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My player is Deshaun_001 and I should be on the PS3 leaderboard, but I'm not?
My player is Deshaun_001 and I should be on the PS3 leaderboard, but I'm not?
Same here, but for XBox One. Went from top 3 in TDM, kills and a host of other categories to not being ranked at all.
I just tried to recalculate the ranking but it seems there is some sort of memory problem. I will have to forward this to 1ApRiL (developer) to have a look at this in the background.
Either me or him will keep you updated.
Thank ya.
Ranks have been recalculated and are now being shown again
Thanks again
I tried recalculating the ranking again but got the same memory message again. I contacted 1ApRiL and told him about it, let's see what he can do.
I guess this will appear over and over again, something is not right in the background.
Just an observation from a much less expert perspective, but the problems seem tied to experience being greater than the level 150 range because going Legendary has resolved the error each time in the past and the problems arise only reaching that upper point in level 150. I believe I saw a "ceiling" in the level ranges. Again, just an observation and I do appreciate the service you provide.
It could've something to do with prestige/legendary but I don't think it has. We'll have to see what 1ApRiL is going to do about it and if he can fix this.
All I can see is, that there is something not right with some sort of memory but I can't tell what memory it is by looking at the error message I'm getting.
I just checked again as I had no response about it being ok or not and saw that the ranking should be fine again. I guess we have to keep monitoring until this happens again.
Thanks for your patience.
I removed old caches, now there should be enough space for the rankings.
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Last years show was one of the wettest on record and was literally a wash out for many of the traders. This year it looks like the sun is paying us visit and I may well need a sunhat & suncream. The East Sussex Guild Weavers,Spinners & Dyers will as usual be demonstrating their skills with members from other local guilds. We will be in a marquee near the alpaca show.
I will be there on Sunday demonstrating needle felting and broomstick crochet.
The show is also open on Bank Holiday Monday.

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Prop 8 Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional In California
The Proposition 8 gay marriage ban in California was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals panel on Tuesday. Prop 8, passed in 2008 by 52 percent of voters, limited legal marriage in California to opposite couples only. The ruling is considered yet another harsh blow to gay marriage opponents, but plans to appeal the Prop 8 ruling are already underway.Read More..>>


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After years of working hard to stay on the same page on the Iranian nuclear issue, the United States and Israel could be nearing their moment of truth with each other.
While a deal is not yet in hand, American officials are cautiously optimistic that Iran may have turned an important corner and is now willing to seriously discuss a nuclear agreement. The possibility of this deal coming to fruition looks likely to increase frictions between the two allies as talks continue between Iran and its international interlocutors.
Iranian officials' most recent talks were held on May 21 in Tehran with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and in Baghdad on May 23 with delegates from six nations, including the United States, that are charged with negotiating a nuclear agreement with Iran. In Baghdad, for the first time since negotiations began, the two sides exchanged suggestions dealing directly with Iran's nuclear program and agreed to discuss measures aimed at building confidence between the parties.
Israel's harsh reaction, just prior to these talks, to the prospect of a deal based on the compromise offers being discussed made clear the Netanyahu government's dissatisfaction with these offers. In particular, the Israeli stance highlighted differences between Jerusalem and Washington on the key issue of allowing Iran to continue to enrich uranium on its own soil under any future agreement.
"Israel still demands a complete stop to enrichment activities in Iran," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in remarks made May 22 at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. He argued that Iran was trying to fool the international community by appearing to be willing to compromise without actually stopping all enrichment activity.
The Obama administration has avoided stating its own specific positions. America's broad view remains that a stringently enforced deal could allow Iran to pursue civilian nuclear capabilities as long as there is a verifiable way to ensure that it does not serve as a stepping stone to a military program. Under the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory, countries party to the treaty are allowed, under appropriate safeguards, to enrich uranium for civilian nuclear power use.
"The administration deliberately has not sought to be too definitive when it comes to red lines," said Dennis Ross, a former top White House adviser on Iran and now counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Ross described this U.S. position as "wise," explaining that avoiding explicit red lines allows more flexibility in negotiations with Iran.
Still, press reports and leaks from officials involved in the negotiations have outlined the contours of an American-supported offer that would assist Iran in building its civilian nuclear program in return for halting enrichment in its Fordow facility, where uranium is currently being enriched to a level of 20%. From that level, experts consider it a small leap technically to enrich uranium to the level required for nuclear bombs.
The press reports have indicated that the United States and its partners in the group of six nations conducting the negotiation (Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) will allow Iran to enrich uranium to a lower level of 3.5%. The agreement they envision would include strict monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency and IAEA access to all nuclear facilities.
Ross, who spent endless hours speaking to Israeli officials about Iran in his previous position, indicated that Israel's strong opposition to this kind of compromise could change with time. While Barak's statements opposing enrichment on Iranian soil were harsh, the Israeli government, he said, had also voiced other positions showing some openness to the idea of allowing enrichment under strict limitations.
"This is a well-known Israeli sales technique," agreed Meir Javendanfar, an Iranian-Israeli Middle East analyst who teaches Iranian politics at Israel's Interdisciplinary Center, which is located in Herzliya. "You double the price of what you want to sell, so that even after giving a discount, you still make a profit." Javendanfar warned, however, that an Israeli "zero enrichment" approach entails dangers, since it will allow Iran to blame Israel if the talks fail, and it will discourage Iran's supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, from making any compromise of his own.
The United States has long been consulting with Israel intensively on this issue. And the pace only picked up as the date for the Iran talks drew near. One week earlier, Barak held talks in Washington at which he repeated Israel's red line of allowing no enrichment.
Barak has assumed the unofficial role of Israel's top contact point for discussions with the Obama administration on Iran. "We have a decades-long relationship," Vice President Joe Biden said of his ties with Barak when meeting with Jewish leaders on May 22. "None of us has ever deliberately misled the other."
The administration's embrace of Barak is but one avenue through which it hopes to address Israel's concerns and to defuse Israeli threats to attack Iran unilaterally. The administration will brief Israeli leaders again when results of the Baghdad talks become clear.
The Obama administration is also actively reaching out to the Jewish community on the Iranian issue — most recently on May 21, when dozens of leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations spent the day at the White House hearing from Biden and other officials.
Administration speakers, according to participants in the meeting, stressed Obama's commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The speakers also highlighted Obama's successful efforts in ramping up international sanctions on Iran. The administration says that pressure is now showing results in Iran's willingness to negotiate. Biden also repeated a statement he made previously that recognizes Israel's right to take any action it believes is needed to protect itself.
But one contentious moment in that meeting highlighted an important but subtle gap between the administration on one side and Israel, and at least some top Jewish communal leaders, on the other. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Presidents Conference, asked Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough why the administration opposed legislation calling on the White House to prevent Iran from obtaining "nuclear capabilities" as opposed to obtaining "nuclear weapons."
"This is a total red herring," McDonough responded angrily, according to participants. "It's a made-up controversy."
Nevertheless, it is a point that has been raised in past months by Republicans and by some pro-Israel Democrats critical of Obama's approach to Iran.
But McDonough later added: "I talk to the President every day about Iran. No one is more committed than he is."
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Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward's Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha'aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


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Man rapes his 18 year old stepson for raping his 8 years old daughter
This is a serious post....... Do u think justice was served?. Try not to laff...
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FORT WORTH — When the Arlington father caught his teenage stepson sexually assaulting his 8-year-old daughter late Jan. 2, the 32-year-old man did the right thing — he called police, investigators say.
The 18-year-old was arrested by Arlington police on suspicion of aggravated sexual assault. The girl was taken to the hospital where an examination revealed she'd been raped anally. And the father issued a stern warning to his wife.
"He didn't want anybody to help [the teen]," said Sgt. Cheryl Johnson, supervisor of the Fort Worth sex crimes unit, adding that the man also stated that he would hurt his stepson.
But unbeknownst to the father, police say, the man's wife posted bond for her son's release from the Arlington Jail. When the teen called home for a ride on the early afternoon of Jan. 3, his stepfather answered the phone and arrived at the jail to pick up the teen.
But the pair didn't go home, investigators say. Instead, the Arlington man reportedly drove his stepson to an abandoned house in east Fort Worth where he delivered his own brand of justice. Police say he severely beat the teen with a baseball bat, then anally raped him with a wrenchlike metal tool.
On Friday, the father turned himself in at the Tarrant County Jail on a warrant for aggravated sexual assault. He was released Saturday after posting a $17,500 bond.
"This is a very unique case, but we have a criminal justice system in place and no one can take the law into their own hands," Johnson said. "They need to allow the criminal justice system to work for them and although the process may seem long, it is the process that works."
The Star-Telegram is not naming the father or the teen to protect the identity of the 8-year-old girl.
Johnson said that after the sexual assault, the father left the scene. The stepson made his way to a pay phone, where he called police and was then taken to an area hospital.
That same day, investigators obtained a search warrant for the abandoned house in the 2700 block of Canberra Court near Cobb Park. Though the house was boarded up, the pair made entry through a board that moved, Johnson said.
"We did find evidence at the scene to corroborate our victim's story," Johnson said.
Tarrant County court records show that the father received two years deferred adjudication probation in November 1996 after pleading guilty to burglary of a habitation.
As part of a plea agreement, the man avoided prosecution on four other charges: possession of marijuana, theft by check and two cases of assault with bodily injury. His probation, however, was revoked in 2000 and he was sentenced to two years in prison.
The father also received a 30-day jail sentence for assault with bodily injury in 2001 and a 20-day jail sentence for possession of marijuana in 2006, records show.
The 18-year-old stepson does not have an adult criminal record in Tarrant County, records show.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2008/01/13/1115663/police-dad-takes-law-into-his.html#ixzz0wS8AcHg0
Plz del if dis is a dup D:.
bored as hell
Justice was served.
Conjuring up the past is not remembering; it is replacing.
pics or didn't happen
going black friday shopping tonight at 12am wish me luck everyone.
"This is a very unique case, but we have a criminal justice system in place and no one can take the law into their own hands," Johnson said. "They need to allow the criminal justice system to work for them and although the process may seem long, it is the process that works."
Lol, criminal justice system my ass...no pun intended.
Deserved it.
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Well some crazy things are bound to happen to the person who rapes a 8 year old girl.
~~Rawr is so sweet~~
Okay, the man handled that situation very wrong. A simple ass whupping would have been better than harming the boy's anus. I feel terrible mostly for the 8 year old, she's probably scarred. And his wife was stupid paying for the boy's bond.
Justice wasn't served. He's still alive isn't he?.....
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Well, u rape someone in the ass, they rape u back...
Karma's a bitch
Say no the mundane and yes to the unexpected!
Uhhh thats gross. O_O
I hope prabashi has a safe plane trip<3
I bet that kid wont rape anyone again now that he knows what it feels like...
It could have been worse. Imagine if the 18 year old raped and killed his daughter.
I'm honestly not sure who to side with on this one.
Put the BAM in bamboo!
Police say he severely beat the teen with a baseball bat, then anally raped him with a wrenchlike metal tool.
OMG!! that must've hurt so much.
"Karma's a b*(#h if only you're b#@!h." and "What goes around comes around." :)
Can't help, but laugh at this strange crime. lol. :D Interesting Stuff! :P
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The interview also discusses stuff like D&W touring, how Touched By the Crimson king was a bit "rushed up" and Hansi's and Jon's songwriting.Jon Schaffer wrote:[...] there's no hurry for ICED EARTH to rush into anything. It's gonna be a while before we do a new record, 'cause this is so new. And the next thing on my docket is DEMONS & WIZARDS anyway, so that's coming later in the year — that's gonna be the focus of the creative energy this year. So we've got plenty of time. We're talking to some labels and looking at different options, but there's nothing set in stone yet."
A release date this year seems a bit optimistic, but still, in the next months we should be getting Orchestral project, new D&W and maybe even new electric BG... that's something!


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In northern Arizona, the dirt roads can be nearly impassible. There used to be a saying about the roads that went something like this; choose your ruts because you are going to be in them for a long time. The same thing can be said about choosing a camera system, choose your camera brand because you are going to be in it for a long time. There are a bewildering number of camera manufacturers. In most large industrial manufacturing business the trend is to consolidation and fewer brand choices. In cameras, the trend is exactly the opposite. The number of manufacturers and camera models seem to increase every year.
Lately, the move has been to add cameras to smartphones and tablet computers. In some cases, these add-ons are sophisticated camera systems but some may also be of inferior quality to a dedicated camera. There are always a number of reviews online concerning the quality of the images from any particular camera system. My suggestion is to do the research before you buy. Search on the name of the camera and the word "review" and you will undoubtedly find someone with an opinion.
Genealogist almost always see the need for some kind of camera if only to record family events and people. But with today's electronic digital cameras, the camera has also become a tool for recording and digitizing documents and artifacts rather than just snapshots. Depending on your individual interests, finances and inclinations, you may be interested in taking quality photographs or satisfied with whatever the camera you have records. The good news is that very inexpensive cameras can take very good photographs. But unlike spending a lot of money on cars and clothes, cameras are tools and there is a reason why the professionals use certain types of cameras rather than others and why you might end up spending money for a better quality camera and lens system.
I have written about purchasing a camera in the past, but times change and cameras are partially electronic devices so the vast changes in technology have affected cameras as well as every other aspect of the electronics industry. Hence, there is a need from time to time to review the state of technology and update recommendations.
There are certain features of all digital cameras that determine the quality of the final image produced. I will briefly discuss the factors determining the quality of digital image produced by cameras in general, with a perspective on the importance of each.
A camera is essentially a light-tight box with a way to allow limited amounts of light to access and record the images on a light-sensitive substance. In the most extreme example, you can take recognizable pictures using a cardboard box with a pin hole and a sheet of photographic film. See Wikipedia: Pinhole camera. The first addition to this simple system is adding some kind of lens. The lens gathers the light and focuses it on the light sensitive substance (film or digital sensor). So, if I were going to rank the photographic components in order of the their importance, the most important part of the system is the lens.
Historically, cameras came with one fixed lens. Whatever limitations were inherent in the lens were unable to be corrected. Today there are a multitude of specialized lenses and computer software that can correct most, if not all, of their limitations.
In currently available digital cameras, the lenses can be extremely inexpensive or an individual lens can cost many thousands of dollars. Cameras are generally divided into two different classes: fixed lens cameras and removable lens cameras. If you have a camera in your smartphone, you have a fixed lens camera. You have to use the lens supplied with the camera. You can put additional lenses in front of the fixed lens, but ultimately, the quality of any image you obtain is determined by the quality of the lens.
Removable lens cameras allow you to change the lens for different photographic conditions. More expensive and/or professional level cameras can have a whole system of lenses for special circumstances. I mention both Canon and Nikon in the title to this post because both of these companies have a huge selection of camera models with an additional huge selection of lenses for their more expensive models.
You may be perfectly satisfied with the quality of the images you obtain from a smartphone (Android or iOS) but if not, there are a multitude of choices at every possible price level. Moving up a notch are the point-and-shoot cameras that are really sophisticated computers. You can buy a high quality camera for less than $100. You may wish to do some research online to see why you might want a more expensive camera. Websites such as Amazon.com have consumer reviews of almost every possible product.
If you plan on doing some very complicated photography, such as digitizing glass negatives, you might have to invest in some fairly expensive cameral equipment and some specialized lenses. These high-end cameras can cost many thousands of dollars and the lenses can cost more than the camera, much more.
Before you make a decision, realize that if you are buying a high-end digital single lens reflex (DSLR) you will likely have to stay with the same camera system for a long time because of the investment you have in lenses.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Buying a Camera -- Nikon vs. Canon or whatever?
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Pipeline Inbox: 2014 Draft full of good HS arms
With the recent launching of our 2014 Draft Top 50, it seemed fitting to make this week's Inbox Draft-focused.
Many of you had hit Jim Callis and me with queries via Twitter with @MLBPipeline, but we couldn't get to them all. So I picked a handful to answer now, sneaking in one question about a different kind of Draft that's taking place next week at the Winter Meetings.
With the recent launching of our 2014 Draft Top 50, it seemed fitting to make this week's Inbox Draft-focused.
Many of you had hit Jim Callis and me with queries via Twitter with @MLBPipeline, but we couldn't get to them all. So I picked a handful to answer now, sneaking in one question about a different kind of Draft that's taking place next week at the Winter Meetings.
Do you consider Tyler Kolek to be a starter or a relief pitcher when all is said and done?
-- Jack N., Andover, Minn.
Kolek is currently No. 4 on our Top 50, and the top-ranked high school arm in the class. The simple question, of course, is: Do you think we'd rank him fourth if we thought he was a reliever? I can see where the idea would come from. Kolek is a hard thrower, who probably would hit triple digits with ease as a closer type. He also struggles a bit with command and doesn't have much of a changeup as of now. If there was no hope of him developing on either front, then maybe he would profile as a reliever. But it's far too early, and there are signs that his changeup will be Major League average. His command may be questionable, but with his premium stuff and room for growth, I'm still thinking he's a starter all the way, and one who could be a frontline type when all is said and done.
What do you think of Luis Ortiz? Where does he go in the Draft?
-- Ryan B., Winnipeg, Manitoba
I wanted to start off the Inbox with a pair of questions about high school pitching, always the highest risk-reward option in every Draft. Ortiz comes in at No. 16 on the Top 50, but he's one I could see moving up with a strong senior season in Northern California. The Fresno State commit has the chance to perhaps have four Major League average -- or better -- offerings, highlighted by a fastball that touches the upper 90s and a killer slider that serves as an out pitch. With a clean and easy delivery, Ortiz is already a pretty good strike thrower. He's not the thin projectable type (he's fairly mature physically). There are a few high school arms ahead of him on the list -- Kolek, Touki Toussaint and Brady Aiken -- but Ortiz isn't far behind, and it wouldn't surprise me if he ended up ahead of some of them. If you told me Ortiz would go at some point in the middle of the first round, I might believe it.
Who is this year's steal in the Draft, like Michael Wacha and Marcus Stroman were in the 2012 Draft?
-- William P., Waldorf, Md.
This is a tough one to answer in December. Remember, we didn't know Wacha and Stroman (especially Wacha) would be steals. Stroman came in as a potential steal type given his size. Many thought Wacha was going to go much higher in the Draft, and while he still exceeded expectations with what he did in 2013, had he gone closer to the top 10, he may not quite be in the "steal" category. Still, I'll give it a shot. I'll give you one hitter and one pitcher, both from the college ranks. I'll go with Max Pentecost, the Kennesaw State catcher, as my hitter. Granted, he's ranked No. 20 -- so maybe he's not a sleeper, but he has the chance to be really good. It wouldn't shock me if he went in the top half of the first round, and he's even athletic enough to play another spot if a team thinks his catching isn't coming around. For a pitcher, I'll take Florida State's Luke Weaver, ranked No. 23. He doesn't have the best pure stuff in the class, or even among the college crop of arms, and he's not the most physical pitcher you'll see. But he can really pitch and his sinking fastball-changeup combination, combined with his command, should let him move quickly. The fact that he's done it in a big-time conference against really good competition just pads his resume.
The Blue Jays really love high school pitching. Will the best talent available likely be pitching around the ninth spot?
-- Terry H., Cartwright, Newfoundland
Both Jim and I took a stab at a mock top 10 picks. Both of us agreed with you, that the Blue Jays could very well continue their love affair with high-ceiling high school pitching with the No. 9 pick. Jim had them taking Toussaint from Florida. I had them taking Kolek (Jim had Kolek going No. 3). Obviously, it's way too early to know for sure, and performances in the spring are really important for the prep pitchers in every class. But it does look like there will be some good young arms to choose from for Toronto at No. 9 and No. 11 (their compensation for not signing Phil Bickford, the high school pitcher the Jays took in the 2013 Draft). The guys mentioned in the Ortiz question all could fit -- Kolek, Toussaint, Aiken and Ortiz. And I'll throw in Grant Holmes and Kodi Medeiros for one more righty and lefty, respectively, giving the Blue Jays a very deep crop of high school pitchers to look at.
Who are the best Rule 5 Draft prospects this year?
-- Nathan G., Deer Park, Texas
With the Winter Meetings rapidly approaching, I had to sneak one Rule 5 question in after a series of Rule 4 Draft questions. We're just starting to look at names, and trust me when I tell you there are tons of them to pour over. Sometimes, a familiar name is what catches your eye -- remember former first-rounder Matt Hobgood? We'll be talking to scouts and front-office types at the Winter Meetings to whittle down the list to ones who could get taken. For now, I asked Jim to help me out, and we each picked three currently Rule 5-eligible players we kind of like. Jim went with Carlos Perez, a catcher in the Astros' system; Jeremy Hazelbaker, an outfielder in the Red Sox's system; and Tyler Ybarra, a left-handed reliever in the Blue Jays' system. As for me, I went with Rockies outfielder Tim Wheeler, Astros right-hander Bobby Doran and Pirates reliever Zach Thornton.
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLB.com and writes a blog, B3. Follow @JonathanMayoB3 on Twitter.


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Hawke Aerospace Holdings has hired Jim Fisher as president of its Uniflight subsidiary in Grand Prairie, Texas, which provides maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Fisher comes from Air Methods, where he was the accountable manager for Part 21 manufacturing and one of the company's Part 145 operations.
He also served as chief operating officer (COO) and vice president of technical operations for Omniflight prior to the Air Methods acquisition in 2011. An A&P mechanic, Fisher previously worked at Chromalloy's Part 145 Repair Station in San Antonio, Texas.
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'Touch Point' is a large, abstract painting that will be a striking statement piece in any room. The deep scarlet and wine reds in this contemporary colour field painting were mixed with artist pigments. The pigments were mixed to a beautiful matte, chalk like finish.
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After a long career in higher education I discovered two new passions in my life in 2006: art and psychotherapy. I retrained as a therapist and have been continuously working towards improving my artistic output ever since that 'Eureka' moment. The most obvious connection between these two professions is the preoccupation with emotions. In my therapeutic work I talk about emotions; in my art I aim to translate emotions into visual markers on canvas.
Much of my earlier range of work was influenced by my psychotherapy training; the pieces were concerned with memories and dreams peeling away at them layer by layer. The work that followed were abstract representations of landscapes finding inspiration in the beauty of the outside world: gentle landscapes in the UK, the Arctic Circle, the warm and fiery tones of Mediterranean countryside, dramatic skyscapes and the movement of the sea and the dramatic beauty of flowers.
Viewers often comment on the strong colours that I use in my work. Observing nature offers the inspiration for the vivid greens, magentas and yellows that are frequently found in my work. Try as I might I struggle to work in monochromes – colour always creeps in and takes over. There is a joyfulness to experimenting with colour that is very rewarding for me.
Each of my pieces is unique and takes time to develop. I aim to lend as much 'feel' to my paintings as possible, 'controlling' the painting as much as possible while also allowing for more spontaneity and risk by applying paint in a variety of ways: smudging, scraping, flicking, squeezing and rubbing paint onto the canvas, scratching paint off and re-starting the process. The process thus mirrors the natural eroding process that happens in the development of landscapes.
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It is against police norms to grow a beard during the service. After 25 January Revolution a group of officers and policemen decided to grow bread in accordance with their Islamic beliefs. "Oh yes in Egyptian police force"
These officers were suspended from work for disobeying the regulations yet they did not give up hope and decided to raise the matter to the administrative court which said that they should return back to their jobs with their beards. Still the ministry of interior ignored the court ruling.
The Salafists are backing up these officers. Already when I used to go to Tahrir square during the Islamists' Friday protests, I used to find their tent beside the stage of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail's campaign and similar salafist groups.
|During one of the protests in Tahrir last year
Now regarding my opinion about the bearded officers in general, yes it is a personal freedom and you got countries like in India and UK where bearded Sikh serve in the police and army force but I am afraid Egypt especially now is not India nor UK. You have to have a real constitution that ensures complete citizenship , you have to have a real state of law and justice before letting officers to grow their beards.
I believe it is not the correct time in Egypt in time of polarization , in time where Mohamed El Zawahary , the brother of Ayman El Zawahary says on Egyptian National TV that Al Qaeda represents Moderate Islam !!!!
Already you tell me I have to support these officers and their rights and I will tell you that in this particular time you have to help me first in reforming the ministry of interior and the police force in order they would be in the service of the people for real.
We are already fighting heartless mentality in the ministry of interior and police officers who believe torture is the ultimate weapon to find a new class of police officers who believe that they are the self appointed executors of God's word on earth !!


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Agnes Nanogak Goose
Canadian, 1925–2001
Mural, 1971–1972
felt pen on paper
242.2 x 182.2 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Northern Images, Yellowknife
Holman artist Agnes Nanogak Goose created hundreds of drawings from 1964 until her death in 2001. A total of 159 of her drawings were rendered into prints for the Holman Eskimo Co-operative's annual print collections. The WAG mural was commissioned by the Northern Images store in Yellowknife in 1971 and was displayed in its mall-front window until 1996 when it was acquired by the Gallery. Nanogak Goose believed it was important to remember the traditional stories and lifestyle, and her drawings reflect this perspective. Some of her drawings and stories have been published in two books, Tales from the Igloo (1972) and More Tales from the Igloo (1986).
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How to Knit and Felt Potholders
These knit potholders are fun to felt and are a great way to practice some new knitting skills. Knit these potholders and felt them to add pizazz to any kitchen.
Here are the felted potholders' materials and vital statistics:
Yarn: Cascade 220 (100% wool); 220 yards (201 meters) per 100 grams
Color 1: 8686 Brown; 1 skein
Color 2: 8907 Teal; 1 skein
Color 3: 8400 Gray; 1 skein
Needles: US 10 1/2 (6.5 mm) needles, or the size needed to match gauge
Other materials: Stitch markers; large crochet hook; yarn needle for weaving in ends
Size: The measurement before felting is about 9 3/4 inches wide by 13 inches long; the measurement after felting is about 7 inches wide by 7 inches long
Gauge: 14 stitches and 20 rows per 4 inches in garter stitch before felting; 18 stitches and 36 rows per 4 inches after felting
Knit your potholders using garter stitch:
With color 3, cast on 64 sts, placing a marker in the center of the row between the 32nd and 33rd sts.
Follow this stitch pattern:
Row 1 (WS): Knit.
Row 2 (RS): Knit to 2 sts before the marker, k2tog, slip marker, ssk, knit to the end of the row.
Repeat these 2 rows 5 more times for a total of 12 rows.
Switch to color 1 and work Rows 1 and 2 10 times.
Switch to color 2 and continue repeating Rows 1 and 2 until there are only 2 sts left.
Next row: K2tog.
Place the remaining st on your crochet hook and make a chain about 5 inches long.
Slip stitch through the last knit stitch to form a loop.
Cut the yarn and weave in the ends.
To felt, place your potholders in a zippered pillowcase or lingerie bag and run it through the washing machine along with a pair of jeans for added agitation.
Set the machine for a hot wash and a small load. You may need to run the wash cycle more than once to felt your items completely.
When the potholders look like felt and measure about 7 inches square, remove them from the washer.
They may need to be wrestled into shape, but you can't hurt them, so be rough if you need to.
Allow the potholders to dry thoroughly before using them.


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The Quicksilver Mail, Yeovil, Somerset
...we're in The Good Beer Guide
The Quicksilver Mail pub is situated in Yeovil, Somerset.
We really are a "proper pub" as one of our customers puts it. We are in fact the only pub in the country named The Quicksilver Mail, which makes us pretty unique! We are open all day everyday for drinks. During the week food is served from 11.30 am till 2.30pm at lunchtimes and in the evening from 6pm until 9.30pm, and on Sundays from 12noon till 3.00pm.and in the evening from 6.00 pm till 8pm
Our "Grumpy Landlord" Pete Lambden took over The Quicksilver Mail in 2002 and in those 17years he has transformed the whole place. We have some fantastic real ales, lagers and ciders, as well as an entry in the "Good Beer Guide 2019" - that is 9 out of the last 10 years that The Quickie has appeared in the Beer drinkers Bible.
Our wonderful home cooked food is complimented by a selection of reasonably priced wines. We also have on sale a selection of coffees in the form of lattes, mochas and cappuccinos. Have a look around our website and see what we have to offer.
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There is a FREE WiFi connection for everyone who comes to The Quicksilver Mail. So we hope to see you here soon.
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Since past 5 years I was sniffing a lot around Maven and it's repositories (Proximity was initially released in end of 2005, yay!). And almost always I found myself facing with following, or at least somewhat related problems: version sorting.
Question that looks so simple and logical, but still, not resolved -- at least that's what user requests shows -- still today, after 6 years. So, what is it about?
I'll use term "artifact" in it's broadest sense, it's just a blurb of bytes in a Maven repository, that might be a library in JAR, a self executable app packed as JAR, a full blown application packed az ZIP.... you know, artifact. Naturally, the complete Maven coordinates are GAV (G = groupId, A = artifactId, V = version), but let's stick with version only for now.
People tend to think that "version" of an artifact is just as any other sequence of numbers: it's known where it starts, which one is next or previous. Well, that's not always true. Actually, it's almost never true.
Latest as what?
And here comes the notion of "LATEST" too. It was a concept in Maven2, that proved wrong. What was wrong in it? Well, exactly it's nature, "latest" as latest what? Latest released? Biggest version number?
And finally, the worst problem: people tend to confuse version (let's call it with FQN "Maven artifact version") and marketing version. Or worse: they tend to do all sort of "magic" and eloquent versions like "1.0-alpha-1", or "1.0-RC" etc. And this is the point when people introduce those strange, and usually very funny versions, usually not obeying any "standard" convention, and dooming softwares trying their best to sort versions to fail miserably.
One important thing to know, before you choose your version of a release artifact is that Maven repositories are eternal. Once released, your artifact will stay there forever. Later, when you realize your mistake, or that your "alpha" is actually "pre-alpha", you can't do anything, except violate the eternity contract. And that's wrong to do.
Or, change your way of thinking about Maven version.
Artifact version should not be used for "marketing versioning". Full stop.
No for marketing version
I'll go further, and just state version could be just a number N increasing on every release. So, a sequence of 1, 2, 3, ... etc, similar to Mercurial's "local revision" or Subversions "revision" numbers. You cannot "engineer" and tag your release with some "cool" revision number in Subversion (not that you would want that, this is just for example' sake), it forces you to simply "pick the next one".
Yes, the above will not work if your project uses branches (they usually do). So, let's say then that version is N.M.. and so on, and finally we arrive to general contract of X.Y.Z, used across many Java, Maven but also non-Java projects (think Linux kernel versioning).
In general, you should NOT go beyond X.Y.Z form. Personally, I'd change Maven to enforce this version form, and just fail the build if any other form of version is found in POM. Done.
But still, with branches, your artifact might produce following (simple!) "timeline", releases on time axis:
- 1.0 (initial cut, from trunk)
- 1.1 (from trunk, and then branched as 1.x, since you intend a major rewrite)
- 2.0 (from trunk)
- 1.1.1 (from branch 1.x, a bugfix release)
- etc
So, which one of these is "latest"? Before you say "it's 2.0", think again. Last released is "1.1.1". Greatest version is "2.0". Okay. But I believe you noticed the (at least) two different semantics for "latest". Here you go, and you can easily add new meaning to LATEST too.
Not to forget about different scenarios: the sorting has to be "stable", since either you have a long running repository where you deploy from time to time, or you are actually doing a restore from a backup after system failure, and let's say, you have artifacts only and intend to restore repository metadata using some tools... you'd expect same ordering in metadata, right?
Do you "compare" groupIds (let's put aside the usual processing of them, like sorting those alphabetically)? Or artifactIds? Do they have metrics? Are they comparable? Not in this sense. So why would version have these properties? Just take a peek at examples below:
A good example of broken versions is this one below. Your sorting algorithm should know what "pre" means! Until some "final" 4.0 release, the "pre-alpha" will be taken as latest always for "sorted versions"!
For great "source" of existing versions in Maven Central Repository, I always go to this file below, I gathered once:
Message in the bottle
Obviously, the most frequent reasons for eloquent versions is usually that a developer(s) want to add some meaning to it. Usually for marketing reasons. And that's wrong. Introduce a "marketing version" somewhere else, use that on your site and explain the reasons behind it, but Maven version should not be used for marketing versioning. Or stop expecting "proper" behavior for sorting of the same versions. Use your site for "explaining", the artifact version is just a "pointer" to proper place on your site.
In this shed of light, I'd say you could release always! You could simply consider every successful CI build (or every 5th or whatever) as a release (and THAT would be agile)!
I mean, no project out there (let's consider the "better" Maven3 world-only, as compared to Maven2 world for a moment) will pick up a new release "by mistake". All the version are locked down in your POM, right? Plugins, dependencies, everything.
A bit of digression here: yes, the version ranges. Well, I look at them as bit of a mistake. Mistake of how they are implemented in Maven. Having ranges during runtime (a la OSGi) -- sourced from deployed POMs -- is fine, but during build-time is totally wrong in my opinion. To be more precise, ranges skews the "factual truth about the build", and their purpose is more meaningful for runtime (when someone consumes your artifact and want more freedom to calculate runtime dependencies), but you, when building your artifact, you did build it against one single fixed version! But with a range in version tag, the information "against which exact version was this artifact built" is lost.
I'd rather have some solution (like introducing new "runtimeVersion" in dependencies tag, used by consumers of deployed POMs) to state my "compatibility" against a range of versions, but have my POM properly describing my build.
Version is just a pointer: 0xdeadbeef
Yes, Maven version can have "holes", they must not strictly follow each other. Maven version is just an element in artifact coordinate triplet primarily, and only after that is meant to carry some "light" (pointing?) information for people to comprehend only by "looking at them". Not the other way around!
Change the way of thinking about version, and you will save yourselves from a lot of grief.


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The world moved on from the game pretty quickly, but thanks to its vivid art style Alice: Madness Returns lives on in the hearts of cosplayers, few of which have quite nailed the game as much as michivvya and her friends.
The Chinese cosplayers have recreated many of the games biggest characters (so, not just Alice), and while there's a little too much Photoshop work going on in some of them, the effort and results speak for themselves.
michivvya [Deviantart, via mahlibombing]


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By Rob Glidden
Staff Writer
Area school districts are working to restore some stability in the classrooms and reassure parents about safety, in the wake of a devastating mass shooting in Newtown.
"We spent the weekend preparing for the return of students," said Plainville Superintendent Jeff Kitching. "The sooner we could get them back to normalcy, the better. We have crisis teams in every school to make sure there's available help for people coping with what happened."
After the news broke on Friday morning and more unsettling details about the incident were revealed over the course of the day, reports of other schools in the state going into lockdown became common. Before the weekend ended, Southington school officials invited parents to an event where school safety would be discussed.
"Last evening, over 300 parents participated in an ongoing dialogue regarding safety," said Southington Superintendent Dr. Joseph Erardi, in a statement issued on Monday. "The best plan moving forward includes a review of our entire present practice pertaining to safety, and perhaps more importantly, having continued relationships with every student and staff member in the district."
He added that it had been a "difficult and busy" weekend, but expressed confidence in the district's staff and invited concerned parents to contact him with any questions.
Many years worth of violent incidents at American schools have led to steady increases in safety measures at the buildings. The shooting was a reminder to many educators of why they constantly practice lockdown and evacuation procedures. School principals typically go over evacuation procedures regularly and lockdown procedures are reviewed several times a year.
While this latest tragedy will certainly have administrators across the state and the nation discussing potential improvements, Kitching expressed confidence in the current protections in his school district.
"The idea that all we have at the schools is a doorbell is a common misconception," Kitching said. "The entrances to the schools are locked and are all equipped with security cameras. The front office always knows who is coming into the schools. We had a lot of responses from parents wanting to be reassured that we will stick to our safety procedures."
On Monday afternoon, the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents released a statement affirming that "the people of Connecticut have every right to expect that schools will be safe and secure places for children and for the staff members who serve them."
To that end, the group plans to focus on "developing its own position and recommendations on this subject and will be working with education and public policy groups to address these issues. The caretakers of the education system and those who support public education need to be among the leaders of what must be both a statewide and a national conversation."
A report from the Waterbury Republican-American was used in this story.


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Home of the Future
Students and faculty at RISD and Brown University are working together to demonstrate the capture, storage and delivery of thermally generated electricity, harnessed by means of a small-scale thermal-electric engine. Working with industry partner Viessmann Manufacturing Company, RISD and Brown researchers are currently building a small demonstration structure powered by a thermal electric system. The goal is to capture enough heat from the skin of the building to deliver electricity for a useful and conditioned interior environment – without the use of expensive photovoltaic technology.
In what's known as the Solar Pavilion Collaborative Research Project, Assistant Professor of Architecture Jonathan Knowles has been engaged with engineer and Brown University colleague Christopher Bull and their students in a multiyear endeavor to build the demonstration model shown above as a proof of concept.
The technology driving this project, the Stirling Engine, uses solar energy as the heat source and converts temperature differentials into mechanical energy with zero emissions. "When the Stirling Engine is incorporated into a passive house—a structure with high-performance insulation, windows and an airtight building shell—we can create a comfortable space for people to live that consumes no fossil fuels," Knowles explains.
Once the research team completes the structure in fall 2010, the project will move to Stage II, which involves testing and monitoring the engine and integrated solar thermal design on site at Roger Williams Park in Providence.
"This project is pioneering in that the application is leading the research," Knowles points out. In fact, this mini solar test home just may hold the key to a future in which homeowners can live comfortably and fully sustainably off the grid.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Sixty-one percent of Americans say President John F. Kennedy's death was the product of a conspiracy, a poll indicates.
The percentage is the lowest in the nearly 50 years since the killing, Gallup reported.
In 1976, 81 percent of Americans said they believe in a conspiracy theory, despite the Warren Commission investigation that ruled that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
The belief in the conspiracy theory remained high for many subsequent polls, Gallup said.
In the most recent poll, Americans said they think the Mafia, federal government, CIA and/or Fidel Castro could have been involved.
Thirty percent of respondents said Oswald acted alone.
The survey queried 1,039 adults by phone Nov. 7-10. The margin of error was 5 percentage points.


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|With the fun of operating a motor boat boat comes the responsibility for keeping that boat in first-class condition, knowing and obeying the nautical "rules of the road," and gaining the general knowledge and skills to operate a boat safely.
Motorboating merit badge requirements
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|Motorboating merit badge requires prior counselor and/or parent approval for requirement(s) #1c.
|Motorboating merit badge is an option for the National Outdoor Badge for Riding.
|The Motorboating merit badge is an option for the Start Your Engines! STEM Nova Award.
- Motorboating is a popular summer camp merit badge.
Requirement resources
1. First Aid:
1a. Hypothermia • Heat Reactions • Dehydration • Motion Sickness • Insect Stings • Tick Bites • Blisters
1b. CPR
- Your handbook is your primary reference. See First-aid skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
- See also: First Aid merit badge pamphlet • First-aid kit • Emergency kit • Guide to Safe Scouting • Annual Health and Medical Record
2a. Swimming
BSA Swim Test: Diving also has the feetfirst jump in • Sidestroke • Breaststroke • Trudgen Crawl • Backstroke • Swimming Turns • Floating
- Your handbook is your primary reference. See Swimming skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
- See also: Swimming & Lifesaving merit badge pamphlets • Guide to Safe Scouting • Safe Swim Defense • Safety Afloat
2b. Personal Flotation Device
3. Inboard motor - Outboard motor - Inboard/outboard motor (stern drive)
Related awards
- Requirement #5 of the Motorboating merit badge may satisfy some of the Sea Scout Able rank requirement on Boat Handling (requirement #6).
- Motorboating merit badge may satisfy some of the Sea Scout Quartermaster rank requirement on Boat Handling (requirement #7).
|Aquatic-related awards
See also
|General Merit Badge information
External links
- Motorboating merit badge requirements (2019) — Scouting.org
- Motorboating merit badge requirements (2012) — Scouting.org
- Digital comparison between 2012 and 2019 versions of Motorboating merit badge requirements — Draftable.com
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Friday, 7 May 2010
No More Mrs. Nice Mom
Have I enjoyed too many wonderfully-prepared meals with the kids and strayed too far from my own OCD eating habbits? What IS it that stops a person from getting faster when they continue to train hard? Have I reached the limit of my talent? Or did I just have a bad day?
I ran intervals on Wednesday. The first mile was in 6:29 and felt good. But then the second, which was uphill and into the wind was 6:46. The time in itself wasn't so bad, it was just that it felt so extremely hard! I had to pull off into the woods, with tears in my eyes and take a long break. I was so nauseated. It reminded me of when I started doing intervals last fall. It wasn't fun anymore. The third mile was in 6:35. Again, the time itself wasn't bad, but I was miserable. The fourth was very slow in 6:58. Ew. Why did my legs feel fast, but the rest of my body just feel like crap? I was so nauseated and tired. A week before my expected period, I couldn't even claim possible pregnancy as an excuse, or PMS for the matter. Number 5 mile interval in 6:54. But I was done. I couldn't suffer anymore. I gave up, one interval short of my goal. If I had just continued to do one more, I could have been on par with my fastest intervals ever. But I didn't have it in me.
I wanted an excuse so badly that I broke my own rule and took a pregnancy test before my missed period and it was, of course, negative. There is just nothing worse than being fat, slow, nauseated and NOT pregnant.
So what has happened? One thing that fascinates me with speed work is finding the limiting factor. Though I claim to be a scientist who is interested in running, this is a subject I struggle with. I don't think the limiting factor was my legs. But it was more this general feeling that I couldn't do more. So I had to wonder if it was my weight. My weight has crept up in the last few months, though I am not convinced it is bad. I think it is muscle and has a least led me to be a faster swimmer and cyclist. And I did the first pull-up in my life the other day. But one of my two main goals for the Copenhagen Marathon is to lose 1-2 kg, while continuing the same intense training and hopefully not losing muscle. The other under-appreciated factor in fast running, is simply believing you can run fast. Along this line, Emily Pease pointed a study out to me that found that simply believing you have good vision, improves your vision. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58682/title/Vision_gets_better_with_the_right_mind-set
So are these smart plans for a Copenhagen Marathon PR?
1. Lose 1-2 kg
2. Continue current training with big taper the week before
3. Regularly bask in the glory of my speed
And no more fun and games.
Totally unrelated #1: Was excited to get a reader from Saudi Arabia the other day, but then realized they found my blog by searching for "lactating tit girl". I hope they found what they were looking for. Isn't that also how you found my blog, Steve Q? (hehe... giving you a hard time just never gets old)
Totally unrelated #2: on a scale of 1-10, how annoyed are you by the band Owl City (10: most annoyed)?
Running songs of the day: Swim Until You Can't See Land by Frightened Rabbit, Lewis Takes off his Shirt by Owen Pallett (both great for long, lonely runs in the rain)
20 comments:
- mmmonyka said...
There is something in the air in Europe (and it is volcano unrelated) that makes us feel like crap, horrible, sluggish, negative. That's my current excuse. I have been feeling very negative and like crap lately (and I am sure I am not pregnant, because I had biology and know how babies are made, so it is not possible:))and I have runner friends who feel the same.
I guess we just need to focus on something positive and do not dwell on negative things, although I am really enjoying complaining to everything and everybody about how "l'entrainement/l'entraineur de la merde produit les resultats de la merde" .
- 7 May 2010 at 12:41
- PiccolaPineCone said...
wow, I have locked the doors, bolted the windows, closed the shutters and la cocotte and I have taken refuge in the basement because I expect the turbulence from the STORM of comments from people after reading that first sentence to reach all the way from Denmark to Northern Italy :)
it is hard to maintain normal healthy eating around babies/kids. being a stay at home mom has DESTROYED any sense I had of normal, healthy eating (was planning a post on this soon).
- 7 May 2010 at 12:43
- cherelli said...
Hey it was just one session...maybe there were other contributing factors? Sleep, something you ate (blood sugar bonk), low in iron?, just not in a tough headspace day....don't get to extreme! (Oh and yeah, like Piccola I thought there'd be a flurry of emails after that first comment; maybe there was a collective sigh instead :) )
- 7 May 2010 at 14:17
I too was waiting for the fallout... maybe not this time though. :-) I agree that there's nothing worse than feeling that way and then finding that you're NOT pregnant - at least that would feel like an explanation. I don't know how feasible the weight loss will be with hard training. I know that I'm not as fast or as light as you but I had to totally set my goals aside the last few weeks of my half marathon training because I couldn't figure out a way to be ready for my harder runs, lose weight, and breastfeed. Maybe your bad intervals (though they sounded wonderfully fast to me!) were a fluke. I hope so!
- 7 May 2010 at 14:57
- Ewa said...
A week before a period for me is always PMS. OK, I get my PMS early and I really can see the difference in how I run in the first vs second half of the cycle.
Is it possible you've been training too hard and you need a bit of a rest?
So if one can improve his/her vision with the right set of mind, that might work for athletic performance too. Actually I think it does. Have you been doubting yourself? :)
Have a great weekend.
- 7 May 2010 at 15:40
- Helen said...
YAY - welcome back ;)
- 7 May 2010 at 15:53
- SteveQ said...
I've done searches with stranger terms than that!
Losing weight corresponds with higher VO2max up to the point where you start feeling tired and nauseated. Guess what, genius? You're there.
Or you just had a bad day.
- 7 May 2010 at 17:16
- Danni said...
A test wouldn't tell you that early silly girl.
- 7 May 2010 at 18:01
- amy said...
i found your blog through Olga's and enjoy following it.
funny on the saudi arabia comment. i also had a saudi viewer who found me through googling "run bitch run." hmmmm....
- 7 May 2010 at 18:41
- green light said...
one bad workout does not a trend make. Calm down. Stick to your plan. Stop over thinking and analyzing every workout, don't assume there is something wrong and you have to change things. You aren't consistently missing your splits, this was the first bad workout in a while. Let it go.
- 8 May 2010 at 03:02
- sea legs girl said...
Mmmonyka, we'll get through it. Yeah I hand't considered blaming the volcano, but interesting thought. We are not "entraineurs de la merde"!
Piccola, Everyone once in a while my humor is exaggerated enough that I guess people realize the needn't get mad. Either that or they stopped reading a log time ago.
Cherelli, I think it might have been the not in a tough headspace day.
Yeah, Xapis, one negative with running so many races is it is really hard to lose weight!
Ewa, yes, perhaps a litte self-doubt.
Thanks, Helen!
Steve, considering the weight loss has just barely started, I doubt it's that. And, hey, you're the one who claims to be a genius :). Feel free to let us in on those "stranger" search tems at any time!
Danni, my thought was if I can be irregular in the sense that there are long intervals between my periods, why can't there also be short? Anyway, it was an expensive mistake!
Amy, welcome! It is hilarious the things people search for. And sometimes I wonder what exactly it is they are expecting. Like "run bitch run", what exactly do they hope to find?
Green Light, you are right. Time will tell if there is a trend. But I am a worrier and overanalyzer by nature. In a honestly, the more I think about it, I am sure it was just that last month of very intense training finally catching up to me. Thanks for your thoughts! I WILL stick to the plan.
- 8 May 2010 at 08:47
Hi there!
I have been reading your blog for a few months now (having come across it during a search for running & pregnancy) and this is my first time commenting. When I first started reading, I totally thought you were nuts, but as I continue I find myself relating and really enjoying your writing and your race reports. I ran a 5K this morning and was the first female and I thought of you and was inspired during that last tough mile! Anyway, wanted to tell you that and also that I may be interested in writing a piece for your "Running Routes" book, if you are still accepting submissions (I know I am late on this!) - is there a way to e-mail you about that outside of comments? Thanks!!
Shannon (KS, USA) :)
- 8 May 2010 at 20:00
- sea legs girl said...
You are the best! Congrats on your win today! Awesome! What was your time (hope you don't mind me aksing!)?
I actually also think I am nuts but then end up relating to myself, too :). No, really, thank you for your honesty.
Um, you are definitely not too late for the book. I'm so glad you are interested. The email address is email@example.com.
- 8 May 2010 at 21:26
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- 9 May 2010 at 16:43
- mmmonyka said...
This is more like a response to your comment on my blog.
Me, an American, haha. If only my parents have heart that:)
I have never really liked Nutela (on bread I mean, I loved eating it with spoon though but my parents never allowed me to do that:)) But my sister used to eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner (when my parents allowed it).
The first time I tried PB sandwich was 5 years ago when I moved to the US for college and did not liked it too much but then I tried it with a banana and loved it. Since then, I am a PB and banana, apple, peach (any fruit) maniac. And I will definitely do 100k walk to get some:)
- 9 May 2010 at 18:04
- sea legs girl said...
Oh, Mmmonyka. How embarrassing! I am coming over to your blog now to make ammends (if that is possible).
- 9 May 2010 at 20:03
- SteveQ said...
Guess what search led me to:
- 9 May 2010 at 20:46
- mmmonyka said...
Je vois, c'est trop complique avec moi:)
Merci pour le compliment concernant mon anglais. Ca me fait du bien d'entendre ca!
Je suis Slovaque, j'ai vecu en Slovaquie, j'ai toute ma famille la bas (sauf ma petite soeur qui etudie a Arkansas parce que elle veut faire tout comme moi). Apres mon Bac, j'ai fait le Bachelor degree aux Etats-Unis a Providence, RI. J'ai fini la-bas l'annee derniere et maintenant je fais Masters a une business school en France. Mais je vais faire un programme d'echange avec UCLA MBA l'annee prochaine et aussi je vais faire un stage dans une entreprise a Michigan (pas loin de Rochester Hills) cet ete. Et voila, plus du mystere:)
- 9 May 2010 at 21:14
- mmmonyka said...
Oh, yeah, I do not like root beer:)
- 9 May 2010 at 21:17
- sea legs girl said...
Steve Q, The link doesn't work! Otherwise I'd enjoy wagering a guess.
Mmmonyka, well, it is all starting to make sense now. Thanks for the explanation!
- 9 May 2010 at 22:22


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Can it be done? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Can it be done? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Mexico View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message incognitogeniusJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 6:47 pm Post subject: Can it be done? Hello all! My fiance and I would love to move to Mexico later this year to teach English, wherever we can, though preferably together! We are looking to pay off our student loans at the same time that we can learn about Mexico, incorporate Spanish into our daily language, and travel the history we are relatively obsessed with. Although I feel I have been searching for weeks, I am not sure exactly where to start. Should we go through an embassy? Contact individidual schools? Is there a place where Mexican positions are most often posted and updated? To give some background, I have a B.Journ from Ryerson University, and my honey has a certificate of art fundamentals from Seneca College. We will both be receiving our TESL before we embark on our adventure. Our landlord told us that he had lived in Mexico for two years, earning $500 (American) daily by working through Coca-Cola - is this possible!? Obviously it's an extreme if it is true, but are there possibilities like this? Any help you might be able to offer would be greatly, greatly, appreciated! Thanks, Sue Back to top inmexicoJoined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 110Location: The twilight zone Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 7:28 pm Post subject: 500.00USD a day? He must have been the president of Coca-Cola. A good wage here is 100.00 -150.00 pesos an hour for private lessons . if you are busy every day you might make 100.00 USD a day Back to top incognitogeniusJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject: Nope, not the president, but he certainly found himself a good score. How much does 100 pesos work out to, in American or Canadian? Do you know of any positions? Back to top Paul GJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 125Location: China & USA Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 2:28 am Post subject: The Peso is trading at about 10.8 Pesos = 1 US dollar. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ Back to top Ben Round de BlocJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1946 Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 12:21 pm Post subject: Wondering USD$500 a day! Are you sure your landlord wasn't referring to coke instead of Coca Cola? Back to top MELEEJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2583Location: The Mexican Hinterland Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 3:12 pm Post subject: 2 things to think about Sue, I won't mention the likely hood of 500 US dollars a day as others have already taken care of that But I do want to mention two things I would be concerned about in your post. 1) pay off student loans. How much are we talking about here? What are your monthly payments. It is most likely that you and your partner will be making about US $ 500 a month, not a day. Living together will cut down on expenses, but you'll need at least $200-$400 a month each depending on where and how you live of course. So you won't be able to make monthly debt payments of more than $300 a month, but realistically I would say it's not doable if your payments are going to be more than US $150 a month. 2) You want to work Spanish into your daily language. This is hard when you spend all day teaching English. It's twice as hard when you are living with an English Speaker. I know, I tried it years ago. I went to Ecuador with my ex. My spanish was intermediate his was not existant. He learned enough to be generously considered a mid level beginner and I maybe moved to high intermediate--maybe. After we broke up I came to Mexico alone and found my self a Spanish speaking honey. My level shot up. Other teachers I work with, hang out together a lot, we speak English all day at work, then they go out and speak English together in the evenings. They want to learn Spanish, but it takes a lot of work on their parts to create opportunities to speak it, and they are living in Mexico! I'm not saying you shouldn't come, but I want to make sure you think it through. I love my life in Mexico. It think it is a great experience for almost anyone. But you need to know what you are getting into. Cheers, Back to top LMJoined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 25 Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 4:11 pm Post subject: I agree with the former posts about money. If you don't have a master's degree in education or even a bachelor's degree (again in education), you probably won't make more than 5,000-6,000 pesos (500-600 american) a month working full time in a language school. Universities will not generally hire anyone that doesn't have the an advanced degree in the area they wish to teach. They will hire a Mexican with good English and the right degrees first. The area you could do well in is teaching English for business purposes, which pays good per hour, but requires a lot of time lost for travelling. There is always a steady stream of professionals looking for someone to converse with and correct their English. This will require you living in a larger city with many factories and companies. I did this kind of work for a year in Toluca. I enjoyed the job, the students were interested, but it requires a lot of time on public transportation, and sometimes a day that starts with a class at 7a.m. and doesn't end until after your evening class at 8 or 9. I would often be in three or four different factories in one day. I never made over 6,000 pesos for the month. I had a degree in languages at the time. You might be able to do a little better than that since the pay has gone up since I was there, maybe 8,000 pesos if you get enough hours. Now I have another bachelor's degree in second language education and I will be leaving for Mexico this summer. I still don't expect to get a university position, at least not right away. My two bachelor's degrees may give me an edge, but I know that many universities will still have to enforce their policy of hiring only teachers with masters degrees. You will need the majority of this 5-8,000 a month to live on. So, the bottom line is, whether you can go to Mexico or not will probably depend on how big your student loan payment is. Suerte. Back to top MajaJSJJoined: 24 Jan 2003Posts: 1 Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 8:36 am Post subject: Can it be done? For your consideration: Four years ago I was receiving $800.US per month teaching in a private school in central Mexico. That was the top rate at the time for native English speaker teachers with the most number of years of experience. (Sadly, the Mexican national teachers with similar experience received as much as $150 US less.) I would say that I lived simply and it took every centavo! However, I imagine that it would have been possible, if one is so inclined, to supplement one's income by teaching private lessons or by teaching at a language institute at night. Someone I taught with did that. Back to top dan allanJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 38 Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:33 am Post subject: CAN IT BE DONE-of course!! You can find work in Mexico City. It has the highest pay. Yes, business classes would be best. How well you do depends on your motivation and business acumen. Contact me if you want more info. By the way, can you post your email here? DAN. Back to top Ben Round de BlocJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1946 Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:15 pm Post subject: It could be done, but . . . I think it could be done but not to the degree that you're probably expecting. Financially, it would be hard to do both: pay off student loans and "travel the history [you] are relatively obsessed with." Probably to earn enough money to pay off student loans, if monthly payments were relatively small, the only travel you could afford would be back and forth between your apartment and work six days a week. You'd have very little time to enjoy and appreciate the culture or develop your Spanish language skills. 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