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Centercode, Inc., a California corporation, owns and operates the Centercode website (www.centercode.com), the Betabound.com website (my.betabound.com), the web-based test participation portal known as "Betabound™", and the Centercode cloud-based software platform (the "Centercode Platform") used by Centercode and its clients to conduct and manage alpha, beta, and field tests of products and services (collectively, "Customer Validation Tests").
We greatly respect your privacy. We provide this privacy policy to explain what information we gather about you, how we gather it, how we use it, how we share it, how we protect it, and how you can participate in its protection. You should read this entire privacy policy. If it is not acceptable to you, then you should not use our sites or services or submit any personal information or other content to us. By using our sites or services and/or providing data to us you are accepting and agreeing to the practices outlined in this privacy policy. You can request a copy of this privacy policy by contacting us at email@example.com.
1. Scope of This Privacy Policy
This policy describes our privacy practices in relation to information that we collect through Centercode.com, our Centercode social media pages, emails, and other Centercode communications, both online and offline (collectively, the "Centercode Sites"). This policy does not describe our privacy practices related to Betabound.com, the Betabound web-based portal, our Betabound social media pages, emails, and other Betabound communications, both online and offline (collectively, the "Betabound Sites"). This policy also does not apply to information collected from any person participating as a tester in a Customer Validation Test being conducted through the Centercode Platform. If you are a visitor to the Betabound Sites, a member of Betabound, an individual or company submitting information to us to announce your third-party Customer Validation Test on Betabound, or a tester participating in a test being conducted on the Centercode Platform, please visit www.betabound.com/privacy to learn about our privacy practices that apply to you.
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2. The Data We Collect and How We Collect It
In order to enable your use of the Centercode Sites, operate the Centercode Sites, operate our business, and for other purposes described in this privacy policy, we receive and collect (directly or through our third-party service providers) certain information from you, including Personal Data and User Content. For purposes of this privacy policy: (i) "Personal Data" means any information that identifies you as an individual or that relates to an identified or identifiable individual (e.g., name, email address, phone number, mailing address, etc.); and (ii) "User Content" means any data or materials, including files, text, images, video, and other content you post or upload to the Centercode Sites, which may include Personal Data. If you submit any Personal Data or User Content to us, you represent that you have authority to provide us with that Personal Data or User Content and that we have all necessary authorization to use this information in accordance with this privacy policy, even if the information relates to other individuals or entities. You are solely responsible for the contents of the data that you provide to us.
a. Information You Provide as a Visitor to the Centercode Sites or Offline
When you request more information or otherwise contact us through the Centercode Sites or offline (e.g., when you request a free trial or demo, register for a webinar, download whitepapers or other content, complete a contact form, attend one of our events, or email or call us), we collect Personal Data such as your name, title, company name, job function, address, telephone number, email address, and other Personal Data, User Content, and information that you voluntarily provide to us. We also collect the time, date, and location of the form you submitted. Job applicants are required to provide additional information, including a resume, a cover letter, your profile information, a statement of interest regarding your desired position, and similar Personal Data.
b. Client Contact and Billing Information and Client User Account Information
When clients establish services, we may collect, process, and use Personal Data such as name and address, company name and details, work contact information, financial, payment, and billing information, and other Personal Data and User Content that the client voluntarily provides to us, such as when a client contact completes a form or calls or submits an email to our sales, customer support, or services teams. In addition, each client selects and appoints individuals to have access to the client's Customer Validation Tests on the Centercode Platform in order to manage, oversee, or assist in running those tests. Client users must create a user account on the Centercode Platform, providing, at a minimum, a first and last name, email address, username and password, and time zone. Additional information required might include date of birth, address, and other similar information.
c. Other Information Collected
We may collect information from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms, and from other third parties in order to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers, and content to you. We may also collect, track, and analyze non-identifying statistical, anonymous, or aggregated information from visitors and users of the Centercode Sites. In addition, we passively collect data, as disclosed below in our policy regarding cookies, IP addresses, and other passive information collection.
3. How We Use and Share Personal Data
a. Generally
We do not rent or sell your Personal Data to third parties for the purpose of marketing their products and services to you. At no time, except as may be required by law or disclosed in this privacy policy, will we share or distribute your Personal Data to third parties or use your Personal Data in any manner not disclosed in this privacy policy. We may use your Personal Data in any of the ways described in this privacy policy, including:
- to send administrative information about the Centercode Sites to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies;
- to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you requested materials and newsletters, as well as information about our services and business;
- to service your account (including collecting payments in the case of client accounts) and establish your ability to use our services, including creating client user accounts on the Centercode Platform;
- to personalize your experience on the Centercode Sites, such as by presenting opportunities or content tailored to you;
- for our internal business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying the Centercode Sites and services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating or expanding our business activities;
- as we believe to be necessary or appropriate under applicable law, including laws outside of your country of residence, to comply with legal process, to respond to the requests of courts or governmental authorities, to enforce our terms and conditions, to protect our operations, rights, privacy, safety, clients, or property (or that of others), and to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain;
- for other purposes you have specifically agreed to;
- in the ways described below.
b. Visitors to the Centercode Sites and Business Contacts
We use contact information that you have provided as a visitor to the Centercode Sites or business contact in order to contact you to discuss your interest in our business and services, and to send you information such as announcements of promotions and events regarding our services or our partners. Where you provide us with your contact information, we may also send you client newsletters, updates, and blog posts. If at any time you no longer wish to receive these communications, you can follow the instructions on opting out below. We also use contact information and other Personal Data from each client to provide services to the client, including providing the client's representative with access to the client account on the Centercode Platform.
c. Job Applicants
We use information submitted in connection with a job posting to review your job application, notify you about future hiring events and job openings, and communicate with you through the hiring process.
d. Third Party Agents and Service Providers
We contract with third party agents and service providers to provide services to us in accordance with our instructions (e.g., data center or hosting, web analytics, credit card processing, shipping, marketing assistance, etc.). These third parties may have access to your data (including Personal Data and User Content) if there is a legitimate reason to do so solely for the purpose of providing services to us and in compliance with our instructions. We diligently choose these third party service providers and seek to require the agent or service provider to maintain the privacy, confidentiality, and security of the information.
e. Social Media Pages
Information that you disclose on our social media pages will appear in public ways, such as through search engines or other publicly available platforms. Please do not post any information that you do not want to reveal to the public at large. These pages include features such as the Facebook like button. If you use these features, they will collect your Internet Protocol ("IP") address (a number automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider) and which page you are visiting, and set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature, not by this privacy policy.
f. Business Transactions and Affiliates
In some cases, we may buy or sell assets or businesses, or engage in company transactions such as reorganizations, mergers, joint ventures, assignments, financings, dispositions of stock, and other changes of control, where Personal Data and User Content is transferred to third parties for legitimate purposes in connection with the transactions.
g. Aggregated or Anonymized Information
We may use and share aggregated data or Personal Data otherwise stripped of identifying characteristics for any purpose, except as otherwise prohibited under applicable law.
4. Cookies, IP Addresses, and Other Passive Information Collected
Like many companies, we use cookies (small data files stored on your computer) and similar tools to collect and analyze information about you and the usage of the Centercode Sites. This information is used to operate the Centercode Sites, prevent fraud and misuse of our services, measure how people use the Centercode Sites, analyze how people respond to our emails and other communications, analyze trends, and improve the the Centercode Sites and your overall experience. We currently use the following third-party cookies:
Google Analytics and Adwords Cookies – These Google-placed cookies allow us to analyze how our visitors and users interact with the Centercode Sites. The information generated about your usage is transmitted to Google in the United States. This information is used to compile statistical reports on activity on the Centercode Sites to help us improve the Centercode Sites and your experience. The information we receive from Google Analytics is aggregated data and we cannot use it to individually identify any particular visitor or user. In addition, we use Google Adwords remarketing which involves Google's use of cookies to serve our ads to you based on your past visits to the Centercode Sites. We encourage you to read the Google Privacy Policy.
Marketo Cookies – These Marketo-placed cookies help us to understand your interactions with the emails and other communications we send you, track your visits to the Centercode Sites (including the dates and times of your visits), and provide you with information that may be of interest to you about our services and business. This information generated about your usage is transmitted to Marketo in the United States. For example, Marketo cookies let us know whether our emails have been opened, which links are clicked, and how many unique visitors we have. The information we receive from Marketo cookies and tracking technologies does not, standing alone, personally identify you. However, if you have chosen to identify yourself to us, such as by providing personal information when responding to a promotional offer, filling out a web form, or downloading content, we may re-associate this information with the personal information you have provided to us. We encourage you to read the Marketo Privacy Policy.
These third party services may work by use of other standard technologies, such as web beacons, web bugs, clear gifs, and similar tracking technologies.
If You Access Your Account – If you are a client user accessing your account on the Centercode Platform, we use mandatory session cookies in order for you to access your account and to secure your account. These cookies allow us to uniquely identify you following entry of your username and password so that you may access your account. In addition, when you log into this account, our servers automatically log your IP address, a unique device identifier (a UUID), device name, operating system type and version, network type, country of origin, and information about how you use your account (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click, the dates and times of your requests and referral URL, and other actions you take), what error messages you receive or problems you encounter, and similar data. We use this information to provide our services and support if needed, to monitor the regions from which you navigate your account, to enhance our security, to identify you when you are using your account, and to create de-identified or aggregate information about our users.
Opting Out – If you don't want data collected and reported by Google Analytics, you can learn more about opting out of Google Analytics here, and can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. In other circumstances, you can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser. To learn generally how to opt out of cookies using your browser settings and other tracking technologies, you may wish to visit https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0042-online-tracking and/or http://allaboutcookies.org (third party sites). Opting out of all cookies will prevent you from being able to log into any account you have on the Centercode Platform or Betabound and may impact the functionality you receive when visiting the Centercode Sites. To modify your Google Ads settings, visit Google's Ads Settings page at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.
Do Not Track – Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our users, we are not able to respond to "do not track" signals from your browser.
5. Security
We take the security of your Personal Data very seriously. We maintain a written security program for the security, integrity and protection of the Personal Data we hold against unauthorized disclosure or loss. We have put in place physical, technical, and organizational processes and measures designed to safeguard the Personal Data that we hold. These safeguards help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of data. However, you should be aware that no security procedures or protocols are guaranteed to be 100% secure, and there is always some risk assumed by sharing information. If you have reason to believe that Personal Data has been improperly accessed or misused, or have any other concern regarding our privacy practices, please immediately notify us at email@example.com. In the event that any Personal Data under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
6. Opting Out
To opt out of receiving emails or communications from us, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. We will respond promptly. If you would like to limit the use or disclosure of your Personal Data collected or stored by us, please notify us at email@example.com so that we may consider and respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
7. Data Retention, Modification, and Deletion
We will only retain your Personal Data until the purpose for which it was collected has been accomplished or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law, and internal data retention policies. Depending on your location, you may have certain rights to access your Personal Data, or to request that your Personal Data be rectified, amended, deleted, or blocked, as provided by applicable law. If you wish to exercise such rights, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before implementing any request. We will respond to your request promptly, and in no event later than 30 days from your request, subject to applicable law. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions. Deleted or updated Personal Data and User Content stored in our backup systems will be automatically deleted or updated during our backup procedures, except as otherwise required by applicable law.
8. Links to Third Party Sites
The Centercode Sites may contain links to other websites on the Internet. When you leave the Centercode Sites, it is important for you to know that you are providing information to a third party. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of such third parties. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy policies and collection, use, and disclosure practices (including the data security practices) of these third parties, including third parties that are our clients.
9. International Transfer of Data
The Personal Data and other User Content we collect from you is used, stored, and/or processed by us in the United States. In addition, in the circumstances described in this privacy policy where your Personal Data and other User Content is transferred to a third party, this data may also be used, stored, and/or processed outside of the United States in any country in which the third party has facilities or engages service providers. Therefore, by using the Centercode Sites or disclosing Personal Data or other User Content to us, you expressly consent to the transfer of your Personal Data and other User Content to the United States of America and any other country as described in this paragraph, which country or countries may not offer the same legal protections offered in your country or the country in which you were located when you initially provided the information, and which may be deemed by your country to offer insufficient legal protections. You have a right to withdraw this consent, and you may do so by contacting us at firstname.lastname@example.com. The withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of actions based on your consent prior to your withdrawal of consent.
10. Data of Children
The Centercode Sites are not intended for minors under the age of 18. We do not knowingly or specifically collect information about minors under the age of 18. If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected or are holding such information, please notify us at firstname.lastname@example.com so that we may investigate and delete the information from our servers as necessary.
11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy. If we make changes to this policy, you will find the revised privacy policy posted on the Centercode Sites, along with the effective date of the revised privacy policy. Your use of and access to the Centercode Sites after any changes become effective will be considered your acceptance of those changes and will constitute your agreement to be bound by the new or modified privacy policy.
12. Questions or Concerns?
Questions about this privacy policy or our information practices should be directed to our team by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or by mailing us at 23332 Mill Creek Drive, Suite 260, Laguna Hills, CA 92653 ATTN: Privacy Policy.
Revised – Effective Date June 22, 2017


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part one
on a fine spring day in may of 1973, i, along with 2 other classmates, kidnapped the dean of students of moorhead state university in moorhead, minnesota. along with his duties as the dean, he also taught in the humanities department and this spring quarter he was our professor, leading a class titled, "revolution in latin america." the dean, known around the campus for his eccentricities of dress, habit and manner (a bit of the rapier wit of charles nelson reilly and paul lynde, there may have been a comb-over and a bit of dishevelment in his dress, but the details, including his name, are lost to time.)
he was a tough teacher, constantly pushing us to think for ourselves, cajoling and yelling, prodding and pulling, engaging even the most cynical of radicals taking this particular class of the importance of learning. the class was an odd lot of vietnam veterans, student provocateurs and innocent farm children from the northern plains states; it was pass/fail and for the final, as he laid it out for us, we were to plot a revolution for a small latin american country.
i'm not sure when we decided to kidnap him, but once we thought of it, the more it seemed the most striking (and reasonable) way of showing him how much he had taught us. we plotted and planned, we made maps and studied the presiding government's troop strength and loyalty. we developed contingencies based on guerilla warfare tactics — and we wrote a manifesto. we decided to hold the final class off campus in one of the vietnam vet's rented home–and told the dean of our plan, explaining that we could all have a beer with him as we revealed our revolution. his response, "excellent!" we set a date and a time; it was agreed among us that i would go into administration building and bring the dean down to our waiting car (he also knew me from an interview i did with him for campus television the previous quarter).
the day arrived; he made me wait while he finished some paperwork and when he was done, we walked down the stairs and out into the bright sunshine, all the while chatting comfortably with each other. we got to the car, and one of the other men involved with this abduction got out of the front seat and motioned for the dean to climb in. i quickly got into the back seat, the classmate pushed the dean into the center of the seat, threw himself hard against him, grabbing his hands as i threw a pillowcase over his head and tied it off with a rope which we then bound his hands with, forcing him to bend down so that he could not be seen from the street.
a string of profanity flowed from his mouth non-stop, warning us that we would pay for this, expulsion, and worse. once the authorities knew what had happened we would be arrested, convicted and sent to jail. he shook and fought back, but we held him down and drove in circles around and around, so that he had no sense of which way we were headed. i do not know if he was afraid for his life or not, but we eventually had to gag him so he'd shut up.
we pulled into the driveway of our destination, the dean still bound, blind-folded and gagged. he was led into the living room and we carefully released him from his confinement, revealing the rest of the gathered 'guerillas' and welcomed him to our revolution. much beer was consumed (once he'd stopped shaking); he was thoroughly impressed with our plan to overthrow the government and relented that the kidnapping was a stroke of genius. we passed. terror paid off handsomely.
part two: the year before
june 9, 1972. it had been raining heavily all day long and into the evening, the rapid city children's theater had met at _____'s home on 11th st. and afterwards, five of us climbed into ________'s jeep, she'd agreed to take me home and the others came along for the ride. we headed over to omaha street to cross rapid creek, but were turned back by a policeman at the corner of ____ and omaha and directed back upstream. water, by now, was running up mid-tire, maybe a foot and a half deep, but we were in a big old jeep and really didn't think anything of it. a couple of blocks later, a wall of water washed over the jeep (we eventually found out that it was the wave of water that had been released when the dam broke up town from where we were at); the three of us in the back seat got out and waded over to a large elm that stood in front of the grain elevator's offices at 6th and omaha. we grabbed onto the tree, and watched slack-jawed as the jeep floated around the grain silo with our friends in it and then we saw another car floating down the street, with its occupants screaming out the windows to help them, which we were powerless to do, their car was submerged by another wave and we never saw it come back up again. it wasn't until the next day that we found out that the jeep had hit a freight train car on the other side of the silo, our friends climbed out of the jeep to safety then, spending the rest of the night on top of the freight car. they watched as the jeep floated away, it was found three days later about two miles from there, filled with mud, a would-be coffin with wheels.
each of these massive waves (they shouldn't be called waves, they were walls of water) were followed by a lowering of the depth of the water and we decided to make our way over to the office building and break in, where we hoped we'd be safe. we held tightly onto each other as we waded through the waist deep water (that's waist deep on me, the tallest of the three of us, the water was chest deep for the others) over to the brick building, its windows about five feet above my outstretched hand. the first friend climbed up on my shoulders and with his arm wrapped in his shirt he broke the window, the broken shards raining down on me, opened it and climbed through. the second friend climbed up on my shoulders and in. i hesitated for just the briefest moment, considering how i might actually climb a brick wall when another car floated past, the faces of its occupants in a silent rictus of abject terror. it was motivation enough and i climbed the wall and my friends pulled me through the window. we spent the night shivering and fearful that our friends may have died. it has taken many years for me to work past my fear of deep water.
like many of us on that day 10 years ago today, a phone call in the early morning from a friend shouting, "turn on the tv now!" was how we first learned of the attacks in new york, washington and pennsylanvia. and so, for the first half-hour we stayed on the line with each other, consoling, angry, tearful, frightened. i believe everyone who was not there, could not believe that it was happening, it was just too cinematic, too novel, too much of a fiction to be true. we hung up reluctantly as i dialed my new york friends, "are you okay?", or leaving messages, "please call me and tell me you're okay," and it was not until later in the day when i knew that everyone i loved was okay, did we begin to realize how terror works.

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How did we welcome it you ask? Or maybe you didn't, but you should have. First we went to Faulkner Farms as a family for some quality time together. We met up with our friends, Eric and Erica and their little one, Cora.
Then we had a very Halloween day. M.E. and I first started off by getting her a pumpkin at the grocery store.
Then I got M.E. to eat a sandwich just by cutting it into Halloween shapes.
a pumpkin and a cat
Then I made our family's favorite Fall meal.
Baked Mac & Cheese
recipe found here
Then we made some Halloween art. Originally I was going to paint M.E.'s feet and hands to make ghosts and spiders, but she wasn't to keen on that idea. So we just painted with paintbrushes.
Fed Halloween Cat some candy corn.
Then I became a Candy Corn Vampire!
And as we waited for our cupcakes to bake and cool, we danced to some spooky sounds. Sorry, no photos of our sweet moves. Don't want anyone stealing them....
The Halloween and Fall festivities have only just begun!


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The news this week that the Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic — wanted, most famously, for his role in the Srebrenica massacre though guilty of much else — was caught living in Serbia is a reminder that it was always the absence of political will, rather than intelligence, that has delayed bringing to justice so many of the perpetrators of the Yugoslav war in the 1990s. I traveled through Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, and Montenegro (then part of Serbia) for nearly a month in 2006 on assignment for Travel + Leisure and discovered not so much that everything I knew about the war was wrong but that the forces driving the war went far beyond the things that I knew. Like most foreigners I suspect, I understood it as an ethnic war fought between Serbs, Croats, and Muslims (or Bosniaks, as the Muslims are called). But in Sarajevo, it was described as a war of the countryside against the city that often cut across ethnic lines, in which rural Bosnian Serbs with their conservative, nativist vision of a homogeneous society fought Sarajevan Serbs (along with everyone else) who believed in the mixed up, tolerant, cosmopolitan city they'd known before the war. The same dynamic was at work in Mostar, but there the aggressors were the Bosnian Croats who were trying to create an ethnically pure Bosnian Croat state called Herceg Bosna.
As I wrote in the article for Travel + Leisure:
"I am Muslim," Mustafa tells me, his brilliant blue eyes set off by silver hair, as we stand near the small stone Latin Bridge crossing the Miljacka River, where the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in 1914, triggering the start of World War I. "But even now, those of us who were born and bred in Sarajevo don't want to live in an Islamic city. This used to be called the European Jerusalem, and it was a better city then. My friends were Orthodox, Jewish, Catholic. This is what gives richness to life. Now…" His voice trails off as he looks out at a city changed by the population shifts of the war. Because so many Serb residents left when the last cease-fire took effect—and so many Bosniaks, as the Muslims are more commonly called, moved in from villages that were attacked—Sarajevo is probably more Muslim than it has ever been in its history. But to describe the changes this way is to accept the language of the war, which made the differences between the groups sound bigger than they are. Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks are all Slavs: they speak essentially the same language and, up to the war, lived peacefully in the same towns or villages—in Sarajevo, often in the same buildings, occasionally even married into the same families. The primary differences are religious (Bosnian Serbs, generally, are Orthodox Christians, and Croats are Catholic), and any grievances that welled up from divergent myths and memories were held in check by the government under President Tito's long rule. In the power vacuum created by the collapse of Communism in the early 1990's, extremist politicians in Bosnia—egged on by their co-religionists in the neighboring republics of Serbia and Croatia—used virulent propaganda, massacres, and fear of reprisals to turn these slight differences into something palpable. This tactic produced the brutal war that I'd watched on television, the war that gave us the phrase ethnic cleansing. But in some ways ethnic hatred was also a cover, a kind of high canopy under which other forces were at work, unnoticed by the outside world: class prejudice, rural villagers' resentment of the cosmopolitans in the cities, and competition for a place at the trough as the state-run economy was being shifted to private hands.
Still, Mustafa's refusal to accept the logic of the extremists—who insisted that he had more kinship with a Bosniak from a village than with the Serb or Croat neighbor he'd grown up with—struck me as quietly heroic. It was a sentiment I would hear time and time again in Sarajevo, and at first I disbelieved it: How could there not be anger toward the Serbs after all that had happened? But almost every Sarajevan I met had a story about Serbs who remained in the city through the war or risked their lives to help them, and I realized that they remembered what I had forgotten: only the extremists believed all Serbs should be on one side. As Nadim, a young Bosniak who lived in the frontline neighborhood of Grbavica during the war, put it, "The Serbs who attacked us were, for the most part, not from Sarajevo. They were from the villages, and they had a different mentality. My friends who were Serbs, they stayed here with us during the war. They were Sarajevan first, you could say, and then they were Serb."
The Bosniaks were the principal victims in both cases and before arriving in Bosnia I had expected them to display the sort of aggressively defiant nationalism of a place like Israel, where they'd faced extermination, survived, and won't let anyone forget it. But I witnessed nothing like that. That, to me, was their true triumph: despite all the polarizing atrocities committed during the war, a great many people — mainly Bosniaks, but not only them — never succumbed to the clannish ethnic thinking of the extremists. Not only did Sarajevo survive but, just as important, the idea of Sarajevo survived.
Click here to read full article I wrote about the Balkans for Travel + Leisure
In my opinion, the most powerful of the many books written about the Bosnian war is My War Gone By, I Miss it So by the photojournalist Anthony Loyd. He is unsparing of everyone in the conflict, including himself.
A note on the photograph above: it is an image of old men playing chess in one of Sarajevo's main squares using waist-high pieces on a board painted on the ground, a popular image of the city made less familiar and, somehow, more poignant by the fact that my camera had broken and was unable to focus.


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As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown(if indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.
To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as " pleasant", "sad", "lively". The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.
Certain films had music especially composed for them. The most famous of these...
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The Miami Dolphins advanced closer to capturing their first playoff berth since 2008 with a 34-13 road shellacking over the stinking New York Jets, behind a glowing performance from Matt Moore — 12 of 18 with four touchdowns and a 94.4 QBR — despite it being his first start since 2011.
We also lost a man before his time when Jets quarterback Bryce Petty provided the meat of a Cam Wake-Ndamukong Suh sandwich, which has been deemed toxic by the FDA.
Suh & Wake just killed Bryce Petty pic.twitter.com/G60Pel44Hn
— Eric (@EricElizondo8) December 18, 2016
Now finishing no worse than 9-7, the Dolphins still have some work to do to extend their season past January 1, when they face the New England Patriots in Week 17 after heading to icy Buffalo next weekend.
Typically, a 10-6 record is the cost of admission but that hasn't always been the case.
A whopping 19 teams have missed the playoffs despite winning 10 games, and an even more stunning two teams missed out on the postseason despite winning 11 games, including most recently the Patriots in 2008. And this year, with how deep the AFC is, it's very possible a 10-win team (Miami, Denver, or Baltimore) misses out again.
According to Five Thirty Eight, the Dolphins' playoff odds currently sit at 43 percent after humiliating the Jets, but today's Patriots-Broncos game has by the far the biggest sway of any remaining matchup of the weekend.
If New England wins today, Miami's odds jump to 56 percent but if they lose, the odds drop to 28 percent.
If New England wins today and Miami wins out, Miami will be in the playoffs.
If New England wins today and Miami finishes 1-1, Miami's odds are greater than 80 percent. So Dolphins fans should — gulp — root for the Pats hard this afternoon and root against Denver the rest of the way.
As Barry Jackson notes, if Denver loses the next two and Miami beats Buffalo, the Fins clinch next weekend.
These following playoff odds, per Five Thirty Eight, factor in only the Dolphins:
- Miami beats Buffalo and New England: 95 percent
- Miami beats Buffalo and loses to New England: 58 percent
- Miami loses to Buffalo and beats New England: 58 percent
- Miami loses to Buffalo and New England: 5 percent
So the Dolphins essentially control their own destiny at this point. Win out and they're all but a lock. Lose out and it's over.
Split and they have a better chance than not of making the playoffs. Just the fact we're having this discussion in late December sure feels nice.
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Decadent Pina Colada Cake Squares with thick creamy icing. These individually portioned treats are a must for parties and end of year after-school snacks.
There are certain flavors that were just meant to go together….
Steak and potatoes. Chocolate and peanut butter. Bacon and eggs. Make that bacon and anything.
And of course coconut and pineapple.
That's what makes a pina colada such a special beverage. It's part cocktail, part dessert, and all creamy dreamy decadence.
There's a rumor going around, that this girl I know once gained 13 pounds in TWO WEEKS by drinking virgin pina coladas everyday in Hawaii, whilst pregnant.
will not cannot verify whether this is truth or fiction. Just know, pina coladas are dangerous!
Even so, I took the risk today by turning this luxurious beverage into cookie bars!
Or maybe they're more like pina colada cake squares.
I can't decide… these luscious little treats are somewhere in between bars and cake.
They have the tenderness of a great pina colada cake, yet the slight density of cookie bars.
So we're calling them Pina Colada Squares.
To make the pina colada cake base, I used smooth and dependable Gold Medal Flour, butter, creamy coconut milk, and just a touch of rum.
Then I covered the top with a rich pineapple icing that drips down over the edges in decadent layers.
Like this…
Sigh. the contrast of the creamy coconut base and the tangy pineapple icing is to die for!
I can think of nothing I'd rather have at this very moment.
These little squares are tender and sweet with tropical appeal that makes me feel like I'm on vacation, if only for a moment.
I think I'll have another one.


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ORLANDO – The mother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told family that she didn't know the whereabouts of her child in a contentious telephone call from jail released Friday.
Casey Anthony, 22, is being held on $500,000 bond after investigators said she lied to them and did not report daughter Caylee Marie Anthony missing for more than a month.
In the July 16 call released by the Orange County Corrections Department, Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, complained to her daughter that she wasn't telling her where the toddler was. Casey Anthony responded angrily that she didn't know where the girl was.
"Are you kidding me?" Casey Anthony said.
Cindy Anthony responded, "Don't waste your call to scream and holler at me."
She added that her daughter's incarceration is her own fault.
"You're blaming me that you're sitting in the jail? Blame yourself for telling lies," Cindy Anthony said.
Prosecutors said in court earlier this week that Casey Anthony is a person of interest in what is beginning to look like a homicide investigation, though she has not been charged. Sheriff's deputies testified that her car smelled of decomposition and a cadaver-trained dog noted a smell of human remains there.
Casey Anthony has been charged with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.
In the same call, Casey Anthony said calling her family was a waste of time and told an unidentified female the family isn't supporting her.
"Nobody in my own family is on my side ... They just want Caylee back. That's all they're worried about right now is getting Caylee back and you know what, that's all I care about right now," she said.
A telephone message left after business hours at the office of Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, wasn't immediately returned.
Cindy Anthony called 911 on July 15. In one call, she asked police to arrest Casey Anthony for stealing a car and money.
Click here to listen to the first 911 call on MyFOXOrlando.com.
Click here to listen to the other 911 calls on MyFOXOrlando.com.
Click here for a transcript of the first 911 call.
Click here for a transcript of the second 911 call.
Click here for a transcript of the third 911 call.
She told a dispatcher that she had just found Casey, who had been missing for a month, as well as the car she was driving, which had been towed. She also expressed concern that her granddaughter was not with Casey.
She called 911 again about an hour later, crying, after she said Casey Anthony finally told her Caylee had been missing for a month.
Click here for photos of the bond hearing from MyFOXOrlando.com.
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The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old Florida girl told a 911 dispatcher that she wanted to press charges against her daughter for "grand theft" after she learned of the tot's disappearance, according to a new recording released Friday.
A frantic Cindy Anthony can also be heard threatening to file a court order against her daughter, Casey Marie Anthony, to get Casey's little girl Caylee Marie Anthony away from her.
The new tape released Friday was of the very first call Cindy Anthony made to 911, which was handled by Orlando police. They then rerouted her to the Orange County Sheriff's Department, which is investigating the case. In all, Cindy Anthony had three conversations with 911 dispatchers July 15.
"I have a 22-year-old person that has, um, grand theft sitting in my auto with me," she said in the first. "My car was stolen. We've retrieved it; today we found out where it was at. We've retrieved it, I've got that. And I've got affidavits from my banking account. I want to bring her in. I want to press charges."
After the emergency responder told her she will be transferred to Orange County sheriffs, Cindy Anthony can be heard warning her daughter Casey in the background.
"My next thing will be child's thing and we'll have a court order to get her if that's what you wanna play. We'll do it and you'll never..." she said.
Casey's reply is inaudible, to which Cindy Anthony retorted: "Well, then, you have ... no, I'm not giving you another day. I've given you a month."
Cindy Anthony said in the calls that her daughter Casey had just admitted that Caylee had been missing for about a month and she didn't know where she was.
"I have someone here that I need to be arrested ... in my home," Cindy Anthony said in the second call. She told the dispatcher that she was referring to her daughter and that it involved the disappearance of a toddler. The 911 responder asked her why she wanted her daughter taken into custody.
"For stealing an auto and stealing money," she replied. "I already spoke with someone. ... I was going to drive her to the police station and no one's open. They said they would bring a deputy to my home when I got home to call them."
The grandmother told an emergency dispatcher in the third call that a car driven by Casey Anthony smelled like there had been a dead body inside.
That candid description by Cindy Anthony was echoed this week by police, but Anthony later changed her story and disputed police testimony that the car's trunk smelled of human decomposition.
The latest twists come as police and family continue their efforts to find Caylee.
Her mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, remained in jail Thursday in Orange County, Fla., on a $500,000 bond after investigators said she lied to them and did not report Caylee missing for 31 days.
Prosecutors said in court earlier this week that Casey Anthony also is a person of interest in what is beginning to look like a homicide investigation, though she has not been charged.
In addition to asking that Casey be arrested in Cindy Anthony's first two 911 conversations on July 15, she told dispatchers that she had just found Casey, who had been missing for a month, as well as the car she was driving, which had been towed. She also expressed concern that her granddaughter was not with Casey.
She called 911 again about an hour later, crying, saying Casey Anthony finally told her Caylee had also been missing for a month.
"There's something wrong," Cindy Anthony told the dispatcher. "I found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car."
In Cindy's third 911 conversation on July 15, she made her daughter talk to the dispatcher, at which point Casey said the toddler had been taken by a baby sitter who police now believe may not exist.
The dispatcher asked why she hadn't called sooner.
"I've been looking for her and have gone through other resources to try to find her, which was stupid," Casey responded.
Police named Casey Anthony a person of interest in Caylee's disappearance after saying at the Tuesday bond hearing that they detected the odor of human decomposition and found dirt and strands of hair similar to Caylee's in the trunk of the car.
Later Wednesday, Cindy Anthony disputed those claims, suggesting instead that it was the smell of old food or garbage they'd picked up instead.
"Do me a favor," she said. "Put a little piece of pizza or any piece of garbage in your car today and leave it shut up for 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 days in this heat and then come back to me in 19 days and tell me what it smells like."
Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Carlos Padilla told FOX News on Friday that the odor was overwhelming, and was completely different from that of old pizza or other rotting food.
He also said that samples from a mysterious stain found in the trunk were still at a lab for testing, and police were awaiting the results.
Detectives, like the family, are focused on finding Caylee too, according to Padilla — but they've been stymied by the lack of information they've been able to get from her mother. For one thing, they don't have a straight answer about where Casey Anthony was in the month between the time the little girl was last seen and the time she was reported missing.
"We don't know anything about her exact location because from the beginning she hasn't told us about the child's whereabouts," Padilla told FOX on Friday. "We've talked to friends and other people, and they themselves didn't know this child was missing."
He said Casey Anthony sometimes told people Caylee was with her mother and other times said she was with a nanny.
The Anthony family still is mum on a TV station's tip that a new concrete slab was poured in the grandparents' backyard over July 4 weekend, shortly before they reported Caylee's disappearance.
But on Thursday, Cindy Anthony said there have been two reported sightings of 2-year-old Caylee in Georgia and she believes her granddaughter is with someone heading to Charlotte, N.C.
"We know where she's at," Cindy Anthony told FOX News on Thursday before pleading with the person she believes has the child to turn back. "Please don't take her further into the mountains. It looks like she's headed northeast in Georgia close to the North Carolina border. ... This is all very encouraging right now."
Her plea came after her husband, George Anthony, asked the public in an audio message for help in finding their granddaughter before her third birthday. Caylee was last seen on Father's Day, June 15.
Click here to read more on the reported sightings of Caylee from MyFOXOrlando.com.
Cadaver dogs searched the grandparents' property last week after a neighbor told them Casey Anthony borrowed a shovel around the time her small daughter was last seen. Casey and Caylee were living with George and Cindy Anthony, reportedly, until the time the toddler vanished.
Casey Anthony has been charged only with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.
But Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland ordered her held on an unusually high bond Tuesday after hearing the evidence of possible human decomposition found in her yard and car.
Strickland said she offered investigators no useful information and questioned the truthfulness of the information she did provide.
Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, has asked to have her bond lowered to $10,000, saying she had a right to freedom while facing lesser charges. He said there was circumstantial evidence of a possible homicide but it hadn't left authorities confident enough to charge her with anything more serious.
FOX News' Catherine Donaldson-Evans and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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If you live in the City of Rocklin or even neighboring communities of Loomis or Granite Bay, the proposed Sierra Gateway Apartments project has the very real potential of impacting you, your family, and your community.
While the Environmental Impact Report will reveal more details on specific subjects, here is a short list of the known project's impacts:
More high density houses mean more people, more cars, longer lines, and more children per classroom.
The project estimates with its 195 new units more than 1300 more car will be added to the local roads. You can expect longer wait times at signals and turning into/out of your neighborhood and this addition of cars spills onto other streets too.
Adjacent neighbors have a maximum of two story homes, this project proposes three story buildings. This is inconsistent with surrounding neighborhoods.
The proposal would remove the majority of the established oak woodlands–more than 300 mature trees. This is in direct conflict with the City's Tree Preservation Ordinance.
Trees that presently convert carbon dioxide to oxygen will be removed from the project site to make room for apartments. Onsite grading and vehicular emissions will be introduced. Residents with asthma and respiratory problems may have the most difficulty.
The Environmental Impact Report will provide more details, but the project as proposed has serious consequences for the community. We encourage you to get involved and donate.


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United States District Court, Third Circuit
June 20, 2013
HERSHELL FUGATE and SUSAN FUGATE, Plaintiffs,v.BOEING CO., et al., Defendants.
SHERRY R. FALLON, Magistrate Judge.
Presently before the court in this diversity action is a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction (the "Motion" or "Motion to Dismiss") (D.I. 23) filed by Defendant Higbee, Inc. ("Higbee") pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(2). Hershell Fugate and Susan Fugate (the "Plaintiffs") oppose Higbee's Motion, and request leave to conduct jurisdictional discovery. (D.I. 25 at 1, 3) For the reasons which follow, I recommend that the court GRANT Higbee's Motion to Dismiss, and DENY the Plaintiffs' request for leave to conduct jurisdictional discovery.
A. Procedural Background
The Plaintiffs filed this personal injury action against eighteen defendants, including Higbee (collectively, the "Defendants"), on December 3, 2012, in the Superior Court of Delaware. (D.I. 1, Ex. A) The Complaint alleges that Hershell Fugate ("Mr. Fugate") suffered injuries as a result of exposure to asbestos throughout his employment and through personal automotive work. ( Id. , Ex. A ¶¶ 25-27). On January 29, 2013, the case was removed to this court by Defendant United Technologies Corporation. ( Id. )
On February 13, 2013, Higbee filed the pending Motion to Dismiss. (D.I. 23) The court held oral argument on the merits of the Motion on June 19, 2013.
B. Facts
The Plaintiffs claim that Mr. Fugate developed lung cancer, among other diseases and health problems, as a result of exposure to asbestos throughout his employment: (1) as a jet engine mechanic in the United States Air Force, from 1965 to 1968; (2) at the NY Railroad from 1968 to 1969; (3) as a launderer for Ford, in Michigan, from 1970 to 1975; (4) as a customer service representative for Con Rail Railroad, in New York, from 1975-1999; and (5) while performing personal automotive work from 1959 to 1964. ( Id. , Ex. A ¶¶ 22, 25) The Plaintiffs assert that the Defendants manufactured, sold, or distributed asbestos-containing products. ( Id., Ex. A ¶ 29) Plaintiffs reside in Georgia, and aver that the Georgia law is the substantive law of this case. ( Id, Ex. A ¶¶ 1-2, 24)
Defendant Higbee is a New York corporation with its principal place of business in Syracuse, New York. (D.I. 24, Ex. B ¶ 3) Higbee manufactures custom built products to customers' specifications, and does not generally sell any products to distributors. ( Id. , Ex. B ¶ 3) Higbee does not: have any offices in Delaware, [1] have any employees in Delaware, have any independent contractors in Delaware, advertise in Delaware, use telephone calls, facsimile messages, or other electronic messages to solicit potential Delaware customers, own or lease real estate in Delaware, hold any interest in any asset or property within Delaware, or pay taxes in Delaware. ( Id., Ex. B ¶¶ 4-14)
Higbee's revenue from sales in Delaware during 2012 were approximately $7, 591.00, which represents 0.070% of Higbee's gross sales for the 2012 fiscal year. ( Id. , Ex. B ¶ 15)
A. Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(2) directs the court to dismiss a case when the court lacks personal jurisdiction over the defendant. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2). When reviewing a motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(2), a court must accept as true all allegations of jurisdictional fact made by the plaintiff and resolve all factual disputes in the plaintiff's favor. Traynor v. Liu, 495 F.Supp.2d 444, 448 (D. Del. 2007). Once a jurisdictional defense has been raised, the plaintiff bears the burden of establishing, with reasonable particularity, that sufficient minimum contacts have occurred between the defendant and the forum to support jurisdiction. See Provident Nat'l Bank v. Cal. Fed. Say. & Loan Ass'n, 819 F.2d 434, 437 (3d Cir. 1987). To meet this burden, the plaintiff must produce "sworn affidavits or ...
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Marathon all-night negotiations to resolve outstanding peace process issues in Northern Ireland have failed to produce an agreement.
Talks chairman Dr Richard Haass, a former US diplomat, said he had not managed to secure consensus on a final set of proposals to deal with flags, disputed parades and the legacy of the Troubles before his end-of-year deadline.
David Cameron has expressed his disappointment over the failure but urged the political parties in Northern Ireland to "keep going".
Dr Haass said a working group made up of representatives of the five parties in Stormont's power-sharing executive would now be set up to try and find another way to build on "significant progress" that had been achieved.
Negotiators from Sinn Fein, the largest nationalist party in the Executive, said they were prepared to recommend the proposals to its ruling executive, but unionists would not sign up to the document tonight.
"Yes it would have been nice to come out here tonight and say we have got all five parties completely signed on to the text, we are not there," Dr Haass said.
Dr Haass, who was commissioned by Democratic Unionist First Minister Peter Robinson and Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness to chair the six-month process, said he believed there was a prospect that all the parties would either endorse all, or significant parts of his document in the future.
(Top left) Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly and former IRA member Sean Murray (bottom left) Democratic Unionist Party member Jeffrey Donaldson and (right) U.S. envoy Richard Haass (AP)
The DUP and Ulster Unionists said they would consult within their parties before making a final judgment on the proposals but both indicated they had major difficulties with elements of the text.
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) said it would also be conducting a consultation, but party leader Alasdair McDonnell said he would be recommending a general endorsement of the proposals.
Dr Haass urged Mr Robinson and Mr McGuinness to make the details of the final document public so people could make up their own minds.
He denied the process had been a failure.
"Success should not be measured by what we report to you tonight or what the party leaders report tonight - I would ask you to judge the success in six months, in a year, 18 months, in two years, that would give a much more realistic definition or yardstick of what constitutes success," he said.
"What I believe what we have done is laid down solid enough foundations stones."
Dr Haass and talks vice-chairman Dr Meghan O'Sullivan, a US foreign affairs expert, said their role in any future political process would be limited, but both insisted they were not washing their hands of the process.
Alliance party deputy leader Naomi Long, who along with colleagues was mandated to make a final call on behalf of the party, said she was willing to endorse proposals on the past, but not on flags and parades.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams signalled his party's willingness to strike a full deal.
He said the proposals presented by Dr Haass represented a "compromise position" and provided the basis for agreement.
"They aren't perfect, we have had to stretch ourselves to embrace them," he said.
Mr Adams insisted talks could not continue forever and at some point parties had to "call it".
"The paper produced by Dr Haass does in the view of our negotiating team provide the basis for agreement," he said.
He said if there was no progress from this point he would be seeking an urgent meeting with the British and Irish governments to call for the production of a road map towards resolution.
Mr Cameron said: "Although it is disappointing the parties have not been able to reach full agreement at this stage, these talks have achieved much common ground, providing a basis for continuing discussions.
"There is a shared commitment to making progress on these very difficult issues that continue to be a focus for tension and division across the community.
"I urge the parties to keep going. I also want to thank Dr Richard Haass and his team for their dedicated work.
"The Government and the Northern Ireland parties will continue to work together to strengthen further the foundations for peace, stability and prosperity in Northern Ireland."
Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland Secretary , said she was disappointed, but the failure to reach a comprehensive agreement should not be seen as the end of the road in seeking to find a way forward on difficult and divisive issues.
Mrs Villers said that it is "important" that this is not "the end of the road".
She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's obviously disappointing that these talks haven't so far led to an agreement, but these are immensely difficult issues, and I think all the parties who've commented so far have said that there's much in the Haass proposals on the tables that they can support.
"I don't think this is the end of the road - it's important that it's not. It's important that we build on the progress that's been made which actually resulted in a great deal of common ground between five political parties who have fundamentally different views on these issues."
She added: "I welcome the suggestion by Dr Haass that the parties should now lose no time in getting together to see how they can most constructively take things forward. I would encourage them to maintain the momentum that their efforts, working with the Haass team, has created. For our part, the UK Government will look at how we can best facilitate this."
Ivan Lewis, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, said: "The failure to reach a final agreement is deeply disappointing. However, significant common ground has been identified which should be the basis for future progress."


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do you see the smile on this little boys face. Jayden has always loved animals especially whales an sea life. He is always telling us that he wants to be a Shamu trainer an practices at home with his whales. He has watched the Free Willy movies 1-4 over and over and I think he even wishes he was the boy in the movie. He has asked us several times for a pet shamu and swears that daddy could get a big enough pool for it. So whenever we go to Sea World its a must to see the Shamu show.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Natalie's game
we went and watched Natalie cheer on the Mt.Dora Middle school basketball team tonight. The boys really liked it but liked watching the girls more!!
checking out the girls...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Natalie's 13!
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Monday, January 24, 2011
this boy is crazy for his little brother!! You know the expression love to pieces well, this big brother would hug and kiss Landon until there was just pieces left!! He is smothering him all the time because he just can't help himself!!
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
dads birthday
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
strawberry pickin
tis the season for Strawberries!! I am so excited to get out there and pick some juicy berries! I love filling up the basket and thinking of all the yummy snacks we can make!
not much picking for me..my arms are too full!
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
a leisure walk
I used to be able to take a walk and just load up the stroller and go and now well I have to get Jayden on his bike, Alex going in his car, and Landon in the stroller, its a lot of work for just a little walk!
make that two
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Saturday, January 15, 2011
Its finally here... The circus has come to town and the boys and I couldn't be more excited!! The show was great and the seats were close and the boys just were amazed by all the special tricks and animals.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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cocoa beach
The weather is beautiful and we are taking advantage of it down at the condo. Its Landon's first trip to the beach and although he won't be playing in the sand it's good for all of us to get some fresh air and enjoy the beach.
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
My sunbeam!
My Alex is finally a SUNBEAM! He is so excited to be in primary and be with his big brother! I am so grateful for the example of Jayden and I am so proud of Alex and his wanting to do whats right!
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building blocks
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Alex's party
It's a Cars Party for this boy! Alex has wanted a cars party for a while he knew exactly what he wanted and was very excited when it finally came. The party was filled with family lots of good food, we had a pinata, and jumped in our monster truck bouncer and ate lots of treats.
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by Monica Henderson Stoner, Member at large
Romance writers write romance. Sometimes they write romance with a twist or hyphen. And sometimes they write romance with a subtle message, one that might stop the reader mid paragraph, and have them thinking about other than boy meets girl.
I've come across these books in the past, and taken away something more than just a story. One of the first was Kathleen Korbel's JAKE'S WAY, about a man who gives up his own dreams to help his family, who never realize he can't read. Korbel whammied me again with A ROSE FOR MAGGIE, about a charming baby with Down's Syndrome, and then A SOLDIER'S HEART, reminding me PTSD wasn't just for the men in the field. She wrote about the agony of anorexia in SOME MEN'S DREAMS and about overcoming deep seated fears in both WORTH THE RISK and PERCHANCE TO DREAM.
Suzanne Brockmann faces issues head on. Dealing with Alcohol or drug dependency started with HEART THROB and continues right through the Troubleshooter books. Who can't love Jules, gay and proud of it, who wanted a partner he could walk with in sunshine? People doing the right thing for the wrong reason, and people doing what has to be done even when no one else realizes what they've done, come alive in her books.
Then we come to SEIZE THE FIRE, a heart wrenching story of dealing with the horrors of war in a time when an officer and gentleman was supposed to keep a stiff upper lip and soldier on. FLOWERS FROM THE STORM, a stroke bringing a genius down to near disaster; THE SHADOW AND THE STAR, a young man overcoming a depraved upbringing. Laura Kinsale makes me think while enjoying her stories.
None of these authors hit me over the head with their MESSAGE. I've seen and tried to read books with a THEME, sometimes a worthy theme such as racism or man's inhumanity to man. All valid high concepts but when your theme gets in the way of your story, sometimes people stop reading all together.
More recently, I learned from a fellow LERA member about Best Buddies International: http://www.bestbuddies.org/ a non-profit organization dedicated to establishing one-on-one friendships for people with IDD (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities). Their goal is to ensure these people have friends to call them. Gabi Stevens wove IDD into her newest fantasy romance AS YOU WISH, which I'm looking forward to reading.
For myself, I'm polishing TEACH ME TO FORGET, about a woman overcoming a depraved marriage and making something of herself, then learning to trust.
Happy reading and writing!
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Tatralandia apartment offers accommodation in Liptovský Mikuláš, right next to the Aquapark Tatralandia and 1 km from Liptovska Mara. Guests benefit from terrace and a 20% discount on the entrance to Aquapark Tatralandia.
The property also provides a free shuttle bus from the apartment to the Jasna - Chopok Ski Area.
A microwave, a freezer, a double hot plate and a fridge can be found in the kitchen. Towels and bed linen are featured in this self-catering accommodation. Other facilities at Tat...ralandia apartment include a spa centre and outdoor pool.
You can play tennis at the property, and ski equipment hire and bike hire are available. The area is popular for skiing and horse riding.
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The maid has brought in a plate with several jumbo shrimp curled in a pink heap and hands it to the woman on the vast, pillow-piled bed.
Elizabeth Adams cleans the shrimp swiftly, chopping them into shreds and piling them onto a blue and white Chinese saucer.
A smoke-gray Persian cat that has been lolling across a Battenberg lace pillow on the antique mahogany desk steps loftily onto a marble-topped table, and thence onto the bed. The shrimp is for him, as it is every day.
"So handsome," purrs the heavyset woman fondly, explaining that Georgie the cat, the king of a clowder of a dozen adored Persians, is "the love of my life." And if, at age 55, the time comes that she has to go to prison, well, that's what would break her heart--leaving Georgie.
When she first bought this house in the hills above the Sunset Strip, Elizabeth Adams had it painted green, mindful of the old wives' notion that lucky green attracts money.


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This comic is inspired by a meme sent to me by Maria from Germany. It made the quote shown in the first panel, and I came up with the second line in my response to her email. And then I just decided to make this an all-meme inspired comic! :D I even made a new meme image featuring my added line, which you can see right here! Now you can all download this image or copy the page URL to share the new meme online! Go crazy!
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A selection of the latest stories in the media involving Tottenham Hotspur this Friday evening.
Tottenham have rejected a bid of around £3.6 million from Galatasaray for defender Vlad Chiriches, the London Evening Standard reports.
The Romanian looks destined to depart White Hart Lane this summer after being made surplus to requirements, but Spurs are looking to recoup around £5 million of the £8.5 million they paid Steaua Bucharest for his services two years ago.
Spurs striker Harry Kane is still among the list of forwards attracting the interest of Manchester United, the Daily Mail reports.
It is highly unlikely that Kane will leave White Hart Lane this summer, but on the back of a stunning campaign which saw him score in excess of 30 goals in all competitions, United have demonstrated that they are keen on him.
However, he is part of a list that is said to include the names of several strikers, including Thomas Muller, Edinson Cavani and Gonzalo Higuain, according to the report.
The Standard reports that Tottenham are set to miss out on one their midfield targets, with Monaco's Yannick Ferreira Carrasco set to join Atletico Madrid.
They cite reports in Spain which indicate the move is close, and that the La Liga side have managed negotiate Monaco down from their asking price of around £14.4 million to £10.8 million with the promise of retaining a percentage of any future sale of the 21-year-old.


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So, this is a divergence from my normal fandoms, but I entered the Harry Potter fanfiction exchange and wanted topmost my submission! Enjoy! Read and review!
Helga Hufflepuff is not amused. She sits in her study, embroidery lying in wait before her and tea steadily cooling in the chill castle air at her side. The clock on the wall clicks the seconds by at an agonizing rate. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. The hour approaches, getting closer with every second, and with it, her anger nears rage. She quells it and keeps her face serene, of course, as she always does, but the fire within her is undeniable. Her skin feels aflame and her fingers itch for movement. She thinks back to the morning, when she overheard Salazar informing Godric of his decision. Her body begins to shake.
There. The clock strikes the hour. Putting aside her embroidery, the emblem of the snake in emerald, she rises to her feet. Anyone who might pass by Helga in the halls of the magnificent castle will see her at her normal. But they do not look close enough. They do not see the trembling hands. They do not notice the steps are quicker than ever. They do not even care to notice the words that are fighting against her throat, straining to get out.
But, even so, she encounters no one in her walk. The students have not even been invited to study yet, and her fellow founders are all abed. All, that is, save one. The one she has been waiting for. She pushes the doors of the castle open, swinging them wide and announcing her presence to the one who thought he could slide away like a thief in the night. Beginning before she even sees his dark figure levitating cases into the coach before him, Helga's pent-up fury bursts.
"How dare you, Salazar Slytherin."
Her words ring out and strike him. Salazar's back is turned, but he stops his motion at the sound of her voice. He hears her anger, yes, but he hears the hurt even more. The trunks he levitates clatter to the ground in a cacophony of leather and metal and stone, striking the quiet night.
"Helga," he breathes, his entire body frozen at her sudden lashing out.
Perhaps Salazar did not appropriately calculate and measure the weight of his decision. He left out one variable, the most important of them all. And perhaps he did it purposely to save his principles. For, if he put Helga into his calculations, he might have given up everything to remain at her side.
"Do not speak, Salazar. You do not deserve the tongue you were blessed with. It only lies and deceives."
This is when Salazar turns. These words are not the ones of Helga Hufflepuff, the kind and gentle one among the three reactive founders. They cannot be. And yet, as he turns, his gaze falls upon her. Indeed, Helga does speak these words that lash and sting him. He watches as she tries to hide the emotion brimming in her expression. She is always one to avoid acting weepy and unnecessary. But she cannot hide from him. Not tonight.
"You're going to leave tonight, after everything we've accomplished, because you weren't given your way?"
It isn't a question that he is expected to answer. He is meant only to listen, to experience her hurt. She begins to pace in a most unladylike fashion, hurling her words at him until the silent tears begin to fall.
"You would give it all up to make a point? You would throw this school away in the hopes that we would come crawling up, begging you to come back and give you your way-"
As the first silver streak colors her cheek, Salazar stands to his full height.
"But you have come crawling, haven't you? You're here to beg me to stay because you couldn't bear to see me leave."
He doesn't mean for his words to sting half so much as they do. But they knock the air out of Helga's lungs all the same. Her light eyes fall to the cold, stone ground. She seethes, punching each word from between her teeth.
"No one is crawling here, Salazar."
"I won't have my school accept anything less than the best, Helga. I have gone over this with Godric and stated my wishes clearly."
Salazar crosses to her and picks up her chin in his cold, ungloved hand. The action is simple, but made more intimate when he tilts her face up toward his own. Their eyes lock, the golden meeting the dark green, and he is suddenly struck by the weight of losing her. Should he leave without her tonight, there is no possibility of ever seeing her again. That much is certain. Helga wrenches her face from his grasp and folds her arm before her. Turning from him, she wrestles with the emotions within her. She cannot give him the satisfaction of seeing her tormented.
"Come with me, Helga. Let us make a school in our own image."
He reaches out and locks her wrist in his hand, effectively stopping her from moving. His eyes follow up her arm and meet her gaze in the middle.
"I will give you everything."
His voice is quiet as the winter wind blowing through the air. He stoops and
inches his face towards hers, his nose almost brushing hers in such a close capacity.
"Come with me."
Helga's face suddenly turns to disgust. She pulls her hand from his and clenches it at her side, wrenching herself away from him.
"I would not go even to the end of the road with you, Salazar. I would not go even if you were the last of men left on this earth."
And when Salazar looks at the woman he loves, he believes her. He recoils from her, his body moving away from her unconsciously as a few flakes of snow begin to travel down from the sky. She turns to leave, but Salazar fights the pain in his heart and finds the strength to speak the only thing on his mind.
"You are cruel."
He breathes the words as though he has been stabbed and is fighting for breath. Helga turns her face toward him, casting only the slightest glance to him over her shoulder, and the lack of emotion in his face chills him more than the snow in the air.
"I am allowed my cruelty. I have learned from a master."
She strides into the castle without a second glance, throwing the wide doors open as she goes. They slam behind her, giving a loud, resounding thud that shakes Salazar to his core. There it is. His only light is gone. He gives the castle one long, last glance, hoping to catch a glimpse of her figure striding through the castle halls. But he sees no figure. He does not spy her gazing longingly from between the curtains as though she regrets what she has said. Helga and Salazar are finished. And so is his time at Hogwarts.


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Thursday Feb 16, 2017
ISLAMABAD: The hearing of the Panama Case on Thursday concluded for the week to resume again on Tuesday when the five-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa will question the Chairmen of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
The NAB Chairman will apprise the court on details over why previous cases were close. The FBR Chairman will respond to progress from his end.
This will be the first time that heads of investigating agencies will be appearing before the apex court with complete records of details and progress.
Hearing adjourned till Tuesday
The hearing for the case was adjourned till Tuesday, February 21. Justice Asif Saeed Khosa said that the hearing will be held thrice a week as the health of one of the members of the bench does not permit a daily hearing.
Justice Azmat Saeed, one of the judges of the bench, is recovering from an angioplasty.
More evidence submitted for London Flats
Counsel for Hussain and Hassan Nawaz, Salman Akram Raja continued his arguments. He submitted service records for Minerva firm, the holding company for Nescoll and Nielson Enterprises, offshore companies which own the London flats.
Giving details, he added, that a representative for Hussain Nawaz's Minerva firm Faisal Tiwana made an agreement with Arrina company. The counsel submitted transactions conducted by the Minerva Company which included receipts of the Barclays bank.
He said that Maryam Nawaz had remained trustee shareholder after she kept bearer certificates with her from February till July 2006. Registered shares were issued for the firm in July 2016. After the bearer certificates were suspended, Maryam Nawaz's trustee status became invalid, he said.
Justice Azmat Saeed asked who was the director for Neilson and Nescoll.
PML-N trying to sabotage hearing: Imran Khan
Speaking outside the the Supreme Court, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan said that the Sharif family was trying to sabotage the hearing. "Their entire argument revolves around two things: the bench is qualified and the case is inadmissible," he said.
He said that it is important for a ruler to be truthful and trustworthy.
Replying to a question he said that he was expecting a verdict in the next few days.


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PROFILE: Caran Menardy
CHEREESE SHEEN | 4/20/2017, 4:38 p.m.
She also felt Michael Jackson's presence at his childhood home in Gary, Ind., where she was welcomed and conversed with Michael Jackson's parents and children. In her recreated "Bad" outfit, Menardy had fainted in the cab and was tended to by Michael Jackson's cousin, Keith Jackson.
"The spirit of Michael was moving me to Gary, Ind.," said Menardy. "When we pulled up to the house I fainted. Michael Jackson's cousin was at the gate and asked me if I needed water. I began to tell him that I'm from New York and don't know anyone in Gary, but something was pulling me to come here, to where it all began. He told me out of all the fans he spoke to that day, I moved him the most. I was then invited inside the house for a tour and met Catherine, Joe, Paris, Blanket and Prince. I asked them to please accept my condolences and I sat and talked with them one-on-one. There was no security or bodyguards. We just sat and mourned."
Menardy believes she is doing a service to the community by reminding everyone of Michael Jackson's and Prince's accomplishments. She does not want them to be forgotten.
"The real true fans remember, but the people who don't know, when they see me out there they remember," said Menardy. I'm out there playing music to remind them. The fans love me. If I don't set up the Apollo does nothing. If I don't decorate sidewalk the day will go by and people wouldn't even realize. When I'm there the fans feel like they have a place to celebrate. They all surround my table, dancing, listening to music. They're all happy. So instead of being sad on that day, it's a celebration. We're celebrating his life and his legacy."
Menardy does not feel the need to expose the Apollo Theater for accepting praise they do not deserve, but when asked by fans or tourists, she does take credit for her work.
"When Prince died I draped the whole sidewalk in purple with signature boards," said Menardy, a former student of the Weist-Barron School of Television and Commercial Acting Inc. "I started it all. At the end of the day the Apollo gets all the credit. I'm not the one to say, 'No it wasn't the Apollo,' but if people ask I tell them it's me."
However, Menardy has never received any backlash from the Apollo about her memorials because of the crowd she draws.
"The Apollo likes when I'm out there because I bring the people," she said. "All of the management know me and greet me when they see me. But the minute people start showing up and the news vans come, the Apollo changed their marquee to 'Apollo Celebrates Prince.'
Prince was one of Menardy's biggest influences. He inspired not only her style but her personality. Prince's "craziness and wildness" was embedded in her.
"I get a lot of attention for my wild, crazy hairstyles," said Menardy as she sported a neon pink bob haircut. "My uniqueness is Prince inspired. He didn't care about what people thought. He did what he wanted to do. That is me. I couldn't care less what anybody thinks. If I want to come out here with purple, green, yellow hair, I will wear it proudly."
Menardy added, "[The opinions of others] do not matter. That is the part of Prince that is instilled in me. He never cared about what anyone had to say about him. My presence and style inspires a lot of people as well, but everything I do is from the heart. I do it because I want to."
All of the tributes Menardy arranges are done purely for the fans and those who want to celebrate instead of mourn. There have been occasions when law enforcement tried to interfere, but she just wants to share a piece of her heart with the community.


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