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I was thrilled to be spending Thanksgiving 2013 with loved ones in a warmer climate: the southwest. I had to share a few photos from the day, which was so special, refreshingly low-key, and perfectly orchestrated from a creative design perspective.
The Thanksgiving tablescape was set with silver wishbones, autumn-colored gold-lined ribbons, paper leaves, gold gelt, antique candleholders, mini-paper turkeys, pomegranates plucked from a nearby tree, and a pumpkin drilled with holes (of course). This was the first time I had witnessed one of my gifted homemade banners hung from a tree.I'm giddy with delight these days at any invitation to dine outdoors on long rectangular tables, and I particularly love the night views. Our divine hostess included padded mismatched placemats on the chairs and benches for extra "cushion"–the addition was romantic and charming in a secret garden sort of way.The backdrop for our meal was peppered with country vintage elements, including rusted watering cans and gardening equipment, in the midst lush greenery and potted flowers. My favorite–a dozen or so generously supplied birdfeeders that attracted all sorts of colorful visitors (even hummingbirds!!) throughout the duration of our Thanksgiving meal and into the evening. A very persuasive distraction for me and my curious 2-year-old.
We ordered the majority of the meal from a favorite local restaurant–high on my list was the chocolate mousse pecan pie, the garlic chive whipped butter, and the orange poppyseed dressing–a combo I'm planning on trying again. Here are pictures of our beloved host and hostess along with their new grandbaby:
And the spectacular night views that we enjoyed on a full belly…
which can only be experienced in this way on a Thanksgiving in the Southwest.
'Til next year!


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Alhamdulillah for each and everything Ya Rabb..
We have no words to give You gratitude for You mercy n love. Indeed You have granted us with every blessings.
You are always there for us whenever we need.
You never leave us alone.
M sorry Ya Rabb we are unable to thank You for Your blessings.
Pls be with us always n shower Your mercy on all of us in this world n hereafter..
Ameen Ya Rabb
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Are our Pre-Budget jitters shaking the world markets? Ofcourse not – but good to think that we can twist the tail of the world – Ha! So the confusion remains galore as the budget comes closer! The Bull/Bear tango of the markets also is also taunting everyone's nerves. In any case we are walking on a thin line and can fall and take any side. Yesterday the red and green signals were confusing to say the least – but today there is a definite shift to the red. There are a lot of people propagating a range bound markets for some time 4100 to 4600 to be precise and that might turn out to be the case till the budget sets the direction. Infact one can see the Options data to get an idea – Put/Call ratio is exactly the same this month.
I will not waste any more time and get on – starting with the global Cues. Europe was good all the way till the closing when it got negative cues from the US and went Thunk@#. FTSE closed at 1.04% down, DAX down 1.56% and CAC down 1.67%. US that opened flat – tried a bit to go green fell face down in red – trying a wee bit to recover around close and successful just to move a little above the lows. DOW closed 0.97% in red, Nasdaq down 0.49% and S&P 0.85% red. Asia today seems to have taken the cues from US and Nikkei opened down and is absolutely flat now at down 0.01%, Strait Times at 0.44% in red. All this has been perhaps due to so called disappointing consumer confidence and expectation readings.
The charts say – like I mentioned earlier – the candle is sitting on the 3/15/20 EMA – all have converged and are in a position to break out either side. Bollinger bands too have narrowed considerably and are waiting for some directional move. The volumes are 84% the last 50 day moving average, and ADX – all three lines – the ADX, –DI, and the +DI lines are plus minus at 21/22 – I can not read anything into it except confused and range bound market. MACD is bearish and once again given a signal – increasing divergence. RSI too is at 50 – a clear crossover would have been bearish as the line is coming from above – but to have stopped at 50 – GOD knows. TRIX is still looking down only. and Slow Stochastic too have both the %K and %D lines converged.
All in all the signals are all waiting for direction with a little more power of the bears than bulls. However it can change with one day worth of run up – so brace up.
The Pivot data is as under…
R3 4585 against 4528
Pivot 4328 against 4393
S3 4071 against 4258
Projected High Range 4358 to 4438
Projected Low Range 4414 to 4334
Fib Projected High 4469
Fib Projected Low 4223
Best of luck to everyone for today – may you all make money…


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- What goes on-line stays on-line. Only post updates or photos you won't mind sharing with strangers.
- Keep tabs on all your tags and mentions. Getting tagged in a post might seem harmless, but it can also decrease your privacy.
- Make sure only your intended audience sees your posts. If your friends have less restrictive settings, it's possible for a wider audience to see your posts.
- Never click on a link posted or sent by someone you don't know
- Use a two-factor authentication for Facebook as well as any other social media account you have and activate any other security measures you have access to.
- Check privacy policies and adjust settings to your comfort level. Most sites keep their privacy policies in locations that are easy to find. It's important to keep track of them because they can change anytime.
- Double-check your security. You can use privacy scanning software to check current privacy settings in different social networks to make sure your information remains private.
- Report and block spammers. This can help sanitize your feed as well as tell a social media site to take down the spammers' accounts.
- Always verify with your contacts any link they send your way, preferably through another form of correspondence.
- Be careful whom you accept as a friend on social networks. Identity thieves can and do create fake profiles to steal your personal information.
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text: my girlfriend just dropped her 5 week old RAZR from verizon wireless into the bathtub. assuming it does not work (we are drying it out now), rather than paying for a new RAZR at full price from verizon (she does not have insurance) for $250 or $350 or whatever they want, i was thinking of just getting her a less flashy model off ebay - there are TONS of listings for used/reconditioned phones that say they will work with verizon. i have to plead ignorance here, but has anyone done this? assuming a reputable seller, does this work as it seems to: buy a phone on ebay for $20 - $50, bring it to verizon, and have the switch the number from the old, dead phone to the new ebay'd phone?


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Nearly six months after federal "sequestration" went into effect, some local businesses, nonprofit organizations and national parks are feeling the effects of the mandatory federal budget cuts, according to U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.
Cardin said Friday that the effects of sequestration are not always immediate, but have affected economic progress in the nation and Western Maryland.
"We've heard from businesses located out there dependent on federal contracts," he said. "Some have laid off employees, some have not hired, some have moved full-time workers to part-time workers, and some have not made investments that they otherwise would make because of the loss of federal funding."
Cardin said the cuts have had a direct impact on the national parks in the area, notably the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
He said that many national parks have had to cut back their hours, services and maintenance work, affecting areas such as the Big Slackwater on the canal near Williamsport.


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DURHAM, N.C. - Junior running back Uriah Bethea (Upper Marlboro, MD) scored the winning touchdown with just over one minute to left in the contest to help lift the Shaw University football team to a 23-17 victory over Elizabeth City State University Saturday afternoon at Durham County Memorial Stadium.
With the win, Shaw now stands 2-3 overall and earn its first win in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) conference to improve to 1-1 on the season. The Vikings fall to 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the league.
For the contest, Shaw finished with 259 total yards of offense that featured 249 through the air and 10 on the ground while ECSU recorded 286 total yards (166 passing, 120 rushing).
Offensively, Bethea rushed for 95-yards on 12 carries and a game-high two touchdowns while senior quarterback Darron Downing, Jr. (Portsmouth, VA) threw for 93 yards (6-9-0) and one touchdown. Senior wide receiver Trevante Long (Greenbelt, MD) had five receptions for 46-yards.
The Bears scored the game's opening touchdown thanks to a 46-yard run from junior running back Uriah Bethea (Upper Marlboro, MD), followed by a good point after attempt from sophomore kicker Beni Kinsemi (Charlotte, NC) to give Shaw a 7-0 lead in the first quarter.
The Vikings would respond in the second frame when Chase Byrum ran in the endzone off a one-yard rush. ECSU was responsible for 58-yards on four plays that possession to even the score at 7-7 with 10:42 on the game clock.
Shaw would reclaim the lead before intermission when Kinsemi kicked a field goal worth 26-yards to give the Bears a 10-7 advantage.
In the third quarter, ECSU's quarterback Daquan Neal found Darious White for a nine-yard reception touchdown that would put the Vikings back on top at 14-10 at the 10:15 mark. However, five minutes later, the Downing hooked up with senior tight end Will Davis (Parma, OH) for this first score as a Shaw Bear on a 11-yard pass in the endzone that would put the Bears ahead 17-10 heading into the fourth quarter.
ECSU knotted the game at 17-even on a 38-yard field goal from Joshua Laverty in the final stanza but the Bears set up the exciting finish on a nine play, 78-yard drive resulting in an eight-yard rushing strike for Bethea with 1:19 remaining. Despite a no good extra point by the Bears, Shaw's defense came up big on the Vikings final drive as both sophomore defensive lineman Braxton King (Durham, NC) and junior defensive lineman Keith Alston (Eggharbor City, NJ) earned a sack for 11 yards, followed by three incomplete passes from ECSU that would seal the victory for Shaw.
Senior linebacker Andrew Cash (Semora, NC) led the Bears defense with eight total tackles (3 solo), sophomore linebacker Devon Hunt (Rockingham, NC) and freshman defensive back Jaleel Scroggins (Raleigh, NC) finished with seven tackles and one sack apiece.
Shaw will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 7 at Fayetteville State University for a CIAA Southern Division matchup. The game is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.
For the most up-to-date information on Shaw football and its 13 varsity sport teams, please visit www.shawbears.com.


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I would like to thank all of those involved for conducting this study. We at UES have started on this journey. We firmly believe in PLCs as the structure to achieve our goal that all children can and must achieve high levels of academic and social achievement. We started on our PLC journey last year and still have a great deal to learn. However, this study has affirmed that we are on the right path, and I am excited to continue our journey. Thank you!
Timothy J. Francke
Union Elementary School
Montpelier, VT
Has anyone addressed the revenue/expense side of all this? The issue of money seems to have been deliberately left out of this study.
Attitudes are nice, but training and collaboration and retaining experienced staff all have associated costs. How have the successful schools and their communities handled this issue?


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Monday, June 11, 2012
Under Her Dress
3 comments:
- stevenellie said...
this post made me laugh. I'm not sure what part was funnier, the paint water cup or pjs to church. Your kids are great. Last week I babysat a boy Peter's age who just has a slightly younger sister. His mom old me this week that he has been laughing so hard as he recounts to her all the funny things Thomas did while he was here. Hearing that helped me see how funny my life is because of Thomas.
- June 14, 2012 at 9:23 PM
- Ryan, Becca, Brinley Boo AND Casen too! said...
Hahaha, love it. Actually laughed out loud :)
- June 17, 2012 at 1:06 AM
- Michelle said...
This post made me laugh out loud! That church story is awesome!
My kids are always soaking markers in cups of water to see the water turn color... and then Weston usually convinces Sophie to drink it! I have prevented this from happening a number of times and am now wondering how many times it HAS happened without me noticing! Needless to say, we are going back to crayons.
- June 18, 2012 at 11:26 PM


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Geneva, 12 Oct 2005
The inaugural meeting of ISO technical committee ISO/TC 229, Nanotechnologies, the engineering of tiny machines on the nanometer scale (usually 0.1-100nm), will be held 9-11 November 2005 in London, United Kingdom.
The meeting is being organized by the British Standards Institution (BSI), which holds the Chair and Secretariat of ISO/TC 229, with support from the United Kingdom Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Key note speeches at the opening ceremony will be made by Lord Sainsbury, the Minister for Science and Innovation, Mike Low, Director of BSI British Standards, and Professor Mark Welland, of the Royal Society.
According to the committee's scope, ISO/TC 229 will produce standards for classification, terminology and nomenclature, basic metrology, calibration and certification, and environmental issues. Test methods will focus on physical, chemical, structural, and biological properties of materials or devices whose performance is critically dependent on one or more dimension less than 100 nm.
"The work of TC 229 will have such a significant impact on the way we all live and a major influence on commerce, helping business to act responsibly," says Mike Low, in the introduction to the meeting brochure.
This is the first time that international delegates of ISO/TC 229 will come together since the committee was established by the ISO Technical Management Board (TMB) at its June 2005 meeting.
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Pan-Fried Duck Breast with Passion Fruit recipe
Fruit sauces work well with the rich flavour of duck breast. Here, the tartness of the passion fruit and the savoury intensity of soy stops the dish being too cloying. Passion fruit is the perfect ingredient for a romantic dinner, and this main would go well with rice and a rocket salad.
- 2 duck breast fillets, skin on
- 2 passion fruit, pulp only
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- 2 oranges, juiced
- 1 tbsp light muscovado sugar
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- salt and pepper
Score the skin of the duck in a diamond pattern and set aside.
Heat the oil in a pan and add the duck breasts skin down. Cook for 5-6 mins until the skin is golden brown, then turn and cook for another 7-8 mins until tender. Remove and place in the oven on a very low heat to keep warm.
Pour out almost all the fat from the pan, leaving around 1tbsp. Add the garlic and fry until lightly golden.
Add the passion fruit pulp, orange juice, sugar and soy sauce and bring to a boil. Reduce by two thirds. This will take around 7-10 minutes.
Season the sauce then pass through a sieve, though pick out a few of the passion fruit seeds if you want to add a little crunch and decoration. Serve spooned over the duck breast.


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At Harris Heating we are extremely conscious that your home is most likely your single largest financial investment. In the current economic climate it is vital to protect its value. Motivated by both environmental and economic considerations - legislation has been introduced to encourage homeowners (with substantial GRANT ASSISTANCE) to use less energy. A State sponsored body SEI (Sustainable Energy Ireland) has been established to administer grants and certify home energy-efficiency values via a BER (Building Energy Rating) scheme.
Harris Heating works in full compliance with this body. Contact us for more details. Harris Heating is fully qualified and AUTHORISED TO ISSUE SEI BER CERTIFICATES.
BER (Building Energy Rating) - what is it?
BER is a form of certification which confirms the Energy Rating of your home. It measures the performance of your attic, roof, walls, floors, windows, doors, boilers, radiators, controls, fires, and stoves - and gives you a measurable score by which your home is rated.
A BER certificate (Assessed, Measured and Issued by Harris Heating. We are fully authorised SEI approved assessors) is similar to the energy label for a household electrical appliance like your fridge. The label has a scale of A to G. "A"rated homes are the most energy efficient and "G" the least efficient. Harris Heating will help you to improve the rating of your home and protect its longer-term value - within your budget.
From the 1st of January 2009 a BER certificate is compulsory for all homes being sold or rented. All new homes (even when not for sale) must have a BER certificate before they are occupied.
BER assessments performed on new dwellings will also help determine compliance to Part L of the Building Regulations.
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It is an offence for persons not registered with SEI as BER assessors to purport to carry out a BER assessment service for the purposes of the Regulations.


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Hi powerlifter!
We're running a new seminar with the world famous Professor Boris Sheiko 2018, since the last time was a succés! To be truth Boris use to talk about our last seminar as one of his best, when he travels around the world.
Its running for two days. Everyone who is interested have the chance to book their spot, you don't need to have any previous knowledge but could be an advantage if you have been in the gym for a while. The number of spots are limited. Your spot is binding and cant be cancelled after you sign in, you have the right to sell your spot to someone else if you get cant come.
- Two days seminar. Saturday 14.00-21.00 (2am-9pm), sunday 8.30-15.00 (8.30am-3pm)
- Food included.
- Educations material included.
- Diploma included.
- Once your booked your spot, its binding – but you own the right to sell it further.
- The seminar is approved by Riksidrottsförbundet.
- 4999sek, (500 euro), ($600)
Send your inquiry at info(at)seminoff.se with Boris Sheiko as subject.
Spaciba and best wishes! / Stefan Waltersson


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Are you looking for a different hobby? Or, have you been enjoying your hobby for a long time? It doesn't matter where you sit with your hobby, because tips on that hobby can always be used. Keep reading and learn tips on how to be most productive with your hobby.
It isn't expensive to enjoy photography today. If you own digital cameras and a tripod, you are all ready. Remember that you don't have to be a great artist to take a great shot, and if you read a bit, you can turn into a good photographer.
When you decide to turn your hobby into a business, make sure that you set the right price for your products. You will need to price them high enough to make a profit for yourself. Figure out what the costs involved are and charge more to make a profit.
If you want to make money from a hobby but do not know where to begin, try thinking about something that is unique to you. What special skills do you possess? Look for stuff that you can do and others can't, ideas that are something you really like to do. This is a fantastic way to get started.
If you're going to turn your hobby into your business, you need to pick a name for it. Whatever name you select will be the start of your own brand. This name should be very unique, but at the same time, easy to remember. Additionally, the name should have some relation to your business products.
Sculpting can be a very relaxing pastime. Molding clay with your hands is a wonderful feeling, especially when you learn to produce extraordinary pieces. It isn't a good idea to set out as a solo sculptor. Take some classes to learn the basics. It's even more fun when you go with a friend.
Do not allow your hobby to overrun your life. Hobbies are wonderful, but you have other commitments that have to be met. You may need to cut down on your hobby time if you notice it is interfering with any of your responsibilities.
Share your hobby with others. The little things you do that involve other people can be very special. These things can involve hobbies that you do. Show the world the hobbies you enjoy. Sharing with others lets others see what you love. This will make it easy to make friends and gain opportunities.
Enjoy multiple hobbies! Having different hobbies will make you more diverse. A good way to divide your hobbies up is to break them down on what is best for that time of year.
Gaming online is a popular hobby that a lot people choose to be involved with. If you spend too much time on them, you can start to lose track of reality. Gaming is a good hobby if you are just looking for a way to pass a significant amount of time.
If you aren't neglecting your day to day requirements, you shouldn't feel any guilt about pursuing your hobby. It really is about the balance. You need to be well-rounded in all ways. Both things lead to an enhanced life, so dive into the hobby whenever you have spare time.
Collecting mementos while traveling is an excellent hobby. Perhaps you could collect spoons, wine or pottery pieces. It doesn't matter what you have in your collection, as long as you can look at each item and think of fond memories.
Why would a hobby be a good idea for you? Research has indicated that hobbies offer many psychological benefits. It gives life a sense of worth as it pertains to being "worth living." Beloved hobbies boost the mood and also reduce stress.
A really cool hobby to take up is star gazing. When you practice stargazing, you gain a new perspective on outer space. It helps you better appreciate existence. You only need a telescope to see everything.
If your hobby includes the making of crafts, always keep a garbage can nearby. A clean work area will allow you to enjoy your hobby more. Additionally, your work area will be safer if it is clean. You might cut your hand on a knife if it's hidden.
Make sure your hobby area stays well-organized. When you need to find something, you'll be frustration-free. It'll also make that hobby area as safe as possible. You don't want to hurt yourself because something is in the wrong spot.
When starting out with a new hobby, it is important that you keep safety in mind. Always read equipment directions carefully. Make sure the area where you do your hobby is all organized and clean. Take classes to learn more. If you're careful all around, a hobby can really be something that you love for a lifetime.
Buy a jigsaw puzzle board that easily folds to spare a dining room table from being tied up by endless puzzles. When you are not working on your puzzle, you can just raise the sides of your board to keep all your pieces together and store it away until you want to work with it again. Your puzzle board will keep your puzzle intact.
Think about taking up a fitness routine as a hobby. It can blend several hobbies into a larger one. Become a member of a local gym and join a sports team. You might find yourself dipping in the pool a lot more. Fitness is the perfect healthy hobby.
While cooking is a great hobby to pick up, you must always exercise caution. If you wear loose clothing, you may end up with a fire on your hands. Keep your hair tied back, wear tight clothes and an apron. Safety has to be first in the kitchen.
Think about being a sports fan. To enjoy it fully, you need some information about the sport and the team. You also need to have fun when you watch the sport. This is a great way to pass the time while it is sports season, and you will probably make new frenemies based on the teams you choose to follow.
There are many reasons why people choose woodworking as a hobby. This is an enjoyable pastime. Not only that, you can make things that you can use or give to others. You can apply your woodworking skills on making furniture and save money on furnishings.
Start blogging. A lot of people start blogs for different reasons. You can use them to share your hobby or skills or just to express yourself as a writer. This is a great tool to help you relax after a long day, and you might even build a following. This could lead to forming new friendships. As an added bonus, with rudimentary SEO skills, you could possibly earn extra cash.
Change up your hobbies every now and then. Everyone needs a break from daily activities, including your old hobbies. If your hobby is no longer as enjoyable as it used to be, try something new. This could be exactly what you need.
Look for local clubs or national organizations that specialize in your preferred hobby. If so, you can meet lots of people who share your interest and be in on the latest news flashes and information. It can keep you informed about everything surrounding the hobby you enjoy.
You probably shouldn't jump into any hobby that requires you to pay quite a bit just to get started. It is important that you don't end up spending a large amount of money on something that you may not enjoy doing. Most of the time, you won't be able to recoup your losses either.
Often, people turn their natural talents into hobbies. Decorating wooden boxes, plaques or birdhouses with pictures is a great idea for those who are artistic. By doing this, you could create a wonderful gift for your loved ones, or you could promote your skills to others and make some money.
If you enjoy alone time and are considering a new hobby, why not take up music? Playing a instrument means you will be practicing by yourself frequently; however, there are occasions that you can showcase your skills to others. Go solo and you can show the world how well you can play your instrument.
As a parent, including your child in your hobby is key. Find interesting ways to include your child in your hobbies when they show an interest in what you are doing. The majority of hobbies allow participation from all sorts of folks, and it is possible to find some that suit even children.
To keep your home safe even though you are an avid hunter, consider purchasing a gun safe. That keeps your guns away from those who shouldn't touch them. You can safely own guns, but you must have a safe to do so.
If you enjoy playing a musical instrument, you do not have to play with others to enjoy it as a hobby. Yes, you will practice by yourself, but you are also able to share music with everyone. Go and show your friends how you can rock out on the drums, tuba or whatever your choice of instrument is.
Do not let outside things influence your hobbies. For example, it's easy to cancel yoga or cancel a fishing trip. It is also important to have a commitment to your hobby. Enjoy participating in a hobby as often as time will allow.
To keep your home safe even though you are an avid hunter, consider purchasing a gun safe. This keep your shotguns and rifles securely stored, away from home intruders or children. Keep yourself and your family safe.
Are you interested in music? Try taking up an instrument! In doing this, you can enjoy playing alongside songs that come on the radio. Also, you might even be able to start a band. You might even become a music icon!
Watch your money when you are getting into a hobby. Often, an enjoyable hobby can lead to you going overboard with it. Make sure you establish a budget so that you avoid spending too much. You should do what you enjoy, but keep in mind you will need money for bills too.
As a hobby, boating can provide a lot of fun. It will get you on the water, allow you to fish for food or recreation and give you opportunities to swim or scuba dive in new areas too. You can buy your own boat or rent one if you want to give this fun activity a try.
Put hooks on the wall of your garage to store the bikes without taking too much space. Position the hooks so the bikes can hang upside down from the tires. This will allow every family member to enjoy cycling and keep your garage organized.
Are you looking for a hobby that you will enjoy? If you don't have much money, you'll need a hobby that's cheap or free. Cooking can be that kind of hobby. You already buy food to eat, so that won't add too much to your budget. Try picking up new skills such as baking bread or making fancy candies. You may even be able to earn some money with a hobby like this.
Avoid allowing small things from interfering with your hobbies. For example, it's easy to cancel yoga or cancel a fishing trip. You have to make sure that you understand hobby time is important, as well as keeping up with your commitments. You need to be enjoying your hobbies.
Doll collecting is a terrific hobby. Dolls from across the globe are highly collectible and often quite valuable. In addition, doll shows take place all over the world. Visit these shows in order to learn how to begin your doll collection or to expand your current collection.
Hobbies are a great way to add happiness to your life. Hobbies can be even more fun if you use the advice from this piece. Use the time you have in a smart way so you can do a lot with yourself and have a better life.
Reading is a terrific hobby that ought to be encouraged in children. Read aloud to your children every day and make sure they see you reading for enjoyment. People who often read will find themselves better educated than those who don't.


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Things to do when your ill
help me im getting very bored :(
What's up?
I've had winter vomiting bug this week, so I've been mainly sleeping (and vomiting).
I got this wicked cough and head cold
so basically just coughing and sneezing all the time. however ive been coughing for 2 weeks so i need to stay in to get rid of it.
Ive ran out of movies to watch thou and i dont really play computer games.
Film fest
borrow dvds of different series, drink lots of juice, play guitar hero, um...........2ndlife?
Oh, and make an awesome comic
then you can show all yr friends when you're better and they'll be all Dude no way that's sooo cool!!!11
Eat chicken soup.
Be horizontal.
I'm on the fifth level from the end.
There's about 25 circles. You can't save it :(
4 from the end now.
30 circles.
turned it off.
Brain was aching. Concentrating on Monster Munch instead.
:( I'm 6 from the end
it's so tricky!
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Always football manager...
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I've had a cough for over 2 months now. Saw a doctor Thurs and she just said it was "probably a virus"
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The Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho put Wayne Rooney on the benchwhen the Red Devils entertain Leicester City in the Premier League continued, 2016-2017, at the Old Trafford Stadium, Saturday (24/9/2016). The decision ended last week in polemics, especially associated the appearance of the captain that no maximum.
In a match versus the defending champion, Mou chose two young children, i.e., Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard, to ' serve ' Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Central area hosts filled Juan Mata, Paul Pogba and Ander Herrera.
Mourinho admits it's been weighing many things of old decided to put Wayne Rooney on the bench. He asserted, every player has the same opportunity to play sincethe early minutes. This means that only players who are really fit and are in the best condition, will reap up.
According to The Special One, currently Rashford and Lingard was the best in the game. "I understand such questions would come up, and I think Rashford and Lingard be the answer. The two players have speed, intense in attack and can accommodate a quick game, "said Mourinho.
The strategy provides a place on Rashford and Lingard also linked the position of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. "I wish there was a row of players who are very active and quick toreact around Ibrahimovic, so the intensity of ripe Orbs can consistently lead him," stated Mourinho.
The position of Rooney who should sit on the bench since first minutes, it becomesits own record. The last time the United Kingdom national team experience penggawa things like this, as he ' abandoned ' Louis Van Gaal reacted pad alaga cons StokeCity last season.
Premier League defending champions, Leicester City, on a trip to the headquartersof the Manchester United Stadium, Old Trafford, on the sixth week Premier League2016-2017, Saturday (24/9/2016).
Duo of striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) and Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) will be the magnet on the match later. Ibrahimovic scored five goals from eight games. Now, Vardy scored three goals from seven matches.
The display Windows of the record of the meeting, THY can smile staring matches later. the Red Devils last lost against Leicester City at Old Trafford was in 1998.
However, Jose Mourinho managed to bring THY pluck victory against Leicester just weeks ahead of the 2016-2017 season competition. The Special One brought the Red Devils a 2-1 win over Leicester in the FA Community Shield (7/8/2016).
However, Mourinho last season had a bad record against Leicester while Chelsea for directing. The Blues serve 1-2 while on a trip to the King Power Stadium (14/12/2015) and the 1-1 draw while entertaining The Foxes at Stamford Bridge (15/5/2016).
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From 2001 to 2006 I made an online comic about a naive bear, a vulgar cowboy and a Mac classic computer. The comic, with the post modern name Comic Strip, started out as a spare-time endeavor until in 2006 when Comic Strip was picked up for national syndication across Canada in a daily newspaper called The Metro.
Please visit Scarybear.org to read 200 strips online, for free.
I published a collection of Comic Strip called COMIC STRIP Volume 1: Scarybear & Friends.
This book contains the first 125 comics I ever made (60 of which are no longer available to read online!) You can buy it here.
There are lots of interview with me about Comic Strip online. Here is one book I was featured in.


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Obituary Dr. Rimland
For those out of the "Autism Loop" Dr Rimland was father of the Movie Rain Man (1988) and a very big name in Autism circles. He might have indeed been the creator of the modern Autism Movement.
Long time readers of my work realize I was not fond of Dr. Rimland not because of his work which indeed stands alone and is very good but rather is lack of open mindedness in admitting to the rest of autism: the autism his views never accounted for. I only came close to Dr. Rimland once about 3-4 years ago in Indianapolis Indiana at an Autism Town Hall meeting held by the Center for Disease Control and during the event we exchanged some glares- and they say we (Autisitcs) never make eye contact? 10 years ago his organizations were among the first to receive a copy of my book called Autism Pre Rain Man Autism. That book is built upon Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures and takes her work miles further and explains autism like no other item ever has. It also introduces the world to an undiscovered untapped Autism Anthropology that has united to discover the results of our double blind experience. None of what we have done to overcome our autism has ever been in a text book before, it is NEW knowledge as far as mankind is concerned.
Perhaps, we are very first anthropology in history to be united online? No research discipline has ever been presented with a living worldwide anthropology. If you must, split hairs an anthropology of "less than capable people"as a typical autism psychology 'experts' would think of us certainly has little clout and certainly no ability whatever to figure out Autism. Actually the opposite is true we have figured out Autism the thoughts, since we have the inside information to ask the right questions to start with. No matter how well we do real life, all of it, no Ph.D. expert is programmed to ever respect an answer from the bottom of the gene pool. While we have added pages and pages to mankind's knowledge base and made all kinds of discoveries none of what we do presents as anything special in the view of the traditional thinker. We might have figured out the building blocks of the human mind and do a good version of real life but, that is not knowledge it is treason in modern Autism circles.
I'm sure, If Dr Rimland read my book he was painfully aware if our Autism Anthropology was united and studied and our Double-blind experience was figured out Autism as he knew it and has the world knows it-was over. In recent months Autism has finally has to admit to us again and coined the new term Crypto Sensitivity Autism, basically old autism retagged. This is autism: the complicated nuts and bolts of autism fact that we have double blindly figured out. It is the very autism the Modern Autism Movement forgot about as one it was too complicated and in many respects too much of a science fiction type of thing to be true. However, no autism "expert" has walked a mile in our shoes so even though we have proved the science fiction aspects and overcome autism with all of its quirks we are outsiders. We don't fit in autism as we do too much and we sometimes don't fit in real life either. It is very hard to keep up with a traditional thinker with autism based thoughts. MANY times we out perform a traditional thinker with our inventions such as the computer. Your using our Alan Turing's (1912-1954) computer science as you read this.
Rimland was one of a very few people that knew of the release of my book and perhaps (not proven) it's horrible reviews and my being chased all over the web with instant messages of a very hateful nature could have some connections? To be fair quite a few Autism Publishers dropped the book. All had their reasons and I self-published it on my own. I used hand me down computers and was even homeless for a few days to help save enough money to get it published. I had never dreamed I'd publish a "war manual for Autism" as one time publishers were so thrilled with the book some called it the next Thinking in Pictures. But as they dropped the book I was left without proper computers and publishing aids. The information we have proved is just as valid today as it was years ago AND our message hasn't changed and it still doesn't agree with the modern message. Perhaps that might change? We can only hope.
Rich Shull,,,, Http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com
The "best autism book ever" ALAN TURING: The Enigma By Andrew Hodges Simon and Schuster New York. Copyright 1983 Related Item PBS-BBC show entitled Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitmore, based on The Enigma.
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all, that the sheltered and protected can never experience" John Stuat Mill-Philosopher-1806-1873
Rich Shull,
Inventor of the Turing Motor a 70% efficient green motor
Author/publisher of , Autism Pre Rain Man Autism, built on Thinking in Pictures.


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Elder Sheila F. Cureton, 64 of Bridgeport entered eternal rest Sunday, July 23, 2017 at Bridgeport Hospital. Born in Stamford, CT to the late Alice Baker, Sheila has been a resident of Bridgeport since 1984 and prior to that she was a resident of Stamford. Sheila earned a BS in Psychology from Trinity College and a MS in Human Services from the University of Bridgeport. She was employed in the credit dept. at Citizens Bank for twenty-two years. She was a disciple of the Cathedral of Praise where she served as an Elder, Director of Christian Education, Administrator of the Christian Bell Scholarship Program and member of the Board of Presbyters. Sheila leaves to cherish her memory two nieces, Nina Baker of Stamford and Tina Baker of Bridgeport; a god-sister, Lisa Anderson Andrews of Bridgeport, other relatives and friends.
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Intel announced yesterday a new 48-core single chip computer that is low power and promises huge speed increases for applications that can take full advantage of parallel computing. Applications in Artificial Intelligence including machine learning, robotics and computer vision stand to greatly benefit from such silicon.
If you remember, a bit less than 3 years ago, I wrote about Intel's Teraflop Research Chip that was promising a 80-core design within 5 years. I wrote then,
Intel executives speculated that the new chip will be available for desktop and laptop PC use in 5 years although the most conservative ones predict that what is most likely to be available in this time frame is a smaller chip with maybe 20 to 40 cores.
Intel practically delivered on that promise yesterday when they announced their new 48-core chip. The new architecture brings cloud computing to a single chip which means that to a large degree the new microprocessor is going to be aimed at server applications. However, we all know that eventually such a technology will find its way into our desktop and laptop computers. In fact, in the Press Release, Intel notes how the new chip could be used to develop new and exciting consumer-based applications,
For example, future laptops with processing capability of this magnitude could have "vision" in the same way a human can see objects and motion as it happens and with high accuracy.
Imagine, for example, someday interacting with a computer for a virtual dance lesson or on-line shopping that uses a future laptop's 3-D camera and display to show you a "mirror" of yourself wearing the clothes you are interested in. Twirl and turn and watch how the fabric drapes and how the color complements your skin tone.
These are fascinating news. So far, NVIDIA was leading the way with their GPU-based parallel processing solutions (see for example the Tesla desktop supercomputer) but now Intel is back in the game. The competition between these two companies will drive innovation and so I expect to see chips with even more cores in the not so distant future.
Along with the Press Release, Intel also released the below video outlining the features in their new 48-core single-chip cloud computer.


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Fighting by breeding: Millions awarded to California universities for strawberry research
By KASEY BUBNASH
To Dominique Pincot, farming is her family's business. It's the life her grandpa, uncle, and dad chose, and the work she never really wanted to do.
But growing up around the fields of Betteravia Farms in Santa Maria, where Pincot's family helps grow vegetables and strawberries, had a lasting effect on her life.
"My dad used to take me out to look at different plant varieties in field trials," Pincot said, "and that got me interested in plant breeding."
This can include finding new ways to breed larger and better tasting crops, or in Pincot's case, plants with a natural resistance to pathogens that commonly cause rampant disease and death among fruits and veggies.
Pincot, now a graduate student at UC Davis, is working toward her master's degree in horticulture and agronomy. While working on her master's thesis project, Pincot found that some strawberries carry a gene that is naturally resistant to Fusarium wilt, a common fungal disease that poses a major threat to strawberry farms.
Pincot's identification of the resistant gene will allow plant breeders to create a wider variety of disease-resistant strawberries.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Aug. 24 its decision to award $8.8 million in grants to two teams of scientists, led by California universities, who are researching ways to manage and prevent soil disease on strawberry farms. The grant will largely support more research like Pincot's.
One group, led by UC Davis, received $4.5 million in support of its research identifying strawberry plants that are resistant to certain diseases. The team consists of researchers from various universities, including the University of Florida and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Gerald Holmes, director of Cal Poly's Strawberry Center, said he and a team of 13 other co-project directors hope to accelerate the development of disease-resistant strawberries by identifying more genetic markers that make some plants resistant. Identifying these genes would allow plant breeders to develop new strains of berries on a larger scale.
Holmes said this is one of the first major projects for Cal Poly's Strawberry Center, which was established in 2014.
"I think we're reaching a place now where we've become a part of the industry in an integral way," Holmes said. "This is just one more thing that demonstrates our ability to get a lot of grants."
California is the largest producer of strawberries in the U.S., according to a 2017 California Strawberry Acreage Survey, and the state is expected to produce 79 percent of the nation's strawberries this year. In Santa Barbara County, strawberries provided a gross value of more than $400 million in 2016, according to the county's most recent Agricultural Production Report, making strawberry farming the county's top grossing commodity.
There are 101 strawberry growers in the Santa Maria area alone, according to Assistant Agricultural Commissioner Rudy Martel, and a California Strawberry Commission Volume Pink Sheet shows that almost 48 million 9-pound crates of strawberries were shipped out of Santa Maria by Aug. 19 of this year.
But California's massive strawberry industry is being threatened by disease.
Steve Knapp, director of the UC Davis Public Strawberry Breeding Program, said its objective is to help local strawberry growers struggling to battle soil diseases without the use of many once commonly used, and now banned, fumigants. Knapp said the issue started in 2005 when the use, production, and import of methyl bromide, a widely used fumigant that causes ozone depletion, was banned in the U.S.
"Growers then had to turn to alternative measures, and those have not quite measured up to what methyl bromide did," Knapp said. "As production practices have changed, largely for environmental and human safety reasons, pathogens have become more and more of an issue for growers."
To researchers, creating plants with a natural resistance to pathogens is the most effective solution. The Public Plant Breeding Program will use a traditional breeding approach, Knapp said.
The strawberries will not be genetically modified in any way, he explained, and the project will rely heavily upon the collaboration between researchers and growers.
"I think these next few years are going to be really explosively productive for the strawberry compared to where it's been," Knapp said.
On top of the USDA's $4.5 million grant, which will support the project for four years, the California Strawberry Commission awarded UC Davis' Public Strawberry Breeding Program with an additional $1.8 million grant.
Santa Maria strawberry farmer Greg France said that money, which will also go toward the breeding research, is funded by required fees that farmers, processors, and shippers pay to the California Strawberry Commission. Farmers, processors, and shippers are able to vote on the money's uses, France said.
France has been growing strawberries at Mar Vista Berry, a family owned and operated farm, for 13 years. He said working with researchers is vital to the industry.
Another California research project, led by the University of California Santa Cruz, received $2.5 million in grants to continue its research on bio-fumigation, a natural process that suppresses soil disease.
California was just one of several states that received USDA grants this year, according to a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture announcement. The USDA's Institute invested nearly $35 million in specialty crop research this fiscal year, entirely funded by the Specialty Crop Research Initiative, which focuses on the needs of crops including strawberries .
"I think it's great that Steve Knapp and his group are receiving this grant," France said. "It's important for the sustainability of the industry and California. Strawberries are No. 1 in Santa Barbara County and have been No. 1 in San Luis Obispo County. So it supports a lot of jobs and the economy."
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well everyone, here i am actually keeping fit and with an energy drink in my hand rather than a beer, dont be all shocked at once, its an even bigger shock for me haha! Well those of you who know me are aware i am running the Leicester Half Marathon on Oct 10th for a very important reason, raising money for The Daisy Garland Charity that has a special place in my heart. The charity helps children cope with epilepsy by funding specialist Ketogenic dieticians in hospitals all around the UK, this can only be achieved by contributions from the very generous public. The charity was set up in memory of Daisy Garland who sadly passed away 2 days after her 6th birthday in her sleep from SUDEP ( sudden unexpected death in epilepsy patients ) Daisy was on the Ketogenic Diet for some time which just about reduced all of her seizures until that very sad day when she left us. The funding we recieve is very important so all of you guys in Australia who know me get them Dollars out and for all you peeps in the Uk that know me, used to go school with me, used to take the mickey out of me lol, please dig deep and find any amount you can afford to donate to this wonderful charity and for the pleasure in watching me sweat it out for a 13.1 mile run, haha...thanking you all from the bottom of my heart. for more information on the charity go to www.thedaisygarland.org.uk
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He sits by my side, his gaze seemingly stuck somewhere behind the computer screen. I talk to him, softly. Again. But still I get no reply. I stop what I am doing and I lean back, inconspicuously observing him somewhat more attentively than before, from the corner of my eye. Something is eating him up inside, I know him only too well. I just wish he'd talk to me.
I've got everything sorted into neat piles on the bed, right there in front of us. We've stopped for a while, giving ourselves a little breather, alongside a cuppa and a biccie, and a wee little fluttering of wings around Twitter. Just to see if there are any new instalments in any of the sagas that have had our attention absorbed for the last few months — if not Brexit then May, if not May then Labour, if not Labour then Trump, if not either or each of them, or all of them combined in one great big heavy over-looming shadow, then this dismaying state of global affairs that's been rubbing our skin raw one way or the other.
How can we extricate ourselves from all this? How can we lock the world outside of us? Try to forget how unseemly it all seems to be becoming almost by the minute? How can we undress those garments as heavy as armour, and just be?
Underwear, check, 1 pile. Three bras and double of panties. Two PJs + two spare tees. Socks. Pair of black tights. Check, check, check.
Tees, tops & tunics, shirts, whatever, check, 1 pile. Six short sleeved ones, as many long sleeved. Check.
Dresses, check, 1 pile, neatly folded, my two other tee-shirt dresses. I'm wearing one for the flight, ready to peel layers off once greeted by the Portuguese autumn sun.
Cardis, check, 1 solitary pile of two, a thin cottony one and a woollen one. Won't need more than that.
Leggings, jeggings, jeans, trousers, shorts, that kind of stuff, check, 1 pile. One pair of smart trousers for the smarter occasion, the occasional weekend lunch out with Mom, the trips to Lisbon and Porto to meet your co-bloggers. The mandatory pair of jeans. The leggings I can't seem to ever get out of, and which Mom thinks so uncouth. Shorts for loafing about in the garden, soaking in some more sunshine and warmth.
Flipflops, espadrilles, one pair of dressy sandals, check, 1 pile. No fuss, no worries. I spend most of my time out back in the garden, anyway, blissfully barefoot, twirling my toes under the sun. Who needs shoes?
Toiletries, check, 1 bagful. Ointments and potions and lotions, tying to ward off the years that insist on passing by at an ever increasing speed, speedometer on reverse count, time leaving us ever closer to moment zero. Pots of camel coloured paint, wands of black magic, sticks in hues of mauvey pinks, for when the days are so cruel that they have to be hidden from the face, lest the world gasps in horror and your world sinks a little bit further, a little bit deeper.
Beachwear, check, 1 pile. She never wants to go anywhere, that's true, but I'm sure as hell going to try to make it to the seaside. Even if I have to carry her, the usual imp whispers on the back of my ear, an image of my mother expertly tucked under my arm suddenly taking my imagination by storm. Which would be a fine sight and an even greater feat but there you go, it no doubt goes towards eagerness. Still, I'm packing some: a cozzie, and a kaftan. Just in case I get lucky, or Mom forgets herself and says yes.
Ah. Medication, check, 4 weekly boxes, 4 extra weeks in pharmacy packaging. One great big plasticky pile of chemical smörgåsbord. Part and parcel. The umlaut to my o. Or my u or my a. The pale coloured confetti of my life, the stuff that variously either keeps me alive, or living a little longer, or living a little less uncomfortably, and all living a little bit less so that I can live a little more, somehow.
And then the rest. The other unmentionables, the very same ones the other woman at baggage check, the other time, made you empty out onto the solid frost of the stainless steel, together with all else that you and all others like you need to carry around in order just to face a day out, or just a two-and-a-half hours international flight. Your smalls spilled onto a public thoroughfare, and with them your vulnerability, your necessity, your difference. Your lack of ability to be like everybody else walking past behind you, and do as everybody else does, feels, walks, lives.
Ah, and you remember still. You do remember the spectacle of your life, there, that day, that public exhibition of you like some lesser Emin contemplating your difference in your underwear and sanitary needs. You remember. Of course you do. The sniggering and snorting and uh-ohs behind you, them however the free expression of a known sameness. The humiliation. The shame of it all. And your face so hot, so red, your blood so boiling, such anger rising through your veins. Why this, you wanted to scream. But you didn't. Now, instead, you make different arrangements for that kind of smalls, and just in case.
Travelling has never been quite the same, after that. Has it?
I sigh. I ask him again just as my own eyes and my mind move from one pile to the next, one thought to the other, one memory to another. It's strange, the sort of things that come to your mind, unbidden, at moments like this, I tell myself. We let our minds wonder — and all they can come up with is this? Is it this that better encapsulates our now wariness of it all? Our weariness? Your smalls spilled over in an airport, like the eviscerated entrails of a dead bird? Is that it?
I look at my stuff again. Experience tells me that I should have the regimental 15 kilos or thereabouts. If less, then I'll be able to add a couple of knickknacks or two, maybe a pair of substantial shoes for the flight back. I don't much fancy three hours in a coach Portugal-side wearing my lace-ups, especially not if the mercury hits the forecast 28° Celcius. And it's going to be so many weeks again, it'll be winter by the time I return to England. Flipflops won't cut it, then, and neither will espadrilles.
And what will he do without me here? Will it be like the last time again, and he half fall apart? And me half falling apart, but that's not important and that I will not let him know. Not in words, in any case, him who knows every breath out of me. But him…?
But those are not the things I want to know, not the questions I want to ask him right now. Right now, all I want to ask is why his eyes are so far away, such silent stillness locking them where I seemingly cannot touch them. What is he thinking? Which rivers and rapids are his thoughts navigating, right this moment? It's our last day together for the next eight weeks. And I am already missing him. Even though I'm still here, and tonight we'll still fall asleep in each other's arms, like teenagers in love.
Hon…? And still he does not reply. I look at what his eyes can possibly be gazing into so intently for not seeing it, and I see the luggage booking page. Still. And the luggage, unbooked still.
I don't much want to go either, you know… I tell him, by way of starting a conversation and as if I haven't told him so a million times before.
But you have to… His reply finally comes, uncertain and as if he hadn't agreed so another million times before, too.
Yes… What else can I say. We lean together, our heads against each other, and I feel his arm slowly rising towards my shoulders. He doesn't say anything else, though I wait for him to. And again I sigh. We're alone, the two of us, and in that moment we are a whole world, the universe. In moments like this.
We haven't abandoned your mother right trough to the very end, honey, and we're not abandoning mine either… Even if we have to be apart — but I do not add that. I do not need to.
Though I know that's not it. Or not just it. There's something else. There has to be. I know him. Of course we do not want to leave each other. Of course we do not want to be apart for such long periods. It goes without saying. And of course he worries when I travel alone, knowing just how fatigued I already am halfway through the flight. But he's never been so silent before, or so actively boycotting what needs doing as he's doing this time, and I am clutching at straws here. I know there's something else and I don't know what else to do. Apart from waiting, but there's not so much time left for that. Not any more.
Of course not, it's not that… it's just that… It's just that I wish I could go with you… All this working working working, and for what? I don't want to be without you. I don't know how to be without you any more. Things are not the same, without you. And what are you going to do when you get there? How're you going to cope?
There. Out of the blue. His words. For the first time, wasn't it? And the rest. As if you didn't know it. And all in tandem with everything else, as if it could just sneak past, go unnoticed. And for once I do not joke at him, as I usually do. For once I do not tell him that I'll be packing him in our big blue case next, just so that I can take him with me, Just you wait and see! The joke is getting all too worn out, anyway.
Mentally I add him to my piles of things to pack and take away with me: Husband, one, check, 1 extra suitcase. Navy blue, the colour of such melancholy things as longing, and loneliness, and despair. The colour of the blues. There. In a not so neat pile. What is taken, and what is left behind. In one not so neat pile, inextricable lives needing to be circumstantially extricated before they can be resumed again. How does one do that, and not leave empty shells behind? And is there a pill for that mal au cœur, too?
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Lost in translation : Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself
aka Wilbur / Wilbur begår selvmord : Denmark (Den/UK/Swe/Fr) 2002 : Lone SCHERFIG : 106 mins
Now that the dogme fad has well and truly passed, what next for Denmark's ambitious mob of young directors? Lars Von Trier and friends' much-publicised 'vow of chastity' rules snared enough attention to ensure more Danish movies obtained international recognition and release than ever before, but the dogme 'seal of approval' has become so associated with a particular juncture in recent film history that it's more likely to repel than attract audiences.
The nature of the first post-dogme phase now seems clear, however, as all four original vow 'signatories' have followed up their dogme film with one in English: Von Trier's US-set Dancer in the Dark, Vinterberg's globetrotting It's All About Love, Kragh-Jacobsen's Scots-flavoured Skaggerak and Levring's African adventure The Intended. Von Trier has always tended towards English-speaking films, of course, right back to his 1984 debut with The Element of Crime – and Levring's dogme film The King Is Alive was set in Namibia and almost entirely Anglophone.
But factor in English-language movies by non-signatory Scandinavians – including Hans Petter Molland's Aberdeen, and Nicolas Winding Refn's US-filmed Fear X – and it's clear there's a distinct trend taking shape. Speak to any young Scandinavian director and they'll tell you the same thing: in today's very tough financial climate, potential investors would much rather they made their films in English than their 'tricky' native tongues, so as not to alienate those mainstream cinemagoers who remain stubbornly resistant to subtitles.
Because while Lone Scherfig's accessible dogme debut Italian For Beginners obtained distribution in many overseas territories, it never broke out of the arthouse 'ghetto' and into the multiplexes. Her follow-up Wilbur, has, in contrast been confidently tipped for "international box office" success by industry bible Variety. It's an English-language film set and filmed, like Skaggerak, Aberdeen and Von Trier's Breaking the Waves, in Scotland – a handy point-of-entry to the Anglo-speaking world for Scandinavian talent, due to its (relative) geographical proximity, similarly chilly climate and the availability of funding (in this case from Scottish Screen and the Glasgow Film Fund).
There's also no shortage of Scandinavians living in Scotland at the moment, especially on the east coast where North Sea Oil remains a major source of employment for locals and 'viking' visitors alike. In addition, Scottish football is full of Scandi talent – as seen in Channel 4's comedy-drama series The Book Club, itself something of an Italian For Beginners clone.
Wilbur, however, makes its 'token Dane' a medic – Mads Mikkelsen as Dr Horst, a secondary figure who wryly observes the tragic-comic love triangle unfolding between the suicidal title character (Jamie Sives), his brother Harbour (Adrian Rawlins, from Breaking the Waves) and a single mother, Alice (Shirley Henderson). Wilbur, in between cack-handed suicide attempts, teaches nursery school children. Harbour runs the family firm, a dilapidated Glasgow second-hand bookshop where Alice is a regular customer,
selling Harbour the abandoned books she finds during her job as a hospital cleaner. Attracted to both brothers, she marries Harbour – who doesn't tell her that he's suffering from a life-threatening ailment.
Wilbur aims to blend more than just Danish and Scottish film-making – the script, by Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen, aims for a tricky combination of offbeat humour, touching romance and tear-jerking drama. But what should be a delicate, graceful hybrid goes badly awry: even audiences unaware of the film's background will detect severe flaws in the project's creative DNA – what results is such a lumpy, uneven, oddball mutation that doesn't bode well for future similar experiments except as a warning of what not to do.
The first lesson is that it's vital to get the details right – starting with dialogue, accents, and even names. For an English-language movie to work, the scriptwriting process must involve at least one person for whom it's the native tongue. As anyone who's seen Scandinavian footballers interviewed will know, just because their English is technically perfect that doesn't mean you'd ever think they were actually English themselves. The give-away here is that only Mikkelsen's Danish-accented lines sound right – with everyone else, viewers may recall Basil Fawlty's exasperated question to Bernard Cribbins' pernickety guest in Fawlty Towers: "Why don't you talk properly?"
Wilbur might well work in Danish, but nearly everything about it feels distractingly awkward – from that bald mouthful of a title down to the absurd names given to Wilbur and, especially, Harbour. Every scene feels as though much has been lost in translation, resulting in a gratingly whimsical kind of stylisation that prevents the build-up of any kind of comic, romantic or dramatic momentum. It doesn't help that the film is so in love with its own supposed cuteness – the twee script is full of very strained 'quirkiness' in which joke after joke falls bafflingly flat. It's depressing to note that by far the 'funniest' gag involves a drunken adult throwing up over a child's party dress.
The actors, meanwhile, don't seem to be getting much help from behind the camera – every character seems to belong in a different film – and there's no excusing Rawlins' shocking attempts at a Scottish accent. As Wilbur, Sives doesn't generate much sympathy – it's never made clear why he's so unsuccessful at killing himself, though by the end many viewers will probably find themselves wishing he'd just get on with it. Henderson, however, is bomb-proof – as she showed in the even less mirthful Once Upon A Time in the Midlands – but she's again looking like the British Rosario Dawson, a terrific talent stuck in an apparently endless series of unworthy projects.
As her daughter Mary, McKinlay inevitably doesn't fare so well – like all the children in the film, she comes across as distractingly wooden: a classic tell-tale that the director can't handle actors. What's needed for this kind of dark, downbeat, sentimental comedy is the touch of an Aki Kaurismaki – who traversed the hazardous Anglophone route way back in 1990 with I Hired A Contract Killer with much more successful results in terms of playing suidice for laughs. Scherfig, by contrast, crudely churns all the ingredients together and is helpless to avoid them curdling into tastelessness – as a final act of desperation, she cranks up the sentimental muzak for a shameless Christmas finale. It's a counterproductive move, but by this stage the project feels so misbegotten as to be beyond saving: putting a viking in a kilt, it seems, doesn't make him any more of a Scotsman.
4th April, 2003
(seen 8th February, CinemaxX Berlin – Berlin Film Festival)
click here for for the short review of Wilbur.
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Stream-View Rooms and a Riverwalk Along the Roaring Fork
The Roaring Fork stream cascades through Great Smoky Mountains National Park and into Gatlinburg, a town in the foothills of eastern Tennessee. All year, visitors can view the mountain stream from the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, a 6-mile driving path through the park. Along the way, the Roaring Fork winds through old-growth forests and past historical farmsteads dotted with old-fashioned log cabins and gristmills. But guests at Brookside Resort need not go any farther than their own private balconies to get views: the stream runs right past the resort, which lies only half a mile from downtown Gatlinburg.
Despite the backwoods surroundings, the resort's queen and king rooms have an elegant feel with contemporary bedding and modern amenities, such as flat-screen TVs. Some include wood-burning fireplaces. In the morning, enjoy a free hot continental breakfast featuring biscuits and gravy, an oatmeal bar, and other items.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee: Charming Artists' Village amid Great Smoky Mountains
Gatlinburg rests near Tennessee's eastern border, less than 3 miles from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Here, you can hike more than 100 trails that wind past waterfalls and pioneer-era log cabins tucked deep within densely forested mountains. Or, take a bicycle ride on the 11-mile loop through Cades Cove, a broad valley of open meadows where you can see deer, black bears, wild turkeys, and vacationing college mascots. Clingmans Dome, the park's highest point of elevation at 6,643 feet, is a great place to catch the sunset.
Gatlinburg's main attraction is probably the artists' loop. It comprises more than 100 craft shops, studios, and cafés, and you can watch artisans as they hand weave baskets and whittle wooden figurines. Downtown Gatlinburg itself is a mountain village filled with old-fashioned ice-cream shops and boutiques selling housemade jams and decorative gewgaws.


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There's another change in the top ranks of the NZ Computer Society. Shortly after the resignation of CEO Doug White, the president, Richard Donaldson, reached the end of his two-year term and stood down to be replaced by Don Robertson.
Robertson is a long-term member of the society, who has most recently served as head of its Wellington branch.
A high priority in his programme, he says, will be to bring internationally recognised professional certification to the society, in collaboration with its equivalent bodies overseas and the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).
"The ICT sector needs a benchmark to independently measure the skills and knowledge of individual IT professionals in New Zealand against an internationally recognised framework," Robertson says.
He believes education and certification of ICT professionals will be an essential component of future efforts to deal with the ICT skills shortage in New Zealand. This problem has lessened in other countries where vendor-neutral certification has been introduced by NZCS's counterpart organisations, he says.
Robertson was also the designated leader of a working party considering ways of co-operating with the putative ICT industry umbrella body, ICT-NZ, which now looks certain to slide into extinction, following ICT minister David Cunliffe's announcement of an intention to found a more broadly based, partly government-funded body (Computerworld, November 26). Former president Richardson last week expressed the society's support for the proposed new body.


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Cecil College is sponsoring the eighth annual Stuff-a-Truck event to gather donations for the needy during the holiday season.
All contributions go to Cecil County families in need and are distributed through the Family Education Center and the Ray of Hope Mission Center.
The truck will be at the Wal-Mart in Elkton from 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday; the American Legion hall in Rising Sun from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and on Cecil College's North East campus from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 28.


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Nick Kew wrote: > Paul Querna wrote: > >>Garrett Rooney wrote: >> >> >>>Nick Kew wrote: > > >>>>However, we have what now appears to be a redundant argument: > > > >>>I think the reason I left it in the prototype was on the off chance that >>>we want to be able to handle recursive transactions of some sort. Of >>>course, I have no idea if any supported databases actually allow such >>>things, so it may not be worth cluttering up the codebase for it. > > > I'm not convinced by that. Moving the "current" transaction to the > apr_dbd_t for all other purposes seems to go against that, and having > a separate transaction in one place only seems an open invitation > to ambiguity and bugs. Besides, a driver can choose to implement > recursive transactions by (say) putting a stack of them within its > definition of apr_dbd_t. Yes, but unless the user had access to the transaction objects they wouldn't have any way to say "roll back the second to last transaction", they'd be limited to interacting with the most recent one. That's why it would have to be in the API. That said, I suspect it just doesn't matter all that much, and that like you and Paul already said anyone who cares about such things can just do it via SQL directly, since it seems rather database specific anyway. -garrett
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Switch Blogger to "Classic" or "XML" Mode
Many people still seem to be confused about how to apply new templates to their Blogger blog. It's not suprising though because Blogger didn't seem to care about clearly marking the differences between the two when you are at the template editor page in your control panel. They should have used a much better naming convention and put some type of heading on the editor page that CLEARLY says which mode your blog is running in. The fact is that Blogger can run in two different modes, one is called "classic" and the other is often referred to as either "XML" or "beta". The confusing interface is what causes most of the problems when people try to paste in a new template, with complaints like "I can't get it to work, I keep getting errors!".
This tutorial should help you to see the differences between the two modes and how to switch back and forth. First up is how to switch your blog to the new XML or "beta" mode. If your blog is running in "classic" mode already you will see a template editor like the one pictured below, and you will see the words "Customize Design" as pointed out by the red arrow. All you have to do is click it and choose a new template and you will automatically be switched to the "new" or "beta" mode. This will allow you to replace the code in the template editor with a custom template designed to be used in "beta" or "new" mode. "Classic" templates WILL NOT work in this mode!!!!
Now for switching your blog to "classic" mode if it's already running in "beta" or XML mode. If you look at the image below you'll see that the template editor page looks different than the one pictured above. The editor is much narrower and there's a check box that says "Expand Widget Templates". If you see that then your blog is running in XML or "beta" mode. Switching to "classic" is very easy, however Blogger did a very good job of hiding the link to do the switch over. You have to look underneath the template editor window for the words "Revert to Classic Template". Once you click the link it will take you to a page where you can select a new template. Once you make the choice and save it you will now be running in "classic" mode. This will allow you to edit the template and install custom templates that are designed for the "classic" mode. Templates designed for XML or "beta" mode WILL NOT work in classic mode!!!!
There are a number of differences between the two modes in how they work, but the most important one when trying to edit your template is determining WHICH mode you are currently in. If you try to edit your template manually and you keep getting XML parse errors you are running in "XML" or "beta" mode. "Classic" mode is much simpler to work with for manually editing your template but the drag and drop widgets are unavailable and will not work and neither will templates designed for "classic" mode.
If you want to use templates designed for "classic" mode you MUST SWITCH your template FIRST or the template WILL NOT WORK. I hope this helps clear up some of the confusion.


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Houlihan Lawrence and Halstead Real Estate, together with private aviation startup BLADE and the New York Yankees, introduced the historic All View estate in New Rochelle, NY, to the public with an exclusive indoor/outdoor cocktail party.
Known as one of the most iconic residences on New York's Long Island Sound, the ultimate waterfront summer home at 116 Premium Point is co-listed exclusively by agents Lou Loui Pollack of Houlihan Larence and Louise Phillips Forbes of Halstead as a rental opportunity. The monthly price is $38,888.
Guests at the party enjoyed food, drinks, music and a chance to win a BLADE seplane ride and suite tickets to a future NY Yankees game with private access to the Halstead Lounge at Yankee Stadium. The guest list included former New York Yankees All-Star pitcher and four time World Champion Jeff Nelson, amd reporters were given seaplane rides to and from New York City. Halstead is the Official Luxury Real Estate Firm of the New York Yankees. Houlihan Lawrence recently announced an exclusive partnership with BLADE, which brings prominent exposure to the firm's listed properties through various channels and special discounts for clients on BLADE services, including helicopter, jet and seaplane service.
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As had been widely expected, on 9 November 2016 the European Commission published a proposal to defer the entry into force of the PRIIPs Regulation (Regulation 1286/2014) for a period of twelve months to 1 January 2018. This move follows the rejection by the European Parliament in September 2016 of the draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) setting out the detailed requirements that will sit behind the PRIIPs Regulation. One effect of this delay will be PRIIPs and MiFID II becoming effective at broadly the same time.
The twelve-month delay is intended to give the relevant European Supervisory Authorities (or ESAs, the EU-level financial services regulators) sufficient time to produce revised RTS that the Parliament is willing to approve, and thereafter to allow firms sufficient time to make arrangements for compliance with the PRIIPs regime.
The Commission has asked the ESAs to make changes to certain specific areas of the RTS, namely in relation to multi-option products, performance scenarios, comprehension alert and presentation of insurance related costs. As such, the reopening of the RTS will not change any of the principal requirements under the PRIIPs Regulation.
Revised draft RTS are expected to be submitted to the European Commission by the ESAs within the next six weeks. This does not give the ESAs much time to revise the RTS and as such there will be concerns that the issues raised by the Parliament and industry trade bodies will not be addressed in their entirety.
The Commission expects the revised PRIIPs framework to be in place during the first half of 2017. As such firms should continue to implement their PRIIPs compliance projects, with a view to finalising those projects in 2017 once the RTS have been finalised.