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Donegal boss Rory Gallagher laments goal chances - at either end - in loss to Cork
In terms of intensity, in the bowls of Croke Park by the Cusack Park dressingrooms, it was suggested that it wasn't so much of a challenge match-feel but more of a pitch opening.
Well, certainly towards the end of an afternoon that was easy on the eye, although one that Tyrone, Donegal's Ulster SFC opponents on Sunday, May 17, wouldn't have taken too much from.
On an afternoon of 31 frees and not one Donegal yellow card, there are no injuries and suspensions in the camp ahead of that climactic preliminary round tie that takes place in Ballybofey four weeks this Sunday.
Rory Gallagher, the Donegal manager, had seen his team defeated in an open Allianz League Division One semi-final, 4-11 to 0-19 against Cork at an echoey Croke Park.
When GAA HQ is so sparsely attended - with only 20,013 culminating for the double-header that also included Dublin and Monaghan, it always has a peculiar feel.
Donegal shaded the first half but still went in on terms, 0-11 to 1-8, with Tom Clancy, the Cork late addition at corner-back, being one of those long-priced first goalscorer bets.
One of those too frequently-used adages state that goals win matches and yesterday that was the case. Cork scored three in the second half and Donegal didn't manage any all day.
Ken O'Halloran saved from Colm McFadden following a stereotypical Donegal counter-attack on nine minutes to keep the score at 0-3 to 0-3. Then, in the second half, the Cork goalkeeper denied Patrick McBrearty following Christy Toye's crisp pass, to maintain the Munster team's 3-10 to 0-16 advantage. Both were pivotal points in the match.
"With the goal chances, Cork took theirs but we missed ours," Gallagher broke it down to afterwards. Cork's fourth goal, when Colm O'Neill slotted past Michael Boyle, put an end to whatever contest there was and concluded five Donegal points on the spin.
"We had plenty of energy in the first half, particularly in the first 18 or 19 minutes," Gallagher said of the early stages. "We did a lot of damage, but it's disappointing that the goals killed the game as a contest a wee bit. There are lots of positives considering where we're at and in the period of training that we're in. I thought that we competed very well. It's onwards and upwards."
All in all, Division One has served its purpose this year for Gallagher. Eoin McHugh was a late addition to the team yesterday and acquitted himself well after a busy week, while Eamonn Doherty and Hugh McFadden - another member of Maxi Curran's unfortunate U-21 team - have played themselves into contention.
Seven points in the top flight is Donegal's best return since Brian McIver's side took the trophy back to the Diamond in 2007.
Throughout the spring there have been experiments, some of which will be used in championship and others that will not.
Yesterday, keeping their powder dry, Donegal mixed it for large spells. They were much looser than normal, although conceding four goals wasn't ideal.
"We went out and opened up a bit more than our usual style of play," Gallagher added. "It was disappointing to concede the four goals.
"We went out with the main aim of getting Colm McFadden and Anthony Thompson in for starts again and to get Eoin McHugh a start.
"They fitted in well. Some of the football that we played in the first half was very good. We created a couple of goal chances – if Colm had put his away it would have opened up a bit of a gap at that stage.
"We're really pleased with where we're at, with the level of fitness in the squad and with no real serious injuries. Neil Gallagher missed out today, but he could have played today no problem.
"We have a fully-fit squad and we'd expect Neil to be back in collective training on Tuesday night.
"There is no doubt that our guys' legs couldn't have been fresh coming into today's game.
"That had a big toll on them. We weren't gearing to peak for a game today. Unfortunately in Ulster we're out in a must-win game on May 17. We have to gear for that one,"


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Student Start-up: Bow Wow London
Taro Takeuchi opened a luxury pet accessories boutique in Covent Garden after attending a ten-week short course at City. The boutique has gone from strength to strength allowing Taro the focus on business growth and stability.
The Background
The course helped Taro change his business idea in a radical way and to harness his strongest skills, including marketing and branding, budgeting, forecasting. He moved away from the original idea of an old fashioned sweet shop and went into pet accessory, something he know and loves. The store is called Bow Wow London and caters specifically for dogs.
The Challenge
Develop a solid business model that allows for Bow Wow London to thrive in its surrounding area and to focus on steady growth without the risk of loosing to competitors or economic uncertainty.
The Solution
Taro completed a ten-week short course in Stating up in Business at City. As a result, he gained the skills need to help his business flourish. Taro credits the 10-week short course for helping him re-evaluate his business structure/model to drive long term success.

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Bad Medicine...is what I needed
"So, Michelle....where've you been spinning these days?", said the friend who teaches spinning, via happy email.
Michelle looks around the room. She glances nervously to the right and spots her trusted steed, Johnny C, hooked up faithfully to his cyclops fluid 2 trainer, gently collecting delicate powder we call....dust....
"Ummmm....nowhere? Ah, when are you teaching class?" says an out of shape Ironman Sign-upper who hasn't done a damn thing.
Says evil friend/spin instructor, "Tonight at 6:30 p.m. See you there!
I walked into my club, got on my fabulous JDRF spankin' new bike shorts, filled the water bottle, got the cycle ready, climbed on.
Giddy up.
The music started and WOW...did I miss spinning class! What was I thinking blowing off the club all this time??? I got in my groove and grinned like an idiot during Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine" as I cranked up my standing climb and grinned for those 5 minutes of painful climbing. Oh yeah, bring it on!
Thanks, Ryan, for getting this butt back in the saddle....tomorrow morning I plan to run on the fresh powder (errrr...ah....I really mean that sickening 8 more inches getting DUMPED on us) and go for a swim.....
Next post is going to be about the giving of others and general kindness rumored......film at 11.
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Counting the cost of duck damage
4 May 2017 2:11 PM -
With a very promising rice harvest underway across the Riverina, a number of growers are reflecting on the cost of wild duck damage to their crops during the establishment stage.
NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Senior Native Game Bird Management Officer, Patrick O'Brien, said the Rice Growers' Association of Australia (RGA) estimates that the total tonnage of rice lost to ducks this season would be significantly higher than in recent years.
Mr O'Brien said rice growers reported that ducks caused the greatest damage to crops planted late in the season.
"The ducks weren't a real concern for growers until mid-December last year, when they turned up in greater numbers and started to significantly damage newly planted rice crops," he said.


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The i>clicker 2013 Pedagogy Webinar Series offers 45-minute webinars where educational technology experts demonstrate ways to incorporate innovative tools into the classroom. Next Friday, September 27 at 10:30am PST, Dr. MiKi Kitchen of the University of South Carolina will present, "Inquiry-Based Pedagogy: Using i>clicker to Locate Student Voices in Large-Format Classrooms."
Faculty technology training coordinator Fernando Socorro says, "This session should be especially useful for most, if not all of the UCD faculty using clickers, since they are using them in high enrollment courses as a way to, as the title states, 'locate student voices in large format classroom.'"
The webinar is free, but you'll want to register. For more information, and to learn about future webinars, visit the i>clicker pedagogy webinar series.
Note: Updated to reflect new webinar date, September 27th at 10:30 am PST.


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We're glad to see that Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Meadow) and Robert Iler (A.J.) who played brother and sister all those years on The Sopranos, are really fast friends. The other night they had dinner together at Il Sole. For readers out there who are still going through Sopranos withdrawal, there is relief. See the sensational movie Eastern Promises. It's the most amazing gangster movie since Casino. Tony Soprano would have loved it.
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By posh
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she is so pretty and cute and deserves better
By Anonymous
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maybe she deserves what she has cuz she's a poor judge of character and dates losers?
By Anonymous
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What is it with men? She takes the time to look nice, dresses well, even wears high heels, and he can't even put on a clean pair of pants and a shirt?
By west hollywood person
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she is soooo sweet because i know her.
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a compelling and creative formula that effectively combines dialectic truths about people or man and woman and other related subjects. action, suspence, genuine, dramatic, spellbinding, fascination and the end of the beginning.
By Johnny Sack
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You spelled suspense wrong, egghead.
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The unemployment line forms to the right.
By Anonymous
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Do yall even know them. Have yall been there on the set from day 1. Plus they may be just having dinner because they miss being on set together and they know that they will never get to do that together again. It's like a brother and sister having dinner. Plus I think she's seeing someone
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I Watched it for a minute and I Though I Have had enough and just needed a break from that kind of show and so I Never got into it and I did not pay any attention to it and I could not tell you one single hour of one single show.. But I know people love it and that is good but the show has come and gone and I had never really watched it and if I Was standing next to the cast of the show I Would not notice or be star freaking and what I Mean by that…Not up in there face and smiling or saying something to them at all.


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|This specification provides canonical documentation of the obsolete Agent Information namespace. Note: This document has been superseded by XEP-0030: Service Discovery.
|Peter Saint-Andre
|© 1999 – 2018 XMPP Standards Foundation. SEE LEGAL NOTICES.
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WARNING: This document has been obsoleted by the XMPP Standards Foundation. Implementation of the protocol described herein is not recommended. Developers desiring similar functionality are advised to implement the protocol that supersedes this on (XEP-0030).
1. Introduction
2. Definition
3. Examples
4. Security Considerations
5. IANA Considerations
6. XMPP Registrar Considerations
7. XML Schema
A: Document Information
B: Author Information
C: Legal Notices
D: Relation to XMPP
E: Discussion Venue
F: Requirements Conformance
G: Notes
H: Revision History
Over the years there have been three different protocols used in the Jabber community to discover information about other entities on the network. The most recent protocol, and the only one that is standards-track, is Service Discovery (XEP-0030) [1]. The protocol prior to Service Discovery was Jabber Browsing (XEP-0011) [2]. Before Jabber Browsing, there was the 'jabber:iq:agents' namespace. This specification provides historical documentation for the Agent Information protocol.
Note well that the Agent Information protocol is deprecated; applications desiring such functionality SHOULD implement Service Discovery. This specification is provided only in order to ensure complete documentation of earlier protocols.
The 'jabber:iq:agents' namespace was used to obtain a list of entities associated with another Jabber Entity; most commonly, the list of trusted services associated with a specific host.
When 'jabber:iq:agents' is used, information about available agents properties is contained within a <query/> element that is scoped by the 'jabber:iq:agents' namespace. The reply to a request of type "get" in the 'jabber:iq:agents' namespace contains zero or more <agent/> elements. The <agent/> element has a required 'jid' attribute that contains the Jabber Identifier of each agent. The <agent/> element in turn may contain the following children:
<iq id='agents1' type='get' to='shakespeare.lit'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:agents'/> </iq>
<iq firstname.lastname@example.com/balcony' from='shakespeare.lit' type='result' id='agents1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:agents'> <agent jid='users.shakespeare.lit'> <name>Jabber User Directory</name> <service>jud</service> <search/> <register/> </agent> <agent jid='chat.shakespeare.lit'> <name>Conferencing Service</name> <service>public</service> <groupchat/> </agent> </query> </iq>
There are no security features or concerns related to this proposal.
This document requires no interaction with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) [3].
No action on the part of the XMPP Registrar [4] is necessary as a result of this document, since 'jabber:iq:agents' is already a registered namespace.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' targetNamespace='jabber:iq:agents' xmlns='jabber:iq:agents' elementFormDefault='qualified'> <xs:element name='query'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence minOccurs='0'> <xs:element ref='agent' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='agent'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref='name' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/> <xs:element ref='description' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/> <xs:element ref='transport' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/> <xs:element ref='groupchat' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/> <xs:element ref='service' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/> <xs:element ref='register' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/> <xs:element ref='search' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name='jid' type='xs:string' use='required'/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='name' type='xs:string'/> <xs:element name='description' type='xs:string'/> <xs:element name='transport'/> <xs:element name='groupchat'/> <xs:element name='service' type='xs:string'/> <xs:element name='register'/> <xs:element name='search'/> </xs:schema>
Series: XEP
Number: 0094
Publisher: XMPP Standards Foundation
Status: Obsolete
Type: Historical
Version: 0.3
Last Updated: 2003-10-08
Approving Body: XMPP Council
Dependencies: XMPP Core
Supersedes: None
Superseded By: XEP-0030
Short Name: iq-agents
Source Control: HTML
This document in other formats: XML PDF
JabberID: firstname.lastname@example.com
URI: http://stpeter.im/
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is defined in the XMPP Core (RFC 6120) and XMPP IM (RFC 6121) specifications contributed by the XMPP Standards Foundation to the Internet Standards Process, which is managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force in accordance with RFC 2026. Any protocol defined in this document has been developed outside the Internet Standards Process and is to be understood as an extension to XMPP rather than as an evolution, development, or modification of XMPP itself.
The primary venue for discussion of XMPP Extension Protocols is the <firstname.lastname@example.com> discussion list.
Discussion on other xmpp.org discussion lists might also be appropriate; see <http://xmpp.org/about/discuss.shtml> for a complete list.
Errata can be sent to <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
The following requirements keywords as used in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119: "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED"; "MUST NOT", "SHALL NOT"; "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED"; "SHOULD NOT", "NOT RECOMMENDED"; "MAY", "OPTIONAL".
1. XEP-0030: Service Discovery <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0030.html>.
2. XEP-0011: Jabber Browsing <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0011.html>.
3. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the central coordinator for the assignment of unique parameter values for Internet protocols, such as port numbers and URI schemes. For further information, see <http://www.iana.org/>.
4. The XMPP Registrar maintains a list of reserved protocol namespaces as well as registries of parameters used in the context of XMPP extension protocols approved by the XMPP Standards Foundation. For further information, see <https://xmpp.org/registrar/>.
Note: Older versions of this specification might be available at http://xmpp.org/extensions/attic/


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Rep. Gibson votes to deny lifesaving emergency health care to women
For Immediate Release: Jan. 30, 2014
Again demonstrating his willingness to focus on legislation that undermines women's health over legislation to help create jobs and stimulate the economy, Rep. Chris Gibson voted today in favor of H.R. 358. Among other dangerous health care provisions that Rep. Gibson supported, this bill would allow a hospital to deny a woman lifesaving emergency abortion care-even if a doctor deems it necessary. It would also take comprehensive health care coverage away from women and create loopholes that states and insurance companies could exploit to undermine the new requirement that insurance companies provide birth control with no co-pays or deductibles.
"This is the latest example of Congressman Gibson putting ideology before women's health, and putting politics ahead of creating jobs and stimulating the nation's economy," said Patricia McGeown, President/CEO of Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood.
Rep. Gibson's efforts to undermine women's health have to stop. In these tough economic times, more women than ever need access to comprehensive health care.
Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, Inc.
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Come Stitch With Me!!!!
I'm getting ready to leave for the Leavenworth, WA Quilt Show this weekend (September 7,8,9) The weather is going to be gorgeous (Leavenworth and the mountains around it are gorgeous enough, rain or shine!)
I'll have tons of quilts and things there, and I'll be doing demos of coloring and stuff......but what I REALLY want is COMPANY!!! Bring your stitching stuff, and come by! You can sit with me and stitch!
I've asked them to have extra chairs available for us...........We'll have SO MUCH FUN !!
OH!... and I'll have "Dance by the Light of the Moon" there......un-quilted, but the top's done! YAY!!


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Linux Cost Savings Add Up
Right Up Front: The License Savings
When Jeff Whitmore, IT manager at Ernie Ball Guitar Strings, got the order to change over the company's systems from Windows to Linux, he was ecstatic. Not only would Linux be easier to run, he was about save $80,000 just on new license fees.
"Going to the Linux was just a natural," he said. "I mean that happened so easily and you're not paying for your Citrix license or anything else, or a Windows license."
Of course, Whitmore's CEO, Sterling Ball, made the decision because of a lawsuit brought against the company by the Business Software Alliance in 2000, and not in response to Linux's potential to save the company thousands. Still, the savings have begun to mount.
Prior to the changeover, Whitmore was spending $40,000 to $50,000 a year just on software licenses. Two years since the switch and Whitmore is close to $100,000 in the black even though he needed to invest $80,000 the first year in new equipment and software.
Once that was done, however, his capital investment basically ended. Not only is Whitmore's operation running on fewer, less expensive servers, he was able to save money by not purchasing new PCs. Instead, he put a Linux kernel on each unit (even the ultra-old ones got Linux expansion cards to replace outdated hard drives) and pushed out an open source productivity suite, OpenOffice, from a single sever to all the desktops.
This not only saves money on hardware, Whitmore can fix problems remotely from his desktop, saving anxiety, frustration and a lot time running around reloading hard drives.
What does he do with all his extra time? "Explore new technology," he said.
- Skip Ahead
- 1. Right Up Front: The License Savings
- 2. Right Up Front: The License Savings
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The Lost Symbol Masuk GR Award 2009
The 2009 Goodreads Choice Awards:
Choose your ALL-TIME FAVORITE book of 2009.
These 10 books were the most popular (most shelved) books on Goodreads this year. See the full list of popular books for 2009 here!
Results will be announced in January 2010.
choose the answer:
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Evermore by Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author)
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Hunted by P.C. Cast
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
So, pembaca Indonesia, jangan sampai ketinggalan. Buruan pesan The Lost Symbol edisi Bahasa Indonesia, di toko-toko buku terkemuka. Pemesanan sampai tanggal 15 Januari.
Selain buku The Lost Symbol, pembaca juga akan dapat banyak hadiah, diantaranya ; gantungan kunci, gantungan handphone dan kalender 2010. Semuanya bermotif Lost Symbol.


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A report released Wednesday by the Partnership for Policy Integrity has identified Verso Paper's Bucksport mill as one of many biomass-burning facilities in 25 states that pollute the air more than modern coal plants. Verso officials said the study, and others like it, are based on "bad data and faulty assumptions."
The Bangor Daily News reported the group's study reviewed 88 emissions permits for biomass plants in 25 states. The review found that biomass plants are allowed to emit more nitrogen oxide, volatile organic compounds, particulate matter and carbon monoxide per hour than coal plants, which produce more sulfur dioxide. The group's study found that biomass plants emit around 800% more pollutants than natural gas plants and produce approximately 50% more carbon dioxide per megawatt than coal.
Bill Cohen, a spokesman for the Bucksport mill, told the newspaper in an email that the study's data does not align with the company's operating permit or operating data.
The study says biomass should not be considered a renewable or green energy source, a contention that led to consideration of restructuring the renewable portfolio standard in Connecticut last year. The move stood to phase out older biomass plants in Maine and New Hampshire from counting toward that state's renewable purchasing requirements.
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Lovely Monday
First up, all you wanted to know about the Canine Death Squad, the Killer Kitties, and more, is over at Fido and Wino where I'm running the yap for the R.O.A.R. Squad about my furred inspirations. There are pictures, too.
Then head to the Order of Smut Vixens to check out what Martini's doing with Kitty today. A big shout out to those who made the auction on Sunday evening, and for those of you who missed it, well...there's always next year. (Congrats to Kelly, who took home BOTH Martini and Christopher. ;-D)
Next, there's a great review of "Touched by an Alien" over at One Good Book Deserves Another. Follow up with a nice listing of what's coming in April bookswise, you know, like "Alien in the Family", at Fleur de Lys.
Now, what you've all really been waiting for, news on the "Alien in the Family" ARC Giveaway. It's starting today...for Hook Me Up! subscribers only. If you're a reader of the Blah, Blah, Blah Blog and somehow still not on, now's the time. Send an email to email@example.com with "Hook Me Up!" in the subject line. And do it fast. The ARC giveaway will run today, 2-14, through next Monday, 2-21. So don't delay, get on Hook Me Up! today!
(NOTE FOR HOOK ME UP! FOLKS LOOKING FOR ALIEN IN THE FAMILY ARC GIVEAWAY BLOG: Team Gini has, as is their wont, saved the day again. ARC Contest blog is now ABOVE this one. Carry on, all is back to being fully well.)
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Hera is one of Korean high end brands that I've always wanted to try. I heard great things about this brand, from their lipsticks to bb cushions since 2 years ago. Last year, I decided to try their eyeliner because I'm quite an eyeliner addict, I always want to find new eyeliners that might stay on better on my eyes. I had good experience with IOPE eyeliner, so I always want to try other eyeliners from similar brands like Hera. I was totally excited to try this product, especially because this eyeliner has a quiet unique mechanism which I will show you more in this post.
Keep reading if you're interested to find out more about this product.
Except for the product name, almost everything else on the box packaging is all in Korean.
They include a piece of paper that explains how this product works. It's in Korean but there are some pictures on the side that's pretty self explanatory.
The first time I received this eyeliner and opened the cap, the brush tip was all white. There's the twist on the upper part of the pen, and once it's twisted, the product comes out of the brush. Be careful, if the brush is not white then it's not brand new.
Like this. This was when I was so noob I twisted too much, not knowing the liquid liner would pour this much. So 1-2 twists is all you need, really. After that the brush will dry out but that's okay cause when you twist again, the liner will come out again on the brush tip. This kind of mechanism is actually quite nice and convenient for eyeliner. There are some eyeliners that dry out so fast even when the cap is closed and the product is unused. I had a couple of eyeliners like that and it was pretty frustrating. However, this Hera eyeliner didn't really amaze me in terms of its ink pigmentation and texture.
I don't know if it's just me or that this particular product was a bad batch, and in this test photo I did it was still okay ish. But I can't use this eyeliner fully because sometimes when I twist the pen, it's like too watery and not even black watery but looks like some weird colored liquid with some black ink, if that makes sense. It's not drying out, it's still very much liquid-y, which is good for how long I have it in my drawer. But it will never be thick black like how I wanted my eyeliner to be. I really hope it's just a bad batch that I received though. I mean, its price range isn't that affordable (affordable is like $10-15 to me), so it'd suck big time if the others are the same as this one.
As usual, I wet my hand with water and rub it hard. Well, part of the liners gets smudged and fades. With max rubbing, it's nearly gone so while I need hard rubbing to make it disappear, it's still not 100% smudgeproof when it's wet, like most felt tip liners I had used before. When it's dry it's a bit harder to vanish with minimal rub or touch.
- Quite interesting twisting mechanism
- Product doesn't dry out fast
- Buildable
- Nice packaging
- Soft brush bristles
- Not pigmented enough
- Less precision - kinda hard to draw winged liner
As eyeliner is one of the huge part of my makeup, the pigmentation and ease of use are really important for me. And quite frankly, this one doesn't deliver as much as I hoped, in my opinion. For daily use when you don't need much eyeliner maybe, but this is not for me. The brush tip isn't exactly precise. I always need to draw my inner corner very sharp to make fake inner eye corner and this can't do that. The winged liner I draw with this Hera eyeliner always turns out pretty fail :( This eyeliner doesn't dry out though, it's liquid-y and with the twist it's easily liquid even after months of not using and opening it. Once again, I really hope the one I got is just a very bad batch. It's just a disappointing product for me cause I had high expectation for this to be at least like IOPE eyeliner, but it's not even close. So I had to give a very low score. But again, tbis is just my opinion based on my personal experience of the product I got. I really hope the others in the market don't turn out like mine though.
Jolse for $21
Disclosure: The product mentioned above was sent to me for review purposes. However all thoughts and opinions expressed are honest and entirely my own. I do not get paid to write this post.


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Having seen my review of Lemora, a thoughful reader wrote to recommend this, as it similarly has a lot of sexual kinkiness and is very creepy, if a tiny bit of a mess. To the top of my list it went, and here we are.
We open with a quote from Plato saying something to the effect that the good only dream about what the wicked actually do. We also learn that this is based on Carmila by Victorian ghost story writer Sheridan LeFanu. We join a just-married couple as they drive to their honeymoon. This is all happening in Spain. They arrive at this hotel, and as Susan, the bride, gets out, still in her wedding dress. She sees this blonde woman in a nearby car, who has the intense gaze of a young Debbie Harry. The husband, listed in the credits as just "Husband" [let's call him Juan], tells her to go inside while he parks [they don't have valet?]. Then--well here we have an up-front spoiler, so if you really want to know, skip past the spoiler mark at the end and God be with you. But I recommend reading this spoiler to give you a taste of the movie, and I'll warn you when the real spoilers begin. Because this movie does have some genuine surprises in store.
Susan goes to her room, looks around, and hangs her veil in the closet. She pokes around, and when she opens the closet again a man with a stocking over his head comes out and throws her on the bed! He rips her dress open, exposing her breasts and then her bush, then gets on top of her and starts sucking her tits! Woah, this is unexpected. Then her husband comes in, and Susan is sitting on the bed, clutching her dress around her. We can't tell if it's ripped or not, so we go a short while without knowing if the rape really happened. Susan says she doesn't like that place one bit, and they have to leave.
So they press on to his home, with his younger sister and a woman I presume to be his mother? The young sister is Carol, who is 12. Her teacher just died, so she's about to get a new one. We now see that Susan's dress is intact, making the rape all just her fantasy.
She goes upstairs, and is soon joined by her husband. He asks her if she's nervous about making love, she says yes, and he says he is, too. Then he rips open her dress, just like her fantasy rapist! She screams, but then calms down and submits, while he rips her dress open down to her bush, just like in her fantasy.
The next morning, Mom leaves breakfast outside the room. Juan wakes Susan by putting some RED jam on his finger and inserting it into her mouth. Then--and this was a wicked touch--he wipes it off on her bridal veil! She says he was good, and asks if she was. He says yes, but you can tell he's only being nice. She did look pretty dead-fishy while they were at it. Then he drops down and eats her out! Then for a while it seems that they're going for it everywhere and anytime, and are overheard by a local hunter and Carol on separate occasions.
Then Juan goes out hunting--this is one of those movies in which animals ARE harmed, as we see Juan literally blow the head off a live fox with a rifle. Meanwhile, Susan at home peruses all the portraits of the male members of Juan's historic family, and asks where the portraits of the women are--and finds they're in the cellar. She justly interprets this as being emblematic of the place of women in Juan's family. She and Carol go exploring in the basement, where they find the portrait of Mircala Karstein, who killed her husband on her wedding night because he wanted her to do "unspeakable things." The portrait shows her with dagger in her hand, rings turned to the inside of her other hand--and face carved out of the portrait.
So then Susan is out in the forest when her husband surprises her--by appearing on a rock before her, grabbing her hair, and pulling her up by it until her legs are kicking in the breeze. Then he drops her. Susan doesn't really appreciate this. Hubby steps around in front her, grabs her head and FORCES her to blow him! We see it from a distance and wonder what really happened, but we DO see Susan wiping her lips after. Susan doesn't really appreciate this, either [although I'm like: "How come I never meet guys like this?"]. She runs, and runs, and runs, and finally locks herself in a large upstairs pigeon coop. Her husband comes in and circles the cage menacingly. He kicks the door in, at which point Susan poses along the wall like "Take me, you scoundrel!" Okay, that's a mixed message. He does, and Carol walks in and sees.
Susan is starting to feel bad about the little matter of these impulses to stab her husband into mincemeat. She thinks she's being haunted by Marcala, the husband-killer fom the portrait. In order to demonstrate that she's just a wingnut, her husband takes her to the ruins of an old church, finds Mircala's tomb, and opens it [note to viewers: always a good idea NOT to open any tombs of those you feel may be haunting you]. He pulls out a bone, breaks it and shoves it under Susan's nose, at which point she freaks, runs outside, falls on the ground and starts ripping up dirt and wailing about "Decay!" At this point I think a "Just Because" card and small box of chocolates from Juan could do wonders for their relationship, but instead he again helpfully insists that she's bonkers.
Okay, as you can tell, this movie isn't playing by the accepted rules, and you really can't be quite sure what you're going to see next. So if you plan to watch it you might want to skip past the end of the spoilers, since its rare to have a movie where you really don't know what might happen.
Well now Susan is in a piss-poor mood and she does NOT want any sex, abusive or otherwise. She just wants to sleep and be left alone. While she sleeps, the blonde woman comes to her, it all goes strobey, and she bites Susan's neck. The blonde woman also gives Susan a dagger just like the one in the painting. Then Susan wakes, Juan is there, she says she had an awful dream and she needs to get away from there because she is having uncontrollable urges to kill him, and he again gives his stock answer: she's off her nut. She says oh yeah, then what about THIS? And shows him the dagger. After some hugger-mugger, it is revealed that Carol put it in her bed, although the girl insists that "the lady" gave it to her. Juan takes it and hides it where he's sure Susan will never find it. That night the woman comes to Susan's bedside, gets her out of bed, opens the mantel clock in the next room and hands her the dagger. Boy, THAT was well hidden! She never would have found that, for sure. They return to the bedroom and the blonde guides Susan's hand as she stabs Juan! Then again, and again, and again and again and again until he's just a big bloody caved-in chest cavity, then they work together to cut his cock and balls off, then the blonde holds them above her head and lets the blood drip down! But--it was all a dream! So what's for breakfast?
In the morning Susan shows Juan where the dagger is, and he's starting to get freaked. She is upset because she loves him and doesn't want to repeatedly stab him until his chest cavity is a mush, but at the same time, she kind of does. I think we've all had those types of relationships. He takes the dagger out to the beach and buries it, then--is that a HAND sticking out of the sand a few feet away? It is, and there's a tube not too far off. Juan digs and there's a face mask, someone underneath it, whose eyes open and look at him. He continues to unbury her, and finds two naked breasts! He goes to get something to dig her out with, when she suddenly jumps into his car. So he takes her home, ho-hum. I didn't realize that finding a naked woman buried in the sand was such a regular occurrence, but you know, I think with spreading globalization, certain regional peculiarities are inevitably lost. Anyway, yes it's completely absurd, but somehow, in its bizarre way, it is disturbing and actually works.
Once home, she takes quite a shine to Susan. Oh, and by the way, she is of course the blonde woman Susan has been seeing in her dreams. And her name is Carmila, which you might realize at once is an anagram of Mircala, the one in the basement who killed her husband for being a kinkster. They spend a pleasant evening in the living room, Carmila and Susan enjoying deep mental communion as Juan drones on to them, oblivious that no one is listening. When it's time for bed, Susan informs Juan "I don't love you, I hate you. I've hated you since the first moment you touched my body." Perhaps it's not best to wait til after marriage after all. Seems like a lot of rigamarole could have been avoided in this case. Susan goes to see Carmila in the night, and sees that she wears the rings on her hands just like in the portrait. These are pointy jewels that effectively become claws if she wanted. By now we have to admit that, out-there are much of this is, it pretty much works and the characters are quite intriguing.
Carmila takes Susan out for a midnight stroll, and when she comes back Susan has rings worn inside her hand just like her new BFF. Meanwhile Juan goes down to the basement where he finds a little treasure box from the time of Mircala. It has the cut-out face of the portrait--surprise, looks just like Carmila--a poison ["It's a very potent poison. I just tried it on a rabbit," Juan casually says], a few 2-for-1 drink tickets from the local sports bar, a worn C-3P0 figure, and a book of matches. The local hunter guy [remember him?] said he saw Carmila and Susan out in the ruins of the old church, and they were "howling like cats in heat." I wonder what they were doing. So Juan hires this doctor/detective who follows then out to their old trysting place the next night, and we see as Carmila tells Susan that yeah, I'm gonna kill you, but it'll be "exquisite cruelty." She also makes mention of the fact that Susan's husband "spat inside you to enslave you." Yeah, really low-down, but killing someone through exquisite cruelty is just fine.
Now we see that Carol is in class with a bunch of students who look much younger than her, and their unit just happens to be on the properties of blood. Then we see that her new teacher is--CARMILA! That lady's just popping up everywhere. Carol gives Carmila a key which she later passes on to Susan. They discover the detective following them, and Carmila urges Susan to kill him and "destroy his masculinity." Frankly I think someone has some issues with men. They go out for a walk in the woods, where Carmila gets caught in an animal trap! The hunter guy shows, and Susan comes up from behind and offs him pretty good. She frees Carmila and they go off.
Now we join Juan as he comes to the ruins of the church. He opens the coffin we saw Carmila sleeping in earlier, and now both she and Susan are in it. He closes it, takes his gun, and shoots the coffin up. We see blood leaking out of the holes. Then Carol shows up and says that he'll never really be able to kill them, and shows that now SHE has rings like Carmila. She displays all the bites on her neck, then gets on her knees and waits. Juan gets behind her and blows her head off! Then he opens the coffin, grabs Susan's breast--and it looks like he's making to cut it off--but he actually cuts out their hearts [not shown] and, well heads off for the singles bar, I guess. He's single and free, a playa once again!
It was quite good! If you, like me, like all sorts of kinky sex in your horror films, this one has it in spades, and it's all really edgy and dangerous. The movie does a good job of displaying Susan's ambiguity, how she loves her husband and likes the rough sex, yet at the same time is affronted by it. Juan's sexual dominance is also on the edge between hot and disturbing. Then Carmila comes along as sort of the spirit of women's assertiveness, but not so much, because she really just hates men and wants to destroy them. While asserting HER dominance over Susan and Carol. So basically everything about it is ambiguous, and that's just how I like it. Although, being Spanish and from the 70s, ultimately the point of view of the movie seems to come down slightly edged toward the side that says Juan is the husband and as such has the right to sexual dominion over his wife. Which I think is driven home by the implication that he cuts off their breasts at the end.
So luckily I am able to walk over to my bookshelf and find that I own a collection of Sheridan LeFanu stories, which contains Carmila. The story centers on a 14-year-old girl, and Carmila is a girl her own age who comes to stay with her, is a vampire, and has wanted to possess her since she was six. The speech about Carmila possessing her and killing her exquisitely is lifted virtually verbatim from the story. I haven't actually finished the story yet, but clearly it's quite different, as the characters in the movie have been made into adults and it's all about their twisted sex lives, but it seems to be a version and extrapolation of what's in the book.
Anyway, if you like a little twisted sex with your disturbing horror, here's the movie for you!
You sure should, it's good and genuinely surprising.


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- Travel 2060 and beyond: Hotels.com and futurist Dr James Canton reveal the future of hotels in Hotels of the Future study
- New Travel Design Science – Hotels will be based on your dreams and desires
- The Smart Hotel Room Unveiled: 3D printers, smart toilets, morphing beds and face recognition entry
When travellers check into a hotel in 2060 they can expect it to be on Mars, to feature augmented reality, artificial intelligence, morphing beds, robotics, touchscreen everything, hyper connectivity and much more, as revealed by the Hotels.com® Hotels of the Future study.
Hotels.com celebrates 25 years of accommodation expertise this year and is looking to the future by partnering with renowned futurist Dr James Canton of the Institute for Global Futures on the Hotels.com Hotels of the Future study. It uncovers how the travel and hotel experience will be different in a year, 25 years and as far ahead as 2060.
The way travellers choose a destination, book a trip, travel there and the in-stay experience will be dramatically different in the future. Hotels.com is already one of the technology leaders in the travel industry but these new forecasts see super-tech meet super-science.
Dr James Canton from The Institute for Global Futures, a leading think tank that identifies emerging consumer trends, explains: "Trends in technology, science, energy and entertainment will vastly change the hotel experience for travellers. The emergence of a new travel design science, which is a combination of using big data, artificial intelligence and predicting travellers' dreams, will mean the whole travel experience will change.
"The future of travel is really exciting, as we'll see predictive travel analytics anticipating what consumers want from their experience before booking. The hotel booking itself will be helped along by artificial intelligence software agents, using data mining and intuitive computing. The new travel design science will help create highly personalized in-stay experiences. And it doesn't end when you check out, because new analytics will also ensure lifelong travel fulfillment."
Hotels.com has worked with Dr James Canton to identify the top trends for what hotels of the future will be like by 2060:
- RoboButlers – These autonomous robots can be designed online before arrival and can be programmed with special talents, skills, languages and information to help make the hotel stay exceptional. They will do everything from greeting guests at the airport, to offering gourmet food service, room makeup, companionship, education, entertainment, business advice and concierge services.
- Morphing hotels made to order – This is the next generation of made to order. Hotels which self-assemble and morph from one design to another based on consumer's votes. These crowdsourced hotels will use nanotechnology and machines that can self-assemble environments, buildings or even entire physical worlds (the Real Jurassic Park?). This could all be possible in the next 20 years
- 3D Makers in every hotel room – Taking luggage on holiday will be a thing of the past. 3D Printers will transform the travel experience and specifically the in room experience. 3D Makers will generate in real time items guests desire, such as a new pair of shoes, clothes, pharmaceuticals, even computers or wearable phones. 3D shopping will be available, where consumers download from the cloud, retail goods that they want to design on demand. This will become the standard in every hotel room.
- Neuro-Dreaming – choose your own dream – The definition of getting a good night's sleep will be changing in the future. A hotel bed will no longer just be a place to enjoy a comfortable night's sleep, as future travellers will be able to choose their own dreams before dozing off. Hotels will give guests access to neurotechnology to program their dreams and they can choose a dream theme to either relax, enhance, learn or enjoy. Romantic adventure or space exploration?
- Pop-up hotels based on crowdsourcing – the next generation of pop up hotels will be based on special mobile crowdsourcing, where the theme and location is decided by votes. The pop up hotel designs that win the most votes will be programmed to self-assemble using 3D printers, use continuously generating Bio-solar cells and feature nanotechnology. These hotels will exist for a limited time and HotelCoin, the digital Blockchain currency, will be used by consumers to pay with their wearable mobile app.
- Wellness & longevity hotel spas – The spa 2.0 – the next generation of wellness spas will be mind blowing. Gone are the days of a simple facial or massage at hotel spa. The hotel spa of the future is based on DNA analysis and promoting living longer. You will receive personalized prevention treatments, prediction and health enhancement programs designed to refresh your health, your fitness and understand your future health risks. These will use the latest genetic medicine treatment, mind refreshing drugs, brain fitness and prevent disease. Massage and mud baths will of course still be available.
- Airport transfer of the future – Self-driving pods, RoboFlying cars and Hyperloop – one of the most stressful parts of any vacation is getting from the airport to your hotel. Travellers will be pleased to hear that the future of airport transfers is high tech and high speed. Future transports include self-driving pods, RoboFlying cars, which will help you avoid the traffic, and larger developments such as the Hyper Loop – supersonic air travel, covering hundreds of kilometers in seconds.
- DNA mobile payments—DNA is the ultimate personal identification and will be used to confirm identify in making travel bookings and payments online. When you check into your hotel, all that will be needed is DNA fingerprints to confirm who you are and check in is complete! Long check in lines will be a thing of the past.
- My travel avatar – The booking of hotels will be done by your very own travel avatar – like a digital software agent. Your travel avatar will help fulfill all your travel needs and wishes. Your Avatar will manage bookings, like a personal version of Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa, they will search, design and book travel. Avatars will communicate, negotiate and design your whole travel experience – the ultimate in customer care.
- EcoHotels on the next level – Many hotels already focus on sustainability and being eco- friendly but in future every hotel will be fully sustainable. They will excel in energy efficiency, buy and sell energy off the Renewable Energy Grid, use safe & clean products only, use the latest solar and geothermal technology and have a carbon neutral footprint. EcoHotels will also be socially aware, with products and workers all producing a positive social impact in the community.
- Augmented reality hotels – Travellers will be able to stay at hotels that are part physical and part virtual. While virtual reality is simply a recreation of a real life setting, an augmented reality experience actually blends the physical real world with virtual reality. Millions of innovative scenarios will therefore be possible – an excursion to Africa or a trip Machu Picchu in Peru? Augmented reality hotels will customize the ultimate adventure, history or drama travel experience. Consumers will not just stay at a hotel and be limited to excursions locally, the hotels will transport them to fantasy worlds they can only dream of.
- Gourmet genomics in hotel restaurants – Hotel restaurants will start to feature food designed for the individual's palate, all based on DNA analysis. Before you even arrive at your hotel, your diet and nutrition menu will be designed based on your DNA and optimized for your health. The menu is created to improve health, nutrition and fitness, but the food will still be gourmet and delicious. It will be designer food, made by top chefs but it won't make you gain weight or ruin your diet!
- Immersive-themed hotels – Hotels in the future will have themes based on immersive worlds. Hotels will become entertainment experiences that we can only imagine today. Travellers can expect a fully interactive live event location, where the hotel is in character with in-world. Consumers could interact in real-time or by virtual reality. Imagine a Call of Duty World enabling combat gaming competitions between networked hotel communities or a Roman World with chariot races or a Renaissance World complete with costumes and customized androids, story lines, drama and action.
Inside the smart hotel room By 2060 the standard hotel room you know today will be almost unrecognizable. The room of the future will be so personalized, so smart and techy down to the last detail. It will include:
- Entering your room via face recognition
- Multiple sensors attuned to you
- Talk-back TV
- Every surface will be touchscreen, reactive and interactive
- Bathrooms will have smart toilets and mirrors streaming real-time news
- Neuro-enhanced aromas will sprout from interactive spa walls that sense stress and auto-generate a relaxing sleep experience
- Special towels with pollution wipe nano coatings
- Wireless temperature controls that adjusts automatically
- Self-assembling and personalized bed and pillows based on neuro-feedback
- In room-personalized experiences like watching a holographic music concert
Take a tour of the hotel room of the future here
Other trends for Hotels of the Future:
- Deep sea hotels – With over 90% of the planet under water the possibility of having customized hotel experiences underwater will be a dream for many travellers. Hotel rooms will be transformed into undersea laboratories to experience the natural beauty of nature. With so many species under the oceans, the draw of the deep sea will appeal to many travellers who want a different type of vacation.
- Out of this world space hotels—Earth orbit, lunar, and Mars colony hotels – all of these will be possible at affordable prices. In the future, it will be possible to use fusion energy to propel consumers into space and there will be the demand for millions to go on an exciting vacation to the ultimate location – out of this world!
- Voice and gesture controlled hotel rooms: Closing your hotel room curtains and getting up to switch off the light before bed will be things of the past. Your hotel room in the future will be controlled by intuition controls – you tell the TV to turn itself off and it will, you make a gesture to dim the lights and they do it. This is the ultimate personalized room experience, as the voice and gestures will download ahead of your stay.
- Virtual reality entertainment – Virtual reality entertainment is already in existence but in the near future it will be used to really enhance the travel experience. Travellers will not just go to Rome but visit and participate in authentic battles in the Coliseum or enjoy painting lessons with Leonardo Da Vinci. Even feats such climbing Mount Everest via your RoboDouble will be possible—all from the comfort of your hotel's virtual reality media center.
- The Internet of Hotel Things – hyper-connectivity— Imagine every surface of your hotel room, every wall, product and floor, every "thing" having an Internet address. The Internet of Hotel Things (IoHT) is a very real possibility. Wearable smart phones will eventually be embedded into us, making us online all the time during travel. This hyper connectivity will improve the travel experience and be secure.
- HoloReal sports in hotels – Football or tennis will be not just a spectator sports in future but instead will have interactive viewing options. VR Play, where the consumer can watch in real-time the sports event, as if they were actually there in the stadium. Then through RoboPlay, where a robot surrogate is playing to experience and sense the game as a player on the field. Hotels will take on this trend and offer access to branded sports events where travellers can engage in these options and hotels will have exclusive HoloReal sports franchises that will attract consumers to stay at their locations.
- Hotels that think – AI —The use of Artificial Intelligence personalities, digital concierges, next generation thinking machines that will be virtual, downloading to robots, cars, rooms and devices will all be essential for the new generation of hotels. Autonomous Thinking Machines will really enhance the traveler's experience and it's possible they'll be entire hotels run by AI's, robots and tele-virtual humans in the near future.
Notes to Editors Dr James Canton is available for interview on request.
About Institute of Global Futures
The Institute for Global Futures is a leading think tank that advises Global Fortune 500 companies on emerging trends in innovation and technology that impact consumers, markets and society. Futureguru.com


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Rooney: Di Maria will come good
Wayne Rooney believes Angel Di Maria has a big part to play as Manchester United bid to qualify for the UEFA Champions League, despite the Argentina international's poor run of form.
Di Maria had a game to forget against Sunderland at Old Trafford on Saturday, substituted at half-time as United claimed a 2-0 victory.
After a bright start to life in the Premier League following his British record £59.7million transfer, the 27-year-old's form has dipped dramatically.
However, Rooney insists it is only a matter of time before Di Maria, who has three goals and eight assists this season, regains his confidence and helps United secure a top-four finish.
"He's a great player, he's shown that and you don't lose your talent overnight," Rooney said.
"Hopefully he'll get back to his best and start giving some great performances for us. He has a lot of experience and I think he'll figure it out - we all have to do that sometimes.
"There's nothing worse than when everyone keeps going on at you. You have to come to it in your own way and I'm sure he'll be a big player for us between now and the end of the season."


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Freedom is Finished!
Stitchy Stuff
With almost 200 hours of stitching time, Freedom is finally finished! I stayed up until well after midnight on Friday night to finish it. It's now washed and pressed, waiting to be framed. (This counts as #3 for my Project Challenge.) As luck would have it, Hobby Lobby is having a 50% off sale on frames this week. I may check out Michael's too. For those who want to see the finished product, I won't be posting a pic until after it's framed. So you'll just have to wait a bit longer!!
I started an ornament for an exchange I'm in. I'm stitching it over-one and have had to frog it a couple of times already. I find it's easier to just cut the stitches out than to try and unpick them. It's a strain on the eyes to do over-one, that's for sure! I also worked on the Treasured Memories Quilt afghan.
Over the weekend, I tried two more new recipes: Crockpot Southwestern Chili and Jambalaya Kebobs. Due to the ingredients I had, I changed the chili recipe so much that I'm not sure it'd be considered 'southwestern' anymore. LOL It turned out good, though. The kebobs turned out awesome, too! They were done on the grill.
2 small zucchini (about 6oz ea), cut diagonally into ¾" slices
1 red pepper, cut into 1¼" pieces
½ small onion, cut into 4 wedges
4 tsp. olive oil
2 tsp. Cajun seasoning
1 pkg. (16oz) kielbasa or cooked smoked sausage, cut diagonally into 1" chunks
1 large celery, chopped
2 c. cooked white rice
1 med. tomato, chopped
2 tbsp. water
Wood skewers
Soak skewers in water overnight. In large bowl, toss zucchini, pepper, onion, 3 tsp. olive oil, and 1 tsp. Cajun seasoning. Alternately thread vegetables on skewer. Place skewers on hot grill and cook 10-12 minutes until kielbasa browns and vegetables are tender crisp, turning skewers occasionally. Remove skewers from grill and put on platter.
In skillet, heat 1 tsp. olive oil over medium heat. Add celery and 1 tsp. Cajun seasoning. Cook, covered, for 5 minutes or until celery softens, stirring occasionally. Stir in rice, tomato, and water. Cook 3 more minutes, or until everything is blended and hot. Serve rice with kebobs.
One of my group members was suppose to have the report outline to me last Wed. She came to class and said she'd email it to me by Friday. Friday comes and goes... No email. Saturday afternoon arrives and I finally get the email. I opened the attachment and what do I see? Garbage! You know... all those funky squares and odd characters... where there's suppose to be decipherable wording? Thank goodness she put her phone number in the email! I called right away. She re-sent it using a different file extension, plus copied and pasted it into the email (at my request). I spent a good 2 1/2 hours on Sunday writing the lab report on Prairie Diversity. I have a couple of questions for the instructor before the final copy can be printed.
Movies Watched
• Spanglish
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
6 comments:
- Barb said...
Congrats on finishing the Freedom piece. That piece is awesome. Like I said I can't let my brother even see this piece. He loves patriotic pieces. Especially since his son was wounded in Iraq, his son-in-law served two terms in Iraq and now his daughter is in the Air Force. So he loves pieces like this.
- October 30, 2006 at 1:25:00 PM CST
- Jenna said...
Congratulations on a well-deserved finish! I can't wait to see it framed. :)
- October 30, 2006 at 1:41:00 PM CST
- Cindy said...
Oh I just can not wait to see Freedom!! I am sure that you are just thrilled to have it finished!
Thank goodness your group member emailed again! Glad that she finally came through!
- October 30, 2006 at 9:45:00 PM CST
- Emily said...
Congrats on the finish! Can't wait to see it framed...
That recipe sounds really good - I'll have to try it.
Group work can be so frustrating, I hate depending on other people for my work. You never know what they are going to do!
- October 31, 2006 at 10:34:00 AM CST
- Anonymous said...
Congratualtions on the finish Meari! I can't wait to see the framed piece! Did you like Spanglish? I haven't seen the other movie. Was it any good?
- October 31, 2006 at 2:59:00 PM CST
- stitcherw said...
Congratulations on finishing Freedom, I'll look forward to your posting a picture after it gets framed. Unpicking over one stitching is a bear, I agree it is easier to just cut the stitches. Hopefully you won't need to do any more frogging.
- November 5, 2006 at 8:44:00 PM CST


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I guess I am a bit of a shut in when it comes to new beauty trends because this thing seems to have exploded in popularity right under my nose. The new trend of which I speak of is microblading. Women have been using permanent make up for quite some time but there are a lot of unsatisfied customers that end up with tattooed makeup that they do not like. In comes microblading which is still technically a tattoo but the procedure is only semi-permanent.
I first came across this a couple weeks ago when photographing a bride that had the most beautiful and full eyebrows that I have ever seen. When I made a compliment to her she unloaded her secret real quick. She was so happy with the procedure that she loved talking about it and was happy to refer me to the person she saw to have it done. I guess the difference between permanent make-up and microblading besides the semi-perm aspect is all in the tools that are used. Instead of a traditional tattoo machine, your technician uses a handheld tool with no power supplied. It is a standalone pen like tool that has several fine needles that easily create fine lines very similar to hair when combined with a pigment and a bit of pressure to your brow.
Obviously, this type of process is not for everyone but for someone like me that has very small eyebrows that are light in color, I have to say I am pretty excited about the prospect of having it done. It feels a lot less scary then going under the gun for something that may outlast my life. I have been told that the results last between 6 months to a year and a half. The other thing that makes me less nervous about it is the fact that these shops use a numbing cream which makes it almost pain free. I suppose it is still probably a bit uncomfortable but from what I hear, it is much less painful than a traditional tattoo. I plan on getting it done before I go on vacation in the next month and so long as I am happy with the results I will post an update picture so you can all see how it turned out.
If you are a bride with light or thin eyebrows maybe you can look for a local company in your area that offers the service. Some high end salons and tattoo shops offer this and soon I venture to say it will become even more popular. Do you have any experience with microblading? If so please leave a comment below!


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1. Jason Biggs – Orange Is the New Black
We'll admit that we're a bit biased since Jason Biggs gave such hate-able performances in the American Pie series. His acting slightly improved for Orange Is the New Back. However, he still manages to be the worst out of the whole series (and there are a lot of actors/actresses).


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Parenting tips for the young and old parents
Having kids is one of the most beautiful things that can happen to a person. But with all the joy and happiness comes the challenge of good upbringing. Following are some tips you may find useful:
Patience is the key to parenting.
Having kids is not an easy job. You have to be patient if you want to become a parent. If you are not patient and are planning to have kids in the future, they themselves will teach you patience. You have to be patient all the time with your kids.
You should be observant if you want your efforts to bear fruits.
If parents are trying hard and kids' friends are gnawing at all the training then all the training goes to the dogs. It is nature of human beings (or kids) that they learn and remember bad things better than they can learn good things. But this doesn't mean that they can't learn good things as well. You should be so close to your kids that they share their thoughts and what they do at school. I am talking about emotional closeness. Because physical closeness doesn't necessarily mean emotional closeness. This way you can know how your training is going on. Your children need to be disabused time to time. The impact of the environment outdoors can mislead your child.
If you do this, you will save yourself from worries later in life.
Profanities are very common outdoors. The only solution to counter this problem is to ingrain hate for the profanities. If you do this early on while they are immature, you will never ever have to worry about their language.
- Want your child to get an A+? Click here!
I have presented in this article a few tips about how one should study to gain maximum knowledge from his teacher in classroom and from his book outside the classroom. Following rules apply to both...
Good parents are leaders, not managers.
Leaders are the people who set the standards for their followers. If parents want to be effective and want their children to have good habits instead of bad ones they should start with themselves. You simply can't blame your child for his smoking habit if you yourself smoke.
Parents can be the worst teachers.
Learning rapidly from parents happens because they are the ones who are around for most of the time. If the same parent who wants his/her child to be a better person is plagued with bad habits and qualities then his/her child will also pick those habits. e.g. if a parent is shy, has less confidence then child is also expected to be like that. If we take a more "violent" example, son of a drugs smuggler is more likely to become a smuggler himself than to be a police officer. I am not saying that it is the most likely situation but it has higher chances. So take try to improve yourself also time to time.
it's very useful to students.very very thanks
Hi, i really enjoy reading your hub.
I would love to have you write for my parenting site if you are keen :)
As one who has navigated these waters, I can say that you speak the truth. The word "educate" means to lead out. As parents, we are educators, observing our children's talents and challenges, and leading out of them, their best selves. At each point in their lives, we help them acquire skills that will develop independence. From walking and talking, to reading and writing, to driving, acquiring a separate residence, and contributing in the workplace. These are such huge steps, and we, as parents, stand behind our children, ready to hold their arm for a minute if they falter, just as we did when we were teaching them to ride a bike or care for a pet. It is an honor to be a parent, and, in the process, we learn to forgive ourselves for being bratty teenagers (grins). We see that each stage of life is just that.
Good job, Greathub! Looks like you're on the right track. Just keep writing and putting it out there. Welcome to the land of Hubs!
Very useful tips for parents.
thanks for the hub. it is really helpful.
Thanks for this new hub and the fantastic advice. I'm "going through it" right now with my 14 year old. It's tough.
I'll be back very frequently and I'm very interested in your posts. Thanks so much for having the initiative and care for such a tough topic!


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Devel::CheckOS provides a more friendly interface to $^O, and also lets you
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
COVER REVEAL! Before You by Amber Hart
Learn more about Amber below, read an excerpt of Before You on her website, and check back tomorrow for her first YA Fusion post. It's all about first lines, and she has a giveaway!
Amber Hart grew up in Orlando, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. She now resides on the Florida coastline with family and animals including, but not limited to, bulldogs, a cat, and dragons. When unable to find a book, she can be found writing, daydreaming, or with her toes in the sand. She's the author of BEFORE YOU, AFTER US, ECHOES, ECHOES' sequel (untitled as of yet), and more. Rep'd by Beth Miller of Writers House.
You can visit Amber here--
Website: www.amberhartbooks.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AuthorAmberHart
Twitter: www.twitter.com/AmberHartBooks
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/AmbersShelf
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/AmberHart
Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/AmberHart
4 comments:
- Natalie Aguirre said...
Congrats to Amber! Love her cover.
- February 1, 2014 at 12:02 PM
- Amber Hart said...
- February 2, 2014 at 1:45 AM
- Wendy Darling said...
That is definitely a very eye-catching cover! I'm headed over to GoodReads to see the blurb. I don't think this was on my radar, so thanks for the heads up.
Wendy @ The Midnight Garden
- February 3, 2014 at 6:18 PM
- Amber Hart said...
Here it is, Wendy:
Some say love is deadly. Some say love is beautiful. I say it is both.
Faith Watters spent her junior year traveling the world, studying in exquisite places, before returning to Oviedo High School. From the outside her life is picture-perfect. Captain of the dance team. Popular. Happy. Too bad it's all a lie.
It will haunt me. It will claim me. It will shatter me. And I don't care.
Eighteen-year-old Diego Alvarez hates his new life in the States, but staying in Cuba is not an option. Covered in tattoos and scars, Diego doesn't stand a chance of fitting in. Nor does he want to. His only concern is staying hidden from his past—a past, which if it were to surface, would cost him everything. Including his life.
At Oviedo High School, it seems that Faith Watters and Diego Alvarez do not belong together. But fate is as tricky as it is lovely. Freedom with no restraint is what they long for. What they get is something different entirely.
Love—it will ruin you and save you, both.
"Before You, by debut author Amber Hart, is a gorgeously-written, emotional, and evocative contemporary young adult novel, set against the backdrop of a colorful Central Florida community. Reminiscent of the writing style of Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me, and with a timeless love story that will appeal to fans of Simone Elkeles's Perfect Chemistry series and the beloved classic West Side Story, this novel will tug at your heartstrings and keep you turning the pages until the very end."
- February 3, 2014 at 8:06 PM


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H.R.719 - Agricultural Export Facilitation Act of 2005109th Congress (2005-2006)
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|Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1] (Introduced 02/09/2005)
|House - International Relations; Judiciary; Financial Services; Agriculture
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|House - 05/13/2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology. (All Actions)
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Introduced in House (02/09/2005)
Agricultural Export Facilitation Act of 2005 - Amends the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (TSREEA of 2000) to require the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize, under a general license, certain travel-related transactions specified in the Code of Federal Regulations, for travel to, from, or within Cuba in connection with activities undertaken in connection with sales and marketing, including the organization and participation in product exhibitions, and the transportation by sea or air of products pursuant to this Act.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should issue visas for temporary entry into the United States of Cuban nationals whose itinerary documents an intent to conduct activities, including phytosanitary inspections, related to purchasing U.S. agricultural goods under the provisions of TSREEA of 2000.
Prohibits the President from restricting direct transfers from a Cuban financial institution to a U.S. financial institution executed in payment for a product authorized for sale under TSREEA of 2000.
Repeals the ban in the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 on certain transactions with respect to intellectual property in which the Cuban Government or a Cuban national has an interest regarding a mark or trade or commercial name that is the same as or substantially similar to one that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated, unless the original owner or successor-in-interest has expressly consented.
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to amend the Cuban Asset Control regulations to authorize under general license the transfer or receipt of any trademark or trade name subject to U.S. law in which a designated national has an interest.


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Check out all of our new flavorful fall items:
- New! Dutch Apple Pie Milkshake: Will top your list as a new fall favorite!
- Pumpkin Latte: A.K.A. The perfect pumpkin pick-me-up.
- Pumpkin Chai Tea: Chai Tea infused with fall.
- Pumpkin Pie Milkshake: Dreams can come true…Our delicious pie in milkshake form.
- Pumpkin Pie: Tasty, traditional, and made fresh daily!
- Pumpkin Crème Pie: The classic Pumpkin Pie taken to the next level!
- Pumpkin Cake: A sweet treat for non-pie people.
- Pumpkin Bread: A sensational seasonal bread that can be substituted in place of our bakery-fresh dinner rolls or garlic bread.


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Hope you're all well.
Keep good,
What an interesting way of dealing with fear! Beautiful.
I was looking back at an old post and you left us a comment. I regret not seeing your blog sooner. Wow, you are talented.
x fi
What grace Brianna! That's the way to deal w/ fear: to confront it head on. When we do, that which seemed so insurmountable and petrifying isn't so scary or daunting after all. Furthermore, like you said, we're able to see the beauty of the experience. May you always feel surrounded by light and love sis!
Hi Brianna, this is Djenissa. I emailed you the manuscript, but I have not received a reply from you. May you please let me know if you have in fact received my email and whether or not you're willing and able to collaborate w/ me. Please pardon me for using your blog to make this attempt, I just didn't know how else to reach you. My emails are: firstname.lastname@example.com & firstname.lastname@example.com
I posted about your artwork on my blog. : http://chroniclesofamisnomer.blogspot.com/2011/01/passion-fruit-from-trinidad-and-tobago.html
Hi Bri,
I really do love these....


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Premier Li Keqiang speaks highly of the new agricultural business models developed by an agro-ecological park in Lushan when he visited the county in Southwest China's Sichuan province on April 24, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]
The State Council on Feb 8 passed a draft regulation on control of agricultural chemicals and assigned responsibility for production management to the Ministry of Agriculture from the previous three separate departments.
"Integrating the functions of three departments into one solves a management dilemma and provides legal protection on farm chemical management," Premier Li Keqiang said.
Premier Li spoke highly of the move, adding that in this way the Ministry of Agriculture will bear full responsibility for management of farm chemicals, which provides legal protection for strengthening farm chemical management and ensuring agricultural products' quality and safety.
The draft urged implementation of a licensing system and a quality-control procedure for sales, purchases and recycling of agricultural chemicals in an effort to encourage small-scale pesticide use and strengthen supervision of highly toxic pesticides.
The regulation also stressed producers' responsibility for the safety and effectiveness of chemicals, upgrading the quality-control management system, and recalling toxic or risky pesticides. It also imposed higher fines and blacklisting to crack down on illegal chemical production activities.
Premier Li called for related departments to further enhance supervision to resolve the issue of pesticide residue and provide a legal basis for food safety.


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I think the only person that can really motivate a writer, is him or herself. People can only encourage us so much. They can tell us everything we want to hear, but in the end, it's up to us to believe it. Most of the time I'm very good at motivating and encouraging myself, but sometimes, it's just so hard. Yesterday was one of those days.
My husband diligently listed all the reasons he thought I'm a great writer, I nodded--equally diligently--but my mind was far away. In the end, after thirty minutes of nodding and staring into space, I dragged myself off the couch and went to cook dinner. I was still not quite present, it's a wonder I didn't burn dinner. Later, after a hot shower I got it. The wrong man got the girl. I love both of the male characters that are after Nora, my protagonist, but there can only be one Mr. Right. I had given her the wrong one and I couldn't get a moment of peace until I did the right thing. If she's not happy, I'm not happy.
|The blockage has been removed and the fountain of my imagination is flowing freely again.
What do you do when you reach your low point(s)?


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Over the past 12 months, Oregon's total nonfarm payroll employment rose 39,100, or 2.1 percent, which was a deceleration from the growth rate near or above 3 percent throughout much of the past four years. Private sector payroll jobs increased 3,600 and government decreased 1,800. South Australia also the largest increase in the unemployment rate ( up 0.3%).
"The bottom line is Wisconsin's economy is growing and adding jobs, and our biggest challenge now is finding enough skilled talent to fill openings employers have available", said Department of Workforce Development secretary Ray Allen. On Friday, May 19, 2017, the Labor Department reports on state unemployment rates for April.
Canada added 3,200 jobs during the month, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa, less than the 10,000 employment gain forecast by economists.
Maine's unemployment rate remained unchanged from March, extending a very tight labor market heading into the summer months. However, the headline figure was a little less favourable, with full-time jobs declining by 11.6k after a 75k jump in the previous month. Manufacturing (-8,100) and logging (-100) were the only sectors to report job losses. Preliminary estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show an increase of 3,900 jobs last month.
The change appears to have been caused by both full-time and part-time workers putting in fewer hours rather than a substitution of full-time for part-time jobs. The figure includes discouraged workers who stopped looking as well as part-time workers who want but can't get full-time jobs.
Just when you thought Weld County's unemployment rate couldn't drop any lower, it did. Seasonal adjustments cut these influences and make it easier to see statistical trends. The numbers are not adjusted for seasonal variations.
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