co-conspirators, created the virtual currency to facilitate a smorgasbord of cyber crime activities, with allegations ranging from identity theft to drug trafficking.
Per the filing from the US government, Liberty Reserve facilitated in excess of $12 million transactions every year, something that took place over the course of nearly a decade and prodded the company to a valuation of nearly $1.5 billion. At its core, Liberty Reserve was a simplified and private way for individuals to transfer funds. The service reportedly charged a $0.75 privacy fee per transaction, as well as a 1-percent fee based on the transaction amount.
Those who used the service could do so with a fair bit of anonymity, only have to provide an email address, birth date, and name to make a transfer. Money was added to a user's account via whatever means they chose, such as a credit card, then was delivered to the recipient as a virtual currency equivalent to either the USD or Euro. As such, it isn't hard to see how such a service would attract those undertaking illicit activities.
Still, that does not mean the service was designed to facilitate crime, nor that all users were of the criminal variety. Liberty Reserve was, in this way, similar to a file hosting website that primarily hosts copyrighted content, though at its core it merely offers a service. Still, the government has again demonstrated that it doesn't take kindly to virtual currencies, and one must wonder what precedent this sets for the arguably more popular Bitcoin.
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Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against SOPA — Today, founder of the non-profit behind information archive Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, announced that the site will go dark for 24 hours on Wednesday in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Discussion: VentureBeat, @jimmy_wales, New York Magazine, FT Tech Hub, New York Times and WebProNews, more at Techmeme »
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: Wikipedia goes nuclear against SOPA: founder confirms site blackout
Jimmy Wales / @jimmy_wales: Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday! #sopa
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: Anti-Piracy Bills in Congress Are Not Dead Yet
Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub: Wikipedia's anti-SOPA blackout will go ahead on Wednedsay
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune offers newsroom voluntary buyouts — Looking to reduce costs as it continues to grapple with a changing media landscape and challenging economy, the Chicago Tribune told employees Monday it will offer an undisclosed number of voluntary buyouts in the newsroom.
Leveson Inquiry: Mirror phone hacking possibly hidden - editor — The Daily Mirror's editor has told a media ethics inquiry that phone hacking "might well have been" taking place when he was the paper's showbiz editor. — Richard Wallace told the Leveson Inquiry he had no knowledge …
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk: Daily Mirror editor: Chris Jefferies case is 'black mark on my editing record'
Ben Fenton / @benfenton: Asked why no investigation into hacking. #Sly says no evidence & didn't see need.Barr says:Journos move around so ex-NotW people were at MGN
Hacked off / @hackinginquiry: SB: I don't believe I had heard Morgan's allegations over McCartney voicemail in 2007. Lots of journos speculating about hacking. #Leveson
Dan Sabbagh / @dansabbagh: Tina Weaver - "almost paralysis in contact between media and the police" since "News International situation".
Mark White / @skymarkwhite: Weaver concedes that no proper investigation of possible #phonehacking at the Sunday Mirror has been carried out #Leveson
Dan Sabbagh / @dansabbagh: Blair asked Wallace to sack a journalist who had criticised him when he was PM. Wallace did not respond, hack still works for DM.
Lisa O'Carroll / @lisaocarroll: #leveson. Ex People reporter Dave Brown alleges in written statement he was sent on ulrika jonsson story on the basis of hacked phone msgs
Lisa O'Carroll / @lisaocarroll: #leveson wallace tells of Obama telling Rupert Murdoch he wasn't interested in his support. Wallace:other politicians shd show same backbone
Keir Simmons / @keirsimmonsitv: Editor of Sunday Mirror asked whether the paper has had people's medical records 'I don't believe we have, no' #leveson
Dan Sabbagh / @dansabbagh: Sly explaining the problems of economic downturn in press. Job ads in regionals was £150m at peak now £20m.
Gary Quinn / Tangerine: Journalism: The case for the defence…
Ben Fenton / @benfenton: Relationships became "way too close" between politicians and News Int'l, #Wallace tells #leveson
Ben Fenton / @benfenton: [ #Wallace #leveson evidence more thoughtful & less rigidly coached than the NI or Express/Star editors.No flat denials of hacking.Nuance]
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Trinity Mirror's Sly Bailey: 'No evidence our journalists hacked phones' — Chief executive of Trinity Mirror Sly Bailey tells Leveson inquiry there is 'no evidence' to support allegations of phone hacking, as she stood by her decision not to investigate the matter internally
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Murdoch rant claims are untrue, says Brown
Murdoch rant claims are untrue, says Brown
Discussion: Press Gazette and Guardian
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Sarah Lacy Debuts New Tech Site, PandoDaily — $2M+ in Funding and Guess Who's Working for Her? (Video) — As has been widely reported, well-known TechCrunch columnist and Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy has a new gig: Running her own new tech news site, which debuts today.
Discussion: parislemon, VentureBeat, AdAge, GigaOM, WebProNews and Editors Weblog
Ben Popper / VentureBeat: AOL accidentally funds its competitors — Sarah Lacy launches PandoDaily with TechCrunch cast
Federica Cherubini / Editors Weblog: Media links of the day — The Huffington Post' Twitter …
Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Why I Started PandoDaily — Several months ago I became obsessed …
Why I Started PandoDaily — Several months ago I became obsessed …
Discussion: TechCrunch, DealBook, Business Insider, Uncrunched and Talking Biz News, more at Techmeme »
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: TC Alum Sarah Lacy Launches New Tech Blog, PandoDaily
Matt Lynley / Business Insider: TECHCRUNCH 2.0 HAS ARRIVED — PandoDaily, or "TechCrunch 2.0," has officially launched.
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: Sarah Lacy Launches Pando Daily, Your New Favorite News Site
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Lacy launches tech news site
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Fox and Twitter Join Forces for Republican Debate — At the next Republican presidential primary debate on Monday night, Fox News will be measuring viewers' reactions to each answer on Twitter, the social Web site that acts as an online water cooler during big television events.
Discussion: The FJP, Mashable!, Twitter Blog, WebProNews and TVNewser
Chris Ariens / TVNewser: One Less Candidate for Tonight's Fox News Debate
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Google calls Murdoch's piracy allegations 'nonsense' — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is talking nonsense, according to Google. — Google cofounder Sergey Brin. — Murdoch, a Twitter user for only the past several weeks, used the service to fire a barrage of accusations Saturday night …
Discussion: paidContent, The Wrap, Digital Spy, Business Insider, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Crikey, AllThingsD, eMedia Vitals, Forbes, AllThingsD and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap: Wikipedia to Shut Down in Protest of SOPA
Andrew Laughlin / Digital Spy: Rupert Murdoch accuses Google over online piracy
Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider: TOUCHED BY POWER: Here Are The Nine People Rupert Murdoch Follows On Twitter
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: What does Google's piracy 'nonsense' and an extradited student have in common?
Bernard Keane / Crikey: Why is Rupert spending millions undermining national security?
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Crying "Nonsense," Google Does Not +1 Murdoch Tweets
Anthony Wing Kosner / Forbes: Clash of SOPA Titans: Murdoch Tweets Against Google as Purveyors of Piracy
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: Rupert Murdoch is at it again on Twitter, calls Google a 'piracy leader'
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Murdoch shows he doesn't understand how content works
Murdoch shows he doesn't understand how content works
Fred Wilson / A VC: Scarcity Is A S**tty Business Model
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
'The Salad Days Are Over at Bloomberg:' Dispatches From Inside America's Most Paranoid Media Company — Last week, we brought you some firsthand cries of rage, despair, and frustration from inside Bloomberg headquarters. The most paranoid headquarters in all of the New York media world?
Pat Maio / North County Times:
New owners of San Diego Union-Tribune look to build media centre — San Diego developer Doug Manchester and radio executive John Lynch, who bought The San Diego Union-Tribune for $110 million a month ago, said they could pursue other newspapers or "video and audio" enterprises to wrap …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Associated Press Opens North Korea Bureau — When Associated Press executives and journalists attempted to open a North Korean bureau last month, they arrived in Pyongyang just hours after the death of Kim Jong Il. AP journalists hit the ground running and provided text and photos …
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
News exec John Paton is out to stop the presses — Digital First Media CEO says his company's moniker is its mandate, and he's pushing past newspapers' print era at warp speed. — John Paton, chief executive officer of Digital First Media, the Journal Register Company and Media News.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and eMedia Vitals
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight — In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon's Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the "ABC TV On-Demand" VOD brand. — That service will be available for no extra charge …
Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Pocket-lint, London Calling Blog, SlashGear and @robertandrews, more at Techmeme »
Erik Gruenwedel / Home Media Magazine: Amazon's LoveFilm Signs U.K. Streaming Deal With ABC TV
Ben Crompton / Pocket-lint: Lovefilm announces new Disney deal to stream ABC
Zack Whittaker / London Calling Blog: LoveFilm adds ABC on-demand television in ongoing Netflix battle
Shane McGlaun / SlashGear: Lovefilm lands UK streaming rights to popular ABC shows
Robert Andrews / @robertandrews: I pointed out to Lovefilm that, a week after being announced, its £4.99 tier is still not available on site. Now they have updated the site.
Dean Starkman / CJR:
A Narrowed Gaze — How the business press forgot the rest of us — Steve Lipin didn't fit the profile of a transformative media figure when he took over the mergers-and-acquisitions beat for The Wall Street Journal in 1995. His look was studious, his manner remarkably affable and low key, given the stress of his new job.
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At the highest level, I would advise caution on investing millions of dollars in a team a this stage. The simple summary is that there is no clear path to revenue for teams, making ROI a largely theoretical calculation. The big revenue source for eSports is likely going to be the sale of broadcast rights for important games. So far, these opportunities are largely solely owned by the game companies. While there are exceptions, with a few leagues monetizing their broadcast streams of high-profile matches, those appear to be under threat from the game companies' ambitions.
It is important to understand that there are really two tops of teams – newly formed franchises and already established 'endemic' teams. The endemics are teams that emerged organically from years of game play, with amateur teams gradually evolving into professional organizations. In these cases, there was very little upfront capital required, other than working capital needed to establish the team organization and pay player salaries. And while participation in the many of the leading championship matches now require the purchase of a seat at the table, those are small compared to the latest wave of franchise fees being considered. These endemic organizations have survived years of full-on capitalism and have the cost structure and revenue streams to show for it.
By contrast, the new franchise teams being offered show the game companies testing the limits of what the market will bear. As we detail in our full report, this is driving endemic teams away from some titles. (E-mail us or leave a comment if you would like to be added to distribution for our reports.) The endemics are being replaced, in theory, by deep-pocketed investors with longer time horizons. The franchisors (i.e. gaming companies) seem to be targeting wealthy individuals, the kinds of people who already own sports teams. This promises a new infusion of capital into eSports, as well as professional physical sports organizations' management expertise. On the other hand, there is the very real risk of new investors entering the market with a very poor understanding of how eSports work. To put this in gaming terms, everyone wants to Pwn the nOoBs.
Our advice, for anyone looking to invest in an eSports team is to first get to know the market. (Our full report is not a bad place to start.) When negotiating with franchisees make sure to understand all the revenue streams. (Hint: there are not many being offered right now.) Recognize that the industry has grown considerably in recent years, and will likely continue to do so, but the revenue that accompanies those audiences has not kept pace in a uniform manner. Also, be aware that many of the proposed franchise structures come with exit penalties and other onerous terms. To put this in investing terms. Do your due diligence. Past performance is not be a guarantee of future performance. And watch your fees.
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Sitting with a plastic water bottle
Yesterday, Allie wrote about the problem of keeping hydrated while traveling. Not realizing she could carry her Kleen Kanteen through security, she ended up purchasing bottled water. And apparently, she is far from alone. A couple of days ago, USA Today published an article about the environmental issues around bottled water production and waste that begins with the author's troubles at the airport.
Last night, I encountered this dilemma in a very unexpected place: a meditation hall. My friend Nancy and I went to sit with and hear a talk by teacher Pamela Wilson, given at a Unitarian Church in Berkeley. I'd had a stressful cab ride over and was happy to sit and relax into the moment, take a breath, and slowly open my eyes as Wilson began to speak with the audience. Her voice was calm and serene.
And then… oh my god!
She pull out a disposable plastic water bottle and…
holy crap! drank from it!!!!
What do you do when reality is right up in your face like that? I talked to myself (silently) saying, "Self, it's okay. She must have a good reason. I'm sure she has a good reason. She must not have had any choice. Oh, but Self, of course she had a choice. She's a meditation teacher. She's supposed to be enlightened. So how can she be doing this? Shhhh! Listen, she's saying something. What's that? Words? But… but… but… plastic water bottle! Plastic water bottle! Plastic water bottle!
It was a great practice, actually. My plastic practice. Because this is the world we live in. And because the point of Pamela's whole talk was about welcoming the voices that we hear in our heads, not shutting them up, but honoring reality in all its forms and in all the ways that it presents itself to us.
So, I honored the reality that was screaming in my left ear. (Don't know why my internal voice seemed to be coming from the left side. It just did.) And when I had a chance to ask a question, I took the microphone and smiled and gave voice to the little freak screaming "Plastic water bottle! Plastic water bottle!" except the voice I used to describe it to the group was much softer and calmer than the one in my head.
As soon as the words were out, I felt better. And Pamela Wilson laughed and looked at the bottle and said, "Oh I know! Isn't it awful?" And she admitted how she had been traveling and was really thirsty and didn't have anything to drink and needed water, and oh how good this water tasted, and yet still, the plastic will last forever, except that she will recycle it. And the whole time, we were smiling and connecting on this genuine heart level.
I don't know what happened to that bottle afterwards. But I do know that once I honored the screaming in my head by giving it loving attention, it transformed into something that could actually be a positive force in the world. Both the message and the medium were one.
I think what I'm trying to say is that I'm realizing all the time how important it is to forgive each other and ourselves as we work to protect the planet and make the world a better place. Because really, the world is already perfect. Isn't it?


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Friday, February 15, 2013
Kissing Mayzie
60 comments:
Is my sister hiding behind your booth because I can't find her!!! Magggggieeeee....ReplyDelete
stella rose
Hewe I am Mayzie fow a soft sweet smoochie kiss,,,MUWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHReplyDelete
Pucker up, Mayzie!!! Don't worry I just had a cheeseburger to freshen my breathReplyDelete
Oh what fun!! Maverick is first up for the Kissing Booth!! Samantha and Clementine are a little shy, but they will help the good cause!!ReplyDelete
Your TX furiends,
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 9:27 AM
Oh Dawg. I wanted to be FIRST! Arg.ReplyDelete
K, here I come Mayzie ready or not :D SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH! Ooo you are a really talented smoocher! MORE Must have MORE
Wrappin paws around ya so you cannot escape...SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH Uh oh Mayzie your limp - give slight shake. Oh goood you opened one eye - I think you fainted. I'm sorry I got carried away and forgot to let ya come up for air. I'll run get ya some water!
Hey behind me! Stop pushin! You'll get your turn. Uh maybe, heh heh heh
Waggin up a happy storm,
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 9:29 AM
Haha! I thought this would be skeery but it's NOT! It's FUN! Okay, who's next? Come on! Don't be shy! Get some Brindle Luv!ReplyDelete
Ok, he we's go..... Kissing on the left jowl, kissing on the right jowl. Oh, I kind of liked that! Hey, it's all for a good cause.ReplyDelete
Thanks, that was fun!
Lily Belle
Go Mayzie...Go Mayzie...Go Mayzie...bring in da big buckks girlfuriend!ReplyDelete
Roo, you is gonna has to go to da back of da line nows...hehehehehe.
Oh I has to come back withs my monies when my dad gets home. Sumptin' bouts not trustin' me with his credit card...kerazy right?
Remington said its ok so I am ready for a nice kiss. I freshened my breath with some cotton candy.ReplyDelete
Loveys Sasha
Pucker up and plant one on me!ReplyDelete
Sweet William The Scot
Since this is for a good cause I don't think my valentine Gracie would mindReplyDelete
Bailey (aka Handsome Man)
OMD I do LOVE a girrrrrl with Squirt Cheese brefs. OK now ERNIE is not gonna give you a smooch beclaws Well, he has never even smooched his Roxy yet. BUTT PUCKER UP you BRINDLE BEAUTY... I'm gonna LAY ONE ON YOU !!!ReplyDelete
SMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMooooOOOOOOOOOooooooooooCH !
Did you watch that Ernie??? THAT is how you Kiss a GIRRRRRRL.
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 10:17 AM
It's my first kiss ...should I close my eyes?...or better not... ok, kiss me ;o)ReplyDelete
PUCKER UP MAYZIE IT IS I MADI AND I HAVE JUST FINISHED A DELICIOUS BREAKFAST OF FANCY FEAST, COD,SOUL AND SHRIMP.....ReplyDelete
You know, once you've been kissed by an Alien, you'll never go back!ReplyDelete
OK, Mayzie, here come a whole bunch of kisses from all the gang here. They are so excited to be able to do this. Hope they didn't smell too bad. You are being very brave to do this.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Wait! Wait! Where's my cheese? Has anyone seen my cheese? I need to freshen my breath. Ohhhhh...there it is! Hold on. (SQUIRT!) Anyone else need a shot? Alrighty then...NEXT!!!ReplyDelete
I'm a girl and it don't seem'z right Kizzing youz but I do like cheeze.. Alfie the furball'z gonna give ya a super duper kittie cat Kizz..BOL Cloze ya eye'z and count to'z 10.. Here it come'z... XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXReplyDelete
Mollie and Alfie
I've only been here a short time and I've already managed to lose Sallie and my cotton candy martini.ReplyDelete
Has anyone seen Roo? It is almost noon and this beer icy is melting. Maybe he is over at the Freak Show Tent....
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 11:20 AM
Hope you are Bi cause there are 3 girl kitties and 3 boy kitties! and we just love Cheese with our tuna!ReplyDelete
Hope you don't mind the Tuna Breath!!
Ummm, Mayzie, I hope you don't mind, but I came back fow a second kiss, muwahhhhhhhhReplyDelete
Pucker sweety and could you squirt some cheese in first. Oh yea well worth the price.ReplyDelete
I want a kiss too!ReplyDelete
Huh? Alien was looking for me? I must have just missed him.
Thankfully I have this high tech walking stick that helps me navigate around the circus. Alien made it himself!
I'll go see if I can find him.
Okay Mayzie, I want a kissy!! Does that come with tongue? I saw your sign and just wanted to make sures! No green papers until I see some tongue!!! BOL hehehe (Puddles made me say that!! hehehe)ReplyDelete
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA...did not. Girl, she still hung overs from last night...BWHAHAHAHAHAHA...tongue...okay dat just made me blow snot every wheres I laughed so hard.ReplyDelete
I know I'm a giwl, but has anyone evew told yoo what soft lips you have?
Coold I have one wif cheese chasew, muwahhhhhh
*Sits back with his cotton candy martini watching girls kiss.*ReplyDelete
Ah! Now this is the life!
Get ready for a two boy kiss...Toby Moses will take your right cheek and George Pooh will take your left cheek. Ready...okay...SMOOCH!! Our girls Marlene and Tweedles won't mind for its for a good cause and they can totally kiss on Pip of they want to!!ReplyDelete
BTW--Bailey, Miss Gracie was totally cool with you kissin' Mayzie as long as there was no tongue involved.
Much Luvums,
George Pooh & Toby Moses (The Slimmer Puggums)
I am so enjoying all the fun.. Kissing booths well there is always a first time so here goes.. Hugs GJ xxReplyDelete
Baby Rocket Dog here...I am a girl even if my name sounds boyish...but, I will kiss ya Mayzie, as a beautiful girlfriend!ReplyDelete
Hootie speaking: ANd, for this worthy cause I'm sure my fiance,Sally Ann, will allow me to get a BIG smackeroonie from you Mayzie. SO, lay it on me baby!!
MultipleSmooches from pooches,
BabyRD & Hootie
We can't believe the line! Those dudes are lined up around the the main tent!ReplyDelete
XXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Roxy
Ok Mayzie! I just laid down my pawful of green papers! Now I knowz we is girls, but I'm here to collect 10 big smooches and I'm gonna give 'em to The LB as a belated Valentine's gift!! Aren't I thoughtful??!!ReplyDelete
So lay 'em on me!!
BOL - Miss Fendi HoneyBuzz
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Whew! All this kissin' is makin' me thirsty. Puddles! Hey, Puddles! Could you bring me one of those beer slushies? Oh, and a corndog, too, pretty please? Thanks!ReplyDelete
Okay, who's next? And don't worry if you're a girl. I'm Most Obviously an equal opportunity kisser!
Woot woot! Back for more!!ReplyDelete
PS-Doesn't seem that Paypal is keeping up with our donations...It should be over $600 now!!ReplyDelete
Thank you for that little kiss me and mags both like cheeeessse.ReplyDelete
stella rose and maggie
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 3:02 PM
Yep...you're right Hootie! I just ran back to check the till and we're up to $620! How AH-mazing is that? I guess silly ol' Chip In got so overwhelmed with the HUMONGOUS line that it got behind. Never leave it up to a machine to do a brindle dog's work!ReplyDelete
Okay...(rubs paws together)...who's my next smoocher?
Umm, I'm back at the fwont of the line. Just have a thing fow smoochies fwom any gweat fuwwiend espeshully one wif soft cheesy flavowed lipses, heheheReplyDelete
Alien, you dropped your martini on my on the big slide. I came back for one more kiss before I go. I did get permission from Remington, he knows I love him.ReplyDelete
Loveys Sasha
I can't resist cheesy kissesReplyDelete
Hey Mayzie! That is one long line but I'm finally here. Pucker up!ReplyDelete
Kitty Kisses,
Big Boy
PS, I got separated from the other members of the Kitty Krew but they should be along soon.
Being that I'm a girl too this seems a little odd but I'm ready if you are. It is for a good cause. But watch that tongue! MOL!ReplyDelete
Cindi Lou Who
OK . . .lemme close my eyes . . .ReplyDelete
Hello Miss Mayzie. My name is Adam and I'm five months old.ReplyDelete
Ah...oh...I...I mean....I've never...oh shucks! I've never kissed a girl before.
Aw, that was nice.
Kiss, kiss, kiss!!ReplyDelete
Bart, Ruby and Otto
Hello Mayzie!ReplyDelete
Here are Frappie, Sugar & Wai-Max in line. Hugs from the Piappies girls.
Piappies Fudgie, Princess, Frappie, Mocha, Sugar, Wai-Max, Wai-Pai & Forgie
Who could resist kissing such a cute face?ReplyDelete
*Sticks head from between circus cage bars to give Mayzie a kiss*Replies
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2013 at 9:43 AM
Heehee...well, gosh, that kiss was, um, interesting. But hey, it's all for a good cause, right? What? Another kiss? Uh, well, I think that any additional kisses cost like 87 thousand green papers. Huh? No, I won't taken an IOU. Sorry.Delete
So did he smell likes da Old Spice?Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Between you and me, Puddles, he DID! Kinda revolting. Now, if he'd smelled like something old and dead, that woulda been one thing. But Old Spice...blech!Delete
I know right?Delete
I mean why not likes dead possum or roadkill squirrel....mmmmmmmmm!
Yeah!!!! I got to get a kiss from that cute Mayzie....made my day!!! :)ReplyDelete
Brilliant event...what fun. They all have been. Hope you are having a fabulous time. It looks a real winner. Have a super Saturday.ReplyDelete
Best wishes Molly
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Miss Mayzie, how pretty you look! A big smoochy-face for your cheeky - MMWAAAH!ReplyDelete
We're late to the party but hoping you still have a few kisses left for Miss Bella. Don't worry, she's as scared as you are but she gives the most gentle nose kisses and we couldn't resist puckering up for you, pretty Mayzie!ReplyDelete


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The week is dedicated to chain saw training at the Colorado Fire Camp. The trip down to the camp was long, but the chance to cut trees down is on everyones mind. We get to the camp and get to eat some good food. In the class room we learn to operate and maintain the chain saw that we will use all summer. We get the chance to fall trees and learn to buck and limb. Everyone passed the course and now we are on our way to Granby to start work in the Arapaho National Forest.
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I really need to start posting once again. Will anybody even remember me????
Has been a great week-end, love these bonus days and leisurely wake ups. I have spent it recharging the batteries, chilling with my coffee and knitting. Such a shame the weather was not so good. x
Going to be a hectic 4 days for sure but a break does one good of course and am feeling reinvigorated. Lots planned and lots to get through this week.
I managed to finish a sleeve of Patsy on Saturday and the majority of the left front Sunday. I have today finished the left front and cast on the right front. Patsy could be off the needles this week.
I do have other finished garments to show and plenty of socks which just need the toes seaming.
Happy Knitting.


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(For our upcoming 35th reunion, I've contributed a page to our class book. Here's what I wrote.)
Here's a Stanford moment: I live on the outskirts of Woodstock, New York, near an old reservoir pond that's like a wildlife refuge with its herons, beaver, and ducks. On a crisp November morning with ice in the driveway puddles, I went out to my car to lead my visiting cousin in his car into town for pancakes and oatmeal at my favorite bakery. The black vulture swooping low overhead wasn't a vulture, but a bald eagle, not such an uncommon sight anymore, but this one carried a branch in its talons, a wooden snake, an omen. Now, I'm not much of a birder, but I know enough to know that a twig or in this case an inch-thick weathered branch in the claws = a nesting bird. Sure enough, the eagle spread its ungainly wings a moment later to hover over the ragged top of white pine not even a hundred feet into the woods across the road and dropped the branch into what at first glance looked like a meteor of sticks crashed high on the tree trunk. This nest must have been days, if not weeks in the making, though I caught up in my daily mishegas of unfinished writing projects hadn't noticed it until now. In an instant this bird reminded me of why I'd quit mid-town Manhattan almost twenty years for the Catskills, namely, to have the wilderness as my neighbor. Now, come spring, I could watch them nesting and raising their young right across the street. I felt like I'd just been let in on a rare and special secret.
In the car I turned on the radio to my staple station, WDST. Whom did I hear being interviewed by the music DJ but Peter Buffett, my old friend from freshman year in Rinconada. We'd bonded as the two artsy types who enjoyed hanging out late in the lounge, while everyone else was off in their rooms doing engineering problem sets. (I didn't touch a computer until half-a-dozen years after Stanford. Oh, if only I'd known what was happening all around me, the fledgling of Silicon Valley!) Within a few years Peter had moved up to San Francisco to begin his music career. After graduation I returned east and landed in Hoboken, where I eventually became a writer. More than thirty years later, we've both wound up in the Hudson Valley, though we've crossed paths only a few times. Because of his father's largesse, he has become a philanthropist, and there he was on the radio talking about a farming initiative that he and his wife have launched in the area. But his genial manner took me right back to Rinconada, as if our lives were still young and full of big futures. What did it mean that I heard Peter's voice moments after discovering the eagle's nest? I don't know, save that life offers us synchronicities that promise more than the ordinary.
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Here's a photo Peter Buffett took of my crowded dorm room for the Stanford Daily. My mother kept everything. After she passed away I found this clipping in my old dresser drawer.


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Golfam Khayam and Mona Matbou Riahi: Naqsh Duo
Naqsh Duo:
The recording quality is of the typical high standard one expects from ECM. This music depends on the listener being able to hear subtleties and nuances that can be crushed by clumsy sound engineering. Fortunately engineer Stefano Amerio did a masterful job of capturing the whole sound of these intstruments and keeping them in perfect balance.
The packaging is typical ECM, mostly semi-arty black and white photographs and minimal text. This one looks particularly of the ECM formula, although the cover painting by Pariyoush Ganji deserves special citation. The album is being released simultaneously in Iran on co-producer Ramin Sadighi's Hermes label.
Both Khayam and Riahi are natives of Tehran, and both continued their musical studies abroad, Khayam in Cincinnati and Geneva, and Riahi in Vienna. With roots in traditional Persian music, both musicians turned towards Western classical music and jazz. It was through improvisation that they felt drawn back to Persian sources. The duo are supporting the album with some appearances in Iran and Europe.
Hopefully Narrante is the first of many albums from the Naqsh Duo, as the material on this CD offers great potential for further exploration. - Erik Keilholtz
Naqsh Duo, live at Festival Les Nuits Du Monde in Geneva, 2014
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The GM debate
The moratorium declared on the introduction of Bt brinjal in India sets off an intense debate on GM crops, particularly GM foods.
at http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100312270500400.htm
Back from the brink
|But the proposed biotech Bill can push India into the arms of the agri-biotech industry with serious consequences.
at http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100312270501100.htm
Legal struggle
|Two petitions in the Supreme Court against GM food help make the government accountable.
at http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100312270501400.htm
Pulls and pressures
|The fact that there are groups supporting GM food crops in the major political parties points to the commercial interests behind them.
at http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100312270501700.htm
Farmer as priority
|Interview with K. Varadarajan, general secretary, All India Kisan Sabha.
at http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100312270501800.htm
'I support Bt brinjal'
|Interview with Prof. Govindarajan Padmanabhan, former Director of the Indian Institute of Science.
at http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100312270502000.htm
Global spread
|There has been a steady growth of the commercialisation and acceptance of genetically modified crops worldwide.
at http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100312270502200.htm


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Dan Murphy's SMI Indie Says 'Sell Bonds and the SPY'
Dear Traders,
I remember at least a decade ago, there was some blowhard touting that gravity cycles affect the stock market.
Not to be outdone, another guy cooked up a cockamamie hypothesis about sunspots and the S&P 500.
And of course the granddaddy of bull: Elliott Wave theory.
All these ideas had one thing in common: Confirmation bias.
The pyramid guy went on for page after page on all the numerical relationships he found. With every measurement, he became more and more convinced.
Even when it was pointed out that the Egyptians used cubits in their measurements, not feet, the poster wouldn't listen.
I think he was a few blocks short of a pyramid if you know what I mean.
The way to shed light in a dark room is to do all your testing by computer.
That's how I discover relationships between the futures market and both the stock and bond markets.
It's the later I want to talk to you about today.
Long-term bonds went to a sell signal on Monday after a speedy melt-up.
So now both the S&P 500 and long-term US bonds are on a sell signal.
There's a lesson to be learned from the latest sell signal on bonds so lean in close…
…obey your signals even when the majority of gains went *poof.*
Timing the markets is possible, but perfect timing is not.
Trade smart,
Dan "Prince of Proof" Murphy
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With no doubt William Kabogo was one of the richest governors in Kenya. From owning multiple businesses to living a very lavish life its clearly evident on how the guy is force to reckon. Today , we have compiled some of the photos of his Kiambu Multimillion house that may make you rethink about your life.
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The Witner Twins
...don't know who they are, not
really. Minnesota? Aunt Dee? That Dumpster-diving night behind Foodtown in the
February of Plainview, an equatorial oasis compared to their "home"?
No one can prove they exist. The tenuous exhibit "A": a scattering of
tapes, acoustical in nature, awash in wine and, yes, brother(?)ly love. Frank
and Dale. You don't know them, but you will think you do when they lilt away at
the lovely of "Stephanie Says" or moan in the spare swaying stutter
of "Smother Me." They cover The Martyrs (as all bands should),
not to mention others such as (unmentioned) with the tenderness of your
favorite scratchy blankie.
The Witner Twins. Call them Frank and Dale. You don't know them. But they know you.
Yes, They played for tea and cheesecake at a little coffeehouse in South Carolina. Yes, the audience, often recovering drug addicts and alcoholics (who the hell else spends a Friday night out at a beanery?), were entreated to their smooth melodies and rough chord changes, their bittersweet love songs, their cynical realism. Many a lyric triggered a latte spit-take (coincidentally, a pseudonym the duo often performed under), and one chorus was always sure to disrupt an intense backgammon match.
But still, they played on, often to a
crowd of 10-12, and a baker's dozen if it was cold outside!
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In this paper, we present the benefits of regarding conditionality as a pragmatic phenomenon as compared with approaches based on the syntactic category of a conditional sentence. We propose a pragmatic category of conditionality and justify it using theoretical arguments supported with examples from our database collected from the International Corpus of English-GB. Next, we demonstrate how conditional utterances that pertain to a variety of syntactic constructions can be represented in Default Semantics, a contextualist, truth-conditional approach to utterance meaning. We identify six types of such constructions, using the dimensions of (i) primary vs. secondary meaning (PM/SM index) and (ii) meaning conveyed through sentence structure vs. meaning conveyed at the level of merger representation (WS/Σ index). It is concluded that in view of the diversity of constructions through which conditional thoughts are expressed, conditionality is best regarded as a pragmatic (and as such conceptual) category. Finally, we comment on the status of this claim as a potential semantic/pragmatic universal.
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Written By: Matt Peddycord
WCW Monday Nitro
June 24, 1996
Charlotte, NC
Independence Arena
The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: The Giant (4/29/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko (5/18/1996)
Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Larry Zbyszko.
Clip of Bischoff taking the powerbomb off the stage through a table from Kevin Nash at the Great American Bash is shown for about the 100th time that week on WCW TV, I'm sure.
Gene Okerlund interviews the opposition for the "yet unnamed interruption". They are Sting, Lex Luger, and Randy Savage. All three of them have their face painted to show UNITY! Lex forgets where he's at and starts to say WWF, but changes in mid-stream and acts a 'C' in there somewhere. The Steiners come by to let Sting & Luger know they have got their backs. Now Harlem Heat steps in and we've got a HUGE argument on our hands. TRIANGLE MATCH, TONIGHT!
Schiavone has heard a rumor that "the interruption" is in the building somewhere and could strike the announcer's booth at any moment to attack him or Zbyszko.
Public Enemy vs. The Blue Bloods (w/Earl Robert Eaton)
No table from the Public Enemy this week. An arm-casted Johnny Grunge wears both ends of a LOOOONG dog collar and chain around his neck on his way to the ring to put over the double dog collar match between Public Enemy and the Nasties at Bash at the Beach. Rocco and Regal start the match. Regal is so offended that somebody like Rocco Rock could dropkick him in the face, that he bails and then comes in and tags Taylor. Rocco flips out of the corner off a whip and charges into a rollup, which fails. Now Taylor takes a dropkick up and over the top to the floor. Back to Regal, Rock counters a full nelson and tries a quebrada, but Regal easily sidesteps the move. The Blue Bloods do the only thing they can well with Rocco and that's CLUBBER him down on the mat. Off a double-KO, Grunge gets the hot tag. That builds into a pier-six brawl until Grunge gets tripped up by Eaton and faceplants himself on his own cast. When Taylor should be covering Grunge, he decides to pose. That allows Grunge to get up and blast Taylor with the cast for the 1-2-3. (5:49) Hmm, big pop for PE. Looked like Public Enemy tried to show they can wrestle, but they should probably just stick doing flips on tables. It's really what they do best. *
Kevin Sullivan (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. Kip Abee
To play off the FCA match with Benoit at the Great American Bash, Sullivan takes Abee up through the aisle and wants to take him into the ladies bathroom, but security stands in his way. He leaves Abee for dead over by the Subway counter and heads back to the ring for an Okerlund interview with Jimmy Hart. Abee wins by DQ? (around 2:00) They vow defeat on the Horsemen at Bash at the Beach in the Arn & Benoit vs. Giant & Sullivan tag match. Jimmy makes the best line ~ "If I have to hear Flair say 'Woman oh woman, won't you marry me now' and 'I'm going to Space Mountain' one more time, I'm going to choke myself to death!" C'mon Jimmy, it's really not that bad.
"Blood Runs Cold" promo!
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion Dean Malenko vs. "Hardwork" Bobby Walker
You gotta love Bobby Walker's confidence in himself. He's an indy-level worker from what we can see and then he sues WCW for discrimination when he doesn't get over. Once Malenko gets bored (and that's saying something) with stretching Walker out on the mat, he gives him a STIFF powerbomb and goes for the Texas Cloverleaf when Disco Inferno walks down to the ring to show off his new gold record. That distracts Malenko enough for Walker to jump him. Meanwhile, Disco tells the sound guy to hit his music as he walks into the ring and starts dancing. WTF? Walker and Malenko continue wrestling. With Disco up on the middle turnbuckle, Malenko dropkicks Walker into Disco and puts him away with a Northern Lights suplex. (4:39) And this is where Disco should have KO'ed Malenko with his gold record to REALLY make their match a big deal at Bash at the Beach, but that doesn't happen. Instead, he tells Malenko that he's 'stinkin' up the joint'. *½
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WCW Saturday Night! Watch it! 6:05PM eastern time! TBS! Only one hour this week though due to baseball, I'm sure. Sting, Luger, and Randy Savage will be wrestling in a big six-man main event! Rey Mysterio will be there! Plus, Earl Robert of Eaton takes on Shark! You don't want to miss that one! It's the MUTHASHIP! PAY WINDAHS AND PLUNDAH, BABY! This is the first time they have plugged that show in months! Probably a good idea though that they don't plug that show.
Eddie Guerrero vs. The Barbarian
Since Eddie is wanting some U.S. title gold and not the Cruiserweight belt, he's facing some bigger men so he can get a future U.S. title shot. Eddie knocks Barbarian back a little bit with some dropkicks, but thinks he can crossbody block the guy too and gets caught and smashed in the corner. SUPER SICK POWERBOMB connects on Eddie. Boy, Charlotte wants to see Barbarian eat poor Guerrero up here. That gets two, but then again Barbarian only put his hand on Eddie's chest. Pumphandle slam gets another reaction, but again Barbarian puts only one hand on Eddie. Barbarian runs into a boot in the corner as Guerrero tries a rana and fails pretty badly. Back suplex connects, but Barbarian crotches Eddie up top for a Belly-to-Belly Superplex! Eddie HAS to roll out after that one. Barbarian grabs Eddie on the apron and attempts to superplex him back in, but Eddie falls on top for the out of nowhere 1-2-3. (5:38) Sometimes it's just fun to watch a bigger guy destroy someone smaller. Even when he doesn't win. Afterwards, Gene Okerlund talks to Eddie. He wants a rematch from a match he had THREE MONTHS AGO with Konnan for the U.S. title at UnCeNSoReD because during the match, Guerrero got hit in the maracas off a leapfrog. Okerlund asks him what he thinks about the 'Hostile Takeover' match and then cuts him off to go to commercial. **
Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Bobby Heenan. Bischoff is still sitting out selling the powerbomb.
Arn Anderson & Chris Benoit (w/Steve McMichael) vs. The Rock N Roll Express
Things are about to get awesome. Flair's VIP table is set up, but he doesn't hang out there much anymore because RANDY SAVAGE IS LOOSE! The crowd is so pro-Horsemen, you'd think the RNR Express killed a guy. Twice. Benoit shoulderblocks and chops Morton around to start. He wants a powerbomb, but Morton lucha armdrags out. Morton catches Benoit with a bad looking crossbody block out of the corner. He tags in Gibson and sets up a running knee lift. Jack Brisco rollup from Gibson gets two. Benoit goes low and tags in Arn to a huge ovation. He goes up top and nearly gets slammed down, but instead pokes the eyes and hops down to put a sleeper on Gibson. He backs Arn into the corner to break and then catches him coming off the middle turnbuckle with a back elbow. Tag to Morton, Arn suckers him out to the floor into a Benoit attack from the other side of the ring. Awesome. Mongo points and laughs, which might be the greatest thing he's done since he's been in WCW. In the ring, the Horsemen work over Morton until he sneaks underneath Arn's legs for the "hot" tag to Gibson. DOUBLE NOGGIN KNOCKER? Holy crap, really Robert? During the mayhem, Gibson tries to backslide Benoit and gets BLASTED with Mongo's briefcase. KA-POW! Arn DDTs Morton while Benoit covers Gibson for the 1-2-3. (6:30) No matter what year it is, it's always fun to see the Horsemen battle Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson. Well I don't think I would want to see that happen now, but you know what I mean. "Desperado" Joe Gomez hightails it out to the ring to defend the RNR Express LIKE AN IDIOT. He gets nailed with the Haliburton briefcase. Arn and Benoit hold Gomez while Mongo slaps him around. GTFO, n00b! Randy Savage and Kevin Greene runs in for the way-too-late save. WCW is definitely not trying to get Greene over in Charlotte leading up to his time with the Panthers because you DON'T succeed with that by going up against the Four Horsemen. Bunch of retards. **½
Ric Flair and the ladies are in full gear in the back for an interview with Gene Okerlund. Flair goes on and on about how Mongo is legit until the other three Horsemen show up. Flair tries to sneak Konnan into the interview right when Gene says they are out of time.
Diamond Dallas Page vs. Alex Wright – "Lord of the Ring" Match
It appears DDP is putting his ring on the line in this one. While DDP's finisher gets over more and more every week, he's not doing quick Magnum TA-like squashes just yet. Page starts posing and gets dropkicked to the floor. Back in, DDP counters a suplex into some sort of armbar faceplant move. Page hits his gutbuster off the shoulder and goes for a field goal and misses. Wright starts a comeback and delivers a Missile Dropkick that puts Page back on the floor. PLANCHAAAA on Page! Back in, a slingshot splash hits knees. DIAMOND CUTTER! 'Go to your room, it's over' says Heenan. (4:03) Okerlund talks with DDP. Page feels that WCW is trying to hold him down by putting him in a 'taped fist' match with Jim Duggan with his 'Lord of the Ring' ring on the line at Bash at the Beach, which just so happens to be Duggan's specialty match. Not sure what their issue is. I'm sure it's some WCW Saturday Night malarkey. Tape up your whole body, Doogan, you ain't taking the ring away from Page! *½
Randy Savage (w/Kevin Greene) vs. VK Wallstreet
Before the match, Okerlund interviews Greene concerning when he was going to get some revenge on Mongo. Uhh, he's going to wait until the NFL season is over with and join up with two other WCW superstars. Of course that never happens. Nobody cares about Greene, Charlotte wants Flair. Savage annihilates Wallstreet to start. Wallstreet heads to the floor and shoves Greene back, then Greene chases him back into the ring. Rollup by Savage gets two. Wallstreet kicks Savage in the gut, distracts Greene to bring him up to the apron, and then tosses Savage over the top rope to the floor. Back in, Wallstreet whips Savage hard into the corner and follows up with some elbow drops. Wallstreet hits a suplex and heads up top, but flies down face-first into a boot. Savage delivers a series of clotheslines and goes up for the MACHO ELBOW, but he takes too much time up there. Wallstreet rolls away and out to the floor when Savage takes flight, but Randy lands on his feet. Wallstreet backs up into Greene and gets sent into the ringpost. In the ring, Savage slams Wallstreet for the MACHO ELBOW for realz this time. (4:37) Doesn't matter, the crowd still wants Flair. **
WCW World Tag Team Champions Sting & Lex Luger vs. Harlem Heat vs. Rick & Scott Steiner – Triangle Match
Booker T is shown talking on a cell phone on his way to the ring. Could it be Sherri? Could be it Colonel Parker? Could it be both of them? Who could it be? Only time will tell! Sting comes out wearing something you would see from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The rules are simple: anybody can tag anybody and of course as long as you're not on the same team, anybody can pin anybody to win the belts. Scott Steiner and Booker T start the match. Scott powers Booker around until Stevie Ray sneaks in a knee on him. Superkick from Booker gets two. Booker misses a hook kick and takes a butterfly slam. That gets two as Luger makes the save. Now we get Rick Steiner vs. Stevie Ray. Stevie Ray clubbers Rick, but misses a corner charge and takes a Release German Suplex. Steinerline gets two. Scott tags in, snapmares Stevie Ray over to Sting, and tags him into the match. See, Scott doesn't care who gets beat up as long as it's not him or Rick, so he's letting these two fight it out. Stevie Ray backs Sting into the Harlem Heat and tags in Booker. Booker misses a jumping heel kick and crotches himself to go on the world's worst K-Mart ride. Tony says it's like riding a 10-speed without the seat. Heenan ~ "I've never done that, Tony. Have you?" No answer. Sting atomic drops Booker around and goes for a pump splash, but he hits knees. Stevie Ray tags in and we go to commercial. Good idea! He's SO boring! We come back to Booker T fighting out of a sleeper with a jawbreaker on Sting. Tag to Stevie Ray, he delivers a Jim Neidhart standing powerslam for two. Sting fights out of a nerve hold, but doesn't see a blind tag to Booker T, who wallops him with a spinning heel kick. Rick makes the save. Stevie Ray is back in and a double-KO sets up Sting falling headfirst into Stevie Ray's testicles! I can't think of any half-way funny euphemisms for the balls right now. Booker T gets a tag and takes flight, but eats the canvas as Sting rolls out of the way. HOT TAG TO LUGER! He powerslams Booker and calls for the TORTURE RACK! Meanwhile, the yet unnamed Scott Hall and Kevin Nash are making their way to the ring through the crowd. They've got baseball bats! HOLY CRAP. Charlotte's finest swarm the ring and during the craziness, Booker T rolls up Luger for the 1-2-3 in one of the most ridiculous finishes to a title change I've ever seen. (9:18) Harlem Heat completely ignore the "interruption" and leave with the belts in hand. It's just a big stand-off until we go back over to Tony and Bobby who are totally freaking out right now. **¼
Well that ending was sure nuts.
By the way, WCW did give Charlotte what they wanted in the form of a dark match between Ric Flair and Randy Savage. Thanks for the info, Graham!
And with that, WE ARE OUTTA HERE!


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Cornwall Family Group Home, run by the government, replaced Cornwall Receiving Home in about 1981. It was in Launceston. The Home provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department and its successors. Cornwall closed around 2005.
A married woman managed Cornwall Family Group Home with the assistance of her husband, who was in paid employment outside the Home. In return, they did not pay rent.
The Home provided accommodation for new wards of the state or children on remand from the courts until the Department found a more permanent placement for them. It also took in children requiring temporary accommodation and in transit between homes. Some children stayed in the home longer if they got on well with the foster parent.
1978? - 1980 Cornwall Receiving Home
c. 1981 - 2005? Cornwall Family Group Home
Sources used to compile this entry: Department of Social Welfare: report for the year ending 1982, Department of Social Welfare, Hobart, 1982; Department for Community Welfare: annual report for the year ended 30 June 1984, Department for Community Welfare, Hobart, 1984; Ombudsman Tasmania, Review of claims of abuse from adults in state care as children - Final Report - Phase 2, June 2006. Also available at https://stors.tas.gov.au/au-7-0057-00034.
Prepared by: Caroline Evans
Created: 7 December 2011, Last modified: 4 February 2014