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jujgbty6ohouvjy (That is from Keaton himself...at 9:30 PM, letting you know he is ok!)
We had to be at the hospital at 6:30 AM (I don't do mornings well) and got checked in with no issues. We went upstairs where Keaton got to put on his first backless gown. He was so cute with his little diapered tush sticking out! I think, like any man, he liked the freedom of the non-restrictive clothing!
After checking some vitals and attaching a few monitors, we headed downstairs. I got to ride on the bed with Keaton and this was by far his favorite part! Luckily the nurse that took him back was too sweet and Keaton went right with her and snuggled the whole way (she said she usually doesn't get too many cuddlers on the way to the OR). We went to the waiting room and before Ryan could even get through the front page of sports, Dr. Lee was coming out to tell us everything went great!
On our way back to recovery, we ran into our neighbors, Todd & Allison (see PHOTO ALLI link to the right!!!). Both of their girls were getting tubes, Eva for the second time as hers had fallen out. The girls were waiting to go back and Miss Avery was telling me how brave she was going to be. Praise God, they did great as well!
We headed to recovery and Keaton was back there with a nurse, one step from being swaddled and drinking a bottle! I hear of people going to the fetal position when they are frightened but he was taking reverting back to childhood to a whole new level. He was so confused and disoriented but otherwise, was glad to be back in his momma's arms, drinking his favorite blue gatorade! (The only real memory that will forever stick with me is how my sweet little baby smelled of Drakar Noir after surgery from being held by Gaylord Focker, male nurse! I really find it humorous that when I smell that now I will think of boys from Jr. High circa 1989 and my son getting tubes!) It took about 30 minutes for him to completely calm down but after that, he was great! He ended going through 4 oz of pedialyte, a big sippy cup of gatorade and another of apple juice in an hour! The nurse also let him have some jello and graham crackers while he watched Super Why! (his favorite show ever) so he was in heaven. I don't think he was actually ready to leave.
We got home and he took a bath all by himself, since Sis was still at Nana's, and he loved it. I swear that child at times wishes he was an only child! Although I will tell you, last night he was having trouble going to sleep and I finally got one of the extra blankets out of Elliot's bed and he snuggled with it and finally fell asleep. It was their first night apart so that could not have been sweeter to see from him!
Which leads me to my title for this post. Everyone told us, and keeps telling us, that Keaton will be a new baby. Well, sad to say, I liked the old baby. He is such a great kid that he really wasn't hard to deal with before tubes. We were just hoping that by this change, this would mean that he would FINALLY have a desire to go to bed on time. (As you can see from above, so far this isn't happening!) The only thing we can tell so far is he is say more consonant sounds tonight and it chatting alot more. I have a feeling it is about to get really loud in our house! He even said "No No" tonight when he stood up in his highchair!
Well, I think I finally hear silence in their room so hopefully he is down for a good nights sleep (Elliot has been out since 8ish). That means, since I had to get up at 5:45, I am off to sleep as well. Thank you all for your prayers today and sorry for such a late update.


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Lots of features, fun to fly
I gave this 4 out of 5 stars
This is a cool toy. This DBPOWER WiFi quadcopter has a HD camera. It can record video and take snapshots.It is a 2.4G 4CH 6 Axis gyro drone. It has headless mode and it is said to have a home mode but we could not get that to work. The design is nice because the propellers are protected from damage. It is very lightweight. There are 2 batteries along with a USB charging cord. There is also a 4 GB microSD card and a USB card reader included. The controller pad uses 4 AA batteries. There is a bracket on the top of the control pad to hold a phone. It can be controlled by the pad or the phone. There is an app you download to control the drone from the phone. It was a little tricky to connect the phone to the pad but we eventually got it. There are instructions included but there are some things missing from them. There are buttons on the control pad but they are not labeled in the instructions. To take photos and videos we had to use the phone. We couldn't find anything on the control pad that said it was for the camera. The video is good quality, it has a nice picture. This drone is a blast to fly. It can do tricks and it can go about 60 feet or so high. It makes a fun gift for anyone. I received this item for free to try in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

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This has been quite an emotional and busy week. I think my body is feeling it. I haven't exercised at all and I am coming down with something which makes me think exercise might just push me over. Tonight is my husbands Christmas party and I am not aloud to be sick. Tomorrow is the ward Christmas party and I don't want to be sick. I also have a free pumpkin wrap coming too me and I don't want to be sick. Well thats enough about being sick.
For the ward party I have said that I will make a cake. After much contemplation I am making a flour less intense chocolate cake with a ganache and gold dust. I'm hoping it will turn out. I'm hoping it will turn out much better than this week. This is my first time using a water bath so cross your fingers it won't "leak". Pictures will be posted if it works.


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Article Submission script in php/mysql. MUST confirm emails
Presupuesto $250-750 USD
I want an article submissions script, that we MUST own ALL the rights to. The script must not be shared to third parties.
The script should work with 3 article directories (making this an easier project, article dashboard, ms article and article friendly.
The script should have the following features:
* Work on a Linux server
* use php/mysql
* Need a userto register with an email, which is used for email reports to the user
* Allow for creation of article accounts, and confirm all email (gmail or yahoo) links, and save account details into a csv file.
* Script should also allow for input of csv files of accounts, and should allow user to select which accounts they wish to use via a dropdown menu, or should have option to select a number of accounts, and submit articles from those selected at random
* Submit articles with spin tags {like|similar to} this
* Check after a set number of days by logging into the accounts for published article URLs, and store them in a mysql database.
* Script should allow for scheduled posting.
* Script should email the admin user when the articles are submitted on schedule (not to the emails of the article accounts, but to the email address the user registered with us with.- So some basic admin page is needed of course.
To apply, please use the words 'I can read' in your bid ;-)
Also to apply, please supply a SAMPLE of your PHP coding - NOT a link to the resulting, client side website or tool, but a sample of PHP code you have written.
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If you have already established a cache in a Washington State Park but have not informed the park manager or have written permission to establish a cache PLEASE promptly take steps to get that permission per the new directive as soon as possible.
Well, my Potlatch cache is certainly one of these, because it's in Potlatch state park, I hid it on March 17, 2002, and I never obtained written permission to play the game in the park.
I checked out the new policy (effective July 6), and I certainly don't want to take the time to meet with the park ranger, obtain a permit for it every year, and visit the cache every 90 days. I also don't like having to indemnify the state against claims arising from the geocache's existence. It's a lot easier just to archive it, and let someone else who wants to jump through the hoops place one in the park.


text: At last the long awaited skatepark has started. Diggers moved in this morning and have already started on the foundations in preparation to getting the base laid. I am delighted that this has started. We've been give a few start dates and it is great to actually see the work. The skate park will be brilliant for the young people of Wesham and of Rural Fylde. There will be more updates as work progresses.


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The puppies wanted to greet you with a walk-out today, but they got a little too excited to come wish you Happy Howlidays!
As you're all playing with what Santa brought you, here's a quick clip of how my puppies play!
Little Spartacus has become Daddy's Mini-Me. He likes to follow Mosley around and drinks water when Mosley drinks water. Here he's all cuddled up for an afternoon nap, just like his daddy!


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So, you know that thing Middle Child happened to mention, about being in a shop somewhere in England and on the phone to me about Viragos? Well that kind of happened yesterday with Youngest Child when she was in Aldeburgh, and this was the result…
I'm particularly pleased with the Atwood as it's in lovely condition and I don't have it.
Also, this is a rather wonderful find as I've never heard of it or seen it before.
So it doesn't look like things will be changing much on the Ramblings in 2016, does it now? 😁


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Sunday, November 14, 2010
November Challenge
I would like to propose putting off the quote war, in favor of something to celebrate this wonderful season. We all have a lot to be thankful for, and I was thinking a great way to celebrate our amazing lives would be to have a "Gratitude Shout Off". If you agree with me, let's post things we are grateful for, one at a time, as comments. For example, I would post "Red fall leaves" and "Green summer leaves" seperately. That way the comment counter counts how many things we are greatful for. We should be allowed to repeat each other's ideas. Let's see if we can get over 500!!!
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Family, of courseReplyDelete
Challenger School! (Don't we all agree?)ReplyDelete
Cherry pie!ReplyDelete
Colored pencils.ReplyDelete
Happy memories made with good friendsReplyDelete
People who are dedicatedReplyDelete
Crispy fall air.ReplyDelete
Crunchy leaves that you can stomp on (in a completely innocent manner!!ReplyDelete
The song "Lean on Me"ReplyDelete
Aren't we all?
Days without homework!ReplyDelete
I am grateful for this quote I just found:ReplyDelete
"Each understood that the glory was a consequence, not a cause or a quest."
folk music!ReplyDelete
Honey taffyReplyDelete
All the knights!!!ReplyDelete
Breathtaking sunsetsReplyDelete
Cool, clean waterReplyDelete
Great book characters =)ReplyDelete
Illogical logicReplyDelete
Art. Music. Anything to do with the artistic music section.ReplyDelete
Harry PotterReplyDelete
Challenger school, of course.ReplyDelete
Anime (Miyazaki's work)ReplyDelete
The CuhnigitsReplyDelete
People who uphold valuesReplyDelete
Relaxing activitiesReplyDelete
Phone calls with good friendsReplyDelete
That really strong kind of fall wind that pushes up against you and makes you think of mountains and wide open places.ReplyDelete
Believe it or not- bagpipes. Definitly bagpipes.ReplyDelete
The word "concherto". I love how that sounds!!!ReplyDelete
Po-ta-toes. Rare good ballast for an empty belly, they are.ReplyDelete
Hot chocolateReplyDelete
Roman numerals.ReplyDelete
Warm socks.ReplyDelete
Caves. Mt. Timp cave, especially.ReplyDelete
People who know that the way they live their life is really important, and want to be the best people they can be.ReplyDelete
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Being lucky enough to be born in America
(This is Odin's comment)ReplyDelete
The variety of life that has continued to thrive through this rapidly industrializing time
Good theatrical productions, especially Shakespeare.ReplyDelete
Inductive reasoningReplyDelete
The holidays, and all the time we get to spend with family and friends during them.ReplyDelete
The ConstitutionReplyDelete
The Bill of RightsReplyDelete
The Declaration of IndependenceReplyDelete
Good theatrical productions, esp. Shakespeare. Agreed, Laga.ReplyDelete
And good actors in those theatrical productionsReplyDelete
Accomplishing something everyone said you couldn't doReplyDelete
Accomplishing something YOU thought you couldn't doReplyDelete
Furry (and purry) feline friendsReplyDelete
The excellent experience being a Knight (suh-nig-it) gives all of usReplyDelete
May I say Challenger School again? Because I am so exceedingly thankful for itReplyDelete
REAL dictionariesReplyDelete
REAL thesaurusesReplyDelete
REAL encyclopedias (NOT wikipedia!)ReplyDelete
Funny movies (like Monty Python and the Holy Grail!)ReplyDelete
Oh, I already said that, sorry.ReplyDelete
Fireplaces and full moons
And clear, starry nightsReplyDelete
Chances to help othersReplyDelete
Turkey (I hadn't had meat in 9 months and had forgotten how yummy turkey is)ReplyDelete
Diagramming (I definitly agree Sol)ReplyDelete
Great teachers.ReplyDelete
All the courageous people who have fought and fight for freedom, both now and in history, in ways varying from actual fighting (which is a noble and great thing if it is in the right way and for the right reasons) to service and charity, to standing up for one's own personal honor and integrity.ReplyDelete
Sculpture and pottery. I am so excited to take classes on them!!!ReplyDelete
Good friends who make me laugh. I'm looking at you at the moment, Baldr. Your comments on this are insightful, but mostly entertaining. Thanks for the abdominal exercise!ReplyDelete
Yes, great teachersReplyDelete
Funny quotesReplyDelete
Inspirational quotesReplyDelete
Time spent with friendsReplyDelete
Different culturesReplyDelete
America, the Melting Pot of Different CulturesReplyDelete
Ways to calm downReplyDelete
The sound of purringReplyDelete
The sound of snow falling (you know the sound - silence with something else, something magical...)ReplyDelete
Newspapers (the actual papers, not online substitutes!)ReplyDelete
The smell of pine needlesReplyDelete
oh, and dadReplyDelete
...and vacations from school!!!ReplyDelete
Seconded. WeekendsReplyDelete
Study guides for finalsReplyDelete
Long telephone conversationsReplyDelete
Being able to just sit down and play a board game with familyReplyDelete
Places where one can be him/herself!ReplyDelete
I know I've said it before, but can you imagine life without shoes? Ouch!ReplyDelete
A weird thing to be grateful for- I'm so glad that we are on the top of the food chain. Can you imagine walking around, always terrified something is going to eat you? Yikes!ReplyDelete
Good teachersReplyDelete
Picture books!ReplyDelete
Along that same line, fun children's books.ReplyDelete
Hey, Laga rediscovered the November Challenge! From November!ReplyDelete
I'm thankful for long weekends!!!
I'm grateful for ice cream!ReplyDelete
And pie ;).ReplyDelete
I'm grateful for dragons.ReplyDelete
Seconded, seconded, seconded!ReplyDelete
I'm grateful for imagination!


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A tiny dog that fought with a coyote and was feared dead earlier this week was found more than 30 miles from where she was last seen by her family.
Cricket, a 12-pound Jack Russell terrier that went missing early Monday morning, ran more than 30 miles "as the crow flies" to within sight of a birth clinic her owner, Augustine Colebrook, used to run.
A tearful and overjoyed Colebrook said Cricket, whose head and neck are covered in puncture wounds from a coyote's teeth, has not left her side since they were reunited.
Colebrook reported on social media that Cricket had journeyed from near Stewart Avenue and Thomas Lane in Medford to Redwood Circle in Grants Pass.
"Everyone says dogs are supposed to have this crazy sense of direction. She ran all the way and passed out within view of my old clinic. I spent a lot of hours there with her, waiting for babies to be born in the middle of the night, and she spent a lot of time there as a puppy," Colebrook said.
"We closed in April 2016 and we haven't been back, but it definitely could be perceived to her as her home."
Cricket was found by a vet technician, Sara O'Brien of Grants Pass, who knew how to treat Cricket for dehydration and for her puncture injuries.
Cricket went missing Monday after Colebrook awoke around 4:30 a.m. to a screaming sound and witnessed Cricket fighting the coyote, which took off when Colebrook screamed.
Colebrook, whose family is moving to the East Coast next week, said she was in disbelief that the dog, after enduring the coyote attack, would run 30 miles "trying to find home."
"I just couldn't imagine that after being missing for that long, after those circumstances, that I would find her. No matter what happens, she always comes when I call her. When I couldn't find her, I didn't think she had survived," Colebrook said.
"I think she was in shock and just running until she got to where she thought she would be able to find me."
Colebrook said she had been heartbroken to think of leaving the Rogue Valley without knowing the fate of her four-legged family member, a registered emotional support animal. While Cricket usually provides emotional support for Colebrook, the tables have turned, Colebrook said.
"She looks like she's going to make a full recovery in terms of her injuries, but her eyes look different after what she's been through. She has a level of fear and anxiety I've not seen before, and she's staying really close," Colebrook said.
"A whole lot of my functionality is because of Cricket. We're both kind of a mess right now, but I would have been devastated for a really long time to have lost her."
Colebrook said Cricket, a common sight at the Medford Barnes and Noble where Colebrook spends time working online, is now a local celebrity.
"We were shopping for my daughter's graduation dress, and two people stopped us and said, 'Oh, my God, is that Cricket?' And I've had people from Australia and even Israel checking in to see if we found her," Colebrook said.
"Everyone is just really happy to know that she's OK. It's just a good reminder that life is really so much bigger than the moment we're in right now."
— Reach Medford freelance writer Buffy Pollock at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This is the best way to describe this duo. The plan was to have a newborn session for this (big) little guy and to include his sister. Mom had ideas. I had ideas. The kids however had their own ideas. Ha!
With some patience with the baby, including some modification to our set up (think mom sweating under a blanket to hold baby, while I do my best to keep the back ground clean and use my editing skills to mask everything else) and some jumping jacks, squats (her idea), crazy dance moves to get out some energy of the big sister, we were able to get a few keepers.


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|Short-eared Owl - near Ashby de la Zouch
|Short-eared Owl, with prey
|Short-eared Owl - near Ashby de la Zouch
|Short-eared Owl, with prey
Terrific results Richard considering the poor light conditions. Looking forward to some more when you get them in good light!ReplyDelete
Thank you Paul. I'm hoping to find some free time and fine weather soon. However, getting both at the same time is proving a little difficult at the moment!!!ReplyDelete
Very nice images Richard.ReplyDelete
Thank you Mike. However, I feel the need to do rather better than this! Maybe I'll get lucky!ReplyDelete
Nice one Richard - lovely images of what must have been a thrilling encounter. I'm yet to even see one, although, like you, free time has not been abundant of late.ReplyDelete
Thank you Christian. You'd think that, being a retired person, I'd have all the time in the world to go birding. However, I seem to be spending all my time catching up with the projects that I should have done when I was working, but had no time to do!ReplyDelete
I'm pleased to report that the anonymous spam problem seems to be solvable without using word verification. I'm now just using the 'Registered Users - includes OpenID' option in Blogger settings, and I'm not getting any spam - touch wood! I've also not received any contact from people saying that they are no longer able to make comments.


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Let's start at the origins. Acupuncture has been practiced for hundreds of years, though not all in the same form. During the Stone Age, people used knifes and other sharp objects to relieve pain and disease. Warriors that were hit by arrows during battle noticed areas of relief in different parts of the body.
Monks noticed energy moving in specific areas of the body while they were meditating and eventually started recording these findings. Over time, the practice became modified and was researched in depth to bring the modern acupuncture we know and use today.
What does the treatment consist of?
A doctor will go over your health history (if they do not already know it) and assess what your health complaint is and where it's located. From there, they choose the acupuncture points that will be beneficial for your care (they might ask you to change into shorts or a gown depending on the location). The doctor will use an alcohol pad to disinfect the area and tap the needle in the point.
Wait! Needles!? Yes needles, but acupuncture needles are TINY! They are only .25
mm thick, where the average sewing needle is 1 mm thick. There is very little to no pain at all when the doctor taps the needle into the point.
So how does acupuncture work? Let's use a common condition that many people suffer from as an example. Headaches. There are many ways to get rid of a headache, including acupuncture! For example, here are three points that are used when treating headaches:
GB 20, Li 4, and Si 13. The letters stand for Gall Bladder, Large Intestine, and Small Intestine channels.
Where the numbers stand for certain points along that channel. Now these channels are used for specific reasons. Gall bladder and small intestine are used because of their location on the body. The large intestine channel is used because Li 4 is the strongest point for a condition that involves the upper body. Depending on the type of headache, other points may be used. If the headache is considered a "pounding headache" then the liver channel might be used because that channel helps control blood flow.
Can pregnant women use acupuncture? YES! Acupuncture is a great natural treatment method for pregnancy pain and is safe for both mother and baby. Acupuncture can be used to help with pain and nausea associated with pregnancy. It can also be used to help with infertility issues.
What about children? There isn't a specific age that is "too young" for acupuncture. If a child can sit still for 15-20 minutes then a doctor can perform acupuncture on them. Acupuncture is a helpful treatment for anxiety, depression, headaches, stomach pain or reflux, ADHD/ADD, and more.
Acupuncture is used for many different conditions like sinus allergies, depression, infertility, constipation, pain management, musculoskeletal disorders and more! It is a safe and natural way of treating health issues and goes hand in hand with chiropractic care!
Want to learn more about Acupuncture? Head to our website or read more in our blog!


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Bell Elected New Chairman of TOBA
Reynolds Bell Jr. will succeed Bill Casner as chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, which held its annual members' meeting Aug. 6 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Reynolds Bell Jr. will succeed Bill Casner as chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, which held its annual members' meeting Aug. 6 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Land of Believe Farm, located in central Pennsylvania about one mile from Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, will be sold at auction Aug. 21.
The 2008 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale marked the first sale in which the auction company offered buyers the opportunity to have their horses tested for exogenous anabolic steroids.
It's always of note when a Horse of the Year's first crop comes to market. But it's even more significant this year when it's 2005 Horse of Year Saint Liam's only crop.
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 568 yearlings for its 2008 Kentucky July yearling sale to be held July 14-15 at the sale company's Newtown Paddocks near Lexington. Catalogs will be available from all Fasig-Tipton offices after June 16.
The 2008 Magic Millions broodmare sale continued to post strong numbers, with the stakes-winning Shalt Not brining $1.05 million to top the second day of the five-day auction.
The most recent version of rules governing horse sales in Florida were published for public comment May 9. The regulations are being touted as a successful compromise by some of those involved in the process.
Robert Courtney Jr., who worked as an integral part of the Crestfield Farm team for 31 years, will continue raising and selling Thoroughbreds at his 195-acre Stonebridge Farm near Lexington.
Boyd Browning said the sale of Fasig-Tipton will provide more resources for the auction company, which hopes to promote the business and recruit new owners.
It's a year of big changes for the Keeneland April sale of 2-year-olds in training, which will be conducted Tuesday and Wednesday in Central Kentucky.
The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association has announced a few changes for the Sept. 29-30 Breeders Sales Co. of Louisiana auction.
An agreement signed March 10 will enable horsemen from Kentucky and Mexico to share knowledge and resources and set up commercial and technical exchanges to improve both equine industries.
By Eric Mitchell - The drumbeat to regulate steroids in sale horses is loud and growing. But if the industry only implements a ban on steroids and moves on, then it's missed an opportunity to address other important issues.
With entries for the William Inglis & Son Easter broodmare sale closing Feb. 22, Inglis confirmed the auction will feature the complete unreserved dispersal of the Swettenham Stud broodmare band.
Tattersalls has further expanded its international market, according to a Feb. 7 announcement of a partnership with the Dubai Racing Club.
More than 40 stallion seasons will be offered Feb. 14 during a telephone auction held by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders.
Tattersalls purchased the share in William Inglis and Son that was owned by Reg Inglis, former chief executive officer.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. is the only major auction firm that will regulate the use of exogenous anabolic steroids in 2-year-olds in training this year.
The Thoroughbred Owners of California would like to see national auction reform efforts taken to another level.
Though Keeneland's January horses of all ages sale was the first to be conducted under new policies allowing buyers the right to request testing for exogenous anabolic steroids in weanling and yearling purchases, there was only one such request made during the seven-day auction at which almost 1,500 horses were sold.
By - Dan Liebman - Usually, if sales of young horses are up, so too are sales of broodmares and broodmare prospects. As this issue devoted to the auction market shows, 2007 was a bit different.
Jaime Carrion, who bred champions Action This Day and Meadow Star, is dispersing his horses.
Healthy trade marked the first day of the December flat sale at Tattersalls in Ireland, during which 93 horses in training and yearlings were sold for 597,300 euros (about $859,331), with a clearance rate of 55%, an average of 6,423 euros (about $9,240), and a median of 3,000 euros(about $4,315).
Fasig-Tipton has opted not to conduct the 2008 Midlantic June 2-year-olds in training sale citing a lack of a market for a second juvenile sale in the region.
A low-key second day of the Tattersalls December foal sale in Newmarket, England, Nov. 28 was topped by a filly from the first crop of Northern Hemisphere grade I winner Starcraft.
The Nov. 27 opener of the Tattersalls December foal sale was topped by a Clodovil colt out of Inching, by Inchinor, bought for 60,000 guineas (about $130,000) by pinhooker Jimmy Murphy of Redpender Stud.
Goffs/Doncaster Bloodstock Sales in Ireland will extend blood testing for banned drugs to include anabolic steroids beginning Jan. 1, 2008.
A colt by Rock of Gibraltar was easily the top lot when he brought 240,000 euros (about $355,000) at the Nov. 21 penultimate session of the Goffs November foal sale in Ireland.
Ocala Breeders' Sale Co., which recently completed the conversion of its one-mile dirt racetrack to an all-weather SAFETRACK surface, had its first horses work over the new track Nov. 16.
Ron Mitchell provides an update from the Keeneland November Sale.
The Holy Bull mare Silent Bull brought $130,000 to top the 11th Adena Springs broodmare sale at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's Newtown Paddocks Nov. 8.
BloodHorseNOW.com reporter Ron Mitchell interviews John Sikura of Hill 'n' Dale about the world record price set today and recaps the first day of the sale from Keeneland.
A Gainsborough Stud-bred Indian Ridge colt out a half-sister to Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I) winner Lit de Justice (El Gran Senor) brought 25,000 guineas (about $54,000) to top part four of the Tattersalls October yearling sale Nov. 1.
Stan Fulton's complete dispersal of horses of racing age dominated the first day of the Barretts' fall mixed sale Oct. 29. Five of Fulton's horses brought six figures, four of those surpassing the previous Barretts record of $125,000 for a horse of racing age.
Two-time French listed winner Shujoon, by Sakhee, topped the Oct. 29 opener of the Tattersalls autumn horses in training sale in Newmarket.
Terry Finley, president of West Point Thoroughbreds, said Oct. 29 grade I winner Lear's Princess would not go through the sale ring Nov. 4 as originally planned and will be pointed toward a 2008 campaign on the racetrack.
Part two of Tattersalls' October yearling sale began in Newmarket Oct. 16 with lively trade producing figures well up on the equivalent day in 2006.
Industry participants offered their views on the recommendations released Oct. 15 by the 36-member Sales Integrity Task Force.
A public forum on preliminary recommendations by the Sales Integrity Task Force to the Kentucky legislature on auction transparency issues will be held at Keeneland Oct. 15 at 1 p.m.
Great Britain's premier yearling auction, part one of Tattersalls' October sale, got off to a solid start in Newmarket Oct. 9 when Coolmore principal John Magnier paid the top price of 500,000 guineas (about $1,067,000) for the very last lot offered.
Pussycat Doll, a five-time stakes winner and three-time grade 1 winner, will be offered at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale Nov. 4.
Gross and average registered double-digit increases while the median dipped slightly at the close of business on the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale Oct. 2 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.
The best was kept to last at the Oct. 2 second session of the Goffs Million sale in County Kildare, Ireland, when--close to the end of play--a daughter of Sadler's Wells became the dearest yearling filly ever to sell at auction in Ireland when she brought 2.4 million euros ($3.39 million).
West Point Thoroughbreds announced Oct. 2 that three of the stable's grade 1-winning fillies--Dream Rush, Irish Smoke, and Lear's Princess--have been entered in the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November mixed sale.
A son of Maria's Mon topped the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale Oct. 1 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.
Though Storm Cat was not the leading sire of horses sold at the marathon Keeneland September yearling sale, there was strong demand for his yearling fillies and for yearlings produced from his broodmares, according to statistics published as part of BloodHorseNOW's exclusive Data Digest.
Australia's leading sale company, William Inglis & Son, has postponed the 2- and 3-year-old Breeze Up sale and the October Racehorse sale scheduled for Oct. 28 because of the equine influenza outbreak.
Fasig-Tipton Kentucky announced that some big name broodmares and broodmare prospects will be offered at its November sale.
The three-day St. Leger yearling sale in Doncaster, England, concluded Aug. 30 with gains across the board for the 10th consecutive year, Doncaster Bloodstock Sales reported.
Due to the equine influenza outbreak in Australia, the William Inglis & Son Spring Thoroughbred Sale scheduled for Sept. 28 has been postponed indefinitely, the company announced Aug. 30.


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Today is December First.
My mother is turning a year older today. I feel that I can say that because she doesn't really seem too bothered when a new year rolls around. Plus, people are always telling me (and her, presumably) how young she looks and how skinny she looks and how pretty she looks. So I guess I wouldn't mind getting a year older were I in her shoes.
She raised and homeschooled my brother and sister and I (which wasn't easy... I remember being so disobedient that I was threatened with "real" school... I cried but can you blame her?). She did all the on site work for our wedding. She is currently planning other people's weddings, my sister's included (yay!). She sews, crafts, sells things that she makes and pretends that she doesn't treat my parents' three dogs like children. She's at home in South Carolina with her only (human) child who hasn't left the nest, my baby brother. I get texts several times a week from her and we talk every couple of weeks on the phone.
My mom is one of the people that I miss the most. She gets more sleep now than she ever did when I was there because I would keep her up until very late just talking. Whenever I see a Jane Austen type of movie I think of her and wish she could be there to see it with me too. When I pass fabric stores, I think of her vast collection. When I see my "old Bible" (my big red one that is completely ripped and in terrible condition) I think of her, because she bought one for me after I admired the maps in hers. I think of her teeny tiny writing and the strange little symbols she used to mark that study Bible to pieces. It always sits in the living room right where she leaves it after her early morning devotion.
I think of more things when I think of my mom, but that's what sticks out the most - that Bible. I think she'll be glad that that's what I think of but it isn't why I'm writing that. My mother loves Jesus and loves His word. Because of her, I do too.
Happy Birthday, mom :)
these are the most recent pictures i have with her... haven't seen her for a year


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SanrioTown (an official Sanrio site) is having a fun contest where you see a bunch of photo slides and you have to identify which Sanrio character is in each one. The catch is that the photos are cropped so you only see a part of each character. I posted the video below. They're currently on batch 2. Entries are due by May 31st. The winner gets a Limited Edition Hello Kitty 1GB Memory Stick.
If you think you know who is who, send an email in this format:
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Subject: HELLO KITTY'S SCRAPBOOK CONTEST BATCH TWO
slide 11 – Hello Kitty
slide 12 – Pochacco
slide 13 – My Melody
slide 14 – Little Twin Stars
slide 15 – We Are Dinosaurs
slide 16 – Dokidoki Yummychums
slide 17 – Cinamoroll
slide 18 – Mimmy
slide 19 – Pandaba
slide 20 – Minna no Tabo
See the video at SanrioTown.


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I will readily admit that, when I first started reading Exodus, I was not especially enamored with Moses. The tale of his early childhood certainly was dramatic. His mother hid him so that he wouldn't get killed by the Pharaoh's minions. After Joseph and his brothers passed away, a new pharaoh came along. Well, the new Pharaoh discovered that the Israelites were mating and were reproducing like rabbits, and he got a little panicky that his people would soon be outnumbered. He told the midwives to kill the Israelite babies shortly after they were born. So the Israelite ladies gave birth to their babies without the assistance of midwives. At this point, the minions were called in to do in the baby boys.
Well, Moses' mother didn't want her son to be a statistic so she hid her son and then put him into a basket and sent him down the river, where he was rescued by the Pharaoh's sister, who saw him as a cute little thing. So she adopted him and, oddly enough, got his mother to be his wet nurse.
Moses' upbringing wasn't really described but, at some point, Moses' temper got him into trouble because he killed an Egyptian who was tormenting an Israelite. The Israelites weren't especially pleased with Moses' actions, either. Needless to say, Moses had to leave Egypt rather abruptly. He went to the desert and started a new life. He married and became a father. He spent many years away from Egypt. He grew up but not completely. When God called on him to go back to Egypt and free his people from the Pharaoh's oppression, Moses tried to get out of the task. He claimed that he was slow of speech and unable to do what was requested of him. His brother Aaron was better at that sort of stuff. Pick Aaron! Not me!
So Moses and Aaron went to Egypt... and, at this point, the story got exciting. Moses and Aaron let the Pharaoh know that bad plagues awaited him if he did not let the Israelites go. Unfortunately, God caused the Pharaoh's heart to harden, despite infestations of flies and frogs and locusts, attacks of boils, rivers of polluting blood, and other unpleasantness.
The story has become a battle of wills... Moses and Aaron vs. the Pharaoh of Egypt. It's got heroes and villains and action and adventure. As in most stories and strife and conflict, it seems that the ordinary people get the worst of the situation. In this case, it's the Egyptians. They struggle and suffer, mainly because of the poor decisions made by the Pharaoh, who comes across as more in love with power than with his own people.
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For the second time in two days the LA Times has reported on what looks certain to be the end of Carmen Trutanich's political career.
The campaign of Carmen 'I am a lair' Trutanich is sinking lower and lower in the polls as those likely to vote increasingly recall the many reasons why they voted against him in June 2012.
According to a USC PRICE/LA TIMES poll, Trutanich is in a statistical dead heat with City Attorney candidate Greg Smith, with Mike Feuer leading the race. It's a long long way from Trutanich's early claims to be 20 points ahead of Feuer and shows a continuing trend; Trutanich in a tailspin nosedive, while Smith continues to rise.
40% of voters are said to be undecided. What will make their minds up in the days remaining before Tuesday's election is a matter of speculation, but certainly the number and frequency of campaign communications that will reach voters in the crucial pre-election days is an important factor.
Mike Feuer has reached the limit of permissible expenditure under the City's matching funds rules. A rule he has succeeded in skirting by deferring payment of his campaign consultant. Regardless, he has no more money to spend. His message has been received loud and clear by the party faithful and he has also inflicted some deep and damaging hits on Trutanich, but voters will hear no more from him.
Trutanich never had a viable budget for his campaign, spending most of his money on highly paid consultants who succeeded only in getting a couple of bloggers to endorse the failed DA wannabe. His 'game changing' tv ad has yet to be seen anywhere, other than on YouTube, and the campaign doesn't even have the money to pay people to watch it, as they did in his DA campaign disaster. He would need three times as much money as Feuer and Smith to overcome his considerable negatives, and that isn't going to happen. Trutanich is not just 'in trouble,' as reported by the Times, he is toast.
That leaves Greg Smith who has the money to not only keep up a robust tv and radio campaign, but to actually increase the number of ads voters will see and hear in the days before the election. Smith will be the only candidate voters hear from in Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and judging by the way his campaign has soared so far, he will connect with the undecideds.
The only poll that matters, of course, is the one we will get around midnight on March 5. Given the way Smith has been moving, he will surpass Trutanich. It's a Feuer-Smith runoff on May 21, and supporters are already lining up behind Smith.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Trutanich campaign sinking like Titanic
2 comments:
- Anonymous said...
BREAKING NEWS: Trutanich has pulled out of the City Attorney race following the sad news that his mother has passed away. Let's put our differences aside and send our sincere condolences to Nuch and his family at this difficult time. He has done the right thing in pulling out.
- March 3, 2013 at 10:34 AM
- Anonymous said...
He didn't withdraw.
- March 4, 2013 at 10:28 PM
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Is it possible to remove the radiator lines that go to the rear of the vehicle and back and replace them with a short loop section of heater hose without causing damage to the car?
There are two steel 5/8 inch lines that go from the radiator to above the spare tire at the
rear of the vehicle and back. These have rusted out the length of the vehicle and are
leaking coolant in the rear. Are these lines necessary or can I remove them. There doesn't
seem to be a coolant fan in that area so am curious if they are necessary.
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you wont have heat in the rear if you block it off. but it wont hurt anything no.
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So, I'm writing this post.
I think we can all agree that writing this post is not studying for Wills and Estates.
Which means that I am doing pretty much the opposite of what I should be doing right now.
What has me in such a rebellious, study-schedule-defying mood?
It's my roommate, my second of two friends, my hip attachment's 24th birthday today. So she gets a blog post. And it's gonna be all Roomz all the way.
So, The Roommate and I met in high school. Just like Hannah and I did. We all went to high school together. It was awesome.
Then we went to college at not the same place. Then we went to law school at the same place. And then we went to living at the same place. Also pretty awesome.
The Roommate is one of my very best friends. She is, like, super smart and nice and funny. And she's really pretty.
She will quote movies with me. Never stand me up for our Monday night TV dates (unless it's for a very good reason, like winning some mock trial competition). Will not judge me when I literally only eat queso for dinner. Totally gets the beauty of a good grilled cheese sandwich.
She is a BritneySpears scholar. She is giving. She understands my intense love of pancakes and will never turn down an opportunity to go to IHOP. She is a half-marathoner.
The Roommate let me get my cat, Kirby, and she puts up with her even though she doesn't have to love her psychotic tendencies like I do. She remembers to run the dishwasher. She's also really pretty.
The Roommate is the Marissa Cooper to my I-really-wish-I-was Summer Roberts. In sum: She's pretty much the best.
So, today, I took and am taking a few hours out of my day to wish her the very happiest birthday ever. I made her these cupcakes. And wrote her this blogpost. Happy birthday, Friend #2!
Sour Cream Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Buttercream and Pecan Brittle
Makes about 18 cupcakes
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
3/4 cup pecan halves, toasted and coarsely chopped
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups cake flour (or all-purpose plus 4 tablespoons cornstarch)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
2 oz coarsely grated bittersweet or semisweet chocolate
1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
3 tablespoons water
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
6 cups(ish) powdered sugar
For Brittle
- Lightly oil a cookie sheet.
- Mix water, sugar, and cream of tartar in a small saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until the sugar dissolves, about three minutes. Increase heat to medium-high and let boil until it becomes a deep amber color. This can be a bit tricky. I always take it off the heat a little before it gets to that color and then swirl it around the pan. The pan will retain heat and will deepen the color. If you keep it on the heat until you see the right color, you could end up with burnt caramel. Which would be a bummer.
- As that is boiling, toast your pecan halves in an ungreased skillet over medium heat. It should only take a few minutes. Just until they start to brown and your kitchen smells a little bit like pecans. Take them off the heat and coarsely chop them.
- Add the pecans to the caramel. Swirl to incorporate. Quickly transfer the mixture to the cookie sheet and spread it so that the pecans are pretty much evenly distributed. Leave to cool completely.
- Once cool, break into pieces. Cutting it with a knife can make it into more manageable pieces, but you don't need to have perfect squares or anything.
For Cupcakes
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Line a cupcake tray with cupcake liners.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Cream together the butter, vegetable oil, and sugar in a large bowl. Mix until it is light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time. Fully incorporate each egg before you add the next. Next, add the extracts. Mix til combined.
- Add half of the flour mixture and mix until incorporated. Mix in the sour cream. Now, add the remaining flour and mix until combined. The batter might seem a little thick. That's okay. If you're totally weirded out about it, try adding more oil or more sour cream. Or even some whipping cream if you want.
- Fold in the coarsely grated chocolate.
- Drop batter into the cupcake pan, filling them about 2/3 full.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let them cool for a few minutes in the pan. Then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
For Frosting
- Mix brown sugar and water in a small saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until the sugar dissolves, a few minutes. Increase the heat to medium-high, and let it boil until it slightly thickens. This one is a little trickier since you can't see the color change (stupid brown sugar…). Just go off of time. Give it about 3 minutes boiling before you take it off the heat. Remove from heat and cool for about 5 minutes. Then add the whipping cream.
- Cream together the butter and 3 cups of powdered sugar. Add the brown sugar mixture. Add remaining powdered sugar a cup at a time until you have a frosting that is thick enough to spread. I went all the way to six cups, but that may have been a little too much in my case. Beware: this frosting is sweet. So keep that in mind.
To assemble
- Once the cupcakes have cooled, pipe or spread some frosting on your cupcakes. You will likely have some leftover. That's probably for the best. Like I said, it's pretty sweet so don't feel like you have to use it all.
- Top each cupcake with a piece of pecan brittle.
Recipe adapted from Bon Appetit Desserts.
These are pretty delicious. But also kinda intense. The cake is tangy and somewhat dense. And the frosting is light and sweet. And the pecan brittle brings some nuttiness. They play off each other really well. Yumz.
I have yet to hear the verdict on these from The Birthday Girl, but I give my approval in the meantime. Happy birthday to one of my very favorite humans on the planet.
Now back to learning about how to avoid federal estate taxes!! Bake with love!!


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Call for Session at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans
Initiated by the Making Worlds Project1 (https://www.makingworlds.net), which investigates recent questions posed by the global turn in the humanities (including art history, literature, anthropology and history), this panel seeks papers that engage with the representational and conceptual ways in which the world was conceived, imagined and inscribed between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Through representing, collecting, utopian writing, map-making, trading, encountering and describing the world, early modern artists, traders, writers and natural philosophers were in fact bringing the world nearer to them. Taking cue from Martin Heidegger's concept of worlding as an ontological process of bringing-near—or thinging—the world, which is always both pre-existing and historically contingent, we are interested in gaining a more nuanced understanding of what the world meant epistemologically, philosophically, geographically, technologically and cosmologically in the longue durée of the early modern period. In particular, we want to explore how things, such as objects, texts, and works of artistic and visual culture, mediated and participated in world-making.
We invite papers that take up different case studies which engage with material and visual representations of the world, including those that attend to how and why in its making such conceptualizations were either totalizing, flawed, or even impossible. Please send your 150-word abstracts, with a title, keywords, and a 300-word CV to Tomasz Grusiecki (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Ivana Vranic (firstname.lastname@example.com) by May 30, 2017.
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The Making Worlds project is developing an historical understanding that will contribute to contemporary debates about the effects that living in a transcontinental world has upon forms of creativity, identity, and practice. The five-year project is based at McGill University and is supported by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Developing a new collaborative model of graduate and faculty research in the humanities is central to our approach. Our membership includes professors and students from the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of East Anglia, the University of British Columbia and McGill. Together, we will test and explore a series of case studies and methodological propositions in collaborative research and workshops.
Early modernity witnessed a massive dislocation of people, thereby opening up new ways of understanding the world. This is a period characterized by migration, violence, and death as a result of religious conflicts, expanding trade routes, missionary activities, slavery, colonization and disease among other historical concerns. Movement across bodies of water and geographical borders offered new possibilities for interactions, for testing out identities, and for experimentation with various forms of culture. Making Worlds aims to investigate this expanding image of the world by focusing on artistic creativity, and the ways in which imagining, digesting and translating worlds, broadly construed, have been central to their making and remaking. The focus on art—on producing and engaging with it, on self-presentation and performance—foregrounds the critical creative and imaginative processes involved in making worlds.
We aim to develop a series of interrelated accounts of movement, migration, and invention through and within cosmopolitan spaces such as cities, ports, ships, trading posts, markets, exhibition sites, gardens, menageries, collections, inns, taverns, warehouses. These are spaces that are open to becoming something new, provisional instead of fixed in their form; they are not inherently hierarchical nor merely commercial, but inflected by global relations of power; they are spaces in which distance and presence are brought into consideration with each other. Such spaces, we contend, have much to teach us about how cross-cultural exchanges and artistic entanglements occurred in the early modern world.
As per RSA guidelines, proposals must include the following: paper title (15-word maximum), abstract (150-word maximum), keywords, and a very brief curriculum vitae (300-word maximum). See http://www.rsa.org/general/custom.asp?page=2018NOLA


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1. When you pass the salt, do you automatically send the pepper with it?
Well, since I'm by myself, there's no need to pass the salt or pepper or anything else for that matter. And since I don't really like salt (which can make things difficult since sodium is required by our bodies), I don't use it on anything anyway.
2. How many fingers do you usually type with?
All of them. I still type the old fashioned way, like I learned in my typing class in high school.
3. Do you keep interesting coins when you run across them?
Yes, I do. At one time, I was a fairly active coin collector, but not so much any more. I still keep the unusual or interesting ones.
4. Did you enjoy September, or did it fly by too quickly?
No, I didn't particularly enjoy it. I didn't particularly dislike it, either. It's just another month to me.
5. If I could _________, I'd get more done each day.
Quit work. Or stay off Facebook, take your pick.
Now, if you will excuse me, I'm off to watch some more Walking Dead.


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An arraignment is scheduled Tuesday in Santa Ana for an Orange County man charged with killing his girlfriend and their two young sons.
It has been three months since the alleged murders, and the bodies of the two boys have still not been found.
Prosecutors have charged Shazer Fernando Limas with the murders of 1-year-old Fernando, 3-month-old Emmanuel and the boys' mother Arlet Hernandez Contreras, 31. Investigators believe the three were killed in their Orange apartment.
The mother's stabbed body was found under a tarp last April in an industrial area of Los Angeles County. She remained unidentified until Orange police checked with the county coroner.
In May, police used cadaver dogs to search for the boys, combing through two Orange County landfills where waste haulers dump trash from the family's apartment complex. But the bodies of the two have, so far, not been found.
Limas is being held at the Orange County Jail without bail. He faces arraignment on three murder charges.


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MANILA, Philippines – The peso gained strength on Wednesday, along with most currencies in the region which ended higher after oil prices fell below $128 per barrel.
The peso closed at P44.02 to the dollar, 59 centavos higher than P44.61 on Tuesday.
Trading volume at the Philippine dealing system was heavy at $1.467 billion.
This was the highest trading volume recorded since the spot market started using the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corp. (PDEX) system.
Traders said, hoewver, that the currency appreciation was merely due normal trading activities and that no real money was flowing in.
Observers said the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) was seen participating in the market, putting in as mych as $600 million on the buy side, to ease the currency's volatility.
"We just make sure there is an orderly movement in the adjustment of the peso, regardless of whether it's going up or going down," said Central Bank Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo.
Traders do not expect the peso to sustain its strength and anticipates a correction as it has already appreciated about P2 in the past two weeks. – GMANews.TV


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Knowing, Rudy, Michael, Life…
I stopped myself this evening from reading any of my other emails after reading the blog of "Astrology Mon Ami" on Word Press as I felt the feelings come together to help me to finish sorting through this last week of truly feeling and knowing things are about to happen. Though this is helpful because it allows me to prepare for the events that then follow… It is a whole lot to wrap my mind around, and be fully okay with.
Last Sunday I felt the urge to go see a long standing cowboy friend of mine, to show him my new truck and just have a general friendly talk. As I pulled into his place I found it rather quiet, not like the usual quiet that occurs when one visits and the owner is absent. This was more of a blanket of calm, awaiting silence before the next page is turned. Feeling myself destined for another time for this meeting, I drove on back home, to find images of him frequenting my mind. With such urgings I went to call him and discovered when my phone had updated the other day… his number had been lost.
Not one to easily be thwarted when there were such internal urgings. I chose to go on Facebook and connect with him there, where when I went on line a mutual acquaintance connected with me about there was being a benefit for this cowboy who was now in the hospital. When I asked what was up, she gave me the news, he had been having problems and they were running tests that he needed prayers and which hospital he was in. So by Wednesday night I made plans to go the following evening to see him, going to bed that night with my next day fully planned out how to get done with my stuff early with plenty of time to visit with him.
Thursday morning found me deep in a dream where I was visiting him and he was telling me how well I was doing as a trainer, coach and teacher. Plus what a great ability I had in healing that I needed to be more confident about. I woke up feeling really positive about the dream and our visit later that day. Went to work, all things just flowing together, everyone on time, ease of traffic, checked my bus back in and hurried home to get my chores and horses tended to. When to my shock the phone rang and a friend was calling to tell me the cowboy had passed away earlier that morning…
I sat with the remembrance of his last visit, the dream and the reality of now. There was no sadness, I knew him well enough to know he truly loved living life. He would be the type to go quickly, get on with whatever the next thing would be. Just the rest of the day I kept feeling his energy as I would ask for things with whatever horse I was on and felt this encouraging sense of what would make it better or easier. Then the getting in touch with those I knew who would appreciate knowing when and where the services were.
To then find my newest filly in training limping, holding her leg yesterday morning, which found me wrapping it with magnets and turning her into a bigger pen so she could have more space to move about since standing still was causing it to swell and movement is life. As I came home last night to check on her, I find my old dog has done something to his back paw. I get him to sit down while I investigate it and find the last outside pad hot and tender to the touch, with him nudging my inquiring hand away. In finding nothing bleeding, no definite sight of an intrusive injury, I set up his heat lamp, fix him up comfortable, feed all the critters and go to bed.
To wake up this morning to a cool, soft gray, comfortable foggy morning, and as I walk out to feed, my old dog is now dragging that same paw. I hurry up and check him, then quickly feed the horses and the dogs. With him just sitting there waiting on me with these really sad, tired eyes. So I sit, I talk to him, I have this long, loving reassuring (to me and to him) conversation of how great our almost 10 years have been. How awesome a coyote defender he has been and what a wonderful job of being my best friend and guardian he has done. If it is his time to go, I understand, if not help me to know what to do next. He lays there for a while, big soft eyes searching mine, then he sighs, gets up, moves over, turns around, lays down and sighs again like all of this is just so much more than he can help with.
I leave him to go get my coffee, breakfast and periodically check on him, to find he has moved around several times. Once to lay looking out at the pens, then in the direction of the other dogs and the last time I look out he is laying on his big old paws looking at the house. I ask my youngest as he walks out the door to go check on him, as I don't see him even wiggle an ear when the door opens. Even before he touches him I know, Michael is gone…
Wow, in a week, all these sensing, knowing, advance information. Two longtime friends, both massively in love with living life to the fullest, neither one the type to slow, down and just wait to get old. I get it. I know life is about living, it is about moving forward, loving with all we have and that means enough to let them go… however, wherever and whenever they choose. I appreciate my ability to sense things, really I do, I am just so very aware of all that I have learned about how I can choose at each moment to love what is going on and understand it… because even in death it is what is…LIFE!
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A beautiful Brahmin handbag. I love it; don't have anything like it and it's a very special gift. Thanks, all of you!
A large matted space shuttle launch photograph signed by co-workers. I traveled to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to work during 16 shuttle launches while I was at NASA.
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Last month, a group of ladies got together to celebrate the aforementioned nuptials of my sister and her man! It was super fun, and I am suddenly wishing I could do it all over again. (Side note: If you are looking for an amazing spa in the South Bay LA area, please check out Terranea. Wow. Just WOW.)
Since I'm the maid of honor, I planned the whole shebang, and knew I wanted to make a fun gift to give the gals. Who doesn't love party favors, am I right? Well, I found this cute bachelorette survival kit on Pinterest (home of all things awesome), and I decided it would be the perfect way to set the mood.
Taking cues from the wedding website I designed, I created a pretty label, and finished it with a "proceed with caution" stamp on the back. Then, I made cool "If lost, please return _____ to Hermosa Beach House" (our hotel) cards and filled the goody bag with treats to get us through the weekend. Contents included Band-Aids, Purell, Happy Hippos, Burts Bees lip balm, gum, Pepcid AC to help with the redness, and Advil (lifesaver!). A little peckerfetti, and we were in business!
I love the way the bachelorette favors turned out, and they were a big hit with the ladies too! Definitely a fun way to get the party started.
P.S. Meet Peter Pecker. He's kinda incredible.


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Here's the ultimate character profile page!
Age: 10
Current Actor: Zach Callison
Matthew loves to tinker and solve mysteries with his friend Emily. He also likes hanging around Whit's End. He is the second youngest in the Parker family.
Name: Olivia Parker
Age: 13
Current Actor: Kelly Stables
Olivia is the oldest of the three Parker children. She often loses her temper and can't stand being annoyed by Camilla. She once dyed Camilla's hair purple and got into a banana fight.
Name: Camilla Parker
Age: 8
Current Actress: Sydney Shiotani
Camilla is the youngest of the Parker family and loves sports. She sometimes annoys her siblings (a lot).
Age: Unknown
Current Actress: Christina Puccelli
Emily is an amateur detective who loves solving mysteries with her best friend Matthew. She has a crush on Buck Oliver
Name: Barrett Jones
Age: Unknown
Current Actor: Andy Pessoa
Barrett is a talented musician who has a crush on Pricilla Peterson and enjoys playing Verminoids. His sister is Emily.
Name: Jay Smouse
Age: Unknown
Current Actor: Whit Hertford
Although Jay isn't that much of a bully he sure does like to pick on people. He has a friend named Vance and a cousin named Cindy.
Name: Vance King
Age: Unknown
Current Actor: Jason Marsden
Vance is the meanest bully on AIO. He's also an A+ student which makes teachers suspect him less.
Age: Unknown
Current Actor: Paulie Rojas
Valerie is the probably the only girl bully that has ever been on Odyssey. She plays mean practical jokes and brags about how "great" she is.
Name: Nelson Swanson
Age: Unknown
Current Actor: Georgina Cordova
Nelson is Valerie's brother. He is often bullied by Valerie. He loves science.
Name: Priscilla Peterson
Age: Unknown
Current Actor: Gatlin Green
Priscilla plays the flute. She has a crush on Barrett and enjoys acting.
Name: Ryan Cummings
Age: Unknown
Current Actor: Adam Wiley
Ryan loves playing basketball and tinkering. He is part of a secret club of tinkerers. He is also the mayor of kidsboro and he enjoys history.
I will be updating this page soon.
Character Profiles
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J Crew sweater (old)–Zara statement necklace (old)–navy courds (old)–Fossil Sydney crossbody bag (old, similar here)–Loren Hope Sarra cuff in crystal—Loren Hope Carrie bangle in crystal—Sole Society Natalee flats
Photos by Rohini V
This outfit is more casual than what I usually wear, but I decided to have a bit of a 'dress down' day at work. This sweater is oversized and comfy, but the cool pattern on it really caught my eye. I added the statement necklace to dress things up a bit, and (or course), my favourite Loren Hope bracelets!
Linkups on: Ginger Side of Life, Pearls and Twirls, Pink Sole, Rhea et Cetera, Still Being Molly, More Pieces of Me, Dallas Style Blog, I do deClaire, The Fashion Canvas, Elegantly Dressed & Stylish


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I've been asked for the following recipes so here they are:
great grandmother's fudge
(the best in the world)
1 Stick (1/2 cup) butter
4 1/2 cups sugar
1 can evaporated milk
Bring these to a boil and boil five minutes and add 2 tsp. vanilla.
Pour this hot mixture into large bowl containing 16 oz. Hershey milk chocolate bars, 12 oz. chocolate chips, 1 large jar (0r two small ones) of Marshmallow cream, and 2 cups walnuts. Mix well. Pour into large, greased pan and chill.
2 cups flour
2 cups cornmeal
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 tsp. salt
7 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs
2 cups milk
2/3 cups oil
Mix dry ingredients. In separate bowl mix eggs, milk and oil. Add to dry mixture and fold in carefully (if it's mixed too much the cornbread is dry and tough). Bake 20-25 minutes at
400 degrees. This makes a good breakfast with butter and syrup. Note: this recipe is doubled, which I always did for the family.
hawaiian haystacks
Cook chopped boneless, skinless chicken breasts and chopped onion in oil in skillet. Add Cream of chicken soup (1 or 2 cans, depending on how many people you're feeding).
To serve, put the following on your plate depending on what you like:
chow mein noodles
chow mein noodles
cooked rice
chicken/soup mixture from above
grated cheese
chopped tomatoes
green onions
pineapple chunks or tidbits
coconutsliced almonds


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To show there is absolutely no correlation between talent and character, the following are some leadership quotes from Charlie Sheen courtesy of www.comcast.net. I use the term "leadership" loosely but the reality is that this man has a tremendous amount of influence over those in his life.
- "I am on a drug. It's called 'Charlie Sheen.' It's not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off, and your children will weep over your exploded body. Too much?"
- "They were like 'AA this' and I was like 'bye bye that'."
- "I just don't do it (relapse). I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren't special. People who don't have tiger blood and Adonis DNA."
- "Rock bottom? That's a fishing term. Doesn't Jimmy Buffett sing 'Down to rock bottom again?' Doesn't he? Love me some Jimmy Buffett."
- "I demand that these questions be answered (about going back to work), because until they are, we're just sitting there like Winnie the Pooh over there. That's how I feel. I am that happy. Look at that smile on his perfect face."
- "Whatever … If they want me in it, it's a smash (Major League 3). If they don't, it's a turd that opens on a tugboat."
- "Clearly I have defeated this earthworm (Men producer Chuck Lorre) with my words — imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists."
- "News flash: I am special, and I will never be one of you. I'm going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view."
- "I'm tired of pretending I'm not a total b*****n' rock star from Mars."
- "And then what, what's the cure? Medicine? Make me like them? Not gonna happen. I'm bi-winning (as opposed to bi-polar) — I win here and I win there."
- "If you're a part of my family, I will love you violently."
- "I spent close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. And the gratitude I get is this charlatan (Lorre) chose not to do his job, which is to write. Clearly someone who believes he's above the law."
- "I believe that chivalry is not dead. It's just been in a coma for a long time."
- "The run I was on made Sinatra, Jagger, Richards, all the others look like droopy-eyed, armless children. It was epic."
- "I have a disease? B******t. I cured it with my brain."
- "My success rate (on curing himself) is 100 percent. Do the math!"
- "There's a new sheriff in town. And he has an army of assassins."
- "I have a grandiose life. I embrace it. Sorry my life is so much more b****in' than yours. I planned it this way."
- "I'm insulted (about the show's hiatus). I am confused. But these resentments, they are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber. Want to go to war. Let's go to war."
- "Every plan I have is the best plan in the room."
- "Look what I'm dealing with, man. I'm dealing with fools and trolls."
- "An unwanted relative being given cold coffee at 9pm every night." – On his eight years on 'Two And One-Half Men'
- "I was referring to Chuck by his real name, because I wanted to address the man, not the bulls**t TV persona. So you're telling me, anytime someone calls me Carlos Estevez, I can claim they are anti-Latino?" – when referred to as an anti-semite.
- "Stay off the crack. Drink chocolate milk."
- "Yeah, yeah, but that kinda blew up in my face … like an exploding crack pipe." when asked about doing drugs socially.
What's your thoughts about Charlie Sheen? Where do you think this is ultimately headed?
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wow look at him fly!! wjat a fabby pony Bril is
wow look at him fly!! wjat a fabby pony Bril is
If it looks and moves like a cob.. It's a warmblood!!
Peaches: Good, little bit more leg, there, lovely....That was nice, well done, don't be so hard on yourself you're doing great.
Me: SIT UP!! LEG, LEG, LEG, SIT UP! Come back round, do it again, this time try not to look so terrified. Good. KICK HIM! JUST GET ON WITH IT! EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE WALKING YOU NEED TO KEEP PUSHING. PUUUUUUUSH! SIT UPPPPPPPPPPP!
Peaches is a far nicer instructor than me
Only when things do not interest one, can one give a really unbiased opinion; no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is absolutely valueless.
Oh how I miss you, my symphony, played the song that carried you out.
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Well done! You're a damn sight braver than me, they look huge! He's a lovely boy too
WOW some of those jumps looks HUGE!!!!! Lovely photos
R.I.P Mickey - 1996 - 31st May 2012
Some of those jumps look great and others better! You should be very pleased with your achievements.x
Cracking photo's and what a lovely, genuine little pone! Loved the photo of him jumping up the bank with his back legs tooked up so neatly!
Well done - wish I had the smallest percentage of your bravery!


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Hallöchen Leute!
My worst fears about blogging have come true: I just don't sit down often enough and do it. I know myself to be a massive procrastinator but this is just ridiculous. There have been so many things going on recently and I wanted to document it in all its glory, not some wishy-washy, half-remembered version several months later.
So to jump straight back in, here's a little post about the wonderful Autumn Green Market 2016 that took place last weekend here in Berlin.
The Green Market was started in 2014 and is put on over 2 days every season. It has a really friendly and laid- back vibe with seasonal products, food trucks, vegan cosmetics, gift ideas, plants, cocktails and vegan beers, DJs and live music. It's a great place to eat, chat to stall holders, find new vegan products, eat, relax and eat again. For me it's so nice to be among similarly-minded people for an afternoon, without having to double check the ingredients of things, or falsely assure the people you're with you just love chips and salad, honestly.
We decided to take our (relatively) new rescue dog- Siggi- with us after checking that dogs were definitely wilkommen. He's still getting used to city life but once he discovered the kind organisers had put up a little Vierbeiner Bar (four legged bar), he was in his element!
As my highlight is always the food, I wanted to try as much as possible. Once Siggi had curled up in the sun, I hit the Vegan Piroggen truck for our starters. I wasn't really sure what to expect with these; I had the potato filling and T got the mushroom one. On balance his was better (flavour-wise), but mine was hotter. Either way, they were the perfect accompaniment to our Berliner Berg beer…
By this point burger envy had set in. I could see so many people sitting around munching on very tasty looking creations so I set off to hunt down my main course. T requested a Vöner with tahini/garlic sauce, and I admit it stopped me in my tracks for a second. If you've ever had one of these beauties, you'll know why I paused: Vöner makes such good vegan döners that they're always my default option. Still, I thought, you've got to try new stuff once in a while, so I left the boys to their basking and queued up for a tempeh burger…
…and i kind of wish I hadn't. It's not that it was bad, far from it. The bun was soft, the BBQ sauce was spot on, and all the extras like coleslaw and nachos were grand. It's just that the tempeh itself was boring. I have only recently got into cooking with this stuff myself, so I'm always on the lookout for ways to make it taste. And this just didn't. Of course, to make matters worse T sat next to me munching his Vöner with all its garlicky goodness wafting into the air. Next time I'll go with my gut.
Next should have been pudding. Not pudding as the Germans know it (it freaks them out when I say pudding instead of dessert) because for them a pudding is like a trifle. I say should have been because I was still hungry and short of my try-new-food-goal, but Siggi decided he was done with being glared at by tiny handbag dogs, so we joined the straggle of parents with tantrum-throwing toddlers and made our way out. We almost persuaded each other to buy a box of Brammibals donuts on the way out, which are fast becoming an addiction of ours, but we managed to restrain ourselves. Schade. A weekend just isn't a weekend without a vegan donut.
All in all a great afternoon. I'm stocked up on birthday presents for the next months, Siggi stuffed his face on vegan dog treats, and T stuffed his pockets with free vegan stickers. Winners.
Vielen Dank und bis nächstes Mal, Green Market!
Thanks for reading, and feel free to tell me how you cook tempeh; I'm probably doing it all wrong!


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Here is an interesting interview from the October 30 issue of The Globe and Mail:
Picard A. 'When we began, we were almost pariahs' : A research pioneer [Dr. Dave Sackett] tells André Picard about the battle for evidence-based medicine
Excerpts: Dave Sackett, a professor emeritus at McMaster University in Hamilton, has been awarded the prestigious Gairdner Wightman Award, which is given to a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine … Dr. Sackett is a pioneer in the field of clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, which aim to teach health professionals how to separate good research from bad and apply it to the individual needs of their patients. He is also a world expert on the design and implementation of clinical trials … I see the Gairdner not as an individual award but as an award for clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine. It's an award for a delightful bunch of talented people and the credit goes to all of them, not to me. So I accept this on their behalf.
More about the recipient
Listen to Dr. David Sackett on "The Agenda" with Steve Paikin
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Supplies : Pattern Paper by Sassafras (bird print), Scenic Route (grid), and P Inc (dots); Cardstock and Brads by CTMH; Thickers letter stickers by American Crafts
The other day I was trying to craft and just couldn't get my mojo going so I decided to look up more sketches. I didn't want to go for my usual PageMaps and IB won't have the new sketch up until the 15th so I just picked a link on my side bar that sounded good and Getting Sketchy happened to be it. And happy day, the March sketch was totally an inspiration! If you make a layout using the sketch and link it before the 25th you'll also be entered into a random prize drawing ^_~
These are pictures of my girls in the tunnel at the park. Their Aunt was playing peek-a-boo with them and taking pictures. They are a bit blurry but way too cute to toss. Using some fun Sassyfras paper and some old scraps from summer layouts, this page came together in a jiffy and I love how everything on the page helped bring out the fun in the funky photos. Recently they completely tore out the old playground and installed a really nice new one in our complex. Both the girls love it! The last time I took Audrey by herself since Cait was in school. She wanted to go down the slide but wouldn't and I couldn't figure out why because she just kept pointing down the slide. So I got closer to her and asked what was wrong and she said "It's stuck!" "What's stuck?" I asked back. "The BUG!" There was this teeny tiny gnat sitting almost half way down the slide! I have no idea how she could have possibly spotted the thing before hightailing it down the slide but I brushed it away and suddenly all was well, lol.
The funny thing is I think they get that from me because Cait does it too! She notices bugs that you have to hunt for to even see, lol. Anyway, when Paul and I were first together I always did that. I'd see a tiny gnat on the wall while we had the lights off and were watching TV, or I'd see the itsy light brown spider crawling over the tan carpet. It would drive Paul crazy because I'm also terrified of bugs! Yes I know they are smaller, I am big, but still.... they terrify me. Since I've had the girls I don't see them as often and I've really had to just suck up my fear and take care of the little suckers. Of course this has good ramifications and bad. While I don't want Audrey and Caitie to be too afraid of bugs (I pretend I'm not scared when I have to get them, unless they are big and then there is just no hiding it), I also didn't want them to really like them either and Audrey has more than once brought potato bugs and beetles in the house, lol! Though I seriously wasn't laughing when it happened. ^_~ Anyway, thanks for visiting and reading my bug ramble, lol. Have a fabulous Friday!!


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Reconsidering PC leadership: Dunderdale
Kathy Dunderdale, who was sworn in as Newfoundland and Labrador's premier earlier this month, acknowledged Monday she's considering seeking the job on a permanent basis.
Although Dunderdale had insisted she had no intentions to enter the forthcoming Progressive Conservative leadership race when she was sworn, she said Monday she is reviewing her options, in part because of calls for her to run.
"I opened the door a crack on it last week only because I've been under so much pressure to do so from within the caucus and from across the province generally," Dunderdale said at Government House, where she watched the swearing-in ceremony for David Brazil, who won the Conception Bay East-Bell Island byelection on Dec. 2.
"It's been quite overwhelming and it's very nice. But, I got to tell you, I still haven't had a lot of time to think about it but nothing has changed at this point in time."
There has been something of a vacuum in the unofficial race to replace Danny Williams, who retired from office on Dec. 3. CBC News reported Friday that Health Minister Jerome Kennedy is not likely to enter the race. A party leadership convention is expected in the spring.
Finance Minister Tom Marshall and Education Minister Darin King have indicated they are mulling over whether to enter the race. Separate online campaigns have formed to lobby Senator Elizabeth Marshall, Tory organizer Tim Powers and backbencher Steve Kent.
Dunderdale said her decision will depend on support from the caucus and cabinet, as well as the agenda of anyone else who decides to run.


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Playmates Toys Launches New Limited Exclusive Ben 10 Toy Line at Toys "R" Us
The Ben 10 toy line from Playmates Toys is now available as a limited exclusive at Toys "R" Us stores nationwide and online at toysrus.com. The full collection will be available at all other major retailers in August. The line...Read More