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"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a 30-minute animated television film released on October 30, 1978, based on the song of the same name. The title character was voiced by Burgess Meredith. The doctors were voiced by Frank Nelson, Charles Woolf, and Regis Cordic.
It was followed by two made-for-TV sequels, Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of Living Lies (1979) and Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody (1982).
The film begins with Puff's narration about a little boy named Jackie Draper, who is filled with so much self-doubt and fear that he has stopped talking altogether. His parents are so concerned that they have three doctors examine him, and they say it is hopeless and that little Jackie will never talk again. Jackie returns to his room, where he sits until Puff comes to his bedroom window and starts a conversation with him.
Puff invites himself in, talks to Jackie about inner happiness, and pulls a long sheet of paper out of a magic bag. He cuts the paper into a paper doll shaped like Jackie and dubs it Jackie Paper. He explains that Jackie Paper can do anything and then asks he if he can put his happiness into it. After he does so, the paper doll version of Jackie comes to life, and Puff then begin to make plans to go to Hannalee, which is located in the sea. Jackie admits he is afraid. Puff then helps Jackie make a boat using things in Jackie's room, such as string, sealing wax, and the frame of his bed.
They set out onto the ocean, where they meet a boat filled with kings and princes in the shape of cards. Afterward Jackie says he was afraid of pirates after hearing about them. They then run into Very Long, a giant pirate who takes them to his island. While they await their fate, Puff says that Very Long will not be scary if they get to know him. They then view his inner desire with Puff's magic smoke rings which have the power to reveal hidden things. It reveals that Very Long secretly wishes to be a baker. Jackie then goes and asks Very Long if he can make pies, which Jackie doubts Long could. After baking dozens of pies, Very Long expresses that he always wanted to be a baker, but never believed he could do it and was afraid he couldn't change from being a pirate. Jackie prompts him to make this change, and Very Long expresses his gratitude to Jackie and Puff.
They continue their journey until they reach the starless sky, where jealous clouds block out the brightness of the stars. One of the stars falls, and Puff instructs Jackie to take the small star to the sky with the boat, which Puff gives butterfly wings. In order for the ship to fly, Puff has to get out of the boat, leaving Jackie alone to face his fears. Jackie then returns the star to the sky, brightening the sky. Puff rewards Jackie with a medal for bravery.
Eventually they reach Hannalee, which, instead of a paradise, turns out to be a gloomy place. This is revealed to be the work of living sneezes that out of depression made the place gloomy to fit their mood. Puff then orders Jackie to leave, as this is no place for him. After that Puff sadly walks to his cave, realizing he wasn't brave enough to defeat the sneezes. He is then reunited with Jackie, who returns with Very Long and his chicken soup to cure the living sneezes of their colds, making them happy. They then return Hannalee to its happy glory by singing.
Once this is done, Puff and Jackie go back to Jackie's room and return Jackie to his body. Puff tells Jackie that thanks to his creativity he is now a brave boy and leaves, saying he will return to visit. Jackie's parents come into the room to find Jackie happy and talking again. They then hug Jackie and express their love for him. The film ends with Puff asking the audience if they just saw a dragon walk by, similar to what he asked Jackie at the beginning of the story.


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May 17th, 2010
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The wedding gift is supposed to be about the couple, not about you, so buying something YOU think is cool, rather than something THEY need or requested is kinda crappy!! Stick to the registry, they exist for a reason!!
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@ Lori-Thanks for that! Registries do exist for a reason! Most couples would not take the time to create one if they really didn't desire/need the stuff. On the other hand, CASH is ALWAYS a timeless gift! You can rarely go wrong there.
May 17th, 2010
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Richard's Variety Store has wonderful give for couples with a sense of humor….
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You can never go wrong with four linen napkins (dinner size): they pack well (good for both giver and receiver); are always appreciated; go with any decor and; if you buy a dozen, you can have enough for two more weddings!
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Charles Willis has beautiful things, and they offer a bridal registry.
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I think you should stick to the registry, if there is one. If none, then I like Macy's and Crate and Barrel for nice, household items. For the big spenders, Nambe.com, for unique household gifts.
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I agree…stick with the registry!! I usually shop at Bed, Bath and Beyond or Macy's for wedding gifts (unless the bride has registered elsewhere).
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I'm currently registered at Macy's, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Fragile (in Sandy Springs). However, although it is probably taboo to officially ask, my fiancé and I would prefer money.
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Stick to the registry. Most couples, especially younger couples need the things they registered for. I do not however need FIVE sets of candlesticks.I agree with the photo session idea though. If you know they didn't get an engagement session I highly recommend doing something like that. I love Tessa Rice photography. http://www.tessarice.com
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I don't have a business for which I'm shamelessly plugging free advertising. Is it still okay if I post something here?
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Lori, somebody failed to teach you that a wedding gift is optional and that you should be grateful for what you get, not what you want. If there's a huge list of things that you need, maybe you and your fiance should purchase them. As far as giving money goes, I'll give a gift card occasionally, but if all the bride and groom want is money, why don't they just have an entrance fee at the reception, and yes, I'm just kidding.
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I like The Chandlery in Roswell, and Canton Street Antique Market has some beautiful silver pieces.
May 19th, 2010
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It is more respectful to give a gift that is in keeping with the tastes of the Bride and Groom than to reach into your closet for what you might have/don't want and gift that sample sale merchandise or re-gift what you couldn't return because they were unable to return/stuck with the gift and now it is yours.
Be considerate. Too many of those type of gifts makes it hard to appreciate the "thought" when clearly there wasn't a whole lot of thought there. That type of 'gift giving' lead us to believe that money was not only the perfect color – but the perfect gift as we knew Where It Could Be Exchanged.
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Dollar store…don't want the happy couple fighting over it in 3 years.
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Amazing photography…. and for gifts, I usually go with a gift card to Target. Who can't find something they need/want at Target?
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Charles Willis in Buckhead and Fragile in Sandy Springs both have wonderful selections and excellent service. For those brides who are registering for silver, Beverly Bremer is wonderful!
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Tech. Sgt. Shaheem Quarterman, 376th Expeditionary Medical Group laboratory technician, draws blood from Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Michael Butler, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing chaplain, at Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Jan. 4, 2013. In addition to laboratory services, the TCM medical clinic offers the following services: primary care medicine, aerospace medicine, immunizations, mental health, dental, public health, bioenvironmental engineering, radiology and pharmacy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Stephanie Rubi)
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Senior Airman Karen Galante, 375th Expeditionary Medical Group medical technician, checks oxygen tanks inside an ambulance at Transit Center Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Jan. 4, 2013. The medical clinic's two ambulances are inspected each morning to ensure everything is functioning properly. Galante is deployed from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and is a native of Columbia, Md. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Stephanie Rubi)
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Senior Airman Sarah Preston, 376th Expeditionary Medical Group biomedical equipment technician, examines the circuits on a sonic cleaner used to clean dental tools at Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Jan. 4, 2013. Preston is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the medical clinic's equipment. She is deployed from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Stephanie Rubi)
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Tech. Sgt. Jennifer Wilson, 376th Expeditionary Medical Group pharmacy technician, counts out medication for a prescription at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Dec. 26, 2012. The medical group provides services to approximately 1,500 permanent party personnel and 2,000 transients. Wilson is deployed from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is a native of Wichita, Kan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rachel Martinez)
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A patient gets blood drawn to be screened as a blood donor at Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Jan. 4, 2013. The Transit Center maintains a list of eligible blood donors for an emergency blood donor program to be used in the event of a mass casualty or trauma. Anyone interested in being a donor should visit the clinic for more information. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Stephanie Rubi)
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-- It's the height of the cold and flu season, and Airmen assigned to the 376th Expeditionary Medical Group are working to keep the force 'fit to fight.'
The medical group's mission is to deliver quality medical care 24/7 to U.S. and coalition forces to optimize and sustain warrior performance while fostering enduring relationships with host nation partners. Their day-to-day focus is on serving a population of approximately 1,500 permanent party personnel and 2,000 transient members.
"We see approximately 30 to 100 patients a day," said Capt. Melinda Rovan, 376th EMDG chief nurse. That averages out to be about 1,500 patents a month.
Most of the patients at the clinic are seen for joint pain, minor injuries, and the common cold. Over the last few weeks, there has been an increase in the number of patients coming in with cold symptoms such a runny nose, sore throat and cough.
"We recommend people take the following steps to prevent the cold and flu this season: wash hands or use alcohol-based hand sanitizer, cover mouth when coughing and sneezing and social distancing - staying away from sick people," Rovan said.
For those who follow these precautionary steps, yet still manage to get sick, the medical group staff can help. The expeditionary group provides many of the same medical services available at home station - primary care medicine, aerospace medicine, immunizations, mental health services, dental services, public health, bioenvironmental engineering, laboratory, radiology and pharmacy services.
Additionally, the medical group manages an emergency blood donor program that is used in the event of a mass casualty or trauma.
"The program almost works the same as it does home station with the screening process," said Tech. Sgt. Shaheem Quarterman, 376th EMDG laboratory technician. "The only difference is we don't draw the unit (of blood) right away because we don't need it and we're limited on storage."
When the blood is needed, Quarterman contacts the pre-screened donors on his roster and the blood is then drawn. Donors with O negative blood types are always needed, since that is the universal donor, but Quarterman said he is always looking for donors of every type. He prefers to maintain a roster with 30 to 40 donors.
Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Michael Butler, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing chaplain, recently visited the clinic to add his name to the list of rosters and have his blood pre-screened.
"There were saying they can always use blood, so I wanted to come and give - it's an easy thing to do to save a life," said Butler, who was also at the clinic to receive current immunizations. "(The staff here has) been great in taking care of me."
While the clinic can provide many of the basic services as a home-station clinic, there are limitations in a deployed environment.
"In an expeditionary environment, we are faced with challenges in our limited radiology capabilities and laboratory tests, as well as the limiting factor of not being able to follow-up with our transient patients," Rovan said. "We have worked to mitigate the lab and X-ray limitation by developing and using blanket purchase agreements with local Kyrgyz medical facilities. The lack of follow-up with our transient patients is still a challenge for us."
Transients or permanent party, the medical group is here to serve you and offers the following list of top five ways to stay healthy while at the Transit Center:
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Advice is sorely needed.
We bought a warehouse condo and are in the process of renovating.
On the final approval of our plans the condo board says we MUST use 2 inches of insulation on the ceiling and cover the gorgeous raw wood that we love so much.
This is a total curveball and makes us very sad.
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Drywall seems so boring and this definitely wasn't in the budget. any thoughts on a material for a ceiling in a loft?
Everything we come up with seems so surburbian or gimmicky!
Thanks! Carla
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I don't know anything about building, so the logistics of this are beyond me. But you could do the insulation, then the drywall, and then cover the drywall with wood paneling. You could retain the look you've got now this way. Or maybe bamboo paneling would be cheaper.
"2 inches of insulation" is a strange requirement. 2 inches of icynene foam is more insulating than 2 inches of fiberglass, or 2 inches of straw for that matter! Did they specify what type of insulation?
I think you can install wood paneling directly over insulation, so no need for drywall if you want to go that route. Woodhaven paneling is laminate, but it's really beautiful and on the ceiling, no one will know it's not real. Probably cheaper, too.
Beautfiful space.
I would hate to hide the wood currently on the ceiling. That has character that the new wood will not plus its a waste for our environement to use twice as much wood/ sheetrock etc.
try to probe in a discrete corner and see what the roof is made up of. As a designer I know the roof will have joists behind it and gaps between the joists.
There is a solution out there where one can drill a series of hole between this joists and spray foam( soy based preferred) in these gaps between the joists and that would give you the R value you need or better than the 2" rigid INsulation. Try to get the right help for this roof.
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Is that ceiling equal to the buildings roof? If yes, you might insulate from outside. Would be pricier but keeps your ceiling as it is.
On the plus side, it will be easier to run any wiring through the ceiling for lighting, speakers, etc. if you have to build out the ceiling.
This may be a crazy idea. I have no experience in anything like this, but I was wondering if you could lower the ceiling and add a glass roof on the same level where the white pillars end? The very cool wood would still be visible, heat would stay inside. I've heard of heat-insulating (or at least low-emission) glass before, there was an article in the May issue of the British mag LivingETC, about adding extensions to a house, and they used a lot of all-glass walls.
"Part L regulations of thermal efficiency mean now there is a restriction on how much glass you can use, but this can be offset by installing high-efficiency insulating and using Low-e double or triple glazed windows"
Some of the extensions in the pics are glass all over, so I guess there must be some "invisible" kind of insulation... Consult a professional.
Good luck!
I've never heard of a scenario like this. A warehouse condo where the condo board requires the purchaser to make structural improvements to the space?
Shouldn't that be the responsibility of the condo board? Why would the bank give you a loan for a space that does not meet the requirements of the building?
Or, am I missing something? Did you move in and expose the ceiling yourself?
I would suggest taking a looking at the ceiling in another unit of the building.
Call an insulation contractor. You may be able to have blown in/sprayed in insulation done in the same way that wall cavities are retrofitted with insulation.
thanks for all the replies. you guys are all so resourceful ...keep 'em coming!
NYC - the building is on the top floor, and above us is just tar (applied directly to the wood) and then roofing.
andreas - outside insulation has been put to the board for approval, but i suspect it will be a no go.
art - we're checking our estoppels today to make sure we arent getting hosed. its been a frustrating process so far, with a lot of garbage that isn't worth getting into. hopefully it will be worth it.
wood panelling is a definite idea. someone mentionned corrugated metal, but it seems like it would be a bit much. so hard when you have your heart set on something and then have to change the plan!
hang in there cblls!
maybe your attorney can help you on this one.
Put in the insulation, which is a drag but may ultimately help you against losing lots of heat, save energy costs, good for the planet, etc.
Then cover it all with one of those awesome pressed tin ceilings.
I agree with everyone here...2" of rigid foam insulation is the minimum you'd need to get some energy efficiency. I know someone that had a similar situation that used a type of paint that seals everything and was supposed to give you a small r-value improvement. Don't know what the product was though. I think putting new wood v-joint over 2" foam would be the best option. It looks like you certainly have the room for it.
I'm wondering if this what you may have to do?
At which point you could treat the finished ceiling however you like (tin, wood panel, paint, etc.)
The advantages would be great as people have mentioned. You could hide wiring and put recessed lighting throughout.
But the cost...
I'd imagine it would be easier to drop the ceiling height to the top of those beams but then, of course, you would lose height and the beauty of a cathedral ceiling.
are you're a peach. thanks for the pics, they help alot in trying to visualize the whole thing.
pressed tin is beautiful. that might just be what we are looking for!
thanks again kids!
art* dammit. art is the peach. =P
There is a message board crawling with really smart builders and contractors. Go to finehomebuilding.com, click on Breaktime, and post your question. They amaze me with their smart answers every time.
We used icenene (a spray in expanding foam http://www.icynene.com/ ). We added about 12 inches below our roofline. I believe it is about R4 an inch, so we've got something like R50 up there. Our heating bills went down 60% in the first month. Our entire home is SO much quieter. It actually looks kind of cool...like some kind of sculpture made out of meringue.
We live in the Boston area. Our total project cost was about $3000 (entire roof line area, including roofline and exterior walls that were open as part of a remodel). Our local utility had a program that provided a rebate of up to $1500. We got a tax credit of $500 on our federal taxes. With the utility bill savings, it paid for itself in less than 6 months.
Consider adding more than the 2 inches required. You likely won't get massive energy and noise reduction with only two inches (and rebates), but you'll still cover the wood you like. If you have to cover the wood, go whole hog and insulate as much as humanely possible.
I'm a building energy conservation engineer, and I specialize in roofing. The smartest thing to do is to put spray polyurethane foam insulation on the top side of the roof. This is usually covered with a bright white coating. This is the best insulation you can get, since it covers all the joists without gaps. It's rigid & durable, and easy to install. The insulation will keep heat inside in the winter, and keep heat out in summer. The bright white coating will also help your place stay cooler in summer. Best of all, you won't have to touch your wooden ceiling. I don't get why you have to pay for it, though...
Wowza, can't argue with the building energy conservation engineer with a speciality in roofing!!! Love it!!!
However, if you were forced to cover the wood (SO SAD), a pressed tin ceiling would look cool and you can still buy the stuff. Also you can buy molded wallpaper or wainscotting and it looks just like a painted tin ceiling. (Though I wouldn't want to get a leak.)


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Spring 2015 - For PRIORITY consideration the deadline for all departmental documents will be 10/30/14 at 6:00 pm.
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Note: The department evaluates completed admission applications as they are received. Applicants who meet all of the admission criteria and submit all application materials early in the application process will have a higher likelihood of admission.
General Information:
The Department of Public Administration offers a program of study leading to the degree of Master of Public Administration. Options are available in both professional and academic areas. The program is designed to assist full and part-time students in preparing for professional careers in positions of administrative leadership in public and quasi-public organizations, for teaching positions in the community colleges, and for advanced doctoral studies in public administration. The MPA Program is offered at the Hayward Hills campus.
Graduate courses are offered Monday through Thursday evenings and some Saturdays to meet the needs of working adults. All degree option areas are available at the Hayward Hills campus.
Program Perspective:
The Department focuses on expanding the meaning of public administration in government agencies and non-profit and community organizations. Overall, emphasis is placed upon developing in its graduates sensitivities to a wide variety of human, social, and organizational realities in order to assist public organizations in formulating and achieving their goals and striving toward responsible social change.
The program builds on several assumptions:
- that many complex and far-reaching social problems require the stewardship of public agencies;
- that the citizens are the central focus of everything public administration does or ought to be;
- that public agencies should encourage democratic practices, personal education and growth, and the improvement in the quality of life within the public sector workplace;
- that public agencies should nurture and support a critical awareness on the part of public administrators, leading to an ability to challenge and change administrative practice; and
- that public administrators need to find creative and innovative ways to provide quality public services, especially in times of resource scarcity.
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avi to cd — avi trim, avi to iso, iso to cd with cdrecord
Have you ever come across an AVI file which is just a few megabytes too large to fit on a CD or a DVD? Well I have… and in this post I'll go over a crude solution to this problem. That is, I'll assume that the very end of the AVI file is not that important and I'll simply trim it off. Of course, an alternate solution is to re-encode the file at a lower bit-rate. However, trimming seems just so much simpler.
So, lets say we want to get rid of trailing 32 MB of a 731 MB AVI file: video.avi. To achieve this we can use shell`s
head command as follows.
head --bytes=-32m video.avi > trimmed.avi
Now lets compare the sizes of video.avi and trimmed.avi using the following command.
du -sh video.avi trimmed.avi
Here is the output of the above command.
731M video.avi 699M trimmed.avi
So that worked great. However, by trimming the AVI file we broke its internal index and we are left with a more or less raw AVI stream. You can still play it in mplayer like so:
mplayer -fs -zoom trimmed.avi
But you no longer can seek inside it, i.e. it is not possible to seek forward or backward. If you do try to seek then mplayer will produce the following error message.
Cannot seek in raw AVI streams. (Index required, try with the -idx switch.)
You could give mplayer the suggested -idx switch, like so
mplayer -fs -zoom -idx trimmed.avi
The mplayer would then rebuild the index on the fly before playback. This is instant on current CPUs, but can be quite slow on older hardware. It is also possible to fix the indexing permanently in the trimmed file using mencoder as follows.
mencoder -idx trimmed.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -o fixed.avi
Now forward and backward seeking works just fine. Ok, lets create an ISO image containing the AVI file. This is done using the following command.
mkisofs -r -o video.iso fixed.avi
Last step is to burn the ISO to a CD. This can be done in many ways, I'll use a shell tool: cdrecord. If you prefer to work with GUI apps then try K3b. With cdrecord I'll have to locate my DVD+-RW device identifier first before burning the CD. The following command is used for this purpose.
cdrecord -scanbus
Here is the fragment of the output that is of interest to us.
2,0,0 200) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD+-RW GSA-H73N' 'B103' Removable CD-ROM
Now, the following command is used to burn the ISO image to a CD.
cdrecord -v dev=2,0,0 video.iso
Here is a quick summary of steps involved in trimming an over-sized AVI file and burning its ISO to a CD.
head --bytes=-32m video.avi > trimmed.avi mencoder -idx trimmed.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -o fixed.avi mkisofs -r -o video.iso fixed.avi DEVID=`cdrecord -scanbus 2>/dev/null |grep 'DVD.*RW' |awk '{ print $1 }'` cdrecord -v dev=$DEVID video.iso
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Heather M. Hunter, MA, sometimes referred to as the "Psychic Psychotherapist", specializes in quick, to-the-point insight for growth and healing. Private and confidential consultations emphasize mind/body/spirit synergy. Heather effectively finds many of your physical, cognitive, and emotional processes that have fallen out of alignment with your authentic path and utilizes tools and therapeutic processes to assist you on your journey to inner peace, harmony and wellness.
Unlike traditional therapists, whose assessment processes can take anywhere from one to three full sessions, Heather receives intuitive, or "psychic" downloads almost immediately and experiences an "instant knowing" of where the healing focus needs to be to help you on your path to well being.
Heather's background and education in the counseling field as well as her uncanny intuitive abilities and spiritual/energy coaching skills enable her to assist others where traditional psychotherapy or counseling may have failed.
While Heather chooses not to classify herself as a medium, it is not unusual for healing messages from deceased loved ones to come through on occasion, often helping a client in his/her healing process.
At times, Heather has received specific messages of a health/medical nature that have assisted others in avoiding unnecessary surgical procedures and/or alerted them to possible harmful medication reactions. Heather has found that each of us carries specific spiritual themes and lessons in our energy, the understanding and mastery of which holds the key to a healthier and happier life.
Associations and memberships include:The American Holistic Medical Association, Cambridge's Who's Who of Women Entrepreneurs.
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Relax & enjoy being pampered in our beautiful home featuring a gracious garden setting, quiet residential area close to freeway, shopping, restaurants, golf & entertainment. Short drive to Vancouver & White Rock beaches.
Comfortable sitting area with fireplace & TV, year round hot tub, heated summer pool, double & queen beds, fabulous breakfasts, clean comfortable rooms, feather beds, TV in each room, cable, DVD & WiFi. A wonderful place to call home as you visit the local area. We can help you plan your holiday. German spoken. Children welcome. Extended stay rates available. Arrive as guests, leave as friends!
Luxury, waterfront adult oriented B&B with fabulous ocean views, sandy beach & deep water dock. Spa Suite offers a queen bed, private covered hot tub, sauna, mini kitchen, private deck & entrance. Imperial Suite offers a king bed, private en suite with shower, refrigerator & large deck. Both suites offer robes & slippers plus luxury linens. Located in a treed, quiet area close to restaurants, art galleries, hiking, transportation & shopping. Right on C25 bus route. Hearty, healthy breakfasts served in your suite on the deck or in our view dining room. We can address any dietary concerns or allergies. Romantic gourmet seaside dinners available by request. Come & stay for a weekend or a week. Discounts for extended stays - book online via our website.
Enjoy serenity & friendly service while staying in downtown Squamish with breathtaking views of the Chief. Approximately 55 km from Vancouver & Whistler. Spacious rooms with king & queen beds, in-room coffee, fridge & microwave, kitchenettes, direct dial phones, flat screen TVs with cable, coin laundry, free WiFi access available in all rooms. Nestled between 3 parks, close to beach & waterfront.
Nestled amid woods, beside a babbling brook, lies our peaceful bungalow. The ferry, quaint shops, general store & restaurants are a 10 min walk through a wooded lagoon. From the luxurious king-size bed, enjoy a gorgeous view of Deep Bay with its sailboats & always changing ocean. An outdoor shower off the deck provides a spectacular view of the bay's activities. The well-equipped galley kitchen is great for cooking gourmet meals or just a snack. Cosy up in front of a fire & watch a movie on our flat screen TV. High-speed internet, laundry facilities, towels & linens provided.
Deluxe waterfront motel overlooking Sechelt & Jervis Inlets. Tastefully appointed rooms with balconies, internet connection, voicemail & kitchens. Wheelchair accessible suite available.
Old-time country general store carrying full line of groceries, liquor store, boat rentals & full service marina nearby. RV/campsites, showers are spotless & untimed, laundry & moorage.Two blocks to start of walking trail to world-famous Skookumchuk Rapids. Starting point for Princess Louisa cruises.
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Features delicious breakfasts, fantastic beds, helpful hosts & beautiful, quiet gardens. Free parking, WiFi &laundry. Excellent prices with lower rates for longer stays. Two suites are spacious & self-contained with kitchenettes. BayView BB is a special place to make "Forever Memories".
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Novo Nordisk and Divabetic to Inspire Glamorous Diabetes Care
Free community program to combine education, beauty makeovers and entertainment
PRNewswire/ – Novo Nordisk, a world leader in diabetes care is bringing its Divabetic - Makeover Your Diabetes program to cities with prevalence of diabetes, providing diabetes education and empowerment alongside free beauty makeovers from makeup, hair and fashion experts to women living with, at risk of, or affected by diabetes.
"Because women play a critical role in driving change in their homes and communities they can help themselves and others to adopt healthier lifestyles," said Dr. Soraly Servera, Medical Scientific Director at Novo Nordisk. "As the prevalence of diabetes continues to rise, so does the need to inspire better care."
Education from Certified Diabetes Educators (CDEs) is provided in a casual and personal format that focuses on practical life changes in six key diabetes care areas:
- Twist & Shout – Tips for integrating movement into daily life, beyond strict gym regimens
- Denial's Not My Style – Approaches to embracing numbers (A1c, BMI) & diabetes terms
- Grab Green & Go – Ideas to make healthy choices for better -- not perfect -- eating
- Glam More Fear Less – Ways to impact attitudes about health with a positive self image
- Sweet Inspirations – Life-coaching, goal-setting & affirmations designed for the long run
- Tunnel of Love – Conversations about the caregiver roles, intimacy issues associated with diabetes, the impact of diabetes on interpersonal relationships and gestational diabetes
"Women like me who are affected by diabetes need a forum to ask the questions we don't discuss at the doctor's office and to meet other women who want to manage their diabetes like divas," said Mother Love. "Novo Nordisk Presents: Divabetic – Makeover Your Diabetes is about learning how to care for ourselves inside and out and celebrating the amazing women who are managing their diabetes with a positive attitude."
To date, more than 3,000 people across the nation affected by diabetes have experienced this confidence-building program inspired by the late Luther Vandross.
"Women who come to these events often share their personal struggles with diabetes and tell me they feel encouraged by the intimate conversations with diabetes educators and other women affected by diabetes at our event," said Max Szadek, personal assistant to the late Luther Vandross and founder of DIVABETIC. "Every individual who leaves an event not only looking beautiful but feeling more confident about her diabetes care is a testament to the impact of Novo Nordisk Presents: Divabetic - Makeover Your Diabetes in building a community for people living with this challenging disease and driving them to make changes in their lives."
Diabetes affects one in 13 people (7.8%) in the United States. Of the 23.6 million people living with diabetes, 5.7 million, or one in every two people, remains undiagnosed and is not being treated. An additional 57 million people have pre-diabetes, putting them at risk for the disease.
Following events offered in New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Los Angeles earlier this year, Novo Nordisk Presents: Divabetic-Makeover Your Diabetes will be offered in cities including:
- Washington, DC – September 27
- Cleveland, OH – October 11
- New Orleans, LA – October 25
- South Florida – November 1
Information on topics covered at the event is also available at ChangingDiabetes-US.com. To learn more about the program and pre-register, the public may visit www.divabetic.org or call 1-800-634-8888.
To learn more about Novo Nordisk's commitment to Changing Diabetes® as well as the company's range of tools and resources to help people living with diabetes improve their care, the public may browse the Web site or call the Diabetes Tip Line at 1-800-260-3730.
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About Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a healthcare company with an 85-year history of innovation and achievement in diabetes care. The company has the broadest diabetes product portfolio in the industry, including the most advanced products within the area of insulin delivery systems. In addition to diabetes care, Novo Nordisk has a leading position within areas such as hemostasis management, growth hormone therapy, and hormone therapy for women. Novo Nordisk's business is driven by the Triple Bottom Line: a commitment to economic success, environmental soundness, and social responsibility to employees and customers. With headquarters in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs more than 26,000 employees in 80 countries, and markets its products in 179 countries. Novo Nordisk's B shares are listed on the stock exchanges in Copenhagen and London. Its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'NVO'. For global information, visit novonordisk.com; for United States information, visit novonordisk-us.com.
About DIVABETIC
DIVABETIC is a community-based organization that provides diabetes education and encouragement to women living with, at risk of, or affected by diabetes. The existence of DIVABETIC reflects a need in the community to improve quality of life, share knowledge, raise visibility and prevent the spread of diabetes and its health-related complications from occurring. What began as a one-time T-shirt fundraising endeavor has quickly become a grassroots movement to empower and educate women living with, at risk of, or affected by diabetes to 'take charge' of their condition and live their lives like divas. DIVABETIC's mission is to comfort, connect and challenge each other to live healthier and more active lives. Max Szadek, former personal assistant to the late Luther Vandross, founded DIVABETIC in November 2004. DIVABETIC is proudly associated with the Diabetes Center of New Jersey. The Diabetes Center of New Jersey (DCNJ) is an affiliate of the Solaris Health System in Edison, New Jersey and the Muhlenberg Foundation. Visit divabetic.org for more information.


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Achieving Empathy for Institutions with Anil Dash
IN BIG WEB SHOW № 115 on Mule Radio, I talk with Anil Dash, a hugely influential entrepreneur, blogger, and web geek living in NYC.
Things we discuss include:
How government, media, and tech shape the world, and how we can influence them in turn. Our first meeting at SXSW in 2002. How selling CMS systems teaches you the dysfunction at media companies and organizations. Working for the music industry at the dawn of Napster. RFP-EZ. The early days of blogging.
Designing websites for the government—the procurement problem. If we're pouring all this time into social media, what do we want to get out of it? How big institutions work and how to have an impact on them. Living in "Joe's Apartment."
Why, until recently, federal agencies that wanted a blog couldn't use WordPress or Tumblr and how the State Dept got on Tumblr. Achieving empathy for institutions. Being more thoughtful about what I share and who I amplify on social media. The launch of Thinkup, and a special offer exclusively for
Sponsored by An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. Save $100 off any 2- or 3-day AEA event with discount code AEABWS.
Filed under: Big Web Show, Blogs and Blogging, Culture, HTML, industry, Microblogging, Six Apart, social networking, software, Startups, State of the Web, SXSW, The Big Web Show, The Profession, Web Design History
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Creative Commons turns 10
HARD TO BELIEVE, but it was ten years ago that I first heard Lawrence Lessig give a talk at SXSWi about an idea he had to save content from death by copyright law.
At the time, copyright law and digital creativity were at odds, and tens of thousands of cultural artifacts were disappearing from the commons because of the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, a copyright extension pushed through congress by the late Sonny Bono at the behest of the Disney corporation. Corey Doctorow, one of Lessig's partners on the SXSW panel, memorably likened the destruction to the slow motion burning of the Library of Alexandria.
But Lessig had a plan. And, remarkably, it worked: "For a decade now, Creative Commons has made legal sharing and remixing easier for everyone. After ten years, it has become the default third way."
Let's help this good work continue. Please donate to Creative Commons if you can.
Filed under: conferences, content, copyright, creativity, Culture, Design
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This media life – and death
IN A GORGEOUSLY PACED ESSAY at n+1, "the magazine that believes history isn't over just yet," an amazing young (22?) writer named Alice Gregory reviews a novel by Gary Shteyngart while simultaneously describing her exhausted and shattered mental life as a Twitter- and Tumblr-following, iPhone-carrying, socializing-while-isolated Internet addict, i.e. modern young person:
This anxiety is about more than failing to keep up with a serialized source, though. It's also about the primitive pleasure of constant and arbitrary stimulation. That's why the Facebook newsfeed is no longer shown chronologically. Refresh Facebook ten times and the status updates rearrange themselves in nonsensical, anachronistic patterns. You don't refresh Facebook to follow a narrative, you refresh to register a change—not to read but to see.
And it's losing track of this distinction—between reading and seeing—that's so shameful. It's like being demoted from the category of thinking, caring human to a sort of rat that doesn't know why he needs to tap that button, just that he does.
Sometimes I can almost visualize parts of myself, the ones I'm most proud of, atrophying. I wish I had an app to monitor it! I notice that my thoughts are homeopathic, that they mirror content I wish I weren't reading. I catch myself performing hideous, futuristic gestures, like that "hilarious" moment three seconds into an intimate embrace in which I realize I'm literally rubbing my iPhone screen across his spine.
I urge you to read every word of n+1: Sad as Hell. Hat tip: New York designer Darren Hoyt.
Filed under: books, creativity, Culture, facebook, Ideas, iphone, social networking, writing
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Après Thursday, le déluge – or, recapturing the intimacy of SXSW
SXSW INTERACTIVE is an amazing festival, conference, and annual gathering of the tribes—a place to see, be seen, and find out not only what's happening on the web, but what will happen in the coming 18 months. The festival's explosive growth—from minor music festival adjunct to megalopolis attracting over 20,000 interactive attendees this year—mirrors the miraculous growth of the internet itself. And the festival's challenge echoes the challenge all internet community faces: in a word, scale. Not just the mechanics of scale, but the gauntlet of obstacles that must be overcome if a community is to grow wildly while remaining true to itself.
It is hard for someone who has not attended to imagine the scale of the thing—I flew here from New York on a JetBlue jet whose every passenger seemed to be attending this show; it was like a flying blogroll. For that matter, it's too big for attendees to completely comprehend. It's like New York City that way: you can visit, get a taste of it, you can even move there and be part of it, but you can never take it all in. And of course it is impossible for current attendees who missed the early years of SXSW Interactive to picture what the conference was like in the old days, when almost everyone attending knew everyone else personally or by reputation.
Each year I wonder if this will be the year the festival gets too big for its own good (or too big to be good), and each year SXSWi remains great—but great in a different way than before (again, just like the internet). Each year I salute the people behind this show. I could not even dream of putting on an event like this. I am a boutique guy at heart. I know how to make small things good for a select group of people with a certain taste and interest. The people behind SXSW cater to select needs and special tastes, too—but they also do massive. I'm looking forward to this year's show, which begins today, and to my own panel and the panels and presentations of my friends (including friends I haven't met yet).
As for the lost intimacy of SXSW that some of us long-time attendees lament, it isn't really lost. The first trick is to show up on Thursday, before most attendees get here. Register early with short lines, then buy a water and sit anywhere in the vast conference center. Within five minutes, you will meet new people; within ten, you'll see old friends. You can then go off with these new or old friends and enjoy a luxurious lunch table at a place you won't even be able to get into after Friday.
Always arrive a day early. You will not regret it. My experiences yesterday and the memories I will take with me have already more than justified this year's pilgrimage here.
And once the festival begins? Don't be afraid to occasionally skip a panel and go off with people you bump into (whether that bump takes place in the hallway or on Gowalla and Foursquare).
Coffee drunk, cold pills swallowed, mischief managed. All right, SXSW. Thrill me, baby.
Kristina Halvorson on the porch at Moonshine on the afternoon before SXSW Interactive begins. Part of this complete breakfast.
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We Didn't Stop The Fire.
OUR LIBRARY IS BURNING. Copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap. Digital permanence is a tragically laughable ideal to anyone who remembers the VHS format wars or tries to view Joshua Davis's 1990s masterpieces on a modern computer. Digital archiving is only as permanent as the next budget cycle—as when libraries switched from microfilm to digital subscriptions and then were forced to cancel the subscriptions during the pre-recession recession. And of course, my digital work vanishes the moment I die or lose the ability to keep hosting it. If you really want to protect your family photos, take them off Flickr and your hard drive, get them on paper, and store them in an airtight box.
Though bits are forever, our medium is mortal, as all but the most naive among us know. And we accept that some of what we hold digitally dear will perish before our eyes. But it irks most especially when people or companies with more money than judgement purchase a thriving online community only to trash it when they can't figure out how to squeeze a buck out of it. Corporate black thumb is not new to our medium: MGM watered down the Marx Bros; the Saatchis sucked the creative life and half the billings out of the ad agencies they acquired during the 1980s and beyond. But outside the digital world, some corporate purchases and marriages have worked out (think: Disney/Pixar). And with the possible exception of Flickr (better now than the day Yahoo bought it), I can't think of any online community or publication that has improved as a result of being purchased. Whereas we can all instantly call to mind dozens of wonderful web properties that died or crawled up their own asses as a direct result of new corporate ownership.
My colleague Mandy Brown has written a moving call to arms which, knowingly or unknowingly, invokes the LOCKSS method ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") of preserving digital content by making copies of it; she encourages us all to become archivists. Even a disorganized ground-level effort such as Mandy proposes will be beneficial—indeed, the less organized, the better. And this is certainly part of the answer. (It's also what drives my friend Tantek's own your data efforts; my beef with T is mainly aesthetic.) So, yes, we the people can do our part to help undo the harm uncaring companies cause to our e-ecosystem.
But there is another piece of this which no one is discussing and which I now address specifically to my colleagues who create great digital content and communities:
Stop selling your stuff to corporate jerks. It never works. They always wreck what you've spent years making.
Don't go for the quick payoff. You can make money maintaining your content and serving your community. It won't be a fat fistful of cash, but that's okay. You can keep living, keep growing your community, and, over the years, you will earn enough to be safe and comfortable. Besides, most people who get a big payoff blow the money within two years (because it's not real to them, and because there are always professionals ready to help the rich squander their money). By contrast, if you retain ownership of your community and keep plugging away, you'll have financial stability and manageable success, and you'll be able to turn the content over to your juniors when the time comes to retire.
Our library is burning. We didn't start the fire but we sure don't have to help fan the flames. You can't sell out if you don't sell. Owning your content starts with you.
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Wikileaks Cablegate Reactions Roundup
Andy Baio helps us make sense of Wikileaks by providing an absolutely brilliant roundup of facts, coverage, personal responses, and visualizations from around the world.
Andy is a journalist/programmer living in L.A. He works at Expert Labs, helped create Kickstarter and Upcoming, and has made an album, among other things.
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Paul Ford on The Big Web Show
Paul Ford is our guest on The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at 1:00 PM ET tomorrow, 14 October 2010, on the 5by5 network at live.5by5.tv.
Paul is a freelance writer and computer programmer. He was an editor at Harper's Magazine from 2005–2010, and brought Harper's 159-year, 250,000-page archive to the web in 2007; the system now supports tens of thousands of registered subscribers. More recently he helped the media strategy firm Activate with the launch of Gourmet Live, a re-imagining of Gourmet Magazine for iPad, and co-founded Popsicle Weasel, a small company totally focused on microsites.
He has written for NPR, TheMorningNews.org, XML.com, and the National Information Standards Organization's Information Standards Quarterly, and is the author of the novel Gary Benchley, Rock Star (Penguin/Plume). Paul programs in PHP, Java, and XSLT2.0, but lately is all about Python and Django. His writing has been anthologized in Best Software Writing I (2005) and Best Music Writing 2009. He enjoys both software and music.
He will teach Content Strategy at the School of Visual Arts in New York City starting in 2011. His personal website, started in 1997, is Ftrain.com. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Mo and the obligatory cats.
The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters") is recorded live in front of an internet audience every Thursday at 1:00 PM ET on live.5by5.tv. Join us!
Edited episodes can be watched afterwards, often within hours of recording, via iTunes (audio feed | video feed) and the web. Subscribe and enjoy!
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The Big Web Show Episode 15: Social Media, Social Capital
Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company's "women in tech—nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology" is our guest on today's episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted as always by Dan Benjamin, and taped in front of a live internet audience.
The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters") is taped live in front of an internet audience every Thursday at 1:00 PM ET on live.5by5.tv. Edited episodes can be watched afterwards, often within hours of taping, via iTunes (audio feed | video feed) and the web.
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Filth & Glory. NYC in the 70s.
These and numerous other unforgettable images are available in DIRTY, DANGEROUS & DESTITUTE | NEW YORK IN THE 70s: Photos by Allen Tannenbaum at The Selvedge Yard.
Hat tip: Ara Pehlivanian
Many people still think NYC is this way. It ain't. I visited NYC as a wide-eyed teenager during this era and met pederasts, opium dealers, and prostitutes without even trying. I visited again as a young man at the end of the decade, goggly over the music scene (which was already packaged and dying).
When I finally moved to NYC in 1988, large parts of it were still pretty ragged. You could cop dope behind The New York Public Library and get shot on Avenue B. You could also accidentally start a fire in your apartment and not get kicked out. Or so I have, uh, read.
For all the dings on his soul, Rudy G really changed this town. He made it much more expensive but also much, much safer and more livable. Today it is one of the safest and most beautiful cities in America. A lot of change in a short time.
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In The Wind
When the young Bobby Womack told Sam Cooke he didn't understand [Bob] Dylan's vocal style, Cooke explained that: "from now on, it's not going to be about how pretty the voice is. It's going to be about believing that the voice is telling the truth."
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Right yeah here's what Whistle and Far would look like if I were still drawing Walls
I actually finished this yesterday and then forgot about it!! But here you go yes.
parallenium replied to your photo: If I were still drawing Walls this is probably…
Hooray! Very nice seeing Walls in your new style!
Oh man, remember this guy?
So much plot relevance hahahahaha
If I were still drawing Walls this is probably what it would look like
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Beautiful Day, Part 1Beautiful Day, Part 1Note: Please read the description prior to reading this fanfic. You will be lost otherwise.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------They carried torches, pitchforks, and various other weapons. They were angry, with me to be sure. They were running in a pack, almost like wolves toward a helpless prey. The night sky held no stars that night, and the only light that cascaded upon the town was that of the moon which Princess Luna had brought up. I was running as well, but I was the prey. I had been forced out of yet another home.My name is Lev Benihoof, and I am a fugitive.Everypony hates me, and I cannot find a home. Ever since I finished college, I have been searching for a place to call my own, and a community to become a part of. I have not succeeded. It's likely because of who I am, and what my cutie mark represents to other ponies. The hammer and sickle of years past adorn my flank, a cursed flag which I must
Moby-Spike, Chapter 4: The Ghost Ship, Part 2Moby-SpikeChapter 4: The Ghost Ship, Part 2Continued from last diary entryGhost ponies. As far as I knew, they were just a myth. My entire life, I'd been told that when ponies died they were sent to Celestia's kingdom in the sky for eternity. The ponies that were bad in life were sent to suffer in solitude alongside Discord in a realm of darkness, and that was that. But there I was, looking right into dead eyes.The ghost slowly flew off the ship, unblinking eyes staring me down. They were almost as bad as Fluttershy's stare. The other ponies on board immediately started freaking out. Some jumped ship, forgetting to lower the life boat in their hurry. Derpy and Rainbow Dash huddled at the top of the lookout post, shivering in fear.I could have moved if I wanted to. I'm pretty sure I could have. But I just stood still while that ghost floated directly towards me. I was certain I was about to die. I shut my eyes and covered my face with my ho
Moby-Spike, Chapter 2: Derp n' DashMoby-SpikeChapter 2: Derp n' DashContinued from last diary entryShe quickly tackled me into a friendly hug, and I excitedly asked her "Derpy, I'm so glad to see a familiar face! But what are you doing here, anyway?" She got up off me, and began explaining as I dusted myself off. "Oh, well I'm part of the crew on this ship! Yep, I'm a pirate pony these days!" She puffed out her chest in a show of pride, though with her eyes and my knowledge of her sweet nature, she just looked silly. I was, naturally, a little suspicious. Sure, I was looking for adventure. But becoming a pirate? Piracy is illegal in Equestria, and I began to wonder why the harbor master would direct me towards this ship."So you're a pirate now, huh Derpy? Have you, um…stolen a lot?" I asked with a tint of fear in my voice. I was more than hesitant about joining a pirate crew, especially if they were active in illegal ta
Moby-Spike, Chapter 1: Setting SailMoby-SpikeChapter 1: Setting SailDear diary,In one simple day of going to Horse Shoe Bay, so much has happened. I just have to write it all down, to make sure it's real and that it happened to me.When my train stopped at the station, I gathered my saddlebags and entered the Bay. There was so much to see, and everything constantly reminded me of the new adventures set ahead of me. The bay was surrounded by markets selling all sorts of sea-worthy goods, and countless ponies looking upon them. Some shops even sold dead fish by the bucket-load, but I can't fathom why anypony would need a dead fish. However, I was in a new culture, so I figured it would be best to ignore their traditions rather than question them.While I explored the markets, I saw ponies with varying degrees of apparent sea experience. Some ponies were just like me, lost and overwhelmed by the scenery of a place where new ships docked and left every few minutes. Some ponies were grisly and salty,
Moby-Spike, Chapter 5: The Lemon GrottoMoby-SpikeChapter 5: The Lemon GrottoWe made some good progress towards getting our treasure today, and surprisingly we didn't almost die this time. But that's not to say we didn't have a weird and awesome day. In fact, it was even weirder than the time I tried to understand Pinkie Pie.I woke up just before Celestia raised the sun, so I decided to make some breakfast for Dash, Derpy, and the rest of our crew. Unfortunately, there really wasn't much hay or anything else to eat on the open ocean, and I didn't want to dig into our provisions without permission. So, I had to do something which makes me cringe: I went fishing. Actually, I just lowered a big net on the side of the ship into the sea and let the fish swim into it, but I still hated having to see them squirm around. It made me shudder, thinking about how anything could eat meat without vomiting once or twice. But we were out on the ocean, and a pony can't let herself starve, r
Moby-Spike, Chapter 3: The Ghost Ship, Part 1Moby-SpikeChapter 3: The Ghost Ship, Part 1Dear diary,My first day at sea was one of the most terrifying days of my life so far. I never realized just how horrifying and stress-inducing it is to go on adventures until today.The day began as I expected it would. Derpy was the first to wake up, so she rang the wake-up bell Rainbow Dash had put into the brig. All the ponies of the crew rushed to attendance on the deck, so I joined in without hesitation. As soon as we were all on deck, Rainbow Dash came out of her quarters and started barking various orders at each of us. Pretty soon, ponies were spread all over the ship. Some manned the steering wheel and miscellaneous devices on the upper deck, while others started unpacking provisions and tools of all sorts from beneath the deck. Derpy and I were assigned to raise the sail, which was done quite easily with my magic at hoof. Once everything was in order and to Dash's liking, we set off from the harbor, and within minute
Nightmare, NightmareTwilight paced back and forth in her library. It was only the first nightmare she had had since she was a little filly, but it had awoken her nonetheless. It wasn't any normal nightmare, either. At least not to her. The nightmare was so vivid that it seemed real.Twilight could remember every detail. Princess Celestia's still form. Discord's chaotic creations. The changeling queen's evil horde feasting on the emotions of all of Equestria. The mangled and life-less bodies of her best friends. Nightmare Moon raising the moon, putting Equestria into eternal darkness. But she couldn't do anything to stop it. All she could do was stand there and watch as the beautiful place she once called home was sucked into a massive, swirling vortex of evil...Twilight came back to reality, her coat drenched in a cold sweat."Twilight, are you okay?" asked Spike. "You look like you've seen a ghost."Twilight shook vigorously, expelling as much water as she could."Yes, I'm fine. I was just..uhm...thinki
Twilight Switch(Pony Permutation Project: Episode 8)Fimfiction Link"...and that, Spike, is the official meaning of life," said Twilight Sparkle as they walked along one of Ponyville's roads."Whoa, Twilight," said Spike, his voice laced with awe. "Really?""Really really!" said Twilight, smiling with pride. "At least, as applied to bunnies. Ponies and dragons are a teensy bit more complicated, so our answers will take me a lot longer to come up with. Probably years!""Well, I'll help you find them however I can." Spike chuckled. "Though somehow, I don't think Angel will be all that pleased with your findings...""Oh, wow, good point. Well, maybe Fluttershy can talk him dow-" Twilight paused, thought about the possibility for a few seconds, then said, "You know what, you're right. Let's just not tell him. He seems to have fun with his life--if all of a sudden we tell him that he actually has no true free w
How It Works: Chapter 16Chapter 16: Words You Need to Hear"GET OUT!" screamed Twilight. Sweat darkened the fur on her brow and her hooves were wrapped tightly in the blankets of the hospital bed. The tan stallion stepped back stunned hooves clicking on the tile floor."Get out," she screamed again tears pricking at her eyes. She couldn't take it anymore, the stress, the pain, the hovering of Flim. "I hate you."Flim stumbled out the door, glancing over his shoulder at the enraged mare. Outside Fluttershy and Applejack looked at him with wide eyes. They were the only two who had arrived as of yet. "Wha happened?" asked AJ shocked."She
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Revisionist HistoryA white unicorn in royal robes and sparkling crown stood atop a snow-spotted peak. The blizzard responsible for it had been thwarted a full week prior--and hopefully, forever--but from her vantage point, its effects could still easily be seen across the horizon.In its half-melted state, the snow highlighted the flora of the land below, causing several colors of the rainbow to shine under the moonlight.Princess Platinum smiled. They almost hadn't done it. Heaven knew she hadn't contributed all that much to their cause.At that moment, however, she at last heard the hoofsteps of one who had.---"Ahh, Clover the Clever," Platinum greeted the brown-robed violet unicorn who had just traversed the peak's leading trail. "Thank you for showing. I... did not wish to inconvenience you whilst you were napping."Clover nodded with a light, airy smile. "I appreciate it. Still, I came as soon as I read your note. Is anything the matter?"Platinum allowed a small, peaceful smile of her own to cros
Beautiful Day, Part 2Beautiful Day, Part 2Note: Please read the description prior to reading this fanfic. You will be lost otherwise.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I trot slowly and unhappily into the town square of Ponyville. I now have a job which I've deemed necessary to live here, but it seems I've forgotten something just as important. Without a place to live, I'll never be able to survive here. I've tried being homeless before, and it never did work well for me. Ponies are rarely willing to give handouts to another pony on the streets, at least in my experience. I may have a job, but I'm missing the one thing I'd likely use my earnings on outside of food."Come on, Lev, think! There must be something you can figure out," I command of myself. It's not as if I can just walk into somepony's house and sleep there; they'd likely call me a burglar and chase me out with clubs. I could sleep in the forest again, but that was a miserable and unsafe
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This recipe was good as it is written. I thought I would try half with the cream cheese icing and half with a whipped cream icing as the previous reviewer advised. well, the cream cheese icing cake was eaten and enjoyed very much. the whipped cream icing just didn't do the cake justice. Next time I will just not put any icing at all and serve, cake and lemon curd. It is pretty and delicious.
Lemon Curd-Filled Angel Food Cake
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The cream cheese frosting was much too sweet! I would try the cake with the lemon curd filling again with a whipped cream frosting.
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This is my go to summer dessert. I must admit that I use a box angel cake mix, and I don't think it suffers any.
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