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With the widespread use of credit card in the cash payment industry, the credit card companies have come up with different types of credit cards that can cater to different groups of people with different needs and lifestyles. Due to the highly competitive market, they are also giving all sorts of rewards and benefits to attract more consumers using their credit card. Hence, choosing the right credit card has become quite a daunting task, especially for those who wish to apply credit card for their very first time.
If you fall into the category of consumers whose main concern is to squeeze every ounce of savings from your credit card transactions, you probably will leap with joy when you come across the existence of cash back credit card. Credit cards have always been regarded as an evil tool deployed by banks to create a population of consumers with accumulating debts and bankruptcy cases. Hence, even when there is such benefit of receiving rebates for credit spending, some credit card holders are still wary of the hidden agenda behind such reward. Nevertheless, cashback credit card can be a means of saving if you use it well enough.
If you decide to apply for a cashback credit card, there are 4 mistakes you should avoid.
#1 Thinking that you are entitled to cash rebates for every transaction
Keep in mind that not every store you go or even purchase you make will give you the cash back as per se. More often than not, you will only have a specific categories of spending such as groceries, fuel, restaurants or entertainment outlets, in which you can only get rebates from the bank. Thus, make sure you know what, when and where you can the cash rebate before spending your credit aimlessly.
#2 Not reading the terms and conditions
This is very common not just in credit card applications, but the scenario happens when the phrase 'terms and conditions' applied. Before you sign the deal to agree on getting the card, always have the habit to read through the term and conditions thoroughly. You might think the information stated is trivial and redundant, but you will be taken by surprise if you find out later on that the details of the interest rate charged, minimum spending requirements, annual fees, etc are all transcribed in black and white. Do not get blinded into signing up a card for its free gifts offered during the credit card promotions period.
#2 Not knowing the cash back percentage and whether there is a limit on the cash back amount
As a smart credit card holder, you have to know how much cash back percentage you are offered. Even before you decide upon which bank's credit card to go for, you should compare the percentage cash back offered by different banks. Then later on, you should check whether there is a limit on the amount of cash rebates you can receive monthly.
#4 Spending more to gain more cash back
If you have the naive thought of spending more to get cash back in return, you should just completely shake off the idea of holding a credit card at once. Credit card users must be wise and independent in the financial management. You would not want to be trapped into a spiraling debt due to overspending the credit limit together with the high interest rate incurred. Take the following situation as an example. When you are spending more, no doubt you might gain more cash rebates. However, what if you can't afford to pay off your monthly debt, you are going to be charged with an even higher interest rate. To make the matter worse, the cash rebates you have collected are definitely not sufficient to cover the additional charges.
All in all, these are just some of the advice for all credit card holders. Ultimately, every credit card user has to be responsible with his or her financial management. There are still so many benefits of credit cards that can be exploited by the consumers.


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The Supreme Court favorite question asked by David Gregory is the one that Brown blew by his answer a hole as wide as the ocean!!! He chose Scalia and then when he squirmed and figured this was NOT the right answer or it was the "right" answer in an electorate that is not rightwingnut so he went to Kennedy and then to Sotomayer! The audience had first a boo and then a laugh at this preposterous answer. THIS is the question that marks Brown's loss and pegs him as one of the DUMBEST senators posing as someone who is supposed to be smart. He isn't. He is a bully who happens to throw his weight around and knows how to be a politician.
Elizabeth Warren was SUPERB, utterly brilliant and her answer to that question she zinged over the plate with a pitch of about 100 MPH. She said simply and smiling as she KNEW this was Brown's death blow as she said: Kagan. Yep she got an "A++" This is Scott Brown's Waterloo answer to a question that was simple and it could not have happened to a more significant BULLY and all around JERK!
This is a running commentary on contemporary social, political and religious issues. From the Introduction of James Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty -- Truth, Lies and Leadership" "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary" Reinhold Niebuhr
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Good Luck
Good luck to the lovely, dignified and brilliant Elizabeth Warren. She is our Song of Solomon, a virtuous woman whose price is far above rubies!!
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Not So Fine with Me
I encourage you to read this attached article by Jonathan Chait in Reader Supported News entitled "The Poetic Justice of Romney's Self Immolation" here or below.
This is a perfect article and right on the money (pardon the pun.) No surprises from Mitt Romney here.
The American political right now residing in the Republican Party is mean, racist, and presently MOST unethical as we can now see by the Republican voter suppression tactics in all the major so called swing states. There is something, I believe, about my liberal compatriots that says we would never deprive anyone in our nation of that which makes us us - the ability to cast a vote. It is for most of us the only power we have. But the right does NOT care. If anything they want to remove even from life itself those who think a nation has the duty to provide those who cannot help themselves the basics - food, clothing, shelter and health care.
Romney and his Republican Party of charlatans and those know nothings who do not know enough to figure out Romney does not give a damn about anyone but himself and those of his own class. His class does not include most Tea Baggers who erroneously think Romney cares about them. He doesn't.
If one thinks back to the picnic table campaign lunch Romney had with middle class people one can read his body language to see how ill at ease he was with the regular folks of Bethel Park, Pittsburgh. He even insulted their freely-provided cookies. But when he was attending the infamous 47% comment Florida dinner of those millionaires and billionaires whom he counted on for cash he felt just fine. One can see it.
He did not fool me for a minute. He and his Republican Party surely are not and never have been fine with me!
Why we MUST UNEQUIVOCALLY support the re-election of our president and of course elect the GREAT Elizabeth Warren to the US Senate from Massachusetts!
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text: I have a Sharps copy as above. At the range recently I had a primer blow out into the firing pin aperture. I managed to remove the primer. However when I replaced the falling block the under lever would not stay in place and the block flopped down. It would appear whatever was holding the lever and hence the block in the breech closed position was absent. I tried a Pedersoli spring but it didn't fit. From what I can deduce from the drawings I have seen it is some kind of compressed spring arrangement. I would be grateful if anyone on the forum could enlighten me!! Many thanks.


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The Michigan Tech Archives and the Society of American Archivists invite you to learn EAD – Encoded Archival Description – in Michigan's beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula.
June 30 – July 1, 2011
Here's your chance to receive the instruction and hands-on practice you need to bridge the digital divide. Get acquainted with the language of XML and practice with XML authoring software. This 2-day workshop, led by SAA instructors Michael J. Fox and Kris Kiesling, covers the most up-to-date EAD version!
Upon completing this workshop, you'll have:
• Received an overview of Extensible Markup Language (XML);
• Examined the structure of EAD (the SAA endorsed standard for archival finding aids);
• Marked up a finding aid;
• Explored style sheets and implementation strategies; and
• Practiced encoding your own finding aid using EAD.
Who should attend? Archivists and others who are charged with exploring and/or implementing EAD at their institution or who want to enhance their résumé.
The workshop will take place during the height of summer on the Michigan Technological University campus in a fully equipped instruction room at the J.R. Van Pelt and Opie Library.
For more information, contact the Society of American Archivists, http://www.archivists.org, or the Michigan Tech Archives at:


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اثر نگرانی و آرامش پیشرونده بر کاهش ترس در هراس از سخنرانی: بررسی مواجهه موقعیتی
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Behavior Therapy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Summer 2001, Pages 503–517
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Previous research has demonstrated the facilitative effects of relaxation and inhibitory effects of worry on the emotional processing of imaginal fear exposures. The present study was designed to determine whether these same effects occur in the emotional processing of in vivo exposures to feared stimuli. Forty-two speechanxious college students were randomly assigned to one of three experimental induction conditions. Participants engaged in either progressive muscle relaxation, a neutral control procedure, or worry immediately before each of five repeated speech presentations while heart period and self-reported fear were monitored. Relative to the relaxation condition, the worry group demonstrated greater subjective anxiety across exposures, despite the fact that all three groups displayed strong and equivalent cardiovascular response to the first speech presentation and showed equivalent heart rate decreases across the repeated presentations. The role of parasympathetic activity in fear reduction was also documented, with decreased parasympathetic activity occurring during initial fear exposure and increased activity across repeated presentations. Implications for the role of relaxation and worry during real-life exposure to feared social situations are discussed.


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An Awesome Example of Viral Marketing & The 4 Hour Work Week For Writers
August 8, 2007
Marketing and PR types who are looking seed ideas, engage in viral marketing, or just learn more about how the blogging community works, take note: Tim Ferriss, author of the 4 Hour Work Week has posted about how he reached #1 on the New York Times Business Bestseller list.
His strategy (as described on Steve Rubel's Micropersuasion):
* Go where bloggers go
* Be there with a message and a story that will appeal to their interests, not yours
* Build and maintain those relationships through your own blog too
Yes, this advice seems a little basic, but it clearly works – there's lots more good stuff in his post, and on his website in general, so go read it. Tim has really embraced the idea of a book as a manifesto and helped a community to grow around it (I think his site may have been the first place I came across that term, actually). Also, the 4 Hour Work Week is a pretty fantastic book, and as we all know, no amount of buzz, clever packaging, or marketing stunts will make up for a product that's not up to par.
On a related note, here are my thoughts on the 4 Hour Work Week as it applies to what I do (I'm a freelance writer/blogger/consultant). I actually started this post immediately after I read the book, but I decided to wait and apply some of the techniques and ideas to my own life, and then finish the post.
The book appeared on my radar when I read about it on several popular blogs (after Tim spoke at the SXSW conference) and honestly, I was prepared to like it before I even read it. It's always been drummed into to my head that you have to work, work, work all the time and that if you didn't put in at least a 40 hour work week, you were ridiculously lazy. I liked the idea that someone was willing to put into words how the current system of working your ass off to become the "fat man in the red BMW" was flawed, and how to really get what you want out of life.
Then I read the book, and liked it even more. His productivity tips and techniques made sense (an aside: have you ever noticed that many of the so-called "life hacks" seem to make things needlessly complicated?) and although his pared down approach to running a business may seem like it doesn't apply to those of us with creative-type jobs, I found that separating the "work" from the "play" part of what I do enabled me to look at everything in a whole new light.
The "work" part is all the boring stuff – hunting down PR reps and interview sources, emailing clients and prospective clients, and general administrative type stuff. I've developed a system to streamline all that – one thing that I took away from the book is that it's okay to not to respond to emails immediately – everything can wait until it's email time or whoever it is that emailed can call me if it's that urgent.
The "play" part is the actual writing and researching. After all, I get to research and write about topics that fascinate me, and meet/interview/work with some awesome people while I do it. Granted, I do spend more than 4 hours a week writing, but it doesn't feel like work (obviously, considering I take the time to keep a blog on top of my other gigs).
Another important point that the 4 Hour Work Week makes is that you don't need to have buckets of cash to live like you do – there's all sorts of deals to be had, countries where your dollars go a lot further, and if you keep your overhead costs low, you can spend your money on the things that are truly important to you (case in point: I live in a pretty small apartment, but because of that I save money to spend on travel and such). It's obvious when you think about it, but people want to be wealthy because of the lifestyles that millionaires lead, not because they get off from counting their money (Eh, some people probably do – more power to 'em. On a related note, Penelope Trunk posted about living a lean, spare lifestyle yesterday).
One more thing – this is actually taken from Tim's first interview with Darren Rowse (the Problogger) – is that it's important to "identify your peak periods in your circadian rhythms", or to work when you're at your most energetic and inspired. For some reason, I used to feel slothlike and a little guilty when I wasn't raring to go at 9am, even though I knew that I was at my best during the evening. My creative abilities are night owls. Now I've pretty accepted that I'm not a morning person, and I organize my time accordingly. After all, as long as I make my deadlines, my clients don't care whether I wrote the piece at 10:00am or 10:00pm.
In the past few months (I bought the 4 Hour Work the day it hit the shelves and read it immediately), my productivity has increased greatly while my actual time spent working decreased significantly. I've also had a lot more time to pursue my own projects, and to just enjoy all that Chicago has to offer. Thanks Tim – and if on the off-chance you read this – congrats on topping the NY Times and WSJ lists!
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Other Names: Molkuk,Molkūk,Mulkuk,Mulkūk,ملکوک, Mulkūk
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In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are few. ---Zen Masters
I dunno about the rest of my program, but I am ready for a break. I now understand why I felt that the teacher were often more excited than the students for a day off from school. I think it is all too easy to fall into a routine at this point in the semester, and it very easily has with what our class is studying : grammar. It's very difficult to create a meaningful and lively classroom discussion about dangling participles. In the end, it is about repetition-done in a way that isn't medieval. Lather, rinse, repeat.
After the break, however, my partner and I start our unit that we have yet to develop. We have some awesome ideas, but we are hesistant to begin. It's all very daunting. I am beginning to understand what my teachers were saying about "having no life" the first three years of teaching. You have to develop lessons, figure out if it is working, and if not, try something else. Lather, rinse, repeat.
My partner and I are worried about going too far off the mark from our CT's other classes. She doesn't assign homework, and all she wants to do is have the students read aloud and watch clips from A Knight's Tale for this upcoming unit. My partner and I want to have discussions about a major theme of the unit and how it connects to society. We want to assign homework and have the students think critically about this universal theme. We don't want to deviate too far, but in order to get the students to a higher level of thinking, we may have to. There are just so many options...and I hope that I never forget those options as the number of teaching years tick away.
Our unit is a King Arthur unit, which is something that I know nothing about other than my experience with Monty Python and the Holy Grail (thanks, dad!). I was a bit skeptical at first, until my CT told us that she breaks up the story by taking excerpts from different authors which gives different perspectives on the story. One is from Steinbeck, which is um, AWESOME so I'm excited to start reading. My CT said the major objectives for the unit were to get the students to understand King Arthur and chivalry. My partner and I agree, there is so much more to King Arthur than that, so we are working on bridging that into a bigger context. (Totally not Lather, Rinse, Repeat for these kids). We are thinking about "The Cultural Round Table: Ourselves as Heroes on Personal Quests". Like I said, we're working on it. But I can't wait! :)


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Since returning he has been aggressively making the rounds, promoting his latest effort 'Love Off Mi' produced by radio jock Kurt Riley. The artiste whose given name is Shawn Brammer is expected to release a plethora of accompanying singles in the weeks ahead courtesy of S-Lock Entertainment and Di Genius Records among other noted production houses. Bramma hopes the move will yield success and penetrate the market in a meaningful way.
On the resurgence, the 'Bad' singer over the weekend also shot the official video for his single 'Gorilla Holiday' produced by JA Production on the soon-to-be-released Overdrive Rhythm. Directed by Simeon Hedge, visuals for the project was filmed on location in Hellshire, Portmore, New Kingston and other sections of the Corporate Area.
Known for the hits, 'It's Whateva', 'Guided By The Master', 'Gal A Wine', 'Anyweh', and 'Watch Over Me' the S-Lock / Big Ship recording artiste says he's intent on making an indelible mark on the industry this year.


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Would you have done it differently, had you
seen it coming? It like a freshman streaking
the quad. It like a tornado rising from an Iowa
corn field. It like a monkey hurling excrement.
Had you known it would hit you like this,
would you have said goodbye to him, kissed
his forehead lightly or placed your innocent
hand along the length of his thigh, your palm
listening to that inward groan? Would you
have cut your toenails, worn deodorant?
Or would you have given yourself permission
to stay in bed all day, darn your stockings,
fashion a sail for your little toy boat from
old love letters, that sweater he always wore.
It like an epistle held close to your heart,
the paper shattering to pulp with each
ululation: the throb, the throb, the throb
rising from your chest as it comes like it comes.
Monday, April 18, 2011
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I ran into someone today that saw my most recent painting, "Realm 2" and made the statement: "Oh wow, thats really nice, I really like Black Art"..I guess my question is, why is my work still being classified as "Black Art"? I really don't even like to use the color black in my paintings often, I like a real deep violet. I mean yeah, I'm a Black Artist by root...but I never knew my subconscious had a color.
"Realm 2"
6ft x 4ft
now placed on display today at L'Jua's Bar and Grill in Albany, Ga


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Last week, stocks reached their lowest point for the year. At the time, it was impossible to tell if this was the start of a new trend, or a great buying opportunity. Market movement during the rest of the week seems to have answered that question. The TSX gained over 3% during the week, implying that prices had fallen unreasonably low.
Neither stocks nor bonds show good momentum over the medium term, although stocks look much less worrisome than they did at the beginning of last week. The summer months usually experience reduced trading and quieter market conditions compared to the rest of the year. Caution may still be wise, as prices will probably continue to be volatile and bargains may still present themselves in the weeks ahead.
Short term rates have moved up from 1.39% to 1.49% as the stock market has rebounded. These are symptoms of reduced worries and improving stability. The likelihood of a recession still appears low.


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The Ford Mustang became a global car in 2015 when it went on sale in Europe, Asia, and other markets for the first time. To accommodate China, where the Mustang is the top-selling sports coupe, Ford has made it easier for drivers to input Chinese commands into the Sync infotainment system.
Previously, drivers had to type commands with phonetic spellings of Chinese words using the alphabet. Now, Ford's Sync 3 infotainment system recognizes Chinese characters written directly on the touchscreen. Drivers can use their finger to scribble in an address on the navigation screen, and the system quickly converts each character into a typeface.
Sync 3 recognizes more than 2,500 characters used in the Chinese language. The system also accommodates different writing styles, and the characters can be written at different angles. Also, Ford's voice control system picks up on Mandarin Chinese spoken in 14 different regional accents.
Fisher Xu, Sync supervisor for Ford Asia Pacific, says the infotainment system for China isn't simply an adaptation of global technology, but it has been specifically tailored to Chinese customers. "When you talk to a friend in China and they ask where you are, they're really looking for a building name or a point of interest, not a street number. That's probably different to other parts of the world, and SYNC 3 is smart enough to know this local preference, seamlessly," he said in a recent release.
The Mustang isn't the only vehicle to receive Chinese handwriting recognition technology. The feature is also available on the Focus, Edge, Kuga, Explorer, and Taurus Limited Edition vehicles sold in China.
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If you want to learn French for FREE, you came to the right place. This blog offers basic and advanced French lessons for everyone. Also here you can find the right usage of French for the right situation. Just click on the links at the sidebar and start learning French.
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PRECESSION: The Cynics
thursday 9th june 7:30 start
– you can come during and tickets are available on the door too.
A PILOT EVENT for a proposed series_
PRECESSION: THE CYNICS is the juxtaposition of two ideas.
Expect an evening of ideas, poetry and performance of contemporary merit (+booze) with DJ playing records to fill the gaps.
STEPHEN EMMERSON + DAVE KANE (musician/solo-bassist)
& CHRIS STEPHENSON (poetry)
MATTHEW BELLWOOD (Reading&Performance)
ELEANOR SNARE (Reading)
GARETH DURASOW (poetry)
DJ Coburn-hough (Playing Records)
TICKET COST_ONLY £5!! (over 18s only)
Drink available.
Buy Tickets on Eventbrite
Robert .A. Sharples @hotmail.co.uk
twitter @rasharples @templeworks
PRECESSION is borrowed terminology from Physics.
It describes a changing point. A change in the orientation of the rotation axis of a rotating body.
The motion of the axis of a spinning body, where there is an external force acting on the axis.
Take from this what you will. In translation, this Event uses this idea to set/disturb a series FOR ideas, performance, poetry – an expression without stagnation.
THE CYNICS is less borrowed, more vital substanance & an ideology to stand by.
Cynicism originates from the ancient school of philosophers The Cynics, whom were defiant, unconventional,'of the world', – the streets were their school. Their philosophy to virtuously align with nature as a purpose of life endeavours rejecting convention and conventional desire and values that conspires societal existence.
'CYNIC' deriving from the Greek word, meaning 'dog-like'/'dog', refering to The Cynics behaviour and choices.
Once turned on its head – The Cynics as a friend remain open to finding error and barking correction, snapping at the public the truth and with the beliefs for a happy life, self-sufficency and freedom.
PRECESSION: THE CYNICS approaches Cynicism as a discontinuous, philisophical, cultural process.
& questions … What is it to be cynical today?
Yes – Cynicism has a legacy of antiquity – but not explicit to any one collective of thinkers.
Anyone has the capacity to be a Cynic, and cynical close to its original meaning.
A Cynic is a spy who aims to discover what things are friendly or hostile to man; after making accurate observations, he then comes back and reports the truth.
Stoic philosopher Epictetus
Cynicism is merely the act of seeing things as they are instead of as they ought to be.
Oscar Wilde, Sebastian Melmoth (1904)


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The desire to have children can encourage some women to make healthier lifestyle choices. They may become more conscious of the foods, beverages and drugs they put into their bodies, and may set aside time to exercise.
For women who want to optimize their fertility, taking better care of their bodies is a good first step. But what else can women do to improve their odds of having a baby?
The most important advice for a woman who wants to get pregnant is to get to know her body, specifically her menstrual cycle, said Dr. Mary Ellen Pavone, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist, and medical director of the IVF program at Northwestern Medicine's Fertility and Reproductive Medicine in Chicago.
"It's important to know how far apart her cycles are so she can more accurately time intercourse to try to get pregnant," Pavone said.
Here are 12 tips that may help increase a healthy woman's chances of becoming pregnant, assuming that neither she nor her partner have a known fertility problem.


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Irish rock band The Cranberries will be having a concert in Manila, Philippines.
It will be held on April 10, 2012 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. The group popularized hit songs such as "Linger," "Zombie," "Dreams," "Ode to my Family," among others.
Tickets are available at TicketNet at (02) 911-5555.
Ticket prices are as follows:
Patron VIP – 7,000 pesos
Patron – 5,500 pesos
Lower Box – 4,500 pesos
Upper Box A – 2,500 pesos
Upper Box B – 1,500 pesos
General Admission – 500 pesos
The Cranberries is composed of Dolores O'Riordan on vocals, Noel Hogan on guitars, Mike Hogan on bass, and Fergal Lawler on drums.


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Now, I know it's Tuesday, but I wanted to post my Bellarific Friday card today since I'll have another Critter Crew sneak peak tomorrow and my FFF post on Friday.
This is the card I made for my best friend Sara for her baby shower I've been planning the last month. Her colors are pink and brown so this Cosmo Cricket paper worked perfectly. This cute TeddyBella is one I bought off Ebay. :D It was the perfect image for what Sara will be up to with all of the gift cards she got yesterday! Notice the bag with the "N"? Well, after all that baby shopping she had to stop by Nordstroms for a little something for mommy! Lol!
The Bellarific challenge this week is to have an animal on your card. The teddy bear and buggy-background count, right?! I say it does! Lol! The layout is from the Taylored Expressions customer hop awhile ago. You might not be able to see in the photo, but the Sorbet charm in the center of the flower says "happy memories".
Tonight is "Crafty Night" with my girls Nona, Sparkle, Rachel and Jen. I can't wait to see all these gals! It's been sooooo long!
Stamps: Stamping Bella TeddyBella
Paper: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love dp, CTMH cs
Other: Copics, foam tape, Coluzzle, CTMH inks, buttons, metal charm, paper piercer, and pearls, lace, EK punch.


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The ideal candidate will be fluent in written and spoken legal English (another language is an asset) having one year of experience as a trainee lawyer (admitted in the Bar Association in 2016 who should attend the fully qualification exam in 2018) or one year as a qualified lawyer, with experience in corporate and commercial law. He/ she should also be a team player, have a strong commitment to the firm, loyalty, willingness to learn and to work under pressure. Common sense and practicality are also important, as is willingness to undertake business trips in Romania and abroad. Experience in an international law firm is an advantage but it is not essential.
- drafting documents for the incorporation of the companies as well as for various registrations required to be performed with the Trade Registry;
- providing practical legal advice and drafting contractual documentation and/ or litigation documentation;
- assisting more experienced colleagues on various matters related to financial and/or commercial transactions in the field of energy, real estate & construction, employment, securities, financial services and banking.
A competitive package of remuneration will be offered. He/she will be encouraged to develop his/ her knowledge, professional skills and commerciality. He/she may also achieve a higher position in the firm. There is an opportunity to work closely with a native English speaking lawyer with 20 years' experience in working in important transactions in Romania.
A regional law firm with offices in Bucharest and Sofia, undertaking work largely for multinational and foreign clients, which has an association with an international law firm based in the City of London.
The interested candidates are invited to send us a Resume and a Letter of Intent to: firstname.lastname@example.com


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A guy here at work was trying to buy 18 tickets to U2 this morning.
We were all frantically clicking 'Try Again' on the Ticketek screen for about 45 minutes. (lots of work done as you can see).
We finally got in at the same time and got C Reserve seats.
Bloody hell, they must be selling fast. All of the Standing Area tickets were gone. Well the site was saying they were anyway. I am not so sure that they sold so fast, and maybe they trickle them out to force people to buy the seats.
Who knows.
In any case, I think it's probably sold out by now…
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The one dish I always used to order from the chinese was crispy chilli beef, because lets face it, where can you go wrong with deep fried food smothered in a sweet chilli sauce?!
I've found it pretty hard to get a clear answer from any of my local Chinese's whether their vegetarian dishes are egg and dairy free, so I decided to try and make my own. Before going Vegan I never considered the possibility of actually cooking a homemade Chinese, and now I realise I've been seriously missing out. Swap egg noodles for rice noodles and the possibilities are endless, since I've made vegetable chow mein's, raw and fried vegetable spring rolls, peanut satay soy skewers and five-spice seitan ribs. However my firm favourite is still crispy chilli seitan beef. This recipe has gone down well with both my vegetarian and meat-eater friends (there's nothing more satifying than someone trying your food and genuinely not being able to tell the difference from the meat version), and best of all it's so simple. If you cook a bach of 'Beef' seitan and keep it in the fridge this meal can be put together in 20 minutes, and goes fantastically with some garlic soy Pak Choi!
Crispy Chilli Beef – Serves 2 as a main dish, 4 with rice and extras
- Beef seitan – double batch (2 cups of flour) (Recipe here)
- 1 Red pepper
- 1 Red onion
- 2 Spring onions
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- 2 tsp Chinese five-spice
- 2 tsp garlic puree
- 1 tsp ginger puree
- 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 2 1/2 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 tsp soft brown sugar
- 3 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- Oil (I use garlic infused oil)
- Thinly slice the seitan
- Heat a good lug of oil in a frying pan
- Coat the seitan in the cornflour and five-spice, ensuring all slices are evenly coated
- Fry for 5 minutes until crispy, if it burns rather than crisps add extra oil
- Set aside the crispy seitan
- Add a tbsp of oil to the pan, allow to heat and then add the pepper and red onion, stir fry for a couple of minutes until soft
- Whilst the pepper and onion are cooking mix the tomato puree, white wine vinegar, sugar, sweet chilli, onion powder together in a jug
- Add the garlic and ginger, stir frying for 1 minute until it becomes fragrant
- Pour the sauce mixture in, cooking for 2 minutes, until it starts to bubble
- Add the seitan back into the pan, toss to coat thoroughly
- I like to sprinkle some spring onions and seaseme seeds on to serve, and then scoff the lot!


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dearest rock - below you'll find our (belated) top 10 lists for 2009.
Check the fanpage for pertinent statistics!
Don Harrison - Radio WowsvilleFavorite New Albums:
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone - Anti-
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Domino
Le Loup - Family - Hardly Art
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - The Dark Night of the Soul - "unreleased"
The Dodos Time to Die - Frenchkiss
Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Glass Note
The Clientele Bonfires on the Heath - Merge
Thomas Function - In the Valley of Sickness - Alive
Elvis Presley - Elvis 75: Good Rockin' Tonight - RCA-Legacy
The Beatles Box Set - EMI
Various - The Sound of Wonder! - Finders Keepers
Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock and Psonic Psunspot - Ape
Johnny Paycheck -Nowhere to Run: The Little Darlin' Years -Omni
Big Star - Keep An Eye on the Sky -Rhino
Stone Roses Stone Roses - Silvertone
Ernest V. Stoneman The Unsung Father of Country Music - 5-String
Monks - The Early Years 1964-1965 - Light in the Attic
Bee Gees - Odessa -Rhino
DJ Hummingbird Feeder – Madame Psychosis Hour
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill - Type - Murky fog of previous albums lifts to reveal an unexpectedly gorgeous songsmith. Quiet, gentle music that is best played LOUD. Topped this list despite its Fall 2008 release date.
the Flower-Corsano Duo - the Radiant Mirror – Textile - Former Vibracathedral Orchestra dude spews maelstrom of chime over legendary young journeyman drummer's restless improvisational brilliance. 40min of raw, unfiltered Bliss.
Wavves - Wavvves – Woodsist - Logical endpoint of dumb teenage rock. Thrillingly charming, hilariously stupid, breathtakingly abrasive, intriguingly incomprehensible, and embarrassingly catchy. What's not to love?
Sanhedrin - Sun Head Ring - Breathing Bass - Unstoppable japanese noise-rock power trio: Keiji Haino on guitar, Tatsuyo Yoshida of Ruins on drums, and a pretty fucking good bassist. Furious, cathartic mess does not disappoint.
Caboladies - Body Tides - Mountaain -Obscure trio from Kentucky tops all other competitors for retro synth-drone album of the year. Post-shoegazery mess of warm drone-pleasantry, gentle chirps etc. You will love this record.
Everyday Loneliness - Appropriation - Callow God - Emaciator side-project is suitably sad, minimal, low-fi and hand-made. Four sides of gentle, warbling, 4-track guitar/etc patterns and tones, spread across a double-cassette (seriously!!)
Hell-Kite - You Make the Blood- self-released- Awesome young lady from AZ resembles sparser, darker, scarier version of early Cat Power. Occasionally veers into screaming, transgressive, Jandekian territory. Hypnotic and lovely.
The Invisible Hand demo CD-R - self-released - Best band in Charlottesville hits home run with this incredibly solid quartet of songs. Like Wire meets the Zombies meets early Pavement(-ish?) Distills their kick-ass live show quite well.
DBB Plays Cups - self-titled / Sequel to Cups - not even really released- Local radar-ducker drops weirdly AM-radio sounding pair of puzzling mini-albums; reminiscent of Silver Jews or early Magnetic Fields, but more "Outsider"-y. Inscrutable and infectious.
Liv – Please Like Me, OK?
Real Estate - Real Estate - Woodsist
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy - Matador
Grass Widow - Grass Widow EP - Captured Tracks
Dizzy Jaguars - Spinning - Self-released
Little Girls - Concepts - Paper Bag Records
Ancient Crux - Interracial Coupling - Family Time
The Fresh & Onlys - Grey-Eyed Girls - Woodsist
Sic Alps - Description of the Harbor - Awesome Vistas
Spectrals - Spectrals 7" - Captured Tracks
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Glassnote
Honorable mention:
Sorcerer - Neon Leon - Tirk - I don't care if it sounds like 80s aerobics music. Perhaps that is why I like it so much.
Madlib - Beat Konducta, Vol. 5-6: Dil Cosby & Dil Withers Suite - Stones Throw Records
DJ Sanitize – Flashin' Lights
La Roux - La Roux - Cherrytree Records
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of the Day - GOOD Music/Universal Motown
Kid Sister - Ultraviolet - Fool's Gold/Downtown Records
Wale - Attention Deficit - Allido Records/Interscope
Amanda Blank - I Love You - Downtown Records
Dragonette - Fixin' to Thrill - I Surrender Records
LMFAO - Party Rock - Interscope Records
Major Lazer - Pon de Floor - Downtown Records
Passion Pit - Manners - Frenchkiss Records
The XX - Shelter - Young Turks
DJ Poubelle – Radio Freedonia
Micachu and the Shapes – Jewellery [import] – Rough Trade – "Lips" made me a fan, "Golden Phone" made me an acolyte. Gotta specify the import because "Hardcore" is missing on the US version.
Liechtenstein – Survival Strategies in a Modern World – Slumberland – Go-Go's meet Jesus & Mary Chain for echoey, harmonized fuzz pop; simple perfection.
Freddie Gibbs –
Real Estate – Real Estate - Woodsist – Tranquey guitar pop so natural it becomes environmental.
Borrowed Beams of Light – Borrowed Beams of Light – self-released – Unbridled exuberance, like if Bowie's "Five Years" was a happy song. Surrender Dorothy – to the sun!!!
Outrageous Cherry – Universal Malcontents - Alive – Power-pop is alive and smoking cigarettes in the 7-11 parking lot.
Rameses III – I Could Not Love You More – Type – Drony soundscapes for yoga sessions that end with the instructor saying something like "ok, cool."
The Clean – Mister Pop – Merge – You start to wonder if you even know what good indie pop is, because this all sounds so good.
Various artists - Virginia Rocks! The History of Rockabilly in the Commonwealth – JSP – Sixty-one reminders of why our lives were saved by rock and roll.
DJ Helvidius, Radio Freedonia
1. Jeremy Jay - Slow Dance- K Records - Power Pop and Hobby Horse Jams
2. Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellry - Rough Trade Records- I think when I was little this is what I thought 21st Century music would be like.
3. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca – Domino - everybody, all together now
4. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor - Drag City Records - 1 track, 38 mins., gorgeous
5. Real Estate – s/t – Woodsist - Winner in the Superlatively Benign Category
6. Borrowed Beams of Light - s/t - (s/r) - Adopting the hit it and quit it concert method: left us all wanting more.
7. Various Artists - B-Music and Finders Keepers Compilations - Take Your Pick. A little too much recycling of Turkish Psychedelia, Hungarian Funk, and French Prog. These are problems I didn't have up until 2009.
8. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs - Matador Records & The Clean - Mister Pop - Merge Records - Oblique Strategy for Both bands: Continue with immaculate consistency
9. The Fresh & Onlys - Grey-Eyed Girls - Woodsist - The Fungus Album of Late-09.
10. Various Artists - Score!: 20 Years of Merge Records Compilations- Merge Records- What better way to honor the Merge narcotic than with mixtapes from David Byrne, Miranda July, Peter Buck, Kara Walker, Andrea Zittel, Amy Poehler, Marcel Dzama and others. And David Chang, you were the tastiest of them all.
Raekwon – Only Built for Cuban Linx, Pt. 2 -ICEAL- Uhm. favorite hip-hop album of 2009/1996
Dave, Ye Olde Tuesday Night Rocke Show
1. andrew bird- noble beast - fat possum records - what can i say? i'm
a total nerd for the bird, and this album is great. maybe his best yet.
ok- definitely his best yet.
2. vetiver- tight knit - Sub-pop - i heard this first on that source of
so many fine things, radio freedonia, and then couldn't take it out of
my cd player for a long time. this album has legs.
3. tortoise- beacons of ancestorship - thrill jockey - i am also just a
huge tortoise nerd. i still listen to tnt all the time, and especially
on sundays, but this new album is great. i am unsure how these guys
continue to make such interestingly listenable instrumental music, but i
really don't care as long as they keep doing it, and keep playing it
live. which by the way, if you haven't ever: go see tortoise live.
like in february in d.c.
4. various artists- red hot presents: dark was the night – 4ad - we only
ever got a 9 song sampler of this at the station, but even just that had
some pretty incredible tunes on it. just EVERYBODY is on this album,
doing great covers. another homerun for the fine folks behind the red
hot organization.
5. various artists- the present soundtrack - brushfire -another
comp., another example of me getting hooked by the freedonia boys...a
ton of great bands on here, and a solid hour or more diverse and
evocative tunes that will make you forget it is a jack johnson-produced
surf movie soundtrack.
6. lafayette afro-rock band- darkest light. - strut - ok- my
last compilation album, most likely. trying to do a little research
here, it seems like this is a reissue of a 1999 best-of, but i don't
care because it was in the 'new' drawer this year and is real funky.
7. borrowed beams of light- s/t/. - local. - holy smokes this record is
good. anytime you can start talking about the kinks, guided by voices,
the flaming lips, etc. and not be talking about anything being
derivative then something good is going on. when will this great band
break worldwide? only time will tell. incredibly sharp lyrics that
don't ever forget about melody and harmony, and also songs that remember
what a bridge is for. am i done gushing? for now perhaps...
8. drunk tigers- 3 song ep. - Local. - but while i'm at it, let me gush
about this perfect, if all too brief, debut by our local favorites. and
i'm not just saying that 'cause you're a nice guy and my friend, matt
beirce. these songs are great, the live rock version is great, it's all
pretty great. i don't think i'm the only one who can't wait for more by
these fellas, esp. now that it's the year of the tiger. b/t/w- i think
one of my favorite memories of 2009 is dj-ing at the halloween party at
the teahouse, having already planned 'overland' into my set, and having
zach and his peoples in front of me when it came on...
9. le loup- family - hardly art- this is a relatively new one
at the station, and big thanks to my dj partner courtney for turning me
on to this. what initially seems kind of a sleeper of an album, after a
few listens ends up being a sort of 45 minute sonic time machine or
something. i think this is going to have some staying power for me into
the new decade.
10. various artists- virginia rocks! compilation. jsp records/ the
orchard. ok, so i lied: here's one more comp. to round out my list.
how can i not give love to this album, about our very own commonwealth,
and with erudite liner notes from our very own and much-beloved don
harrison? that is a rhetorical question: i must give the love.
Courtney - Ye Olde Tuesday Night Rocke Show
1) Yo la Tengo- Popular Songs- Matador
2) Animal Collective - Merriwether Post Pavilion - Domino
3) M Ward- Hold Time- Merge
4) Trainwreck Riders- Perch - Alive
5) Le Loup - Family - Hardly Art
6) Akron/Family - Set em Wild, Set em Free - Dead Oceans
7) Fanfarlo - Reservoir - Atlantic
8) Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health - Gigantic
9) Various Artists - Crayon Angel: Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill - American Dust
10) Avett Brothers - I and Love and You - Sony
Dominic – Nowhere Near
COMET GAIN - BROKEN RECORD PRAYERS - WHAT'S YOUR RUPTURE? - What if God himself made you a mixtape?
YO LA TENGO - POPULAR SONGS - MATADOR - Doing what so few other bands can even conceive of, and doing it well.
DIRTY PROJECTORS - BITTE ORCA - DOMINO - "Avant" pop will never sound this sexy again, ever.
GIRLS - GIRLS - TRUE PANTHER SOUNDS - None more emo. Need to work on the live show, though.
ATLAS SOUND - LOGOS - KRANKY - Kaleidoscopic no-gaze basement jam perfection blues
REAL ESTATE - REAL ESTATE - WOODSIST - I don't smoke weed, but if I did this would probably be my favorite record of the year.
JIM O'ROURKE - THE VISITOR - DRAG CITY - JImmy the Geek is back! And he brought his Fahey and skipping jazz records with him!
WYE OAK - THE KNOT - MERGE - Children who are wise beyond their years. Inspirational.
SONIC YOUTH - THE ETERNAL - MATADOR - Old folks who never grew up but learned the power of restraint. Magical.
BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - BEWARE - DRAG CITY- Not nearly as dark as I had hoped, but still incredibly sloppy fun.
honorable mentions:
DJ Law – Aunt Beast's Radio Theatre
1 Dan Deacon - Bromst – Carpark - Well-composed throughout, it starts building and by the final note, you're short of breath with amazement at the hypnotic and swirling synthesizers and chanting vocals. One of the few albums this year that works perfectly as just that, a complete album, to be listened to in one sitting.
2 JEFF the Brotherhood - Heavy Days - Infinity Cat - Sometimes you just really want to listen to fast-paced rock music that melts your brain a bit as evidence of its own awesomeness. Nothing extravagant: just solid drums, guitars, bass, and vocals. It's a tricky thing to do in a way that's not forgettable, but it seems effortless here.
3 The Sandwitches - How to Make Ambient Sadcake - Turn Up! - At times, reminiscent of 1950's rockabilly and 1960's girl groups, there's some Fleetwood Mac and Beat Happening in there well. Man, it's just so catchy - I can't stop listening to it! It's great rock music, without the distortion and fuzziness that seems to be everywhere else. And it's these ladies' first LP, which blows me away... Your feet will be tapping from the moment you start listening, and it'll be hard to pick which bandmember to have a crush on, I guarantee it.
4 Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms- Lefse - I never asked for the track 'Deadbeat Summer,' never wanted it stuck in my head for weeks at a time, but Neon Indian gave it to me anyways, and perhaps I'm the better for it. Full of distorted, synthy, pop space sounds and danceable rhythms, the rest of the album might take a little bit longer to grab you, but is just as great in the end.
5 Atlas Sound – Logos - Kranky - Say what you will, but I like Bradford Cox's solo work better than Deerhunter. Add input from members of Animal Collective and Stereolab and you've pretty much stolen my heart.
6 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career - 4AD - The song 'French Navy.' That's all it took. "You make me go oooh, with the things that-chya do, that-chya do, that-chya do." Yup. It's got swelling instrumental backing, beautiful vocals, and captivating composition. And the rest of the album is just as superb at that one song.
7 Tyondai Braxton - Central Market – Warp - Yeah, it's one of the dudes from Battles. (And yeah, I kinda like Battles.) Braxton's solo work is a lot more concerned with instrumentation and experimentation than Battles though, and is far more amazing as a result. The album works as an impressive composition, full of heart-quickening peaks and somber, melodic valleys.
8 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest - Warp - Yeah, everyone's praising this one this year. But I have to admit it lives up to the hype. It's full of lovely songs, and perfect for lazy end-of-summer nights on tin rooftops or middle-of-winter afternoons next to the radiator.
9 Night Control - Death Control - Kill Shaman It's noisy and melancholic, but each track is noisy and melancholic in a new and interesting way. There're at least three layers of stuff heaped on top of more stuff in each song, which makes for either a maddening descent into chaos or, in this case, an infinitely listenable album that can be approached from any mood or circumstance.
10 MV + EE - Barn Nova - Ecstatic Peace! - Simultaneously twangy and breathy, with good use of drums to offset everything else, this album is full of pretty music. I admit I've never been a huge fan of Matt Valentine and Erika Elder's past work, but this album struck my fancy.
Lady D, Aunt Beast's Radio Theatre
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid – Nonesuch- A mellow, blues-y take on The Black Keys' signature sound
Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day - Jagjaguwar - A little french, a little fuzzy - lots of fun
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca - Domino - Kaleidoscopic harmonies
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast - Fat Possum - Andrew Bird can't make a bad album
Tune-Yards - Bird-brains - Marriage Records - Lilting, wailing, almost Jamaican sound - fantastic album and stellar performance at the tea house
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs - Matador
Liechtenstein - Survival Strategies In A Modern World - Slumberland - Swedish Indie-rock goodness
Thao - Know Better Learn Faster - Kill Rock Stars - Not as strong as the debut album, but her distinctive sound is eminently listenable
Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic Secretly Canadian/Western Vinyl "Fangela" makes my Top 10 songs of the year
Various Artists - Dark Was The Night (compilation) Red Hot Organization This compilation to benefit an HIV/AIDS charity topped the WTJU charts for over a month, and stayed in my CD player all year.
Chris McRae – The Hep Imp Show
This Immortal Coil - The Dark Age of Love - Ici d'ailleurs – Extraordinary collaboration including artists such as Yael Naim, Bonnie Prince Billy, Yann Tiersen and more. Tearfully beautiful renditions of the music of Coil.
Rapoon - Dark Rivers - Lens Records - Flowing music from a master of experimental soundscapes. One of several memorable releases in 2009 for Rapoon
Inade - The Incarnation of the Solar Architects - Loki - There's a lot of darkness under the sun...
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum - Tuntury - Aquarel - 6 tracks of weird fun from one of Russia's finest ghost-industrial acts
Cyclotimia - Deja Vu - Shadowplay - Re-release of 2 rare 10inch lps, plus extras. Fun and disturbing at the same time.
Nurse With Wound -The Memory Surface - United Dirter - 3 cd collection including "The Surveillance Lounge" and 2 cds of film score for the 1922 Murnasu film "Der Brennende Acker". Surreal and spectacular!
Land:Fire - Shortwave Transmission - Loki - The end of the world...or at least the end of the spiritual world. This music and accompanying samples are colder than this January's deep freeze.
Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968 - Type - Enjoyable mysterious sounds...and not all that dark!
Stahlwerk - Retromekanik - Steinklang - Post Industrial expulsion at its finest. A collection of rare Stahlwerk 9 tracks that show power and breadth.
Bardoseneticcube – Monolith – Radionoise - Bardosenetticcube may be from another world entirely. How else to explain their music?
Danny, Carry the Zero
David Lynch, Mark Linkous, Danger Mouse - Dark Night Of The Soul - EMI-ish
Cass McCombs – Catacombs -4AD
Dan Deacon – Bromst - Carpark
King Khan & The Shrines -What Is?! - Vice
The Antlers – Hospice - Frenchkiss
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs - Matador
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle – Drag City
St. Vincent – Actor - 4AD
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest - Warp
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic – Warner Bros.
Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'em Free - Dead Oceans
Matthew – Carry the Zero
Borrowed Beams of Light – s/t – s/r – This year I am thankful for the sun, the moon, and BBOL.
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion – Domino – yup.
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs – Matador - popular is cool again
Sun Araw – Heavy Deeds – Not Not Fun - …ownmindblownmindblownmindblow
Medeski, Martin and Wood – The Evolutionary Set – Indirecto – the music, the packagin, the music, the idea, the music
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas – II – Eskimo – winner of the "what is this you're playng?" award
Phenomenal Handclap Band – s/t – Friendly Fire – underrated dance party of the year
Atlas Sound – Logos – 4AD/Kranky – Special guests Laetitia and Panda Bear??!! Come on now...
Cave – Psychic Psummer – Important – easy math rock for your listening pleasure
Honorable Mentions:
Various Artists – This LP Crashes Hard Drives – Light in the Attic
Various Artists - Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! - Merge
Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through The Mekong - M80
Zak Krone – Washed and Fried
1 Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport - ATP - Very hard sound this experimental, this catchy, and this dissonant all at once
2 The xx - The xx - Young Turks - Sparse but very intense record.
3 Girls - Album - True Panther - Finally got it after 4/5 spins and I listen to it regularly now.
4 Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong - In the Red - They had to make the list after that show at the outback lodge.
5 Flaming Lips - Embryonic - Warner Brothers - After doing Dell commercials, it's good to see them going back to left field.
6 Various Artists - Horse Meat Disco - Strut Records - Don't ask questions
7 Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall - Matador - Amps me up but leaves a bitter taste in my mouth
8 Sonic Youth - The Eternal - Matador - As a whole, the album feels kinda surfer-y but it works most of the time. What is Mark Ibold doing exactly?
9 Various Artists - Blakroc - V2 - Good to hear Ol' Dirty Bastards voice again. No father to the style of this album.
10 YACHT - See Mystery Lights - DFAV - Existential dance music?
DJ Burma Shave, Heavy Surveillance
Ahleuchatistas - Of the Body Prone - Tzadik - Minutemen's east-coast, long lost cousins on a one-way trip to chaos, hopped up on Adderall and Adorno
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle - Drag City- Smog: the good kind!
Buckethead - Forensic Follies / A Real Diamond in the Rough - TDRS/self-release - Dark, comforting, wacky and disturbing all at once. This is the sound of divine guitar violence.
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career - 4AD No less than sweet, sorrowful perfection on the latest cuts from these Scottish lasses and lads.
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse- Dark Night of the Soul - unreleasable! - Created to accompany a book of David Lynch photos, this album will never see the light of day! But that doesn't mean you shouldn't find and enjoy it.
Drakkar Sauna – 20009 - Marriage - Kansans who work the Louvin charm like yeomen work the soil with songs of astronauts, population control and, of course, love.
Gutbucket - A Modest Proposal – Cuneiform - Punked-up jazz that your brain and intestines will remember for weeks after the first digestion. "More More Bigger Better Faster With Cheese"; "I Am A Jelly Doughnut"; "Carnivore"; "Lucy Ferment?"
Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard - Em Are I - Rough Trade - Smart, catchy and inspired songwriting from one guitar-pickin', comic book drawin', politically active dude!
Nomo - Invisible Cities - Ubiquity- Afrobeat-influenced jazz full of hooks and grooves to get stuck in your ears for the next decade or so.
The Pastels / Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets - Domino - A match made in heaven: Scottish twee-poppers and Japanese purveyors of cute. "Vivid Youth" = Summer warmth to get you through the winter.
Tune-Yards - Bird-Brains – Marriage- Equal parts ukulele strums, vocal explosions and booty-shakes.
Sam Richardson – WTJU Alumnus / Sub
Destino Final – Atrapados - La Vida Es Un Mus
Death - For The Whole World To See - Drag City
Vee Dee - Public Mental Health System - Criminal I.Q.
Wasted Time – Futility - Grave Mistake
The Imposters - The Time Has Come - Secret
Leathervein- s/t - Hjernespind
Rational Animals - Distorted Temptation EP - Feral Kid
Face The Rail - s/t - Tankcrimes
Masshysteri - Var Del Av Stan - Feral Ward
Quick Fix- 6 Track EP - Adult Crash
Colin Powell - Rock Programming Director
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Domino - A really dreamy, well-executed record that has wiggled its way into Mega-Hit-Land
Real Estate- Real Estate - Woodsist - jangly!
Wavves - Wavvves - Fat Possum - A few guys get together and record a catchy surf punk album with that rad tape deck you had as a kid.
F**k Buttons - Tarot Sport - ATP - Layers and layers (and layers?) of noise surround a very tasty core. You might even be able to dance to some of this. I think.
Fever Ray - Fever Ray - Rabid - Karin Anderrson splits off from the Knife and tones down the bouncy electro-noises in favor of something more austere, eerie, and personal.
Oneohtrix Point Never - Zones Without People - Arbor - Synth-laden soundscapes with just enough LFO and crunch thrown in to make things edgy.
Dan Deacon - Bromst - Carpark - Dan Deacon expands his palette of sounds to awesome effect.
Various Artists - The Sound of Wonder! Rare Electronic Pop from the Lollywood Vaults - Finders Keepers - An amazingly funky collection of songs recorded for the Lahore film industry during the 1970s. Probably my favorite album of the year.
Sunn0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions - Southern Lord - Storytime with Satan.
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest - Warp- I have a soft spot in my heart for these folks. An album totally deserving of all of its attention.


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On Wednesday, May 20, the House Regulatory Reform Committee took a small step towards smoke free air for Michigan by passing HB 4377.* The bill would make restaurants and bars smoke free, but exempts casinos, cigar bars, and tobacco specialty shops. These exemptions leave many Michigan workers unprotected from the deadly effects of secondhand smoke.
Fortunately, the House has the opportunity to amend the bill and vote on a comprehensive smoke free legislation that would protect ALL of Michigan's workers. We need your help to make this possible. Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, D-Rochester, has recently made another public comment that the Senate will only consider comprehensive smoke free legislation with NO exemptions.
Here's what to do now:
- Call Speaker of the House Andy Dillon at 888-737-3455 TODAY and ask him to take action to pass a comprehensive (no exemptions) smoke free bill by supporting the Bauer-P. Scott amendment before next week.
- Call your Represenative's office and ask your lawmaker to support a comprehensive (no exemptions) smoke free bill by supporting the Bauer-P. Scott amendment.
Thank you for all of your support and hard work. When this bill passes, know that it was due, in large part, to your phone calls.
*The bill passed 9-1. Representative Jim Stamas, R-Midland, Representative Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, passed.


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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Nathan "Fredette": B-Ball Star
Here is a little highlight video of Nathan. This will be fun to look at when he is older and starring for BYU
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Birthday Presents
Nathan got a new AT-AT walker and a Joker Fun House for his birthday. I was so sick at this point that I was lying down on the ground most of the time.
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Birthday Cake
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Okay, so I'm full of mixed emotions today. SO EXCITED BECAUSE WE COULD FINISH THE PRESEASON ABOVE .500!!! But totally bummed because Channel 4 has been replaced with CBS College Sports and The CW is MIA. On that subject, tonight I'm going to be missing the season premier of a show that I sometimes watch (because for some odd reason math intrigues me), Numb3rs, and that also means Sunday afternoon I'll be missing the first 45 minutes of the Bills game, and I'll be sad, because I love the Bills. And on Monday, I'll be without my teenage angst-driven dramas, Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill; Tuesday evening I'll be missing my dear Anthony DiNozzo on NCIS. Guys, I'm really upset about this. Like… well, not nearly as upset as I am when the Sabres lose, but close enough.
On to happier subjects. Can I PLEASE just express my love for Craig Rivet and Patrick Lalime right now? They are pretty much two of my favorite people now. At first I wasn't so sure I liked that Rivet had The C, but hell, he can have it. I like any guy who sticks up for his teammates and can actually fight (coughcoughandrewpeters). And Lalime, you can stop pucks AND you fight? I love you. This brings me back to the days of my childhood in which basically every other game I can remember, either Steve Shields, Dwayne Roloson, or Marty Biron were fighting. LOVE. Goalie fights are the absolute best.
OH and I basically love Matt Ellis now too. Watch this and you will appreciate him as well. First of all, HAHAHAHA because they're blasting "Promiscuous Girl," and then someone came in and turned it down. But back to Matt: I mean, how can you not love someone who grew up playing with Danny Paille??? He's a member of the Man-Child crew now, as far as I'm concerned. And he was so excited when he got the call saying we claimed him… Normally, these guys are pissed when they get waived and claimed by a new team, but he was all smiles and giggles. How cute is he?
And before I talk at all about the game (and by at all, I mean not really at all since I couldn't see it and therefore don't really have anything constructive to say), let me get my Derek Roy fix. Janet and Nick on Kiss 98.5 I believe have the Derek Roy Report, or whatever it's called, on Thursday mornings, but it could be Friday. I'm not usually up that early, but if I am, I'm usually listening to my iPod because I LOATHE Janet and Nick. But whatever. So they had some snippet of an interview with Derek yesterday which went like this:
Janet: So what exciting stuff did you do this summer?
Derek: Uhhh, I went to Cabo for a week.
Janet: Nice!
Nick: Didn't you skates get stuck in the sand?
Derek: [Chuckles, followed by a dramatic pause, then seriously,] Um, no.
HAHAA. Ask Kim; I DO THE SAME THING. Now, I have to take a page out of MJ's book right here, because I swear this is fate. I DESIRE MORE THAN ANYTHING TO GO TO CABO. That is, if you bump going back to Germany off of the top of my list. But whatever. Derek, how could you go to Cabo without me??? And then not take me to your lake house up in Muskoka? You know I love the ocean, and I love lakes. That's just mean. But, in your favor, our favorite shows do include Entourage, and you can't go skydiving due to contractual stipulations, and I won't go skydiving due to a fear of heights, so I mean, look! It's totally fate. And now I'm kind of creeping myself out…
And this video of certain players just BEGS for commentary:
Mark Mancari : Yay! I'm so excited you cut your hair. Kim probably won't be too thrilled, but I am, and since I won you in our lame little draft thing we had last year, that's all that matters. And honestly, I'm so glad your parents moved from Italy to Canada, and that you have random family in Buffalo, because then I have a better chance to see you than, say, if you lived in Italy. Plus, you're a beast, so play your heart out, and if you don't make the Sabres, I'll see you November 7th in Portland.
Mike Weber : Is staying out of the penalty box a part of your plan? Because it should be.
Nathan Paetsch : (1) You're adorable. (2) That's the Brotherhood of the Traveling Hoodie hoodie! Don't you own any other clothing? Every time I see you, you're wearing that hoodie. It doesn't look bad or anything, I'm just curious as to if I took it away, if you'd just be walking around with nothing on. Now THAT'S a win-win situation. (3) You were injured? That's why you weren't playing? I wish I knew… I can't wait to have complete injury/ailment updates when the regular season starts. This not knowing is bull.
Sparky Clarkey : Your hair's getting long… I like the curly poofy thing you had; kinda like old-school Timmy C.
OH!!! I am SO excited that the game will be on TV on SUNDAYYY!!! That means I'll actually have something to watch since the Bills game (probably) won't be on. But I will have to sync up the radio so I can listen to Rick and Harry. Hopefully there won't be too much of a delay. Whatever though.
Now I'm going to go pamper myself a bit; I'm getting my hair done today which is SO exciting because I haven't gone in, like, 4 months, and my highlights are so grown out it isn't even funny, and my ends are so split. But I'm definitely having Kim (my hairdresser, not the Kim on this thing) thin it, dye it back to my natural dark red, and some sweepy bangs might be in order. But then because my hair won't be so strawberry blonde, I definitely have to go tanning, or else my pale, pale skin that's COVERED in freckles would look freakish. I'd be a female version of Brian Campbell. Yuck. (I think I'm the girliest legit hockey fan ever…) So I think I'd better go do that. Then work yet another double. So I probably won't be back until Sunday, unless I find something good in the meantime.
Have a nice weekend, loves!


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Next week I have an opportunity to look, listen, and learn as I travel to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. This trip facilitated by the University of Penn. is designed as a learning journey and a walk with members of the Lakota. I'm humbled and honored to have this opportunity. It is one of those serendipitous opportunities that I hope that we all still have space in our lives to seize. It was combined luck, connection, and the will to make it happen.
With the trip a week away, I find myself thinking about looking. There are many ways to look. You can look up at the beautiful skies and heavens and avoid what is in front of you. The beauty of looking this way is that we see wondrous sites including the moon, stars, sun, and clouds. We can also choose to look down. Looking down can be safe. It is near our feet and the ground. Looking down is often about being in the present. It is about seeing the grass, the computer screen, and/or a smaller view of the big picture. We can also choose to look out. Looking out can give us direction. It can help us notice where things are in relation to other things. Looking out can allow us to see new in the old and old in the new.
I'm hoping to look out next week, lips closed, words in my heart, and quiet souled. Looking out isn't a natural place for me to be, but I know that it is a way of learning for me that brings deep understanding. Looking, listening, learning come from asking the right questions, listening with fresh ears, and building a deeper empathy for the situation that surrounds me.
I'm longing to think, read, and sit quietly with the complexity of life on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Let my heart be ready, my words be right, and my sense of adventure, awe, and amazement be set at the perfect tempo.
Dr Robert Dillon is a former middle school principal and is currently Director of Technology and Innovation for Affton School District, Affton, Missouri. You can reach Robert on Twitter here. This blog was originally published at Bob's blog.
#aussieED was lucky enough to connect with Bob and our friend Joe Mazza during our visit to SXSWedu in Austin, Texas in March 2015. We are working together to unpack the educational response to cultural shifts and impacts. We will be working to share their learnings from the #PennLakota15 experience over the coming weeks.
Nick Brierley (@mythsysizer).


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January's June is run by Ashley, an Air Force wife. Her Etsy shop is a combination of digital and paper creations. Her first idea was to create greeting cards but as she has expanded her ideas, her creations have grown into products more geared towards moms who are super busy and would like some organizing tools to help them out... with STYLE! In her shop you can find what she thinks are pretty cool printables and some handmade notebooks that are sure to come in handy. Please find some of my favorites below!
Take the edge off of bill paying and budget planning with this great Finance Notebook that includes all you will need to keep your records and accounts straight. Hand bound, hand typed and hand decorated, the book is split into 4 sections, Plan, Budget, Track and Know.
|What Mom Doesn't need this?
Etsy Success Printouts This set of 5 printouts is for those who would like a to organize and keep track of their personal on-goings as well as their Etsy shop on paper.This is a great system to track sales, daily to-do lists and more!
Such a great shop owner, shop, and idea! If you'd like to follow along as Ashley trecks down this new road of creativity, and continues on her path as a military spouse, you can stay up to date with any of her websites:


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Babies are God's way of saying the world should go on.
Someone, some where said that , and it is so true!
Have a great weekend and blessings to all, Mrs. Katie
He is beautiful.
Good Morning Ms. Katie,
It's been a few days since I've visited. "CONGRATULATION'S" on a precious new Great-Grandson. I know you are so proud of him. He is adorable. "THANK YOU" for sharing such adorable pictures of him. Hope you and yours are doing okay. Children are truly a beautiful gift from GOD. Take care my friend and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.
Love & Hugs,
Karen H.
What a sweet baby!! He looks big. Thank you for sharing this sweet picture with us.


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John Cowan a écrit : > I'd rather see this: > > It is an error for an ID value to be specified more than once. > Processors MAY detect and report an error and MAY recover from it. I feel uneasy about this. This amounts to introducing yet another option in a technology with a stated goal of having as few options as possible (design goal #5 of XML 1.0). And the underlying philosophy of Draconian Error Handling (cf. http://www.xml.com/axml/notes/Draconian.html) also comes to mind : one should be able to rely on the processor and not have to guess whether it found an error and ignored it, or failed to find it, or actually found that there was no error. In short, we should decide whether ID uniqueness is important enough to mandate and stick to our guns, instead of trying to sit between two chairs. As for which way to decide, that's another story. My feeling is that the id in xml:id is an abbreviation of "identify" or "identity", and it seems strange to claim that a string identifies an element if any other element in the same document can bear the same "identity". -- FrançoisReceived on Thursday, 2 September 2004 02:40:52 UTC
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Mary Molinaro on Panel with NEH Chairman:
Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities visited UK and Lexington this week. During a panel discussion on civil discourse with Chairman Leach in the Lucille Little Fine Arts Library, Mary Molinaro spoke about the importance of libraries in providing information to citizens so that they can make more informed decisions.
Grants from NEH over the past twenty years have been very important to the growth and development of UK Libraries. An NEH challenge grant in the late 1980s to "Pack the Stacks" and build our collections began the fundraising efforts that ultimately resulted in the new William T. Young Library and the Young Endowment.
More recently NEH grants have provided the necessary funds for UK Libraries to begin digitizing Kentucky's historic newspapers.
Chinese Librarians Have Busy First Week at UK Libraries:
Dr. Pi Jiezheng and Mr. Kou Yuantao, visiting scholars from China's National Agricultural Library, completed a busy first week of activities with UK Libraries. If you have not met Pi and Kou I hope you will take the opportunity during their visit. Thanks to Toni Greider for arranging and coordinating the visit.
Clements Fellow Featured at RCTF Celebration:
Mark Wetherington, the Earle C. Clements Graduate Fellow in Special Collections discussed his work at a recent celebration of the Research Challenge Trust Fund RCTF). RCTF allowed UK to match private gifts with state funds to create endowed chairs, professorships, and graduate fellowships. The Clements Fellowship was made possible by a gift from Bess and Tyler Abell. Bess, a UK graduate and daughter of former Governor and United States Senator Earle C. Clements, lives in Potomac, Maryland and is also a member of UK Libraries National Advisory Board.
Richard Maiti To Begin New Assignment:
Richard Maiti, who joined UK Libraries in November 2010, has accepted a new Server Administrator/Programmer I position with Digital Library Services in Library Technologies. He will begin his new assignment on May 1.


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Contrary to what had been thought for many years, psychology as a science has within the last few years done research into nostalgia, and has found that it can be positive in its results.
It has been so good, in fact, that the University of Southampton in the UK has created a Nostalgia Center.
And to do research, they've created a Nostalgia scale for measurement.
some other overlapping research involves music and nostalgia
At UC Davis, they study how music and nostalgia interact.
It's all good.


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Sweaty Stats: Yesterday I did nothing! Took a rest day to relax. I love days like that…middle of the week break from everything.
I actually took my rest day and made it a Showtime marathon day and watched TV all evening with the husband. We caught up on the last few episodes of 'House of Lies.' Have you seen this show? It's hilarious, sexy, and inappropriate…right up my alley!
To round out our night of doing absolutely no activity and laying around watching TV, I figured pizza was a perfect choice for dinner. Lately I've been trying to take my 'fat girl' junk food cravings and turn them into something much healthier and less guilty. Best part about our pizza dinner (aside from being a healthier alternative to store bought pizza) was that I already had all the ingredients on hand. Score!
Enter last night's dinner: Whole Wheat Pita Pizzas (Sorry about the bad pic…BBQ chix on the left looks better than my veggie pesto on the right because I was already laying on the sofa watching TV when I remembered to take the pic of mine…it happens 🙂 )
Pic was also on Instagram – @stephstaysslim
Hubby's Pizza– BBQ Chicken: Chopped chicken breast mixed with BBQ sauce (right outta the bottle) and fresh baby spinach. I just plopped the chicken mixture on 2 whole wheat pitas and topped it off with some mild cheddar cheese.
My Pizza- Veggie Pesto: I spread pre-made pesto on the whole wheat pita and topped it with baby spinach, chopped mini sweet peppers and mushroooms, and added a bit of goat cheese and mild cheddar cheese.
I baked the pita pizzas at 400 degrees (F) for about 6 minutes, then I turned up the heat up to 425 for another 2-3 minutes. This made the crust crunchy on the edges and browned the cheese a bit.
I have a few foods that I love and try to recreate at home so that it's healthier than going out and buying it. Such as:
- Pizza (duh)- cauliflower crust and pita crust
- Tacos- No oil, cactus tortillas (low calorie and low carb), lean protein, plain greek yogurt instead of sour cream
- Carne Asada Fries (this is a southern California thing…Google them, they're amazing)- I use soyrizo since I don't eat meat and low fat cheese, greek yogurt, etc.
- Fried Rice- I use brown rice instead of white, and egg whites instead of whole eggs.
- Baked Sweet Potato Fries- No brainer, they're baked instead of fried
That's all I can think up now. Yes, it's more time consuming to make it than to go out and buy it, and I'm not advocating to eat these "healthy alternatives" daily because they are still higher fat and calories than a normal sensible dinner. All I'm saying is if you're going to induldge in some of your favorite high calorie foods, try to make them at home and feel better knowing excatly what went into the meal!
So on to my End of the Month Inventory for January:
In an effort to keep my goals in mind, at the end of each month I'll be reflecting on how true I am sticking to my resolutions. This will give me a time to focus on what I've done well, work on areas that are lacking, and re-evaluate the goals that I set and see if they are even goals I want to keep. Here's the post where I detailed my resolutions for the year.
- 🙂 Most of the time I have made better choices. This month's new recipes: Green Protein Pancakes, Cauliflower Crust Pizza (not posted because I'm still perfecting it), Creamy Parmesean Chicken, Crab and Shrimp Deviled Eggs.
- 😦 Huge Fail. I'll try again for February.
- 😦 Another Fail. Haven't been getting in my Yoga or Pilates regularly.
- 🙂 😦 That's in the middle. Some exciting new partnerships are coming up, but I'm still trying to grow readership. Tell your friends about me! Ha!
- 🙂 🙂 🙂 This has been a huge success for me so far. I have eliminated paper plates from our household, I use reusable shopping bags 99% of the time (yes, sometimes I still forget), I also have made a big effort to take my own coffee cup to Starbucks and other cafes. I'm changing the world people.
- 😦 Nope, nothing new this month, boo! Let's see what opportunities for new things February brings me.


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By Hergé, translated by David Radzinowicz (Egmont UK)
Once upon a time in Belgium and many other places, the adventures of two mischievous young scallywags rivalled the utterly irresistible adventurer Tintin in popularity. It wasn't that big a deal for Hergé and his publishers as Quick & Flupke was being produced by the young master and his studio team in conjunction with the dashing boy reporter.
In fact the strip probably acted as a test lab for the humorous graphic elements so much a part of the future world classic and the little terrors even cameoed frequently in the star vehicle…
Georges Prosper Remi, known all over the world as Hergé, created a genuine masterpiece of graphic literature with his tales of a plucky Tintin and his entourage of iconic associates, but the hero was by no means his only creation. Among the best of the rest are Jo, Zette and Jocko and the episodic all-ages – and in the majority criminally unavailable – comedy gems highlighted here today.
On leaving school in 1925 Hergé worked for Catholic newspaper Le XXe Siécle where he seems to have fallen under the influence of its Svengali-like editor Abbot Norbert Wallez. A dedicated boy scout himself, Georges produced his first strip series – The Adventures of Totor – for Boy Scouts of Belgium monthly magazine the following year, and by 1928 the artist was in charge of producing the contents of Le XXe Siécle's children's weekly supplement Le Petit Vingtiéme.
Hergé was unhappily illustrating L'Extraordinaire Aventure de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet (The Extraordinary Adventures of Flup, Nénesse, Poussette and Cochonnet) – scripted by the staff sports reporter – when Abbot Wallez tasked him with creating a new adventure series. Perhaps a young reporter who would travel the world, doing good whilst displaying solid Catholic values and virtues and rubbishing contradictory philosophies and ideologies?
Having recently discovered the word balloon in imported newspaper strips, Remi wanted to incorporate the innovation into his own work. He would create a strip that was modern and action-packed. Beginning on January 10th 1929, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets appeared in weekly instalments in Le Petit Vingtiéme, running until May 8th 1930.
The strip generated a huge spike in sales and Wallez allowed Hergé to hire Eugène Van Nyverseel and Paul "Jam" Jamin as art assistants. Naturally the Editor wanted to see a return in terms of more product, and – according to Remi's later recollections – he returned from a brief well-earned vacation to find his staff had played an office prank by announcing that he was about to launch a second weekly strip…
Briefly flummoxed, he rapidly concocted a strip starring a little rascal over a few days, based largely on his own childhood and French film Les Deux Gosses (The Two Kids), and the impertinent pair (or at least one of them) premiered in the Le Petit Vingtiéme for January 23rd 1930. The strip would become Quick & Flupke when, three weeks later, a pint-sized partner in peril debuted, initially answering to "Suske" before soon evolving into Flupke (which is Flemish for "little Phillip")…
Unleashed in weekly 2-page monochrome exploits, two working class rapscallions in Brussels played pranks, got into mischief and even ventured into the heady realms of slapstick and surrealism in the kind of yarns that any reader of Dennis the Menace (ours, not the Americans') would find fascinatingly familiar. Readers everywhere loved them…
The strip was immensely successful, although Hergé paid it little heed and frequently only began each week's episode a day or even mere hours before press-time. The fare was rapid-fire, pun-packed, stand-alone and often fourth-wall breaking which – as eny fule kno – never gets old…
Despite being increasingly sidelined after Hergé began The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko for Cœurs Vaillants at the end of 1935, our likely lads larked about for over a decade, becoming more an artefact of the assistants (and latterly artist Johan de Moor) until the war and the pressure of producing Tintin meant they had to go.
Quick & Flupke were rediscovered in 1985 and their remastered, collected escapades ran for 12 full-colour albums in Europe and India until 1991.
As English translations, we only ever saw a couple of volumes such as this oversized (221 x 295 mm) hardcover compendium from 2009: delighting us with nearly two dozen sparkling romps for laughter-starved lovers of classic comics comedy.
Hopefully, now we've got a burgeoning digital reading base, they will all be available for folk too lazy to learn French (or Dutch or German or…) as digital editions. These lost classics are certainly long-overdue for rediscovery and are perfect light reading for kids of all ages.
© Hergé – Exclusivity Editions Casterman 1986. All Rights Reserved. English translation © 2009 Egmont UK Limited. All rights reserved.


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Dennis Michael Elliott Sr., 63, of Granite City, died Saturday, July 15, 2017, at Kindred Hospital in St. Louis.
Visitation will be 9:30 a.m. until services at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, July 20, at World Changing Word of Faith Church, 2801 Marshall Ave., Granite City. Interment will be in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, with full military honors conducted by the U.S. Army.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Putting Conflict in your Writing
by Ann Lethbridge
Not so long ago, I attended a workshop given by Donald Maas, and among the many things I learned, I keep remembering one of them. No one ever complained that a story had too much conflict. I took this message too heart and each time I write a page I am asking myself-- enough conflict? How can I make it worse for my hero and heroine?
We only have to look at the newspapers to know that people love conflict. Journalists focus on the bad news, not the happy stuff, because it is conflict that sells newspapers. Remember the Volcano that had Europe closed down in May? I think we got to the point where everyone could say its name. But since it is not causing anyone any trouble at the moment, not a word can be found.
It is conflict that fascinates readers. The conflict our characters face. Characters they care about. Real conflicts that readers can relate to. Not misunderstandings e.g. the heroine seeing the hero with another woman, who happens to be his sister, though she doesn't know it. This is not conflict, at least not for more than a moment or two. It is a misunderstanding. But if the hero lies about who the woman is, perhaps because his sister is an undercover cop, that is conflict for both of them. He is conflicted because he will want to tell her the truth. She is conflicted because she wants to trust him, but now.....
Certainly a villain can create lots of conflict. But what fascinates us most is the conflict facing the protagonists. The choices have to be between a sucky choice and a suckier choice - this last is my critique partner Molly O'Keefe's favorite saying.
A character conflicted about their choices will keep a reader turning the page.
A heroine who has to choose between her beloved father's freedom and her own virtue is going to have conflict.
A man forced choose between helping his brother and helping a woman in danger and doing either will cause harm to the other, is going to have conflict. He is going to try to do both. But finally he is going have to choose.
Conflict on every page. It is one of the keys to making your manuscript a page turner.
5 comments:
- Kathryn Albright said...
You are so right, Ann! Funny how we love conflict in fiction but not in real life! In real life, it's all about clearing out or avoiding the conflict --being the solution to rather than the source of (conflict.) Must have something to do with living it vicariously--otherwise we'd all be stressed out!
- June 29, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- Michele Ann Young said...
Kathryn, so true!
- June 29, 2010 at 10:28 PM
- Sally said...
I think it could not have been better stated than "choosing between a sucky choice and a suckier choice". That is memorable. Thanks Molly for saying it and Ann for sharing it.
- June 29, 2010 at 10:51 PM
- peggy said...
I agree could not of said it better.
- June 30, 2010 at 12:19 AM
- Margaret West said...
Great info. I'll bear his in mind. I don't want to have sucky moment in my books lol
- June 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM
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She wouldn't give it up.
Harper...we have to take it out of the package!
We think this toy is Purrrrfect!
Both in the package, and not ;)
This toy gets 5 meows!
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And so the big news for today as that the dating and stratigraphy in the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure is fucked up.
Didn't we sort of know this already?
But what are the implications of this paper? It means that one of only examples of associated Châtelperronian tools and Neanderthal remains is now in doubt – the original excavator of the cave found a lot of Neanderthal teeth that looked to be associated with this industry. Archeologists can't just assume that certain cultures and bones are associated. They need to have evidence of association. This is usually consists of finding human remains and cultural implements in the same stratigraphic layer at the same site. This new paper purports that not only are the dates for the Châtelperronian a lot older than previously thought, but also that the stratigraphy is most likely misleading – meaning that associations being made between culture and remains are questionable.
The Châtelperronian is a lithic industry purported to be "intermediate" between the Mousterian (created by Neanderthals) and the Aurignacian (created by AMHS). It is often cited as an example of the technological and symbolic complexity of late Western European Neanderthals, and/or their presumed cultural interactions with their more gracile cousins. The site of Grotte du Renne was central to the argument (put forth by d'Errico et al 1998 and Zilhao 2006) that the Châtelperronian was not the product of Neanderthal and modern acculturation, but rather an independent Neanderthal cultural development.
But just about the only thing pointing to the conclusion that Neanderthals made the Châtelperronian industry was THIS SITE. So was there really any late "transition…?"


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Tonight we took Ron and his students to see the Beauty and the Beast Sing-a-long at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
Libi got a new Belle dress for the occasion. It isn't quite the costume she has been asking for, but she will get more wear out of it.
We got down to Hollywood really early since there was also a Bowl concert tonight. To fill our time we walked down to Madame Taussaud's.
We were surprised that they had several figures outside to pose with. You might wonder why Libi was excited to have a photo taken with Samuel L. Jackson-- but he was in Star Wars Episodes 1, 2, and 3. Enough said!
We were leaving when she insisted on taking her picture with Marilyn Monroe-- she has no clue who this is, but it was there and so we must have a picture!
Once in the theater Libs and Daddy mixed and mingled with all of his students.
Hailey and Libi both looked like Belle's of the ball in their special outfits.
Belle was the special guest before the film-- much to our surprise!
Afterward the two girls did some posing for us-- in the lobby...
and all around!
After an impromptu dance session outside of the theater,
and a visit with Mickey,
it was time to part ways.
One kiss to Mickey...
then we were off to dessert at the Soda Fountain.
Libi opted for the Beauty and the Beast sundae.
She greatly enjoyed the entire thing...
Date: October 1, 2010
Outside my window: The weather is warm
I am wearing: A yellow shirt to match Libi's yellow Belle dress
I am going: To the Beauty and the Beast Sing-a-long at the El Capitan
I am hoping: To get back on my fitness routine
I am creating: Hopefully some scrapbook LO's soon. I've been pulling/printing lots of photos
I am hearing: Libi waking up in the baby monitor. She starts talking the second she stops sleeping.
I am watching: Lots of Top Chef J
I am loving: All of Libi's imaginative play. She can use anything to make up a story.
On my mind: Whether or not I should teach music part time.
Pondering these words: Working on my Experiencing God class and all the things I can do to be a better Christian.
From the kitchen: Not much right now—there are ants in the kitchen again.
Around the house: Getting things cleaned and organized
One of my favorite things: The excitement that Libi gets in the simple things


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Look how ADORABLE Kaylie's new little girl is!!!!
Josh is getting ready to head back to Utah State as soon as we get done with Roast Dinner. I am sad. But REALLY happy that Meg, Laura, Michael and Sam will be here! It is GREAT to set the table for 7 today!
Aunt Jeremi's Dad died this week and the funeral was yesterday. I went up to Logan for it. Drew wrote such a sweet poem and Laikyn read another one....and both helped present the Life Sketch. You are going to be so surprised at how much older they are when you get home. My heart was breaking for Aunt Jeremi. I sat with Preston and Kori. Afterwards I checked on the condo and Paul is whipping along...it looks SO MUCH Better all in cream! I'm excited for the bathroom to be done and to have renters! It's Preston's birthday today so Jeremy and I took him to the Beehive Bar and Grill and had a LOVELY time. I LOVE my family!!! Just hanging with them is so fun.
I showed tons of homes this week. Christmas still isn't down....may be up when you get home:)
Sam got his wisdom teeth out:) Yes...you are so going to love the video of it afterwards!
Now that you have the MTC info will you let me know what your come home date will be?I got my big girl sparkily panties on.