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You know that embarrassing moment when you see a girl wearing the same thing you are? Imagine that moment at work. Now imagine that happened with two people in the same day. NOW imagine they were both tall and thin. Yep, that was my morning. Twins-ies! Well, actually triplet-ies!!!
Now I choose to see this as a case of great minds think alike. Today, Julie (far right), Kim (far left)and I (middle) all wore the same Free People Shaggy Bear Pullover to work. Believe me, it was not planned. We just aren't that coordinated. Most times we can't decide what we want to wear to work until five minutes before leaving the house and after trying on several options.
I can't say I blame the other girls. It was really darn chilly this morning and I wanted a snuggly sweater to wear. This sweater is super soft (even my kidlets love how soft this sweater is), and fits a variety of body types. Oddly enough, we all wore it in different colors and we all styled it slightly different for each of us. Crazy, huh? So let's hear it for girls with amazing, yet similar taste!
Skinny Jeans Note: Yes, I am standing on a step ladder in the middle of the photo. *sigh* Can I help it if I work with glamazons? I think I picked the wrong day to wear flats. Hopefully, Biggest and Littlest will get some height from their dad…
On Kim:
Free People Shaggy Bear Pullover in Ballet
Kut Diana Skinny Jeans (similar here)
Kennedy Smooth Racerback Tank in Rock
Gilded Single Strand Rectangle Crystal Necklace
On Julie:
Free People Shaggy Bear Pullover in Driftwood
James Jeans Twiggy Legging Jean in Blueblack
Sweet Pea Multi Colored Zig Zag Scarf in Blue
Posh and Ginger Loop Hoops with Beads
On me:
Free People Shaggy Bear Pullover in Natural
Design History Sequin Tank in Black
Paige Premium Denim Jimmy Jimmy Boyfriend Jean
Chateau Belle Black Stone Drop Earrings
Me Too Leopard Print Flats (similar here)


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It is amazing that it took me two days (about 5 hours) to stitch the next band... just couldn't focus and needed lots of breaks for naps...the frustrating thing about this band was that even though it looks like there are repeating motifs, the chart reveals subtle variations within the pattern. Normally this is precisely the thing that I enjoy about blackwork but just couldn't find my rhythm this time. Perhaps my body was making up for all the nights when I was not able to sleep at all - the good news is that this morning I am finally feeling better so with some more napping and resting perhaps I will be able to resume 'life' very soon!
So, slow progress but progress none the same - "mind over matter stitching"...
|Day 8 - Beginning this band...
The Song of my Needle
|End of Day 8 - Elisabeth Harborne
The Song of my Needle
|Start of Day 9 - Elizabeth Harborne
The Song of my Needle
After a lot of breaks and naps ....
|Day 9 Elizabeth Harborne
The Song of my Needle
|Day 9 Elizabeth Harborne
The Song of my Needle
Lots of symbolism in this band.
On another note :
There are many things to figure out about blogging.... I know it takes a lot of time at present and perhaps I have not yet figured out a quicker way. I still have to figure out how to reduce the resolution of my pictures and watermark them and I have to make this a priority. I have received many nice comments and some of you have asked about online classes, my designs, my other needlework etc...
This is a new venture for me and I started 'blogging' because I wanted to figure this format out and had the time because during the first week of this cough/flu episode I could not 'do' much of anything at all. I spent a lot of time on the computer during this time. I would love to hear your thoughts about my 'blogging' so far because so many of you are more experienced on this topic. Also, if you have specific suggestions and requests please do write. I wonder if showing my progress as I work through a project is something you like seeing or if there is something else you would rather see etc....
So, please do give me your input... I do not have an issue with sharing my needlework adventures, I think we can learn a lot from each other but wouldn't want to just add to the 'chatter out there in cyberspace' and waste your time...or mine. My focus is always to spend my time in a meaningful way and as I start to feel better and know that I will be resuming my normal schedule by next week I want to make sure that my 'blogging experiment' has brought you some pleasure. It will give me a way to judge if this experiment becomes part of my routine or not. I can then make the time to figure out all the details and blog more 'professionally'. I appreciate your input.


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This is a card with Waterfall technique I did for Hubby's Birthday...
All the favorite male in my life (My Hubby, My lil Bro n My smart Nephew) had their Birthdays in the month of May and had the toughest time creating for them. I wanted it masculine so I used a Red,Blue and White combo.
Loved the outcome. But couldnt capture them in the photos.
Entering this into the following challenges:
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Water Recycling(12/03/2009)
From the Queensland Water Commission:
Read the results of more than 8,000 tests conducted over seven months at one of Queensland's new Advanced Water Treatment Plants.
Youd expect a microbiologists pool to be pretty clean.
Dr Helen Stratton:
The water looks good, doesnt it, which is just as well.
Like any mum, Helen Stratton wouldnt let her kids near water that might make them sick.
Dr Helen Stratton:
In actual fact, I took them out of the swim lessons because I wasnt happy with the water quality.
Keeping an eye on the kids goes beyond pool safety. Helens one of many Queensland scientists working to ensure the safety of drinking water recycled from treated sewage.
Dr Helen Stratton:
I think this idea of toilet to tap is a really bad misconception, its way past that. The water will be cleaner than any of the water ever going into the dam.
But not all microbiologists agree that the technology is safe.
Prof Peter Collignon:
If you use water as your source from sewage youre starting off with a thousand to a million times higher concentration of viruses, bacteria and probably drugs than it is even in a polluted river. So youre starting off with a much more dangerous water source.
Dr Helen Stratton:
Weve had a hundred years of protecting public health by making sure we have clean drinking water. Now were not about to undo that.
Snow Manners:
We dont know what it is that we dont know about. There is destruction confronting us, therefore we must drink from the sewers.
Its a public debate about science that hasnt changed since 2006
Woman in Toowoomba:
Toilet water is toilet water, dam water I dont think has ever been toilet water ever, so, yeah
when I visited my hometown of Toowoomba, the first city to vote on water recycling.
Mark Horstman:
Mr Berghofer, the yes campaign says that science was the loser today, so who won?
Clive Berghofer:
Oh come on, no, come on.
Snow Manners:
The community does not need to know anything about the science.
Despite a 60 percent vote against it, Toowoomba can now plug into a brand new water recycling scheme that covers all of south-east Queensland.
John Bradley:
Theres been a nine billion dollar investment in interconnecting pipelines and desalination and recycled water technology. Its certainly massive, and probably its only comparable project is the Snowy Mountains scheme.
At full capacity, water recycling can purify more than 200 million litres every day, using secondary treated waste from six sewage treatment plants.
Troy Walker:
We measure about 350 contaminants in the treated water. We wanted to target our testing on the sorts of things that we found were coming into the plant to be treated in the first place pharmaceuticals, herbicides, pesticides, microbiological contaminants, and even radionuclides.
Usually all of these nasties end up in our rivers for others to drink downstream.
Keith Davies:
The water that used to go into the rivers and the bay is our feedstock, thats our inflow. And we take that water and take out the contaminants.
What makes this advanced water treatment plant different are the three extra steps it adds to the existing treatment process.
Mark Horstman:
Whats happening in these pipes?
Keith Davies: This is our microfiltration unit. This is barrier 3 of the 7 barrier process.
Each tube is packed with thousands of fine hollow fibres that filter out tiny particles and most microbes.
Keith Davies:
Under very great pressure the water is forced through those tubes. They have holes in them 1/300 the size of a human hair, and this takes out the particulates.
Only then is the filtered water ready to enter the reverse osmosis tubes, the most important part of the process.
Keith Davies: This technology is basically the same technology thats used in desalination.
At its core are membranes so thin that a stack of five thousand of them would be only one millimetre thick. Theyre bound into stacks, interleaved with spaces for water to flow through, and rolled tightly into cylinders. Spiralled inside these fifty tubes are more than a hectare of membranes. Theyre not like sieves with tiny holes. Rather the membranes work like a massive artificial kidney, drawing water out of the passing waste stream.
Keith Davies:
Water diffuses through the membrane to come out as hydrogen and oxygen basically.
Mark Horstman:
That must take a lot of pressure?
Keith Davies:
It does take a lot of pressure. This is the highest powered part of the plant.
Down at the atomic level, water molecules are attracted to the membranes and pushed through by up to 20 atmospheres of pressure. But viruses can only get through if there is a hole in the membrane. To guarantee safety, the system is designed for overkill.
Troy Walker:
Not very much can go wrong, to be honest. Most of the system is automated.
Its when things do go wrong that worries Professor Collignon.
Prof Peter Collignon:
My main concern is that it may not remove all the viruses in particular but other germs and also all the drugs we need to make it safe for people to drink all the time.
Prof Peter Collignon:
Trust me Im an engineer is worse than trust me Im a doctor.
Mark Horstman:
Trust me Im a microbiologist?
Prof Peter Collignon:
Trust me, Im a microbiologist.
Mark Horstman:
Have you done your own research, your own testing of this kind of water?
Prof Peter Collignon:
No we dont. Because were not that sort of laboratory.
This is the lab in Queensland that does. For more than a year, a small scientific army has been testing samples from the advanced water treatment plants for chemicals, microbes, and viruses.
John Bradley: The people that are actually doing research in this area have concluded that this poses no additional risk to our community.
In addition to this work, Helen Strattons university research is developing more rapid techniques to measure pathogens in water.
Dr Helen Stratton: Im really comfortable as a microbiologist and Im quite paranoid about what I drink and what I eat I will be drinking the water.
But theres plenty of doubt about that, out in the suburbs.
Man with 5 kids:
Nuh. Just doesnt make any sense to me. Anyone that feeds their kids water like that, got rocks in their heads mate.
I dont really like the idea of drinking it very much.
Brothers and sister:
Not much we can really do. Yeah. I guess you put your life in their hands really.
Mark Horstman:
This is the Wivenhoe Dam, where much of south-east Queensland gets its drinking water from, and its at the centre of the recycled water debate. Now as you can see right now its only about a third full. And even though theres up to one hundred million litres of pure water thats ready to be pumped into here every day, while theres public opposition to the plan, the waters just not going to flow.
Heavy rains have eased the drought, and topped up the water supplies. So the government decided to add recycled water to the dam only in emergencies for now.
Dr Helen Stratton:
Its not about switching it on or off. I think we need to make the decision to do it or not to do it. The government has agreed that it's a safe process.
And thats the key issue. The treatment plant has to reduce viruses by at least a billion times, or in mathematical terms, by log 9.
Prof. Peter Collignon:
To achieve safety from a viral point of view weve got to get to log 9 or more.
To put it another way, the chance that a virus is left behind is one in a billion.
Prof. Peter Collignon:
If we look at log 9 which is a billion-fold reduction that represents a 99.9999999 reduction. In other words
Mark Horstman:
percent reduction?
Prof. Peter Collignon:
percent reduction. Which sounds very impressive. But thats the sort of reduction we have to achieve all the time.
Thats exactly why at the advanced treatment plant, they monitor the performance of each stage every second.
Troy Walker:
This is one of our critical control points for the plants. It gives us an idea of how intact the membranes are, it gives us a guarantee.
Mark Horstman:
What happens if theres a tear in the membrane, and it goes above a certain level?
Troy Walker: If this level goes above our critical level, it will raise an alarm, and shut the plant down.
Mark Horstman:
Troy Walker:
Even if the alarms do go off, any lingering viruses or toxics still have to get past a lethal combination of hydrogen peroxide and ultraviolet radiation.
Keith Davies:
The intensity of the UV is somewhere around 300 times that of the sun. This is a very similar technology to whats used in the medical industry for sterilisation.
Mark Horstman:
What can survive?
Keith Davies:
Nothing can survive this.
What they have to achieve is the national target for recycled water safety thats log 9.5 reduction of viruses. Data provided to Catalyst show they can, removing viruses even up to log 12.
Mark Horstman:
If theyre meeting that target, is that OK?
Prof Peter Collignon: Well, I would be reassured by that because a lot of the other plants havent even achieved that. But I still think theres a problem even with those guidelines. They run on 95 percentiles. Now again, that means one in 20 may not meet it. To me, thats not stringent enough.
Thats why Queensland legislation requires the safety target to be met 100 percent of the time, and reported if they dont.
John Bradley:
The science speaks for itself. Theres no doubt that this can be a safe and reliable source of drinking water supply, but there is a way to go to actually convince the community of the evidence thats before them.
Dr Helen Stratton:
The waters safe and its safe beyond doubt and that theres safety checks in place to know if it wasnt going to be safe.
- Reporter: Mark Horstman
- Producer: Mark Horstman
- Researcher: Dr Holly Trueman
- Camera: Colin Hertzog
Kevin May
- Sound: Scott Taylor
Steve Ravich
- Editor: Andrew Glover
Story Contacts
Dr Helen Stratton
Environment microbiologist
School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences
Griffith University
Nathan Campus, Brisbane
Prof Peter Collignon
Clinical microbiologist / infectious diseases physician
School of Medicine
Australian National University, Canberra
Keith Davies
CEO, WaterSecure
(formerly Western Corridor Recycled Water Project)
Troy Walker
Technical Manager
John Bradley
CEO, Queensland Water Commission
Related Info
Test results - Interim Water Quality Report, Qld Water Commission
Toowoomba water referendum Catalyst 2006
Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008, Queensland
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26 Apr 2009 10:08:19pm-
The Bligh Government has introduced a new law and has passed legislation that absolves the Government, water service providers and operators in the event of any health damages associated with consuming recycled sewage. This is just another demonstration of utter contempt that this Government has for the people they are being paid well to supposedly represent. In view of the fact the government and their manufactured scientists have insisted that recyled sewage is 'safe' to drink and have continually given the public their assurances in regards to it's so called 'safety' why would the Government find it so necessary to introduce laws that protects them as well as the water industry players if it was so safe to drink.? And Bligh said that she wanted an open and accountable Government.
18 Mar 2009 5:54:09pm-
I liked the analogy the programme used to explain reverse osmosis membranes as more like a kidney than a sieve. However, the graphics showing how water molecules can pass through under pressure, but viruses can't, was a bit misleading, as the virus particles were only slightly larger than the water molecules. In reality the viruses are much much larger, and the true screening effect would be easier to see. This might make some people feel more reassured by the process.
14 Mar 2009 5:20:36am-
Prof. Collignon raises good points about the possibility of technological failure (primarily testing method inadequacies), but I'm sure it was no accident that you showed a rotting carcass at the dam showing what the possible inputs already are, into our current water treatment plants. If the recycled blackwater is pumped into the dam then any potential lingering contaminants would be subject to the same natural cleansing (sun UV, "good" bacteria) as the current source.
My concern is more about proteins and hormones and plastics that have not been "discovered" to have adverse effects yet and won't be monitored until they are (the unknown unknowns). Runoff pesticides from agriculture in particular spring to mind. Sure, the rivers that feed the dam probably already have them, but we are now going to be adding from another source which has collected them from all over other parts of the country. On top of that it will be added precisely at the time that we are low on "regular" dam water, which will increase concentration.
Ideally we should be building a parallel network of pipes for potable water and non-potable to be used for toilets, laundry, industry, power stations, etc. There is absolutely no sense in spending a ton of money and effort cleaning up water to the nth degree to have it power a turbine. But this will cost time and money.
At the end of the day, we are a parched country, and this "backup" system is probably as good as we can get for the money we can afford to spend.
13 Mar 2009 9:40:55pm-
Was I the only person bothered by the repeated reference to "log(9)"?
From high school maths I know log(9) is a bit less than 1 (assuming the usual base 10), not a billion.
I might have shrugged this off as all-to-common innumeracy, had Mr Collignon, who said it, not also said "Trust me Iâm an engineer is worse than trust me Iâm a doctor."
Any engineer will tell you, if you want to talk about ratios on a log scale, you use decibels. For "one part in a billion", you might say "-90dB", or even "-9 Bels", but definitely not "log(9)".
As an engineer and physicist who just ended a 9 month stay in hospital, these boluses of stupidity are heart-breakingly common in health sciences and biology.
"What's the big deal?", you ask. Well, firstly, the aim of hard science is ultimately to make accurate predictions regarding the numerical value of quantities in the future by the inference of rules describing systems (eg Conservation of Energy). After all, this is the very meaning of the phrase "to accurately predict an outcome". Engineering is the systematic application of those rules to a problem domain. Maths is foundational to all of that, so you'd better get it right. Engineers get it right, so why scoff at them?
Secondly, it seems that in the health sciences, inferring the inner workings of a system is a secondary consideration. The main aim is to, while treating the system as a "black box", relate externally observable dependent variables of the system to the independent ones, and to do so with application of probability and statistics to a sample population. This is most definitely mathematical, so you'd really better get your maths right. Moreover, reasoning in probability and statistics can require immense epistemological caution and mathematical maturity (eg http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2008/2312092.htm).
Unfortunately, it is my experience that, at least on the clinical side of health sciences (admittedly that's an extreme case), the professionals are so convinced of their own prowess on account of their large income, the "Healer Myth", and various other non-scientific reasons that they are blind to true rigorous reasoning. Rather, they scoff at it.
Bear this in mind next time you travel across a bridge, as you trust the engineers that built it , and marvel at how it works reliably, in both directions, every day of the week. Not just on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in months ending in the letter 'Y'.
07 Apr 2009 6:38:26pm-
It was annoying, I would have preferred a simple ratio so the scientifically less well endowed could follow it!
Very unbalanced treatment with dodgy science. Your point is well made!
13 Mar 2009 1:17:54pm-
Most people reacting against the use of recycled sewage water don't seem to know where their present water is coming from and what it contains. To help dispel people's concerns about drinking recycled sewage taste tests need to be ocnducted in city streets and towns. For those who will never be convinced that sewage water can be treated to drinking standard ask them to install their own water tanks and let the rest of us get on and make whatever use we want of it.
17 Mar 2009 4:02:32pm-
Taste tests are useless propaganda by politicians. It's what you can't taste that should be the concern.
13 Mar 2009 12:32:42pm-
The issue of how much energy is used and therefore greenhouse gas emissions produced from this very intense water cleaning process. It may be safe to drink but is it safe for the long term climate stability. It is a great example of a climate change adaptation action which does not also support mitigation actions.
19 Mar 2009 5:11:39pm-
I am a year 12 student doing a major assignment on this issue and find your point very interesting. Do you know of any other resources I could site to find out more about how much energy is used and greenhouse gas emissions produced from the water cleaning process? Thanks
24 Mar 2009 9:54:26pm-
This is a rapidly developing field, but there is a 2004 report by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering that offers a useful summary of the issues in water recycling, including some figures on energy consumption: www.atse.org.au/uploads/WRChap5.pdf
13 Mar 2009 11:53:42am-
The reality is that in Australia, as in any other country, re-use is an accidental fact of life for every township on a river because its water source includes the treated sewage discharged by the towns further up the river!
The technology for re-use of waste water is proven and the safeguards are built in. What is needed is courage from government, more effective communication from water authorities and a role for the community in monitoring water quality to ensure the standards are maintained.
13 Mar 2009 10:20:56am-
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13 Mar 2009 9:59:32am-
Re Recycled Water
There were tests conducted by Qld Health on crustations at low tide at Nudgee Beach,close to the sewerage outlet. The results show very high readings of radiation,origin from patients in hospitals who have been radiated.Chech out FOI Qld Health I do not know how to access this information
12 Mar 2009 10:59:19pm-
Recycled black water should be wholly used for indusrty or watering golf courses and park land. Desalination processes use similar technologies with much higher pressures to overcome the osmotic pressure across the reverse osmosis membranes. Hence if less horsepower is wholly the underlying reason for choosing black water recycling over desalination,then because of the risk factors associated with black water recyling one would need to think very hard to justify blackwater recyling.
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12 Mar 2009 9:28:24pm-
Do these filters remove proteins? Specifically, disease causing prions? vCJD. CJD CWD scrapie are all examples of this as is kuru. Proteins are smaller than viruses. Slaughterhouses wash off all sorts of scraps from animals. These will end up in our water supply. We can all do with more female hormones, testosterone is the cause of many of the worlds ills, but do we need all the other drugs in our water? LSD, DMT, all are small molecules, smaller than prions.
Why did the propaganda not address these issues? Unbalanced science is not science. Fascists putting about the BIG lie is more like it. What a waste of money!
13 Mar 2009 11:20:41am-
"Ultrafiltration membranes have a pore size of 0.01
microns while nanofiltration membranes have a pore size
of 0.001 microns. Molecules such as proteins and sugars
are in this size range. Ultrafiltration or nanofiltration can
be used to reduce the BOD of wastewater, separate oil
from wastewater and remove natural and synthetic
organics, disinfection by-products and multivalent
inorganic substances (e.g. water softening by removing
calcium and magnesium). They are also very effective at
reducing pathogens."
13 Mar 2009 7:57:12pm-
The smallest atom is hydrogen. The Bohr Radius is the average distance result you'd find if you measured how far the electron was from it's nucleus. It's 0.5 Angstroms, making the diameter 1 Angstrom. You can take this as the "width" of Hydrogen.
0.001 microns is 1 nanometre (1nm), which is 10 Angstroms. Thus, the 0.001 pore size is is only 10 times the width of hydrogen - very small.
07 Apr 2009 6:34:34pm-
Has the system been tested as to what it does not remove? Prions? Estrogens? DMT? LSD?
The program did not instil confidence that the ABC was objective and had asked questions of the science involved. Very unsatisfactory.
07 Apr 2009 6:31:05pm-
So there have been no tests on how effective this filtration is at removing prions, estrogen and the like?
And do we know why or have we been told a reason why the plant is not in operation?
How many slaughterhouses exist within the catchemnt of the filtration plant?
07 Apr 2009 7:05:44pm-
Having read the test rports and blurb attached, I see that hormones are out. This is impressive, but the lack of any mention of the prion is disturbing. It seems that no tests were done for this at all. Strangely, there were no tests for dioxins associated with chlorination, albeit mainly plastics. Were there really no tests for this item or were they identified individually?
The tests also bring into question the overall guidelines for water supply along the above lines.
25 Apr 2009 7:30:49pm-
The Government and those doing funded research for them as well as the media have insisted that recycled sewage is 'safe' to drink and have continually given the public their assurances in regards to it's 'safety' yet the Bligh Government has introduced a new law and has passed legislation that absolves the politicians, water service providers and operators in the event of any health damages associated with consuming recycled sewage. They cannot be sued, do not have to pay compensation and are therefore not accountable to the people. The onus is on the public. If it was so safe as the Government and the researchers claim why would they find it necessary to introduce new laws that protects them from lawsuits? Because they know recycled sewage has the potential to cause serious harm.
19 Dec 2010 10:31:33pm-
Sort of makes you look at crumbed lamb brains in a whole new light. Seriously, where do prions originate, no DNA within the prion itself..?


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Very quiet! Great settings, but wish it was hands free!Review by FTMama / (Posted on 9/27/2016)This pump is very, very quiet! That part was great. And I found that it suctioned to me better than the Medela pump. It has multiple settings, which is great, however, I found that I had to turn it all the way up to get the setting that worked for me, and I could've used a higher setting option. I liked the little bottle holder that it came with. However, I currently use a Freemie pump, and I think I'll end up sticking to that pump, as I find the pumps with bottles too cumbersome and awkward to use, and I almost spill milk every time I try them. Thank you to the weeSpring Parent Panel for sending me this pump to try, but I think I'll end up donating it and finding it a good home with a different mom.


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I have been waiting a long time to show the world this maxi skirt.
I found it forever ago and wear it all the time. I stumbled across this gorgeous hot pink maxi skirt at Style Lately and felt inspired to copy the outfit and make a tribal print hippie headband.
Not only do I enjoy this bright, breezy outfit, but the photo is amazing as well. Doesn't it remind you of hot afternoons filled with parades and fireworks and festivals?
The clothing and accessories used to make my version of this outfit were all purchased at Goodwill Outlet Center for less than ten dollars.
tutorial here) with an empty shell - also from one of those blue bins.
Tank top, Hollister
Skirt, Grace Elements
Sandals, American Eagle Outfitters
Headband, made by me
Necklace, made by me


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LOS ANGELES (KABC) --The Dodgers kept their World Series hopes alive with a crucial 3-1 win over the Astros in Tuesday's Game 6, sending the series to a final deciding matchup before the home crowd Wednesday.
Los Angeles is hoping for its first World Series win since 1988, while Houston is seeking its first-ever.
"It's going to be a hard-fought game," Chris Taylor said in a postgame interview. "Every one of these games has been a battle and I expect the same tomorrow."
Game 7 starts at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said playing in the final deciding game of a World Series is what every baseball player dreams about when he's a kid.
"I've never been part of a Game 7," Roberts said after the game. "So this is when you're a young kid and you're trying to play through all the heroes and heroics and talking about a Game 7 in the World Series: Here we are."
"We're happy to be at home. Tonight was very energetic, exciting. We love being in front of our fans."
Game 6 started with a little less firepower than the epic Game 5 that saw a combined 25 runs, including seven home runs, in 10 innings.
The Dodgers' scoring Tuesday started in the sixth inning with an RBI single by Chris Taylor and a sacrifice fly by Corey Seager.
A solo home run by Joc Pederson off Joe Musgrove put the Dodgers up 3-1 in the seventh.
Do you like that #JOCPOP?! #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/fF4VHye0OP— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) November 1, 2017
Rich Hill started on the mound for the Dodgers, but manager Dave Roberts pulled him with the bases loaded and two outs in the fifth. Hill had given up Brian McCann's leadoff single and Marwin Gonzalez's ensuing double, but then struck out Josh Reddick and Justin Verlander to get to the brink of escaping the jam.
Instead, Roberts ordered an intentional walk for George Springer and then came out to pull Hill, who appeared to turn his back on the manager. Hill then went to the dugout and furiously swatted cups off the Dodgers' cooler, sending them flying.
But reliever Brandon Morrow, pitching for the sixth time in eight days, calmly ended the rally with a groundout from Alex Bregman. Morrow has appeared in all but one of the Dodgers' 14 postseason games, and he was battered in Game 5 in Houston.
Kenley Jansen closed out the game in the ninth.
The team said the home crowd's energy fueled them.
"We feed off the crowd for sure, especially at home," Taylor said. "We feel we have a huge home-field advantage. We love it when the crowd gets loud."
The crowd did get loud, especially when Yuli Gurriel came out.
Dodger Stadium ferociously booed the Houston first baseman during pregame introductions, and it got much louder during his first at-bat in the second inning. Dodgers starter Rich Hill even stepped off the rubber before his first pitch to Gurriel, allowing the booing to increase.
The choruses of boos only changed into a raucous cheer when Gurriel fouled out.
Dodgers fans clearly were disgusted by Gurriel's behavior during Game 3 in Houston. While speaking with teammates, the Cuban made a blatantly racist gesture and used an offensive Spanish term to refer to Los Angeles starter Yu Darvish, who is Japanese.
Gurriel apologized in a statement afterward, but wasn't suspended by MLB until the regular season of 2018.
Joc Pederson said the team has to be careful not to be too caught up in hype and tension in Game 7.
"You dream about that as a kid," Pederson said after Game 6. "I think it's going to be big for me and all of us to just remember it's still a baseball game. You gotta slow it down, still play the same way that we've been playing all year that got us to here and try to limit the distractions."
When Pederson addressed the media after the game he brought his older brother Champ, who has Down syndrome, up on the podium with him.
Champ Pederson has been a frequent presence in the Dodger clubhouse and threw out the first pitch when his younger brother was honored with a bobblehead in a regular season game this year.
"He keeps me humble and just makes me realize that it's just a baseball game and there's a lot more to life," Joc Pederson said. "He always has a smile on his face even through stressful situations. I'm thankful to have him in my life."
I couldn't be prouder of this @Dodgers team. Last game tomorrow, let's close this series out! Go Blue! #ThisTeam— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) November 1, 2017
The Dodgers brought out some star power before the game.
Throwing out the ceremonial first balls were longtime manager Tommy Lasorda and former ace Orel Hershiser. The 90-year-old Lasorda, a lefty who pitched for Brooklyn, underhanded his toss home. Lasorda was the skipper and Hershiser was the ace when the Dodgers won their last championship in 1988.
Legendary retired Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully was also spotted in a box suite and Sandy Koufax was in the stands.
We are all Sandy Koufax. #ThisTeam pic.twitter.com/XLQPHFJgDa— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) November 1, 2017
Waving big blue flags on top of the Dodgers' dugout were Ashton Kutcher and wife Mila Kunis. On top of the Astros' first base dugout were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rob Lowe.
Other celebs in the crowd included television hosts Mary Hart and Larry King.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
For complete coverage of the Los Angeles Dodgers, visit abc7.com/dodgers.


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This blog was conceived and founded by Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen to be shared and developed by colleagues at UCL Scandinavian Studies and the members of the Nordic Noir Book Club in London. The Book Club was founded in 2010 as a forum for readers to come together and share their thoughts and passions for Scandinavian crime fiction and Nordic cultures. Since then we have enjoyed talks and readings by authors such as Haakan Nesser, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Gunnar Staalesen, Sissel-Jo Gazan, Jussi Adler Olsen and discussed the importance of volcanic activities, snowy landscapes and the Øresund Bridge in Nordic Noir novels and TV series.
If you have an interest in Scandinavian crime fiction and in Scandinavian contemporary cultures more generally, you are invited to join our blog discussions and the events we organise in London. The book club is run by staff and students in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at University College London (UCL). Write to firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com for more information.
At the top of the blog page you can find links to pages dedicated to past Book Club Events (Silence in the Snow, featuring Håkan Nesser, and Secrets in the Ash featuring Yrsa Sigurðardóttir etc). We have links to podcasts from the events, which can also be accessed from our iTunes feed. If you are unable to join us live, you can listen to the discussion from home and post your thoughts on the blog. Podcasts from the events are available on iTunes.
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A surprisingly strategic action game.
This was the first game I made while I was at university. The gameplay is simple – you spawn units from your side of the screen. The objective is to get your troops past your opponent for bonus points. To win you need to get a wizard unit past your adversary, usually through cunning or by using a points advantage. It was based on a game called Wizard Battle made by Foppy.
The story is that Wizard Battle was a "one switch" game, meaning the controls consist of only one button, thus allowing impaired people to play it. The downside to this was that it tired my fingers out during competitive games with friends. I figured that a touchscreen mobile variant of the game would allow for playing on the go. So a few months and a lot of coding, Wizard Conflict was released for iOS. I'm quite amazed that it still runs perfectly on the newest iPads four years after release. It was written in C++ using a simple game engine I made on top of SDL, OpenGL and CocosDenshion for audio playback.
In 2012 Foppy followed up with a sequel to Wizard Battle, namely Wizard Battle 2. It's available on Google Play and Kongregate. I recommend giving it a try, but think the original PC game had more charm.


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Baccarat Beauchene Short Stem Crystal Liquor Cocktail Glass Set of 2
Product Description
Vintage elegant Baccarat Liquor Cocktail or Cordial glasses. Beauchene pattern with short footed ball stem and swirl angle cuts on flared bowl. You work hard, you deserve to have a cocktail at night. Spoil yourself by drinking that cocktail in a beautiful Baccarat crystal glass. A touch of glamour makes your cocktail taste better.
Made in France from 1951-1961.
Set of 2. Size: 2 7/8" wide by 3 5/8" tall
Condition: Vintage, excellent
Care: Hold by stem, carry one glass at a time, hand wash in warm soapy water one at a time, dry with lint free towel. Type a description for this product here...


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Must not buy... the Super Mario Bros cardigan
Are you a Super Mario Brothers fan? Have you got a spare £280 lying around in a drawer somewhere? If so, you could afford to buy yourself a Nintendo Wii and at least three games starring your pixelated plumber heroes.
Or, if you've already got all that stuff (and if you're a true Mario Bros fan, then you definitely have), why not use that £280 to get yourself one of these snazzy zip-up cardigans with Mario and Luigi all over the front?
Go on – you'll be the talk of the psychological unit…
10 comments
- John S.Looks absolutely shite.
- lightning101It's the tartan trousers I fancy.
- lightning101Actually £280 in "1985" by my estimates, that's about £1200 now
- test^^^ how bright is your monitor?!?!!
- bobbbbyAnd why was he looking at his crotch???
- Paul C.Where's the knitting pattern for it? My mum made me a Roland Rat one when I was a nipper - I'm sure she'd be able to knock something similar up. Perhaps a couple of Bullet Bill's on the lapels and a Lakitu shoulder pad. Failing that - cheap cardie, some Fluffits and a hairdryer.
- PokeHerPeteDo you guys have a free delivery code?
- Mike U.The guy looks a right tit, complete with stupid grin
- David d.He's a right scruffy c*nt.
- PokeHerPeteYeah, he looks like his clothing is from a charity shop. He doesn't look like hes wearing a £280 jumper.


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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Giveaway and discount code!
42 comments :
- Kimberly Rendino said...
So glad to hear the treatment is going well so far!!! What a great giveaway too!
- November 15, 2012 8:22 PM
- gRiSeL™ said...
Oh wow, didn't know about that, Shari! Praying for your health and that the LORD heals and restores it soon!!! *hugs*
- November 15, 2012 8:26 PM
- Kathy/NorthCarolina said...
Hi, Shari...glad you are nipping the skin cancer in the bud. My husband has had two cancerous spots removed...better to get it now! Hang in there! Thanks for the great discount and giveaway!!
- November 15, 2012 8:56 PM
- Denise Bryant said...
Shari, best of luck on your treatment plan! Sounds like it's going well!
Thanks for the chance at the fab giveaway!
- November 15, 2012 9:54 PM
- Barb said...
I'm glad to hear your treatment doesn't sound too painful - at least I hope it's not! Thinking of you and sending big hugs!
- November 15, 2012 9:57 PM
- cutiephinphin said...
Best of luck on your treatment!
Thanks for the giveaway. Love Kerri's designs.
- November 15, 2012 10:47 PM
- Karen said...
Good for you with early detection! I lost my mother-in-law to skin cancer. Take care of yourself.
- November 16, 2012 12:28 AM
hi Shari
thanks for the opportunity!!
it's amazing what a little cream can do....it gets better pretty fast and you'll have beautiful skin again :) take care! stephV
- November 16, 2012 1:43 AM
Hi Shari so happy to hear it works..hope you are not in pain now......
Thanks for chance to this great giveaway.
- November 16, 2012 2:43 AM
- Annette Vesth said...
Thank you for an opportunity to win. Hope you will soon be allright.
- November 16, 2012 2:45 AM
- Dawn said...
Thanks for the chance to win. My hubby had a course of Aldra ( a similiar product) and looked horrid while it was working but then his skin was so good afterwards... so hang in there! Better to be safe.
- November 16, 2012 3:15 AM
- joy said...
Thanks for the giveaway, Shari! This product has shown very good results for a lot of people; hope it does the same for you! Happy Thanksgiving, Shari.
- November 16, 2012 3:20 AM
- Maureen Chandler said...
All the best to you Shari - glad to hear that the treatments are going well (my sister is going through this too). Thanks so much for the great giveaway too!
- November 16, 2012 5:32 AM
- Michelle said...
Shari, I am so glad the treatment is working for you. What a horrible, scary thing to have to go through. Big BIG Hugs mama!
- November 16, 2012 6:52 AM
- Barb said...
Thanks for the opportunity to win the gift certificate. Know that you are in my prayers and thoughts as you are going through this procedure. Best wishes for a successful outcome. Thinking of you!!
- November 16, 2012 6:53 AM
- Rebecca Lovell said...
Thank you so much for the chance to win the gc! My husband has had to use that medication too, but fortunately only on a small area of his his face. I'm praying for you, honey!
- November 16, 2012 8:14 AM
- SueZee Alg said...
Best of luck to you. I'll keep you in my prayers. Thanks for the giveaway.
- November 16, 2012 9:11 AM
- Lillian Child said...
It's so amazing how far we've come in the medical world for cancer treatments ... praying this works for you! HUGS!
- November 16, 2012 10:38 AM
- Dana D. said...
Best of luck to you Shari with this treatment. Thanks for the terrific giveaway.
- November 16, 2012 10:51 AM
- RedGem said...
I wasn't aware of any health issues you were going through, but I will definitely pray that this treatment works. Thanks also for the giveaway. Big hugs and lots of love!
- November 16, 2012 11:23 AM
- Kristen said...
Thanks for the giveaway and update on your treatment. I've been thinking of you.
- November 16, 2012 11:43 AM
- Mary-Anne V said...
Thank you for the chance to win. Hope your treatment brings you some relief.
- November 16, 2012 12:47 PM
- Barbara said...
I've been thinking about you and this new treatment. I just this week have had a place removed from leg which may be Basel Cell Skin Cancer! My husband has fairer skin than I do and has had many pre-cancerous, as well as cancerous spots removed. It's so important to stay on the alert, especially if there is a good chance of sun damage, which can lead to some of these cancers! This cream sounds like a very good idea and I'll ask my dermatologist about it! Thanks for sharing your treatment which may help others who are not aware of this problem!
- November 16, 2012 1:05 PM
- bryansgyrl said...
I hope all goes well with your treatment. Thank you for the opportunity to win! :)
- November 16, 2012 1:33 PM
- Kathy Rosecrans said...
Thank you for the chance to win some goodies, but more importantly, I'm thrilled that the cream seems to be working!! Praying for you...!
- November 16, 2012 1:58 PM
- Kyle4143 said...
I wish you well! Good luck with the treatment! I'll keep you in my thoughts! You are too kind to be thinking of blog treats!
- November 16, 2012 3:32 PM
- Carole said...
Good luck with the treatment, it sounds like it will work well! After applying, try a little bit of crafting.....it'll make you feel a whole lot better! Sending hugs. C x
- November 16, 2012 3:33 PM
- Mary J said...
:( So sorry to hear what you've been through and I have everything crossed that things will be 100% better soon!
Big big hugs
Mary x
- November 16, 2012 3:56 PM
- Paulette S said...
How nice of Kari, especially in this poor economy. Happy Holiday Crafting to you Shari. Glad your treatment is going good.
- November 16, 2012 4:04 PM
- brenda said...
So glad to hear the cream is working and I'll say a prayer that it continues to work! Thanks for the chance to win some Kerri goodies - love her stuff!
- November 16, 2012 4:04 PM
- TenSGal said...
Thanks so much for the giveaway! and thank to the fabulous Kerri, too! Love, love, love her designs and my Cameo is begging me to shop in her store! :)
Glad to hear you cream is working...I had to have a skin cancer removed from my arm...it was a teeny spot and I ended up with a huge scar in order for the MD to get clean margins! Yikes! I'm so careful about sunscreen now...let me tell you!
- November 16, 2012 4:39 PM
- ~ Jo ~ said...
Wow what a great giveway!!! I'd love to be able to be that lucky to win! And very happy to hear that the cream is working and I will keep you in my prayers that it continues to work and that you continue feel more comfortable!
- November 16, 2012 4:48 PM
- Cindy C. said...
So glad to hear that your treatment is going well Shari! Hugs!
- November 16, 2012 7:47 PM
- Linda R. said...
Sending prayers and good wishes your way. Hope things continue to go well!
- November 16, 2012 8:42 PM
- Jean said...
Thinking of you as you continue your treatment. Love the card over at LYB. Thank you for a chance to win!
- November 17, 2012 8:36 AM
I am loving your newest card on the LYB blog. You love their patterned papers as much as me. That santa is a must have. Bet Ms. Bradford carries it.......... Glad you are abiding with the treatment. All will clear after treatments.
- November 17, 2012 12:45 PM
- jenway9 said...
Just wanted to say I love your work! In fact I am using one of your card designs for my Christmas card.
- November 17, 2012 1:01 PM
- Tania said...
All the best with your treatment, and sending prayers your way.
- November 17, 2012 3:27 PM
- teepee said...
Glad the treatment is helping. Looking forward to the giveaway. Love Kerri's designs and would love to win the gift certificate. All the best for Thanksgiving.
- November 17, 2012 5:05 PM
- Trina said...
I'm glad the treatment cream is working. Thanks for the chance to win!
- November 17, 2012 6:17 PM
- Teresa W. said...
So glad to know the treatment is going great. Thanks for the giveaway. Have a great week.
- November 18, 2012 12:58 PM
Thanks for keeping us up to date with you. Glad things are looking better. Thanks for the chance to win a GC to the wonderful KB store
- November 18, 2012 7:07 PM


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Charlotte Carey, dressed in Chanel, is featured in StyleBy's latest editorial, showcasing Chanel's dreamy makeup. Photographer, Benjamin Vnuk, artfully frames Charlotte's delicate features, showcasing the makeup line's pink and red hues, while perfectly complimenting Charlotte's new red locks.
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text: Huron Ð Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced a sign-up for the Conservation Security Program (CSP) that will be available starting on April 18 to approximately 64,000 potentially eligible farms and ranches in 51 watersheds covering more than 23.7 million acres. "As President Bush has said, those who depend on the land to make a living are the best stewards of the land," said Schafer. "Since the first sign-up in 2004, CSP has offered payments for enhancing natural resources, rewarding those farmers and ranchers who are model conservationists, and providing incentives for other producers to achieve those same high standards of conservation in agriculture." The CSP sign-up is open to two South Dakota watersheds from April 18 to May 16. The sign-up announcement and specific program requirements are being published in the Federal Register. South Dakota CSP watersheds include the Middle James Watershed (Hydrologic Unit #10160006) in eastern South Dakota and a portion of the Beaver Watershed (Hydrologic Unit #10120107) that crosses over from Wyoming. The Middle James Watershed sub-basin is 2,292,100 acres in East Central South Dakota. The watershed is located in portions of Beadle, Brown, Clark, Day, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn, and Spink counties. The sub-basin is over 95 percent privately owned. The Beaver Watershed, located in southwestern South Dakota, includes portions of Custer, Fall River, and Pennington counties. CSP is a voluntary conservation program that supports ongoing stewardship of private, agricultural working lands and rewards those producers who are meeting the highest standards of conservation and environmental management on their operations. Payments can include three components: 1) an annual stewardship component for the base level of conservation treatment, 2) an annual component for maintenance of existing conservation practices, and 3) an enhancement component for exceptional conservation effort. Enhancement activities could include limited pesticide applications, renewable energy generation, and widening existing riparian forest buffers for restoring critical stream habitat. To apply for CSP, NRCS asks potential participants to complete a CSP self-assessment workbook-available on the Web or from local NRCS offices-to find out if their operation meets the requirements of the program and qualifies for program participation. The self-assessment process is completed using a self-screening questionnaire for each land use to be enrolled. When this process is completed, the producer submits the CSP workbook to the local NRCS office during the sign-up period and meets with NRCS personnel to go over any additional needed documentation. NRCS will then determine if eligibility requirements are met and provide options for the producer's decision on enrollment category placement. NRCS held the first CSP sign-up in 2004. Today's announcement brings the number of watersheds enrolled to 331 across the nation, covering 247.7 million acres. Additional information on CSP, including eligible watersheds and a CSP self-assessment workbook is available at http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/csp; or for more information, go to http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/.


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The Force Geophysical Methods Group has the pleasure to invite you to the first geophysical lunch seminar of 2014.
Charles Jones (BG) will speak on Full Waveform Inversion, and Gaynor Patton (ffA geosciences) will speak on Volume Interpretation. This seminar should be of interest to all geophysicists in the Stavanger area.
After the talks lunch will be served.


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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Shane and Shane Concert
This Friday, September 11th, at 7:00pm Shane and Shane along with Phillip Larue will be in concert at Lee University. Tickets are $10 in advance and for all students with college I.D, and $15 at the door. All proceeds go to benefit Contact Helpline. I hope to see everyone there! If you would like more information on tickets or directions, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Originally from Toronto, Kinton Ramen is a popular Japanese ramen bar located in Gangnam. Kinton Ramen prides itself on serving the best quality noodles and broth. Their ramen chefs prepare each and every topping with only the freshest quality ingredients.
Their ramen menu includes Pork, Chicken and Vegetarian options.
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text: Blue dyes were especially valued because, compared with red or yellow, blue shades were not as common in plants. The blue dye was harvested from the Indigofera tinctoria. The fresh leaves of this indigo producing plant are at first colorless, But after fermentation under alkaline conditions followed by oxidation, the blue color appears. Indican, indigoton's parent molecule contains an attached glucose unit. Fermentation of Indican splits off the glucose unit which produces the indoxol/indigoton molecule. Indican is initially colorless, but after it goes through the fermentation process and turns into indiogoton, the color changes to blue. The same is true for alizarin, and crocetin. Initially, they are colorless, but after a chemical reaction the gain their color. (Le Couteur & Burreson 162-180)


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Parents Who Need a Bike Trailer and Stroller Can Now Get Two-for-One
More and more millennials are embracing an active, car-free lifestyle. Many of them are also at the age where they're becoming parents. It was once thought that having kids meant having to go out and buy a four-door vehicle, but today's millennial parents are proving that assumption false, investing in child bike trailers instead. Now, parents who need a bike trailer and a stroller can find both in a much cooler package: the stroller bike.
Stroller bikes are a relatively new product on the market, with the (now-defunct) Taga Bike and the Wike Salamander being the two that stand out. The Canadian-made Salamander recently made international headlines when it took home the EUROBIKE Gold Award. It probably won't before these bikes become a common sight in bike-friendly cities.
What exactly is a stroller bike? In short, it's a combo between a stroller and a classic, Dutch-style bike with an attached child bike trailer, designed to convert from bike-mode to stroller-mode as the rider moves indoors from the street. The design makes it much easier to bike to the store with your kids in tow, since you don't have take them out of their seat or to deal with locking the bike up. Both are definite advantages for active parents, especially if you live in a bike theft hot-spot like I do (and I would definitely be paranoid about leaving a sleek thing like this chained up outside!)
While this model is built with children in mind, I could see myself using a Salamander stroller bike for other purposes as well. Since the child seat is removable, the bucket-style trailer would work great as a shopping cart. And there's nothing stopping you from using it as a doggie stroller (except perhaps dignity).
The Salamander retails for a hefty $5,000, but the price makes sense relative to other specialty bicycles. Right now, stroller bikes are brand-new and primarily marketed towards hardcore bike enthusiasts. But as more parents who need a bike trailer and stroller become aware of this option, and the Salamander's competitors catch on, I expect Wike to roll out a range of models at different price points (as they have for their bike trailers.)


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The Acting Commisioner has urged the public to stay off London's streets and called on parents to contact their children.
Police are tackling fresh violence as the riots spread into new areas of London and outside the capital for the first time, with disturbances in Birmingham and reports of trouble in Leeds.
Buildings and vehicles have been set on fire in Lewisham, Deptford, Peckham and Croydon.
There have been street clashes in Hackney in east London with youths attacking police vehicles with sticks.
Prime minister, David Cameron is returning to the UK from his holiday in Italy to chair a meeting of the Government's emergency committee Cobra.
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Herwig Kempinger has been elected new president of the Secession after president András Pálffy had resigned after three terms at the general assembly of the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession.
Alongside the president, members of the board of the Secession are now Carola Dertnig, Andreas Fogarasi, Bettina Götz, Anna Jermolaewa, Susi Jirkuff, Ursula Mayer, Christoph Meier, Florian Pumhösl, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Markus Schinwald, Esther Stocker and Maja Vukoje.
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Note> For the most recent schedule of dates for 2008 and 2009, please visit the First Time Home Buyer class page at my website. Classes will be held in Montgomery County, DC, Arlington, and elsewhere in Northern Virginia.
I am scheduled to teach another "First Time Home Buyer" seminar in Montgomery County on October 23. Please invite your friends and colleagues who currently rent to join me for this session where we will cover a recap of the market, current trends and market stats including days on market, average sales prices, and inventory levels. We'll also discuss the impact of the banking system collapse and bailout, the home purchase process and common pitfalls, financing basics (including interest rates, points, fees, and closing costs), and a how to get started checklist. Details are as follows:
Thursday, October 23rd (DATE CHANGED FROM PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED Oct 16)
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Location: 930 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
Metro: Red Line/Silver Spring
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As you may see, I disagree totally & violently with your belief in making concessions in writing. One concession leads to another—& he who takes the easiest way never comes back. They all say they mean to come back some day—but they never do. Belknap is gone. If Sultan Malik ever pulls out of charlatanry it will be purely the individual & non-representative triumph of a singularly keen objective intellect. Abe Merritt—who could have been a Machen or Blackwood or Dunsany or de la Mare or M. R. James (they never gave in & truckled to the Golden Calf! . . . . why should one if he can get food & decent clothing & warmth & shelter in any less ignominious way?) if he had but chosen—is so badly sunk that he's lost the critical faculty to realise it. And so on—& so on. The road does not lie through any magazines . . . . that is, the road for a fantastic writer. The "slicks" are just as tawdry & insincere as the "pulps"—with merely a different kind of tawdriness & insincerity—& the reputable magazines (Harpers, Scribners, Story &c.) virtually never handle fantasy. The road to print for the serious fantaisiste is through book-publication alone—save for those incidental magazine placements which lie along the way. And if one can't make the book grade in the end, he is better off with his work largely unpublished—able to look himself in the face & know that he has never cringed nor truckled nor sold his intellectual & aesthetic integrity. He may go down, but he'll go down like a free & unbroken gentleman with sword untarnished & colours defiantly flying. Britons never shall be slaves! Actually, all technical training for the popular magazines is in precisely the wrong direction so far as aesthetic expression is concerned. The better magazine hack one is, the less chance one has of ever doing anything worth doing. Every magazine trick & mannerism must be rigidly unlearned & banished even from one's subconsciousness before one can write seriously for educated mental adults. That's why Merritt is lost—he learned the trained-dog tricks too well, & now he can't think & feel fictionally except in terms of the meaningless & artificial clichés of 2¢-a-word romance. Machen & Dunsany & James would not learn the tricks—& they have a record of genuine creative achievement beside which a whole library-full of cheap "Ships of Ishtar" & "Creep, Shadows" remains essentially negligible. It is much better never to have anything published than to cringe to cheap tradesmen—yet in practice the determined anti-concessionist often lands a story. True, he doesn't land as many as the truckler lands—but that was never his object. He wrote what he wrote because he wanted to write it—& the feat of mood-crystallisation itself was its own reward. If he had merely written what some grasping editorial clown wanted, where would his satisfaction have been? When it comes to a question of industrial production to suit a market demand, it's rather more dignified to let the commodity be something staple & useful—wheat, oranges, coal, furniture, & so on—than to let one's production-programme mock & parody the basic human impulse of aesthetic creation.
DESCRIPTION: In a letter to fellow writer C. L. Moore, Lovecraft argues that writers should, for the sake of their artistic and intellectual integrity, remain true to their own aesthetic vision instead of making concessions to the demands of editors and the public they represent.
CITATION: Lovecraft, H. P. "To C. L. Moore." 7 Feb. 1937. Letters to C. L. Moore and Others. Edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, Hippocampus Press, 2017, pp. 205-23.


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Beautiful sunny day with blue sky.
Behind me is beautiful Restaurant and Cafe that build on the water.Looks so special.
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These pictures were taken right after they were all set apart. President Todd Stubbs, the Stake President, is next to John, then Bishop Bo Harrison, and Scott Robertson. Yes, Bishop is young! He's only 32. It's funny to hear the older generation talk about "these young kids" leading the ward. I think it will be a great thing for Green River's Ward. :)
Melinda was nice enough to snap these pictures and take a family picture for us.
John had to go to a meeting, (Lol--it's already begun) and the kids weren't quite ready to be done with the picture taking. The girls and I together.
Then Zander wanted one of just him and his mom. Sure do love you buddy!
Grandma Hughes wanted a four generation picture. Grandma, Thomas, Michaela, and Kaylee. Michaela was not excited about it since she had just gotten off work, but was a good sport anyway and humored her grandma. :)
John's suits had to be altered, so he wasn't able to wear one the week he got put in. They came the next week, so Nov. 24th, he got to wear his suit to church. He wanted the one with the vest, and I love it! He looks so good. :)
Sure do love you babe! You're going to do great at this calling!


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Urgent and emergency care
Urgent and emergency care
This section describes work on urgent and emergency care being undertaken by various NHS organisations. This follows problems in late 2012 and early 2013 with the introduction of the NHS 111 telephone service and rising use of accident and emergency departments by patients.
PSNC promoted community pharmacy's role in tacking the challenges in urgent and emergency care at the main party political conferences in Autumn 2013. The flyer below was used in the lobbying of the main political parties, but it can also be used by LPCs at a local level.
PSNC flyer on Urgent and Emergency Care (PDF)
NHS England review
At the beginning of 2013, NHS England announced a wide ranging review of the model of urgent and emergency services in England to improve these services in the future. The review, led by Sir Bruce Keogh, looked at how emergency care is currently provided, how it works with other NHS areas such as GP surgeries, community care and NHS 111, and assessing transfer processes.
The review aimed to set out proposals for the best way of organising care to meet the need of patients and to develop a national framework to ensure high quality consistent standards of care. The review is part of plans to offer more seven day healthcare services and NHS England wants to improve public understanding of the best place to go for care. Local commissioning is seen to be at the heart of the review and the proposals will support Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in shaping services for the future.
Detailed information on the review, including the proposals in the End of Phase 1 Report is available in PSNC Briefings 093/13 and 110/13 (see links at the bottom of the page).
A brief update on the work of the review team was published in August 2014.
NHS England and Monitor also published a discussion document on reimbursement of urgent and emergency care in August 2014. This considered options for reform of the way urgent and emergency care providers are paid, including a proposal for the use of a fixed element of core funding with additional volume and quality related funding. While this approach was largely focussed on changing the way hospital trusts are paid, the document also suggested the approach could be applied to primary care providers such as community pharmacies and GP practices.
Read PSNC's response to the Monitor/NHS England consultation
Winter Pressures Funding
With over 1 million more people visiting A&E compared to 3 years ago, 2012's harsh winter put exceptional pressure on urgent and emergency wards. In early August 2013 the Prime Minister announced the release of new funding for A&E departments identified as being under the most pressure, with £250m being released this year and a similar amount being made available next financial year.
In early September 2013, Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, set out proposals to fundamentally tackle increasing pressures on A&E services in the long-term – starting with care for vulnerable older people with complex health problems.
He said fundamental changes mean joined-up care – spanning GPs, social care, and A&E departments – overseen by a named GP. Many vulnerable older people end up in A&E simply because they cannot get the care and support they need anywhere else.
Overall, the number of people going to A&E departments in England has risen by 32 per cent in the past decade, and by one million each year since 2010. The over-65s represent 17 per cent of the population, but 68 per cent of NHS emergency bed use. They also represent some of the NHS's most vulnerable patients, and those most at risk from failures to provide seamless care.
In the announcement the Health Secretary set out how £250 million would be used by 53 NHS Trusts this winter.
Of the £250 million:
- Around £62 million for additional capacity in hospitals – for example extra consultant A&E cover over the weekend so patients with complex needs will continue to get high-quality care;
- Around £57 million for community services – for example better community end of life care and hospices;
- Around £51 million for improving the urgent care services – for example for patients with long-term conditions;
- Around £25 million for primary care services – for example district nursing, to provide care for patients in their home, preventing them from being admitted to A&E;
- Around £16 million for social care – for example integrating health and social care teams to help discharge elderly patients earlier and prevent readmission and;
- Around £9 million for other measures – for example to help the ambulance service and hospitals work better together.
How community pharmacy can help
Community pharmacies can have an important role in managing demand for urgent and emergency care services and diverting patients away from A&E. In late November 2013, NHS England worked with PSNC, two LPCs, and representatives from a number of other organisations to collaboratively develop a collection of resources to help local commissioners to make better use of community pharmacies to support healthcare provision during the winter months. The documents were updated in November 2014.
Community Pharmacy – helping provide better quality and resilient urgent care provides a range of suggestions for how local commissioners (CCGs and local NHS England Teams) could make better use of community pharmacies. It includes detailed proposals for three services – 'flu vaccination, emergency supplies of medicines and provision of self-care support for winter ailments – that commissioners could consider using locally.
Implementation plans and associated template documents have been developed for each of these suggested services, in order to facilitate rapid commissioning where a need is identified locally. NHS England and PSNC have also agreed suggested payments to community pharmacies for provision of these three services.
The Prime Minister's GP Access Fund
In October 2013, the Prime Minister announced the £50m Access Fund to support GP practices to trial new and innovative ways of delivering GP services and making services more accessible to patients.
Twenty sites were awarded money from the Fund in April 2014 and a number of the sites include community pharmacy within the proposed developments. PSNC supported networking and information sharing between the LPCs in those areas. Further information on the Prime Minister's GP Access Fund can be found by clicking here.
Role and establishment of urgent and emergency care networks
In June 2015, NHS England published Role and establishment of urgent and emergency care networks, which forms part of a suite of guidance documents and tools entitled Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England. These documents promote best practice and support commissioners and providers in achieving a fundamental shift towards new ways of working and models of care.
Urgent and Emergency Care Networks are based on the geographies required to give strategic oversight of urgent and emergency care on a regional footprint, ensuring that patients with more serious or life threatening emergencies receive treatment in centres with the right facilities and expertise, while also ensuring that individuals can have their urgent care needs met locally by services as close to home as possible.
System Resilience Groups (SRGs) will retain responsibility for ensuring the effective delivery of urgent care in their area, in coordination with an overall urgent and emergency care strategy agreed through the regional Urgent and Emergency Care Network.
The networks will cover populations of between 1 million and 5 million. Their purpose being to improve the consistency and quality of urgent and emergency care by bringing together SRGs and other stakeholders to address challenges in the urgent and emergency care system that are difficult for single SRGs to address in isolation. This will include coordinating, integrating and overseeing care and setting shared objectives for the Network where there is clear advantage in achieving commonality for delivery of efficient patient care (e.g. ambulance protocols, NHS 111 services, clinical decision support and access protocols to specialist services such as those for heart attack, stroke, major trauma, vascular surgery and critically ill children).
The Urgent and Emergency Care Network should ensure appropriate representation from key organisations across the network geography, whilst maintaining a lean core membership. It is not expected that all organisations will sit on the network, but the following should be present or clearly represented:
- system resilience groups;
- clinical commissioning groups, including the lead commissioner for ambulance services);
- all acute hospital and urgent care centres;
- at least one health and wellbeing board;
- at least one NHS 111 provider;
- at least one GP out of hours provider;
- at least one ambulance service;
- at least one community provider;
- at least one mental health trust and provider of health based place of safety;
- at least one local authority;
- community pharmacy services;
- Health Education England through the local education and training board;
- local Healthwatch; and
- commissioned independent providers.
New models of care - Urgent and emergency care
The new models of care programme has reached phase three, having announced eight new urgent and emergency care vanguard sites at the end of July 2015.
The programme will focus on leading-edge systems that are making the strongest progress and those local health systems experiencing the very greatest operational challenges, for example, on the A&E 4 hour standard.
In August 2015 NHS England published Safer, faster, better: good practice in delivering urgent and emergency care a practical summary of the design principles that local health and social care communities need to adopt to deliver safer, faster and better urgent and emergency care. These principles are drawn from good practice, which have been tried, tested and delivered successfully by the NHS in local areas across England. The report highlights the valuable contributions that community pharmacies can make to local health communities' urgent care programmes and provides examples of community pharmacy services that can reduce pressure on general practice and enhance patient safety.
Further information on the new models of care can be found by clicking here.
More information and resources
PSNC Briefing 110/13: An update on NHS England's Urgent Care Review and NHS winter planning (December 2013)
This PSNC Briefing provides an update on the work being undertaken by NHS England to review urgent and emergency care. It also provides a summary of the resources that have recently been developed to facilitate commissioning of community pharmacy services to support urgent and emergency care services this winter.
PSNC Briefing 093/13: Urgent and Emergency Care (September 2013)
Urgent and emergency care in England is currently under review. This Briefing has been issued to assist LPCs in their discussions on urgent care at local level to promote community pharmacy's role in tacking these challenges, and to highlight key areas where community pharmacy can support the provision of care and reduce demands on GPs, NHS 111 and A&E.
PSNC Briefing 092/13: Business Case for Minor Ailment Service (September 2013)
This Briefing provides an evidence based business case for a Minor Ailment Service which LPCs can use at a local level and is intended to assist in making their negotiations more efficient.
Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) interactive e-learning programme on urgent care (December 2014)


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Date palm: a strategic crop for the Arabian Peninsula
Date palm is a key commodity throughout the Arabian Peninsula. In addition to its nutritional value, the crop is also an important source of feed and fuel, and can be used as building material in the construction of houses.
In order to improve the region's date palm production, ICARDA's Arabian Peninsula Regional Program (APRP) has initiated a number of capacity strengthening events targeting engineers, extension agents, technicians, and farmers.
A field day training at the El Hamrania Research Station in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) introduced new date palm production techniques to staff from the country's Ministry of Agriculture, including fertigation, post-harvest operations, and integrated pest management (IPM), a practical and environmentally-friendly approach to pest control that emphasizes the use of cultural and biological interventions, and only supports the targeted use of chemical interventions when alternative methods have been exhausted, costs are not excessive, and there is no threat to existing agro-ecosystems.
The training combined lectures and practical applications, including pollen handling and storage, and compared the advantages of various pollination methods such as liquid pollen suspension, dry pollination, and traditional hand pollination.
Moving forward, it is recommended that liquid pollination be applied early in the growing season and that further capacity strengthening be provided to equip practitioners with the necessary skills to effectively apply this methodology.
Another training course, held in Muscat, Oman, introduced the latest date palm pollination techniques and packaging procedures to employees of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture, located in Lebanon. The course combined oral presentations and practical field days, and is the first in a series of capacity strengthening events to help develop Lebanon's nascent date palm sector.
Finally, a trip to Bahrain provided an opportunity for APRP scientists to further promote sustainable date palm production. Pollination techniques and post-harvesting operations were shared at a conference attended by researchers, students, and engineers, and laboratory and field visits provided an opportunity to discuss protection strategies against date palm pests and appropriate date palm pollination and fertilization techniques.
For more information on ICARDA's Arabian Peninsula Regional Program visit: http://www.icarda.org/arabian-peninsula-regional-program


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Photos courtesy Mal Swinden and Darren Bolland.
Since the formation of AFC Rushden & Diamonds, we've been overwhelmed with a whole range of people who have wished us well and/or voiced their support for the new club. Below are some of the notable ones (including some familar faces for Diamonds fans) that we've managed to catch up with so far (hover over images to get details):


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Tenth successful interdiction for HMAS Warramunga
Tenth successful interdiction for HMAS Warramunga (0.50 mins)
HMAS Warramunga's crew has seized record amounts of narcotics on Operation MANITOU following their latest interdiction. In the latest haul, the crew of the Royal Australian Navy frigate seized approximately 132 kilograms of heroin valued at almost $40 million while patrolling international waters of the Arabian Sea on 6 March 2018. The illegal narcotics interdiction is Warramunga's third seizure in the past seven days having also seized in excess of eight tonnes of hashish from two vessels just days earlier. It's the 10th vessel interdicted overall since the ship deployed to the region in November 2017. Warramunga's illicit drug interceptions now total 19.5 tonnes of hashish and more than 1.6 tonnes of heroin, valued in excess of AUD$1.47 billion.
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It took over six months to plan my 6000 mile road trip with my three kids in the mini-van and we were on the road for five weeks. I get a lot of people ask dumbfounded, "Why?" Why would I leave my nice house and wonderful husband and take off driving around the country.
Well, like many things, I can blame my parents, specifically my mom! Last fall my mom had a routine mamogram (at our constant urging) and they found something unusual. We weren't too worried because all of us have had lumps and bumps removed from our breasts and it's always been benign. We were certain this would be the case again so we were completely shocked when they said it was cancer and that she was going to need a mastectomy, radiation and chemo. We were devastated. My healthy mom is only 73 years old and she's been very healthy. We've gone back and forth over the years having weight loss challenges, doing Weight Watchers together (from 1000 miles apart) and always having a weekly good laugh together over the phone. One of my sisters came to visit me while my mom was getting ready for the surgery to visit her son and it was great to have her close by so we could sort this bad news out.
One afternoon my mother called us from Florida and informed us that they'd gotten back the findings of a routine catscan and they found state 3 Ovarian Cancer! This time my legs gave out and I found myself slunked to the ground hiding from my children unable to move.
As my mother would have wanted, I got myself up and tried to figure out how many weekends I could get away leaving my husband with our three children so I could spend time with my mom.
Thank goodness for Frequent Flyer miles! I was able to make it down several weekends and give my dad and other siblings a break by helping her out. After the surgeries and into the chemo she was pretty bad off, I cannot say I wasn't scared. She suddenly looked old to me for the first time.
On a whim I asked her one morning what she wanted to do when this was all over. "Where do want to go when you're all better?" She looked at me a little crazy because none of us had really thought any further than, has she taken her medicine, which doctor does she need to see today, what tests need to be done… So she thought about it and said she hadn't seen Las Vegas since the 60's and it looked like a lot had changed, that might be fun. And she said she'd like to go back to the Grand Canyon and not have to say constantly, "Stay back, slow down, not so close…" We laughed about our memories of when my parents had taken the five of us there as small children.
I told her she was going to see these two things next summer. She balked a little about chemo and radiation and how she wouldn't be able to get away.
Over the next couple of months though, I gently nudged them to really think about making it happen. I helped my dad book the tickets and then I started to plan a trip for my family to get out there and see these things with her.
They flew into Flagstaff and we spent a day in Sedona and went on a fabulous Jeep tour. The good karma followed us to Slide Rock and the best Mexican restaurant in Flagstaff. We knew it was going to be a great vacation when the restaurant played only Jimmy Buffett and Tom Petty, our two favorite sons of Florida. We next went to Lake Powell and took my parents for a gorgeous boat ride. The next day was Zion National Park and then we spent two days in the Grand Canyon. She was such a trooper. We even went horse back riding to a cowboy sunset cook-out.
The last weekend was spent at the Luxor in Las Vegas. My husband joined us as well and we had a blast. My parents wanted to go to the Irish Pub in New York, New York and we drank and laughed the night away. My mom admitted to me that she never really thought the whole trip was ever going to happen. But she said it gave her home throughout that just maybe it would. Just the thought of traveling out west again helped her through her biggest struggle yet.
One year later, she's in remission. In fact, right now, she is in the car, somewhere on 95 heading up to visit me and two of her grandsons play college football this weekend, in Annapolis and NYC. Oh, and she is bringing me a trunk full of things from my childhood home that I know she thinks I will enjoy!


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New video game releases week 1, 2011
Take a look at the list of games coming out this. My favorites are Konami's Lost In Shadow on Wii. For DLC games there are new DSiWare and Wii Shop titles like Sneezies and Ghost Mania. Meanwhile there's IloMilo on Xbox Live Arcade (updates Wednesday). PlayStation Network games include Tetris, Microbot, Richochet and classics like Re-Loaded and Arc the Lad III (updates Tuesday).
The lone new retail releases are:
Dancing Craze – Bonus Edition (PC)Emergency 2012 (PC)Lost in Shadow by Konami (Wii)National Geographic Collector's Pack (PC)Puzzler World by Feral interactive (Mac)Sherlock Holmes and Mystery Of Osborne House (DS)
PS: Last week the Resident Evil: Afterlife movie got released on DVD and Blu-ray.
You thinking of buying something new? Or are you, like me, still catching up with the games you got for Christmas?


text: The following is an interpretive transcription of White Mustang II from Acadie. It doesnt really have a steady meter and Daniel isn't always playing the bass note on the beat although he does start out that way. This is not a complete transcription but it does complete one verse. The strangest thing about this song is the tuning, DADAEG, low to high. I'm not sure how he would have arrived at this tuning other than by accident. I would not recommend this tuning on a guitar with really old strings because the tension on the first and second strings is so much greater than usual. I decoded this tuning by picking out the sound of the open strings and by harmonics he plays throughout the song. If anyone has questions feel free to ask. I encourage experimenting with this tuning and using chord shapes from standard tuning as some work out nicely.