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No inspection since 2006, despite concerns about fumes
The middle school located close to the West Fertilizer plant has more than once been evacuated due to fumes and pollution released by the plant, but the company failed to report any related emission events to state air pollution authorities, according to records and interviews.
In fact, Texas Department of Environmental Quality shows no reports of pollution releases by either West Fertilizer or by its parent company, Adair Grain Inc.
Adair Grain Inc., which was incorporated in Texas in May 2004, did not get a state air pollution permit until 2007 after a complaint was filed about foul odors from the site, which is a wholesaler and warehouse for fertilizer.
Other records show that the company has never been inspected or cited by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration in its history.
The fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday night in West was cited by state regulators in 2006 for failing to obtain or qualify for a permit.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality investigated West Fertilizer on June 20, 2006, after receiving a complaint of a strong ammonia smell.
At an Austin press conference Wednesday with Gov. Rick Perry, Zak Covar, executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Covar said the plant has two air permits an "average compliance history score."
There has not been a complaint about the plant since 2006, and therefore it has not been inspected, Covar said.
"Given the size of the facility and authorized emissions from the plant, generally those are inspected based on complaints," Covar said.
He noted there was a violation in 2006 after an odor complaint, which was resolved with the plant being permitted.
Asked what an average compliance history score means, Covar said, "They don't have any negative marks against their compliance."
Covar said that the facility has been in existence since 1962 and was grandfathered "up to a certain point. I believe in 2004 they were supposed to come in and get reauthorized. They failed to do so."
Covar said he didn't know why the facility didn't get reauthorized. But in resolving the 2006 complaint, he said, "we got them into compliance.
Asked if there are a lot of similar plants around the state, Covar said, "There are certainly a lot of fertilizer facilities in a lot of small towns in Texas, certainly. Agriculture is a big business here in Texas"
Regarding the "average" ranking for this plan, Covar said, "That means they don't have any negative marks against their compliance There is not really a ranking good, bad or indifferent. Since they have not had a complaint, they just fall into an average compliance."
The plant has been a fixture of the local landscape for decades.
Brian Sykora, whose family owns the local Ford dealership, said it was not unusual to smell anhydrous ammonia at certain times of year. He estimated the middle school was evacuated "not more than once or twice in the last ten years."
Sykora, 46, whose family owns a local car dealership, said the plant has been in operation all of his life.
The current plant owner is Adair Grain Inc., state and federal records show.
Its previous owner was Texas Grain, a company originally started by the Plasek family in 1957 in West, Texas, according to history included in an unrelated federal lawsuit the company filed in 2007. "In approximately 1960, Texas Grain built a small fertilizer blend plant for farmers in the are and started selling fertilizer and grain storage services for other farmers in Texas," a court record says.
Agriculture in the area once was dominated by cotton, but wheat, corn and other grains have been produced more recently, Sykora said.
The fertilizer plant is a staple in the area, well known to everyone, as farmers all his life have "dragged those anhydrous tanks to their fields," Sykora said.
"You would have anhydrous smells periodically, maybe once or twice a year" during harvests, he said.


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Given that Reese is an only child, I feel guilty not holding a birthday party for him. Adding the fact that my parents and my husband's parents live on both ends of the Metro, we held two simple parties last year and I felt like we could have made it better with one bigger party. So that's what we did this year and given that he is such a water baby, I wanted the theme to be under the sea. Here's a round down of supplies and other stuff we used for the party.
Jellyfish and Backdrop Decor: DIY, Labor of Love with my sisters
Technically, I only spent about 200php for all the materials for the backdrop but it was so laborious and time consuming!! The jellyfish took the most time, as we spent about three weekends, 4 hours each, just twisting the tentacles for the bodies and completing multiple cartoon marathons in the process. We were able to make 12 in total.
Jellyfish: The body is a half moon colored paper while the tentacles are crepe paper. Cant find the tutorial we used, but basically, you have to cut the crepe paper into 2-inch thick strands, twist it every inch or so and the length and number of tentacles per jellyfish depends on you.
"Waves" : They're cut out japanese paper though we made them way too early so some were crumpled on the day but still, I think they were nice :)
Credits to kara'spartyideas.com where we got the inspiration :)
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Name and # 3: I cut out the letters from carton and used 1-inch colored paper squares. It looked okay but they were freakin' heavy for the curtain and after a few minutes, the last "E" kept falling, so note to self, think of something else.
Star Balloons: 80php/dozen, Divisoria (No sticks, not blown)
We have a suki stall in 168 mall, somewhere between Sta Elena and Soler wing, on the 2nd floor, though I'm bad with directions I cant exactly tell you where it is. Hahahaha. Anyway, that shop has two stalls facing each other and they have most party supplies you can think of- from this type of balloons, to other shapes, to paper lanterns, to lootbag items, to baptism souvenirs so I suggest you check it out if you're hosting a party and looking for multiple supplies.
We used supposed choco sticks to prop the balloons and my son loved them so much, he broke about 2 balloons even before the birthday from too much playing. Hehehehe
Brownies Tower:
Divisoria- 12php candle, 35php pack of plates, 35 peso pack of toothpicks and liners
Cafe Mary Grace: 300 for 16 pieces of brownies
Goldilocks: 207 for 25-pc brownie pack
Tower: Bought in 2015 in Dapitan Arcade, 600
|Not bad for 800 php, right?
Story: I didnt want to avail the usual fondant cake as the cheapest ones are 1k and up, only to serve as display on the event. I originally wanted donuts but they proved trickier to arrange so we ended up with brownies.
* I cut a 9 piece square from the Mary Grace brownies to serve as the "main cake" and stuck
toothpicks and the candle to it
* I transferred the Goldilocks brownies to the liners to give them an oomph....and hubby's cousin
even asked me where I ordered them. Hahahahaha
*Later on, we ran out of liners and I cut the paper plates to make them smaller and used them to hold the brownies.
Pencil Case Lootbags
Pencil Case: 72/dozen, Divisoria(Juan Luna St)
Key Chain: 36/dozen, Divisoria(Juan Luna St)
Stickers: 40/pack, National Bookstore
Assorted Candies and Choco: Grocery
Total Cost per pencil case: about 30 php
Story: I was appalled at the prices of lootbags, some as expensive as 20 php(so I need to spend about 50php for the contents to do justice to a 20php paper bag????), and some though at 2php each, looked like glorified sando bags(bit snotty but just being honest). Good thing I came across these pencil cases and asked hubby to make monograms- one side sea animals and one side reese at 3 and filled them with candies. :)
|so cute!!!
Including the pool, I spent about 10k plus a few things that my mom, sister and my sister-in-law shouldered, so we spent about 13k, and seeing Reese so happy made it worth it... though it might take time for me to consider hosting another party like this.. hahahaha
|If Reese is happy, Mama's happy too! :)
Bye and till the next post!

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Most of the exchanges at PMQs today were fairly predictable in the light of yesterday's autumn statement. Ed Miliband accused the prime minister of having failed to meet his fiscal plan; the prime minister accused Labour of wanting to borrow even more.
But there was a fascinating undercurrent running throughout this session, one that took us back to the politics of the 1970s and 80s.
It began with Miliband's first question. Perhaps surprisingly, given links to the unions are often perceived as one of Labour's weak points, he went straight in on the strike action by public sector workers taking place across the country today. Not only that, but he identified overtly with those on strike: Read more


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The Good Virus: White Knight or Red Queen?
I encountered an old acquaintance today. Tip of the hat to Peter Radatti for pointing me towards an article by John Breeden II that proposes a very familiar idea: the Good Virus. (One that also often pops up in the form of the Good Worm, such as the various hues of Code that were proposed


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In the 1970s, when environmental issues focused on nature and the wilderness, Martin Melosi, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History, University of Houston, felt cities were being left out of the environmental discourse.
"Melosi started working in the field of environmental history in the 1970s. He is one of the earliest people in the area of urban environmental history," said Joseph A. Pratt, Cullen Professor of History and Business, UH. "There are two people really considered the 'fathers' in that subfield, Martin Melosi and Joel Tarr."
Melosi adopted an interdisciplinary approach that incorporated work from geographers, city planners and other social scientists. He challenged the standard discourse in the young field of environmental history that frequently focused on wilderness or agriculture and argued that cities should be viewed as ecosystems with a physical, biological and social structure.
"Martin Melosi has been a pioneer scholar in the fields of environmental and energy history and especially in the history of the urban environment," said Joel A. Tarr, Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University. "He has an uncanny instinct to focus on historical issues that have great contemporary significance, as is reflected in his most recent book, 'Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities.' Through his research and writing, Melosi has provided us with insight into some of the most pressing issues facing cities today and laid out a major path for graduate students and environmental history and studies to follow."
"Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities," is a consolidation of essays on water use and management based on 40 years of extensive research into contemporary periodicals, government reports, city publications, and the proceedings of several engineering and public health associations. Melosi provides a historical background on construction, administration, and adaptability of water supply and wastewater systems in urban America. He cites budgetary constraints and the deterioration of existing water infrastructures as factors leading many municipalities to seriously consider the privatization of their water supply.
"There are concerns for fresh water in the United States as demand for water has tripled and the population doubled. Fresh water is a finite resource with demand on the rise and higher prices to follow," said Melosi. "There is enough freshwater on the planet for six billion people, but it is distributed unevenly and too much of it is wasted, polluted and unsustainably managed. Every year millions of people, most of them children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene. According to the United Nations, water scarcity affects approximately 1.2 billion people in the world, and it estimates another 1.6 billion people face an economic water shortage where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers."
In "Precious Commodity," Melosi explores the role of government in management, development and legal jurisdiction over America's rivers and waterways for hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation, and transportation access. Looking to the future, Melosi compares costs and benefits of public versus private water supply, examining the global movement toward privatization.
"Martin Melosi is renowned for his environmental histories of America's urban landscapes. In 'Precious Commodity,' he draws our attention to the most basic of human needs – fresh water – providing clear-eyed assessments of how society has managed this vital resource in the past," said Jeffrey K. Stine, curator for environmental history at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History. "With domestic and international conflicts over water destined to intensify during the 21st century, Melosi's historical insights will help all of us argue in a more informed manner about our collective future."
Specifically related to Houston, Melosi dedicates a chapter to the historical significance of Buffalo Bayou, a water artery running through the city of Houston, designated as the National Highway of the Republic in 1840, where early settlement occurred and became an essential means of transport and commerce, as well as a recreational focal point. Another chapter addresses Houston's public sinks, noting the city is unique in that private businesses rely so much on public systems in a place that prides itself on individual initiative.
"Growth in Houston has been a relentless adversary in providing adequate sanitary services," said Melosi. "Developing an adequate water supply for Houston meant seeking sources of water many miles from the urban core and creating delivery systems that impinged on areas outside of Houston.
"It isn't so much a crisis in supply, Melosi added, it's a crisis of location and allocation. These are really questions of geography, location and circumstance, as much as they are the question of abundance. You can't divide the total amount of fresh water into pieces allocated according to population size. It just doesn't work that way. So these questions of how do we get access, what is fair, what isn't fair, become ultimately cultural and ethical questions. And I think that's what shows up in a lot of historical works. You see the intertwining of the cultural, political, the economic, the environmental in all of these processes."
Melosi is the author and editor of 18 books and more than 85 articles, including "Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities"; the award-winning "The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present"; with UH colleague Joseph A. Pratt "Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast"; "Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, 1880-1980"; "Effluent America: Cities, Industries, Energy and the Environment," and the upcoming book "Atomic Age America and The World." His next project is "On an Island Not too Far: Fresh Kills and Staten Island." He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas and a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Montana. In 2009, Melosi received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History. In 2005, he received the Esther Farfel Award, the highest honor accorded to a University of Houston faculty member.


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Magnetic Islands BEST Bus Tours provide a comprehensive, personal day tour of beautiful Magnetic Island. Commentary by a friendly, knowledgeable local tour guide covers, wildlife, flora, geology, folk lore, attractions and more. Many creatures are sighted and there is even interaction with some.
They depart from right outside the Island ferry terminal six days a week. Two tours a day are offered July to September.
Their strong local knowledge gives guests a verbal book full of facts and stories about all aspects of this gem of an Island. Flora and fauna, particularly the birds, folklore, climate and geology.
"Maggie" is not a resort. It is home to some 3000 residents, who consider it "Paradise".
They tour four small towns set among the birds and wildlife among rocky hills and magnificent seaside scenery.
Being a small bus, the atmosphere is friendly and personal, usually with plenty of humour and interaction.
Alighting at any of their stops is optional and entirely at each passenger's discretion.
There are toilet stops en route and lunch is usually one hour at Horseshoe Bay, their most popular spot, where there is a selection of food choices.
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It might be the longest campaign in modern election history, but that doesn't seem to be dampening enthusiasm for the race's first debate in this most political of towns. A number of candidates in the region are planning debate-viewing gatherings at the campaign offices or even their own homes.
The leaders' debate — which starts at 8 p.m. and is organized by Maclean's — has spurred a number of groups to get together at bars across the city to cheer and jeer. Here's where some of them are meeting, in case you're feeling social:
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- Ottawa-area representatives of the Canadian Federation of Students are inviting students to watch at Mike's Place, a pub on the second floor of Carleton University's University Centre.
- Ottawa South Green candidate John Redins and the riding association are hosting a viewing party at KS on the Keys on Daze Street.
- The Insurance Bureau of Canada is hosting at the Royal Oak on Kent and Slater street. (That's right, the Insurance Bureau of Canada.)
- Brixton's British Pub on Sparks Street will be hosting Ottawa-area members of the University of Ottawa NDP campus supporters, as well as other New Democrats in the region.
- A group of Young Conservatives reserved one of the televisions at Sir John A. Pub on Elgin Street.
- Ottawa Centre Liberal candidate Catherine McKenna is inviting her supporters to attend a viewing party at the Clocktower Brew Pub in Westboro.
- Ottawa West-Nepean Liberals are starting the night at 7 p.m. with a kick-off rally followed by the debate at Time Out Pub on Carling Ave. (next to the Coliseum).
- The Heart & Crown in the ByWard Market, Father and Sons Restaurant near the University of Ottawa and The 3 Brewers on Sparks Street will all be showing the debate, although there are no events or viewing parties planned at these locations.
Many other sports bars around the city will turn on the debate if requested, though the Toronto Blue Jays game which starts at 7 p.m. may take precedence in some pubs.
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John Tienken '13
Double major: Political Science; English
Hometown: Clarendon Hills
Career Plans: Law school or graduate school
John Tienken served two years as the student representative to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and was the only student representative with voting power. He was the co-founder of the UIS Squash Team sport club, a group that has traveled at the national level to compete. He was also a UIS Journal columnist and was the co-chair of the Student Union Committee that led to a successful student referendum to build a student union.
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"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event is hosted by Jill over at Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
My WoW selection this week is:
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Jillian Cardiff came to this remote mountain town to forget the demon attack that almost killed her. Instead, she rescues-and falls for-a gorgeous stranger who has no memory of anything other than his name. Handsome, charming, and protective, Reseph seems like the kind of man whom Jillian can trust. But with hints of a troubling history of his own, he's also the kind of man who can be very dangerous . . .
Reseph may not know why he mysteriously appeared in Jillian's life, but he knows he wants to stay. Yet when Jillian's neighbors are killed, and demon hunters arrive on the scene, Reseph fears that he's putting Jillian in danger. And once it's revealed that Reseph is also Pestilence, the Horseman responsible for ravaging the world, he and Jillian must face the greatest challenge of all: Can they forget the horrors of a chilling past to save the future they both desire?
I can't wait to read Reseph's story, Larissa Ione wrote such an highly addictive series here...


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Venus Express performs flawlessly, LEOP complete
Earlier today, ESA Ground Segment Manager Manfred Warhaut declared the critical Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) for Venus Express complete.
The spacecraft has successfully entered the Near Earth Commissioning Phase and is now on the exact trajectory required for Venus Orbit Insertion in five months' time.
Venus Express successfully completed LEOP at 9:48 CET today, 53:15 hours into the mission. At this time, Venus Express was 634 000 km from the Earth.
"Overall, the spacecraft is performing flawlessly. It's a tribute to the many people who devoted so much time to ensuring that the spacecraft was fully checked out before launch," said Philippe Sivac, a Venus Express Assembly, Integration and Verification Engineer from the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
For everyone involved in the mission, particularly the Mission Control team, the completion of LEOP means they can finally relax — at least a little — after several weeks of intensive pre-flight and launch activities. During LEOP, the Venus Express Mission Control team worked in shifts, covering the Main Control Room 24 hours per day.
LEOP is the first critical segment of any mission due to the high physical stresses on the spacecraft during launch and the requirement to quickly confirm that the solar panels have deployed and that power, Attitude and Orientation Systems (AOCS), navigation and other crucial flight systems are active and working properly.
In addition to Mission Control, specialists from ground station support, navigation, software, flight dynamics and other sections at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) can now return to a regular schedule, as can the additional ground tracking stations assigned from ESA and NASA.
Ground station co-operation excellent
"The support given by the ESA stations in Kourou, New Norcia, Perth and Cebreros, and by the NASA DSN stations at Canberra and Goldstone, has been excellent," said Warhaut. With the end of LEOP, the mission will be supported during one pass per day from ESA's new 35m deep space antenna at Cebreros.
In a significant milestone for both Cebreros and Venus Express, the first telecommand was sent to the spacecraft via the station's X-band (7.1-8.5 GHz) transmitter at 18:21 CET on 10 November.
The transmission came during the fourth pass over the ground station (Pass 4) after switching from the low-gain antenna (LGA), used during LEOP, to the second, smaller, high-gain antenna (HGA2) on board the craft; the radio frequency band was also switched from S-Band to X-Band. The downlink telemetry rate is now set to 91.4 kilobits/second (kbps).
A 'pass' corresponds to one visible window period during which the spacecraft is in 'view' of the ground station and signals can be transmitted and received.
Venus Express in Near Earth Commissioning Phase
With the start of the Near Earth Commissioning Phase, payload activities are due to start on 18 November; these initial switch-on and test activities are scheduled to be complete by 14 December.


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At an NFL game, when the field goal kicker is about to boot the ball, they send two guys to run up a net behind the goal posts.
Why? To protect the people a good 50 yards behind the net? If you're sitting behind the goal posts, can you not see a 12″ inflated leather obolong ball drifting towards you?
No, because the NFL does not want you to get a "free" football.
Every once in a while, the ball will fly over or skip past the net so what happens? At a baseball game, you hold up your ball to cheers or even get to auction it for millions. At a hockey game, hopefully, you didn't lose too many teeth but at an NFL game?
EVENT SECURITY scurries over to take it back – if you don't hand it over – ARMED POLICE OFFICERS come over.
I've seen them take a ball away from a 9-year old kid.
Is that REALLY how the NFL wants to be seen?
As cheap skinflints?
For a ticket that costs at least $50-$75 face value and perhaps hundreds of dollars for buying a season ticket? Or a bottle of water costs $5 dollars? Or the multi-BILLION dollar TV contracts or the free stadiums built by cities is simply not enough to cover the cost of losing a few footballs (not even pigskin anymore – cowskin now)?
Is a football all that costly?
It's $100 retail but what does the NFL pay for it? $15? Even at full retail and let's say they lose 5 balls a game (unlikely) – you mean there's not $500 in the budget for footballs?
How many baseballs are lost in a game? 50? 60? 100? I've seen at-bats where a guy fouls 12 balls into the stands. The NFL would chase all those back?
I'm sure they might call it a safety issue? But tell me that it's less dangerous to have someone heave a baseball or hockey puck back into the field? Or how far can most non-NFLers chuck a regulation football at a "dangerous" speed? And if you can, shouldn't that guy be signed?
70 years ago, a football might've been a day's wages and the league was run on a shoestring but now, tell me the jumbo shrimp catering budget is not 10 times as large for EVERY NFL team? Well, maybe not the Bills.
It's time to let a few football fly into the stands and stop snatching them away from kids who retrieve them.
Are you really that cheap, NFL?


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Case Number: 5-306-502(B), Year Published: 2007
HBS Number: KEL338
Nonprofit Management, Change Management, Charter School Management, Leadership, Board Governance, Strategy
This case examines the leadership challenges associated with budget shortfalls in a young nonprofit organization. The school leader must decide how to close the budget gap and implement the decision. Case A focuses on the decision making process and the associated communication between the school leaders and the teaching staff. The staff is dissatisfied with the decision and writes a letter of complaint to the Board of Directors. Case B focuses on the Board of Directors' reaction to the letter and the situation's resolution. This case is useful for helping students understand the importance of communicating effectively with multiple stakeholders to achieve success. Students will also learn the importance of a strong CEO-Board partnership.
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Happy Birthday, Scootie! What did SamChez buy you this year? ;O)
@MichellianeKwanjuez Is Sparks still up to her OLD tricks? lol To answer your question, let's just say, it's good to have friends in high places. lol
This is my very first complaint I am bringing up to a moderator, so, I hope you dont mind me doing this, Scootie12. What I dont understand is why after you posted a warning message in the 09/08 Hersh thread, you didnt bother to delete or edit posts thereafter written by Sparks that sounded like she was taunting me to respond to issues that werent related to the topic of the thread. I dont know if someone else later posted something worse, but the posts I know you deleted were hardly worthy of deletion, IMO. I think I already know the answer, but I felt the need to let you know how I felt about you deleting my posts and others.
Thank you, Michael. You're a wonderful friend. Luv ya!
Happy belated birthday, Michael! Hope it was a good one
Happy Birthday Scootie!!! I hope you have a very very wonderful day!!!
Scootie! get your skate fix and get your behind on the ice..not literally, but you know what i mean...LOL...I always enjoy watching ppl that an actually skate and do some tricks...I often surprise ppl when I compliment them on a finished jump or spin, cuz I know all the ice skating terminology, and of course i'm no skater...You should start skating for fun again and JUMP!
So you are controller.....that's an interesting contrast with the artistry and athleticism of figure skating...seriously. It must keep you well balanced (ah, a double pun!) I am not so balanced, and neither is our controller. He has no artistic side whatsoever; and I have no technical side. I am always thinking I would have been happier born about 50 years earlier - so I could have electricity, but no cell phones. Cell phones are too complicated for me. I went to Verizon to buy a new phone several years ago, and when they asked me what features I wanted, I told them I wanted "ON" and "OFF". No call directory, no messages, no jingling or singing, no flashing lights - nothing at all - just "On" and "Off." He said they haven't made anything like hat for ten years. My phone has continued to go off during gymnastics meets while I'm judging (I still don't know how to turn off the ringer), and other inopportune times. Finally, I gave it to my husband to use for a pager at the VA. I told him I would pay for it as long as he would carry it with him when he's out alone on the river with the dogs. I'm free again. The only place people can find me is at home or at work. The rest of my life is MINE!!! The one thing I do love is my Excel! I still can't work a calculator right. I'm sure people like me give you nightmares! But I can write a poem, make a souffle, indian bridle a horse, interpret federal rules and regs, plant a garden, and bathe my grandbabies. Life is good!
Tell me Scootie - are you as mellow as you seem? Its hard to read people some times. I was glad to see that you might go back and test up (skating, that is). I have been meaning to say - do it... you will enjoy it. Just warm up really well. I went back to an adult ballet class when I was 38. The pain after 3 or 4 weeks finally overwhelmed me - but my body looked good!
hey Scottie!!!
Hi Scootie-rather than chat to the world at large I have a quick question--when do we need to contribute to MKF to keep this wonderful fan forum up and running? I haven't been able to do my share in contributing in the last couple of years but am now in a position to do so. Thanks in advance for helping me out on this.
LOL. I have been SOOOOO busy with the new job and new house and my MBA program. Then add in the extracurricular activities my middle school son has in band and student council, I am such a busy girl. I pop in now and then, but don't post as much. Never fear, I am lurking. Just stressed trying to make that B in microeconomics. UGH! Love ya Scootie
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You will not find the term "liminality" in many dictionaries. For instance, at last check it is not in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary does, however, have an entry for "liminal," the adjectival form, which it lists as a rare usage: "Of or pertaining to the threshold or initial stage of a process." Both liminal and liminality are derived from the Latin "limen," which means "threshold"—that is, the bottom part of a doorway that must be crossed when entering a building. And it is this notion of a doorway, or passage from one space to another, and the consequences of doing so, that matters to consumption and shopping, because in a world where the procurement of goods is increasingly simple the act of transforming a person from one state of being to another is more and more important. We no longer sell just goods, we sell something much more profound – or we hope to, at least.
As a brief refresher, it was not until the second half of the 20th century, that the terms "liminal" and "liminality" gained popularity through the writings of Victor Turner. Turner borrowed and expanded upon Van Gennep's concept of liminality, ensuring widespread usage of the concept in anthropology.
In 1967, Turner noted that "the subject of passage ritual is, in the liminal period, structurally, if not physically, 'invisible'" (1967: 95). That is, the status of liminal individuals is socially and structurally ambiguous. From this he further developed the idea. "Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise" (1967: 97).
Fundamentally, the idea is relatively simple. When a person is in a liminal state, she or he is betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremony. Their roles in the cosmic order are ambiguous. He then goes on to name this state of non-structure or anti-structure through such concepts as the "realm of pure possibility" and structural invisibility. He chooses the Latin term "communitas" to express this idea of anti-structure, and refers to social structure and communitas as two major models for human interrelatedness."
The first model is of society as a structured, differentiated, and often hierarchical system of politico-legal-economic positions with many types of evaluation, separating men in terms of "more" or "less." The second, which emerges recognizably in the liminal period, is of society as an unstructured or rudimentarily structured and relatively undifferentiated comitatus, community, or even communion of equal individuals who submit together to the general authority of the ritual elders.
Yes, yes. All very interesting, but what does it have to do with consumption and shopping? Shopping is, at a functional level, about getting things we need – food, clothing, shelter, etc. But if it were as simple as that we wouldn't have specialty stores. We wouldn't spend hours rummaging around a bookstore when we could simply order the product online. As the outlets for acquisition have expanded with the growth of broadband, the nature of shopping has changed. It is as much about fulfilling social, cultural and psychological needs and desires as it is anything else, perhaps more so. Which means it is often a transformational act of a transitory nature that takes us from one state of being to another, if only for a short while. And it is at the gateway that we find the symbols that successfully transition of from one state to another. Retailers who do this well (Abercrombe, Anthropologie, Swatch) become points of destination and alter the nature of interaction, both with the store and with fellow shoppers, at the point of entry into their space. They set the stage where shopping becomes akin to a rite of passage. It signals that we have entered a special place and while we're there, we are not the same person we were on the street.
The idea that the passage of the magical threshold is a transit into a new sphere of reconfigurement of who and what we are is symbolized by the gateway and harkens back to the worldwide womb image of myth. It is the hero entering the belly of the whale and emerging transformed, carrying special knowledge or objects that can only be found by going through the passage. This is why the approaches to temples are flanked by guardian symbols – dragons, angles, sword-wielding demon slayers. These are the threshold guardians used to ward off those incapable of encountering the higher silences within. They illustrate the fact that the devotee at the moment of entry into the temple undergoes a metamorphosis. Similarly, in a cultural construct where shopping and consumption have taken on the role of defining personal meaning, the threshold at the store signals a metamorphosis into the stylistically elite. Those entering the space understand that they are unlike those outside the space and have entered a place that is beyond the confines of the mundane, daily life. And like the hero, once having crossed the threshold, the postmodern shopper moves into a dream landscape of often curiously fluid, ambiguous forms. It is here that shopping becomes something bigger than consumption. It is here that the trial, the hunt, the act of self-becoming takes place, turning shopping into an expression of self-worth and of profound worth to the tribe (the family, the peer group, etc.).
Thinking about a shopping space and the symbolic cues to which we respond at the outset of the shopping journey means taking a more subtle view of how we promote our wares. Rather than screaming "low, low prices," it means thinking about shopping and spatial design as promoting a change in the people to whom we would sell. And it means putting as much though into the store front as it does the size of type on an end cap. It means thinking of both the entry and the space as transitional, transformational structures that compel the shopper to alter his or her sense of being. And this is where loyalty comes from. Just as most people do not hop from on house of worship every week, let alone from faith to faith, so too should they feel compelled to return to your space again and again.
Liminality is almost always a temporary phenomenon. That is not to say that the temporal nature of liminality should be one of its defining characteristics. Rather, human nature being the way it is means that liminality cannot be permanent. Either we are absorbed into the social structure or we shun it all together—we cannot remain betwixt and between. But liminality can be something that draws people back to a retailer time and again. It turns shopping beyond the ordinary and signals that your space is beyond the daily grind. It signals a place of rebirth.


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Thanks to reader Nick for pointing this out. Nick believes Adams might be a good pick-up. I'm not sure just yet, still thinking about it. Adams went to 5 Pro Bowls, he's been very reliable/healthy over his career, and he at least still thinks he's got a few years left. On the other hand, he was among the most penalized O-Linemen in the league the last few years and he was also among the leaders in being fined.
My verdict: if we could snag him for a decent price, I'd think about adding him and here's why: we need depth on the O-line. While I think there is a chance that Lang could develop and Spitz could contribute again some day, we lack depth on the O-line. Colledge is a weak to average left guard and Clifton has been mostly average the last few years. Wells, Sitton and Tauscher are all solid and are not weaknesses but again, the depth is a problem. Having a guy like Adams in the mix would at the very least enhance competition and add needed depth.
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don't he look good ya'll?
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JAy disses Soulja (battle of the millenium) haha
Jay dissed Soulja Boy and DeShawn Stevenson...aha
DeShawn apparently stated that LeBron James is "overrated" (yeaaaaaa right, what crack is he smoking?). LeBron said that responding to this "comment" would be like Jay Z making a diss track about Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy showed up at a Wizards game talkin ish like "he's better than Jay Z." (whoa whoa whoa whoa..hold the phone! I was a supporter for ur little ass and then you go and dis my mans? not cool, not cool one bit!)
The song is entitled "Blow the Whistle"(you know that Too Short beat that kinda sucked, but kinda didn't lol). Listen HERE
I don't think Jay should have wrote this, its not good, just funny cuz he's doing battle with a 16 year old who makes beats for Bow Wow.
Soulja you've lost me son...i think i might have been your only fan over 18..damn
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Irzu was making Irissa do and see some bad things in the Defiance premiere. Should I be worried about her? — Chantelle
It turns out Irzu might not be as bad as we think. Or, at least, that's what she wants Irissa to believe when the duo is involved in a near-fatal stand-off in Episode 3. When Irissa refuses to continue killing for Irzu, the mystical being proves just how powerful she is, while also providing Irissa insight into exactly who she is.
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Savi's issues with her mother are nothing compared to what's in store when her dad (guest star John Heard) comes to town! Even though he walked out on the family when Savi was young, "Savi pretty much blames her mom for all the things she could blame a parent for," executive producer KJ Steinberg says. However, her visit with her dad will finally serve as a "wakeup call," Steinberg says. "Up until the moment where she confronts her father, [he] can do no wrong. But we will learn just how wrong he can do." Guesses anyone?
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The Espheni will set their sights on discovering the identity of the mysterious Ghost who has been helping those trapped in the internment camp. But when the Espheni threat grows, Tom will take the ultimate risk by going to their ship in search of a way to destroy the fences once and for all. But will he actually be able to help everyone escape?
I can't believe Evan and Paige are in therapy on Royal Pains! Should I be worried about any upcoming bumps in the road for them? —Jeanine
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I love seeing Scott Michael Foster back on ABC Family on Chasing Life! Will any other Greek alums pop up? — Sherry
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Miracle in Elkhart County: Reclusive Businessman Wills $150M Fortune to Community, Now They Have a Plan to Use It
It took more than a year of planning, talking and listening but the people of Elkhart County, Ind., finally have a blueprint on how they will spend the $150 million fortune willed to them by reclusive hometown businessman David Gundlach.
Gundlach, who died of a heart attack in October 2011, registered among the top 50 Americans who gave away the most money last year when it was announced that the Elkhart County Community Foundation was bequeathed $150 million from his estate.
On Friday, about a year since the gift became public knowledge, the foundation's president, Peter McCown shared how life has been evolving.
"It's been a year for us here so we feel like we've got our feet underneath us a bit," McCown told The Christian Post.
While the measure of Gundlach's generosity was a surprise the process by which it came was in no way like winning the lottery.
"It's been an interesting story," said McCown. "Our initial reaction emerged. There was not a moment in time where it all was clear and obvious."
"We knew we were in his estate plan but we didn't know the details of that. As the personal representative of the estate, his attorney, and we as one of the beneficiaries of the estate, learned the details of his plans and the extent of the resources that he had, there was a growing sense of amazement but there wasn't this aha moment," said McCown.
After making his fortune in insurance in London, according to a WSJ report, Gundlach returned to the United States where he settled in Elkhart. And in the weeks after he died there were rumors that he had met with representatives of the foundation and there was a sizable gift in the works but no one was quite clear on how much that would be.
According to McCown, even after they realized the gift would amount to nearly $150 million, it truly never sank in until he was told at some point during the process that $114 million had been transferred from a Swiss bank account.
"I would say probably the most defining moment of this whole experience was, I was having lunch with the personal representative [of Gundlach's estate] and we received a call at the restaurant where we were that the $114 million Swiss bank account had been successfully wire transferred," said McCown.
When they announced they had received the staggering donation, which included 11 homes around the world, McCown explained that they were expecting an onslaught of requests for help but it didn't happen. "We wondered what would happen, whether everybody was gonna come with their hand out…we really have not experienced a dramatic change in that nature," he said.
What happened instead was a steady stream of ideas coming in from people about what the foundation could do with the money.
In the first month after the news broke, explained McCown, he averaged 200 to 300 emails a day coming from Elkhart citizens who simply wanted to share ideas like focusing on Alzheimer's, abandoned pets, neighborhood blight or early childhood education.
Now, after meeting with more than 2,000 people in focus groups, community leaders and other invested community members, the foundation now has a concrete plan to handle a budget that is now 10 times larger than the one it had before and they plan on implementing it in 2014.
And as of right now, according to McCown, "the community as a whole feels pretty good."


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Donna Anderson
November 12, 2012
If you're one of the 23 million Americans currently out of work or underemployed then buck up. It might interest you to know that US manufacturers currently have 3 million job openings. And according to a report on "60 Minutes" last night, the only thing standing between you and a paycheck is a little thing called a "skills gap."
According to Brian Pitts, the "60 Minutes" correspondent covering last night's story, the idea that American manufacturers have all taken their jobs out of the country is an exaggeration. There are still plenty of manufacturing plants here in the states. Right now, Pitts says, there are more than 3 million job openings in the US, and as many as 500,000 of those jobs aren't being filled because employers can't find qualified workers.
Pitts took his "60 Minutes" show on the road to Nevada to visit with Karl Hutter, the new chief operating officer of Click Bond in Carson City. Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country. In 2010 the unemployment rate in Nevada shot up to 14.9 percent and it's consistently stayed well above the national average. Yet there are thousands of job openings across the state.
Click Bond manufactures fasteners. Their largest customer is the Defense Department. They currently employ 325 people and they need to hire more. The challenge, says Hutter, is finding qualified people who can handle the computer controlled machines in their manufacturing facility. Employees need to be able to program the computers, operate the machines, fix the machines when they break down, and inspect the fasteners to make sure they're up to spec.
According to Ryan Costella, head of Strategic Initiatives at Click Bond, there's a skill gap at entry level positions.
"It's those basic skill sets. Show up on time, you know, read, write, do math, problem solve. I can't tell you how many people even coming out of higher ed with degrees who can't put a sentence together without a major grammatical error. It's a problem. If you can't do the resume properly to get the job, you can't come work for us. We're in the business of making fasteners that hold systems together that protect people in the air when they're flying. We're in the business of perfection."
While Costella says Click Bond has done everything they can to find qualified workers, he never talks about what they actually do. Do they simply hang a "Help Wanted" sign in the window or do they actually hold job fairs to let the community know what they're looking for and what they have to offer?
And Hutter leads you to believe that the problem is a lack of education and drive, that people looking for a job today can't read or write, can't do math or solve problems. "We can't find enough students who are interested in pursuing these trades. Because it seems hard? I don't know. Because it seems like you have to do math? I don't know."
But he only briefly touches on the fact that the "math" skill the company is looking for involves much more than basic addition or multiplication. Not only do Click Bond employees have to know how to program the computers they're working on, they also have to have at least high school level trigonometry skills.
In exchange for these math and computer programming skills, which for most people would most likely require some measure of secondary education, Click Bond is willing to pay newly hired employees $12 per hour. In Nevada, the average hourly wage covered by unemployment in 2011 was $20.13.
Pitts also talked with Klaus Kleinfeld, German-born CEO of Alcoa in Whitehall, Michigan. Alcoa employs 2,200 people working three shifts a day, seven days a week, producing parts to make jet engines 50 percent more fuel efficient.
Kari Belanger had an engineering degree when she was hired by Alcoa and Kleinfeld lamented the fact that Alcoa had to train her to program their robots, work that was done by hand 50 years ago. And Kleinfeld also said Alcoa helped pay for Rod Coley to go back to school to get his engineering degree so he could X-ray parts before they leave the factory.
The Alcoa plant currently has 27 job openings, but Kleinfeld says that Alcoa absolutely has no problem with a skills gap, but it sure would be a lot easier if people would "get an education." Says Kleinfeld, "The environment is changing all the time. And if you don't stay on top of things, you know, somebody will eat your lunch."
Asked why he believes there's a skills gap, Kleinfeld responded, "Well, this is not a society where you can tell somebody what– where to go work, or where to– what education to get, right? "
While there may very well be 500,000 job openings in manufacturing facilities across the nation, these jobs require a specialized skill set that wasn't required even a decade ago. Kleinfeld implied it, but Hutter made it perfectly clear – employers are not willing to pay to train employees anymore.
"I can't afford to develop every worker that I need from scratch. One, that's not my core competency. I'm– we're not a school, we're a company. We can't do that well. Two, we can't afford to do that. If we actually had to do that from scratch, even if we could, the jobs would have to go somewhere else, because it's simply not economically tenable to do that."
So, guess who is training these employees, now. That's right. The American taxpayers. Click Bond and other manufacturers in the area designed a training program for local community college to take unemployed people, give them aptitude and attitude tests, and then train them for open jobs.
In the past, employers invested in human resource departments and educated their management people on how to screen applicants, using these same aptitude and attitude tests, then they paid their managers to train those new hires. Apparently that system is no longer cost-effective so now it's been turned over to the taxpayers to subsidize yet another area of American business that refuses to adapt to stay competitive, choosing instead to just wait for a government bail-out.
American manufacturers are always tooting their own horn, saying they have state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and they're competitive with everyone in the world. But if they can't afford to train their own employees, and if they can't afford to hire them in at a living wage, then just how state-of-the-art are their processes and how competitive are they? And at whose expense?
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Fly forth bearers of the light!
Like the bee,
Searching many flowers
For a single precious drop
Man thinks you a nuisance
But your spirit never stops
Though they hum and they haw and they swat you away
They still drink the fruits of your tireless day
Fly forth bearers of the light!
Like the eagle,
You're blessed with the gift of unclouded sight
To see the whole world in a whole new light
How high you may fly, wherever you go
A great many hearts fill with wonder and awe
And though the great skies are a lonely outpost
The Creator is with you, and he is very close
Fly forth bearers of the light!
Like the swan,
How noble, full of grace
Unblemished, serene
A white and pure face
And though your wings are to bring you great heights
Your head is bowed down, o bearer of light.
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
Bearers of the Light
Fly forth bearers of the light!
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The DOR really needed a ride today, some time to think and ponder things. Being the gentleman that I am I gladly obliged, actually she bribed me with the promise of a slow doodle and munchies on the way. I tried to grab a bite right from the start and got a boot `really Boogie we haven`t even started yet!`. I gave a warning hop and spent the next fifteen minutes blowing marbles. As we wondered on the ridge a coyote went running right infront of me...I blew marbles. The wind started blowing...I blew marbles. The DOR kept patting me on the neck telling how good I was being. We stopped on occasion and I would get a nibble.
The DOR took me to a big wood pile that always gives me marbles and made me go around it twice. I blew a whole truckload of marbles at that. She told me I was a very good boy and took me to the short/steep hill I love to go up. I got very happy and started loping up. Well loping leads to excitement...excitement leads to bucking...bucking leads to werehorse incidents. Yep I bucked and didn`t stop when asked, so the DOR told me to `Go big or go home!` and gave me a boot. Alrighty then. Not only am I going big, I am going home. Bucking like a wild horse I barely missed sliding down the same hill I came up, I did buck my way into an old coyote den, and past a shooting target. I finally realized the DOR was not taking my offer for a flying dismount and I also realized home was at least a mile away, so I quit bucking. I figured the DOR would be happy with this and head home, but NO! She marched my butt back down and made me go up the hill again and circle each target twice. She also made me take the long way home. We went down the road to check the mail and stopped to visit people along the way.
I would like to point out that the wind picked up when I headed up the hill, I saw the white of a target as I crested the hill and we all know how I feel about white. To top all that off a very noisy train went by. So you see none of it was truly my fault.
Today we went big and took the long way home.
Enjoy your day and don`t forget to hug your DOR!


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NiaWear Socks 6 Pack
NiaWear Socks 6 Pack
Keep your dancing feet comfortable and warm before and after class with a 6 pack of NiaWear Socks. One size fits all (made to fit women's shoe sizes 5-10 US). These socks are made of 75% cotton, 20% polyester, 5% spandex, and feature small Nia logos in red.
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Salma Hayek, Jessica Biel, Matthew Morrison and Paulo Szot toplined a closed reading last weekend of Lincoln Center Theater's developing tuner version of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."
None of those thesps are definitively signed on for a full production, and a rep for LCT says no plans for the tuner have yet been nailed down. Still, such a starry preliminary cast bodes wells for the show, which is said to be a Broadway possibility for as early as next spring.
Hayek would be a buzzworthy Hollywood addition to the legit scene, while Biel, who appeared over the summer in "Guys and Dolls" at the Hollywood Bowl, has been eyeing theater projects in recent months. Both Morrison ("Glee") and Szot were in the original cast of the LCT revival of "South Pacific," still running at the org's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Joanna Gleason and Argentinian actress Mia Maestro ("Alias") also were among the thesps to perform in the reading.
Based on Pedro Almodovar's 1988 pic, the musical version of "Women on the Verge" is penned by composer-lyricist David Yazbek and book writer Jeffrey Lane, also collaborators on "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." Bartlett Sher, the "South Pacific" helmer who is working with Yazbek on brewing musical "Bruce Lee: Journey to the West," directs.
LCT's Rialto staging of Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play" begins previews later this week at the Lyceum Theater. A second Broadway offering for the company's 2009-10 season remains to be announced.


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Making your birth plan
You've been planning for the arrival of your newborn for so many months now, and you probably have some pretty specific ideas about your labor and delivery experience. Creating a birth plan gives you a chance to think about your options and share them with us as you plan for your big day.
The purpose of creating your birth plan is to empower you. Tell us how you envision your delivery day, so we can honor your wishes and help you have a safe, positive experience. It's not a contract, and you can change your mind anytime — even in the delivery room. We can't predict exactly what will happen on delivery day, so we can't promise that all of your preferences will be safe and appropriate — but we'll do our best to give you the birth experience you want to have.
Download the Birth Plan form now and bring it to your next appointment. (Northern California members should download the Birth Preferences form.) We'll go over it together and talk about anything you're not sure about. We'll also discuss things that aren't on your birth plan — like whether you want to try delivering vaginally if you've had a C-section in the past. Once you've completed it, we'll add it to your electronic health record and your entire care team will review it on delivery day.


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|My Family
I miss you and I may not have shown you more than what I should on how imperative you have been in my life but I do. You made me feel that I am your own daughter, your flesh and blood. The love and understanding you have shown me, my siblings and Ma is incomparable. My heart bleeds and tears in my eyes flows endlessly. Losing you and seeing Ma with this unbearable pain wants me to stay home and take care of her and my siblings. I worry about her so much, leaving her alone with the responsibility of being the mother and father at the same time . On how I know that she is agitated most of the time. Now, I wake up and sleep thinking how she is and profoundly deem how could I take all the pain she feels. Make her feel calm, assured and that euphoria will overwhelmed her life again. How I yearn to be in two places at the same time. I may not told you how much I Love you but MA I intensely Do and I don't want to see you like this, being hurt and alone. If I could only take the pain you feel. I want to pledge my undying devotion and love and that I will never leave you. Please be strong for me and my sisters, we will always be here and we will take care of you. Tito, please guide us and help Ma cope up losing you. I may not have say this nor show you how much I care and how important you are but I want to tell you that I Love you like my own father. Thank you for always being there for me, showering me with love and understanding, for loving MA, taking care of us and for the adobo. I Love you Tito, I love you PA and I wish I had called you Pa. I cry my heart out tonight losing you. And I know you see and read this, I hope somehow I made you feel this love I have for you. Now, when I go home I know it is no longer complete and each time I see home I would look for you and I look forward to see the things that will remind me of you. Help us to be strong for the three of us to move on knowing you are always here beside us. Good bye is not forever 'coz I know you will always be here in our hearts.