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An Expatriate Arena!
There is such a place in Bali, on The ByPass at Sanur. It is presided over by that master of bonhomie, Olaf, everybody's friend. The food is central European [Austrian, German, and surrounds], and the good value is obvious by the crowds of expats and others who pack it out every night. A raucous place of eating, drinking and the occasional late night!
The Arena Sport Cafe used to be just a sports bar, but now it is much more of a restaurant [much enlarged] and bar. Olaf, as all but the new arrivals to Bali already know, has been here in Bali forever.
The cuisine at Arena can be best described in just one word, MEAT! It is presented in every way possible, as steaks, chops, ribs, casseroled, barbecued or oven roasted.
Are you a big eater? Then start with the wonderful thick Goulash Soup [or Potato & Leek if you prefer non-meat], or Mini Rollmops [fillets of herring stuffed with pickles and onions] or the specialty of the house, Chicken Liver Terrine [a creamy mixture of delight and almost a meal in itself].
Of course not all dishes are meat-based, just most! The Mushrooms 'Portabella' have been sautéed in olive oil and butter with garlic and herbs. The Smoked Salmon is served the traditional way with onion, capers and horseradish cream.
Most dishes are available in a variety of sizes to suit all appetites, or to eat alone or be shared, as you wish. Accompanying salads are not side salads but are served before the main. They are a large bowl of crisp lettuce plus the usual and a small jug of dressing [Italian or French].
Olaf's Austrian heritage comes to the fore with the Wiener Schnitzels, large breaded escallops of either pork or chicken, then deep-fried till crunchily perfect. Spare Ribs are on so many menus in Bali, but too few of them use back ribs because of the cost. At Arena only back ribs are used, perfectly trimmed. Chunks of meat just fall off the bone! Not only that but you can have them done three entirely different ways; oven-roasted, marinated with caraway seeds and mustard [Bavarian style] then grilled, or even off the bone and grilled whilst being basted with BBQ sauce. You have your choice of traditional American BBQ sauce, a smoked version, or an Asian mix of soy and ginger. These must be the best in Bali!
Zweiebelrost Braten mit Bratkartoffel is the Austrian style round steak, sautéed with onion sauce, and served with refried potatoes and a large pile of crispy onion rings. Beef Stroganoff is from across the border, chunks of beef in a creamy sauce of mushrooms, mustard, onion and pickle. It is with Spatzle [Austrian noodle dumplings]. Liver, Bacon & Onion is about as simple as you can get, but always wonderful when prepared correctly and cooked just right!
The Holzfaller is a slab of boneless pork loin, charcoal grilled with paprika and garlic butter. For something totally different, try the Kase Knopfle, another Austrian specialty; noodle dumplings mixed with melted cheese in a butter-browned onion sauce. A touch of Swiss with the Zurcher; sliced pork in a creamy mushroom sauce with rosti.
And then there are the steaks! They come in so many different forms; pan-fried, grilled, marinated or plain. You can have tenderloin or fillet, in many different sizes, or even a Jumbo version of aged fillet. The quality is so consistent!
There are even quite a few seafood dishes to keep the non-carnivores happy. Fresh fillets of Mahi Mahi, poached in white wine and herbs, charcoal grilled fillet of Swordfish, or Chilli Prawns or Baby Squid.
Perhaps you are not that hungry? Then Order the great Cheese and Sausage Plate; cold Swiss wurst [pork sausage] and cheese strips with onion, dill pickle, egg and tomato, served in a tangy mustard vinaigrette with Brezel [salt sticks].
How could you finish a meal like this without Apple Strudel [warm with ice cream and vanilla sauce] or Arena's special chocolate version of Tiramisu [mascarpone cheese, whipped cream and sponge cake soaked in espresso and brandy]
One of the best-stocked bars in Bali supports the action, and a reasonable wine list that is very well-priced, even a few different ones by the glass, and cheap too! Everybody is happy at Arena! It is where they all come to forget their worldly problems and relax, ready to fight another day!
Just make sure you escape before the sun comes up!
Latest Visit: More importance has been given to dining with the pool table being moved to a separate alcove, and only rare showing of sports on TV. A 2nd Bar [a make-belive one] has been added to satisfy those who find it uncomfortable drinking at tables.
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Welcome to Episode 46 of Sikhwithin
You can get and the programme from itunes, podfeed or by simply click on the play button below:[audio:http://www.kh-2.com/mp3s-sw/SikhwithinEpisode46.mp3%5D
Or download here.
This special podcast featured interviews with people on-route providing their views and suggestions for justice, charities and hope. Hope that this genocide is never repeated and that we remember the innocent people we lost.
Thanks for all your patience as I find time to put together the shows and release them.


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Saturday, 1 December 2012
01/12/2012 Great weekend for Fury and Price
I would firstly like to start off by saying this weekend has shown the very best of both David Price and Tyson Fury, but for completely different reasons. Price knew he had to make a statement against Matt Skelton as he was highly criticised for taking a fight with a 45yr old potentially in his last fight. Fury on the other hand had to stay composed and focused against American Kevin Johnson who has only ever lost 2 of his professional fights.
Both men lived up to their promises and got the job done, It took Price just 2 rounds to reduce Skelton to his knees with some destructive body shots. He came out the blocks like he has done in his last few fights and looked so much more stronger and faster than his opponent and the intention was set by the end of round 1, finish this fight as soon as the opportunity arises. And that's what Price did, recognising Skeltons strength was his incredible chin, he went to work downstairs with some hard shots to the body, and it was a great right hand that left Skelton looking up at the referees 10 count and maybe drawing a close to his career.
Furys task was slightly different and also slightly tougher, he was in the ring with a man that had only ever lost to Tor Hamer from the SkySports Prizefighter final and World Heavyweight Champion VItali Klitschko. Fury knew from the opening bell he would have to outbox Johnson and not get complacent, working the jab from distance and not committing himself on the inside, this would have left himself venerable to Johnson. The fight at times became stale and produced moments of frustration for the Belfast crowd who found themselves booing their man, but Fury didn't let that upset his game plan and continued to handle Johnson from distance. It was enough for a unanimous decision from the judges, leaving Fury in prime position for a number 1 contenders spot at Vitali's Heavyweight crown.
Both men have performed at a top level this weekend but 2 question marks still hang over them, could they take on and beat one of the Klitschko brothers, and ultimately... could they beat each other?
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Network Acquires Hit UK Series "Big Fat Gypsy Weddings"; Announces Development of American Adaptation
TLC will introduce viewers to the hidden world of gypsies with two projects that share the culture and traditions of this highly secretive community. Today, the network announces that is has acquired "Big Fat Gypsy Weddings," which originally premiered in the UK, and is in development on a new series that will explore the lives of gypsies and travellers in America. Both projects are productions of Firecracker Films.
"TLC prides itself on providing access to worlds that our viewers might not otherwise experience, revealing the relatable in the extraordinary," said Amy Winter, GM, TLC. "Having the opportunity to explore the hidden and often misunderstood gypsy and traveller culture continues the network's commitment to compelling storytelling and surprising real-life characters."
When it premiered in the UK, "Big Fat Gypsy Weddings" became Channel 4's highest rated documentary series of all time, averaging more than 9 million viewers. The series paints a visually arresting portrait of the secretive, extravagant and surprising world of gypsies and travellers in Britain today. Gaining rare access to this community, the series uses the prism of the weddings to reveal a community that lives alongside but detached from mainstream society. It is a community of contrasts, living by centuries-old religious and cultural traditions but at the same time embracing the flashier side of the celebrity and fashion-focused times in which we live.
TLC's broadcast of the seven-part series "Big Fat Gypsy Weddings" (working title) will premiere with a sneak peek on May 29, and will air weekly starting in June. The series will also air on TLC in Poland, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Slovenia (& Italy for Discovery Networks Western Europe) later this year.
TLC has also started development on a series that examines the lives of gypsies and travellers in America, where there is an estimated population of 1 million, established throughout several communities in the South, but with a presence throughout the entire country. The series will reveal the everyday lives and the age-old customs that make up their family and social dynamics. With unprecedented access, viewers will be invited into these tightly knit communities and follow as they throw elaborate celebrations – including weddings that last for days – and how they interact with the society outside of their own.
The newly commissioned series is scheduled to debut in early 2012.


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Tomorrow will see the inauguration of the next President of the United States. We will end the eight-year tenure of Pres. Obama to make way for (at least) four years of Pres. Trump. The people, as they say, have spoken. Even though Mr. Trump lost the popular vote, the rising tide of partisan politics ironically allied with an increasing distrust of the Washington establishment was sufficient to carry him all the way to the White House.
It's true that Mr. Trump has been subjected to more media scrutiny than any other candidate I know of, and, given the ubiquitous bias of our news agencies, he has been the subject of more fake or horribly slanted stories than any other as well. However, I'm not here to vindicate him, nor am I here to condemn. Mostly I just wonder at how a man objectively questionable on many metrics made it to his inauguration day — and I marvel a bit at the role the Church played in his doing so.
In a time when the Moral Majority is now defunct and the Religious Right has lost all sway, it would seem impossible for the evangelical voting bloc to influence an election. Yet it did, due in no small part to the tactics and policies of the current/previous administration. Pres. Obama may have billed himself as a champion of hope, but for evangelicals and other Christians, he destroyed hope. His global advocacy for same-sex "marriage" and abortion struck a nerve for many of us, and the policies advanced under his watch created an America defined by liberalism and progressive mores: acceptance of the LGBTQ community and non-binary genders, expanded abortion under the guise of women's rights (despite it resulting in the deaths of countless women), stronger emphases on scientism and rationalism, restricted religious liberties, major changes to the healthcare system, etc. Most Christians view these as moral issues, and that makes them religious issues. And religion votes if you make it angry enough.
That, to me, is the good side of the evangelical alliance with the conservative party, our commitment to holding the line on some of the things which are clearly taught in the Bible. But there's a dark side to it, too. Just beneath the surface runs a jingoistic strand of nationalism masquerading as simple patriotism. While I consider myself a patriot, I do not believe every country is totally inferior to the United States in every respect, nor do I believe our nation to be infallible, and I don't even think capitalism and federalism are sacred cows. So I reject the all-too-common xenophobia, racism, and isolationism of the Republican party. I dismiss its assertion socialized medicine will only destroy us but allowing pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to charge exorbitant prices for what we need to survive will save our lives. Unfortunately, these are evils frequently propagated by those bearing the name of Christ who seem to put party above church and earthly citizenship above heavenly citizenship.
When we re-prioritize state above Savior, we fall into the same trap as did the ancient Israelites in 1 Samuel 8. You can replace "king" with "president," but verses 6-7 would otherwise read the same: "But when they said 'Give us a king to lead us,' this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. And the LORD told him: 'Listen to all the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their King.'"
To me, the 2016 election sounds an awful lot like 1 Samuel 8. Evangelical voters no longer trusted God to see them through the increased persecutions of a darkening world. Hope had been lost as influence waned, and they cried out for a new Messiah to save them from a shifting, sinful landscape. Prayers morphed to votes, and we elected a man who has yet to prove himself in political office or display the majority of the fruit of the Spirit despite reports of a mid-election conversion and baptism. Is it too early to offer decisive opinions on his presidency and a change of character? Absolutely. Only time can reveal both of those things, no matter how current indicators may appear. Is it safe to say he will do more in favor of Christian values than his opponent would have? Again, absolutely. Another Clinton presidency posed grave perils to evangelical beliefs and freedom of conscience.
But Mr. Trump should on no account be heralded as the new Christ come into the world to save us from the "pagan progressives," either by name or by fact of attitude. There is one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all (Ephesians 4:4-6). Mr. Trump is none of those. The Republican party is none of those. Only Jesus can provide access to all of them, and so it is in him we have hope.
As always, I will obey just laws and submit to all governmental authorities; these are biblical commands. Evangelicals may have cried out for a king of America to rule them in this life — and we received one. And who knows; he may even have been chosen for such a time as this (Esther 4:14). But he is not a Savior, a crucified and risen Lord. So during the inauguration, remember this: Donald Trump will be my president, but Jesus Christ will remain my only King.


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Many writers incorporate elements of their personal lives in their fiction, but few go quite so far as Christine Sturm, nurse turned would-be Agatha Christie. Here is a UPI story from 1953:
Clovis, N.M., Jan. 29--Police disclosed today that the manuscript of a murder story led them to a shallow grave where a baby's body had been buried. They arrested the author and charged her with second-degree murder.Christine Sturm was charged with second-degree murder, but at the hearing, the Judge dismissed the case on the grounds that—by only a few months--the statute of limitations had expired. She left the courtroom a free woman, and vanished into obscurity.
The infant had died six years ago shortly after its birth to Mrs. Christine Sturm, 27, an amateur mystery story writer, authorities said.
Mrs. Sturm was arrested and charged with the child's murder after Sheriff Val Baumgart had read a nine-page manuscript she had prepared for an "unsolved mystery" fiction writing contest. After reading the story the sheriff sent detectives to dig in a garage.
The investigators found the infant's skeleton wrapped in brown paper and buried eight inches beneath the surface of the dirt floor of the garage.
On instructions from the district attorney's office, Baumgart refused to make public any of the passages from the manuscript except for its closing sentence: "You can't lead a double life and be happy."
A two-count bill of information alleged that Mrs. Sturm killed the child sometime in February, 1947, by "exposure" with intent to take its life.
"It was an unsolved crime the way she wrote it and would have remained really an unsolved crime if it hadn't been written," Baumgart said. "It was a pretty good story for an amateur writer. It might have won the contest if we hadn't gotten our hands on it first."
The sheriff said the manuscript failed to say what caused the baby's death, but that the "story" described "all the details of how it was buried."
No attempt had been made to disguise the characters involved with fictional names, the sheriff said.
Baumgart said the manuscript was turned over to him by Mrs. Sturm's former husband, Dan Sturm, a carpenter. He said the couple were divorced three weeks ago after having been married since Dec. 24, 1946.
Baumgart said Sturm told him he did not know of the child's birth and was unaware his wife was seven months pregnant at the time of their marriage. Sturm said the child was not his.
The couple has one child of their own, a three-year-old son, who was placed in Mrs. Sturm's custody at the time of the divorce.
Baumgart said Sturm apparently "just happened" to find the manuscript. It never was submitted in the contest, he said.
The only positive thing that can be said about this story is that her baby finally got a decent burial.


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Buzz Bishop, who blogs at dad-camp.com and Babble.com, wrote an opinion piece entitled "Get Outta the 'burbs- My Problem With Married Couples Without Kids". It was syndicated via Babble on Shine Parenting, part of Yahoo.com, and from there found its way to the computer screen of my sister. This is my rebuttal to his piece.
Once upon a time, a boy and girl fell in love. After the appropriate amount of dating, they became engaged and were married in a lavish ceremony (that was held on a Friday so they could afford it), celebrated by their family and friends. The girl climbed the ranks in an acclaimed children's hospital as a nurse, and the boy climbed the ranks in the tech field. They bought a condo and then, a few years later, they moved their wedding gifts into the house of their dreams. A brand-new, two-story, two-car garage, four bedroom home on a neat lot in the suburbs, a veritable monument to the dreams they had of life, love, and children.
Houses were built around the house the boy and girl built, houses filled with couples and their young children. The new suburb bustled with the sounds of happy families, while the house the boy and girl build held only the sounds of contentment. They had worked hard for this house. It was theirs to enjoy (and pay property taxes on that benefited hundreds of children that were not theirs). Soon there would be a change of scene but for now, they were happy and proud of the home they worked so hard for.
Time went one, but it was still the boy and the girl. They had hoped to welcome children but instead, the girl found herself battling an unknown foe in her body. Soon enough, the illness had a name, and it slowly began to build a storm inside.
Outside, the girl battled a different foe. This one did not cut like a blade or pierce like a bullet- instead, it sliced like a thousand paper cuts and pricked with a million pin pricks. Whispers and gossip swirled around her, sometimes behind her back, and sometimes to her face concerning her "choice" of lifestyle("Oh, you don't have any children? Are you going to stay in that big house?"). The girl now had a soul that joined her body in betrayal. She wondered if she should be ashamed for having so much material that she didn't have to share. She tried to keep a sense of humor about the situation, trying to laugh off the comments of people who suggested she didn't deserve the things she had earned. She even took a picture of a car window, with stick figures proudly proclaiming a family consisting of a husband, a wife, and a pile of money in place of stick-figure progeny.
|The picture lifted from IG as featured in the
"article" (click to be taken to the original piece)
Then one day, a writer "wrote" an opinion piece on how he felt about childless couples who move to the suburbs. With nothing to support it, he claimed that childless couples are the reason children aren't attending a better school. He derided couples who spend less on travel cost as a family of Two, rather then a family of Two Plus. The Twos can enjoy a single king-sized bed, while his family of Two Plus has to reserve a suite. "Married couples with kids just don't get it, " he declared. It was bad enough that the article was poorly written, with half-assed arguments and unsupported "facts" that were hastily loaded into a gun aimed directly at the girl and boy. It was worse that slapped at the top of the "article" was the very picture of the stick-figure family the girl had posted to Instagram, complete with the outline of her head, hairless from her illness, reflected in the glass of the car window.
We all make our own choices in life, with a healthy does of you never know what can happen thrown in. One person decides to build a big home and fill it with children. Another makes the same decision, but the children never come. Yet another makes that decision and didn't ever want kids in the first place. Those three houses can exist as part of a whole community as long as one doesn't start flinging garbage over the fences at the other. Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, of course. My opinion is that this "article" was nothing but poorly written, poorly supported, poorly aimed garbage, flung in a forum where it didn't belong. He claimed in a rebuttal piece that it was aimed at two specific couples, but when a writer uses a huge forum like Babble.com to tell "you" that your decisions should confine "you" to certain areas to force you to make certain choices, that's wrong, no matter what Newsweek sources he uses to fortify his case. Especially when that opinion is punctuated with a stolen Instagram picture from one of the very childless couples he rails against.
|The original picture posted to my sisters IG
account, e-mailed to me by her.
This last bit is just for myself. Buzz , my name is Brie. I am one of those selfless, married couples who decided to have a child. That child, my son PJ, is the light of my life and I would not only pay exorbitant property taxes to ensure that he gets a good education, but I would die for him. As it stands right now, our son is Autistic, and attends an amazing public-school program in a part of our town that we currently rent in and likely could never afford to buy a home in. It never occurred to me to blame the people who already live there for the affordability (or lack of) of the neighborhood. Instead, my husband and I take personal responsibility for the growth and well-being of our child. When he succeeds, it will be because we made the best of the hand we were dealt, along with a shit-ton of hard work.
Also, the story I told above? That's about my sister. She and her husband own a home in the suburbs, and for you to suggest they don't deserve it, and that living there somehow is a threat to the households with children is irresponsible and petty, even if it is just an opinion. As someone who once sent his children to private school, you have also contributed to the decline of demand on the public, neighborhood school. He who lives in glass houses shouldn't throw bullshit blog posts.
After this, we will all go our separate ways, with you continuing to write for Babble.com and your blog and me continuing to ignore them both. I hope this note stands to remind you that as a Dad, as an example to other fathers and, most importantly, an example to your beautiful children, it is your responsibility to use your pen (keyboard?) to draw good and not blood.


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**1/2 (out of 5)
May 11, 2007
Jane Fonda as GEORGIA
Lindsay Lohan as RACHEL
Felicity Huffman as LILY
Dermot Mulroney as SIMON
Cary Elwes as ARNOLD
Garrett Hedlund as HARLAN
Studio: Universal
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Listen to Kevin's radio review…
The Hollywood marketing machine is such a liar. And the people in charge of it have never quite realized that when they try to pull the wool over the public's eyes, it only hurts themselves.
Take the poster for "Georgia Rule," for example. If you knew nothing of this movie, you might think it would be a wildly hilarious, heartwarming story of three generations of strong-willed yet happy women in a family. The poster features three smiling faces – Felicity Huffman, Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan. Atop the image is the main tag line: From the director of "Pretty Woman" and "The Princess Diaries."
Even the secondary tag line – "Mother. Daughter. Grandmother. In this family, attitude doesn't skip a generation." – hints to a fun-loving family film with attitude and some fun.
This couldn't be more wrong.
"Georgia Rule" is a caustic, uncomfortable hodge-podge of family drama that is dysfunctional at its best and criminal at its worst. The characters would be better off on the set of "The Jerry Springer Show" than anchoring their own film.
The movie follows three generations of borderline psychotic women. Felicity Huffman plays Lily, an alcoholic version of Lynette from "Desperate Housewives," a character that is desperately overexposed. Nothing against the lady, but if she's not playing a pre-operative transsexual, I'm bored with her.
Lindsay Lohan plays Lily's daughter Rachel, a troubled child that rebels like crazy, runs away from home and gets hammered on booze and drugs. While some have criticized Lohan for her wild off-the-set behavior which landed her in rehab earlier this year, I applaud her use of research to truly delve into her character. This is a feat of method acting we haven't seen since Robert Downey Jr. played a doped-up drug addict in "A Scanner Darkly."
Over the summer of her 17th year, Rachel is shipped off to Idaho (an appropriately named state for the girl) to live with her grandmother Georgia (Jane Fonda). While Georgia has plenty of rules (hence the oh-so-clever title), which include no swearing, drinking or blasphemy, she's got her own set of problems. This is evidenced by the fact that everyone in her family hates her.
The three women try to suffer through the summer, fighting their own demons and uncovering hideous skeletons in their closets. Think of it as "Terms of Endearment" without the cancer. If you like these sort of mother-daughter angst movies, this is right up your alley. Otherwise, your only comfort can be that Lindsay Lohan parades around in clingy outfits throughout much of the film.
Garry Marshall has had a few misses in recent years to go along with his hits. For every "Princess Diaries" or "Pretty Woman," you can find something like "Raising Helen." And to compare this film to his classic movies is a disservice to the audience. "Georgia Rule" is about as un-Princess as you can get.
Don't take your daughters who are huge fans of Anne Hathaway's rags-to-riches story. Instead of G-rated Disney fun, you'll get nasty verbal jabs and an unwelcome subplot revolving around molestation and rape. This even makes the R-rated "Pretty Woman" look like it deals with wholesome issues – and that movie was about a hooker.


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Momentum indicators are lining up nicely with this theory as RSI did not make new lows when silver bottomed in December and has been creeping higher since November. In addition, MACD is in the process of a bullish weekly cross which also adds credence to an upside breakout scenario.
As with many technical bottoming patterns, you can forecast a price target by subtracting the trough of the formation ($14.15) from the peak ($17.36) and then adding that number to the peak. In Silver's case, you would add $3.21 ($17.36 - $14.15) to $17.36 to arrive at a target price of $20.57.


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How to Make It
In a large bowl, whisk together cornstarch and salt. Add beef; toss to coat. Shake off any excess.
In a large skillet, heat 3 Tbsp. oil over medium-high heat. Add half of beef and fry until browned on all sides, about 5 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer beef to a colander. Wipe any browned bits from skillet, and repeat using remaining 3 Tbsp. vegetable oil and second batch of beef. Wipe out skillet.
Add sesame oil, garlic and ginger (if using) to skillet and cook for 1 minute over medium heat. Stir in chiles, orange juice, marmalade, soy sauce and vinegar and cook over medium-high heat until slightly syrupy, about 4 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and stir in beef to coat with orange sauce. Heat through, 2 minutes.
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There has been a lot of talk in politics and the scientific community about the human effect on the Earth's climate – greenhouse gases, carbon emissions, etc. However, there is one stone that seems to be unturned in the debate about what is causing the earth and it's many species to decline.
Well, it's simple…sex, romping, humping, or banging. (Yeah, there are a hundred different ways to say it)
In hopes of raising awareness around this issue, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is distributing 100,000 condoms around a new campaign that features endangered animals such as Polar Bear, Jaguar, Frog, and Burying Beetle that are on the brink of extinction due to human over-population.
The issue isn't the easiest to address, many are offended and see the stance as anti-human, so the campaign uses cheeky messages like "Wrap with care, save the polar bear" to get people to understand the impact that one night of lovemaking will have on the rest of the planet.
While it does a good job of presenting the issue in a lighthearted non-anti-human way, the campaign may not be targeting the proper audience.
Overall, the messages are entertaining and a bit humorous. The cause is definitely a worthy one, but we seriously doubt these condoms will deter any human reproduction but, hey…what do we know.


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A major road in Sheffield has re-opened after a crash involving a lorry and a van.
The vehicles crashed on the Stocksbridge Bypass, near Langsett, at 6am today.
The National Police Air Service said it was called to the crash scene at 7.35am to 'search for possible vehicle occupants'.
The Stocksbridge Bypass was closed in both directions and re-opened just before noon.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
My sister's wedding ❤
(above is a little video of McCall and my dad dancing:)
Last weekend my little sister McCall got married! It was the most beautiful day, and I had the time of my life getting to spend over a week with this sister of mine-
And being surrounded by these mountains again was awesome- man do I miss them.
How darling is this sister of mine in her muddy wedding dress and cowboy boots, dancing the night away?
This guy of mine, wrapping 170 napkins with leather and pieces of lavender...with a random cat that wouldn't leave him alone
rehearsal dinner
The wedding was at High Star Ranch in Kamas, UT- it was pretty cool
these hot air balloons were everywhere that weekend!
these mountains- can't get over them
my view every morning
A little trip to the spa for some bridal pampering
McCall, Hank, and I
I even got to squeeze in a little trip to maybe my favorite place as a kid- the Alpine Slide--this was special
The bride right after we got our hair and makeup done---just making a quick pitstop at the store
Hanging out in Park City with my mom
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The Venture Capital Trust (Winding up and Mergers) (Tax) Regulations 2004 (SI2004/2199) include regulations that provide protection for a VCT and its investors if it merges with another VCT. Prior to the introduction of SI2004/2199 the merger of two or more VCTs would almost certainly have resulted in the loss of approval of the VCTs involved, since the qualifying holdings of one would not be treated as qualifying holdings of the other(s) (VCM55010).
SI2004/2199 seeks to ensure that where there is a merger of two or more VCTs, both the investors' and the VCTs' tax reliefs will be unaffected. Broadly speaking it does this by making certain provisions that apply where qualifying holdings and eligible shares are transferred during the course of, or in consequence of, the merger of the VCTs (VCM57020). These provisions secure that those investments can continue to be regarded as qualifying holdings or eligible shares in the hands of the company that acquires them as a result of the merger (VCM57060).


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I don't read as much middle grade as I should, with a 10 year old reader at home who devours books, but I couldn't pass up a chance to read Patrick Samphire's delightful middle grade sci-fi (though really, it reads as much fantasy as sci-fi). It's a bit Jules Verne crossed with Regency period pieces: Twelve-year-old Edward Sullivan lives with his very British family (including his slightly mad-scientist father and his society-obsessed mother) on a British colony in 1816 Mars. In this alternate universe, Mars has been inhabited for thousands of years, and the oldest inhabitants (much like the ancient Egyptians) left tombs (called "dragon tombs" for their tendency to bury perfectly preserved dragons in them) full of treasure: only in this case, the treasure is technology.
When a deadly and duplicitous explorer thinks Edward's family has clues to the hiding place of a hitherto unlocated dragon tomb, he kidnaps Edward's parents and sister, and it's up to Edward, his two sisters, and a family friend to cross the Martian desert and save them.
This story was, frankly, delightful. It has everything: adventure, humor, strong family relationships, cool gadgets, even cooler invented flora and fauna. And it's all set in a world that makes my 19th-century British loving heart beat faster. Best of all, this is the kind of book that kids and aduls can enjoy equally.


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Such interesting things you've shared with us Seeker. I'm curious, but no need to answer, have you shared with us where you live? Here, you share that you live on an island.ReplyDelete
Wow ... Thank you so much, Seeker, for saying such nice things about me! I'm not nearly so cool, but it was very nice of you to say them! We would never have met except for your own heart-felt and very interesting blog and writing!ReplyDelete
1. Your English is great. I am always impressed by how many Europeans speak multiple languages. Americans are not great at that, and I wish I had paid better attention to languages in school!
2. I'm so glad that you've traveled to one of the cities I most want to visit. Dan's been, but not me, and I really need to go there ... it's on my Bucket List! I love your posts from there a lot!
3. Dan's degrees are in sociology and psychology, and that tells me a little about 4 and 5. The social sciences sometimes lead to difficult professions that deal with tough emotional issues. That's why Dan is in another business ... he didn't want to experience the sadness the civil service jobs in mental health can present.
6. That's wonderful ... I wish you many of all of them!
7. That's one of my favorite things about you, that you continue to evolve and grow in that way. Challenging, and often difficult, but worth it ultimately, I think.
8. You're in good company. 9 am IS early, isn't it?
9. What a lovely thing to think and say! Says volumes about your understanding of
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Yes, Jan is a lovely woman. I agree with you. Knowing you for a while now, made me familiar with a few of the facts you shared, but there still were surprises.ReplyDelete
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Thank you for visiting my humble blog! I read all your comments (even though I don't reply often) with great care. So keep them coming! Love to everyone :)


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I am surrounded by domestic divas. For starters, I have two talented mother-in-laws. One who is constantly sewing and embroidering cute gifts for her grandchildren, and another who can cook and entertain like a professional party planner. Then there's my dear friend who makes almost everything in her pantry from scratch (including her dishsoap!) She can whip up two pans of nutritious homemade granola bars before her boys even get out of bed in the morning.
I love these women and I look upon their talent with awe. Yet when it comes to my own craft and culinary abilities, I'm kind of a domestic dummy. In fact, I managed to reach adulthood without ever learning how to mend a loose button or bake a cake from scratch. I am slowly beginning to learn these life skills, but let's be honest, I'm never going to be that uber-talented mom who feeds her kids homemade ketchup and sews costumes for the school's Christmas pageant. That's just not me.
I'm your average everyday mom living a typical ordinary life. This blog is a collection of simple crafts, basic recipes, and easy money saving tips. It is my personal notebook to refer to when I make these gifts again. And maybe, just maybe, this blog can serve as a resource for other domestic dummies like me. These crafts and recipes are basic enough for the beginner, tasty enough to serve to company, cute enough to give as gifts, and quick enough to finish during baby's nap (hopefully!)


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MEYER WERFT delivered the LPG/ethylene tanker GASCHEM ADRIATIC to Harpain Reederei GmbH & Co. KG
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In March 2010, MEYER WERFT delivered the LPG/ethylene tanker GASCHEM ADRIATIC to Harpain Reederei GmbH & Co. KG, a joint venture of Harpain Shipping GmbH and Hansa Hamburg Shipping International GmbH & Co KG. The gas carrier's cargo handling system was designed and delivered by TGE Marine Gas Engineering.
The ship is the third unit in a series of four ships which are currently being built for the hanseatic shipping company until summer 2010. The gas trial was carried out in Riga in Latvia at the beginning of April, where the gas plant performance was successfully tested with propane cargo. The first ethylene cargo has recently been loaded in Terneuzen, The Netherlands. TGE's engineers supervised the gas trial as well as the first loading of ethylene.
GASCHEM ADRIATIC will be operated by the Hamburg-based GASCHEM pool, and will sail under the flag of Liberia, with Monrovia being her port of registry.
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Mophead Hydrangea
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A reminder of warm weather during the chilly winter months, this hydrangea bursts with blooms for cutting or enjoying from afar. Once the frost has passed, plant this in the garden to enjoy year after year.
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- White hydrangea, bark and zinc pot
- Keep in diffused light away from vents and drafts
- Keep soil evenly moist
18"H, 6.5" diameter
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BT Aims for 500Mbps UK Broadband Speeds by 2025
Ashley Allen / 4 years ago
British telecoms company BT has announced plans to upgrade its fibre network to offer "initial speeds of a few hundred megabits per second to millions of homes and businesses by 2020″ and up to 500Mbps speeds by 2025.
"We know the technology is capable, so it's just looking at how we deliver that on a larger scale," a BT spokesperson said.
BT hopes to achieve this by implementing its "third-way" (copper and fibre being first and second) G.fast technology, which should prove more cost-effective than expanding its network to fibre-to-the-premises.
"[Government money] probably wouldn't mean it would be faster [to deploy G.fast upgrades] as we're still rolling our fibre program and as that winds down G.fast will deployment will wind up hence we believe it will stay in broadly the same capex envelope. It might mean the scope of any program could be larger, however but it is a significant engineering task," the spokesperson added.
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Since a lot of the zines cataloged today are from the Feminist Zine Fest again, here's a photo of the other organizers and me.
Photo by Ayelet Pearl: Rachel Casiano-Hernandez, Jordan Alam, Sari, Jenna Freedman and Elvis Bakaitis
Since the zines added this week were acquired at the Feminist Zine Fest at Barnard, here's a photo of the Barnard Zine Club's FZF table:
The Barnard Zine Club tabling at the Feminist Zine Fest at Barnard, March 2014:
Eloise Giegerich, Jade Farrar, Alex Sanchez & Suze Myers
Photo by Ayelet Pearl
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Today in obscure holidays: Pick Strawberries Day!
A result of a an image search on < punk rock strawberry shortcake >, this photo is of One-Eyed Doll, a band "Described as Strawberry Shortcake meets Gwar and Valentine's Day meets Halloween with the visual impact of Japanese Anime."
Mexican zines at the 2nd Zin Amigos zine fair in Mexico City, June 16th, 2012, photo from Fanzines Tumblr
According to the Holiday Insights calendar, April 21st is Kindergarten Day.
From a post by homeschooling teacher Heather Woodie
April 7 is National No Housework Day. I observe that holiday pretty much every day that I'm not expecting a houseguest. Except laundry. I do that sometimes.
Cover from author's Etsy shop.
This is a book/zine store in Austin on E. Cesar Chavez St. in Austin. Photo from BrinkBlog.
Okay, I don't remotely care about St. Patrick or his day, except that it's the birthday of my cat Bad Bad Leroy Brown and her six siblings.
Photo of Bad Bad Leroy Brown living up to her name, from zinecats.tumblr.com.
Photo by Gina Murrell from the NYC Feminist Zine Fest, used with permission. Seems like a nice International Women's Day image.


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Masato Takasaka: Prog art - Art Collector
|Issue 54, October - December 2010
|Taking his cues from prog rock and hair metal bands, Masato Takasaka might just have delivered art's grandest guitar solo writes Rex Butler. And like with a guitar solo, If you cut away the showmanship and displays of virtuosity, what we are watching is simply an artist making art.
|For me, one of the most adventurous selections in the wonderful Cubism and Australian Art, staged earlier this year at Heide Museum of Modern Art, was the work of Melbourne-born Masato Takasaka. In the final room of the exhibition, devoted to the effects of cubism from 1980 to the present, curators Sue Cramer and Leslie Harding saw fit to include Takasaka's weird hybrid sculpture-cum-installation Return to Forever (Productopia). Against the paintings and sculptures of Rosalie Gascoigne, Madonna Staunton and Diena Georgetti, which remain so closely wedded to their sources and even on occasions revert to the dreaded green and dun brown of the Australian landscape, Takasaka's tilted surfaces, crazed patterns and acid colours struck this viewer as genuinely eccentric. Along with Daniel Crooks's videos slicing time and space up into finer and finer fragments, it was Takasaka who seemed most authentically to point to the future possibilities of cubism in a digitised 21st century.
Actually, it is surprising that Takasaka's work was chosen at all for a show on cubism. When the artist himself is pressed on the major art movement he feels closest to, he invariably nominates constructivism, and he originally emerged in Melbourne's alternative art scene under the protective wing of Australia's grandfather of hardcore abstraction John Nixon. An early Takasaka work like Untitled (Outdoor Abstract Painting #2), a two-colour billboard mounted in an outer Melbourne tract development called Caroline Springs, is a classic exercise in concrete painting, and Takasaka served a long apprenticeship in artist-run spaces and such self-styled avant garde collectives as Sydney Non Objective and Melbourne's Inverted Topology, best known for leaning sheets of coloured wood up against walls to produce something like a cross between an Ellsworth Kelly and an earthquake.
At some point in the mid 2000s, Takasaka's work began seriously to mutate. We could undoubtedly point here to the influence of the architecture studies, later abandoned, that Takasaka undertook at RMIT from 2005. But we might also suggest that it was the outcome of a long-repressed fascination with the baroque and its taste for excessive detail and bad infinity of intertwined forms. This involved nothing so highbrow as research into Bavarian church interiors or the paintings of Andrea Pozzo and Pietro da Cortona. Rather, Takasaka found confirmation of what he was looking for in the self-absorbed and pyrotechnic musical virtuosity of such prog and hair metal bands of 1970s and 1980s as Yes, King Crimson and Van Halen. It was a declaration of intent made clear in his 2009 show Post-Structural Jam (Shut Up! We Know You Can Play!), in which Takasaka put forward a claim for the guitar solo as the guiding aesthetic for a new art by featuring together in the catalogue both the rock magazines he had collected as a teenager and the art magazines he had collected as an art student.
What Takasaka had belatedly realised was that the music he had always listened to offered an unexplored aesthetic for art. The brilliant technical virtuosity of the players – the guitarist trying to squeeze in as many notes as possible, the frequent key and tempo changes of the rest of the band – ultimately served no expressive purpose. What the listener was hearing was precisely the sound of the musicians making music, outside of any wider narrative or communicative context. And the music was astonishingly innovative, with its unexpected and difficult-to-play connections, but also strangely repetitive or history-less, without any language of formal assessment. Damiano Bertoli in an essay for Post-Structural Jam speaks of the pure me-ness of the improvised guitar solo, famously masturbatory in its disregard both of the limits of the medium and the demands of the audience. Indeed, the second half of the title of Takasaka's show, Shut Up! We Know You Can Play! comes from the exasperated comment of the singer to guitar whiz Steve Vai as he wound up for yet another round of guitar playing on a favourite CD of Takasaka's.
It is something like this pointless and supernumerary excess, overwhelming in its uncategorised detail, that characterises Takasaka's recent work. I Like My Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff (More Prog Rock Sculptures from the Fifth Dimension), originally shown at Melbourne's Ocular Lab, is a riotous assemblage of precariously leaning boxes, striped and tessellated surfaces and origamied paper, the whole passing several times back and forth through a series of broken pictures frames. For the Cubism and Australian Art show, Takasaka continued using the same reiterative principles, this time combining old work, studio detritus, abandoned models from architecture school and even packaging and drinks cases from his parents' Japanese supermarket in a kind of self-curated mini-retrospective.
Critics who have followed Takasaka's career have searched hard to describe the exuberant chaos of his work, with its simultaneously formless and cyclical nature. In an art historical vein, they have come up with such terms as "techno-contemporary" or instead speak of "Kandinsky on acid". (And, of course, we can adduce a whole line of artistic precedents for Takasaka's work, from the rawness of dadaist Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau to the delicacy of someone like Sarah Tze.) When the critics allow themselves to go with the work, they have come up such coinages as "riff-a-rama mini-cities" or, following Takasaka's own lead, describe him as "playing guitar in five dimensions". Perhaps the best categorisation so far is Helen Hughes's "never-endism," which nicely captures the expansiveness and seeming limitlessness of the work, both physically outwards in reach and metaphysically inwards in compression and intensity.
So far the one angle that has not been seriously explored is Takasaka's connection to – particularly Japanese – architecture. In the bent, crumpled and endlessly interacting surfaces of his recent work, after all, we see something of the possibilities opened up by the computer modelling of materials first explored by such pioneers as Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, and now carried on almost to infinity by such über-hip Japanese practices as café co. and Atelier Bow-Wow. Takasaka notably refers to himself as Studio Masatotectures – and he is not being entirely ironic when he does this. After all, his sculptures, if seemingly like scaled-down life worlds, invite imaginary occupation. Or, to put this another way, like so much contemporary architecture they resist for as long as possible any such occupation, insisting like any great guitar solo that they are seen for exactly what they are. •
This quarter Masato Takasaka's work will be exhibited in Edge of the Universe at Shepparton Art Gallery from 27 November 2010 to 6 February 2011 and Dot Dot Dot at Lismore Regional Gallery from 3 December 2010 to 29 January 2011.


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Dolphin Tale tells the story of a young boy who's life is clouded by depression. His family try to make things better for him, but nothing seems to work. That is, until he finds an injured dolphin on the beach one day.
An injured dolphin that ends up changing his life. A dolphin called Winter (it is really cute that Winter plays herself). This movie is centred around the beautiful friendship between a young dolphin and a boy. I won't say anything more about it, as I don't want to ruin it for anyone :)
It had me in tears, laughing, and just overwhelmed by the beauty of it - highly recommended to all, and it is nice that it is completely clean! I think just about anyone would really enjoy it!
This second trailer has some behind the scenes things, so watch out for spoilers if you watch it! :)
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text: In a move reminiscent of those Simpsons reruns being pulled so as not to be construed as mocking the Japanese nuclear disaster, Fox has announced that it will postpone this Sunday's episodes of Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and American Dad due to the storms that have devastated large swaths of the South. The shows had planned a crossover event (similar to NBC's old "Blackout Thursday" gimmick) where all their characters would come together after a hurricane hits the East Coast—which, yeah, probably not the best time to do that. Instead, all of those episodes have been bumped to next season, when hopefully there will be no more tornadoes or other natural disasters, ever.


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Note: This summary article is adapted from BrainShare presentation DL 155.
eDirectory performance is largely dependent on the Tree design. The important consideration is to balance eDirectory manageability with eDirectory performance. The number of objects per partition directly impacts repair and recovery times. Also, LDAP operations are adversely impacted by the depth and scope of the Tree.
You will need to customize the database schema for your specific needs. Be careful with the use of passwords - for example, encrypted passwords are more expensive than simple passwords in the NDS Login Properties Class.
Traditional Trees
A traditional tree design is shown below.
Figure 1 - Traditional tree design
The tree is primarily an organization of your physical network resources. Here are some guidelines to keep in mind as you design your tree:
- Design the top of the tree to mirror your WAN infrastructure.
- Design the bottom of the tree to mirror sites, divisions, departments, and workgroups.
- Place your network's physical resources close to the users who need them.
- Partition top of the tree based on the WAN infrastructure.
- Partition around the local servers in each geographic area.
- Partition the top of the tree based on its size (1000 - 100,000's of users).
- Keep the Tree as flat as possible.
- When dealing with millions of users, do not try to excessively organize.
- Use O and OU objects as access containers for both security and ease of middleware design.
- Be frugal with the use of ACLs and more reliant on the use of attributes.
- Partition Organizational Units (OU) into 2 Million objects or fewer.
- Use partitions more for manageability instead of geographic locations of replicas (although geographic locations may still be relevant). This can shorten DSRepair times.
Do NOT create a partition that spans the WAN (split across a WAN link).
Below is a sample Identity Management tree with 50 managed partitions and up to 10 million users:
Figure 2 - Sample Identity Management tree
LDAP Search Scopes
There are three LDAP search scopes:
- Base (the fastest)
- One-Level
- Sub-Tree
Figure 3 - Types of LDAP search scopes
Most One-Level and Sub-Tree searches are performed for disambiguation purposes. If disambiguation can take place before the LDAP search, then a Base search is all that is needed. Note: Base searches are ideal for speed.
There are several methods of disambiguation:
- One-Level or Sub-Tree Searches - on a Full Tree or a Filtered Replica
- Functional Containment - on Customers, Devices, Profiles, Services, etc.
- Object ID Hashing - Hash the Object ID to determine where the Object is placed in the Tree
Below is an example of Filtered Replica Searching.
Figure 4 - Filtered replica searching
Here is an example of what a Functional Containment Tree would look like:
Figure 5 - Functional containment tree
eDirectory Object Hashing
Another way to disambiguate for Base LDAP searches is to hash the object to calculate the fully qualified DN. For example, take the Modulus of the UserID using a binary number (ie 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ...). Then, the {ObjectID #} % {# of containers} = container number where the user will be placed.Figure 6 - Calculating fully qualified DN's from hashing method
Here is an example of what a Hashed Tree would look like:
Figure 7 - Hashed tree example
Horizontal Scaling
Horizontal scalability is a differentiating strength of eDirectory. With horizontal scaling you can run many Read/Write Replicas. Horizontally scaling an eDirectory LDAP Tree is advised in environments where load and throughput is more important than transaction response time. Customer Portals and LDAP enabled applications are likely candidates for multi-server horizontal scaling.
Due to the increased replication traffic, there are diminishing returns in performance scaling as more Read/Write Replicas are added to a Replica Ring.
Below is an example of horizontal scaling.
Figure 8 - Horizontal scaling
Replica Domains
To achieve near-linear horizontal scaling, use Replica Domains. Replica Domains are advised when low latency is required in conjunction with large load and search scopes. Time-critical systems, such as those found with Telecoms, are strongly encouraged to use Replica Domains.
Replica Domains increase the hardware requirements of an eDirectory LDAP environment. Using Replica Domains requires disambiguating the objectID before an LDAP operation is made.
Here is a Replica Domains scaling example.
Figure 9 - Replica domains scaling
Below is an illustration of how Replica Domains function with a sample tree.
Figure 10 - Replica Domains Illustration
Other Considerations
Here are some additional things to consider as you design your tree:
- Myth - Keep the first 8 characters of the ObjectID unique for Indexing purposes. Fact - Index creation algorithms use the first 128 bytes of text and the first 24 bytes of binary for index creation.
- Be careful with the use of References. eDirectory's inherent Referential Integrity capabilities can become troublesome in large tree designs if not carefully designed. If Referential Integrity must be used, use few-to-few versus many-to-few or many-to-many (ie group memberships).
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The Coolest Coloring Books for Grown-Ups
One of my fondest childhood memories is sitting at the kitchen table with my artillery of markers and favorite coloring books, drawing ever so neatly between the lines. I was mad about it, and I could literally sit there for hours doing it, too. Well, it turns out coloring isn't just child's play. Adults are turning to coloring books for relaxation and stress relief. Psychologist Gloria Martínez Ayala told The Huffington Post that coloring "brings out our imagination and takes us back to our childhood, a period in which we most certainly had a lot less stress." Psychologist Antoni Martínez says he personally practices coloring as a relaxation technique. "I recommend it in a quiet environment, even with chill music. Let the color and the lines flow," he adds. The kindergarten practice has become so popular that six of the top 10 best-selling books on Amazon are coloring books for grown-ups. Scroll down to see our top picks.
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OnePlus: Official CM12S (Android 5.) OTA Will Land In Mid To Late March, Same Goes With OxygenOS Release
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OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei mentioned on Twitter early today the company's Only phone is going to be receiving its CyanogenMod 12S update (read: Lollipop) in "mid to late" March. Pei also implied that the similar timeline was at spot for the business's in-house-ant Oxygen OS ROM.
Pei noted – as a result of claims that current 12S nightlies appear stable – that "proprietary motorists, code, QA, [and] certifications" were accountable for the organization missing its 90-day deadline to update the telephone to Android 5..
@rajarshi_10 We released an L alpha a while ago, but a more stable build (OxygenOS & CM12S) will need to wait until March. Sorry for delay!
— Carl Pei (@getpeid) February 23, 2015
Given OnePlus' rather ugly receding with Cyanogen Corporation., the truth that an update is originating whatsoever is nice news. I'm not sure if I'd rely on there as being a CM13S for that One, though. However, maybe Oxygen OS would be the… breath of outdoors (sorry) the OPO must really become popular.


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461 Center Street is the new home of JP Knit & Stitch! We are thrilled and excited and more than a little overwhelmed with all that has to be done to turn our longtime dream into a reality. Thanks to everyone in the JP community for their support.
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Over the weekend of August 1st, 2014, I participated in the second most difficult "event" that GORUCK offers, the HCL. For those that don't know, The GORUCK HCL is "Back to back to back Good Livin'". Friday night at 5pm, we lined up to prepare for the 24 beast known as the GORUCK Heavy. Upon completion, we get a few hour break before lining up again to start the standard 12 hour GORUCK Challenge. If and when you survive the Challenge, you've got another 6 hour punctuation, the GORUCK Light. At the completion of each event, the respective patch is handed out. At the end of the Light, the coveted HCL patch is awarded.
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We dont celebrate christmas but we did go to a family breakfast at 6 am.
My hair is not summer friendly.
The curls come out :(
My Sass and Bide dress and little brother <3
I got an authentic dark red/purple Balenciaga from Jean Brown and a Pink Balenciaga Wannabe online.
There are differences and I honestly like the authentic one better in terms of colour, leather and bag quality etc.
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Meeting Resource
This is a short list of publications we recommend for newcomers or people interested in finding out about Quakers. You can find all of these and many more at QuakerBooks of FGC.
For a first introduction:
- Letters to a Fellow Seeker: A Brief Introduction to the Quaker Way by Steve Chase. (Introduces the Quaker way to a newcomer in language that is personal and gentle, while offering powerful inspiration through stories.)
- Silence and Witness: The Quaker Tradition by Michael Birkel. (This book interweaves a discussion of modern Quaker principles with quotations from early Quaker writers.)
- Listening to the Light: How to Bring Quaker Simplicity and Integrity into our Lives by Jim Pym. (This is another personal account by a British Friend. The author came to Quakers from a Buddhist background and offers a broad perspective.)
For more on meeting for worship:
- Encounter with Silence: Reflections from the Quaker Tradition by John Punshon. (A small, rich, and readable book on Quaker worship. The writer speaks personally from his own experience as a Christian Friend.)
- Four Doors to Meeting for Worship by William Taber. (This pamphlet describes the different levels on which we prepare for and experience silent worship. A good guide to deep and authentic worship.)
For an overview of Quaker testimonies:
- An Introduction to Quaker Testimonies by American Friends Service Committee. (A brief introduction to peace, equality, integrity, community, simplicity, and earthcare with queries and pithy quotations.)
- Quaker Ideals by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. (A very brief collection of short statements expressing values common among Quakers.)
For nuts and bolts—more about how Quakers operate:
- The Faith and Practice book of your yearly meeting. (These publications, sometimes called "disciplines," serve as guidebooks for members.)
- Guide to Quaker Practice by Howard Brinton. (This booklet provides an overview of how the Friends community works--worship, structure, decision making, testimonies, and more. A bit dated, but still excellent.)
For historical perspective:
- A Procession of Friends by Daisy Newman. (The history of Quakers portrayed in a series of short stories.)
- Friend: The Story of George Fox and the Quakers by Jane Yolen (A biography of George Fox. Though written for middle school students, the book provides an excellent, readable account of how Quakers emerged against the backdrop of religious turmoil and the English Civil War.)
- Quakers in America by Thomas Hamm. (A concise, insightful history of how Quakers in the United States began, how they have changed over time, and what is happening among Quakers today.)
For deeper inspiration: a few widely read Quaker classics:
- A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly. (A short book of devotional essays written in the mid-twentieth century.)
- Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman edited by Phillips Moulton. (An 18th century New Jersey Friend records his efforts to "walk the walk" of his Quaker faith.)
- Journal of George Fox - any edition. (Considered by many to be the founder of Quakerism, Fox provides an account of his experiences during the early years of the movement.)


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The great LL Cool J once said "Don't call this a comeback, I been here for years" and although I haven't written a long form blog post in a minute and a half, I've still been knocking around, posting on the facebook page, going to events and tweeting about stuff now and then.
Being in the final year of a degree my time is usually taken up by writing assignments or other boring things, but this past weekend I was lucky enough to be invited by Alltech to attend their yearly beer and food festival in the convention centre Dublin.
The festival hosted breweries from Ireland, the UK, Germany, the US, Spain and a few other countries as well as some of Dublin's best street food sellers and a few spirits and wine producers, so it was a nice mixed bag to keep everyone happy for the weekend.
I didn't bother taking pictures of the beers because despite how well run the event was, there was one major letdown, crappy opaque plastic glasses which meant there was absolutely not point photographing the beers. I did get a few snaps of the stands of my favourite brews of the weekend though.
Reel Deel from Crossmolina in Mayo were in attendance and picked up a Medal in the Dublin Beer Cup for their Say Nowt Stout, I had a few schnakey halves of their Irish Blonde Ale which is a nice sessionable hoppy amber number.
Trouble Brewing from Kildare had a few specials on for the weekend, their ever deadly Vietnow IPA was in fine form and I thought their Rhubarb and Custard Ale and Raspberry Weisse City Berliner were both great too, but their standout for the weekend was easily the Ambush 2.0 Fresh and Juicy Pale Ale. A 5% abv fruity hop slap in the face and definitely worth hunting down when it's released soon.
The Wood Quay Brewing Co. boys won a Silver and "Best Ale" in the competition for their Pilgrim Red Ale but for me it was their The Hunted Deer IPA which really impressed, and something I look forward to trying it again soon.
Rye River Brewing had their newly re-branded McGargles range pouring. It seems the least loved family in craft beer have disappeared in all but brand name now. Presumably Ned, Rosie, Mary, Meabh, Francis, Dec, Frank and the rest crawled back into whatever corner of hell they came from. They added three new beers to the range, Little Banging IPA (3.8% session IPA), Double Banging IPA (8.0% Double IPA) and Export Stout (self explanatory).
All three were really nice but I actually really loved the Little IPA, it's a proper session beer and I can see it being something I'd make a go to if it's widely available.
Yellowbelly from Wexford weren't at the festival themselves but their new Pineable Double IPA named Unto The Breach was pouring at their good friend's Hope Brewing's stand. I loved this beer and it was one of my favourites of the weekend. It does exactly what it says on the tin. Hope also had a new Oatmeal IPA pouring and again this was right up me street, worth grabbing if you see it pouring or a bottle on a shelf somewhere.
Black's of Kinsale were pouring some rare good beers too, they had all their usual hits on tap and I was drawn back to the Hi-Viz double IPA once than once, but they also had their World's End Imperial Stout aged in whiskey barrels pouring. The regular version is like a big bold chocolate milkshake and this is like it's grown up brother with a little more complexity and a nice warmth from the wood. I really hope I find this pouring in Dublin or a bottle of it in an offie, cracking beer.
Independent Brewing from Connemara had one of the hits of the show flowing all weekend. Their Coconut Porter was met with near universal love and adoration from everyone I spoke to besides one lad who admittedly doesn't like dark beers or coconuts, so we'll let him away with it. It's a really nice low abv porter but the body is nice and full, the malt base gives some lovely caramel, chocolate and coffee notes and the toasted coconut just gives it a little extra oomph.
Another one of the stars of the show this year was Boyne Brewhouse's new Imperial Stout which is one of the best imperial stouts I've had in a long, long time. They had three versions pouring, one aged in bourbon barrels, one in sherry casks and one aged in new raw wood (a barrel that wasn't used to age any spirits). All three were fantastic and tasting them side by side was a really interesting way to see how the various barrel types gave different characteristics to the beer. This is a must try beer in my opinion.
Barcelona Beer Company where on hand with a few of their beers, their Miss Hop won a medal and rave reviews from judges and punters alike, and The Crafty Hoor agrees, she's a cracker! I hear this beer and other Barcelona Beer Company brews will be more widely available on Irish shores in the near future and if the rest as as good as the IPA we're all in for a treat, keep your eyes open for their arrival!
Last but by no means least, The White Hag from Sligo and Kinnegar from Donegal had a combined stand where they sold beers from both breweries as well as their new collaboration Coffee Nitro Stout which was only fecking spectacular, a properly world class stout with bags of coffee, chocolate and caramel with enough raostiness to balance it all out. I also tried a little of this year's Barrel Aged Black Boar from The White Hag. Black Boar is, in my opinion, the best regularly produced beer on this fine island and the barrel aged version this year is even better. I just wish I could have had a full bottle while sitting in front of a fire!
So that's a rather long but strangely not very detailed account my my galivanting last weekend. Big thank you again to Alltech for the invite and all of the brewers and staff who had the chats with me, looked after me and were generally sound all weekend.
Hopefully the updates here and on FB will be more regular from here on in, but the next three months of university work will be my priority of course.
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Frisco ISD may well be on its way to building an entire generation of entrepreneurs. A new partnership among FISD , LaunchPad City and its affiliate, 1 Million Cups , is bringing real-world entrepreneurship experience to high school classrooms.
LaunchPad City, a local coworking space and business incubator, hosts weekly 1 Million Cups events, where entrepreneurs meet to pitch their startup businesses and get feedback from their peers. The new FISD partnership brings these 1 Million Cups events into the classroom via live web stream, allowing students to participate without leaving campus.
"What better opportunity to craft your passion and hone in on your skills and goals than learning from others in the very arena in which you wish to be," says Allison Miller, director of the Frisco ISD Partners in Education program.
Kedreon Cole, director of partnerships and business development for LaunchPad City adds, "It's important to engage students at an early age because entrepreneurial thinking, a unique way of analyzing risk and opportunity, is becoming more important for professionals."
This new partnership cements the fact that in Frisco, entrepreneurship is indeed for everyone.


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Dr Russell O'Brien
Director (BMBS Programme), University of Exeter Medical School: Consultant in Acute Medicine, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust: Associate Director of Clinical Studies & Academic Lead for Clinical Pharmacology, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry
Dr Russell O'Brien is a consultant in Acute Medicine at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. He trained in Clinical Pharmacology and General Internal Medicine before taking up this post in Exeter. He is Director of the BMBS Programme.
He is also Associate Director of Clinical Studies for Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. In both schools, he also has roles as Academic Clinical Lead for Clinical Pharmacology.
MB ChB - University of Leicester (1994)
MRCP (UK) - Royal College of Physicians of London (1998)
Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education - PCMD (2009)
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- Clinical Pharmacology
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Here's a very quick recipe for all pagarkai/bitter-gourd lovers! It's one of my favorite way to prepare this vegetable as it's easy to prepare and goes so well with Sambar or Rasam rice! Its taste is very close to pagarkai fry but consumes lesser oil in comparison!
- 4 pagarkais/bitter-gourds
- 2 tsp chilly powder
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tbsp coriander powder
- Salt to taste (extra salt to soak the sliced vegetable)
- 3 tbsp oil
- Slice the pagarkai and soak it in salt water for 15 mins. Drain the water just before cooking.
- In a frying pan, pour oil, when medium hot, add the vegetable. Lower the flame and allow it to gradually cook, sauteing it once in five mins.
- Once the vegetable reduces to half it's earlier quantity, add salt, turmeric powder, chilly powder and coriander powder. Give it a good mix.
- Cook for another five mins and your varuval is ready!
More pagarkai recipes here and here =)


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Since moving to London, I've not really taken the opportunity to explore everything it has to offer, including foodies places that may not exist outside of the bustling city that is London. So I introduce you to My Old Dutch, a sweet and savoury pancake and waffle house that is simply delightful. They sell salads there but to be honest you can get a salad anywhere! Discovered just over 6 or 7 months ago, thanks to a friend. I've been back twice, which for me is a success when it comes to places to eat. I usually just try places once and then never go back. However, the combination of sweet and savoury on pancakes for me is just something I have to try out again…and again…and again!
My Old Dutch originally started out in 1958 and was situated between Covent Garden, the West End and the city. It now has multiple locations in Holborn, Chelsea and Kensington.
My favourite choice and go to choice is the Amsterdammer which is sautéed apples (which when translated means jumping apples as they are pan fried), bacon and maple syrup. Holy wacamoly is this good. The portion size isn't your measly pancakes that you'd made on Pancake day. Oh no, these pancakes are as big as the plate it comes on. For £10, you basically get a pancake the size of a large Dominos pizza (but without all the carbs…ish).
If you're ever in London town, especially around these parts and your looking for a bite to eat, then definitely stop at My Old Dutch for some of the best pancakes you'll ever lay your eyes upon. I can also recommend the milkshakes they do, the Oreo milkshake is simply the best!
Natalie-Ann x
My Old Dutch: http://www.myolddutch.com/
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