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Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's back to homeschooling we go!
Good morning everyone. I thought now would be the perfect time to get back into blogging.
Well, summer is officially over, the public schools kids started back yesterday. My crew and I are taking two weeks off to regroup, reorganize and get acclimated to new schedules before we start our school year and boy is it going to be a busy one.
I am going from homeschooling one to homeschooling none to homeschooling three. Organization is going to be the key to my sanity, I can see it now. I also decided to purchase different curricula this year to save me some time. The best part of what I've purchased is that I will be able to use it for all three kids which will save us money in the long run.
This year Bryce is in Third Grade, Noah in Kindergarten and Abigail is in Pre-Kindergarten but I suspect she will be starting on Kindergarten by the first of the year.
Several weeks ago, I purchased The Well Trained Mind. I have to say that I love the book. We are using this approach for homeschooling this year.
Everyone is learning American Sign Language this year. We are using the program from Signing Time. Everyone that I have spoken to about it has had nothing but wonderful things to say about it. We were able to get it off of Ebay for about 70.00 cheaper than what the site is selling it for.
Bryce is beginning Latin this year. The curriculum we are using is from Classical Academic Press. The best part about this particular curriculum in my mind is the fact that it come with DVD's of an actual Latin instructor teaching a class. This is especially great because I do NOT speak Latin at all but I am anxious to learn with Bryce.
Abbie and Noah both are showing an interest in reading, yay! We are using the book, The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading along with the Bob Books to help them along.
We are using the products from elementalscience.com for our sciences this year. Noah will be taking Intro to Science and Bryce will be taking Chemistry and Earth Science and Astronomy.
Bryce will be using The Story of the World for his history lessons this year.
For math, the kids will be using MEP.
This years spelling lists will come from the Super Teacher Worksheets website.
For Grammar and Language Arts I am using a combination of First Language Lessons and the lessonpathways.com curriculum.
We will also be using workbooks, lapbooks, and many of my "go to" websites for more information, to supplement, etc.
It is going to be a busy year but I am sure we will enjoy it.
We recently joined a local homeschooling group. We are all excited about the group and look forward to the weekly meet-ups. They are very active and there are lots of plans in the works for activities and field trips. So much for that pesky socialization issue. ;0)
Last but not least, I have been rearranging our homeschool room so I thought I would share some pictures with you.
Happy Homeschooling!


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Hello Penguins!
March was a great month in Club Penguin and we're not slowing down! I was able to find out a few of things we're working on for April that I couldn't wait to share!
Here are just a few things to look for:
- A Brand New Mission!
- The Return of Rockhopper!
- Book Room Update!
- New Igloo!
- New Room!
There will be more info on all of these in the coming weeks! I can't share everything now, so there will be some surprises as well. As always, let us know what you think!
– Club Penguin Team

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Yoghurt improves the bioavailability of other nutrients The culturing of yoghurt increases the absorption of calcium and B-vitamins. The lactic acid in the yoghurt aids in the digestion of the milk calcium, making it easier to absorb.
Yoghurt can boost immunity Researchers who studied 68 people who ate two cups of live-culture yoghurt daily for three months found that these persons produced higher levels of immunity boosting interferon. The bacterial cultures in yoghurt have also been shown to stimulate infection-fighting white cells in the bloodstream
Yoghurt can decrease yeast infections Research has shown that eating eight ounces of yoghurt that contains live and active cultures daily reduces the amount of yeast colonies in the vagina and decreases the incidence of vaginal yeast infections.
Yoghurt is a rich source of calcium An 250ml serving of most yoghurt's provide 450 mg. of calcium, one-half of a child's RDA and 30 to 40 percent of the adult RDA for calcium. Because the live-active cultures in yoghurt increase the absorption of calcium, a 250ml serving of yoghurt gets more calcium into the body than the same volume of milk can.
Yoghurt is an excellent source of protein Plain yoghurt contains around ten to fourteen grams of protein per eight ounces, which amounts to twenty percent of the daily protein requirement for most persons. In fact, 250ml of yoghurt that contains live and active cultures, contains 20 percent more protein than the same volume of milk (10 grams versus 8 grams). Besides being a rich source of proteins, the culturing of the milk proteins during fermentation makes these proteins easier to digest. For this reason, the proteins in yoghurt are often called "predigested"
Yoghurt-Good for Young and Old Yoghurt is a valuable health food for both infants and elderly people. For children, it is a balanced source of protein, fats, carbohydrates, and minerals in a texture that kids love. For senior citizens, who usually have more sensitive colons or whose intestines have run out of lactose, yoghurt is also a valuable food. Different studies have shown that elderly intestines have declining levels of bifidus bacteria, which allow the growth of toxin-producing and perhaps, cancer-causing bacteria. So eating yoghurt every day can help both the elderly and the young maintain a healthier digestive tract.
Yoghurt is a all rounder Are all foods made with yoghurt equal? Not so. In fact, the yoghurt used to coat nibble foods such as raisins, nuts, and fruit bits is often so highly sugared that you're really eating more sugar than yoghurt.
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We have been dealing with sickness in the house all week; if you noticed my new Twitter account over there --------------------------------------------------------------> you probably already know this. It's a creepy crud cold that has left the kids coughing like seals and miserable. I woke up this morning with a sore throat so I suppose I am next in line for it. I won't complain too much as this is our first cold since last November, staying cold-free for four months during the winter months in a household with children is almost something for the record books.
I hope to head to the store later today before I start feeling worse and stock up on some good for us food for the week. I will post my menu and shopping trip later today. One thing I wanted to share is that this week for TOPS we are supposed to keep a food journal. It made me realize that some weeks we are lacking something in the diet...whether it be enough protein, enough vegetables, and so on. This week, by keeping my food journal I noticed a lack of fruits. Besides the juice I have been drinking I have not been consuming enough fruit so I hope with this I will become more aware of everything we eat and make more balanced choices. Now I am craving fruit so will need to stock up on that at the store.I'll be back later with updates!


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3 days ago
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
a moment...
i guess it depends on the moment.
yesteday, the girls started day camp at the magic house.
it is a very well organized and orchestrated place. i even pulled away thinking, i didn't even get nervous...
kate was fairly calm about it. the little boy in the doorway screaming didn't do much for anyones nerves but she handled it well and off we went. anne had 3 friends from school that were in her group, so she hardly said bye to me....
i came home took care of home stuff and headed back to pick them up.
again, a very well organized deal. they give you a sign, you put it in the window, you don't even have to get out of the car. perfect.
annes group came out firsthttp://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6651452614705960729#editor/target=post;postID=8218066065167505723. she climbed in and started talking.
i see kates crew come out next.
this is when the moment begins...
i see about 10 or 12 little tykes coming out...no kate. i think that there must be another group coming.
the nice girl says, oh there is kate's mom...kate...kate? KATE?!
and she looks at me and takes off....uh....heart starts beating a tad...
i can't remember what kate is wearing...how much did the pediatrician say she weighed when we were there last? how tall is she? oh dear lord.... when do i call adam...where will they take me to wait...oh dear lord.
anne murmurs..'.is she lost?'
'no of course not', i say...all the while looking out the window.
all the cute kids climibing into vans and suv's...
the moment continued. the nice girl that was on the search came out.
she didn't have kate.
she looked at me and kind of gave me a crooked smile that was filled with concern.
she spoke to the 'lead teacher' who grabbed her walkie and started darn near sprinting toward the door....all walkies were being talked into... all the teachers have 'the look' i know that look...its a weird, holy moly look, eyes wide open, necks strained, walking fast, talking in phrases...
the car is getting fuzzy, i'm getting hot, and the air is getting thick.
i really don't think i'm in this situation.
inside the magic house there MUST be 4 million people.
i had just given her 'the talk' about being taken and what to do when we went to the science center....
ohmygod she didn't listen i thought.
my face was starting to get tight, i couldn't swallow.
anne was whimpering in the back seat......ohnoithinkkatybugislost....
i said NO SHE ISN'T DON'T SAY THAT AGAIN.
and with that....
the heavens opened, harps could be heard...
katherine elizabeth emerged from the doors with the teacher GIGGLING!
i bolted from the car, nearly getting run over...
and grabbed that little girl. i very calmly (you know in that weirdo mom is nearing insanity calm voice...) said ARE YOU OKAY?!WHEREWEREYOU?
the teacher smiled and said, do you know where the air maze is?
uhhhhhh NO! i said/snapped...
she said, right at the corner by the door, i think she must have stopped to play for a second. we don't lose kids here at the magic house...
uh, huh, i'm a teacher too, i don't lose kids either, thankyou so much.... i think i managed to sputter...
and there is kate with her glasses and a big smile with a crooked tooth.
i could have choked her and squeezed her till she popped all in the same breath.
if i NEVER in my life experience a moment like that...it will be a moment too soon!
lord have mercy.
i think i shook for the next 25 minutes. we went to lunch, and after me staring in space and sucking down a diet coke, without coming up for air, i finally snapped back to reality and managed to ask them about their day.
and to think, i thought all my gray hair was genetic...ha. i don't think so! it's called motherhood.
~chat soon!
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Challenge: Audio Book Challenge
Host: Teresa's Reading Corner
2013 Level: Going Steady (12 books)-COMPLETED
Thoughts: I didn't think I was going to finish, but I made it! Now that I have Overdrive on my phone, I know I will be able to do better next year.
1. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
2. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
3. Trouble on His Wings by L. Ron Hubbard
4. Eve & Adam by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant
5. Cold Colors by Neil Gaiman
6. Shoggoth's Old Peculiar by Neil Gaiman
7. Of Poseidon by Anna Banks
8. Dead Men Kill by L. Ron Hubbard
9. The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
10. Branded Outlaw by L. Ron Hubbard
11. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
12. The Sky Devil by L. Ron Hubbard


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When the East is in the house, Oh my God! DANGER!
I was this last night in the Zaragoza Ciudad Hip Hop Festival 2009, it was awesome, these are the initial moments of DJ Premier, playing Michael Jackson songs: "Human Nature", "Heartbreak Hotel", "I Want You Back", "Thriller".
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text: One of the greatest gifts to come from moving away from Vancouver has been the visits from old friends. When someone makes the effort to take 3 ferries (or 2 ferries and a flight) you know they are worthy friends, friends you are going to have for a lifetime. Without the day to day distraction of work or schedules, a visit with friends on Hornby opens up more time to slowly and deliciously savour time with one another. This past week Patti and her sister Pamela came from Mesa and San Diego respectively to visit us in our new island home. We spent two evenings over lengthy dinners talking, laughing, and discovering. Patti has always been someone who inspired me deeply; she is one of the best physical movers I have ever known, a triathlete who is constantly winning her races, and someone with a big heart but a gentle and quiet energy. Her sister is delightfully open. Their parting gift to us is this dream catcher made by a Navajo First Nations member, which now sits perfectly and appreciatively in our cottage bedroom. Without knowing it, Patti and Pamela put the finishing touch on our cottage bedroom makeover, like a blessing for good sleep from our good, dear friends.


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Last week, i entered an explanation of why this site and my current status is bringing changes along with what is a radical poem for me. Primarily because of Walker Hicks, all of my site is back up and accessible after the site was hacked about a month ago.
That's me: a member of the "The Peculiar Generation"
SAN DIEGO – Last week, my niece emailed me an editorial which labeled me as peculiar, something I did not know.
Kate Jewell Hansen is unlike her uncle in many ways. To start, she is a scholar. She graduated from Vanderbilt cum laude with a double major in history and anthropology, and she just received her doctorate in American History, specifically 20th century economic history from Boston University.
Kate was born and raised in the Northeast corner, where my brother lives to prove we Jewell brothers could be brothers, close friends, and as far away from each other as possible.
But Kate has roots in Lebanon, and thrived at Vanderbilt, Her doctoral research explores the impact of southern industrialization on political formation in its embodiment of the Southern Industrial Leadership Council, headed by John Edgerton of the Lebanon Woolen Mills. Her dissertation is titled "As Dead as Dixie: The Southern States Industrial Council and the End of the New South."
I Am Peculiar
Knowing I am significantly older than her father, she forwarded me the editorial, "The Peculiar Generation," written by Richard Pells in the on-line edition of "The Chronicle of Higher Education."
I have wondered why folks from my birth year had not been labeled. My parents are in The Great Generation. My sister and brother are in the mass of humanity known as Baby Boomers. But Lebanon friends of my age and I were born too late to be in the Great Generation. And being born during the war, not after, we are not Baby Boomers either.
This has not particularly bothered me.
Pells decided he and I were peculiar. I didn't even know he knew me, but he pretty well hit the nail on the head. I agree I am peculiar. Most of the folks I know back home who were born between 1939 and the end of the war in 1945 are definitely not peculiar. With just a few exceptions, they are good folks, solid citizens, and very loyal to each other. In that regard, I hope I fit with them.
Transitionally Awkward
Pells describes us as being in a "transitionally awkward generation who were too young to have personally experienced the Depression or the war, but too old to have been embroiled in the turmoil on college campuses in the late 1960s." He suggests the image of us peculiars is that we were "presumably too blasé or sedate to have participated in the battles against the Vietnam War or for the equality of women, much less in the revels at Woodstock."
Then he asks, "What contributions, if any, has this generation made to American political and cultural life?"
Pells bemoans most of us men had "respectable but hardly remarkable occupations." And he describes the women of the Peculiar Generation as "A few of the women pursued careers in primary- or secondary-school education, but the majority said they had concentrated on their families and volunteer work." He disparages that "Almost everyone, male and female, seemed to love playing bridge."
He does not approve.
The rest of Pells' article attempts to debunk his own description.
He claims we didn't like rock and roll but were hooked on jazz, and we didn't watch "Ozzie and Harriet" or Walt Disney.
That's where he lost me. This is not a column promoting liberalism or conservatism, but Pell's column begins to sound like a liberal defense.
He praises a few of our generation, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and John Kerry, for rising above being just good folks. He then notes President Barack Obama acts much like Henry Fonda in his movie roles, "with his aura of ironic detachment from the political furies surrounding him."
Peculiar Indeed
And Pells pats himself on the back for participating in the Vietnam protests when he was a Harvard instructor. He further states his heroes from the peculiar generation and President Obama's emulation of Henry Fonda is what our peculiar generation has provided to improve our country in the long run.
Peculiar indeed.
The Peculiar Generation is hard to capture because we were and are so diverse. We span and therefore have characteristics of both the Great Generation and the Baby Boomers.
But to paraphrase Senator Lloyd Bentsen in a 1988 vice-president campaign debate with Senator Dan Quayle: Believe me, Barack Obama is no Henry Fonda.
And I like being peculiar if it means I am solid, responsible, caring, and a family man.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
That's me: a member of the "The Peculiar Generation"
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Anywhere you go, being gorgeous and getting complements will make your day! But when we are at the office, we cannot do the makeup we please. It needs to be minimal and yet give the right effects. Just the right amount of gorgeousness in your skin gives you a confidence boost, be it presentation or a meeting.
So we give you here a quick and simple office makeup tutorial that is perfect for any formal occasion. A few tips to notice:
- Use multipurpose products, instead of layering your face with various products
- Use compact if your skin is oily.
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- Use a lipstick that is a tint darker than your lips
- Once the lipstick is applied, press your lips in a tissue to get a better look.
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Belgian ale produced according to established abbey traditions.
Leffe Blonde Belgian Ale
By Bill Lau | Potable Pastime
Belgian abbey ale, 6.6% ABV
Brewed by N.V. InBev Belgium S.A., Brussels, Belgium, for Abbaye de Leffe, Dinant, Belgium
You may have noted my fondness for Belgian beers; my explorations of the broad variety and styles of Belgian beers can be directly attributed to the late British beer and whisky writer Michael Jackson back in the 1990's. His many books and articles in beer magazines inspired me along with many, many others to seek out and try beers we'd never heard of. Back then there weren't hundreds and thousands of craft breweries offering every style known to man (not to mention new and uncategorized beers), and you most certainly could not find very much of interest at most grocery stores or bars. At least, not 'round these parts.
The few beer & wine shops that did carry any kind of interesting selection still sometimes presented issues with product freshness, particularly when it came to imported beers. So think of that next time you're confronted with the choice of beers from all over the country and around the world, in every style conceivable, and presented in good condition. These are wonderful times for beer, indeed!
Label dated best before end 04/11/17
Appearance (4.5/5): Brilliant, old-gold hue shines when the glass is held up to the daylight. The eggshell white head starts out thick and billowy, gradually settling to a thin cover and ring, but sheeting on the glass as it does so. Beautiful!
Aroma (9.5/10): Luscious aromas of spices (vanilla, coriander, cardamom, maybe clove) and a candied, honeyed malt waft from the stemmed glass, delighting and inviting me to dive right in for that first sip.
Palate (4/5): Very finely carbonated, almost champagne-like in its prickly tingle all over the tongue, yet with good body and presence on the palate.
Taste (10/10): Opens with notes of spices imparted by whatever magical yeast the brewery uses – I pick out coriander, cardamom, and a faint hint of nutmeg and clove. These flavors ride over a light, biscuity malt base with some light sweetness and honeyed notes that build into the finish, joined by whispers of floral components. Bittering is very gentle at first, enough to balance, smoothly and gradually building to the finish, then gently fading with the spices and malt notes, lingering nicely.
Overall (18.7/20): Outstanding beer! Packs similar flavors to a really good tripel at around half the alcohol level. I'm thinking it can't miss paired with some soft cheese and crackers.
Disclosure: The author has received no reimbursement or compensation for this article. All opinions and remarks are those of the author alone.


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Monday, June 3, 2013
Fundamental and realized niche
To mention just one issue, there is a difference between fundamental niches and realized niches. What does that mean? Well, it could be that a plant, for example, could happily grow under wet, mesic and dry conditions if it were the only plant around. However, there is another plant that can also grow under mesic conditions but it is much more competitive than the first plant. That means that if they occur in different areas, the first plant will grow in all three habitats and the second one only in the mesic habitat, but if they happen to occur in the same area, you will find the first species in wet and dry places and the second one in the mesic places where it excludes the first.
For illustration, this is how well both species do along a moisture gradient, which we could call their fundamental niches:
And this is how many individuals of each species you would really be able to find along the moisture gradient if they both occur together, which would show their realized niches:
What this shows is first that no organism should be expected to come with a clearly defined role but that it has to settle into one depending on what other organisms are around. Also, which of these two is the niche relevant for the Ecological Species Concept?
If we go with the realized niche, for example because we have so far only observed the species together in nature and don't realize that the orange species would feel even happier under mesic conditions than where it is actually forced to live, we would probably intuit that the orange populations in dry and the wet habitats are two Ecospecies. Perhaps there is a bit of circular reasoning involved on my part (i.e. I may be smuggling the criteria of the Biological Species Concept into my argument), but this seems plainly absurd to me. But if we take the fundamental niche as a guide, what use is that if it may never be realized in nature?
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- Jim ThomersonJune 4, 2013 at 9:51 AM
You are basically showing reduction of the realized niche because of competitive exclusion from part of the optimal niche. The idea that where organisms occur is their optimum habitat is not always true. Many arid area plants do much better in cultivation, with soil, water, fertilization and exclusion of predators.ReplyDelete
In your illustration, competitive exclusion is causing differential selection in the orange organism. One would expect to see character displacement, and perhaps eventual speciation in such a situation. Interesting that competition could be the vicariance event which leads to allopatric speciation.
Well, the textbook example I was thinking of is Pinus sylvestris in Germany. It would feel very happy indeed on the best soils but Fagus sylvatica outcompetes the pine (and the oak, which however also outcompetes the pine) and it has to make do with dry sandy and somewhat swampy habitats at the margins. So far this has clearly not lead to speciation (except in a question-begging application of the ESC) but I have been told that the various "niches" occupied by Pinus sylvestris in Central Europe are occupied by several specialized species of pines in North America.ReplyDelete


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Elliot has been using a trial of Reading Eggs recently. It is a brilliant online reading game. He had a go a few months ago but this time something seems to have clicked and he is just starting to 'get' the idea of reading and blending sounds and all that sort of thing. It is lovely to watch him learn – even if he is a little obsessed with using the laptop! In fact, he's trying to kick me off already!
We recently took part in a grow your own potatoes project which they enjoyed. Last week was harvesting time. I love how excited they were! We have already eaten most of the potatoes. Maybe we'll plant some more. Also growing in the garden is a raspberry bush, strawberry plants, one solitary courgette plant that survived the slug assault, and a couple of fruit tree grown from pips/seeds last year. Unfortunately apart from the avocado which is rather obvious, all the other trees are unidentified. I guess we'll have to see whether they start bearing fruit in a couple of years! Growing things and learning about where food comes from is such a nice thing to do together as I'm not exactly an expert gardener and tend to be learning as much as the kids!


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Day 1 of 365 photos in 2007...
Day 1 of 365 photos in 2007... photojournaling my way thru 2007!
My brother-in-law and I normally meet up in Chattanooga as a halfway point between Nashville and Atlanta to transport Helen, my 82 year old momma-in-law. She was a good sport to pose behind the wheel of the Porsche. Can you imagine Granny pedal to the metal in a Porsche?
See the rest of the daily series archived at WonderDawg365


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After The Burial
Dig Deep
19th February 2016 – Sumerian Records
01. Collapse
02. Lost in the Static
03. Mire
04. Deluge
05. Laurentian Ghosts
06. Heavy Lies the Ground
07. Catacombs
08. The Endless March
09. Sway of the Break
Recorded in the immediate aftermath of the tragic death of founding member and guitarist Justin Lowe, Dig Deep is the fifth full length album from Minnesotan tech metal juggernauts After The Burial. The heartbreaking circumstances saw a genuine outpouring of grief from the online tech-metal community, so beloved was he by both his peers and fans alike, but the remaining band members - Anthony Notarmaso (vocals), Trent Hafdahl (lead guitar, clean vocals), Lerichard "Lee" Foral (bass) and Dan Carle (drums) – opted to push on with the release of the record. They dropped out of their scheduled run on the Summer Slaughter tour to allow themselves time to heal and to focus on recording an album viscerally centered around the painful loss of their friend.
Dig Deep does not shy away from the formative events of the recording, with the title, artwork and several of the song names exhibiting imagery of death and loss, but also of perseverance and human endeavour. Indeed, Hafdahl himself stated, "When you think you don't have anything left in you, you have to rely on that inner strength. That's where we are as a band. So many things beyond our control went wrong, but we started to dig deep as brothers."
After The Burial have been the archetypal djent band to many; the sight of two neon guitars either side of the stage churning out their trademark staccato, palm-muted riffs has graced all of their previous work, but the band decided not to replace Lowe, and so the writing duties for the guitar fell exclusively on Hafdahl, bar a few guitar parts written during Lowe's extremely short stint in the studio. As a result of the change in writing duties, Dig Deep is lacking in the variety showcased by some of their earlier albums - Rareform in particular – but there are some very entertaining moments on the album that even despite its sombre mood actually manage to raise a smile. For instance, the mid-point of "Laurentian Ghosts" heralds an incoming breakdown with an airhorn blast that catches the listener off guard. It's a jarring but good-humoured joke before the track instantly brutalises your eardrums with the resultant onslaught. Similarly, "Catacombs" starts out as a crushing drum-heavy dirge, but morphs into a bouncy pinch harmonic-led party song, showing the band's innate ability to inject urgency and fun into their sound.
So there isn't a great deal of progression or evolution, but this will please existing fans. The band's reputation for being the finest proponents of zeroes in the scene has even seen 2013 single "A Wolf Amongst Ravens" played on a "djent stick" – literally a plank of wood with one string and a pickup attached to it. It is perhaps unfair of critics of the genre to reduce the contribution of this band to its lowest common denominator, especially when the members are all clearly finely honed musicians with machine-level precision.
As always, Carle and Foral are a rhythm section the envy of most bands within the scene. Anyone who has been fortunate enough to witness them in a live setting can testify to their ferocity and force, and this is particularly evident on "Deluge" and "Heavy Lies the Ground". Equally, the unrelenting hurricane strength vocals of Notarmaso are stamped all across the album. There are far fewer clean vocals on display this time around; perhaps as a result of Hafdahl choosing to focus on guitar parts, but also with due to the raw emotion the band were no doubt experiencing during the writing process – it's highly likely they felt a more visceral sound better reflected their collective emotion.
After The Burial collectively deserve the respect of their peers and fans for having the strength, confidence and determination to pull off Dig Deep in such a short space of time and under incredible emotional difficulty. Fans of the genre hoping to find something new might be disappointed but fans of the band couldn't have hoped for a more fitting send-off to honour Lowe's memory.


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working at a celebrity-oriented teen magazine, i spend my day monitoring the goings-on of hilary duff, thinking about "what kind of kisser are you?" quizzes and editing stories about fall out boy and my chemical romance. but my sister is in vet school, and she spends her days very differently. for instance, she recently did a surgical procedure on the adorable little critter seen here.
crap. i almost feel bad about eating bacon.
i signed up for another four weeks of swing class, cuz i love it so freakin much.
song of the day, a great one to slow/slow/quickquick to:
louis jordan -beans and cornbread


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June brings a high concentration of private and public occasions to Casa Maresca. I've never been able to forget either Diane's birthday or our wedding anniversary because they are separated only by D-Day, a date impossible to ignore. From our earliest time together, this concatenation has led us into several-day-long fits of cooking and dining – pushed into glorious excess, of course, by the final departure of winter gloom and the arrival of sunshine, fresh vegetables, and the first sweet fruits of the year.
This year was no exception, except that, out of respect for our own increasing age, I substantially raised the age of the wines we drank with our Hail to Sunshine! Hail to Us! dinners – thus, three 1988s and one 1996, and every one of them high grade indeed.
The First Fit: Warm-up. This pre-festivity dinner consisted of the Balthazar-inspired short ribs that Diane has blogged about. They were rich, lush, and filling. Luckily, I had chosen a wine that stood up to them very well. In fact, the wine collaborated with them to enhance their richness and to plump itself up in the process. What we drank with that beef protein-and-calorie bomb was Caparone Vineyards Paso Robles Nebbiolo 1988, and a thoroughly gorgeous wine it was.
As near as I can gather, 1988 was not a great year for Napa and Sonoma. It appears to have been the second of two drought years, and produced some fearsomely alcoholic, harsh-tannined Cabernets. Further south, the harvest fared better, because '88 was highly esteemed for Rhone varietals. Of course, no one was tracking what the harvest was like for Nebbiolo: Far too little of it had been planted, and most of the growers who tried it were struggling. Nobody ever said Nebbiolo was an easy grape.
Dave Caparone set in his first Nebbiolo in the mid-Seventies (and Sangiovese and Aglianico too), and he tended it like a first-born child, an attitude now continued by his son Mark. As Dave wryly says, Nebbiolo is a grape for those who have mastered Pinot noir and are looking for a challenge. His '88 answered the challenge, and then some. It was, as you would expect, fully mature, with the classic Nebbiolo pale garnet color and orange edge – but, as I didn't entirely expect, it was still fresh and live, filled with classic, mature Nebbiolo flavors with a fascinating overlay of bittersweet dark chocolate – unmistakably Nebbiolo, even though equally unmistakably not Piedmont Nebbiolo.
This is just plain classy winemaking, to produce a wine that tastes of both its variety and its terroir. Wine like this reflects a lifetime of labor devoted to what is in California an unfashionable variety: more's the pity for California. I only wish that more winemakers showed this kind of passion and dedication.
The Second Fit: Aperitif. For special occasions nothing serves better as an aperitif than Champagne, and few things are better than a top-flight vintage Champagne from a great producer. So we started Diane's birthday celebration with a glass of Gosset Celebris 1996. '96, as Champagne buffs know, made a great vintage year for Champagne, and the Gosset firm, one of the very oldest in the Champagne region, did a beautiful job with it. This wine exhibited a golden color, minute perlage, and all the classic Champagne wheaty/toasty aromas and flavors, with just the slightest edge of oxidation, which rather than detracting from the wine lent an attractive touch of le gout anglais (as the French call it).
So enjoyable was this Champagne, and so hefty, that we were strongly tempted to keep drinking it through dinner, which it could have handled very nicely. But we had already made up our minds to drink the other half of the bottle for our anniversary aperitif, so we proceeded to . . .
The Third Fit: Birthday dinner, in this case asparagus mimosa followed by sweetbreads prepared in puff pastry packets, as at Chez Pauline, one of our favorite Parisian restaurants back in the days when we got to Paris often. (Where are the snows of yesteryear?) The asparagus were fresh from the Greenmarket, as were the luscious, first-of-the-season shell peas we served alongside the sweetbreads.
The wine I picked to match with all this was a 1988 Drouhin Chambolle Musigny Premier Cru. For me, Musigny is the sweet spot in the Cote d'Or: I just love those wines for their delicacy and grace. Rarely do they show power: Though they have it, they're just too suave to flaunt it. Most vintage charts will tell you that 1988 was a good but not outstanding vintage in Burgundy, and for all I know they may be right. All I can swear to is that this bottle was outstanding – pale garnet in color (looking remarkably like a mature Nebbiolo, in fact), enticingly floral/herbal/mineral in aroma, on the palate elegant and restrained, yet live and persistent. Understated elegance is as close as I can come to summing up this Chambole Musigny. It meshed beautifully with the sweetbreads, whose presentation in puff pastry created a paradoxical combination of elegance and earthiness (no matter how you wrap them, sweetbreads are an organ meat). A lovely dinner matched with a lovely wine.
We took a breather on D-Day, and dined lightly on the season's early radishes (the Greenmarket again) and simple omelettes, to make room for
The Fourth Fit: Our anniversary dinner started with the second half of the Gosset Celebris, and I thought it was even better than the first day. I'm not sure Diane agreed, but it was not something we would argue about, especially not before our anniversary dinner: tagliarini dressed with mushrooms and white truffle (both the egg pasta and the truffle paste carried back from my last excursion to Alba), followed by a dish that was a throwback to the '60s, Steak Diane from Craig Claiborne's old New York Times Cookbook. The wine I chose this time was a 1988 Barbaresco Bricco Asili from Ceretto. By pure luck, I think this one was the wine of them all.
The 1988 harvest was the first of modern times in the Barolo and Barbaresco zones. I mean that in two senses: that it was the first of the warmer (climate-change induced?) growing seasons that the zones have since enjoyed, as well as the first of an unprecedented trio of top-flight vintages – 1988, 1989, 1990 – that heralded good times for Piemonte winemakers. Growers and Nebbiolo fans alike still argue about which is the best of those three.
Our '88 showed a lovely crystalline color, a live, bright garnet, with a narrower orange edge than I expected. The aroma was classic – white truffle, tar, dried roses, leather, underbrush – complex and intriguing. On the palate, it gave lovely sweet black cherry fruit, with soft, soft tannins and great, lively acidity, everything finishing in a long-lasting burst of dried cherry. It tasted wonderful with the pasta, in which it recognized a kindred spirit, and almost equally good with the Steak Diane. The last few sips of it, by themselves, practically eliminated the need for dessert. (We ate it nevertheless: the season's first local strawberries. How could we not?) A gorgeous, gorgeous wine, and a fitting conclusion to our few days of feasting.
After that, it was compensatory salads and Barbera and Beaujolais for a few days, to get us back to normal. Sigh! Who wants to be normal?


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"The critical moment when a gunman opened fire on two San Diego police officers, killing one, may never be seen. The surviving officer only activated his camera after the wounded shooter was running away.
San Diego is among departments with policies calling for officers to turn on cameras before initiating contact with a citizen in most cases. But like other departments, compliance is less than perfect.
The result is inconsistent use of an increasingly common tool meant to give investigators and an often-skeptical public a fuller picture of police actions.
"The main motive of body cameras is to provide openness and transparency, and build trust in the police," said Samuel Walker, a retired criminal justice professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
"If officers are not turning cameras on, well, you're not going to build trust," he said. "You're going to reinforce the cynicism that already exists."
He pointed to a study that showed across-the-board low compliance rates of officers in one high-crime Phoenix neighborhood between April 2013 and May 2014, the most recent information available. Officers only recorded 6.5 percent of traffic stops even though the department's policy required cameras to be activated "as soon as it is safe and practical," according to the study, conducted by Arizona State University's Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety.
The biggest part of the problem, Walker said, is a lack of discipline.
Chicago, Dallas, Denver, New Orleans, New York, Oakland and San Diego are among the cities that don't specify penalties when officers fail to record, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's School of Law.
The American Civil Liberties Union has studied the issue and said clear policies are vital, along with punishment for failure to comply"
Too often reform efforts are 'let's pretend' efforts doing just enough to relieve public pressure without really dealing with the problem. Without effective discipline and severe sanctions, body-cams will be much less effective if cops realize they can turn off the camera without any significant punishment. You can perhaps guess the sincerity of the departments efforts by the effectiveness of its discipline and strength of sanction.
The recent shooting in Chicago is another example.
A" cop in the nation's third-largest city fatally shot a black teenager in the back after a police chase through Chicago's South Side.
The body camera worn by the Chicago police officer failed to record the shooting of Paul O'Neal. The 18-year-old was suspected of stealing a car that struck the officer's vehicle during the chase late last week, according to police.
Whether the crash affected the camera's ability to record is under investigation, police said. Investigators are also looking into whether the officer had turned it on. Three officers have been stripped of their police powers. The department's body-camera policy explicitly states what incidents must be filmed.
"Policies are only as good as the disciplinary procedures," said Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, which provides Internet expertise for policymakers on a range of social issues.
"Yes, Chicago has what appears to be a great policy that lists all the kinds of incidents that police officers need to have their camera on for. But in the shooting of Paul O'Neal it appears that this officer violated the policy. Now the question is what happens to this officer and what disciplinary procedures will there be so that officers will comply with policies in place."
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The shooting is the latest to highlight concerns over the burgeoning use of body cameras as a way to increase transparency and accountability. Here's what you need to know:
How many police departments use body cams?
As of this month, 42 of 68 "major city" police departments in the United States have body-worn camera programs with policies in place, according to a "Policy Scorecard" released this week by the activist Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Upturn. . .
See the article for a lot more good information.
In this case from Chicago, it is possible that the camera was damaged or malfunctioned and was not deliberately turned off by the officer. However, if it was intentionally turned off, the discipline needs to be severe.


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cool i like planes i wanna fly them..........................................................fav..........(...)
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arrr... at long last ive posted a wallpaper lol \o/ ok back to the ideas...
its a Macross Zero wallpaper, the scan was found on 4chan long ago. but the middle part was gone so i revectored all. clouds are done with lots and lots of stockphotos which i cant remember to whom i should give credit to...
the only thing i did manually was the stream of clouds arounf the missile and 2 more on the plane (one on the wings, the other was in front of the cockpit/windshield)
Thanks to all the people over the irc section (cant finish this without you guys!) yes, especially meteorcloud who gives daredevil comments, shinn84 who gives mad ideas lol >_> and limality, rex, w00tazn who flamed me like hell <_< also to all the indonesian community members here who've seen this!
well i think thats all >_> now go flame my wall <_<
The plane was dodging the missile lol. the missile didnt came from the plane even thought it looks like the missile came from the plane... well gues it became a 2 way concept rofl XD
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Meg Aug 07, 2005
looks nice. you did a geat job with the vector trace. The colors are nie and vibrant, which what I like. X) It almost looks like it's a screen shot from the actual anime.
good job!
jackalx66 Aug 07, 2005
sorry ai, im ran out of gas :3
cant flame it
how bout nuke it =3
like i said, if u add the pilot silhouette, it will be perfect :3
which u dont, rofl
wheres my name >:3, i cant see it , lol
uber idea and nicely done
the rocket is different =p, ones is too bright
thx for ur effort and share it in here
MasterPivot Aug 08, 2005
Very nice imagery.
Considering this is a Macross wallpaper, it should belong in the Macross category.
2bites Aug 08, 2005
Very nice Macross wall. A pilot silhouette would have been nice but this works very well. Thanks for shaing.
Criox Aug 08, 2005
Hahaha! Hey ai. Its been long time since I seen your last wallie. Well......Vectoring is not bad. Its clear, bright and beautiful. Nice work! Its a hard work but it pays off.
tareren Aug 09, 2005
Eh, I finally get to see this.. hate you for taking it back from imageshack before I get to see it >< I think it is pretty cool ;) never have a plane for a desktop wall before :D I think I will agree with jack that a pilot silhouette would make it nicer .. Yup yup this is nice :D keep up the good work :D
grizlyed Aug 15, 2005
i love this wallpaper and the background. it is a very good job.
Kurosawa Aug 24, 2005
oh >_> a plane ?rofl
well , nice to see another vector from you :D
But I didn't see the pilot :D
The plane and the stock photo ,almost real XP
Good job ai
Coordinator Sep 05, 2005
Wow, that's incredible Macross wallpaper :d
i like planes >_<
i first thought the missile comes from the plane... Is it really dodging? Lol really 2 way concept.
nova5 Mar 13, 2010
thanks, i like it .... ^_^
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July 20, 1993
ERWIN PERZY, Plaintiff,
INTERCARGO CORPORATION, etc., Defendant.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: MILTON I. SHADUR
This Court's July 7, 1993 memorandum opinion and order (the "Opinion," 1993 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9301)
entered summary judgment as to liability in favor of Erwin Perzy ("Perzy") and against Intercargo Corporation ("Intercargo") in this action to recover under Intercargo's marine insurance Policy and the Certificate issued by Tansey-Riggs under Intercargo's authority. However, Opinion at *38 explained that further submissions would be needed from the parties for this Court to determine the amount of Intercargo's liability. Each litigant has now filed a supplemental memorandum to that end.
As appeared to be true when the Opinion issued, neither side has the matter of damages entirely right. Nor was the tentative suggestion that this Court outlined in the Opinion exactly correct. This opinion will therefore sort out the respective contentions to arrive at the answer.
It will be recalled that Policy P 7 set out two alternative methods of valuation of the insured property (emphasis added):
Value at the amount of invoice, including all charges therein, and including prepaid and/or advanced and/or guaranteed freight if any, plus 10% or at amount declared prior to shipment and prior to any known or reported loss or accident. Foreign currency to be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate of exchange current in New York.
Perzy urges that under that language the Policy is a "valued policy" under which the parties can agree to a stipulated amount of coverage, which then controls regardless of the property's actual value or market price (Perzy Mem. 2-3, citing a number of authorities). For its part Intercargo says that "the 'amount declared' method is used only when there is no invoice" (Intercargo Mem. 4, citing nothing in support of that ipse dixit).
Intercargo is of course wrong: Nothing in the Policy's language suggests that the two alternative valuation provisions are of anything other than equal status, either of them being available whenever the parties contract in accordance with those particular terms. But Perzy is wrong too, not in setting out the legal doctrine of the "valued policy" (under which if the parties here had really agreed to adopt a fixed dollar amount of coverage, the authorities cited by Perzy would make that agreement binding), but rather because Wregg (the person who ordered the insurance coverage) had specifically sought to contract with relation to the invoice-amount-plus-other-charges alternative instead.
There is no question that Tansey-Riggs mistakenly based the amount of insurance on the value of all 20 pallets of Schneekugeln that Perzy originally shipped from Austria, rather than on the 13 unsold pallets that Wregg was returning to Perzy in accordance with their agreement. Before this Court turns to the amount of error introduced by that mistake, however, it must first address Perzy's argument that Intercargo's misconduct blocks its resort to the equitable remedy of reformation of the contract.
Opinion at *36-37 rejected Perzy's request for an award of attorneys' fees under 215 ILCS 5/155(1) because of Intercargo's inequitable conduct (in part that conduct consisted of its Vice President Lee Thorson's improper effort to alter the coverage under the Policy after Perzy's claim had already been filed). This Court based that rejection on the fact that Intercargo had separate good faith grounds (though they were ultimately unsuccessful) for denying Perzy's claim. Even though it is a much closer question whether Intercargo's unclean hands (manifested by Thorson's conduct) should bar Intercargo's equitable remedy of reformation, on balance this Court has determined that the issue should be resolved in favor of Intercargo.
Accordingly the question becomes that of quantifying the reformation of the stated insured value of $ 27,839 to reflect accurately the Policy formula of "value at the amount of invoice, including all charges therein, and including prepaid and/or advanced and/or guaranteed freight, if any, plus 10%." Further review of that issue has convinced this Court that the appropriate amount of Perzy's recovery is $ 20,377.59 rather than the slightly larger amount tentatively suggested in Opinion at *29. Here is the breakdown:
1. Wregg's instructions to Tansey-Riggs identified the cost of the 13 pallets at 150,452 Austrian Schillings plus other costs of 18,620 Schillings (Wregg Dep. 35-36).
At the agreed-upon conversion rate of .0954, that total of 169,072 Schillings comes to $ 16,129.47 in United States currency.
2. Eastbound freight charges of $ 1,866.02 and the Tansey-Riggs fee of $ 460.50 also come within the Policy's coverage.
3. All those items total $ 18,455.99. Adding 10% to that figure brings Perzy's insurable value to $ 20,301.59. And to that recovery must be added 7/20 of the insurance premium of $ 217.14,
or $ 76.00.
Accordingly there is no genuine issue of material fact as to the amount of Perzy's damages, just as Opinion at *33 found that Perzy was entitled to a judgment as to Intercargo's liability as a matter of law. Judgment is ordered to be entered in ...
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While it may feel like the holiday season is fast approaching, television is still in full swing, with a bunch of premieres and finales this week to keep your DVR hoppin'.
Here are Screener's picks for the five must-see shows for Nov. 13-18.
'Last Week Tonight,' Sunday, 11 p.m., HBO
It's the season finale of "Last Week Tonight," where John Oliver is undoubtedly going to weigh in on the 2016 election. If the pattern holds, Oliver won't be back until mid-February, so enjoy his last show for a while.
'Good Behavior,' Tuesday, 9 p.m., TNT
Michelle Dockery returns to TV as Letty Raines, a con artist recently released from prison -- and it's definitely Lady Mary as you've never seen her before. There's a special preview airing Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT before the two-hour series premiere Tuesday.
'Shooter,' Tuesday, 10 p.m., USA
This controversial series about a sniper has had its premiere postponed twice due to real-life gun violence, but it is finally premiering Tuesday. Ryan Phillippe stars as Bob Lee Swagger, the protagonist of a series of books by Stephen Hunter, loosely based on real Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock.
The events of the book on which "Shooter" is based pick up in 1992 when Swagger is approached to prevent the assassination of the president, though the USA drama has updated the time period to roughly present day.
'American Horror Story,' Wednesday, 10 p.m., FX
"AHS: Roanoke" brings things back to the "Asylum" as survivor Lee Harris (Adina Porter) sits down with Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) for an in-depth interview about her experience.
'How to Get Away With Murder,' Thursday, 10 p.m., ABC
The midseason finale of Viola Davis' ABC drama promises to reveal the events of Annalise's house fire and the identity of the body under the sheet that sent her into hysterics in the Season 3 premiere. Buckle up, it should be a fun ride.


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Selling Overhead
Is what this Gamasutra article called the recent trend in game development to sell "the things that usually end up on the game studio's cutting room floor". It's talking about things like Early Access, selling the game while it's being developed, and mostly about selling the "Prologue" to Metal Gear Solid V and selling access to Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight.
First of all, I don't think it's really surprising in this age where Publishers are mostly going the way of the dinosaurs and more developers retaking control of their creations and trying to hit the audience directly, saving money while still trying to make hiqh-quality (i.e. expensive) titles. The money has to come from somewhere.
The writer stresses the Double Fine and Metal Gear Solid V angle a lot, Double Fine selling access to their prototypes (things we usually couldn't, and probably shouldn't see) and Metal Gear Solid being split into (at least) two parts with the first one serving as "prologue" whose content might or might not later also appear in the full game, but I would like to point out two counter examples and say that, once again, when satisfaction is concerned, it's all about expectations.
The current customer expects that when she pays 60$ for a new game it will contain at least 10-20 hours of meaningful gameplay. Whether this is reasonable considering what we pay for movies, music, etc… is a different discussion – this is what we currently expect. In the days of the first StarCraft it was reasonable to sell a main game for 60$ and then an expansion with more missions and story for 30$. We then evolved the model of selling the main game for 60$ and tiny bundles of story/gameplay/extras for 5-15$ and lately we've also added alphafunding. Some of these models seem weird but, again, it's all about expectations. And also honesty and transparency. (Here come the two examples).
- Decent Early Access Games/Developers – Look at Mojang, Vlambeer and all the others that decided to go the alphafunding/early access route but did it candidly. Mojang sold Minecraft from the very early (and sometimes broken versions) but they were honest about it. They said the game is in development, it might break, and you're actually paying for the game's development as it is being developed. The customers were promised that, they were promised that the game will be updated and improved and they won't have to pay more despite the initial entry fee always increasing. And fucking hell, that model works for them. Vlambeer went with Steam Early Access for Nuclear Throne. They were upfront in saying that the game is in development, it will be cheaper after it's done and there will be no sales or bundles until release. They said that this is only for those who want to support the developers during development. And they live-stream development and upload a new build every week. Which is awesome. They promised specific things and they deliver on what the customers expect from that.
- Stoic went a bit of a different route with The Banner Saga. They started from a Kickstarter campaign, raised funds and used those funds to start development. Roughly a year later, they released Factions, the Free-To-Play competitive version of the game featuring their beautiful art but mostly consisting of just the combat aspect of the game. They did that because they saw that development will take longer than previously expected and they wanted to put out something that people can play. But, mostly, they did that so they could get more help (than just backers) with fine tuning the combat aspect (the main game loop in The Banner Saga) and bring it to a mirror polish, thus making the final game better for everyone. But, they released it free to play. Meaning, you could play the "no-campaign" version of the game for free and if you wanted to, you could sink some money into it to fund development of the full game. They told gamers what to expect and they delivered on those promises, honestly and ethically. Then, another year later, you could buy the campaign-full, complete version of the game for a very competitive price of 25$.
Conclusion: I don't think there is a right or wrong way to develop or sell your game. The only wrong thing is no fulfilling your customer's expectation. Yes, sometimes those expectations are not up to you and you can roll with it or sit in the corner and cry. But, if you notice it, the only times gamers rise in uproar about how a game is sold/played/whatever is when it doesn't fulfill expectations. I don't know exactly how the Metal Gear Solid V thing is going to work but if Ground Zeros is selling for 30$ and The Phantom Pain will sell for 60$ and Ground Zeros won't deliver at least half the satisfaction of The Phantom Pain and/or The Phantom Pain will actually contain some, half and especially most or all of the gameplay of Ground Zeros, you can definitely expect an uproar.
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Yep that's right, my very own special Elf made me a Big Board for Christmas!! I guess he took the bait .....
.... this summer when my son ironed a shirt it came complete with all my loose threads, (I had just finished some un-sewing). After picking them all off he said... 'Hey Mom you really need your own iron board.. so we can keep this one upstairs and it isn't always covered with your quilting stuff.' So I very simply replied... 'You know that's a good idea and they even have large boards specifically for quilters.... sounds like a great Christmas present!'
Well he stored that bit of information in his head and while combing the internet for a large ironing board he found instructions to make one! I should have known it.... he has always had a love of making things, so that is exactly what he did!!! He also gave me an IOU for the cover. He ordered the material, but it didn't come in before Christmas.
As soon as I get the cover I will post a picture.... but for now, I am happy that my son who is studying Structural Engineering in college, used some of his talent for ME... woohooo!
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Well, of course, I just had to use the birdcage on my case.... after all, the theme is Birds! ") Notice the butterflies around the top edge of the case. I made this the pattern for my case all the way around. You can really see my ribbons in the indentions here. I love the green in this bird and found it also in the butterfly that I collaged in this area. The berries and faux postage really compliment each other and I used a coordinating ink to blend these areas together. Here you can see part of the diamond paper that I tore and used as the foundation of my collage work. Just had to put that nest below the cage. ")
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I learned a new word today. I did not know this particular vegetable is called Chinese Broccoli. So I assume that this vegetable was originally planted in China.
The actual recipe was from China too. I learned it from my father. My father was a great cook. It was amazing that every time my father visited a restaurant, he was able to cook his favorite dish from that restaurant without looking at any kind of recipe. He cooked it based on his memory. During years he had created many dishes, some of them are famous among relatives and friends. For example in the earlier years, his pork dishes were very popular during new year seasons. After that the fried and steamed fish with a slight hint of sweetness was a must on the family or friend reunion dinner table. In the most recent years, he loved cooking all exotic food, such as deep sea fish head, ribbon fish, cow tails, let alone his vegetable dishes. There are all great.
Last year, when I went back to visit my parents in China, my father cooked everyday from breakfast to dinner for a whole month at home. In my memory my father was never a regular kitchen guy, he only cooked when there was a big occasion. So I asked my mom , "Does Dad cook everyday at home for you". Mom smiled," Your father cooks for you." For him, everyday is a big occasion if I am home with him.
After suffered two stroked earlier this year, he can't cook any more. Father's day is coming, I wish him healthy, healthy and happy.
1, A bunch of Chinese Broccoli, cut of the big leafs
2. Ginger, green onions, fresh chili pepper, all shredded
1. Boil vegetable for 1 or 2 minutes, and then rinse them under the cold water for a minute to stop cooking. Don't over boil them
2. Peel the vegetable, just leave the top part
3. Heat olive oil in a pan, then add ginger.
4. Stop the heat, then add 1/3 cup of water, salt, a little bit sugar and soy bean sauce.
5. Pour the sauce on the vegetable, then add green onion and chili pepper.


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Wow, a month since my last blog – top effort.
Anyway, I want to talk about fun. Some people have lots of it. Most of us don't have enough. And rather a lot can't even remember what it is anymore.
Towards the end of my time in London I was drifting towards the latter, sadly. I enjoyed impossibly large amounts of THE FUN back when I was a student, but then I graduated and decided it was time to become a serious dude. The world needed changing, and there was not a minute to waste. It pretty much went in one direction from there.
I barely made time for enjoying life, because I was so occupied with doing serious super-important shit (at least I thought it was). When I wasn't working at the college (my day job), I was freelancing, I was mentoring, trying to establish myself as a writer, working on setting up a youth coaching programme and a social enterprise think tank AT THE SAME TIME (what an idiot), and my 'downtime' in the evenings or on the tube was spent reading books on climate change, psychology and finance. They weren't exactly a laugh a minute. Nobody pointed out that reading about where debt comes from is a totally unacceptable way to 'wind down'. Actually they probably did, but I totally knew what I was doing.
OK, I exaggerate a little. I was part of a cycling club, I spent a good deal of time with friends and loved getting out and about in London's parks. I've come to realise however that having fun isn't just about what activity you're doing, but your state of mind. Even when I was out on a Friday night with friends I couldn't let myself go and simply enjoy the moment, rather I was off in the future somewhere. I felt so burdened by responsibilities and expectations (largely self-inflicted). And I think I was just worn out from several years of building my life around trying to give out to others whilst neglecting myself. The small irony in all of this is that I probably became more tiresome to be around and less of a positive influence on others.
Now that you know the above, it hopefully will sound less absurd when I say that having M.E. has helped me to have fun again, and it's also shown me how much it matters. One of the most surprising feelings I had during the first six months of M.E. was bliss and freedom. Relief. I simply wasn't physically able to do all those things I had been trying to do, and it lifted a weight off my shoulders which had grown freakishly large. Now that I was unwell, if all I felt like doing that day was watching the Tour de France (sorry, LE Tour de France) then that was A-OK. No guilt. It's been years since I would have given myself permission to do that.
There have been other things which have reinforced that fun is just great stuff to have in my life again. The road to recovery for M.E. is best measured in years, and I was quite aware of this from the start. You need to keep your spirits up, laugh and be as light-hearted as possible, as it can be bloody awful to live with. I've learned to stay more present, to appreciate things and not surprisingly that's allowed me to enjoy things more. After several years of city-hopping and a reasonable amount of success in work, it would take a significant event to give me much of a rush. Now I get the same high each time I see friends or family, or meet someone new.
As my energy has come back, more serious stuff has crept back into my life. To some extent this is inevitable; most of us would choose to have at least some responsibilities. If you take living a carefree life to its extreme, you potentially have a life marked by recklessness and irresponsibility. Nonetheless, I have no intention of becoming overwhelmed by it in the same way I did before. I value the spontaneity and light heartedness I have now. There's a place for seriousness for sure, but sometimes you've just got to just sit around and chat shit. Or check out some lolcats.
I don't believe that life's troubles necessarily need to lead to us becoming colder, but rather they can actually make us lighter. They can teach us that we're never truly in control, that we should learn to be carried where life takes us, and that life is so very short, so we may as well appreciate it. Fear and pressure prevent many of us from trusting ourselves, being bold and laughing freely. It doesn't have to be like that. It's not so much that life is stopping you from having fun, but rather you're stopping yourself from having fun. We build up this elaborate cages around our minds and then chuck away the key. Clever.
And contrary to the title, it really ain't much fun when you're always on the run…
Thanks for reading. Anyone realise which song the blog title was taken from…? Less obvious than the previous one.


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Medications in Grams a
The versed thread going on right now with the typo discussing giving 2gm of versed got me thinking. How many needs do you give dosed in grams? I've given a gram of Cellcept and a gram of Carafate- but even those, the order usually said 1,000mg. I've given 17gm of Miralax.
In the IV world I can think of Vanco 1gm or Zosyn 4.5 grams.
But those are pretty much the only examples I can think of. What meds dosed in grams do you give?
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2 Extra Strength Tylenol is a gram but no one says it like that (and I always gave regular strength in the hospital).May 12, '17Flagyl, Ancef, Rocephin, Magnesium, Tylenol, Valtrex, kayexalate (30 gm), charcoal (100 gm) are a few I give often.May 12, '17Quote from Bo,RNI've mostly seen flagyl 500 mg. Interesting.Flagyl, Ancef, Rocephin, Magnesium, Tylenol, Valtrex, kayexalate (30 gm), charcoal (100 gm) are a few I give often.May 12, '17Magnesium is the big one that comes to mind other than some random antibiotics. Isn't lactulose in grams too? I can't remember.May 19, '17Ancef- 2 or 3 grams IV
Vanco- 1g, 1.25g, 1.5g IV
Vanco- 4g to create a sternal slurry
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My best-friends leave me. They do. Become my best-friend and you'll up-sticks and leave this city. I try not to take it personally but I do wonder…. I tell myself I'm just attracted to fun, vibrant, adventuresome people. People who are willing to take the scary plunge of moving cities and even countries.
That's what my best friend Sherri did. She used to live here. We had such a great time. We've worked together. We lived in the same neighborhood. We had our first babies together. She was part of my wedding (pregnant and all!). She was my morning coffee buddy. (even after we stopped work we'd meet at the local coffee shop every other day, prams in tow). She shares my love of good food and wine. She also shares my love of craft, art and good design. She is one chic girl. Her style is inspirational. In fact I don't think she even realises how clever she is, or how much she inspires me. Clearly her new home city of Vancouver has realised. She's been nominated as one of the top Mum (or as they say 'mom') blogs in Vancouver.
I can see why. She's so good at spotting that special piece. Whether it be home wares or clothes or a general good idea. She can pull it all together in a classic yet individual way. Her blog is her exploration of all these things:
Inspirational home design
Fun, original fashion
Plus some of her own clever decorating
So this post is to ask you to not only check out her fabulous blog, So Much To Love. But to VOTE for her. Go HERE, scroll down and click on Sherri Birt – So Much to Love. The voting ends Friday and you can only vote once a day, she is really close to winning but she's vying with another great blogger for the title. She is really my favourite Vancouver Mum. Lets help her win!


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MU welcomes 2017 football recruiting class
COLUMBIA -- Barry Odom's second recruiting class at Missouri is taking shape.
Mizzou's 2017 football recruiting class included 24 players as of 2:30 pm Wednesday. 21 players singed letters of intent with Missouri on Wednesday, while three others enrolled at the school early.
The class has not received great reviews nationally. Rivals.com and 247Sports.com both rank Missouri's class 49th in the nation. They also rank MU's class 13th in the SEC, ahead of only Vanderbilt.
Here's a complete list of players who have signed with Missouri:
Nate Anderson (DE - Roswell, NM)
Joshuah Bledsoe (S - Houston, TX)
Larry Borom (OL - Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Rashad Brandon (DT - Jersey City, NJ)
Jamal Brooks (LB - Bessemer, AL)
Logan Christopherson (TE - Lemont, IL)
O'shae Clark (WR - Cypress, TX)
Pompey Coleman (OL - Indianapolis, IN)
Case Cook (OL - Carrollton, GA)
Da'Ron Davis (WR - Lee's Summit, MO)
Yasir Durant (OL - Philadelphia, PA)
Tyree Gillespie (S - Ocala, FL)
Isaiah Miller (RB - Baldwin, FL)
Aubrey Miller, Jr. (LB - Memphis, TN)
Walter Palmore (DT - Columbus, GA)
Terry Petry (CB - Missouri City, TX)
Taylor Powell (QB - Fayetteville, AR)
Larry Rountree III (RB - Raleigh, NC)
Caleb Sampson (DT - Covington, LA)
Adam Sparks (CB - Baton Rouge, LA)
Chris Turner (DE - Hammond, LA)
Jordan Ulmer (S - Belleville, MI)
Hyrin Morrison White (OL - DeSoto, TX)
Kobie Whiteside (DE - Houston, TX)


text: In MS. CONCEPTION, Abigail Nichols has tried everything from rash-inducing herbal creams to acupuncture in a desperate last ditch effort to get pregnant. Wedged in her iPhone schedule, among new business pitches & rebranding design meetings, is Abby's ovulation cycle, along with potential opportunities for illicit afternoon quickies. She and her husband have put all of their hope and savings on the table to enter the whispered world of fertility clinics. In her desperation to have a baby, Abby starts to lose sight of her career priorities and risks losing the coveted partnership position she has worked so hard to earn. Is it possible to get everything you want?


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2017/5/2 Sou Fujitani slected for U-20 World Cup Japan Squad
Vissel Kobe would like to congratulate Sou Fujitani on his selection for the Under 20 World Cup, to be held in Korea from May 20th.
Fujitani has represented Japan at all age groups since his Under 16 debut.
Japan's group games are scheduled as follows:
May 21, 17:00 vs South Africa
May 24, 20:00 vs Uruguay
May 27, 20:00 vs Italy


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text: Friedrichshafen is a small German town located on the shores of Lake Constance and is probably best known as the home of the Graf Zeppelin dirigible. In less historical terms, the town is also known as the home of the annual EuroBike bicycle show – the hands down winner for the claim of world's biggest bike show. This year marks the 19th annual running of the event, and yes, as impossible as it seems, it is even bigger than last year with 14 exhibition halls providing over 100,000 square meters of floor space. That's room for a lot of bike stuff.


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I was having some gloomy moments last week and couldn't figure out why, until I put two and two together. I've recently had two great things happen. 1) "Picking up the Pieces", the first novel I ever had published back in 2000, has been re-published! A good number of them arrived on my doorstep last week. 2) After working on it for over a year, my newest manuscript is out of my hands and with my editor. Now, you'd think those are both things that would make me cheer, "Hooray!" But when good things happen and I have time to stand back and take a deep breath, I find myself getting anxious and flat. All the "what ifs?" begin to surge through my head. "What if people don't really care? What if I can't sell them as quickly as I anticipated? What if all the hard work I've done amounts to nothing much?" I guess we all have these feelings sometimes. I've collected a few stories about other hardworking writers and scribes to help me combat them.
A lesson from Baruch
One of the lesser known people in the Bible, he was Jeremiah's secretary. Baruch took Jeremiah's dictation of the Lord's Words and then went and read them out to the people while Jeremiah was shut up and restrained. Eventually Baruch was asked to come before the princes in the royal household and read them out loud. I guess many of us remember how King Jehoiakim cut them up and threw them with contempt into the fire. Baruch had to run into hiding with Jeremiah and take the dictation again.
In the short chapter 45 of Jeremiah, although this is not stated in words, it appear that Baruch let himself grow discouraged because of the lack of public acclaim he and Jeremiah were earning. I can easily imagine that Baruch, swept away by the magnitude of what he was scribing, hoped to make a name for himself and even become a national hero. He'd staked his life and reputation for the sake of recording Jeremiah's prophecies for posterity. Surely he felt that God would decide to reward them in their here and now. When that didn't happen, Baruch must have sunk into depression, and Jeremiah received a prophecy especially for him. This is how it went. God's response was, "Should you seek great things for yourself - seek them not for I bring evil upon all flesh but leave you your life as a booty and snatched prize of war." It was probably not the response from God that Baruch longed to hear but there we have it. It seems to apply to me too at times. The rebuke seems to be not to value the response of men to your work so highly, because we're doing it for the love of God and others, and when our motivation is to earn accolades for ourselves, we have to be careful (ouch!)
The medieval writer of "Sir Gawain"
I refer to an article in the recent edition of the Omega Writer's "Zaphon" on-line magazine, written by Anne Hamilton. She drew my attention to this anonymous man who poured hours into writing his brilliant work in English. Just as he finished, it became unpublishable. A proclamation went out from the church restricting theological writing to Latin. Perhaps he sank into despair and thought, "How can God let this happen when He gave me the inspiration in the first place?" However, over 500 years later, the only surviving copy of his work influenced thousands of people. Twentieth century's two great professors JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis both fell in love with it and drew heavily on his writing for their own amazing series which we know and love so well.
The irony is, how could either of these two men possibly have known that their relatively obscure efforts would be incorporated into something timeless? And by the same token, how can we possibly know all the ways God will use the gift of writing He's given us without our knowledge? We know what we need to be doing! The amount of recognition we receive for it is inconsequential to God and should also be to us, as we have faith that He hasn't forgotten us and knows where He wants to take our work!
I feel better now myself.


text: 58.That might be a good point total target for the Iowa State women's basketball team Saturday when it opens NCAA Championship play against the nation's best defensive team (Marist). "For us, it will come down to scoring," Head Coach Bill Fennelly said before departing for Durham, N.C. In games this season in which the Cyclones scored 58 points or more, they were 22-4. When ISU failed to reach that figure, the mark was 0-6. "We always try to (push it offensively)," Fennelly said. "But, they might not let us. In the NCAA Tournament, it eventually becomes a half-court game. It will likely be a 50s, 60s kind of game (against Marist)." Fennelly compared the Red Foxes to Kansas State. The Cyclones and Wildcats met three times during the season and ISU won twice, season scoring 61 and 58 points. K-State won a meeting in the Big 12 Tournament when ISU scored 53. "They (Marist) are a bigger, better version of Kansas State," Fennelly said. "But, we've played against this style recently and that makes it a bit easier to prepare for." Scoring at least 58 points would be a positive indicator for ISU. Just to be safe, however, it would be more comforting if ISU can reach 63 points. They lost only once this season when that happened. Reader feedback is welcome at email@example.com. You can also follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/SteveMalchow


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Flowers are great because they can brighten up even the dullest of rooms or the saddest of moods.
Arranging flowers really doesn't need to be a daunting exercise. With all the many varieties of flowers, a trip to the flower market/florist can be a little overwhelming. However, picking a colour scheme helps to narrow down the choices. As far as texture goes, I like to mix things up a bit and it's always fun to experiment with unusual shapes like the big fan-shaped leaves featured in this arrangement.


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Israeli warplanes have pounded a building near the town of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip and destroyed two tunnels in the city of Rafah along the Egyptian border. An Israeli army spokeswoman on Thursday confirmed the overnight attack, claiming the targets were facilities used to procure weapons for the Palestinian resistance groups in the blockaded territory.
Palestinian sources said three people were hurt in the airstrike, while eyewitnesses reported Israeli F-16 fighters targeted a military training compound belonging to Ezzeddin Qassam brigades.
Tel Aviv said the airstrike was in response to a Wednesday rocket attack by Hamas which hit the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council, in the western Negev.
On Friday, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian youth to death, critically wounded another near the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip and kidnapped three others.
Israeli army officials said the Palestinians were suspected of placing explosives near an Israeli separation fence, but could not confirm if the youth were armed or carrying explosives.
Hamas police rejected the allegations and described those shot on Friday as youth who had gone to the area for hunting.
Following the border incident, Palestinian fighters in Gaza fired a Qassam rocket into southern Israel, which did not cause any injuries or damage to properties.
Israel regularly attacks the southern Gaza Strip, mostly targeting Rafah's cross-border tunnels that connect the closed coastal sliver to the neighboring Egypt.
Palestinians say the tunnels are the only resort to provide food and other basic needs for the starving population in the impoverished territory.
The Hamas-run Gaza Strip has been under a crippling Israeli siege and severe movement restrictions since June 2007, with food aid handouts maintaining half of its 1.5 million-strong population.