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The answer for yesterday WW is a tea. To anyone who still new in my blog, every Wednesday I will be posting a picture or sets of picture and you need to guess what I am trying to say in the picture. I maybe will post together a caption, quote or a little bit clue in the post. The rest you need to look carefully at the pictures, the answer is normally there. The answer of the Wordless Wednesday will be on the next day (Thursday). Thank you to everyone who join my Wordless Wednesday contest. I had extended the WW for 2 weeks and add some books in this contest. This contest will end on 13 January 2011, you can read more about it here.
The correct answer is "Tea", people who get it right:
1. beanizer_05
If I had left anyone out, please do comment here and tell me. Comments that past 24 hours mark will not be counted. Only one answer from one ID is allowed.
2010 WW Top 5 Contestants
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If you want to know more about this contest, you can read official post about it here: 2010 Wordless Wednesday Contest. Please read it carefully if you want to participate. Everyone is welcome to join the fun of guessing the correct answer. Feel free to comment.
I want coffee, not tea
I was having breakfast at Mc Donald and ordering a coffee, but they gave me a tea instead, haha. It is still early in the morning and they already made a mistake, look like they also were in a holiday mood, haha. I am not really into Lipton actually. I do like drinking tea but I prefer Boh or Sabah Tea. Do not ask me why, haha there is no explanation for something that we like, all we know is we just like it, is not it?


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New York Society of Anesthesiologists
December 22, 2015
Dr. Meraj Siddiqui, Kaylin Cesarski and Kasey Sharp recently presented a research paper on behalf of the White River Pain Management Clinic during the scientific session of the 69th Annual Post Graduate Assembly (PGA) meeting of the New York Society of Anesthesiologists in New York on December 12. New York Society of Anesthesiologists is the oldest society of anesthesiologists in the world. It is also one of the most respected scientific forums for anesthesia and pain management. Top scientists from all over the world were in attendance to present their state of the art scientific research at the 69th PGA meeting. Their study was only one of two studies from Arkansas selected to be presented at the conference.
Dr. Siddiqui has a devotion and passion for research, especially research involving the implantable pain pump. Over the past year, Dr. Siddiqui and Kaylin Cesarski have been working on the study. The pain pump is a therapy for chronic pain that is used once all of the other therapies fail, including surgery, high dose of opioids and interventional therapies. The pump delivers medication directly to the spinal cord and has a device called PTM. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how the device can prevent opioid withdrawals when switching from oral Morphine to intrathecal Morphine. Often time's a patient will continue to take oral opioids with the intrathecal opioids once the pump is placed, which increases the likelihood of opioid overdose. If the oral medication is stopped immediately, there is a chance for the patient to go into severe withdrawals. To prevent these withdrawals, the PTM device is used to deliver a set amount of medication for breakthrough pain. As the first study done to establish the role of a PTM in preventing Morphine withdrawals when converting from oral to intrathecal Morphine therapy, it sparked great interest and was very well-received among those in attendance at the conference.

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Sunday, August 29, 2010
"I Don't Know if We're in a Garden"
This counts in my book as one of the dreamiest pop numbers ever recorded. The ages of the Flamingos in this video may not quite match their ages in the original recording, but that just adds to the dream-effect. I played guitar in a little-known theatrical art-band called Pancake Haus in the early 90s, and we did this song. It made me very, very happy. Still does.
My love must be a kind of blind love
I can't see anyone but you.
Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
I only have eyes for you, dear.
The moon may be high
But I can't see a thing in the sky,
'Cause I only have eyes for you.
I don't know if we're in a garden,
or on a crowded avenue.
You are here
So am I
Maybe millions of people go by,
But they all disappear from view.
And I only have eyes for you.
Labels: dreams, songwriting
1 comment:
- Papa Jon said...
Totally agree. All time favorite and one of the amazing "music of the spheres" kind of numbers. Outer space doo wop. That song should have been on the disc that went with Voyager into space. Not sure about the New Zoo Review gazebo though if you know what I mean.
- September 14, 2010
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One of the great things about my job is that it allows me a fair amount of "my choice" reading time – on the clock. Because I'm a huge dork, I'm currently reading (yet another) book about Tudor England: The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir. Yesterday, I got sidetracked and did not put my book away before getting the peanut up from her nap. (Aside: Really glad I'm a huge dork.)
Ever aware, Peanut spotted it and asked me what was on her coffee table. I make it a point to be as honest as possible with the kids, but also know my audience, so simplified my answer. "That is the book I am reading. It is about those two girls, who are princesses, and their brother, who is a prince. The other girl is their cousin."
Peanut nodded and moved on to her own books…which just so happen to also about princes and princesses. D'oh. Whatever. My prince, princesses, and their cousin are cooler.
Aside #2: I am aware that Jane Grey was the grandniece, not child, of Henry VIII and her inclusion on the cover bothers me.


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Samples of resources for teaching the rule of law for Citizenship
On this page you can view some samples of the student resources produced by the Bingham Centre for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
Student worksheet samples
Crimes, civil wrongs and equality
Exercise of power -'Stop and Search'
Fair trial -'The Maverick Judge'
International law and the use of armed force
Audio slideshow samples
Caught up in a protest!
In this slideshow, students are asked to think about the situation of being inadvertently caught up in a protest and being arrested, and to consider what they would need in order for justice to be done.
Anglonia and the rights of the child
In this slideshow, students follow the plight of Maria in a fictional country called Anglonia, and consider which of her human rights have been violated under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Magna Carta
The Bingham Centre produced a textbook for the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. It is intended for use in Citizenship classes for Key Stages 3 and 4. It provides a historical context for rule of law principles, tracing their origins back to the 1215 document. It highlights the relevance of those principles that endure even today in our modern justice system.
This resource can be used as either a standalone lesson without any other resources or an additional component to the Bingham Centre's resources for a six-lesson Key Stage 3 citizenship course on the justice system. Visit the dedicated site page here and download the free resources here!


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You are here… // … // Providence News // Providence In The News // St. Paul's Hospital researchers, physicians, leaders and staff recognized during BC Legislature
St. Paul's Hospital researchers, physicians, leaders and staff recognized during BC Legislature
S. Sullivan: In the late 1880s, the Sisters of Providence arrived in Vancouver after hearing of needs in this burgeoning coastal city. When they arrived, they made a plan to meet the needs of people by building a 25-bed hospital. Their mandate, which still lives on, is about seeing suffering, feeling compassion and meeting needs. It's about the people.
Over 123 years, St. Paul's has stepped up when others wouldn't and has become a hotbed for innovation and discovery. Examples: St. Paul's is the home to the provincial Heart Centre, the referral centre for all of B.C.'s most complex cardiac cases. It's the only facility in B.C. to perform adult heart transplants — 27 in 2016, three of which were performed in 24 hours.
The heart valve replacement technique pioneered by Dr. John Webb at the provincial heart centre has allowed more than 250,000 people in over 40 countries to have had heart valves replaced without open-heart surgery. St. Paul's Centre for Heart Lung Innovation ranks first in Canada for research, helping people with lung disease breathe and survive.
St. Paul's was one of the first hospitals to treat HIV/AIDS patients. Thanks to Dr. Julio Montaner's treatment as prevention strategy, developed at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's, the treatment and care is about living and not dying. The same methods that were adopted to eliminate AIDS globally are now being applied to address other contagious diseases like hep C.
Now St. Paul's is on the front lines of the opioid crisis. Thanks to the newly established, world-class B.C. Centre on Substance Use, innovative treatment and care can help people to stay alive and have better lives while struggling with problematic substance use.
All of this has been possible in an 120-year-old facility. Now as we look to the future of St. Paul's and the health of British Columbians, we have an opportunity, unlike one we've ever had, to give our patients and health care professionals the hospital and the integrated health campus they deserve.
When the doors of the new St. Paul's open, it will stand firmly among the world's great health care centres, because our citizens deserve the best in care. At the new St. Paul's, the acute hospital will be the central feature that will also house medical clinics, research facilities and a health technology hub with industry partners. Research and patient care will be integrated as teams work side by side to transform early care concepts into real solutions for patients. Patients will continue to be seen as human beings and individuals
Join me in supporting the new St. Paul's and, with it, a new model of care.
Linda B.


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Delve deeper into the history and archaeology of Liverpool and unearth the secrets of the city, from the Ice Age to the present day. History Detectives poses the questions 'what was here?' and 'how do we know?'
Answers can be found in the interactive Merseyside Map and the huge Timeline, which forms the backbone of the gallery. Packed with objects, the Timeline explores 10,000 years of history and is the perfect place to start your visit.
Manchester Dock excavation
Time capsule interactive
Wavertree burial urn
Civil War armour
The Merseyside Map
The Huxley Hoard
Our City, Our Stories is the Museum of Liverpool's ongoing partnership programme. The programme enables local people to present their interpretation of the museum's themes and objects through working with the Museum of Liverpool team.
The current display is Bootle in the Blitz.
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It is a Tuesday afternoon in late fall, and Courteney Cox has arrived in Hell. Actually she's in a New York City taxi. But the car, tangled in traffic, has a faulty transmission, and for Cox, 31, that's close enough. Like chef Monica Geller, the character she plays on Friends, Cox is an avid problem solver, just this side of compulsive. "Do you hear that?" she asks her fellow passenger as the cab whines in protest.
Sure, Cox is a star pulling in around $500,000 per season. But she is also a dedicated if - you - want - it - done - right - you - gotta - do - it - yourselfer. If her $65,000 silver Porsche Carrera back home in Santa Monica had this defect, Cox might dive into her well-stocked toolbox and tinker with the differential. Here in the cab, all she can do is lean forward and whisper the words that have broken so many men's hearts: "Your transmission is slipping."
Listen to the woman, buddy. For years, Cox's career inched along (a Noxzema ad), lurched forward (her two-year run on Family Ties in 1987-89), only to stall out in unmemorable Hollywood duds. But these days, Cox is in high gear. She was in New York filming Commandments, a dark comedy in which she plays a troubled housewife opposite Aidan Quinn, due for release in 1996. That's on top of Friends, a gold-plated hit that has been in the Nielsen Top 10 the entire season.
Friends execs and cast members give Cox a lot of credit for helping the program thrive. "Courteney centers the whole show," says Friends executive producer and co-creator Marta Kauffman. "There's this real human earthiness to her that [balances out] the silliness we do." Kauffman originally envisioned Cox as Rachel, Jennifer Aniston's role. But at her audition in April of 1994, Cox convinced everyone that she was Monica. Cox's sister Dottie Pickett says, "I don't think they know how close they got it. The character's neat, capable, controlling."
"And a little sarcastic," adds Cox. "So I'm like Monica. Big whoop."
It is a big whoop to the cast, who see her, in Aniston's words, as "the mother of the group." Says Aniston:"She's explained that we have to watch out for each other. She knew the pressures of being on a hit might drive us all apart." Friends cast members tend to use Cox's dressing room as a kind of student union, where they hang out, gossip and abuse each other in a comradely way. "Hey, freak show," Matthew Perry says, dropping by after a recent rehearsal. "Hi, freak face," Cox retorts.
Lately, Cox has needed the company and the support. Four months ago she and Batman star Michael Keaton, 44, ended their 5-year relationship. Cox says it was a joint decision. "It's the most important relationship I've ever had, and I think he's the most wonderful person I've ever met," she says, as tears well in her eyes. "We still love each other." They were an intensely private couple who rarely appeared together in public. "The things we liked to do were all in the neighborhood," Cox says--window-shopping on Montana Avenue near her Santa Monica home, going to the movies, cooking at Cox's place (her specialties are pasta primavera, garlic chicken and shepherd's pie) on the six-burner commercial stove Keaton gave her as a housewarming gift in 1992.
Throughout their relationship, Cox and Keaton practiced their movie scripts together. "He always came up with the most clever ways of making a line funny," she says. "No matter how upset or pissed off I was, Michael could make a little face and crack me up."
Still, they never made enough of a commitment to move in together. Cox's half-carat diamond ring is actually "my grandmother's," she explains. Although she and Keaton split last July, she's not sure what finally drove them apart. "Nothing about our relationship was ever simple," she says.
So far, Cox says, she has not tried to fill the breach in her love life. "I'm not even thinking about that stuff now," she says. "I don't live a soap opera life. I sleep on the edge of a king-size bed. I don't snore. I don't even turn over." She laughs at tabloid reports that had her rebounding into the arms of actor Christian Slater. "Christian and I have been friends for eight years," she says. The gossip started, she says, when both attended a book party in September for Gore Vidal and had dinner together later that night.
The 5'5", 110-lb. Cox also denies persistent tabloid rumors that she has an eating disorder. "I don't have any skeletons in my closet!" she says in mock outrage. Although she's a size 2, she claims to love junk food, and on a recent afternoon at the Friends soundstage she surveyed the snack table--overflowing with doughnuts, cold cuts, cookies and chips--and tilted a package of raw chocolate-chip cookie dough to her mouth. "You've got to be kidding," groaned Aniston. But Cox wasn't done. "Chips or Cheetos?" Finally she took one of each and moved on.
Cox blames her frequent noshing on her hectic schedule and laughs at talk of bulimia. "I couldn't make myself throw up if I tried," she says. Her mother, Courteney Copeland, 61, a housewife in Cox's hometown of Birmingham, Ala., agrees: "She's thin, but she's healthy. Courteney's just little-boned."
And dedicated to exercise. Cox stays in shape by working out on a treadmill at the studio gym during shooting breaks, and each week takes three hour-long Pilates classes--a strengthening routine involving a movable, flat wooden platform attached to springs that create resistance.
Although she has a closetful of Calvin Klein outfits, Cox says she is happiest "puttering around the house" in jeans and a T-shirt. Her three-bedroom French country-style house in Santa Monica is her fourth home in seven years. As with the others, Cox chose to renovate the place--acting as prime contractor herself. Forget the white-on-white bedroom decor, cozy sofas and Impressionist-style landscapes. What Cox really wants to talk about is the hardwood desk she built or the way she rewired the lighting fixtures. "I took out these plain, ordinary lights and put in chandeliers," she says. "I thought that was pretty cool." With the makeover complete, Cox has put the house, which she bought for just over $1 million in 1992, on the market for $1.2 million.
Cox's renovating instincts don't stop at houses. She sees herself as a work in progress. Every morning she studies her face in a magnifying mirror. "I can still hear my brother Richard's voice," she says. "We'd be riding in his pickup, and he'd turn to me and say, `Goddamn, Cece, what's that hair growing out of your chin?' You don't think I get up and check my nose hairs every morning?"
She's just as fussy with her friends. "Courteney gets involved with everything from how you dress to plucking your eyebrows," says Theresa Lowrey, 36, a Manhattan private secretary, who worked with Cox before she began her acting career. "Once she followed me into my dentist's office and told him how she thought my front teeth should be filed." Only courtesy keeps Cox from giving advice to strangers--like the woman Cox recently met who had a mustache on her upper lip. "If only I had felt comfortable enough to tell her how she could bleach it," Cox says, clearly frustrated. "God, I could have helped her in a second."
Still, some people welcome Cox's input. "The beauty of Courteney," says Aniston, "is that if you don't know what to do, she can tell you in three seconds." Water rings on your wooden table? "Put mayonnaise on it and let it sit overnight," Cox advises. Candle wax on your tablecloth? "Put some paper down and iron it. It comes right up." When Liam Neeson moved to L.A. from London to film 1990's Darkman, Cox, who knew him through a mutual friend, located rental homes for him to look over, decorated the one he chose, even supplied meals for him to heat up in his kitchen when he came home from the set. "Ifound coming to L.A. so confusing, and she was like an anchor," says Neeson. "She made me feel blessed." Neeson is a certified hunk, but Cox says that wasn't on her mind. "He needed help, and Ilove to do that stuff," she says.
Cox has been a take-charge person ever since her childhood in Birmingham. The youngest of four kids, she was always close to her father, Richard, 65, a building contractor. But when she was 10, her parents divorced after 19 years of marriage. Cox, like her brother and two sisters, stayed with her mother, but became rebellious. "You have to blame someone for the divorce, and I thought my dad was the most fun person in the world," says Cox. "Looking back, I know those two didn't belong with each other forever." Today, Cox visits twice a year with her father, who remarried in 1975, and she describes her mother as "my best friend." But like many children of divorce, Cox reacted to the loss of stability by imposing an order of her own. Her mother recalls that when she started dating businessman Hunter Copeland, now 77, whom she married in 1976, Courteney, then 12, wanted to set down rules: "She said, `He can come over at night, but y'all can't sleep in the same room.' "
As a teenager, Cox applied that same discipline in her own life. While attending Mountain Brook High, a public school in Birmingham, she worked afternoons at a pool-supply store and saved enough to buy herself a new blue Datsun 210 by the time she was 16. After graduating in 1982, Cox studied architecture at her mother's alma mater, Mt. Vernon College in Washington. But the summer after her freshman year, she worked as an office assistant for her stepfather's nephew Ian Copeland, a New York City music agent who handled pop acts including the Police and UB40. Despite a 15-year difference in their ages, the two became romantically involved. Cox describes herself in retrospect as a "short and pudgy girl" in a size-6 dress, but in 1983 she wanted to be a model. Copeland says he suggested she also try acting.
Cox did both. Signed by the Ford Modeling Agency, she did ads for Noxzema and Maybelline and had a couple of soap-opera walk-ons. Then, in 1984, Brian De Palma was casting a part for the video of Bruce Springsteen's single "Dancing in the Dark"--a girl the Boss would pull from the audience for a dance onstage. At the audition, competing with 300 others, Cox recalls, "I felt overwhelmed by all these beautiful girls." But when De Palma asked what acting credits she had, she knew what to say: "Just two days on As the World Turns. But you can change that."
De Palma did. The job paid just $350, but the video--and Cox--got noticed. That break, though, spelled the end of Cox's relationship with Copeland. "Her confidence caught up with her drive," says the agent, now 46. "After that, she was on her own."
Cox got work, but the going was bumpy. The 1985 NBC series Misfits of Science flopped after four months, and the 1987 films Down Twisted and Masters of the Universe sank quickly. But that year, Cox was cast on NBC's Family Ties as Michael J. Fox's girlfriend, Lauren. Looking back, Fox says he appreciated Cox's "positive attitude." What he probably means, as even Cox admits, is that she was pretty green. "Michael taught me a lot about timing," she says. "It was like going to sitcom school."
After Family Ties, Cox tried to concentrate on movies. But her only hit was the 1994 Jim Carrey film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, in which she was clearly a secondary presence. In any case, Cox says, she was by then more interested in Keaton than in her career. The two met in 1989, after Cox told a mutual friend how much she admired Keaton's work in the 1988 drama Clean and Sober. Their first date was at her house. "We talked for five hours," she says. "We talked about our dream homes--the great ones we'd seen and the kind we'd like to build ourselves." Soon, Cox says, the two discovered almost identical sensibilities. "We were sympathetic on so many levels," she says. "If something weird happened, we would turn to each other and just say, `I know.' "
Cox can't say if the two will ever get back together ("With us, you can never tell"), but her mother hasn't given up. "They were always trying to work on themselves," she says. "They need to forget that and accept each other the way they are--and just get married."
It is 8:00 p.m., and Cox is home from her trip to New York. The director of Commandments praised her work, but Cox is downcast. She didn't have time, she says, given her Friends schedule, to focus on the film. She thinks her performance suffered. When Mac, her German shepherd mix, and Rags, her border collie, excitedly gang up on her, Cox tries to work up some enthusiasm. Then she heads upstairs to her office, where Sue, the assistant Cox hired the week before, has placed her mail, invitations and a new script for Friends. A short time later, her friend Jennifer Keohane drops by--and she has good news. "Honey, you're going to love your assistant," she tells Cox. "This afternoon she saw some footprints in the hall and immediately got out the vacuum cleaner."
For a moment, Cox's eyebrow arches with an unspoken question: Footprints? Then her face relaxes, and her mouth widens into a very large smile.


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Cutting Production Webinar Announced for Greenhouse Growers
Optimizing Rooting of Vegetative Annuals: Maximizing Performance Through Lighting, Temperature, Irrigation and Fertility
Dr. Roberto Lopez
Michigan State University
Thursday, November 3, 2016
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Over the past 8 years, Dr. Roberto Lopez of Michigan State University and his graduate students at Purdue University have conducted extensive investigations of optimizing rooting through the use of supplemental lighting, root zone heating, water management, and fertilization. Interest in self-rooting of vegetative annual cuttings is increasing since it allows for improved crop scheduling based on market needs.
This webinar presentation will be hosted by the Nursery and Greenhouse, Area Specialized Agent Team at three locations in North Carolina. To register for the location of choice, mail a check for $10 per participant along with the registration form below to the location you plan to attend by Monday, October 24. Registration is limited at each location.
Host Sites:
Eastern NC: c/o Danny Lauderdale, N.C. Cooperative Extension-Wilson County Center, 1806 SW Goldsboro St., Wilson, NC 27893. Make check payable to Wilson County. (Contact: Danny Lauderdale, Eastern Area Specialized Agent, 252-714-0274.)
Central NC: Metrolina Greenhouse Make check payable to Cabarrus County. (Contact: Stacey Jones, Central-Ornamental Horticulture Area Specialized Agent, 704-920-3310)
Western NC: NC Extension – Burke Center, Attn: Greenhouse Meeting, 130 Ammons Dr. Suite 2 Morganton, NC 28655. Make check payable to NCCE. (Contact: Amanda Taylor, Western Area Specialized Agent, 828-475-2915) Program provided with a grant from the North Carolina Specialty Crops Grant and offered in conjunction with the NC Commercial Flower Growers Association.
Registration is required. For more information or to register, click here: Optimizing Rooting of Vegetative Annuals


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FRANKFURT, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A consortium led by Rheinmetall has won the first contract relating to European Union defence research financed by the EU's European Defence Union, the German company said on Monday.
The consortium will conduct studies into what could become EU-wide standardized soldier systems, including electronics, voice communication, software and sensors, it said.
The other members of the consortium are Indra and GMV Aerospace and Defence of Spain, Leonardo and Larimart of Italy, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Poland's iTTi, the Portuguese company Tekever ASDS and SAAB of Sweden. (Reporting by Maria Sheahan, editing by Louise Heavens)


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I bought, assembled and tested the Adafruit-RGB-LCD-Shield PN#772. I uploaded several programs to the Arduino UNO and I didn't have an issues interfacing with the RGB-LCD shield--until this morning that is.
Not sure what the problem but as of now, the RGB-LCD seems to be "kinda working". Ie, uploading the Hello World sketch result the LCD displaying "dello" instead of "Hello World" and time to time, the colors will cycle randomly--also the buttons sometimes would respond.
Aside from a probably bad solder connection--which I have not been able to find, is there another way to test the RGB-LCD-Shield? I wonder if the Chip is bad--I tested the Arduino UNO, and it seems to be working fine.
THX for any info.


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a hip*hop*happy LoCarb weight-loss blog
2 years ago it was downtown Dallas and dinners with Sherri ... I went back and looked... did I miss something else?
Two years ago, I broke my leg! And thuis year, I learned that I can't blog from my phone, or fix it from my computer! lol
Power Crunch Bars---I live on the Vanilla !! Happy me :)
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Seriously y'all! It's been crrrraaazzzy around here this holiday season! I feel like every year I have it in the bag, and yet every year Christmas sneaks up on me. You know all about how I am a DIY Christmas type of person, and even with heeding my own advice, I'm backlogged on my holiday goals. I've barely even remembered to move the Elf on the Shelf, let's just say this year "Elfie" has been really tired and napping a lot.I've attended so many holiday parties, and events already so far, so a lot of my big ideas have been pushed aside. I've spent most nights this week binging episode of TV shows and making homemade Christmas ornaments. Being a blogger is hard work.
But, I am trudging on and making some adorable little DIY gifts this year. I am a HUGE fan of giving holiday decor for gifts, especially for those who "have everything" because it's a great way to create lasting memories, you'll always think back fondly each year when putting your decor out!
Our house is filled with DIY holiday decor because my family always does a homemade Christmas Gift exchange each year. This year I will be bringing these adorable DIY waterless Snow Globes that were inspired by the ones at Anthropologie. I love doing more affordable versions of expensive Anthro stuff!
And seriously? These are sooooooo easy to make! So they are perfect last minute gifts!
- Bottle Brush Trees (I found mine at Hobby Lobby, Walmart and Joann's)
- Mason Jars of various sizes
- Buffalo Snow Flakes ( I used iridescent colored for sparkle)
- E-6000 glue
- Mini wintery figurines (optional)
Remove the lid and rings from the mason jars. Using E-6000, glue the trees and figurines to the lids and let dry completely. Add a few teaspoons of Buffalo snow to the jar and replace the lid and ring and screw tight. Turn over and shake lightly. Add a ribbon or twine and gift to someone special!


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In Call of Juarez, you dual-wield the Bible. Need we say more?
Yes, Polish developer Techland made a number of interesting design choices with Call of Juarez, originally released in Europe on the PC in 2006. While the game does a number of things very well, it does not stand out in any particular area. Still, you'll probably be laughing your way all the way through this cliche-ridden, tongue-in-cheek effort that does its best spaghetti Western impression. If Call of Juarez is the prism through which the world sees our nation's heritage, it's a wonder we ever made it out alive with our leather chaps intact. Either way, you're in for one hell of a ride.
Call of Juarez tells the story of young Billy Candle and the righteous Reverend Ray. Billy has been off searching for the lost gold of Juarez, the same mythical stash that the Aztecs paid Cortez to free their captured leader, Montezuma. It is said that the lost cursed treasure is buried somewhere in Juarez. After searching without luck, Billy returns home to Hope, the small town that is about as hopeless as it gets. Soon after a brief rendezvous with the local prostitute, Billy returns home to his mother and abusive stepfather. There's only one problem -- they're dead. Sucks to be them.
Reverend Ray is a reformed gunman turned preacher. He is also Billy's uncle. When Ray stumbles across Billy standing over the body of his dead brother and dead sister-in-law, Ray takes up arms once more to become God's sword and strike down Billy Candle. And so begins the epic game of cat-and-mouse that will touch upon just about every Western cliche out there, from the wise old Indian sage to the sultry saloon prostitute to a train robbery to a stagecoach chase and, eventually, to the lost gold of Juarez.
It's a bold storytelling method. Intertwining Billy's quest to prove his innocence and Ray's obligation to track down his brother's killer opens up a lot of gameplay variety as both characters play very differently from the other. Billy relies on silence and stealth to evade his pursuers, hiding in the bushes to wait for the opportune moment to scamper away unnoticed. With Billy, you'll also do your fair share of first-person platforming, climbing ledges and using your trusty whip to swing from the trees. Unfortunately, the platforming elements do not always work perfectly and the stealth is quite often boring. Billy simply hides in the bushes, using a rudimentary shadow-meter to indicate your level of concealment. This leads to a lot of trial-and-error as enemies will spot you and you'll have to start the infiltration mission over again. Why you can't simply take your chances and blast the hooligans, I don't know. At least Billy is a crack-shot with a bow and arrow, able to slow time so that he can silently loose arrows into rabbits for dinner or into the faces of vicious Apache warriors just for fun.
Ray, on the other hand, is a gunfighter. Whereas Billy can only take a few shots before giving himself up to the Almighty, Ray can take some serious damage. He can deal it too, using his own slow-motion bullet time with a pair of pistols to take out a roomful of armed sinners. It's a strange mechanic -- you first need to holster your guns and then draw them again to enter in "concentration mode." Still, Techland pulls it off and it's a great feeling to take out five enemies with five perfectly-aimed headshots. And, of course, there's the Bible, from which Ray can utilize at any time to purify the souls of his enemies with chilling and prophetic verses. Some will become ridden with guilt from Ray's Sunday school lessons and actually freeze on the battlefield. That's when you shoot them.


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Located in the very centre of Helsinki, close to the railway station, this is the ideal place for "healthy meal", as it's written on the door.
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A series of messages and phone calls over the past several months between Chef Domenico Iavarone and I always included an invitation: come by and take a look at what's going on. I must admit my curiosity nearly killed this cat.
Iavarone, after collaborating with chefs such as Gennaro Esposito (Torre de Saracino) and Oliver Glowig (Capri Palace), and a few seasons at Maxi (earning him a Michelin Star), the chef decided to make a change. To start a new adventure opening up a brand new restaurant in Torre del Greco – Jose' Restaurant.
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For those interested in sustainable development and mining the new report announced at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is worth a read. It's from the WEF's Responsible Mineral Development Initiative (RMDI). It targets bolstering capacity so that communities and governments have the tools they need to realize the economic and social benefits of mining. What's particularly interesting is recognition of the benefits of proactive stakeholder engagement and the need to bolster capacity for conflict resolution—as a proactive strategy as well as a response to conflict. I served on the RMDI advisory group and saw the evolution of project from a broad, amorphous dialogue to a targeted, concrete guidance document. RESOLVE will continue to participate in and support this multi-sector initiative of the WEF. The key now is acting on the recommendations—we're ready to roll up our sleeves.


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San Diego's new professional soccer team has a name: 1904 FC.
The FC stands for Football Club, a standard abbreviation for soccer teams around the world. The 1904 is not quite as obvious.
It is not the year the city was established (San Diego was in 1769), or the year the club began like Germany's FC Schalke 04 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen, which both were founded in 1904. It is a numerical representation of "SD," S being the 19th letter of alphabet and D the fourth.
19-04. Get it?
It's not the first time San Diego has been referred to as "1904" for alphabetic reasons; the city has a 1904 tattoo parlor and 1904 crossfit gym. And in the movie "Anchorman," Will Ferrell's character, Ron Burgundy, famously and facetiously claims San Diego was "discovered by the Germans in 1904."
"We believe in the people of San Diego," principal owner Demba Ba, a Senegalese forward who grew up in France and currently plays in China, said in a statement. "Our name reflects our commitment to the city and street culture. The number is already iconic in San Diego. Now it will stand for the passion and pride of our region."
It is certainly 21-14-09-17-21-05.
Fans, of course, will be the ultimate arbiter whether it is 03-15-15-12 or 04-21-13-02.
The new club hopes to begin play in March as an expansion franchise in the North American Soccer League, assuming there's an NASL to play in. U.S. Soccer, the sport's national governing body, denied its application to remain as the second division in the sport's American hierarchy, effectively demoting it to the third division alongside semi-pro leagues.
The NASL responded by filing a federal anti-trust lawsuit against the federation and requesting that it be re-instated to second division while the case is pending.
A hearing on the preliminary injunction is scheduled for Oct. 31 in New York. Lose that, and there are indications several of the NASL's eight existing franchises may jump to other leagues instead of playing as the third division next season.
1904 FC has secured USD's Torero Stadium from March through July, then hopes to move into a new North County facility for the remainder of the 2018 season. The plan is for a 10,000- to 15,000-seat modular stadium that is constructed elsewhere, shipped to San Diego and then assembled in as little as three months.
The team's colors are black and white. The official shield says "San Diego 1904 FC" superimposed over a telescope.
"1904 FC's colors are as simple as the game itself," a club release said. "A game where one team must score just one more goal than the other. Black and white also represent both the darkness (challenges) of sports and the light (victory). The telescope represents the club's long-term vision and commitment to the region, along with its goal of developing local football talent and helping young players achieve their dreams of playing international soccer."
Wednesday morning's announcement came in the form of a press release and a video. A news conference formally launching 1904 FC, or Nineteen O'Four, is expected later this month.