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Success in sports shouldn't only be defined as the number of wins and losses your daughter's team tallies up throughout the season. Parents and coaches alike might agree that the real indicator of a successful season is ending on a high note with a positive attitude, regardless of the team's stats. We asked sports moms their best tips to help maintain their daughters' morale and stay organized and upbeat despite hectic schedules of practices, games, and tournaments.
A well-organized carpool is the number-one sanity saver of all the sports moms we spoke to. Even if there's just one other parent in your daughter's carpool, that cuts your time spent in the car in half. Add in a few more drivers, and you may have just limited your responsibility to one or two legs a week! Approach other parents before the season starts—and before other carpools have been set in stone. Exchange cell-phone numbers and email addresses, and send weekly reminders so there's no question as to who drives when.
In addition to communicating about the carpool, communication between parents, coaches, team members, and the team manager are vital for a successful season. One of the easiest ways to do this is through a team sports app such as Team Snap or Bonzi, texts, emails, Facebook, and even Twitter for score updates and team updates for the parents who aren't able to make the game.
Susanne L. recommends an initial meeting with the parents, set up by the coach, team manager, or group of parents, that lays out the year and invites participation. "Our child's focus should be on contributing to the team," she says. "We should be a part of that as much as possible, too, by setting the example of teamwork among the parents as well."
And don't forget about the newbies. "Along with communications is a good on-boarding process for new kids and new parents to the team," says Carlene P. "This includes expectations, requirements, traditions, etc."
Snacks and dinner
Stock your car with water bottles and snacks that your daughter can eat at the field or in the car—and have enough in the trunk so that you can share with other teammates or younger siblings.
As for dinner itself, Tracy M. believes in full bellies! She often cooks and packages up meals ahead of time so that a healthy, well-balanced dinner can be eaten between games or in the car on the way to practice. (Minimal-prep recipes that can be made in the Crock Pot or Instant Pot are great for this purpose – make a big batch over the weekend and divide into portable weekday meals.)
Another option is to shop for convenient, portable, and nutrient-dense snacks (think peanut butter and apples, assorted dried fruit, protein bars, nuts, etc.) that your daughter can mix-and-match from a special "grab-and-go" spot in the fridge or pantry.
Many moms also talked about encouraging respect—especially when you disagree—with the coach, other team members, and even competing teams. "A personal relationship with the coach or trainer, not in a helicopter parent kind of way but a respectful connection, goes a long way," says Jen H. Kids mirror their parents' behavior, and when they see the adults acting in a respectful way, chances are they'll be well-behaved, too. No one should turn into "that parent."
And no matter how good your child is at his or her respective sport, having a healthy outlook regarding their future in sports can also make the difference. Since the chances of your daughter going to the Olympics is pretty slim, being a relaxed parent is so much better for everyone involved. When parents are relaxed, kids are relaxed.
"It's a much better experience for everyone when parents focus on the fun, building relationships, getting exercise, learning game strategies, and being a good team player, over the win," says Stacey E.
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Portsmouth boss Paul Cook was disappointed to see his side spill more play-off points in a 1-1 draw at rivals Mansfield Town yesterday.
The former Chesterfield boss said: "We might as well be five points off the moon at the minute.
"We are so disappointed with how we are playing. I thought we would go on in the second half and win that game comfortably.
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Click HERE to read Stags boss Adam Murray's thoughts
"It's a point, but I am very disappointed with the game and very disappointed with how we played and very disappointed with us in general but that is where this team is at.
"Anyone who has watched us all season would probably say that was a typical Portsmouth performance.
"I am not going to criticise the players because the criticism comes off the back of other teams winning and the likelihood of us not going up automatically. That's a self-inflicted criticism.
"My job is to make these players better so let's see where we finish the season and let's hope it is a position where there is still something to play for at the end of the season and we can build from there."
Cook added: "The only positive today is that the referee blew the whistle and we drew 1-1. We didn't play well today. We have got the ability at the minute to not keep clean sheets and not create chances. I know there is a lot more in these players. The disappointing thing is that we have not got anywhere near the highs of the Accrington game.
"We have got to bounce back next weekend. It's a big weekend next weekend. Fratton Park will be packed and we have got to make our fans believe in us."


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|William making camp at The Big Whole. NSW.
|Packing drawing. The aim of packing is to remove excess packaging and compartmentalise all food into breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
|Rock Table, Trestle Bridge camp site
|We saw about 20 wombat roadkill over the ten day trip. The pink cross on the wombat means there are no young in the pouch. At Bundanon it's wombat crazy, there are burrows everywhere and you always see them at night.
the Rail Trail just after Trestle Bridge camp, William collected
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James Hansen, Today's Cassandra
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 — Twenty-two years ago today James Hansen testified before Congress that the world's climate was changing, and we had better do something about it.
Two years ago he appeared before Congress again, reiterated his message of two decades earler, and added that we had used up whatever slack time we may have had. Aside from additional climatological studies, the only significant development during this period has been the growth of a climate change denial industry.
The National Academy of Sciences has now published a paper, "Expert credibility in climate change," finding that "97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC [Anthropogenic Climate Change] outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and … the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers."
In other words, almost all the scientists who know the most about climate change believe anthropogenic climate change is real, while the skeptics tended to be scientists who knew significantly less about it.
Fortunately for BP, Exxon Mobil, &c., the news media love a good scuffle. It doesn't much matter to them if one side doesn't know what it's talking about, as long as there's an argument going on.
In fact, it's a little like the relationship between the GOP and abortion: if abortion was outlawed, the GOP would lose a great tool for mobilizing their base. If the media made the mistake of noting that most deniers are ignorant tools of the carbon industry, they'd lose a great story.
Besides, if they went to all the trouble of thinking and coming to a conclusion, then took the risk of taking a stand on where the truth lies, people might start to expect it. That would be a lot of trouble.
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I just started playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on the Switch. It is pretty neat. Anyway In this post I wanted to talk about the rendering pipeline, or rather put it in simple terms that less tech savy people can understand.
In a game, rendering can be seen as the process of drawing a scene on a computer screen. It involves a mathematical combo of geometry, textures, surface treatments, the viewers perspective and lighting. In other words, it is a combo of the geometry that forms the meshes made in Maya, Blender, whatever, the textures that are applied to those meshes, shaders that do some neat stuff to make it look cool, where the camera is looking and how the scene has been lit. The Rendering pipeline then represents the flow of processes that take place to show a virtual environment on your screen. Basically, how your games console draws that sweet Vidja Game on the screen (bit of an oversimplification, but you get the idea).
In simple terms, there are three stages of the pipeline:
The application phase runs on the CPU (generally) and deals with all your gamey stuff. This includes moving object, input, collisions, etc. This then affects the geometry part of the pipeline that basically determines where stuff is. It involves calculations regarding the position of the camera, the transformation, scale, rotation of each object and all the mesh data we have. The rasterisation phase then actually displays the image on the screen. It goes through some more in-depth processes to get that desired image on to your sweet 43inch Ultra HD TV.
Now it is a bit of a cop-out to say "more in-depth processes" so let's have a look at what those actually are. We are going to look deeper into both the Geometry and Rasterisation parts of the pipline.
I know what you are thinking.
Those sound like pretty technical things! S'alright, we are gonna look at each one individually. Imagine we are trying to render a model on our screen. Maybe it is a model of a character. Or a car. Or big massive gothic cathedral. Or an awesome mech. I will probably refer to the model as just a "character." This is the process that happens to get it on the screen.
- Geometry – So we kind of looked at this phase earlier on. In deeper terms, a model is made out of polygons and vertices. These are shapes that make up a 3d model. In other words they describe the structure of your game character. Not in gameplay terms but how the shape of the character should be in the game terms. The geometry phase processes all of these polygons and vertices so that data can be used in other phases.
- Illumination – This is where the models are coloured and lit. In other words, you could see it as textures that represent the details of a character, like Link's skin and clothing in Zelda are applied to the model and the details of how the model should be lit by light sources in the game like street lamps, the sun, etc are applied. This is the process where fancy programs called shaders (not Destiny 2 shaders, CURSE YOU BUNGIE!) can make models in the game look real nice.
- View Perspective – The model is processed through a viewing perspective, or rather a camera. The process looks at how the camera is set up, whether it has an Orthographic projection (often used for 2D games) or Perspective projection (often used in 3D games) and how big the field of view of the camera is.
- Clipping – This process looks to see what parts of the model are outside of the cameras viewing volume or rather what parts of the character can be seen by the camera. The bits that cannot be seen are clipped away.
- Screen-Space Projection – This where we take a projection of the 3d object and put it into 2D space so it can be displayed on a screen. Monitors fundamentally show a 2-dimensional image so we are mapping the 3d model into this space and producing a 2D image to be displayed on the screen.
- Rasterisation – This is where fancy post-processes occur. A post-process is an extra visual technique that is applied to the image and includes techniques such as bloom. These techniques are applied to the 2D image created by the Screen-Space Projection phase.
- Display – This is the final image.
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Miss T and I went out exploring again this morning, looking for a free wireless connection (supposedly McDonald's has it, but we somehow couldn't connect) so after having compromised my principles and pointlessly purchased and eaten an awful Egg McMuffin -- just as nasty in South Africa as everywhere else in the world) it was back to Nelson Mandela Square to our regular internet cafe.
At least at the 'Cafe della Salute' in the Square, if you order a cup of coffee, it comes already made. At McDonald's of SA, astonishingly, when you order coffee, you get a china tea cup filled with boiling hot water, and then you are handed the jar of Nescafe and a spoon (while you're standing at the till counter!) and you mix your own. Gad. I'm definitely switching to Diet Coke. Or maybe a nice cuppa tea.
So we picked up some emails -- (thanks to those who wrote -- very cheering!) -- and then wandered about the mall a little, before coming back to the apartment to read the paper and nap..... Yes, nap..... Please don't get on my case about it. It's exhausting to move to a new country. And I dare you to try..... I do. (And I promise I will be there to hold your hand when you're sobbing there, alone, by yourself, in your bathtub. Not so easy,eh? Never mind.)
No, everyone says I should be used to it by now, after 12 moves in 26 years. And I am....you must believe me. I believe it, I do. Yes, I do, on a good day..... (OK, now I am trying to stop thinking about you, naked, in your bathtub. Oh hang on, this is a family blog, I must stop that, this minute. Whoah, that was distracting.)
But hang on, we mustn't get all gloomy and weird. What else has happened?
I almost got talked into giving blood at the shopping mall (something I do strongly believe in, as the ex-chair of the blood drive at St. Mark's) but I reconsidered, as I'm still feeling significantly tired and near faint about half the time. (Or maybe I felt faint thinking about giving blood ... was that the chicken or the egg, or what? Oh well....) Apparently, South Africa has a huge blood shortage, and since at least 25% of the population is HIV positive, tragically even less of the population than usual is able to donate usable blood.
And of course, you and I BOTH know that most people will think up just about ANY excuse not to give blood.
"I don't do needles" -- Steve
"I didn't eat breakfast today" -- Sarah
"I have to work this afternoon" -- Mike .... oh, puleeze!
That would not be you, of course ... not .... YOU?? Go out and give a pint of blood, just for me, next time you get the chance. There's no synthetic blood invented yet, no way to transfuse people, saving their lives, if their blood type just isn't available in hospital at that moment... so... give somebody a break today. It could be your own life, or a friend's, that you're saving. Yah, I know that's a stretch, but things could get odder. I mean, here I am in South Africa.....
So......if you give a pint, I'll buy you one. (Amstel, Stella, whatever you like.... and I promise someone will appreciate your pint of A, B, AB, or O) Anyway, I'm putting that on my list of things to do, once I'm not keeling over from the altitude adjustment issues. St. Stithian's is having a blood drive on Wednesday, so maybe I'll be recovered by then? One can only hope......
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
One pint deserves another
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Re: What can bring the excitement back to Perl?by Anonymous Monk
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|Need Help??
The main thing is to control the perl face.
The people look up perl on google what they see is shit.
We need a mass overhaul of most of the p5 web sites.
Also having one main p5 page which links all the others would be awesome (good example would be ubuntu or fedora)
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If you don't know your Clipart from your WordPress, designing a website may seem like an impossible task. However, there are simple options out there. If you're not an expert in web design, don't worry. You can enlist the services of an expert agency or build your own site online. If you work with an agency, you're likely to spend more, but you may end up with a better result. It will also take a job off your hands at what may be a very busy time.
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When you're designing a website, it's essential to bear the user in mind. Research shows that people respond positively to images, so don't fill each page with chunks of text. Make your homepage captivating and enticing. Ensure that the pages are easy to navigate and that they offer essential information about your company.
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It's not enough to have a fabulous looking website. You also need to make sure that it serves its purpose. Ultimately, you want your site to increase sales. If you're offering retail products, for example, make sure that buying is a quick and simple process. If you're running a restaurant, offer online booking. Adding interactive features is always beneficial, as users often have questions. If you have live chat, for example, you're much less likely to lose out on business because clients can't find the answers they need.
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Jane, Jordan, and Shannon stroll through the market
Judging from the early start of the Shongweni Farmers' Market, shoppers must be keen enough to arise at dawn in this part of South Africa. Turn over for some extra shut-eye and you'll miss it altogether. Shongweni is in Kwa Zulu Natal, not far from Durban, and the market is renowned for its fresh and home-made produce, as well as its crafts section. It runs from 6 am to 10 am every Saturday, and it is well worth getting there early, as one needs to have time to browse all the stalls and savour the mouth-watering produce.
We stopped by the pet stall so the children could see the animals
This strange-looking creature is an angora goat
We came across some Zimbabweans, selling their metalwork animals.
We loved these hats. Jane bought the blue one, second from the left, and I bought a black and white striped one.
Although the Shongweni Farmers' Market began as a place to buy healthily produced food, it has expanded to add crafts as well. There is so much on offer that one could easily come away laden down with all sorts of exciting finds. Unfortunately, Jordan wasn't feeling quite well, so we had to cut our visit short, but it is definitely on my itinerary for next time.
Homeward bound. Jane is wearing my hat, while
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If you asked geeks to list their top ten favorite films I bet most lists would contain the original Tron movie. With the release of the sequel Tron: Legacy only a few months away, the marketing machine is moving into high gear, and so are the Easter Eggs it seems.
Daft Punk is handling the soundtrack for the movie, and they are clearly trying to make us geeks happy with a fitting Easter Egg appearing on their website.
Visit TronSoundtrack.com and you'll get a nice, simple animated front page to the soundtrack of the movie. Now click View->Page Source on your browser menu to reveal the Easter Egg.
It's an Ascii image of a young Kevin Flynn from the 1982 original Tron. We've included an image of it below in case you can't access the source. Quite impressive, and we hope to see more of these types of Easter Egg in the run up to the film's release.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- After arriving 55 minutes late for his scheduled retirement news conference Monday, Buffalo Bills center Eric Wood gave about a one-minute statement that he remained on the team's roster and did not take questions.
General manager Brandon Beane said Wood was late in part because of a phone call with his agent and confirmed Wood remains on the Bills' roster. Wood has yet to be placed on the retired list or released.
"We don't have any cap room right now," Beane said. "You roll it over [into the next season]. He'll be on our roster for a while, until we figure things out.
"We'll get it worked out. He'll do stuff on his end, and we'll do it with the help of the league office and management council. We'll figure it out from there."
After a report surfaced about Wood's career ending because of a neck injury, the nine-year veteran confirmed in a statement Friday that a season-ending physical by team doctors revealed his injury would prevent him from being cleared to play again even with surgery or treatment.
Wood said in his statement Friday that he would announce his retirement at a news conference Monday. Some of his former teammates, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Kraig Urbik, were among the group of at least 100 people attending Wood's news conference.
"In Week 5, I got the first stinger of my life," Wood said Monday. "I got one the following week. After that game, we did an X-ray on my neck that showed no significant damage. After the season, as part of the exit physical, we got an MRI that revealed a disc that was dangerously close to my spinal cord at C-2, C-3. That was alarming.
"Although I will no longer be cleared to play football, I am still on the Bills' roster and look forward to helping out the team in some capacity."
Beane confirmed that Wood received a second opinion on his neck from a non-team doctor and said he does "not believe" there is a chance Wood is cleared to play again.
Wood remains under contract through 2019 after he signed a two-year extension last August. His $4.8 million base salary in 2018 is guaranteed for injury, and he would count about $10 million against the Bills' salary cap next season if he is placed on the retired list or released. He would have counted about $8 million had he remained playing.
"He'll stay on the roster now and we'll figure out what's the best tactic for the Buffalo Bills as we move forward," Beane said. "But really, we're a long way from figuring out where we're going."


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Awfully Good: The Country Bears with Christopher Walken
No matter what crass hijinks TED gets in to in his sequel this week, he will never be as disturbing as?
The Country Bears (2002)
Director: Peter Hastings
Stars: Christopher Walken, Haley Joel Osment, Diedrich Bader
Christopher Walken is mad at bears for ruining his armpit farting career.
THE COUNTRY BEARS gets the historical distinction of being Disney's first film based on one of its theme park attractions. And while PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN may have made billions of dollars, it can never claim to have Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken angrily armpit farting during a film's climactic showdown. Point to you, COUNTRY BEARS.
"I sh*t in the woods!"
I couldn't shake a feeling of déjà vu while watching this movie and about halfway through I realized what it was: THE COUNTRY BEARS is the exact same movie as Jason Segel's THE MUPPETS. In both, a non-human is adopted in to a family and feels like an outcast, eventually deciding to leave home in search of his favorite group of similar-species entertainers. Once he meets them, he discovers they're about to lose their home/venue to a rich white guy and must get the gang (and random celebrity cameos) back together for one last show in the hopes of raising the money. It's literally the exact same Jim Henson-designed movie, except instead of the fun and joyful Muppets, you have the dreary, slightly creepy Country Bears.
"You really think I should follow this up with GIGLI, ENVY and KANGAROO JACK? Okay, thanks!"
While most of THE COUNTRY BEARS is a standard Disney flick?full of lame attempts at humor, childish characters and a heartwarming message about being yourself?it does have one secret weapon: Christopher Walken as the villainous Reed Thimple. Walken's part is supporting at best, but anytime he's on screen magic happens. Reed Thimple works for the bank that's foreclosing on Country Bear Hall and he has no sympathy for the bears' situation. In fact, in his office he has multiple scale models of their beloved building, which he gleefully destroys over and over again while not wearing any pants. (Why does he have to be in his underwear to do this? Ask the screenwriter of this movie.) Eventually Walken goes from everyday debt collector to full-blown evil mastermind when he kidnaps the bears and reveals himself to be their former musical rival and legendary armpit farter Benny Boggswaggle. Yes, there is actually a scene in this movie where Christopher Walken performs a concerto of ass blasts under his arm.
His new friends may smell terrible, but Swamp Thing enjoyed his simpler, Nicolas Cage-free life.
Walken is not the only famous human dragged in to this mess. Haley Joel Osment plays the lead bear and I'm pretty sure he was going through puberty while recording his part. CON AIR pilot MC Gainey switches vehicles as the bears' bus driver. And there are a bevy of famous musician cameos from the likes of Willie Nelson, Queen Latifah, Brian Setzer, Bonnie Raitt, The Eagles' Don Henley and even Elton John, who randomly shows up as a gardener. However, apparently none of these people were willing to actually perform in the movie, leaving Disney to instead feature awkwardly long musical numbers from such famed artists as Jennifer Paige and Krystal, who are people you're supposed to recognize and be impressed by. (Honestly, was Smash Mouth not available? I'm pretty sure they work for craft services.)
Diedrich Bader's xenomorph cosplay was on point.
And finally we get to the Country Bears themselves. The Bears' existence in this movie is truly bizarre. Ignoring the fact that nobody seems to be surprised that these select animals are able to talk and live amongst us (the brother character seems to be the only person that notices his sibling isn't human), some of their characterizations will leave you scratching your head. The fiddle player has a honey addiction that could land him on Behind the Music. One of the bears works as a marriage counselor but still cries because his wife left him for a rich panda. And the one female bear is shaped like a lady but wears an open robe that would suggest she's constantly exposing herself to everyone. On the technical side, this was clearly not Jim Henson Creature Shop's best work. The bear animatronic suits are pretty terrible, with faces that constantly look surprised and mouths that don't articulate enough to make any of their dialogue convincing. In fact, all the bears are constantly leaving their mouths so agape that a more appropriate name for the movie would be THE DERPFACE BEARS.
Christopher Walken's best line deliveries and more.
Christopher Walken armpit farting, bears sucking at music and more.
The lady bear never closes her shirt. Yay?
Better than TOMORROWLAND? Buy this movie here!
Take a shot or drink every time:
- A bear looks shocked or surprised
- Christopher Walken says " Oh no!"
- The cops are stupid.
- A celebrity cameo happens
- A musical number breaks out
Thanks to Roberto for suggesting this week's movie!
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February 24, 2011
The Lodge........Bathroom
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Finally finished something
Those socks that I started at the beginning of March? At last they're finished. It's almost embarrassing that they took me this long to complete, given that they're plain stockinette. I just have to remind myself that there was a two week holiday from knitting in there.
Yarn: Regia Strato in Orion (5741)
Pattern: Plain stockinette worked over 64 stitches, 2x2 ribbed cuff, slip stitch heel
Needles: Size 0 DPNs
Let's see, these socks are the fourth ones I've made with Regia Strato. One might conclude (wrongly) that Strato is my favorite sock yarn. I like it just fine, but the reason I've knit so many socks out of it is that I have so freaking much of the stuff. When Webs put it on sale for crazy cheap last summer, let's just say I went a bit wild. I may be knitting Strato socks in perpetuity. (The Professor thinks I must have been a squirrel in a former life, such is my propensity to
It's funny that the Yarn Harlot mentioned yesterday about her recent ordeal about knitting on an airplane, because I had almost the opposite experience a few weeks ago. I was happily knitting away on the flight from DFW to LAX when the flight attendant came by handing out napkins and pretzels. Upon noticing what I was doing, she exclaimed, "Those needles are so small! You must be really good."
I demurred good-naturedly, of course. After all, I was only working on plain stockinette socks. She went on to tell me how she enjoys knitting scarves, but on much larger needles. "There are so many great yarns these days," she explained. I fervently agreed, even though I'm almost certain that we were each thinking of different types of yarns (her: synthetic novelty yarns; me: fine wool, alpaca, cashmere, silk, etc.). Our knitting talk went on long enough that I half wondered whether she would just sit down next to me. (I wonder what other passengers were thinking.) In any case, it was refreshing and wonderful to meet another enthusiastic knitter so unexpectedly.
Now it's time to move on to a new project. (We shall not speak of the Urban Aran yet.) My sock rotation of late has gone something like this: (1) knit a pair for the Professor; (2) knit a pair for myself. Repeat steps (1) and (2). Since these latest Strato socks are for him, I had been planning to knit Monkey next for myself. And then...
I remembered that my niece's birthday is in April. Since the socks I'd sent my sister's children for Christmas were so well received, I decided I'd make them each a pair for their birthdays too. My niece is turning seven, and she is the girliest of girls. When I bought this yarn, it was with her in mind.


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We have learned the sad news that the world renowned graffiti artist from Switzerland, Dare has passed away on March 6, 2010. I have never met Dare in person, but I was fortunate to see his work in Los Angeles. I took the picture below around 1992. He collaborated with Hex TGO. His legacy will long live as he contributed to graffiti around the world. I found a book from 2001 that quoted Dare. Scroll down to read it.
Dare in Los Angeles with Hex - Dare Rest in Piece
Dare participated in Urban Discipline 2001, a graffiti show held in Hamburg Germany. Here are Dare's words from the book:
My dream has been forever to obtain fulfillment of my personal aspirations and ambitions, but at times I even progressed much further than I could hope 15 years ago, at the beginning of my career. This despite the fact that I prefer to spray nearly exclusively letter, whereas characters are so much more respected and popular with the public.
Experimenting with letters opens a lot paths for me, not always apparent at first glance, so some see only the typical Dare-style.
This getting intense into styles, which I don't perceive as a limitation, allows those who study pieces, sketches and canvases, to also see the development, the perfecting of my handwriting. Each painted piece represents another bit of development, routine and training at the same time. Nowadays I can make living doing what's most fun for me. There's no day I don't do something creative, whether it's drawing, painting or spraying myself a piece for a change - as and far as I'm concerned I wouldn't have it any other way.
More and more I try to avoid commission work, which I still do part time, because those jobs rarely allow the opportunity for self-development. Because of the exchange with writers from foreign countries, I always gain new influences that enrich my work enormously. I have also made many friendships that extend way beyond just being a writer.
- Dare (Sigi Von Koeding)
Dare in Urban Discipline 2001 - Dare Rest in Piece
Dare in Urban Discipline 2001 - Dare Rest in Piece
Dare in Urban Discipline 2001 - Dare Rest in Piece
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The jury awarded Mr. Adams' client a $3.1M verdict - nearly triple the defense's highest offer.
I believe the jury was able to look at the visual presentation during closing as I went through the horrible things that happened to her, and they could see her pain, and her loss of mobility in one blink. It made it very real, very fast. I suppose a million-dollar verdict was a possibility. But my client and I were willing to find out. She is a hero.
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Poem: 'Diary'
Clive James
Foot plumps for Aslef but as if in spite
The TUC does not and the strike's broken.
Foot's coiffe should go a purer shade of white
Unless his fiery gesture was a token
To make him look a tough nut in a fight
For all those gritty doctrines he has spoken
On that day when they have to be renounced
And Arthur Scargill's strike bid must be trounced.
But Arthur's rhetoric is like his hair.
Though spurious, transparent and bombastic,
It's legal and has some right to be there.
The threat it poses to the state is drastic
But one democracy's equipped to bear.
He's less fanatical than he's fantastic.
That puff-ball pan's so openly ambitious
Only a stocking mask could make it vicious.
Indeed his nimbus of elated strands
Bespeaks not just the patience of a saint
But holiness. It balances no hands.
The halo Giotto botched with thick gold paint
On Arthur's a UFO that never lands,
A cap of gossamer you might find quaint
But can't deny has something brave about it –
He's sparing us the way he'd look without it.
In Knightsbridge a car bomb with up-to-date
Remote controls proves powerful competition
For horsemen wearing plumes and silver plate,
While up in Regent's Park a similar mission
Is carried out with a success as great,
Ensuring, at the moment of ignition,
Musicians who have never hurt a soul
Are shown up in their true repressive role.
For what's a bandsman, when all's said and done,
If not a soldier of a certain sort?
What is a trombone but a type of gun?
What is a bandstand but a kind of fort?
Objectively, the difference is none:
These men were troops no matter what they thought,
And as for sleepy listening civilians –
They symbolise the acquiescent millions.
Who now unquestionably come awake
And wonder for a week stretched to nine days
If this is not more than the nerves can take.
The horses' wounds bared to the public gaze
Cause many a grave thoughtful head to shake.
Dumb pain is real but how strange that it weighs
Thus heavily, when humans ask what mattered
So much it left them or their loved ones shattered.
Did Cromwell's ruthlessness bring this to pass,
A woman crawling with a face of blood?
Did the Earl of Essex raise a storm of glass
When he set fire to houses of thatched mud?
A bugle boy for being armed with brass
Was pricked to die. What caused that? The Great Flood?
The grievous debt goes back to the beginning
That makes these men more sinned against than sinning.
The guilty live, the innocent lie dead:
The summer sun shines warmly on them all.
In Biarritz it shines on my bald head.
My scalp accepts the photons as they fall.
No Scargill I, I let my skull turn red,
Building my daughters a thick sand sea wall.
They crouch behind it, clinging to the notion
Somehow their father can control the ocean.
I can't stop waves, or much else, reaching them.
Relieved they're not in Belfast or Beirut
I'm flattered in a way some might condemn
To find their sense of beauty so acute.
Each shell's looked at as if it were a gem,
Held to the ear and blown on like a flute.
By those too young to know the world is cruel
A cured sea-horse is treasured as a jewel.
The London papers bring the usual news –
Inflation's down yet unemployment climbs.
But here the gulf's laid out in greens and blues:
Lapis, fresh lettuce and the juice of limes.
Lulled by the heat one's body cells refuse
To wait for the return of better times:
They take their holiday though deprivation
Should devastate the luckless British nation.
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After his last recital at Chicago's Symphony Center in February this year (sadly, I was too busy with my day job to contribute a blog entry), Paul Lewis was berated by a woman at the post-concert reception for not playing an encore. He had finished his recital with Schubert's D-major Sonata, D850, a work that starts full of youthful vigor and confidence but whose last movement has an enchanting child-like innocence. I don't think there is any Freudian subtext here. This isn't some kind of psychological regression caused by an earlier crisis, at least judging by the earlier movements; it seems more like a child's view of heaven, a kind of pre-echo of the last movement of Mahler's 4th Symphony. Lewis tried to explain that no encore could follow such sublime simplicity but his critic was not convinced. He took the scolding with good humor, but I think managed to avoid giving an unequivocal promise to rectify things the next time. And he didn't. Yesterday, he returned for another all-Schubert recital but, fortunately for him, there was no reception following the concert this time, so he didn't have to face the music after failing in his assigned duties once again.
Paul Lewis has a holistic view of recitals, a belief in the oneness of music (which may be why he wears a black shirt with a Mandarin collar, giving him the air of a Zen master). Pianists are often asked how they planned a concert program, and some are more convincing than others in coming up with an explanation. However, Lewis doesn't just connect pieces in the abstract; he bonds them together. A couple of years ago, he slyly started Mozart's Rondo in A-minor before anyone realized that the preceding Ligeti had finished, giving the chromaticism of the opening melody a distinctly modern twist. To achieve his goal, he has to trick the audience by hovering expectantly over the keyboard once a piece has ended, confusing us into silence. Yesterday, he contrived to link Schubert's Hungarian Rondo to his G-major Sonata, D894, this way, although it might be easier if he just told us to hold the applause. At least, everyone would know what was going on.
This desire to turn recitals into a unified artistic experience, a meaningful event, could be pretentious and egotistical if it weren't for the fact that Lewis' playing is so extraordinarily beautiful. Nobody else this season in Chicago has made the piano sing with such luminous tone, shaped phrases with such haunting subtlety, or shaded the accompaniments with such precisely varied colors. He plays everything with complete authority, knowing exactly what he wants to say and being able to express it with total technical command. On paper, this program did not require a particularly strong technique, but true virtuosity is not just about speed and power and this was virtuoso playing of the highest order.
I expect that Lewis is fed up with being hailed as the new 'Alfred Brendel' but I think that, like Imogen Cooper before him, he has absorbed a certain aesthetic sensibility from his former teacher that is now fused with his own musical personality (although if he does get irritated with the comparison, he should stop adopting some of Brendel's quirks, such as a snatching his hands away from the keyboard as if he had touched a red-hot poker). In the mid-seventies, I attended a series of master-classes that Brendel gave on London's South Bank that were nothing short of revelatory, and have had a profound effect on my whole approach to music and the piano ever since. In hearing the way Lewis maintains tension throughout a musical line, uses the pedal to shape phrases, or varies the color of inner voices within chords, I hear clear echoes of what Brendel conveyed in those classes. On the other hand, I don't mean to suggest that Lewis' playing is derivative. I think he often plays with greater rhythmic freedom and suppleness than Brendel, and his phrasing is a little less sculpted and more natural, but there is definitely a family resemblance.
After some of Schubert's youthful waltzes, Lewis played his first set of Impromptus, D899. I sometimes have a rather jaded response to these pieces, partly because they are so often performed and partly because they can sound rather plain if not played with the greatest subtlety. You also need a superb piano, because the pianistic textures can sound rather congested if the left-hand accompaniments are not as expertly controlled as they were here. The streaming triplets in the second movement are not as difficult as they sound, but they were rewarded by an eruption of applause anyway (rather ironic, I suppose), before the famous G-flat major Impromptu brought out Lewis' best cantabile playing. The final movement is equally famous, but has rarely sparkled as brightly as in this performance.
The real highlight of the afternoon was the great G-major sonata. This is perhaps one of Schubert's most serene works. He can never completely suppress the demons lurking below the surface; there are a couple of temperamental outbursts in the slow movement, and the first movement's development section builds to an anguished climax, but the overall mood is one of profound repose. I have mixed feelings about repeats on some of Schubert's longer movements, which can seem dangerously over-extended, but Lewis' playing of the opening chords was so gentle and transfixingly beautiful that I was grateful when he started the exposition all over again. In this music more than any other, Schubert seems to suspend time completely, without being the least soporific, ending the movement in contented tranquility.
The slow movement is one of Schubert's most lyrical, without the infinite sadness of his last sonatas, but with an achingly poignant modulation towards the end. For some reason, Schubert often saved some of his most intimate music for the trio sections of his scherzi, and this sonata has a particularly beautiful example, played with exquisitely hushed pianissimos by Lewis. Brendel would allow himself to smile gently in these passages, his mouth trembling as if to let us know that he was sharing an especially precious confidence with us, but Lewis was wise to look more conventionally expressive; I don't suppose his lips are given much to quivering anyway. He finished his recital playfully, dispatching the finale with relaxed affection and warmth.
Some have criticized Paul Lewis' playing as over-controlled and lacking in spontaneity – that is always the flip-side of having a clear vision of the music – but I think, as he has matured, he has also loosened up a little and, to my ears, his playing now has great naturalness as well as sensitivity. As I walked down the stairs after the concert, the last movement still dancing in my ears, I realized how grateful I was that he had ignored the insatiable demand for encores. They really would have disrupted my moment of Zen.


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Question 1 from Maine is asking its citizens to vote for or against same-sex marriage. Supporters of Question 1 created a television ad asking people to think about the children and the possibilities of being sued for not treating homosexual couples equally. They use the intimidation factor to convince viewers that they will have to pay for all the lawsuits that will occur and lack of control over what their children are going to learn at school.
Opponents of Question 1 attacked the ad by creating one defending the moral values of Maine. Their main focus is to keep children safe in schools and not let "outsiders" harm kids by promoting false information about what it is taught in classrooms. Sherri Gould, 2005 National Teacher of the Year, appears talking about how important it is to teach respect in schools. This ad also uses intimidation, but it mainly says that people in Maine are good people; therefore they should support marriage equality.
Supporters counter-attacked with another television ad criticizing the second commercial. They use a teacher watching a Massachusetts couple talking about how their grade 2 son learned that "boys can marry other boys." Once again, they tried to intimidate the audience by making them feel powerless about their kids' education.
Objectors released an ad pointing out that the teacher from the supporters' second ad is Charla Bansley. They expose that she is not a teacher at a public school, and has been a long-time activist against same-sex marriage. This ad is the most original of the "series" because it is the only one that doesn't try to intimidate the audience. It makes people think "why [supporters of Question 1] must go to such a great lengths."
I bet that this ads are going to keep going and going. The problem that both sides are making is that they are only targeting parents. They are excluding the rest of people who are allowed to vote and don't have kids at school. They are forgetting that kids are not the ones who are going to get marries- at least not yet. Another way to look at the issue from Question 1 opponents' point of view, is that anybody can be a LGBT+ person. They should mention that by denying the equality of marriage to same-sex couples, they could be denying the possibility to marry to a friend or family member. But doing that might scare some people who are not as open-minded about the issue.
Question 1 supporters make a big mistake in their first ad when they mention that allowing same-sex couples to marry will start a series of lawsuits against churches and other entities. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the ad, was "why would anyone sue someone unless is harming them"? In that ad, they recognize that they are harming same-sex people at not recognizing their rights. The counter-attack mentions it, but it focuses on too much on children being harmed.
As you could probably notice, I belong to the 8% of people who agree with same-sex marriage, so my opinion is completely biased. But I tried to see the ads from an objective perspective. I would like to hear the opinions of people who have no stand in this subject to say what their vote would be after seeing the four commercials. I really wonder about how effective they are.


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| This article's content is suspiciously like some other page somewhere on the internet.
This page is likely plagiarized from this one: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bug_Master
Darkrai says to insert some Original Research at least so it's not a complete plagiarism: or he shall lock you into an eternal nightmare.
The Bugmaster is a villainess from the animated series Darkwing Duck. Her real name is Bianca Beakley, a former newscaster and Gosalyn's role model. To boost ratings, Bianca became a villain and started to commit crimes by controlling insects. She is voiced by April Winchell.
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Bianca Beakley was a popular journalist who wanted to boost her ratings by interviewing Darkwing as he fought the city's fiercest villains. Unfortunately, the Supervillain Convention in Florida left St. Canard crimeless. Beakley decided to create her own super villain persona, "The Bugmaster" to create news coverage. She kidnapped merriweather, the cockroach mime and stole a golden Egyptian scarab. At this point, Bianca decided she liked being a villain and planned to eliminate Darkwing Duck. Gosalyn discovered that Beakley was really the Bugmaster, who convinced Gosalyn she was only doing this to make DW look good. Gosalyn became the Bugmaster's sidekick, the Grub, and helped her dip Darkwing, Launchpad, and Merriweather in hot beeswax. But when Gosalyn realized the Bugmaster was serious about killing Darkwing, she turned on her and rescued the three. After a fight, Darkwing was able to snare the Bugmaster in her own webbing, defeating her.
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The Bugmaster was the first supervillain to publicly reappear after the fall of Quackwerks. Darkwing defeated her, tied her up and hung her from a lamppost.
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She reappeared as a member of Suff-Rage's League of Barely Remebered Supervillains. The Bugmaster attacked Darkwing by controlling a swarm of bugs to attack him. She and the rest of the League were defeated when Darkwing and Launchpad wrapped them up in a curtain, only for Suff-Rage to reveal that the Bugmaster and the others were only illusions.
The Bugmaster possessed several different bug themed weapons, such as the Wasp's Sting, which fired sting bursts of electricity, the Sonic Cricket's Chirp, which fired blasts of sonic energy, stinkbug gas bombs, a cobweb-shooting belt buckle, and a beetle-shaped jetpack. It's unknown where she obtained theses weapons.
Bianca also had her unnamed camera man and boom mike guy act as her henchmen, as weel as duping Gosalyn into becoming her sidekick, the Grub.
- A few fans of the show wondered why Bianca did not call herself "Bugmistress" as the word "Master" is sometimes uses in villains' names and not villainess' names.
- It's interesting to note that the illusion of the Bugmaster could control bugs, whereas the real Bugmaster could not. It's possible Suff-Rage assumed Bianca had this ability given her name.
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Here is an ambitious list of things I am absolutely 100%, for realsies going to do this year. Seriously.
- Write at least 50 blog posts.
- Learn the crap out of JavaScript.
- Watch this video series on Code Igniter.
- Build my first major project in a PHP framework (probably Code Igniter).
- Build at least 10 games for the web, at least one of them using EaselJS.
- Make my first mobile app.
- Redesign this blog.
- Read more tech news.
- Build the e-commerce site I've been promising to build my Mom for like 3 years.
- Get to know one editor really well. Sublime? Vim? We'll see.
- Try out HTML and CSS preprocessing.
- Buy all the cool development tools/subscriptions I've been wanting, but have been too cheap to shell out the cash for (Typekit, Code Kit, Treehouse, etc.)
- Contribute to an open source project.
How's that for a to do list? But hey, I've already started on my first resolution. One post down, 49 to go!


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February 22, 2018
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And yet, and yet… If you look at the public programme for this year's edition, currently running at Somerset House, you'll realize that the definition of photography has been expanded to the point where it now incorporates pretty much every other medium. Photography is video; photography is sculpture; you name it, it is photography and photography is it.
Though it has the alibi of recreating a historic photographic exhibition (William Henry Fox Talbot's public display of prints at King Edward's School, Birmingham, in 1839), Mat Collishaw's Thresholds turns out to be an immersive virtual-reality artwork: you strap on goggles and a backpack and then stumble around a Gothic revival hall as a rodent scuttles across the floor and a spider scrambles up a wall to a rising soundtrack of Chartist rioters, glimpsable through a virtual window.
It's fun but it's only photography in so far as everything is photography. Asked at the launch what his next project might be, Collishaw joked, somewhat ruefully (VR is technically demanding, one surmises), "oil painting". If that proves to be the case, the resulting work may well find a place in the next Photo London. After all, photography is oil painting.
Which is not to say that there's no what you might call "straight photography" to gawp at, and it's always fun to see what's trending as subject matter in such traditional (I'd better use the word to establish my commentariat credentials) "indexical" works. Muhammad Ali seems quite present this year, which may be related to the fact that the sporting hero and activist died recently.
"There are usually shots aplenty of (as well as by) Andy Warhol, who died a while ago; and then there's Mick Jagger – he's still alive, of course, but hasn't released a really good album since at least 1983 (Undercover of the Night) and some would say 1972 (Exile on Main Street)"
There are usually shots aplenty of (as well as by) Andy Warhol, who died a while ago; and then there's Mick Jagger – he's still alive, of course, but hasn't released a really good album since at least 1983 (Undercover of the Night) and some would say 1972 (Exile on Main Street); personally I still like She's the Boss, a solo outing from 1985, but this is not the place to play you my mixtape, so perhaps we can just agree on the formulation that Sir Mick is a lot less musically alive than he once was. Someone mentioned that there were lots of pictures of cows a few years ago; this year I was struck by the number of elephants, which I find rewarding because this magazine is called Elephant. To me, every image of an elephant on display at the fair is a kind of more or less conscious tribute to us.
I enjoyed the sign at the entrance to the rooms dedicated to the work of Taryn Simon, who has been named this year's Master of Photography. The display, it announced, "may contain graphic images". Which made me want to say – and I did say it, though there was no one there to hear me – "Look, either it does or it doesn't. Don't you know?" The subjunctive mood seems at odds with photography, which is traditionally viewed as the most documentary and fact-based of mediums; something is either there in the frame or it isn't. But Simon's work isn't really photography, or not old-style photography at any rate.
The centrepiece here is Image Atlas, a collaboration with programmer Aaron Swartz, which presents a real-time, internet-based investigation of global cultural differences (and similarities). Entering a sombre cathedral-like space, you step up to a console and type in a search item of your choosing, which prompts a giant screen to display the top results in different geographical territories. The person before me wanted to know about "Beauty"; from Germany to Egypt the results seemed fairly uniform.
"The centrepiece here is Image Atlas, a collaboration with programmer Aaron Swartz, which presents a real-time, internet-based investigation of global cultural differences (and similarities)."
I am proud to have a supremely uninquiring mind and no curiosity whatsoever, so when it fell my turn at the keyboard coming up with a search term proved a trial. "What would I like to know about?" I pondered, emptily. Time was passing; the people behind me were growing impatient. So I thought: "What would my football-obsessed son want me to type in?" To which the answer presented itself immediately: Arsenal. I was tempted to stop keying after the first four letters in order to deliver on that half-promise of graphic content on the entrance door. But in the event I typed in all seven letters: opposite the names of France and other First World footballing nations there duly appeared on the screen a Gunners club badge and/or pictures of Alexis Sanchez celebrating a goal; for Afghanistan and Iran, by contrast, there were pictures of mushroom clouds and munitions corresponding to a historically more enduring use of the arsenal.
The Collishaw and Simon displays have strong elements of installation about them; indeed, one might even be tempted to say that they seem to be trying to demonstrate that photography is installation. Equally installation-y in feel, if in a rather more olde-worlde fashion, is the work of Prof. Phil Shaw. Displayed in the Rebecca Hossack gallery booth (S5), Prof. Shaw's witty "bookshelf" prints interrogate the changing place of the printed word in the digital (and, if you like, post-truth) world. Colour-coded to suggest lines on the underground network or to hint at the outline of the British Isles, they also make you feel as though you've stepped into a hospitably furnished, book-lined room. Which is one of the nicer tricks photography can play on you.
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By Shawn Brubaker.
Many of you have turned in your brackets and are excited that the NCAA Tournament is well underway. In the interest of full disclosure, I am not a college basketball fan. The longer shot clock, slower tempo of play and my disdain for the NCAA as an organization keep me from being particularly interested in who wins. That said, I feel that as a college basketball outsider, I am in a good position to offer this basic guide on the do's and don'ts on how to behave during this exciting season.
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The standard Mohammedan elite propaganda issued to their oppressed public is that outsiders, and most particularly the Jews, are the proper target of their frustrations.
I can understand this coming from Mohammedan politicos, or preachers or newly minted royalty — who wants an angry mob surrounding the mansion? But why does the British Prime Minister want to help with the charade?
We have it from AFP by way of Breitbart, that Cameron blames Israel for conditions in Gaza. But worse than that, he lies, and he must know that he lies, about Gaza's condition.
"Let me be clear that the situation in Gaza has to change… Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp," he said in a speech to a business association during a visit to Turkey.
Gaza is run by Hamas. Israel is in no way responsible for living conditions there. If life in Gaza is like a prison camp, it is Hamas' prerogative to improve matters … or not.
Now clearly, Hamas must blame Israel for the problems of the Gazan Arabs. But why Cameron?
Oddly, while Hamas' priorities obviously have nothing to do with prosperity for the Gazan Arabs, and visibly Hamas rule is tending in an ever more oppressive Sharia direction, nonetheless, living conditions in Gaza are nothing like those in a prison camp. On the contrary, within the limitations set by a violent, corrupt and incompetent government, electric outages, random murders and the like, by any reasonable account living conditions in Gaza are, well … livable.
One can be quite sure that Cameron is not talking about Hamas' political oppressions. And Cameron is well supplied with sources of information. Cameron's comment can only have been deliberately intended as a slur and accusation against Israel.
In all likelihood, the answer is that he was speaking in Turkey. On which basis it is safe to assume that he was playing to the house. After all, isn't that what a leader of a great western power does overseas these days? To please. To petition. To flatter. Principle be damned.
Just to dispel any doubt on that subject, he added:
"We've long supported lifting the blockade of Gaza,"
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I remember this when I was a kid my Nana always makes this one for us ( with my sisters) because we have an avocado tree at our farm. It is creamy and yummy, I like it a lot, and I still have it every now and then :-)
Ingredients for 2 servings:
1 Avocado
4 tablespoons condensed milk
1. Mash the avocado and put the milk.
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I started making a youtube music playlist. 3 hours later I've had to force myself to stop adding tracks... Hope you enjoy it.
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