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Living Large Summer of Fun Scavenger Hunt Week #2: Find a Personal Connection
Not long ago I was chatting with a friend on Facebook and she said, "I'm going to call you." Although I come from a generation that used to sit for hours with friends on the phone, I was a little shocked. I couldn't remember when I had actually talked with someone on the phone!
Our digital world is great for a lot of things, but I think it has done a lot of harm to society as well. It has "dehumanized" us, breaking down friendships to texts and online chats. I believe it's also led us to some of the meanness and online bullying, people have actually forgotten how to interact with real human beings. I've actually been in living rooms when family members are sitting there texting each other in the same room!
I had so much fun reconnecting with my friend on the phone that day, I've made it a point to try and call my loved ones as much as I can and not allow our relationship to only be on chat or text.
I'm not as good as I'd like to be, though, so I'm challenging myself this week to reconnect with at least 5 people I haven't seen or actually spoken to in over a month. I will be reconnecting with two good friends at a luncheon today and that means I will have to find 3 more in my address book to reconnect with over the phone.
Your scavenger hunt assignment this week, if you choose to accept it, is to reconnect with a friend or a loved one that you haven't actually spoken with in over a month (the longer it has been the more fun you will have reconnecting!) Make a lunch or coffee date to meet them in person, if possible. If it's not, set up a phone "date" with them in the morning over coffee or better yet, Skype! No texting , emailing or chatting on social media allowed.
You have until Thursday, July 6th at 9 p.m. CT to post here or on the blog about your reconnection "find" for entry into the drawing.
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Outraged by an invasion of privacy, Evan Rachel Wood took to Twitter on Wednesday (February 13) to share her thoughts.
The mom-to-be became furious after the Daily Mail published a photo of her recent ultrasound.
In her first tweet, the "True Blood" actress lamented "Which sick f–k paparazzi hid in the parking lot of my hospital after my ultrasound. I cant stand this."
"You took a picture of my ultrasound photo!!!! I couldnt be more furious right now. I want to cry. My child isnt even born yet," Wood continued, "That"s my child. Its not even out of the womb and they are snapping photos of it. I am getting out of LA. People have no hearts."
Saying she has never felt more violated by a photographer, the heartbroken mom called for the paper to take the photo down, which, according to a re-tweet by the star, it has since done.

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March 31, 2017
Very funny in a sweet way
March 4, 2017
Canadian yarn from great Canadian stand up comedian Sean Garrity. The movie is not that great but it has its moments.
½ November 27, 2016
Predictable and uneven - intelligent and funny one minute, a bit clumsy and falling flat the next, though not overly cringeworthy. On balance it's above average fun, just not brilliant, as it could have been if more consistent.
May 25, 2016
A few funny punches here & there, that's all.
January 15, 2016
There were some funny parts but for the most part you just want to throttle the main character for being such an idiot the whole time. Also, it was filmed here in Winnipeg so locals get the double laugh of seeing all the places they tried to pass off as Toronto.
November 22, 2015
Best Canadian flick in a while. Lots of laughs.
½ July 9, 2015
Not so funny but not so bad
June 9, 2015
entertaning and very different
½ May 25, 2015
It resembles as a T.V. movie and it's bad.
May 18, 2015
It was a very good movie
½ April 12, 2015
one of the worst movies I have actually managed to finish
April 3, 2015
If you can overlook the typical flaws found in the main characters, this has some genuinely funny moments that will carry you through to the climax. See what I did there? ;)
½ March 18, 2015
I thought this film was going to be "OK" but it was pretty good! It has some funny parts, the story makes sense, and the acting was pretty good. It was a fun watch...are there better movies in this genre? Of course! But it was still pretty solid overall, a nice pleasant surprise.
August 11, 2014
Great Movie.....if your into the nerd meet Stripper love story....Had wrote something like this back in the day when I was a nerd
July 12, 2014
Very good film well thought out like most other films you can guess what's going to happen in the end but still enjoyed it and is very funny
June 29, 2014
I'll never look at cantaloupe the same again... a naughty and entertaining romp ;)
½ May 8, 2014
For a Canadian comedy set & shot in Toronto, I was surprised to find myself laughing and enjoying the film. It has a very "Canadian" feel but is pretty amusing with a good premise. Give it a try if feeling adventurous!
May 3, 2014
Interesting and very funny !
½ April 18, 2014
It skirts ordinary life in the way only the self absorbed can manage and thus gets a high mark from me.
I've seen this twice and it still seems like a very funny film about people who cannot or who are scared to express who they are and what they want.
It skirts ordinary life in the way only the self absorbed can manage and thus gets a high mark from me.
½ January 24, 2014
It was a very fair movie. The concept and idea was good, but they really could have executed it better with some more laughs involved. It became too crude with some necessarily over the top scenes where they just weren't needed. In general it just tried way too hard.


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Irish soda bread is really a 'quick bread'. Quick breads are those made without yeast but use baking powder and baking soda as their leaving agents. Banana, zucchini, and nut breads are all familiar quick breads. But most people don't associate soda bread in the same category.
Soda bread is usually made in a round cast-iron skillet and baked in the oven though I have seen them made free-style on a baking sheet (like a large scone to which they are a cousin) or in a regular loaf pan. Making them in a skillet is easy and, you can serve right from it to cut down on the clean up – always a plus for me!
Traditionally in Ireland, the soda bread has currents, rarely raisins. They don't use caraway seeds – that is an American inclusion but the rye flavor works well with the sweetness of the currents and raisins. It's especially good if you are serving this with corned beef and cabbage! It's simple to make and delicious with a crisp crust and a moist, tender interior. Enjoy!
Irish Soda Bread
- Unsalted butter for greasing pan
- 3 c all purpose flour
- 2/3 c sugar
- 1 Tbsp. baking powder
- 1-1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1-3/4 c buttermilk (or sour milk)
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 1/4 c unsalted butter, melted, divided
- 1-1/2 c dried currents or raisins
- 1 Tbsp. caraway seeds (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 10″ oven-proof skillet and line with parchment or waxed paper. **If you use a larger or smaller skillet, your cooking time will change as will the height of your soda bread.
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda. In a separate bowl, combine the buttermilk, eggs and 2 Tbsp. melted butter. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until just moistened. Do not over mix. Stir in the currents (and caraway seeds, if using).
Pour batter into prepared skillet. Brush top with remaining butter. You can cut on X to a 1/4″ depth if desired in the center of the loaf as some soda breads have that marking, if you wish. Bake until golden brown and firm to the touch, approximately 1 hour.
** If using an 8″ or 9″ skillet, start checking at 1 hour but it will probably take another 15 to 20 or 30 minutes to finish. If using a 12″ skillet, start checking at 45 minutes and you may find it is done. Cool 10-15 minutes before slicing.
Serve with corned beef and cabbage or with apples and cheddar cheese.


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I got several e-mails asking where M*A*S*H was. I left that out because I don't consider it a 60s-70s sitcom, since it was made from 1972 to 1983, making it a 70s-80s sitcom.
Of course this means that neither Happy Days nor Laverne and Shirley should be here either. Unfortunately I misremembered roughly when those shows were produced. Luckily neither of them won.


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Question 35
Surveys that directly ask employees how important pay is to them are likely overestimate pay's true importance in actual decisions.
After doing some relevant research our group thinks that the answer for this question is false.
P2~~~ before doing any relevant research our group made a guess on the answer of this question, our opinion is the statement is false. We think surveys that directly ask employees how important pay is to them are more likely to underestimate than overestimate pay's true importance in actual decisions.
In other words, when people do self-assessments or similar surveys most of them tend to underestimate the importance of pay to their behaviors.
P3~~~so what is the correct answer? To answer this question we found a relevant article "the importance of pay in employee motivation: discrepancies between what people say and what they do" In this article the author adopted some other scholars' studies to compare what people say and what they do when they are involved in the case of pay importance. This article shows that only 35% of the respondents in the Rynes et al. study chose the correct answer (false).
P4~~ so, in terms of pay importance what people usually say in their self-reported questionnaire? Herzberg's study in 1957 shows that people tended to say they are other motivation factors that are more important than pay; for example job security, interesting work and opportunity for advancement. Pay only ranked sixth in importance. Moreover, Jurgensen's study in 1978 also indicated the similar result. SEE PPT
OK let's move to how pay actually influence people in the reality? In other words how important pay is to people in the reality?
The article we found indicates that when organizations use pay as motivator the organization's productivity can effectively increase. For example SEE PPT
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Last night, a single strand of her hair
surfaced on my pillow. All day, on the boat,
as I tried righting myself on waterskis, and failing,
I had begun to convince myself
that whatever momentum that had carried us all year
was beginning to sputter and topple.
I gripped the rope as if my life
depended on it, and still, it flew out of my hands.
On deck she was as beautiful as ever. It was not hard
to keep falling in love. When she took to the wakeboard,
her skin gleaming in the Delta sun,
it was almost heartbreaking how easy it looked.
She was floating. She was an angel.
I wanted to dive in after her like a dolphin, follow her trail.
I couldn't.
After all of my attempts to rise above the surface,
I was shivering wildly, my grip
reddened and sore. I climbed into my towel and stayed there,
head down, legs goose-pimpled. She rubbed my back
as if I were a child.
I was.
I told myself it would always be like this,
me trying to hold on to such an unwieldy ride, and she
already aloft and steady, eyes pinching the horizon.
When I came home, I thought,
Maybe this is the beginning of the end, and I began
the terrible act of curling back inside myself,
reeling my heart back in, stowing my memories in the dark.
But no.
I pulled back the cover of my bed, and there it was.
A strand of her, a slim remainder,
a micron of her body resting squarely
where her head had been just last week,
as I lay against her on a Tuesday afternoon.
And I knew
that something of her was still with me,
singing me to sleep.


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decided: December 10, 1987.
IN RE THE MATTER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, NEW YORK NEWS INC. AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, INTERVENORS-APPELLEES-CROSS-APPELLANTS; UNITED STATES OF AMERICAv.MARIO BIAGGI AND MEADE ESPOSITO, DEFENDANTS, MEADE ESPOSITO, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT-CROSS-APPELLEE
Appeal by Meade Esposito from order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jack B. Weinstein, Ch. J., granting in part a motion to make public certain motion papers containing material obtained by electronic surveillance pursuant to Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. § 2510 et seq., which were filed under seal in connection with the criminal prosecution of Congressman Mario Biaggi and Meade Esposito. Cross-appeal by appellees. Vacated and remanded.
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Meade Esposito appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jack B. Weinstein, Ch. J., dated September 22, 1987, granting in part a motion by The New York Times Company, New York News Inc. and the Associated Press to make public certain motion papers filed under seal in connection with the criminal prosecution of Congressman Mario Biaggi and Meade Esposito. The motion papers were filed in connection with a pretrial motion to suppress evidence obtained by electronic surveillance pursuant to Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. § 2510 et seq., and a pretrial motion pursuant to Rules 403 and 404 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to preclude the use at trial of a particular wiretapped conversation. The order was entered after hearings in the district court on September 18 and 21, 1987, following this court's remand in In re The New York Times Co., 828 F.2d 110 (2d Cir. 1987) (" New York Times I"). Appellees cross-appeal, challenging the judge's redactions, if any, that go beyond the identities of strictly private citizens not previously identified with this or any other prosecution, investigation or matter of public concern. The procedural history of the case prior to our remand to the district court is described fully in our opinion in New York Times I and will not be repeated here. We will assume the reader's familiarity with that opinion. We add now only that after our opinion in New York Times I, defendants Esposito and Biaggi were acquitted on some charges and convicted on others, and have appealed the latter convictions.
Following the issuance of the mandate in New York Times I, Judge Weinstein held hearings on the motion of appellees to determine what portions, if any, of the sealed papers that had been the subject of the appeal in New York Times I should be released and what portions should remain under seal. The judge released certain papers, apparently including the papers that were filed in connection with defendants' pretrial motion pursuant to Rules 403 and 404 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, and reacted portions of the documents filed in connection with defendants' suppression motion. Although Judge Weinstein was clearly concerned with the prejudicial impact that disclosure would have on the privacy interests of certain parties named in those documents, he stated in his September 22 order that
further redactions are not practicable without making the document[s] almost meaningless since the prejudicial material is woven throughout. Publication of the unreacted portions is probably unfair to at least some of those named. They are accused of serious crimes without being charged and given the right of defense.
The judge also stated, in the September 21 hearing, that such disclosure "will be pernicious with respect to future motions by defense counsel. It will have a chilling effect . . . ." The judge concluded, however, that he was bound by our decision in New York Times I "to minimize redaction in view of First Amendment considerations." On September 23, 1987, this court granted appellant's motion for a stay of Judge Weinstein's order pending appeal and, on October 9, 1987, granted appellees' motion for an expedited appeal. Thereafter, the appeal came before another panel of this court, which by order dated November 17, 1987, referred the appeal to this pane.
Appellant's main claim to us is that the district court did not comply with the directions of this court in New York Times I. Examination of the record does reveal that Judge Weinstein may have thought that New York Times I mandated the disclosure of the sealed material without further redaction, if such further redaction would result in a document that was "almost meaningless." Since we did not intend New York Time I to require such a result, we vacate the September 22 order and remand the case to the district court.
Redaction is permissible under New York Times I even if redaction will render "almost meaningless" the documents to be disclosed, if the district judge finds that important Title II privacy interests cannot otherwise be protected and such privacy interests outweigh the public's interest in access. We did not mean to imply in New York Times I that the privacy and that in applying the balancing test mandated by Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court, 478 U.S. 1, 106 S. Ct. 2735, 2743, 92 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1986), the right of privacy incorporated in Title III "should weigh heavily in a court's balancing equation." New York Times I, 828 F.2d at 116.
On remand, Judge Weinstein should make specific findings as to the scope and nature of the Title III privacy interests at stake and decide whether, in his balancing equation, those privacy interests are of sufficient weight to justify more extensive redaction than provided for in the September 22 order even if the remaining document becomes "almost meaningless." In view of our disposition of the case, it is not necessary to address appellees' cross-appeal at this time.
Vacated and remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
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My first homemade rolls were made alongside my cousin, Linda. She taught me the art of carefully kneading the dough, punching it down and rolling even tidy balls. If memory serves me right, her rolls were blue ribbon award winners at the county fair and knowing my precious family of "overachievers" they probably went on to the state fair. It was well over a decade when, in adulthood, I returned to that lovely art of bread making.
Lest ye become easily impressed, my rolls are made by the assistance of my bread machine. I never did get the art of punching down dough and the whole "kneading" thing annoys me. Knead is an unfortunate word to me - it just looks so..."overworked". (I know, I know, but it's truth.) Lucky for me I have serious pain in my hands from arthritis and can't do it anyway! Tweaking Linda's approach to bread-making made it possible for me to weekly make bread with success rather than frustration. I even went on to master cinnamon rolls.
Though I take a different approach and would never get blue ribbons, my rolls are heartily welcomed and quickly disappear. I have spent hours teaching younger women to roll even tidy balls of dough, hours teaching them to make cinnamon rolls. People quite often tell me my cinnamon rolls are the best they've ever eaten. It has everything to do with my bread machine and very little to do with me. Doesn't matter. Nothing tastes like lovin' quite like somethin' from the oven, right? What counts is not my skill, but my end product.
Trying a new way to do something that made frustration get the best of me, became a good enough success to delight others and be a blessing. We are all so slow to leave our comfort zones. How much we miss because we don't even try! We may not become the best at what we do and sometimes we have to tweak our skills or situation, but if we roll with the punches and keep trying, we will discover that God has created strength from our weakness.


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This is Karina's recipe over at Gluten-Free Goddess (she actually has two versions, which I combined just slightly. The other version also has 2 cups of shredded cabbage and more liquid.). She adds jasmine rice and garbanzo beans and diced red onion to her soup. I'm going to ladle it over brown rice with chicken one night and garbanzo beans the next. One commenter on her blog said she subbed butternut squash for the cauliflower, which I think is a nice twist. Or perhaps you could use both?
1 tablespoon olive or avocado oil
1 tablespoon Thai Kitchen Green or Red Curry Paste, or GF curry powder, to taste
1 medium red onion, peeled, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
4 medium carrots, peeled and diced
1 cup cauliflower florets, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 medium apples, peeled, cored and diced
1 medium sweet potato, peeled and diced
1 quart light vegetable broth
1 cup coconut milk
Juice from 1 or 2 medium limes, as needed
1 teaspoon raw organic agave nectar or organic raw sugar
Sea salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
1 14-oz. can chick peas, rinsed and drained
Finely diced red onion, apple, or chopped fresh cilantro, for garnish
You'll also need:
1 pot of cooked jasmine rice
Read more: http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/2010/01/mulligatawny-soup-with-jasmine-rice.html#ixzz1BQ0c7oXD


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Six Degrees buys Avaya partner Aurora
Avaya reseller Aurora Networks Ltd is the latest firm to be picked up by buy-and-build cloud services provider Six Degrees Group, strengthening its unified communications business.
Avaya partner Aurora Networks Ltd is the latest firm to be picked up by buy-and-build cloud services provider Six Degrees Group, strengthening its IP telephony, video and unified communications business.
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Six Degrees has been looking to fill a gap in its portfolio around UC technologies, according to CEO Alastair Mills, as it looks to service demand for integrated solutions from midmarket and corporate customers.
The acquisition enhances Six Degrees' ability to deliver multimedia services across its extant backbone infrastructure, giving it a boost in emerging market sectors such as comms server hosting along with mainstream IT apps.
It will also enable it to lever a £2m investment in core network upgrades, including SIP trunking, through the provision of converged voice and video over IP.
Mills added that Aurora was delivering "impressive organic growth with excellent operational and technical capabilities."
London-based Aurora – which also holds accreditations with Polycom and Radvision, has been booking organic year-on-year growth of about 20% and claims to make around 75% of its sales through services contracts.
Along with Aurora directors and founders Mark Tyers and Dan Cholerton, 20 people are expected to head across to Six Degrees.
"We're joining one of the most ambitious companies in the midmarket … and we'll be adding new products to an already strong group," said Tyers.
"The potential for us to cross-sell telephony, LAN and video into [Six Degrees'] existing customers, as well as for us to provide managed data and hosting services to our own is tremendously appealing to us," he added.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Six Degrees said it expected Aurora to take its run-rate to hit £54m, up from about £40m when it started its acquisition drive in May.


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Styled: Creatures of Comfort
Anyone who knows me, knows that I don't understand "comfort" as a style choice. When I ask people what kind of look they are trying to achieve, and the reply comes back "Oh, I wear anything that's comfortable" - I automatically wonder what that means. To me, by default, you should only buy a) clothing that you are comfortable wearing and b) clothing that is comfortable in terms of fit. So, here are my choices for a "comfortable" outfit.


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A growing collection of moments, memories, thoughts and blessings from our life
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Labors of Spring
In the last several days we've had some very enjoyable times of working out side together in the beautiful weather. Stephen's main focus has been the chicken pen and coop and mine has been getting a garden put in. He's quite a bit nearer being done then I am!
This little lady has given us many smiles as we've been working with her cute antics... and she's added her share of challenges too! :-) These next several shots are from Saturday, when we got a fair amount done and a little lady got soooooo dirty!
And here is Daddy and part of the chicken coop he's been doing a fabulous job of building.
Mommy, little Blessing at 8 1/2 months, and the newly planted tomato sprouts. We sprouted some tomatoes from seed, and hopefully, at least some will survive. We'll probably also try to get a couple established plants in different varieties from the store.
The chicken pen looking good! Way to go Daddy!
And another shot of the sweet, rascally, grubby little lady!
Yesterday, more work was done together, in the beautiful outdoors. Here's more chicken coop progress. Stephen says that at one point, Clara was using the tape measure and making lots of pencil marks, just like Daddy! :-)
Near the end of the evening our "little chicken" had fun testing out the nesting boxes! I love these shots!!! :-)
Spring is a wonderful time! Enjoying it together makes it even better! Thanks You, Lord Jesus for this beautiful time and for my precious little family!
4 comments:
- Laurel said...
The coop and garden are looking great. I'm impressed that you're planting tomatoes and gardening so actively right now. All my tough garden work is being done by Jonathan and the Blessings this year. Though Jonathan warned me yesterday I have about 2 more months to be "lazy." :-)
- April 13, 2010 at 6:33 AM
- In the Mix said...
Lookin' good, momma!
Thanks for the pictures. I love pictures of grubby kids helping outside. It's as it should be. :)
Praying for you as the time quickly approaches for #2. Yay!
- April 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Momma M said...
Yes, we are praying for you too. Now I need to get to the planning stage on when I can come to help with chores and read to Miss Clara, yet also giving you time as a family after Gramma Elaine's turn.
- April 14, 2010 at 5:20 AM
- Scott said...
I think you just need the blanket pile on the right! (Save the other pile for another time!!)
Love you,
Grandpa F.
- April 15, 2010 at 4:43 PM


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LITTLE ROCK — The Bryant Blue Hornets eighth grade team of Bethel Middle School captured a 50-36 victory over the Anthony School Panthers of Little Rock to open the 2014-15 season on Monday night.
The seventh grade teams played as well.
Randy Thomas was the leading scorer for the eighth grade Hornets who were making their debut under head coach Dominic Lincoln.
"We started off super slow but we are just now getting our legs under us," the coach said. "It was our first game with little practice time. They played really fast and physical late on in the game, which is exactly how I want them to play."
Lincoln also noted the play of Chris Fuller.
"He was a bright spot," the coach said. "He is learning a new spot but stepped in and made some big shots for us."
Ethan Hilkert led all scorers in the seventh grade game with 11 points.
"The seventh grade team played extremely well as a unit," Lincoln related. "I was proud of their effort. But we have a long way to go to be the team we are capable of being."
The eighth grade team is set to play in a tournament at Anthony School starting Nov. 17. The next outing for the seventh grade squad is schedule to be at the Wildcat Shootout at Little Rock Episcopal starter Dec. 1.


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Oil. Black gold. It's the lifeblood of the global economy. As essential as sunlight is to plants, so too is the world dependent upon oil to function.
Around 80% of the world's total energy usage stems from fossil fuels like oil. As it stands today, without oil, the ability to power a city or transport goods becomes impossible.
For investors, a product like oil has built in demand which helps to prop up prices making it the most heavily traded commodity in the market. Take a look at Exxon Mobile's (XOM) chart over the past 10 years to get a sense of how valuable oil really is. Its price more than doubled over that time, providing investors with plenty of profits over the years. Figure in its dividend yield and an investor would've made over 2 ½ times their original investment.
As such, the energy sector has been dominated by oil companies and offshore drillers. Other energy plays like solar, coal, and nuclear have had periods of dominance, but none have oil's longevity. The reason is simple – the cost per kilowatt hour. In other words, it all comes down to the cost of generating electricity.
At $100 a barrel, the cost of oil per kilowatt hour is roughly $0.06 while solar is about $0.38. However, government subsidies and regulation has brought alternative energy sources like solar closer in alignment with oil. Even still, solar is priced between $0.12 and $0.30 per kilowatt hour making it inferior from a cost-efficiency perspective to oil.
Rising oil prices and a continued reduction in cost to generate electricity from alternative sources has led to a revolution in green energy nevertheless. Take a look at First Solar's chart in comparison to Exxon Mobile's.
Despite far more volatility, an investor who bought in 2007 would be up nearly triple today. That's more than they would've made in Exxon despite First Solar's lack of dividends. Green energy has done quite well over the past few years, helped in part by high oil prices.
Recently however, oil has begun a trek downward.
Oil Today
As a traded commodity, oil is finicky. OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) governs the majority of the world's oil production and supply and can directly impact oil prices by choosing to release or restrict the flow of oil. Interestingly enough, 2 of the 3 top oil producing countries in the world, The U.S. and Russia, are not members of OPEC.
Because of the governing authority over oil, the price is not dictated by pure economic supply and demand, but rather how much supply is actually released by the organization. Despite their best efforts to keep prices high, oil production is now well above usability.
Softer Chinese demand and higher oil storage supplies have taken oil below $100 for the first time in 16 months. Geopolitical concerns around Russia and Islamic extremists have done little to lift the price since supply is so abundant. Combined with a rising U.S. dollar, oil prices could fall as low as $70 a barrel and stay well under $100 for an extended period of time.
U.S. oil production expectations have been raised as well. Shale oil drilling has raised production estimates by 250,000 barrels for 2015 and the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects worldwide oil energy usage to increase 38% by 2040. Domestically, the revamped production will help reduce import costs by 21% – a level not seen since 1968.
The price of oil is often looked at as a gauge of economic growth. Higher costs point to higher growth expectations and tends to serve as a sort of leading business cycle indicator. Lower cost energy though generally means a slowdown as the global economy weakens and future demand lessens. The impact of lower oil on the marketplace could be the end of the 5-year bull run.
Meanwhile, investors are left scratching their heads trying to figure out the next play in the energy market. Green energy had been gaining momentum along with shale oil when prices were high, but an oil oversupply could have an impact across other industries.
Cheaper Oil's Impact on the Energy Sector
The transportation sector is heavily tied to the price of oil. From commercial trucking to airlines to cargo ships, the price of oil makes or breaks these industries. Without this sector, goods are unable to be distributed and growth stagnates.
One of the biggest expenses these companies have is fuel. Margins tend to be very slim; trucking companies average a profit margin of under 6%. When the price of oil drops, these companies have more cash on hand and report higher revenues.
In the energy sector, persistently depressed oil prices can have a big impact.
Green energy companies will see a hit due to its relatively higher cost per kilowatt compared to suddenly cheaper oil. While subsidies and new technology continue to bring costs down, the sector is still a decade away from being a viable alternative cost contender.
The effects of lower oil will serve to bring down the majority of energy stocks across the board. Nuclear, coal, natural gas, solar, and all other types of energy companies will find themselves in a difficult competitive position. Some companies may not survive a prolonged period of stagnate oil while others may get bought out by competitors.
Even oil drillers will have a hard time finding worthwhile investment projects when the price per barrel drops below a certain point. Offshore drilling costs average between $70 and $80 a barrel making them huge money pits when oil dips below those levels. Extraction costs in the industry are high and without higher oil prices to support financing these projects, these companies will do their best to close up facilities, seek out tax deductions, and look for cost reduction initiatives in order to hit earnings expectations.
Energy Companies That Will Benefit
The only energy companies that will actually profit will be those that aren't tied to energy extraction costs. Companies engaged in the processing, refining, and distribution of petroleum products should do quite well in an environment where oil prices are low.
Refiners operate by taking advantage of the spread between the cost to purchase oil and the revenue generated after refining it. Refining costs are relatively stable, but the input cost of oil can change. When the price drops, margins expand, giving refiners plenty of room to negotiate higher prices and drive up revenues.
Oil refiners aren't known for rapid growth, but rather for their stable business models and reliable income streams. There is a very high barrier to entry into the refining business due to large start-up costs. This results in the industry being controlled by a small handful of large companies.
Here are 3 stocks that should do well when oil is cheap:
- PowerShares Energy Exploration & Production Portfolio (PXE)
This ETF's name is somewhat misleading considering that 3 of the biggest refiners, Phillips 66 (PSX), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), and Valero (VLO) account for 15% of the fund's total portfolio weight. While there currently isn't a pure-play oil refinery ETF, refinery stocks make up more than a quarter of the fund's total investments. Thus making it one of the best options for investors, who want energy exposure when oil prices drop.
PXE is up 4.5% year-to-date but could be looking at a sustained rally in the near-term future as oil prices continue to decline. If oil drops toward $70 a barrel, this ETF could rise as high as $42 – a 20% gain.
- Marathon Petroleum (MPC)
Marathon is one of the largest transportation fuel refiners in the U.S. with around 8,300 miles of pipeline. The company reported a 44% increase in earnings in its latest quarter and the stock looks primed for a breakout thanks to lower oil prices. Trading at 10 times future earnings with a long term EPS growth rate of 12.5%, Marathon could be undervalued.
Like most refiners, Marathon offers investors a dividend yield. It currently offers a 2.27% yield and pays $2.00 a share annually, an amount that has been raised 150% since 2011. This stock could be worth $115 per share which would represent a 29% discount based on its current price.
- Phillips 66 (PSX)
A spin-off of ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66 is a giant $47 billion petroleum refiner with more than 63,000 miles of pipeline. Like Marathon, this company is also set to benefit from the rising tide of lower oil prices. The stock trades at 11 times future earnings with a long term EPS growth rate of 10%, making it a fast growing company in an industry otherwise known for value.
Phillips 66 pays a dividend yield of 2.3%; slightly higher than Marathon. However, since 2012, Phillips 66 has increased its dividend by 150%; one year faster than its competitor. Based on the stocks growth rate, it is fairly valued at $92 – a 10% discount.
Oil Won't Stay Cheap Forever
While short term macroeconomic effects such as oversupply, a strong U.S. dollar, and a waning global economy may have dragged down the price of oil, it is unlikely to stay below $90 for more than a year.
If Chinese or European economic data comes back higher than expected, that could help to lift oil prices globally if investors assume the slowdown was less severe than previously thought. OPEC will likely continue to pare down supply in order to bring back oil prices as well while the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that oil demand is at a 2 ½ year low.
Oil prices fluctuate on a variety of influences and could reverse direction as severely and unexpectedly as before. Investors are cautioned against selling under-performing energy stocks as a knee-jerk reaction to oil's movement but should take precautions by hedging positions. Refiners are the clear winners of black gold's sudden decline in worth and could be primed for a breakout if oil closes below $90.
Fariba Ronnasi
CEO, Elite Wealth Management
Full Disclosures: http://elitewm.com/disclosures/
This article is not intended as investment advice. Elite Wealth Management or its subsidiaries may hold long or short positions on the companies mentioned through stocks, options or other securities.


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Hope for the World
Archives (Important Update Articles from Past Issues)
New World Religion
The Quest for a Godly President: Is this America's Last Chance?
Mideast Peace Agreement to be Signed in Washington...?
The Da Vinci Code and the Gospel of Judas
Reflections on 2004
George W. Bush and John F. Kerry Square Off
War with IRAQ: The Aftermath
America's WAKE UP Call
Shaping the New World Civilization: A Global Calendar of Events
A World of Change
A Region in Conflict
Occultism in the Heartland
The New Religious Order
The Environmental Agenda
Where Do We Go From Here?
How to Prepare for the Economic Worst
A November Surprise?
The Bear is Back
Is the Bubble About to Burst?
Obama Politics and Climate Change
America at a Crossroads
In Need of a Savior
Is this the Beginning of Sorrows?
Watch Oil Prices
When God Judges A Nation
Pray for Michele Bachmann
Are We Listening?
Welcome to 2012!
War Drums Beating Over Jerusalem
Final Warning?!
California: Could the Big One Take Place in 2014?
In Memory of Pastor Chuck Smith
Living for Christ in a Crisis Environment
Using Current Events to Share God's Truth
God's Not Done with the Jewish People
Obama & the Pope
Staying Sane in the Midst of Calamity
Who Will It Be?
Good Riddance!
Global Change & the Vatican
When Persecution Comes
Trump, America, & Israel
The Relentless Far Left
Countering the Globalist Agenda


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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Calling Jeff Green (and Roy Hibbert)
Tonight's loss was/is a major disappointment and while you can slice it and dice it any number of ways, we are going to lose and continue to lose more games when your two alleged best players (i.e., Jeff Green and Roy Hibbert) combine for 8 points of total offense.
The expectations for Hibbert are obviously high every time he touches the ball and he did not live up to those expectations this evening. But at least he took some shots and made some attempts to go at the basket. I will cut him a little more slack because overall he has been active this season and as of last game his FG% was hovering at nearly 70%. Point is he played...he might not have played well on the offensive end but at least he played.
The real story of this season so far has been a series of uninspired performances by Jeff Green (the Ball St game essentially does not count since this is akin to stealing from the blind). Don't get me wrong....it's not what Jeff is doing on the court, it's what he's not doing. His play, or lack thereof, has made him irrelevant. For many of this season's contests we might as well be playing with 4 men on the court. Until Green decides to wear the mantle of leader and demonstrate that leadership through his play on the court, we will continue to struggle and probably lose more games than we win. For someone who has been hyped as a top-10 NBA pick, he sure isn't playing like it.
This is a pretty simple thing...if Jeff Green (or Roy Hibbert) had a somewhat decent, not great, but decent, game this evening, we win. They didn't and we lost. End of story.
I would love to see these two, especially Green, publicly call themselves out, acknowledge the poor play, and step it up. This does not seem to be too much to ask.
On to Duke!!!
2 comments:
- Diamond_Mike said...
I generally agree that these guys need to step it up. But a lot of this loss can be chalked up to not running the offense. We just stood around in Esherickian fashion and then tried to make something happen off of the dribble against a quicker opponent. Everyone was tentative. Guys stood around pointing and yellling. Wallace is visably frustrated with his teammates. I sort of think that JTIII's strategy of only playing his best 6 last year is really hurting us now. We only have 3 guys who are comfortable in the offense. Everyone looks scared and tentative. Indeed, that is why we had so many turnovers. We didn't shoot that badly -- but we didn't shoot that much either.
This was a terrible terrible loss. Oregon is not a good team and any reasonable performance from us should have resulted in a win. They played us man-to-man and we still couldn't take advantage. In the post-game interviews JTIII did not seem to question the players or the system. I hope he is not being too patient. There is no way we should have had trouble against Oregon.
- Jester of Magellan said...
I agree with both Diamond and IBP in large part.
First, the offense looked stagnant. I've actually been noticing this the last few games. You don't see players moving. There aren't a lot of the backdoor cuts that make the system work. I had previously believed that this was a result of the zone defenses we've been seeing. But Oregon played man last night. And we still didn't have a lot of backdoor cuts. I know that we had quite a few passes to players cutting backdoor that missed their intended targets early on. This might have been because the Ducks were quicker than us, but I don't know. All I do know is that something is broken. And when something is fundamentally broken with your game plan you have to look at the coaching. I love JTIII, but if he can't get the players to run his offense, or if his offense isn't working, that's on him.
I also agree with IBP that Green looked bad. JTIII was asked after the game if Green needed to start being less of a team player and start being more selfish. Without elaborating, he said "yes." I agree with this assessment. In fact, JTIII said the whole team was too "tentative" on offense. That's definitely Green's biggest problem. There were several instances last night when he was down low with the ball and I could actually see him think about putting up a shot, before he suddenly changed his mind and kicked the ball back out. He needs to put up those shots. Down the stretch in the tournament he took games over. He needs to do that again. We've heard too many times that Green is a really smart player. He needs to start thinking less and reacting more.
That being said, I think Roy was definitely the biggest disappointment yesterday. He was absolutely dominated by a player 5 inches shorter than him. It's getting to the point that if an opposing player so much as breathes on Roy he's going to miss the shot. He must have missed 5 lay-ups in the first half. If we had those points then we're starting the second half from a position of power, which plays into the grinding nature of the Princeton-style offense. I think Roy's missteps are a large part of our failed game plan. The team (and Thompson) knows full well that we're a much more formidable team when Roy is a down low threat. So, we do whatever we can to get him involved. I think we actually focus on him too much. Players are working so hard to get him the ball that we pass up shots, make turnovers, and end up standing around. And even when he gets the ball he blows it. Green might have been highly touted coming into this season, but I distinctly remember seeing Hibbert on the cover of SI. So far, I'd have to have to say that his "poster boy" status is in no way called for.
I need to give some accolades to Wallace. Last night he seemed to be the only player on the floor who really wanted it (except maybe for Rivers who, despite what the idiots with the seats behind me think, played a decent game; especially on defense). He carried the team during the first half when Green and Hibbert combined for a big goose egg. At the beginning of the season everyone said that if Jonathan stepped up we would be a contender. He has. The problem is that no one though our highly touted frontcourt would be back peddling.


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|Paul Auster
I've also seen the films he's directed--here's an IMDB link to those: Auster films
And last week, Kirkus sent me his new memoir to review--Winter Journal--a book which I loved. He's getting older (about my age!) and is beginning to have winter thoughts ...
Anyway, a number of his sentences went straight from the page into my heart, but this one reminded me of something I've thought about a lot. (Note: the entire book is in 2nd person--not something you see every day.) "You can go back only as far as your grandparents, with some scant information about your great-grandparents on your mother's side, which means that the generations that came before them are no more than blank space, a void of conjecture and blind guesswork" (115-16).
Occasionally, I used to do an exercise with my students. "How many of you can name both parents?" (Duh.) "All four grandparents?" (Quite a few hands.) "All eight great-grandparents?" (Rarely ever a single hand.) "All sixteen great-great-grandparents ?" Never a hand.
And that is only a few generations back.
And what objects in your home belonged to any of them? (Most went back only a generation or so.)
I have my great-grandfather's cuckoo clock and quite a few things from my grandmother, including her favorite wicker rocker, its arms worn smooth and white by her arms.
I knew three grandparents, two great-grandparents, and I "know" others from family research. It's easier to do that, these days, what with Ancestry.com and so on.
But think of it: from sixteen great-great-grandparents to thirty-two great-great-great grandparents, and the numbers accelerate with the doubling as you move back through time. Soon ... vast, unthinkable numbers.
But consider the vast improbability of your being here. The prehistoric creatures who survived natural disasters, illness, injury, war ... infancy. ALL of them--all those countless thousands, every single one of them--had to survive for you to be drawing breath this lovely Ohio late-winter day. Pieces of them are in you, anonymous microscopic pieces that may account for your eyes, your temperament, your height, your hair, your intelligence, your cruelty, your sense of humor, your compassion, your selfishness, your ability to play the piano, pick up a scorching grounder, draw a face, love and be loved. At least one of those pieces is a ticking time bomb, the one that will send you to join in eventual anonymity those numberless nameless thousands who made you possible.
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February is Black History Month. It celebrates the many contributions of African-Americans.
We owe the celebration of Black History Month to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Born to parents of former slaves he went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. He was disturbed to find that history books largely ignored the black American population.
He established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. In 1926, he launched Negro History Week as an initiative to bring national attention to the contributions of black people throughout American history.
Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
The 2009 Black History Month Theme is The Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas. It celebrates the centennial of the NAACP. A century ago, an interracial group of Americans joined together and formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP drew a national following and inspired others to form organizations for racial change. The centennial of the NAACP is an occasion to highlight the problem of race and citizenship in American history, from the experiences of free Blacks in a land of slavery to the political aspirations of African Americans today.
Some other significant events in Black History are:
1619 - The first African slaves are brought to Virginia
1808 - The US bans the import of slaves
1857 - Dred Scott Supreme Court decision - slaves do not have the right to bring a case to court and cannot be citizens
1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US; Civil War starts
1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
1865 - Civil War ends; Lincoln is assassinated; 13th amendment to Constitution abolishes slavery
1868 - 14th amendment to Constitution grants citizenship to former slaves
1870 - 15th amendment to Constitution prohibits states from denying the right to vote because of race
1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany
1947 - Jackie Robinson is the first black man to play major league baseball
1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama; Supreme Court orders schools to desegregate with "deliberate speed"
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King gives "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1964 - The Civil Rights Acts prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, or gender; Dr. King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1967 - Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court
1968 - Dr. King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
1969 - The Supreme Court orders schools to desegregrate
1986 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day is declared a national holiday in the U.S.
1992 - Carol Moseley Braun became the first African American woman to be elected to the United States Senate. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour
1995 - October 16 - Million Man March in Washington, D.C
2001 - January 20 - Colin Powell becomes Secretary of State
2009 - Barack Obama becomes 44th President of the United States
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Iran Agrees To Ship Uranium To Turkey
Iran has agreed to ship most of its enriched uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel swap that could ease the international standoff over the country's nuclear weapons program. The agreement is almost identical to the one the U.S. has been urging Iran to accept for the past six months. It would eliminate, for now, fears about Iran having sufficient stocks of enriched uranium to produce a nuclear weapon.
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In Tehran today, the government of Iran blinked. After intense pressure from the U.S. and Europe and the threat of more economic sanctions, it accepted a nuclear deal it has resisted for some eight months. If implemented, the agreement could see Iran shipping more than half of the uranium that is enriched out of the country.
The president of Brazil and the prime minister of Turkey traveled to Tehran to negotiate the deal.
NPR's Mike Shuster has the story.
MIKE SHUSTER: The original deal proposed by the U.S. last summer was meant to entice Iran to export much of the low-enriched uranium, or LEU, it produced. The goal, the make sure Iran would never use that uranium if it were enriched to a much higher level as the key explosive ingredient in a nuclear weapon.
In exchange, the U.S., Russia, France and the International Atomic Energy Agency pledged to provide nuclear fuel for a reactor in Tehran that makes radio isotopes for treating cancer patients. Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, first accepted the deal but then opposition among conservatives and reformists in Tehran brought about a reversal in Iran's position and the deal has been all but dead until today.
After intense negotiations with the leaders of Brazil and Turkey, Iran reversed itself once again. Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, read from the agreement at a news conference in Tehran today.
Mr. MANOUCHEHR MOTTAKI (Foreign Minister, Iran): The Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to deposit 1,200 kilograms LEU in Turkey. While in Turkey, this LEU will continue to be the property of Iran. Iran and the IAEA may station observers to monitor the safekeeping of the LEU in Turkey.
SHUSTER: Once Iran's low-enriched uranium is deposited in Turkey, the plan is for Russia and France to manufacture nuclear fuel plates for the reactor in Tehran. That phase of the deal is to be completed within a year, essentially the same time period as in the original plan.
If there was a positive response from the U.S., France and Russia, Iran pledges to work out the technical details and deposit the LEU in Turkey within one month. No doubt the possibility of another round of sanctions from the U.N. Security Council put enormous pressure on Iran to make the deal.
It was with that in mind that Brazil's president, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, and Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed to take on the risk of negotiating with Iran.
Foreign Minister Celso Amorim signed a deal for Brazil, acknowledging all the while that it is just a first step.
Mr. CELSO AMORIM (Foreign Minister, Brazil): Of course these agreements that we wrote today will not answer all the questions, but it is the precondition, in a way, for continuing the negotiations. That is what other countries have always said, that it was necessary to have this agreement, the swap agreement in order to continue the conversation.
SHUSTER: That certainly sounds like Brazil expects this deal to short circuit the U.S. campaign to impose new sanctions on Iran. Turkey's foreign minister was more direct, saying for Turkey there are now no grounds for new sanctions. Ali-Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said further pressure coming from the U.S. and Europe is no longer justified.
Mr. ALI-AKBAR SALEHI (Atomic Energy Organization, Iran): Now we have taken away all types of excuses that were raised and I hope that this time they will be reacting with more wisdom and providence vis-a-vis this issue, the issue that they have created.
SHUSTER: Skeptics point out that Iran has continued to turn out more low-enriched uranium since this deal was first proposed. But according to the IAEA, the pace of that production has actually slowed.
The White House released a statement from Spokesman Robert Gibbs saying the U.S. and the international community continue to have serious concerns, including questions about Iran's intention to continue producing various grades of low-enriched uranium. Nevertheless, the White House acknowledged it would be a positive step for Iran to transfer low-enriched uranium off of its soil.
Mike Shuster, NPR News.
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So, I first want to say how proud I am to be part of this amazing age group and that what it shows you is that with hard work you can continue to go fast and even go faster by training smart and listening to your body. And having the right coaches around you. I know some of these women but not all but from the Northeast region of the US we have some incredible talent going to Kona this year, Becky Paige, Angela Bancroft, Mary Holt Wilson and Marybeth Romagnolia ( ? spelling). That's who I know right now, I may be missing someone but these are the names I know.
Becky I met at Providence 70.3 she not only won our AG but I believe she placed top 10 OA including Pro's. She went on to do a 9:57 I believe at Ironman Germany, won her AG and qualified for KONA. I'm thinking she's gonna be competitive, don't you think?
Angela Bancroft from Maine, had an amazing race in Lake Placid and won her AG by over 30 minutes. Heading out to the run in LP she was first overall amateur on the course but I believe she passed around mile 16 or so, not sure, that being said, she had a race of her life, absolutely incredible day and earned her KONA slot there. I believe she was also in the top 10 for women including Pro's, crazy, crazy fast. Absolutely a force to be reckoned with.
Mary Holt-Wilson- local hero of mine, tremendous talent, only getting faster, had an amazing Boston Marathon this year, Top 3 at Mooseman 70.3, had a PR at Pumpkinman half this year and if she wasn't ill starting IMLP she probably would of had her sub 11 on that day but the GI bug and puking on yourself during the swim doesn't make for a pleasant day in LP. That being said she has the mental fortitude of nobody I know and based on her race report from IMLP it sounds like she doesn't remember much of the last part of the race and spent a ton of time in medical. She still finished in the low 11's and got her KONA slot, VERY MUCH DESERVED and i believe she is going to have an amazing day in KONA and I can't wait to follow her.
Marybeth Romanolia, QT2 athlete is going to KONA after qualifying I believe at IMLP, she also had a great time and is getting faster everyday. I believe she is from the NY region.
These 4 ladies are going to represent the NorthEast in amazing fashion and I predict all of them are going to be in the top 25 if not top 10 of our AG.
I am so very proud to be in this age group. Kick some major ass next week ladies, make us all proud, bring home some hardware.
I'm a mother of 4 crazy kids, a wife of 1 crazy husband and I love endurance racing, life couldn't be better.....
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Kona showdown for the F 40-44 AG
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OF course I have a soft spot for ANGE AND MARY...and I love being part of the 40-44 AG, we are awesome!!!! :))ReplyDelete
I can't wait to add you to the list for next years KONA after you absolutely kill Arizona this year. Your another kick ass F40-44 lady and hopefully someday I'll finally get to meet you in person.ReplyDelete
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Just got word that we can go pick up another 20 wheel chairs, but we have to pay for them first. $12 per chair x 20 = $240. If you want to help out, let me know! Check out a report and video of our last event http://ow.ly/eaxKe
In nearly simultaneous fashion, Tina sent out the same request. Great minds... Check out her blog HERE.
I got quite a response on yesterday's post...I suspect a bunch of PCS alumni checked in! Please continue to be in prayer for the Villa de las Flores Church, as they deal with this traumatic situation.
The top 200 Christian blogs, rated as by Twitter followers: click HERE. Interesting stuff.
Below...an adaptation of Corban U's World Outreach Week (WOW) logo to be used for t-shirts. Actually Sam sent them four different options, this being one.
Quote of the Day: The situation we have just described— the disconnection of life from faith, the absence from our churches of Jesus the teacher— is not caused by the wicked world, by social oppression, or by the stubborn meanness of the people who come to our church services and carry on the work of our congregations. It is largely caused and sustained by the basic message that we constantly hear from Christian pulpits. We are flooded with what I have called "gospels of sin management," in one form or another, while Jesus' invitation to eternal life now— right in the midst of work, business, and profession— remains for the most part ignored and unspoken. Willard, Dallas. The Divine Conspiracy (p. 57). Harper Collins, Inc..


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Tag Archives: Caribbean
Being Otherwise
Ever wonder where we would be without colonialism, what we would look like, and where we would be? Can you imagine how the world would be if Red Indians were left to themselves in North America, the Arawaks in Jamaica? Obviously we would not have certain inventions, or would we? And who would get the rightful credit for it? Now, in 2013, would we have as much cross crustal contact? Would some of us be so genetically…complex? Everything colonialism has given and taken, different. Everything we take for granted and love about ourselves, taken from us. Would you therefore say, that colonialism, has defined who and in some cases we are today? The discourses of colonialism, the mere thought of erasing them all, or some of them, would require much brain power and imagination." I finally concluded, answering my own question.
Caribbean Restaurants vs Jamaican Restaurants
Please note, before reading this, that this post is based off the observations I've made in my region, which is the Greater Toronto Area, in Canada. It just may happen that some, all, or maybe none of what I am saying, may apply to where you are. I am not writing my observations as if they are set in stone rules that are supposed to apply to all Caribbean restaurants everywhere, I am not.
Im more likely to eat from a "West-Indian" restaurant than a "Caribbean" restaurant…
I buy my groceries from a "West-Indian" store, not a "Caribbean" store.
There is a Caribbean restaurant on the campus of my school. It is popular, as it is one of the few places on campus you can get a home cooked meal at a reasonable price that is also rammed with flavour. It is also one of the few places that is "ethnic" in origin. So last week when a friend of mine invited me to try some food from there, I of course said yes. She reassured that "Dude, if you're Jamaican, you'll love their food." Glancing over the menu, I recognized a few familiar dishes…Jerk Chicken, Ackee and Saltfish, and Mannish Water. (Kidding, I didn't see Mannish Water.)
That experience, (along with many others) has led to me conclude something about the title "Caribbean Restaurant, " when used to classify, and businesses that use the term "Caribbean" in their restaurant names. "Caribbean," is merely an umbrella term that seeks to categorize foods from some, but not all, islands. Islands, that have notable differences, that are not homogenous in language, race, religion, and especially not food…This is not to say that you don't have some similarities between some islands, but it is the similarities between some islands, that these "Caribbean" restaurants focus on, or they focus on one particular country's dishes more so than others, more so than their own…
Taking the restaurant at my school as an example, the people running and cooking the food are from Grenada. However, I found that there were many more traditional dishes specific to Jamaica than anything else on the menu. Jamaica is a part of the Caribbean. Jamaica is not the only island in the Caribbean. So to say you offer "Caribbean" food but a large percent of your menu only really consists of Jamaican dishes, that is odd. As a "Caribbean" restaurant, shouldn't the focus be on dishes from a range of islands, not just one or two? Unless you've specified somewhere the style of cooking you will be doing, or where you and the chefs are from, so guests can know what to expect?
It is for this reason, that if you're looking to enjoy authentic Jamaican food, you should stay clear of any that are named "Caribbean Queen" but don't really say the kind of food they cook. Caribbean food technically can be Latin American style of cooking from the island of Cuba, or it can be West Indian from the island of Trinidad. "Caribbean," as mentioned before, is an umbrella term that ignores difference. Restaurants owned and operated by Jamaican's are more likely to have their country name incorporated into the restaurants name, have a flag in the window, or have some manifest way of letting you know it's a Jamaican operation.
One obvious reason for incorporating "Jamaica" into the mix is no doubt because they want people to make a connection between the island, the people hailing from the island who have achieved global recognition, and their food operation. I really only need to mention one Jamaican here, which still influences people of all generations and has influenced a strong youth culture posthumously: Bob Marley. Perhaps if music isn't your thing, surely you've heard of the "Fastest Man in the World" Usain Bolt, or have heard of Marcus Garvey, if you're into black history. When people see the names of these people, one of the first few series of words that come to mind is "Jamaica" or "Jamaican," which is why restaurants owned and operated want the word Jamaican, or Jamaican flag in plain view.
Interestingly enough, I've run across so many "Jamaican" restaurants, such as Albert's Real Jamaican , but hardly any restaurants that cater to the dishes of specific countries, such as (and I'm making this up of course) Mama's Grenadian Kitchen, Guadeloupe Flavour, Curacao Fusion. It seems like countries that are not as well known, rely on the term "Caribbean" to bring an image into the minds of people. Because let's face it, unless you have a good sense of geography, how else would you know that the countries listed above, are in the Caribbean? And furthermore, are you familiar enough with the culture pertaining to those countries?


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The WHO wants nations around the world to start out taxing sugary drinks, and utilize the income to fight medical problems sugar may possibly worsen.
Probiotics, or Energetic bacterial cultures, can modify the ecology with the germs that colonize the human intestine. Advantageous microorganisms might make improvements to depression, soothe belly complications and also combat sinus bacterial infections.
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If you love yogurt, you'll love kefir far too. It's the proper smoothie component also b/c it's like introducing yogurt & milk in one!
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Rumours about a potential eleventh team for 2018 are gaining momentum.
The rumours began to swirl recently in the Montreal paddock, including suggestions the new F1 team project was being backed by Chinese investors.
Germany's Auto Motor und Sport now has more details, saying the team would be based in Oxfordshire.
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner confirmed: "Some of our people were asked if they would be interested in working for a new team.


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There will be son after the RRB Mumbai declares its NTPC result online. After that you also can check this result from here below give link.
RRB Mumbai NTPC Exam Result 2016 | Expected Merit List | Cut Off Marks
Here was as per the various number of requirement there was the Railway Recruitment Board Mumbai here was also published it's an official recruitment notification for the various posts. As per this RRB Mumbai here was invited its application forms for various posts from NTPC. For all these posts here were huge number of interested job searching candidates was applied in it to get this job. After complete hits recruitment application process from this RRB here was to get select all these eligible candidates from this NTPC here was also organise its recruitment online test on the various different examination centres. In this test these was all these applicants here was also get appeared. After that here are now all these applicants candidates are want to check them this recruitment exam result as soon as to get confirmation regarding to the selection in this organization. After that from this recruitment board here are now start declaration these app posts exam result online. So for all these posts here will be also available its result online on its official result link at http://www.rrbmumbai.gov.in/result.php.
Download RRB Mumbai NTPC Exam Result 2016,
The Railway Recruitment Board Mumbai is a one of the branch of the RRB's of India was developed from the guidance of the Indian Railway. From it here are having complete many number of vacancies and selection process for all the posts. For all these posts from it here are also now under process recruitment of the NTPC. For all these posts here are now after organised its online exam start work on declaration its exam result. soon after declaration this result here will be you all candidates also can be check them all these NTPC exam result online from here on its official result link. After that you all candidates can check its related any more updates detail from its official website link at http://www.rrbmumbai.gov.in/.


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MAC Baby Blooms and Love That Look Online!
24 July, 2009
So these are MAC's two late-summer collections, and apparently they launched a week early! I guess it's to push things up, but it's insane with so much already launched in the last few months. I already am on a total no-buy for a few weeks, and I'm severely limited on the M-A-C collection that is hitting stores in August. BTW, I am going to the launch party for it, so I will have previews and everything:)
First up, we have Baby Blooms. This isn't as much about the colour as it is about summer makeup-namely, Studio Moisture Tints and Suntints. First up, the Studio Moisture Tints is a tinted moisturizer. I personally love them, as you get light coverage to smooth things over without the heavy caking of foundation. It's perfect for people like me who aren't as into foundation! There are five shades to fit almost any skintone-Light, Medium, Medium Dark, Dark, and Deep Dark. These retail for $29.50 apiece.Next up, we have the Suntints-a squeeze-tube form tinted lip balm with SPF 20 and MAC's signature vanilla scent (apparently a bit of flavour in these). I have more lip balms than I will probably ever use (blame BBW for that) so these are tenatively a no-go, at least for me personally. I am also glad they did something different than those old Tendertones. Nice, but they do them every year. Each of these Suntints is $14.50. There are five shades total, like the Studio Moisture Tints:
Lilt of Lily-Soft creamy pale pink
Just A Smidge-Soft pastel yellow w/ multicoloured pearl
Pink Tinge-Clean bright yellow pink w/ gold pearl
Full of Grace-Soft sheer rose
Moist Plum-Light lilac with very fine pearl
All in all, if you are into the "no-makeup" look, or if you like having sheer stuff for summer, this is a collection you won't want to miss. It isn't one of those life-or-death collections though, at least in my opinion.
Moving onto Love That Look-which some people call "the Starflash Anniversary collection". To those people? Shut up and stop calling things "anniversary collections". Instead, call it the "Starflash repromote". Don't anniversarize collections, please. So, the Starflash/Pearlglide repromote collection brings back four of the Pearlglide liners from Suite Array, as well as several of the Starflash shadows and some new shades. Full warning: I HATE STARFLASH. Some people loved these to death-you had the rabid depotters who would bring in empties to get a bunch of the shades for free, depot the freebies, and bring them back to get the rest. If you know me, you also know that I think MAC needs to ban the acceptance of depots outright (and many locations luckily now do), as I feel it is cheating the system. The idea is that you are supposed to finish the products, so that it feels gratifying. Back to the Starflash shadows though-I bought Sunset B. right when it came out. I love my pink shadows, so of course this was on my list. What I got was a shadow with little to no colour payoff that I was all too happy to swap away. All the other SF shadows that I tried, I had similar experiences with. It truly was a case of you had to watch the batch. Many batches were good, others just sucked royally. Nonetheless, I am not the kind of person who will completely write off something, as there are a few shades here that I admittedly would give a try and potentially buy (at the CCO). Also Smoke & Diamonds is back, which was one of the undeniable hits last year from MAC (along with Cult of Cherry lipglass, the VAE, Alpha Girl, the Neo-Sci Fi nail polishes, and so forth). On with the carnage!
Here are the shades:
Unbasic White-Bright off-white
Dreammaker-Frosty yellow gold (repromote)
Grand Entrance-Frosty neutral peach beige (repromote)
Ego-Light yellow pink
Style Snob-Dirty pink-brown with gold pearl
Fashion-Light grey green with gold pearl
Smoke & Diamonds-Frosty dirty taupe (repromote)
Fashion Groupie-Light blue violet
One-Off-Midtone green with silver pearl
Rated "R"-Bright yellow green
Strike A Pose-Dirty deep blue-green
Glamour Check-Frosty reddish brown (repromote)
Also back are the Pearlglide eyeliners. These are a very creamy liner with fine multicoloured pearl inside, for a really nice line. These, obviously, are NOT waterline-safe. You don't want the glitter scratching your eye! These, from swatching, are something that people should give a look at, at the very least.
Rave-Deep purple with purple glitter
Fly-by-Blu-Light blue with blue glitter
Molasses-Dirty brown with midtone brown glitter
Black Russian-Black with navy blue glitter
Each of these is $14.50, and you can use your B2M empties for the shadows-just please do not go on a depotting rampage, and please save some for the insanity that is going to be the fall collections.


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