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I hate to make political hay from such a tragedy, but if only these knives had been registered… Or why does anyone need a knife this big. Oh and this is probably the work of those friendly folk who bring you Islam. Just saying…
29 die in rail station attack China calls terrorism; Uighurs blamed.
McClatchy Foreign StaffMarch 1, 2014
It was one of the deadliest attacks in China in years, and Chinese President Xi Jinping issued an unusual directive, distributed by the state news agency Xinhua, calling for authorities to "severely punish" what he called "violent terrorists." Xinhua reported that four of the attackers had been killed, but it provided no information on when they died.
( I'm thinking China don't play well with terrorists like we do.)
"Resolutely crack down on those who have been swollen with arrogance," Xi's directive said, according to Xinhua. "Understand the serious and complex nature of combating terrorism. Go all out to maintain social stability."
Photos circulating on social media suggested that at least some of the victims were people lined up to purchase tickets. Other photos showed blood-stained bodies and people fleeing in terror.
Chinese state media, citing city officials, blamed the 9 p.m. attack on militants from Xinjiang, a region in West China that is thousands of miles from Kunming. "Evidence at the crime scene showed that the Kunming railway station terrorist attack was carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces," Xinhua said, but it provided no details of the evidence.
Xinjiang is populated by Uighurs, Turkic Muslims who have long resented Beijing's control of the area. In recent years, Uighur militants have carried out suicidal attacks on police stations in the region, often using knives and sometimes crude explosives. In October last year, a family of three Uighurs drove a sports utility vehicle onto a sidewalk in Tiananmen Square, killing two tourists and injuring 40, before setting the car on fire and killing themselves.
Kunming, in Yunnan Province, is 1,300 miles southwest of Beijing and about 2,333 driving miles southeast of Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi. Because of the distances involved, and sketchy details provided by authorities and state media, some analysts Sunday urged caution in immediately concluding that Uighur militants were responsible.
Nevertheless, Saturday's attack was likely to trigger a heavy handed response by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang, a region already under tight police control and restricted press access. Just last week, Beijing authorities arrested a leading Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti, charging him with promoting "separatism." Tohti's and his supporters dispute the charges, saying he is being silenced for his outspoken criticism of China's human rights record in Xinjiang.
On Chinese social media on Sunday, most commentators expressed sympathy with the victims and urged government action against the terrorists.
"Some of these (victims) are poor people who do odd jobs and are possibly the breadwinners of their families," wrote Anliuyi of Kunming. "They have children and parents, and just because they ran into this gang, they are dead and their families are broken."
A man named Yang Haifei, who was wounded in the chest and back, told Xinhua he had been trying to buy a train ticket when the assailants carried out their attack. "I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said. Others, he said, "simply fell on the ground."


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Classic interwoven chain
Strap drop
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Recommended Reading
May 25, 2008
I've been wanting to advance my education through a PhD program for a while now. As such, I've been reading a reasonable number of papers mostly in the field programming languages (strong bias toward SPJs work), but also in Ad-hoc networks (strong bias toward Baruch Awerbuch papers). I can't say I'm too selective on what I like, but here are some of my likes anyway. Enjoy and feel free to post your papers or any discussion of the ideas presented in these papers.
Within The World of Languages
Simon Peyton-Jones, "Call-pattern Specialisation for Haskell Programs" *
Simon Marlow et al "Faster Laziness Using Dynamic Pointer Tagging"
Simon Peyton-Jones et al, "Playing by the Rules: Rewriting as a practical optimisation technique in GHC" *
Tom Schrijvers et al "Type Checking with Open Type Functions" *
Duncan Coutts et al "Stream Fusion: From Lists to Streams to Nothing at All" *
Neil Mitchell and Colin Runciman "A Supercompiler for Core Haskell" * (Looks great, but I want to try it on my own programs to see if it will benefit me as much as I hope)
Peng Li et al "Lightweight Concurrency Primitives for GHC" * (A simpler to understand RTS would be great, but I fear for the performance)
Robert Ennals et al "Task Partitioning for Multi-Core Network Processors" *
Peng Li and Steve Zdancewic "Encoding Information Flow in Haskell" (perhaps not sound, but certainly useful)
Tim Harris and Simon Peyton Jones "Transactional Memory with Data Invariants" * (some functions aren't available in the standard GHC/STM load, but the paper is fun anyway)
Dana Xu et al "Static Contract Checking for Haskell" * (I don't know about you, but I almost can't wait to see the work embodied in a GHC release!)
Every name you know "Roadmap for Enhanced Languages and Methods to Aid Verification"
Ad hoc / Distributed Systems / Protocols
Baruch Awerbuch et al "Towards Scalable and Robust Overlay Networks" (See the entire line of papers, including "A Denial-of-Service Resistant DHT" and "Towards a Scalable and Robust DHT")
Rudolf Ahlswede et al "Network Information Flow"
Sachin Katti et al "Network Coding Made Practical" * (Now why isn't this an option when I click network manager -> ad hoc network in Fedora 9?)
Joshua Guttman "Authentication Tests and the Structure of Bundles" *
Baruch Awerbuch et al "Provably Competitive Adaptive Routing" *
Baruch Awerbuch et al "Medium Time Metric" (This one is just begging for someone to write a paper "The opportunity cost metric", don't you think?)
* Easy read (even if it isn't your field) / very enjoyable


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Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptually-based art. The duo's exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA's "One Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate)" as "a deftly transparent demonstration of new media's ability to manipulate our perceptions of time." The collaboration has earned grants and awards from Creative Capital, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
New audio by Cary Peppermint, check it out…
seven audio works .mp3 - Cary Peppermint 2007
The audio works of TRACEPLACESPACE were formed loosely in response to ever-accelerating technological developments, passing time, urgent ecological issues, and remarkable events of our globally connected system in process long before but brought to the forefront since the latter part of the year 2001. The works of TRACEPLACESPACE are components of a digital, multi-media, network-infused performance of the same title.
I like to perform this work in small community venues, outdoor gatherings, art-spaces, and galleries where everyone is welcome and can sit on the floor, talk to one another, and drink green tea. However I will perform TRACEPLACESPACE approximately anywhere.
Filming Outside the Cinema
I have to admit that I'd not given much thought to film outside the cinema, web film or live video, or anything like that, but I've spent lots of time here hanging out with Peter Horvath and I'm impressed.
Peter makes very beautiful films for the web, and you can check them all out online. Today he showed us The Presence of Absence, which was comissioned for the Whitney Museum's Artport in 2003, and then Tenderly Yours from 2005, which "resituates the personal, casual and ambiguous approach of French new wave cinema in a net art narrative that explores love, loss and memory. The story is recited by a striking and illustrious persona, who moves through the city with her lover. Her willful independence is intoxicating, though her sense of self is ambiguous..." Gorgeous.
Cut Piece - Yoko Ono
Cut Piece (2006, 36.5MB, 9 min)
"Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan,
and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965.
Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience
to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts
at the moment of unbosoming."
from Bedazzled .
Conglomco Media Network announces http://meta-cc.net live
Conglomco Media Network is pleased to announce the official beta release of the META[CC] video engine at http://meta-cc.net.
META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system is adaptable for use with any cable or broadcast television network.
We hope that you will take a moment from your viewing time to add the RSS feed of a blog you find noteworthy. As more information sources are supplied to META[CC], the more intelligent the system becomes. As such, the META[CC] search engine is apolitical and influenced only by the news and information sources supplied by its viewers/users. We apologize, but at this time podcasts and vlogs are not supported.
Many thanks for your interest and participation,
The META[CC] team
Open Call for Sound Works : WILD INFORMATION NETWORK
Cary Peppermint:
The Department of Ecology, Art, and Technology
Open Call for Sound Works In Mp3 Format - Deadline April 1, 2006
If we encountered a pod-cast, or a streaming radio server in the woods, in the "natural
The Interview (AKA Proust Questionnaire) (2007) - MTAA
thx 4 da link yo
SelfControl (2009) - Steve Lambert
"Once started, it can not be undone by the application or by restarting the computer - you must wait for the timer to run out."


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|Scones with Meyer lemon and blueberries. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books
Lemons and blueberries are a natural pairing, and the winter version of this is Meyer lemons, the lemon-orange hybrid available for just a short while, and dried blueberries. Frieda's Specialty Produce sent me a package that included dried blueberries, just as sweet as mid-summer berries at the u-pick orchard. I folded the berries into my favorite buttermilk scone recipe, and freshened the dough with Meyer lemon zest and a glaze made with the juice.
Meyer lemon scones with dried blueberries
My favorite tip for tender scones is to shred chilled butter into the dry ingredients. I just use an ordinary grater, the kind I use for shredding cheddar cheese, and run the chilled stick of butter across it. The resulting butter curls are uniform and perfect for blending into the flour mixture.
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup unsalted butter, frozen
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
Zest of one Meyer (or other) lemon
Juice of one-half Meyer (or other) lemon
1/2 cup dried blueberries
Milk or cream for glazing
Turbinado, demerara or sparkle sugar for glazing
1. In a batter bowl, mix dry ingredients together. Using a regular grater, shred the chilled butter and with a light hand, gently mix the shavings into the dry ingredients. Using your hands and a gentle, quick touch, make sure the butter is evenly distributed throughout the flour mixture.
2. Pour in the buttermilk and stir gently with either a wooden spoon or my instrument of choice, a silicone spatula. Add lemon juice and zest. If mixture seems dry, add additional buttermilk until a cohesive dough forms. The dough should be slightly wet and sticky, but not overly so.
3. On a floured countertop, press dough into a rough 12 X 6 inch rectangle (helpful shaping instruction visuals may be found on my basic scone post here). Spread dried blueberries onto dough, using your hands to press the fruit into the dough. Fold into thirds, letter-style. Press into 12 X 6 rectangle again and fold letter-style again. If any little fruits pop out, just press them back into the dough. Press again into a 12 X 6 rectangle and cut into 16 triangles. Place scones on a lined baking sheet. The scones can be refrigerated, covered, for up to 24 hours.
4. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Carefully brush each wedge with buttermilk or cream and sprinkle turbinado sugar over the top. Bake at 400 for at least 15 minutes. They may need a bit more time, depending on your oven, convection, etc. Scones are ready when they are golden brown on top and bounce back when touched lightly in the center.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Meyer lemon scones with dried blueberries
Posted by Lucy Mercer at 7:00 AM
2 comments:
- VanBedda said...
My sister and I are going to try making this today. It's a snow day and we want to do some baking and heat up the kitchen. :) Hopefully we don't mess it up. We both love scones!
- March 1, 2012 at 7:52 AM
- Lucy Mercer said...
Thanks for reading, Maren! Be sure to check out this post: http://acookandherbooks.blogspot.com/2011/06/blueberry-and-lemon-buttermilk-scones.html
for shaping instructions. Have a great baking day!
- March 1, 2012 at 7:55 AM
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Farmers will be especially interested in the Forage Finder from Purdue currently available as well as the Farm Service Agency's (FSA) electronic Hay Net Ad Service (eHayNet). This is an Internet-based service allowing farmers and ranchers to share 'Need Hay' ads and 'Have Hay' ads. ISDA will continue to provide the latest information on our Drought Information page to assist farmers, agribusinesses and related industries. Also, look for the latest announcements from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Indiana on Hoosier primary and contiguous disaster area counties and other FSA disaster assistance programs. The ISDA page also includes information and resources from Purdue, the Small Business Adminstration and other organizations.
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Eglin's internal testing is first step toward use in a production environment
Network administrators and engineers at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., expect to receive approval by the end of April to turn on IPv6 within the base network, the first time the new IP would be used within a production Air Force network.
"They have been readying the entire base network to the internal router to be able to pass both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic," said Brent Bettis, an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton and the lead test and security engineer on the project.
Although the work is being done on a production network, IPv6 traffic will be strictly for testing at this stage, said Doug Fry, lead engineer at the Air Force's IPv6 Transition Management Office.
"At this point, actual production traffic is not going to be considered," Fry said. Engineers will capture and check IPv6 traffic to ensure that it is legitimate and secure and that boundaries can be enforced. "The purpose of the enclave is to show that IPv6 does no harm to the current infrastructure."
Establishing an isolated enclave for testing is Milestone Objective 1 for the Air Force's IPv6 transition. The next milestone would be to pass traffic between two enclaves to show that the capability is not restricted to a single site or vendor. The Air Force has not set a timetable for that step.
IPv6 is the next generation of IP and includes features to enhance security and end-to-end connectivity, and it has expanded address space to accommodate the large number of networked devices that could use these services. The government has enabled IPv6 on its network backbones but has not extended the protocols to users or required that agencies use them, although networking equipment acquired in the past five years is supposed to be IPv6-ready.
Eglin's network control center volunteered for the challenge of being the Air Force's first IPv6 enclave.
"We sent out a request about interest in participating in the pilot program," Fry said. "Eglin stood up and said we will do it with our money, with your guidance."
"They are just as eager as we are to turn this on," Bettis said. "They want to see the new technology. This is really going to be the next generation network for the warfighter."
Work on the project began in July 2008, when Booz Allen Hamilton began working on an inventory of the Eglin network and checking for ability to handle IPv6 traffic. The next step was deciding what needed to be turned on to enable a dual-stack network that can handle IPv4 and IPv6 traffic simultaneously and developing controls to restrict IPv6 traffic to the internal router. The ability to ensure the integrity of information on the network during testing was essential to the program, Bettis said.
Testing the security design began in October 2008. In January, the security architecture was finalized with the base's networking engineers, and equipment was tested off-line. The base is waiting for final approval for operations, expected by April 27. Traffic will be generated initially with a single Web server and a laptop PC.
Although there is no timetable for moving to the second milestone objective, Fry noted that setting up the first IPv6 enclave took nine months, and establishing a second so that traffic could be passed between the two probably also would take that long.
The first production applications using IPv6 to be deployed on Air Force networks probably would be core functions, such as e-mail and applications used in day-to-day operations, Fry said. The first applications are likely to be implemented on segregated equipment before being used on the same equipment with current IPv4 versions.
When those would be available is not yet clear, Fry said. "A lot of this will depend on vendors," he said. "We are currently waiting for information assurance products to be certified" by the National Security Agency.
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Event Setup and Takedown Job
$66.00 estimated pay
Instructions and details
About Instawork Gigs
Instawork is the best place for hospitality workers to find temporary jobs on-demand. From Michelin-star restaurants to small coffee shops, Instawork makes it easy for bartenders, cooks, servers, dishwashers and other experienced hospitality workers to find work at local businesses and earn up to $30/hr on a flexible schedule. No interviews or paper resumes. Just book the gig in the app and show up to do the work. Se habla español.
An event set up/takedown role refers to a laborer whose primary responsibility is preparing for a larger scale event.
Event Setup and Takedown responsibilities:
Sets up functions (including draping tables, setting silverware, folding napkins, preparing drinks and putting out table centerpieces).
Breaks down tables, putting away dirty linen and centerpieces at the end of the function.
Ensure your surroundings in the function room are properly cleaned, vacuumed, light bulbs functioning, no stains on the wall, etc. Bring any deficiencies that you are unable to correct yourself to the attention of a Captain or Manager.
Sets-up creative and professional looking buffets that are inspected for cleanliness and functionality prior to being opened for guests.
Must be physically capable of moving and lifting heavy furniture.
Simple repairs of inventory.
Organization of storage and event spaces.
Performing other duties as needed


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Before doing any testing make sure that you have verified your Dota install in the Steam client to eliminate the possibility of bad local files affecting things. Check your display drivers to make sure you have everything up-to-date. Also quit Steam and Dota and restart Steam, then restart Dota, then run a test. When running a test make sure to select terrain and weather effects that you want to include in the test as they can affect your performance.
To set up for any test add -console to your Dota launch options as you'll need to use the console to run a test. When invoked the test will gather information on the game, closing the console while running then reopening it. Each test produces a set of FPS results printed in the console. You can use the "clear" console command to remove previous console output if you want to see just the perftest results. Also you can use the "condump" console command to save the current console text to a file, named something like condumpxxx.txt, in your Dota install directory. Web sites like pastebin.com can be used to save a block of text and get a link for posting in comments sections that have restricted posting sizes.
Below are some suggested situations in which to run a perf test. You can choose a different situation but please describe it exactly when posting results (note also that the performance test runs commands marked as cheats so it can't be used in a full game).
Simple performance test:
Start a hero demo of whatever hero you feel like. Click the arrow on the side of the Demo Options panel to hide it. Level up any skill to clear the plus button and pause the game. Then open the console and enter 'exec_async perftest' to run the test.
Local bot game performance test:
Start a bot game from the Play Dota menu. Level up any skill to clear the plus button. Run your hero to the center of the map next to the water and wait for creeps to begin fighting. Pause the game, then open the console and enter 'exec_async perftest' to run the test.
Game watching performance test:
Download a game replay to watch. Pick a specific time in the replay that shows action that you want to test. Do not pause the game in this case as the perf test will automatically rewind the playback for each subtest so that they all test the same section of gameplay. Open the console and enter 'exec_async perftest' to run the test. A replay has the advantage of being able to test live, unpaused game activity in a repeatable way. When doing replay testing be sure to record the match ID and specific time in the replay that was tested.
Interpreting the results
The performance test will give general information about how Dota is running on your machine but usually cannot specifically pinpoint exactly what is causing your performance to be what it is. Here are some suggestions on things to try based on your results.
First verify that Dota is running in the mode that you expect. In the system information at the beginning of the performance test output check these things.
* Check Command Line to make sure you don't have any launch options that you didn't realize were in effect.
* If you're running on Windows make sure the Windows Game DVR shows as disabled.
* Double-check that the Render system is the one you expect it to be.
* Check that the Driver Name indicates the correct GPU for Dota to be running on. If you have a system with hybrid graphics and this shows the integrated graphics you will want to double-check your driver settings to make sure Dota runs on the dedicated GPU for best performance.
* Turn off the network information display unless it is absolutely necessary as it has a small cost.
Once you have ensured that Dota is running in the right mode look at the performance test FPS results. These suggestions may help you increase your FPS in some cases. If you have already customized your settings the results may not offer any additional help.
* If the Half resolution FPS is significantly higher than the Baseline FPS you can reduce the Game Screen Render Quality slider in the Video options to possibly increase your perf.
* If the Reduced drawing FPS is significantly higher than the Baseline FPS you can turn off High Quality Water and set Shadow Quality to medium or off in the Video options to possibly increase your perf.
* If the Particles disabled FPS is higher than the Baseline FPS you can drop the Effects Quality in the Video options to possibly increase your perf.
* If the Game only FPS is significantly higher than the Baseline FPS you can turn off High Quality UI in the Video options to possibly increase your perf.
If you have FPS information, not just test results, from different situations you can compare those against test results to try and identify other factors which may be affecting your perf. For example it is usually not possible to use the perftest in a full game since cheats won't be allowed. However you can still get FPS information while playing and then download the replay of the match. You can run the perftest against the replay to see if your full game FPS is similar to your "User settings" perftest FPS while watching the replay. If the full game is significantly slower than watching a replay of the game your network may be affecting the perf and you might want to check your network settings or try different configurations, such as comparing WiFi to plugging directly into your router. If watching the playback shows the perf issue you're having then networking is probably not the problem and the rest of the perftest results may suggest ways to improve your FPS.
The Dota perftest does not monitor system conditions such as CPU or GPU temperatures, fan speeds or so on. If you have a system that may throttle due to heating during execution of Dota this may affect the results in a way that Dota cannot present. The perftest isn't aware of power profiles or other system configuration options which may affect resources available to Dota and those also may affect performance.
Other possible contributors to performance:
If you have increased the number of chat lines via dota_hud_chat_history_lines this will make chat more expensive.


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Retired 30 years operational service police officer with the South Wales Police. Joined the former Glamorgan Constabulary as a Cadet, becoming one of last Constables attested into that force before amalgamation and formation of South Wales Constabulary. On retirement, was the longest serving operational Traffic Police officers (25 years) with South Wales Police. An avid collector of Welsh police memorabilia for several decades, and owns the largest known collection of Welsh Police memorabilia. Former Curator / Custodian of South Wales Police Museum, Police Headquarters, Bridgend - (2010 - 2013). Having been closed for a couple of years, totally revamped the museum, sowing the seeds for the force to further develop into a popular visitor experience and not insignificant educational resource.
Registered Police Historic Consultant & Researcher with Wales Screen Commission. Historic Police / Law Enforcement displays. Consultant & adviser to several Museums, BBC, ITV and SKY television companies, publishers and theatrical productions relating to British police history, authentic period uniform and insignia.
Having collected and amassed a large collection of British Police memorabilia, it was an easy decision to make in deciding to place much of my collection online and therefore, into the public domain. The obvious resource was 'The Peoples Collection Wales'. If anyone has any police memorabilia (especially Welsh) which they would like to add to this collection, please get in touch. Much of the collection (not all) is viewable on my website http://www.britishpolicehelmet.co.uk
A recognised authority and specialist relating to Welsh Police history. Appearances on BBC TV Wales - ' Coming Home' series, BBC News, ITV - 'Fishlock's Wales' series Sky - TV 'Murder Casebook' series' and The Gabi Roslin Show. Category Winner in the South Wales Police 2011 Annual Awards.
Able to provide historic Welsh Police memorabilia displays and also talks on the history of policing in south Wales.
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We're nearing the end of Jack Bauer's tenure on network television. Only three Mondays left for him to get in every item on his to-do list: eyeball removal, ear slicing, piano wire garroting, blowing up a city of 200,000 people to nail one bad terrorist. It's a packed agenda. And now "24" executive producer Howard Gordon says Bauer's final hours will likely prove his unhappiest. From the Hollywood Reporter:
…When the action program finishes its run this month, an unhappy ending will greet Jack Bauer.
"(It) leaves him in a compromised place morally, ethically and emotionally," Gordon said. "This show is a tragedy, and to give Jack a happy ending didn't feel authentic."
But Gordon remained mum on the specifics of how Bauer meets his unhappy fate.
We know Bauer's character likely won't die, given that a "24" movie is ready to go once the TV show ends its run. But I say… Why NOT kill the guy? After all, you can set a "24" movie any time during Bauer's lifespan. Isn't death really the most appropriate ending for Bauer? When is this guy NOT in a compromised place morally, ethically and emotionally? That's pretty much his constant state of being.
I agree with Gordon that giving Bauer an unhappy ending would be dumb, and the reason why is because this guy doesn't WANT one. No one is more passionate about being angry and miserable than Jack Bauer. In his years as an agent, he's been tortured, seen his daughter kidnapped and chased by jungle cats, had untold numbers of loved ones and beloved colleagues turn on him, turn back, and then turn on him again, and so on and so on. You couldn't faze Jack Bauer is you killed his puppy in front of him (which I'm told happens in the film).
So I say… kill the man. That's really the only game changer left for this character. "24" has been a worthy experiment in seeing how much emotional damage and gaping plot holes one man can endure. Eventually, there's only so much even a man like Jack Bauer can take.
Besides, he can always come back from the dead in the flick. Writers are clever like that.


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Now I am new to the forum so there may be issues I am not completely aware of and yes I know Super Dragon doesn't like dealing with venues and such other then PWG's home in Reseda ... BUT, To me a PWG show on Mania Weekend is money.
Firstly, Thursday is pretty much empty. ROH, DGUSA/EVOLVE, Chikara, TNA etc are running events Friday - Sunday. The only company running an event on the Thursday to my knowledge is PWS. It just seems like a smart place to have a show. Granted not everybody will be in NY/NJ for Mania by Thursday but majority will.
Also, I don't know if there is any friendship or work relationship between Gabe and Dragon but being apart of Wrestlecon on the Thursday night would be great. ALL the talent from ROH and DGUSA are already in town so PWG wouldn't have to worry about travel costs apart from guys like Mack, Cage, RockNES etc so to me it just sounds like a wise plan.
Anyway, Thoughts? Especially people attending Mania weekend?


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Walton Goggins is one of my absolute favorite actors, and people, on the planet. After playing the always riveting and often explosive Detective Shane Vendrell on The Shield, he went on to accomplish the impossible by topping that performance with his current one as the enigmatic Boyd Crowder on the FX drama series Justified, opposite Timothy Olyphant. And when he's not on that show, he's mixing it up with various roles in feature films, in genres that are all over the map.
While at the TCA Winter Press Tour, Collider got to sit down with the intriguing, fascinating and super-dedicated actor for this exclusive interview about the journey that Boyd Crowder will take in Season 3, how his character has finally accepted that this is his life and his making the most of it, what his relationship with Ava (Joelle Carter) has meant to him, and how great it's been to develop the unique and unpredictable back-and-forth that Boyd has with Raylan Givens (Olyphant). He also talked about the experience of working with someone as dedicated as Daniel Day Lewis on Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, how much fun he had on G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and how excited he is about working on Django Unchained with Quentin Tarantino, who he's been a fan of for 20 years. Check out what he had to say after the jump, and be aware that there might be spoilers:
Question: After Mags Bennett (Margo Martindale) last season, were you surprised that they found a criminal element just as interesting, for this season?
WALTON GOGGINS: Yeah, they had to find a criminal element that would interface with Raylan on one side of the law and me on the other side of the law. It's tough. It took two actors to make up for Margo. I think I learned, early on, back on The Shield, the recipe for longevity is not trying to outdo yourself from the year before. It's just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us, we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable. So, we hope that the critics like it.
Where is Boyd Crowder at this season, in his journey?
GOGGINS: Boyd is a very thoughtful guy. He's a thinker, and he's a very patient guy. He's trying to lay the foundation for a criminal empire that is sustainable, and not rush into one direction or another, but build it block by block. If you look at it, Boyd's crew is not that deep and not that strong. Cousin Johnny is in a wheelchair. He's a bad-ass, but he's in a wheelchair. Arlo is really cool, but he's a lion in winter for sure. And I've got my beautiful girlfriend, Ava. It's a matter of taking the loyalty of this family and this group of people, and building on that. It's interesting.
Do you think that Boyd's rise to criminal kingpin was always inevitable, or is he just seeing an opening and taking advantage of it?
GOGGINS: I don't know. In Season 2, Boyd was about really coming to terms with who he is, as a human being. Prior to that, he was a guy who lived in the extremes, wherever the pendulum swung. If he was a coffee drinker, he was going to drink seven cups of coffee a day. But, after Season 2, he's become a man of balance. For him, this season, it's different because he's different. He sees things differently. There's no way he could have done what he's setting out to do this season, in Season 1 or in Season 2, because he just wanted to be left alone. Now, he not only sees an opening, but he's really being honest about who he is and there's no other option for him. This is his life, but he's accepted that this is his life. And now that he's accepted it, he's going to do it smartly.
Do you think he could have done this without Ava and her support?
GOGGINS: No, I don't. She grounds him. Ironically, one thing that will be Boyd's savior is his capacity to love another human being. It's the first time in his life where he's looked outward, instead of inward, for answers. He has someone to lean on, and I don't think he's ever put that kind of trust in another person. Now, Ava and Boyd have more in common then just their last name. They also have bullet wounds in common. That's a true love story. Ava is Boyd's pillar and, as the season goes on, I think you'll see that Boyd is also Ava's pillar. They're there for one another. It's interesting that, with all the different storylines and characters in this show, these two people would find love. It's the most normal, domestic relationship. We read, we sit and talk outside, we take walks, we kill people.
You've said that you think Raylan and Boyd ultimately like each other, but Timothy Olyphant said that he thinks Raylan and Boyd ultimately hate each other. Do you think that difference of opinion is part of why the dynamic between your characters is so great?
GOGGINS: I think so. Tim and I have never even talked about it, in that way, but yeah, I think that's a big part of that, along with insane mutual respect for each other. Tim has a real capacity to understand and to remind me that we're in the world of Elmore [Leonard]. Where I tend to go to drama, he tends to go to comedy. Where I think that we are friends, he thinks that we are enemies. It's just very interesting.
Will things between them change a lot more this season, especially with the road Boyd is going down now?
GOGGINS: Yeah. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. For me, I'm keeping my friend close. For him, he's keeping his enemy closer. They have such a complex relationship, that every time we get together, it's different than any other time we've ever done it before. Hopefully, that won't stop. I don't think it will stop. If you have someone in a town like this that, at the end of the day, you can lean on, then you're ahead of the game. I think that, underneath all of it, Raylan knows that he can lean on Boyd. There's a line that Boyd wouldn't cross. And, Boyd knows the same thing about Raylan. It's like, "You may arrest me, but you're going to arrest me in the right way. You may kill me, but you're going to kill me in the right way." That we know, and there's a mutual respect and understanding of each other. That's gold, for an actor. It is as complicated a relationship as I've ever had, on screen or off screen, getting to play this character with Tim's Raylan. He's such a good actor and so specific. It's just wonderful. I've really become good friends with him. He's a really wonderful guy.
With everything that Boyd has been through, do you think that he prefers to be the one in charge, as opposed to the one taking orders from someone?
GOGGINS: Oh, yeah. I don't think there's any going back for him. He's always been in charge. He's always been a leader. He's never been a follower. Whether he's had an audience of one, an audience of 20, or an audience of 100, he's always a leader. I don't think he's ever played second fiddle to anyone in his life, but I think he's more comfortable and clear-headed about his direction as a leader, now that he's come to this place, spiritually, in his life.
What's it like to work on Lincoln with someone like Daniel Day Lewis, who lives in the character that he's playing?
GOGGINS: There are so many actors that approach the work that way, from Forest Whitaker to Ed Harris to [Robert] Duvall to Chris Cooper. They're everywhere. On a lot of people's lists, Daniel is probably the best actor of his generation, and two subsequent generations. He's that specific. What it does for me is it reminds me of how important this is. It's nice to have that daily, almost minute-by-minute, reminder. This isn't just a story about Lincoln. We're not just doing another story about Lincoln. This is Steven Spielberg doing a story about one of the most flawed men, who is also one of the greatest men, and certainly one of the greatest presidents we've ever had, and feeling the weight that he was under and what was going on in this country. It was the schism that forever changed this country. So, when you have an actor that approaches the work that way, you show up to work every day with your fucking A-game.
Who are you playing in the film?
GOGGINS: I play a congressman whose real name is Wells Hutchins, and he was a Democrat out of Ohio. The movie is about a lot of different things. It's about Lincoln, and it's about his relationship with his cabinet, but it's also a story about the passage of the 13th Amendment. In order to pass the 13th Amendment, Lincoln needed a certain amount of Democratic congressmen to vote for it, or it wouldn't have been bipartisan, and he needed the 13th Amendment to pass. So, I play a pivotal role in that part of the story.
How did you end up getting involved with G.I. Joe 2?
GOGGINS: Well, Lorenzo [di Bonaventura] just approached me. He had been a fan since The Shield, and he said, "I'm doing this big budget movie and I've got this role I want you to come play." If you can bounce back and forth between a studio movie or a big action movie, like Cowboys & Aliens or G.I. Joe, and you balance that out, if you're so lucky, with a wonderful television show or working with Steven [Spielberg], what better career can you have? One of the reasons why I wanted to do Justified so badly, or wanted to continue once we got up and going, was that I didn't have to live in pain, every single day. On The Shield, for seven years, I was emotionally fucking wrecked. It was rare that we were just laughing. For the last five years, especially, it was really painful. Justified is lighter in tone, and it's nice to be around that and show up to work and wear that hat. It's the same thing for movies. G.I. Joe was fun. Lincoln was serious. I'm going to go do Quentin Tarantino's movie (Django Unchained), and that's going to be seriously fun. Once you're at the buffet table, you just sample everything. That makes for a well-balanced life.
Was part of the appeal of the G.I. Joe sequel the fact that it's more grounded in reality, this time around, and not so cartoony?
GOGGINS: Yeah, it's a very, very big part of it. Just because of my personality, for me, comedy comes from pessimism, more often than not, and from a real place. In some ways, I wish I could tell a joke. I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy. That's my favorite comedy, when it's grounded in truth. And, I think G.I. Joe is going to be a really good film.
How did you end up working with Quentin Tarantino?
GOGGINS: I'm a big fan. I've been a big fan, like everybody else, for 20 years. He really enjoyed my work in the films I've done, that he's really liked. The first time he saw me was in a movie called The Apostle, and he was a fan of The Shield and likes Justified. We had never met before, and had the opportunity to meet and had an incredible meeting. He is one of, if not the most, passionate filmmakers I've ever been around, and a lover of this art form and material, and he's a master at it. He's a master at directing a scene. So, I was like a little giddy schoolgirl around him. I was so full of excitement.
Did he tell you much about what you'd be playing in Django Unchained?
GOGGINS: Yeah, we talked about it. There's one role that I really wanted to go for because of my commitment to Justified. It's something that is a quintessential Quentin Tarantino scene.


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There are not so many books about MDX and it's strange considering that it is a very sophisticated languages that requires years for learning (I'm not kidding). I started learning MDX in 1999 and after so many years, I still have to learn something. I've been part of the technical reviewers of the new book from Tomislav Piasevoli, MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Cookbook, which is available on Amazon, also in Kindle Edition, and on the Packt website (its publisher).
The book is, as the title says, a cookbook. As any chef, you should already have a basic (or advanced) knowledge of MDX, and in this book you'll find a lot of solutions for common problems. I was surprised to find solutions to problems I thought were impossible to solve by using MDX, for example. You will find detailed table of contents and sample chapters in the links above. I can just say that this is a must have book for any professional SSAS developer. You just cannot afford not to know the techniques described in this book – you know, you are the expert, right? Keep your skills updated!
Is it still relevant to improve our knowledge about mdx or could we better put our money on Dax?
Very good question!
I think DAX is in very early stages and it will require time before it will be widely adopted.
Consider that only Crescent is a DAX native client - today every other client uses MDX (also to query BISM Tabular models!), and the most important is Excel. I don't know what Excel 15 will bring to the table, but I think that it is hard that MDX will be removed so soon.
Moreover, consider that BISM Tabular might be not enought for many business scenario as it is in Denali.
Thus, if you already know MDX, it is safe to keep your investment. The language haven't changed in the last years but we have now a large experience and knowledge base - thus, especially for complicated scenarios and queries, MDX has a big role, now and in the future. In the very long term, many simpler and not "regular star schema" scenario might be better managed by using DAX, but for a certain class of problems MDX is here to stay.
If you are a consultant, you have to know both.
If you only have internal BI for your company, maybe that for your particular scenario you can concentrate your investement only in one of those.
Must Read :)
Dax is new baby but MDX is like OLD master father who have all basic and main thought and DAX is nothing but MDX + Excel
Correct me if i am wrong :)
Vishal, I cannot agree - DAX is way *less* than MDX, which is way better in terms of abstraction. MDX operates on complex multidimensional models and it is very good in case you have complex models that can be well represented in a multidimensional model. DAX is fast but much simpler, even if you have to understand very well how filter and row contexts interact together.
Strangely enough, in this case C++ appeared before C.
Thanks for correcting me
Its really nice explanation for me !!!
Too right, but where is C# in this equation???
C# might fit into a SQX language :)
Everytime I thing I understand MDX, I get stumble over a simple MDX query. I feel like I'm not getting MDX, I realized that I kinda almos memorize the structure of the quesries. What is the best way to understand MDX and learn MDX and become really good at it. Any references and Videos prefered for learning MDX?
AJ a very good book is MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471748080/?tag=se04-20)


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Recently, Light Reading, released a good whitepaper about EPC. It focus about pre-integrated platforms to build S-GW, P-GW, SAE-GW. It has some marketing stuff, graphs etc. It explained the imporatance about pre-integarated, pre-optimized EPC solution. You may like to have a look.
OK, then, enjoy the upcoming Christmas vacation.
Last article, I started a series on LTE NAS. I wrote some basics about NAS and its root to 3G. I focused more on EMM. This article is about ECM. ECM is used to establish connection. The connection is established between UE and MME either for session management or for SMS transfer. Let's start with ECM specific procedure named.
So, what is paging? Yes it is also memory management technique, that we learnt in computer science. However in cellular wireless context paging is different. If someone dial your mobile number, your mobile start ringing. How it happens? First, network start paging procedure to intimate mobile about incoming call. Then mobile and network performs security procedures, radio resource allocation and finally it starts ringing. The call can be CS or PS and so paging also. We can foresee that initial LTE network will co-exist with 3G or even 2G network. Voice call will not move to PS VoIP over night. If valid NAS context exist at MME, LTE has "CS Service notification" ECM specific procedure use for CS paging. In the absence of NAS context, "Paging" ECM specific procedure is used establish NAS for incoming CS or PS call. NAS context consists of security parameters between UE and MME for NAS message exchanges. Generally LTE network address the UE with its S-TMSI in "Paging" procedure. However if MME restart or somehow, MME lost S-TMSI of UE, then it uses IMSI. It is rare case, abnormal condition and used to recover the error.
UE initiates "Service Request" ECM specific procedure, in response to paging. As part of this ECM specific procedure, the network may initiate optional common procedure(s): (1) Authentication and/or (2) Security Mode Control. We saw in last article, that specific procedures are made up of zero or more common procedure(s). The successful Service Request procedure result into ECM connected (EMM connected) state. NAS ECM has one more variant for Service Request procedure, that is Extended Service Request. It is used for CS fallback for voice call and handoff with non-3GPP networks. Non-3GPP networks are CDMA network, EVDO (HRPD) network, WiMAX network, etc.
The last NAS ECM specific procedure is "Transport of NAS". It is used for SMS.
Paging always initiated by network. Detach and "Transport of NAS" procedures can be invoked by either network or UE. All other ECM and EMM NAS procedures are UE initiated. Service Request ECM specific procedure and all EMM specific procedures (i.e. Attach, Detach and TAU) are starting Initial NAS messages. NAS context may not present during this procedure. So the first message is not encrypted. These procedures may invoke other common EMM procedure for security purpose.
One can consider ECM as separate category of NAS procedure, or they are just part of EMM. Let me recap. So far we have seen EMM and ECM specific NAS procedure. Next is ESM. Here are various procedures that we cover in a tree format. Generally each procedure contains a pair of message exchange. Request and Response. A message contains IE.
EMM Elementary procedure.
- EMM specific procedure
- Attach
- Attach
- Combined Attach
- Detach
- Detach
- Combined Detach
- Normal TAU
- Periodic TAU.
- Attach
- ECM specific procedure
- Service Request
- Service Request
- Extended Service Request
- Paging
- With S-TMSI
- With IMSI
- CS Service Notification
- Transport of NAS
- Service Request
So here let me focus on NAS signally aspects of LTE. It is highly preferable to have some prior knowledge about any wireless technology : 2G, 3G or 4G. This LTE-NAS series will provide some idea about LTE basic procedures and signaling message exchanges. They are called NAS messages. One can always refer 3GPP standard to learn NAS. But here I wrote it differently, in my own wordings, at my blog 'Express YourSelf !' Enjoy it and let me know your feedback.
Even UMTS has NAS. NAS messages are for (1) Mobility (2) Session Management and (3) Security. Security has two aspects: (1)integrity and (2)ciphering. Today's article is about EMM. EMM includes determining UE's location, user's authentication, confidentiality, and connection management. Procedure is a group of NAS messages exchange with specific purpose. There are two kinds of EMM elementary procedures. (1) Common procedures and (2) specific procedures.
Let's see specific procedures, (1)Attach, (2)Detach and (3) TAU are EMM's specific procedures. As the name suggest, UE invokes attach procedure to attach to LTE network and to detach from LTE network, the detach procedure. These procedures are invoked when UE is powered ON (attach) or OFF (detach). Also when UE enters to LTE coverage area (attach) or leave LTE coverage area (detach). Simple to understand. Is not it? Generally UE and network both are backward compatible. So UE may perform combined attach/detach for (1) new LTE network and (2) legacy GPRS/UMTS network. To support such combine procedure is optional. Normal attach and combined attach are differ only by presence of few optional IEs. There are three kinds of UEs. PS only mode UE works only with EPS (EPS is synonymous for LTE). These UEs are not mobile handsets but they are USB dongle or PC card. They never perform combined procedure. "CS/PS mode 1 UE" and "CS/PS mode 2 UE" are dual mode. If UE is under coverage of both LTE and legacy GPRS/UMTS, then Mode 1 UE prefers non-EPS (GPRS/UMTS) and mode 2 prefers EPS(LTE) service. However, they can attach to both networks, (1) EPS network and (2) non-EPS network.
What is TAU? TA is formed by coverage are of a group of cell sites (eNBs). LA in 2G GSM, RA in GPRS. eNB broadcasts TAI. When the moving UE change its TA, it informs the network about its new TA or TA list with "normal TAU procedure". Even if UE is stationary, it periodically reports its TA with "periodic TAU procedure". Our 2G GSM MS perform LAU at about every 3 hours. GPRS MS perform RAU at about every 50 to 55 minutes. TAU can also be combined TAU, to inform legacy GPRS/UMTS network, with help of eUTRAN LTE infrastructure. So if network supports combine procedures, then dual mode UEs can perform combine procedure. The combined procedures save UE's battery power and network's scare radio resources. :)
After knowing the purpose of EMM procedure, let's have closer look to them. The EMM Specific procedures in turn may optionally invoke common procedures. For example, EMM specific procedure named Attach may invoke other EMM common procedure(s) like (1)GUTI relocation, (2)Authentication, (3)Security Mode control, (4)Identification, (5)EMM Information and (6)ESM Information. They are optional. The common procedures and specific procedures, both are EMM elementary procedure. Let me describe this concept with a class diagram !!
Yes, I know, we use UML class diagram for design a software module. Here I have used just to make the point clear. It is not for design of NAS module neither at UE nor at MME.
Have you noticed? I used italic fonts in diagram to indicate abstract class They are still category only, not any concrete procedure. Here all EMM Specific procedures and few ECM specific procedures may optionally invoke EMM common procedure(s). So these specific procedures are "whole", common procedure(s) are "part" and this is aggregation relationship. Also, if you observe carefully the class diagram looks like Composite design pattern.
RRC carries NAS messages. In UMTS, RRC is terminating at RNC. LTE network, does not have RNC so RRC is terminating at eNB. NAS terminates at MME. NAS messages are between UE and MME. RRC and NAS both provides data integrity. Ciphering is mandatory for RRC, but optional for NAS. NAS can have at least two FSMs for (1) ESM FSM and (2) EMM FSM. EMM FSM has seven states. (1) EMM Null, (2) EMM DeRegistered, (3) EMM DeRegistered initiated, (4) EMM Registered, (5) EMM Registered initiated, (6) EMM TAU initiated, (7) EMM Service Request initiated. Have you noticed? Out of these seven states, most of them are transient states. EMM FSM has major two states only. EMM DeRegistered and EMM Registered. They are correspond to UE is power OFF and UE power ON (with valid subscription :-) ) respectively. ECM can have its FSM. For EMM Registered state, ECM FSM has two states. (1) ECM idle and (2) ECM connected. They are also known as EMM Idle and EMM Connected respectively.
Subsequent articles will cover more details about ECM, ESM and security etc...


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I posted 2 new YouTube videos, so I thought I would share, one is my outfit of the day, and the other is how to wear your scarf different ways... requested. :)
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Different Ways to wear your scarf, and outfit of the day
I posted 2 new YouTube videos, so I thought I would share, one is my outfit of the day, and the other is how to wear your scarf different ways... requested. :)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Favorite Product of the Month, NYX Swatches, HIP Swatches, Outfit of the Day
I hope to do more of these, and tell me what you think. I just wanted to talk a little bit about my favorite product of the month. I use an Acne cleanser for my face for the morning and at night, but I felt like it wasn't really deep cleaning my skin, so I wanted to try something with a little bit of more consistency and that exfoliates. The acne cleanser I'm using now does have those little balls(lol) that kind of deep clean, but not really. So when I was at Wal-Mart I decided to check out other cleansers, and since I'm on a strict budget now with my new vehicle, I thought I'd look for something affordable. So I saw this, it's by Dove, and it's an exfoliator. I've been using this for about more than a week now, once a day, and I've noticed my skin being a lot softer, and cleaner, and I haven't had a break out yet. And I'm extremely sensitive to breakouts with products!
First of all, here's my YouTube Video of it:
See the little "blue balls" exfoliators???... hehe
Rating: 4/5 (only because I've only been using it for a week or so)
I also went to Ulta because I had a coupon $3.50 off a $10 purchase and today was the last day, so I had to go. Unfortunately, they were all out of the Stila for Barbie collection. I want that palette!! So I ended up getting these:
I'm actually really surprised at the pigmentation of the Loreal Hip line.. ah-mazing, the color pay off is great!
I'm not a huge purple fan, but for some reason this season, I find myself wanting to wear purple.. weird, I know. And I love this color!
I also picked up some nail art...
And a ring... $2.00!!
And here's an outfit I wore the other day I wanted to post, but forgot about... it's a Cardigan from Macy's, a long tank from Forever 21, and Black leggings(unknown), and a scarf from my previous haul...
I'm in desperate need of an outfit for my birthday and can't seem to find anything I like... :(
Friday, September 25, 2009
Little Haul, and Update
I made a youtube video on my recent little collective haul, and also a little update about myself...
Saturday, September 19, 2009
9 Outfits with 1 Plaid Shirt...
Here's me again trying to stretch my wardrobe with different outfit ideas with one piece... this time I'm pairing it with a basic plaid shirt featured in one of my hauls.. And I look tired because I was doing this at 1 in the morning!! School and work really has gotten the best of me!!
With wide-leg Linen pants
Wide-leg linen pants, jean jacket and scarf
Jean Skirt with black scarf
Leggings with cream scarf
With black jean pencil skirt with black belt
Same but with cardigan
With a dressy pencil skirt
Same but with gray wide belt
With Hollister jeans
Friday, September 11, 2009
Purses, Shoes, Clothing Haul, Fall Outfit Ideas
Hello! I don't know about anyone else, but I am jammed with school work, and work. I go to school full time, and I also work full time.... and I have a full time boyfriend. lol JK(Love you John!) But ya, so I apologize for the lack of updates. :(
But anyway, I wanted to share with you girls some new things I've gotten since we last spoke... As you know I ordered the boots and the purse from Victoria Secrets.. unfortunately, I didn't even take any pictures of the boots, they're already packaged up and ready to return... they're DEFECTIVE!! $158 boots... defective... umm... hello?? lol So I'm keeping the beautiful Guess purse...
I also bought me some new boots... and some new flats...
My new studded flats and purse.. <3
New boots by Fergie... Oh my goodness, these boots are unbelievably comfortable... They're black, but my camera kind of washed the color out...
Those boots are more beautiful than my Victoria Secrets ones.. :) And boxed nicer too! The box of the Vicki's ones are like a cheap cardboard... ew..
So I thought I'd try something new.. whenever I buy something I want to make sure I can do different outfit ideas with it, and if I can't do any outfits at all with what I buy, I'm not going to keep it... maybe this will help me better organize my closet, and it'll also help me with different outfits I could wear... if that makes any sense at all.. and guess what? You girls get to be the judge of my outfit ideas hahaa.....
So with this, I bought this floral skirt just recently and decided to try to do different outfit ideas...
Just the skirt with a plain black tank, tank tucked in
I decided to try to add a belt to change the look
Then for fall I thought it would look nice with a plain cardigan.. too bad I don't have a nice blue/pink cardigan to go with the floral....
Unbuttoned Cardigan
With cardigan unbuttoned w/ belt
Cardigan buttoned with belt over
Outfit all-together with leggings and I'd pair it with my black Uggs
A top I bought that I thought was sooo cute... with a bow on it... :)
I paired it with a pencil skirt...
I'd probably pair it with my tweed boots...(not pictured)
I hope this helped you girls with different outfit ideas you can do with a skirt... or maybe you should try this... it really helps with when you go to decide what you want to wear that day.. you can remember this and it'll be easier to get ready in the morning...
Friday, September 4, 2009
Outfit of the day, Labor Day Outfit
Two entries in one day? Exciting, I know. :) Here's my outfit of the day for today, and an option you can wear for Labor Day. Very simple, and basic, but yet cute!
Blazer: Charlotte Russe
Shorts: Hollister
Shoes: Wet Seal
Juicy Couture Charm Collection Requested...
It was requested on YouTube for me to do my Juicy Couture collection ... so I decided to do my charm collection. So here are the videos:
I also did an outfit of the day.. I'll try to post later. :)
Thursday, September 3, 2009
I'm finally on Twitter.... finally... add me and I'll return the favor! :) Isn't this exciting??? haha...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Exciting Deal...
This is very, very random, but I absolutely needed to share, because I'm so excited about it.... So in one of my videos I mentioned how I wanted to order a pair of boots from Victoria Secrets that I saw in their one catalog... but couldn't decide if I really wanted to spend the $148 on them...
ALSO I really wanted this purse from Guess for the fall... which is $140...
Which I was going to get anyway when I went to King of Prussia for my birthday... BUT , ironically Victoria Secrets has the same exact purse on their website!!
So this is what I did... :) I added both items to my shopping bag... bringing the total to $288.... I had a coupon if you spend over $250 you get $75 off... bringing and there is another coupon for boots for an extra 20% off... bring my total to... $203 with shipping... well I had a $60 reward coupon... PLUS a $13 gift card... anyway... TOTAL for both items is $130!!!!!!
Oh yes... I'm excited.... :)
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Mount Airy Casino & Resort/Tannersville Outlet Shopping
Hello! I wanted to post about my little get-a-way to Mount Airy Casino and & Resort when we went 2 weeks ago. :) It was kind of considered like our last get-a-way before school starts and summer ends :( Just me and John. :) It was nice...
If you ever come to PA and you wanna go somewhere with your lover... check out the Poconos... :) If anyone lives in PA they know what I'm talking about. Endless honey moon resorts and couples resorts. :)
So here are a few photos of the jacuzzi, along with John and I. :)
I <3 the color of this jacuzzi..
Fill-'er up!
John and I before heading out
Mount Airy
It's LOVE
Me cam-whoring on top of the jacuzzi, waiting for it to fill up. :)
John won the following day at the casino when we were getting ready to leave... it was his last $2 on a $1 machine.. he max bet and won big!! Well maybe not that big, but $300 to us, is nice :)
Sooooooo..... I went shopping... haha :)
From Rue 21:
Fleece jacket for $30!!
Juicy Couture headband, on clearance, got it for $12
Went to Claires and picked up accessory holders:
Also picked up hair accessories and a brown lil clutch for going out... don't have one of these...
Along with the video I did on the haul...
More classes tomorrow... I hope to do another video...


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Here is my card using the Lawn Trimmings!
"Wedding Wishes" supplies:
Cardstock: The Paper Company
Paper: K & Company
Stamps/Trim: Lawn Fawn (Sophie's Sentiments set)
Ink: Clearsnap (Pigment: cranberry)
Sticker: Bo Bunny
Metal Tabs: Making Memories
Ribbon Charm: craft supply
Corner Rounder: EK Success
Scalloped Die: Papertrey Ink
Diecut Machine: Cuttlebug by Provo Craft
Be sure to check out the other Lawn Fawn designers and see what they came up with as well!!
Latisha Yoast- http://crafteebee.blogspot.com/
Lynnette Kauffman- http://nettersnotables.blogspot.com/
Mariana Grigsby- http://marianagrigsby.wordpress.com/
Teri Anderson- http://terisplace.wordpress.com/
Tiffany Johnson- http://tiffguam.com/
Because I am in Kenya, I can't update all the giveaway links. So be sure to visit each post during the sneak peeks in order to be eligible for each giveaway!
Until later,
~Lea L.


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We've got five of the best tracks from The Chemical Brothers' score for Hanna, and a handful of violent stills. Hit play and get sucked into the mind of a child assassin for a few minutes of of your day.
There isn't much out there on Joe Wright's mysterious project Hanna. So far, we've glimpsed retro sets, lush greenery, hyper-energetic fight scenes — and now the Chemical Brothers soundtrack has been released on iTunes, allowing the audience to get a better feel for this strangely decaying sterile world director Joe Wright has created. The movie stars Saoirse Ronan as Hanna, who is raised alone in the wilderness by Eric Bana. When "she's ready," Hanna hits a mysterious button and lets the government (headed up by the violent Cate Blanchett) know where she is. Why Uncle Sam wants Hanna, or what Bana is doing with her is all a mystery. But one thing is for certain, Hanna is a deadly little girl. Hanna will be in theaters April 8th — but until then, enjoy a few favorites we've selected from the Chemical Brothers' score, and a collection of stills.


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AfriGeneas Genealogy and History Forum Archive
Re: African American coal miners
In Response To: Re: African American coal miners ()
I am not sure how much research you have done to this point on your ancestor, but a couple comments.
First, Saline county is part of a coal mining region in Southern Illinois nicknamed "Little Egypt". There is a lot of mining history in the area and if you experience problems finding your ancestors, definately try the nearby counties of Franklin, Williamson, Perry and Jackson. Also, the Illinois Secretary of State's office has a state wide death index online that begins around 1916. I would check it for your surnames. It does give the race of individuals in most instances. They have a marriage index too, but I think it pre-dates your ancestors arrival.
Second, as you are probably aware, Buxton, Iowa is legendary for being this ideal place to live and work for African Americans for the first quarter of the 19th century. In addition to the book on this community (see my website), there are a couple of publications you may be interested in getting that are sold by the state genealogical society. They are: MONROE COUNTY IOWA MARRIAGES AFRICAN AMERICAN 1900-1929 GROOM INDEX & BRIDE INDEX and MONROE COUNTY IOWA CEMETERIES BUXTON.
Good hunting
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Automobili Lamborghini has been granted the prestigious certification of "Top Employer Italia 2019" for the sixth year in a row, which confirms that it is an increasingly attractive employer.
This award comes at a time when Lamborghini is extensively increasing its workforce, which at year-end 2018 topped 1,750 employees, showing 10% growth over the previous year and 70% over the past five years. The over 200 new recruits hired last year were well balanced between white collar staff and production line workers, and further lowered the company's average age, which today is under 40.
The Top Employer award is an added feather in the company's cap following its recent sales successes and additional historic sales record. With 5,750 vehicles delivered to customers around the world, marking a 51% increase compared to the previous year, Lamborghini is continuing its growth globally and is today starting a process to stabilize its internal resources.
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View Full Calendar of Events at the Flynn
Below are Flynn Center Accessibility Services. As the region's premiere performing arts venue, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts is committed to making our facility and programs accessible to all in our community.
The Flynn's programs include a 60+- event MainStage and FlynnSpace Series, a Student Matinee Series, and year-round arts education through FlynnArts. The Flynn Center is located in downtown Burlington where more than 4,000 parking spaces are available in the surrounding area. There are accessible parking spaces and a curb cut available in front of the theater. For events not sponsored by the Flynn Center, Flynn staff will make every effort to facilitate programmatic access between patrons and the event sponsor. For more information about accessibility services at the Flynn, please call 802-652-4500 voice/relay calls welcome.
Please request all access services when ordering tickets through the FlynnTix Regional Box office at 802-863-5966 or in person at 153 Main Street, Burlington, VT . Relay calls are welcome by calling the Vermont Relay Service by dialing 711 or calling 800-253-0191 TTY. Access services can be requested on-line as well, visit www.flynntix.org - once a performance has been selected to purchase, a box will be provided under "Accessibility Services" during the seat selection process. The FlynnTix Regional Box Office is able to offer accessible and companion seating on the web for certain events, and is in the process of expanding online seat selection to more events. Customer service can also be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
To learn more about Vermont Telecommunications Relay Service go to www.vermontrelay.com.
All presentations have accessible and companion seating available upon request. Please request when ordering tickets. All MainStage events include personal curbside assistance on request.
An accessible elevator is available for access to FlynnSpace, the Flynn administrative offices, and Hoehl Studio Labs.
Accessible restrooms are located in the Flynn MainStage lobby, lower FlynnSpace lobby, Chase Dance Studio, Hoehl Studio Lab, and Flynn administrative offices.
Hearing Assistance: the Flynn is equipped with both FM and an induction loop hearing system for patron convenience.
The loop system broadcasts clear, customizable sound directly into hearing aids that are fitted with a Tele-Coil switch. This is the preferred choice among Assistive Listening Devices for many people with hearing loss. If you don't know if your hearing aids have a Tele-Coil (70% do), ask your audiologist.
If your hearing aids have a Tele-Coil switch, simply turn the switch on and sound is streamed directly to your hearing aids.
If your hearing aids don't have a Tele-Coil switch, FM wireless headset receivers are available free of charge at the concession stand.
Selected Flynn MainStage Season and Student Matinee Series productions are interpreted in American Sign Language (ASL). Call for a schedule or to request services at an upcoming event - 802-863-5966, voice/relay calls welcome.
Large-print and Braille programs for Flynn events are available upon request with 10 business days notice. Reserved seating is available upon request when ordering tickets via phone or in person.
Selected Flynn productions are audio described. Call for a schedule - 802-863-5966, voice/relay calls welcome. The Flynn Center thanks the Vermont Council of the Blind for providing audio description services for selected events.
Sensory-friendly performances are designed to create a performing arts experience that is welcoming to all individuals with autism or with other disabilities that create sensory sensitivities. Social stories, break spaces, sensory friendly materials, and more are available for any show, not just sensory-friendly performances.
For other venues please contact the FlynnTix Regional Box Office at 802-86-Flynn / 802-863-5966, relay calls welcome; or visit http://www.flynntix.org/Accessibility.aspx.


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In her first local party engagement since being re-elected to the top of London Liberal Democrats' Euro-list, Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP told the Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats' AGM in Bethnal Green this evening that the Party must be quite clear in its pro-EU stance in the 2014 Euro-elections and she pointed out that we are likely to be the only party that is. That doesn't mean saying that everything coming out of Brussels is rosy; there are things that need reforming. But the electorate knows where the LibDems stand on Europe and it would be madness to obfuscate. Local member David Hall-Matthews — a prominent figure in the Social Liberal Forum — argued from the floor that if, as expected, the Euros coincide with the London borough elections (and in Tower Hamlets' case a mayoral election as well) then it is essential that the Euro-campaign is indeed about Europe and not about British domestic issues, as has sometimes been the case in the past. I added the comment that we will need a strong regional and national campaign on Europe London-wide to complement the more targetted campaigning for the local elections, and highlighted the fact that among many Tory voters in Tower Hamlets and beyond there are those who realise that elements of the capital's prosperity — and in some cases their jobs — depend on Britain's being a full member of the EU. There are just 18 months left for Sarah, myself and the other six members of the London Euro-candidate team to get our messages across. And those must indeed be strong and simple and persuasively argue the benefits of being part of Europe.
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Ludford Calls for Strong LibDem Euro-message
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Here's an idea:Â See if your English instructor or your Speech / Communications instructor would allow you to dance in order to explain your research.
You see the American Association for the Advancement of Science has put on the third annual Dance Your Ph.D. competition wherein a Ph.D thesis is explained with a dance routine.
Here is one of the finalists.  Enjoy.
Selection of a DNA aptamer for homocysteine using SELEX by Maureen McKeague
(found via Boing Boing)


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EDIT AT 20.10 pm: I submitted a further post asking the creationist whether they had any biblical grounds for deciding that Christians who consider that we can learn facts from a (non-infallible) 'book' of nature are just 'pretend Christians'. However, the comment has disappeared off my screen so I can only conclude that either Paul Braterman has failed it for some reason or else there has been a technical problem.
FURTHER EDIT AT 20.20 pm: I have just found an email from Paul explaining why he did not publish my second comment of today. His message includes the sentence (about 'theologyarchaeology') "The man has already sufficiently incriminated himself ...". (I will acknowledge Paul's message.)