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Social network games have become big business. Market leader Zynga (Farmville, Cityville) reaches 250 million unique players per month generating yearly revenue of over US$ 800 million. But there are also smaller companies targeting the social games market who differentiate themselves by bringing innovative products to a market where most games resemble each other. Hot Rod Racer by GriN multimedia with support from IBBT-MICT radically changes the playing field by introducing 3D multiplayer racing to Facebook.
Hot rods were and still are a popular phenomenon that found its origins in the United States. Hot Rods are typically American cars with modified engines to increase the speed level in a short period of time. Hot rod cars are an important part of the rockabilly and pinup subcultures. Hot Rod Racer brings this retro atmosphere to life in modern media platforms by allowing players to challenge their Facebook friends for an old school Hot Rod Race, earn a diversity of cars and modify and pimp their collection of Hot Rods.
Three-dimensional experience
What distinguishes Hot Rod Racer from other games is its asynchronous game play. When one player challenges another, their race is recorded and kept until the other players come online and drive their race against the'shadows' of the other players. This is ideal for a context such as Facebook where users are not necessarily online at the same moment. Moreover, when every participant has finished their race, it can be'replayed' including all contestants' cars, which adds a fun and competitive extra element to the social game.'Turn-based multiplayer games are a perfect format to be played on Facebook, making it possible to challenge a friend at any place and time.' says Wim Wouters of GriN. Hot Rod Racer also distinguishes itself by integrating a truly three-dimensional experience to social network games. The latter so far typically used two-dimensional or pseudo three-dimensional graphics.'This gives gamers who appreciate three-dimensional graphics in games the opportunity to play games on Facebook' says Wouters.
Attracting new profiles
All these elements make it possible to attract new profiles to the social network gaming scene. Games on social network sites tend to attract casual gamers who would not label themselves as'true gamers'. Casual gamers tend to play as a pastime, to fill empty gaps in a day or as a micro-break, making graphics, multiplay and challenge less important. By integrating these elements, Hot Rod Racer will give more experienced gamers an opportunity to also take part in the social network gaming scene and find something that suits them better than the average casual social network game.
Hot Rod Racer is a Belgian product created by game design company? GriN?(Antwerp) with the co-operation of graphic designer Sam Dams, better known as? Kustom.?The music used in Hot Rod Racer was created by the surf band Speedball Jr. from Ghent.? IBBT-MICT, which is associated with Ghent University carried out research during development to evaluate and improve the game to meet the needs of the players.' It is easy to copy games, but in order to develop new types of games and to make them successful, one needs to work together with the target audience.'?says Dr. Jan Van Looy, researcher at Ghent University.
The game is available for free at? apps.FaceBook.com/hotrodracer


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Johan Inger was the artistic director of Cullberg Ballet from 2003 to 2008. As a choreographer he has created numerous prominent works and his Negro con Flores was a huge success when it premiered in the autumn of 2005. Johan Inger is the recipient of many awards.
"Negro con Flores exists in a landscape between darkness and light, levity and gravity. It progresses through a formation of moods with the goal of breaking loose, moving on. This piece is an attempt to deviate from the path I know and by doing so, hopefully find new beginnings." (Johan Inger, 2005)
Duration 35 minutes
Read moreFold upChoreography, sets and costumes: Johan Inger
Music: Stefan Levin (composed for Cullberg Ballet)
Violin solo: Jan Stigmer
Lighting design: Erik Berglund
Duration 35 minutes
World premiere 4 November 2005, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Sweden

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Firefighters were dispatched to the blaze around 4:50 a.m. Sunday. Smoke was coming from a first floor unit of The Enclave, an apartment complex in the 1200 block of Enclave Circle. The fire began in the one-bedroom apartment's living room, fire spokesman Lee Tovar said.
Firefighters put out the flames and rescued an apartment resident who was in the bathtub, Tovar said. The victim was taken to Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital and later transferred to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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There were many reasons given for the city of Henderson's incredibly tone-deaf decision to hand out "professional allowances" to 66 top city managers while officials are simultaneously trying to persuade voters to consider a property tax increase and cutting hours at the Heritage Park Senior Facility.
The city's top spokesman, Bud Cranor, said the allowances — which totaled $43,950 in April and May — were to make up for cost-of-living-increases, car allowances and other pay that was eliminated or reduced because of the recession.
Mayor Andy Hafen, who knew about the program in advance and apparently had no objections, said the allowances were a gift from the city to its employees. "This was almost a 'thank you' for giving up so much and it did seem like a nominal amount," Hafen told the Review-Journal's Arnold Knightly. "But now that we see [the budget shortfall] is even worse, and of course it's not a very good message to send out there, I was very happy that we have suspended them."
Two things about that, by the way: First, Hafen knows full well that the allowances were being given out at the same time city leaders were holding town hall meetings to describe the city's budget woes to residents, in preparation for asking them to approve a property tax increase. And part of those meetings were discussing cuts that were ultimately made to parks and recreation facilities, including cutting the senior center hours and eliminating a Saturday lunch program for old people, as well as charging them $1 more for regular meals and to use city facilities.
Second, Hafen describes the situation as if he's but an innocent bystander witnessing events over which he has no control. But as the elected mayor of Henderson, Hafen could have stopped this wrong-headed idea before it got started, under the very reasonable and entirely defensible idea that telling people the city has no money while at the same time handing out bonuses to well-paid top employees is an absurd and hypocritical contradiction that's likely to help torpedo your bid for a tax increase!
One does not need to be Nostradamus to see that, right?
But there's now yet a third explanation for the decision, from the man who came up with the idea in the first place, City Manager Jacob Snow. During a visit to the Review-Journal's editorial board on Thursday, Snow said he devised the allowance plan to prevent Henderson employees from joining a union.
"I did that because I wanted to save the city money long-term," Snow said.
See, if those top managers joined a union, like the vast majority of the city's 1,800-person workforce, they could collectively bargain for their salary and benefits, and to avoid cuts in tough times. (Indeed, according to information provided by the city, union employees gave up concessions equal to about 2 percent of their pay in the last two years, while pay for non-union employees has been reduced by 6 percent to 11 percent.)
Message: Live better, work union!
So, to prevent fomentation for unionization, Snow decided to induce top employees to stay non-union with monthly gifts of between $250 and $550. Had the program continued, it could have cost taxpayers around $260,000, based on the amount disbursed in April and May. That's more than Snow's annual base pay of $225,000, although with his own $750-per-month "car allowance" (which is still being paid, per his contract with the city) his compensation rises to $234,000.
Whether top Henderson employees will now decide to form a union is not entirely clear. (Knightly reported that some managers elected not to accept the extra pay, given the city's financial condition.) But whether they do or they don't, it's not clear that a few extra dollars for the top people in city government would have been the deciding factor.
Seriously, how about ice cream Fridays instead? At least then you could invite poor seniors to join in and share the wealth!
Too harsh? Not really, given that the city has not backed off its property tax increase plan, which may ask voters to raise taxes up to 20 cents. And the truth of the matter is, Henderson actually has (or perhaps had) a good case to make. Consider:
• The city's "expenditure budget" has decreased during the last five years, while the population has increased.
• There are 6.8 employees per 1,000 Henderson residents, the second-lowest ratio in the valley. (North Las Vegas, which has seen hard times financially, has the lowest at 6.4 per 1,000 residents.)
• The city's share of consolidated tax has fallen from a high of $103 million in 2006 to $86.3 million today. Consolidated tax makes up 41.5 percent of the city's revenues.
• Property tax has fallen from a high of $85.7 million in 2009 to just $58.5 million today. (Property tax makes up about a quarter of the city's budget.) But because of property tax caps enacted in 2005, the tax can increase by just 3 percent on residential property per year, no matter how much home values increase. That's why the city needs a vote of the people: to override the tax cap.
• The city has maintained one of the lowest property tax rates in the state, at 71 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. That's lower than Reno (at 96 cents), Las Vegas (at $1.06) and North Las Vegas ($1.16). Even if a 20-cent increase were to pass, Henderson would still be one of the lowest taxed cities in the state.
• The city has cut its budget, eliminated positions, eliminated cost-of-living pay for non-union employees and wrangled concessions from union workers, eliminated rollovers of sick leave and vacation time (for non-union workers) and increased the amount employees pay for health care and retirement.
In short, Henderson does more with fewer people despite a rising population and lower taxes. And as a Henderson resident myself, one who formerly lived in Las Vegas just east of Summerlin, I can testify that I like living in Henderson much more.
So I'd normally be sympathetic to city officials when they make their case for more money. But if city leaders are OK with the idea of padding the pay of already well-paid employees at the same time they're cutting services for seniors, a person cannot help but be skeptical that the new infusion of cash will be used properly.
That may be part of the reason Henderson officials are pledging any money raised by any tax increase will not be used for employee salaries or benefits, and will be sequestered in a special fund to be used only for capital improvements, such as roads, traffic control, stormwater, vehicles, facilities, parks and trails and information technology. There's a deficit of $17.1 million in those areas.
City officials already have said they won't put a potential tax increase on the November ballot. (That would be an act of monumental stupidity anyway; the debate over the Education Initiative and removing the constitutional cap on mining taxes will leave most voters with taxaphobia.) Instead, it would not be surprising for the city to put the measure on the municipal ballot of 2015, when far fewer voters come to the polls.
The Henderson library district in 2012 tried asking voters for a much smaller tax increase (2 cents) with an even better record of fiscal management without any of Henderson's recent stumbles. It still failed by about 10 percent, although it was on the ballot in a presidential election with higher turnout. A bid by the Clark County School District to build new schools was rejected that same year by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
Henderson was starting from behind on its best day in asking voters for more money. Now, Allowance-gate and the senior cutbacks have put the city even further behind. "We've got more work to do before we bring a ballot question," Snow said at the editorial board meeting. Indeed.


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Students seeking an exciting career in the broadcast industry need a solid foundation of industry knowledge and skills to succeed. Pierce College's Communication Studies program provides this foundation by preparing students to transfer to a four-year college for further study of communications and broadcasting.
Pierce's core Communication Studies courses cover the basics of business and mass media, public speaking, newswriting, and technology. From there, students may choose an area of emphasis to further their understanding and gain additional, specialized skills.
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
By Randy Bruns
Cavaliers put Flyers away early on
MARIA STEIN - The Coldwater Cavaliers put together an almost flawless first half of football Friday night, while the Marion Local Flyers had two quarters that they would rather forget.
Coldwater took a 20-0 lead into the half-time break and coasted to a 27-6 victory, their sixth straight over Marion.
The Cavaliers, 2-0 on the year and 1-0 in the Midwest Athletic Conference, scored on their first three drives, thanks in large part to the deadly accurate passing of Sam Slavik. The senior hit on seven of his first nine passes, including two for long yardage that set up a pair of scores.
Meanwhile the Flyers, 1-1 overall and 0-1 in the MAC, looked disorganized and flat on defense and simply couldn't keep tabs on all of Coldwater's weapons. Offensively, the hosts could not get their running game in gear, as they managed just 23 yards on the ground in the first half.
After holding Marion to a quick three-and-out on its first series, Coldwater put together a perfect opening drive to set the tone for the game. The visitors went 70 yards on 16 plays, as Slavik completed three passes for first downs and Tony Harlamert carried nine times on the drive. Slavik snuck in untouched on a fourth-down play from the one for the opening score.
The two teams then traded turnovers, and the Cavalier defense went to work and forced another Flyer punt. This time the Cavs struck more quickly, as Slavik found Matt Hoyng wide open for a 34-yard strike that brought the ball to the Flyer one. One play later, Adam Homan barged in for the touchdown, and after the PAT kick sailed wide, the visitors held a 13-0 lead.
The Flyers were held again on their ensuing possession, and the offensive fireworks continued for the Orange and Black. Cory Klenke started things with a 20-yard run, and three plays later, Slavik hit Harlamert on a screen that went 39 yards to the Flyer three. Homan did the dirty work again from close range, and the Cavaliers were up 20-0.
Marion had a chance to notch a score before the half ended, but an apparent touchdown run was called back on a holding penalty and the Coldwater defense stiffened to keep the hosts out of the end zone.
The Flyers came out fired up in the third quarter and finally got their ground game going. Marc Otte ripped off a pair of long runs for first downs, but it took a three-yard plunge on fourth down from Ben Schaefer for Marion to finally dent the scoreboard.
But as quickly as the Flyers gained the momentum, the Cavaliers took it right back.
A long kickoff return to the 47 by Hoyng started things, and Slavik later hit Homan on a floater for 21 yards to the Flyer 20. Slavik then capped his stellar night by pinpointing a perfect pass to Ryan Geier in the corner of the end zone for the game's final score.
"We knew their running game was something we had to stop first," said Coldwater coach John Reed. "Then I was really proud of how we reacted when they went to the passing game. Our secondary really stepped up after the guys in the trenches had established themselves."
Reed pointed to the second-half score as the pivotal series in the game
"We came out and didn't get a good return and then had three bad plays and they took the momentum," said Reed. "When we came back and answered like we did, that was a tremendous drive. Sam Slavik really deserves a lot of credit for standing in there tonight and delivering the ball."
For his part, Marion coach Tim Goodwin was perplexed as to how his team got manhandled so quickly in the first half.
"Coldwater just came out and played great football right from the start," said Goodwin. "We had no answer and they had us on our heels, and we could never recover. It's very disappointing with our experienced offensive line that we couldn't get anything going on the ground. We looked very sharp all week in practice, so this was very surprising to me. We just had kids that didn't react well under pressure, and it's disappointing, because a lot ofthem are seniors."
After two weeks on the road, Coldwater returns home Friday to take on New Bremen, while Marion goes from the frying pan to the fire when it travels to St. Henry to take on the Redskins.
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In early 2014, a renewed and revamped industry group called the Digital + Direct Marketing Association Asia [D+D] debuted, bringing the Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA) and the Hong Kong Direct Marketing Association (HKDMA) together with other groups regionwide. The [D+D] Board of Governors and committee members will drive a slate of activities to promote the effective use of digital and direct marketing across the Asia Pacific. The combined organisation includes many of the region's senior leaders and companies from across the marketing ecosystem including marketers, publishers, agencies, research and technology solutions providers. [D+D]'s dual mission is to maximise the value of marketers' investment and to enhance the customer experience. Activities will span advocacy, education, and networking.
As a result, the Asia Pacific Digital Marketing Yearbook is now known as the Asia Pacific Digital Factbook.
David Ketchum is Chairman,
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text: Mom Learns Lesson After Five Day Modern Warfare Marathon Sends Her Kid to the HospitalOwen Good8/08/12 8:30pmFiled to: WhoopsModern warfareModern Warfare 3Call Of Dutygaming addictionOhio242EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkAnd you thought gaming unto exhaustion was a phenomenon restricted to Asia. Well, somehow, a 15-year-old Ohio boy gamed so hard on Modern Warfare 3 he required hospitalization for dehydration.AdvertisementWhat's more, the boy's own mother told local news he was locked inside his room with the game for "at least four days. Maybe five," writes WCMH-TV of Columbus, Ohio. His only appearances outside of the room were for snacks or a quick shower, she said.Mom's inability to intervene and end this persistent threat to the health of her child over the course of five days was not explained.AdvertisementWhen the boy emerged from his room for the final time, he collapsed, and his lips turned a frightening shade of blue. The paramedics arrived and pumped him full of fluids, says WCMH. After a short hospital stay, Mom says she's learned a lesson. "The Xbox is gone."Great. That totally solves all the problems in this household.15-Year-Old Columbus Gamer Collapses After 4-Day Gaming Marathon [WCMH-TV, Columbus Ohio]Reply242 repliesLeave a reply


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Each week I will be sharing a different photo, something that throws me right back into the little moments of joy that my kids create. Something that reminds me. My kids were here.
The first time I walked into what would become our new house, I almost cried when I saw the kitchen. It was just about everything I could have ever dreamed. Coming from a dark little kitchen where I felt separated from my family while I was cooking (which is all the time), this felt so light and airy and just included.
What I didn't realize is how this little counter would become the hub of my family's life. I know people say that their lives center around their kitchen table, but I always assumed this wouldn't come until my kids were older. While I am cooking or cleaning in the kitchen, my kids are always up at the counter. They work on puzzles, color, snack, play. We eat dinner at the counter. We try new recipes with each other. We talk about our day. We live our life at this counter. If we ever move, I'm taking the counter with me.
Where does life center in your home?
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Three Stripes and a Sole – 25 Adidas Super Star Ads
|Being the sneaker freak that I am, I think Adidas sneakers are one of the most recognizable shoes today. Aside from the three stripes accompanying the Adidas' shoe design, there's that classic, sleek feel to almost all Adidas shoes, especially, on its Originals and Style Essentials product lines. Adidas' popularity could be attributed to their commitment to quality and performance – and there's also that occasional marketing campaign that catapults their products in to pop culture icon status.
Adidas' popularity can be traced back to its first incarnation – a company ran by two brothers, Adi Dassler and Rudolf Dassler. Prior to becoming Adidas, the company was known as Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik (lit. Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory). The shoe company achieved its first success when Adi Dassler went to the 1936 Berlin Olympics to market their track shoes. It was during that time that Adi Dassler persuaded Jesse Owens to wear their shoes during the span of the Olympics. This resulted in four gold medals for Owens. After the Olympics and the performance of Owens, the Dassler brothers received letters and offers from different teams interested in their shoe, and as people would put it "the rest was historyâ€.
Looking back at Adidas' marketing campaigns, much of their focus was on well-known sports personalities and their achievements. Adidas often highlights the achievements and feats of athletes they sponsor. Here are some of the ads created by Adidas then.
If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our other articles on Cats Logo, Movie Fonts, Optical Illusions Pictures and Pictures of Tinkerbell.
Much of Adidas' success could be attributed to their consistent presence in the World Cup and the Olympics. They often sponsor national teams in the World Cup and individual athletes in the Olympics. Today, Adidas holds multiple national team sponsorships and as well as official sponsorship of different sports leagues around the globe. Notable leagues include the NBA, the FIFA World Cup, and other collegiate leagues such as the US NCAA.
In much recent times, Adidas split its branding into three different product lines – Originals, Performance, and Style Essentials. The Originals brand cater to the creative, artistic, and extreme sports markets, the Performance brand focuses on the original aim of Adi Dassler – to provide quality equipment to all athletes in their respective field, and the Style Essentials is focused on the fashion market, often tying up with designers to create unique designs. They've also recently launched the NEO label which focuses on teenagers and provides a sport-casual flavor to their style.
Adidas' corporate branding changed during the late 1990s, from the classic 1972 trefoil corporate logo to the trademark three stripes. It can also be noted that the three stripes logo was actually bought from Kahru Sports, a Finnish sports brand, in 1951. Today, the trefoil logo is exclusively used on the Originals product line, taking advantage of Adidas' classic shoes using the logo.


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Team Fortress 2 (PC) - FYI I Am a Medic (Use your Bonesaw to kill a Spy that's been calling for Medic)
Oh Medic Milestone 3, you are so close, and yet so far.
Team Fortress 2 (PC) - FYI I Am a Medic (Use your Bonesaw to kill a Spy that's been calling for Medic)
Oh Medic Milestone 3, you are so close, and yet so far.
Ugh, the Medic achievements are grueling. I'm still about 270,000 HP from Chief of Staff, and have no progress on Doctor Assisted Homicide.
Last acquired achievement was Cash Grab on Beat Hazard. For that, you just need to have 10,000 ingame currency on hand at one point. So, basically, don't spend any money for a fair length of time. It let me upgrade a lot of my ****, though.
I'm only about halfway there for Chief of Staff, but I actually unlocked Doctor Assisted Homicide about a month ago./has been dominated a lot, haha
I need to remember to get Autopsy Report next time I kill someone and it isn't too hectic...
After that, I only need one more achievement for the 3rd Milestone.
I just unlocked a buttload of ME2 achievements.
2 in one go.
Mind if I cut in? - Team Fortress 2 - Backstab a Medic and the player he is healing within 10 seconds of each other.
Spy Milestone 3 - Team Fortress 2 - Obtain 17 Spy achievements.
Ol' Buddy Ol' Pal - Fallout: New Vegas - Recruit any companion.
Chief of Staff in Team Fortress 2.
For this, you have to heal 1,000,000 points of damage. This is easy, but incredily time-consuming.
Just got more Mass Effect 2 achievements.
I don't know my most recent one, but I can list my most prestigious achievement.
Rock Band 2: Blatter of Steel. (Obtained by playing the entire 63 [I think 63] song setlist in one session, on expert, never pausing or failing on a song. I did it on Expert Guitar, and again on Expert Vocals.
First Do No Harm in TF2.
"Play a full round without killing any enemies, and score the highest in a team of 6 or more players."
Surprising because I usually get fed up with my teammates when I play Medic and I switch to another class.
Unlocked the Trophy in Battlefield Bad Company 2 for receiving 50 unique online awards.
Deadmau5 / YouTube / Shiny Toy Guns
"Savior" in Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012.
This one is pretty simple: just win a round playing with Nissa's deck. This was my 16th out of 20 achievements, though; I won games with all the other decks first. I simply am not a fan of playing elves.
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I know the feeling. Actually, that's pretty much every time I play - my team can't be bothered to do anything, Red sets up on the 2fort bridge and the sewers, the Heavies are sitting in the spawn playing "Throw the Sandvich" (that's actually what they called it!), and we generally get our butts handed to us.
Sleeper Agent - Team Fortress 2 - Kill an enemy who triggered your Dead Ringer in the last 10 seconds.
More Mass Effect 2 achievements. I'm actually flying through his game.
Mass Effect 2 is an addictive game if you get right into it.
The Mysterious Escape - Angry Birds - iPad
Got it for beating the fifth chapter in the game. Also got another one today on the iPhone only also alongside this one today and the " Return to Sender ". The achievement was called "Woodpecker" if my memory serves me right. I got it for destroying 5,000 pieces of wood in the game. Gonna try to get some more achievements in this game with the other two versions of the game.
If and only if after an Awakening
Something from ModNation Racers. Some trophy I got from hitting a bunch of people with items.
Two Mass Effect 2 achievements for today. I'm considering to 100% it.
Exquisite Taste - Red Dead Redemption - Xbox 360. Purchase a rare gun from the gunsmith. So far, I've purchased 2/5 the rare guns.
Xbox Gamertag: iDeadlyPanda|3DS FC: 0602-6674-5548 |NNID: ThePandaMan
PSN ID: The3DSCube
Multiplier 5x - Little Big Planet 2 - PS3. just bought the game today and played the to first story levels with a friend of mine.
I got the both barrels achievement in halo reach.
It's an extra achievement that comes in a map pack.
Some ME2 DLC achievements for today.
yesterday i got "Slingshot kid" in CoD BO and "Perfectionist" in AC:Brotherhood.
For Slingshot kid, you must destroy all slingshot targets in 3 tries in the 2nd mission.
For, Perfectionist, you just need to gold medal 3 Virtual Training Missons.
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In it, but not of it. TPM DC
Bachmann: Scalia Will Teach Constitution Class For New Conservative Caucus
Bachmann, who is planning this new Constitutional Conservative Caucus in addition to her Tea Party Caucus that kicked off in July, explained the idea of the classes to Lou Dobbs: "We're going to do what the NFL does and what the baseball teams do: we're going to practice every week, if you will, our craft, which is studying and learning the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights."
"That'll set the tone for the week when we're in Washington," Bachmann said, adding that she's "hoping all the members of Congress will partake -- it's bipartisan."
The Supreme Court's Public Information Office did not immediately return TPM's request for confirmation of Scalia's involvement, but Bachmann told Dobbs that Scalia "has graciously agreed to kick off our class."
Here's her talk with Dobbs:
But Scalia isn't the only one who may be shaping freshman Congressional minds.
Bachmann says she also hopes to enlist Evangelical historian David Barton, a favorite of social conservatives known for his somewhat revisionist history of America's founding. Barton has some experience in this area -- he also taught several of Glenn Beck's "Beck University" classes, in which he argued that "the Declaration of Independence is nothing more than a listing of all of the sermons that folks had been hearing in church in the decades leading up to the American Revolution." He's also previously wondered: "Why don't we regulate homosexuality?"
Bachmann explained her hope for Barton's involvement: "The Judeo-Christian heritage isn't a belief. It's a fact."
"One thing we know from the Book of Isaiah is that Isaiah tells us that the government is on His shoulders," she continued. "We can trust a holy, almighty God with our future and nothing is too big for Him."
You can watch that video here.
Bachmann said she also hopes to get Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts in on the seminars and, in an e-mail to Andrea Stone of AOL News her deputy chief of staff Brooke Bialke provided some more details on the invitees:
Scholars such as David Barton, members of the media who cherish [the founding] principles such as Sean Hannity, honorable commentators such as Judge Napolitano, honorable judges and justices, and leading legal minds will and have been invited to speak. Topics ranging from the commerce clause to the intersection of constitutional principles with daily concerns such as Medicare will be covered.
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Why do more than half the people in this country pay no income taxes at all, while President Barack Hussein Obama keeps insisting that everyone must "pay his fair share?" For over half of citizens, is that their fair share? Or is creating more recipients of government handouts, at no cost to themselves, simply a strategy to gain more votes? The current federal debt burden works out at about $140,000 per federal taxpayer. Are you one of those taxpayers, the unlucky less than half? Obama is proposing to increase both debt and taxes. How much more do you want added to your $140,000 debt burden? Is your fair share $140,000?
Now Obama is pushing "the Buffett Rule," a capital gains tax hike designed to ensure that Warren Buffett pays as much tax as his secretary. His reason is that it, "will help us close our deficit." Oh, really? Does Obama realize that the Buffett Rule, if enacted, will help pay down the 2011 deficit (which, I'm sure, was George Walker Bush's fault) in only 514 years? And that's only for 2011, not deficits in future years. The Buffett Rule is forecast to raise $3.2 billion per year, what the US government currently borrows every 17 hours. Buffett is worth $44 billion, so if he donated his entire fortune to the US government, they would go through it within four and a half days. If you confiscate the total wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans it comes to $1.5 trillion, which is just a little less than the Obama budget deficit for a year.
Obama denounced (excuse me, evaluated) Paul Ryan's budget plan. Given what's at stake, you might think then that Obama would have an alternative plan. But his was voted down 414-0.
And speaking of the Buffett Rule, did everyone see this? In an article titled "Obama Paid Lower Tax Rate Than Secretary," we learn that the Obamas paid an effective rate of 20.5 percent in 2011. White House aides would not reveal presidential secretary Anita Breckenridge's tax rate (on earned income of $95,000) but confirmed it was higher than the first family's rate. And the Obamas paid a rate far below the 30 percent Buffett Rule rate.
In Obama's latest class-war, tax-the-rich gambit, he has stooped to a new low with misleading and out-of-context quotes from Ronald Reagan. Obama cited a couple of Reagan speeches from June, 1985, in which the former president quoted a letter from a wealthy executive who grumbled that he paid less in taxes than secretaries or bus drivers. Obama, of course, doesn't tell you that Reagan had a completely different tax-reform vision. Rather than raising the capital gains tax on successful investors or punishing wealthy people, as Obama advocates, Reagan wanted pro-economic growth tax reform that would cut rates for everyone, simplify the tax system with only two brackets, and eliminate tax shelters that allowed people to avoid paying any taxes at all. Reagan said, "We want to cut taxes, not opportunity…. By lowering everyone's tax rates all the way up the income scale, each of us will have a greater incentive to climb higher, to excel, to help America grow." By cutting the top income tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent, Reagan launched a huge prosperity boom that basically spanned three decades. It's hard to argue with success, but I'm sure you Kool-Aid drinkers are up to the task.
Obama has a completely different vision, one that would lift the top income and investment tax rates to about 45 percent, while, the integrated corporate and capital gains tax would be 55 percent. Instead of rewarding success, Obama wants to punish it. Instead of economic growth, he talks about tax fairness, which is a euphemism for redistributing resources from private hands to the government sector. Obama's vision is the exact opposite of Reagan's. Reagan's optimistic rising-tide-lifts-all-boats message was the direct opposite of Obama's. For Obama to attempt to associate himself with Reagan is a falsehood, some would say lie, of the worst kind.
Have you ever heard of Marjorie Rawls Roberts? Neither have I. Roberts, it appears, is bundling a minimum of $100,000 to $200,000 in donations for the Obama Victory fund 2012. But guess what? Roberts is a tax lawyer located in St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands who owns her own firm that specializes in offshore investments and how to avoid paying US taxes on those investments. Prior to owning her own firm, Roberts worked for a different St. Thomas firm that managed nearly $1 billion of investments, and some of her clients are somewhat questionable in their legal dealings.
This bundler is an Obama supporter, the same Obama who, in 2009, delivered a speech condemning the practice of using overseas investment tax loopholes to avoid paying US taxes. He referred to the US tax code as being, "…full of corporate loopholes that make it perfectly legal for companies to avoid paying their fair share." There's that "fair share" phrase again. Obama continued, "The Treasury Department and the IRS, under Sec. Geithner's leadership and Commissioner Shulman's, are already taking far-reaching steps to catch overseas tax cheats, but they need more support." Let's see, Obama says he wants to go after overseas tax cheats, but appointing US tax cheats like Geithner is permissible.
More "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrisy. It's really getting easy to find things to write about. And this is the guy you libruls keep defending and supporting.
But that's just my opinion.
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An American doctor killed in Afghanistan went to medical school in Detroit and has a son who is a Grand Rapids police officer.
Dr. Jerry Umanos of Chicago was among three Americans killed when an Afghan security guard opened fire at Cure International Hospital in Kabul.
His son, Ben Umanos, became a Grand Rapids police officer in December after working at the Manistee County sheriff's office in northern Michigan.
Jerry Umanos graduated in 1982 from Wayne State University medical school in Detroit. The dean, Dr. Valerie Parisi, didn't know Umanos but says he "shared the spirit of helping those who need it most."
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Add Stockton, California (population 292,000) to the list of
cities bankrupted because of bad management and over-generous
public union wages and benefits.
Please consider New Stockton City Hall building seized by Wells
Fargo; city preps bankruptcy contingency plan
The Stockton City Council announced Wednesday that they will look at bankruptcy contingency plans after Wells Fargo seized the new city hall building.
The city paid $35 million to buy the 8-story building, but was not able to move in because of its money problems, and recently stopped making debt payments all together. This is the fourth building that was repossessed by Wells Fargo; the bank seized three city parking garages for the same reason.
At the June 5 Stockton City Council meeting, members will look at a contingency plan if mediation between the city and creditors failed, city spokesperson Connie Cochran said. For the past two months, the city, under AB 506, has been in a mediation process with creditors to come up with a payment plan in order to avoid bankruptcy.
Incompetent City Management and Unions to
The firefighters' union put together a list of 10
wasteful things the city has done wrong totally about $116
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$417 Million Healthcare Liability
The union does not tell you that Stockton has a $417 million
liability for its "pay-as-you go retiree health care
And that's just healthcare. What about pensions and untenable
So who is more to blame here?
Bondholder Mediation
Mediation with bondholders and unions is now underway, the
outcome of which will determine whether or not the city files for
Recordnet reports Wealth of interest in Stockton mediation
Wall Street lawyers are likely taking the hardest line in mediation with Stockton, waiting for the closed-door talks to play out with their arms folded, but seated at the table.
"It's one thing to be forced by a court to give up your rights," said Matt Fabian, a bond analyst at Municipal Market Advisers in Connecticut. "It's another thing to give them up willingly."
Stockton entered mediation March 27, and it agreed with its creditors and labor groups to continue until June 25. Mediation is the last-ditch effort to avoid bankruptcy.
The conversation in mediation starts with Stockton's general fund deficit of $26 million, a fourth multimillion dollar shortfall year. The city must chip away at that figure with an eye on restructuring its obligations and forecasted deficits for years to come.
These are Stockton's major obligations next year, absent any concessions:
Bondholders will get $13 million, an amount that has increased 600 percent in four years. Payments have ballooned just like homeowners who took adjustable-rate mortgages;
Stockton must fund its pay-as-you go retiree health care system at $9 million annually, something City Manager Bob Deis has compared to a Ponzi scheme. To begin funding this $417 million liability, the city would have to put aside $18 million next year;
My Take?
The best course of action for the city is to seek bankruptcy. The
city is indeed clearly bankrupt so there is no point in delaying.
Delays will only serve the bondholders at taxpayer expense.
In bankruptcy court, the city should win the right to
unilaterally modify the pension and healthcare agreements made
with public union workers as well as terminate all collective
bargaining rights. 50% or even 75% haircuts on pension and
healthcare plans may be necessary. So be it.
Bondholders must also take a hit. I suggest 100% on the new city
hall (minus whatever it can recover from the seized building).
Wells Fargo deserves to be punished for being stupid enough to
lend Stockton money.
Inquirung minds should also consider City Council of North Las Vegas Unanimously
Suspends Collectively Bargaining of Public Unions, Citing
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If Stockton files bankruptcy it will be the largest city in the
US to seek Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. Don't worry,
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Following up on my recent post, Nate Silver makes a compelling case for S&P's incompetence (Why S. & P.'s Ratings Are Substandard and Porous - NYTimes.com):
Five years ago, if you were an investor looking for guidance on which country's debt was the safest to invest in, Standard & Poor's ratings wouldn't have done much to help you navigate the headwinds of the financial crisis.
He shows that if you simply looked at debt/GDP ratios, you'd know more about default risk than from the S&P rating, and that the S&P rating has no additional explanatory power. That is, at best, there is no information content in the S&P ratings. At worst,
If you were trying to predict a country's default risk today, based on the market's perception of its default risk two years ago as well as its S.&P. rating at that time, you would find that accounting for S.&P. ratings actually subtracted value from your model. That is, if the market had priced two countries as having a 20 percent default risk in 2009, but one of them had a AA rating from S.&P. and the other had a BB rating, the country with the worse S.&P. rating is likely to have proven to be the safer bet.
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More than half of fast food workers' families nationwide rely on public assistance to get by —double the rate of the overall workforce — at a cost of nearly $7 billion a year to US taxpayers, according to a study released Tuesday.
In Massachusetts, employees of McDonald's, Burger King, and other fast food chains receive $173 million a year in programs such as Medicaid, and food stamps, research by the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found.
Fast food workers across the country have been campaigning to call attention to the low wages and minimal benefits they earn as employees of highly profitable corporations.


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This week at Stitch n' Bitch:
Madeline made an appearance with not one, but TWO completed sweaters! Check out the fabulous buttons on this one! Plus, that I-cord edging that I still haven't found a project to try out for myself! I like it. Combined with Katharine's diligent progress, It almost makes me want to knit a fingering weight sweater. Almost.
Here's the other one, with a very happy Madeline inside:
Clara is sticking her tongue out in this picture, which makes me smile. Madeline is hard at work on yet another sweater (this one, however, is baby-sized, and should move a lot quicker for that reason.)
Speaking of Clara:
Look at the size of that Tube! It grows ever so much longer. Maybe she should suspend it from the ceiling and use it as a Tube of silence. Maybe it's a sleeping Tube. Maybe it's a top down sock for a particularly tall person. It could even be a carrier for a great many cats. It could be a Tube trap for assorted mythical creatures. It's up to us to guess, I suppose.
Aaaand look what we have here, ladies and gentlemen! A sweater that surely, by now, has sleeve progress, as this picture is a few days old. Katharine is making record time on this sweater, it will definitely get some wear before too much longer!
Check out the crochet stitch pattern on Lena's blanket! I know it looks like a scarf right now, but it's not. It's a blanket- the beginnings of a blanket!
Here's a yet-to-be-determined project and some ever -so -diligent crochet chain stitch practice (practice makes perfect! I read somewhere that it takes the average person 300 hours of doing something in order to become a master- like drawing, or playing the violin. There's no reason 300 hours of chain stitch would be any different, but I doubt I'd make it to 5 before I started second guessing the merit of mastering it.)
Here's a Halloween doggy sweater for Megan's new puppy. She seemed to be aware that most dogs do not enjoy sweaters, and seemed also not to care. We'll see if her puppy stops wiggling long enough for her to snap some pictures in costume!
Look! A foot! and Jordan's Ridiculously Organized bag of yarn for her sister's granny square blanket. I should have taken a picture of my yarn bag for comparison. Also, you can see my toes in this picture- which reminds me that this week is a very important week- Halloween on Wednesday means it's Halloween sock week! I started with toe socks featuring skulls and roses, and then today was black and white striped witchy socks! Whatever will tomorrow bring...Halloween is the best time of the year for sock shopping. But I digress...
This is what Jordan's sister's blanket will look like when it's done. I don't think the colors are quite right, judging by the yellow of the carpet. It's still really awesome though! That's one lucky sister. The good thing about granny square projects, though, is how portable they are. As soon as she fills her bag up with squares, she can just empty it out and start over until there's enough- no lugging around a big old blanket!
And then there's silly old me- as if knitting wasn't weird enough:
I'm making yarn! I know it looks like I know what I'm doing in this picture, but I promise I don't. I keep dropping the spindle because such thin yarn requires quite a lot of twist. I'm working on it, though. 300 hours, like I said. I'm still stalled on my sweater because I haven't had time to sit down in a quiet place and do the math to figure out what the appropriate increase pattern is. Math is hard. Maybe tomorrow. I have been just as hard pressed for knitting time as I have for blogging time!
And now, a story:
Aric and I visited Iowa State University over the weekend, because they were holding an event for prospective graduate engineering students. I drove. We were nearly there, when I spied a Joann Fabrics sign right next to a Michael's sign, right next to a Target sign, so I did a little happy dance and got off the highway...Bought some fabric, and something truly fabulous that I will show you all on Tuesday. When we were pulling up the ramp to get back on the highway, we were stopped in a line of cars because a police man was at the top of the ramp, stopped with his flashers on, and blocking traffic. I thought there was an accident or something, so we waited. All of the sudden, ten or so police cars drove by on the (empty, because the ramp was blocked) highway- followed by exactly two black SUVs with tinted windows, and eight white SUVs. Behind that, were two large luxury busses ( I don't know what the word for them is- the kind that look like RVs, but they're not...) The not-RVs were followed by an additional eight white SUVs, two black SUVs, and a bunch more police cars with flashing lights. Following up this parade were two more police cars, blocking traffic so that nobody could get into the caravan.
Every time they passed an on-ramp, a car from the front of the line would block it, and a then join again at the back. When we got to Ames, they exited onto a new highway (we watched all this from the bridge over said highway)- and two cars stopped traffic on that highway so that it was empty for the caravan.
Aric and I resolved to Google when we got home, to figure out who the very important person was, blocking traffic and traveling exactly at the speed limit (Gah!).
Wanna Guess? You really only have two options.
It was Mitt Romney. He made a campaign stop in Ames, Iowa, while we were visiting the Applied Mathematical Sciences lab at Iowa State.
In other news: the bell tower there played the theme song from Mario at 11:00.


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Enter Corporal Nym and Lieutenant Bardolph.
2.1.4509Nym For my part, I care not. I say little, but when 510time shall serve, there shall be smiles. But that shall be as 511it may. I dare not fight, but I will wink and hold out 512mine iron. It is a simple one, but what though? It will 513toast cheese, and it will endure cold as another man's 514sword will, and there's an end.
2.1.5515Bardolph I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends, 516and we'll be all three sworn brothers to France. Let't 517be so, good Corporal Nym.
2.1.6518Nym Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the 519certain of it. And when I cannot live any longer, I will do 520as I may. That is my rest; that is the rendezvous of it.
2.1.7521Bardolph It is certain, corporal, that he is married to 522Nell Quickly, and certainly she did you wrong, for you 523were troth-plight to her.
2.1.8524Nym I cannot tell; things must be as they may. Men 525may sleep, and they may have their throats about them 526at that time, and some say knives have edges. It must 527be as it may. Though patience be a tired mare, yet she 528will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot 529tell.
Enter Pistol and [Hostess, formerly Mistress] Quickly.
2.1.9531Bardolph Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife. Good 532corporal, be patient here. -- How now, mine host 533Pistol?
2.1.10534Pistol Base tyke, call'st thou me host? Now by this 535hand I swear I scorn the term! Nor shall my Nell 536keep lodgers.
2.1.11537Hostess No, by my troth, not long, for we cannot lodge 538and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that 539live honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will be 540thought we keep a bawdy house straight. [Nym draws his sword.] Oh, welladay, 541lady, if he be not hewn now, we shall see willful 542adultery and murder committed!
2.1.13Nym Pish.
2.1.17550Pistol "Solus," egregious dog? O viper vile! The "solus" 551in thy most marvelous face. The "solus" in thy teeth, and 552in thy throat, and in thy hateful lungs, yea in thy maw, 553perdy. And which is worse, within thy nasty mouth. I 554do retort the "solus" in thy bowels, for I can take, and 555Pistol's cock is up, and flashing fire will follow.
2.1.18556Nym I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I 557have an humor to knock you indifferently well. If you 558grow foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my 559rapier, as I may, in fair terms. If you would walk 560off, I would prick your guts a little in good terms, as 561I may, and that's the humor of it.
[Pistol draws his sword.]
2.1.22565Bardolph Hear me, hear me what I say. [Draws his sword (?)] He that strikes 566the first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a 567soldier.
18.104.22.168[They sheathe their swords.] 569Give me thy fist. Thy forefoot to me give. Thy spirits 570are most tall.
2.1.25573Pistol Couple a gorge, that is the word. I defy thee 574again! O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get? 575No, to the Spital go, and from the powd'ring tub of 576infamy fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind, 577Doll Tearsheet, she by name, and her espouse. I have, and I 578will hold the quondam Quickly for the only she, and 579pauca, there's enough. Go to.
Enter the Boy.
2.1.26581Boy Mine host Pistol, you must come to 582my master, and your hostess. He is very sick and would to bed. 583-- Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets and do 584the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.
2.1.28586Hostess By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one 587of these days. The king has killed his heart. Good 588husband, come home presently.
Exeunt [Boy and Hostess.]
2.1.29589Bardolph Come, shall I make you two friends? We must 590to France together. Why the devil should we keep knives 591to cut one another's throats?
[They] draw [their swords.]
2.1.35599Bardolph [Drawing his sword (?)] By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, 600I'll kill him. By this sword, I will.
[Sheathes his sword]
2.1.37602Bardolph Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends. 603An thou wilt not, why then be enemies with me, too. 604Prithee, put up.
[Nym and Bardolph sheathe their swords. (?)]
2.1.38605Pistol A noble shalt thou have, and present pay. And 606liquor likewise will I give to thee, and friendship 607shall combine, and brotherhood. I'll live by Nym and 608Nym shall live by me. Is not this just? For I shall 609sutler be unto the camp, and profits will accrue. Give me 610thy hand.
[Pistol and Nym shake hands. (?)]
2.1.42615Hostess As ever you come of women, come in quickly 616to Sir John. A poor heart, he is so shaked of a burning 617quotidian tertian that it is most lamentable to behold. 618Sweet men, come to him.
2.1.45623Nym The king is a good king, but it must be as it 624may. He passes some humors and careers.


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Left to right: Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Yannick d'Escatha, President of CNES, Vladimir Popovkin, Head of Roscosmos, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace.
The official ceremony marking ESA's handover of the Soyuz launch site to Arianespace took place on 7 May 2011 at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, after the site was declared ready for the first flight and the completion of a simulated launch campaign.
The ceremony opened with speeches by Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, Yannick d'Escatha, President of CNES, and Vladimir Popovkin, Head of Roscosmos. They were followed by Mr Dordain handing over the site's 'keys' to Mr Le Gall.
To mark this occasion and to celebrate the recent 50th anniversary of the first man in space, a commemorative plaque and a stone from the Baikonur launch pad from which Yuri Gagarin took off in 1961 was sealed on the site.
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How To Stop Your Romantic Past From Ruining Your Romantic Future
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Warning: If you don't like to hear the cold hard truth, stop reading this.
Now for those of you who stayed with me let's get into it. Continuing to be a slave to your romantic past, letting it haunt every new relationship you start, and unconsciously refusing to be happy is unhealthy.
If you find yourself tied down by the mayhem that your past failed relationships have created, it is time to do something about it. Stop assuming all the blame for what went wrong. Start accepting the fact that not all relationships are meant to work and try to identify some sort of pattern that is likely subconsciously leading you to engage in bad relationships.
Ladies, it is not always a matter of bad luck; you sometimes choose to date the same type of men over and over again, even though deep down you already feel the inevitable is about to happen: Another bad relationship, another lonely night of crying, another broken heart.
It is not uncommon for relationships that have failed in the past to leave scars on your present or future romantic encounters. And the sad truth is that you could be the smartest, most successful, most attractive woman on the planet. But no one but you can guarantee that you aren't going to keep getting entangled in bad relationships.
Playing the 'It wasn't meant to be' or the 'Better luck next time' cards every time this happens to you isn't the solution to your problems. Sure it might be easier to blame the Universe for all the heartbreak that you have been through. But the truth is that your own decisions are probably what lead you to broken hearts and failed relationships.
If you would like for your bad relationships to stop influencing your present or future ones, start by pulling out the magnifying glass people hate to direct to themselves and carefully analyze what went wrong. Was it the way you or your partner used to fight? Was he a no good man that you shouldn't have dated in the first place? Was it your jealousy that ultimately led to your breakup? What else is there to blame? Figure it out. The sooner, the better.
Once you decide what went wrong with your last relationship, it is time to move on to your previous relationships and try to identify some sort of pattern. Are you always cheating or the one who gets cheated on? Do you express too much jealousy? Are you involved with married men or guys you don't have a lot of things in common with just for the sake of not being alone? These are some questions whose answers might hurt. But you need to be 100% honest with yourself when answering them. This is the only trick in the book that is going to help you move forward and stop living in the past.
Once you are all done with assessing your past, it is time to carefully consider what you would like your future to look like. Decide what are the qualities that your future partner should possess and figure out what sort of traits you refuse to accept in a partner ever again. Learning from your past mistakes and failed relationships should be at the top of your list if you ever want to find happiness.
Now it's time to move on…
Stop doubting yourself and your capacity to find a good man. You do have what it takes to love and be loved. Stop repeatedly asking yourself what went wrong and why can't you be happy again. It is utterly exhausting and it won't lead to anything positive or constructive. Instead, repeat to yourself that all relationships need to be worked on by two individuals and that not everything that happened in the past should automatically be pinned to you.
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Plant Portrait - Viola odorata Sweet Violet
This article originally appeared in the Jan 1998 edition of the Friends of PFAF newsletter.
The sweet violet is an evergreen perennial woodland plant growing about 10cm tall and forming a carpet of growth that makes a good weed-excluding ground cover. The edible leaves can be harvested all year round, and the edible flowers are produced in late winter and early spring.
This is a very easily grown plant, although by nature it grows mainly in the dappled shade of a woodland, it is very tolerant and will even succeed in very hot, sunny positions so long as the soil does not dry out. It succeeds in most soils but prefers a cool moist well-drained humus-rich soil in partial or dappled shade and protection from scorching winds. When grown in the open it prefers a moderately heavy rich soil[1]. We have even see it thriving in old stone walls so long as there are small pockets of soil for it to get its roots into. The plants are very cold-hardy and will tolerate temperatures down to about -20°c[187].
The leaves are quite small, perhaps 3 - 5cm in diameter, but are produced in abundance and are easy to harvest. They have a very mild, almost bland flavour and can be used in quantities in salads. The texture is slightly tough, however, so we usually mix them in well with other leaves. The leaves can also be cooked, and are a nice addition to soups or stews where they will help to thicken them in much the same way as okra can be used.
My favourite part is the flowers. These are usually produced in abundance in late winter and early spring. They have a strong scent and taste of parma violet and make a superb and decorative addition to salads
Sweet violets have various other uses in the garden, including various medicinal uses. For example, it has a strong folk reputation in the treatment of cancer and whooping cough. It also contains salicylic acid, which is used to make aspirin, and is therefore effective in the treatment of headaches, migraine and insomnia. An essential oil from the flowers and leaves is used in perfumery and the flowers themselves are used to flavour breath fresheners.
Propagation is easiest by division of an established plant. Simply break off a small section that has roots, pot it up for a few weeks until established and then plant out. Spring is perhaps the best time to do this, but we find that it works well just about any time.
Seed is best sown in the autumn in a cold frame. The seed requires a period of cold stratification and the germination of stored seed can be erratic. Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle and plant them out in the summer.
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