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It is hard to believe that I have now been living in Australia for over 10 months. While the time has gone by so fast, it also has been packed with new experiences, changes in how I see the world and my place in it and what matters most in life. I look back and each month was so incredibly different than the last. I feel like I have slowly been unplugging from one Matrix while plugging in to another one. Both have so many similarities that many times I mistakenly assume they are the same and other times I am reminded just how different things are.
As I celebrate my 42nd birthday, I look back to a year ago and think about how this whole adventure began. I was living in the town I grew up in, Redmond, WA. I never really loved Redmond, and cannot really put my finger on exactly why. It was a nice, safe little town, close to everything I could want or need. My commute to work was ideal. Most days I was able to work from my home office and when I did commute to Microsoft, it was a 5 mile drive. The public schools were very good and we lived in a nice, big, happy home. My family was close by and I had some good friends that I could always count on to be there. My work was interesting and the money was great. I drove a nice car and led a nice life. However, I was not happy. I did not realize it at the time as I have always tried to make the most of any situation and overlook that which I could not change. I just always felt something was missing, my whole life, living in Redmond. My 10 years in California were the best 10 years of my life and it was very hard for me to move back to Redmond for work. But I made the most of it and did my best for over 10 years in the Seattle area. We had some great times, made some great friends, and I had two great kids, surrounded by loving grandparents who helped me through the baby years. I think I just got fed up with the WEATHER!!!!
Evan and I were seriously considering moving to back to Southern California but no matter how hard we tried, things just weren't working out. It was like trying to push a rock up hill. We gave up on the idea and just decided to focus on learning to love the area. I felt partially relieved as I knew moving would have created turmoil and I was going to miss my parents and our wonderful nanny. I also had concerns about buying a home given the economic conditions and was concerned about the quality of public schools in CA. I wanted to go, but it just did not feel like the right thing to do at that time, given all that was going on around us. Then one day, just after my 41st birthday, Evan asked me, almost jokingly if I would consider moving to Australia. At first, I joked back but did not think it was possible or sane given that we had two young kids, a home, careers, etc.... But then I started thinking "why not, it is now or never!" I had always wanted to visit but knew that this was the sort of place that you cannot come for just one week. And until the kids were much older, I was not likely to have that kind of vacation time on my hands. So, I told Evan I would do it if he wanted to pursue the job opportunity he was discussing.
For the first five months that I was here, I was both exhilarated by the newness of it all and worried that I had made the wrong choice for my kids. They were amazing and adjusted incredibly well, especially Carson, who is not known for his ability to adjust to new situations. However, it was hard on them, and it came out in the form of tantrums and disagreements about totally unrelated things. Now that they are settled in and happy I am able to look back and know that they were reacting to the changes in their own ways. It was hard to go through a Seattle winter, get a few days of Seattle spring and then move back to the beginning of Winter in the Southern hemisphere. I don't recommend that! Instead, go from summer to summer!
In our 7th month here, we moved in to a great house just after I took an amazing job. Since taking my job and moving in a new house, I have really started to feel like I may belong here. My house is full of light, with windows and doors that open up from wall-to-wall, making my main living area like an indoor/outdoor space. I watch the tropical birds flying around the house and have several eating just outside my window now. I see the ships coming and going in to the harbor, including all of the big cruise ships and I can see the city skyline from the other side of my house. Being here just makes me HAPPY. I have found it very easy to make friends here and have one friend in particular whom I know will be a friend for life no matter where I go. I have been lucky to have several friends like this in my life and feel very lucky to already have one here. That is really all you need!
The thought of moving to California is getting harder and harder for us to consider and I think Redmond is out of the question at this point. We hope to sell the house someday - hopefully to our current tenants. The only thing pulling me back at the moment is my family and a friend or two. I miss them terribly but know that is not reason enough to move again. We are working on establishing permanent residency so that we have the option to stay, and eventually buy a home if we want to. However, I am not making any permanent decisions any time soon. For the first time in my life I am just going with the flow and seeing where it takes me....and most of the time, it feels good. Once in a while I have to fight the urge to control and KNOW where I am going - after all, we never really have control or know...just the illusion that we do. It is just so foreign to me to relax and live in the moment. I think breaking out of my comfortable bubble is what finally allowed me to do that.
It's been nearly a year since I agreed to this crazy adventure and I find myself happy that I took the risk and a better person for all that I have experienced so far. Living in Australia is like going back to a simpler time, where relationships and quality of life are valued above possessions and status. People work hard, but work does not seem to consume them. The schools emphasize social skills and problem solving and put far less pressure on the kids from an academic standpoint, and yet it seems that their system works amazingly well. I am definitely in no hurry to leave and still have so much to see and do before even making a decision. We have agreed not to decide anything for as long as we can avoid making any decisions. It feels liberating. So, here I am...living in the moment. Experiencing new things every day. Life is good when you let go of the reins!


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New Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules to tackle abuse in Tier 4 student visa system
Students wishing to stay on in Britain and work will be required to first leave the country, students at publicly funded colleges will be prevented from working
New Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules to tackle abuse in Tier 4 student visa system
13 July 2015
Immigration Minister James Brokenshire today announced that a new Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules aims to tackle abuse of the Tier 4 student visa system and reduce net migration. You can read the 39-page Statement of Changes here.
From next month, the changes will mean that new students at publicly funded colleges will be prevented from being able to work in the UK.
In addition, overseas students wishing to stay on in Britain and work when they finish their course will first be required to leave the country. The change is scheduled to take place in the autumn.
The Independent says that Home Secretary Theresa May intends the "tough new rules" to stop immigrants using colleges as a "back door to a British visa".
Seamus Nevin, head of employment and skills at the Institute of Directors, told the Daily Mail that the "proposals to eject foreign students after graduation are misguided and would damage the British education system, our economy and global influence."
For more on the changes, you can read Brokenshire's statement to the Commons below:
House of Commons: Written Statement (HCWS95)
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Written Statement made by: The Minister of State for Immigration (James Brokenshire) on 13 Jul 2015.
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules
My rt hon Friend the Home Secretary is today laying before the House a Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules.
These new rules make a number of changes to the Tier 4 route of the Points-Based System to reduce net migration and to tackle immigration abuse, whilst ensuring we maintain an excellent offer for students who wish to study at our world-class universities.
New students at publicly funded colleges will be prevented from being able to work in the UK, in order to bring their working rights in line with those of international students at private colleges. In the autumn, college students will be unable to switch to a work visa or extend their study visa whilst they are in the UK, whilst protecting students at embedded colleges who will progress onto study at a higher education institution.
The rules around academic progression are being tightened so that university students are only permitted to extend their studies at the same academic level if the course they wish to study is linked to their previous course, or the university confirms the course supports the student's career aspirations. To help ensure international students are progressing academically the time limit on further education study will be reduced from three years to two years in the autumn.
The maintenance requirement for Tier 4 students is increasing, along with the maximum amount paid for accommodation which can be offset against the maintenance requirement, to bring them in line with 2015 rates. A rule around established presence which allowed students applying to extend their leave within the UK to show only two months' maintenance is being removed.
The application of the rules on time limits is being clarified so that the time a student has already spent studying in the UK is calculated using the full length of the leave they have previously been granted.
Changes are being made to allow a Tier 4 visa to be issued in line with a student's intended date of travel. This change to the date from which entry clearance can commence will help ensure a smooth roll-out of Biometric Residence Permits for overseas Tier 4 applicants.
Tier 4 migrants' conditions of study are being changed, to prevent them from studying at academies or schools maintained by a local authority. Those who wish to study a foundation course to prepare for entry to higher education are also being prevented from doing so under the Tier 4 (Child) route.
Where responsibilities of sponsor organisations and terminology have recently changed, the rules are being updated.
The Government is reforming the student visa system to reduce net migration and tackle abuse. These changes will help achieve this, whilst ensuring the UK maintains a highly competitive offer and continues to attract the brightest and best international students.
I am also taking this opportunity to make a number of smaller changes to the Immigration Rules:
- enabling South African diplomatic passport holders to travel visa free to the UK for the purpose of 'visit in transit'
- amend the eligibility requirements for transit passengers, aligning the period within which non-visa nationals must intend and are able to leave the UK with that of visa nationals (other than those using the Transit Without Visa Scheme)
- changes to administrative review, which have been identified as necessary during the early stages of implementation
- minor changes and clarifications relating to family and private life, mainly reflecting feedback from caseworkers and legal practitioners on the operation of the rules


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I have started to make some small cards for the kids to give to their friends at christmas time, this one I have followed the sketch from Sketch and Stash wk no.44 and have entered it into their challenge this week, I liked the simple and neat sketch so much I have made a small batch of them. The Angel face image is from Squiggle stamps and is one of this years new christmas releases. It's sweet and neat too, so sketch and image compliment each other nicely. I think I may make some thank you notelets as well with this image in the near future. As you will have guessed the new stash is the image, and the old stash are the sequins (had them forever I believe)
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During our record-breaking 113-degree day in Los Angeles yesterday, I had the opportunity to be on the set of a $17,000,000 feature film. My friend is the director of photography, so I was able to get close to the action and observe. Including the on-set medic and retired police officers, there must have been 50-60 people there, and that's not including all the folks working behind-the-scenes elsewhere!
As I stood watching, I couldn't help compare my tiny production with the spectacle before me. I kept thinking the set-design alone for that one location probably cost more than my film will all together. However, in the end, the most indelible impression left on me was the realization that they were doing exactly what I and my crew did, except at a much larger scale. There simply were a lot more people because there were a lot more variables to control.
Like most Hollywood productions, my friend and his crew film less than 3 script pages per day on average. Me and my crew, on the other hand, averaged 11 pages per day. Efficiency has nothing to do with it. The crew yesterday was professional and worked very hard. Everyone stayed on task and kept alert. It simply comes down to variables and they had a lot more to deal with.
My film was intentionally designed and developed to minimize variables. We had one primary location and the story takes place within 24 hours. That's why about 8 of us were able to film it all in 7 days! It all comes down to variables…


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Today Clara Zetkin, Spokesperson for the Feminist Avengers, raged at Amazon selling t-shirts with the slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On Raping" and calls on feminist avengers from around the world to let Amazon know how they feel. Either write a review or phone them. If they do not take the t-shirt that states "KEEP CALM AND RAPE A LOT" then Amazon should be boycotted!"
Ethel MacDonald, Artistic Director for the Feminist Avengers stated: "The Feminist Avengers call for other feminists to tell Amazon that if they do not withdraw this dispicable misogynistic t-shirt then the International Federation of Feminist Avengers will call for a global boycott of Amazon. The Feminist Avengers used amazon reviews previously for the less important issue of pink Bic pens, our reviews became a global phenomeon, a bit of fun about a serious issue about "gender binary!" and the over feminisation of the colour pink but on this product we cannot see this as sexist nonsense but as hatred against women promoting the the serial rape of women and children! We call on all Feminist Avengers to take action
Rani Lakshmibai , International Secretariat of Situationist Internationale stated "the spectacle of belittling rape and sexual assault of women creates a language and a culture that means the violation and abuse of women becomes normal. Women have a human right to consent to have sex. Encouraging rape and especially serial rape by these t-shirts and by Amazon facilitating the peddling of the t-shirts is horrific. The sexual assault and rape of women can never be funny, can never be promoted by fashion and cannot be accepted within our society. We blame the rape culture that has made t-shirts like this acceptable. We ask Amazon to reflect on the fact that rape is violence against women and children!
Helen Crawford, Legal Advisor to Feminist Avengers explained "The United Nations recognises that violence against women and girls takes many forms and is widespread throughout the globe. It includes rape, domestic violence, harassment at work, abuse in school, female genital mutilation and sexual violence in armed conflicts. It is predominantly inflicted by men. Men's violence and abuse is a major barrier against women's equality and liberation. The right of women and girls to live free of violence from men's violence and abuse is inalienable and fundamental. Women are not commodities to be bought and sold. It is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. There is a pandemic of violence and rape against women and girls; we only ask that women are not violated and humiliated by men's violence and abuse. Excusing rape as bad manners harms all women and dismisses the fact that rape constitutes inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of women, which is a breach of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights."
"The direct actions of the Feminist Avengers are based on their anger and their struggle for women's liberation."
Amazon page: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Keep-Calm-Black-Jersey-T-Shirt/dp/B007DO7J6E/ref=pd_rhf_cr_p_t_1_4NH4
How to make a review – click here you can either give the t-shirt one star or five stars (you can't give none) and write a review either under your own name or create a new account.
Avengers are found on Twitter @avengerfeminist the hashtag we use is #feministavengers


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Thursday, October 13, 2005
My Harry Potter Alter Ego
You scored as Severus Snape. Well you're a tricky one aren't you? Nobody quite has you figured out and you'd probably prefer it stayed that way. That said you are a formidable force by anyone's reckoning, but there is certainly more to you than a frosty exterior and a bitter temper.
Discover your Harry Potter alter ego
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- Tirsden Frozenrayn said...
Oooooooooh my favorite character! Bwahahaha... must take this test. And try not to rig the answers...
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I noticed that many people come to this blog for the posts on home staging, so I thought that I should oblige with at least one post a week on that topic. Most of what it takes to prepare your home for sale does not involve major projects, but at times it can. I usually do my best to avoid writing about specific clients, but in this case, they are my parents. They are planning on moving to their lake house next year, so they have been getting ready for the transition and the sale of their current home. Their example is a perfect case of having to take on something major to sell the house.
The house was built in the early sixties, and they bought it in the seventies, and the building has undergone changes, but like all homes, the seller has to think of the current market. I have been working on the home for the past year, to ensure that it is ready for it moment to shine. However, I came to a point where I informed my parents that we had to take this preparation a step further. There were two major issues which needed to be addressed: the kitchen and the den floor. From an inspection point of view, everything was fine. The counter was the original from the sixties, as was the floor, and both have seen some use. The kitchen counters were in good condition; they just were not what is popular in today's market. The floors needed much more help.
Many people are buying existing homes, instead of going to a builder for a new home. This does not mean that they are not thinking of all of those nice new amenities which a new home can offer. Solid surface or stone countertops are in vogue. Laminate is fine for most, but stepping up to these new solid surface tops is what perspective buyers want. In this home, there is beautiful wood paneling and a cathedral ceiling in the den, which does make the room dark. The kitchen has a heavy use of stained wood too. I pointed out the fact that a solid surface countertop would be something which will stay in a perspective buyers mind, but I mentioned that we could use the countertop in another way to assist us. By using a light tan colored solid surface like Corian, we can not only make the kitchen feel more expansive, but the den as well, since it looks onto the kitchen. Basically, we change some of the dark colors for a complimentary light color. Light colors make the room feel larger. My parents liked the idea. Laminate is fine as a material, but when you have concerns of how to make your house stand out, and you have the problem of not being in the latest trend, with the consideration of how the house feels, you have to look at your options. In this case, three issues were taken care of with one fix. The countertop is around 25 square feet, which gives it a price in Houston of around $2300 to $3400 installed (depending on your options. The cabinets are in good shape, so this one project creates the feeling of a new kitchen, which will help the house sell towards the higher end of the market value.
Wood floors sell houses. People love the look and the feel, so repairing a wood floor is a good bet for homeowner when preparing to sell. Unfortunately, repairing does not always work. The original parquet floor from the sixties has dealt with a custom built 550 gallon fish tank, a film crew, dogs, and the worst of all, my brother and me. Needless to say, several pieces of parquet were missing or damaged. The good thing about the floor is that it was solid wood. The new wood composite floors can only be redone once or twice. Solid wood floors can be sanded and refinished up to ten times in some cases. The missing pieces posed the problem. New parquet floors in this style are not exactly the same size as the old pieces, so the noticeably stand out. We could have bought our own stock and custom made the pieces, but none of us had the time for that, so we considered a new floor. The den's walls are dark, and the parquet is dark, so we though of how to make the room feel like its size. My parents had already used a Mexican tile in the kitchen, and we could let this tile be the flooring in the den. The color went with the area, and it would make the room feel larger. Tile floors in main living areas are becoming popular in certain parts of the country, mainly where there is an increasing Latino population. Tile floors are easy to clean and maintain, which has made them popular with many homeowners. Tile does not have the durability of wood, but it is becoming a choice of families for their main living area. Vinyl floors are also making a comeback for this reason. The room can be softened with a rug in the center, if need be. This flooring is great for Texas, and it helps physically connect areas, which are already visually connected.
Sometimes home staging can evolve into projects around the home, but in both these cases, my parents should realize that money back in the sale. They may even obtain more for their home, because of these details. You may not need to go this far in your own efforts, but think of the trade offs. Will this repair be reimbursed to me in the sale? Can this repair bring in a price closer to the higher market value? Kitchen and bathroom remodels will be reimbursed in the sale, but other remodels might not be. The floor in the den made sense, because a repair was needed, and there was the issue of how the den feels. Dark rooms do not go down well with home buyers.


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I am a voracious reader of fairy tales, young adult fiction, fantasy and anything related to teaching. I have always felt my love for children's literature stems from my childhood struggle learning to read. I was born with tiny ear canals and fused bones in my inner, which causes lots of ear infections and required five ear surgeries to "fix". As a result, I hated to read anything as it was often laborious. Eventually, I discovered the great escape of literature, but by then I only had time to read what was required of me during school. It wasn't until college that I really got to read what I wanted to read. I had a lot of catching up to do.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. It follows the classic fairy tale plot line of boy-to-man, but it takes a twisted turn into a fantastically nightmarish world. You'll meet all the classic "helpers" and "villians", but it will be unlike anything you have ever imagined.
I love twisted fairy tales like those by Ursula Le Guin and Margaret Atwood, because I often feel like I had a classic childhood turned on its head. I'm also a bit mischievous. This is also why art like that of The Little Fox, Hidden Eloise, Inside the Black Apple and Mark Ryden really appeal to me. There's something just a bit off about those smiling girls of "unspecified age".
Do you know of any other modern versions of classic fairy tales? How about fairy tales with a twist (original Brother's Grimm don't count)?
A new home for The Rogue + The Wolf
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Times sure flies when you are having fun, just a year ago i started with series 18 and now its the 20th release of Medicom's Bearbrick series. With this series, comes something new to the Bearbrick world, a walking Bearbrick and also a secret Bear bearing the 20th release logo. ( see previous post).
Series 20 packaging is slightly taller then the average series as the Basic Walking bear do not sit in the packaging but standing up hence the tall packaging.
Side view of the case packaging with all the bears in the series (minus the secret hidden bear). All the best to all that buying the blind packaging or by case. As for me below is what in my case.
Pretty good set, lucky manage to complete a set of 8 as only 1 pcs of Ironman and War Machine in it. Good luck.


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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 37, December 2015, Pages 57–62
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Abstract Meditation is becoming an increasingly popular topic for scientific research and various effects of extensive meditation practice (ranging from weeks to several years) on cognitive processes have been demonstrated. Here we show that extensive practice may not be necessary to achieve those effects. Healthy adult non-meditators underwent a brief single session of either focused attention meditation (FAM), which is assumed to increase top-down control, or open monitoring meditation (OMM), which is assumed to weaken top-down control, before performing an Attentional Blink (AB) task – which assesses the efficiency of allocating attention over time. The size of the AB was considerably smaller after OMM than after FAM, which suggests that engaging in meditation immediately creates a cognitive-control state that has a specific impact on how people allocate their attention over time. Gadget timed out while loading
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. Introduction Even though many people still view meditation as a technique primarily intended for relaxation and wellbeing, numerous studies have shown that meditation alters various affective and cognitive processes. Indeed, meditation has substantial effects on how people perceive and process their physical and social environment and how they regulate attention and emotion (for reviews, see Lippelt et al., 2014 and Lutz et al., 2008). Moreover, by reducing anxiety, meditation may enhance efficient functioning of the goal-directed attentional system and reduce the extent to which processing is influenced by the stimulus-driven attentional system (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007). However, all meditation techniques are not equal – neither in terms of their goals nor in terms of their effects. Lutz et al. (2008) and more recently Lippelt et al. (2014) have distinguished between two general meditation practices: Focused attention meditation (FAM) and Open monitoring meditation (OMM), which are likely to exert differential effects on attentional control. During FAM, practitioners are required to focus attention on a chosen object or event, such as a candle flame or breathing. To sustain this focus, the practitioner has to constantly monitor the concentration on the chosen event to avoid mind wandering (Tops, Boksem, Quirin, IJzerman, & Koole, 2014). During OMM, instead the focus of the meditation becomes the monitoring of awareness itself (Lutz et al., 2008 and Vago and Silbersweig, 2012), and there is no internal or external object or event that the meditator has to focus on. These different aims of the two techniques have been found to be associated with different effects on cognitive, affective, and neural processing. For instance, OM meditators have been found to outperform FAM practitioners in a sustained attention task when the target stimulus was unexpected (Valentine & Sweet, 1999). This might indicate that the OMM practitioners had a wider attentional scope, even though the two practitioners groups did not differ in performance when the stimulus was expected. Electrophysiological evidence for meditation-induced improvements in attention comes from a recent study in which Vipassana (i.e., OMM-style) meditators performed an auditory oddball task before and after meditation (in one session) and random thinking (in another session) (Delgado-Pastor, Perakakis, Subramanya, Telles, & Vila, 2013). Meditators showed greater P3b amplitudes to target tones after meditation than either before meditation or after the no-meditation session, an effect that is thought to reflect enhanced attentional engagement during the task. These and other differential effects of the two meditation types on information processing have motivated the hypothesis that they engage different cognitive-control styles (Lippelt et al., 2014): While FAM induces a single-channel processing mode that strengthens top-down support for relevant information and/or increases local competition between relevant and irrelevant information (Duncan, Humphreys, & Ward, 1997), OMM induces a more parallel processing mode in which top-down support and/or local competition are reduced. Consistent with this idea, while the size of the Simon effect (reflecting the efficiency of handling response conflict) was unaffected by type of meditation, the amount of dynamic behavioral adjustments (i.e., trial-to-trial variability of the Simon effect: the Gratton effect) were shown to be considerably smaller after OMM than after FAM (Colzato, Sellaro, Samara, & Hommel, 2015). In the present study, we will test the control style hypothesis in the context of visual attention. So far, the literature has focused on long-term effects of meditation. In a seminal study, Slagter et al. (2007) investigated the effects of 3 months of intensive Vipassana (i.e., OMM-style) meditation training on the allocation of attention over time as indexed by the "attentional-blink (AB)" – when two target stimuli (T1 and T2) embedded in a rapid stream of events are presented in close temporal proximity, the second target stimulus is often not noticed. This effect is thought to result from competition between the two target stimuli for limited attentional resources (Raymond, Shapiro, & Arnell, 1992). After the training, participants showed a smaller AB, suggesting that they were more efficient in allocating their attentional resources to the processing of T1 and T2. The reduced AB was accompanied by a smaller T1-elicited P3b, the above-mentioned brain-potential thought to index attentional resource allocation. van Leeuwen, Müller, and Melloni (2009) found age-(and/or practice-)related effects of long-term meditation. In line with these results, only the older and very experienced meditators (on average 10,704 h of experience) showed a smaller AB during OMM than during FAM (van Vugt & Slagter, 2014). However, as the two kinds of meditations were performed in the same experimental session, the lack of an effect in less experienced meditators may be due to carry over effects or the failure to distinguish between FAM- and OMM-related activities. While these observations provide evidence that meditation can affect attentional control, one can ask whether this impact really requires so much practice. In fact, if it is really the case that particular kinds of meditation engage specific cognitive-control styles (Lippelt et al., 2014), it should be possible to demonstrate that meditation immediately induces control states that immediately impact behavior. Let us consider how control states may be systematically modulated by FAM and OMM, respectively. As elaborated elsewhere (Hommel, 2012), biologically plausible models of decision-making (for a review, see Bogacz, 2007) share two basic ingredients: mutual inhibition between representations of alternatives, such as A and B in the Fig. 1, and top-down support for goal-compatible alternatives (e.g., Duncan et al., 1997; see A in our example). Following the reasoning of Colzato et al., 2012 and Colzato et al., 2015, control policies can be expected to modulate the strength of the top-down bias (control route 1) and/or local competition (control route 2; see Hommel, 2012). If so, the strong emphasis on focusing and the exclusion of irrelevant thoughts in FAM would be expected to induce an increase of top-down bias and/or local competition, while the emphasis on openness and lack of exclusion in OMM would be expected to induce a decrease of bias and competition. In other words, FAM should establish a rather "serial", "exclusive" control mode that would lead individuals to select one target at the time, while OMM should establish a rather "parallel", "inclusive" control mode that should allow selecting multiple targets at once. Assuming that cognitive-control states are relatively inert (Allport et al., 1994 and Meiran et al., 2002) and tend to outlive the task context they were established for, we assumed that engaging in meditation would still have a measurable impact on a subsequent AB task. If it would, having just engaged in FAM should produce a particularly pronounced AB while having engaged in OMM should have the opposite effect. We thus had people naïve to meditation engage in brief bouts of either FAM or OMM and expected the AB to be larger after FAM than after OMM. Possible mechanisms involved in decision making. The goal-relevant alternative A ... Fig. 1. Possible mechanisms involved in decision making. The goal-relevant alternative A is supported by the goal representation (1) but competes with choice alternative B through mutual inhibition (2). Thus, in addition to the competition, bias is provided by the goal. In the case of the AB, OMM might induce weak top-down control and/or reduced local competition and establish a rather "parallel" control mode that supports the selection of multiple targets, which should lead to a smaller AB; FAM would have the opposite effect.
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3. Results Age did not significantly differ between groups (19.5 vs. 20.7 in the FAM and OMM group, respectively), t(38) = −1.06, p = .30. As expected, an ANOVA of conditional T2 accuracy (T2|T1) revealed a two-way interaction between group and lag, F(3,114) = 3.07, p = .03, MSE = 0.012, View the MathML sourceηp2 = 0.08, indicating that the AB (the lag effect) was smaller after OMM than after FAM (see Fig. 2). Moreover, an ANOVA on T1 accuracy (see Fig. 2), F(3, 114) = 4.97, p = .003, MSE = 0.016, View the MathML sourceηp1 = 0.12, showed that the degree to which T2 impaired T1 processing at the shortest lag was much reduced for the OMM group. Both observations suggest that OMM induced a more parallel processing mode that allowed for a more efficient distribution of attentional resources over T1 and T2. ANOVAs revealed that pleasure [1.2 (SD = 1.5) vs. 1.7 (SD = 1.6) vs. 0.4 (SD = 1.6) and 1.1 (SD = 1.5) vs. 1.8 (SD = 1.6) vs. 0.7 (SD = 1.6) in the FAM and OMM group, respectively] and arousal [0.9 (SD = 1.5) vs. −0.2 (SD = 1.9) vs. 0.1 (SD = 2.0) and 0.2 (SD = 1.3) vs. −1.2 (SD = 1.4) vs. 0.0 (SD = 1.7) in the FAM and OMM group] did not significantly change between groups, F(2, 76) < 1, p = .66, MSE = 1.213, View the MathML sourceηp2 = 0.01 and F(2, 76) = 1.008, p = .37, MSE = 2.142, View the MathML sourceηp2 = 0.03, respectively. This suggests that we can rule out an account of our results in terms of mood and arousal. T1 (unconditional) performance (left panel) and T2 performance given T1 correct ... Fig. 2. T1 (unconditional) performance (left panel) and T2 performance given T1 correct (T2|T1) (right panel), shown separately for each lag and for T2|T1 for OMM, FAM and control group. Figure options 3.1. Control analyses In order to further elucidate which meditation can be held responsible for the differences in findings between OMM and FAM group, we collected additional data of a control group in which participants (N = 20, 1 male, mean age 20.0 years) did not engage in a meditation. They performed the identical RSVP task but were asked to relax (e.g. reading magazines) in the time periods usually taken by the meditation. The performance on conditional T2 accuracy (T2|T1) of the control group fell in-between the effects of the OMM and FAM group, F(6, 171) = 2.61, p < .05, MSE = 0.010, View the MathML sourceηp2 = 0.08 (see also Fig. 2). Post-hoc multiple comparisons tests (Newman–Keuls) revealed that the FAM group showed a greater AB than the OMM group (p = .007) and the control group (p = .02), which showed comparable AB (p = .96). In contrast, the performance on T1 accuracy (see Fig. 2), F(6,171) = 4.42, p < .01, MSE = 0.013, View the MathML sourceηp2 = 0.13, showed that for the control group the degree to which T2 impaired T1 processing at the shortest lag was similar to the FAM group (p = .69) but in both cases stronger than in the OMM group (ps ⩽ .007).


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Let the Holy Spirit uplift you today with His presence and encouragement as you listen to this song, "God is Good", by Don Moen (from my Playlist).
God is good all the time
He put a song of praise in this heart of mine
God is good all the time
Through the darkest night, His light will shine
God is good, God is good all the time
(Repeat chorus)
If you're walking through the valley
And there are shadows all around
Do not fear, He will guide you
He will keep you safe and sound
'Cause He's promised to never leave you
Nor forsake you and His Word is true
We were sinners - so unworthy
Still for us He chose to die
Filled us with His Holy Spirit
Now we can stand and testify
That His love is everlasting
And His mercies - they will never end
Lord I may not understand
All the plans You have for me
My life is in your hands
And through the eyes of faith I can clearly see
You may be walking through the shadows now and the valley of 'why', but God is so good and He is walking with you. Your days may be filled with frustration, pain and fear.
You may feel like your prayers aren't getting above the ceiling. You have been praying for that loved one for so long, and there is no answer.
Why, God are You silent about the matter? You cry out, 'Why?' so many times in your prayers.
God has not forsaken you! He has promised that He will never leave us or forsake us. We do not need to be afraid, because He is our helper.
Heb 13:5,6; Deut. 31:6,8
I'm reminded of another song,
"For all of the Days That End in Why", sang by Poet Voices.
The chorus is,
"God is there through every hello and goodbye,
God is there when I don't even have the will to try.
God is there, God is there
for all the days that end in why,
for all the days that end in why."
I love the message.
Someone said that when he first heard the song, he thought they were saying, "God is there all the days that end in Y."
It made him think, "What days do end in Y?"
Sunday… Monday… Tuesday… Wednesday… Thursday… Friday… Saturday!
Every day of the week ends in "Y"!
Yes, God is with us everyday of the week.
Just remember, when you don't understand the whys, that Jesus really is there for you every day that ends in 'why' and He is good all the time!
Love and Prayers,
God Is Good!
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Thank you for sharing your comments. They are words of encouragement not only for me, but for others who stop by. I would love to pray with you for your unsaved family and share your praise reports as well. Blessings, Carolyn
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Hour 1
You Should Be Dancing - The Bee Gees
I've Got The Next Dance - Deniece Williams
Dancer - Gino Soccio
The Boss - Diana Ross
More More More - Andrea True Connection
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Hour 2
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
A conversation with Clive Davis about his book, The Soundtrack of my Life
All the Time - Barry Manilow
After Dark - Pattie Brooks
I Feel Love - Donna Summer
Love and Desire - Arpeggio
Hour 3
Dance With Me - Peter Brown
A conversation with James Franco about his movies, Oz: The Great and Powerful and Interior. Leather Bar.
I Like to Do It - K.C. & the Sunshine
Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
Dance, Dance, Dance - Chic
A chat with Maria Menunos and Keven Undergaro about their film The Adventures of Serial Buddies
I Love The Nightlife - Alicia Bridges
Hour 4
Could It Be Magic - Donna Summer
A conversation with Ricky Schroder about his movie, Our Wild Hearts
The Main Even/Fight - Barbra Streisand
Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes - Claudja Barry
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Please meet Caroline.
This essay in particular is weighty, for it comes from a life and heart of experience. Read slowly, stay with it to the end, and be both humbled and encouraged.
Fine, fine writing, with an even stronger message.
Dark. Loud explosions boomed occasionally and a constant high pitched spray of bullets. Inside my head was a constant whirling and confusion. My vision blurred as I looked around at the casualties and wounded. One tangled in barbed wire and bent backward into the trench. His body occasionally shook as the enemy shot again at his exposed legs.
"He is dead!" I yelled out in frustration and anger. "Leave him alone!" I think I yelled it out. Maybe it was all in my head.
I turned. I ran as fast as I could. I began dropping gear. I ran past some other soldiers standing firm at their post. A girl, a young girl of about ten, was bandaged where one arm used to be, but she stood in such confidence. I ran past her.
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With its rather comedic-sounding name, the Cambridge Bumps conjures up images of It's a Knockout-type silly competitions. The reality could be hardly more different it; is almost sadistically competitive.
The Bumps are a series of rowing races between teams from the Cambridge colleges, all starting a boat length apart, along a two-mile stretch of the Cam and running over five days.
When the starting gun sounds, all the boats set off with the same aim - to reach the boat in front and either "bump" it (hence the name) or overtake it. At this point, both boats pull over to the side and let the followers through to carry on their respective races.
There is a somehat pagan feel to what happens next - the bumping boat crew decorate themselves with headresses made from the reeds and branches by the riverbank and receive the plaudits of the crowd as they parade leisurely down the river to the finish line. (The bumped boat, by contrast, completes an ignomious "row of shame" in stony silence to the finish).
The only way to approach the bumps, then, is as a full-on sprint in which you try to catch the boat in front as quickly as possible. There is no defensive strategy possible.
Aim simply not to be overtaken and there is a winding two-mile course to be completed, the sprint becoming a strength-sapping marathon.
But, of course, everyone is on exactly the same strategy; it is brutal.
The more-technical details of the bumps are that it works like a squash league - bump a boat in front and you move up a place, succeed in avoiding being bumped all week and you get to fly a flag at the end of your boat. There are three cannon shots to count down to a race - one at five minutes, at one minute and to start.
|A boat with flags means it has not been bumped at any point during the week-long races
Boats can cost up to £50,000 so an alternative to bumping is simply for the cox of the losing boat to raise a hand in an acknowledgement of defeat.
|A cox's raised hand indicates that defeat is conceded
One of the best ways to see the bumps, if you can, is from a garden backing on to the river - we were lucky enough to do this with some friends and brought along a couple of bottles of wine to pass the afternoon with.
I wanted something easy-drinking and inexpensive, but well-made and enjoyable, so I chose a Bordeaux rosé from The Wine Society.
Château Bel Air Perponcher, Réserve 2012 rosé (Bordeaux) pale salmon-pink, ripe stone and red berry fruit, refreshing and persistent with a mineral finish. Well-made and a perfect picnic wine.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Dr.Seuss is very creative in making his amazing characters and fitting a story to them and an enviroment. His rhymes are funny and enjoying to read aloud. Even though certain people may think it's babyish to read his books, still I enjoy reading them in fact more than the grown up books because grown up books have sometimes innapropriate words. Dr.Seuss's world is wonderful to explore. I hope there will be more Dr. Seuss books.
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The crew of ESA's Mars 500 experiments "took off" from Moscow last 3rd June 2010 for an isolation experiment. The crew was composed by six "astronauts": three Russians, a Chinese, a French and an Italian. The six men have been locked inside a few square meters module for 536 days (4 days remain). The aim the experiment is to observe the behaviour and psychological impact on the crew during the complete isolation. They had to carry out lots of experiments they had on board, just as it would be in real spacecraft.
The facility consisted in for hermetically sealed interconnected modules and an external module of mars surface simulator, with a total air volume of 550 cube meters in habitat modules.
The module (and the whole mission) has been a high fidelity simulation, including food, WC, shower, passtimes and communications with the Earth. The communications were cut for a week, and other day power was turned off, just to see how crew would react, and they did well, as they did with the other intentioned emergencies.
They have celebrated on board Halloween, Christmas, birthdays and Chinese new year. As said in the ESA's webpage, "this helped to break the monotony of the mission", which is important because the mission to Mars is not only the needed technology to arrive, there is a human psychological compound which is as relevant as the technological one.
This experiment is about to end, and has answered lots of essential questions, such as "are six astronauts able to live together without too much trouble during 540 days (trip to Mars)?" YES,THEY ARE! Astronauts also demonstrated that they are able to solve different problems appeared.
P.D.: All photos belong to ESA (European Space Agency)
The crew is back home now! Congratulations for all of them!


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The term 'nightlife' is a slight misnomer, since the drinking usually begins well before the sun goes down and can continue until the morning light reminds you that it might be time for bed. If you're in the mood for some live music at a popular nightlife destination, be sure to check out Poštna Ulica, found between the university and Glavni Trg.
With university students accounting for over twenty per cent of its population, the city definitely has a carefree time-to-party vibe to it - although the weekends can be comparatively quiet, as that's when a lot of students return to their parents' houses to stock up on home-made food and have mother do their laundry. In absolute terms, there may not be an overwhelming number of options, but most places do seem to draw quite a crowd and everyone should be able to find something to suit their tastes.


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If you've ever met me (or read a couple of my blogs) you know I love any and all things ridic. That, of course, includes last night's Oscar fashions!
1. Vanessa Hudgens - 1987 called. They want their dress back. Wait, were you even born then?
2. Tilda Swinton aka the White Witch - You look dead. Please do something about it.
3. Beyonce - You are ALWAYS ridic. America thanks you... sort of. PS- Stop letting your mom make your clothes.
And now for one I really liked...
Taraji P. Henson
I actually missed about an hour in the middle of the Oscars because I had to take a break and watch the new episode of Big Love. So, there may be some ridic fashions I missed. If so, please please let me know!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Girl, where you get your hat at?
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- J for Jendetta said...
hilarious!! I think Beyonce was trying to look like Oscar! I missed most of the fashions and have missed all of this year's BIG LOVE because I don't have hbo! : (
- February 23, 2009 at 8:23 PM
- Allison Drew said...
Ah! This season of Big Love is sooo good. You'll have to catch up when it come out on dvd.
- February 23, 2009 at 9:07 PM
- CHIC Sensibility... said...
I was too crazy about Beyonce however Taraji looked stunning.
- February 23, 2009 at 9:31 PM
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Last year when we started Cross Country in Kindergarten, I tried a mix of running and playing games for all the young kids (K - 1st Grade). We did a little more running than game playing and I had some feedback from some that games help more because they do more running when they play games than trying to get them to run intervals or some distance. I readily agreed.
One of the biggest advice givers was the Boy every practice he would ask if we could play games. He was one that would rather run playing a game. This year however he has taken a little bit of different stance. He still wants to play games but claimed they didn't do enough running the first practice. I was happy that he wanted to run more as he is getting competitive and wants to do better this year but at the same vain I was a little frustrated as I spent time trying to find good running games and ideas to entertain the K-1st graders more.
Although all was forgotten very quickly as we had our first popsicle day. Just wait until Bomb Pop Day, well to the kids it is just a colorful popsicle but the Adults usually are more excited and hope there are plenty extra.


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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Ty's First Photoshoot
Wow, tomorrow Tyler will already be 1 week young and he's already had his first professional photo shoot! Ty is such a little cutie patootie and he worked it for my camera! Actually, what I mean to say is that he slept really well throughout the session :) Before I post a few of his photos, I wanted to share a poo story that happened early this morning......It is all too common when baby boys have a fountain of pee when changing their diapers, but midway during Tyler's diaper change he gave us our first experience with projectile poo!! Not only did he splatter the carpet with his mustard seedy looking poo, he managed to aim at my shirt, Randy's shorts, and the end of our bed sheets from his crib!
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The Notre Dame Tissue Mechanics Laboratory is dedicated to both graduate and undergraduate student research. Research is focused broadly on the biomechanics and mechanobiology of the musculoskeletal system.
All images copyright 2001-2015 Notre Dame Tissue Mechanics Laboratory
Mechanobiology of Bone Marrow
We are using multi-scale experimental and computational approaches to better understand the mechanobiology of bone marrow. Marrow is a complex tissue composed of a heterogeneous cell population and a loose connective tissue, or stroma. Most of the cells have been shown to respond to mechanical stimuli in 2-D culture. Our experiments and models demonstrate that typical activities of daily living can sufficiently deform the bone and the encased marrow to impart mechanical stimuli to these cells through adheren junctions and cell-cell contact. We are developing novel bioreactor culture systems using native and artificial tissue to study these interactions in a controlled environment.
Finite element solutions of marrow mechanics in trabecular bone
Finite element simulations of permeability of trabecular bone from the distal femur of a 7 year old ewe, 2 years post ovariectomy, were performed. The volume fraction of the bone was approximately 0.28. The geometry was obtained from a 20 micron resolution Micro-CT scan, and a tetrahedral mesh was created using the Visualization Toolkit. The mesh was translated to the Adina finite element program. The models have from 7 to 8 million elements. The goal of this research is to understand the stress induced in bone marrow during activities of daily living.
Explant Culture of Trabecular Bone
Trabecular bone explants were harvested from bones immediately after slaughter, then placed in culture in custom bioreactors that imparted mechanical loading to the explant. Bone marrow morphology was assessed to demonstrate its viability after long term culture. Future studies will investigate bone marrow adaptation and response to mechanical stimuli.
This research was conducted at The National University of Ireland, Galway in collaboration with Peter McHugh, Laosie McNamara, Evelyn Birmingham, Frank Barry, and the Regenerative Medicine Institute, and supported by Science Foundation Ireland.
Microdamage formation and propagation in trabecular bone
The role of microdamage in osteoporosis and age related fractures is being studied. We are currently studying the damage behavior of trabecular bone subjected to multiple sequential loading scenarios. Changes in loading mode cause microcracks in trabecular bone to propagate, while a single loading mode results in increased numbers of cracks without propagation. The mechanical consequences of this behavior are currently being investigated.
The figures show fluorescent labeled micrographs of trabecular bone following a sequence of on-axis compressive and torsional overloads. Damage due to each loading mode is differentiated by the labeling color.
This research is in collaboration with Dr. Jen MacLeay at the Small Ruminant Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory at Colorado State University.
Three-dimensional labeling and imaging of microdamage
Visualization and quantification of microdamage in three dimensions would provide improved understanding of the relationship between microdamage and bone fracture. Current techniques are limited to finite numbers of slices or regions, and cannot provide spatial understanding of microdamage development. We have developed techniques to measure microdamage in both cortical and trabecular bone using micro-CT imaging.
The top image shows a notch in a four-point bending specimen with labeled damage near the notch root. Finite element results are overlayed demonstrating that damage occurs in the region where the strains exceed 0.7%. The scale bar is 1 mm long.
The bottom image shows similar labeling of damaged regions in a trabecular bone specimen. The relationship of trabecular bone microdamage to fracture susceptibility due to osteoporosis and aging will be investigated.
Simulation of creep in trabecular bone
A computational simulation of creep in trabecular bone using constitutive models consistent with experimental data was developed. The simulation captured the primary creep behavior of trabecular bone.
Histological evaluation of tissues
Histology is used to detect morphological features of biological tissues. H & E staining was used here to investigate the morphology of the enthesis of the bovine patellar ligament. Future studies will be aimed at measuring the mechaical properties of the various layers of the enthesis.
Mechanics of lumbar spinal fusion
We are also modeling the biomechanics of a fused lumbar motion segment to understand how fusion location and size or the use of hardware affect the overall load carrying capability.
Effects of Vitamin D receptor on bone mechanics
The properties of bones in mice lacking a nuclear vitamin-D receptor were studied during gestation and lactation. If sufficient calcium is supplied, mice are able to adapt their skeletal mass effectively in the absence of the vitamin-D receptor.
Casey Korecki was awarded second prize in the 2003 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference student paper competition for this work.
Ongoing research in the Notre Dame Tissue Mechanics Laboratory is supported by:
For more information, or if you are interested in working in the Tissue Mechanics Laboratory, contact Glen Niebur or see the prospective student information.
For information on other research in the department, see the individual faculty profiles. Students wishing to apply for graduate school at Notre Dame should apply through the Mechanical Engineering department.


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Devotion, passion and promises are no longer enough. Everything Ari has built his universe around threatens to come to a tragic end. Ava's seven Kakos foes have been vanquished, but a new and even deadlier terror threatens the Alexander home. As Ari struggles with his role as a deity, he is forced to reveal to Ava his true lineage and what his identity means for their future together. The Zilotis, an occult group of surviving Kakos extremists, rise up to set themselves against the Fates...and no one is safe, no one can be trusted. Ari's fears control him. Trust crumbles and promises lose all meaning as Ari comes to grips with his past and the vows made in the past in his name. Ari will do anything for Ava, even if his devotion means his own death. Secrets are rampant, lies and new nightmares emerge. Will Ari be the man he promised he would be?
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Hi, my name is Hannah. I am in love with the Beautiful Fate series, I was was wondering when A Promised Fate came out to Amazon? I have been looking online for the dates but I can not find anything.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Hannah! Thanks for reading the series, I really appreciate it. A Promised Fate has not yet been released in any form or through any distributor. I have not yet provided a release date for the novel but as soon as I do, I will post it to the blog.Delete
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text: Getting ready for a sleepless night as tomorrow I see oncologist to find out whether surgery and chemo have worked and cancer is gone!! I'll also find out what this lump (that wasn't an abscess) is. Managed to keep my mind off it all day but now it's all I can think about. I've successfully convinced myself that I still have OC. Guess tomorrow will tell!


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What are the Lost? It's an unanswerable question — lest they return. The truth of what they were has been lost to memory and time, as those that lived before their extinction are also passed from Kai'ckul. The Elves seem to have almost purposefully avoided documentation, and as they are the longest-lived creatures, their silence has sealed the uncertainty forever. Finrodel and Melitherian, of the Circle are two of a handful who remain who even witnessed the tail end of the Wars.
Oral traditions and scant writings by the other races have hardly helped with the growing legend of these creatures who now embody what we think of as evil. Each race seems to have grown the Lost into their own tales of bogeymen, even differing from region to region within a single Kingdom or between Holdfasts. One truth remains: the stories of these creatures are tales used to instill virtues and fear, from scary stories around the campfire to fables and homilies used in the rearing of the next generation.
Based on the fragments and best guesses of Gnomish researchers, the Lost could have been creatures bent and broken and aberrations borne from our Draconic Fathers, corrupted with a narrow and amoral code. They could have been other races, much like Dwarves or even Elves, but displaced and seeking roots. They could have even been Men, unwilling to bow to the idea of Enlightenment. Or they could be a combination of any of those concepts. Or none at all. We might never know. Hopefully.


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Hi everyone,
First of all I wish a Very Happy New Year 2011. This new year is something special by date. As the date signifies I wish every one will reach the position of the repeating digit in the date. This new year is very special to us as Sri's bro Ravikanth arrived to India from US and we had a great feast.


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I love being with kids! I've spent years looking after the little ones and I enjoy being with them and sharing great moment while we are reading, playing or doing any fun thing you can think to do. I am a teacher and coach for young children, so I'm pretty used to being surrounded by them. I am also responsible, outgoing and caring.


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BlackBerry is one of the most popular smartphone manufacturer and have with it its best messaging service has officially been working on a new handset that runs Google's mobile operating system, Android. Since we have been looking at a number of leaked photos of the yet-unannounced BlackBerry Prive Android-powered Slider smartphone, and today we've got a clearer photographs of the handset.
The new images of the Android based BlackBerry Priv were posted online by derStandard.at and has given us a much better look at its design of which would be the BlackBerry's first Android phone.
The Priv Android handset will come with a 5.4 inch display that is slightly curved on the edges, the display will have a Quad HD resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. Under the hood if the new BlackBerry Priv is a hex-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor and it also comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of built in storage.
With 4G LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC connectivty options, the BlackBerry Priv Android hardware will also come with microSD card support. The front camera on the Priv is a 5 megapixel version and the rear camera on the handset is an 18-megapixel camera.
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My recent 'Nightcrawler' Steelbook Blu-ray purchase inspired a shamless reblog.
"I'm focusing on framing."
Jake Gyllenhall gives a career consolidating performance as introvert Louis Bloom, a thief, a loner, an entrepreneur. Set in Los Angeles we are exposed to a very real contemporary America, living in the fast lane of the digital age where morals take a back seat on the ride to the top. Dan Gilroy of previous writing credit for TheBourne Legacy presents his directorial debut Nightcrawler, a story about Lou, his dreams, aspirations, and ability to adapt and learn quickly in an industry that is just as fast and just as demanding as Lou's own goals. Referred to as 'stringers' or 'nightcrawlers' throughout the film Lou pursues the life of an L.A. crime journalist who records and sells footage of night crime, or anything that bleeds. Afterall, "if it bleeds, it leads."
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Saturday, July 23, 2016
Day 205 - 23rd July 2016 - Harmony Bazaar - Heather Rankin, Holly Carr and Doris Mason
I'm a little late this morning but only because last night was a late one and I've actually slept til just after 6 am. Much needed! Tammy and I had a great evening in Lockeport - albeit a cold one. She lucked in and found her winter jacket in the trunk of her car - yes it was that cold! Seriously if you missed Heather Ranking and Holly Carr you really missed a great performance. Heather belted out tunes both old and new while Holly worked behind a screen on stage creating a piece of art inspired by the music. It was awesome. We didn't get there until around 7 so missed some of the earlier ones. Christina Martin, Linda McLean were great singers and we always love hearing Doris Mason who just puts you in the festival mood with her keyboard and fab voice. Since my internet is hinky this morning, I can't get all my pics loaded - more tomorrow! Some housework and a roam around the hood, then groceries and off to Lockeport again with Tammy later this afternoon.
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I believe that the light that shines on you will shine on you forever
thank you soo soo much. this was my christmas present to my husband tonight. on christmas day 2004 we learned we were pregnant with avery, so the holidays are always difficult. much peace and love to you this season.


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My DH had a week to play as I was gone for retreat. He did play but he mostly worked....for me. I came home to a sparkling clean house (far better than I left it) and many surprises. One of which was Rose had surgery. Others included; our backyard was prepared for future landscaping; the school room was cleared out for a makeover; my bathroom and laundry room were deep cleaned; and our above ground pool was removed. The best surprise was my garage.
My garage has been completely filled from our move about 2 years ago. I was unable to help at that time because I was on bed rest with Papi. My DH and family packed and moved for me. This relieved me but meant that many things that I would of purged were sent to our new home. It has been somewhat overwhelming. In addition, I wanted to move our indoor play gym out of the house but not outdoors. The garage was the solution. It is rather large and would be a great playroom. All of our previous plans to turn the garage into the playroom were foiled. Until.....most recently when my husband decided to plot behind my back.
He rallied his newly retired mom. She is a super organizer/cleaner and now has plenty of free time on her hands. His dad also joined the crew. Together they all pulled off the best surprise ever!
Below are the pictures of our garage. It is not complete but I'm thrilled that the kiddos have a place to play other than under the stairs (the old playroom).


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Trip to Zambezi
• a cancelled visit by a group last year.
• a time of famine due to the failure of last season's crops
• and the roof of their church destroyed during a storm.
The pastor of this church is elderly and is concerned that he is unable to ride the 12km to collect grass to fix the church roof. Please stand with us in prayer for the younger men in the church to take on the responsibility to collect grass and fix the church roof..
I was caught on camera shaking hands with one of the young people when we arrived, I thought I would share that with you.
The church was very embarrassed because they had no food to share with us. God had prompted me to pack a sack of rice which was not normal, and we bought a goat for the whole meeting to share. God turned their lack into a chance for us to bless them. As guests of honour we were given the liver, heart, intestine, etc.. to eat whilst the others ate the meat. I won't share the photo of the plate of food. I have said that I don't like to be treated as a visitor in future just treat me as family and I will put up with meat like the others.


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June 25, 2009 at 10:09 pm lowdogg 2 comments
I'm disappointed about Michael Jackson's death. I've always hoped he would have a comeback.
For all his problems, his music was incredible. This is a music-focused memoriam.
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I think he would have made a comeback. Amazing musical artist and dancer. R.I.P. Michael. And on a sidenote, is In Rare Form going to pay its respects to Billy Mays as well?
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I'm going to have a little rant now. I'm sure anyone who reads blogs, and has access to the Internet is aware of the problem of Spam in disguise -- Chain E-mails. These come in the form of E-mails from friends and family and co-workers. The people that have forwarded them are most likely smart, well-educated, loving individuals. They want to help. They want to help you, me, their family and the people whom the e-mails say will be helped if you forward the e-mail. There is an easy way to check out many of these e-mails. Go to a hoax site. The one I use is Snopes. http://snopes.com/
Do you remember being a child and getting a chain letter either in the mail or from a friend who handed it to you at school? Did your parents say don't pass that along it is illegal? Guess what folks, same thing here. Well, I don't know if it is illegal, but it doesn't work. Have some confidence in yourself. Before you hit the forward button and start typing in e-mail addresses remember who those addresses belong to. If they are your family, well they'll still be your family whether or not you send them the e-mail. They will still love you even if you don't pass it along. Are they your friends? You won't lose friends if you don't pass them along.
Will God remember if you don't forward that prayer and then not let you into heaven? I kinda doubt that, at least the not getting into heaven part. While I find other chain mails range from amusing to annoying, this type downright angers me. I see it as emotional blackmail. (Pagans and atheists bear with me a moment.) If you are worried about witnessing and sharing your love for God and his love for all of creation with all of creation then get up off your chair, log off the computer and go find clean blankets or towels to donate to the homeless shelter. Go volunteer to serve meals, and not just on holidays, they need volunteers all year long. You don't even have to tell these people about God, your love and his will shine through anyway. If someone asks why you are doing it, then tell them that you are living your faith, that this his how you are demonstrating your love for God and his love for the world. That donation of time or money or things may be better remembered by God than whether or not you hit a forward button. This low key way of witnessing will not push people away. If you are pagan or atheist, you can do these things, but say it is your way of giving back to the community, of contributing to society.
Spam, lets keep just for breakfast. ;-)


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Over the coming months this blog will explore the different types of archaeological monuments that can be found in Thy Place, and explain their archaeology and history. We start the series with the ubiquitous Irish Ringfort, a site found in almost every place on the Island.
The ringfort is one of the most common Irish field monuments, with estimates on their numbers varying between 30,000 and 40,000 throughout the country. Our current understanding of these structures is that they date to the Early Medieval Period, with a peak in construction between AD 600 and AD 900. They represent the enclosed homesteads (farmhouses if you like) of the upper echelons of Irish Early Medieval society. While the term 'ringfort' dominates, other terms are also used such as rath, lios, caiseal and dun – rath and lios are normally used to describe monuments with earthen banks while caiseal (cashel) and dun are more generally used in relation to sites with stone-built enclosures. These names are often fossilised in placenames throughout Ireland today, for example Rathmines in Co. Dublin (the Fort of Maonas) and Lisburn in Co. Antrim (the Fort of the gamblers). The decision on whether they were constructed of earth or stone was often influenced by the local landscape and the most readily available material.
In general ringforts, as the name suggests, consisted of a circular space enclosed by one or more banks and ditches. These generally have an internal diameter of between 15m and 35m (50ft to 115ft), but variations to this rule are known. Excavation within some of these structures has revealed that they had multiple functions. Some investigations of the interior have uncovered nothing, which led the excavators to interpret them as cattle enclosures. In general however it is believed that they housed an extended family, and the more usual arrangement consists of a large central building, usually circular in plan, with some associated out-buildings nearby. Excavations have also revealed other structures which may have been used for agricultural purposes such as cereal drying kilns, or light industrial activities such as smithing furnaces.
The early Irish law tracts set out the size and morphology of enclosures and homes for various classes of people in early Irish society. For instance the bóaire or 'cow lord' was entitled to a house of 8.23m, an out-house of 4.57m, a kiln, a barn, a sheep-fold, a calf-fold and pigsty.
The term 'Ringfort' is probably something of a misnomer, as these sites were almost certainly incapable of withstanding any form of determined attack. Although they may have provided refuge from wild animals and fast moving cattle-raiding parties, they were most likely constructed as a show of wealth by the individual in control of the area, a testament to powerful individuals which in many cases has stood the test of over 1,000 years of history.


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Following our four District meetings and consultations we have pleasure in sharing with you our suggested YRFU Merit League Structure for the coming Season 17-18 (attached) which we trust you will find acceptable. Should you have any comments or concerns please e-mail them to email@example.com before Friday June 16th. We have also attached a copy of the RFU Structured Season for your use.
Can you please ensure that all League matches are completed by Easter Saturday, as it is the intention to organise a "League Cup" Competition for the Northern and Southern Championships and the Northern League during April, with the top eight qualifiers in each League. Merit Tables will continue throughout the season.
The Premiership fixtures are in the process of being arranged and will be available shortly.
We look forward in due course to the receipt of your completed fixture and contact proforma for inclusion in the YRFU Fixtures Handbook. The proforma for completion will also be available shortly.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Waste Management and Publix team up to Compost in South Florida
Garbage titan Waste Management (WM) is teaming up with grocery store titan Publix to compost Publix's waste at a facility in Okeechobee County next to Waste Management's humongous landfill.
Waste Management's critics who regulary state that WM is only interested in landfilling and burning waste must be stunned by the announcement. After all, doesn't WM need to maximize it's other assets so that it can maintain stock price and insure large bonuses for executives? Has the world been flipped on its head?
Not exactly.
Publix has been seeking a partner for composting of its waste for sometime. They struck a deal with a Pompano Beach company in 2008. It failed. This was a huge threat to WM. WM controls all privately owned disposal sites in Florida south of Saint Cloud. Publix is South Florida's largest employer. It's stores are everywhere. Thus, diversion of this waste would have a significant impact on stock price and bonuses.
So, here comes the partnership. What a great example Publix has set. This shows how purchasing decisions can change the world and how a corporation can make a difference in a community by demanding something better. As far as WM, there is never a wrong reason to do the right thing.
Good luck to Waste Management and Publix. Here's the press release.
Learn more about home backyard composting here.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Brookshire's Deals 3/30-4/5
Here are the best deals at Brookshire's this week! Thanks to Julie at Pary Moppins for the matchups!
The Tyler area Brookshire's stores do not double coupons, but do offer a $.05 credit for each reusable bag that you bring in.
Be sure to register your Thank You Card here for even more deals by email!
Louisiana Fish Fry $1.19
Buy 2 use $1/2 from 3/20 SS
$.69 each after coupon
Skinner Pasta $.89
Totinos Pizza Rolls B1G1 for $.01
Buy 2 use $.50/1 from 2/13 RP or $.50/2 printable
Keebler Cookies B1G1 for $.01
Buy 2 use $.55/2 from 3/6 RP
Bar-S Bologna B1G1 for $.01
Buy 2 use $1/2 from 1/30 RP
Hormel Entree B1G1 for $.01
Buy 2 use $.75/1 from 2/13 SS
Pup-Peroni Dog Snacks B1G1 $.01
Buy 2 use $1/1 from 3/13 RP
You can see the rest of this week's deals here!
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In Reply to: Touring owners with sport suspension. posted by Drew Gnann on July 30, 2001 at 18:45:45:
Other things I have been toying with, at least mentally - our Touring front sway bars are 25mm, which is the same size as the M5 bar, through the M5 bar is a different part number and is probably stiffer. The rear sway has some room for improvement - the stock T bar is 15mm, wiht a 16mm sport bar available. The M5T rear bar is either 19 or 20mm (two different ones available). I will be looking at upgrading there after I remove the rear self-leveling.....
Has anyone tried any of the combinations of springs/shocks mentioned a couple months ago. I know MicahO is using bmw/boge up front, but has anyone tried bmw/bilstien all the way around. Just trying to get some feed back before I'm stuck with it. If anyone has some input please desribe the rides pro's and con's. By the way, anyone have good choice for a high performance all season tire(Z-rated). I was thinking about the dunlop sp 5000, but didn't know if they were maybe to soft for the corners. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Drew
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