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There are no surprises and this review contains no spoilers... well, maybe not, but you'll have to finish reading it to find out - I wouldn't want to spoil it for you if you make it through the review.
So, my big concern - before I walked into the theatre - was that Tilda Swinton played The Ancient One... Let me repeat that TILDA SWINTON played the Ancient One. I know black don't crack, so at a minimum they should have cast a brown person to play the Ancient One if they were going to veer away from the actual original background of the character that is supposed to be from the Himalayas.
Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) - Director/Writer
C. Rober Cargill (Sinister) - Writer
Benedict Cumberbatch (TV's Sherlock, Star Trek: Into Darkness) - Doctor Stephen Strange
Chiwetel Ojiofor (Serenity, American Gangster) - Mordo
Rachel McAdams (Wedding Crashers, Spotlight) - Dr. Christine Palmer
Tilda Swinton (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chronicles of Narnia) - The Ancient One
Mads Mikkelson (Casino Royale, The Three Musketeers) - Kaecillius
Benedict Wong (Sunshine, Promethius) - Wong
Benjamin Bratt (Snitch, Ride Along 2) - Jonathan Pangborn
Here's the gist of the story of Doctor Strange. (Mind you, I never read the comics. I'm a nerd, but my nerd-dom has it's limits. I wasn't the kind of nerd that never got girls - it was just a lot less frequent than some of my friends, so I didn't have time to read every comic. I'm exactly nerdly enough to have read too many comics to be have been a player back in ye olden day.) Where was I...? Stephen Strange... Right... there's a movie to talk about... Steven Strange, M.D., Ph.D., is a brilliant surgeon who loses his ability to operate when he has a car accident that causes substantial damage to his money makers (the hands, people). Doctor Strange (not Mister Strange) seeks out any way of healing that might be available and finally turns to a mysterious possible source in the Himalayas at a mystical place called Kamar-Taj.
Dr. Strange finds himself in Nepal looking for the way back to his posh life as a hotshot, arrogant surgeon. Aside: Interesting how Cumberbatch seems to be able to play arrogant bastards so effortlessly... it does make you wonder a bit about who the guy is, or maybe it is just his face. What's the dude equivalent of RBF? Anyone know?
Anyway, Doctor Strange discovers that there is more to the world than what he has ever imagined and becomes an promising apprentice of The Ancient One in his search for healing. You know as well as I do that superhero movies need the stakes to be world shaking. There's rarely a superhero TV show or movie that focuses on a very specific locality and the inherent dangers faced in that particular area - unless you've been watching Netflix's most recent dopeness, Luke Cage.
Now, if you thought you were gonna get all the action of the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, etc. from the guy that plays this cat...
Think again. Tilda (that's either short for Matilda or her parents really liked that little thing in Spanish that goes over the 'n' in words like "niña" but absolutely not in words like "empanada" which I learned one drunken night in D.C. whilst searching for grub at 3am in Adams Morgan) gets more action than Benedict Cumberbatch. ASIDE: Shouts to Julia's Empanadas on 18th Street, NW, D.C.
Moral of the story - 1) don't think for a second that your drunken 11th grade Spanish will get you anywhere with a Latina from NYC at 3am and, less important & more relevantly, 2) do not go in expecting to see an action-packed Marvel movie. Oh, let's be clear - there's a lot of activity; by that, I mean that there was a lot of just stuff happening on the screen - buildings spinning and folding, teleportation portals opening up, and hands waving back and forth like an ethnic argument gone awry. There was not the kind of action that one might rightfully expect in a superhero film. No epic battles. No cities dropping from the sky... wait... well, that kinda happened, but you get what I'm saying. There are a few fights there, including an astral projected fist fight, but the fight choreography is weak as all hell.
The most interesting parts of this movie are visual effects and strong acting. Never before have you seen so many people who could just as easily transition from saving the universe from invading dimensional immortal overlords to reciting the most poignant lines of the Bard at the Globe Theatre in London.
Cultural whitewashing aside (See, Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai" or Jake Gyllenhal in "Prince of Persia," Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games" - okay, I never read the Hunger Games, but I heard she was supposed to brownskinneded, or even Elizabeth Taylor in "Cleopatra"), Tilda Swinton gave a great performance as The Ancient One and every major character enhanced the work of the other characters. Chiwetel was not the Transylvanian Baron from the comics with the pea green leotard; instead, they opted to call him just plain Mordo and make him a bit more understated - still, he's pretty damned good in everything from "12 Years a Slave" to the enigmatic agent hunting down the crew of Serenity in the movie of the same name. And the winner of the weirdest name in show business, Benedict Cumberbatch, was a exceptional as Doctor Stephen Strange. I would go as far as saying he was as good a cast for the role as RDJ was for Tony Stark. Maybe better! Yeah, I said it. As awesome as RDJ was as Iron Man, I think Benedict might be an even better pick for this role because who would've thunk this Brit could have pulled it off...? But I will hold off on the final verdict until Doctor Strange II drops.
The special effects were dizzying at times, but it begs to be seen in 3-D. Even though there was a crap ton of green screen effects, it doesn't bug you the way some movies do because the mystical world that they try to draw you into requires you to feel like you just had puffed some Purple & sipped some Lean (from what I hear...). Unfortunately, the story was just set up for a potentially good story. But they hit on every other aspect of the film, so there's that!
Go see it. It's worth the distraction for a couple of hours (and it's better than Suicide Squad) and stay for BOTH post-credit Marvel Cinematic Universe teasers.
IMTHATDUDE gives Doctor Strange: 4
RATING SYSTEM:5 = You should be about halfway to the theatre by now… Well… GET!
4 = Definitely worth the bread. Niiice.
3 = I won't cuss anybody out and demand my paper back.
2 = Somewhere SOUTH of under-whelmed./I know it has a pulse, but…
1 = Not a good look. They played me AND I played myself.


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I love our Warped Tour scene so much and the music within it, but I jump at the opportunities to photograph completely different genres. I think it keeps me on my feet. blackbear is a hip-hop/R&B artist out of L.A. who's really come up big in the underground music scene. One of my best friends on last summer's Warped Tour was Tarina Doolittle, who is currently on tour with blackbear as his photographer. She is a highly skilled veteran who's worked in so many different areas of photography ranging from high fashion to commercial work to music and beyond.
I got to the venue around start time to find a line out the door and around the corner (even despite it being freezing out). It's always a nice sight to see people supporting love music.
blackbear hit the stage around 8:15. The moment the first track started, you heard a massive roar from a sold-out venue.They knew every word, and screamed for anything he said. I'm personally a big fan of his music and he definitely doesn't disappoint live. He sounds great, interacts with the audiences, takes selfies on their phone, calls people on stage and brings the energy on every beat.
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Honey-Walnut Wontons
I'm a big fan of traditions, passed down from one generation to another, from mom to daughter, from the past to the future - tradition serves as a memory of a different time and of people and is much more than a just a sequence of actions - it is a bridge to the future.
Every time the skies open and rain pours down my window, and the air is fragrant with the scent of the earth, I do one of a few things - Stand at my window celebrating the rain, or sit down with a large cup of something warm. The rain helps me slow my pace down, no more lists to make, no more worries to harbor - just follow the gentle pitter-patter of the raindrops and let everything else go, at least for a bit.
Allowing ourselves to indulge every once in a while is a luxury that we sometimes don't let ourselves enjoy often enough. Being focussed on the present, on this very moment - however sane it may sound, sometimes doesn't feed the soul, it can be rejuvenating to not be in the present - to be in a different time and place, to enjoy a guilt-free slice of time is pure bliss!
Honey-Walnut Wontons
My interpretation of Baklava with an asian twist that is perfectly crunchy and sweet and very addictive and so very indulgent. This is my entry to Sugar High Friday 23 - Surprise Inside!
Mix chopped walnuts (3/4 cup) with honey (1 Tbsp.)and 1 Tsp. Cinnamon. Brush the edges of the wonton wrapper with water, place 1 tsp. of the walnut mixture in the center of the wrapper and fold into a triangle. Seal the edges. Now, curl the other side of the wonton and overlap the edges and seal, making sure that the walnut mixture doesm't seep out of the wonton.
Heat oil and deep fry wontons till golden brown, drizzle with honey and melted chocolate, if desired.


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Is euro zone inflation a danger?
Euro zone inflation stayed at 0.5 percent in June, marking the 9th consecutive month of below-target growth. Despite previously marking a 'danger zone' of below 1 percent, ECB chief Mario Draghi is not expected to act just yet. Ivor Bennett reports.
It's a problem that just won't go away. Low inflation still dogging the euro zone's stuttering recovery. Consumer prices stayed steady in June to give the European Central Bank some brief respite. But at 0.5 percent, it's is still well below the bank's target of just under 2 percent. ECB Chief Mario Draghi introduced a raft of drastic measures at the bank's last meeting, including a negative deposit rate. But Commerzbank's Michael Leister predicts it'll words rather than actions this time around. SOUNDBITE (English) MICHAEL LEISTER, SENIOR INTEREST RATES STRATEGIST, COMMERZBANK, SAYING: "Draghi has been making clear very much that for the ECB it's more the inflation expectations that are the relative metric rather than short term fluctuations in HICP. So in that sense, he will again point out that basically the ECB still has a lot of tools left, i.e. euro QE, but there will be nothing tangible on Thursday." According to Draghi, the risk of outright deflation in the euro zone doesn't exist. But bailed out Greece, Portugal and Cyprus did experience it in May. And June marks the 9th straight month with an inflation rate within the bank's own danger zone of less than 1 percent. BNY Mellon's Simon Derrick. SOUNDBITE (English) SIMON DERRICK, CHIEF FX STRATEGIST, BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, SAYING: "I do think it's still too close for comfort and I think the main reason for that is actually we still have a euro that relatively speaking is too strong for the euro zone. As a result of that continued relative euro strength certainly against the dollar I think that at some point but not at this meeting there is a likelihood of fresh QE out from them." Rhetoric seems enough to keep markets under control for now. But there are signs it might not last - safe haven German bunds dropped again - to the one year low they hit last week.


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Whose Line is it Anyway? US Season 4 Episode 5.
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- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 11:40 pm
Colin: "You're not my type."ReplyDelete
That made me laugh out loud!
- AnonymousSeptember 07, 2010 3:00 pm
Chip does an excellent Rod Stewart lol. No joke. Sounds kinda like him.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 08, 2010 10:37 pm
Let's Make a DateReplyDelete
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Party Quirks
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2010 4:15 am
lol during Let's Make A Date Ryan and Wayne are pointing to Colin, Colin is pointing to himself and Chip still doesn't get it.ReplyDelete
lmao when Colin gets up for Doo Wop. I love Ryan's bass in Doo Wop
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2010 4:18 am
Ryan's adorable as the bird during Party Quirks and during the credits. 15:46 - 15:53 I feel like Ryan's watching me through the camera...he's so cute!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 08, 2012 9:44 pm
I felt so badly for Chip this episode! He had to guess for two games that hard some really difficult clues!! He did really well, I think. Drew needs to stop being an ass and give him a break!ReplyDelete
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All ECSE parent groups will be held at Diamondhead Education Center (enter through Door #1), 200 W. Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville 55337. This is connected to our building, but not in the same area. Invitations will be sent two weeks before each group or parents can register for the class on www.communityed191.org .
This year, registration will be required, we use registration to plan activities for you and create materials. Please be sure to return your response slip or register by the RSVP date to your child's teacher. Please call Shannon Jorgenson at (952) 895-6634 or Katie Keller (952) 895-6619 with any questions regarding these ECSE parent groups.
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Numan admitted in an interview with Bang Showbiz that the technology of modern electronic music still fascinates him, but emphasized that he's largely doing his own thing these days, and doesn't really relate to the modern style. The 'Cars' and 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' man said: "I don't really care [about Electronic music] to be honest. I just look after myself. I do my own thing and make sure I am doing what I want to do and the rest of it does what it likes. I'm not a flag waving champion for electronic music.''I'd really like to see him take up folk music, personally. Or maybe dixieland.
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Saturday, October 24, 2015
Are Friends Acoustic?: Gary Numan Doesn't Care About Electronic Music
Take it away, NME:
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Danzig Covers the Everly Brothers, ZZ Top, and Others
This is really my kind of thing, let me tell you:
Anyway, my favorite choices on this record are "Crying in the Rain" by the Everly Brothers and, even better, "Rough Boy" by ZZ Top. The album cover is pretty awesome, too (see below).
Glenn Danzig will dig up his musical influences on a new covers album titled Skeletons, which features the former Misfits singer putting his mark on tracks by Elvis Presley, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top and Aerosmith. The covers LP, Danzig's first album since 2010's Deth Red Saboath, will arrive on November 27th. Pre-order Skeletons now through the Nuclear Blast America site.It's always interesting to know what influenced artists whose output is pretty narrowly defined within a genre. When you first hear someone like Danzig and you're, say, 12, it's hard to imagine him sitting around listening to Fleetwood Mac or Leo Sayer, but when you get older you realize he probably knows at least the first verse of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing."
"These are my skeletons," Danzig said in a statement. "You may or may not know that I dig these songs. You could say that some of this music is the actual basis and skeleton of what I listened to growing up – ultimately informing the kind of music I like. It's the foundation. If you took Elvis and Sabbath out of my life, I probably wouldn't be the Glenn Danzig you know! I'm glad both sides are represented on this record."
Anyway, my favorite choices on this record are "Crying in the Rain" by the Everly Brothers and, even better, "Rough Boy" by ZZ Top. The album cover is pretty awesome, too (see below).
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Labels: covers, danzig, Everly Brothers, ZZ top
Monday, October 12, 2015
Terrence Trent D'Arby/Sananda Maitreya Talks About Dying at 27
Great interview at the New Statesman. Here are some good bits:
"Oh my God, I can't believe you thought I was a socialist," he says now. "I was nothing more than an opportunist. Any socialist tendencies I may have had were cured when I got my first tax bill. All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs."He talks about how at the time he thought the failure of his second record was to lack of support but now he says
"The good news is, most record company people are motivated by the same reason most of us are: greed," he says. "So, no, when you look back at it, it didn't make much sense for management not to want my second record to succeed."Thought he does add that Michael Jackson saw him as a threat and held "more power than the Pope." He says that Lenny Kravitz was a sort of replacement for him and says of the video of Kravitz's penis (with cock ring) coming out in a concert:
"Choreographed for sure. The only thing I could think to do with a cock ring now is keep my house keys on it."I recommend reading the whole thing. I'm not going to say that he is Advanced, but it's really interesting how he goes from being very realistic and pragmatic to neither (e.g., he says "angels named him Sananda" but that he needed a second name because he didn't want to "piss off" Madonna"). His new project is a concept album (double, of course), with songs like "Giraffe" (sample lyric: "Giraffe/can I have your autograph?/Please sign it to Sananda"), which was inspired by songs from Sesame Street and other children's music. Like I said, read the whole thing. Also please note what he is wearing in the photograph below.
|Long hair, black leather jacket, sunglasses
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Friday, October 09, 2015
Father John Misty's Overt Explanation of Overtly Taking Down His Overt Covers of Taylor Swift
Pitchfork has the story:
[T]he covers of "Blank Space" and "Welcome to New York" came together over the span of "like, an hour", when he passed by his tour manager's office and found her listening to Adams' 1989. Tillman says that he never heard Swift's originals prior to that day (although he concedes, "I'm sure I've been walking by a Cinnabon or something at the airport and heard it"). To record the new versions, he referred to a printout of Swift's lyrics.I guess he thinks the people who printed that thought it was something other than surrealistic nonsense but I can assure him that was not the case. It must be interesting to live in a world where you assume people are so dumb. Anyway, this is pure Overtness all around: capitalizes on someone else's really good idea, gets embarrassed about it, tries to be clever/weird, and then finally can't just let that be the last of it because he's worried people might have thought he was serious, which really would have been better than recanting. Poor form, sir!
After he uploaded the covers, Tillman became surprised by their immense popularity. "By the time I got back to the bus that night," he recalls, "my TM [tour manager] was like, 'It's the top trend on Facebook! It's on USA Today!', and I was like, 'this is ridiculous,' so I went and took them down, thinking, 'now that's over'."
Except it wasn't. Media outlets (including this one) began reaching out asking why he took down the covers. Even Taylor Swift's camp got in touch to ask why they came down and encouraged him to put them back up.
So Tillman decided to troll everyone by issuing a statement that Lou Reed came to him in a dream and asked him to take down the covers. "I was annoyed at the media," he explained. "I was like, 'these people will print anything', so I went and gave them the most fraudulent, the most blatantly absurd, unprintable piece of surrealistic nonsense – and they printed it!"
|I'm so weird! You're so dumb!
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Labels: father john misty, Overt, ryan adams, taylor swift
Thursday, October 08, 2015
The Best Version of Walk on the Wild Side: Gerty Molzen
It's by this lady, Gerty Molzen:
Don't know why I thought of it today, but I learned about it on Dave, long ago...
And the whole thing goes like this...
Dappity doh, dappity doh...
Don't know why I thought of it today, but I learned about it on Dave, long ago...
And the whole thing goes like this...
Dappity doh, dappity doh...
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Labels: david letterman, gerty molzen, walk on the wild side
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Billy Corgan Says No to Twitter, Yes to People and Their Cars
From Consequence of Sound:
People and Their Cars
[Corgan's] latest left-field venture comes in the form of People and Their Cars, a new website filled with faded, vintage images of — you guessed it — people and their cars, along with additional pics of old bridges, ships, and bedrooms. It's like a hipster's Instagram account, but like, filled with the the real deal. The photography project is so near and dear to Corgan's heart, that he's even quit Twitter to focus on it more, per his very final tweet on Monday.I really, really wish his early music were better because he just seems so damn Advanced sometimes.
For those interested in keeping up with Corgan and his Cars (that sounds like a good idea for a weird documentary, no?), there's a "Red Border Club" email list that folks can partake in. Club members will "not only the chance to receive additional images, but to be 'first-in-line' for updates on new merchandise and forthcoming People And Their Cars/Hexestential books. An it's all for FREE: with no catch, fees, or obligation to buy."
People and Their Cars
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Jeff Lynne Knows a Thing or Two About Commitment to a Look
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Grace Jones Is Not Advanced
I love Grace Jones, and she displays many Advanced qualities. But I'm having a hard time with her recent criticisms of current stars like Kanye West and Miley Cyrus. And now there's this:
In another interview on SiriusXM, Jones recalls the first time she met Gaga in the flesh: "Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from Church — maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul." Though Jones adds that Gaga "might have been freaked out with meeting me," their interactions never got any better. Jones says she met with Gaga through designer Philip Treacy three more times, each occurrence leaving a sour taste in her mouth. "I know Philip needed to make some money, but you know what, can you just wait until I finish my tour before you repeat what we are working on?" she says, referring to the headpieces he's created for Gaga.The Advanced move is to partner with seemingly lesser artists, especially if your fans think they are awful, and sometimes even say they are better than you.
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Labels: grace jones, kanye west, lady gaga, miley cyrus
Bob Dylan's IBM Commercial Is Advanced Times Two
Bob Dylan has a new commercial, where he embraces technology while selling out:
Remember when you could barely understand him when he spoke? I wonder what that was all about.
Remember when you could barely understand him when he spoke? I wonder what that was all about.
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Labels: bob dylan, embracing technology, IBM, Selling Out
Monday, October 05, 2015
Björk's Strings-Only Version Of Vulnicura Is Okay, But No Thrillington
Stereogum, take it away:
Björk's been messing with her latest creation in interesting ways since its release, first through a three part remix project, and now through a special "strings-only" version of the record. The website's also dubbing it the "acoustic" cut of the album, which I guess is technically true, but these songs sound just as grand with only the strings, her voice, and the viola organista in play.That's pretty cool, I guess. But Paul McCartney beat this a long time ago with Thrillington:
In 1977, EMI released what has become Paul McCartney's most obscure and least known album of his career - Thrillington. The album, an instrumental, orchestrated version of his Ram LP, was hardly noticed by the press or the rest of the music world. Hardly surprising, considering the almost complete absence of Paul's name anywhere on the album. Even the artist was listed as someone else - somebody named Percy "Thrills" Thrillington.Read the rest of the story and then kick back to listen...
Time has revealed that the man behind Percy was none other than Paul McCartney. As chronicled in the Spring 1995 issue of Club Sandwich, McCartney's official fan club newsletter, Paul and Linda dreamed up the idea of the fictional socialite, going as far as placing ads in British newspapers detailing his whereabouts and announcing his upcoming activities (there were, of course, none). But as much as Paul was behind the Thrillington persona, as well as being the source of the songs appearing on the album (which he also produced), there was another man who was as much responsible for what became Thrillington, arranger Richard Hewson.
The story of Thrillington begins nearly a decade before with the beginning of Apple Records. In the mid-60's, Richard Hewson was attending college at the Guild Hall in London. Though studying classical music, he had a strong interest in jazz. "We had a little band; there was only three of us," recalls Hewson. "I played guitar in those days. We had a drummer called Nigel Anthony, who's now an actor." The bass player was another friend of Hewson's, former Peter and Gordon member Peter Asher, who played upright bass in the combo. "We used to go around to his basement in Wimpole Street and practice. At the time, Paul was going out with Peter's sister, Jane, so I got to know him then."
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Labels: Bjork, Paul McCartney, Ram, Thrillington, Vulnicura
Friday, October 02, 2015
Taylor Swift Inspired John Fogerty to Play Vegas
Vegas is big in the world of Advancement, and a lot of people just love it for some reason. Not me, but I guess that's just Overtness. Anyway, I still found it surprising that John Fogerty is taking his act there:
Fogerty is indeed going to Vegas, and bringing a new show with him. The 70-year-old rock icon describes Peace, Love and Creedence — set for eight performances at the Venetian Theatre, inside the Venetian Las Vegas, between Jan. 8 and Jan. 23 — as an extension of the "1969" tour he launched in 2014 to commemorate the year Creedence released the albums Bayou Country, Green River and Willy and the Poor Boys. "The production we've been doing certainly had extra elements, a lot of visual elements," says Fogerty, who plans to perform other band and solo favorites, from Have You Ever Seen the Rain? to Centerfield. "We're going to use that as a frame of reference, and see if we shake it up a little bit." Fogerty has taken daughter Kelsy "to see Taylor Swift, who I really love"Even more surprising is how unsurprising it is that, like everyone, he loves Taylor Swift. Hates his old band, loves Taylor Swift. Really, he wasn't inspired to play Vegas because of his love for Swift, he was just commenting on all the choreography in her show and how his show would likely not live up to that, but it's still fun that he loves her.
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Labels: CCR, john fogerty, las vegas, taylor swift
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Did my hair about a week ago and am still loving the colours J did for me this time! I love colours but didnt dare to do as Im pretty afraid of having damaged hair but J7image proved me wrong again and again. This time I went for Blue, Purple and pink(which turned to purple in the end).
We started with bleaching the ends of my hair, Yes I bleached for the 3rd time within a year :x I didnt take de process of the dying because I looked like a Medusa which was pretty ugly.
Close up of the hair when its straight and curled.
Side View & Back view
Front view and the awesome stylist that took up the challenge. hehe^^
This was taken few days after heading to the salon, I would curl my hair to sleep every night just so to wake up with pretty curled hair. LOL.
J7Image is really packed for the CNY but Im pretty sure they would be willing to slot you in if you give them a ring(not to mention how hardworking they are to actually work into the wee hours so that their customers can have pretty hair for CNY)
Mention my name Trina and get 20% off all services during cny period.
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27th January 2017
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Local groups and organisations with great ideas to make their communities even better places to live are now invited to apply for funding to turn their ideas into reality.
The People's Health Trust Active Communities scheme is now open in Essex and Southend on Sea.
Active Communities is a funding programme for community groups and not-for-profit organisations, with an income of less than £350,000 a year or an average of £350,000 over two years, seeking funds of £5,000 – £50,000 for 2 year projects.
They're looking for great ideas from communities of interest, groups of people who have things in common and wish to come together to address something that is important to them. These ideas could be based in one neighbourhood, or cover a wider area.
Small and local projects, genuinely designed and run by local people from an estate, in a few streets or villages.
There is a run a two stage application process that begins with a short online form. If interested in this funding email Gemma Cartwright, Funding & Development Officer at SAVS using email@example.com or call 01702 356008. Gemma can speak to you more about your idea and support you in the application process.
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Hello you, the future me,
I am talking to you. And since you are reading this, let me tell you something, that probably no one has told you yet. You survived. Yes. That's right. You fought valiantly, and have survived it all. You fought each of those moments where you thought that it's time to give up, that it's time you take a break, that you have had enough, that life's been unfair to you and that there is no God that exists, because well, if he did, then why would he allow you to go through all the sufferings and pain and failures. There have been moments where you had the fundamental question, that each suffering soul asks, "why me? Why me, when I did no wrong to anyone".
But what matters is this: You fought each of those moments, even if at times you sort of spared a moment thinking about giving in to these thoughts but didn't. What matters today is that you stood strong on your ground, on your belief system, and that you went on to live, either with it or around it. Let me tell you what all you have gone through already, as of this last day of this August month of 17.
You made some terrible choices. Terrible choice of your University to graduate from. A terrible choice of trying to protect your high school love, so hard that you suffocated that person right out of your life. You took away someone's freedom, thinking that you only meant the best for that person. Because you thought what you believed was the only truth. Because you thought world is either black or white. Right or wrong. Your way, else it's the highway. Well guess what, when you give people choices in binaries, you lose them altogether.
Quite recently, Facebook popped up with one of your pained poems from the year 2014. You know, the ones which show This Day That Year. I don't know if they still feature that, at the time when you are reading this. Anyway. Upon going back to that Facebook post, you saw that the post from 2014 was itself a re-share from the year 2012. So 2012-14-17, at the exact same time of the year, in fact the same dates even, you have been at the very same cross roads. In these 5 years you have physically moved on, but you remained stuck in the same time stamp. Your anthem still remains Johnny Cash's Hurt. Yes, you are still listening to it, even right now, while sitting alone through the night at Ranchi for your cursed project. You still catch re-runs of How I Met Your Mother, tagging yourself to Ted Mosby guy, with all his emotional mess ups.
You barely moved on with one heart ache, and you fell in love again, with another beautiful soul. Or so you thought. You remained committed, changed your entire life plans for this one girl. Almost tied down with her. But. Again. All in vain. But a different story this time. You loved someone who could not love you back the same way. Yet another wrong choice. Her loss I guess because I know am damn good at loving!
You had brilliant job offers, one from Microsoft, and another from Intel. But being the kind of weirdo you have always been, you let go of them again. You chose an extremely low paying choice which grilled your ass like never before. You failed terribly in this job, because you thought you knew it all within first 10 months of getting into it. Pride came your way. Humility sort of got covered under Harry Potter's invisibility cloak. Its presence would be felt at certain occasions, but temporarily disappeared.
Because of your own poor self-care, you screwed up with your health. A 23 year old who is currently looking like the digits were reversed. Typhoid, that got back within a month, a spinal injury going worse, since 2011. And pained muscles all over. Why? Wrong choices.
So what good has this life been so far to you? What is it that you believed? What is it that still never deterred you from taking the wrong calls? Why are you reading this, years down from today?
Now here's the good part. Enough with the self-roasting.
You have always believed in miracles. You have a very simple attitude – if one wants something, real badly, he is supposed to go down all the way down. Fighting every single bad, to get what he wants. Not letting anything rest on the weak shoulders of destiny.
You never give up. Even when you failed in your job, you took ahead plenty of learnings ahead, made a place for yourself among the best of minds around. Even at times when your body tried to give up, you pulled off another all-nighter completing the task in hand. Because you loved doing what you were doing, which was NOT sitting in a cubicle compiling tons of codes.
You know love. You understand love. You have loved people around you with all your honestly and commitment. You crave for love. You have always been surrounded by it. Your parents are like no one else's. Who have seen you in your worst, in your best, in your most horrible choices, in the prime of your times. Your family, your cousins, your friends. For times when you had thoughts of letting go and start leading a life just so simple, it has been these beautiful loving souls, the true loves of your life, who didn't let you fall back. Who stood behind you to push you to walk another mile, when you thought it's time to sit on a boulder and maybe sleep for a while.
What is your belief system? It's simple. Do no bad to anyone. The checks and balances will be taken care by the energies of the Universe. You have a habit of not giving up on someone else. Then why give up on yourself?
Times right now are messed up my friend. You are perhaps about to get jobless 16 days from now. You have no idea what you are doing in your life. The levels of unsurity of where life is taking you is pretty damn high. But isn't that sort of exciting too? When you went for hiking, in Kasauli all by yourself, you had no clue where the unravelled roads led, but you still went ahead, right? And then! Your age is on your side! You are just 23! You are NOT supposed to be all sorted out, right? I mean, if everything was sorted already, then what is the purpose of life? If all the questions are pre-answered, then what are you here to solve?
Intuitions. Go with your intuitions. You have held yourself back way too much. Stop seeking approvals from others. You are you. You are what makes you, you. Makes sense that way. There are plenty of others, out there, but just one piece of you. Go write another poem. Go ahead with your book. Go ahead with composing the songs you want. No one's stopping you from having the long mane. Unless ofcourse you are having a hairloss problem!
So even if nothing makes sense right now, we are going to go ahead with whatever occurs next. In all the failures up till now, we both have realized one thing. In the end, it all works out. Maybe that happens the hard way, but you just happen to land where you are supposed to land. You might have taken a longer route, a detour, a path with pain, a tiresome road, but nevertheless. You reach where you planned and wanted to reach. You know that, in your heart. The loses you have had, were something that you did hope for to happen at some tiny timid part of your soul, which you tried to suppress. But well, the timid guy is mostly the right guy too!
So whatever it is that you went through, are going through, will be going through by the time you re-read this, they were all planned by you, yourself. The thought of it occurring was already beamed by you into the Universe. Hence, their occurrence. Just like when you toss the coin, you know which side of it you prefer to land on your palm.
Learn to cope up at your own sweet pace. If you are pained, then allow the tears to roll. And if you are joyous, then bring out that smile through your, I hope the still existent, beard and moustache.
Look man, end of the day, your mates will be there to help you out of the well of your troubles, but it is going to be you who has to climb your way up.
I am sure you are about to, or even better, already featured on that 30 under 30 magazines. Know this much. We both have gone through shit because we don't know how to play it safe. We are the stubborn kind. And no matter how much people suggest that we take a break, that we must take the safe path, just don't. After all,
"Every Second That's Passing By Is Becoming Your Past. Better Make It Into A Story Worth Telling Tomorrow!"
We are the different kind. We do not "accept" things in their generic packaging. We generate our own goals, and make sure we get them.
Good night,


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It was an honor to share my perspective as a Jew and diversity professional at Chattanooga's MLK interfaith service commemorating The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. My passion for diversity is a legacy from my father, a US World War II military intelligence officer whose letters describing Nazi Germany reside in Cincinnati's American Jewish Archives. Having dedicated decades to tikkun olam, Hebrew for 'repair of the world,' I resonate deeply to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel words, "Racism is man's gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."
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WEST FRIO RIVER. The West Frio River rises in northeastern Real County (at 30°00' N, 99°45' W) and flows nineteen miles roughly parallel to Farm Road 336 to join the East Frio River at U.S. Highway 83 in Leakey (at 29°44' N, 99°45' W). The Short Prong of the West Frio River rises in north central Real County (at 30°00' N, 99°49' W) and runs south for eight miles to join the West Frio River near Prade Ranch (at 29°54' N, 99°46' W). Other major tributaries include Long and Short Kent creeks and Cedar and South Cedar creeks. West Frio River is dammed in its upper reaches. It flows from an area of resistant ledges and low cuestas surfaced by shallow, stony soils that support live oak, juniper, and grasses into flat terrain surfaced by clay and sandy loam that supports water-tolerant hardwoods, conifers, and grasses.
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I can't get over how fast this month has gone - especially the last part of it. This afternoon I had a lovely visit with my cousin, while her husband worked in my room, trying to set up a wifi router for me. Sadly, we couldn't get it to work. I'll have to talk to the tech guy for our building, because we were talking at one time that it was possible. I have a wifi only i-pad and I would like to be able to use it in my living room. It'll make accessing sketches an such on Pinterest much easier. I can tap into a network down in the common room, but sometimes I don't feel like packing up my stuff to go down there.
After dinner, my cousin, me and a good friend all went out for a dessert to celebrate my friend's birthday tomorrow. I'll take her to dinner for her actual birthday, but my cousin and her family are leaving in the afternoon, so this was our one chance to get together. We had a lovely time.
A quick card... I made this one a while ago and didn't blog it. Well, I think I made it. To be honest, I'm not sure this card is one I made at stamp club, or one I bought from my demo's stash of cards she periodically likes to purge. There was nothing on the back, so it's possible that I made it. If I did make it, I would have had to have done so at a Club night because I don't own this set; I don't actually even remember what it's called. I used it for a friend's Christmas card; I always knew exactly who this one would be for, because the friend in question loves angels.
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Crewe & Nantwich: 01270 652488
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Stoke-on-Trent: 01782 889991
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Our work ranges from one day jobs of just changing doors to larger kitchen makeovers and new design and fit bespoke fitted kitchens. Kitchen alterations and extensions. We take care of everything: electrics, plumbing, plastering, tiling walls and floors, bricklayers, roofers etc.
We offer a free consultation, design and advice service. Give us a call we would be happy to help with advice or answer any questions you may have. Tel 01270 652488.
We ask for 30% deposit where customers are paying for the kitchen, the rest is payable on completion. Finance deals are available through Ideal 4 Finance, and we can help with this.
We deal with five manufacturers generally they offer a 5 year warranty.
The existing doors are removed and the position of your hinges is measured, the new doors are then cut on site to the existing hinge positions so there are no unwanted holes in the cabinet or new doors. Existing hinges can be used or they can be replaced with new soft close hinges. Note drawer fronts are fitted to your existing draws, we can fit new draws where needed.
Kitchens have decor end panels the same colour as the doors fixed to the sides of cabinets, we do the same thing for kitchen makeovers. Where we cannot put panels we use a strong adhesive vinyl to cover the old colour. Usually new cornice, pelmet and plinths are fitted in place of the old ones. Note many modern kitchens do not have cornice or pelmets so the old ones can just be removed.
We have a large range of handles which we will show you. The doors are drilled on site to position new handles, the customer is consulted as to their preferred position. Existing handles can be used if you prefer, which will also save cost, we will remove and fit existing handles if requested. Maybe you will go for a handless style?
It normally takes 3 weeks to get made to measure doors from our suppliers, then it will depend on our order book.
Using our quality laser cut vinyl wrapped doors from a number of the major manufacturers, a standard size kitchen makeover can be anything from £1500 to £2500, with worktops up to £3000. Note just kitchen doors will be less. We will not be beaten on any like for like quote. Our solid wood doors are more expensive we have Ash and Oak doors.
Existing appliances, sinks and taps can be reused. We can supply new ones or you could get your own and we would fit them.
Example of monthly payments for standard size kitchens over 3 years can be £80 to £100 per month.
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WorkWise Computer Solutions is your source for A+ and Microsoft Certified IT network design, support, and services around Kona.
With over 20 years experience, 10 years with a variety of businesses in Kona (formerly, Kona Mobile Computers), we understand your specific IT needs and challenges. Our biggest value to you is our reliable, quick response team. You'll know that we will be prompt, professional and get results. Our experts will sync your computers, tablets, printers, phones and technology devices in one efficient network that is fast, safe and secure. Working on-site, remotely, or in our shop, you'll see our service gives you peace of mind.


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By Eric SchweibenzOn January 10, 2012, Eastman Kodak Company ("Kodak") filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337.
The complaint alleges that Apple, Inc. of Cupertino, California, High Tech Computer Corp. a/k/a HTC Corp. of Taiwan, HTC America, Inc. of Bellevue, Washington, and Exedea, Inc. of Houston, Texas (collectively, the "Proposed Respondents") unlawfully import into the U.S., sell for importation, and/or sell within the U.S. after importation certain electronic devices for capturing and transmitting images and components thereof that infringe one or more claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,210,161 (the '161 patent), 7,742,084 (the '084 patent), 7,453,605 (the '605 patent), 7,936,391 (the '391 patent), and 6,292,218 (the '218 patent).
According to the complaint, the '161, '084, '605, and '391 patents are directed to technology allowing a user to "easily share images with friends, relatives, or publishing services from their digital cameras--as opposed to first downloading the images to their personal computers--using an improved, highly efficient user interface." The '218 patent is directed to "the first effective color preview for a digital camera," referring to the display that allows a user to preview a scene and subsequently view a captured image on a digital camera.
The complaint alleges that Apple, Inc. ("Apple") infringes the '161, '084, '605, and '391 patents "by importing and/or selling after importation devices that directly infringe, contribute to infringement, and induce infringement either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents." Kodak points to the iPad 2, iPod touch, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S as representative infringing devices. The complaint similarly accuses HTC Corp., HTC America, Inc., and Exedea, Inc. (collectively, "HTC") of infringing the '161, '084, '605, and '391 patents based on representative devices HTC EVO View 4g, Flyer, and Jetstream. HTC is further alleged to infringe the '218 patent based in particular on Kodak's analysis of the HTC Vivid camera phone and the EVO View 4G handheld tablet.
As to related litigation, the complaint describes a patent infringement case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York accusing different defendants of infringing the '218 patent and patents related to the '161, '084, '391, and 605 patents. This suit was settled with a license bearing royalties to Kodak, and dismissed with prejudice. The '218 patent (among others) has also been asserted against different defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and again in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York with identical results. Kodak filed a complaint for violation of Section 337 against various respondents (different from the present complaint) in relation to the '218 patent (among others), and this case has been settled favorably for Kodak and terminated (Investigation No. 337-TA-663, see our March 12, 2010 post for more details). Kodak filed another Section 337 case against various respondents, including Apple, based on the '218 patent and other patents which has been remanded and is currently under investigation (Investigation No. 337-TA-703, see our August 8, 2011 post for more details on the original initial determination). RIM Ltd. and RIM Corp. filed a declaratory judgment action against Kodak in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas seeking a determination that they did not infringe the '218 patent, among others, and that these patents were invalid and unenforceable. This case remains pending. Kodak filed a case against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York alleging infringement of the '218 patent, among others. This case is stayed. The complaint describes that two ex parte reexamination requests were filed against the '218 patent. These requests were merged and a Rexamination Certificate was issued confirming all claims as patentable without amendment. Concurrent with the filing of this complaint, Kodak filed suit against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York alleging infringement of the '161, '084, '605 and '391 patents and filed a separate suit in the same court against HTC alleging infringement of the '161, '084, '605, '391, and '218 patents.
Kodak asserts that it meets both the economic and technical prongs of the domestic industry requirement, arguing that it has "made substantial investments in the United States in continuously developing advanced technologies that incorporate the inventions claimed in the [asserted patents]." The complaint also alleges that Kodak has made substantial investments in licensing its digital imaging portfolio which includes several of the asserted patents. Last, Kodak points out that domestic industry was previously considered by the Commission in relation to the '218 patent and it was found that Kodak satisfies the domestic industry requirement.
With respect to potential remedy, the complaint requests the Commission to issue a permanent limited exclusion order barring entry into the U.S. of Proposed Respondents' devices or components thereof that infringe the '161, '084, '605, '391, and/or '218 patents. Kodak also requests permanent cease and desist orders directed at the Proposed Respondents, directing each domestic Proposed Respondent to cease and desist from importing, marketing, selling, etc. imported devices or components that infringe the '161, '084, '605, '391, and/or '218 patents.


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For Cameron, 'bizarre' only begins to sum up season
Cam Cameron conducted himself with class and composure at news conferences, from the season's first day to its last.
If only he hadn't needed so much schooling as an NFL head coach.
"Bizarre may be a good description at times," Cameron said, repeating back a reporter's word related to 2007.
It was bizarre in terms of the number and severity of starters' injuries. It was bizarre in terms of the trip to England, Zach Thomas' postgame accident and the Pittsburgh field conditions. It was bizarre in terms of the total collapse of a previously solid defense.
Cameron also brought some of the "bizarre" upon himself.
He made odd comments ("the Ginn family") that undermined his public credibility. He made puzzling clock management decisions. He made unconventional team management choices as early as the exhibition season, whether resting his veterans or choosing not to coach the final game.
He seemed to validate the organization's initial impression: His first interview had been more stiff than stellar. His second, after the Chargers lost to the Patriots, secured the job.
Would his second season be better, too? It might. Even Bill Parcells was 3-12-1 in his first Giants season.
Still, it was hard not to note the All-American Rejects song playing late in another loss:
Move Along.
As with bad snap, Beck's future is out of his hands
On his first snap in three games, rookie quarterback John Beck lost the ball. Again. An opponent raced for a touchdown. Again.
"Got to get the ball before you can make a play," he said.
Soon, officially, Beck will lose more than that.
He will lose his advocates.
After Bill Parcells dismisses Randy Mueller and Cam Cameron, as expected, Beck's status will change as much as any other Dolphin. The 2007 second-round selection will go from star pupil of two purported QB gurus to just another nearly 27-year-old quarterback trying to impress a notoriously demanding NFL executive.
That executive was in the press box to see Beck drop that snap.
That executive had already left his viewing post by the time Beck threw his first NFL touchdown with 36 seconds left in a forgettable season.
Parcells surely will watch tape of Beck's 107 passes. Will he see what Mueller saw? Will he see accuracy, savvy, moxie? Or will he see someone too far from ready? Will he project a leader, who can command a huddle? Or will he see a project?
"Most rookies don't get an opportunity to be on the field," Beck said. "I want to take as much out of it as I possibly can."
That means practice, study. That might not be enough.
"It's out of our hands," Beck said.
He was referring to the next round of decisions, not the snap. Sunday, either applied.
Parcells might tap Cowboys' personnel for top positions
It is time to change the way you think about the Dolphins.
Everything they have done before? Irrelevant.
All that matters is what Bill Parcells has done before, and which people he trusts to help him do it again.
So it is not so significant whether Tony Sparano is a household name. Or whether he was a name the Dolphins considered before hiring Cam Cameron. (He wasn't.)
What is significant now is that Parcells knows his name. He knows it well. According to sources, Sparano is the clear leader among a group of unheralded assistants whose common tie is a relationship to him. Others include Mike Zimmer, Todd Haley and Maurice Carthon (a minority candidate).
Parcells can use patience in choosing the next coach, because few teams figure to be looking, and even fewer at the same candidates.
So who is Sparano?
He is the 44-year-old offensive line coach and assistant head coach whom many credit, along with Cowboys offensive coordinator Jason Garrett and some rather good players, for the success of the Dallas offense. He also has a strong working relationship with Jeff Ireland, the Cowboys' personnel executive who is Parcells' likely target to replace Randy Mueller.
Sparano is well-regarded by players, particularly for his straightforward style.
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When A. A. Milne had Winnie the Pooh amble onto the literary scene in 1926, the last thing he was thinking was that Pooh would become a Daoist sage like Chuang Tzu. Milne, originally a playwright, found inspiration for the legendary bear from his son Christopher Robin's stuffed teddy bear, named Winnie the Pooh; however, it should be noted that while Milne breathed life into the bear, it was the artist E.H. Shepard who gave Pooh his iconic form. The combination of Pooh's form, his distinct personality, and his eclectic circle of friends were nothing short of genius, the stuff, as we say, that legends are made of. Why?
For children, the answer is quite simple: this adorable bunch of animals bumbling through life and trying to solve their problems in creative, unconventional ways evokes laughter, but as we get older, we begin to realize that Pooh's propensity to charm moves beyond his ability to make us laugh. We realize that there is a profundity to his understanding of the world, a profundity that seems to be rooted in his lack of anxiety about everyday life—despite his initial reaction of "oh bother" to most situations, in reality, nothing actually bothers him.
One reason for Pooh's perpetual serenity can be found in Milne's decision to do something novel in his Pooh books: he opted to shy away from many of the familiar words and concepts that saturated (and continue to saturate) children's literature; for example, the words "school" and "toys" are never mentioned in the books (it was Disney who sent Pooh to school). By not sending the honey-loving bear, who ironically loves to "think, think, think," to school or even introducing the concept to him, Pooh never experienced any of the potential negative effects that external structures, like school, can have, so he remained free to "think, think, think" as he wanted; additionally, he could express his thoughts while still being a notoriously bad or, as he says, a "wobbly" speller, because spelling rules made no difference to him or anyone else in the Hundred Acre Woods. Being allowed to think and write devoid of spelling rules let Pooh focus all his attention on the meaning of the words, not on how they were spelled, which may explain why he is such a profound thinker— what other children's character could say, "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you"? None. But, Pooh's ability to express his feelings goes well beyond him being allowed to misspell words.
Much of Pooh's passion for expression stems from his unconditional love for his oddball circle of friends. While we all strive to love unconditionally, and most of us achieve this, especially with our children, there are those moments when our acceptance for the weird or the outrageous becomes a little too much and our love wanes or simply turns to dislike; for Pooh this is never the case. Whether he spends all day searching for Eeyore's tail or listening to Owl babble on and on about random insignificant facts, he is never dismissive, judgmental, or mean to his friends; this attitude of unfettered acceptance ultimately allows him to love them openly and boundlessly all the time. And perhaps this is why 87 years after Christopher Robin dragged Pooh down the stairs and into our living rooms he remains legendary.
Happy Pooh Day.
Below are some ideas to celebrate National Pooh Day:
- Make honey cookies
- Watch a pooh movie
- Take a walk in the woods
- Read about bears
- Visit the Central Children's Room of the Donnell Library Center at the New York Public
- Library where Christopher Robin's original stuffed animals are housed
- Buy honey at a local green market
- Wear a red shirt
- Talk about a favorite Winnie the Pooh quote
- Make a resolution based on a characteristic of Pooh
- Take some time and do one of Pooh's favorite activities: nothing
By Maria Smilios


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Police in Edinburgh are appealing for information in order to trace a 41-year-old woman who is missing from the south of the city.
Fiona McMasters was last seen around 3.50pm on Tuesday, August 8, in the South Morningside area.
She has not been seen since and officers are growing increasingly concerned for her welfare.
Fiona is described as a white woman with a larger build. She is around 5ft 7" in height with shoulder length dark brown curly hair.
She was last seen wearing a red fleece with a grey jumper, a pink t-shirt and grey trainers. She was also carrying a dark rucksack and a large shopping bag.
Inspector George Nisbet of Craigmillar Police Station said: "Fiona has now been missing for some time and we are eager to trace her as soon as possible.
"I would ask anyone who has seen Fiona, or recognises her description, to get in touch with us as soon as possible.
"I would also ask Fiona if she does see this message to make contact with police to let us know her whereabouts."
Those with information are asked to contact officers at Craigmillar Police Station on 101, quoting incident 3712 of August 8.


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Appeals handled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) present issues one should be concerned with whether one works in real estate or business. Back in March of this year CFPB Director Cordray presided over the oral arguments in the first appeal hearing of an administrative action. In the case heard on appeal two companies were alleged to have given and received millions of dollars in payments through a "captive" mortgage reinsurance agreement. The argument was that these payments constituted kickbacks that violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. The facts of the case itself are not that important for those not involved in the case. Rather, what is important is the way the appeal is handled.
CFPB's Rules of Practice for Adjudication Proceedings
The rules for these appeals are laid out in the CFPB's Rules of Practice for Adjudication Proceedings. Specifically the appeals in question are appeals of an administrative law judge's recommended decision to the CFPB director. A party who wants to appeal a recommendation must go through this process if it wants judicial review even though the recommendation does not become final until after the director approves it. The rules also provide for strict and short timelines in this appeals process. This may seem like a positive aspect as many parties wish the legal process did not typically take so long. However, it is possible that these short turnaround times will ultimately favor the agency over other parties. Other rules also appear to favor the agency fairly heavily. This is mainly because they grant the CFPB director broad discretion in reaching a ruling.
Examples of Director's Broad Discretion
The rules grant the director broad discretion in reviewing recommended decisions. They do not provide a standard of review that the director is required to follow. They allow the director to determine matters (and even raise matters) outside the notice of appeal at any point before he or she issues a final decision. The director has the authority to schedule oral arguments whenever the director believes it would be helpful, and those arguments can be as long or short as the director would like. Whether oral arguments are held is completely up to the director, although it can be requested by a party on the first page of its opening brief. What this all means is that parties do have the ability to appeal, but the director has extraordinary discretion when it comes to deciding the outcome of the appeal.
A Party Can Request Reconsideration
A party can request reconsideration of the director's final decision within 14 days of the service of the final decision. However, the only basis for one of these requests is if some new issue or matter has come up that the party never had the opportunity to argue to the director previously. The parties can seek judicial review of the director's decision. The CFPB rules provide very little guidance regarding that procedure.


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The other day I came across a riddle, jesting about women wearing hair weaves. It struck a chord.
I don't wear hair weaves or extensions, or fake nails, or put collegians in my lips, or wear panty butt lifters, or invest in breast augmenters… or buy into many other artificial rooters that might improve my looks. Heck, I've been singing for years about not paying content editors to erase my writing voice.
BUT!!! I do pluck my brows, or at least I try to. Occasionally I'll throw on a coat of lipstick and mascara my lashes. I also manicure and paint my nails, but I must gingerly select what I add to my original package. Ask anyone who really knows me. Let me be sitting in a formal meeting and get hot. I'd forget all about I was wearing extra hair and pull it right off and sit it on a table. Or let me get bored, and I'd get to playing with my contacts and pull them out and sit on the table too.
Still, in other ways I also work on my image. Back on track and the point being, it doesn't matter what it is that a person wishes to enhance. Be it to influence someone, or to impress him or her own-self, I respect your thing…however you choose to enhance it, like I value my thing.
I remember when the Afro was in, and thick lips and large behinds not so much. Today copycats have switched this swagger around. Almost everybody is trying to toot them lips and behinds, and wearing hair as straight and as long as the floor.
The real irony about valuing our own thing, is when we don't, someone else will. It bemuses me to hear someone scoff about how a native work was copied, or stolen, and credit given to the copycats. This happens when we sit idly by these precious creations, not using our own voices…and the mediums we have access to, for whatever our motives are...waiting for a larger voice to appraise it. Welp, when they do, they copy it and run off with it.
And not that I have it all worked out, but I do my best not to wait on cues to talk up and celebrate the noble works and lives of others, both known and unknown. This open celebration is not based on skin color or whether or not I like the artist or author. My admiration and respect is solely based on whether the work really moved me; the same way I value my own thing too.
Looking forward to observing Black History Month.


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Down in Arkansas, a state representative named Jon Hubbard recently made headlines when people started noticing that he had called American slavery a "blessing in disguise."
The claim appears in his self-published book Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative, but you don't have to buy the book to read his thoughts; they appear on his campaign website.
In an essay posted there, Hubbard writes that "for our brothers and sisters of the black race, as hard as it may be to understand and appreciate, slavery just might have been a blessing in disguise, as well as their most difficult challenge ever. Maybe, just maybe, God had a plan for what he allowed to happen."
To explain, Hubbard writes that the descendants of slaves were eventually blessed because "they would one day reap the reward handed down to them by their brave ancestors: that of being an American." Hubbard contrasts black Americans' living conditions in the modern United States with the conditions he believes they would face today as "African tribesmen living in grass huts and constantly searching for their food," whose "existence and lifestyle … has been almost unchanged since the beginning of time."
As cartoonish and condescending as Hubbard's historical claim is, it's presented as the meditation of a Christian who believes that God can use any sort of horrible event for good. To the extent that Hubbard is simply saying that God moves in mysterious ways, then, he isn't necessarily endorsing slavery itself as a good thing. Unfortunately — and maybe to the surprise of nobody who knows the American South — that's not all he is saying.
The problem isn't simply that Hubbard seems to think that Africans all wear grass skirts and dance around pots of boiling missionaries all day. That would be bad enough; it's just an updating of what slavery's defenders said in the nineteenth century. No, Hubbard doesn't stop there.
On Hubbard's website, the essay on African slavery is followed immediately by an essay on "the legacy of the Baby Boomers." Tucked into that essay in a bizarre paragraph (highlighted in yellow for reasons that are not clear) is this thought about public education:
The integration of our public schools was a major challenge that was designed to close the gap between blacks and whites in the area of education. After the initial shock of this decision, it was understood that by bringing blacks and whites together into a common school system, it would eventually be a good thing for everyone. One of the stated purposes of school integration was to bring black students up to a level close to that of white students. But, to the great disappointment of everyone, the results of this theory worked exactly in reverse of its intended purpose, and instead of black students rising to the educational levels previously attained by white students, the white students dropped to the level of black students. To make matters worse, the lack of discipline and ambition of black students soon became shared by their white classmates, and our educational system has been in a steady decline ever since. This is not a racist statement, but a valid and realistic evaluation of what has actually happened to our schools. One totally unexpected result of public school integration was that along with the decline in educational achievement in this country came a dramatic rise in crime over that same time period. [Emphasis added.]
It's hardly necessary for me to point out that any claim requiring the clarification "this is not a racist statement" is almost certainly a racist statement. That said, I can't find a way to read that paragraph as anything but a qualified (actually somewhat cowardly) but firm endorsement of racial segregation. To remove all doubt, Hubbard even tells us that the reason school desegregation was a bad thing is that black students infected white students with their laziness.
To their credit, Republican leaders in Arkansas (for Hubbard is a Republican) are anxious to avoid the taint of his racism. Arkansas GOP chairman Doyle Webb said that Hubbard's remarks on slavery "were highly offensive to many Americans and do not reflect the viewpoints of the Republican Party of Arkansas." Webb also, however, said that state Democrats' efforts to capitalize on Hubbard's indiscretion were "distractions." (Hubbard, for his part, has accused Democrats of "Nazi-style political intimidation.")
Unfortunately, the understandable fury over Hubbard's relatively innocuous "blessing in disguise" line is obscuring the practical depth of his evident racism.
Hubbard's belief that school desegregation led to the academic ruin of white children is part of a complex of ideas that have led him, as a state legislator, to sponsor a Birther bill, English-only bills, a bill making it a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant, and a bill diverting some public-school funds to homeschoolers. And his book Letters to the Editor claims that immigration, "both legal and illegal," threatens to overwhelm Western countries — due to overpopulation that will lead to "planned wars or extermination" that "will at some point become as necessary as eating and breathing."
It's possible to support each of those initiatives or ideas without being a racist. But that's pretty clearly not what is happening in Jon Hubbard's case.
Anyway, to get back around to what this post was supposed to be about when I started it, I'd like to direct your attention to something the excellent Ta-Nehisi Coates posted this week: "The Hyperlinked Ballad of Jarm Logue."
When I saw Coates's post, I sat up straighter. For two years, I lived a few hundred yards from a neglected little wedge of public land called Loguen Park, in the city of Syracuse:
That strip of land is how I first learned about Jarm Logue, a.k.a the Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen, escaped slave and all-around abolitionist badass.
Coates does a great job telling Loguen's story, using Loguen's own words (always the best way). What really stands out in Loguen's account is his defiance. He refused to bow, not just to the literal torture of slavery (seriously — go read about the sadism he endured), but to all economic and political ideas that would tend to ratify his enslavement. For example, in a letter to his "owner's" wife, he scoffed at the idea that stealing a horse to escape from slavery made him a thief, and he mocked the idea that he owed a debt of compassion or gratitude to the slaveowning Logue family.
Indeed, Loguen, a Christian preacher, was condemning all attempts to use sentimentality to deny the reality of the injustice done to him:
Nevertheless I am indignant beyond the power of words to express, that you should be so sunken and cruel as to tear the hearts I love so much all in pieces; that you should be willing to impale and crucify us out of all compassion for your poor foot or leg. Wretched woman! Be it known to you that I value my freedom, to say nothing of my mother, brothers and sisters, more than your whole body; more, indeed, than my own life; more than all the lives of all the slaveholders and tyrants under Heaven.
You say you have offers to buy me, and that you shall sell me if I do not send you $1,000, and in the same breath and almost in the same sentence, you say, "you know we raised you as we did our own children." Woman, did you raise your own children for the market? Did you raise them for the whipping-post? Did you raise them to be drove off in a coffle in chains? Where are my poor bleeding brothers and sisters? Can you tell?
Who was it that sent them off into sugar and cotton fields, to be kicked, and cuffed, and whipped, and to groan and die; and where no kin can hear their groans, or attend and sympathize at their dying bed, or follow in their funeral? Wretched woman! Do you say you did not do it? Then I reply, your husband did, and you approved the deed — and the very letter you sent me shows that your heart approves it all.


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George Herbert: The Anglican poet-priest lived both a public and an inner spiritual life
Urban myth has it that someone walked into a high street jeweller to buy a gold cross and the shop assistant asked, "Do you want a plain one or the one with the little man on?" If true, the story must resonate with John Drury: Music at Midnight takes it sadly for granted that modern readers of George Herbert are no longer attuned to Jesus Christ as a sign, asking, "Is this a problem?"
The title Music at Midnight refers to an anecdote told by Izaak Walton, Herbert's first biographer. On his way to join some musician friends, Herbert stopped to help a man whose horse had fallen under its load. The usually "trim and clean" Herbert was soon covered in mud and, arriving at his destination, promptly questioned about his appearance. His answer was that the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight. Herbert said, "I would not willingly pass one day of my life without comforting a sad soul, or showing mercy; and I praise God for the occasion." The anecdote nicely encapsulates several strands in Drury's Life: the musicality of Herbert's verse, the fastidiousness of the man, how the poetry still has the capacity to comfort sad souls, and how Christianity proved the motivating force in Herbert's life.
Born in 1593 into an aristocratic and well-connected family, Herbert seemed destined for high office at court but after a series of personal crises, including the loss of his beloved mother, he turned instead to the Anglican priesthood. Herbert's poetry is shot through with Christian symbolism and Drury suspects that for it to retain some appeal for generations to whom Jesus is nothing more than "the little man" on a crucifix, the sacred references within the secular must be made palatable.
As a biblical scholar and Chaplain and Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, Drury is adept at catching religious intonation in Herbert's verse, what he calls the "religious meta-narrative". For those who might doubt the ability of a biblical scholar to "do" literature, Drury comes to the task refreshingly free from any theoretical tics acquired in the modern English faculty and instead reads the poetry as a critic who knows why people continue to read Herbert: poetry need be no more than spiritual succour in moments of dejection. "The modern reader," he says, "can be free from intellectual reserve and enjoy Herbert's poetry (to use his own word) 'heart deep'."


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MemMaid is simply packed with neat tools to keep your "smartphone" or PDA running smoothly. It can work with plugins, find and remove databases, do wildcard searches, and more. If you have a PDA or smartphone this is a program you must have. For all these reasons, MemMaid is not only one of my Picks, but it's also one of my Dr. File Finder Favorites and there aren't very many of those. Take a look for yourself and you'll see what I mean. I recommend it highly.
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The dream of housewives and bachelors alike: someone who does all the housecleaning regularly, thoroughly and inexpensively.
I've been a Pocket PC / mobile device user for a lot of years now, and have never felt the need to run a memory manager type utility. Like many 'power' users, I've always tended to feel that I knew my devices well enough, and knew how to babysit them well enough, that I just didn't need a utility for that. Well, MemMaid has won me over - this is a 'keeper' utility.
This program is a handy addition to everyone's set of utilities. You can search the internet for similar utilities that are freeware, but MemMaid is bundled up in one organized program. The program is easy to use. There is a good help file if you get stuck using the program. I use this program weekly for clean up and as needed when I do a lot of web browsing. I was very surprised the first time I used the memory cleaner to find close to 1M of space freed up on my PPC. My suggestion is to download the program and try it out over the trial period. You'll see how useful it is.
The MemMaid program is a nice well polished tool, integrating under a single interface functionality available in a series of different programs. Some of these are otherwise only available as direct Registry changes, not accessible to most end users. If you're keen to keep your Pocket PC in good shape, and like me like to have it like that, I can recommend this program. It's now installed permanently on my device
MemMaid has really grown on me. While not the only tool I use, it certainly has found a place in my must-have list. For such a paltry sum, one can look over the minor issues (as they will probably be taken care of very quickly if DinarSoft's support is taken into account). Can you live without MemMaid? Yes, but you will be missing out on some great features of your PDA, and you might as well get your moneys worth.
MemMaid is an extremely handy program for the Pocket PC.
I used to regularly delete junk files from my device manually. And since I do software reviews, I also manually remove dead registry entries and orphaned shortcuts. It's not tedious, but after this review, MemMaid will be one of the "must have" applications in my device. Cleaning junk files is just 2 taps away, and so far I haven't had any issues.
I've been looking for utility software for my Pocket PC Phone edition. Something that will help me manage my device's memory. A memory utility software that will do the cleaning of all the leftovers and unwanted files in the memory.
MemMaid has a lot to offer, in that most everything you need for optimising or cleaning your PDA is available via its interface. A lot of these tools are already available on your PDA, and I am sure that you will have come across some of these already – for example, the Today screen changer. There is nothing to stop you doing everything by hand, working your way through your PDA's file structure, looking for, and fixing, the problems. However, MemMaid makes it all so easy – whilst you will have to think about things like DLL Optimisation, the interface makes it as simple and understandable as possible- something I have not mention elsewhere is the excellent help files associated with each tab, probably the best I have come across. You get a neat explanation of the problem, how to fix it, and, in some cases, what to do if something goes wrong – you really couldn't ask for more in this respect. Whilst you may be able to do the cleaning operations on your own, MemMaid will hold your hand through the process, making it as simple and quick as possible. There is a good range of both basic and advanced functions, so, you can choose what to clean or just let the machine do it for you.


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Directories group Yellow's first foray into augmented reality in its app is all about entertainment, but it has plans to get serious with the technology.
Director of innovation and strategy Phil Coop says AR is shifting from use for fun to utility, and using it is part of the company's transition from print to digital.
"It's a bit of test to see how people will react," says Coop. "Yellow has been playing catch up with some of the global providers but we've got a solid commitment from the board to heavily invest in the digital space. "In a low impact way, we can try this out, then we can start to do some more meaningful things with it."
Those could include promoting businesses that are on board with Yellow, he says. "When you're out and about, your phone does become a viewing screen to what's going on around you and Yellow has the biggest business database in New Zealand. As we add reviews and more comprehensive information and richer content like images, we can see how that would work well in an augmented reality environment as well."
For this campaign Yellow is adding a fun element to bus stop AdShels with animations prompted when Yellow app users scan the AdShel markers with their smartphone.
Examples of the animations include a leg wax gone wrong and an over-enthusiastic dancer at a party.
Creative agency True developed the campaign concept and the animation content, which was then supplied to development house Marker Studio to introduce AR to an updated version of the Yellow app.
"We know that good AR relies on being integrated at the start, rather than retro-fitting a creative concept to a technology," says True's managing director Matt Dickinson.
Marker Studio used the software development kit for the AR platform Layar to trigger the animations when markers in the bus shelter creative are scanned. The animations are based on Yellow's six word story creative, introduced in October.
Yellow's iOS app has now been downloaded about 175,000 times.


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To use this application, just type in an N-Number (minus the letter N) and click on the "Search" button above. Here are some basic N-Number rules:
N-Numbers do not exceed five characters in length
N-Numbers start with a number between 1 and 9
Many N-Numbers end in an alpha character (example: 2033D is a valid N-Number)
N-Numbers cannot have a numeric character directly after an alpha character (example: 45H8 is not a valid N-Number)
Once the data is retrieved, a [toggle stylesheet] link will appear above the top-right corner of the data table. You may click on this link to toggle between two sets of background color schemes for the data table.
This web application obtains FAA Aircraft Registration data in real time from the
FAA's Civil Aviation Registry website
via a
custom web service
developed at home at my own expense (in other words: on my own time and dime).
The web service provider scrapes data from the FAA's Registry website for a given N-Number and then produces a custom XML-based file that can be read by virtually any xml-compliant consumer application (regardless of computer development language or Operating System environment).
Here's a
sample xml output file
for N-Number 2033D.
This web page (one that consumes the output of the web service) is one I also developed (again on my own time and dime) to display the data returned by the web service provider in an appealing and user-friendly format. Both applications are programmed in Visual Basic ASP.NET.
As of 9 December, 2004, I've added real-time
data to this app (via another of my own time/dime web services). If an N-Number match is found, NTSB data will be displayed at the bottom of the dataset. If no match is found, no NTSB data is displayed.
As of 19 December, 2004, I've added real-time
FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet
data to this app (via another of my own time/dime web services). If an Aircraft Model match is found, FAA TCDS data corrosponding to the assigned and/or deregistered aircraft model will be displayed near the bottom of the dataset. If no match is found using the complete Model name, then no FAA TCDS data will be displayed.
As of 8 January, 2005, I've added real-time
FAA Service Difficulty Reporting
data to this app (using another of my own time/dime web services). If an N-Number match is found, FAA SDR data corrosponding to the queried N-Number will be displayed near the bottom of the dataset. If no match is found, then no FAA SDR data will be displayed.
As of 17 March, 2005, in an effort to speed up the processing and display of data, I've added asynchronous handling of the web service calls. Basically the three web services that require an N-Number input string are now invoked simultaneously.
As of 20 November, 2005, the AircraftData web service and this website are now based on Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 and written and compiled with Visual Studio 2005.