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Your New Road Map
Every year millions of people set new goals for themselves and their businesses. Unfortunately for the vast majority, their goals and New Year resolutions will fall short. It is not good intentions that is the problem, it is strategy. There are three main flaws that take place when people are not successful when implementing goals.
First, it's an anecdotal challenge. Often people will hear experts or other people who have had success with a particular goal say, "I did it and so can you." The problem with this is that every person is unique in how they think, act, and respond to their external environment. One size doesn't fit all. What worked for someone else may not work for you.
Second, goals are oversimplified. Often organizations and business leaders will call upon their people to use SMART goals. SMART is defined as specific, measurable, achievable, results-focused, and time-bound. SMART goals give us a nice sentence but it does not provide a system of implementation. For example, a SMART goal might be to "Increase my revenue by 10% in the next 90 days." A great sentence but there is no clear method of implementation.
Third, goals need to be tactical. Unsuccessful people have no strategy or model in place and as a result individuals can feel lost. In a Harvard business study, 61% of business owners fail because of poor strategy and execution. Because we are living in a time of great change, our ability to stay focused is compromised due to being inundated by television, radio, social media, blogs, podcasts, magazines, smart phone alerts, advertising, emails, and texting. Without a proper strategy or system of execution, we are setting ourselves up for failure by allowing our environment to dictate what we respond to.
Any goal that is longer than 90 days is a waste of time. Todd Herman once said, "90 days is the horizon to our motivation." Anything beyond that and it's really hard to get excited and motivated about. Numerous studies confirm this. One study conducted at the USC Mind and Society Center proved that goals beyond 90 days increases the level of procrastination. Another study showed that feedback loops of short-term goals increases motivation and focus in people. In other words, when we set ourselves up for short term wins, we increase our momentum and motivation.
In order to move forward in 2016, it is extremely important to reflect on the past year. While reflection is important throughout the year, it is more important to do a longer analysis of the previous year so that we can learn from it and improve upon it. Here are some of the questions I use to guide my own annual reflection:
What are some of my biggest accomplishments from this past year?
What are some of the lessons I have learned from the past year?
What opportunities did I miss out on this past year?
What do I need to focus on right now that will move me forward in 2016?
When you are able to reflect and gain some clarity from the previous year, it is important to use that information to establish a healthy system for implementing your first 90 day goal. Here's a successful framework you can use:
State Your Outcome: An outcome is what we're ultimately trying to achieve. For example one outcome might be to, "Increase my revenue by 10% by April 1st" or "I want to lose 25 pounds by April 1st" or "I want to write a book by April 1st." Once your outcome is stated it is something that you need to be firm on. This is something that you should not change as you work to achieve it. Your outcome should be something that excites and motivates you.
Create Your Strategies: Your strategies are essential to your 90 day successful goal. This is where you will determine HOW you will achieve your outcome. You may have two or three strategies for every outcome. The most important thing to do here is to create a 14 day target. This is one of the missing pieces as to why people fail at achieving goals. Choosing a target for every strategy is key because it allows you to have a short-term win and evaluate how things are going. When people do not have an assessment or time to reflect to see if their strategy is working, they end up doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. An example of a strategy using the above examples would be: "I will improve the number of products that I have to sell on my website from one to three in the next 14 days or "I will work out eight times in the next 14 days" or "I will create the outline for my book in the next 14 days." At the end of the 14 days you will have an opportunity to see if what you are doing is working and adjust and modify your strategy if needed.
Determine Your Actions Steps: Your action steps become the 4 Whys – who, what, when and where. These are the things you can schedule into your daily agenda. This is where all the action takes place. Your actions steps are your day-to-day tasks that you will do to ensure you achieve. Who will do it? What needs to be done? When will it be done? Where will it take place? Using the above examples, your action steps for increasing your revenue by 10% and based on our strategy could be to determine what your new product will be; create the product; create a sales page; determine a budget; work on your website. Action steps that you could take for losing 25 pounds and based on our strategy could be researching fitness centres; scheduling in workout days in my calendar; research different types of exercise programs; create my workout routine. Action steps for writing a book and based on our strategy could be to talk to another author; research methods for creating chapter titles; identify chapter titles; take one hour a day for creative time.
It is always important to share your 90 day success roadmap with someone else who can hold you accountable every week. If you know that you have to report your progress to another individual, it increases the level of urgency in completing your action steps. Once you write down all three phases of this framework, you will have a massive amount of clarity and confidence to move forward. As you can see, when we map out a system that is clear and concise we will set ourselves up for success, as opposed to leaving it to chance. We will begin to lead our "agenda" instead of having the environment (the demands of other people) dictate their "agenda" to us. When we have the right mindset, strategy, and action steps, we will begin to build powerful momentum that will propel us towards achievement.


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Stored Procs are Dead - Long Live Stored Procs!permalink
Every developer has a different opinion of stored procedures. If you've worked on a few projects that involve databases, you'll inevitably come across the as part of a project.
I've personally had a love/hate relationship with them. They require maintenance scripts like your regular table structure, but they aren't structure. Generally, databases don't give you good introspection ability for stored procedures either - fire-and-forget management.
Classically, stored procedures have been a bastardized version of the database's native SQL. Take the basic SQL, add in some cursors, looping constructs and function invocation - that's your stored procedure language. Depending on your database vendor, be prepared to deal with different syntaxes, punctuation and functionality.
No matter what, you'll be writing your application in a different language, making the number of languages involved in any project with stored procs N + 1. If you choose to evaluate a different database vendor for a different project, or version 2.0 of your current project, your previous stored procedure may or may not translate.
Over the last decade and a bit, database vendors have been adding native language bindings to the database itself, allowing developers to write code in languages they are comfortable in, regardless of the database storage technology behind the scenes.
I'll step back for a bit here - the role of application storage has been changing recently, pushed by a number of factors:
- Data-binding frameworks, like Hibernate, SQLAlchemy, Ruby on Rails and a number of others have been creating an abstraction layer over different database brands, as well as managing the flow of data between the live objects in the system.
- SQL-free large stores like Google's BigTable, CouchDB and others have been pushing complexity out of the datastore and into the application itself.
- Languages with dynamic typing are in-vogue. Python, Ruby and PHP are popular, Java will be getting dynamic dispatch soon.
- New accessible structured storage formats, like Apache Thrift and Google's Protobuf are allowing developers to create highly versionable "blobs" that are easy to write to, but hard to index and query.
Databases are going to have to evolve over the near future to suit the way that applications and hardware are developing today. Memory is cheap, disks are huge and time-to-market is one of the primary driving forces for developers.
I believe that the ideal role for a database is to be a high-powered host for serialization framework stubs. Instead of having to map application objects from database tables using clumsy SQL generation techniques and reconstructing objects from deep JOINs, the serialization frameworks should be injecting small stubs next to the database process itself. These stubs can coordinate data retrieval with the database itself - managing, grooming and traversing indexes, altering storage as needed for client-side data and sending appropriately structured data to the application.
Drizzle is a large step in the right direction. Instead of providing the smörgåsbord of features like the other DB vendors on the market, it provides a light-weight, modular architecture that allows you to swap and re-plug components like you would your application itself.
Here's my plea to database developers: Let me compose my database server like I do my Java code, from appropriately tailored components optimized for my use. Let me run my Java/Python/Ruby code on the database server, right next to the data itself, in a language that I'm familiar and comfortable with - running on both sides of the database connection TCP connection.Read full post

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text: GAAQ: Generally Asked Accounting Questions January 22, 1998March 25, 2012 Two from Jeffrey Schwarz: Yahoo, the Internet search company, reported that it earned $0.05 a share on a pro-forma basis. What is "pro-forma basis"? Pro-forma means, essentially, "as if" — e.g., in the case of a merger or prospective merger, the results are issued as if the merger had already taken place, and past results are restated to pretend the merger had been in effect all along. In the case of Yahoo, it might mean "as if all the stock options we've granted our management and employees were exercised" (also known as reporting earnings on a "fully diluted basis"). Maybe earnings were $6 million on 100 million shares — 6 cents. But what if there are options outstanding on 20 million additional shares? In that case, one might think of the company, and its $6 million in earnings, as realistically being divided up among 120 million shares — 5 cents each. Please note: I know nothing about Yahoo specifically, other than how to visit its website, and am just making up these numbers for the sake of illustration. Pro-forma, as it were. Also: what prevents a company from claiming just about everything it purchases is an "investment" [which it can then capitalize over several years rather than charge to earnings right away], thus lowering expenses and increasing earnings? If a company did that, wouldn't its earnings look artificially high? Exactly so. What prevents a company from doing this are the independent auditors, who all attempt to follow GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) . . . as well as pressure from Wall Street analysts who look to see how aggressive or conservative the accounting has been. But you're right: there's real variation in the "quality of earnings" that companies report . . . it's important . . . and it takes a careful reading of the footnotes, and sometimes more, to find it. A company that "expenses" all its research and development costs, for example, is being a lot more conservative than one that chooses to "amortize" them off over a period of years. Both approaches can be justified, but in comparing two companies, it's important to compare accounting practices as well. One reason many investors give weight to "cash flow per share" as an indicator is that it cuts through all this. "Listen buddy," cash flow says. "Just tell me how much came in and how much you spent. If you took in $10 million more than you spent, I don't mind so much that you reported a big loss. And if you spent $10 million more than you took in, I'm a little less excited about the huge profit you reported — GAAP or no GAAP." GAAP is actually a very logical, painstakingly worked-out set of principles that in many respects can provide a much more thoughtful picture than simple "cash flow." A smart investor often looks at both.


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It seems that President Trump is trailing in the polls again. In other "shocking" news, it seems that only women menstruate; "green energy" is a massive scam; Trump-Russia collusion was a massive hoax; media leftists hate America; and on everything from masks, to guns, to lives that matter, liberals are hypocrites. As I noted back in January of this year, Americans—especially Trump supporters—should pay little to no attention to the national polls on the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
Again, such polls are usually not designed to inform us—as they should—but rather to form public opinion. This is true of the polls in the so-called "battleground" states as well. Again, 2016 provides the valuable lesson here.
People define battleground states differently. For purposes of this piece, I'll define a "battleground state" as a state that was won—by either Trump or Hillary—in 2016 by less than 5 percentage points. There were eleven such states in 2016. Six were won by President Trump (margin of victory in the parentheses): North Carolina (3.66%), Arizona (3.55%), Florida (1.20%), Wisconsin (0.77%), Pennsylvania (0.72%), and Michigan (.23%). Five were won by Hillary: Colorado (4.91%), Maine (2.96%), Nevada (2.42%), Minnesota (1.52 %), and New Hampshire (0.37%).
Going into the 2016 election, according to the Real Clear Politics (RCP) polling average, Hillary Clinton led Donald Trump in seven out of 11 battleground states (Hillary's RCP polling average lead in parentheses): WI (6.5%), PA (2.1%), MI (3.6%), CO (3.0%), ME (5.5%), MN (6.3%), and NH (0.3%). In other words, Donald Trump won three of the battleground states—WI, PA, and MI—where he (supposedly) trailed significantly in polls done just days prior to the election. Additionally, whether he won the state or not, Trump outperformed the RCP polling average in seven out of 11 battleground states. He did so by an average margin of 3.5 %.
However, since the RCP average is typically only the handful of polls just prior to the election—which are often, and "amazingly!" (hear my sarcasm) more accurate—it is more informative to examine the polls months prior to the election. After all, these are the ones that are used in the nefarious attempts to shape public opinion. Let's look at the battleground polls that were done almost exactly four years ago, in July and August of 2016.
In the July-August polls reported by RCP, Hillary had a polling average lead in all but one (AZ) of the 11 battleground states. The numbers in parentheses are her average lead at the time: NC (2.2%), FL (1.9%), WI (6.8%), PA (6.1%), MI (6.9 %), CO (8.6%), ME (only a single poll: 10%), NV (0.8%), MN (RCP reports only seven polls in 2016. The average Hillary lead: 7.0%.), and NH (9.3%). In the final 2016 election result, Trump outperformed every one of these polling averages except one (NV). He did so by an average of 6.2%.
According to the RCP polling, currently, Joe Biden leads President Trump in every battleground state poll average (Biden's lead in parentheses): NC (2.0%), AZ (2.8%), FL (7.0%), WI (6.0%), PA (7.3%), MI (8.0%), CO (only a single poll: 10.0%), ME (10.3%), NV (4.0%), MN (11.4%), and NH (4.3%). Note how similar these results are to the 2016 numbers.
It is also worth noting that today's media is much more afraid of a second term for President Trump than they were of a potential first term for then candidate Donald Trump. This is why, along with their polling games, we had to endure years of a Trump-Russia-collusion hoax, are bombarded daily with Wuhan virus case counts—which are about as meaningless as the presidential polls—told that we must remain in some form of shutdown mode, and are nightly exposed to scenes of riots and destruction.
Democrats in 2016 thought Donald Trump was a joke and Hillary was a shoo-in. Having seen what he's capable of accomplishing, even in the face of unprecedented opposition, democrats in 2020 are terrified of giving Donald Trump four more years. Thus, the portrayal of near-constant chaos across America.
In other words, all in the name of getting rid of President Trump, Democrats and their like-minded allies in the media are invested in the continued suffering of Americans. As Tucker Carlson recently put it,
Democrats understand that the unhappier Americans become, the more likely they are to win. Unhappy people want change. It is not complicated. So, every ominous headline about the state of the country makes it more likely that Donald Trump will lose his job. The more that people suffer, the greater Joe Biden's advantage. Democrats have a strong incentive, therefore, to inflict as much pain as they can, and that's what they are doing.
Instead of laying the blame where it belongs—the Chinese own the Wuhan virus; democrats own the violent, crime-ridden, riotous cities; the media and the democrats own the Trump-Russia-collusion hoax—the media continuously points their crooked finger at President Trump and constantly attempts to blame him and his administration for virtually all that they perceive is wrong in America. Whether true or not, the polls—whether national or state—are meant to sell the notion that most of the voting public is buying what the leftist media is selling.
And so what if the polls are wrong now? What have the drive-by media to lose? If Biden wins, they will have succeeded. If Trump wins, they can tell themselves, "At least we tried." Their polls months out from the election in 2020 look no worse than they did in 2016, and however the election turns out, the drive-bys—seemingly never undeterred by failed wrong-doings—will move on to their next evil assignment.
Last, if, like me, you're a Trump supporter, let none of this discourage you. In fact, let it motivate you, as it does me. I've never been more enthusiastic about voting for Trump as President of the United States. In 2016, my vote for Trump was more of a vote against Hillary. That's not the case this year. And every bogus poll, every media lie, every ignorant mask mandate (take note, corporate America), every business closed, every park closed, every school shut down, every statue torn down, every conservative cancelled, every knee bowed at our National Anthem, every hateful, violent act toward our police, and all other such garbage, only further motivates me to cast my ballot for Donald J. Trump!
(See this piece at American Thinker.)
Copyright 2020, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
Trevor is the author of the The Miracle and Magnificence of America


text: In his article at The Blue Review — Beyond the Friendly, Two Idaho Immigration Stories — Mark Bieter takes the opportunity of the Basque Soccer Friendly, to be played this evening between Athletic Bilbao and Club Tijuana, to delve into the history of the two cultures these teams represent, the Basques and the Mexicans. Both have played an important role in the history of the American West and the economy of states like Idaho. A nice read that reminds us that, more often than not, people have more in common than we tend to realize.


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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Karen's Meme
2. How long have you been gone? 2 years
3. Death age/true age? 16/18
4. What do you miss most about being alive? Sensation and unconditional love. I also wish my sister Caitlyn had been born when I was still alive so that I'd know what it really felt like to hold her.
5. What, if anything, is cool about being a zombie? Don't have to sleep, don't have to diet.
6. How did your family react to you coming back? They didn't kick me out, which is something. I think they were more hurt about the way I died than me coming back.
My father seems to be "coming around" a bit more than Mom and treats me as though I were human. Almost.
Caitlyn was born about nine months after I died. I suppose that is a reaction, of sorts!
7. Most humiliating moment as a zombie? See above. Also I have to live in the basement even though there is an extra bedroom upstairs. Oh well, at least the basement is furnished!
8. Visible signs of zombiism? My skeery skeery eyes, which I'm told look like diamonds, and my pale skin and bleach blonde hair.
9. Goals/ambition? To live--really live--again!
10. "If I were alive today, I would..." Not do what I did.
62 comments:
That's really sad.
...But the optomism is good, yes?
- July 31, 2008 at 12:36 PM
- Natalie said...
Wow...that must have been...so...devastating for her. I can't imagine, and having a sister born right after her death...so sad. I wonder how she died...it must have been really bad :( poor Karen. At least she's optomistic like glory_dazed said.
Lots of Love to Karen,
- July 31, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Poor karen... i wonder how she died.. =/
- July 31, 2008 at 3:43 PM
wow. Karen must have a miserable life, i mean death (srry).
- July 31, 2008 at 4:15 PM
the way u died was very sad.....i couldnt see u doin it......u must hav been upset.....very upset..
- July 31, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Its sad how you died but im so glad you got a second chance at life. Im not evn going to call it "life" with the quotations becuase karen, i truly beleive you are one of the most alive people ive seen!
And Tommy I like that your getting more people to do the memes! It helps us zombies and trad. people to bond and lear more about eachother!
- July 31, 2008 at 8:13 PM
the way Karen died was very sad. I felt so bad for her when I found out. At least she trying to live...like you, Tommy.
- July 31, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Awwww! Poor Karen!!! Tommy, tell Karen we all love her and hope things get better for her!!
- July 31, 2008 at 8:51 PM
that is really sad...karen you are amazing being able to cope with all that...at least shes happy now
- July 31, 2008 at 11:29 PM
poor karen its amazing she could cope with her sister being born after she died...but she is one of the most lively zombies right?
- July 31, 2008 at 11:52 PM
wow. what i wonder is, what will her sister think when she grows up?
- August 1, 2008 at 1:13 AM
Hey, everybody!
Just to let everyone know, Karen's little sister is ADORABLE! I just saw her for the first time the other day....so cute. Kudos to everyone for their awesome comments...seems like Karen really appreciates them.
-Phoebe <3
- August 1, 2008 at 8:08 AM
- Kiki said...
Well at least a basement is better then No house?
and The sister part. I have a little sister. I don't think I could live with out being able to hold her. I think thats probly the most saddest part of being dead. But I guess I couldn't say for sure.
- August 1, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Wow, missing a sisters birth. I'm always curious to know how people died. But I understand how she'd rather not say. I enjoy these Memes. Gives you a better look at how it is everyone or how it was. She was lucky that she wasn't kicked out though, that's a good sign. Karen is just lucky to have another chance at life, unlike a friend of mine. *gets a bit teary eyed* Karen, you don't realize how lucky you really are! Lots of love from moi(Shelby!)
Stay optomistic!
- August 1, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Oh my gosh, this just makes me super sad! May my love for Karen suffice! It may not be enough solace, but I try. I bet Caitlyn is adorable. :D Even though I think the basement is unfair, at least you do have a home.
- August 1, 2008 at 4:25 PM
karen, at least your parents didn't ditch you, and you have a home! You are more lucky than, say, Colette. And the way you died must have been absolutly devastating for your parents!
- August 1, 2008 at 5:37 PM
- Minerva Rose said...
Gahh! Karen sounds so pretty! O_O
- August 1, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- Minerva Rose said...
But It's so tragic. o-o
At least she got to know her sister, right?
- August 1, 2008 at 8:27 PM
minerva rose,
she didn't get to meet her sister becauseshe died nine months before her little sister was born.
- August 2, 2008 at 6:41 PM
she can't actually hold her now but she got to see her after she came baqck to life!
- August 2, 2008 at 6:43 PM
mirvana rose is right she does sound pretty!
- August 2, 2008 at 7:32 PM
karen come on you can tell me how you died!!!! PPPPPPEEEEEZZZZZZZ!!:]
- August 2, 2008 at 8:31 PM
- MorningNightLight said...
this website wuz on da back of my breakin dawn rist band that says "generation dead" wat does this have 2 do with da twilight series?
- August 2, 2008 at 8:36 PM
Awh poor karen.. =( she's my fave out of all the zombies.
- August 3, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Sorry to comment again but I really just felt the need to say this even if it's totally random. At the midnight release party for Breaking Dawn(awesome book, part of an awesome series), I got a Generation Dead bracelet! I've been wearing it everyday since I got it.
- August 4, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Karen. im so sorry. i feel so sorry for you and your little sister. I have a little brother. he'll be two in a month. If anything ever happened to him, i don't know wat id do! i love him to de-.. um...nvm. but i still love him.
- August 5, 2008 at 2:51 PM
I wish I knew how Karen died. It must have been awful if she doesn't want to share it. Plus if her parents are okay will her being a zombie, then why would they make her sleep in the basement? I mean seriously, that sucks. But I agree with glory_dazed. Good for her about being optonmistic.
- August 6, 2008 at 9:38 PM
This book is really amazing
- August 9, 2008 at 11:15 PM
- Lex Cullen said...
I just heart Karen. Hurray for optomism!
- August 10, 2008 at 4:15 AM
- August 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Itz REALLY stupid to shun zombies. They're people, too.
Karen, Tommy, Collette, Tayshawn, and every other person that died, YOU'RE AWESOME!!!!
- August 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Aw. Poor Karen! It's so sad how you died...It gave me chills just thinking about it.
I <3 you Karen!
- August 11, 2008 at 8:10 PM
This has been a random message from Kelsey W.
- August 11, 2008 at 11:52 PM
hey tommy, no offense, but when is your next post coming?? im so interested. maybe you can tell us how karen died... thats if karen's okay with you saying what happened. im looking forward to the next post!!
- August 12, 2008 at 4:06 AM
- Tommy Williams said...
Karen asked me to post the following reply to all your posts:
"Aw, what a bunch of sweeties. I feel warm all over. Kiss, kiss."
After saying "Kiss, kiss," she kissed each of my cheeks, like we were friends meeting in some Paris cafe. She was being goofy--but I think your posts actually meant a lot to her. Thanks.
- August 12, 2008 at 1:38 PM
- SweetxXInsanity said...
I love you Karen! You are amazing. I would love to hang out with you. That would be soooo fun!
- August 13, 2008 at 6:24 PM
- CherryTop said...
Well this is my first comment and well I loved the book i just finished it right now! lol! I loved it may i say again.
I would never wish on my worst enemy not 2 hold ur sister! i love my sistersand i wish u could hav held her! ifeel 4 u
- August 13, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Thats so sad... and makes me wonder about her sister being born 9 MONTHS after she died.
- August 14, 2008 at 4:41 PM
I think Karen is a strong person in body and mind. I know how she died, and i think that she's very strong to accept the thought that she has another chance at life and that she's going to make the best of it.
good luck Karen
Remember that even though you are dead you still have the chance to be as alive as you want.
- August 17, 2008 at 10:02 PM
- Karen DeSonne said...
Sweetxxinsanity, you are such a sweetie, it's insane! ((Big Hugs()
Karen <3
- August 24, 2008 at 12:40 AM
- Karen DeSonne said...
Thank you, Cherrytop, and thank you Phoebe who would never lie about her real name!
Karen <3
- August 24, 2008 at 12:41 AM
AWWW Karen! I'm so sorry, but atleast your family still loves you...optimisim is so truely key!
i <3 u Karen
<3 nightly panic
- August 29, 2008 at 3:42 PM
aww well at least you got another chance karen! =D
- September 1, 2008 at 6:21 AM
Karen I know how you died. But your secret is safe with me. Plz keep hope for all the other differently biotic people out there. SweetPea
- September 13, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Karen I know how you died. But your secret is safe with me. Plz keep hope for all the other differently biotic people out there. SweetPea
- September 13, 2008 at 2:55 PM
- pinkytheghost said...
hey girl i lov u sooo much....my bf just broke up with me im gonna...die...like ...u did!!! i just hope i dont cum back!! wish me luck babe! =^.^=
- October 13, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- Karen DeSonne said...
Aw, sweetie, don't think like that! Where there's life, there's hope. Keep your head up!
- October 13, 2008 at 3:40 PM
- Little Vampire said...
yepp that is sad
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- October 25, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Karen, I am sorry, I was eavesdropping when you told Phoebe and Margi what happened. But there are those of us you are behind you. Keep up the good fight.
- December 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM
awww.karen, noy trin' 2 b mean but i reallyreallyreally want 2 know how u died;i wont laugh or pitty or anythin' i just hate secrets
- January 4, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Hey Karen! I want you to know, I send my love to all of the kids at the Jaunted house an all of your friends-Even Tak! <3
I remember how you died... it just broke my heart!!!
It confused me why you did such a thing to die! But I'm glad you came back ^^ It was very sweet tp tell Adam to tell Pheebs that he loved her! it was a shame that he never got to tell her!
Love ya Karen!
- February 21, 2009 at 12:01 AM
- Samantha said...
I wish Karen would share with us why she killed herself and if she was a totaly differnt person before she died or if she was the same(I mean like, look on life, personality, things like that.)
- July 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM
aww the part how she wants to be able to feel her baby sister is just sad:(
- August 15, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Max said...
I know this girl named Karen who acts and looks like Karen, the zombie. I doubt she's a zombie though. Something tells me I would know, but she seriously acts like Karen.
- December 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Karen-I love you and every other "Living Impaired."tell your little sis and all the other zombies a special friend love each and every one. Love all,The New Zombie Annalynn
- January 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM
I'm so sorry to... hear about... your sister. I know... how it feels... to be treated... differently... by your parents. I've only been... back for... 4 months and... my parents are... coming around. Good... luck!
- January 13, 2010 at 8:54 PM
that...is just so sad. but...at least your parents accepted...your coming back. after i...came back, my parents wouldn't let....me near the house. i'm staying with...a friend. my brother is nine and....he used to write to me...every day. but then...my parents caught him...writing to me. they said if...he missed me...so much, that...he should go live with me. so...not only did they disown....me, they disowned...my brother...as well
- November 1, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm so proud of how you've matured ever since you've died. And I'm glad to know you regret doing what you've done. However, even though I know you don't want to say, I hope to know what made you do such a thing. But of course, it would be the least of my intentions to pry :) More power to you :D
- April 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Karen, you are amazing.. and from what i read you are quite the looker too. You flippin awesome, you and Tommy are role models for me. Karen i know that that time must have been difficult for you but its good for you to be open about it and converse with others. I love you Karen, and i love what you represent. You and Tommy represent.. life. Much love Karen, much love<3.
- June 8, 2011 at 1:36 AM
- goth101 said...
Well Karen..I know how you feel on the how you died part. I'm really sorry about everything you've been though. My love is sent to you, and to everyone.
- July 18, 2011 at 10:10 PM
- Shelbs said...
I know how you feel Karen. I've thought about how you died at times and I thought about doing it at times. I wish I had your strength. But I'm happy for you!
I love you! You're my role model!
- January 16, 2012 at 7:38 PM
Karen, you are alive. Or at least to me, we love you sweety and always will. I'm completly strait and I think I'm in love with you. But I also happen to be in love with that demon friend of mine, who happens to be reading over my shoulder, ohh well. Just know that we love you, no matter what you did (and yes I know what you did) and please tell Nikkie hello for me.
Love you Karen,
- June 27, 2013 at 7:07 PM


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Hello there, dear readers! You thought I forgot about this little nightlife series of ours, didn't you? Well, don't doubt me, Mary. I didn't! Come on in, though not too close. I've been sniffling my way through Kleenex box after Kleenex box for days. It's fine though I've been drinking my miracle cures–hot toddys. Don't tell me they aren't medicinal, queens, I'm a doctor of journalism! Sorry this cold medicine is making me a little woozy with a penchant for quoting Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Anyhoo, I'm about ready for another dose of maniacal queer nightlife obsessing so grab yourself a hot drink and enter….The Ethyl Eichelberger Video Lounge!
Frequently performing at nightclubs such as the Pyramid Club, as well as more traditional Downtown performance venues such as P.S. 122, Dixon Place and La MaMa, actor, writer and drag performer Ethyl Eichelberger burst his way onto the stage–accordion in hand, developing his own unique style of historical high camp theater. Writing and performing his own plays, Eichelberger became known for embodying the roles of famous past queens from Queen Nefertiti to those Greek divas Clytemnestra and Medea.
An extremely hysterical and poignant writer, as well as actor, Eichelberger excelled at turns of phrases, which slyly referenced drag and queerness such as "Isis knows it hasn't been easy/It's a lot of hard work being a queen/ And there are factions out there who don't like what I represent/ Tough noogies! I have a right to be here"
Born James Roy Eichelberger in Illinois, Eichelberger was always fascinated by theater, graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in 1967. After working as the lead character actor in the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, Eichelberger returned to New York where he began working with Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company as an actor and wig designer. An enormous and visible influence on Eichelberger's own hilarious productions from his use of drag to his appropriation of historical texts to his embrace of the ridiculous, Charles Ludlam encouraged Eichelberger to write his own plays.
Changing his name to Ethyl upon his return to New York, Eichelberger was an intimidating figure in drag with his tall frame–made even larger by his heels and wigs, as well as his penchant for wearing wonderfully off-putting makeup. Eichelberger also had a tattoo on his back of himself in drag as an angel. An inspiration for artists as well as audiences, Eichelberger was a frequent muse for photographer Peter Hujar, posing for several stunningly beautiful studio portraits, which portray a stillness counter to Eichelberger's energetic performances.
Beginning in 1972, Eichelberger performed in over thirty of his own plays, which featured not only his acting and accordion-playing, but also fire-eating, cartwheels and splits. In addition to performing as historical divas including Jocasta, Lola Montez and Carlotta, Empress of Mexico, Eichelberger also wrote Leer, a play that whittled down Shakespeare's King Lear into three characters, unsurprisingly all of which Eichelberger played.
In his later career, Eichelberger began performing in more mainstream productions including Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors on Broadway and The Threepenny Opera with Sting.
In 1990, unable to tolerate the AIDS medications available at that time, Eichelberger committed suicide in his Staten Island home. Despite his outrageous stage presence, Eichelberger was a very private person and only after his death did most learn that he had been HIV positive.
Even after almost 25 years since his death, Eichelberger remains a monumentally iconic presence in the Downtown theatrical and performance scene.
So grab another hot toddy and let's watch Eichelberger at his best (Many of these videos, like most of the nightlife video documentation from this period, comes from Nelson Sullivan). If you've got an accordion, play along, queen!
And just for fun, spot Ethyl (along with a ton of other favs) in one of my favorite campy videos by Fred Schneider:


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License to make a killing? James Bond's favourite car, the marque automaker Aston Martin has finally announced details of its Initial Public Offering (IPO).
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Parallels with Ferrari's October 2015 IPO spring to mind of investors considering how Aston Martin shares will behave following its floatation on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The Italian carmaker's public trading may have seen its shares close 3% higher on Day 1, but within six months shares had fallen by close to 50% after a 22% slump in supercar shipments in China. The shares have, however, more than tripled since, hitting record highs this summer.
Ferrari currently trades at a valuation of 36 times 2018 estimated profits. This compares to 7.3x for other European automakers, suggesting a premium luxury valuation for the prancing horse (Source: Bloomberg, 29 August 2018). Looking at 2017 profits, the FT suggests Ferrari trading at 22x earnings, contrasting with Aston's proposed top-end valuation of 24x earnings.
Aston Martin is looking to achieve similar premium valuation multiples with is IPO. This is based on improving financial results, with the latest half-year report pointing to growing revenues thanks to strong demand from Asia, realigning the automaker away from reliance on its local UK market and insulating it from some of the Brexit uncertainty.
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– The Shevchenko House-Museum – is a literature memorial museum dedicated to the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (Shevchenko Ave., 8-a). It was in this house that Shevchenko lived during 1846-1847. Today it is the house museum, where the exposition highlights the poet's stay in Kyiv. The collection consists of memorial belongings of Shevchenko, his autographs and photographs, as well as the first works of the poet. The room where Taras Shevchenko used to live was renovated. Here you can see the poet's desk, feather-pen, inkwell, flask and pipe.
– The House-Museum of Lesya Ukrainka – is located on Saksaganskogo street, 97. The parents of the poetess lived in this house on the 1st floor in apartment number 3 in 1899-1910. Lesya often came to visit. The poetess herself temporary lived in the house on Saksaganskogo, 101 as it is confirmed by a memorial plaque installed on the house. A lot of famous personalities of that time came to visit the poetess: M.Staritsky, N. Lysenko, M.Rylsky were among them.
– Sholom Aleichem Museum – opened in 2009 on the V.Vasylkivska Street, 5 and is dedicated to the world-famous Jewish writer Sholom Aleichem. It was at this address that the writer lived in 1896 -1903. This was the time of his active creative activity. Here he wrote "Menachem Mendl", "In a small world of small people", as well as some novels from "Tevye the Milkman". The exposition of the Sholom-Aleikhem Museum tells about his life and work. Here documents, manuscripts and photographs are collected. On screens installed in the halls are shown fragments from films and performances, which based on the writer's works. Also in the museum you can see some items of traditional Jewish life and ritual objects, which gives presentation of the Jewish Kyiv of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.
– Bulgakov House – the famous literary and memorial museum of the capital today. The house itself was built in 1888 due to the project of N. Gordenin, a Kiev architect, and the customers were the merchant family of Litoshenko (the mansion was intended for the owner's wife). One and a half floors of the building were built of stone, the top wooden floor, was bricked, the roof was covered with iron. Within some time, several buildings were added to the main building, the new owner of the estate of four houses became Z.Mirovych, a merchant and a personal honorary citizen of the city.
All the buildings were leased, and the apartment on the first floor was the most expensive. In 1906, the tenants of this apartment became the family of Afanasy Bulgakov the Professor of the Kiev Theological Academy, renting an apartment on the first floor. So, from 1906 to 1919 years the world-famous writer Mikhail Bulgakov lived and worked in the Building No. 13 located on the Andriivskyi Descent. The house wasn't different from neighboring ones for many years.
But in 1967 in the popular magazine "New World" of that time was published an essay by Viktor Nekrasov, a Kiev writer of "The House of Turbins". That's right, Kievans began to call the Building No. 13 by the name of the fictional Bulgakov literary heroes, the Turbin family. Today it is the only museum in the world where Bulgakov's relics are collected. Today it's not just a building, it's a Legend-House.
— The House-museum of Lysenko – is located on the Saksaganskogo, 95 street where during the years 1898-1912 the famous Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko lived. Here the main works of the composer were created. The museum contains documents that tell about Lysenko's life and work, as well as his belongings and his renovated study. Separate sections of the exposition are devoted to his composer's, pedagogical and social activities. In the museum you will hear music played by the outstanding composer of the 20th century.
– The House with Chimaeras – shrouded in legends and myths, was built in the period of 1902-1903 by the famous architect Gorodetsky and it is his best creation. This was the first house in Kyiv, which was built from expensive cement at that time. For erecting a house with chimaeras, Gorodetsky bought a site-a cliff on the bank of a drained bog, forbidden to construction by the authorities. One floor was occupied by Gorodetsky himself. In 1912 Gorodetsky laid his mansion and could not return it. Now there are guided tours by appointment.


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Why I looked at this bookA decade or so ago it seemed that the issue of global warming was becoming seen as the most important problem faced by humanity. Since that time there have been lots of meetings and resolutions concerning what should be done, but actual implementation seems to lag far behind. Instead of becoming more and more urgent, it seems that global warming has been overshadowed by other issues. Why should this be? I'm hoping that this book will provide some clues.
First impressionsThe book starts with 9 rather incredible anomalies in the way people see climate change compared with other issues. Note though that when I use the word incredible I mean it - that I have my doubts about the claims and will want more evidence to back them up. For instance Marshall asks why are science fiction fans so unwilling to imagine what the future might be like? In the view of the claims of the book Nerd Ecology this seems doubtful. But then the next chapter looks at how victims of disasters - which may well be related to climate change - really want to see them as a one-off event. That seems more believable. It promises to be an interesting read.


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Club Cooee est une communauté de chat en 3D dans laquelle les membres utilisent des avatars en 3D pour faire des rencontres, chatter et s´éclater avec leurs amis. Le tout en un. Et le meilleur: c´est GRATUIT!
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In Club Cooee "stickers" are given by winking and are automatically shown on your profile page.
The number on the green background stands for the number of received stickers and the number on the red background shows how any stickers you have sent.
In order to wink you have to click onto another avatar with your right mouse button and select "wink". You will then be shown a list of all stickers that you can send. There are stickers for CP (Cooee Points), CC (Cooee Cash) or a selection for VIP.
Here is a list of all the stickers you can wink in Club Cooee:
Following sticker were only available during a short period of time:
These are the stickers you can only receive from admins for special activities:
There are also some stickers that you will receive for different DJ Party achievements:


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Kolcraft Contours Options strollers recalled after three children get their fingers chopped in US
Three children in the United States have accidentally chopped off a fingertip after because of a fault with their stroller and two adults have reported smashing or cutting their fingers.
The horrific injuries happened after they got a finger jammed in a hinge mechanism used to adjust handlebars on Kolcraft Contours Options products and five models have since been recalled.
Around 36,000 defective strollers were sold in the U.S. and Canada between January 2006 and June 2012, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Pushchairs with model numbers beginning ZL002, ZL005, ZL008, ZL015 and ZL018, will be taken down from store shelves, CNN reported and free repair kits are being made available.
Kolcraft has urged worried parents to stop using their stroller immediately and contact the company for more information.
The strollers are made in China and come in both three and four-wheel options, costing around $150.
They have been sold nationwide at juvenile product specialty stores, as well as online at Amazon.com, Target.com and ToysRUs.com.


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Miro Rubix for PSP®
Demo video
What is it?
The puzzle starts with various boxes.
You can select a row and a column using the keys in the direction pad.
Then you can move all the boxes of a row to the left or to the right using the buttons: . You can then move all the boxes of a column up and down using the buttons: .
With this simple mechanism you can solve a puzzle. You just move the boxes to form a figure like this:
You can also form a different figure changing the order of the colors.
The purpose of the game is to be able to complete the puzzle in the fewest moves possible. The game counts the number of movements to solve the puzzle and memorizes the best score.
Types of game
The game comes with few type of games. You can choose to have a grid of 9×9 boxes or 6×6. Also, you can choose the number of movements, it can be 1 or 3.
The story
This is a simple puzzle that I made up a long time ago. This puzzle is inspired by the famous game called Rubik's Cube. After I invented the mechanism of this game, a friend told me that he had found a game with the same mechanism, this game is called "Rubix". For this reason I changed the original name that was "Rubik 2D" to "Miro Rubix". I wrote this game in C for PSP® and in Java for PC platforms.


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02 Nov Mary vs. Goliath Follow up 2
Posted at 15:15h in branding, design issues, ridiculous items
JEA has released a new RFP and several local agencies are participating. Yeah!
I'm certain said agencies are preparing a lavish reception for Mary Fisher, Jan Korb, Tony Allegretti, Alison Blackstone and yours truly. After all it's these fine rabble-rousers that got them a second chance.
Tom or Jim, In case you're looking for thank you gift ideas, I'm rather fond of Pinot Noir and Imported Beer. Best of luck guys!


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Man Believes He Uncovered His Wife's Murder Plot After Overhearing Her Rehearsing His Eulogy
Read how one terrified man tries to cope with hearing his wife rehearsing a speech for his funeral.
People have been asking for advice on the internet pretty much ever since it was invented. And even before that, columns like "Ask Amy," "Ask Polly" and "Ask Anita" graced the pages of newspapers to everyone's delight.
It's somehow fascinating to hear about the romantic or familial plights of other people, partially because they help us feel better about our own lives, and also because they equip us with tips we might use if we're ever faced with a similar problem ourselves.
But then there are other stories that are so crucially out there, we have to follow along just to see how they end. Such is the tale of reddit user mentosallaround, who sought out advice from the platform when he walked in on his wife rehearsing a speech for his funeral.
This story might make you think twice before taking your personal problems to the internet.
It all started one day when our protagonist came home from work early, presumably in a great mood. He could hear his wife talking in the study, and assuming she was on the phone with a friend, decided to give her some privacy. But he kept hearing his name mentioned, so he inched a bit closer to the door.
"I heard her say 'my late husband'," he explains in his post. "She was giving a monologue, saying things about me like an eulogy or like she was talking about me, after I died, to someone who didn't know me."
From his side of the door, he could hear her say things like, "'I couldn't stay in the city after my husband passed, everything reminded me of him. I had to sell the house even though I loved it so much, we had just bought it...'," referring to the house they had in fact just purchased. "Things like that," he wrote. "Details about me and our life. It was weird AF."
At that point, with a piqued curiosity, he opened the door and expected to find his wife on the phone. But he didn't.
His wife was just standing there, "her eyes were watering," and she quickly claimed she was reading aloud from a book — except there were no books around.
"I asked what book it was, she said, 'it's personal' and changed topics, telling me family stuff," he explains.
But that's not all. Later that evening, he admitted to snooping on her computer, and was shocked (to say the least) about what he found.
"I looked through her browser history," he wrote, "and she is shopping for wedding dresses? She was also shopping for something I wanted for ages, so I guess that is cute. That she wants to get me something nice before whatever it is that's going on."
That's pretty much the entirety of this user's first post, which he finishes by asking some pointed questions: "Is this normal?" "Have you ever thought about your loved ones passing away and what you would say?"
The internet had a lot to say about this unsettling situation, mostly along the lines you're probably all thinking — THIS WOMAN IS ABOUT TO MURDER YOU.
"How much life insurance do you have?," commented one user. Another sarcastically wrote, "Can you tell your wife to post an update after she murders you?" One added, "Do you have a disease or something where you might be dying soon? If not, maybe don't eat anything she cooks anymore."
Pretty much everyone agreed they'd be feeling pretty paranoid too, if they were in this guy's shoes.
The post was so compelling and curiosity-inducing, over three hundred users chimed in to share their opinions with this man. And the entire community was on the edge of their seats until he posted an update to his story two days later.
The update to the original story, titled "I (35M) caught my wife (29F) rehearsing a speech for my funeral (?)" begins as follows:
Met a buddy for lunch and told him the whole tale. He too found it morbid AF, but didn't see her committing first degree murder. Asked me if I thought she could be having an affair (he has a history with weird stuff turning out to be cheater SO). Suggested I get a PI in case of cheating, and call my lawyer in case of murder.
I said I'll consider it. But I know my wife, she is usually pretty shy. I'm still REALLY thinking this might be something silly that got her embarrassed. Was it any other topic, I'd have asked right away. The funeral thing just got me creeped out and I probably would leave it alone if not for my growing curiosity.
Buddy makes a point that there is no harm in calling my lawyer just to check on the procedure to change beneficiaries on life insurance and such, so I'm prepared in the event things go even more weird. I agree, no harm in that. Call the lawyer, tell him I'm discussing finances with the wife and we are thinking about changing both our beneficiaries (trying not to make it look like I suspect her, you know), he says he's stepping into a restaurant with a client can he call me back.
After calling his lawyer, our protagonist goes on with his day at work. This time, it's a long day, and he gets so caught up in his tasks that he forgets entirely about the call he made to his lawyer.
When he got home to his wife that night, let's just say, things EXPLODED for our protagonist. So much so that he began regretting posting the story to the internet in the first place.
"My wife is upset," he writes. "And that is an understatement."
1 — Lawyer called. He wasn't able to get a hold of me anywhere else. Was wondering what were the questions we had about changing the beneficiaries on life insurances. Wife had no idea what he was talking about. He seemed uncomfortable upon hanging up.
2 — Turns out my buddy talked to his wife (in confidence) and told her everything. His wife told a couple of close friends (in confidence) as well. And on it went until the gossip reached a friend of my wife's who actually knew what was happening. She called my wife and told her she should talk to me ASAP.
She is mortified. Upset, hurt, confused, embarrassed. The whole deal. A little mad as well. Maybe more than a little.
These days, we're always relying on the internet to spread the word about things. But never forget how quickly gossip travels in small towns, no matter how much technology advances.
According to the author, his wife then claims she joined a community theater and is playing a widow. By her account, the monologue is just an exercise in tapping into her emotions.
Hmmmm... Claiming you're rehearsing for a drama club when you get caught practicing your husband's eulogy sure makes for a compelling excuse.
He continues:
She lied about it being a book because she too thinks it is a creepy thing to do, and didn't feel like sharing at the time, since the whole drama club is something she was doing for herself. But she thought I only heard her speaking, as in "her voice," not "what she was saying." Had she known what I heard, she would have explained it.
I ask her why didn't she tell me about the drama club. She looks at me like I have no business asking her another question for as long as we both shall live, not even about the weather. But she says it is "her thing" and she even made her friend promise not to mention it because she didn't want all of us at one of the plays (we are a tight bunch) until she was more comfortable on stage.
At this point, he says she could have mentioned her new activity at some point, but she quickly rebuts by saying he's incapable of keeping a secret. Given all the friends (and the internet communities) who he's roped into this most recent drama, it seems our writer's wife does have a point.
So, sure, this explains the monologue... But what about the wedding dress?
I'm still missing a piece of the puzzle. So I ask, "what about the wedding dress?"
This is when I realize this part of the story didn't reach her yet. She asks me "what" and I have the pleasure of telling my wife I went through her personal computer.
AHHH!!!! Now the wife is, understandably, out for blood.
[She] grabs me by my shirt, drags me up to our closet and shows me "the wedding dress" (in the making) for the play. It is amateur theater, so they have more than one job and she is also helping with the costumes, wardrobe, whatever it is called. She was looking online for cheap dresses or for styling ideas to make her own (she is quite skilled in making clothes and such, and the search history did say "old" or "vintage" wedding dress). She also shows me nun's clothes and a pirate's in her closet and asks me if that means she is attacking the British. By now I am just wondering what the f--k is this play about? A bride, a pirate and a nun? Who the f--k is writing this s--t? But I'm guessing I shouldn't be talking anymore.
Yea, it's safe to say this dude should just shove his foot in his mouth going forward. The wife is LIVID, with good reason:
She is pissed that I would think she is capable of murder enough to call our lawyer, that I told all our friends about her embarrassing monologue and went through her personal computer. Not to mention ruining the drama club she was enjoying.
I just nod, apologize profusely, try to explain that things didn't happen quite like that, and show myself to the guest bedroom because we both know where this is going.
She then tells me I can't even sleep there. Since my brother and his wife will be staying with us for a few days, she already changed the sheets and had everything cleaned and ready and says "you will just make a mess."
So, last night, our beloved author had the privilege of sleeping on the couch. And who knows when he'll be allowed back into the bedroom. If he were my husband, never. But I digress.
And this is how mentosallaround learned (the hard way, admittedly) that sometimes it's better to confront your fears and problems with the person they involve directly and in the moment. You know, rather than publishing your suspicions on a forum with more than a million subscribers, and spreading it to your friend who will tell his wife who will in turn gossip to the whole town.
My, my. I hope their marriage survives this.


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Advisory Board Member Profile
Derek Woolf
Accent Computer Solutions,Inc.
Chief Operating Officer
Areas of Expertise
Customer Experience Strategy, Your Customers, Their Journey, Customer First Culture, Principles of Customer Relationship Building, Accelerate & Improve Decisions with Data
Chief Operating Officer of Accent Computer Solutions, Inc.; a Southern California based Comprehensive IT Management Firm. Derek received his B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of LaVerne Graduating Magna Cum Laude in June of 2000. Derek joined Team Accent in 1999 as a member of the Accounting Department and over the last 20 years has dedicated his career to researching and implementing technology strategies, processes and best practices to DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE THE I.T. EXPERIENCE for businesses.
Derek directs all Operations, HR and Finance at Accent.
Other key organizations / positions:
Board of Directors of the Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce for 4 years, Including President in 2018-2019.
15+ year member of Vistage; a business advisory organization.
Eagle Scout and a Unit Commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America in Rancho Cucamonga.
Home Owners Association Board Member for 5 years.
Finally, and maybe most importantly, proud husband and father to 5 active children who enjoys surfing, mountain climbing, Cycling and traveling


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Since opening in 1993 we have partnered with the Department of Defense and the Minnesota Air National Guard. The DoD provides our operational funding (along with funding for 70 other sites across the country). The 133rd Airlift Wing of the Minnesota Air National Guard hosts our site and has provided facilities, logistical and volunteer support from day one.
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City of Crest Hill Hydrant Flushing Frequently Asked Questions
1. My water is discolored, is it safe to drink?
a. Yes, the discoloration is only cosmetic. The water coming from your tap is safe to drink.
2. My water is discolored, what can I do?
a. Most times flushing all of your toilets and running all of your sinks for 5-10 minutes will solve the problem. This will allow for fresh water from the newly flushed mains to enter your home.
3. The hydrant near my home caused damage to my property.
a. Please call 815-741-5108, and a member of city staff will come out to your property to evaluate the situation.
4. Why does the water system need to be routinely flushed?
a. The city's water distribution system is a complex network of pipes and storage reservoirs where sediment or deposits may naturally accumulate over time. If not removed, these material may cause water quality deterioration, taste and odor problems, or discoloration of the water. Water may also stagnate in lesser used parts of the distribution system. This can result in degraded water quality.
5. I didn't see anyone flush my hydrant, when is this being done?
a. Hydrant flushing is taking place between the hours of 9:00pm and 6:00am.
6. What should I do after the flushing?
a. If the tap water is used during flushing, it could come out full of sediment and discoloration. If you encounter discolored water, shut the water off and wait several minutes. After waiting, check the clarity by running cold water for a few minutes allowing new water to work its way into your pipes. If not, wait a few more minutes and check again. In some cases, you may experience slight discoloration for a few hours. This discoloration only affects the appearance of the water; it does not affect the taste or water quality.
7. I have low water pressure after the crews have flushed the hydrants in my area, what can I do?
a. Check the screens on the faucets and shower heads, they have the ability to get clogged with the sedimentation that we are disturbing in the system.
8. What is the silt/sedimentation in the water after the hydrants have been flushed?
a. Water naturally contains minerals and these minerals combine and react in the pipes on their way to your home. This is a natural development and the sedimentation/silt is a by-product of this process. The sedimentation/silt can build up in the water mains and reduce water flow and pressure. Flushing the hydrants helps remove this build up and improve water quality.
9. Which zone am I in?
a. Zone 1: Caton Farm Rd. From Weber to Broadway and the area surrounding Menards and the Library.
b. Zone 2: The East side of the Borio Subdivision along with Renwick towards the Fire Barn.
c. Zone 3: The West side of the Borio Subdivision, The Fields of Longmeadow, and Remington Lakes.
d. Zone 4: Carillon Lakes and the Renwick Club
e. Zone 5: Advantage, Enterprise, and Cambridge Crest
f. Zone 6: Ward 1 From Oakland East
g. Zone 7: Oakland West to Burry Circle including Brian Dr, Autumn Ridge, Willow Falls, Sac Dr and Barthelone/Heiden
h. Zone 8: Hillcrest Shopping Center, Crestwood Estates (Root, Lincoln, El Dorado, Leness Ln)
i. Zone 9: Big Richland Area (Green, Greengold, Circle, Fern), Crest Acres and Whispering Meadows (Connie, Susanna, Ardaugh), The Village, Caton Crest, Waterford, and Little Richland (University and Parkrose)
j. Zone 10: Fox Meadow and All Areas South of Theodore
10. The flushing is not in my area, why is my water discolored?
a. When flushing zones 1-5, any one of those areas may be discolored. When flushing 6-10 any of those areas may see a discoloration. This is due to the two different pressure zones within the city. The discoloration should disappear over time like any discoloration.
11. How long will hydrant flushing take?
a. This process is scheduled to wrap up on October 13th.
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Arsenal out to close gap on Liverpool, Lampard seeks first win
Early Premier League leaders Liverpool and Arsenal face-off, while Frank Lampard is under pressure to deliver his first win as Chelsea boss at Norwich on Saturday.
One of the only two remaining 100 percent records in the Premier League will go at Anfield where the European champions will hope to continue a fine recent record against the north Londoners.
Jurgen Klopp has never lost in seven previous Premier League meetings against Arsenal and his side have beaten the Gunners 4-0 and 5-1 at home in the past two seasons.
However, Unai Emery's outfit are hoping a busy summer in the transfer window, while Liverpool did not strengthen, will have significantly narrowed the 27-point gap between the sides last season.
Emery could hand a first start to £72 million ($87 million) club record signing Nicolas Pepe, while on-loan Real Madrid midfielder Dani Ceballos earned rave reviews by creating both goals on his full debut against Burnley last weekend.
However, it is at the back Arsenal need a drastic improvement and there is an early opportunity for veteran centre-back David Luiz to make his mark by halting the free-scoring trio of Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah, who combined for all five Liverpool goals when the sides last met.
"A lot of times in my life I had sensational players always (but) not world-class players," Klopp told Liverpool's website.
"Now, thank God I have them and they make the difference. Sadio Mane, Bobby Firmino, Mo Salah â these guys in the last situation are really outstanding."
Arsenal have some outstanding finishers of their own. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who shared the Premier League Golden Boot with Mane and Salah last season, has scored his side's winner in the first two games of the campaign.
And on the evidence of Liverpool's first four games of the season across all competitions, a defence that registered 20 Premier League clean sheets last season looks far less solid.
Alisson Becker remains sidelined with a calf injury, meaning Adrian -- whose calamitous attempted clearance gifted Southampton a goal last weekend -- will keep his place in goal.
Solskjaer's vision coming together
Whilst Liverpool and Arsenal have taken advantage of a couple of kind fixtures to get their campaigns off to a bright start, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham all dropped points on matchday two.
The roles are reversed this weekend as United host Crystal Palace, who have yet to score this season at Old Trafford, City travel to Bournemouth and Spurs seek to dismiss Newcastle with the ease newly-promoted Norwich did last weekend.
United paid the penalty for Paul Pogba's miss from the spot in a 1-1 draw at Wolves on Monday, but following on from a 4-0 win over Chelsea on the opening weekend of the season, there have been plenty of encouraging signs that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's vision for a young, quick and hungry side is taking shape.
Harry Maguire and Aaron Wan-Bissaka, who will face his old side this weekend, have made an immediate impact in shoring up a leaky defence, while Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial have formed a dynamic partnership up front.
Pukki to pile pressure on Lampard?
Lampard was not handed an easy start to life as Chelsea boss with a trip to Old Trafford followed by Liverpool in the UEFA Super Cup and the visit of an ambitious Leicester side to Stamford Bridge last weekend.
However, Lampard, who had just one year's managerial experience at Derby prior to taking over his old club, needs a win at Norwich to ease the questioning of his tactics.
The former England international has been accused of being too gung-ho in his approach as both United and Leicester cut Chelsea open relentlessly on the counter-attack.
If Lampard cannot tailor his approach, Norwich have a striker in form ready to take advantage. Teemu Pukki has scored four times in his first two Premier League appearances, including a hat-trick against Newcastle last weekend.
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The rivers of Africa were once common resources for people, not borders between them. Transboundary conservation areas are bringing these resources together again, and transboundary forums bring people together to discuss the common management of natural resources. This article by John Kamwi, Transboundary Coordinator for IRDNC, explains the role of transboundary forums.
The Zambezi Region of Namibia is positioned right at the centre of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), dividing the area into almost two equal parts. The Zambezi Region therefore plays a pivotal role in the TFCA, providing migration routes for wildlife and creating a framework for connectivity between conservation areas in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Within the Zambezi Region, IRDNC works with communal conservancies and rural communities to safeguard the existing wildlife corridors which provide connectivity across international boundaries and between state protected areas.
This is done through the formation of Transboundary Natural Resource Management (TBNRM) Forums, creating a platform that gives conservancies and other recognised community-based organisations, rural communities and their traditional leaders a voice on conservation matters at transnational level. IRDNC facilitates the formation of these forums; assembling stakeholder communities to share information, engaging with competent authorities, training community game guards and organizing joint patrols and exchange trips among the rural communities of the five countries.
Since 2002 when TBNRM Forums were first conceptualised, four forums have been established within the KAZA Region, signified by signing memorandums of understanding (MOUs) between Namibian conservancies and their neighbouring communities in adjoining countries. The four Forums are:
- Kwandu Conservancy in Namibia & Imusho Ward in Zambia
- Sikunga Conservancy in Namibia & Inyambo Community Trust in Zambia
- Kasika/Impalila Conservancies in Namibia & Sekute Community Trust in Zambia
- Salambala Conservancy in Namibia & Chobe Enclave Community Trust in Botswana.
A further two new forums were established to make the total number of forums to six and these are:
- Kwandu Community Transboundary forum, which includes Imusho in Zambia, KA and Kwandu Conservancy in Namibia and Luiana Luenge communities in Angola.
- KA in Namibia and Tcheku Trust in Botswana's Okavango Panhandle.
The Forums has achieved great success to date, viz.:
- Re-establishing wildlife corridors in Sioma Ngweze National Park (Zambia)
- Installing crocodile fences in Imusho to mitigate human-crocodile conflict (Zambia)
- Conducting two successful game counts in Sioma Ngweze National Park and a further game count in Angola (involving technical support and participants from Namibia, Angola and Zambia)
- Reducing uncontrolled fires (all member states)
- Played a crucial role in policy harmonization on closing season of fish.
The TBNRM Forums have been fully endorsed by the five respective KAZA governments and the KAZA Secretariat. Several conservancies are willing to cover the costs of their TBNRM Forums' vital activates, and ten community game guards (of which four are women) have been employed to combat wildlife crime in the Namibian areas that are not gazetted conservancies. A one week lesson learning and sharing workshop has jointly been conducted by community Game Guards from Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia in Lake Liambezi.
During the past six months, a partnership has been gradually nurtured between the Kyaramacan Residents' Association (KA) representing the people living in Bwabwata National Park, and Tcheku Community Trust in Botswana's Okavango Panhandle, representing the relocated residents of an important wildlife area in northern Botswana.
The KA and Tcheku have agreed to cement their relationship through an agreement that developed and signed early in 2019, and to work together on their most pressing matters, i.e. poaching between the two communities, illegal crossing of residents between the international borders, uncontrolled veld fires and the illegal logging of trees in Bwabwata National Park.
IRDNC plans to continue supporting the TBNRM Forums with planning and implementing their activities, facilitating peer lesson learning exchanges between the forums and their traditional leaders, other community leaders and government agencies, and facilitating further work to promote the adoption of community-based natural resource management practices in neighbouring countries.
As summer breaks out Windhoek and towns in Namibia will get hotter. Global heating threatens to make cities unbearable: "Hellish" says an article about Las Vegas. For scientific information about the likelihood and effects of heatwaves look at Climate News Network. Of course, you can just turn on the aircon, which is more of a problem than a solution. Because air conditioners now use more energy worldwide than we use for heating, and are, therefore, a major source of carbon emissions. Read how cold air is heating the world. More efficient air conditioners powered by solar energy will help as millions more people demand cool air, but in the short term the solution is simple: don't use aircons unless you really need to.


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MINSTER — The 38th Annual Lake Loramie State Park Fall Harvest Festival and Campout is just around the corner and this year's event promises to be bigger and better than ever. The festival will be held on the grounds of Lake Loramie State Park, 11070 State Route 362, Minster, Ohio. Festivities begin on Friday, Sept. 13, at 4 p.m., and continues through Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. The event is free of charge and the public is invited to attend.
Co-sponsored by the Lake Loramie Improvement Association and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the annual festival is a family-friendly event that features a broad variety of activities and things to see and do for all ages. Activities include an antique power show demonstrating various old gas-powered tractors and equipment, kids' fun and games, a Farmer's Market with fresh produce and other tasty treats, a variety of non-profit food and drink vendors, a beer garden, and a large number of arts and crafts exhibitors.
There will be many forms of entertainment ranging from live music to a historically accurate mountain-man encampment featuring participants in period costumes acting out the lifestyle of a by-gone era. Another major draw and festival favorite is the annual mum sale where live-hardy potted mums in a variety of colors and sizes are offered to the public at a very reasonable cost. The festival is a local favorite with visitors coming from near and far year after year for what they know will be a fun-filled weekend with lots to see and do, food and a variety of entertainment.
Fort Loramie State Park Manager Jason Whitman and the park staff are excited about this year's festival and they are busy getting everything ready for the fun-filled occasion. A note of enthusiasm was evident in Whitman's voice as he talked about why the festival is so popular.
"Our festival is definitely one of the best around, it is a big event and draws sizable crowds year after year. It's something that a lot of people look forward to and plan for as part of their fall ritual; we have seen a lot of growth over the years and the variety of things to see and do appeals to folks of all ages. We have a nice list of activities lined up for this year, plenty of great food and snacks, live entertainment, and of course our annual campout. Many people come just to buy potted mums, last year over 20,000 were sold," Whitman said.
Whitman also pointed out that though there is a lot to see and do, the overwhelming favorite part for many is camping out at the park.
"This year we are expecting several hundred camping units. We have our normal camping area with 156 spaces plus a large overflow area near the beach; this is an exciting event with a lot of opportunity to have a great time and create a lot of good memories with family and friends and a host of others who share the common bond of an affection for camping out. You'll see everything from pop-up tents to Airstream trailers and even some very impressive huge motorhomes on the premises; some people come here just enjoy walking through the camping area looking at all the set-ups," Whitman said.
Whitman has a personal connection with Lake Loramie that helps fuel the fire of excitement for the annual event. During his childhood, he spent a lot of time with his grandparents at Filburns Island where he had a lot of fun fishing, camping and swimming.
"It's easy for me to get excited about this event because I like seeing everyone, especially the kids, having a great time; this is a very unique setting with qualities you'll not see or experience at other fall festivals and I think that's why it appeals to so many people and gets bigger year after year. I've always wanted my legacy to be one of helping others create cherished memories that will last a lifetime. We have a wonderful park staff, camp hosts, and a lot of loyal volunteers all of whom work hard to make this a great event. We have a gem of a park here and I believe camping out promotes good time-honored family values; there is a lot to be shared, learned, and enjoyed," said Whitman who has been the park manager since 2012. "For some people attending our annual event, this is their only family vacation for the whole year, so we really work hard to provide non-stop entertainment and fun for the whole family. I think that is the key element that brings people back year after year and makes this festival something folks really look forward to attending."
The festival kicks off Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. with the opening of the Arts and Crafts Show, Mountain Man Encampment, and the Antique tractor and power equipment show. There will be 200 plus antique tractors and other farm-related equipment displays and demonstrations; there is a tractor parade at 10:00 a.m. Saturday morning. "Tuffy the Turtle" the festival mascot will be on hand, strolling about the grounds interacting with the crowd. A local band "Karma's Pawn" will play at 7:30 p.m. Friday evening.
Saturday will be a busy day that starts with breakfast being served at 8 a.m. followed by the singing of the National Anthem by Pam Moorman at 8:15. The Farmer's Market begins at 9 a.m. and all the food vendors and over 70 arts and crafts vendors will be open as well. Saturday musical entertainment begins at 5 p.m. with the band "Open Road" then the Fort Loramie Alumni band plays from 6:30 to 7, followed by "Kaitlyn Schmidt and the Move On".
Sunday things kick off with the National Anthem again at 8:15 followed by the "Seed Sowers" puppet show at 10:00. There will be three local High School bands, Fort Loramie, Minster, and Russia performing from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. followed by the "Blue Collar Band" from 1 until 4 p.m. Also on Sunday a singing group, "The Amazing Altos" will stroll the grounds providing entertainment for all. Sunday also features a chainsaw-carving and blacksmithing demonstrations along with the Mountain Man Encampment and antique power equipment show. The festival will come to an end at 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
Admission and parking for each day is free but those wishing to stay and camp out can make reservations by calling 866-644-6727 or by stopping by the park office at: 11070 State Route 362, Minster. Those having other questions about the event may call Loramie State Park Camp Coordinator Linda Marvin at 937-295-3900. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m.to 10 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15th. Those wishing to camp after the event will have to wait until 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon before checking in.
Mums sales will take place at Campsites 48 and 87 and begin on Sept. 13-14 at 9 a.m. All vehicles will need to be parked in the visitor or designated parking areas. Make arrangements to have the mums carried out (cart or wagon). The Buckeye Farm Antiques shuttle service will be available during the scheduled hours of the event.
The park is still looking for exhibitors for the Farmers' Market and re-enactors for the mountain men encampment. Those interested should call Whitman at 419-230-9228 for further information. Anyone wishing to participate in the antique power show should call Robert Kohler at 419-628-4244. All arts and crafts vendor spots are already spoken for.
All proceeds from the event will be used for a variety of improvements in and around the State Park. Former projects included new boat docks, an adaptive launch and walking trail for the handicapped, a fitness running trail, playground equipment, and several day-use facilities located on the park grounds. The public is encouraged to attend.


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Cazzo Club says: Leather Big Wolf is a sexy hunk of a man. Tall, hairy, striking and always looking for sacrifices for his games. Axl Black is the perfect bottom. Submissive and ready for anything.
He shoves his master's fat cock so deep into his mouth that he almost has to puke. Leather big wolf won't let him escape.
He rips at his head and pushes him on the fat slimy monster until he gets no more air and beads of thick spit strings on his nuts.
His master now stands up and rams his cock even deeper into his face. So deep that the spit squirts from his mouth. The wolf smokes his cigar in peace and makes his slave verbally ready.
To go to the next stage. Axl is now in a sling. His hairless ass stretches towards his master and he works with his fingers, dildo and finally also with his fist, which slides into the Pitschnassen ass channel.
When the cunt is open enough, the tail is pushed immediately afterwards. The Wolf gives Axl a fuck that makes him moan like a pig.
The pent-up sperm sauce squirts from his master deep into his mouth.


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Windows Media Player Issues
Last Updated: 2007-12-09 09:37:10 UTC
by Marcus Sachs (Version: 3)
According to multiple sources, there are unpatched remote vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player 6.4 and Windows Media Player Classic 6.4 with public PoC's reported on Saturday. The public PoC generates files with this type of name: SYS_49152_MP4_for_mplayer2.mp4. Windows Media Player 6.4 is used for Win95 and WinNT systems (see http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/version64/default.aspx) so hopefully this does not affect very many of our readers.
Details: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26773
Thanks to Juha-Matti for bringing this to our attention.
Thanks to Juha-Matti for bringing this to our attention.
Important updates:
Important updates:
It appears the vulnerability actually affects the 3ivx MP4 codec, which is not installed by default on a Windows system. Some other applications may also use this codec and could also be affected;
While Media Player 6.4 is the default on Windows NT and 95 systems, it is also included with later versions of the Windows operating system as "mplayer2.exe". It's used by some apps to access Directshow functionality.
Marcus H. Sachs
Director, SANS Internet Storm Center
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