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International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)
The information on this page is organised as follows:
- Background
- Overview of the <IR> Framework
- Related news
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) (previously the International Integrated Reporting Committee) was formed in August 2010 and aims to create a globally accepted framework for a process that results in communications by an organisation about value creation over time.
The IIRC brings together a cross section of representatives from corporate, investment, accounting, securities, regulatory, academic and standard-setting sectors as well as civil society. It comprises a Steering Committee, a Working Group and a three taskforces (dealing with content development, engagement and communications, and governance).
The IIRC is chaired by Professor Mervyn King, Chairman, King Committee on Corporate Governance and Former Chairman, Global Reporting Initiative. Membership includes Hans Hoogervorst (IASB Chairman), Leslie Seidman (FASB Chairperson), Maria Helena Santana, (Chairperson, IOSCO Executive Committee), Göran Tidström (IFAC President), Jim Quigley (former global Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte), and many others. Paul Druckman is Chief Executive Officer.
November 2011 restructure
In November 2011, the IIRC announced a number of changes to its organisational structure. Under the new arrangements, an initial transitional phase until the end of 2013 will see the IIRC supported by a strengthened secretariat operating through a not-for-profit company established for the purpose under the same name.
The company's board will comprise Mervyn King as Chairman, Leslie Ferrar (Treasurer, Household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall) and Christy Wood (Chairman of the Board of Governors, International Corporate Governance Network) as Deputy Chairs, together with Ian Ball (Chief Executive, International Federation of Accountants), Ernst Ligteringen (Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative), Jessica Fries (Director, The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project) and the IIRC's Chief Executive, Paul Druckman.
A Governance Committee has also been established, with responsibilities relating to audit, nominations and executive remuneration for the company.
At the time of its formation, the IIRC's stated objective was to develop an internationally accepted integrated reporting framework by 2014 to create the foundations for a new reporting model to enable organisations to provide concise communications of how they create value over time. After a consultation process, the IIRC published the first version of its 'International Integrated Reporting <IR> Framework' (<IR> Framework) in December 2013.
Overview of the <IR> Framework
The 'integrated reporting' concept
Integrated reporting (stylised by the IIRC as '<IR>') is seen by the IIRC as the basis for a fundamental change in the way in which organisations are managed and report to stakeholders. A stated aim of <IR> is to support integrated thinking and decision-making. Integrated thinking is described in the <IR> Framework as "the active consideration by an organization of the relationships between its various operating and functional units and the capitals that the organization uses or affects".
The <IR> Framework expresses the IIRC's vision in the following way:
The IIRC's long term vision is a world in which integrated thinking is embedded within mainstream business practice in the public and private sectors, facilitated by Integrated Reporting (<IR>) as the corporate reporting norm. The cycle of integrated thinking and reporting, resulting in efficient and productive capital allocation, will act as a force for financial stability and sustainability.
Objectives and fundamental concepts of integrated reporting
The objectives for integrated reporting include:
- To improve the quality of information available to providers of financial capital to enable a more efficient and productive allocation of capital
- Provide a more cohesive and efficient approach to corporate reporting that draws on different reporting strands and communicates the full range of factors that materially affect the ability of an organisation to create value over time
- Enhance accountability and stewardship for the broad base of capitals (financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and relationship, and natural) and promote understanding of their interdependencies
- Support integrated thinking, decision-making and actions that focus on the creation of value over the short, medium and long term.
There are three fundamental concepts underpinning <IR>:
- Value creation for the organisation and for others. An organisation's activities, its interactions and relationships, its outputs and the outcomes for the various capitals it uses and affects influence its ability to continue to draw on these capitals in a continuous cycle.
- The capitals. The capitals are the resources and the relationships used and affected by the organisation, which are identified in the <IR> Framework as financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and relationship, and natural capital. However, these categories of capital are not required to be adopted in preparing an entity's integrated report , and an integrated report may not cover all capitals – the focus is on capitals that are relevant to the entity
- The value creation process. At the core of the value creation process is an entity's business model, which draws on various capitals and inputs, and by using the entity's business activities, creates outputs (products, services, by-products, waste) and outcomes (internal and external consequences for the capitals).
Purpose and content of an integrated report
The <IR> Framework sets out the purpose of an integrated report as follows:
The primary purpose of an integrated report is to explain to providers of financial capital how an organization creates value over time. An integrated report benefits all stakeholders interested in an organization's ability to create value over time, including employees, customers, suppliers, business partners, local communities, legislators, regulators, and policy-makers.
The 'building blocks' of an integrated report are:
- Guiding principles – these underpin the preparation of an integrated report, informing the content of the report and how information is presented
- Content elements – the key categories of information required to be included in an integrated report under the Framework, presented as a series of questions rather than a prescriptive list of disclosures.
The table below summarises each of these building blocks, together with the other key requirements for an integrated report:
|High-level summary of the requirements for an integrated report
History of the development of the <IR> Framework
A history of developments in the publication of the <IR> Framework is summarised below:
|12 September 2011
|Discussion Paper Towards Integrated Reporting – Communicating Value in the 21st Century published
|Comment deadline 14 December 2011
|October 2011
|Initial organisations participating in the IIRC Pilot Programme announced
|The Pilot Programme is a two-year programme for a group of companies who will work as a network of peer group organisations, exchanging knowledge and sharing experiences on integrated reporting.
|July 2012
|Draft Outline of the Integrated Reporting Framework
|Not part of the formal consultation process, but the IIRC welcomed feedback
|November 2012
|Prototype of the International Integrated Reporting (<IR>) Framework
|Not part of the formal consultation process, but the IIRC welcomed feedback
|16 April 2013
|Consultation Draft of the International <IR> Framework published
|Comment deadline 15 July 2013
|9 December 2013
|International <IR> Framework published
|Available on IIRC website

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|Calusa adores her hoops!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Calusa's Hoop
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Happy Birthday Luna!
Three years ago, under a blue moon, we were blessed with a little girl named Luna. Today, we celebrate her birthday. Happy Birthday little Luna. We love you so much baby girl!
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Wounded Warrior Project Thanks DRC
Since the 1990s, Dolphin Research Center has committed ourselves to supporting our nation's military service personnel, veterans, and their families. In 2009, we first welcomed the Wounded Warrior Project to DRC, followed by our first visit by the Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride in 2010.
Each year since, Soldier Ride has returned. In the meantime, there have been a number of other activities including Military Dolfriend, the Wounded Warrior Project's Project Odyssey, visits by military familes, caregivers and more. We welcome each one of these very special people and delight in sharing the dolphins and sea lions with them for the day.
Recently, the Wounded Warrior Project wanted to thank Dolphin Research Center and they chose a special way to do so by giving each of us a Wounded Warrior shirt. To acknowledge the gift we gathered as many staff members as possible to model our new shirts, and then sent the above collage to our friends at the Wounded Warrior Project.
It means a lot to us to welcome our country's military personnel and their families to DRC and, as you can see by our smiles, we love our gifts and are honored to wear these shirts,
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Distance Learning
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Dolphin Research Center Holds Teacher Appreciation Day
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Sunday, January 13, 2013
Lina's Anniversary
Two years ago, a little torpedo entered our hearts. Her name was Lina and we are thrilled to be celebrating her anniversary today.
Happy Anniversary Lina! We love you munchkin.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Dolphin Research Center to Welcome Wounded Warriors for Dolphin Swim
|DRC Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Armando "Mandy" Rodriguez spent time with the wounded warriors and Jax.
These soldiers are coping with life-altering injuries to body, mind and spirit, including single or double amputations, traumatic brain injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder. To watch them leave their troubles behind on land for a joyful time swimming with dolphins inspires all who see the experience take place. For many of the participants, the dolphin swim further empowers them on their journey to restore their physical and emotional well-being.
The Charles Evans Day for the Wounded Warrior Project at Dolphin Research Center has become a true community event. The soldiers arrive to a heroes' welcome from DRC staff, volunteers and visitors. Each is supplied with a wetsuit, loaned by Captain Hook's Dive Shop, Marathon. Before the Dolphin Encounter, they will enjoy a delicious lunch catered by La Trattoria of Key West. Signs by Renee, of Marathon, has designed a welcome banner. After the swim, the soldiers also receive a complimentary disk of photos.
Founded in 1984, Dolphin Research Center is home to a family of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions. Located at 58901 (mile marker 59) Overseas Highway, Grassy Key, Florida, the center is open daily for the public to see narrated behavior sessions and educational presentations, and to participate in interactive programs with the dolphins. The nonprofit organization is funded by admission and program fees as well as by private donors and members. In addition to being one of the most highly respected education and research facilities in the world, DRC is the Licensed Manatee Rescue Team for the Florida Keys and is an accredited member of the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums. For more information, visit the center's website at www.dolphins.org.
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Jax's Anniversary
Five years ago, we welcomed a special guy into the Dolphin Research Center family. His name was Jax, and the moment he swam into our lives, he stole our hearts.
Happy Anniversary Jax. Every moment with you is a treasure. We love you little man.
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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Happy Birthday Gypsi!
Please join us as we wish a Happy Birthday to the one and only, Gypsi! This beautiful little girl turns six years old today.
Happy Birthday Gypsi-Doodle! We love you.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
A Dolphin Serenade
|Charles Imes and Rick Schettino play for the dolphins.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
A Brand New Year!
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A power outage has halted play at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Electricity was cut to half the Mercedes-Benz Superdome stadium a few minutes into the third quarter.
Power is expected to back up in about 15 minutes. Players have been asked to stay on the field.
At the time of the outage, the Baltimore Ravens were leading 28-6 behind the strong play of their quarterback Joe Flacco.
The third quarter began with Jacoby Jones setting an NFL record with a 109-yard kick return for a touchdown.
The Ravens are looking to capture the second ever Super Bowl title after winning their first in 2001.
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The Charlotte 49ers, that is.
With the 49ers set to launch a football program that will ultimately land at the FBS level, the university announced Tuesday that the team will play its home games at Jerry Richardson Stadium. Jerry Richardson, owner of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, donated $10 million to the university in exchange for what the school described as naming rights in perpetuity.
The 15,300-seat stadium bearing Richardson's name was completed in October of 2012.
"Today, we take another huge step," Charlotte chancellor Dr. Philip Dubois said. "Jerry knows that football can bring the students and the city of Charlotte together and he wanted to be among the first to stand up and state, 'this program is important to me'."
The 49ers will debut its newly-minted football program at the FCS level in 2013 and 2014. In 2015, the 49ers will move to the FBS level as a member of Conference USA.
"The role UNC Charlotte plays in our community cannot be underestimated and its profile will only continue to grow," Richardson said. "The addition of football is another step in that growth and it is important that our community supports the school and its programs. The potential of both the university and its athletic department is unlimited and I am pleased to be able to participate in their development. My personal experiences from football have been very beneficial and this is a way to support both the future of the game and the university."
In addition to the eight-figure donation that netted his name on the stadium, Richardson also announced that he has endowed a football-only scholarship in honor of his son, Jon Richardson.
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What We Need to Know About the Holocaust
The Death of the Shtetl
Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust
The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945
Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
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We don't have a history of the Holocaust that is set in the Eastern European lands where the victims died, and that describes the interactions of the German invaders, the Jewish inhabitants, and the peoples among whom the Jews lived. Why not? The vast literature on the Holocaust based on German sources, though it represents perhaps the most impressive historical research of recent decades, seldom draws from Eastern European languages. Eastern European historians, for their part, have traditionally avoided a topic that transcends national history and challenges national myths of innocence. In Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust, the NYU historian David Engel suggests a surprising addition to this list of limitations: historians of Jewish life, scholars comfortable with the longue durée of Jewish history and with Hebrew and Yiddish, have sequestered Jewish societies and institutions from the Holocaust. Over decades, says Engel, they have built a "wall separating study of the Holocaust from study of all other aspects of the Jewish past."
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- Teens sometimes have trouble obtaining condoms because they don't know where to get them, can't get to the stores or clinics to get them or mistakenly believe they have to be 18 to buy them (anybody can buy them at any age!).
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Ask John
The oldest surviving Tri-Nations players, Ireland's George Bradshaw and Test twins
John Griffiths
August 16, 2010
France's Serge Blanco was the first player to notch 50 Test wins © Getty Images
Serge Blanco Stewart Boyce Jim Boyce George Bradshaw Finlay Calder Jim Calder Felipe Contepomi Manuel Contepomi Marcello Cuttitta Massimo Cuttitta Glen Ella Mark Ella Anthony Fainga'a Saia Fainga'a Juan Lanza Pedro Lanza Maurice McHugh Piet Malan Jim Miller Akona Ndungane Odwa Ndungane Roy Prosser Philippe Sella Gordon Stone Alan Whetton Gary Whetton
Welcome to the latest edition of Ask John where renowned rugby historian John Griffiths will answer any rugby-related query you have!
So, if there's something you've always wanted to know about the game we love but didn't know who to ask, or you think you can stump our expert - then get involved by sending us a question.
In this edition John answers questions on the oldest surviving Tri-Nations internationals, the first players to achieve 50 Test wins, Nick Baxter's Barbarians appearances, Ireland's George Bradshaw and Test twins.
Who are the oldest surviving New Zealand, Australia and South Africa Test players? I say Fred Allen, Boyd Oxlade and Piet Malan respectively, am I right?Steven Forde, England
Piet Malan is the senior surviving Springbok and until his passing in his 100th year earlier this month, Eric Tindill was the senior All Black. The senior surviving New Zealand Test player is now the 1946-1949 All Black, Morrie McHugh, who is nearly three years older than Fred Allen (the next senior New Zealand Test player). McHugh and Allen made their Test debuts together against Australia in 1946 in the first Test played by New Zealand after the Second World War.
Boyd Oxlade made his Wallaby Test debut in the back-row against the 1938 All Blacks at Sydney, but another Aussie rookie that day was scrum-half Charles Gordon Stone, winning his only Test cap. Born 6 April, 1914 and a month older than Oxlade, Stone is the oldest surviving Wallaby Test player.
Further to your item on the players with most Test wins in the last Ask John, who were the first players to achieve fifty Test wins? Anon, New Zealand
Serge Blanco became the first player to record 50 Test wins, achieving the feat by playing against the United States in Colorado in July 1991. He then played on the winning side against Wales in a floodlit game in Cardiff in September 1991 and in three winning pool games for France at the 1991 RWC itself before retiring on a losing note to England in the quarter-finals.
Philippe Sella played his 50th Test win for France in their final 1991 RWC pool match against Canada and Gary Whetton became the third man to reached 50 Test wins when he captained New Zealand to victory in the third/fourth place play-off game with Scotland in Cardiff that year.
How many games did Nick Baxter play for the Barbarians and between which years?
Nick Baxter made his debut for the Barbarians against Coventry in the Midlands club's 125th anniversary match at Coundon Road in 2000. The Longbridge-born wing played three games for the famous club in 2004 and two more in 2005, so six appearances in all.
His final appearance was in the autumn of 2005 against the Combined Services. All told he scored 45 points (nine tries) for the Baa-Baas, contributing a try hat-trick to the Barbarians' 104-3 demolition of the East Midlands in the 2004 Mobbs memorial match at Franklins Gardens.
Baxter's other honours included appearances for England Students and the England Sevens squad, representing his country at Kuala Lumpur in the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
He began his club rugby with King's Norton, graduating to National League rugby with Worcester Warriors and Pertemps Bees. In 2006 he became the first player to reach 150 tries in National League rugby, but withdrew from the professional limelight shortly afterwards to concentrate on his business as a wine merchant, returning to his junior rugby roots with King's Norton.
I saw on a website that a George Bradshaw played his one and only Test for Ireland a few months short of his 39th birthday. I assume this holds several records, but is there a story behind this odd selection? Travis Metal, England
Mike Gibson holds the record for being Ireland's oldest Test cap. He was 36 years and 195 days when he made the last of his then record 69 appearances for Ireland, against Australia in 1979. John Hayes will become Ireland's oldest cap if he plays again for his country.
The player you refer to is George Lomas Birch Bradshaw who was born on January 3, 1882 in Belfast (not July 1864). George was educated at Methodist College Belfast (where his father was a French teacher) and played for Belfast Collegians, the club founded in 1890 for former pupils of the school.
He was a regular member of the club's side between 1898 and 1904, before business took him to Scotland. He won his only cap for Ireland from the Collegians club, playing right-wing marking the great Teddy Morgan of Wales at Cardiff Arms Park in March 1903. Wales won 18-0 on a muddy pitch, scoring six unconverted tries with only 14 men on the field for most of the match after George Boots had withdrawn just before half-time with a broken collar-bone.
Bradshaw was only the third player from the Collegians club to win Ireland rugby honours. The photograph of that 1903 Irish fifteen at Cardiff shows him as a young man of 21 sitting on the floor beside Alfred Tedford as part of a group that includes the famous Irish out-half, Louis Magee.
A dual international, George Bradshaw also represented Ireland at lacrosse. He was reported missing from his Edinburgh home and presumed dead in 1917. He was 35.
The Fainga'a twins became the third set of twins who have played Test rugby for Australia. How many twins have played international rugby? Teejay Haar, Australia
The first pair of twins to play for Australia were the flying Sydney-born wings Jim (12 Tests 1962-1965) and Stewart Boyce (13 Tests 1962-1967). They actually played together four times, including the Tests when Australia beat South Africa in a Test series for the first time in 1965.
Glen and Mark Ella played together for Australia in the first Test against Scotland in 1982 and against Italy on the European tour of 1983, before the Fainga'as, the third pair of twins to represent the Wallabies, appeared together against South Africa at Brisbane in the recent Tri-Nations match.
The last pair of twins to appear in Tests before the Fainga'as were Akona and Odwa Ndungane, the Springbok wings, though they have not yet appeared together in a South Africa Test side.
Arguably the best-known twins to play Test rugby were the Whettons of New Zealand. Lock forward Gary played 58 Tests and flanker Alan 35. The brothers were together 34 times in Tests, including every match of New Zealand's victorious run through the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987. They were New Zealand's regular #5 and #6 between 1987 and the 1991 Rugby World Cup.
Argentina have produced two pairs of twins who have featured together in Rugby World Cups. The wings Pedro and Juan Lanza were capped against Italy and New Zealand in 1987 while Manuel and Felipe Contepomi were among the midfield backs in both the 1999 and 2007 tournaments. Before the Home Unions were allowed to award caps for matches against Argentina, twins Daniel and Gonzalo Beccar Varela played four times together in the Pumas threequarter lines of 1976 and 1977, including the match at Cardiff when a Test-strength Wales XV overcame Argentina 20-19 thanks to a late forty-metre penalty kicked by Phil Bennett.
Italy's Cuttitta twins were far from identical: the fleet-footed wing Marcello and the powerful prop Massimo were azzurri regulars in the 1990s and appeared together at both the 1991 and 1995 Rugby World Cups. Earlier twins who played for Italy were Adriano (1972-1979) and Paolo Fedrigo. Paolo's only cap came at prop in front of his second-row twin in Italy's 9-6 defeat by Portugal in 1973.
Arguably the most unusual pair of twins to play Test rugby were the Calders of Scotland, who were both flankers. They never played together in a Test for Scotland yet each won a Grand Slam with his country. Jim's career spanned the years 1981 to 1985 and included the 1984 Grand Slam when his late line-out try sealed the title victory over France. Finlay won his first cap for Scotland in 1986 and was a regular back-row fixture in the side until he retired in 1991. He was an ever-present in the side that won the 1990 Grand Slam and led the 1991 Lions to Australia.
Who were hooker Ross Cullen's props in the Wallabies' tour game against Oxford University in 1966? Brothers RFC, Australia
Ross Cullen was propped by Jim Miller and Roy Prosser that day. Miller played six Tests for the Wallabies between 1962 and 1967 while Prosser made the position his own in a 25-Test Aussie career that ended in 1972.
Miller's last Test was Prosser's first, the pair propping up Peter Johnson at Twickenham against England in 1967 when the Wallabies outclassed their hosts 23-11 in what was then England's biggest-ever margin of defeat in a Twickenham Test.
The Oxford University tour game took place a couple of months earlier on the same tour and was the infamous occasion when Oxford's Ollie Waldron had to leave the field with a lacerated ear, the result of a front-row biting incident that led to the Wallaby management sending home Ross Cullen shortly afterwards.
Oxford, for whom scrum-half Nigel Starmer-Smith had an outstanding match, led 9-0 at the break, but the Wallabies rallied in the second-half and eventually scraped home 11-9 through a Jim Lenehan dropped goal kicked from near the half-way line.
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Dancing with the Stars – Who Wore it Better, Part IV
Wow…can't say that I really expected these costume posts to become as popular as they have! I was pleased as punch earlier today when I did a search for "Who Wore It Better?" and found many sites (even ones not related to DWTS!) linking to our posts. Glad to see everyone's having as much fun playing fashion critic as we are 😉
Now I only have one concern: how long is it going to be before other not-to-be-named DWTS fan sites (that are notorious for posting content very similar to ours, ahem) start "borrowing" our pictures and commenting on them the same way we have? Hmmm…well just remember, kids: you saw it here FIRST 😉
Battle of the two-piece black vinyl paso dress: Anna in the pro dance to Def Leppard in season 6 vs. Lacey in the pro dance to Kevin Rudolf in season 8
Courtney: Eh…I'm having a hard time with this one. I think it physically looks better on Anna, but she doesn't have the personality to carry off the whole rocker persona; I think Lacey has the right attitude, but it just doesn't look as flattering on her. I have the hardest time when the girls go barefoot to do Latin – the movement just doesn't seem as dramatic & crisp, and I feel like it makes their legs look short. So I guess I'm going with Anna on this one.
Heidi: Well, I'm with Anna too, but it's purely a personal preference for her as a dancer. I also don't like the barefoot ballroom deal – I think of ballroom almost always elegant (even the raunchy latin) than the contemporary stuff that the bare feet bring to mind. Personal preference, although I give Lacey props for this particular dance.
The winner: Anna, by a high heel. 😉
Battle of the white, heavily-stone ballgown with matching choker: Melissa's Viennese waltz with Tony in season 8 vs. Anna's waltz with Jonathan to Norah Jones in season 9
Heidi: Best couple dancing on the show, bar none, goes to Anna and Jonathan when waltzing. Makes me all schmoopy – and that's so not me. 😉 Don't like the sleeve things on Melissa – the simpler look from Anna is cleaner and prettier. Not to mention the look on her face.
Courtney: You know I love Anna to bloody bits, so this one is no-contest for me 😉 I think wardrobe was wise to eighty-six those weird sleeves from when Melissa wore the dress, and replace it with one simple drape across the front. And Melissa, please, don't slouch – everything looks better when you stand up straight! Wow…I just love that picture of Jonathan & Anna. *sigh* They are just a dream to watch. BEAUTIFUL.
Heidi: It's so funny that you said that about Melissa. I really like Melissa now that her fans aren't being nasty all over the DWTS message boards, but my first thought on seeing that picture was "straighten up, girly!"
The winner: Anna, by a husband.
Battle of the black & tan, two-tone fringe Latin dress: Shawn's cha-cha with Mark in season 8 vs. Anna in the ladies' pro dance opener in season 9
Courtney: I'm probably going to incite a firestorm of debate with this one, but…I actually like the dress better on Anna than Shawn. *hides face in fear* Shawn is adorable, don't get me wrong – but I feel like the overall fit of the dress is better on statuesque Anna, while it seems to really shorten Shawn's torso and hits her hips at an odd angle. And as I've said before, I'm not a fan of the over-styled, severely bump-itized hairdos…I much prefer a more loose, carefree hairstyle, so I'm sorry, but I have to give this one to Anna.
Heidi: Oh you're fine. And you won't get any argument from me. 😉 What the problem is, I think, is that the black/tan border hits Shawn in the wrong spot – she is so short that the dress almost works against her, shortens her frame more, whereas Anna has such a long torso that it just seems to wear better on her.
Courtney: Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head with that one. It just seems like everyone thinks Shawn is just so adorable in everything she wears…and while Shawn is cute, I don't think this dress was particularly flattering on her.
The winner: Anna by a long torso.
Battle of the yellow-fringed, cut-out Latin dress: Jennie's samba with Derek in season 5 vs. Kym in the pro dance to Robin Thicke in season 8 vs. Ashly & Cheryl in the pro dance to the Beach Boys in season 10
Heidi: Ashly has this weird drape of fabric right across her waist – what is up with that?? It looks horrible like that!! Jennie looks ghostly in it, so I think it comes down to Cheryl and Kym. I like it on both of them, but I think Cheryl has the edge due to the darker hair and the darker skin.
Courtney: Talk about a dress that's been around the block a few times-er, seasons! Yellow seems to make Jenny look a little jaundice, so she's out; the cut of the dress seems a bit odd on Kym, so she's out too – honestly, I think it's nary impossible for blondes to wear yellow without looking pale, so poor Jennie & Kym were already at a bit of a disadvantage. That leaves Ashly & Cheryl, who got a bonus drape of fabric added to distract us from the fact that we've already seen this dress twice before, hehe. Now while I think both carry off the color quite well, yellow just doesn't seem to strike me as a color that Ashly has a lot of in her wardrobe…so I'm going to go with Cheryl. Cheryl has the personality to carry off yellow 😉
The winner: Cheryl!! We found a dress for her! 😀
Battle of the white & blue, two-piece fringe Latin dress: Brooke's jive with Derek in season 7 vs. Denise's preseason photo shoot in season 8
Courtney: Blech…two ladies whose personalities I don't particularly care for, in a dress that I don't particularly care for. Do I really have to pick one? Ugh, fine…Brooke, I guess. The color at least looks good with her hair and skin. Denise looks washed out. But at least they got rid of those suspender-like drapes for Denise and replaced it with a single, well-placed drape. Ok, that's it…nothing else better to say.
Heidi: I have to go with Brooke even though they had those two vertical drapes which were just plain weird. You're right, it looks better with her hair and skin than it does on Denise.
The winner: Brooke, in spite of the suspenders
Battle of the red-fringed ballgown with draping sleeve: Julianne's quickstep with Cody in season 7 vs. Nancy's would-be preseason photo shoot with Tony in season 8 vs. Ashly's preseason photo shoot with Buzz in season 10
Heidi: Hmmmm….I don't think I can see enough of the dress on Nancy, and poor Ashly seems to have a baby bump in her picture, so I go with the Hough of the bunch, despite being bitter about Footloose to this day. 😉
Courtney: Ironically enough, I think Nancy actually wore this one the best – even though she never actually danced on the show! Haha. Love her hair and how the pose she's in really lets the fabric & fringe drape beautifully. It's ok on Julianne – red just doesn't seem to be the best color on her. As for Ashly, the color is nice – but the cut of the dress, coupled with the pose, just really isn't flattering on her. It kinda stinks, but I feel like wardrobe has really "mommy-ized" her since her return to the show – poor girl has a great body and is only in her 20s, yet this season they seemed to put her in dresses better suited to a much older woman. Bring back the old Ashly costumes, PLEASE!
The winner: Tie between Jules & Nancy – because they don't look pregnant
Battle of the red-bodice, black-lace overlay tango dress: Kelly, Joanna, & Kym in the group tango in season 9 vs. Kathy's tango with Tony in the season 9 finale
Courtney: It was a little surprising to me that they dittoed a dress in the same season it was originally worn, but I guess maybe they just didn't have time to make Kathy a new costume just for the finale. And maybe that's why she seems a bit awkward in it, too. Kelly & Joanna look nice in this dress, but I think Kym's hair and makeup and overall expression really work this dress the best.
Heidi: Yeah, I'm with you – Kym has the right expression for the dance AND the dress, I think. Joanna suffers from having the weird rumba hair left over from earlier in the evening and Kelly looks fish-facey. Kathy looks amazing too though…but I'm going with Kym.
The winner: Kym, by a fierce face
Want more? Be sure to check out parts I, II, & III to relive the magic of our first three installments, and we'll be back again next week with a fresh batch of dittoed costumes 😉


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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Gary dances, OH YEAH
14 comments:
- Lynda said...
Party On, Garth... oh, I mean Gary - lol - that was BIG fun!
- September 10, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- cindy shake said...
Did the dog turn into the cat while dancing?!?! Beastie Boyz can have that affect... looks like school is starting JUST IN TIME :)
- September 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Susan as Herself said...
Cuttin' a rug!
- September 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
that has got to be one of the funniest things i ever saw. i can't stop laughing.
- September 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- Prohomemaker.Com said...
The cat was thinking, "So help me, if he dips me, he's getting a swat to the face."
- September 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- Reverend Awesome said...
Holy shit this is awesome! You should warn people to use the bathroom first in case of pants pissing.
I like seeing the reflection of all the animals watching, waiting to see what this weirdo is going to do next.
- September 10, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Unknown said...
KB, I sent G an email, accusing him of watching too much of Sofia's fine dancing skilz.
Seriously good moves, G. You should hold on online class. :)
- September 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM
- Miss Heather said...
I'm so impressed you put this online!! :) hee hee... I'm glad I'm not the only one who dances around with my pet. :)
- September 10, 2009 at 3:35 PM
- Dez said...
HAHAHA.... That was too funny! I can't believe the cat stayed and danced with you!
BTW: You dance cool! ;)
- September 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM
- Unknown said...
HAHAHAHA, that is soo funny, love it, you've got the grooves going there Gary!
- September 10, 2009 at 5:24 PM
- Gordo said...
Rock on, dude!
- September 10, 2009 at 9:09 PM
- Cheri @ Blog This Mom!® said...
Dude's got da mooooooves!
- September 10, 2009 at 10:41 PM
- Kimberly said...
Dances with dogs.
- September 11, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Farmer*swife a/k/a Glass_Half_Full said...
It seems the kitty was not as thrilled as Penny to be your dance partner. (My son can read this over my shoulder, WOW!)
Farmer, Jr enjoyed the dancin! He was wondering 'where the other dog' was... :-) They know you!
BTW, Gary... You dance like a guy. LOL! *giggle*
Great performance!
- September 13, 2009 at 2:19 PM


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I have to admit, the French have irrefutably nailed certain things most of us yearn for, such as the French Fry, the French kiss, and how to keep a ravishing figure while wining and dining like Napolean's offspring.
So, I ask you, did we stand a chance of resistance when introduced to macarons by those who perfected the art of love? Not a single chance . We're head over heels in love... and love is exactly how we can best describe our feelings for these colorful, scrumptious, and delightful array of confections.
Now don't be fooled! These French favorites are tricky little suckers. The crust of the cookie should be thin, crisp, and eggshell-like, cracking when bitten, and giving way to a light-as-air, moist interior that is just a bit chewy and soft. They should not be exceedingly sweet, but rather entertain a filling that is distinct and does not overpower in taste, giving way to an unexpected kick of flavor...
The texture and surface of the cookie should be very smooth. NO BUMPS! Bumps indicate improper sieving or poor quality use of almond flour.
The bite-size wonders come in myriad of flavors both traditional, such as raspberry, chocolate ganache, vanilla rose... as well as not so traditional, including almond butter and strawberry jelly, caramel fleur de sel, keylime, wasabi, lychee, and passion fruit.
Soon, and with time, you will see that it only takes a sliver of time and some passionate practice to perfect the macaron, like the french kiss. And, when it comes to perfecting either, time and practice is welcomed and encouraged. So, bring it on!
250g Almond Flour – sifted
450g powdered sugar – sifted
200g aged egg whites (6 eggs)
50g sifted granulated sugar
2g cream of tartar – sifted (optional)
1 teaspoon of lemon juice (optional)
Pinch of salt (optional)
Note: The cream of tartar replaces both the lemon juice and salt.
Cream of tartar works well in kitchens with high humidity.
1. Whip 2 day aged egg whites with granulated sugar and
cream of tartar on low to medium speed. Do NOT
whip on high speed! Sift almond flour and powdered
2-3.When egg whites (slowly whipped) have reached stiff
peak stage, begin folding in flour and powdered sugar
in 3 stages.
4. After carefully mixing, use a piping bag and medium
round tip to pipe half dollar size macarons onto a Silpat.
5. Let piped macaroon sit or rest for 20 minutes. If the batter
is too light the macarons will lose their round shape. (If
the batter is too heavy or thick it will not flow and settle.)
6. After baking, the cookies should have a smooth, shiny
shell. Important to keep all the macarons the same shape
and size and you can always make your macarons ahead
of time and store them wrapped.
7. Using a piping bag and small round tip fill macarons with
ganache filling.
NOTE: Getting Around Aged Egg Whites
If your property does not allow the aging of egg whites for
whatever reason, whipping the egg whites on medium to slow
speed is an alternative. Never whip the egg whites on high
speed as the white will not form proper cell structure to support
the flour and powdered sugar and the results will never come
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Sloshing Star Goes Supernova
NuSTAR is showing that exploding stars slosh around before blasting apart. This 3-D computer simulation demonstrates how the supernova explosion might look.
Transcript:NuSTAR is untangling the mystery of how stars explode.
Here we're looking at a simulation of a supernova explosion of a massive star that's collapsing in on itself.
Shown in color is the temperature of the gas as the star is exploding.
What happens is that hot bubbles at the center of the core blast out through the shockwave, ripping the star apart.
This leaves behind a pattern of radioactive ash that NuSTAR can observe hundreds of years later.
What was interesting about that data was that it didn't look like anything like any of the models we expected before launch.
This is actually very good reason why we build instruments and try to go into new energy bands, because you get new discovery space. You have new things that you didn't expect to see before.


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Clairvoyant[edit | edit source]
|I see you.
|—Wheatly Turret, Warforged Clairvoyant, ...moments before blasting his invisible prey to ash...
The clairvoyant sees all, and knows all. When illusions befuddle and sneaky types seek shelter, the clairvoyant knows. When enemies plot ambushes and the unexpected happens, the clairvoyant knows. The clairvoyant gains the ability to see beyond the mere range of his eyes, to see greater sights than his race permits, and to detect events, alerting him well in advance. Surrounded by eyes, the clairvoyant is hard to surprise.
Becoming a Clairvoyant[edit | edit source]
|Concentration 8 ranks, Spot 8 ranks, Spellcraft 4 ranks.
|Alertness, Skill Focus (Spot).
|Must know at least 3 divination spells, at least one which is 3rd level or higher.
|Either Spell Focus (Divination) or Divination Specialization.
Attack Bonus
|Saving Throws
|Cloud of Eyes (1), Divination Knowledge, Reactive +1
|Scry Penetration, Low-Light Vision
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Omnisight, Sky Eye
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Cloud of Eyes (2), Darkvision, Reactive +2
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Evasion, Spontaneous Divination
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Improved Omnisight, Revealing Vision
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Cloud of Eyes (3), Reactive +3
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|X-Ray Vision
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Greater Omnisight
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Cloud of Eyes (4), Forewarning, Improved Evasion, Reactive +4
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
Class Skills (Skill Points::4 + Int modifier per level.
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Cloud of Eyes (5), Reactive +5, +1 level of existing spellcasting class
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Cloud of Eyes (6), Reactive +6, +1 level of existing spellcasting class
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
|Cloud of Eyes (7), Reactive +7, +1 level of existing spellcasting class
|+1 level of existing spellcasting class
Class Features[edit | edit source]
All of the following are class features of the clairvoyant.
Spellcasting: At each level after first, you gain new spells per day and an increase in caster level (and spells known, if applicable) as if you had also gained a level in a spellcasting class to which you belonged before adding the prestige class level. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If you had more than one spellcasting class before becoming a clairvoyant, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining spells per day, caster level, and spells known.
Cloud of Eyes (Sp): Clairvoyants are orbited by a small magical sensor similar to a prying eyes spell, except the sensor is constantly under the effects of invisibility. It orbits your body at high speed at a distance of 10 feet per class level, granting you the effect of being able to see from any point within this area as if you were standing there. This may allow you to visually see even if your eyes have been blinded by some effect, unless the range of the sensor is in a place where it cannot see either (such as both the sensors range and the clairvoyant being within a field of darkness). In the cloud form, the eyes are effectively a spread effect and are moving too fast to be targeted individually. The effect is capable of passing through anything as small as a keyhole. If an eye is destroyed, it reappears 1 round later, and it uses your saving throws for effects that would target it.
You may release your magical sensor as a standard action, letting it fly away from you with a speed of 30 ft (perfect manuverability). The eye is a Fine construct, about the size of a small apple, that has 1 hit point, AC 18 (+8 bonus for its size), flies at a speed of 30 feet with perfect maneuverability, and has a +16 Hide modifier. It has a Spot modifier equal to your caster level (maximum +15) and is subject to illusions, darkness, fog, and any other factors that would affect your ability to receive visual information about your surroundings. An eye traveling through darkness must find its way by touch. You may direct your eye out to a range of 1 mile, and it has a duration of concentration. If the eye is destroyed, you cease focusing on the eye, or you go out of range the eye re-appears in its default orbiting stance 1 round later.
Finally, you may choose to fix your magic sensor to a point in space, where it remains. There is no range limit, and at any time you may make a swift action to switch your senses between your body and your magical sensor. Use of this ability acts like clairaudience/clairvoyance spell, and the eye remains in its position until it is destroyed or is dismissed as a standard action. When not actively attending to your magic sensor you may set a short alert to inform you when ativity happens in the area, such as anyone passing through or someone who is not wearing red, as long as the command is short, simple, and is something that can be normally detected (you can base it on race or visual symbols but not on HD, alignment, and the like).
At 4th level and every three levels after, you gain an additional eye to your cloud. This allows you to see from multiple viewpoints in orbiting cloud form, release several sensors at once and gain information from all of them, or to have multiple spy cameras working in tandem around key points, with no more effort than before.
Divination Knowledge: A clairvoyant is a master of divination, and adds all divination spells to his class spell list, regardless of source. A clairvoyant must still add them to their spells known however.
Reactive (Su): Possessing senses beyond the ken of others, a clairvoyant can react quickly. He gains a +1 insight bonus to initiative checks at 1st level and every 3 levels after (4th, 7th, etc.), so long as they have at least one of their magical sensors from their Cloud of Eyes ability orbiting their body.
Scry Penetration (Su): At 2nd level a clairvoyant can see even when others try to obscure them. He gains 1/2 his class level as an insight bonus to caster level checks to detect or scry anyone.
Low-Light Vision (Ex): At 2nd level a clairvoyant's focus allows his body to see better. A clairvoyant gains low-light vision. If he already has low-light vision, he gains superior low-light vision allowing him to see four times as far instead of twice as far in dim light.
Omnisight (Su): At 3rd level a clairvoyant's senses allow him to effectively see in 360 degrees from his body. Those flanking a clairvoyant do not recieve the bonus to attack for flanking. This does not prevent attackers from using sneak attacks or gaining other flanking benefits.
Sky Eye (Sp): A 3rd level clairvoyant is never lost. As a 1 minute castng a clairvoyant can project their sight into space, gaining a distant view of the world, effectively having a GPS map at all times. They cannot make out objects smaller than houses, and cannot locate creatures or any major moving objects, but they can find the direction and distance of prominent landmarks. If used to aid in teleportation attempts, this raises the familiarity of the desired location by 1 step. Heavy cloud cover can and will obscure the surrounding terrain, possibly preventing a clear image.
Darkvision (Su): At 4th level a clairvoyant's focus allows his body to see better. A clairvoyant gains darkvision out to 60 feet. If he already has darkvision, he gains an additional +30 feet to his pre-existing darkvision instead.
Evasion (Ex): At 5th level and higher, a clairvoyant can avoid even magical and unusual attacks with great agility. If he makes a successful Reflex saving throw against an attack that normally deals half damage on a successful save, he instead takes no damage. Evasion can be used only if the clairvoyant is wearing light armor or no armor. A helpless clairvoyant does not gain the benefit of evasion.
Spontaneous Divination: At 5th level a clairvoyant can channel stored spell energy into divination spells he that he hasn't prepared ahead of time. He can "lose" a prepared spell or a spell slot of the appropriate level in order to cast any divination spell he knows of the same level or lower.
Improved Omnisight (Su): At 6th level the clairvoyant's omnisight ability improves, allowing him to negate sneak attacks from being flanked, so long as the attacker's level in rogue (or other sneak attack granting classes) do not exceed her HD + 4. He also gains a +2 insight bonus to Spot and Listen checks. This benefit applies as long as one of the magical sensors from Cloud of Eyes is orbiting the clairvoyant.
Revealing Vision (Su): At 6th level a clairvoyant is constantly under the effect of see invisibility with a caster level equal to his character level.
X-Ray Vision (Su): At 8th level as a standard action a clairvoyant can see through walls as if they weren't there. Vision range is 20 feet with the viewer seeing as if he were looking at something in normal light even if there is no illumination. X-ray vision can penetrate 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, or up to 3 feet of wood or dirt. Thicker substances or a thin sheet of lead blocks the vision. Using X-ray vision is physically exhausting, causing the clairvoyant 1 point of Constitution damage per minute after the first 10 minutes of use in a single day.
Greater Omnisight (Su): At 9th level a clairvoyant's omnisight ability improves again. They may never be sneak attacked either from flanking or being flatfooted, regardless of the attackers level, so long as they are not helpless and they have at least one of the magical sensors from Cloud of Eyes orbiting them. He also gain a +4 insight bonus to Spot and Listen checks.
Forewarning (Su): At 10th level a clairvoyant is constantly under the effect of foresight with a caster level equal to his character level.
Improved Evasion (Ex): At 10th level a clairvoyant gains improved evasion. This ability works like evasion, except that while the clairvoyant still takes no damage on a successful Reflex saving throw against attacks henceforth he takes only half damage on a failed save. A helpless clairvoyant does not gain the benefit of improved evasion.
Campaign Information[edit | edit source]
Playing a Clairvoyant[edit | edit source]
Combat: Clairvoyants are casters whose divination focus tends to utility, and yet they can still hold their own in combat, avoiding the dangers of sensory loss and being able to see what others might miss.
Advancement: Caster classes are always good for caster focused types like this. A clairvoyant is likely to have levels in Master SpecialistCM or Archmage.
Resources: Governments pay well for a good diviner, and clairvoyants make excellent spies for both outside threats and within.
Clairvoyants in the World[edit | edit source]
|I see what you did there...
|—C. Lingcat, Tibbit Clairvoyant
NPC Reactions: To NPCs they are merely spellcasters, until they find out that clairvoyant can see many things. To this, many NPCs grow uneasy at the thought that their privacy may be invaded merely by the presence of a clairvoyant, so most clairvoyants keep mum on the extent of their divinations.
Clairvoyant Lore[edit | edit source]
Characters with ranks in Knowledge Arcana can research clairvoyants to learn more about them. When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs.
|Clairvoyants are accompanied by invisible magical sensors which can spy anywhere they please, or be left to moniter a situation.
|Clairvoyants can see all around themselves as if they had eyes in the back of their head, making them difficult, or even impossible, to flank and sneak attack.
|High level clairvoyants are even capable of seeing through solid rock, and predicting the future seconds in advance. They are never lost, and never surprised.
|Those that reach this level of success can research particular clairvoyants, their whereabouts, motives, legends, and demenour.
Clairvoyants in the Game[edit | edit source]
Adaptation: One can give a racial or specific flare to the class by associating it with creatures of divination or eyes, such as a beholder-themed class, or a class focused on weirds and their sight beyond. This class also works with psionics, in which case change the prereqs to state you are a Seer or have Psionic Endowment, Spellcraft becomes Psicraft, and have divination replaced by clairsentience.
Sample Encounter: Recent attacks by the drow have been unusually accurate and precise, and it is believed to be the foul work of a diviner able to spy on others. Get to the bottom of this, without having your plans known before they even begin.
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Following some research, I have discovered an interesting issue with the
creation of objects in Oracle. This problem seems to exist in both 8 and 9.
[Assuming you have a Table1 table with fields Key and Description.]
Example: Run the following script in SQL *Plus Worksheet: -
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW Test1 AS
SELECT Table1.Key, Table1.Description
FROM Table1
WHERE Table1.Key= 41;
SELECT Count(*) FROM Test1;
An error will be received stating: -
SELECT Count(*) FROM Test1
Error at Line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
If you then look in Schema Manager, you will see that the view "Test1" does
indeed exist, with proper casing of the name.
If you then run the following scripts: -
SELECT Table1.Key, Table1.Description
FROM Table1
WHERE Table1.Key= 41;
SELECT Count(*) FROM Test1;
No errors, and you will get back the record count. The difference is that
in the second instance, the "TEST1" name is in all capitals. In other
words, SQL *Plus Worksheet will allow you to create database objects with
names that are not all in capitals, but if you do, you cannot refer to them,
even if the case is exactly the same.
If you then look at the schema, you will find that there will be two
objects, in that Oracle has created both views, TEST1 and Test1, and
considers them as distinct. SQL *Plus Worksheet will create objects using
the same case as you set, however in the queries, it automatically
translates all to uppercase.
Note that if you create the objects in Schema Manager, you are only allowed
to enter uppercase in the objects name field.
This particular issue caused me quite a bit of grief - I was wondering
whether this is a "feature", and if so, whether it is either documented or
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Guy Tricks Stranger Into Letting Him Suck Her Toes By Saying He's From 'America's Funniest Home Videos'
It's hard out there for foot enthusiasts. Well, at least it is for one man who has taken to posing as an 'America's Funniest Home Video' prankster to get some action.
Registered sex offender Joey Leaphart was arrested this week for approaching an 18-year-old Georgia woman under the guise that he was part of a prank for AFV. The 43-year-old man said they would pay for her items (up to $100) for her participation. She reluctantly agreed and he dropped to the floor and began sucking on her toe.
The accosted shopper began to scream and told him to stop. Leaphart gets up, tells her "Oh, it tasted so good though!" and high-tailed it out of the store.
The alleged Walmart toe-sucker adds this misdemeanor charge of "simple battery" involving "hands/feet/teeth" to his record which already included a February arrest for approaching a female shopper in South Carolina and asking if he could kiss and smell her feet. Has he tried the Walmart steaks?
Oh, the funny things you do, America, America, this is you.


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I know you're probably all settled into 2017 by now…but if you'll indulge me for a moment, I need to recap 2016! Every year that I've blogged I've done a recap of the previous year, and I love having these posts to look back on from time to time. So here in no particular order are my top five highlights from 2016!
#1 My parents' 35th anniversary party
My sister and I had so much fun planning and hosting this event! We got to honor our parents, see a lot of our family, spend time together, eat good food and do a bunch of shopping. It was a great weekend!
As indicated in #1, I love planning events! This year for Thanksgiving we hosted Paul's family in our home. I enjoyed every bit of the planning, cooking, eating and giving thanks that goes along with this holiday!
#3 Expanding My YouTube Channel
One of last year's highlights was starting my YT channel, and I've enjoyed it even more this year! If you're not already subscribed, I would love for you to join me over there (come on 1,000 subscribers!!). I upload new videos at least once a week, and sometimes they aren't mentioned on the blog. Two of my favorite videos were My Morning Routine and my Thanksgiving Day Vlog.
#4 Spending Christmas In Tennessee
This was the second Christmas that my sister and I celebrated Christmas at our parents' home with both of our spouses, and it was such a special time! The six of us laughed and talked and enjoyed being together so much. I wish it could have lasted for days!
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This says everything about how each one feels about our shopping trip. @dalecunningham59 – Yes! Let's find more sales! @whitneys_man – I'm good, can we go now? @andrew.isbell – You spent how much?! @allibisbell – Let's go get a snack! @homeforcomfort – I'm tired, but let's all smile for Mom. Denise is out front leading the way! Today was soooo much fun! #afterchristmassales #bargainshoppers #daughters
#5 A year of working part time
I am grateful for the opportunity to work (at a job I enjoy) and help support our financial goals. I am also grateful that I work less than 30 hours a week, giving me plenty of time to devote to my home and the blog!! My home life is always my number one priority, but it's so nice to have lots of energy for those things!
I also got to meet Katie and Della IRL this year, I heard my mom speak at The Wilds Ladies Retreat, attended two other really great conferences, snuggled with the cats and enjoyed another year of marriage. We didn't travel or take any vacation this year, but I still managed to have a lot of great times. Thanks for coming along on this adventure with me!
Have a lovely weekend!
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Gangster Style: Former Al Capone Estate for Sale in Miami | NewsFeed | TIME.com
It's about as far from his Windy City stomping grounds as you can get. But you can get all of Al Capone's storied mobster mentality — with a touch of whitewash — inside his newly-for-sale Miami Beach estate.
For $9.95 million, the beachy 1922 estate — originally built for brewer Clarence Busch of Anheuser-Busch brewery fame and sold to Capone in 1928 — and one of the "oldest original homes in Miami Beach," according to the official listing, is set to change hands once again.
The white-themed estate includes a main house, a two-bedroom guesthouse, a two-story pool cabana and a 30×60-foot pool, once the largest in the area, all situated on a 30,000-square-foot tropical-themed lot adjacent to Biscayne Bay. It's even got it's own private dock, just so you can order your associates to take a long walk off the short pier. Or, you know, to hitch your boat there.
And where history has been unkind to this sprawling villa, architect Luis Pons has stepped in. The Venezuelan designer has restored it to its Capone days, keeping the original black-and-gold art deco powder room and original brass fixtures, for example. No word if there's a speakeasy in the basement, but we'd hardly be surprised.
Though the price has far exceeded the $40,000 Capone originally paid, someone may still want the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate that comes with a history of infamy. Indeed, it was the location from which he plotted Chicago's horrific Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.
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eHealth and mHealth are data driven and are dependent on both the kinds of information which can be generated and the transport infrastructure which carries them. This week the International Journal of Medical Banking, Vol. 3, will be officially announced at the HIMSS Medical Banking Project's Eighth National Banking Institute, and it will focus upon innovations related to the convergence of Financial Services and Healthcare. John Casillas, senior vice president, HIMSS Medical Banking Project, is the IJMB's Editor-in-Chief.
Casillas authors "Designing the Healthcare Financial Network of the Future" wherein he makes the case for the future of medical banking, a term he coined, by reviewing the alignment of stakeholders, the role of bank infomediaries, the emerging health-wealth paradigm, and the need for a common medical banking platform. He advertises more widely the HMBP deployment of the Dispute Resolution Initiative tool, a free online progressive crosswalk of the universe of payer denial codes with a set of 20 action steps; the kind of innovation for which the Blair House Summit attendees rhetorically called. He also advocates the utility of the design of a bank-enabled health information exchange ecosystem.
In "Lessons Learned for Medical Banking from the Financial Services Industry: The Case of a Fraud Prevention Platform as Transformative Innovation", Allan Klindworth, MBA, and Stephen T. Parente, PhD, reveal the 1993 catalyst for change—predictive modeling. They review the lessons learned regarding fraud indicators, model robustness, real-time assessment, accuracy, measurements, silo mentality, known frauds, and integration. They relate the Financial Services industry parallels to healthcare and expound upon the problem of healthcare fraud, the Financial Services approach to prevention, and the necessity of a change in healthcare culture.
Peter W. Lang, Trellis Integration Partners, gives a technologist's insight into "High Security Medical Banking via SWIFT," and the role that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications network can play in the area of the transfer of healthcare PII and other valuable data payloads.
John R. Thomas, president and CEO of MedSynergies, Inc., in "Where Have All Your Physician Customers Gone?", identifies physicians as the perfect bank customers and details the impacts of healthcare reform on physician practices. He interprets the demographics of physician customers and provides six insights and recommendations concerning the business alignments of physicians and their impacts on banks.
Joseph A. Jackson, LICSW, takes on the primary topic of the Blair House Summit, financing health, in "Medicine, Banking and Community Health". Jackson describes the Community Health Consortium and gives his vision for creating the future.
I plan to discuss these topics at the Institute with the authors and anything related to medbanking social media with you at one of the Meet the Bloggers panels (Wed., March 3, 3:30 pm – 5 pm) moderated by Cesar Torres, Manager, Web Services, HIMSS. I hope to see you there.


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- 6 pints whipping cream
- 6 vanilla pods
- 16 fresh egg yolks
- 650g pasturised egg yolks
- 300g sugar
creme brulee version 1
10th November 2011
peter jackson
creme brulee version 1
oven method
Boil cream and vanilla, mix together egg yolks and sugar.
Pour on cream and whisk, pass and skim
bake in ramekins in deck oven or 110oc half fan bain marie for 30-45mins
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I have come to the conclusion that dividing a large map into zones is probably the best way to handle having many updates all the time for things that would be trivial to players. So my thought is to use bounding boxes to limit player's movements throughout the world.
I have come to the point where I am wondering how to make a bounding box divide itself into multiple sub boxes if one is placed over a zone seam...
example: lets say zones are 10 by 10 units big and we want a 10 by 10 unit box starting on zone0 5,5 and extending to zone4 5,5 making it a 10 by 10 bounding box. Now each zone would need it's own 5x5 box to use for updates in that specific zone. What routine would I use to split that box into sub boxes?
something like this maybe?:
Code:if(box_x + box_w > zone_max)//push into next zone dec box_w by zone_max - box_x


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We firmly believe that to clean a window properly, you have to be close up to it - cleaning it by hand, where you can see every little spot and give the job the proper care it requires. While we're at it, the job's not done until the glass and edges have been wiped dry, and the frames and sills cleaned too.The old ways might take a little more time, but we think you'll agree that a thorough job shouldn't be rushed. We're proud of the way we work, and our customers are happy with the results.
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Blanton vows to solve problems of down season
ANAHEIM -- Joe Blanton's first appearance in two weeks finally came Tuesday night, a 3 1/3-inning stint of mop-up duty that saw him give up a run on three hits and four walks. Blanton also threw his first bullpen session since early August earlier that day.
"I got a little tired toward the end," he said. "I hadn't pitched in the last month, so that stamina has definitely decreased. It was a warm day, too."
Blanton, used to the every-five-day routine of a starting pitcher, doesn't know when he's going to pitch, and thus doesn't even know when to get on a mound to implement the multitude of mechanical adjustments he's working on.
He's currently winding down a season that is easily the toughest of his 10-year career, and one of the worst ever for an Angels pitcher. Although he's slated to make $7.5 million in 2014 -- the club holds a $1 million buyout of his '15 salary -- Blanton also faces the possibility of getting released this winter.
"Honestly, I don't know," Blanton said, asked how he would feel if that were the case. "I've never been in that situation. I've been traded twice, but that's about it. Once I got called up, I've never been sent back down, I've never been released or anything. I don't even know how I would take it, to be honest with you."
Blanton -- signed to a two-year, $15 million contract -- had averaged 10 wins, a 4.37 ERA, a 1.34 WHIP and 178 innings from 2005-12. This year, he says he's in the best physical shape of his career. And in Spring Training, Blanton was almost unhittable, with a 2.37 ERA, no walks and 13 strikeouts in 19 innings.
Then the wheels came off. Blanton struggled mightily in his first three starts, turned it around for a brief period, struggled again, and by the time July 22 came, the 32-year-old right-hander was 2-13 with a 5.66 ERA and out of a job, relegated to his current long-relief role that has him pitching only in blowouts.
Why was the 2013 season such a bad one for Blanton?
There are several theories.
One is the environment he walked into, with fans clamoring for Zack Greinke and disappointed in Blanton being the one obtained on Dec. 12, instead. That, some observers believe, was a severe hit on Blanton's confidence.
"I don't feel like it played a part in me," Blanton refutes. "I'm going to do what I'm going to do. [Greinke]'s an unbelievable pitcher. Nobody is somebody else. If you try to live up to that and try to be somebody else, that's going to be hard to do. So I never really tried to do more than what I was capable of doing."
Others simply point to the fact that Blanton, who has always pitched to contact, is back in the tougher American League, where he hasn't pitched in about five years.
"If he's throwing the ball like he can, he might not have matched some of the numbers that he put up previously in his career, but it certainly wouldn't have been some of the numbers we saw here," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "So, some midpoint. He has the ability to throw the ball better than I think he's shown."
That's Blanton's focus over the four weeks that remain in the season. He's trying to get a more fluid motion toward home plate and consistently get on top of the ball to bring some of his late life back, which he felt he was finally able to see during his rare appearance in Tuesday's 7-1 loss to the Rays.
His role is relatively unimportant, the Angels are out of the playoff picture and Blanton's final numbers are guaranteed to be disappointing. But he hasn't stopped working, maintaining his rigorous daily routine and trying to find some way to make it click again.
"I've been off all year," Blanton said. "There's no doubt about that, no denying it. But there's the want to fix it -- for now and the future, as well. I'm not done this year. It's not my last year."


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Ham and Cheese Muffin Melts
For quiet mornings with the kids, try our ham and cheese muffin melt. Ready in minutes.
4 Thomas'® 100% Whole Wheat English Muffins, split and toasted
4 tablespoons yellow or spicy brown mustard
6 oz thinly sliced deli ham (about 12 slices) such as Black Forest or Virginia ham
2 oz thinly sliced aged cheddar or Swiss cheese
Spread mustard evenly (about 1 1/2 teaspoons each) onto cut sides of each muffin half. Divide ham and cheese, ending with cheese, onto bottom halves of muffins and transfer to a sheet pan; broil 6 inches from heat, until cheese melts, for 1 to 2 minutes. Serve topped with remaining muffin halves mustard sides down. NOTE: If you want this open face you could reduce the ingredient list to 2 muffins and 2 tablespoons mustard. Additions: Sliced dill pickle under the cheese, honey mustard or stone-ground mustard instead of regular mustard.


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March 20, 2014
Book Review - The Honey Queen by Cathy Kelly
This is classic Kelly! Three women at different times in their lives all come to a small Irish village. Lillie has come from Australia to meet relatives she never knew about, as her birth mother died and her secret was revealed. Lillie is mourning the recent loss of her beloved husband. Her 'new' half brother and his wife have taken on a large house but then he lost his job and financial strains are complicating their relationship. Peggy arrives in town to open a new knitting shop but must reconcile her past before she can move on to a shining new future. How these and other well-drawn characters interact and help each other is a heart-warming read and one I would be happy to come back to again. It's life-affirming. Wendy
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Moist dessert cake with a hint of brandy.
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 40 mins
Extra Time: 6 hrs
(or overnight, for soaking raisins)
Yield: 8 x slices
Soak raisins in brandy overnight.
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Beat eggs and sugar substitute together until thick and fluffy. Add ricotta cheese, flour, raisins, and lemon peel; mix together lightly.
Spoon half the mixture into a greased 8-inch round cake pan. Sprinkle almonds over top of mixture. Spread remaining cake mixture over the top.
Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes, then test to see if cake is done by inserting a toothpick (cake is done when toothpick comes out clean). Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.


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Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Yes we are watching the game, but I don't really care about the teams. It's really all about the commercials and Beyonce for me. This weekend was once again relatively productive. This time I worked on B's closet.
His closet was less intense because all of his clothes are stored in his dresser. I might start hanging up some of his nicer polos/dress shirts, but boys are sooooo much easier when it comes to clothes (and shoes).
However, the kid has a gazillion toys with 100000 parts. I'm pretty sure there's some kind of rule that as the boy gets older the toys have to have more parts.
Most of my work was spent sorting through old baby clothes that I hadn't put in bins and throwing about random boxes of old stuff animals, toys, and ruined blankets. I still have no idea why I kept any of this stuff!
Sadly, the baby's room is getting worse and not better.
I'm hoping this changes next weekend. The goal is to switch out the furniture! If anything it can't get worse. In the past week we've picked up a few more important baby items – including the infant car seat and a baby monitor.
The infant car seat was a HUGE score – my friend Jamie came across the Britax B-Safe's at Target marked down to an incredible $47. I've been thinking about getting the Chicco Key Fit, but the two seats are very similar and at a more than $100 off I couldn't pass it up. She bought two for me (since the price of a 2nd one was LESS than the price of the 2nd base) and as a bonus I got to hang out with her for dinner! Also a decent deal – Target had the Motorola video monitor I've been eyeing available for it's regular price — with a $40 Target Gift Card. Since I can always spend money at Target, it was basically like $40 back. I love a good deal. Thanks Tar-jay!
I think it's safe to say that I just need a few more baby items and a coming home outfit and we are going to be as ready as we can be! I'm still trying to decide if I need/want a new stroller. We have two (one regular and one sit& stand) and they are still in working condition. The shopping part of me says "YES! BUY A JOGGING STROLLER!" but the practical side of me says "YOU DON'T NEED IT AND YOU WILL NEVER TAKE IT OUT JOGGING!"
Decisions, decisions… (really it's more like "money, money").
We are finishing up the weekend watching the Super Bowl Commericials (well, that's what the majority of us are doing some are actually watching the game).
And eating Jambalaya.
If only I could drink some beer…guess I'll have to stick to grapefruit juice.


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