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Peanuts – based on the number of people
Water – to fully submerge the peanuts
Salt – per your taste
This is one of my favorite snacks. Peanuts when boiled are very rich in antioxidants. Your whole family can enjoy this snack! You will need a steel pressure cooker or a steel pasta pot for this recipe.
Get the peanuts that are raw (slightly green). Clean them thoroughly in water to remove dirt or grime and cut any extensions to the peanuts. Transfer the peanuts into a pressure cooker or a pasta pot (I prefer to slightly crack the shells). Then fill the cooker or pot with water until all the peanuts are submerged in it. Then throw in salt. I prefer not to use too much salt. But, the best tasting boiled peanuts need generous amount of salt. Then cover the lid and pressure cook for about 20 minutes or until the peanuts are done. If you are using a pasta pot, it takes anywhere from an hour to three hours to boil the peanuts. After the peanuts are boiled, let them cool down in the cooker or the pot. Then drain the water and put the peanuts in a serving bowl. Once you start snacking on these it is hard to stop. So, don't make too much. This is a good snack for children also!


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Sylvester Stallone has announced he will be developing his own range of clothing.
Sylvester Stallone's 'men's lifestyle brand' called simply 'Stallone' will launch in 2012, and will take inspiration from his career defining roles as Rambo and Rocky.
Talking to Men's Week, Stallone said "Rocky, at the end of the day is a love story, while Rambo showcases the other side of masculinity, he's a loner." The line will aim to appeal to both ends of the spectrum; holding something for "the rebel and the gentleman."
Stallone's foray into fashion was apparently inspired by his weight loss for the reprisal of the 'Rambo' franchise. The actor first starred as John Rambo in 1982 aged 36 but returned to the role in 2008. He added, "I've lived a life where I know what has worked and what hasn't worked. Clothing is the first step to building a character."
A company, 'Sly, Inc.' has been set up in order to distribute the label. A 'capsule' line of jeans, t-shirts and basics will start things off, with the intention of expanding into fragrance, athletic clothing and underwear.
Summary: The brand, named Sly Inc., is owned by Stallone and veteran beauty and retail executive Michael Henry, and is based on the style of his two most famous film characters: Rocky Balboa and Rambo.
"I thought the time is now," Stallone told Men'sWeek. "I've lived a life where I know what has worked and what hasn't worked. Clothing is the first step to building a character."
Referring to the search for the perfect Rocky outfit, he said "If he wore white and pleated pants, it would have been a whole different thing. Clothes affect one's attitude."
Among the first categories of clothing to be introduced next year will be jeans, shirts, outerwear, underwear, and watches. That will be followed by eyewear, grooming products, fragrance, activewear, and athletic shoes. The target customer will be men between the ages of 25 and 40. Cause men in their 30s really want to look like Rambo, right?!
He also added that the line will reflect the duality of man. Rocky Balboa is a romantic, and Rambo represents raw masculinity.


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Rarely does an opportunity like this come around. An opportunity to purchase a rural property on 21.5 fully fenced acres in the beautiful North Boambee Valley, less than 10 minutes to the CBD. On offer is a quality owner built three bedroom family home. Perfectly positioned with a Northerly aspect to capture the Winter sun and Summer breeze. Enjoy uninterrupted hinterland country views from the kitchen, dining room, lounge and rear verandah. The large open plan, country style kitchen has loads of storage and bench space ideal for entertaining or preparing family meals. The master bedroom is complete with ensuite, ceiling fan and large built-in robe. The second and third bedrooms both have built-in robes and ceiling fans. This property could be used for a number of purposes for example primary production utilising the irrigation licence, horses, cattle, housing / repairing small machinery in the 18m x 9m x 5m high shed which also has three phase power useful for large welders and compressors. The large under house workshop would be ideal for the home handyman or tradie as well. The acreage is serviced by 3 dams and a 90,000 litre water tank provides water supply to the house. Other features include double remote-control garage, reverse cycle air conditioning in the lounge room, citrus, macadamia, pecan and mango trees, NBN connection and more. Located this close to the CBD, schools and services, 328 North Boambee Road is well worth the inspection.
Land size: 8.7ha approx - Rates: $3,553pa (approx)
328 North Boambee Road, North Boambee Valley, New South Wales, 2450, Australia


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Middle Leadership Presentation Potential next stages IEP's, ILP's, subject specific, Long term, Short term, medium term, Annual reviews, EFA funding, tutorial, too many targets!
No central area for targets to be collected
Improving clarity between teachers and Teaching
Assistants (TA's) What inspired the idea? Gather courses and long term aims
Collect targets from teachers
Create drop box spreadsheet to present targets for each individual student which teachers/ TAs can access
Share and present to teaching staff and then TA's. What to do and how Lead teachers and SMT to discuss layout and appropriateness of proposal
College teaching staff as first target audience before distributing across the academy. (Primary, Secondary and College)
At present approx 30 students are being used for the targets. Who to enlist and how many to involve Extend to Primary, Secondary and GFE
departments of college
Increasing amount of targets in each subject
Regular reviewing - achieved? including
moving from generic targets to individual
focused targets. Mark Stocks
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Exeter Deaf Academy Middle Leadership Presentation Baseline - Start point/ What did I do? Identify the subjects and students to start with.
Collect data on both qualifications and targets
Set up for College students as primary targets.
Set up Spreadsheet with drop boxes and share data with all. Initial impact - small - all targets are currently collected
in one place and accessible to all.
Scope - larger impact, more clear to see targets,
accessible for Ofsted. Less emails and chasing targets.
TA's - more focus on targets and what students aiming
for. Impact so far - What happened as a result. Tutorial targets, ILPs, Course targets are all
in one central location.
Teachers can now access and find targets easier
without having to email colleagues
TA's will have opportunity to explore and see
what students are aiming for.
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Bariatric Bellyaching
It's my journey with Lap Band. Wanna come?
Today's socks come courtesy of Lane Bryant circa 2010 or 2011. I normally don't buy socks there because they are GINORMOUS (and that is saying a lot bc I wear a size 11) but I liked that these go with everything.
I LOVE those socks. Actually, I pretty much ONLY wear fun socks except for exercise because all athletic socks are pretty boring.


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Tina Nealon Ilapit is a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend and my cousin. She has been with the love of her life, Bruce, since she was 13. They celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. She has 2 beautiful children, Quinn, who will be 11 in a few days and Laina, who is 9. She is beautiful, generous and a joy to be around.
She is fighting for her life.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 24 and again at 31. The first time took a lump, the second time took both her breasts. The threat of cancer returning took her ovaries and uterus. In May of this year, it took a good chunk of her liver when she was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. She is 39. Cancer has been stealing pieces of her for the last 15 years. She has suffered through all of this with dignity and grace. Her thoughts are for her family and friends.
Here is my request to you:
Pray for Tina
Pray for her family, pray for her friends. It doesn't matter if you're religious or not, good thoughts go a long way for healing. You might not know her, but she could be your mother, your sister, your daughter, your wife, your cousin. She is in the hospital right now fighting and needs all the positive energy she can get. Her body may be frail, but her will is strong. She is amazing and I love her.
Update 2/19/11:
Tina passed away yesterday evening surrounded by her family. Thank you for all the well wishes.


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A wedding invitation is not just about informing people about the date, time and venue of the wedding ceremony, but the wedding card is an announcement of the love and holy union of two individuals. Therefore, it is important that the wedding card should be able to capture the true essence of the relationship between the marrying couples. The couples' logo that is drawn on the wedding cards is supposed to be the symbol of the love between the couple and therefore, the making and designing of this logo can prove to be a very daunting task for many wedding card designers. They not only have to ensure that this logo looks pretty on the card, but they also need to make sure that it communicates the emotions correctly.
Below are a few tips which can help you in creating a perfect couple's logo.
Similar To Dating Profile
While creating this logo, you should treat it like creating a dating profile. You need to mention all your likes and dislikes like what are your hobbies, do you love pets, etc. By finding out about these likes and dislikes of the couple and incorporating them in the logo, you are able to give the logo a very personalized feel.
Wedding Theme
If you have planned a theme wedding, then it becomes important that the theme of the wedding should be reflected in the wedding card and the logo that is placed on this card. Even if your wedding does not have a theme to it, still you should try to ensure that the logo and the card reflect the mood of the wedding.
Make It Fun
Weddings do not have to be about being serious all the time. In fact, weddings should be about fun and enjoying the union of two people in love. Therefore, you should try to include some fun elements in the logo, in order to give it a more relaxed feel and make it look more appealing and inviting to the people to whom the card is sent out to.
Ask For Specific Needs
Many couples want to get certain specific elements from their life included in their wedding logo. Even before you sit down and start to design the logo, you need to first find out about all the needs and expectations of the couple from the logo. At the end of the day, it is the choice and liking of the marrying couple which matters the most. You need to make sure that everything that they want, should become a part of the logo and if something is not possible, you need to patiently explain it to them, so that when you present your final logo, they do not feel disappointed because of that missing element.
Keep It Simple
It is important that in an attempt to create a masterpiece, you do not end up overdoing things and making the logo look gaudy and something that is completely different from what the couple is all about. Thus, keep your head straight and try to design a simple, yet elegant design for the marrying couple.


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Relationship Guidance - How To Get Your Ex BackDating a guy who appears pretty good? Are you pleased with the path this new partnership is heading? There are many women who feel issues are lastly heading just good in their love life and the BAM! The EX girlfriend reappears from H - - -. Well maybe she did not reappear from H - - - but it certain seems that way to you. If you man's ex girlfriend all of a sudden exhibits up once more in his lifestyle, what can you or should you do about it?
DO NOT; allow me repeat - DO NOT resort to obsessing about her. Don't start yelling and screaming at him and Lord understands DON'T begin crying to him about his ex. If you nag, whine, cling, beg or engage in behavior that seems desperate, you might extremely well ruin issues for yourself and send him back again into her arms.
Your companion should always be the 1 who lifts you up and pushes you ahead. They should be on your aspect and help you get through issues that other people wouldn't.
Web sites have subscriptions to e-mail suggestions that will help you make the alter to a clutter managed life. They also provide the book "Declutter Fast" by Mimi Tanner, a columnist specializing in marriage spells who, of requirement, branched into clutter management.
Well, the reality is, there could be many reasons why the ex is in his life. Chances are you ought to stay relaxed and refuse to really feel threatened till you at least discover out what is truly heading on. Ideally, you are working with a guy who is get more info wise and sane sufficient to be sincere and simple with you.
Join a assistance team. Some of the very best weight loss tips and diet plan guidance isn't found in a book, but comes from other individuals just like you. Becoming a member of a diet plan assistance group like PRISM or TOPS can make all the difference when your willpower begins to fade and you're tempted to toss in the towel. Whether or not you're swapping Weight Watcher recipes or discussing the new diet plan patch on the marketplace, a support group can be a tremendous assist as you create your own excess weight reduction success story.
Is your partnership lacking trust? If so, think how you can treatment that, and get back the self-confidence and coronary heart of your ex. Without trust your partnership will by no means stand the check of time, so regain it and build on it.
Women who create a powerful sexual bond with their husbands will discover they have happier more fulfilling marriages. Much more so than they could have ever dreamed possible. Your husband is much less most likely to stray and he will become so emotionally connected to you that he will do everything and something in his power to treat you like his queen.


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Welcome to my little place!
The idea for Historic Eats started in 2010 when I first got my Amazon Kindle. I noticed that there were a lot of free books available for download and many of those were old cookbooks.
I took a look at some of the recipes and found that many of them actually sounded appealing. So I decided to start making some of them in order to broaden my food knowledge.
I love history and am the author of a local history book on my city. I also love food, so I decided to combine my love of food with my love of history to create Historic Eats.
I hope you enjoy what I make. Feel free to add your own historical recipes!


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* To buyback up to $150 mln in shares from time to time
* Initiates regular quarterly dividend
* Shares off 4 pct on NYSE
May 5 (Reuters) - Domtar Corp (UFS.TO) (UFS.N) said its board authorized a share buyback program of up to $150 million in common stock, and the forestry firm initiated a regular quarterly dividend.
The first quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share will be paid on July 15 to shareholders of record on June 15, the company said.
Domtar said under the buyback program, the dual listed company is authorized to repurchase, from time to time, shares of its outstanding common stock on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions in the United States.
Last week, Domtar posted a first-quarter profit that beat market estimates, aided by price increases and higher pulp, paper and wood shipments. [ID:nSGE63J0HV]
Shares of the company fell 4 percent to $67.62 Wednesday morning on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Isheeta Sanghi in Bangalore; Editing by Ratul Ray Chaudhuri)


text: Hand-crafted, stop-motion figures come to life in this dreamlike world inspired by Native stories, in which a confined woman is liberated by grandmother spider while opaque memories are projected in an effort to restore her spirit as life nears its end. Indigo is a stop motion animation exploring themes of imagination and inner child via dolls and miniatures. Many collaborators helped sculpt the final concept and piece to reflect Indigenous principles of the medicine wheel, stories of grandmother spider mixed with personal experience. These teachings are embedded within the worlds and Indigo's journey throughout.


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Indian Football: Bhaichung Bhutia axed from All India Football Federation Technical Committee
Bhaichung Bhutia has been replaced by Shyam Thapa as the Chairman of the Technical Committee of theAll India Football Federation (AIFF).
Bhutia, and alsohis vice-Chairman Savio Messias, now finds himself out of the Technical Committee altogether. Henry Menezes is the new vice-chairman of the committee, which also includes GP Palguna, Abhishek Yadav, Pradip Dutta, Ishfaq Ahmed, Prosanto Banerjee and Sundar Raman.
However, among the new inductions across all the committees, there are several IMG members as well.
The foresaid list of IMG members in the AIFF sub-committee include Sundar Raman,Vandana Gupte (Legal Advisory Committee), Chirag Tanna, Rochak Langer (League Committee),Devang Bhimjyani (Competitions Committee),G Srinivasan (Futsal and Beach Soccer Committee),YasPatel (Development Committee) andSwati Kothari (Women's Football Committee).


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Thanks to The ODI and to Odul for the heads up. Nothing very spoilery but we'll add more if/when we get more photos etc.
"So they're filiming the show "Lost" at my school here in hawaii. And I literally just saw Matthew Fox. Coolio... "
"My sister is watching them film lost right outside her dormroom. So freaking jealous!"
"Jack drives down a street and runs into a building is all i know that happened"
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October started on a high note with the aforementioned grown up wine tasting weekend. Actually, it turned into more of a beer tasting weekend, but whatever, the grown up part was the important thing. We got to Mike and Alison's on Friday night and easily decided Cards Against Humanity would be the perfect game. Weird side note…Darryl and his lovely girlfriend joined us for the weekend. Because they are grown ups. Like real live ones. Not even college students. Nope. Like out in the working world grown ups. This is concerning because Darryl was 4 when we met Mike and Alison. Which makes me like a senior citizen I think.
Saturday was an awesome day of doing whatever we wanted, with the sole goal of drinking and eating.
I discovered my retirement home…Shady Lane. Which it seems I'll be needing soon based on these children aging so quickly.
We happened to bump into Andy! He was up there on a work trip. He was working very hard. Except he wasn't.
Due to our overwhelming yearning to be with our kids, we really had a horrible time. The end.
Sof had a color run at school as a fall fundraiser. She enjoyed it before and after, but during not so much. As soon as she got a little color in her mouth she was out. I don't blame her…yuck.
We had lots of cute before school mornings.
Especially picture day:)
And we had a handful of uncooperative ones too. Which I happen to find equally as cute.
Sof wanted to make lunches one night. Daddy got a heart sandwich(which he bit into only to find she didn't take the paper off the cheese), and Adrienne got a love note on her bag.
Sof had a birthday party for her friend Kaitlyn from cheer. She was excited to celebrate with her because the girls aren't on the same team this year. We miss this family:(
She also had an eye check-up. Turns out the glasses are doing their job,which is good to know since we're still not great at remembering them all the time.
The dairy-free bakery is right by the eye doctor, so it's always our special stop!
Sof had her Daisy Investiture ceremony. So sweet.
You can tell by the state of their hair, it was after school.
We had a couple trips to the pumpkin patch. Always meeting up with Allie! The weather was so incredible in October, there was plenty of weekends to enjoy!
The corn maze was
a lot of whining about wanting to get out exactly 2 minutes after we started while John carried Colin with a shitty diaper fun around every corner!
He is so stinkin' cute.
Kaitlyn is swimming again this year, so we got to watch a meet.
I had to go to the real bookstore to get a birthday book for Sof to bring to school. I forgot how much I enjoy that. We don't have any bookstores near us anymore, so it's rare I make the drive to go. I might need to do it more often!
I love to go out to dinner with my girls and talk about their day.
Lexi had a pink out at school to support breast cancer awareness. Is breast cancer supposed to be capitalized? I just don't know. I don't respect it that much, so no, I'm not.
Finally, Sof had a fall fair at school.
It's shocking to me what we can do in a month. Even after taking out the big events like dances and birthdays! October was beautiful weather, and some really good times.


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what a fascinating piece of news, for a man who is looking for his first clay tablet to somebody who loves history and mathematics and teaching, this is amazing news.
and this weekend I am going to go see the film on Ramanujam :)
Thirty-eight hundred years ago, on the hot river plains of what is now southern Iraq, a Babylonian student did a bit of schoolwork that changed our understanding of ancient mathematics. The student scooped up a palm-sized clump of wet clay, formed a disc about the size and shape of a hamburger, and let it dry down a bit in the sun. On the surface of the moist clay the student drew a diagram that showed the people of the Old Babylonian Period (1,900–1,700 B.C.E.) fully understood the principles of the "Pythagorean Theorem"1300 years before Greek geometer Pythagoras was born, and were also capable of calculating the square root of two to six decimal places.
Today, thanks to the Internet and new digital scanning methods being employed at Yale, this ancient geometry lesson continues to be used in modern classrooms around the world.
"This geometry tablet is one of the most-reproduced cultural objects that Yale owns — it's published in mathematics textbooks the world over," says Professor Benjamin Foster, curator of the Babylonian Collection, which includes the tablet. It's also a popular teaching tool in Yale classes. "At the Babylonian Collection we have a very active teaching and learning function, and we regard education as one of the core parts of our mission," says Foster. "We have graduate and undergraduate groups in our collection classroom every week."
The tablet, formally known as YBC 7289, "Old Babylonian Period Mathematical Text," came to Yale in 1909 as part of a much larger collection of cuneiform tablets assembled by J. Pierpont Morgan and donated to Yale. In the ancient Mideast cuneiform writing was created by using a sharp stylus pressed into the surface of a soft clay tablet to produce wedge-like impressions representing pictographic words and numbers. Morgan's donation of tablets and other artifacts formed the nucleus of the Yale Babylonian Collection, which now incorporates 45,000 items from the ancient Mesopotamian kingdoms.
Discoverying the tablet's mathematical significance
The importance of the geometry tablet was first recognized by science historians Otto Neugebauer and Abraham Sachs in their 1945 book "Mathematical Cuneiform Texts."
"Ironically, mathematicians today are much more fascinated with the Babylonians' ability to accurately calculate irrational numbers like the square root of two than they are with the geometry demonstrations," notes associate Babylonian Collection curator Agnete Lassen.


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During the Imaging section of this first year at uni, we participated in a 2 day live poster workshop. The idea was to group up and create and replicate a film poster from any generation and genre. We all decided we wanted an old horror poster to work with and ended up choosing the 1958 film, "The Crawling Eye". We liked the different elements within the poster and thought we could have a lot of fun with it. We all chipped in doing different jobs and used a variety of materials from cardboard to old pairs of tights stuffed with newspaper. We wanted the end result to look "terribly good" and I think we achieved that. We did leave out a few minor details though, as they wouldn't show up in the end photos. It was actually quite an interesting and fun experience and something I've not done before. It was nice working with people I hadn't worked with before and we had a lot of fun participating in the workshop. We also decided to use our only male group member as the main female character, as we thought it would add to our fantastic mess. We all got involved in holding up the scenery and being in the photograph, we wanted it to be very obvious that it was all being held up and together.
|These are a few photos I took of us hard at work. We worked really well together and got everything done in time. It was quite nice to be able to get back to basics and have some good old fun with paint.
|These are our final images. We wanted to include a lot of group participation and get everybody from our group into the photos. The end result was terribly good.


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When a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told him to go to hell.
That's the hardboiled opening line of The Hunter, by Richard Stark (a k a Donald Westlake). It's the book that introduced the world to the badass thief Parker, a man who lives by his own code and woe to whoever and whatever gets in his way. After years of being out of print, The University of Chicago Press has reissued the first three Stark novels of the early '60s — The Hunter, The Man With The Getaway Face and The Outfit.
After reading the first two, it's impossible to imagine anyone as Parker but Lee Marvin, who played the character (renamed Walker) in John Boorman's masterpiece, Point Blank. It's one of those times when the movies got the casting absolutely right. Marvin is Parker. Parker is Marvin. I enjoyed Mel Gibson as Parker in the underrated remake Payback, but let's face it: This Parker would stomp Mel Gibson's face in.
If it's possible to imagine, Parker is even harder on the page than he is on screen. The plot of The Hunter is essentially unchanged in Point Blank. Newly sprung from the joint where his backstabbing partners' machinations landed him, Parker is like a human blowtorch, unable to relax, unable to feel any decent human emotion. Not until he does in the partner who doublecrossed him, not until he faces down the wife who screwed him and not until he gets his share of the heist proceeds they stole from him. $45,000. Yeah, it's not much, but that's not the point. The point is: Do not mess with Parker.
The books are beautifully written, full of vivid descriptions, and the characters' psychological and even sexual motivations are more complex than you'd expect in that era and genre. Stark's spare rhythms are hypnotic. He is a master of the bullet plot, the terse pulp lingo ("the finger," "the fliff," "the busher"), the point-by-point procedural as poetry. The dialogue is tough-guy, cinematic, Warner Bros., 1940s division:
"You're an annoyance, Parker," said Bronson's heavy, angry voice. "You're an irritation, like a mosquito. All right. Forty-five thousand dollars is chickenfeed. It's a small account, for small punks with small minds. To get rid of the mosquito, all right — I'll swat you with forty-five thousand dollars. But let me tell you something Parker."
"Tell me then," said Parker.
"You're a marked man. You'll get your petty payoff, and after that you're dead whether you know it or not. I'm not going to send anybody out after you especially. I wouldn't spend the time or the money. I'm just going to spread the word around. A cheap penny-ante heister named Parker, I'm going to say. If you see him, make him dead. That's all, just if you happen to see him. Do you get what I'm talking about Parker?"
"Sure," said Parker. "Carter told me all about it. You're as big as the post office. You're coast to coast. I should look you up in the Yellow Pages."
And so it goes. What makes the novels swing, beyond the hardcase Hammett poses, is the sense of Parker as the last free man. He wants to pull enough scores to earn some laying-around bread, to put away small amounts in a string of banks, to chill in Miami in first-class hotels and pay for top-shelf women to satisfy him. Then, he'll work enough to go back to the swank life for a little longer. He doesn't live for the thrill of stealing, he steals to finance his way of life. He's careful, very methodical, he works only with people he knows, takes no unnecessary risks. Unless he really needs the dough. Or somebody messes with his code. As the Outfit (the mob, the organization, the corporation, whatever) does. Then, he'll say to hell with it and go after them with everything he's got.
The Parker of recent vintage is still a thief, will still kill you without remorse if he has to, but he seems more inclined to basic humanity than this early Parker does. In The Man With The Getaway Face, for example, Parker (and Stark) deliver a chilling, bloody coup de grace that must have seemed beyond the pale back in the early '60s. Today, it would seem routine to fans of splatter movies or David Fincher's Seven.
Perhaps what's most amazing is how Stark makes you care about the well-being of this amoral anti-hero. He's a menace, but he has a certain understandable, maybe even admirable situational ethics. It's really simple. Don't take his 45 grand. Don't mess with Parker.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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I love this time of year.
I get to enjoy all the fabulous art work of children participating in PureArtCard fundraisers.
I am ever amazed by the wonderful work the art teachers get these kiddos to produce. A giant applause to all the amazing art teachers out there and their passion for art and for passing it on to all the artists of tomorrow!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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- 14design said...
I'm a huge fan of your PureArtCards fundraiser. The childrens' creativity as the driving force behind helping their school provides these growing minds with a sense of pride and ownership. I would recommend any school consider PureArt for a fundraiser. Your quality product assortment and outstanding customer service make this a top notch fundraiser.
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- March 27, 2010 at 10:00 AM
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Naturally, you ask the government of the rich country where you live, to investigate. This is exactly what Cathy Wagner, a resident of Nova Scotia in Canada, did when she read the story. She was deeply alarmed by the story's implications for the child's natural family if the allegations it contained turned out to be true.
She would be "heartbroken" and already she was "very scared", according to the story in Pound Pup Legacy, a website dedicated to the safety of children.
But Canada's department of Citizenship and Immigration did not respond to requests for comment, so we don't know if there have been other complaints. We don't know if any investigations have been conducted already.
In China, the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs also refused to comment when questioned by the LA Times journalist.
Officials of the agency have told foreign diplomats that they believe that the abuses are limited to a small number of babies and that those responsible have been removed and punished.
So it's happened in the past but there's no problem now.
So much for the complaints by grieving parents in Tianxi village, Guizhou province, who complained that officials had stormed their house, snatched their children, and told them to say nothing about the kidnapping. One of them, Yang Shuiying, even told her he was going to sell her child for adoption.
Fat chance Xinhua, the Chinese official news agency, will take up the story and run with it. It's just another case of 'foreign meddling' as far as they're concerned, I guess.


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The Jones Library is holding its fifth On the Same Page community reading program, this year featuring the book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Elizabeth Kolbert. A series of programs will be held in February 2017, based on topics and themes from the book. On the Same Page – Amherst will culminate in an author appearance to be held on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at the Amherst Regional Middle School Auditorium.
On The Same Page – Amherst is designed to bring the local community together by encouraging residents to read the same book and by offering programming and opportunities for discussion about the book and the themes it contains. Now an annual event, On the Same Page – Amherst explores a different book each year to include a variety of themes, topics, genres, and writing styles.
Janet Ryan, Jones Library


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Thanks for visiting!
UPDATE, NOVEMBER 2014: I am no longer adding new posts to this site, but please enjoy my collection of posts that I wrote from 2011 to 2014. Please visit me at DarlaMcDavid.com for new posts.
Following is the text from my original Darla Writes "About" page. Click here to read a more personal"About" page on my new website.
I'm Darla McDavid and I love to write. One of my dreams is to write a book that attracts a publisher and warms a lot of hearts with the story it tells.
What does it take to turn a dream like mine into a reality? Sure, I can write. But can I write well? Thinking about that brought more questions to mind:
- What type of writer am I?
- How do my writing skills compare with other writers?
- What makes me think people will enjoy my writings?
- What do I know about the writing business?
- Is it necessary to know about Facebook, Twitter, and all that other stuff?
- Who's going to help me with all of this?
My answers were fuzzy, so I decided it was time to take action with research and a plan. And from that came an idea: Create a blog to share what I learn. That's how Darla Writes began. As I work towards becoming a better writer with the goal of having my writings published, I'll also be a resource for writers like you who share the same goal.
Here is my writing mission statement:
My mission is to become a better writer who takes advantage of today's best devices, tools, and techniques to have my writings positively noticed in this fast-tech world.
If your mission sounds anything like mine, then join me and we'll work towards turning our dreams into reality.
What will reading this blog do for you?
When you visit my blog, expect to read posts that touch on these three goals:
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You'll also read the occasional post about a topic I think you'll find amusing or encouraging. There are several options for subscribing so that you don't miss a post. And feel free to contact me with questions and suggestions.
What types of writers will enjoy this blog?
I hope that all types do. I define writer for the purposes of this blog as "a person who composes a message or story in the form of text." And that's you, right? Though I am mainly blogging for new writers of fiction, those of you who've been at the craft longer than us should feel free to chime in.
Do we really need another blog about writing?
Yes — at least, I think we do.
When I decided that I wanted to take my writing to the next level, I spent plenty of hours reading through writers' blogs. Though many were helpful, I found myself yearning for someone who was more like me–an amateur writer, with no impressive credentials but lots of desire. That was the seed that grew into Darla Writes.
I want to share what I'm learning. It's as simple as that.
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Traditional Easter meals can either have ham or lamb as a main dish. These days, many families favor the salty sweetness of ham. Most ham dishes served on this holiday are honey glazed with sides of candied yams, glazed veggies and potatoes.
Below I have found some great recipes that are easy to follow and absolutely perfect for your Easter brunch. And don't worry, if you are one of those families who prefer lamb over ham I have found some delicious recipes for you as well.
Let's start off with the main course: Easter Ham
Ingredients :
1-7 to 8 lb. fully cooked smoked ham shank 1 C. maple syrup 2 Tbs. cider vinegar 1 Tbs. prepared mustard whole cloves
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Combine syrup, vinegar and mustard. Place ham, fat side up, on rack in shallow roasting pan. Pour about 1/2 C. mixture over ham and bake, uncovered, in a preheated 325 degree oven for 1-1/2 hours. Baste every 30 minutes with additional sauce. Remove ham from oven and score fat into diamond shapes. Insert a clove into each diamond. Bake ham an additional 30 minutes or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of meat registers 140 degrees. Let ham rest 15 minutes before carving.
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Toshiba Group, the world's largest automaker, is planning to reduce CO2 emissions by 14 million tons in fiscal 2010 and 82 million tons in fiscal 2025 as part of the company's Environmental Vision 2050. The company's goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by 6.3 million in fiscal year 2010 and by 35.7 million tons in fiscal 2025 through the development of eco-friendly products.
Cutting will take place through implementation of the group's Eco Process and Eco Program, parts of Toyota Environmental and Energy Approaches. The move is expected to drive both environmental and economic efficiency.
As part of its overall environmental vision, which was established in November 2007, Toshiba is promoting the development of environmentally conscious product (ECP) design, the environmental impact assessment of products and disclosure of the environmental performance of products. These ECPs are created via the company's Eco Process that entails what the company calls a "5R design," which takes into consideration two reduction factors — energy savings and cleanness — (management of chemical substances) together with 3Rs — reduce, reuse and recycle.
Compared to FY 2005, Toshiba is using 88 percent as much packaging materials.


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August 24, 2016
Report: Virtual Currencies Could Shift Power in Payments
June 23, 2011
A new report from San Francisco area Javelin Strategy & Research forecasts that the payments services market share will shift from financial institutions to socially networked providers. Javelin found that two-thirds of consumers who have used an alternative payment method in the past 12 months are current Facebook users, compared to 58 percent who used credit cards. Javelin said in Virtual Currency and Social Network Payments – The New Gold Rush that the increased use of virtual currencies and socially networked payments present new challenges to traditional payments services providers, regulatory bodies, and even cross-border economies. "FIs should keep an eye on social networks and the virtual economy and determine how to position themselves," said Beth Robertson, director of payments research at the Pleasanton, Calif.-based consultancy. "Currently, credit and debit cards have the greatest share of the overall e-commerce payment market, comprising 40 percent and 29 percent of all e-commerce transactions, respectively. However, nontraditional payment options like alternative online payments and prepaid and gift cards will gain traction in the coming years and take market share and transaction fees away from FIs."


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apple jeans, JEANZ! boots with the fur, THE FUR! seee repeated! HE PUT THE N in Ignant! ( ignorant)
Why does T-pain repeat everything in the song "Low"?
everyone does in the chorus
Reply:He sings the whole chorus. As for why he repeats what he says, I'm not sure. I guess...for emphasis? Bleh.
Reply:It's the chorus. The chorus is supposed to be repeated.
Reply:It's Rap...
It's all repeated
or substituted for another word that rhymes wit it
Reply:cause hes gay and he stole my damn meatwad hat
Reply:its only a couple of things and its a corus plus its rap but its a bangin good song son
Reply:idk cuz thats his...style
its funny how everyone thinks its t-pains song
when its flo rida's
Reply:because he's repetitive
and annoying as hell.
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text: 2010 stand-alone single disc release that contains all the bonus tracks featured on the second disc of the Deluxe Edition release of this album (ie: does NOT contain the original album, only the rarities associated with that release). Perfect for collectors who may have missed the double disc version or for those who are in search of all the great tracks that were initially exclusive to the Deluxe Edition. It's not hard to see why the original album London Sessions is still among the most popular original albums in the much vaulted history of Chess Records. Not only does it present one of the label's most acclaimed and popular Blues legends performing essentially his greatest hits, it features members of the British Rock royalty (Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman) giving one of their biggest influences his just due. This CD features new remixes from the original tapes, alternate mixes, rehearsal takes, extended jams, and more.


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In case you were one of the few people who either didn't read Thursday's news or decided to honor the Cinematic Titanic crew's quasi-embargo on the trailer (I'm looking at you, Wired), you can now see the Doomsday Machine trailer embedded above. It didn't really impress me at all, but neither did the previous episode's trailer, and that turned out well. No word on the release date, yet.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Greg Smith, Morals & The One-Eyed Man
Okay, there's actually no punch line. I was just wondering if you'd heard.
Of course, we've all received those warnings about finishing what you start and not starting on something else before you finish the first thing (no matter how much you love broccoli and hate beets). So, why is it that so many writers begin planning the second novel before getting the first one published?
I find it telling that the successful writers of today get big contracts and then have to scramble to prepare a follow-up novel, sort of like RKO Pictures when the success of King Kong forced producers to rush a sequel to the screen. I hope Land of the Blind does gangbusters, but I won't hold my breath. Since I'm still tweaking it and have to go through more of the query letter-manuscript-rejection letter stage, so I can't even say it's really finished. Theoretically, I shouldn't even be worrying about the next book.
Thus, the moral of this story should be to wait until the first novel is published before working on the second.
But, since I have no morals, I'm hard at work on my next novel. And the next and the next one after that and after that, et cetera, et cetera. I'm probably channeling David Weber and Honor Harrington too much, but I've got my Land of the Blind at least vaguely thought out to the ninth book (and will probably add in some anthologies like Alistair Reynolds did with the Galactic North series from his Revelation Space novel).
Anyway, The One-Eyed Man is the sequel to Land of the Blind. All jokes aside, prepping this next book is proving enigmatic at best.
Unlike CJ Ellisson and her characters, I only have to worry about one person – Devereaux Marshall Fox. Then again, after making him such a tantalizing and brutal mystery in the first novel, I now have to explain a lot more of his background. There's no M or Miss Moneypenny to help shoulder the load (or Pussy Galore or Plenty O'Toole either).
On the up side, I can create a brand new world, with brand new technology. New challenges. New dangers. New thrills. New chills.
On the down side, I have to create a whole new set of supporting characters. And for those who have glimpsed bits and pieces of Land of the Blind, you know how big a task that will be. I mean, last time, I created dozens of people with names and annihilated scores more. I haven't even imagined how I'll top the cataclysm next time around.
What I think I will enjoy most about the succeeding novels is the joy of research. Those new worlds will need a firm foundation to be based upon. In the first novel, I used the Brazilian Amazon, the Panama Canal, Texas, Area 51 and Florida. So far, in The One-Eyed Man, I've got Machu Picchu; Phuket, Thailand;
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Irian Jaya (also known as West Papua or Papua Barat); Yokosuka, Japan; K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen in the Himalayas), and Cape Canaveral.
Despite the tough tasks ahead, I look forward to the challenge.
And so – I hope – do you.
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Thanks for finally helping me pinpoint what I like best about you, Greg. No morals ;-)ReplyDelete
Great post!
- Harley D. PalmerMarch 23, 2010 at 6:50 AM
Oh there is a sequel to Land of the Blind!? *jumps for joy* I'm so excited! Fox is my fav character - I just love him - though I'm not sure why!ReplyDelete
On another note, I don't understand why some people say to wait to work on your second until the first one is finished. What if the second one calls for a total rehaul of the first? If the first was already published, you could lose a great battle scene or something in the second! At least, that is exactly what happened in my novel. If I already had book 1 published, the second would have fallen flat! Now, though, I think I can get book 1 finished (as in totally finished) then finish book 2 (and three!).
I have a somewhat different perspective on this but you'll have to wait till Thursday to find out why. Enjoyed your post, Greg.ReplyDelete
I've heard such mixed opinions on this one, Greg. Some say write the second while trying to sell the first. Others preach to write other stand-alone books and when one of them gets picked up you then write a second in the series. And then there's my husband (who is not a writer), who says why bother to write a second one if you can't sell the first one? (similar to your opening line)ReplyDelete
I'm torn - I think you have to do what's right for you and not always listen to the "experts."
Personally, I think you need to make the first one fairly sing before moving on. If you change too much then the amount of re-writing in the subsequent drafts in the series could be monumental.
Work until you hate it and think you can't possibly improve on another word. Then send it to an editor who will turn you on your ear and point out mistakes you never knew existed. Rewrite it while working on your second and learn as you go. Oh wait - that's what I did (and am still doing) ;-)
Ah, yes, there is a sequel. I've already fleshed out the prologue and it should be a shocker -- again.ReplyDelete
As for writing the second before finishing the first, I guess my perspective is from the point of a series. Writing the second might be like coming in on the Tuesday episode of a soap opera (when soap operas used to exist) and missing the cliffhanger and all the twists and turns from Monday.
Just because you have an agent and a pen name and roots in Jersey (well, that's actually a knock) and a great first novel, you think you're so big.
Well, I guess you do have a point.
[...] Greg Marshall Smith, Greg Smith, Morals & The One-Eyed Man [...]ReplyDelete
Hey im da real Greg SmithReplyDelete


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But already I had seen enough of these artistic nudes — enough to make me feel bored and possibly a little annoyed by them. And so by the time I saw the film, the "textures explanation" seemed to answer at least one unasked question.
However, time has now passed and I am no longer satisfied with that answer.


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The life of the blindness De Hysterical
My is full of the pain.
Those could have been a choice. They
are not absolutely
safe -- broad sveglisi to the patient to the morning,
nauseated from the whole light. My feet,
which go the mattress for giving the Plasterung forwards to suffering
that, which shoots in any place.
It could have been hipocondriaco.
I must ask
mine doctor, but
it stopped,
over of my calls to send back
the last month.
It said that it reached too much
intensively to us,
this whole spirit and exchange of the physical liquids.
Which had for látex.
Task, which shows a fear before segretezza.
We have the all day we were only twice kissed, those together.
In which case hour more rueber.
It does not renew my regulation for codeina.
And lasci with this jaqueca I and artificially
an inflation behind my the left ear.
My skin, sums at the times, during my Eidotter barretta.
They are sure that it is for the
safe code category
of the paralysis premonitory.
And the light, ah, the light! Escalda my eyes.
It constantly forms rasgón it. That cannot be normal.
Dígame, this cannot be normal.


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I have to be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Halloween. Sure, I love candy (and roasted pumpkin seeds, oh so good), but the stress of finding a costume and the idea of dressing up to begin with hasn't been my thing for a while. That and I never feel like I'm even close to creative as the other guy. I'm always one upped, or totally skanked out, which brings me to this Halloween.
Since I'm not much for Halloween, I never really get out and do anything. I'm the kind to chill and watch a couple of scary movies. A little boring, I know, but that's how I roll. This year was a little different as my favorite band, Our Lady Peace, was playing a free show in downtown Kansas City. They played a covered outdoor stage at a place called the Power & Light District. I'd heard some mixed reviews about the venue but overall it was pretty sweet with it's restaurants, clubs, giant courtyard, heat lamps mounted to the ceiling, and the jumbo big screen television tuned to a college football game.
Being the kind of boring guy I am I showed up sans costume which I can't say about a good chunk of the people there. Even the opening band, Company of Thieves, was dressed in full Wizard of Oz gear. There were some pretty inventive costumes (Jesus hanging out with the Pope and the Devil to name a few.) There were also quite a few of unoriginal costumes that made me feel good about not wearing one. (Come on guys, you're only supposed to find Waldo once, not 6 times.) But the ones that are always stand outs are the young ladies who find Halloween as an occasion to skank-it-up. These are the ladies that I will never be able to compete with. I can't say I can complain, if they want to dress like that who am I to stop them (wink, wink), but it does baffle me a little thinking what some people will wear in public. The whole thing is a game for me, coming up with names for these wonderfully skanky costumes that seem to get racier every year.
Example #1: slutty + butterfly = slutterfly
There were a quite a few of those this year.
Example #2: slutty + bumblebee = slumblebee
I think I spotted a handful of those. Now, I think you get the point, see if you can figure out slirate.
Overall, the show was great. It was a cool atmosphere, especially with everyone dressed up. This was the third time I'd seen Our Lady Peace and it definitely won't be the last. I'm anxious for the next show I'm attending in December, a show I just spent a little too much money to be able to attend. But what's the point of having money if you don't spend it every once and a while and what's the point of being young if you don't get out, stay up late, and take advantage of it? There is none. So let's rock on!


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How It All Started
My first morning in Florida I woke up way too early. When going through a traumatic break-up which involves your fiancé, with whom you have lived for seven years, changing the locks on your house while you are visiting your grandparents and moving in his new girlfriend, I firmly believe that you have every right to sleep in. In fact, if you would like to sleep for seventeen hours straight and not move from the bed for a solid week, I am perfectly OK with it. But no. I was not afforded this luxury because, having nowhere else to go in the entire world and fearing that my fiancé in Atlanta was going to kill me, actually kill me, I ran home to my parents in Florida and at their house, I would never be able to get a full seven nights' sleep.
I could not sleep in for several reasons. None of the reasons made me feel any better about my unfortunate situation. First, my parents have an inexplicable aversion to any sort of window treatments, so if you're staying at their house and you don't get out of bed before 8 am, you're in danger of getting a blistering sunburn from the intense concentration of ultra-violet rays which blaze through every window in the damned house making it feel like it's about 125 degrees. I nearly burnt alive in the guestroom bed with the scratchy, bedazzled comforter that my mom got on closeout. Could my mother possibly own something that was not covered in sequins, beads, rhinestones or large plastic jewels? Just something? Couldn't she for once just purchase a simple cotton bedspread that was not printed with an elaborate scene involving an epic battle between what appeared to be snow leopards and…robots? That couldn't be a robot, could it? Why would snow leopards fight robots? Why would snow leopards fight robots on a bedspread? No wonder it was on closeout. No, it wasn't robots, it was just a weird configuration of beads that ended up looking like a robot when your eyes were swollen shut from sobbing for two solid days, you were sleep deprived and when you were practically blinded by the sun, because although your mother could buy bead encrusted bedspreads, she could not buy window shades.
The second reason, well really the second and third reasons, that I could not sleep had to do with my father who was listening to the classic rock station on the radio and had The Who turned up so loud that the bass was literally rattling the windows. As if that were not enough he sang while he cooked eggs and onions. In our family, you don't even dare eat an onion unless it is shriveled and black beyond recognition, so my dad burns his onions first and then mixes them into scrambled eggs. I have to admit, the eggs and onions are pretty good, but they stink and that morning the entire house smelled like burnt onions.
The sun, The Who and burnt onions would have been enough to rouse even the deepest sleeper, but readers, there was more. This was Casa Azul after all – my parents' house, so of course there was more. Light, noise and bad odors were mild. In addition to these three things the dogs were barking so frantically that I almost thought intruders had stormed the house and were stabbing my mother and sister to death while my dad made eggs, but my mother was already enjoying probably her third or fourth cigarette of the morning, so I knew she was alive. I could smell the smoke mixed with the burnt onions. The phone rang, a door slammed (probably my sister, equally as irritated as I was about being woken up), and torrents of water fell from somewhere with a deafening roar that nearly drowned out The Who.
Where was this water coming from? Was someone pressure cleaning the roof? If so they were making a mess because from all the water you would have sworn it was raining. It couldn't be raining though, because as I mentioned earlier, the sun was shining all too brightly. It looked like rain. It splattered on the patio and poured from the eaves and the calm surface of the pool was dappled with spatters and speckles like raindrops. Water beaded on the Saint Augustine grass in the side yard, dripped from the date palm's fronds and puddled under the oleander bush. For all intents and purposes, it was raining, but there were no clouds in the sky. Not a one. And it was so bright that we may as well have been on the sun and not light years from it. This did not make sense. I had to get up and see why this was happening and if I could immediately make it stop, because this was not OK. It should not rain with the sun out under any circumstances and especially not when I was going through the worst breakup in the history of all breakups and had just lost my house, my cats, my stuff, my jobs and my fiancé.
The instant I opened the bedroom door my parents' psychotic, 150 pound Doberman lunged for me, hackles raised and teeth bared. I nearly peed my pajamas, and slammed the door shut so the dog wouldn't disembowel me before breakfast. This dog was certifiably wacko, something about him growing too large and his brain being too big for his skull. Dobermans are not supposed to be 150 pounds. Regular sized they are scary enough, but at that size I can assure you they are the most terrifying thing you have ever seen. The dog had attacked several people already and more than one vet advised that he be put to sleep because DUH, he was extremely dangerous. They sent him to special dog training schools and all of the trainers agreed.
"This dog has to be destroyed. He'll turn on you one day," they said.
My parents did not listen because they are not in the habit of listening to things involving common sense. They loved the dog and the dog loved them. They couldn't imagine him turning on them because he was a 150 pound teddy bear when he was alone with them. Yeah, I thought, a 150 pound teddy bear with fangs bigger than my index finger and a taste for fresh blood. I wasn't a fan of the dog, clearly.
In order to avoid being forced to put the dog down, my parents had him fitted with a shock collar and they each carried its remote control wherever they went. That way if the dog went ape shit on someone, before he could maim or dismember a person, one of my parents could essentially taser their dog, knock him out and save whomever the dog had been attacking. It's a great mental image, isn't it? A one armed child and a tasered dog. Beautiful.
Trapped in the guest room I began to scream for my mother to come get the dog, to shock it, to hold it or whatever she had to do in order for me to be allowed out of the guestroom to see why water was falling from the sky.
"What is the matter with you?" she asked through the door.
"Your god damned dog won't let me out of the room!!"
She laughed hysterically, or maniacally. Pick one.
"I got him!"
I inched out. She held the dog by his collar while he growled.
"Cut that shit out! Do you want me to taser your ass? Stop it. That is your sister!"
Yes, over night I had become the older sister to a one year old, 150 pound Doberman with a serious mood disorder. That sounded about right. For my whole life my parents had been referring to their pets as their children. Growing up I had three monkeys as siblings; actual, honest to god monkeys. By this point the monkeys had gone to live "on a big farm" somewhere where they were rumored to be playing with lots of other monkeys in monkeyfied bliss.
My other brother came running, a hundred miles an hour down the hallway, his black nails skidding on the tiles, sending him slamming into the baseboards before he latched onto my leg with his very sharp teeth. The small dog was probably equally as psychotic as the big dog, except, when a dog is only eight pounds its psychosis just doesn't merit the same degree of concern. This one I just shook off in the way that you might brush some toast crumbs or a Daddy Longlegs off your pants. The small dog definitely instigated the big dog. He totally egged him on because as soon as the small dog arrived the big dog resumed lunging and snarling, while the small dog jumped straight up and down yapping as viciously as an 8 pound Miniature Pinscher can manage.
The small dog was an exact, scale replica of the big dog – his Mini-Me, as everyone liked to joke. I had to admit it was kind of cute, but just kind of, because honestly how cute can anything be that wants you dead?
"They just need to get used to you." My mom said, "Let them smell you."
I let them smell me. Big dog lunged and growled. Small dog jumped and yapped.
"I'm going outside."
"It's raining."
"The sun is out!" I argued.
I opened the front door and stepped out into a veritable monsoon. It rained so hard that the tissue thin blossoms of the red hibiscus collapsed in upon themselves and crowds of grey lizards huddled beneath the ledges of flower pots waiting for it to end.
I looked up at the sky. The sun was out. If there was a cloud I couldn't make it out. I started down the driveway, having no idea why or where I was going, only that I needed very desperately to get to the bottom of why it was raining with the sun out, but as soon as I took one step off the walkway and onto the patterned concrete, I slipped, fell hard on my ass and went flying. The driveway was like a Slip and Slide. I spun around and flipped myself over, but I couldn't stop. By now I was soaking wet. I looked like someone had picked me up out of the shower and thrown me across an especially slick driveway where I was now testing out the whole object in motion tends to stay in motion rule of physics.
The end of that rule is "unless acted upon by a net force." My net force was a brand new, gleaming, silver, hard topped convertible Mercedes S600. The Mercedes, parked at the end of the circular driveway was the only thing stopping me from hurtling into the street where a UPS truck that had just turned onto our street surely would have flattened me.
"FUCKING NEAL!!!! God Dammit!! I told him not to use that driveway sealant. I knew it wasn't the right one and now look!!" I heard my mother yelling.
She called for my dad who stopped burning onions and came to see why she was swearing.
"Are you Ok baby?" my dad asked.
My mom stopped him from coming to my rescue lest he slip too.
"Did you dent the car?" she asked "Please tell me you didn't dent that car!"
I stood up and looked at the car door. It wasn't dented because I hit the tire. I reassured her.
"And I'm fine too, by the way. I mean, in case you were wondering," I added, rubbing my ass.
Throughout all of this it had not stopped raining and the sun had not stopped shining. I tiptoed very carefully back to the front patio where my parents stood protected by the front door.
"What were you doing?" my dad asked.
"Why is there a Mercedes S600 parked in the driveway?"
"Oh that's Mohammed's," My mother replied as if I should have known that already.
I looked towards my father, who nodded.
"Who is Mohammed and why is he parking his Mercedes in your driveway?"
"He lost a bet with me," My mom explained, "Then that motherfucker tried to tell me he wasn't gonna pay up and I said I will tell you what Mohammed your ass better give me that god damned car unless you want me calling your wife and telling her what you did in the champagne room at the Bubblegum Kittikat and by God he brought that car over here at 4 'o' clock in the morning last night and took a cab home."
"I see."
I knew better than to ask what the bet was on. Some things you just didn't ask when you were at Casa Azul. Many things you were better off not knowing. Instead I asked "Why is it raining with the sun out?"
"Oh lord, it always does that," my mother said before she went back inside.
"Baby you're in a different world now," said my Dad, "A Mercedes appears in the driveway overnight and it rains with the sun out. The rules are different here. Welcome to Florida."
"There are no rules here!!!"
"Make your own."
He patted me on the head and went back in the house.
Welcome to Florida, Baby. The rules are different here. If you don't like them, make your own. And that my friends, is exactly what I did. And the first rule I made up was that I was allowed to drive Mohammed's car.
26 comments:
- Maya said...
Wow. I have GOT to come to Florida! (No sarcasm here, this just sounds...fantastic in the real sense of the word) No hallucenigens required, huh?
- misha said...
thats an excellent rule!
- misha said...
i knew there was something else. I adopted my parents dog and I used to take him to the family office with him. A UPS guy once asked whose dog he was and I answered he is my son and my brother. He was a bit confused LOL! Only in the animal kingdom. He was also my parents son and grandson I guess..
- Moi said...
Ha ha ha! I LOVE your random stories, absolutely brilliant!
Did you ever get your cats back?
I was THERE.
Yep. You are that skilled. I'm sure there is no holding you back, you are
on the list of the female Kate Chopins' of this century.
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whoops..I meant "female" writers then
swerved over to Kate Chopin, um some
how forgot to edit and well you know what I'm trying to say!
Okay, I have to ask. Is all of that true, or just the very original and extremly funny beginning of your book? Either way, loved it!
- Subservient No More said...
Yes it's all true.
No I never got my cats back.
- Melissa said...
Awesome first chapter for your book. I can't wait for the next installment.
You really should write the book.
- Alessandra said...
That was a lovely first chapter, SNM.
- MP said...
...your ex was such a psycho asswhole. not that I know who he is but that trying to kill you, knocking up the whore..stealing your cats. I don't like him one bit!
I love the visual of the mini me dogs..classic. Damn that bed was uncomfortable, I can feel it.
- Miriam said...
I love it! I need more. I crave more!
I lived in Florida for 1 year and then got the hell out! That was enough for me.
- Sparkling Cipher said...
I soooo want to meet your mother.
And my boyfriend and I refer to our dogs as our children, too. When we speak to them, we refer to each other as "Mama" and "Daddy." I come by it honest, though. I've shown up at my mother's house and heard her tell her dogs, "Oh, look, your sister's here!"
- Chiada said...
As always, another great story. Your first chapter was very entertaining, and it left me wanting to read more at the end. Keep it up!
- Green said...
You, your parents, all live in a very different part of Florida than I ever lived in. Every single thing in Florida was so dull and boring and normal when I lived there that I had to resist the urge to scream while urging people to stop wearing badly-fitted coral capris.
- JDogg said...
That painted driveway got me too, it *was* dangerous!
I can't wait to read the rest! Even if I have to wait a year's time, and then buy it at the bookstore, I will definitely be the first in line to purchase your book!
New York Times Bestseller List, here we come!
I want to meet your mom too. Beautifully written.
- A Margarita said...
Hahahahaha! You're such a riot, and it's all real, which makes it even funnier.
- goingRAWr! said...
hey sweetie.
been reading your blog for yonks now and it's always enjoyable, you write in a very readable style.
i was reading "the glass castle" by jeanette walls and i thought of you.. have you read that book? i highly recommend it.. i am not going to read 'eat, pray love' because i think even the premise is a load of crap, as much as i love india and have travelled there extensively.
can't wait for your book to come out!
goingrawr :)
- BoB said...
This is an honest critique, not an attempt to bash your writing.
I think it's too busy. Don't be in such a hurry to talk about all the details. Develop the craziness over time. Start with what you see/hear/smell/feel/think, not with what you already know. You can take the entire book to flesh out your parents and the general wackiness, introduce yourself and your situation first.
Just trying to help.
- Leonesse said...
I think there may be a great deal of craziness that happens when you live in a state that produces too much sunshine. There were some real nuts in Arizona, too! And Cali too.
And it was so bright that we may as well have been on the sun and not light years from it.
Could you please make that "light minutes"? We are light years from the stars, but our sun is only about 8 light minutes away.
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If there is one Arsenal player with the mercurial gifts to eventually step into the illustrious footsteps of Robert Pires, it is surely Andrei Arshavin.
Appropriate then, that in a match in which Pires started his first Premier League game since leaving Arsenal in 2006, it was Arshavin who should spearhead an attacking performance that bore many of the hallmarks of the 'Invincibles' of 2003-4.
Arshavin had been rested from the Champions League trip to Braga during the week and duly looked back to his best yesterday, scoring the first, providing the assist for Samir Nasri's brilliant second, and tormenting the Aston Villa defence throughout. "He was very sharp, dangerous, and you always liked him to have the ball," said Arsène Wenger.
Pires, in contrast, looked a shadow of the player who was such an integral part of Arsenal's finest team and he was substituted for Villa at half-time after hardly touching the ball.
Yet while this current Arsenal team remain comparable in their attacking options to the era of Pires, familiar defensive frailties were again evident. Despite leading 2-0 and 3-1, the trauma of losing a similar advantage against Tottenham was obvious as they conceded two second-half goals before clinching their 4-2 victory only in injury time.
"At 2-0 in the dressing room at half-time, you felt what happened last week had an impact," admitted Wenger. "At 2-1 it was an interesting test: we could crumble or score again. This team is very interesting. They fight for each other, they are on the same wavelength and there is a lot more to come out of them."
Aston Villa, whose central midfield was depleted by the absence of Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker and Steve Sidwell, also contributed to a match that was a fabulous advertisement for the Premier League. Villa manager Gérard Houllier, however, was succinct in his analysis. "We were beaten by a team who were better than us," he said.
In the absence of Cesc Fabregas, it was Tomas Rosicky who was given both the Arsenal captaincy and the Spaniard's usual free role just behind Marouane Chamakh.
Pires was playing in a similar position to Rosicky for Villa, but struggled both for service and sharpness as Arsenal established an immediate dominance of possession. After just 23 seconds, Stephen Warnock conceded possession inside his own half, with Arshavin feeding Chamakh, whose shot was partially blocked by Brad Friedel and then cleared.
The pattern continued, with Nasri and Chamakh wasting further opportunities before Villa created the best chance of the opening half-hour, against the run of play.
Stewart Downing had drifted inside on the right and his cross was delicately flicked by Ciaran Clark into the path of Ashley Young, who was lurking at the far post. Young, though, seemed startled to find himself in such space just four yards from goal and guided his finish over the bar.
Arsenal heeded the warning and, after so much attractive football without any end product, they responded with devastating urgency. Fabianski launched a goal kick that was rather comically missed by both James Collins and Luke Young, with Arshavin sprinting clear down the right before cutting inside and then drilling a low shot just inside the post.
Nasri should have made it 2-0 but, after bursting behind the Villa defence and taking the ball around Friedel, he shot into the side-netting. Chamakh then rose to meet Bacary Sagna's cross and force an exceptional reaction save from Friedel.
Arshavin floated the resulting corner to the edge of the penalty area, where Nasri was waiting to unleash a first-time volley that was perfectly directed through the gap between Friedel and his left-hand post.
With last week's 3-2 defeat against Tottenham still fresh in Arsenal's collective memory, they began the second half with a real wobble.
Sébastien Squillaci only partially cleared Barry Bannan's cross and, with Laurent Koscielny slow to appreciate the danger, Clark volleyed beyond Fabianski. It was poor defending, although Arsenal had some justification in pointing out that John Carew, who was offside, had interfered by impeding the view of Fabianski.
Arsenal, though, were quick to re-establish their two-goal cushion, with Rosicky cleverly dissecting the defence for Chamakh to prod a finish past Friedel.
Yet still they showed vulnerability and a mix-up in communication between Fabianski and Koscielny allowed Villa to force a corner from which Clark guided his header off the crossbar and over the line.
All of Villa Park scented blood, but Arsenal survived further pressure before sealing their fifth away win when Wilshere pounced on Chamakh's cross to score his first Premier League goal with a diving header. It was not always convincing but, temporarily at least, Arsenal were top of the league.


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For now, however, OPEC's continued production is having an impact on non-OPEC producers like the US. In fact, the International Business Times reported Tuesday that the US shale oil boom is beginning to fade — the US Energy Information Administration sees oil production from the two largest shale plays, North Dakota's Bakken and Texas's Eagle Ford, dropping by 1.3 percent, to 5.58 million barrels a day, this month.Rajeev explained that if the oil price doesn't improve, the US could cut back production by 3 to 4 million barrels per day. According to his research, if that happens, OPEC's current capacity will only allow it to increase production by 2 to 2.5 million barrels a day, meaning it will not be able to offset the decline. "I am thinking six to 12 months is when you're going to slowly start to see OPEC changing its attitude towards supply," he said. Investor takeaway Rajeev said that his firm doesn't have any top picks in the oil space at the moment. However, he encourages investors interested in playing the possible oil price uptick to look at oil-focused indices. One in particular that he follows is the BMO Junior Oil Index ETF (TSX:ZJO). Securities Disclosure: I, Kristen Moran, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article. Editorial Disclosure: The Investing News Network does not guarantee the accuracy or thoroughness of the information reported in the interviews it conducts. The opinions expressed in these interviews do not reflect the opinions of the Investing News Network and do not constitute investment advice. All readers are encouraged to perform their own due diligence. Sid Rajeev of Fundamental Research: Very Bullish on Oil from Oil Investing News
These days hearing positive things about the oil price is fairly rare, so when Sid Rajeev of Fundamental Research talked about being very bullish on oil at the recent Canadian Investor Conference in Vancouver, oil-focused investors were all ears. The Investing News Network caught up with Rajeev after the conference to get more insight into where he sees the market heading in the near future. Encouragingly, Rajeev said he sees the oil price reaching the $65 to $70 range by the end of the year; in the next three to four years, he expects it will move up to the $70 to $90 range. Supply and demand expected to balance out Rajeev began the conversation by outlining the three main factors that affected the oil price in the second half of last year and the first quarter of 2015. He first mentioned the appreciation of the US dollar, which has had an impact on commodities across the board. Second, he said that oil production exceeded consumption in the second half of last year and continued to do so during the first quarter of 2015. That might sound negative, but Rajeev believes the supply-demand balance will start to regulate itself as the oil price drops. "The good thing is that now you are going to see demand slowly catching up to production, and also you'll see stock levels going down — [those] are very strong indicators that prices are going to start to recover," he said. OPEC takes a stand against US shale The third factor Rajeev mentioned, and which he considers most important, was OPEC's November 2014 decision to maintain a production level of 30 million barrels a day. "The main reason I believe OPEC decided not to cut supply is to maintain its global market share [and] continue to dominate the oil industry," he said. The oil price took a big hit on that news, but according to Rajeev, OPEC will likely revisit its decision. That's because oil is an important GDP driver for its member countries. "If you look at Saudi Arabia, more than 40 percent of its GDP comes from oil. So this decline in the oil price is affecting 60 percent of the revenues that are coming from oil. So would [Saudi Arabia] rather continue to take a stand and keep prices low, or go back to its traditional attitude to cut production, let prices increase and maintain or at least have a lower GDP."


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This page has info and screenshots on Powerlogix's CPU Director 2.1. In general I don't like installing any software that isn't necessary (unlike older Mac CPU upgrades, those for G4 towers don't usually need any cache enablers, etc.). Like any 3rd party app or driver, it's also one more thing that can require updating when Apple releases an OS X update (as many of you already know from experience). However for these Dual CPU upgrades, Powerlogix said it was 'required' for power management reasons (although they do run without it, there are benefits to having it installed that will be covered below)
CPU Director 2.1 DFS (Dynamic Frequency Switching) can be a nice bonus feature for owners of 7447A CPUs (also possible with 750FX/GX and 7448's). It can be enabled or disabled via CPU Director's options tab, but DFS can only be enabled if the bus multiplier is an integer number. I.E. for the 1.8GHz model in a
133MHz bus mac it can't be enabled as the multiplier is 13.5x, but for a 100MHz bus system the multiplier would be 18x and DFS could be used. All tests here of the Dual 1.7GHz (running at 1.73GHz in the QS) had DFS enabled as it was using a integer (i.e. 13x) bus multiplier. As with all brands I know of - all the (higher speed at least) 7447A CPU upgrades are overclocked. (For example 1.6GHz rated CPUs used in 1.8GHz models and 1.42GHz rated CPUs and 1.7GHz model samples in this review for instance.)
" CPUD (CPU Director) 2.1 has the power management software built in, so it's really required on dual cpu machines. Even at 100% load, the power draw drops about 7-8% with CPUD 2.1. At moderate loads power drops substantially. This extra margin is important, it can be the difference between a frozen app, and continuous operation.
Note that OWC (who later bought Powerlogix) now states that CPU Director is not required to run these upgrades, but is required if you want to see the Powerlogix's onboard temperature sensor readings or use the DFS feature of course. I really didn't expect to like DFS but I did. It helps lower temperatures and reduce power use when the CPU isn't heavily loaded and was responsive (quickly jumped to full CPU speed when needed).
The images here are all with DFS enabled, but the above image was taken with the CPU under load (full CPU speed selected) - the image below is with DFS enabled and CPUs not under load (CPU speed cut in
half to save power/reduce heat.)
" The load/activity is controlled by Apple's code that is in Energy Saver. We just enable things so that the Energy Saver daemon can control DFS functionality on 7447 and 7448 CPUs. We're not sure what Apple's trigger is.
DFS works like Apple's Energy Saver "automatic" performance option on later Mac models. I was originally concerned that DFS would significantly hurt performance in the apps/game tests but as you can see from the results on those performance test pages here, it didn't seem to. You can also disable DFS of course but I was impressed how well it worked and it could really be a plus for some systems - especially Cubes and upgraded Powerbooks.
All the new model PL upgrades have an on-board temperature monitoring feature. CPU Director reports this temperature as well as showing a graph of tempeature over time.
The above is just an example taken during idle periods. In the 100% CPU load/stress test with the dual 1.8GHz upgrade, temperature ramped up to about 66°C max within the first hour and remained at that level for the duration of the test. No problems were seen during the stress test with any of the CPU upgrades using the new heatsink. I used these upgrades for more than a month. (I don't like to just post a quick series of test results, even though that takes a lot less time to do and it's all that some care to see.)
In addition to DFS, the Options tab also has settings for enabling/disabling "Speculative Access" which generally is only disabled if you're running a CPU upgraded legacy (pre-G3) PCI Mac. (Disabling it on cpu upgraded older macs was a fix for some problems first reported many years ago here.)
All tests here of the Dual 1.7GHz (running at 1.73GHz in the QS) had DFS enabled. None of the other upgrades used for comparison had DFS enabled.
The L2 Cache tab shows the current cache speed, size, type, etc. and has options to disable it but normally you'd never do that of course unless troubleshooting a suspect CPU perhaps.
Again the screenshot above was taken with DFS enabled and the CPUs not under load. (The CPU speed would quickly change to 1.73GHz otherwise.)
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An unwelcoming public square , situated in the direct vicinity of Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar skyscraper and MBM Arquitectes' Disseny Hub design museum , is intersected by three traffic arteries , making it to all intents and purposes an unattractive place. The city of Barcelona is tackling the problem , however. One of the results – an information center designed by the Catalonia studio peris+toral.arquitectes – is a step in the right direction.
Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes is located at the junction of Barcelona's three main traffic arteries , making it fairly inhospitable , as such places generally are. It was this very spot that was chosen by in the 19th century by Ildefons Cerdà to serve as the city canter in his extension plan for Barcelona. Now , 150 years later , his idea seems to be coming to fruition , thanks to an ideas competition held in 2015 for the makeover of the square.
In January , the self-same square gained a structure that is reminiscent of a gigantic fish trap. But there's no need to worry: the pavilion may be meant to attract passers-by but it also offers four ways in and out. The impression of a fish trap is created by the pavilion's outermost skin , which consists of fine metal netting stretched over a polygonal framework. Behind this follows a further , shadow-casting netting layer , also stretched over a polygonal framework but positioned asymmetrically to the outer layer. After this comes an innermost skin out of polycarbonate.
Translucent and water-proof , it provides protection from the hectic surroundings formed by four-lane expressways. The pavilion's individual functions are accommodated in inserted boxes pre-fabricated like shipping containers , and comprise an information counter , a rental office for electric bikes and an exhibition space that shows the further plans for reshaping the square. To provide the interior with warm materials , the floor and side entrances are executed in wood.
The pavilion , an attempt to create a point of attraction at the unloved , bears witness to the architects' experimentation with construction methods and materials that will enable dismantling and removal without a trace. All parts are thus reusable and if required can be set up again elsewhere.


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text: On 4/24/07, sebas <sebas at kde.org> wrote: > > On Monday 23 April 2007 22:23:17 Gianluca Varisco wrote: > > I can confirm what tomasz2006 said above: I removed "powersaved" and re- > > installed "powernowd", so kde-guidance now works correctly. Probably it > > would be better to flag 'powernowd' mandatory dependency of "kde- > > guidance"? > > Does it also work without powernowd? (It should, at least if HAL isn't > doing > strange things.) > -- > sebas > > -- > kde guidance does not display cpu frequency > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102345 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > None of that works for me. All cpufreq modules are loaded. I don't think you should need powersaved or powernowd. guidance-powermanager I thought, was designed to replace them using just dbus calls to HAL. -- Mark Merriken -- kde guidance does not display cpu frequency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102345 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for kde-guidance in ubuntu.