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Please confirm that you want to add Bernina software 7 Advanced Class 8: Flower Bouquet to your Wishlist.
This course is intended for Bernina Software 7 owners who want to learn more about Class 8: Flower Bouquet: using Bernina Software 7.
This course is more than 60 min of Bernina Software 7, and the fifth course that is more advanced techniques used where we will explain Class 8: Flower Bouquet: using Bernina Software 7.
We have broken the course down into 6 lectures of not more than 14 min each for your convenience. In each lecture we will cover a section of the Trupunto and Monogramming.
Section1: Welcome to Bernina Software 7
Class 8: Flower Bouquet:
Lecture1: Introduce how to digitize with various fill stitches, planning the final order
and the set up of settings.
Lecture 2: Backdrop preparation, and order to start and why Working in stitch view vs design view. How and why to use it.
Lecture 3: Use normal step fill, or use creative fill types. I show you how to create with more decorative and less densed designs. Mirror-Merge will be used a lot in this class, I introduce it to you in this step.
Lecture 4: Start and end selections is very important, specially to manage and reduce jumps. Object orders can be time consuming but not if you plan and follow it from the beginning.
I show you how in this class.
Lecture 5:Open fill stitches is very creative, quick to stitch, and very users friendly.
Shading and underlays does not apply here, and it truly looks very beautifull.
Lecture 6: Fill stitches, underlay, shading and outlines.
Yes we show you all of these steps in this class.
Section 2: Bonus Section
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Please feel free to try our introduction course as well.
Introduce how to digitize with various fill stitches, planning the final order
and the set up of settings.
Backdrop preparation, and order to start and why Working in stitch view vs design view. How and why to use it.
Use normal step fill, or use creative fill types. I show you how to create with more decorative and
less densed designs. Mirror-Merge will be used a lot in this class, I introduce it to you in this step.
Start and end selections is very important, specially to manage and reduce jumps.
Object orders can be time consuming but not if you plan and follow it from the beginning.
I show you how in this class
Open fill stitches is very creative, quick to stitch, and very users friendly.
Shading and underlays does not apply here, and it truly looks very beautifull.
Jacqui Viljoen has been teaching Fashion and Dress design since 1994. In 2004 she opened her Bernina Franchise in Benoni, South Africa and has been teaching Bernina Embroidery Software since. First as Bernina Dealer in Benoni South Africa in her studio in Benoni and as from 2009, online as Principal at School of Digitizing.
Like most dealers I had to work for a specific target, and sales had to be my first priority, which leads to not be able to give that exclusive and undivided attention on training in the Bernina Embroidery Software like you deserve....... well I wanted more time there, so much so that one day I decided this is it! I am out!
Sold the shop, took a leap year to discover and learn and research all I wanted to know about Bernina Embroidery Software, and as I grew into it the opportunity to start teaching Embird and Bernina embroidery software using Internet, Webinar, Skype etc came to me in the form and shape of hubby.
Oh, and computers? Well I still feel I only need to know enough to be able to run my Bernina embroidery software.... and to be honest: my backup support system is trustworthy, and not only me, but even you will benefit from me and my backup system.
First I started with the Bernina Embroidery Software, and my dream is to get hold of every frustrated and the feeling of helpless person who has the embroidery software and guide you through the fun and excitement we are suppose to have, not frustrations.
After one year in teaching the Bernina embroidery software V5 then, the need to help for basic Embird embroidery software classes crossed me too.
Immediately I started dreaming of seeing each Bernina embroidery software user in the world having a hard time understanding their program, I want to help all!
You should have fun, not a hard time.
I cannot describe in words the excitement I felt, and still do, and those of members joining us every time we tune in for a class on Bernina embroidery software from V5 and on wards with regular updates and later Bernina Cutwork Software.
It is overwhelming, exiting, amazing and fun!
I want to share my knowledge in Bernina embroidery software with the world, and Internet is the answer.
Wendy from Australia gets up at 3.00am in the mornings, she enjoys her Bernina embroidery software classes so much that she don't mind doing it.
She does not have to do it, She wants to do it. She loves to do it, and here is in her own words what she has to say about our Bernina embroidery software classes:
"" Hi Jacqui
My experience of being a member with Sewpride:- (this was the name I used before Schoolofdigitizing - same place, just a different name)
I am 75 yrs. old and have been sewing ever since I can remember.
When I retired 10 yrs ago I bought a new embroidery/machine (Janome) it broke down just before Christmas last year and I decided to buy the Bernina aurora 440.
The difference in embroidery sewing has changed such a lot in those years and I found myself floundering.
I had lessons from the shop where I bought the machine. The cost was $25.00 one lesson per month; we started projects but never finished them.
I turned to the Internet and found a lot of help. I downloaded lessons and began to get the hang of things. I came across your lessons and they made a lot of sense to me. I think of them as master classes, they give inspiration to work on new projects, I love the webinar where we can interact with others also the help you give when it is needed.
I am feeling more competent week by week, thank you Jacqui.
Wendy ""
You will love and enjoy this so much you can even make your money out of this should you desire to do so, and we will take you through tested steps on how to.
You need not to waste any time any more trying to figure out how your Bernina embroidery software works, all your searches ends right here.
The service I provide in training the Bernina embroidery software will save you time and money so you can spend your valuable time on things to do.
I love to call myself your genie: your request is my demand.
Thank you for joining in this exiting, awesome and tremendous teaching game.
The best part to know is: if this is what you want to do, we even have an apprentice course worked out to fit you, in a language you can understand. This is to take your hobby to the business table and how to manage and do marketing.
It is also presented as a webinar like our embroidery software classes.
To build your own website for designs.
Thank you for reading my story about Bernina embroidery software, and thank you for allowing me into your story in exploring you own Bernina Embroidery Software'
Without you we are not a team.
Our steps is so well explained for embroidery software you could use this even though you might not have Bernina Embroidery software.
I have been an Internet entrepreneur for the last 20 years. My main focus is on Embroidery Software Training plus some Self Improvement, YouTube Video Marketing and Web Development
Things I do and enjoy
Outside of work I am a published author on Amazon Kindle and Createspace. I enjoy my bush trips at least twice per year to clear my head.
I am also co-hosting some Bernina Software training course with my partner and wife Jacqui Viljoen at School of Digitizing where we both are instructors on the Bernina Software Series ver 5 - 8 and Embird Embroidery Software
My passion is sharing what I know with others and helping them to succeed as well.
I started earning a monthly income on Udemy in December of 2014
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The Los Angeles Lakers' commanding 5-0 start to the season has even the most guarded fan bouncing numbers around his head like John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind."
The New York Knicks' NBA record 18-game winning streak to start the 1969-70 season? It's on the table.
The overall record of 33 in a row by the '71-72 Lakers? Sure, why not?
The best single-season record of 72-10 by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls? Hey, Phil Jackson already did it once...
After the Lakers dismantled their latest victim in Sacramento on Wednesday, Lamar Odom sounded downright Jeff Van Gundy-like when talking about what the Lakers are striving for this year.
"Being perfect is like a realistic goal for us," Odom said. "It's a way of thinking. It's a thought process."
Van Gundy put his reputation as an ABC/ESPN NBA analyst on the line this summer when he predicted the Miami Heat would win 72-plus games and go the entire season without dropping two in a row.
"We try not to get numbers on it," Jackson said after practice Thursday. "Last year, I said if we didn't win 60 I'd be disappointed in the season as far as their effort, but we had extenuating circumstances with injuries last year and those things happen."
The Lakers stumbled to just 57 wins last season, losing seven of their final 11 games, including a 2-3 mark on a five-game road trip when Jackson set the bar of expectations at 5-0. In Jeanie Buss' new book "Laker Girl," she reveals that Jackson often looks at the slate of Lakers games for the upcoming week and writes a goal on the board in the locker room, perhaps 3-1 if the team is playing four games, for instance, to give the team a number to focus on. So Jackson does use numbers, even though he said Thursday that "numbers aren't important."
"What's important is getting out ahead of the rest of the pack and somehow or other putting them in the back so that you have that home-court advantage that looms important at certain times in the playoffs," Jackson said.
Read "rest of the pack" as Miami, Orlando, Boston, Dallas and Oklahoma City -- considered to be the early challengers to Los Angeles' plans of securing the No. 1 overall record in the league.
The two major things a team has to take care of to make a run at the best record are (1) take care of the teams it's supposed to beat and (2) stay healthy.
The Lakers have gotten off to a fast start by taking care of non-playoff teams like Golden State, Memphis, Houston and Sacramento, while the Celtics lost to the Cavaliers, the Thunder lost to the Clippers and the Mavericks lost to the Grizzlies already. Plus, Boston has already beaten Miami, and Miami has already beaten Orlando -- a tortuous round-robin cycle that's sure to continue between the East's elite throughout the season.
Out of the 13 games remaining in the month of November for L.A., only six are against teams that made the 2010 postseason and only two are against a team with a better-than-.500 record so far (Portland is 4-2; Golden State is 3-1 with, the Warriors' one loss vs. the Lakers).
If L.A. just splits its games against the playoff teams and wins all the rest, it would have a 15-3 record heading into December, which is precisely the time center Andrew Bynum is expected back from his right knee injury.
Even if Bynum's return ends up being delayed, or if another Lakers player comes down with an injury, the team is deep enough to withstand losing a player or two to rehabilitation and keep on winning.
Jackson surmised that his bench is the deepest it's been since the 1999-2000 season. Not coincidentally, that was the winningest team (67-15) Jackson has ever coached that didn't have Michael Jordan on it. The '99-00 Lakers started Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Glen Rice, A.C. Green and Ron Harper and brought the likes of Derek Fisher, Robert Horry, Rick Fox and Brian Shaw off the bench.
"That team won a championship," Fisher said. "This team still has 100 and however many games to go before we get that opportunity. But it's comparable. I think the biggest similarity is just the level of professional and maturity with the bench ... I think this team represents the closest we've had to that in a while."
Bryant, who said "intellect and patience" is the theme he is infusing into the team this season, sees the parallels between a Steve Blake, a Matt Barnes and a Theo Ratliff with a Shaw, a Fox, a Horry.
"You have a lot of grown men," Bryant said. "Everybody on our team is pretty much grown and has been around the league for a while. Every piece complements each other extremely well and it's very deep. We have a team full of playmakers."
Bryant was asked about Odom's statement about perfection after the Kings game and shrugged off the idea of 82-0 the same way he took little special enjoyment in the numbers he racked up in the game -- the 17th triple-double of his career and his 37,492nd minute played as a Laker, which broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's franchise record.
"We just try to take it game by game, that's what he means by that," Bryant said. "Now we just think about Toronto [on Friday]. We're not even thinking about three-peat."
Bryant's got the right idea.
When you start thinking in terms of numbers, a Lakers championship isn't just a three-peat; it's the unprecedented fourth three-peat and 12th championship for Jackson; it's the Jordan and Pippen-tying sixth ring for Bryant and Fisher; it's the Celtics-tying 17th title for the Lakers as a franchise ...
Simply winning a game at a time is good enough for the Lakers. And the Lakers are good enough to make it look simple in the process.
Dave McMenamin covers the Lakers for ESPNLosAngeles.com. Follow him on Twitter.

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- 2 eggs
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- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 4 slices cinnamon raisin bread
- 4 tablespoons cream cheese
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- Beat eggs, milk and sugar with fork in 9-inch pie plate or 8-inch square baking dish until well blended.
- Spread one side of each bread slice with 1 tbsp of the cream cheese spread. Top 2 of the bread slices, spread-sides up, with 4 ham slices each. Cover with remaining bread slices, spread-sides down. Lightly press edges of each sandwich together to seal. Dip sandwiches into egg mixture until well soaked.
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Trying to get all of my loved recipes (plus some to still try) posted here at Zaar for my grandkids. This is one that my late husband and I loved in the summertime. It is so refreshing. The only change to update is the V-8 juice. Cook time is chill time.
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- 2 cups homemade V8 vegetable juice (" Tastes Like" V-8 Juice)
- 1 large bermuda onion, chopped
- 3 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon zest, fresh
- 2 (7 ounce) cans albacore tuna, drained, flaked
- 1 cup green olives, chopped
- 1⁄4 teaspoon oregano, scant, powdered
- 1⁄4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
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- Mix the juice, onion, tomatoes, oregano, and Tabasco.
- Chill thoroughly.
- Squeeze lemon over tuna and let stand at least 1/2 hour.
- Combine tuna and tomato mixture and add olives.
- Chill again.
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I have FOG .29 installed and we had someone roll out some machines and they used a hardware disk duplicator and not the FOG server. The FOG Client Service was installed on the master image and runs fine on the imaged units. The problem though is that the machines will not register with the FOG server. I have gotten an error of:
FOG::HostRegister Exiting because only 1 mac address was found.
I have no idea what this is and apparently their forums are barren with little activity on there and possibly answers to tons of stuff are lost in oblivion on their sourceforge forum which they turned off without migrating it over.
Just trying to find out the issue or what I can do to get these systems registered. I thought about upgrading to .32 (and plan on doing so once I get a backup) however I've heard that really nobody has gotten this to work since .28 and I suppose nobody cares enough to check it out??
Apr 9, 2012 at 2:01 UTC
Have you tried logging into the FOG server and under host management adding the machine manually with the mac address?
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Apr 9, 2012 at 2:01 UTC
Have you tried logging into the FOG server and under host management adding the machine manually with the mac address?
Apr 9, 2012 at 2:53 UTC
That works fine. I don't want to have to do that for ~150 machines though. Seems counter productive when I can easily push the client and it is supposed to be doing that.
Just seems counter productive.
Apr 10, 2012 at 10:21 UTC
Now that you were able to register a host like that can you do a network boot and then perform a full host registration and inventory on a different machine?
Apr 10, 2012 at 3:10 UTC
I have no issues when doing it from PXE boot. That isn't the problem. My problem is that I have 150 machines to hit. The Fog Service client is supposed to run the hostregister.dll that is supposed to register the host. I get the error above when it attempts to do that. It should not be doing that.
Apr 12, 2012 at 10:30 UTC
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Exactly the same problem. Have 1200 machines, and PXE host registration is fine, but I want to be able to just push the service and have it register them all for me.
Apr 12, 2012 at 12:24 UTC
As a workaround, you could export your Spiceworks inventory of the machines and import it into Fog. I've honestly not used the Fog service however I have used Fog 0.32 on Ubunu 11.10 and it has worked flawlessly after a few tweaks to apache and mysql. I would recommend at least building a virtual machine or someting with Fog 0.32 on it and seeing if it works. Also, try different kernels too with your current version and the new version.
Apr 12, 2012 at 12:34 UTC
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 and Fog .32 tried stock kernel, newest core (which you have to get from sourceforge) and the latest Kitchen Sink (KS) kernel.
Apr 25, 2012 at 8:39 UTC
Question. If you download the prebuilt FOG vm, will it work?
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Walter "Buddy" Hungerford is a "classically" trained chef who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N. Y., in the early 1980s. Patricia Davis, his wife, got her bachelor's degree in nutrition from Immaculata College in Pennsylvania, but it wasn't until she attended Bastyr University in Kenmore, Wash., that she learned about natural medicine, holistic nutrition and whole foods cooking.
A stint in the school cafeteria, which was completely vegetarian at the time, is where she learned a lot about vegan and vegetarian cooking, too.
"When we decided to do this restaurant together, we thought that it was important to offer choices on our menu to please everyone vacationing at the shore and - of course - our locals as well," says Davis.
The Bongo Cafe in Ocean City has become a place where carnivores and vegans can coexist at the same table, with options for the meat eater, vegans, vegetarians, lactose-intolerant and gluten free, making the dining experience an enjoyable one for all.
The operators of Bongo Cafe are serious about their menu, but the atmosphere is all about fun.
"We wanted to do a beach-themed restaurant that makes you definitely feel as though you are at the shore," says Davis.
"Our best memories of being here are from childhood, so a lot of our decor is very retro, '50s and '60s," says Davis. Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello beach movies run on their flat-screen TV and movie posters cover the walls along with seashore memorabilia from summers past.
The Bongo Cafe is a blast from the past with a social conscience that doesn't feel forced or phony.
"It's good all the way around to really think about where your food comes from and what you are putting in your mouth," says Davis. Wishing everyone could source all of our animal products from good, humane sources, Davis knows we are not quite there, yet.
Even in the Garden State of New Jersey it can be difficult at times to provide a restaurant with all of the local produce it requires at a reasonable price.
Davis understands many serious vegans don't always want to eat in a place that also offers meat. The philosophy at the Bongo Cafe is a simple one.
"Because we are at the seashore and because people are vacationing, we offer food that everyone in the family can eat," says Davis. A concept pretty much unheard of over the years.
One of the more popular vegan entrees is the grilled tempeh skewers with cashew satay sauce. Made with cooked and fermented soy, tempeh is one of the few things the kitchen doesn't make because it would take forever to ferment the soy.
Sliced from a flat loaf, the tempeh is marinated in their toasted sesame-ginger dressing and served with the cashew satay sauce that combines coconut milk, tamari and sweet chili sauce with seasonings such as cilantro, garlic, ginger, curry powder and cumin.
"I don't want to have peanuts in the restaurant because there are so many peanut allergies," says Davis who does use other nuts, such as the cashews in the satay sauce. "It's a very interesting mix of flavors and it's really good."
"The cashew sate sauce is kind of the star of the show," says Davis.
Over time, Davis has managed to sneak a few more things onto the vegan menu, believing that with alternative protein products you need to be more creative. When she added seitan to the already extensive menu that Hungerford somehow manages to turn out from his small but efficient kitchen, he had to ask what she was trying to do to him.
"I will probably add some more specials next summer, like a lentil loaf with a cashew gravy, one of my favorite vegan dishes, a vegan lasagna, and some things that are a little more interesting like vegan enchiladas," says Davis. "He (Hungerford) doesn't know about that yet."
Grilled Tempeh Skewers with Cashew Satay Sauce
•1 package tempeh
•1 cup toasted sesame-ginger dressing (see recipe)
•8 bamboo skewers (soaked in water)
•1/2 cup cashew satay sauce (see recipe)
•Organic field greens
Cut tempeh "loaf" into 8 slices. Marinate tempeh in toasted sesame dressing for 10 minutes, reserving some for dressing. Skewer tempeh lengthwise onto bamboo. Grill or pan saute tempeh about 3 minutes on each side until golden brown. Split cashew satay sauce between two plates. Lay hot skewers on sauce, and finish with tossed field greens and sesame-ginger dressing.
Makes: 2 servings, 4 skewers per person


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Senate Republicans on Tuesday agreed to a package of deals to end their 51-day impasse over the state budget. The $145 billion spending plan now goes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his signature. He has said he supports the plan. Some details:
– The budget contains about $103 billion in general fund spending, $1 billion less than Schwarzenegger proposed in May. The general fund pays the state's ongoing operating expenses.
– The plan reduces the state's operating deficit from an estimated $1.5 billion under Schwarzenegger's plan to about $700 million. The governor has promised to eliminate the deficit by using his line-item veto powers to cut spending.
– It provides what lawmakers say would be the state's largest-ever reserve in a single year, $3.4 billion.
– Total state spending, which includes payments to special funds and for bond debt, would be about $145 billion.
– The budget relies on some optimistic revenue assumptions, analysts say. It also takes $1.3 billion in unexpectedly high gasoline tax revenue to help pay for the state's ongoing operating expenses. Democrats had sought to keep the money for public transit.
– The budget also relies on $4.3 billion left over from a tax windfall received in recent years.
– The spending plan projects California's deficit will swell to more than $5 billion in 2008.
– Welfare recipients would not receive cost-of-living increases, and increases for the elderly would be delayed five months. Children of welfare recipients, however, would not see reduced funding, as the governor had proposed.
– Public transit systems would lose $1.3 billion they could have received from higher-than-expected gasoline tax revenue.
– Medi-Cal caseloads would be fully funded, and the state will pay $214 million for managed care rate increases.
– K-12 education, as well as the University of California and California State University systems, would be fully funded.
– Local anti-gang programs would receive $9.5 million, and the California Highway Patrol would get $7 million to help address gang problems.
– Juvenile justice programs would receive $14.9 million in planning grants, and reforms would place juvenile services closer to families.
– Transportation would be fully funded under Proposition 42.
– Republicans won a two-year moratorium on global-warming related lawsuits against transportation and flood-control projects funded with bond money.
Republicans said the moratorium was necessary to keep Attorney General Jerry Brown from filing suits that could stifle growth. Democrats said the moratorium was unnecessary and may end up backfiring on Republicans by strengthening environmental law.
– Republicans also won demands that railroads be eligible for more bond funding; vacant state jobs be filled or eliminated more quickly; and that California limit efforts to require state buildings to meet stricter energy efficiency guidelines by the end of the decade. They also won a technical change on Medi-Cal liens.
– Republicans, however, dropped a demand that lawmakers secure equalization funding for schools in the future. The funding is designed to supplement rural and suburban schools with declining enrollment. The two sides will address the issue in budget negotiations next year.
– The Senate did not vote on a tax-credit package for movie studies and high-tech firms that Assembly Republicans tried to link with the budget.


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In the new television landscape, media companies like to boast about making their shows available to viewers anywhere, at any time. But from now on in Canada, they'll also have to give video-on-demand to their competitors.
Quebecor Inc. has been using the content it owns to beef up its cable service and give itself an unfair advantage against competing TV providers, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled on Wednesday.
Quebecor's offers a video-on-demand service for its Illico cable customers, both through their television packages and online for those with a subscriber password. In June, Bell Canada and Telus Corp. complained to the CRTC that Quebecor's Vidéotron division, which provides the cable service, had been refusing to grant them the digital rights needed to put content from the TVA network - which Quebecor also owns - on their own on-demand services.
The companies argued such exclusivity limited their ability to attract new subscribers, especially in Quebec where TVA is the most popular network, and where their television services compete with Illico cable.
"It's harmful, on an evolving platform like video-on-demand, and it clearly limits competition," said Telus's senior vice-president for government and regulatory affairs, Michael Hennessy.
According to Bell, it had been attempting to negotiate on-demand rights with Vidéotron for the past three years, without success.
"We've been saying that the rules are rather clear, and this wasn't content Quebecor … could deny to Bell TV," said Bell's senior vice-president for regulatory affairs, Mirko Bibic. "It shows that the CRTC's got a good set of rules in place, and the rules work."
Quebecor must now put its TVA shows on its competitors' video-on-demand immediately, and must negotiate terms for those digital rights by Feb. 25. The company declined to comment on the decision Wednesday.
"Given the emerging role of VOD in the [TV distribution]business model and the popularity of TVA's programming in Quebec, it would be difficult for a new [cable, satellite or Internet protocol TV provider]seeking to penetrate the Quebec market to attract subscribers if it cannot offer TVA programs on its VOD service," the CRTC wrote in its decision.


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Boxes. Containers. Glasses. Small, medium, and large. We need these things. We put our "stuff" inside of them. We all need them, yet sometimes they can hinder us more than they can help.
What Time Shall I Be Afraid?
I've been struggling to write my next post for the last two months. I have tried to write it several times, yet, the words never came. As I sit here, I am still not quite sure what I want to write or more of what I want to let you know. I think I've finally figured out what I want to share.


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Some of the kids on Flight 232 that left Dulles for Dubai on Wednesday morning have never been to Africa. Or another country. Or on an airplane. A couple of them told me they've never been farther from home than Tyson's Corner.
But thanks to their hard work and the generosity of hundreds of Washington Post readers, 47 kids from Hyattsville who sing like angels flew through the skies and will land in South Africa this week.
The Northwestern High School Choir made it.
This high school choir, which consistently rates in the highest categories in regional competitions and gives goosebumps to anyone lucky enough to hear them sing, was the only school choir in the nation invited to participate in an annual, prestigious choral festival in South Africa.
But when I met them in March, they had raised only about $40,000 of the $100,000 they needed to make the trip.
They had been baking, selling cookies, selling fruit, singing at churches for cash donations. You should see the instructions they got online about all their concerts and events, sometimes several in one week. (" (You) need to be at the school no later than 4:45 a.m. No staying up until 2 a.m., thinking you're going to be up before 4 a.m.! Have a good nights sleep.!")
In March, just one month before they needed to put down a hefty deposit for their trip, it seemed impossible.
It was going to be like Prague, Vienna and London — three cities where the choir had been invited to come sing, but had to decline because the working-class families at this school in Prince George's County couldn't afford to send their kids.
After I wrote a column about their struggle, Washington Post readers deluged them with donations. They got their $100,000 in a matter of days.
Choir director Leona Lowery sent the deposit just as the choir organizers were about to drop them from the program.
So when it was just about dawn on Wednesday morning, parents took their kids to the meeting spot in Hyattsville. They were parents who had recently lost their homes or their jobs, parents whose savings were devoured by the health crisis of an uninsured relative or a government furlough.
On Wednesday, they became the parents of international travelers.
The choir's Facebook page had photos of the parental goodbyes, their check-in at Dulles Airport, their clearance through security, their ride on the airport train, the inside of the plane…(Remember, this is the first airplane trip for some of them).
I can't wait to hear about all the amazing things they will see in the next two weeks. Thanks again, Washington Post readers. You're the ones who did this.


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I'm Jessy 18 years old and living next to you in The Netherlands haha My ride is a 2005 VW Golf V 2.0TDI (BKD) Sportline. The car is tuned up at 84000km to 180bhp and 410nm of torque and still now we are almost passing 110K its still drive's GREAT! Looks of the car are stock @ the moment but will be changed. The car runs now @ 180bhp and 410nm but end of January i'm getting another turbo together with a custom chiptuning. That all wil bring the car running @ aprox ~ 210/220bhp and 470nm. I also CAN do other injectors (Pumpduse in German?) that will give the Golf a good and healty 240bhp and 500nm but I aint going to do that because the gearbox and other suspension parts wil run out to quick and hard. The turbo will be a Garrett Hybride 1856. Next plan is suspension i think that H&R springs wil be good enough for the Sportline. Total lowering should be 4 ~ 5 cm? good enough for me. Together with 19" S8 rims or 19" BBS Audi A6/S6 speedline or 18" R32 wheels (silver or black?) should make the car look good!! OEM Xenon en maybe a R-Line of Jetta bumper at the front and a GTI bumper and end muffler or tips @ the rear are also in the plan.
Here some pictures of my ride how it is now (complete stock)
Greetings Jessy
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Your car looks good and the modifications you planned are awesome! I hope everything will work fine...
If you want 19" rims you won't be happy with springs for long time...Therefore you should install a coil over suspension
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Your car looks great...beautiful colour
A r-line bumper at the front would definitely look "sexy" on your car
Have a nice time & greetings from Austria
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Small update:
The car is now @ the tunings company and can pick it up this thursday. A new turbo + other exhaust system and a custum tuning will added to the car. I also have purchased a full R32 braking system together with origninal Bi-Xenon headlamps, GTI steeringwheel, GIT pedals and a GTI shifter. The car broke down 2 weeks ago I dont no the problem but I think its a EGR cooler OR the turbo. Also this week the EGR cooler will be fully deleted and a other turbo will be placed.
Here some pics.....
This came in a realy big box with a realy big poststamp on it from Finland Its a FIN-Hybride 1856.
Greetings Jessy
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Sheesh - seems like ages since I've been here. So many changes, business up and running - bred my first litter of labs - moved house - guess I had better work on catching up now!
"Have you got TIME for Comet? UPDATED"
UPDATED: 14/12/2004. This op was correct at the time of writing. Note that while the Timecard is still valid for making purchases at Comet in the same format to a credit card, it has now generally been replaced with the "Your Way" card issued by GE Capital and all interest free purchases are now made through GE and treated on an application by application basis, therefore having a card with a generous limit does no guarantee you Interest free credit, unlike its predecessor.
Your application will more than likely be for an interest free or payment plan option rather than a Timecard; this Timecard is issued without request as an added invitation for you to spend more money with Comet and their partners.
They will want information such as employer, time in current role, bank account details, your addresses for the last three years and be warned that the staff will undoubtedly offer you some form of discount or free gift if you take out the extended warranty; think very carefully about this as they can cost nearly as much as the goods, and if you find for some reason you are not in a position to complete the interest free period, could end up costing you more than simply replacing the item new, as you WILL pay interest on any warranty taken out on a product.INTEREST RATES
When customers receive their authorisation paperwork for their very first purchase, they will receive a Comet Timecard through the post without being offered it, usually with a fairly meagre credit limit of around £250 and an astronomically high interest rate of 29.9%APR if paying by Direct Debit and 31.9% for payments by other means. Your credit limit for interest free purchases and payment plan options will be separate and different (usually higher) from that of your Timecard.
Credit limit is based on the 25 times the monthly amount you are expected to pay, i.e. for a minimum monthly payment of £10 you would expect a credit limit of £250, for £11 - £275 and so on.
Timecard is issued on behalf of Comet by Time Retail Finance (TRF), a fairly little known Company based in Leeds, who, like most of their competitors sport an 0870 – national rate customer help-line (it was originally 0845 – local rate) but obviously changed once the company realised they could make more money this way.
o 8am – 8pm Monday to Friday
o 8am – 6pm Saturdays
o 11am – 5pm Sundays
To be fair, I have seldom had to wait more than about a minute to speak to a customer care representative, who without exception have always been courteous, helpful and understanding, although over the recent bank holiday I did manage to exceed my credit limit through making a number of purchases including a new combined TV/Video and dutifully rang TRF to advise of them accordingly.I was reassured that as my overall credit limit was far in excess of what I had spent (this includes allowances for interest free options and payment plans) and that I shouldn't worry about it; it did not however stop me getting a really s****y letter from them today advising me that my card had been stopped until I had made a payment of £11 to accommodate my new credit limit, wow a whole extra £25 credit and an extra £1/month payment, needless to say I was somewhat unimpressed with this turn of events and gave the rather pleasant and patient gentlemen on the other end of the line some serious grief as I have now had an account with Timecard for several years and have spent many thousands of pounds with them through authorised outlets, only once in all that time running a balance when I was between jobs for a few weeks at Christmas a few years ago after being made redundant.
Many people may ask what on earth is the point of having one of these when there are so many good low credit card deals around. Well for one thing, the low credit limit stops any foolish spending and the high interest rates forces me to clear the balance in full every-time I spend, whereas when paying interest rate of 10 or 12%, it is much easier to spend too much thinking I can spread the payments.
The card also allows you automatic authorisation for Comet's payment options, but at 29.9% APR I usually give these a miss, if I can't pay it in full, or obtain interest free credit I usually give it a miss. Interest Free options usually start from around the £200 mark.WHERE CAN YOU USE IT
When I was initially issued with this card, Comet were part of the Kingfisher Empire that included Woolworths, B&Q and Superdrug although these liaisons have now been broken up. In spite of this the list of stores that the Time Card can be used in continues to expand, at the present time, you can enjoy up to 8 weeks interest free credit in:
o Comet (in-store and on-line)
o B&Q
o Woolworths
o Big W
o NEXT
o Interflora (On-Line only)
o The NEC Group
o JJB Sport
o Holiday Time Direct
You will also regularly be sent offer brochures allowing you to use the card for a wide range of tour operators through a third party agent, whilst simultaneously offering you a range of discounts on the holiday itself and complementary products. You can also apply for a cheque to pay your road fund or TV licence, neither of which I have tried, but I guess could be quite useful if you happen to have a temporary cash-flow problem, naturally as with other purchases, if you don't clear the balance in full you will get stung big-time for interest charges.
A rather uninteresting little grey number with images of all the vendors who take the card in store imprinted on it - a big red and white COMET stamp and name TimeCard. It has the usual 16 digit card number across the centre and valid to date.
Validity is usually for one year, and no from date is shown. The rear of the card contains slightly more colourful and obvious range of vendors that take the card just in case you get the assistant blanche at the fact he/she has never seen one before.PAYMENTS
Payments can be made via giro slip into any bank, sending a cheque in the post or through Internet telephone banking. TRF used to accept Visa/Delta debit payments over the telephone, but stopped this practice around a year ago, because of something to do with new legislation, although I am not aware of any other credit providers that have stopped this service and was somewhat bewildered, as up until that point, payment could literally be made up to the day before the payment due date without penalty. Now however, using internet banking, I have to allow a minimum of 7 days before the payment due date to ensure receipt. I do however quite like this method, as I tend to find that when I have interest free options running I make the minimum payment immediately and then make additional payments at any time during the month when I have extra funds.
If you are buying interest free on Timecard, it is imperative that you repay the balance in full BEFORE the due date, as even if 1p is outstanding, you will be charged the full amount of interest on the initial outstanding balance and will be expected to make regular payments until the balance is cleared (you have been warned).STATEMENTS
Statements are issued monthly and usually arrive around the 6th of the month, with payment due around 16 days later, although I am pretty certain they will agree on a payment date to suit individuals' cash-flows. My dad typically takes his statement into the bank of the day payment is due and pays the balance off in cash, he has never once been penalised for this.
The one thing I do not like about the statements is that the outstanding balance and available credit are based on assuming that you are not going to clear it during the interest free period and include the total interest for the purchase, this is quite irritating and requires a telephone call to the customer services department to establish exactly how much is outstanding, as I tend to make regular yet erratic payments.So if anyone does take advantage of one of the many offers Comet have, don't fall off your chair in shock when you get your first statement, like I did.
MY VERDICTNot recommended if you are not disciplined and cannot be sure that you will clear the balance in full every month – if this is you, then there are much cheaper credit deals around.
Highly recommended providing you are disciplined to pay the balance off in full, and like interest free options when you can save your money and earn interest on it until final payment becomes due.
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MARKH455 published 03/06/2003Excellent op! What a rip off card though!? Mark.
aurian published 25/03/2003I used to have one of these cards. After buying a computer on interest free credit in 1989 they provided an unasked for Timecard. Like you I would always endeavour to pay off the balance, since the APR was ridiculously high. Back in the early days only Woolworths and Charlie Browns were affiliated to the card, and on many occasions Woolworth's staff didn't recognise it and had to check it's validity. Very detailed, informative work. Well done.
mrpaella published 28/09/2002I heard never heard of this card. Thanks for your description...Paul
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012
School run - Clyro style
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Sunday, 22 January 2012
Into the wild
On a wild Sunday afternoon we clambered up to the summit of Hay Bluff. Bo was slightly terrified by the wind and that he might be blown up into the sky like a balloon, but little Sethie jogged cheerfully to the top and was very proud of himself shouting 'I've climbed Hay Fluff'. The views were spectacular, and with wind beaten faces we piled into the car and back to the cabin for hot chocolate huddled around the wood burner. Perfect!
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Saturday, 21 January 2012
Double date
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Black and White village trail
The 17th century dovecote has been restored and turned into a community shop, selling groceries and local produced, and run by volunteers from the village.
More info and a map of the Black and White Villages Trail here, including routes for walking, cycling and public transport. Stop in at Dunkerton's Cider Mill to sample their traditional organic cider and perry, and for lunch, at my hands-down fave of the pubs, The Tram Inn at Eardisley.
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All in a day's work
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Monday, 16 January 2012
Imp logic
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Saturday, 14 January 2012
In the (not so) bleak midwinter
So it was a shock to wake up yesterday morning and see the landscape muted by a covering of frost, like those people whose hair suddenly turns grey overnight. Seth surprised me by randomly using a Spanish word when he looked out on the fields and said 'it's now blanco grass'. One of my favourite things about the view is how different it is each day. We can't say how it's going to look, and the atmosphere changes so much depending on the shadows, or the colours, or how much of the view is obscured or in full view.
It's frosty again today (more confusion for the plants) and the sky is laden with vast white clouds hanging heavy over the Black Mountains. We're heading out in our boots and hats for a walk in the clouds, and a wander into Hay to raid Pembertons bookshop which is closing and has a magic 40% off all titles (they'll still be running the bookshop at the Festival, but the owner is retiring from daily shop life).
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Pottery Cottage renovation: week eight
The most dramatic change to Pottery Cottage since the initial opening up work was this week when the guys took out the windows and walls on the garden side, to prepare the space for two bi-fold windows. I'm thrilled with how it's looking on the kitchen side, the opening lets the light flood in and we'll have a great view out to the garden from the open kitchen/dining/work space, and that will be the first view as we step into the house. On what was the dining room (will be a playroom) side I'm quite as happy, mostly because we had to build up a supporting column, so from the internal viewpoint, the doors will be off-centre. It's less important in there, and from the garden view the doors will be better placed. From the garden the back of the cottage is going to much less cluttered and fussy, more streamlined. We're also planning on changing all the windows back to wooden frames, probably painted grey, with single pain glass, which will make a huge difference.
Here's how the back of Pottery Cottage looked when we bought it, exterior and interior views:
And here's the work in progress earlier in the week. Window panes out, roof propped up ready to take out the frames and wall:
We really enjoyed spending Saturday afternoon down there, the boys digging in garden, Ollie sawing firewood, and me painting Ollie's shed. I think we'll be really happy there, if we can hang in there and make it habitable before we run out of funds.
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Where do I get my books?
Lenore from Presenting Lenore posted about an interesting topic today. She talked about where her last 20 books came from, partly because Marie of The Boston Bibliophile just posted to her post where she lists the sources of her last 20 reviewed books, and also because Julia Keller recently said, "The extra story is how that book made its way to you in the first place," in her article in the Chicago Tribune.
I completely agree with Julia Keller about how the story of how you found a book is similar to "…a courtship story: The chance encounter, the first shy glance, the recognition of a shared sensibility and finally — ah, bliss! — the consummation." I'm sure my husband wouldn't appreciate being compared to a book, but isn't there that feeling with a really good book of not wanting to part for a second, wanting to spend every minute together, and a feeling a pure satisfaction when you close the last page?
I digress…this post was supposed to be about bloggers and commercialism, not me waxing rhapsodic about books I love.
Marie poses these questions: "But no more freebies- no more purely promotional work. What would that mean for our blogs? For our reading? Is the only reason we blog to receive free books?"
While I believe I've stated that I don't blog for free books, I'll admit they're nice to receive. What book lover wouldn't relish receiving books because someone wanted THEIR OPINION on that book? As a peon in the grand scheme of things, I'm now a peon WHOSE OPINION IS SOLICITED. I think I just moved up, however microscopically, in the food chain.
My blog isn't purely a book blog; I have other interests and other thoughts that I talk about here, so I don't see how not receiving anything from authors or publishers would change my reading or the purpose/focus of my blog.
I liked that Lenore and Marie took their last 20 books and told you from whence they came, and I think I'll do the same. However, I'm going to list all the books I've read this year and tell you where/how I acquired them, then I will break it down into percentages.
- I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb – This was a re-read of a book I already owned. I bought it years ago.
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer – I borrowed this book from a friend.
- The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver – I checked this out from the library because it was an Amazon Significant Seven.
- Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer – Checked out from the library after reading a great review on a blog.
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett – Requested from publisher after reading a glowing review on a blog.
- In the Land of No Right Angles by Daphne Beal – Checked out from the library. I checked this book out because it had gotten great reviews in Publisher's Weekly.
- Blindness by Jose Saramago – Checked out from the library after reading Raych's review.
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – Checked out from the library after hearing about it on various blogs, then I was going to buy a copy because I loved it so much, but happened to receive it as a gift from a friend.
- Wake by Lisa McMann – Checked out from the library after reading various reviews on blogs.
- Silk by Alessandro Baricco – I got this book from Bookmooch after reading some great reviews.
- The Secret of the Sacred Scarab by Fiona Ingram – Sent to me by the author for me to read for potential book tour.
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn – I won this book from Jill at Fizzy Thoughts. I was going to pass the book on when I was done but loved it so much that I kept it.
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford – I requested this book from Shelf Awareness (I believe).
- The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan – Checked this book out from the library after reading some great reviews and finding out that the author would be making an appearance at a local bookstore.
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Borrowed from a friend.
- Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors – Received this book unsolicited from the author. Another author introduced us and I agreed to read his book(s) (I still have one book from the author that I haven't read).
- Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales by Eleanor Bluestein – Received from the author, unsolicited, though I did agree to review it.
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher – Bought this book from a local bookstore because it was selected for my book club.
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult – I purchased this book years ago, and this was a re-read.
- Serena by Ron Rash – Checked out from the library after I saw it on the Amazon Significant Seven and friend insisted I read it.
- The Shanghai Moon by S. J. Rozan – Received unsolicited from the publisher, though I had agreed to review books they send me.
- Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton and Erin Torneo – Agreed to review after publicist queried me.
- Rape: A Love Store by Joyce Carol Oates – Checked out from library after a friend mentioned the book.
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri – Got off Bookmooch after reading a review on Lisa's blog.
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje – Checked out from the library because it was a book club pick.
- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson – Checked out from library after reading great reviews on various blogs.
- Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan – Received from publisher after they Twittered about it. I requested the book.
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff – Received this book as part of a blog tour.
- No One You Know by Michelle Richmond – I bought this book after seeing the author on a panel.
- The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams – Received this book after being queried by publisher.
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson – I checked this book out from the library after reading great reviews on various blogs.
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins – I flew from California to New York, waited in line at 5:30am in order to get a ticket just so I could get the book.
- The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second by Drew Ferguson – I checked this book out from the library in order to be a judge in a bracket competition.
- Debbie Harry Sings in French by Meagan Brothers – I checked this book out from the library in order to be a judge in a bracket competition.
- Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea – Received this book from the publisher for an online book club I participate in.
- The Host by Stephenie Meyer – Received this book as part of a blog tour.
- The Reader by Bernard Schlink – I got this book from Bookmooch after reading great reviews on various blogs.
- The Purloined Boy by Mortimus Clay – Received this book to read before I put together the blog tour.
- Afraid by Jack Hilborn – Purchased this book for my Kindle on Jenn's recommendation.
- Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy – Received this book unsolicited and probably wouldn't have read it had it not been chosen for my book club.
- After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr – Received this book from the author to see if it would be appropriate for a blog tour.
- Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta – I checked this book out from the library after reading great reviews on various blogs.
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan – I checked this book out from the library after reading great reviews on various blogs.
- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith – I bought this book when I was at a book signing but already owned the book by the featured author.
This breaks down thusly:
2 – previously owned
16 – library
2 – borrowed
4 – requested
3 – bookmooch
9 – unsolicited
2 – blog tours
2 – won
4 – purchased
So basically I'm getting 29% of my books from publishers/authors, whether solicited or unsolicited. The other 71% are acquired by other means. These stats are very similar to last year, the only difference being that this year I've taken advantage of my library, whereas last year I bought a lot more books.
I don't think that not receiving free books would change my blog AT ALL. I obviously review both older and newer books, from uber popular books to books that have gotten lost in the shuffle. But as far as whether I would still review new releases, there's a couple of cool things in the book world, one called a library, the other called a bookstore, where I can borrow or buy pretty much any book I want. So I could borrow or buy any new and trendy book I want! *gasp* I know, this is crazy talk! And any blogger who enjoys reading the hot new releases (of which there is NOTHING WRONG WITH), they could do the same!
I say this because I've noticed an underlying condescension towards those who review new and trendy books. Perhaps it's because those who review new and trendy books are considered "cool and popular" (obviously they are cool and popular because, duh, they're getting the cool new books), and while I don't want to get back into that whole conversation, I don't know why it matters what another blogger reviews. In fact, I don't know where I would be without the bloggers reviewing the new books! How else am I supposed to find the gems among the glut of books being released?
What's my point? Heck, I don't even know if I had any one point. I think it's interesting to see where my books came from, but I don't think it indicates how ethical I am. How ethical someone is on their blog doesn't come from how many books they review that they got for free, rather, it comes from how honest they are in their reviews. Honesty is not dependent on whether you paid for a book or not…or at least, it shouldn't be.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a leader of the court's liberal wing, will decide soon whether to retire after 35 years on the court, two newspapers on Saturday quoted him as saying.
Stevens, 89, has hinted for weeks that retirement may be at hand but has said he has not made up his mind. In interviews published in the New York Times and Washington Post, he discussed his possible retirement.
He plans to leave either this year or next, the Post reported, quoting Stevens as saying, "I will surely do it while he's still president," referring to Democratic President Barack Obama.
His retirement would allow Obama to make a second appointment to the court in a year, but it was not expected to change the court's ideological makeup. The Senate confirmed Obama's selection of appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the high court last summer.
"I do have to fish or cut bait, just for my own personal peace of mind and also in fairness to the process. The president and the Senate need plenty of time to fill a vacancy," Stevens told the New York Times.
"I can tell you that I love the job and deciding whether to leave it is a very difficult decision," he told the Washington Post. "But I want to make it in a way that's best for the court."
Stevens, who turns 90 on April 20, is one of the oldest and longest-serving justices in the history of the Supreme Court, which he joined in 1975 after being nominated by Republican President Gerald Ford.
The White House already has begun preparing to choose Stevens's successor, the Post reported. Stevens told the Post that Obama, who has taught constitutional law, is a "very competent president" to make choices for the Supreme Court -- perhaps the best "since Gerald Ford."
"It's a wonderful job," he told the Times. "... I wouldn't have hung around so long if I didn't like the job and if I didn't think I was able to continue to do it."
But he told the Times he was starting to feel his age. "I have to notice that I get arthritis in my left knee now and then. That wasn't bothering me before. I'm conscious of changes."
Obama nominated Sotomayor last May 26 and the Senate confirmed her on August 6, ahead of the traditional October opening of the Supreme Court term, despite criticism of her selection by many conservatives. She became the court's first Hispanic justice and third woman justice.
Stevens is a defender of civil liberties and wrote the 2006 ruling that struck down military tribunals for detainees held at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He sided with the court's liberal wing in most criminal law cases and on high-profile issues such as abortion, civil rights and church-state relations'
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2006-01-31 at 11:17:00 am #14179
Kinko's deal is costly to DISD
Exclusive: Principals lament expense; firm stands by copying, printing program
the Dallas schools announced a groundbreaking plan to outsource copying
and printing to industry giant Kinko's, W.T. White High School jumped
on board.
Company reps told Principal Joy Barnhart that she could
slash copying and printing expenses by 21 percent, money she could plow
back into classrooms. Instead, those expenses nearly quadrupled,
according to district records. From 2003 to 2005, such expenses rose
from $42,000 to $158,000.
Across the entire Dallas Independent
School District, copying and printing costs more than doubled. In 2003,
the district spent $5.87 million; by 2005 it was spending $12.82
million, according to records obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
"I just think that somebody needed to scrutinize that contract, and I'm not sure anybody did," Mrs. Barnhart said.
spokeswoman Maggie Thill referred requests for cost figures to DISD.
She did not dispute The News' findings, which were based on DISD's
figures, but said the company stands by the program – which, she said,
allows DISD to opt out with only 30 days' notice
"Based on a school-by-school assessment, we are in fact saving the district money," she said.
records and interviews don't support that claim, however. Kinko's based
its estimates on industry averages and other assumptions that DISD says
do not apply and which ended up inflating estimates of the district's
expenditures. For example, Kinko's included such things as estimated
time workers spent making copies and repairing machines, as well as
office supplies like toner.
"It has been said by FedEx/Kinko's that
we simply didn't understand our total cost to copy equation and the
expenses are not out of line," the district's purchasing director, Greg
Milton, wrote to his boss in September. "My professional opinion is
that they've come up with this explanation as a means to justify their
costs, but the argument is ridiculous when analyzed. … [Current
charges] are double to eight times our real costs!"
In addition to complaints of excessive cost, public records examined by The News indicated that:
handling of the project was led by Ruben Bohuchot, DISD's former
director of technology, who was ousted last fall after becoming the
subject of an FBI investigation into a separate computer-services
contract. Mr. Bohuchot, who did not return phone calls from reporters,
played in an exclusive golf tournament subsidized by FedEx/Kinko's that
was included as part of the deal with DISD. A FedEx/Kinko's spokeswoman
said the company has not been contacted by the FBI. No charges have
been filed in the FBI investigation.
•The contract obliges schools
to lease equipment from FedEx/Kinko's, so hundreds of perfectly
functional printers the district already owned now sit in warehouses,
wrapped in plastic.
•The project's grand vision was to create a
network of high-tech printers and copiers throughout the district,
allowing teachers and administrators to print anything, anywhere. Two
and a half years into the three-year deal, that remains only a dream.
school budgets are breaking under the cost of operating new equipment
leased through the program. T.C. Marsh Middle School's copying charges
for the current school year would amount to more than $80,000,
Principal Kyle Richardson estimated. He said the amount he had budgeted
for the year "would not even cover three months of charges."
"One of
my chief responsibilities is to be a good steward of public funds," he
wrote in a November e-mail to central office administrators. "How can
that goal be accomplished when we have a system that is much slower and
costs twice as much to use?"
Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said he's heard complaints about the contract since arriving in the district in May.
"We're concerned not only with the cost, but also the service," Dr. Hinojosa said. "We've started looking at it."
Origins of the deal
The idea to privatize the district's copying and printing needs gained steam in early 2003.
Enthusiasm for the contract went to the top of Kinko's corporate ladder.
company's stake went beyond this one deal. Records and interviews
indicate that top executives hoped to establish a trend-setting program
with DISD that could then be marketed to other large districts around
the country.
The potential of such a deal was "huge, huge, huge"
according to one former executive who was involved in the early stages
of the project DISD "was a huge deal for the company," said the former
Kinko's executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We simply
could not fail.
Once the deal was inked in 2003, then-Superintendent
Mike Moses urged his employees to sign up with Kinko's, telling them
they could redirect any savings into their schools.
Trustee Hollis
Brashear, who was board president at the time, voted against the
contract. He questioned why the administration pushed for the deal even
though schools were not complaining about their equipment.
"Kinko's was never able to prove they could save the district money," he said.
had told DISD it could save $6.7 million on equipment alone over the
first three years of the deal. More than 60 schools and numerous
district departments signed onto the deal, each hoping for a piece of
those savings.
The contract called for Kinko's, which was soon
bought by FedEx, to analyze how every school and office could improve
productivity. Its suggestions centered on replacing old equipment and
handing large printing jobs over to local FedEx/Kinko's stores.
Rising costs
schools signed on with Kinko's, they began to wonder why anyone had
thought it could save them money. From the principals' perspectives,
costs were rising steeply.
When FedEx/Kinko's looked at W.T. White
High School, for example, it concluded that the school was spending
$104,116 per year running its Oce copiers. The company said it could
save the school an average of $45,000 a year.
Principal Barnhart
told The News she can't figure out how the company arrived at its
figures. In previous years she spent $42,000 annually for equipment
rental, copying costs, toner and repairs – the same costs included in
FedEx/Kinko's billing, district officials say.
The principal at
Reinhardt Elementary also stated that her school's estimates were way
off. The company told her that Reinhardt ran 20,000 sheets through its
ink jet printers per year and made between 400,000 and 600,000 copies.
The principal, Jill Barney, told central office administrators that the
actual figures were 2,500 ink jet printouts and more than 1 million
"Their original estimate of what we spent on inkjet
cartridges and printers was too high so the savings they were claiming
to give us was incorrect," Ms. Barney wrote in an e-mail to district
In an effort to better understand how FedEx/Kinko's
arrived at its estimates, the district's purchasing department examined
financial records at 10 campuses before and after the schools joined
the FedEx/Kinko's project.
The conclusion: district officials could
not figure out how Kinko's came up with the estimates, which were based
on a complicated formula that included not just what schools paid for
copying, but also things like the time teachers spent in the copy room
and the amount of time repairmen spent on campuses. The estimates also
included supplies like toner, which schools had received for free under
previous contracts.
To DISD's bookkeepers, however, those labor
costs were irrelevant. Teachers got paid whether they were standing
over a copier or doing other things to prepare for class. The district
also said Kinko's used industry average costs in its estimates, but
presented the figures as if they were actual DISD expenses.
By late
2004, some managers warned that the program was blowing school budgets.
Records show that top officials were unsure what to do. In July 2005,
DISD froze the project and stopped allowing new schools to join.
However, they continued paying for schools that had already signed up.
of the first administrators to question the deal was Mr. Milton, DISD's
purchasing director. Last summer, he wrote his bosses to share his
concerns: Nobody at DISD really understood how Kinko's arrived at its
estimates, and therefore all were surprised at the expenses that
followed, he said. Plus, he said, upper management didn't make
addressing the concerns a top priority.
"I think we are throwing
good money after bad trying to salvage something that doesn't even meet
the needs of the campuses," he later wrote in a September e-mail to his
boss. … "We are spending millions of dollars … which the
competition [other companies] offers for millions less."
In response
to complaints from principals, DISD's central office began absorbing
the cost overruns incurred by the participating campuses.
The total copying charges, however, were rising fast enough to put a dent even in DISD's $2 billion budget.
2003, the year before trustees ratified the deal, DISD spent $5.87
million on copying, printing, equipment and associated costs, according
to district records. In 2005, districtwide spending for copying hit
$12.82 million – $2.1 million more than DISD had budgeted. Those costs
do not include charges to school credit cards many principals used for
copying expenses after becoming frustrated with the contract. The
district has not provided complete records of those transactions.
this month, The News reviewed 15 months of billing records from
FedEx/Kinko's. Those records indicated that the company has billed the
64 participating schools and some departments $7.1 million in printing
and copying charges for 2005. Copying expenses for the rest of the
district, 153 schools, were about $5.7 million, according to district
Ms. Thill, the company spokeswoman, said The News' figures were "exactly in line" with the company's records.
said that if the deal is indeed bad for the district, DISD can simply
cancel it with 30 days' written notice. That the district has failed to
do so for 2 ½ years indicates that the program is working, Ms. Thill
Superintendent Hinojosa, however, said terminating the
contract would require the district to have a plan to provide copy and
printing services to campuses. Some schools had been renting their
Reached last week, Mr. Moses said through a spokeswoman:
"It is very disappointing if printing costs have increased, because the
idea was presented to our purchasing department as a way to bring
cost-effectiveness to the district's printing and copying expenses. If
costs have not been driven down as promised, then the board definitely
should review and cancel the contract."
District officials,
including Superintendent Hinojosa, say what's needed is a thorough
examination of the costs, and a detailed analysis of where the
projected savings have gone.
"We have to question why we're doing so much, and what's causing it to be so high," Dr. Hinojosa said.


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There is nothing official about this matter so I would like to hear what do you think about the Crew of the Black Pearl. Well, I am asking about Cotton because we know that his parrot is alive (as is Jack the Monkey but he is immortal). Parrot isn't immortal but is bottled. So I am thinking that the crew may be alive somewhere in bottle or they may have escaped (hardly) from Blackbeard.
Of course, I would like if we dicuse about others too.


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"Breezy Point" Cottage#18 is on the southeast end of Antigo Island. Built at the turn of the century by or for Charles Bartlett, conductor for Chicago and Northwestern Railway, this 4 bedroom seasonal cabin was built using a balloon structure which consists of no internal cross beams in the roof and a 2 story shed style kitchen. You can enjoy great views of Pelican Lake from this home's full covered porch, take a peaceful walk along the island's trail system, or have a family gathering at the Islands club house. There is a private parking lot on the main land off County Highway G.
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WELCOME!! This is a daily blog which features a different tombstone, mausoleum or cemetery photo every day. All photos are property of the blog owner and cannot be used without consent.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
TOMBSTONE OF ROBERT C. BACHMAN, SR - Aulenbach's Cemetery, Mount Penn, Berks County, PA
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Buck Benson was a famous country music promoter & performer in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New York. He got his start at age 6 playing ukulele in the depression era 1930's on a live radio show on WEEU Reading, PA. with Uncle Jack and Mary Lou and appeared on their live stage shows into the 1940's. He had a network of radio stations he broadcasted from all over the NorthEast. He also performed live such as at Hershey Park arena in Pennsylvania, had a live TV show in the early days of television in the 60's on WGAL Lancaster, PA. His band was Buck Benson and the Country Neighbors who performed a country/bluegrass/folk variety show with fun-loving humor. Buck was a gentleman cowboy who played any stringed instrument ... guitar, fiddle, banjo, bass, mandolin, dobro, hawaiian steel guitar ... you name it and he played it. Buck managed country music parks in Pennsylvania in the 50's and 60's bringing in famous acts like Roy Acuff, Tex Ritter, Eddie Arnold, Minnie Pearl, GrandPa Jones, Bill Haley, Patsy Cline, Three Stooges and many many more! He was a lifetime member of the Country Music Association and listed in Who's Who in Country Music. In 1965 he married Sherry Ann Zwoyer who became his business manager and TV producer. She also performed weekly on tour with Buck Benson and the Country Neighbors introduced simply as Miss Sherry Ann. (Fans never knew they were married.) Sherry died July 2009. Her gravestone is now next to Buck's (Robert Bachman's) at Aulenbach's cemetery where the above photo was taken.ReplyDelete


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A couple of comments from Doan....
"You become callous," he allowed before Tuesday night's 4-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks. "It's frustrating and it's disappointing. I was as disappointed as anyone when this last one (ownership deal) fell through. But at the same time, we sold out at home on a Monday night (against Calgary). The fans are with us if we could find a way to get this thing sorted out. "I'm always going to remain optimistic and positive. There's no other way to approach it."
And one interesting comment from the reporter....
Sorry, if you can't make a deal fly when the city is throwing in $308 million -
and one of the holdups was, reportedly, Jamison wanted a 25-per-cent ownership stake for putting this all together
- then you've got real problems. The arena management stipend is now off the table, which means the next guy will have to negotiate his own deal with Glendale.
So, Jamison didn't have the funds himself to buy the team, but for doing all the legwork and bringing people together, he wanted 25% of ownership. No wonder this deal died. If I'm the one investing all the cash, I'm the owner, not the guy who made all the phone calls. Maybe I give Jamison the president's job and a good salary, but 25% ownership... not unless Jamison is supplying 25% of the funds..
This was a point that I think was too often neglected in discussions about Jamison's bid - he wasn't putting in the money, so it all depended on who he would work for, and on what terms. That's why it always puzzled me that Glendale didn't get more active in forcing Jamison to reveal who the "owner" would be. If they had that information, perhaps they could have cut a deal without Jamison's involvement. It's a lot to ask investors to give up a 25% stake in an overpriced and money-losing asset when you have to pay the freight.
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