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I have a module which defines a few users, each of whom have slightly different needs (e.g., home directory, uid, gid, groups, etc.). I'll use netatalk as an example, since we're using it for server-based Time Machine backups.
Netatalk requires a file called
/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default, which should have an entry for each of the defined users, like so:
# AppleVolumes.default - Managed by Puppet - DO NOT EDIT BY HAND
:DEFAULT: options:upriv,usedots
/home/john/timemachine "John's TM on foo" options:tm allow:john allowed_hosts:192.168.1.1/24
/home/jane/timemachine "Jane's TM on foo" options:tm allow:jane allowed_hosts:192.168.1.1/24
Now, with one user, I can use
template() to create John's entry in the
AppleVolumes.default. But if I do the same thing with Jane's manifest, it would (I assume) overwrite the file with Jane's copy.
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From Goodreads: Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches into a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed her with a plastic knife and tried to strangle her one-handed (he lost his arm and for a time his rational brain in the accident). He divides his wealth into four equal parts for his wife, his two daughters, himself and leaves Minnesota for Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily remote stretch of the Florida coast where he has rented a house. All of the land on Duma Key, and the few houses, are owned by Elizabeth Eastlake, an octogenarian whose tragic and mysterious past unfolds perilously. When Edgar begins to paint, his formidable talent seems to come from someplace outside him, and the paintings, many of them, have a power that cannot be controlled.
I think I read Carrie in high school, I know I saw the movie. And I think I read Christine too. That's the total of my Stephen King experience prior to Duma Key so my expectations came more from my own imagination than from any actual experience - I was expecting violence, shock and harsh fear. I didn't get that; I got characters that I actually cared about and day to day lives with friendships and banter and ease and families with the resulting relationship issues. But all of those good things were floating along on this undercurrent of dread - that's the Stephen King part, knowing there is something coming. I liked what I got much more than what I had expected to get! 23 hours on audio and I was still kind of sad for it to end.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Duma Key by Stephen King
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I just experienced King for the first time when I listened to 11/22/63 and I just loved it!
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Many of you may have heard about our upcoming Cotton-n-Wool Gathering in Appleton, WI, November 13-19, 2016. We will be teaching with Lisa Bonjean of Primitive Gatherings and the Olde Green Cupboard gals. There are also all sorts of exciting things planned for you.
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Haroon Yousaf
Working to apply modern social science techniques to quantify food insecurity in rural Pakistan.
Haroon Yousaf is a doctoral student from the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. His research focus is on food security conditions among farmers and non-farmers in rural households of Punjab. In 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported that 26% of households in Pakistan were food insecure, while other reports cited even higher percentages.
"I'm interested in researching why there are still issues of food insecurity in households in Punjab, yet we are producing food surpluses," states Mr. Yousaf. "Punjab is responsible for over 60% of the food production for the nation of Pakistan. You can say that the province is our national bread basket."
Mr. Yousaf arrived for his exchange at UC Davis with three objectives in mind. First, he wanted to learn and apply modern research techniques in social science research. Second, he wanted to improve his research thesis. Finally, he wanted to compare and interpret results of different measures of food security. To achieve that end, he was mentored by Dr. William Lacy, Professor of Sociology in the UC Davis Department of Human Ecology and a published expert within the field.
Mr. Yousaf found eleven different methods of quantifying food security, so he focused on familiarizing himself with three methods which he found appropriate for Pakistan: the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), which investigates the household perspective and anxiety of food access through a series of nine questions; the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS), which looks at personal dietary intake during a 24-hour period; and the Dietary Intake Assessment (DIA), which looks at the caloric consumption of a household on a weekly basis.
Along with his research into collection techniques and methods for measuring food insecurity, Mr. Yousaf audited classes in socio-spatial analysis, quantitative geography, and an introductory writing course for graduate students.
Dr. Lacy, Mr. Yousaf's mentor during his time at UC Davis, extolled the value of the USPCAS-AFS. "I think the value of this program, as Haroon talks about food security in terms of availability, access, and utilization, is that not only does USPCAS-AFS provide access to and availability of knowledge, but it teaches scholars how to use that knowledge. You can have a comprehensive training regimen, but if you don't know how to utilize the knowledge, you cannot access those concepts."
At the end of his Mr. Yousaf's exchange, Dr. Lacy praised his tenacity and thirst for knowledge. "Haroon took more advantage of a program like this than I could have possibly imagined. I wondered how the USPCAS-AFS experience would work, and with his initiative and motivation, he just ran with the opportunity. Haroon took what was a local and regional project about rural farmers and food insecurity, and took it to another level in terms of analysis, sophistication, and utilization of the resources that are available. His literature review was one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive reviews I've seen."
During his exit seminar, Dr. Jan Hopmans asked Mr. Yousaf: "What is your assessment of our library facilities here at UC Davis, and are you planning to try to utilize more access once you return to Faisalabad?"
Mr. Yousaf replied: "The library here is fantastic—in Pakistan, we only have one librarian and we don't have access to a lot of online databases or journals. Here at UC Davis, you have librarians who have specialized knowledge and who are experts in their field. They can show you how to find and access specific data or articles that pertain to your research.
"Here, it is like heaven for research literature."
The U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies (USPCAS) is educating and training the next generation of scientists, engineers, and policy makers through innovative academic programs crucial for Pakistan's development in agriculture and food security. Through applied research, academia-industry collaboration, and policy formation, USPCAS enhances Pakistan's economic growth and prosperity. USPCAS was made possible by support from the American people through United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Is it possible for an English journalist to write anything about Australia without being so condescending and judgmental? You're not HQ of the empire any more, you know," emailed an Australian reader.
Writing for the FT these past 20 years, I've received thousands of letters, emails and comments sent by readers from Tanzania to Moscow. Thanks to social media, there are more responses every year. Most are smart and friendly. Some aren't. All these responses shape the way journalists work. They also help me understand the world. Here are some recurring themes from my inbox:
• At any given time there are certain topics that get readers most angry. A few years ago, the big one was climate change. Every time I wrote about it, I got emails explaining that climate change didn't exist. Lately that correspondence has dried up. My surmise: the deniers have relaxed after realising that governments won't do anything serious about climate.
The new hot topic is inequality. Whenever you mention it, some readers write in saying that if you're poor it's your own fault; anyone can make it if they just work hard. I think inequality deniers suffer from the same anxiety that climate-change deniers used to: the fear that governments might actually try to tackle the issue. Also, many bootstraps types want to enjoy their money without guilt.
The most depressing topic to write about is Israel/Palestine. Most people have stopped reading about it because they think the conflict is insoluble. Almost the only responses come from people who decided what they thought years ago. They accuse me – in approximately equal measure – either of hating Palestinians or of hating Israel. One fairly representative email started: "YOU SCHMUCK…" (I save lots of time by not replying to abuse.) The only other topic that generates as much partisan poison is the football World Cup.
• Some topics, such as disability, generate almost no response. That matters to journalists. We never used to have much idea what readers read. In 1995, the FT's then editor, curious to know what readers wanted, commissioned a study of people in finance reading one day's newspaper. The finding: everyone read a little article about Cuban bonds. It wasn't relevant to their work, the editor marvelled. It just fascinated them.
These days we know not just how many people read each article online but even how far down they scroll before they stop reading. Now that we know what readers like, the temptation is to give them more of it. Newspapers have become much more responsive. But sometimes you have to write about disability.
• If you write anything critical about a country outside Britain in the FT, some readers from that country (like the Australian above) will assume that you wrote it because you are a bitter Brit who hasn't got over the loss of empire.
I understand the sensitivity, given Britain's longstanding, outsized role in meddling (often violently) in other people's affairs. Still, these emails irk me. I'm not particularly British. I certainly don't write as a representative of the British empire.
Yet some readers assume that everyone writes as a nationalist. Presumably that's because they read as nationalists. In my experience, this tendency is strongest in countries with a fairly recent past of fascist, militarist or white supremacist rule. Many older people from these countries learnt at school that the country itself is glorious but the object of foreign conspiracies. World views absorbed at school often stick.
If there's a factual or grammatical error in an article, people will find it. The FT has a well-informed international readership. Whatever topic I write about, many readers know it better.
But if you don't make an error, some people will find one anyway. Recently, for instance, a commenter mocked me for writing " Brazil's" as a contraction of "Brazil has". Bad grammar, he chirped. He was wrong, of course. But what baffled me was his assumption that the column had been thrown together in five minutes on a whim, and then not edited by anyone. (Perhaps that seemed the only possible explanation.)
In fact, writing for FT readers is daunting. I anguish over my columns. I check every fact obsessively. Then sub-editors and fact-checkers check again because the FT detests errors. I still sometimes get things wrong. Every time I do, I feel humiliated. It's an experience I try to avoid.
• Readers sometimes think I am giving "the FT line" on a topic. But I rarely know the paper's editorial positions even in cases where it has them. I write my own line. In 20 years, nobody at the FT has ever stopped me writing something for political reasons – only because it was boring, or factually wrong or because "Gillian [Tett] wrote that ages ago".
• Readers often write in suggesting I change the photo above my column. To all of you I say: if you think that's bad, you should see the real thing.
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We're here at Amazon's "device unveiling" event where the retail giant has just announced its long-awaited entrant into the phone market. The Fire Phone is glass on both sides with a metal frame, rubber trim and metal buttons and has a 4.7-inch IPS LCD display.
Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, says the Fire Phone is the perfect size for one handed use. It also has a circular polarizer so that you're able to use it both ways up with sunglasses on without losing any clarity. Inside the Fire Phone has a quad core 2.2GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM and houses a 13MP camera with OIS round the back, and a dedicated camera key. And with the Amazon Cloud at your disposal you're also getting unlimited, free storage for your photos.
Sound wise the Fire Phone has stereo speakers with Dolby Virtual Surround sound as well as a pretty neat sounding pair of tangle-free earbuds with magnets to hold them together.
But what about the content? Well, Amazon's full content library will be available through the Fire Phone. All of it. Not only that but we're getting Miracast support for watching that content on the big screen and something they're calling predictive caching for content you're going to want to watch. Prime Music is also included, as is Audible, the Kindle Book Store and the MayDay support service first seen on the recent Kindle Fire tablets and it'll work over WiFi and cellular connections, too.
The Fire Phone also has something Amazon is calling, FireFly, and it's a Google Goggles-eque service only beefed up a lot. Scanning barcodes on music, books, games, grocery products, it'll recognize them, list them and of course, you'll then be able to buy things from Amazon.
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Anthropology is a multidisciplinary, scientific study of the human condition. Through the traditional four fields of cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological/physical anthropology and linguistics, anthropologists examine every aspect of humanity in a holistic, comparative and evolutionary way. As a science, anthropology seeks to uncover and understand what makes groups of people different from each other, and what they all share in common.
Cultural anthropology is concerned with the systems of human cultures. Archaeology seeks to understand cultures of the past, usually those with few or no written records, through material remains. Biological/physical anthropology focuses on humans as a biological species, studying origins, development and variations within the species. Linguistic anthropology studies human communication systems, which preserve and transmit cultures across generations.
Each anthropology course at Cowley College incorporates a basic fieldwork component, such as ethnographic interviews, archaeological surveys and digs, and primate behavior studies at area zoos.
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Pot Stills
To learn how to make moonshine you will first need to learn the difference between a pot still and a column/reflux still and decide which type you will use. Both a pot and column still have advantages and disadvantages and which one you decided to use largely depends on the type of liquor you are thinking of making. First up lets discuss what exactly a pot still is how it works and what type of alcohol it will produce.
What does a pot still do ?
A pot still collects and condenses alcohol which is boiled off from your mash. It will produce a final product with an alcohol content between 40-60% which will include plenty of flavor from the mash. To increase the alcohol content you can re run your distillate however you will loose some flavor in the process.
What types of liquor is made with a pot still?
A pot still is best to use for making spirits rich in flavor and texture. With a pot still you get 40 – 60% pure alcohol and the rest is water mixed with flavorful organic compounds from the mash that add flavor and texture to your spirit. For example you can make single-malt scotch, rum, bourbon and whiskey with a pot still.
How does a Pot still Work?
The principle of distillation is very simple, alcohol has a lower boiling point then water. Alcohol will evaporate at 78.3 degrees Celsius while water will evaporate at 100 degrees Celsius. Thus when you heat your mash the alcohol will begin to evaporate before the water does. Both a Pot still and Column still operate on this simple principle however you can obtain different results depending on the type of still you use influencing the quality and taste for your end result.
With a pot still you simply collect this vapor and condense it without any reflux occurring. To learn more about how a pot still works check out my recent post " Understanding how a pot still works".
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If you've got some spare time it's quite easy to make your own pot still. To do it right you will need a good set of blueprints which will allow you to create an efficient still that creates a great tasting product. I've spent years perfecting my pot still and have created a step by step how to guide for you to follow which includes material list, tools needed, video tutorials and a step by step process which will allow you to build your own still at 1/4 the cost of buying one. To check out the Still plans I've posted check out these "How to make a Still tutorials" .
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- Hillbillystills.com – Makes some real nice stills, If your looking for high end one.
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The City Council will continue to prop up three cottages moved from Third Street and stored in Laguna Canyon—and pay $8,400 to do it.
Younger Brothers House Moving, owners of the beams and cribbing that have supported the cottages since they were moved to the canyon site in 2007, asked to be paid for their property or have it returned. The purchase was approved Tuesday, without comment from the council or the public.
City staff recommended buying the beams and cribbing, using funds left over from the purchase of furniture and materials for the Community Center.
The structures were moved to Laguna Canyon from Third Street to clear the way for the Susi Q and the Community Center to mollify residents who opposed their demolition.
None of the three cottages are rated E for exceptional, the highest rating for historical structures. One has K for Key rating, meaning it demonstrates an architectural style or time period and is mostly in its original condition. The other two cottages are rated C for the contribution to the overall historic character of a neighborhood, deemed important to the streetscape of Laguna.


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Graphical Enumeration
The book is a definitive treatise on the enumeration of graphs and related structural configurations, providing historical results as well as recent developments having potential application in the fields of physics, chemistry, computer science, and electrical engineering. Its ten chapters cover the subjects of labeled enumeration, Polya's Theorem, trees, graphs, diagraphs, power group enumeration, superposition, blocks, asymptotics, and as a special feature, a new comprehensive list of unsolved graphical enumeration problems. It includes an extensive bibliography and numerous exercises ranging in difficulty from routine to intractable.
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Just twenty-four hours ago, I didn't have a website, didn't have a blog, didn't have all the nifty little chess pictures that are littered around the site. Time to finally enter this corner of the twenty-first century, I suppose. I enter with a bang, not a whimper, contrary to the esteemed Mr. Eliot's prediction of the end of all things. I have a lot of work to do to get this virtual house of cards to stand up, but as it is quickly approaching midnight, on this the first day of the last month of my thirty-seventh year on this planet, I shall be brief.
If you are visiting this site for the first time, I'm Darin Kennedy. Doctor by day, novelist by night, not to mention most weekends. I have completed my first novel, a contemporary fantasy called Pawn's Gambit, the first in a trilogy I call The Pawn Stratagem. (Ahhh, that explains all the chess imagery everywhere.) My tale of Steven Bauer and his brave compatriots has been a true labor of love, and as I approach what has to be the fourth or fifth complete edit of the book, I've got to say, I think it's ready. Like a good soup that has simmered for the better part of a day, it is ready to be consumed.
Chess theory states that every game has three distinct parts: the opening, the middle game, and the endgame. My opening moves are complete, and as I enter the middle game of this grand endeavor, I am simultaneously excited and daunted. I'm about six chapters into the sequel, Four Corners. This looks to be a very different book, in subject matter if not theme, and the story is taking me in directions I never dreamed, or at least not while I was hewing Pawn's Gambit out of a large pile of words. It's been fun incorporating elements from the first book that I had no idea would come full circle in this book about squares and corners. The third book, whose working title is Endgame, exists only in the roughest of forms, though the final outcome is written in my mind's eye and is just waiting for me to get there.
And with that, I must bid you a good night. My patients in the morning most likely would prefer their physician to be conscious, so it's to bed with me. Come again sometime. I'll be here…
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Green Pac
Green Seed
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Dark green pac choi with oval-round leaves for baby leaf.
Leaves are an extra dark green with pale-green stems and make an excellent baby leaf component. 10" tall at full size. NOTE: Since this is an open-pollinated variety, some full-size plants may be a bit pale. Avg. 13,200 seeds/oz. Packet: 250 seeds.
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SCIENTIFIC NAME: Brassica rapa var. chinensis
CULTURE: Sow from early spring through midsummer. In the South, pac choi is well adapted for fall plantings. Sow 15 seeds/ft., 1/4" deep in 2" wide bands in rows 18" apart. Thin plants as recommended in our Pac Choi Comparison Chart. Harvest before flowering. For baby leaf, sow 60 seeds/ft. in a 2" to 4" wide band. Clip 4-5 week-old leaves.
PESTS: Flea beetles can be controlled by covering with floating row covers from day of sowing.
AVG DIRECT SEEDING RATE: For bunching: 830'/oz., 13,000'/lb. at above spacing. For baby leaf: 210'/oz., 3,300'/lb. at above spacing.
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Big companies want to behave more like startups. Startups want to scale like big companies. Time to start thinking like a designer.
We worked closely with PillPack's founders to take the company from concept to ready-to-launch service during a 12-week residency. PillPack took the foundation in brand, business, industrial, and customer experience design we helped build and used it to scale tremendously—so much so that Amazon purchased them for nearly $1 billion.
Katherine LonderganPortfolio Director, IDEO Cambridge
By gathering a network of designers, entrepreneurs, researchers, and makers, we're building quickly to learn more about the potential of emerging technologies like virtual reality, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and autonomous vehicles.
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We build new companies for clients and, increasingly, for ourselves. Our latest venture, IDEO U, is an education platform to help individuals and organizations become masters of design thinking.
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Lilac sugar
- Clean, dry lilac petals (preferably purple as they are very fragrant)
- Granulated sugar
- a jar
Layer flowers and sugar in a jar. Let it stand in a dark and cool place for a few days, shaking every now and then. Now your sugar is ready to use. Perfect for baking cupcakes, a vanilla sponge, or even in a cup of tea.
Here are some more recipes that incorporate this delicately fragrant blossom...I'm also thinking that this might make a fab springtime cocktail...
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Hello! Well I just finished this page out of my Johanna Basford Secret Garden book. I decided to use my Tombow Markers for it and they worked pretty well though I am more happy with how pencils do on this kind of paper. I am waiting to color anymore pages until my new Faber Castell Polychromos pencils arrive. I am getting very impatient! Anyway, here's the page.
I find these coloring books so relaxing. :)


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I had developed a bad habit. Or maybe it was more of a tick, I'm not entirely sure. I tried to ask my dad the difference but he told me to go back to sleep. In his defense it was late. It was also a school night but that distinction means very little to me anymore. At one point it meant that I needed, at the very least, eight hours of sleep to function the next day. Now I know that was not the truth. Coffee has awoken that truth to me. It has a weird tendency to do so. My father devours the stuff, even with dinner. Gross. I, now, love java but mostly need carbonation with dinner, or any meal actually. It was one of my things, you know? Like only using eight ice cubes in my drink. What a pain that was at restaurants with crushed ice. There was no way to anticipate the temperature of your beverage in those situations. It is a shame. I'm not horribly fond of the unpredictable nature of anything. I want to know. I used to say that I have to know but my father was quick to distinguish the difference to me. It took some time for me to understand but I got there. I have to have oxygen to survive. I want to watch Jeopardy promptly each evening. Even if Trebek is a substandard host to me. My mom finds him to be handsome. Our television does a great job because we do this split screen thing so I can watch baseball AND Jeopardy at the same time. Volume stays on Jeopardy though or else we would not hear the answers. On average I answer somewhere between 67% to 71% of questions correctly. Mom says I should take their yearly audition quiz but I worry I'd get pummeled. Maybe one day. That is the nice thing, it should be around for awhile! My dad gets mad sometimes when I yell answers at the TV or get frustrated by the baseball game. I've knocked my dinner off the TV tray before, that really upset him. We always record Jeopardy, just in case, though I have only missed three in two years, I swear. To watch the recorded copies would probably be nice because you can fast forward through the many commercials. Sometimes we watch old episodes that I have on tapes. Like one time mom got me a tape from a garage sale and I was thrilled because Peter Sagal was a contestant. Now he hosts NPR's quiz show "Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!" which coincidentally I never miss also. This is not irony, as some people may mistake, just simply coincidence. It is a common misconception sadly. I enjoy the commercials on the older tapes, it is like being in a time machine. The bad part is when you see a commercial for a product that is really entrancing but the product is no longer made. This has happened to me a few times. But skipping the commercials has its upside. I also like to use the restroom in this time. It is a race! I have to finish up before they return from the break. I wash my hands, thoroughly, with the warmest water possible. My hands always turn red like a beet. They shake. My skin started to crack after I began this. The skin is like a poorly built structure, like some of the old homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a very interesting guy, very meticulous but also kind of careless. I think I may be this way as well. I read a biography about him recently. His second wife died at their home after some disgruntled workers axed them and set the home ablaze. He was not home however. He was salvaged. So I wash my hands to recover from the negativities (and germs.) As he recovered and many others like Bobby Kennedy after President Kennedy was assassinated. "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which we live." I recite as I wash. William Appleman Williams said this, Bobby liked this quote. I like this quote. If only his life had not turned even more so tragic. So I wash. But my skin is dry and mom tried to get me to use lotion but I hate lotion. It is gooey and lingers. My dad made me go to the doctor after a while. The best part about the doctor is the magazines in the waiting room. I try to find the oldest ones because you read old news but it is worded to be so current. It wasn't horrible. They gave me these gloves. I think that they (parents, doctors) think that I do not know that there is lotion within them. I know. I know there is and I still hate it. But it does not really feel like it. There is no stinky lingering. So I wear them. Most of the time I cut the finger tips off and play the counter tops as if I'm Glen Gould on a steinway. I play for my fish Freckles, he is my biggest fan, even though he is only a beta. We got him at the store. There were some others placed in front of him but we made eye contact. We connected. He is the Molly Ringwald to my John Hughes! I feed him four pellets twice a day. Mom says that is "practically what survive on." She gets upset, or used to at least, because all I want to eat are frozen dinners and peanut butter and butter sandwiches. I have expanded a little though as of late, now I will eat rice. I love rice. It is hard to hold the fork though because my hands almost always hurt. But I can't stop. My dad says it'll pass like the other ones have. He must not pay close attention because I still have all of them. Then some times they get worse.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Habit, or Tick (short story)
Work Space or Creative Sanctuary?
I spent some time cleaning up my study a bit this afternoon. Now I'm left feeling as if I can't tell if I'm relieved or if I'm going to have a panic attack when I'm working and can't find things. Clutter to some can make them feel crazy, yet clutter can also be simply someone's life. I know that when I'm working, especially on my novel, if I need something I want it to be right where I left it. The creative zone, for me at least, is a very fragile existence. When I am flowing there is no stopping it but if I have to wander off to find a quote or a picture that I remember inspires me I do not want it to take long. There is something to be said for having your own private place to work, one in which you follow no one but your own rules.
There is a great piece by the NYT's Gretchen Reynolds entitled "What a Messy Desk Says About You" from last September that is worth a gander on the subject. Messy vs Clean is all about personality traits. Many have studied the personality traits of all the different people on this planet and how it affects each and everything we do. We live in a world that enjoys analyzing every bit of the world and all that resides in it. This has its pros and cons obviously. Results are mostly varied on this particular subject. "Disorderly environments seem to inspire breaking free of tradition which can produce fresh insights." Dr. Vohs and her co-authors conclude in a study mentioned in the piece. This gives me a little hope that I can still achieve greatness with papers, sticky notes, and books spread out across my desk.
Some may see a messy desk but I see blood, sweat, and tears.
Nostalgia |näˈstaljə, nə-|
Nostalgia |näˈstaljə, nə-|
a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations
nostalgist |-jist| noun
ORIGIN late 18th cent. (in the sense 'acute homesickness'): modern Latin (translating German Heimweh 'homesickness'), from Greek nostos 'return home' + algos 'pain.'
We pine. Nostalgia is in some ways is a very fickle thing. While we may find ourselves awash with emotion over a particular moment in time we feel as though the image or thought may never leave us. We worry that we may never shake the feeling. This is almost never true as we are often onto a different mind set mere minutes later. Having passed on from what we once knew, we remain with our feet in the mud of our current lives. This existence of ours is all too changing.
Yet we eventually let ourselves wander and return to it, whether it is hours or days or months or years later. Something will rouse the powers of recall. The memories may become damp over time but they refuse to disappear. In this way it is the opposite of fickle, it is sustainable. Nostalgia is forever lasting. For a moment in time the bits of bygone days captures your imagination so much that in later days you'll pray for some type of science fiction-created time machine to transport you back. To return to the past for various reason. To return to your since deceased grandfather so he can bounce you on his knee, your round infant face deep with joy. To return for one more moment with your childhood best friend before they move away and your daily life and relationship is changed forevermore. To return and cherish the moments when you meet the one you will love for the rest of your days. Emotional artifacts that elicit such a strain on your heart are what count, not the trappings of tragedy or oversight that create regret filled scars upon the mind.
Nostalgia owns the innocence of wanting to relive, not change! Nostalgia owns a fantastical yearning for targets known only to your soul. Those feelings are only magnified by concrete items such as photographs or old home videos. They lend a voice or face to the airy pictures and voices that paint a vivid landscape across our minds. These time blown generated memories are easily trumped by viewed timepieces of the naked eye. They stay with us like a finely poignant song that hits just the right spot. Imagine a world without memories, as if we were idly floating by like the walking dead. Some may wish it were this way, to forget and to proceed on. But in my time I have chosen to incessantly remember, just as I hope the memories choose to regulate the memory of me.
I Want To Believe
Why are we so desperate to believe in something beyond the logical or concrete existence we live in?
This question puzzles me a great deal. I don't pretend to be a religious individual, I have my doubts in just about everything. The only times I've ever found myself in a state of prayer was concerning either a family members' health or amidst a Red Sox game. I have always been skeptical about any discussion of the afterlife. In the last year or so I've wrestled with the existential crisis of oblivion, of how when we die all that we have strived for disintegrates. Every book that I've read, all of the knowledge I have taken the time to accumulate during my lifetime, will vanish. That is a depressing notion. I would assume that is why everyone is consumed with the concept of leaving a mark on this world, whether it be through a child or an idea or an invention, etc. Why do we so badly want people to remember us after we are gone? What does that actually accomplish for us? I may never know the answer to this.
On the subject of death and the precious time leading up to it, I contemplate something more metaphysical. Today I was discussing with my partner in over-analytic crime (and best friend) Josh about the human ability of intuition. I posed the question: "Do you think it is possible for people to intuitively and subconsciously sense what is going to happen? Or do you think what we perceive as hints before the fact are just coincidence?" I asked this because on this day (July 2nd) in 1937 was the last time anyone heard from Amelia Earhart before her disappearance over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Before her fateful circumnavigational flight of the globe, in the Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, she said of the trip: "I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system, and I hope this trip is it."
Josh, being the skeptic that he is, surprised me saying he believed it to be a little of both. "I'd like to think that you can grow that sense like a muscle. You just have to try to pick up as much detail as possible." But he did imply that we may read more into what people say after historic and/or tragic events. This is an unfortunate truth, I believe. "She may have just been saying she was retiring. She may have known more, who knows." That is certainly the easy and most accepted way to view it. I think that is why it'd have to be intuitively. Perhaps she perceived these feelings as the impression that it may be time to retire, but could the feelings be a misinterpretation of something more?
My interest in this type of phenomena dates back to many other subjects, one in particular being Jeff Buckley (a favorite musician of mine.) In the days before his accidental drowning in while swimming in Wolf River Harbor, a slack water channel of the Mississippi River located in Memphis, [according to David Browne's excellent biography Dream Brother] Jeff spent time getting in touch with friends and loved ones. The day before his drowning he phoned his former drummer and friend Eric Eidel who was living in New York City at 5am. "Hey… It's Jeff. I've been thinking about you and wanted to see if you were doing well. And to say I love you." Eidel, in Browne's book, explains that Jeff wanted to see that everything was good. Eidel said "It was quick, but it seemed like it had a point." As detailed in Browne's book, Eidel was hardly the only friend contacted in those days leading up to his death, it was simply one of many out-of-the-blue calls received. Most of which were to people Jeff had barely seen or spoken to in years. I recall reading this biography some six or seven years ago and being stricken with this passage. Could he have known? Or do I just wish for my idol to be something more than a mere man when he wadded into the water for a swim?
It is all very heavy to ponder upon. I have been a scaredy cat my entire life, I can't even watch cheesy scary films. I can't help but look over my shoulder as I type this. The goosebumps are numerous. I posed the question to some other peers and got varied responses. Most seemed to believe that deep within the recesses of our minds, hearts, and souls we can quantify things subconsciously that we would never be able to explain. One friend described it as a belief that certain people are better in touch with a sense of death, using JFK and Lincoln as examples.
This leaves me wondering how many would want to be in touch with such a thing?


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Today I was trying to catch up with all the new entries on Raymond's blog and I found some interesting posts that are worth taking a look.
What do I do with per-user data when I uninstall?
Microsoft says... oh wait... I mean.. Raymond Chen says that we should not touch it! Quick and Easy! I like that :)
Why isn't QuickEdit on by default in console windows?
Because it breaks console mode applications using the mouse.
Does creating a thread from DllMain deadlock or doesn't it?
It does not. Except if you create the lock yourself by waiting for the thread to do something, because it's not going to run until you exit DllMain.


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Donnie Avery Injures Knee
Aug 26, 2010
St. Louis Ram WR Donnie Avery was injured in tonight's preseason game against the Patriots. More details to come, but this could be a serious blow to the young WR. If you drafted him, give it some time until you hear the extent of his injury before doing anything drastic. If you are drafting before word comes out, you probably want to pass on him. I would also pass on any Ram other than Steven Jackson.
Posted by LestersLegends | Categories: Fantasy Football, NFL | Tagged: Donnie Avery, Donnie Avery injury, Donnie Avery knee, Fantasy Football, NFL, St. Louis Rams |


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No sewing needed
Things you need:
- Card holder
- Marker
- Origami/Color Paper
- Scissors
- Stapler
- String/Ribbon
- Name Sticker
- Stapler or Tape
First Step
Cut one card holder from the card folder. It's best If you cut the middle holder. So you won't have to tape the sides.
Second Step
Take out your double sided color paper or origami. If you don't have them, you could use a regular piece of paper. It may not be as good because you want both sides to have a design pattern and a solid color. But it is okay. This is for saving money.
Third Step
Cut your paper as the exact shape of your card holder (Rectangle). After that, try to put it inside the card holder. If it does not fit, cut the sides a bit till it fit. Once it fit, pull your paper out gently and get ready for some decorating.
Fourth Step
Here is the fun part. You could design it however you like. If you are using a double side pattern colorful paper/origami then you should stick a white label sticker or your own name sticker on the solid color side. But if you are using a regular paper where both of the sides are a bit plain, you could decorate it with drawing (No stickers). Write your name/phone/address on one side of the paper while the other side is your colorful design.
Fifth Step
After you are finish with your design, it's time to put it back in the card holder. After you are happy with it, punch a hole in the middle top of the card holder. Then tape or staple the top part of the holder so that your paper won't get any damaged. Make sure it is seal and close properly. Then take out your string/ribbon and put inside the small punch hole. Pull the other end and voila your own customize luggage tag.
You could print your own luggage templates from the Internet. Then do the same process like Step 4 but without anymore designing.
I hope you had fun doing it as I did. The reason I wanted to make this was because nobody had showed to make this in their own blog/channel so I thought why not make one. Most of you would know it too but I just want to share my ideas with you. Also most of my luggage tags which I bought kept getting stolen and it was a waste of money for me to buy a new one since it may get stolen again. This however may not get stolen because it is handmade and waterproof too. It is also fun making it. Tell this to your friends.
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Ever since I bought Henry from Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn has been flooding me with emails and catalogs. One caught my attention right before Christmas…it had the words doll and sale. All the dolls (including Henry) were marked down about 40%, and there was free shipping, and there were these new cuties:
Meet Lisha from Kenya, Elodia from Mexico, Miki from USA, Song from China, Maple from Canada, Inna from Russia, and Sidney from Australia. They are soft and huggable, and I estimate about 3 feet long. They've been sharing my bed with me for about a week (because I have nowhere else to store 7! new dolls). I'm running out of space, but I love them so much.
For anyone interested, these dollies are of wonderful quality. They are okay for ages 3 and up. Their clothes don't come off and only Sidney has a removable piece (a Koala bear on her arm that you can't really see in this photo). They're a bit expensive to give to a three-year-old, but I can imagine 3-year-old me loving and lugging one of these dolls everywhere!
Here's a link to Pottery Barn's website (looks like they're still on sale):
Oh man, I just saw they had Christmas ornament versions of these dolls! But alas, they're all sold out except for Australia. Who's adorable, but I need my Christmas ornaments to come in sets, and I don't think I need a whole set of girls from Australia.
It's almost time for Girl of the Year 2014!


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The Freedom to Marry in Rhode Island
Winning Marriage: August 1, 2013
Same-sex couples began marrying in Rhode Island on August 1, 2013 after Governor Lincoln Chafee signed the state's marriage bill into law on May 2, 2013. The bills passed overwhelmingly in the House and Senate in the weeks prior.
History and the Path to Victory:
- September 30, 2006: A Superior Court judge in Massachusetts rules in a case brought by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders that same-sex couples in Rhode Island may marry in MA because Rhode Island does not prohibit same-sex couples from marrying by state statute or constitutional amendment. The Rhode Island Attorney General announces the state will not respect these marriages.
- July 2010: Polling in Rhode Island tracks majority support for the freedom to marry, reflecting the power of the national discussion of why marriage matters.
- June 30, 2011: The Rhode Island Legislature passes a state statute creating civil union for same-sex couples. This legislation, while a step forward, fails to give same-sex couples the full rights and protections that a marriage provides.
- May 14, 2012: Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee directs state agencies to ensure that out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples are respected and treated equally under law, in the same way that Rhode Island treats different-sex couples' marriages.
- January 3, 2013: Legislators in Rhode Island introduce bills in the House and Senate to extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples.
- January 22, 2013: The House Judiciary Committee becomes the first legislative body in Rhode Island history to advance the freedom to marry when it moves the marriage bill to the House floor.
- January 24, 2013: The Rhode Island House votes overwhelmingly in favor of the marriage bill.
- May 2, 2013: Governor Lincoln Chafee signs the freedom to marry into law.
- August 1, 2013: The freedom to marry takes effect in Rhode Island as same-sex couples begin to marry across the state.
- June 26, 2015: The United States Supreme Court rules in favor of the freedom to marry, ending marriage discrimination across the country.
Groups That Actively Worked on Marriage
- Rhode Islanders United for Marriage was a broad coalition of people, organizations, and groups working to secure the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in Rhode Island. Freedom to Marry was proud to be a leading member of the coalition.
- Marriage Equality Rhode Island was the lead state organization in the fight for equal marriage for same-sex couples in Rhode Island.
- Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders: Rhode Island is New England's leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression.
- Freedom to Marry was the campaign to win marriage for same-sex couples nationwide.


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Message from Gilberte
Our lovely "Duchess", Gilberte, has messaged me on Facebook explaining her absence lately … her message was as follows (I know she will appreciate your thoughts and prayers) …
Hi Rosalie .I have been in hospital with a leg infection during three weeks.Now I am revalidating in a home.Hope to be home for the new year and find back my PC.
This was a very bad experience.i am very tired.
Hope you are alright.
Please give my love to all our friends. I cannot write to everyone in particular but they are all I my mind
Big kisses for you Rosalie.


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Brazilian Street Artist Paints World's Largest Street Mural for the Rio Olympics
Published: Aug 18, 2016
If Street Art was an Olympic sport Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra would have been at first place for sure.
Days before the Olympic began Kobra started painting the largest mural.
The mural which he calls Las Etnias (The Ethnicities), reaches a total height of 50 feet and measures over 32,000 square feet.
It can be found in Rio's port district and it features five faces from five different continents that represent both the five Olympic rings as well as the cultural diversity of the games.
This is what 100 gallons of white paint, 400 gallons of colored paint, 3,500 cans of spray paint, and two tiring months of 12 hour days looks like.
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The Vachon Brothers -- Paul "The Butcher" and Maurice "Mad Dog" -- have been regulars at the Cauliflower Alley Club reunions since its early days in Los Angeles. Maurice was even presented with the Iron Mike Mazurki Award, the CAC's top honor. As for Butcher, he's been called upon to sing, but has never been recognized. Until next week.
Though Butcher has been up on the stage numerous times, usually to sing in his deep, baritone voice, he has never been officially honoured with a special award or given any kind of special tribute. In fact, the closest Paul has ever come to being honoured was when he was crowned the CAC cribbage champion in 2002.
Even his sister, Vivian (Diane), who died in 1991, was honoured posthumously in 2006.
The Butcher tried to hold his tongue, shared the oversight with a few friends, and this year, the oversight will be corrected corrected at the CAC's annual reunion in Las Vegas, at the Riveria, at the banquet on Wednesday, June 11th.
Paul is happy to be receiving the award, even if it is a bit overdue. At 70 years of age, the Mens Wrestling Award is an award one might have thought Paul deserved to get some time ago. After all, he has wrestled nearly 1,900 matches, many of which under the moniker of "Butcher" Vachon, a vicious heel that showed no mercy on his opponents. He often teamed with his brother "Mad Dog" Vachon and together, they won the AWA World Tag Team Championship twice. Paul even appeared in the movie Wrestling Queen with his sister, Vivian. His stepdaughter, Luna (Angel), carved out a most remarkable wrestling career of her own, and two of his youngest sons, Damien "Pitbull" Vachon and Pierre "The Beast" Vachon, have competed on the Ontario/Quebec independent circuit.
Back before his bout with throat cancer, Paul had been asked many times to take the stage to show off his singing skills. This was back when the CAC reunion was held in California instead of Las Vegas. Paul would drive from Montreal to California, picking up his brother on the way in Nebraska. On the night of his first award banquet, Dick "The Destroyer" Beyer, took the microphone, welcomed everyone and then mentioned that Paul had driven "something like 10,000 kilometers" to be there. "So to start this night off, Paul's going to sing for us."
There was no accompanying music, just the sound of Paul's voice. He sang a pop hit from the 1950s called I Believe. "That was the start of my experiences at the Cauliflower Alley Club," Paul reflected in a recent interview. He would be asked to sing several more times and that, coupled with his various other speeches and accepting awards for family members, left CAC organizers with the impression he had already been awarded.
One of the CAC organizers actually came up to him at a recent reunion and said, "Paul, you've been honoured for just about everything, haven't you?" Paul smiled and said politely, "No. I have never been honoured at all." Remembering the story, Paul laughed. "I didn't want to sound like sour grapes. I think I just slipped out of everyone's memory. I think they collectively thought I had been honoured because they had seen me up on stage so many times. I really just enjoyed going to the reunions, even if I wasn't going to be honoured."
But the fact remained that Paul hadn't been honoured -- at least not by his peers in the CAC. Outside of the prestigious Cribbage Championship, Paul was a side attraction at the CAC reunions, a speech-giver and a singer. Word got around about this and Paul figures "some strings got pulled" because in early 2008, Paul got word that he was going to be officially honoured at this year's CAC reunion. Someone said, "Paul, you're going to be honoured again," to which Paul laughed and said, "What do you mean �again'?"
Asked how it feels to be honoured this year, Paul did not attempt to conceal his happiness. "It's great," he said. "All I ever wanted to do in my life was wrestle and get away from the farm and not have to milk cows and shovel manure. My lifetime ambition was to be a wrestler and I became one. To be honoured, even if I had to lobby for it a little bit, before my peers and my brothers and sisters in the business is a great honour. I get goosebumps every time I think about it."
"I'm gonna quote something Don said when he was inducted into the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame," Paul said excitedly. "He said, �I was pleasantly surprised but I am glad that someone had the good idea of doing this while I was still alive.' I thought that was great -- and true."
Paul also plans to crack a few jokes. That's his way -- and he has become known for his witty wrestling humour. At last year's reunion, a mic was being passed around at the CAC's Salute to Canadians Baloney Blowout and someone asked Paul to tell a joke. So he did. This is it:
"These two old-time wrestlers are getting old and talking about what a good life they had in wrestling and one of them says, �I don't mind dying, but it would make me feel a lot better if I knew there was wrestling in heaven.' The other guy said, �Me too.' So they made a pact that whoever was going to die first would come back and tell the other whether there was wrestling in heaven or not. Sure enough, after awhile, one of them died and a week later, the guy who died came back and said to his friend, �I've got good news and bad news.' The friend who was still alive asked for the good news. His dead friend said, �Okay, the good news is I was up in heaven and yes, there is wrestling in heaven.' The alive friend said, �Alright!' and then asked for the bad news. �Well, the good news is that there is wrestling in heaven,' the ghost repeated, �but the bad news is that next Friday you're in the main event against Whipper Watson.'"
"It's such a great atmosphere," he elaborated. "I am thrilled to be there. These days, you see, we live for these things. It's just a really good occasion. Where else do all the old-time wrestlers get together?"
When the night finally arrives, the big question on everyone's mind will be whether or not Paul will sing again. Four and a half years ago, Paul had tonsil cancer and although he has recovered from it, it has damaged his throat somewhat. Plus, he recently got over a bout of bronchitis. "So my throat is still a little hoarse," he complained, "but if I can, maybe I'll sing something."
Asked what he might sing at this year's reunion, Paul chuckled. He thought back on his career and the road he had to travel to get where he is now -- on the cusp of being honoured for his achievements in a lifetime of wrestling. It wasn't an easy road -- there were family tragedies along the way; personal obstacles to overcome. But he overcame them, fulfilled his lifelong dream to become a wrestler, left the farm and joined a fraternity of men and women who gather once a year to celebrate each other's varied accomplishments. It wasn't easy for any of them, and in that sense, if Paul does indeed sing, he will choose a song that represents the struggles they all collectively faced and the reward they will all receive -- one way or the other - at the end.
His song of choice will, once again, be I Believe. "Sure, I sang it before," he said at the close of the interview, "but maybe now it means something a little more. For everyone."
Fred Johns is SLAM! Wrestling's West Coast Correspondent and yes, he will be attending this year's CAC reunion in Vegas. Thankfully for the audience in attendance, he will NOT be singing.


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And we're back with a review for the second episode of Doctor Who's eighth season, an episode that saw the Doctor venture into the darkest, most dangerous place in the universe–the inside of a Dalek. As with last week's review, there will be spoilers, so you have been warned if you haven't watched it yet.
I'll be honest–I have kind of mixed feelings about this one. Don't get me wrong; Capaldi was brilliant, but too much of the story felt like a rehash of 1977's "The Invisible Enemy". Because of this similarity, it was kind of difficult to enjoy the story; it would have been better if they had gone with a more original plot. I will say this, though–the twist with Rusty's taking his inspiration from the Doctor's hatred for the Daleks was definitely unseen.
I also enjoyed Danny Pink's first appearance. He seems like a nice enough guy, and it would appear they're setting up for some conflict between him and the Doctor. After all, the Doctor is not fond of soldiers, and Danny used to be one…but Danny obviously regrets what he's done just as the Doctor regrets his service in the Time War. Even if things are tense between the two at first, they'll inevitably find that they have more in common than they first thought.


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Roundabout for high-crash intersection on North Street
Press Release – Timaru District Council
Traffic safety, vehicle flow, cyclist and pedestrian safety and high-grade road surfacing will be priorities for the Timaru District Council as it begins a major improvement of the North Street -Wilson Street-Woodlands Road intersection in Timaru.February 29, 2012
Roundabout for high-crash intersection on North Street
Traffic safety, vehicle flow, cyclist and pedestrian safety and high-grade road surfacing will be priorities for the Timaru District Council as it begins a major improvement of the North Street -Wilson Street-Woodlands Road intersection in Timaru.
A roundabout is to be installed at the busy intersection designed to reduce the number of crashes there. The intersection currently sits as the worst in the Timaru District for crashes over the last five years.
Timaru District Council land transport manager Andrew Dixon said work on the new roundabout would begin on March 12 and was expected to take 10 weeks to complete. The upgrade would start with the relocation of water services.
"All practical steps will be undertaken to minimise traffic delays during this time, but the work will mean some inconvenience to motorists using the intersection and could involve some detours at a later date," Mr Dixon said.
"However, the public would be kept informed and contractors Fulton Hogan would be doing everything possible to reduce inconvenience including introducing lanes and early-warning signage.
Making the district's worst crash record outside of State Highways, the location of the intersection meant two busy arterial traffic streams converged and was made more difficult to negotiate because two streets for north-south traffic were offset.
Mr Dixon said traffic count statistics showed more than 5000 vehicles a day travelled through the intersection along North Street and about 3000 vehicles passed through heading north-south along Wilson Street and Woodlands Road.
"On top of that, a large proportion of those vehicles are heavy trucks and buses and the mix created some hazards that the roundabout will remove," he said.
The roundabout had been designed for heavy vehicles with a lower outer island that large vehicles can drive on when turning, Mr Dixon said.
The roundabout surface would be smooth hot-mix and would be matched in with the rest of North Street that would also be hot-mixed soon after.
The roundabout layout, designed by Opus Consultants, would also feature a shared pedestrian-cyclist portion keeping that traffic safer and more isolated from vehicles.
Roundabouts have become more and more in favour throughout the county when increasing traffic flows have made some intersections dangerous. They offer better traffic flow than Stop, Give Way or signals and reduce crashes by removing the risk of right-angle and head-on collisions.
Mr Dixon said roundabouts also lowered intersection speeds.
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Convergent and dual-use technologies could match or surpass the capabilities of existing nuclear and conventional arsenals within the next 20 years. For Robert McCreight, the dangers these technologies pose must be taken seriously, especially since states are almost sure to use them.
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Sunday, 24 July 2011
Hen's Rolls
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Those victory rolls look great; I'd love to have my hair done properly like yours.ReplyDelete
I have to agree with you about the plethora of 'vintage' fairs about that have more 1980s and newer clothes on sale than proper vintage. When I see 'vintage' adverterised I expect to see clothes and accessories from the 30s (at least) up to the 70s. I don't class the 80s and 90s as vintage yet, either!
Love the hair- and M's cool shades...ReplyDelete
Lovely rolls Hen! I do like the picture of Mr Henhouse and the Munchkin having his tie fixed! Have a lovely Sunday. xReplyDelete
What a bargain your dress was and such a lovely colour too, you realy suit those "rolls" Lucey xReplyDelete
You look gorgeous! Love the hair. That dress was a bargain too!ReplyDelete
Julie xxxxxxxxx
i love your hair hen ;0) how beautiful xReplyDelete
also such a pretty 1940 outfits you all have ;0)
- Anonymous24 July 2011 at 10:32
Well, you look fabulous dahling, and certainly the part. You have just the right face - gorgeous skin by the way - to carry off that look. I'd end up looking like Hilda Ogden on a bad day.. maybe a good day if she took her curlers out!ReplyDelete
your hair looks super dooper. At the last fair I went to I watched the hairdressers for ages and actually stopped a lady and asked to take a photo of the back of her head as her hair was so beautiful. Just bought the magazine with your article in - photos and write up were superb.ReplyDelete
You look absolutely fabulous! It's amazing how in a matter of minutes one can be transported back a few decades.ReplyDelete
The dress is gorgeous too.
Love the hair-do! Dress is beautiful - fantastic colour!ReplyDelete
Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger
oh...how fun!! you look wonderful! the hair is fantastic!!! that color on you is just stunning! your little mr. looks so great in the cap and vest...I had to copy the pic you did with him on the train....it is one of the best pics ever..It is in my folder of inspirational pics ! he looks like my dear dad did when he was a lad....just love it!!ReplyDelete
Don't you look lovely? I do admire the Munchkin getting into the mood too. Vintage for me is anything up to the early sixties, but then I was born in the mid forties so the 70s and 80s are still modern day.ReplyDelete
Wow, you look great! It's interesting who different definitions of 'vintage' can cause problems. I certainly have some 80s and 90s favourites which I've kept hold of, which are clearly coming back into fashion! Weird...ReplyDelete
What a lovely day out Hen and I love the hairdo! xReplyDelete
It looks like you had a bit of fun in spite of the disappointment! I used to backcomb my hair in the 1980s but it never lasted very long - yours looks great. I have long since come to the conclusion that I myself count as vintage - and that vintage means stuff I can remember really well! But I don't think you are quite old enough yet - I am sure that the Munchkin has never asked you if you can remember the war!ReplyDelete
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Wotcha! So sorry I didn't manage to find you before you left. Could of had a proper natter. I forgot to tell you how lovely your dress was. I do like a spot of blue! I nearly parted with some monies for a beautiful Maderia table cloth at the stall we bumped into each other at. If it is still there next time - its MINE!ReplyDelete
I admit - there was a lack of pre 60's stuff, but then I am firmly in the camp of its how you make the dress look, rather than the actual era it is from. Plus - as much as I adore 40's dresses - I seldom find them in my size and I am naff at fixing things! It was the first Vintage part of the fair too - so hopefully with more time it shall turn into something to suit everyone :o)
So pleased you came away with some nice bits and you were certainly sporting hair of victorious rollage!
You look completely beautiful, that hair style really suits you!! Did you watch how she did it? Can you recreate it do you think? Love your dress too, gorgeous and such a bargain!ReplyDelete
Are you going to be at Vintage this year? We have tickets for Friday and Sunday but are in town all weekend. Let me know x
Oh Hen.. when I read the blog title I thought you got a new or vintage Rolls Royce! LOL Love the hairdo, you look adorable! Did you see the aqua glass Hen dish I found recently? I'll always think of you when I see it.ReplyDelete
((hugs)), Teresa :-)
What a lovely dress and a bargain price too. Your vintage hair style really suits you, beautiful.ReplyDelete
Carol xx
wow love your hair! Looks like a fun day out if nothing else :) xReplyDelete
- Anonymous25 July 2011 at 08:10
Love the hair do, Hen, it really suits you.ReplyDelete
Linda O xx
Oh my your hair, Hen! You look beautiful!ReplyDelete
Monica x
You remind me of my mum posing as a model for hairdressing competitions in the 50s! She looked beautiful as do you!ReplyDelete
Hen, you look gorgeous! That hair totally suits you. Great dress too. Sad it wasn't what you expected.ReplyDelete
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Once you have a thirst towards writing that passion will take you to the children's hearts. It is very easy to write books for children. You can definitely write for them. Writing for children is easy, but not as easy as writing for grown-ups.One of the best books like that is Mark Kistler's Draw Squad, recommended for ages 6 and older.
There are many sites that provide interactive books, so finding one to suit your child should not be difficult. You can also find various resources on the Internet that will lead you to other similar places and materials, all of which are designed with children in mind. You can know about Protectors of the and ASU Children Books via various websites.
Whether it's Birthday Time, Christmas Time, or you just feel like doing something pleasant for your daughter, purchasing books for children is almost always an inordinate idea. But how do you know which ones to pick? Well, I'm a dad of a seven-year-old little girl, and maybe I can help a little.
But, the question arises how to create such books along with values. There are definite tips that might prove helpful in creating a stimulating book. Books can be made creative as well as attractive by integrating it with a story that includes the name of your child. For example, the name of the character of the story, such as super hero's name and etc., can be named after your child's name.


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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing 2019: Using the Cloud for Competitive AdvantageThis is a response to Installing Firefox 3.6 on Linux: Only Pros Need Apply-- ed.
Back last August, as soon as Firefox 3.5 was released, I installed it on Ubuntu 9.04 (I can never remember the animal names). I didn't know how to do it, because I was a rank beginner. Still am. But back then I was about as rank a beginner as there is, because the first time I had ever so much as downloaded a program, even in Windows, was 4 months before that, in late April. In May, after reading a number of Ubuntu how-to books, I installed Ubuntu 8.10 and in July I replaced it with 9.04. In August I was dismayed to learn Ubuntu would not permit me to update Firefox automatically from 3.0.something to the brand-new 3.5. (I'm still not enthusiastic about this feature it reminds me too much of Microsoftian control techniques. More on this in a moment.)
I'm a reader of documentation, not so much a lurker on forums. Unfortunately, when I went looking for enlightenment I found nothing in ink-on-paper that offered me a prescription for performing such an upgrade myself. To this day I don't know exactly what steps I took to do it, but I recall it involved downloading directly from the Firefox site following their instructions, I think some degree of unzipping and moving it about, and in short order there stood a link to Shiretoko (Firefox-speak for 3.5) in the Internet section of my Applications menu.
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Six vie for Samuel Johnson Prize
A biography of the playwright August Strindberg, and an exploration of a Mumbai slum are the focus of two books competing for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
The £20,000 prize, now in its 14th year, is awarded to a non-fiction book from a shortlist of six contenders.
This year's shortlist covers a wide range of subject matters, including the explorer George Mallory and a study of the Spanish civil war.
The winner will be announced on 12 November.
Like the shortlist, the winner is selected by panel of judges led by the Minister for Universities, David Willetts. Writer Patrick French, Guardian critic Paul Laity, Prospect magazine's Bronwen Maddox, and cultural critic Professor Raymond Tallis complete the panel.
'High quality'
First time novelist Katherine Boo's study of Mumbai's Annawadi slum, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, goes up against Sue Prideaux - and her latest biography Strindberg: A Life.
Prideaux is best known for her award-winning biography of Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream.
Paul Preston's The Spanish Holocaust marks "the first authoritative history of Spain's darkest period", while explorer Wade Davis puts Mallory's 1924 expedition to Everest into context, looking at the aftermath of World War I and a generation's capacity for endurance.
Two further books appear on the shortlist: Author Robert McFarlane's The Old Ways - retreading ancient footpaths and looking at "the profound ways in which we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move", and Steven Pinker's history of violence and humanity, The Better Angels Of Our Nature.
"The titles on this year's shortlist have all impressed the judges with their originality and high quality of writing," said Mr Willetts.
"Each of them communicates complex themes, and in a way that is both enlightening and entertaining."
Previous winners of the prize include Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, in the prize's inaugural year, and Jonathan Coe's Like a Fiery Elephant.


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Naz Shah Leads Call on Kashmir PM to Expand Diaspora Support to the UK
The government of Azad Kashmir have recently legislated for a "Commission for Overseas Kashmiri's" based in Azad Kashmir. Ministers will report directly to the PM, who will personally chair the Commission. It has been designed specifically to support the Kashmiri diaspora community navigate through processes that they may be unfamiliar with.
Yesterday, Naz Shah met with the PM Farooq Haidar Khan and held lengthy discussions around the continued implementation of the proposals. Naz Shah suggested that this commission would benefit if it had direct designated links to the diaspora communities, via the Pakistan high commission and its regional offices here in the U.K.
The letter also calls for a strengthening of the current proposals, asking them to explore the possibility of separate 'Diaspora Facilitator Police Cells'. Arm's length, on the ground, independent policing units within Kashmir.
While commending what the government has done so far these British Parliamentarians are asking the government to go further.
Naz Shah states: ''Whilst I am pleased to see the authorities in AJK, and particularly the Prime Minister himself are making visible efforts in rooting out corruption and making legal processes more accessible for the diaspora community in the UK, it can often be a struggle to achieve justice and legal remedies.
"The Diaspora community are vulnerable in many ways to processes that are often opaque, confusing and difficult to navigate without support. The establishment of a Commission represents a significant opportunity and British Parliamentarians have urged the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmiri to consolidate the initiative with a liaison team based in the UK, allied to a dedicated investigative police team in Azad Kashmir. This is not about getting the diaspora a different level of access, it is about ensuring that they get access to due process.
"The diaspora community invests considerably in Azad Kashmir, and these additional initiatives will help secure the legacy and success of the commission."