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This was one of the more unique pies we have made for our "pie of the month" tradition this year. It was tropical, very flavorful, and rather easy to make. (I need to start rating them by level of difficulty… this was probably 3 or 4 out of 10.)
I was looking up the recipe we had used for the pineapple pie we made back in 2011, and I stumbled across this gem. I immediately knew we had to incorporate it into our schedule for this month, and we wasted no time in doing so!
Here were the ingredients I used.
As a Floridian, I am not shocked by tropical fruits. However, I did have questions about the preparations of mangoes. Thus, I turned to the internet and learned how to cut mangoes. It was quite fun!
After cutting them in thirds, I sliced the cheeks into long pieces without cutting through the skin.
Then I scooped the slices out of the skin.
And I tried to salvage as much as I could from the pulpy seed in the middle.
This article was especially helpful in information about whether or not mangoes turn brown if you cut them the night before as I did (they don't), how much 1 mango equals recipe-wise (about 1 cup), and whether or not they can be frozen. (They can!) And it had a ton of recipes for things with mangoes!
Also, I discovered that Mexico produces most of the mangoes we consume in the U.S. (That held true for the 5 mangoes we bought from our local grocery store!)
These were the two main ingredients in the pie (as the name might suggest). Five cups of mango and one cup of canned pineapple – can you guess which flavor was more overpowering? Definitely mango!
I also mixed in sugar – both white and brown.
Then I added some cornstarch to thicken up all that juice, and some apple juice for good measure.
And this is what it all looked like before I stirred it!
So I stirred it…
And it ended up like this! The recipe then said to let it sit in the bowl for 20 minutes. OK, I can do that! (Well, except for the part when I was so tempted to taste a fingerful! It smelled so good!)
Those 20 minutes were the perfect amount of time to make and roll out a pie crust.
Then I poured it into the bottom pie crust and sprinkled some slivered almonds on top of the pie filling.
Oh my goodness! It smelled so great! And it looked amazing too! I just couldn't stop photographing it!
Ahem, anyway, the last step was to cover that beauty up with the top crust. I made sure to vent the top so the pie wouldn't explode or anything in the oven.
But I forgot to check the sides of the pie crust. Apparently I didn't seal them as well as I thought I had.
We let the pie sit and cool and thicken up on the inside for about an hour and a half before we ate it, and it was still pretty warm.
It was also a little gloppy on the inside (though completely delicious!), but I chalk that up to having some extra mango pulp/juice to go along with the slices.
I love how you can see the slivered almonds right under the crust. They gave it a nice crunch and complemented the flavor nicely.
We had fun "cleaning up" the pie pan too!
Ummm, and there weren't very many leftovers!
Mango Pineapple Pie (recipe from All Recipes)
4½ cups mangos, peeled and sliced
1 (8-oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained
1¼ cups white sugar
¼ cup packed light brown sugar
2 tbsp. apple juice
5 tbsp. cornstarch
¼ cup slivered almonds (optional)
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Mix mangos, pineapple, sugars, applesauce, and cornstarch. Let stand in a bowl for 20 minutes.
- Pour filling in unbaked pie shell; sprinkle almonds over pie filling if desired. Cover with top crust, and seal edges. Cut slits in top of outer crust.
- Bake for 1 hour, or until bubbles burst slowly and crust is golden brown. Let pie cool, and serve at room temperature.

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Today is my husband's birthday - the twenty-second one we've celebrated as a couple... and he's out of the country - a missionary on a missions trip to yet a different distant place with one of our girlies. He's far from perfect, but he's committed to his God, to me, our children, our family, friends literally scattered across the globe and to our community - and I'm so glad he's mine. But... if I wrote a sappy piece about love... it might embarrass him...
So, in keeping with this theme of love for the month of February, I'd like to consider a slightly different perspective as it has been pinging and ponging around in my soul of recent.
While their daddy's been gone, I've been trying to do some special things with our other children, including listening to books on CD (Anne of Green Gables) and revisiting a favorite television series (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman). We've all been loving it - I mean, who doesn't find "Anne with an e," at the very least, amusing and at least a little endearing. And, as far as family TV that provokes great discussion from curious little and not so little minds, Dr. Quinn is, perhaps, my favorite.
"There's such a lot of different Annes in me.
I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person.
If I was just the one Anne
it would be ever so much more comfortable,
but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."
~Anne in LM Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
I love this Anne quote because of its deeply profound veracity....
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Peter Saville is the brains behind this album cover, or rather his girlfriend is. Whilst looking for a machiavellian painting (to fit the title) at the National Gallery, Peter Saville wandered into the gift shop and picked up a postcard of the painting shown above. His girlfriend came up behind him and questioned whether he was going to use it as the cover and without a shadow of doubt he decided on it there and then.
Peter Saville is the creative genius behind the infamous Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures and many other great album covers, but despite how iconic the Joy Division cover is, I still love the Power, Corruption & Lies design more. The way he has taken the colour palette from the image and collated it into a little key in the corner as if to say the artist has painted by numbers or cheated, pointing towards the title of the album.
With one of the best graphic designers in England, it's hard to go wrong, and Peter Saville has proved his worth once again.


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First she was a young immigrant mother from Mexico who worked as a housekeeper while she lived in a "Spanglish" world, now she will travel back in time to play a ruler priestess.
According to Variety, Paz Vega will join the cast of "Pompeii," a historical drama directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.
The film is set in A.D. 79, in the days leading to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried the Roman city of Pompeii and tells the story of a slave on a ship who is working to get home to save the woman he loves and his best friend, a gladiator trapped inside the city's coliseum.
Vega will play Strigana, the dark and mysterious high priestess of the ancient city. Also starring are Kit Harington, Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Browning.
I personally love historical dramas because they are the perfect combination of tragedy, love and action which also allows the film to target both male and female audiences. This is a great opportunity for Vega to once again capture the American public because after 2004 when she played Flor Moreno in "Spanglish" the American movies she has been a part of haven't been too successful or widely promoted.
I think the Spanish native and Penelope Cruz look-alike still has a chance to do well in Hollywood and another stellar performance will get the actress another step closer.
Before her debut as Strigana, this year we'll be able to catch Vega as Maria Callas, a turbulent opera singer and lover of Greek millionaire Aristotle Onassis in "Grace of Monaco," which stars Nicole Kidman; and in Pedro Almodovar's "I'm So Excited."
"Pompeii" is set to be released in theaters Feb. 28, 2014.
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Not able to make it to the ground on a match day but still want to get your hands on a copy of the NSNO Everton Fanzine?
Issue One was published at the beginning of September 2015 with a run limited to 10,000 copies, the vast majority of which were given away outside Goodison Park when Everton entertained Chelsea.
Inside issue one included:
An interview with Everton legend, Derek Mountfield
A focus on Tom Cleverley
The Opposition View from a former Liverpool player
Bad Chant Bingo game
Focus on Everton in the Community
and poked fun at Chelsea for their failed attempts to sign John Stones.
We have a limited number available to buy which will be posted first class for you to enjoy.
How come it's a fiver? I thought this was free?
Our backers pledged a minimum of a fiver to make sure this magazine happened. Those backers were Evertonians like you and me. To ensure they're not being "had off" we decided that the first issue should be available – like every other issue – for free around Goodison Park, but not online. Further issues will be available for a token postage and packing charge, but in order to make it fair to those who pledged their support before our magazine was fully funded, the first issue is set at the same price as the minimum donation. (Postage and packing is free, just like it was for our backers)
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UFC 226 Bonuses: Cormier, Pettis, Rountree, Costa Capture $50K Performance Awards
Four fighters at UFC 226 received "Performance of the Night" checks, as Daniel Cormier, Anthony Pettis, Khalil Rountree and Paulo Henrique Costa took home $50,000 apiece for their efforts at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Cormier captured "Performance of the Night" honors for his first-round knockout of Stipe Miocic in the evening's main event. A right hook following a break from the clinch dropped Miocic and a flurry of hammerfists ended the contest 4:33 into the frame. With the win, "DC" becomes the second fighter in UFC history to hold two belts at the same time.
Elsewhere, former lightweight champ Anthony Pettis earned his post-fight award with a second-round submission of Michael Chiesa in a featured lightweight encounter. Early in round two, Chiesa escaped a guillotine from Pettis to assume top position, only to find himself trapped in a triangle armbar. From there, Pettis forced the tapout 52 seconds into the frame.
Khalil Rountree garnered an extra check with a quick stoppage of former Glory Kickboxing champion Gokhan Saki in a light heavyweight contest. "The Ultimate Fighter 23" finalist countered a Saki low kick with a straight left, sending his opponent to the canvas. Rountree polished off his triumph with hammerfists on the mat 96 seconds into the frame.
Finally, Paulo Henrique Costa captured the evening's final bonus with a second-round stoppage of Uriah Hall in a preliminary middleweight affair. The Brazilian unleashed a flurry on Hall, backing him into the fence and dazing him with a left hook. Moments later, Costa dropped Hall with a right uppercut to the body that ended the contest 2:38 into the period.


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Reptilian brain
We humans have all inherited remnants of the "reptilian brain", by which I indicate the autonomic/emotional core that is found throughout the animal kingdom. This primitive element of our brain can come under the influence of the rational, cortical brain, yet strong emotions can escape logical control. If they could not, we would probably never fall in love! Continue reading
God's Deranged Warriors
He threw away his life and the lives of others in the mistaken belief that he was not throwing away the only life that he will ever have in exchange for nothingness. He, Islamic puritan though he might have claimed to be, expected to be rewarded for his crime with ownership of some mythical number of virgins, presumably without veils etcetera. This is what comes of sexual repression! Muslims might despise American sexual freedom, but their notion of Paradise necessarily includes licence for sexual license. Continue reading
Egregious law suits
I sometimes read PZ Myers' popular blog Pharyngula. PZ is a biologist and an atheist who does not suffer foolishness gladly. Unfortunately his critique of the shoddy science in a book called Lifecode by Pivar has led to a libel suit (pdf).
In this ridiculous suit, "Pivar claims that PZ maliciously called him "a classic crackpot", with the intent of "holding [Pivar] up to ridicule and embarrassment in this specific area of [Pivar's] professional endeavors". The claim also states that this has caused Pivar "considerable mental and emotional distress" as well as financial damages, reparations for which, according to the complaint, should amount to the comically overinflated total reported above."
How does one determine the parameters for calling someone a classic crackpot? My definition would definitely include someone who fictitionalizes relationships with noted scientists and cooks up pseudoscience, then launches malicious lawsuits because he can afford to.
"The specific area of [Pivar's] endeavors"? Pivar is a businessman and not a scientists, so how are we to take this book to reflect professional activities? Perhaps the lawyer was thinking of the oldest profession and believed that Pivar was prostituting himself to creationism. Nah! Nobody prostitutes themselves to creationism, do they? It's probably just lawyer talk to make the law suit sound legitimate.
As to considerable "considerable mental and emotional distress", my sister is a psychiatrist and told me that in her professional opinion, "anyone who suffers so much distress over being called a "classic crackpot" would be better advised to spend his money on a good therapist rather than a lawyer."
America is a dismayingly litigious nation, but it is not libel to speak the truth and Myers is a credible expert on developmental biology, so his criticisms are likely valid and the suit is unlikely to succeed. Let's hope not! As the Friendly Atheist points out, the book's author, whose science is indeed shoddy, may be following the adage that no publicity is bad publicity.
PZ is wisely remaining silent on the issue.
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Read Aloud West Virginia's mission is to change the literacy culture of West Virginia by keeping reading material in the hands and on the minds of our state's children. Motivation is the critical first step in developing any skill and Read Aloud works to motivate children to WANT to read.
Our goal is to involve families, the medical community, businesses, civic groups and the society at large in building a culture that values reading.
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Our History
Initially established in 1986 by a group of concerned parents in one county (Kanawha), Read Aloud was incorporated as a 501 (C) (3) non-profit in 1987. The original group of volunteers developed programs designed to stimulate student interest in books and reading and worked with volunteers in other counties who were interested in establishing similar programs. Between 1987 and 1992 Read Aloud programs were established in seven of West Virginia's 55 counties.
The program's success prompted the West Virginia Education Fund to approach the founders and offer to assume responsibility for administering the program and expanding it statewide.
State Board and Staff
Read Aloud West Virginia's Board of Directors supports and governs the organization by assisting in fundraising, establishing contacts, acting as ambassadors to the community, providing oversight of operations and finances, selecting and evaluating the executive director, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and evaluating the organization's work and efficacy.
Our staff of three maintain a state office which serves as a central contact point and provides consistent guidance to local chapters to ensure quality and consistency of programming. The state office also develops materials, maintains organizational data, oversees communications and development of the organization, provides speakers to community organizations and holds an annual conference to encourage collaboration among local chapters.
See a list of our State Board and Staff.
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Read Aloud West Virginia could not exist without the support of businesses, foundations and organizations who support our work through grants and donations of various kinds. We are so grateful to those who make our work possible!
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Since 2009 I've run a small t-shirt and goods company called Strangevictory (or SV or STRNGVCTRY). Each and everytime I produce a product, I've been reinventing the brand with a new look-and-feel, website and email campaign. It's a lot of work, but a lot of fun. I think that's one of the great things about side projects - anything goes.
Carrying on that tradition, for this Skillshare class I'm going to produce a koozie label design and eventually morph it into a T-shirt (or something else) design. I'm going to work off the idea of "Island Time". Slowing everything down and embracing the slow and steady laid-back pace of island living. As a personal challenge I'm going to draw (mostly) everything and then scan it in. We'll see what happens. I'm very much a computer-y designer, so this should be interesting.
For this concept I'm going to reference Woodblock type samples, Texture-y Line Illustrations, Woodcuts, Vintage Packaging, American Tattoo Imagery, etc. etc. I don't want to limit myself to any particular style and just kind of see what evolves organically. I'd also like the possibility of producing the design in one-color.
Get in the mood board:
A whole mix of styles! Here we go!
So after countless sketching, I've come up with this and I'm pretty happy with it so far. I may or may not ditch the flag poles and just kind of round it around the palm treen trunk. I'd love to hear some feedback!
And trying out inking whilst trying not to smudge:
Having a blast with this so far!
More sketching... Trying out a bunch of Island themed imagery, seeing what works, what makes sense for the brand, what looks good, etc. Settled on the type so far, and now it's just a matter of thickening up the lines so that they'll screen well.
Here's the final. Brought the inked sketch into Illustrator, cooked up a Live Trace, fudged with the settings and we're done!
Messing around with colouring/clipping masks for added snow-cone goodness. Digging that tie-dye-ish feeling. Suits the whole Island Time vibe real nice.
Initially I wanted to produce a one-colour koozie "label' so here it is (crude mock-up) in a few potential colourways. I don't have any immediate plans to produce this thing, but may eventually carry over the design to t-shirts.
For now, that's all she wrote! That was fun, what's next!?


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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Day the Media Died - Mad Avenue Blues
From Media Post these quotes, "'A work of genius,' one agency exec called it. 'Not sure if it's hilarious or makes me want to hang myself,' said another. 'Who the heck had the time to do this?" said a third.'"
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- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba expands downtown Manhattan headquarters
- Eatsa uses kiosks instead of a wait staff, but lunch isn't much cheaper
- Hedge fund titan developing software modeled on his brain
- Amazon tries to recreate Prime Day magic with the first-ever Digital Day sales event
- A single fake news story on Facebook turned a legitimate safety alert in Bangkok into a bomb scare


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CMC Unveils New Trade Show
At the upcoming Los Angeles Fashion Market in March, the California Market Center is taking the wraps off a new trade show, which will be on the building's top floor.
Called Label Array, the March 12–14 show is a juried event for elevated brands known for their quality, distinct designs and retail appeal. It will merge the various niche shows produced by the CMC into one showcase.
Label Array will feature selections from categories such as contemporary, young contemporary, better womenswear, gender-neutral apparel, accessories, footwear and lifestyle products.
Instead of booths, the event will feature an open-air floor plan in the penthouse for easy navigation. Other future show dates are June 18–20 and Oct. 8–10.


text: Educated people laugh and sigh whenever news stories appear that report on surveys that test people's basic knowledge of science, history, and other subjects that are taught from elementary school through college. Unfortunately, this widespread ignorance exposes the pathetic state of our educational system. The fact that teachers are poorly paid gets lots of attention, but another huge problem is the miserable state of modern teaching materials. The New York Review of Books published a review of current history textbooks that illustrates how bad these books are, and how consolidation in the textbook industry and forced pandering to moronic special interests have conspired to insure that children get a poor education in our schools. The crux of the article is that a grandmother from Virginia produced a better history text by herself than any of the designed-by-committee books currently being adopted by most school systems.


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There is also the problem of garnering Rs 900 every twenty days or so. Since Bhil homes have a lot of cooking to do, a cylinder lasts only about twenty days. Time and labour expended by women for home work like fetching water and fuel wood have no monetary value and so they are "free" as compared to cash which has to be earned through labour for money by both men and women. Thus, even if women have found cooking on gas stoves a relief, they find it easier to collect fire wood and suffer the smoke and heat of wood stoves rather than spend their hard earned money on gas refills.
So the old malevolent combination of patriarchy and poverty has put paid to the Ujjwala scheme in the Bhil homeland where mostly the gas stoves and empty cylinders are lying idle except for a few homes which have sufficient money incomes and assertive women to get the refills done. So the cooking gas fires that the Prime Minister so enthusiastically lit are extinguished for now in the Bhil homeland!!


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A Clay Aiken Christmas: Carols & ComedyMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Apparently at universities in the south, geography is not widely taught, as southern gentleman Clay Aiken has yet to discover the Pacific Northwest is part of America. Hence, if you wish to hear Clay sing, and hail from that unfortunate corner of the U.S., pack your bags, check your boarding pass, and hop on the nearest plane for the East Coast.
The tour will finish in Greensboro, N.C. on the 23rd, just in time to celebrate Christmas at his new home in Raleigh.
I caught up with the tour in Baltimore after a lovely red-eye flight from the Pacific Northwest. Clay is touring without his usual back-up singers and band, though he is traveling with his music director, Jesse Vargas, from his first Joyful Noise tour in 2004.
In each city, the symphony plays anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour, and then Clay sings the second half with the orchestra providing the musical accompaniment. The set list comprises songs from his first Christmas CD, Merry Christmas With Love, and four lovely additions from his Wal-Mart exclusive EP, All Is Well.
Clay is in a league of his own with Christmas carols, and this tour proves as much. His range has grown each year of his career, and the finale, "All Is Well" is a how-to primer on soft, low notes sung with passion up to the soaring, glory notes well above a tenor's range.
In each city, while Clay might have crossed his fingers and planted his feet for luck in hitting that final note, the audience shot to its feet and screamed in appreciation as he hit it. Even more impressive is that for the last week, Clay has been suffering from a debilitating inner ear infection that has given him vertigo and dizziness.
Now, you may be asking where the comedy part of the title plays into this review. First and foremost, Clay is an outstanding vocalist that can tackle any genre of song and make his own stunning rendition. But few outside of his enthusiastic fans know that Clay Aiken is as well-known for his rapid-fire repartee as he is for his singing.
Clay's portion of the shows only consisted of 14 songs, and most vocalists could whip those out in 30-40 minutes. Several of the concerts I attended featured Clay on stage for almost two hours! Clay truly has the gift of gab, is definitely at ease with his audience members and likes to call on the ones he recognizes.
Another nightly happening has been the "eye-talian" Word of the Day - highlighting musical terms that he doesn't know. The audience is encouraged to guess the meaning, and the results have been side-splitting with the back-and-forth banter flying.
I sat between two men who were not thrilled to be at the Williamsport, Pa., concert.
Both had been dragged there by family members, were apprehensive at the start, and even more astonished that I had flown across the country to see an event they didn't want to attend. By the end of the concert, Clay had completely won them over, as they roared with laughter the entire show and were in awe of his vocal prowess.
Score one for the Aiken!
At both the Williamsport and Easton, Pa., concerts, Clay came out to greet frozen fans after the show, and thrilled the two-to-three block-long line with a personal touch or handshake. The fans were elated and well-rewarded for a vigil on two very cold nights. Whether or not that personal connection with his fans was the cause of Clay's soon-to-follow inner ear infection will never be known, but it is part of the charm that keeps the former American Idol runner-up's fans forever flying or driving to see him once again in concert.
It is also important to note that during each concert, Clay stresses the need to reach out to others. He spends a few minutes talking about his work with UNICEF and the Bubel/Aiken Foundation, and encourages people to reach out and contribute any way they can to whatever organization they choose to support. He then launches into "Don't Save It All For Christmas Day," the last song of his set before the "All Is Well" encore.
If you are unable to attend any of the three remaining shows, catch Clay Friday on the TV singing a duet with Megan Mulally on her talk show, and then catch him premiering the song "Everything I Have" from his new CD, A Thousand Different Ways, the day after Christmas on Days of Our Lives.
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.


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"How ObamaCare Will Affect Your Doctor"
A key op-ed by Scott Gottlieb in today's Wall Street Journal. Key graphs:
Doctors will consolidate into larger practices to spread overhead costs, and they'll cram more patients into tight schedules to make up in volume what's lost in margin. Visits will be shortened and new appointments harder to secure. It already takes on average 18 days to get an initial appointment with an internist, according to the American Medical Association, and as many as 30 days for specialists like obstetricians and neurologists.
Right or wrong, more doctors will close their practices to new patients, especially patients carrying lower paying insurance such as Medicaid. Some doctors will opt out of the system entirely, going "cash only." If too many doctors take this route the government could step in — as in Canada, for example — to effectively outlaw private-only medical practice.
I continue to ask doctors to send e-mails explaining what they expect will happen under the Obama/Pelosi/Reid rush to rationing.


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Well, the stuff in my navel did. I had a different doctor today, and he was a bit more interested in the stuff. First, he noticed that my BP was a bit on the high side (154/95; pulse: 128; last night it was 140/104; pulse: 130) and he checked my heart/lungs. Then, he pressed on my abdomen, which has gotten more and more tender. He didn't try to swab or anything, but went to ask an attending and do some research. When he came back, he asked about my gastric bypass surgery. I told him that my navel had been one of the incisions back then (in 2003) and that it had also been an incision spot for my gallbladder surgery (in 1997). He said that the incision spots can sometimes develop ulcers even almost 10 years out. He did some more research and came back and had me lay back again. This time he approached it with one of the otoscopes and looked in it. He had to clean it some and tried again. He didn't see anything, but could tell that it was an infection of my umbilicus. He went to consult with other doctors and they decided to get a culture of my navel.
If I have any kind of infection that can't be treated by Bactroban, they'll give me oral antibiotics. (He mentioned clindamycin.) He suggested that I not use anymore Q-tips because he thought that might have caused it. (Doubtful, since the Q-tip was used after the blood & stuff came out.)
I almost didn't get seen today, because when I called the clinic, the receptionist had me schedule an appointment for tomorrow. My mom thought that was crap, so she called in and basically berated the woman until they found a spot for me for today. The woman said that my chart said that the doctor left a note in the chart saying I should come in tomorrow to see my regular doctor, which was crap. She kept claiming that I'd made the appointment on Monday, but my mom wasn't having any of that. She got so intense that I think that everyone in the house (including Willow) was a bit afraid of her. (Mom's convinced it is something bad and that I might die, which could be true, but isn't necessarily.) I was a bit happy that she was here to do that for me, since I have trouble vocalizing things sometimes.


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Happy St. Patty's Day!!! Hope y'all are wearing green. If not, give yourself a little pinch from me. I'm about to start on dinner. I'm making Irish Chicken and Dumplings tonight. Never made it before so I hope it's yummy. I've spent the day picking up the house and doing laundry. I did manage to make a quick Easter card. I found this sketch on Jenn's blog about a week ago. I've had it saved to the desktop and even had this set on the desk waiting to be used for it. I love this layout and will definitely be saving it to use again. When my card is folded it measures 6" x 3 1/2". My image was stamped on Whisper White, then cut out with the oval Coluzzle. I colored it in with SU markers, then made a mask and sponged around the edges with VersaMagic Sea Breeze. The whole image is raised with a pop dot. To attach the buttons, I lined them up on the paper, took my paper piercer and poked where the two holes are. Then I ran some Karen Foster white Scrapper Floss through the holes. Be sure to click on the picture to see a closer view. I love all those pastel colors!
Happy Stamping.
Stamps: Nobunny Like You (TAC)
Paper: Bazzill Purple (TAC, V-56), DCWV Pastel, DCWV Neutral, DCWV Fall, Gentle Beginnings (TAC) Whisper White
Ink: Palette Noir, VersaMagic Sea Breeze
Other: dimensional, oval Coluzzle, Magic Matter, sponge dauber, scallop scissors, Pastel Buttons (TAC), Karen Foster white Scrapper's Floss (TAC)
Monday, March 17, 2008
5 comments:
- Danni said...
Very nice. I just love this set, used it this weekend myself. I love all the combo of colors on this card.
(and I think you meant oval coluzzle vs. circle) I'm a pest for pointing things like that out, sorry. :-)
Hope your chicken and dumplings turn out good!!
- March 17, 2008 at 4:23 PM
- Leslie said...
This is adorable, but I love everything that you make! This card totally gets me in the mood for Easter!
- March 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM
- Pootle said...
this is such a perfect Easter card and I adore that bunny! When oh when will we get TAC in the UK?!
- March 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- Suzanne said...
Cute card, Kim! I love that bunny!
- March 18, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Super cute! I'm so glad you borrowed this from your mom! Darling card!
- March 21, 2008 at 8:36 PM
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This week I am going to ask you to participate in a media fast for TV Turn-Off Week, as part of the Media Fasting Reflection due on May 3.
If you give up TV, but watch DVDs on your computer, are you really making any progress? If you turn off the TV, but turn up your iPod, are you really taking control of the technology that defines our lives?
Confession time:
While we don't have cable TV, we do have a fairly big library of kid videos. Sometimes I'll put on a video for them and sit on the couch with my laptop, answering e-mail, despamming my blog, marking a paper, or fiddling with my digital camera. If the movie ends and I'm not finished, I'll get them interested in the bloopers or deleted scenes. So my desire to spend time on the internet leads directly to their exposure to more TV.
I've tried to address that by creating "the book game," which involves Peter (8) picking out a book, Carolyn (4) picking out a book, and me picking out a book. Peter and Carolyn will sit on the couch, and Peter will read all the books to Carolyn. Yes, on one level this is very good, but I'm conscious that I use "the book game" when I want to see what's happening on the blogosphere.
I also sometimes use "the book game" to avoid playing with my daughter's Barbie. So while naturally as an English teacher and a parent I'm going to say that books are good, here I'm turning to media — books — when my daughter is asking me for one-on-one attention. (It's not the idea of playing dolls with my daughter that bothers me. Why, the other day I was playing with my daughter's pony castle, and I made an army of insect peasants rise up in rebellion against their pony overlords. They fought an epic battle, and our leaders — a horned beetle and Pinky Pie ™ agreed to settle this dispute in single combat, then had a tea party, had a bath together, and took a nap. But Barbie just kind of lies there staring up at me.) —Dennis G. Jerz —Introduction to Media Fasting (Introduction to Literary Study)


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This is an edited version of the Korean War article published previously on this blog. It was published Memorial Day 2012 in the Gainesville (FL) Sun. The publication is my way of saying thank you to Marty, Jim Butcher, David Cardenez, and all the Korean War vets who have gone, or went, far too long without recognition for their heroic service.
Five years after the end of World War II, during a time of postwar rebuilding and relative peace, a small country on a peninsula approximately the size of Florida was invaded by its northern twin across the 38th Parallel.
Intent upon stemming the spread of communism, the United States led United Nations forces into war in Korea. By the time they entered the fray the war was nearly lost, with the North Korean communists pushing South Korean forces into the narrow Pusan corridor in the south.
American Gen. Douglas MacArthur gambled with a counterstroke, landing troops at Inchon on Sept. 15, 1950. His forces pushed the communists back across the 38th Parallel. MacArthur proclaimed he would "crush" the enemy forces.
On Oct. 1, MacArthur broadcast a message to the North Koreans demanding immediate surrender. Two days later communist Chinese Foreign Minister Chou En-lai warned: If U.N. (U.S.) troops crossed the 38th Parallel, China would intervene.
MacArthur refused to take the Chinese threat seriously and commanded the troops to keep pushing north. On the morning of Oct. 9 American troops crossed the 38th Parallel. Chinese leaders declared that the "American war of invasion" had been a serious menace from the beginning and by crossing the 38th Parallel on a large scale, forced Chinese intervention. North Korea's Kim Il-sung commanded his troops to fight to the last man.
MacArthur assured President Truman that Chinese intervention was unlikely and opined that North Korean resistance would end by Thanksgiving. Several days later MacArthur announced from his Tokyo headquarters that the war was definitely about to come to an end.
Neither did the Central Intelligence Agency take the Chinese threat seriously, reporting to the president that there were no "convincing indications" of full-scale Chinese intervention in North Korea.
At that time, moving largely at night and undetected by the U.N. command, large elements of the Chinese Fourth Field Army were swarming across the Yalu River into Korea.
Threats of Chinese intervention were apparently not taken seriously by anyone in the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, or the White House. MacArthur's chief of intelligence continued to disregard reports from troops on the ground of massive build-ups of Chinese communist regular army troops, insisting there were only between 15,000 and 30,000 "political advisers" in all of Korea. By that time, approximately 300,000 Chinese troops had surrounded the American Army-commanded X-Corps, including the 1st U.S. Marine Division.
The Chosin Reservoir campaign was to become famous in the annals of military history. The men who fought their way out of that terrible net against both enemy forces and Army command ignorance would experience some of the worst conditions in the history of modern warfare. Many Marines who fought through the South Pacific in World War II reported that this was worse.
Men faced temperatures of 25 degrees below zero and human-wave attacks that left the ground covered with corpses. American losses were terrible; Chinese losses were exponentially worse.
The battles in the north could have gone far worse. The Americans under Marine Gen. Oliver Smith and his commanders in the 1st, 5th, and 7th Marine Regiments and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing fought heroically and defeated the Chinese armies surrounding them in northeast Korea in November and December 1950.
The war dragged on for three years, during which, political peace talks bogged down while thousands died and thousands more were maimed.
Ironically, terribly, some of the worst losses came as the war drew to a close. In the battles at Pork Chop Hill — "Hell's outpost" — over 77,000 rounds of artillery fell; the greatest number of shells in history. Casualty rates in some platoons reached or exceeded 70 percent.
American GIs fought heroically, losing more than most of us can ever understand. Then the politicians decided the hill was ultimately not worth keeping and simply gave it up.
Finally, on July, 27 1953, at 22:00 hours, a cease-fire was declared. In three years of war, American KIA losses paralleled the numbers killed during eight years in Vietnam.
Upon their return home, Korean War veterans were met by silence. The war was largely minimized or ignored. Veterans were quietly ushered home and expected to get on with their lives with no fanfare, parades or public gratitude.
That the Korean War has come to be known as the "forgotten war" is abominable. Those who fought in Korea never forgot; many still remember it every day.
This Memorial Day, while we welcome home and embrace veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan and belatedly acknowledge the veterans of the Vietnam War, let us remember to express our thanks, respect and gratitude to the veterans of the Korean War — the war that must not be forgotten.
Tom Dikel lives in Gainesville.


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Wow do we have a lot of news for you today and it's all about Feniex. Their hotly anticipated T6 & Cobra lines are now available. The T6 is nearly the same as the former T4 and Python series lights only the new modules include 6 diode LED heads instead of the 4 diode heads. Here's a list of the refreshed items & pricings:
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Also worth noting is that the Avatar Full Size Lightbar has come down in price, a lot! The Avatar is now $1000 for the 37", $1150 for the 47" and $1200 for the 57". And to wrap things up Feniex has discontinued a few of the replaced items but are still offering them for a short period of time. Because they are discontinued we can offer them to you at a huge savings. They will be brand, built when you order, and will be backed by the full 5 year warranty. They won't last long so order soon!
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We're always excited by new products here at Core Public Safety and we were really excited when we heard about the MS26BS from Axixtech. In case you're not familiar with the MS line, they are surface mount LED lights that are fairly short and super thin making them great for a variety of installations. Not to mention the fact that their aluminum housing makes them rugged. They are great for mounting in your grill, license plate, pushbar, even on your rear deck.
Both the MS3 and the MS6 are incredible bright so imagine our surprise when we heard Axixtech took the MS6 and basically layered another one directly underneath of it. Yup, that's 12 diodes of warning power in one housing. And if that sounds like too much power all at once (and trust us, it can be) you can get them in split colors and come up with some pretty creative split flash patterns to get attention. The best news of all is the price, which we just dropped to $104 per unit making them a very affordable way to be seen. We've also got a full assortment of brackets available for just about any installation you can dream up so head on over to our store.
We are more than a little OCD when it comes to our website. We're always tweaking it, re-arranging things, and trying to make the experience better for our customers. We've made a few changes this weekend that we hope that you'll like.
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This is a big one! The way our webstore was originally set up you could pay either through Paypal or use your credit card through Paypal. Not everyone has a Paypal account and while you could use your credit card without a Paypal account it was very cumbersome and sort of confusing. Not to mention the process took you away from our website making it even more confusing! Well no more! Now you can use your credit card when you check out and directly enter your information. It's quick and it's simple.
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There are two pieces of information we get asked about a lot. Where does a product come from and what is the warranty? We've now put the information higher up on the page, to the right of the product photo. Now you can easily see the manufacturers warranty as well as the country of origin.
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One of the last changes we've made my not sound very exciting but it will save you money. We've gone through our entire product catalog and audited the shipping information for each one of our products. Most of our products were just as the should be but there were a fair number that were off by a few pounds and that can add up quickly especially on a multiple item order. Let's face it, shipping is expensive enough already!
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I looked around a bit and noticed that there wasn't a collective list of atheist channels on youtube.
Post either your favorite youtube atheists or (if you have a primarily atheist channel) your youtube channel so that we can get a good list compiled of youtube atheists.
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Rational Warrior http://www.youtube.com/user/rationalwarrior?feature=mhee
Added. :)
And I subbed. I need more of Thor's hammer in my life. :p
LOL don't we all. I'm thinking about using it in my performance from now on.
After all, one god IS as good and useful as the next. :p
OMG you missed Bionic Dance and allbabiesareatheist... Loads others, too but I'm not at a point I can dig up all my subscriptions...
This is a great idea, though. :) Thanks for the post!
And as stated in chat, my OMG stands for 'Oh my goodness' since I've had that phrase ingrained in me since I was a twinkle in my daddy's eye. ;)
There are so many youtube atheists, it would be impossible to get them all. :p
Added the two you mentioned. If you have time where you can get some more that you know of, let me know them. Thanks. :)
How could you miss the TheLivingDinosaur?
Maybe you can add my channel to the list:
Also, I really like the ones listed below and I am sure others will to:
The Barking Atheist: (www.youtube.com/TheBarkingAtheist)
Logan Lazarus: (www.youtube.com/LoganLazarus)
MrRepzion: (www.youtube.com/MrRepzion)
* MrRepzion recently stated he is stepping toward Atheism. He is a former Christian.
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Young & Prudent: Parents Just Don't Understand
My parents have no idea why I'm up here in the mountains.
They don't understand why, after finishing a master's degree, I decided to quit my nice job in the city and move to rural Vermont to live and work at a meditation retreat center for almost no money.
When my parents were my age, they already owned a home and were raising three kids. Both of them were securely locked into their careers, which they would stay in for the next 30 years. Their financial plan was all mapped out: Pay off the mortgage, save for the kids' college tuition, and retire around 65.
So, of course it's hard for them to understand that even as my 30th birthday approaches, I've chosen to live in a dorm at a place that feels very much like meditation summer camp for adults.
I've had seven different jobs in six different industries since I graduated from college, all of which I quit to pursue the next one (except in one case, when I quit to move to Australia). Each job was good – even great, occasionally – but I never wanted to stick with any of them for the next 30 years – at least not yet.
My parents, and many others, would say that I'm rebelling against the traditional life trajectory.
While my path is certainly different from that of my parents and grandparents, it's not surprising.
Not only does my generation differ from the one that precedes it, but we're also unlike several past generations when they were our age.
The Difference Between You and Me
"The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path to adulthood," reported the Pew Research Center in 2014. "Now ranging in age from 18 to 33, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry – and optimistic about the future."
The two biggest factors that seem to differentiate this generation's economic adulthood are the state of education and the slow recovery from the recession.
We're the first modern generation to be more educated than past generations, while living with more poverty and unemployment, less personal wealth, and more debt.
Forty-eight percent of millennials have at least a bachelor's degree. When most of our parents – the Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964 – were between 18 and 33, only 31% had completed a bachelor's degree.
Millennials aged between 26 and 33 are currently the most educated group in America, with a full third having completed four years of college. Younger millennials may be slowing down their progress in higher education because they're more aware of the immense debt weighing down their slightly older peers.
Unfortunately, the debt trap that is higher education is one we must fall into if we want to have any hope of eventually building up some wealth. Education is highly correlated with economic success, more for our generation than any other.
"On virtually every measure of economic well-being and career attainment—from personal earnings to job satisfaction, to the share employed full time—young college graduates are outperforming their peers with less education," reported Pew this time last year.
The disparity in earnings between those with a college degree and those with a high school degree has never been as great, either.
In 1979, high school graduates made about 77% of what a college graduate made. Today, it's only 62%.
And the recession certainly has a lot to do with this disparity.
I graduated from college and entered the workforce in 2008, which was a tough time for anyone looking for a job. The recovery from the Great Recession has been exceedingly slow compared to other economic droops, and my peers and I have struggled through that.
"On some key measures, such as the percentage who are unemployed or the share living in poverty, this generation of college-educated adults is faring worse than Gen-Xers, Baby Boomers, or members of the Silent generation when they were in their mid-20s and early 30s," reported Pew.
Income and wealth gaps have risen while the median household income in the United States is still below its 1999 peak.
When you take all of this into account, it's no wonder why so many Millennials are exploring different paths.
Eternal Optimists
Still, my generation is hopeful for the future. Eight in 10 Millennials say they have enough money to lead the lives they want, or expect to in the years to come.
I share that optimism – sometimes.
Admittedly, as my 30th birthday approaches, I've been having bouts of anxiety over my decision to come here. Despite jumping from job to job, I was previously living a life fairly similar to my parents when they were younger. I always figured I would eventually settle into one job and start seriously working my way up the pay scale.
But now I'm here, dipping my toe into the freelance lifestyle, working with multiple small income streams, and definitely not contributing to my 401(k).
On most days, I enjoy being here and see the immense value in it. Meditation has revealed an understanding about myself, humanity, and life on this planet that makes my own existence exceedingly more beautiful and joyful.
Yet the more mundane – though not any less important – concerns over my long-term savings and the opportunities I may have given up in coming here still demand attention.
My parents' path has served them well, and I'm sure I could also find happiness and contentment by following their example. Yet, there are a million ways to live your life. And it's important to allow for the flexibility and freedom to see other possibilities.
The only thing certain in this life is death and taxes. Who knows what may arise for my generation and me, in-between those things?
Note: All statistics and data are from studies completed and published by the Pew Research Center.
Mindfully Planning,
Samantha Solomon


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Today we went to the beach together with my Mum and her co-workers. Even though they were like 30+ people there, I still felt lonely.. Didn't know anyone that much except of course, my mum and I am too shy to introduce myself to the other people who are at least at my age. We waited for a speed boat to get us to go to Playa Azalaya which was in the Island called Samal. As the speedboat arrived, we found out only 12 people can get in.. So me and my mum were very 'generous and patient' enough to just wait for the 2nd trip by generous and patient I mean getting soaked in the sun and no proper waiting area but when the 2nd trip came, the boat driver came up to us and told us that there was no more gasoline for the speedboat and told us to wait for another half an hour, Yeah we are so patient... Since I didn't know anyone there except again for my mum, I told her to just get a photo of me instead so that it would take up all our time and at least we would have something to do.
So my mum took this photo and well, I was impressed! It was great but it was blur :(
After my mum took one photo of me, which is the one I showed she suddenly just gave me the camera and left me all alone. Lol I love you too mum. So I decided to do a self timer, It won't hurt to try I bet.
I thought that it was nice but its against the light so I had to do it the other way but I loved the view this wayy, nooooooooooo :(
The result of the other way around. haha :)
But I loved it more when I had my hat on! ❤
So I decided to stop being vain with myself for a moment there and explore the place before the speedboat comes.
I found some cute bracelets in this place!
So, Finally the speedboat came! Hop ON it says!!! haha
didn't get the picture of the boat though, aha :(
I didn't get to picture everything though, I got sort of well 'busy' at some point.
How was your weekend and holiday?


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