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filed: January 7, 1992; As Corrected January 24, 1992.
SEA-LAND SERVICE, INC., PETITIONERv.JOHN J. ROCK AND DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, RESPONDENTS
On Petition for Review of a Decision of the Benefits Review Board of the United States Department of Labor. (BRB Case No. 90-1883)
Before: Becker, Greenberg, and Garth, Circuit Judges
Author: Greenberg
Opinion OF THE COURT
GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.
John J. Rock seeks compensation under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (Act), 33 U.S.C. § 901 et seq., for personal injuries sustained in the course of his employment with Sea-Land Service, Inc. (Sea-Land) as a "courtesy van" driver who transported passengers primarily within his employer's marine terminal. This case presents the question of whether Rock was engaged in "maritime employment" and is thus entitled to compensation under the Act. The administrative law Judge denied benefits, but the Benefits Review Board (board) reversed on the basis that Rock's functions were "essential to maritime industry." Because we find that Rock's occupation was not essential to the process of loading and unloading a vessel, we will set aside the board's determination.
I. Background Facts and Procedural History
Sea-Land operates a 200-acre container loading and unloading terminal in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. For security reasons Sea-Land does not permit private vehicles in the facility so it provides two white courtesy vans for the transportation of executives, visitors, seamen, ship's crewmen, clerical workers, customs officials and customers. Separate yellow buses transport the longshoremen who work at the facility. Other groups, such as shore gangs, crane workers, lashing personnel and linemen, are transported by their own trucks or vans.
Rock began working for Sea-Land as a longshoreman and "hustler" driver in the early 1960's. In 1979, based on seniority, Rock elected the job of driving one of the white courtesy vans, but he maintained his status as a member of the International Longshoremen's Association. As a courtesy van driver, Rock was required to transport individuals within the facility and was also required to perform errands outside the facility, including gathering mail and transporting people to airports and hotels. According to a supervisor, Rock was not authorized to transport longshoremen, but Rock testified at his hearing that he did on occasion provide such transportation at his supervisor's instruction. Rock did not haul cargo and did not perform repairs or equipment maintenance. When he did not have an assignment, Rock waited at the marine operations building, where he spent approximately 60% of his time.
When Rock was absent from work, a warehouseman would substitute for him and drive the courtesy van. No evidence at his hearing established, however, that Rock ever substituted as a warehouseman. Thus, Rock's duties were limited to driving one of the courtesy vans from 1979 until the time of his injury.
On October 21, 1981, as he stepped from one of the courtesy vans, Rock twisted his right knee. Rock submitted a claim for benefits under the Act, and a formal hearing was held before an administrative law Judge on December 13, 1983. Sea-Land did not dispute the extent of Rock's disability and it did not deny that he was injured while on a covered situs and that it is an employer under the Act. Thus, the only issue presented to the administrative law Judge was whether Rock was engaged in "maritime employment" within section 902(3) of the Act.*fn1 The administrative law Judge denied compensation benefits in a decision and order of February 7, 1985, as he concluded that Rock's job did not require him to perform any "indisputably longshoring or maritime activities," and Rock was therefore not engaged in maritime employment as a matter of law.
Rock appealed the administrative law Judge's decision and order to the Benefits Review Board which, on June 30, 1988, issued a decision and order reversing the administrative law Judge's determination. The board held that, because Rock's job required him to transport various maritime personnel, customs officials and customers, his duties were "therefore essential to maritime industry and furthered the concerns of a covered employer." The board thus held that Rock was covered under the Act, and it remanded the matter to the deputy commissioner for payment of benefits.
In August 1988, Sea-Land filed a petition for review of the board's decision and order which we dismissed on the ground that the decision and order was not a final order within the meaning of 33 U.S.C. § 921(c). On November 21, 1989, the deputy commissioner filed a compensation order awarding benefits. On November 27, 1989, Sea-Land appealed this order to the Benefits Review Board so that it could modify its June 30, 1988, decision and order to incorporate the award and issue a final order that could be appealed to this court. On January 25, 1991, the board issued a final order modifying its earlier decision and order to the extent that it found that Rock was entitled to specified compensation benefits but which otherwise reaffirmed the June 30, 1988, decision and order in all respects.*fn2 Sea-Land then petitioned this court for review of the January 25, 1991, order.
II. Standard of Review
We have appellate jurisdiction pursuant to 33 U.S.C. § 921(c), which gives the courts of appeals jurisdiction to review final orders of the Benefits Review Board. Our review is "limited to a determination of whether the Board acted in conformance with applicable law and within its proper scope of review." Curtis v. Schlumberger Offshore Service, Inc., 849 F.2d 805, 807 (3d Cir. 1988). When factual findings are at issue, we may make an independent factual review to determine whether the administrative law Judge's findings were supported by substantial evidence, but because the parties do not contest his factual findings,*fn3 and the board merely repeated them in its decision and order, such a review is not necessary here. See Janusziewicz v. Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 677 F.2d 286, 290 (3d Cir. 1982).
While no deference is accorded to the board's interpretation of the Act as it does not administer it, Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, 449 U.S. 268, 278 n.18, 101 S. Ct. 509, 514-15, 66 L. Ed. 2d 446 n.18 (1980); Kaiser Steel Corp. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, 812 F.2d 518, 521 (9th Cir. 1987), we have indicated that we will "respect" that interpretation if it is "reasonable." Curtis, 849 F.2d at 808. Nevertheless our review is essentially plenary for as we explained in Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. O'Keefe, 545 F.2d 337 (3d Cir. 1976):
First, neither the Director nor the Board is the officer or agency charged with the administration of the statute. While the Director is authorized by Congress to administer the statute he does not resolve disputed legal issues involving the Act. Substantial questions of law arising in an adversarial context are specifically reserved for decision first by administrative law Judges and then by the Board. Moreover, the Board is only a quasi-judicial body presented with select cases and not an agency involved in the overall administration of the statute . . .
We know of no authority which would require judicial deference to either one arm or the other under these circumstances.
Id. at 343. See also Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. General Dynamics Corp., 900 F.2d 506, 510 (2d Cir. 1990) (adopting the O'Keefe rationale).
III. Discussion
A. The 1972 Amendments to the Act
Congress amended the Act in 1972. Before that time, it only covered injuries sustained on the actual "navigable waters of the United States (including any dry dock)." 44 Stat. 1426. Injuries occurring on land were covered by the often inadequate state compensation programs. The 1972 amendments, which extended the coverage landward, addressed the "continuing anomaly that the schedule of benefits to be applied in any case depended on whether the injury occurred on the land or water side of the gangplank." Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, 540 F.2d 629, 633 (3d Cir. 1976). In broadening the coverage, Congress also noted that the advent of modern cargo-handling techniques, such as ...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
Taste & Create - Magic in the Middles
This month's Taste and Create dish is so delicious! My partner for Taste and Create was Natalie of What's for Supper? I had a fun time perusing through her blog looking at all her delicious recipes. She has lots of fabulous looking desserts especially. There are several recipes that I found on her blog that I would like to make (such as Jewel Roasted Vegetables which she and her husband didn't enjoy but had me totally drooling).
The recipe I chose was Magic in the Middles, fun-looking chocolate cookies with a peanut butter surprise inside. Zaylee and I tied on our aprons and baked these up this afternoon. She enjoyed helping Mommy by stirring the dry ingredients, and helping to flatten the cookies with a glass. She especially enjoyed repeatedly sampling the peanut butter filling and the finished cookies!
Magic in the Middles
1½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour (I snuck in a half cup of whole wheat flour)
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
½ cup granulated sugar (plus extra for dipping)
½ cup brown sugar, packed
½ cup unsalted butter
¼ cup smooth peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
¾ cup smooth peanut butter
¾ cup powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly grease (or line with parchment) two baking sheets.
Prepare dough: In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In another medium bowl, beat together sugars, butter, and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and egg, beating to combine, then stir in dry ingredients, blending well.
Prepare filling: In a small bowl, stir together peanut butter and powdered sugar until smooth. With floured hands, roll the filling into 26 one-inch balls (I skipped this step, and just spooned in the filling in the next step. In hindsight, it would have been easier to shape the cookies with balls of filling instead of spoonfuls, so don't skip this step).
Shape cookies: Break off about 1 Tbsp. of the dough, make an indentation in the center with your finger, and press one of the peanut butter balls into the indentation. Bring the dough up and over the filling, pressing it closed; roll the cookie in the palms of your hand to smooth it out. Repeat with remaining dough and filling.
Dip the top of each cookie in granulated sugar and place on prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Grease the bottom of a drinking glass and use it to flatten each cookie to about ½-inch-thick (Due to overeager helping, some of the peanut butter squished out the sides of some of the cookies. Merely an aesthetic issue - they still tasted great).
Bake cookies for 7 to 9 minutes, until they're set. Remove them from the oven and cool on a rack (I discovered that mine worked better when I let them sit on the baking sheet for a couple minutes before removing to a rack. They were too soft at first and needed to harden a bit).
Yield: About 26 cookies (Mine made 33 with more peanut butter filling left over)
All in all, I was very pleased with having chosen this recipe. These delicious cookies are lightly crispy on the outside edges, and soft and chewy inside. The chocolate and peanut butter flavors complement each other very well, neither overpowers the other. Super delicious cookies! They were quite a bit more work than I tend to go for in cookies, but it was lots of fun with Zaylee to help me.
7 comments:
- Bridget said...
Ooooo...what a fun surprise in the middle! :)
- May 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM
- Marisa said...
- May 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM
- Kimmie said...
I LOVE your past 3 recipes and I can't wait to try them out. The Lime Pie and Toffee look yummy as well as these cookies.
I have a similar cookie recipe on my Blog, that has chocolate chips in it, however, you can leave out the chocolate chips and wrap the dough around a ROLO and it makes a caramel centered cookie.
BTW...congratulations on your pregnancy. That is SO exciting!
Looking forward to reading about your cheesecake recipe when you post it!
Have a great weekend!
- May 23, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- What's for Supper? said...
I am glad that you picked these. I made them around Christmas time if I remember correctly. They were good though. There are several recipes that I plan on trying from your blog yet.
Again...that Lucky Chicken was FANTASTIC. Even if I didn't win the lottery that night. And will be made again soon.
Thanks Partner!
- May 23, 2009 at 11:12 PM
- Katy ~ said...
I saw these on Taste & Create and they looked so good; they also look so good here, and I'm thinking they'll be sooooo good at my house!
- May 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM
- HoneyB said...
These look so yummy! I made peanut butter cookies for T&C too!
- May 24, 2009 at 7:35 PM
I have a recipe for these, too. I seem to always have peanut butter filling left over! Last time I spread it out on a plate and put some melted chocolate chips on top then refrigerated it, and we cut off little pieces to eat. These cookies are a lot of work, but worth it every once in a while.
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Not So Culottes! Why No One, (Unless You're Blake Lively), Should Work This Trend!
Shorts may be all the rage, but steer clear of this terrible take on the trend!
Some styles should never be revived! Seeing Blake Lively on the Gossip Girl set in NYC last week in a pair of floral culottes reminded me that in the spring I picked up a pair of the baggy, skirt-like shorts in a fun print, so I decided to break them out this weekend. While they were incredibly comfortable, they were quite possibly the most unflattering item of clothing I've worn in a while — I don't think the high-waisted, flimsy fabric and extra material would do anything for anyone, and my friends were very quick to tell me to change. I looked more like an unstylish mom (ala Kate Gosselin) than a chic chick. I honestly do not know what I was thinking when I tried on the shorts and decided to purchase them!
Even Blake looks kind of awkward in the trend from the side — although if you insist on wearing them your best bet is to pair them with a simple top and a high pump or wedge, just like the star.
Do you agree and think the shorts are a terrible trend or do you love to kick back in culottes?
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Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work, or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense:
According to the Council of Writing Program Administrators (2003), plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else's language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.
This definition applies to texts published in print or on-line, to manuscripts, and to the work of other student writers.
In most colleges and universities, plagiarism commonly occurs when students:
- Submit someone else's text as one's own or attempting to blur the line between one's own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source, and/or
- Carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source.
In other words, to "plagiarize" means:
- to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
- to use (another's production) without crediting the source
- to commit literary theft
- to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
Ultimately, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.
But can words and ideas really be stolen?
According to U.S. law, the answer is yes. In the United States and many other countries, the expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property, and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some media (such as a book or a computer file). [However, it is important to note that plagiarism and copyright infringement are not one in the same. Plagiarism is an issue of academic integrity. Copyright infringement is a legal issue. Please read the copyright information provided on this website for additional information on copyright issues.]
All of the following are considered plagiarism:
- turning in someone else's work as your own
- copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
- failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
- giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
- changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
- copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
Contrary to popular student belief, Changing the words of an original source is not sufficient to prevent plagiarism. If you have retained the essential idea of an original source, and have not cited it, then no matter how drastically you may have altered its context or presentation, you have still plagiarized.
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For more information on plagiarism, read Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The Council of Writing Program Administrators Statement on Best Practices.
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Most Americans grew up knowing the difference between Coca-Cola, RC Cola, and a store brand cola. We know that the store brand is a knock-off of Coca-cola and that it will be much cheaper, but inferior in taste and likely mouth feel (because of a variation in carbonation). RC Cola wasn't as bad as the store brand, but still a big step down from "the Real Thing" (aka Coke).
When you encounter brands from another country, you have little idea what is what. The big cheeses will eventually reveal themselves if you pay attention, and the lesser brands may or may not build their way into your brand awareness consciousness. Glico (Pocky), Lotte (Koala's March and Crunky), and Meiji (Hi-Chew and Meltykiss/Meltyblend) emerge as the premium consumer-grade snack makers. Meito, the manufacturer behind today's item, is definitely closer to the RC Cola level than the Coca-cola level. In fact, they're just a few steps up from store brand.
Rather ironically, Meito created this chocolate as a store brand item for Daiso. For those who don't know, Daiso is a 100-yen shop in Japan and has branches in the U.S. at which it typically sells items for $1.50. It is an awesome store in Japan with a lot of utilitarian and cool items. In the U.S., it's still pretty great, but the selection isn't nearly as good.
This product is clearly designed to have the look and feel of Meltykiss/Meltyblend chocolates. The packaging is similar as is the square-shaped chocolate in individual foil packets. Both are also dusted with cocoa powder on the outside and meant to resemble truffle-like chocolates. The main difference aesthetically is that the cocoa powder on the outside of these is much lighter in color than Meiji's Meltykiss. The use of "kuchidoke" or "melt in your mouth" is also meant to evoke the image of the more popular brand name product. Meltykiss is only sold in the winter because it's supposed to, well, "melt".
The first thing I noticed about this was that it was harder than a Meltykiss chocolate. The outer coating seemed more like a crisp shell dusted with cocoa powder that surrounded a core of plain white chocolate than the ganache/truffle-style experience of the competitor it seeks to emulate. I could tell by how hard it was to cut through and how the outer shell shattered that it was definitely not the same as a ganache or soft truffle chocolate. It does melt in your mouth, but not as a soft, yielding, fatty chocolate. It melts in the way that nearly any kind of chocolate would do so if you held it on your tongue long enough.
The flavor is actually quite good with a deep flavor of chocolate hitting you after it melts on your tongue for a moment. That is, I imagine, the outer coating melting away and the effect of the cocoa powder. The second flavor is less impressive and that's the white chocolate coming through. For at least a short time, it let's loose some cheap white chocolate flavor before it yields to a richer, creamier flavor. All in all, it's fine, but a mixed bag and certainly not on par with Meltykiss/Meltyblend in terms of quality.
There is absolutely nothing "wrong" with this chocolate taken on its own except for the fact that it doesn't live up to its promise either as a knock-off of Meltykiss or as a "melt in your mouth" experience. Given that Meltykiss in the U.S. costs $4.00 (usually) and this is $1.50, it may be unrealistic to expect better for such a low price. However, you can spend your money on something domestic which will be just as good if not better. Though I enjoyed these on a certain level, I definitely wouldn't buy them again and am not inspired to try the other varieties in the Daiso line - at least not at this time.


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He says that he was on the same flight with Justin after the Teen Choice Awards. He narrates, "He taps me on the shoulder... 'Yo, I want to show you this song I produced and wrote. I'm really excited about it because it's one of the first songs I produced by myself'," when describing the encounter with the young pop sensation.
He says that they listened to the track on Justin's laptop while crouching down in a plane aisle. "The song was dope," he describes. He then adds, "He was like, 'Yeah, I wrote it for Selena. It's great.' And it was really awesome. It was, like, really, really dope."
will.i.am says that as a producer himself, it makes him proud to see someone so interested in producing and songwriting just as he is. "I think that guy is gonna be around for a really, really long time," he says of the pop superstar.
The Black Eyed Peas rapper also says that he has been working with the "Baby" hitmaker and says that the Canadian singer will appear on his solo album "#willpower."
The "Boyfriend" singer and his equally-talented girlfriend are not shy about their romance. They were seen celebrating her 20th birthday on Sunday, July 22 with some friends at the Beverly Hills restaurant, Il Cielo.


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Wheelchair available for loan, no charge
Picninc area accessible: paved path and accessible tables
Restrooms accessible
The self-guiding trail through the original mission grounds has signs that include audio information. This information can be heard after pushing a button.
Assistive listening receivers available for park movie.
The park movie is open captioned.
Large print text of the trailside recordings
Large print text version of park brochure
Large print text of park movie
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Rachel Aldana has incredibly large tits that anyone would want to suck on. She plays with those nice melons. Aren't those wonderfully huge coconuts incredible? Rachel Aldana's boobies really are a work of art. When she's not just lying around the house naked, she likes to visit sex clubs.
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These notes are based on the lectures given in a series of nightmares between October and December 2012. The notes are self-contained and do not assume any preliminary knowledge of life, although some physics background could help for a stronger comprehension. However, the appendix may require some familiarity with the philosophy of philosophizing on politics.
The chapters are suggested to take one nightmare each, though the student may find it useful to elaborate on each subject by working out examples by the end of each chapter. The chronology of the facts were distorted in the presentation for pedagogical reasons. The student is therefore invited to go through the previous material before moving on to the next chapter.
The author is indebted to no one for any support whatsoever.
Chapter I: Fuck future plans
The science: Future is present relative to a few years ago when "future plans" were decided to be the defining basis.
The fact: Thus, the future is apparently designed by the protagonist to be that swamp in which the culprit sleeps on the couch while the protagonist cuddles with whomever is appropriate - particularly when the culprit happens to visit for a couple of days since months.
The result: The given set of conditions are exactly what is called not a relationship.
Conclusion: Ergo, fuck future plans.
Chapter II: Beyond the light spectrum
The science: Human beings radiate light that is not visible for their eyes, eg. through their skin. They are indeed capable of consciously producing more of it, eg. by running. That one can consciously produce it is not contradictory to the fact that one cannot observe it. Yet, there exists a technology that allows one to observe them by utilizing special eyeglasses.
The fact: The protagonist is time and space invariant under
1) being a civilized attention whore,
2) never admitting (1),
3) rationalizing her acts with respect to the master plan of blanketing (1) and (2), (See Appendix for an example.)
contrary to the classical claim of everything being in constant change.
The result: It is theoretically impossible to have direct communication with someone who has a rationalization for any crime she committed.
Conclusion: Ergo, "Fuck communication!" is a void statement in the absence of communication. (See Chapter IV for more details.)
Chapter III: Lies, hypocrisy, egoism
The science: "Slippery slope" is defined to be an argumentation fallacy of jumping from one statement to another without giving sufficient justification.
The fact:
premise. I am learning a lot from the discussions we have with him.
conclusion. Therefore I will sleep and wake up with him while you miserably masturbate on the sofa.
is a not-very-common example of the slippery slope fallacy.
The result: See rationalization (Chapter II).
Conclusion: Ergo, shit is being served warm in this restaurant.
Chapter IV: The zero element
The science:
Some necessary conditions for communication are the presence of a transmitter, the existence of a message, and the presence of receiver that processes the transmitted message.
The fact: "I will be suffering the consequences of this." is a clear attempt to communicate desperation, provided that the listener bothered to listen.
The result: Lack of communication is an invalid excuse. Communication requires some damn intention to communicate! (See Chapter III for lies &c.)
Conclusion: Ergo, x*0=0 for any real x.
Chapter V: Hope, optimism and other diseases
The science: A diver who went too deep into the ocean has two options:
i) get drowned, holding his/her breath as long as possible
ii) die of the bends, trying to quickly reach the surface.
The fact: One does not simply put a relationship on hold.
The result:
Please make sure that you closed all the running programs. Resetting a relationship may cause loss of important personal data.
Conclusion: Ergo: "Off with his head!"
Chapter VI: Further reading
The science: Fuck theory.
The fact: Fuck practice.
The result:
" 'I want a clean cup,'interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move one place on.'
He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change: and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate."
Conclusion: Ergo: " 'At any rate I'll never go there again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. 'It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was in all my life!' "
Appendix: Political chantage
The science: Universally, any argument is won by referring to revolutionary ethics.
The fact: "What does this act serve for?" is a statement that can be applied at any time when the protagonist is not willing to discuss.
The result: Marx used to spend some of his nights with his family, they used to read out passages from Shakespeare, and they actually enjoyed it. This possibly proves Marx being attached to aristocratic aesthetics.
Conclusion: Ergo; revolutionary romanticism has childish side effects that result in cheerfully blanketing ignorance and crime, and thereby avoiding the consequences. (See Chapter II for blanketing and rationalization.)


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A Sensory Scavenger Hunt for Spring
When our family lived in the city, we were fortunate enough to have a Waldorf school to send our older children to. One of the most beautiful components of the Waldorf approach to education is fostering a lifelong and, in a sense, sacred bond with nature. The changing seasons are referred to the 'rhythm of the year' and the curriculum, the classroom environment, and the school celebrations are all in sync with what is happening outdoors. Our children also spent a lot of time in nature with their class via extended, all-weather outdoor play each day and weekly nature walks. Ironically, with a busy family schedule, and a new way of life in a public school, our kids spend less time outdoors now that we live in the country. We try to make up for this with regularly scheduled family hikes, especially as the seasons shift and change. Today, we want to share a fun activity that we'll soon enjoy – a sensory scavenger hunt for Spring.
We created this checklist to print and color, and take along on your next Spring hike. Just click on the image below to download and print the PDF. You'll see that the hunt requires all of the senses, and includes some gentle rules that parents should help young children pay attention to. Our older children are now excited about photographing elements of our hikes, and so we help them balance their need to capture a moment digitally with the beauty of capturing moments in real time, by observing the moment before them. Warning – if you have tweens like we do, suggesting that you hold on to their camera phones for a little while may result in some serious eye rolling.
Be prepared to get dirty! This was another beautiful thing about our former Waldorf school – the teachers had us send a bag of spare clothing, socks, even underwear for the kids so that if they got messy during outdoor play, they could change. Their coats and boots would be just caked in mud by the end of the week, but the children were always spent with exhausted delight come Friday. If you can't learn to appreciate the messy beauty of life in childhood, when can you? Pack some old cardboard or a tarp in your trunk for muddy rain boots, pack water-resistant jackets and pants. Even an entire change of clothes isn't a bad idea at this time of year.
When we hike, we generally like to observe nature and leave things as we found them, but we usually allow each child to search for one treasure to display on the nature table that lives in our dining room. The nature table is a small display that we change with the seasons and features both natural treasures and handmade decorations that honor the celebrations of each season.
After your hike, enjoy some quiet time together to unwind with a hot mug of something yummy, or better yet, a bowl of homemade soup or stew. I've included a few links below to some great sites for free coloring pages. We use our scrap printer paper to print these out as we need them to help the kids, and us grownups, unwind. You can also encourage your older children to record their impressions and ideas in a nature journal where they can draw, record their findings or write poetry inspired by nature.
Right now, we're bracing for a Winter storm, which always seems to happen here in Canada as soon as Spring arrives. Once the weather has cleared, I can't wait to try this scavenger hunt with our own little (and not-so-little) ones.
Some Free Coloring Pages
Clicking on the images below will take you to the website where we found them, where you'll find lots of great options to choose from.


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Parrotheads Like Hawaiian Shirts
Hawaiian shirts are among the stuff that Parrotheads like. As far as I can remember, I wore my first Hawaiian shirt in the mid 1970's at the height of the T.V. show Magnum PI's popularity. Tom Selleck made Hawaiian shirts look cool and I thought I looked cool in one also (please don't burst my bubble… I still think I look pretty sharp in Hawaiian shirts ;-)).
I've worn many Hawaiian shirts over the years and I am always on the lookout for the next "gotta have" shirt for my "collection". While we were in St. Augustine, FL, this past week, I found two Hawaiian shirts that are now among my "favorites" (at least for the next month or so).
The first purchase I made on this trip was in the historic section of St. Augustine (where numerous shops and "deals" are waiting for unsuspecting tourists). We spent several hours wandering the streets and enjoying the unique items in this section of St. Augustine. I thought I was going to get though the day without buying anything until… I saw my family crest!
Now you may say that what I purchased is only a nylon "Hawaiian shirt" flag but I beg to differ. As an only child with very little information about my ancestors, I have often wondered where my love of beaches, oceans and Hawaiian shirts come from. I am convinced that there are some fun loving, beach seeking ancestors in my family "Palm" tree.
On Thursday, I bought the smaller version of the Hawaiian shirt/flag for my front yard but felt compelled to go back and claim my family crest on Friday. When I shared my family crest story on Saturday afternoon, I felt like I was sharing my discovery with new found cousins (fellow Parrotheads that I hadn't met until this weekend).
The second purchase on this trip took place on Friday evening when we were checking in. Just around the corner from the registration table were Cookie and Jim Goranson selling some of their shirts, jewelry and other Parrothead supplies from their business, "The Wacky Parrot" (www.thewackyparrot.com).
As part of the Parrot Island Band (a Jimmy Buffett Tribute Band from Atlanta, Georgia), we love Hawaiian shirts with parrots, palm trees and bright colors. Linda and I found matching ones in the Wacky Parrot Shop that we wore on Saturday afternoon and they received numerous compliments – thanks Cookie and Jim! Linda also found some beautiful parrot earrings that I know she will use for many gigs to come.
As you can see, Hawaiian shirts aren't just… well, shirts! They often have stories and hold memories. I recently commented on a particularly beautiful Hawaiian shirt at an event in Georgia and the fellow wearing it said, "This shirt holds a lot of great memories… some of which I can't remember!" If you have any Hawaiian shirt stories that you would like to share, send them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I may post them here on our website. Until next time, may your closets be filled with Hawaiian shirts, your days with beautiful beaches and your life with countless blessings…


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Thursday, 20 December 2012
Fave Mo Card for 2012
7 comments:
- aussie aNNie said...
Beautiful and stunning cards, I so love the summer card you made, so full of detail, colour and inspirations...thanks for dropping bye my blog and your lovely comment...I have joined your beautiful blog as a new follower...luv annie
- December 20, 2012
- Martinas Welt said...
I would not call your new card simple!! ;) And I really love it!!!
But I also LOVE LOVE LOVE your most Favourite Mo card of 2012! This one is really stuninng!!!! But all your cards are....
- December 20, 2012
- cuilliesocks said...
Your cards are wonderful Julia, I just adore your creations, kate x
- December 20, 2012
- Mojca said...
Waw I love your cards and these two are so preety. Hugs! MOjca
- December 20, 2012
- Tracy said...
Wonderful choice Iulia although I can't imagine how in the world you narrowed it down. I really do love the quilled flower and the new card is really gorgeous in it's simplicity. Hugs!
- December 20, 2012
- Vicky said...
Two beautiful card Iulia...and wishing you a Merry Christmas too...:o)
big hugs Vicky xx
- December 20, 2012
- Mau xx said...
Both gorgeous cards lulia, and the new one is so pretty, it didn't need lots of colour and shading. you excel at everything you create.
- December 28, 2012


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looks good to me! On 1 Sep 2006, at 16:51, Hiram Chirino wrote: > Howdy Folks, here is my first stab at septemeber status report.. > please let me know if something needs to be added/changed: > > The ActiveMQ community continues to grow as evidenced by the mailing > list volumes. Each month mailing list volumes continues to grow. Last > month we had 574 emails sent to the developer list and 905 email sent > to the user list! We have also seen a big increase in the amount of > patches and contributions submitted from non ActiveMQ committers. > > A large amount of development work and community interest has been > around the Native clients used to access the Messaging broker. Tim > Bish's excellent work on the STOMP c++ client has earned him an > invitation to become an ActiveMQ committer. Amazon did a in house c++ > client to ActiveMQ and that source code donation was accepted and > committed to the source tree. > > All the source headers in the 2 active branches have be update to > comply with the new policies outline at: > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html. > > The Apache ActiveMQ 4.0.1 has successfully been released. For more > information about the release, see: > http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/activemq-401-release.html > Development continues on the next 4.1 release. In tandem, the 4.0 > branch has continued to stabilize and a 4.0.2 release should be ready > shortly. > > The project has discussed graduating and feels that ActiveMQ ready and > would prefer to become a TLP. Once the 4.0.2 release is completed > expect more serious discussions regarding graduation to pop up on the > incubator mailing lists. > > -- > Regards, > Hiram > > Blog: http://hiramchirino.com
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Бібліотека та фільмотека мовного центру Бояр
Jared Hess Jerusha Hess
Napoleon (Jon Heder) starts his school day by riding the bus. To entertain himself he sends a superhero figure out the window attached by fishing line to surf on the street behind the bus. At school he shares his current event with the class, plays tetherball, talks about hunting wolverines in Alaska with a frickin' 12 gauge, and gets bullied. He then calls home and asks his brother Kip (Aaron Ruell) to bring him some chapstick. Kip is too busy with his nachos to comply. Napoleon then meets the new kid at school Pedro (Efren Ramirez). Napolean and Pedro go to Pedro's house to take Pedros bike on some sweet jumps. Upon arriving home Grandma tells Kip and Napoleon that shes going away for a day. They convince her that they do not need a babysitter. We find out that Kip is training to become a cage fighter. Napoleon answers the door and finds Deb (Tina Majorino) offering 75% off of Glamour Shots by Deb, as well as selling boondoggle key chains to save money for college. Kip says, your mom goes to college, which upsets Deb and she runs off, leaving all her stuff on Napoleons porch. Kip sees an ad for Rex Kwon Do on the tv and asks Napoleon to pull him into town. They attend the orientation for Rex Kwon Do only to decide it was a rip-off.
At school the next day, Napoleon and the Happy Hands Club, a sign language group, give a performance in front of their class. Pedro decides he will ask Summer Wheatly to the dance. Napoleon sees Deb and tells her that her stuff is in her locker and she should take it because he cant fit his nunchucks in there anymore. We see grandma riding an ATV on the sand dunes and have an accident. That evening while Napoleon is feeding the family llama Tina, Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) shows up and informs them that Grandma has broken her coccyx and he will be taking care of them until she returns. Uncle Rico shows Napoleon and Kip a video of him throwing footballs. Uncle Rico reminisces about his glory days.
Kip and Rico go to Big J's restaurant and discuss Rico's break up with his girlfriend and Kip's blossoming online romance. They also talk about a money making scheme that Rico has in the works.
Pedro and Napoleon deliver a cake to Summer's house as Pedro's invite to the dance. Back at home, Kip and Rico discuss acquiring a time machine online so that Rico can go back to 1982. They also discuss the money making scheme which involves nylon polymer. They decide they need badges and so go to Deb's to get some photos taken. Pedro gets Summer's rejection letter and also receives an acceptance letter from Deb, who Pedro had invited without Napoleon knowing. Pedro tells Napoleon to draw a picture of the girl he wants to invite to the dance. He draws a picture of Trisha, who happens to be Summer's best friend. When he goes to give the picture to Trisha, Uncle Rico is there trying to sell her mother a 24 piece set. Uncle Rico tells Trisha's mom that he wets the bed. Trisha's mom takes pity and tells Trisha she is going to the dance with Napoleon.
Napoleon spends a day at a chicken farm for the Future Farmers of America. They eat eggs. Back at home he gets the call from Trisha accepting his invitation to the dance. Pedro says he really needs to get a suit so they go to the thrift store and buy an awesome one. Uncle Rico is going to drive Napoleon to the dance but needs to stop and finalize a sale first. Napoleon gets tired of waiting and starts running to Trisha's but gets picked up by Pedro's cousins with all the sweet hook-ups. They go to the dance and Trisha ditches Napoleon for Summer but Pedro lets Napoleon dance with Deb, who is wearing a dress with sleeves that are real big. While they are dancing Pedro sees that the elections for class president are coming up. Napoleon later convinces Pedro that he should run for class president.
Napoleon arrives at home to find that Uncle Rico's time machine has arrived. He tries it out but it only electrocutes him. Uncle Rico has already figured out that it doesnt work. Napoleon and Pedro do well at their FFA meeting with Napoleon being an expert whole milk taster and Pedro a fantastic dairy cow assessor. Back at school they find out Summer is running for president. Pedro gets hot and has to go home.
Back at Big J's, Kip reveals to Uncle Rico that he believes his internet romance may be his soul mate. Her name is LaFawnduh and she is coming out from Detroit. Uncle Rico has a new product for them to sell. We find out that when Pedro got hot he shaved his head and now he doesn't want anyone to see so now he wears his hood tight on his head. Deb and Napoleon take him to the thrift store where they pick the wig that looks like a medieval warrior which Deb proclaims matches Pedro's season.
With his confidence back, Pedro starts his presidential campaign by hanging up posters and handing out boondoggle key chains. Summer can't believe his nerve. Napoleon sees a nerd in distress and offers him a boondoggle saying, "Pedro offers you his protection". Next time this nerd is in distress Pedro's cousins scare away the attacker. Kip meanwhile meets LaFawnduh at the bus station, and Uncle Rico gives Summer and Trisha flyers for his new product Bust Must +, a breast enlargement pill. Napoleon later finds that his locker has been plastered with Bust Must + flyers. Kip and LaFawnduh are getting along well and LaFawnduh gives kip a huge sparkling necklace. Napoleon attacks Uncle Rico's van with a grapefruit. Pedro has a piñata of Summer as lunchtime entertainment.
At the thrift store once again, Napoleon finds a VHS tape of D-Qwons Dance Grooves. Pedro gets a lecture from the school principal about making a piñata in the likeness of his opponent. Napoleon goes home and learns his dance moves from D-Qwon. He meets LaFawnduh, who gives him a cassette tape to listen to that her cousin made. Kip is now a changed man thanks to LaFawnduh. Uncle Rico tries to sell Bust Must + to Deb, saying Napoleon thought she would want some. Deb calls Napoleon and tells him off. Napoleon tells Uncle Rico to leave because he is ruining everyone's lives and eating all of their steak.
Uncle Rico goes to Rex Kwon Dos house to sell Bust Must + to his wife, Starla. Rex walks in and breaks Rico's arm. At school the presidential speeches commence with Summer doing a skit with the Happy Hands Club, sans Napoleon and the fat girl. Pedro and Napoleon find out that a skit is expected and since they don't have one prepared Pedro loses hope and gives a pathetic speech. Napoleon thinks quick and gives the tape LaFawnduh gave him to the A/V guy. He uses the moves he learned from D-Qwon to wow the whole audience and receives a standing ovation.
Kip gets on a bus with LaFawnduh, Grandma returns from the hospital, Ricos ex-girlfriend shows up at his van, and Pedro wins the presidency. Deb has forgiven Napoleon and shows up on the playground. Napoleon tells her he caught her a delicious bass and they play a game of tetherball, which Napoleon wins by cheating.
2 Months Later is the wedding of Kip and LaFawnduh. Napoleon is absent. Kip sings LaFawnduh a love song which gets interrupted when Napoleon shows up on a horse. He proclaims that he just finished taming a wild honeymoon stallion for the newlyweds. He asks Deb to take a picture of him on the horse. Kip and LaFawnduh ride off together and Napoleon is speechless but for one word..........lucky.


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Middle class acquiesces through the looking glass of financial mediocrity: The financial system continues to pillage the wealth of working and middle class Americans.
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2013 can be remembered as a year where the markets fully disconnected from Main Street. The trickle down promises are all empty and hollow words. For example, we had one of the best stock market rallies ever yet most Americans are not seeing any wage growth. The housing market boomed but more than 30 percent of sales are going to big banks and investors using the Fed's QE system to crowd out regular people. Why are higher home prices positive if incomes are not going up? The market no longer reflects the pains of the working and middle class. In fact, the stock market must appear like a looking glass for many Americans who look at their paychecks and net worth and must wonder how they can get a piece of the action. The con is strong since most of non-housing debt taken on this year came via auto and student loan debt. In other words, spending what you don't have. The financial system continues to pillage what little wealth working and middle class Americans have.
Nearly half of country struggling
A recent Gallup poll found that 44 percent of Americans are struggling and 4 percent are flat out suffering:
What is interesting is that even in the height of the recession, the figures were very similar. Today we still have over 47 million Americans depending on food stamps to get by. With a record in the stock market, it is hard to reconcile how nearly 1 out of 6 Americans has just enough to buy food. We are still at record levels here suggesting that we have some profound structural problems in our system.
Many of the good paying jobs that left during the recession have been replaced by low wage and low benefit jobs. While the public is dealt the heavy hand of austerity the soft hand of corporate welfare is alive and well on Wall Street.
Household income is not moving up
Adjusting for inflation, median household income is at levels last seen in the late 1980s:
What this suggests is that the tech boom of the 1990s and the real estate of the bubble of the 2000s did help to get some people wealthier but it certainly was not the middle class. In fact, there is a multi-decade trend going on where the middle class is slowly being pulled apart. Keep in mind that a large part of the financial sector does absolutely nothing in creating real wealth. They merely serve as a rentier-seeking profit machine that extracts wealth from the real economy. This is why QE has now pushed large banks into crowding out regular households in the market. The result? Higher home prices and higher rents with no real increase in incomes.
Spending up on auto and student loan debt
Roughly 95 percent of the increase in non-revolving debt this year has come from student and car loans:
Source: Federal Reserve, ZH
This should not be seen as a positive for the fact that real household incomes are not up. People are simply going into debt for spending on items today. Did this work out well last time? It did not. Yet the middle class is buying into the myth of a booming economy even though their incomes are not up! This is why they need to go into mega debt to buy cars and go to college.
Student debt is already at $1.2 trillion (the Fed's chart below is lagging behind the actual real figures:
For college graduates in many disciplines the debt taken on is simply not worth it. Yet the lack of good paying jobs has created fierce competition for work in certain fields. Younger Americans are starting out with incredible levels of debt and very low wage jobs. Many don't even know what a pension is as these are being pushed out (although golden parachutes for executives are completely okay in this predatory system). The cognitive dissonance is powerful in the current market. Wasn't it the financial industry that led this country into the worst recession since the Great Depression and is now partying on the Fed's easy money stream?
Inequality at record levels
Of course all of this has led to record levels of inequality:
The top 10 percent control 75 percent of all the wealth in the nation. The bottom 60 percent of this country controls absolutely nothing (it barely shows up on the chart). This is reflected more dramatically when we look at retirement savings:
The typical working-age household has $3,000 saved for retirement in the wealthiest nation on the planet. Is it any surprise that 48 percent of the country is struggling or downright suffering? Yet here we are with a record in the stock market. Makes you wonder what that $4 trillion in the Fed's balance sheet is really doing.
Many Americans are simply getting by and have accepted the status quo or are purposely bombarded with confusing messages from the mainstream press.
"Save carefully but look at that hot financial stock!"
"Don't miss out on the next housing boom!"
Then we wonder why the middle class is slowly fading away deep into the looking glass.
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Gringo Bush Pilot said:
The United States is not a nation of capitalists. It is a nation of wage earners with a tiny minority of capitalists. The only genuine capitalists — individuals who can live entirely from their investments — are a minuscule minority in the U.S. and all other so-called capitalist countries. Having a modest amount of retirement money in a mutual fund does not make anyone a capitalist except in the Wall Street Journal's Op-Ed pages. For the foreseeable future, few Americans will derive any significant income from capital gains during their working lives, just as few will derive more than a small portion of their retirement income from sources other than Social Security including 401K's. Right-wing propaganda about an emerging "capitalist majority" to the contrary, America is and will remain a nation of wage earners dependent on paychecks and public social insurance like Social Security and unemployment insurance.December 20th, 2013 at 5:12 am
Gary Reber said:
This is a MUST READ article on the impact of our soaring non-asset money-based national debt and its impact on inflation.
Influential economists and business leaders, as well as political leaders, should read Harold Moulton's The Formation Of Capital, in which he argues that it makes no sense to finance new productive capital out of past savings. Instead, economic growth should be financed out of future earnings (savings), and provide that every citizen become an owner. The Federal Reserve, which has been largely responsible for the powerlessness of most American citizens, should set an example for all the central banks in the world. Chairman Benjamin Bernanke and other members of the Federal Reserve need to wake-up and implement Section 13 paragraph 2, which directs the Federal Reserve to create credit for local banks to make loans where there isn't enough savings in the system to finance economic growth. We should not destroy the Federal Reserve or make it a political extension of the Treasury Department, but instead reform it so that the American citizens in each of the 12 Federal Reserve Regions become the owners. The result will be that money power will flow from the bottom up, not from the top down––not for consumer credit, not for credit that doesn't pay for itself or non-productive uses of credit, but for credit for productive uses to expand the economy's rate of growth.
The following is based on a presentation by Norman Kurland, President of the Center for Economic and Social Justice (www.cesj.org)
We need policies that will expand the rate of private sector growth through Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and other credit democratization vehicles. The Federal Reserve discount mechanism under section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act needs to be refined. The aim should be to radically reduce the cost of capital credit to enable workers and citizens generally to gain equity shares and dividend incomes from the process of financing growth capital, without the use of tax subsidies. It should also reduce the reliance on tax incentives and subsidies for financing expanded ownership, as part of a more comprehensive national economic empowerment strategy of "capital homesteading."
The discount mechanism of the Federal Reserve (section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) should be reactivated, with appropriate modifications and safeguards, to allow qualified banks and financial institutions to discount "eligible" industrial, commercial, and agricultural paper, representing production-oriented loans to leveraged ESOPs, IRAs, community investment corporations, and similar mechanisms for securing access to low-cost capital credit for broadening capital ownership among workers, area residents, and other non-affluent citizens.
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, Congress intended the purchase of "eligible paper" to be the main way that the Federal Reserve System would create bank reserves. When this practice was followed, the banks in a particular area could obtain loanable funds in direct proportion to the community's needs for money. But in recent years, the Federal Reserve has purchased almost no eligible paper.
When the Federal Reserve System was set up in 1914 the money supply was expected to grow with the needs of the economy. It was hoped that by monetizing "eligible" short-term commercial paper, by providing liquidity to sound banks in periods of stress, and by restraining excessive credit expansion, the banking system could be guided automatically toward the provision of an adequate and stable money supply to meet the needs of industry and commerce. To safeguard their liquidity and provide a base for expansion, the member banks could obtain credit from the nearest Federal Reserve bank, usually by rediscounting their "eligible paper" at the bank-i.e. selling to the Reserve Bank certain loan paper representing loans which the member bank had made to its own customers (the requirements for eligibility being defined by law). If necessary, the member banks might also obtain reserves by getting "advances" from the Federal Reserve bank.
In other words, under a standard central banking system, businesses or other productive enterprises would obtain loans at their local commercial bank. The commercial bank, in a process known as "discounting," would then sell the qualified loan paper of the business enterprises to the central bank. In the case of the United States, the commercial bank would sell its paper to one of the twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks. To be able to purchase the "qualified paper," the Federal Reserve would either print new currency or simply create new demand deposits.
As originally intended when the Federal Reserve System was established, this process would create an asset-backed currency that increased as the need for money increased, preventing deflation. As the loans were repaid, the currency would be taken out of circulation, or the demand deposits "erased" from the books. This would remove money from the economy that was not linked directly to hard assets, and would thus prevent inflation.
Although no actual teller's window exists where commercial banks stand in line to sell loan paper to the Federal Reserve, the transaction is described as taking place at "the discount window." When the "discount window" is "open," commercial banks can sell their "qualified industrial, commercial and agricultural paper" to the central bank. When the "discount window" is "closed," commercial banks must go elsewhere to obtain excess reserves to lend, or cease making loans.
How Has The Discount Mechanism Been Used?
Despite the fact that the discounting mechanism was intended under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to be the main means for controlling the American money supply, it has long been abandoned as an integral part of the United States financial system. The discount window has been used to help bail out a few companies or countries considered "too big" or too important to fail. Overall, however, the money creation powers of the Federal Reserve have been used to monetize government debt. Since this is not how the system was designed to operate, a number of problems have resulted.
Our economic problems are usually blamed on decisions by Congress or the President, particularly those decisions that result in nonproductive or counterproductive spending and tax policies. Little is said about decisions by the Federal Reserve, many of which, as binary economist Louis Kelso and others have pointed out for over 40 years, have been equally counterproductive. Fed policies have added to the problem of government deficits, fueling the growth of the national debt to today's level of double-digit trillions (making the United States the highest government debtor in the world). This has artificially and unnecessarily slowed the growth rate of the private sector.
As a result, what Kelso and other ESOP pioneers predicted is becoming increasingly evident:
• Continuing economic disenfranchisement of the American people.
• Low rates of peacetime economic growth.
• Rates of private sector investment far below U.S. potential.
• Excessive use of nonproductive credit in the public and private sectors.
• Downsizing of U.S. companies in competition with foreign companies with lower labor costs.
• Mounting trade deficits in the global marketplace.
• A growing gap in consumption incomes between the wealthiest Americans and ordinary workers and the poor.
• Under-use of human talent and new technologies that could be employed to improve America's competitiveness in the global marketplace.
The reforms of the Federal Reserve Act proposed would be fully consistent with its original purposes––to provide an adequate and stable currency and foster private sector growth. These reforms would allow our country to take full advantage of the immense potential of a properly designed central banking system. They would restore a more healthy balance between Main Street and Wall Street, and between the non-rich and the already rich. The proposed reforms would shift the focus of the Federal Reserve from support of public sector growth and indifference to non-productive uses of credit, to support of more vigorous private sector growth, the favoring of productive uses of credit, and broadened citizen access to capital credit.
Most important, the proposed new boost to expanded capital ownership for private sector workers and other citizens would not be constrained by Federal Reserve balanced budget restrictions. It would involve no new "tax expenditures" or subsidies. Nor would it rely on existing pools of domestic or foreign wealth accumulations. It would be "A Proposal to Free Economic Growth From the Slavery of [Past] Savings"––a shift to what Kelso called "pure credit."
For the complete article see The Federal Reserve Discount Window at http://foreconomicjustice.org/?p=1508.December 30th, 2013 at 11:27 am


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Hanes - ComfortBlend EcoSmart Hooded Sweatshirt - P170
The Everyday Hooded Sweatshirt wears like a dream, in 50/50 patented, low pill, high-stitch density fleece, with a hood! Keep out the bad weather or pull it down over your eyes and pretend you're somewhere tropical (If you're wearing it somewhere tropical you can pretend your somewhere cold and miserable... if that's your thing) Built with some recycled plastic to help the good ole environment too.
- 7.8 oz., 50/50 cotton/polyester
- Bar-tacked dyed-to-match drawstring
- Coverstitched armholes and waistband
- Pouch pocket, rib waistband and cuffs
Digital Garment Printing (DTG)
- Full color printing involves Direct to Garment technology using ink jet technology
- No minimums
- No limits on colors
- Low or no setup costs
- Quality art can be used as is
- High Resolution photo quality prints
- Eco Friendly Wash Fast Water Based Inks
- Print on demand programs, set pricing throughout the year
- Best for low to mid quantity multicolor projects
Screen Printing
- Screen Printing involves the process of applying specialized ink through color separated screens.
- 12 Piece minimum for one color, 24 for multi-color projects
- Limited to 6 spot colors, limited shading using halftones
- Setup costs for initial screens and reorders
- Artwork must always be revamped and separated by color
- Highly wash fast Plastisol Inks
- Value quantity pricing
- Best for mid to large quantity 1-3 spot color projects
- Embroidery involves the use of a computerized embroidery machine to apply thread directly to apparel & accessories.
- No minimums
- Limited to 12 Colors
- Set fee setups for Chest/Hat size and Full Back Size
- Any artwork can be used to create a digitized pattern
- Imprint on demand programs, set pricing throughout the year
- Best for low to high quantity projects, Great for items that are not ideal for printing


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The Birthday Benefit
Saturday, May 11, 2013
11 comments:
They're Real is one of my favorite mascaras!!ReplyDelete
Another reason I wish there was Sephora where I lived :p I have always wanted to try that highlighter - I think I would love it. They're Real is one of my favourite mascaras (if not my favourite), though the wand can get a bit spiky.ReplyDelete
Lucky you, they don't do those bday gifts where I live. XReplyDelete
I was so excited to try the They're Real mascara! Then I did and it just didn't WOW me like I was expecting. It's an ok mascara on my lashes, but it's a pain to remove. However, I love the highlighter. I'm so thankful I didn't buy a full-size because I think the sample will last quite a bit of time.ReplyDelete
Wooo hoo for May birthdays! I just celebrated mine on Friday!
i love the They're real mascara! works really well with me :)ReplyDelete
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Im interested in trying Watts Up, Benefit never lets me down!ReplyDelete
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excellent picks - love both of those! xxReplyDelete
thats amazing, do sephora send everyone little treats on their birthday? i'd love to try watts up it looks amazing!!ReplyDelete
I love Watts Up as it gives a super glamorous glow! And yes, Sephora gift every Beauty Insider a deluxe sample of something every year within two weeks of their birthday. It's such a nice service, and I've found a lot of things that I like very much through it that I probably wouldn't have looked twice at otherwise. This year I got lucky, as I wanted to try both of these products and wound up really liking them both! xxDelete
I can't wait to get this gift (although my birthday isn't until december...) as much as I liked the Fresh set from last year, I like this way more!ReplyDelete
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how hot flashes & Night sweats effect Blood sugars ?
I have nightly hot flashes & night sweats. I have had low blood sugar when i have had bad night sweats. Is there way to to provent these ? Tinkerbell54
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hate to ask this, but if you are in your 40s it could be menopause or perimenopause. I myself am in my 40s and while I have not had those symptoms yet, Those are two that I have read will increase blood sugar, so it worries me. but then I have read that those are symptoms of low blood sugar too. I am sure others who have had this will know what to tell you.
I am 53 yrs old. some days i dont have any of them . but when i get them i usely use my moisture bath beads & epsom salt in my tub to cool off from the night sweats. I like to know when these night sweats & hot flashes will end? Tinkerbell54
I don't wish them on anyone!! I just have a protein based snack before bedtime…it does help. Let me know how you make out!!
I will try that next time, Tinkerbell54
Yes, tink, I think there may be a way. Just don't go low at night! To do that test your Blood Glucose (BG) levels before bedtime and if you are below 130 you may then have a snack of something with protein in it. Since protein takes a long time to digest, you have a long slow release of glucose into your bloodstream and you should not go low overnight.
I used to have "liver dumps" when I went low and had elevated BG levels upon awakening. That was what my Dr told me to do to combat that, and so I think that this would work for you as well.
Praying for your improving health
How long have u been on dailysis ? Some days its hard to have these stupit hot flashes & night sweats. I wish men would have these things 2! Tinkerbell54
Been on dialysis treatments now for about a month - this time around, and for 10 months previoujsly starting in Nov 2006. Had an improvement in my kidneys and was off for about 6 yrs.
Oh we men DO have hot flashes and night sweats at times, but we don't talk about them much.
I guess we're "wired" differently, as well as the plumbing being different.
ok so i stand corrected that men do get hotflashes & night sweats. My MOM was on dailysis for 1 be 4 she passed way from diabetes compactions. she has been dead for 30 yrs this april 6 1983. she sufferd alot with her diabetes. Tinkerbell54
sorry to hear about your mom. I was never close to anyone with diabetes, no one in my family has it, I was adopted as an infant, I found my birth mother and birth father in the mid 90s, dont keep in touch with them anymore, but brith father told me back then, noting ran in his family that he knew of…well I found out in 2008 from one of his daughters, that I am close to, that he had type 2 and both of his parents did. if only I had known that a few years earlier, not sure when he developed it, he is in his late 60s now. So I had no way of knowing to be cautious. I know you still miss your mom, my dad has been gone for 25 years this month.
that is great bout your mom, sorry about your dad. my dad passed from lung cancer, he smoked a lot of years, but had quit about 12 yrs before he died. my mother is still getting around at 85, she is in a wheel chair, I take care of her, but she can do a lot for herself.


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By: Denni Kurniawan
In winter vacations, most of ICA member go back to our hometown and enjoy the vacations. At the same time, several friends from Taiwan also come to Indonesia to enjoy the vacations. On this winter vacations, Rita, Vicky, Marissa & Shierly come to our hometown in Aceh, Indonesia. Therefore we thing that it's important to accompany them while in Indonesia, and introduce culture and also the tourism attractions.
Actually this place is well known as one of the best place to do snorkeling and diving activity in Indonesia. A lot of foreigners come to this island every year. However, in our trip we found that several improvements need to be done to attract more tourists, such as the facilities, services and also the advertisement. To help Sabang government, we try to make a tourism video clip for Sabang tourism advertisement. We record all of our activities in this island and then Taiwanese friends make explanations in Mandarin. Mr Ali taufik, who responsible in tourism bureau in Sabang said that later our video will be used as one of official tourism advertisement in Sabang. Hopefully this effort can attract more tourists, especially from Taiwan.


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This plant is semi-aquatic as it can grow in ponds and along river banks and in streams, where it grows with watercress. It is a relative of the common speedwell (Veronica officinalis), and as a member of the Scrophulariacea family, it is related to great mullein, (Verbascum
), foxgloves, snapdragons or antirrhinum, buddleia the butterfly bush and toadflax. As the family name suggests it was once used for skin diseases and scurvy (lack of vitamin C). thapsus
This plant is native to
Europe including the whole of the British Isles, from Scandinavia down through to North Africa and across temperate Asia to and the Japan Himalayas. It is thought that the genus name beccabunga (wonderful isn't it?) came from the Flemish words, bech and punge, which mean mouth-smart an allusion to the fact that the edible leaves can do that. They may be eaten with other pungent green leaves such as watercress in salads and can be cooked (steamed) with other leafy green vegetables such as spinach.
the plant flowers between May and September and is sometimes cultivated in garden ponds. At one time its sap was an ingredient of "spring juice" a tonic made with this, the juice of Seville or bitter oranges and scurvy-grass to combat scurvy after the winter months when there was little in the way of vitamin C to be had. Britain
Apart from using the plant for scurvy, the leaves were bruised and placed on burns, sores and ulcers and used to heal wounds, although Self-heal and All-heal have a much better wound-healing action. They have diuretic activity too and were used for urinary tract infections, as well as to promote sweating in fevers and to stimulate the menstrual flow.
Nicholas Culpeper has this to say about the herb:-
"Government and virtues. It is a hot and biting martial plant: brooklime and water-cresses are generally used together in diet-drinks, with other things serving to purge the blood and body from ill-humours that would destroy health, and are helpful for the scurvy: they do also provoke urine, and help to break the stone, and pass it away; they provoke women's courses, and expel the dead child. Being fried with butter and vinegar, and applied warm, it helpeth all manner of tumours, swellings, and inflammations.
Such drinks ought to be made of sundry herbs according to the malady offending."
It is not recommended to eat this plant's leaves as a vegetable as they are said to have purgative effect, and they should not be used by pregnant or breast-feeding women.


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|Rinslet Laurenfrost
|Character Profile
|Name (Kanji)
|Name (Romaji)
|Rinslet Laurenfrost
|Personal Information
|Ice Demon
|Contracted spirit(s)
|Voiced By
|Kana Yūki
|First Appearance
|Volume 01, Chapter 03
|Episode 01
Rinslet Laurenfrost is one of the main heroine in the series Seirie Tsukai no Blade Dance. She is the eldest daughter of Margrave Gryus Laurenfrost. She is also a member of «Team Scarlet» as well as Claire's childhood friend and her self-proclaimed rival.
Rinslet is beautiful young woman with snow white skin and emerald green eyes. She has extravagant long platinum blonde hair. When compared to Claire, her bust size is much greater. However, it slightly lacks when comparing to her maid.
Rinslet has a very proud attitude, trying to maintain her status as a rich girl and pass off her kindness as minor things that any rich person can accomplish. She also cares deeply for her friends, especially Claire, since they knew each other since childhood, and even after Claire lost her status she still tried her best to help Claire in a couple of ways. Rinslet is driven by her love towards her family, with her reason to participate in the Blade Dance being able to free her sister from the Water Elemental Lord's curse of ice on her. As she heard that a man got to the academy and then hearing that that man was Claire´s slave she wanted to make that man, Kamito, her servant in order to make Claire angry. But after seeing his personality and kindness she falls in love with Kamito and tries to make him hers.
Rinslet descends from the Laurenfrost family of the high-class nobles. She is the oldest of three daughters. Rinslet learned how to cook and do housework from having to look after her two younger sisters. She has known Claire since she was young. Her sister, Judia Laurenfrost was cursed by the Water Elemental Lord to be encased in never-melting ice. Therefore, she participated in the Blade Dance with the wish of freeing her sister.
Areshia Academy ArcEdit
The Sword, The Academy and The Hell Cat GirlEdit
During class, Rinslet fired an ice arrow to free Kamito from Claire's whip. She reprimanded Claire and claimed that Kamito was going to sit next to her. She evaluated him and asked Kamito to be her servant, though Kamito did not agree to that.After class, she prepared a soup for Kamito and went to his shack. She lured him out and tried asking him to be her servant but was refused each time. Seeing Kamito did not have any intention to become her servant, she gave up and left the soup for him claiming that Carol made too much. Before she got a chance to leave, Kamito asked to be her friend and thanked her which flustered her. Claire appeared and argued with her for trying to take Kamito. It escalated to the point that both summoned their spirits to fight each other. During the battle Kamito's hut was set on fire and Rinslet tried to put it out with her Elemental Waffe but ended up destroying the hut instead. It was then that Ellis Fahrengart and two other Sylphid Knights, Rakka and Reishia, appeared and they started to argue with each other; One of the knights insulted her family. When Claire challenged the Sylphid Knights, Rinslet asked to be a part of it to avenge her family honor.
After getting dressed, she arrives at the theater in Astral Zero with her maid. When the duel started, she provided long range support from the rear. Rinslet was able to hit Rakka who was fighting Kamito, in the chest with her ice arrow and knocked her out. She was attacked by Ellis as she made her support from such conspicuous location. After she recovered, Rinslet fired «Freezing Arrow» at Ellis who was fighting Kamito but it was canceled out when it collided with Claire's «Hell Blaze». They argued with each other on whom got in the way. Suddenly a demon spirit attacked which stopped the duel. Rinslet summoned Fenrir to save Rakka and Reisha. She later left the area with Ellis covered her rear. After Kamito defeated a demon spirit and fainted, she brought him to her room.
In the morning Rinslet checked on Claire but was unable to get her to come out of her room. She returned to her own room to check on Kamito and found that he had awaken. She discovered a girl under his sheets, who turned out to be Kamito's contracted spirit. Rinslet drove Kamito out of her room after that.
Some time after Kamito defeated the possessed militarized spirit, Rinslet, Carol, and Ellis went to check on him and discovered that Est was with him again in bed. In unison with Claire who was in the room initially, they punished Kamito together.
The Lost QueenEdit
Rinslet and Carol met Claire, Kamito, and Est after they recently lost a team rank match. She wanted to join their team, or rather, had them joined her team. Rinslet asked in a roundabout way by mentioning a newly enrolled student and later asked about Claire's team status. She even gave subtle hints of teaming up with them. Kamito noticed that, but they ended up arguing on who is going to be in whom's team.
The next day Rinslet took a morning walk with Carol and Fenrir, thinking about going to the dining room for breakfast. She then wondered what the commotion the Sylphid Knights had last night. She was told by Carol about a theft. Musing on the thief's bravery, she noticed Kamito running with the newly admitted student, Fianna, which caused her to be angry. Rinslet also noticed Claire coming out of the Raven class dormitory gate. Concerned, she went up to Claire to see what's wrong. She overheard Claire complaining about breasts and then she interjected saying that Claire's were usually deplorable. Claire asked her where Kamito went and Rinslet pointed it out. Claire consulted her of her problems. Rinslet told her in exchange for letting her join Team Scarlet's quest. Claire agreed to let her join and Rinslet told her that she needed the boy she likes to rub them.
Later at the plaza, Rinslet met up with Team Scarlet. She was about to blab to Kamito of the pact she made with Claire but the latter shushed her. Rinslet was worried about Carol that she wouldn't be able to take care of herself being left behind at the academy. Rinslet then made a formal introduction with Fianna, trading remarks over Kamito. Rinslet and Claire then voiced their disdain when Fianna rode with Kamito.
Later that night they arrived at Mining Town Gado, Rinslet noted that it was like a ghost town. Suddenly an earthquake erupted, so the group went to the shrine nearby. Arriving at the grand shrine, Rinslet and the rest were told by Fianna that there were signs of the «Ritual of Releasing» being preformed over a period of several months. Rinslet spotted something moving from afar which turned out to be skeleton spirits who were being controlled to preform the ritual. She then fired at them to destroy them before the team went down to the mine to check on the true shrine.
In the mine, they arrived upon the Sylphid Knight's Ellis, Rakka, and Reisha's fight with Jio Inzagi, the thief who stole something from the academy. When Kamito rushed in to help, Rinslet was prepared and wanted to assist him but she was wary of Jio's demon mirror spirit. As Jio was fighting with Kamito and Claire, she fired her Freezing Arrow thinking she had Jio but he was protected by his earth spirit, Argos. She was then crucified on the wall by Jio, taking her out of the battle. After being saved by Fianna when she used her Blood Stone, Rinslet stayed behind with Ellis to help treat the fallen Rakka and Reisha.
Pledge of the WindEdit
One week later, after Team Scarlet won their match, she intervened when two senior nobles in the losing team were mocking Claire. She drove them away by quickly releasing her elemental waffe before they could attack.
After the two seniors left, she wanted to join Team Scarlet's victory celebration and suggested to go to a restaurant in Academy Town. Kamito then said they would go later after his supplementary lesson.
She waited for Kamito with the rest of Team Scarlet and scolded him for making them wait. She and the rest reacted jealously when he held Est's hand. Carol then pointed out that his other hand is free but the three maidens tried to play it off like they didn't care. Carol then took his hand which made the three maidens angry at Kamito. They all then headed off to the Academy Town.
As the group walked in Academy town, they talked about the upcoming Blade Dance Festival and tomorrow's Valentia Holy Festival. Rinslet then asked Kamito if he ever saw the previous Blade Dance which he denied. She then tells Kamito that Claire's birthday is the same day as the Valentia Holy Festival after Claire went ahead of them. She then blushed when Kamito thanked her for telling him and telling her that she was a good person.
Two days later, the day after the Valentia Holy Festival, she went to Claire's room to check on Kamito who was injured. She overheard the two as they talked about their next match which was against Velsaria Eva Fahrengart. She wanted to join the team but her pride made her not saying so directly. It was then the injured Kamito forcefully asked her to join which she finally did.
On the day of the match, Rinslet and Ellis were now members of Team Scarlet. At the start of the battle, she was able to counter Velsaria's bombardment and was able to hit her elemental waffe four times with «Freezing Arrows». Her ice-nine ability made the armor of the fortress unable to switch to cannon mode and reduced its mobility. This gave Claire and Ellis the chance to bring the floating fortress down.
Rinslet continued to fire her «Freezing Arrow» which had little effect on Velsaria's armor. It wasn't until Claire, herself, and Ellis did a combo of quickly changing temperature to make the armor brittle and Ellis pierced the armor with her elemental waffe. It looked like it worked at first but Velsaria's Cursed Armament Seal activated. Rinslet was then knocked out.
Several days later, after Velsaria was defeated and saved, Team Scarlet had a victory celebration which Rinslet helped made the cake. She and the rest of the girls were angry with Kamito when he complimented Ellis who was in a formal dress, they then proceeded to forcefully stuff his face with cake.
Tempest ArcEdit
The Blade DanceEdit
On the morning of the day the three academy representative teams leave for the Blade Dance, Rinslet carrying a tea set box went to Claire's room to check on them. When Team Scarlet arrived at the Gate to Astral Zero with the other representative teams, Team Wyvern and Team Cerunnous, Freya Grandol then told everyone to say their goodbyes to their friends before leaving but since most of Team Scarlet had no friends in school (with the exception of Ellis), they were a bit weary. Once in Astral Zero, everyone waited for the flying ship to take them to where the Blade Dance would take place, the Floating Island - Ragna Ys.
Once everyone was in their cabins and the ship was on the way, Rinslet prepared tea. She then inquired whether Kamito and Claire were arguing again before everyone on Team Scarlet had tea. She was perturbed when Ellis asked for an extremely sweet tea. When Claire reprimands Ellis for trying to use Scarlet for hugging, Rinslet then reminds Claire that she usually asks to use her Fenrir as a pillow. They then talked about "Ren Ashbell" being part of Alphas Theocracy's team, Team Inferno. When Ellis talked about being on the same stage as Ren Ashbell, she and Claire playfully mocked her. When Kamito said that no one cared about Ren Ashbell, the three reprimanded him. Kamito then left the room with the excuse to look for Scarlet.
Sometime later, after Claire went to look for Kamito, the ship was attacked and she, Ellis, and Fianna tried to get on deck. They finally arrived after the crisis was over. They then overheard Leonora Lancaster of Knights of the Dragon Emperor say that she will not let Kamito's "wish" for a heavenly harem come true before leaving. The girls then question Kamito about it for an hour.
A few hours later the ship arrived at Ragna Ys, Rinslet excitedly pointed out. Claire tells her to calm down because she was being an embarrassment. Past noon everyone rode in a carriage to the ceremonial castle but because they were meant to carry 4 people and Team Scarlet had 6 (the 5 members + Carol) it was a tight squeeze and Kamito was between Rinslet and Claire. On the way they talked about the castle and if family members were coming to watch. When they reached the castle they were greeted by princess maidens. Claire then noticed Kamito was staring and asked what he was looking at. He then said that ceremonial garments would suit the girls of Team Scarlet which caused the girls to react.
Inside the castle the group walked through a pillared corridor with pictures of the previous Blade Dance winners. When they reached Ren Ashbell's portrait, Kamito commented that it was over done; the girls reprimanded him for saying that. When they reached the room, they were nervous that they get to share with Kamito but the princess maiden tells them they prepared a separate room for him. Before he left for his room, the girls tell him that they are going to purify themselves and wanted him there as well. He tried to refuse but the girls tried to convince him it was for team bonding; Carol then bluntly tells him that the girls just want to show him their swimsuits. Kamito to finally relented when Est asked which made the girls exclaim that he is soft on Est and then threw their luggage in his face.
Later at the lake, Rinslet came upon Fianna making Kamito look between her breasts and interrupted them. When Kamito saw her, she asked him how her swimsuit looks and he complimented her which made her blush. Soon she and the rest of the girls (except Est and Carol) were playing in the water. She then went to Kamito and asked him to teach her how to swim. They soon left for an isolated area for their secret lessons. In the middle of the lesson, Claire came and interrupted asking what they were doing. Rinslet tried to keep the fact that she is being taught to swim a secret which caused a misunderstanding which then lead to a struggle over Kamito which ended up with Claire's bikini coming off. Claire then ran off in embarrassment. Kamito and herself then went after her. Rinslet then saved Kamito and Claire from Muir Alenstarl's Scylla after catching up with them. She and Claire tried to go after Muir but Kamito stopped them because they can't beat her.
Later after everyone returned from the lake and after Claire angrily left Kamito's room, she and the the other two girls came in to talk to him. Rinslet asked if he fought with Claire again. He ambiguously nodded which she declares that Claire will be back by the dance. Kamito then said he is not going which made all three girls ask why. He replied that he doesn't like the dance and he doesn't have any formal wear, but soon relented in going to the dance. When Kamito got off his bed, Rinslet asked where he was going he tells her that he is going to look for Claire.
Later at the dance when Fianna was teasing Kamito, Rinslet came wearing a marine-blue dress with white gloves. Kamito then tells her that she was pretty which caused her to blush. Kamito then asked the two if Claire was with them. They tell him that Claire just came back to the room, Rinslet mentioned that Claire was still angry. Rinslet then asked Kamito to dance with her and gives the reason that she was afraid of dancing with other men. He then agrees to be her partner but tells her that he only knows the basic steps which Rinslet replied that she will teach him. They held hands but then Fianna takes his other hand which then the two girls started to argue. Ellis then came and interrupted them by pulling Kamito away and scolded the two. When Kamito complimented Ellis both Rinslet and Fianna glared at him, then Leonora came and interrupted.
Rinslet then spotted Claire and brought it to attention. She then notes that it had been a long time since she saw Claire in a dress. After Claire slapped a noble who tried to force her to be his partner and she left the dance, Rinslet went after her in place of Kamito. She chased Claire into the forest outside the castle tearing her dress along the way. She finally caught up with her and after trading remarks at each other they talked on what was bothering Claire. They were then interrupted by Muir who attacked them with Tiamat.
They dodged the initial flame breath attack by jumping in the water. Rinslet, thinking she was drowning asked Claire for help but Claire points out that she can just stand up which embarrass her. She and Claire then tore their dresses to gain mobility in order to fight and summoned their respective elemental waffe. They were then attacked by Tiamat's spirit magic «Judgment Sword» and «Fireball». Rinslet then attacked but her ice arrows were blocked by a wall of earth Tiamat conjured. Rinslet stated her surprise at the spirit's abilities which then Claire explained it to her. They were then attacked with it's white head but were saved when Fianna and Ellis came and the former summoned Georgios to shield the two. The four then attacked Tiamat together.
After Georgios was defeated, Rinslet, Claire, and Ellis rushed in at the same time. While Claire restricted it's movement, Ellis and herself tried to attack the heads of Tiamat that were weak against their respective elements but were blocked and then were attacked by the holy dragon head. It was then Tiamat scales' cracked and its frame grew, Rinslet then tells Muir that it will be destroyed but Muir didn't care. Claire then berates Muir for calling herself an elementalist but Muir tells everyone that she is just a weapon like Tiamat and Kamito as he and herself were assassins from the Instructional School.
Crossfire ArcEdit
In the beginning of the blade dance, Rinslet ends up in an elaborate labyrinth under the city and ends up meeting a water spirit who calls herself Iseria Seaward, attracting her by the smell of Rinslet's cooking.
Sprit war arc Edit
She is the fastest in Team Scarlet equipping her elemental waffe. Her «Freezing Arrows» have the ability of ice-nine.Therefore, during the blade dance, she is renowned to be an excellent sniper with her elemental waffe, and she makes an excellent support from the long range, during the blade dance. As expected from the house of Laurenfrost, Rinslet is able to use many high ranking ice to water magic, as opposite to Claire.
Spirit magicEdit
- Freezing Arrow
- Freezing Rain
- Frost Fall
- Ice Wall
- Create Water
- Breath of Ice - The magical ice arrow's payload of wide area spirit magic exploded in midair.
Dragon king of ice who sleeps in a prison of frost, release your breath—Breath of Ice!
- Ray of Frost
- Ice Forest
- Fire magic protection
- Frozen Shield
- Icicle Storm
- Field of Cold
- Icicle Spear
- Freezing Meteor: This technique releases countless of ice projectiles that will rain down and explod, producing a spectacular bloom of ice flowers.
She is an excellent cook due to taking care of her maid who can't really do anything but being cute.
Spirit Language Summoning Edit
—Oh freezing beast with Ice-teeth, merciless hunter of the forest.
—Now is the time to abide the contract of blood, hasten to my side as commanded!
- She is known as Raven class snack person.
- Rinslet Laurenfrost wants to use her wish if she wins the Blade Dance festival to free her sister from the curse of never-melting ice placed on her.
- Rinslet not only has a Contract with Fenrir, but she also has a Pseudo Contract with Iseria Seaward.
- She is the first girl to confess to Kamito.
- She saved Kamito´s life through a kiss on the lips in Volume 13.
- She became the third wielder of the Demon Slayer, Est, after Sacred Maiden Areishia and Kamito in volume 15 as a joke by using Est as a cooking knife.
|Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance
|Ordesia Empire
|Team Scarlet
|Kazehaya Kamito • Claire Rouge • Rinslet Laurenfrost • Ellis Fahrengart • Fianna Ray Ordesia
|Est • Restia • Scarlet • Fenrir • Simorgh • Georgios • Magna Carta • Dreadnought • Void
|Quina Empire
|Team Four Gods
|Linfa Sin Quina • Shao Fu • Rion Sharma • Rao Rin • Hakua
|Kirin • White Tiger • Vermillion Bird • Azure Dragon • Black Tortoise
|Dracunia Empire
|Team Knights of the Dragon Emperor
|Leonora Lancaster • Yuri El Cid
|Nidhogg • Lindwyrm
|Holy Kingdom of Lugia
|Team Sacred Spirit Knights
|Luminaris Saint Leisched • Alda Reed • Ayla Cedar
|Morningstar • Shadewolf
|Alphas Theocracy
|Team Inferno
|Rubia Elstein • Sjora Kahn • Muir Alenstarl • Lily Flame • Nepenthes Lore
|Laevateinn • Baldanders • Bandersnatch • Titania • Restia
|Astral Zero • Areishia Spirit Academy • Megidoa •


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