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August 22, 2013
I was working from LaGuardia to Charleston, SC in First Class that day, everyone boarded as normal, wasn't a full flight, wasn't too light either. I had gotten all the coats and drinks who wanted them, then a man stumbled (not drunk) came on board, hair uncombed, papers in hand and looked confused as he realized the overhead space was to full for his bag. He dropped his boarding pass in the process so I quickly picked it up to confirm my suspicions; I was correct. It was Bill Murray.
I tried not to fangirl out, and play it cool. As I have realized in meeting other famous people that they just want to be treated normal (well most) and keep a low profile, especially while traveling. Others did notice and asked if that was in deed Mr. Murray they were traveling with. I couldn't help it; "Yes, sir, it is-and I GET TO SERVE AND TALK TO HIM". Okay, maybe that last part I didn't say, but that didn't keep me from having this goofy grin on my face.
I immediately told my pilots and coworker, who were equally as thrilled, yet tried to play it cool. The flight went typical for leaving New York, 45 minute delay in taxiing for take off. But I was too excited for letting Bill Murray use my red pen for marking his script he read the whole flight.
Right before we landed my coworker asked if would give Bill Murray a letter she wrote asking for a picture because she's a huge fan yada yada yada. I laughed and said no, I have no problem in you asking him, but I don't ask for pictures. She said ok, and started to walk toward him and probably 1foot away she backs out and turns to me and asks loudly "What did you say? The time?" I bust out laughing "You chicken"
Once on the ground and at the gate I've never witnessed a Captain come out of the Flight Deck so quickly; not to mention The Smoothest landing I've ever felt, which I ragged him about in front of Mr. Murray. We never did get a picture, which I now kind of regret, but we did get to speak with him and he is the Coolest guy ever.


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No I don't want you to spank me, it's good for me.
I have an idea for those of you with an entrepreneurial spirit but have never found the right business to go into. Russian researchers have determined that spanking can be more effective than exercise in battling ailments ranging from depression to alcoholism. Think of all those people that don't have someone to spank them properly. You know where I am going, now get out there and seek your fortune.
I had wanted to post a picture to go with this story, but durnitall, I could not find a single S&M picture anywhere on the net.
Doctors deny Pope happy goodstuff
The Vatican medical staff is denying Pope John Paul II what is natural and painless. A nice long deep sleep full of happy dreams. After all he has done for humanity, why would they deny him this euphoria?
Something has come to my attention.
It has come to my attention that many of my readers are pachydermophiles. I appreciate all of my readers, the weird ones perhaps the most. I give you this, to do with as you will.
Bad Daddy
It occurred to me that the Onlette™ might be asking me to regurgitate food into her mouth to help her meet her nourishment requirements.
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Photographic street art by one artist (J.R.) in locations all over the world. JR is an anonymous artist who does not explain his huge full frame portraits of people making faces. He leaves leaves it to the passer-by to do their own interpretation of the photograph.
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Ok here I sit and I am going to make a promise I am going to try and post at least once a month. I have been so bad but have had so many things going on these last few months. So an update
Aaron: 2yrs 4 months old and can't stop talking unless he's asleep and doesn't stop moving unless he's asleep or eating but even that is difficult at times. He loves hanging out with his daddy and watch "chug" or "dino train". He has his own language which I have become fluent in although there is still a word or two that I have trouble with. He is extremely high energy and that is ok with me. Recently we had him in swim lessons which he did great and advanced to swim lessons without the parent! Don't know yet when we will start him with that but it will be soon. I have just discovered as well that he has some fall allergies, but he deals with that with some Benadryl or Children's Zyrtec.
Andrew: Just turned 9 months and is "army" crawling and trying to learn to crawl on his hands and knees. Has just recently developed the need to be held and will most often pitch a fit if I try to put him down. Loves to eat and is long and lean. Started transitioning him to more adult table foods and he is adjusting well. Just got 2 teeth in and is working on 2 more. We also have nicknamed him at least for the immediate future Count Andrewla as he looks like a vampire because his fangs came in first before his front two teeth!
Steve: Doing better since seeing the chiropractor. He was having some numbness and loss of function in his arms and all tests have been negative. Thankfully is seeing some improvement with more non conventional medicine. He continues to lose weight and loves telling me when he is able to move his belt hole to the next one down.
Me: I am also doing well now after my own little medical issue. I can say that I have quit smoking after using the medication Chantix however I will not wish my side effects on my worst enemy. Lets just say that although it did it's job it is a horrible drug and will never have a need to take it again. My job is going well too, I have been told to head up our departments education team and have been working hard getting that up and running. I want to go back to school but having some difficulty with the financial aid part. I am determined to go though.
So that's an update on all of us. As a family we are doing great we have reduced our former credit card debt now to less than 3,000$ and we are so close to being paid off that we can taste it. We have been working hard for a long time and have learned many lessons along the way. I have looked for other ways to save money and have really gotten into couponing. Not the extreme type that it takes me 10 hours to plan a trip and all that but I can save quite a bit and most recently I save over 100$ over all with all the items that I got. I will post more later including some recipes lately that I have tried and would like to share as well! Adios for now!!


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Here they are...
Joyce, like me and my own dining room furniture, took her time before deciding what to do with these three pieces. She scoured Pinterest and finally found a piece that inspired her. Then she turned the triplets over to Roni of Roni's Rescued Relics.
Joyce didn't care for the scalloped part that was on the bottom of the hanging cabinet so Roni with the help of her handsome handy husband removed it. Then all of the pieces were cleaned and sanded. These pieces were to be done over in a wood/paint combo. On the parts that were left wood they used a Minwax Polyshades which has the polyurethane in with the stain. That was used on the inside, outside and the drawers. Two different shades were used on the details of the doors and drawers. The rest was painted black and then distressed. After all of the painting was done, Roni went over it with a wax. The top was polyurethaned for extra durability.
Let's take a look at the outstanding after of these triplets...
Catch me...I'm swooning. I. Adore. That!! It also makes me wish that my buffet and hutch had a little more pizazz as far as details go. (I started my makeover of them the week before Thanksgiving LAST YEAR. It's a case of the Cobbler's kids have no shoes when it comes to my own stuff.)
Hey, you know what? Even though they are dressed similarly, I can still tell them apart. Maybe I could have handled being the mother of triplets. We'll never know now.
You can see more of Roni on her Roni's Rescued Relics Facebook page. She does stunning things to furniture. Remember her buffet turned kitchen island? You have to check it out. Hurry up and do it today. In honor of their 1 year anniversary they are having a giveaway. That means you can WIN SOMETHING! You have until November 29, 2013 to enter that. All of the details are on their Facebook Page. While you are there, let her know you saw her on Furniture Flippin'. I promise she'll do the same for you when I feature your flip. (Hear that Roni? Don't let me down. Hehehehe.)
Thanks so much Roni for sharing your magnificent furniture flip and making me feel so badly because mine isn't finished. An entire year later.
That brings a conclusion to another whirlwind week of Furniture Interventions. Who will we feature next week? It could be YOU!
Oh, and lest you think I have only boy children, here is MY look-alike, my daughter Taylor Jo. She not only looks like me, she acts like me, too. Which can be a very scary thing when we get together. Now, if I can only get her to help me with the furniture...
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Hello 21 weeks!
Dear Corbin,
This week has flown by so fast. I have been feeling you flip and flop every day. I can't wait until your kicks are powerful enough so daddy can feel them too. This week my ribs have been really hurting, and I know it's not because your kicking them... but it's a feeling I could do without. I bought your first 2 outfits this week and can not wait to see you in them. We are just counting down the days until we meet you sweet baby boy!


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Katie was in bed next to me, trying to get me up. I still had my eyes closed, but I could feel her hot breath next to my cheek and her voice in my ear.
"Mom, I wanna tell you something."
This is how our conversations almost always begin. I never know if what's to follow will be mind-blowingly philosophical, banal pleas to do something about her hunger or thirst, information I simply don't want to receive regarding one of the pets' bodily fluids discovered somewhere in the house, or simply something humorous or curious she's observed.
"Tell me something," I said without opening my eyes.
"I just watched this video on YouTube..." she began.
My eyes opened. Uh oh. What's this about? That's what I get for sleeping in and letting our seven-year-old surf our unfiltered net unsupervised.
"Oh, yeah? About what?" I asked, trying not to let my worries show. I'd hate for Katie to develop my personal tendency toward overreacting to difficult situations, so I try to hide my internal worries around her in an attempt to model mellowness. It doesn't work. She can detect my most subtle bullshit.
"Don't worry. It was funny," Katie assured me.
"Oh good. So what did you want to tell me?" I rubbed away some eye boogers and rolled over to face her.
"Well. There were these three people stranded on an island. And a boat was coming to save them. One of them shouted, 'bring water!' The other one shouted, 'bring food!' And the last one yelled, 'bring toilet paper!'"
A long, drawn-out giggle fit ensued. Katie rolled around the bed as if she'd said the funniest thing ever.
I chuckled, more at her reaction to the story than the story itself. "Well, yeah, I can see that. I'd hate to go for a long time without toilet paper too."
"But it's not as important as water and food!" Katie corrected me, still laughing.
"Well, yeah, but let's see you say that when you've gone without it," I countered.
"Well, if it was the olden days that guy would have shouted out, 'bring dried corn!'" Katie announced, prompting her to laugh even more.
"What?" I honestly didn't get the joke.
"You know. You said your dad told you in the olden days people used dried corn to wipe their bottoms because they were too poor to afford toilet paper," Katie explained.
"Oh, yeah." I smiled big, proud of her incredible memory. I can't believe some of the things she remembers that I've only told her once, a long time ago. "Corncobs," I said. "My dad called them 'roastin' ears'. But yeah, that's what he said his relatives used in the outhouse on the farm before they had toilet paper," I clenched my jaw and shook my head. "Ouch. We sure are lucky nowadays."
"Yeah, Mom. You're right. We are lucky to have toilet paper," Katie agreed.
In this time of overabundance, thirteen days before Christmas, when corporations are blasting us with ads to buy! buy! buy! their shit, I'm happy to hear our girl appreciates the simple things in life. Like toilet paper.


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My current updates and links to my latest "addiction 4 clothes". Fan email add: email@example.com To have a look at DnA items, please visit www.dna.com.my
Monday, March 19, 2012
Brother's Engagement
Tahniah to adik ku Wan Mohd Edrin Bin Wan Mokhtar for the recent Merisik/Majlis Petunangan. We went to Johor Last Friday (16th March) and the majlis was on Saturday 17th March. I love JOHOR! We stayed at Selesa Hotel (the whole family -complete with my cousins, aunts and uncles) so it was VERY interesting... Here are some of the photos..
Posted by DebtSurvivor at 7:52 PM
6 comments:
- BrightEye said...
Congrats to your brother.. (^_^)
- March 19, 2012 at 8:03 PM
- Mummy GreenyHouse said...
the best part is get the free gift yg so cantik tu! But, we cannot see the cantik la, coz the pic blur...huhu. :)
- March 19, 2012 at 8:37 PM
- Cik Jan said...
hi dynas. saya singgah sini... :)
- March 19, 2012 at 8:43 PM
- pae dasuki said...
Dynas, I love your peach dress and that lacey white top..so sweet, soo cantik!;)
- March 22, 2012 at 7:50 PM
- Only_Nas said...
Thank you Pae Dasuki! :)
- March 23, 2012 at 1:49 AM
- Only_Nas said...
Thank u semua!
- March 23, 2012 at 1:49 AM
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I've managed to get it so all my text is now showing. How can ya tell that a knitter is in charge of this thing not someone with a clue what to do with a computer? Well, that about taxes my thinky-thing today. Seriously, people think using this is easy? (Technophobe alert!) As I say, I'm a knitter.
In way more interesting news, I've started both the lace collar for Cathleen and the BSJ for Vitoria's baby. The BSJ is being done out of Luxury Alpaca Paint in a gorgeous turquoise/olive/kelly/marine variegated. The Heart Hat will be of the same. I found the cutest duck buttons for it as well. It'll look like the duckies are floating on a lake. Too cute! Also found some cherry-red Lopi with multi-colored flecks for Bernie's Beret. The lace collar is on 2mm needles using #10 crochet cotton. Looking pretty nice so far. Will need to take a pic of it. And no I haven't got around to seaming together Bernie's jacket. Seriously, that would make too much sense to get that out of the way before starting something new and fun. That's it for today. Have fun with your knitting!


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Mary In My Life
Today we begin the month of May which is traditionally devoted to Our Blessed Mother. I found this short but very beautiful musical reflection over at the Passionists' website.
They pose the question: "What does Mary mean to each of us in our lives?" The answer to that question is different for every one of us. For me Mary's meaning in my life seems to ebb and flow yet she remains a constant. There are also certain events in my life that have been centered around Our Lady. I was baptized on September 8th, the day we celebrate her nativity and I also believe she had a great deal to do with my return to my faith and in my healing from my abortion. The day I made the firm decision to return to my faith was May 31, the feast of the Visitation, The name I would give my aborted child came to me while praying the Joyful mystery of the Visitation. So for me, while I don't always feel like her totally devoted child, I know that like any good mother, she is always there and she is always totally devoted to me in leading me to closer union with her Son.
What I would like to do is invite those of you who read this post to perhaps answer this question as it relates to your own life. For those of you who have blogs, write a post and then use the linky thing at the bottom to link your post so others can read it as well. Those of you who do not have a blog, you can leave a comment.
I like the idea of sharing with each other how Mary shares herself with each of us.
Again, the question is: " What does Mary mean to you in your life?"
The linky thing will be available for a week, so you don't have to answer today; take some time and pray about it if you'd like.
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The Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth covers a 26-square mile area with rolling terrain, many kettle ponds, and miles of pitch pine and scrub oak forests. It was very quiet on this fall weekday - perfect for a walk in the woods.
This cool looking mushroom was growing in the shade in a bed of pine needles.
A tall pine waving in the soft breeze - that distinctive hissing sound like nothing else in the world.
A wide trail covered in a spongy surface of fallen pine needles.
Reflections in one of the many kettle ponds.
It is quiet today - only the gentle breeze through the pines.
The nearby maples are starting to explode in color as the days grow shorter.
I think humans must be hard-wired to appreciate fall. I don't know anyone who doesn't find nature's annual show to be one of the great wonders of life.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
My love for mountains
I grew up on a mountain. A shattered abused insignificant mountain amidst a thousand equally insignificant others in the hinterlands of Pennsylvania but it was my mountain or in all likelihood I was its person. Whatever the trials I faced and regardless of how uncertain I was the mountain was present. It represented constancy for me. I loved that mountain simply because it was there.
I have an inexplicable need to see mountains. In DC I regularly drag friends and Michael into the country or back up to Pennsylvania and in truth there is an element of pilgrimage in those trips. My greatest joy is to give gifts to people and I suppose forcing my loved ones to wander up hillsides is one of my many attempts at sharing.
It's nice to be able to see mountains outside my window and to be among a people who obviously hold this landscape in deep veneration. It's customary in Korea to build these small cairns of flat stones along rivers to mark particularly beautiful spots. When placing a stone one is supposed to make a prayer or wish.
So I happily spent my afternoon clambering up riverbeds in search of cairns in Korea. It is wonderful to be back in the mountains. Now if only I could right poem about my heart being in the highlands and not have the Scots place a bounty on my head ...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Elias my escape artist
So Elias can operate Korean sliding windows. Two of them. And screens are no barrier to him. So I'm leaving the window open. Observe the technique
E-Mart in Suncheon
Today I went to Suncheon in search of booze and butter. Suncheon is the closest city to my town which is not large enough to have it's own department stores. Apparently E-mart is the more expensive of the two and I definatly approached the 200000 won mark.
My biggest complaint about Korea is that the booze is terrible. Not just bad but downright terrible. Everything is either incredibly sweet , mind you I love sweet liqueurs and sherries, or just inexplicably foul; yes I'm talking about Soju.
And I got up off my snooty ass and went into the big city in search of alcahol and behold I found a wine section. The selection was suprisingly thorough though there were no champagnes; it was about as good as you might find in a liquor store in a grocery store that targeted middle class Americans. Lots of penguins and kangaroos on bottles. I picked up two malbecs and then spotted the hard liqor shelf.
Koreans for whatever reason love scotch. I think it is in keeping with their general love of booze that tastes like it has been drug through the fens of England. There were two types of vodka and I gladly shelled out 25 dollars to be able to make a screwdriver. I had no idea what the "commander vodka" was but at 8000 won a bottle it must make the angels in heaven weep. Maybe I can use it for limoncello.
my second realization about Koreans today was that they really like fatty meat. Even more than Ukrainians. I invite you to take a good look at this bacon. First the sheer amount and then the artery clogging potential.
Gimbap Wikipedia article
I went out to eat in my town after getting back from the market and taking li for his evening walk and found a cute little Kimbap place. Kimbap is like sushi but without raw fish.
I had no idea what most of the words on the menu were and so got some very spicy pork and rice, a bowl of udon soup, and a ton of mandu, for seven dollars. I heart Korea even if it has terrible booze and will give me a heart attack.
Semojin River
My valley here is dominated by Jirisan Mountain and the Semojin River. Yesterday Elias and I wandered in the general direction of the river to find somewhere for him to run.
About a twenty five minute walk from the house we found a nice set of soccer fields right along the river that tapered off into some dense underbrush. Just the sort of thing Elias loves to lope through.
Elias went for a quick swim and I noticed two umbrellas a bit up the river bank and decided to go be nosey.
There was quite the set up. Net, coolers, two umbrellas one chair.
And Five Fishing lines. But no little old man to mind them. What's more we didn't see anyone in the whole two hours we were there. I thought it was a little odd personally.
Elias seemed unconcerned with this mystery and was content to just lie in the grass attempting to catch bugs in his mouth.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The Reality of North Korea. Even China has more lights.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
My apartment in G U R Y E
Most enjoyably I have a small tub. I would live in a closet with a tub : ) Korean tubs are rather small ; my best guess is that you are meant to sit with your knees raised rather than stretching out. The building is long and narrow so my apartment has windows on both the east and western sides of the building.
I also have two long narrow porches that run the length of the apartment. My unit is on the ground floor So Eli's barkin will only bother one person.
The front porch hold the washer and dryer while the back porch is empty and just begging to be filled with herbs.
The doors onto the porches are complicated affairs comprised of three pairs of sliding panels that meet in the center of the door. If all the windows are open in the apartment there is a really nice breeze but it is terribly humid here in the summer and so I am utilizing the enormous air conditioner.
The living room has a small couch, dinetter set, giant tower air conditioner, and a tv that I have no intention of using. Elias seems to approve of the set up.
The bedroom is probably 10 by 12 and comes with a queen size bed and two scary space heaters. I have a creeping suspicion that the house leaks heat like a sieve.
The kitchen has a full sized freezer and fridge, a rice maker that sings at you ( every electronic device sings in korea ) and two little burners on which I made dinner for my coteacher last night after wandering around Jeollanamdo filling out paperwork. My first big purchase here will be an oven large enough to roast a turkey.
After the tub I wasn't expecting any more suprises but the kitchen closet turned out to be a very small bedroom with enough clothes storage for me and my camping gear. It is of course in complete disarray.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
More Mittens
I am making these mittens for Michael and finally finished one of them while in quarantine for swine flu here on Southern South Korea.
They are 64 Stitches across and somewhat blocky looking but I think design wise they will keep his hands pretty warm. The simple cross pattern is actually difficult knit because half of it involves carrying and twisting the yarn behind the showing color. This has resulted in the mittens taking longer than usual though I think the second one will be finished in a few weeks.
I used Elsabet Lavold's "Silky Wool" which while not a warm as solid wool is not a horror to knit with in the summer and comes in some really wonderful colors.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Hwaeomsa Temple
We all got in two buses and went to Hwaeomsa Temple this morning for about three hours. This is pretty ironic because it is the temple that I was accidentally taken to by the overzealous bus driver two days ago.
The temple is high up a side valley and is made up of three large courtyards separated by gates in a long rectangle with the buildings being ordered from least to greatest importance by their position. The more important the more gates there are and the more stairs you have to climb to get to it.
The monks who live in the temple live in the second courtyard. to get to their quarters on the main path you pass through the second gate house which has four giant figures staring down at you.
Each monk has a sliding door and a small room to call his own.
All the stairs are divided into three sections and apparantley the middle portion is reserved for the King or a god. Needless to say a few of the Canadians walked up the middle stair
Inside the third courtyard are about eight temples with the main one directly in front of you but interestingly obscured from sight by the lesson hall. I am not certain what the symbolism of this might be but considering how intricate everything elese is I am sure the placement of the building is pertinent.
The main temple was placed length wise towards people coming up the main stairs and while we were there a fairly intricate service was going on with seven or eight monks leading the chanting congregation.
It seemed to be a feast day of some sort or perhaps the temple is just a very liturgically active place but all three of the main temples had monks conducting services.
There were half a dozen of these stone pagodas which are the oldest buildings in the monastery; everything else was burnt to the ground by the japanese in the late 1500's. Each temple had a few giant gold Buddhas and like every other religous site I have ever been to a few old ladies paying their respects.
My favourite aspect of the temple was their method of roof upkeep. All the buildings are covered with tiles and those tiles are rather heavy, expensive, and numerous. So to cover the costs there is a tradition of donating a tile to the temple. You write your "best wishes" on the convex surface of the tile which is the placed facing th inside of the temple or building. I found it very charming and a nice way for the people to participate in the temple's fundament.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
My First Korean Misadventure: A Fishy Bus Journey
Yesterday I had my first korean mishap in trying to get to this fish market in the town that I will be posted in. Fr whatever reason the market occurs on every day ending in the numbers three or eight and as you all know I am a sucker for markets and so I hoped on the bus and wandered down the valley a half an hour from the hotel.
The Market itself was actually fairly big taking up 3 or 4 small city blocks and having maybe a hundred stalls. There was an enire row devoted to fish. Some of those fish were more than slightly questionable considering that the temperature was well over 75 degrees and there was no ice on them. Even the fish that had ice were forlornly lying on top of bags of ice and not the ice itself. I think if I were to buy fish here it would be from the giant tupperware bins that still had live fish in them. I watched three octopus trying to escape into a sewer grate only to be apprehended by a 13 year old stall attendent on the last tentacle of their journey to freedom.
I then wandered uphill in the general direction of my school complex and found it after badly asking for directions from another middle school girl using my dictionary and a lot of pointing. All schools in Korea seem to have a courtyard filled with sand about the size of a football field. Behind the school are some ungodly ugly residential towers that look like one of Stalin's wet dreams where I fear my apartment will be.
Of greater interest was the fact that the Catholic Church in town is half a block from my school. It was really easy to find because every other church in town has the same hideous steeple which is usually attached to an old factory building. The catholic church on the other hand was acceptable even if it did have hideous windows.
The inside was pretty standard Asian Catholic. So I may be a good boy and drop in once in awhile and at the very least will have a place for high holy days albeit in Korean.
I went back to the bus station and was promptly directed to the wrong bus by a very helpful bus driver. I knew something was wrong when instead of going up the left side of the valley we went right and came upon this. There were definately no three story gates over the highway on the way from the hotel. So I got out of the bus and wandered around the statue garden. Apparently there is a temple at the top of the mountain but I had a three hour walk back to the hotel and figured I could do the temple some other day. Amusingly I walked in just in time for orientation icebreakers games providing further evidence that in a past life I killed many many kittens.


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MailChimp www.mailchimp.com is a popular low-cost email marketing tool that makes it very simple to send emails , but also helps you send your legitimate emails to avoid hitting the spam traps. Given that MailChimp is free to start with, and the paid-for functionality starts at £6.50 a month, not using it is frankly bonkers.
Using other tools such as dotMailer, ConstantContact, Aweber, etc are also fine, as they are also email great marketing tools. If you're not using a tool like any of these, then MailChimp is a great place to start because it is so affordable for pretty much any business.
So here are 3 simple ways to get more business with MailChimp (or any other email marketing tool).
1. Send the email!
Lots of businesses have years of customers in their database, but have been too afraid to send something out! If you do have years of email addresses, just target customers you've had in the last 12 months, and just send them a quick hello. Just ask how they are doing.
You'll get some replies, and perhaps some business from it too. Don't make excuses, send an email and see what happens.
2. Don't sell in every email
If you just send emails when you have a special offer, you'll train your database of contacts to never open your emails .
So take the time to send them something useful. Perhaps some advice to help them, a useful template, a useful checklist, or a few seeds of inspiration.
The idea is that you're sending them some value, and you might do this 5-10 times compared to 1 sales email. This moves you away from just selling all of the time.
Coming up with ideas of what to send is really hard to do, I know that. Since this is so hard to do, most businesses don't do it.
That means you'll stand out. What if you stand out from your competitors? You'll probably get the business.
Life is busy, you're just making it easier for your customers to think of you first when they are ready to buy.
3. Send a great offer with a deadline
When you do send out a special offer, give the customer a reason to act now. That's usually with a deadline, but often with a degree of scarcity too.
e.g. You might offer a free hamper (or perhaps a large discount – e.g. 30% off, or free design work, or something of real value) for the first 5 customers to place an order within the next 48 hours.
Don't take any more than 5 orders, stick to your word that you're committed to just 5 customers and just 48 hours. Given them a specific time of day that the deal ends, such as 1 hour before closing time so that you can process the order before you go home.
You don't want the deal finishing at midnight. You'll be forgotten and the deadline is somewhat wasted.
You may need to experiment with deals to get this right, but it should give you some extra sales. The worst that can happen is that you'll get 0 sales. So there's no excuse to try it!
So there you go, more sales with email marketing (and MailChimp if you want to get started). Actually send an email, don't always sell, but make compelling offers to get that sale.
Dan Harrison is a web developer who specialises in extending WordPress-based websites. As part of Dan's business WP Doctors Ltd www.wpdoctors.co.uk he spends a lot of time using email marketing to get more business, and teaches the Southern Entrepreneur's MailChimp training course.


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There might be a handful of sex museums around the world but Brazil has gone one better: they're opening a sex theme park.
There's some concern that the park, named Erotikaland, will attract debauched individuals.
However, if you want to get off, you'll have to get out.
Despite having access to an aphrodisiac shop, sex is strictly prohibited within the park itself and instead visitors hoping to get frisky will have to book themselves into a nearby motel which will be operated by the hotel.
-George Patton
I damned sure wouldn't touch that bedspread though.


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Monday, February 6, 2012
[NEWS] Se7en shares several BTS shots from 'Dazed & Confused' photoshoot
Se7en kicked off his comeback promotions last week through music programs, and now he's ready to do the same with magazine pictorials.
On February 6th, the singer updated his me2day with a series of photos from his 'Dazed & Confused' magazine shoot.
"DAZED magazine pictorial photoshoot!!! 9 unique concepts~!!! I really like how the pictures came out!!! March issue!! Please look forward to it!" he wrote.
Se7en looks quite tanned in his photos, and he's even put on some bright pink eyeshadow and metallic lipstick. It looks like he could be going for a 'summer-themed' look, but at this point, it's anyone's guess.
What do you think Se7en's pictorial concept could be?
Source + Image: Se7en's me2day
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I am so jazzed! I just ordered two bento boxes from ebay. They should be here in a couple of weeks. I can't wait! I'll already be out of school by the time I get them but it should still be cool for lunch next school year. Using Bento boxes is a Japanese tradition. Food is sectioned and elaborately prepared. The modern version of it is really fun and cute and makes having lunch fun. I never bring my lunch so I am hoping this will motivate me to take time and make my lunches.
Some fun bentos.
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If you were wondering what Pardes means, Lanita from today's etsy finds shop explains in her profile that her shop name is the Hebrew word for 'Paradise'. And this is the exact feeling you get browsing her etsy shop, with gorgeous colours and delicate beauty. Go take a look here.
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Tuesday's Rant: Appropriation
What else – more Fairey shit. Hopefully this'll be the last I'll say about it. I have the attention span of Tom Arnold after nine speedballs and a six pack of Jolt, so I'm already tired of thinking about it.
So anyway, he's suing now. Good strategy, if irritating. I just hope he doesn't win. And I think it goes beyond whether adding "Hope" makes it something other than the photo. It's that he did it for money and we're supposed to pretend otherwise.
"Appropriation" or not, valid or not, why not just pay the photographer?* Plus, isn't it a tiny bit absurd that Fairey's claiming the photographer has no right to be paid, when he himself is most certainly paid? And, seriously, that stuff about him being a street artist is a bit tough to take when you look at his client list.
I wonder how far his defense will take us. Buy some shirts and let's find out.
*I understand the Creative Commons argument, but a nagging part of me wonders how the (reductive) "information wants to be free" argument can be implemented in real life. I have a difficult time envisioning a world where creatives–and other generators of information–aren't paid, because you have to eat to continue the making of the stuff.


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Author: Brianna
I recently returned from a week-long bioinformatics training workshop put on by the wonderful people at VertNet. Soon I will write directly about what I learned there (plenty of useful, thought-provoking, and just plain awesome stuff) but first I want to consider something else. Between sleep and tea sipping on the flight back, I found myself reflecting on the particular mental state I drop into when I am trying very, very hard to learn something new and difficult. I think of it as the stretch point.
What is the stretch point? It's a particular mental space beyond your comfort zone, and it's not exactly fun. In fact, it's kind of painful and frustrating. If someone else's knowledge is a creek flowing by, I feel like I'm trying to carry it in my cupped hands to the little bucket of my brain twenty feet away: I get there, slowly, but no matter how tightly I hold or how quickly I move, much of it still runs through my fingers. Still, this repetitious suffering is oddly satisfying, a mental workout that is close cousin to lifting really heavy weights.
I've found ways to push through this stage faster (and more thoroughly and mindfully). Efficiency hinges on finding people who don't mind question after persistent question and requests to wait, stop, say that last thing again. The questions serve to check my understanding: so if A is true, then is B also true? What about A under these different circumstances? How exactly do you test that? How does that relate to this other thing? I'm trying to extrapolate, to find ways to break the system in my mind so I find holes in my mental concept.
You see the need for a patient teacher.
It's the immediate feedback, I think, that connects neurons faster than just staring at the information alone. When you're getting more of it right and making more of the connections, you know because the other people tell you. When you run up against a mistake in your understanding, you know because they tell you. When neither of you knows the answer, you know, because you wind up staring blankly at each other.
The VertNet workshop provides a good example. I spent a great deal of time at the stretch point that week – part of why I was so wiped out when I finished! New concepts abounded, from playing with GIS programs for the first time to chewing over new four-dimensional research problems1. Luckily, feedback was also plentiful. Much of our material was cleverly organized into tutorials, so we followed along and were allowed to blunder off the path (they warned us so many times to make sure our clipped layers were the same extent for niche modeling…!), and then we were dragged gently back onto it when we discovered that our next step wouldn't work. Sometimes that meant solving the mistake ourselves, with judicious use of swearing at the computer screen. Sometimes that meant calling in the workshop leaders for targeted troubleshooting.
I find myself spending time at the stretch point whenever I begin a new project or attempt a new skill. Maybe this is an extension of my career stage: every research project I start is new in a way that underscores just how little time I have under my belt working in this field. I have to find the most relevant literature, understand the open questions, figure out new methods or how to apply familiar methods to new data. I have to figure out where the project is going, and what questions we're answering, and why those questions matter, and how to answer them using best practices.
Spending all my time in this place would become exhausting too quickly – there's only so much information you can shove into your brain before your brain is done. I do think the limits of my capacity have been slowly growing, though. It's nice to balance the stretch point with calmer times: writing, for example, or reading, or kicking around ideas with colleagues. But sometimes it is important to seek out the stretch point. It's a useful and interesting place to be in when the mind is ready and I seek it out when I am in knowledge-gaining mode. I kind of enjoy the familiar pain of stretching my mind, the same way I complain on my way to the gym but pick up the heavy weights anyway.
This is how we get better – by pushing. Muscle soreness, after all, is just the collection of microtraumas that will ultimately make you stronger.
1 That is, considering both space (3 dimensions) and time (the 4th).


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Being a preferred client, I got a call from my bank's relationship manager about why I had not submitted my 12-digits Unique Identification Number to the Bank. 'Since getting such a number is not yet obligatory by law why should I reduce my identity into just a number', I had responded with a matter-of-fact clarity on the subject. I thought i was tacit in my response, notwithstanding a sigh of exasperation at the other end.
From being a digit on the population register to a number on the electoral rolls, we have been reduced to a number on the cash book at the bank, on the directory of the mobile service provider, on the currency that is but largely plastic in nature and so on. One's birth is a number and so is one's departure; an inner wear has a number and so has an outer wear; neither is a shoe without a number nor is a sandal; phone without number doesn't ring and neither does a mobile; success counts on number as failure rues the lack of getting the desired number.
And, I don't buy the argument that a number can hide my 'caste', and can put to rest the prevailing social disparity around our cultural identity. Come to think of it, each identification number is only assigned after securing an in-depth social and economic profile of an individual. It could be anybody's guess how this number game might play up at the end, by those in power holding these numbers in big databases to their advantage. I shudder to think about the myriad possibilities.
Born with the largest brain relative to body weight, nature has bestowed a unique position for humans among all other species. Our upright posture and the ability to walk on two legs have placed us on top of the ecological pyramid, making us the master of not only our own destiny but that of others too. But far from using the big brain to bridge the gap between the physical and the spiritual and beyond, it is pathetic that we have ended up being an exercise in sheer 'numbers'.
The more critical I think the more it surprises me that there is a indeed an unending fascination for numbers among everyone around me. The psychology of numbers has played so heavy on the democracy of numbers in an era dominated by the economics of numbers, that its cumulative impact has been felt by each one of us. No wonder, our house help is as enamored by it as my better half. The game of numbers has caught on with everybody.
Irrespective of caste, class, creed, competence or credibility, the quest of each human of late has been to attain the first six digits. A six figure income is all that each one of us is craving for (as of today). Ironically, those who have already attained these 'six digits' are more unhappy than those who are striving to achieve it. Yet, the race to gain access to a higher digit is relentless. I wonder what worth is life that has been reduced to numbers!


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I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
And I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
~ "Breakaway" by Kelly Clarkson ~
I've been waiting for some months now. Even before my father was hospitalized, I already applied for the supervisory position at work. I told myself that I did my best and I will accept whatever happens. It's been a long wait but I'm patient. I believe that in certain circumstances, good things come to those who wait.
Last Saturday was my brother's birthday (Belated Happy Birthday, dear Bro! Mwah!). That was also the same day when management announced that out of the 5 of us who applied for the position, I am one of the two who got the job. I actually felt surreal that time. I was still taking my calls and I couldn't concentrate. I was itching to tell my family about it because I know the promotion will help our finances. My friends were there to congratulate me and with that, I am truly grateful.
I see this as a blessing and I know there are going to be some sacrifices too. I'm gonna miss the beks-- my friends and shift-mates because I won't be having the same shift anymore. I might not be getting weekends off too. I'm gonna miss waking up late than usual. I'm gonna miss a lot of people and a lot of things but change is the only thing that's constant. I'm just happy this opportunity was given to me. I'll just do my best and show them they didn't make a mistake in choosing me. Hahaha!
I know not everyone will be pleased about this but I don't care. There will always be people who will accept me and love me for who I am. Thanks to those who sent their congratulations and regards. :)


text: The Southern Kingdom of Judah had a few God-fearing kings. You can combine a teaching of the armor of God listed in Ephesians 6:10-18 with the story of good King Hezekiah that we find written about in Isaiah 36-39 , 2 Chronicles 29-32 and 2 Kings 18-20 . Hezekiah began his reign at the age of twenty-five, and right away started repairing the temple and re-instituting proper worship. In the fourteenth year of his prosperous reign, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, came up against Judah, mocking their faith in God, even claiming that God had sent him to destroy the land! King Hezekiah covers himself with sackcloth and sends messengers to the prophet Isaiah who comforts them with a message of hope from the LORD. Later, a threatening letter robs King Hezekiah of his composure , and going up to the house of the LORD, he spreads the letter before the LORD and prays for deliverance. Isaiah sends Hezekiah a promise that God would repay the King of Assyria for reproaching His Name and that He would defend Jerusalem "…For My own sake and for My servant David's sake. Then the angel of the LORD went out and killed in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000…" 2 Chronicles 37:35-36. Sennecherib returned home shamefaced and was struck down by his sons while worshiping in the house of his god.If you don't trace the armor on metallic-colored poster board, use metallic gel pens to color. Template below. Another option is to use the foil seal from nut cans. Smooth the bumps out with a pencil erasure, trace your pattern, cut and glue.


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Are you also trying to have a word with a person you are seeing since last one year but are not able to collect the courage and wish a Hi to him/her. Texting, calling, following, staring these things are not the way you shall try on your crush, they will immediately tag you as despo.
So take a deep breath, summon your courage we will tell you some steps that how you should go about it.
Know the interests of your crush from the external sources
Always remember that the sources should be trustable otherwise things would get ruined in the very beginning. Try discussing about those interests with your random friend. When your crush is around you this will let your crush notice you for once.
Step 2
Just be yourself
Nervousness is the obvious thing but try to avoid the nervousness to come on your face. Look confident enough and also ambitious about your life.
Step 3
Wait for the right time and place for the conversation
To avoid the awkwardness always wait for the right time to begin conversation.
Step 4
Talk to them casually as if you already know them. Don't make them feel that you are excited about this first meeting.
Step 5
Be an active listener to your conversation
Step 6
Tell them about some interesting places to hangout, and get their number
If things seem to be going well, ask your crush if he or she wants to hang out again or ask for his or her number. This is good to do around the three quarter point into your conversation
Step 7
Keep the humor alive so that your conversation does not get bored
Step 8
End the conversation on a good note
Send a follow up text. In the next couple of days saying hello and checking in with him or her about the things you talked about.


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Russell Library, a Library, in Middletown, CT 06457, address and phone number. Libraries provide information on applications, borrowing books, ebooks, library programs, online databases and research.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Watch Oliver Stone Cameo in Son's Horror Trailer
I'll always remember Sean Stone because the youthful, freckle-faced Jim Morrison through whom the soul from the bloody dead kerbside Indian passed in the father Oliver Stone's epic The Doorways. However Stone fils is developed and making sketchily created films of their own for his father to look in. Click through to look into the triple Oscar-champion's cameo within the trailer for Stone's narrative feature debut Graystone (no pun intended… I believe?), and hang in there for additional Buzz Break. [STYD via Quiet Earth] · Talking about fathers and sons, the Santa Barbara Worldwide Film Festival will give 2012's Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence to the one and only… Michael Douglas. Riggggedddd! [Pr release] · Hollywood win-win during the day: "The La Unified School District received $695,028 in revenue from movies shot on its qualities in This summer and August, a 44% increase within the same period last summer time. […] To date this season, LAUSD schools have collected $1.46 million in film revenue, up from $1.two million this year." [LAT] · We're a bit more than 24 hrs from the National football league's regular-season kickoff. Shout your preferred Jerry Maguire line in the recognition. [BuzzSugar] · And here you'll discover the charming story from the guy who broke into Celine Dion's Quebec home, raided the fridge and came a shower prior to being apprehended through the police. Nobody was hurt, so you can recognize him because the folk hero he's. [The Lost Boy]
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Plan for today:
1. Attendance / Announcements
2. Powerschool check
History of documentary film
What is a "documentary" to you?
Oxford Dictionary:
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.
1870s -1880s - Impressionism - paintings of "modern life," the natural world, un-constructed scenes.
Pre-impressionism -- Historical, religious, constructed paintings --
Alexandre Cabanel - Death of Moses - 1851
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
1897 - A boxing match
filmed by Enoch Rector
1900 - 1920 Travelogue films - Moscow Clad in Snow (1908)
1911 With Our King and Queen through India -- first "kinemacolor" film - Invented by Charles Urban
1920s -- Documentaries became more "idealistic" through Romanticism - a movement to glorify nature, the human condition, unstructured life (sound familiar -- Impressionism was a part of Romanticism!)
Example: First full-feature documentary: Nanook of the North (1922) by Robert J. Flaherty
Heavily staged for "true man vs. nature" --
-- He had his subjects shoot a walrus with a harpoon instead of a nearby shotgun
-- He built igloos whereas many of them lived in constructed westernized cabins.
Beginning of Nanook of the North
Planner reminder: Rough draft of Out of My Mind project (purple handout)
Plan for today:
1. Hand back graded work
2. Rough draft of OOMM project work time / handwriting practice
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One thing I have told myself I'm going to do more of this year is write letters and send them in the post. There's something rather special about receiving post. I remember as a child being elated when I'd receive a postcard from a friend on holiday. When the thank you note (pictured above) from Jazmine came through my door, all those childhood feelings rushed back. Even if it's just a little note to remind someone that you're thinking of them, or a little thank you, it can't not brighten their day to have a personal note land on their doorstep.
Continuing on from last years 'Lately' posts this week I was staying with Ollie in London and captured bits of pieces that caught my eye throughout the week. From a portrait session to coffee dates here's what I've been up to this week.
This week has presented me with a few surprises which I am rather chuffed about. After meeting with Ella on Tuesday, an overdue catch up was certainly in order and indulging in cake was compulsory. Ella invited me on a trip to Paris, to which I replied "You'd better not be joking because I am going to pack a bag NOW!". I soon had confirmation that I'd be welcome along on the trip and now have my first trip of the year in the diary. I'm super excited and best of all its only in 11 days time!
I stopped by 'Kit & Ace' Regent St store on Wednesday morning. I'll be sure to fill you guys in on more when I have some more photos. This was followed by a coffee date with Rebecca in Soho at 'Flat White'.
Portrait shoot with Ellie & Caspar; good friends & singers at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. If you're interested in a portrait shoot please drop me an email.
On Friday I met up with Meredith to see 'Annie Leibovitz's' latest exhibition 'Women' in Wapping. A small but powerful exhibition, I'd recommend getting down there to see it before it finishes. It was amazing to see photos from one of my photographic heroes up close like that, seeing the world through Leibovitz's eyes is quite a sight to behold!


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2016 Giro d'Italia: ORICA GreenEDGE Backstage Pass - Stage 8
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- ORICA GreenEDGE Backstage Pass - Stage 8 of the 2016 Giro d'Italia. Whitey wraps the stage while Caleb and Esteban talk haircuts. (ORICA GreenEDGE, English, 04:29) For more Giro d'Italia videos go here.


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The basic premise of Idiots and Angels reminded me of Mervyn Peakes Mr Pye (1953) about a man who suddenly spouts angels wings in an effort to get rid of them, he deliberately sets out to do bad, only to then find himself developing horns. This was filmed as the little-seen live-action tv mini-series Mr Pye (1986). There was also the later Horns (2013) where Daniel Radcliffe develops a set of devil horns. Plymptons film riffs on the basic idea of a misanthropic man suddenly being granted angels wings and then finding they are forcing him to do good deeds. Plympton does not concern himself with the diabolic half which may well be why Idiots and Angels peters out in terms of ideas after about the two-thirds point and feels more like a great short film that has been extruded to feature length.
Bill Plymptons previous films have tended to exist less as narratives and more as a series of bizarrely surrealistic, sometimes scatological juxtapositions where objects are constantly morphing from one shape to the next. With Idiots and Angels, Plympton seems to be aiming for something beyond that. He relies upon a clearcut story for about the first time. What stuns most about Idiots and Angels is Plymptons extraordinarily stylised artwork. The entire film looks like a series of (almost) black-and-white pencil sketches given animated life. The animation is all highly exaggerated representation not unakin to the cartoon work of Gerald Scarfe. Cars are like giant balls of cotton wool with 1950s-style big bodies. Life at the bar is like a 1940s film noir rendered in stylised shadow lines. Where standard animation tends to operate in terms of soft rounded and child-like cuteness, Plymptons figures exist as stark snapshots of naked expression, much of which is decidedly dark and misanthropic. Plymptons love of meldings and wild juxtapositions still play out in a number of scenes the opening as the man gets up to shower and dress for the day is a masterpiece of dissolves where drops of water from the tap become a toothbrush, where shaving cream becomes soap suds and then the milk on his cereal and so on.
The uniqueness of Idiots and Angels is that Bill Plympton delivers the entire film without dialogue, as merely a series of sound effects, at most grunts and small cries. In this regard, Idiots and Angels makes interesting comparison to the same years largely soundless Wall-E (2008), although you could not think of two films more removed on the animation spectrum Wall-E was a box-office hit pitched to family audiences, while Idiots and Angels is a work for a cult adult audience and comes at almost complete remove from Wall-Es cheerful sweetness in terms of its sensibilities. The lack of dialogue allows Plympton to direct in striking contrasts none the more so than the scene when the man walks into the bar with a butterfly on his head and each of the patrons drifts off into daydreams about it, before the man turns and savagely crushes it. The wordlessness is beautifully balanced out with a soundtrack that includes a number of perfectly chosen songs from Tom Waits, among others. The result is a strikingly evocative and entirely unique film.
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This past weekend Carter claimed that President Bush's administration is "the worst in history". It is particularly shameful that this unfounded and ridiculous claim comes from the mouth of the man who truly did preside over the worst American administration in History. Admittedly Clinton set out to give Carter a run for his money – but Billy's blunders prevented him from doing the same degree of harm that four years of Carter brought on the world.
Carter is among the most subtle and consistent liars in history. This particular calculated lie by Jimmy Carter is on a par with Adolph Hitler, the only other democratically elected leader of the twentieth century to be responsible for as much death and misery as Carter.
Americans of the twenty-first century are venerable to Carter's lies because they are abominably ignorant of history. A partial list of the foreign policy disasters precipitated by Carter includes:
Communist expansion in Africa, Asia, and America:
Nicaragua was handed over to the Communists and Guatemala and El Salvador placed on a slippery slide to disaster from which only Ronald Reagan could save them.
The USSR invaded Afghanistan and established a Communist dictatorship.
Panama Canal handed over to Manuel Noriega.
The Shah of Iran was deserted and overthrown by Khomeini – and the world's greatest terrorist exporter nation was born.
The Killing Fields of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot reached full effect.
Iraq / Iran War
Terrorists hijacked airplanes and even ships at will.
Carter tries to this day to take credit for Anwar Sadat's courageous efforts to end war in the Middle East, but stood by and did nothing as Islamic terror reached out to control the Levant.
Carter's entire Presidency was a deception. On the domestic front he presided over double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, and coined the word stagflation and dragged America into malaise. In other words Carter made America sick and the world almost died.
By the time Carter was done with America the world was looking to the USSR for leadership and his administration was ready to announce that America was through.
Because of the obvious and utter failure of Carter's Presidency he has spent years trying to redeem himself. He has the blood of millions on his hands, and he can do nothing about it but lie. The farce that is a type of the entire Carter phenomena is the "agreement" he worked out with North Korea to end their development of nuclear weapons. Kim must have felt he had found a kindred spirit as he spun the lies that would allow him to develop an A bomb. It is easy to see them in one's mind, sitting around one of Kim Ill's pleasure palaces; (Carter allowing himself to be tempted) as he spins the lies he hopes will buy his redemption. It does not matter, to him, whose or how much blood it will take. Had it not been for the vigilance of the Bush administration the nuclear ambitions of North Korea would have remained unchecked. What is particularly telling is that Carter was nominated (even received) a Nobel Peace prize for this tissue of lies. This is an honor he shares with Yasir Arafat - who likewise lied to get a Nobel Prize for Peace while his hands dripped with the blood of the innocent. Carter and Arafat share the dubious distinction of being nominated for the Noble Peace Prize with Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, North Vietnamese liar murderer Le Duc Tho (actual winner) Henry Kissinger (also a winner), Criminal General of the Oil for Food scandal – Kofi Annan (who also won) and Al Gore!!!!
Now Carter plays into the hands of the American enemies and the terrorists by attempting to paper over his own failures by savaging the reputation of President Bush. It is outrageous


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Today is labor's day which should not be celebrated as what we do now for we are supposed to work much harder than usual. However, most people actually begin today's life with a really late sleep and then go shopping, traveling or just staying at home. Very fortunately, my first day in May, to my surprise, began with an accident!
It started with the vehicle of ours. To show the great respect to the Labor's Day, this damned stupid car recently refused to work. From time to time, it either began to burn the engine oil in the engine or could not get started for once. My mother so today, taking the chance that not everyone would like to have their car mended in a day should be used to work, with me, drove this machine mule from the south of BJ to the north to have it fixed.
After spending three hours waiting in the waiting room, I could only stare at my GRE words list with dazing mind but do nothing else. When the car was told to be mended, my stomach seemed to jump out of my mouth and rushed to Pizza Hut. Honestly saying, it was not its fault, but my spineless mind mentioned to have Pizza.
On the way home to take my student accommodation card, the accident began. Just after my Mom turned at a crossing, the little orange light sparkled. Sorry for ignorance, we had to check it in the car's instruction book. Engine problem! Little machine mule might have an arrhythmia which then took my cheap Pizza's tiny wish a real wish, we had to ride on it back to the doctors. Very luckily again, when we finally drove down from the long way on the grade separation viaduct, I suddenly had a feeling of gliding. The heart of the machine mule did not work any more! The car, solely, stopped in the middle of the road which points straight up to the maintenance shop… Considering we may cause traffic jam, Mom, PUSHED the car to the right side of the road! After putting up the warning sign, we found because of heading to the barrier separating the motorways and the non-motorways, almost all the passers-by did not forget to jeer at our stupid fault a little. At the time, for my empty stomach and the not-coming-soon maintenance workers, I almost called Pizza Hut sending a pizza and, when eating with a full mouth, conveniently, shouted at the jeering passers-by with 'Hey, it's none of your business!' However, God blessed everyone: this was never gonna happen!
At last, right before there would be more and more passers-by, the maintenance worker came. Fiddling with the broken-heart of the machine mule, the car, amazingly, the car could get started. Thus just after the an half hour we spent on buying stuff filling the empty stomach and heart not yet recovering from the shock, the car was mended again. Uncle computer said, there were some wires not connected well! And that was why we had May's first accident and the accidents in the just passed month.
Nothing more to plus, we, Mom, Dad and me finally gained a meal in Pizza Hut with no preferential rights very late. People were still busy with their just coming Labor's Vacation. Me? With this bad omen of this month, I can just pray the car to be well-behaved!
PS long time no English, this is just a little try!
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Preface.- The Effect of Response Model Misspecification and Uncertainty on the Psychometric Properties of Estimates.- Heterogeneous Populations and Multistage Test Design.- Backmatter.
The 77th Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) brought together quantitative researchers who focus on methods relevant to psychology. The conference included workshops, invited talks by well-known scholars, and presentations of submitted papers and posters. It was hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and took place between the 9th and 12th of July, 2012. The chapters of this volume are based on presentations from the meeting and reflect the latest work in the field. Topics with a primarily measurement focus include studies of item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, cognitive diagnostic modeling, and psychological scaling. Additional psychometric topics relate to structural equation modeling, factor analysis, causal modeling, mediation, missing data methods, and longitudinal data analysis, among others. The papers in this volume will be especially useful for researchers (graduate students and other quantitative researchers) in the social sciences who use quantitative methods, particularly psychologists. Most readers will benefit from some prior knowledge of statistical methods in reading the chapters.
Contains the latest work in measurement and statistics within psychology
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Fen & Hunter don't do things the easy way ever!Fen and Hunter don't like to do things the easy way, ever?! As always there's a lot going on in this story but there is more at stake than ever before. This is the 3rd story in the Alpha Underground books about Fen and Hunter both of whom featured in the original Wolf Rampant trilogy?! My reading order was just right for me, which was more by luck than planning, with book 1 Half Wolf, then Dark Wolf Adrift which is a linked book which gives insight into Hunter, followed by Book 2 Lone Wolf Dawn and finished off with Book 3 Wolf Landing. As with all the books mentioned above there was a good sense of humour alongside a solid moral compass all accompanied by feisty but not overbearing females.by NEFallon on March 16, 2017
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Truly made the end just perfect!I am going to miss Fen and Hunter, the whole gang and all the characters in the Alpha Underground series. Kept my mind engaged with excitement and anticipation, always wondering Fen's next step. The loyalty and devotion to the Bloodlings is truly felt. I really like Fen and her Wolfe, their banters, their playfulness got me giggling but one particular part that got to me when Fen thought, " Arguing with me was one thing. Trying to eat a human corpse was something else entirely." The constant push and pull between them I really liked. Always the hunt for answers with or without the fang or claws I was totally drawn in to the Alpha Underground series. This story truly made the end just perfect. The author kept the story so interesting, her writing made it easy to focus on the protagonist and the side characters with so much enthusiasm. I read many books from this genre, this particular author managed to keep me rotted in this genre. Thank you! I will be reading more from this author. Received a free digital copy in exchange for a review. Thank you again, Darlene Cruzby Darlene on March 16, 2017
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Another great addition to the seriesI really loved this book. It has a little bit of everything. There is love, conflict, mystery, and some alpha showdowns. The book begins with Fen working with the one-body Robert on another in a string of murders that appear to be committed by a shifter, but Fen can find no sniff of a shifter. On the home front there is the upcoming All-pack where Fen hopes to have her pack recognized by the other packs and her territory upheld. When a ram is killed on the night of the pack run, things get hairy with the locals that blame one of the "dogs" for the kill. On top of that, the council enforcer that used to employ Hunter is sniffing around and has brought Hunter's replacement along for the ride. Join Fen and company as they battle to save themselves and their new home. Will they finally get to have the kind of pack they want? I sure hope we get more books on other pack members! I received a free copy of this book and voluntarily reviewed it, as I do all the books I read.by VaWineLover on March 16, 2017
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Leader of her own packFen stories had been very interesting, full of action and suspense and with strong characters that kept my interest. In this final installment, she was fighting for a territory for her group and the right to be considered pack. Many obstacles were in her way and she and her mate were faced with a new Enforcer, murders, kidnapping and a threat to Fen and her wolf. Fen character had learned and grow a lot since her first story and her relationship with Hunter was solid. Enjoyed the plot development, the intrigue, the detailed descriptions and narrations and how they became pack. The author kept me reading avidly with all the action and suspense in the story. Love the stories that stimulate my imagination and made me feel and understand the characters and this one I liked a lot.by Dora Zeno on March 17, 2017
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The Villains of N&H
At the moment I'm working on more Newbury and Hobbes, writing the fifth novel in the series – which is currently entitled The Revenant Express.
As I write, I've been thinking a lot about the villains of the stories, the sorts of people Newbury and Veronica find themselves going up against on a regular basis. In the first three books the tendency was toward mad scientist types, people who wanted to use their bizarre creations to seize power or political control. There's probably a bit of a theme there, now that I come to think about it, but it's true – Chapman & Villiers, Doctor Aubrey Knox, the Bastion Society and Lucien Fabian. Different, but cast from a similar mould.
In the fourth book, The Executioner's Heart (out next Summer, I believe), they face someone very different, with an entirely different agenda. It was a joy to write, despite how dark the story actually gets at times. I enjoyed getting inside the head of someone entirely new, someone that neither Newbury or Veronica could begin to understand. It led to an interesting dynamic. Hopefully people will agree when they read the book.
The villains in The Revenant Express (there are two) are different again, and I'm having great fun delving into their motivations. I'm not going to give anything away here in fear of spoilers (and there's some pretty significant stuff that happens in The Executioner's Heart that's being dealt with in the fifth book), except to say that the whole thing is set on a massive steam train hurtling across Europe towards St. Petersburg, where a very particular cargo awaits collection by Newbury. Inevitably, things take a turn for the worst.
There's another villain lurking at the back of the Newbury & Hobbes saga, too, and she hasn't really come to the fore yet. Her name is Clarissa Karswell, and she goes by the nom de plume 'Lady Arkwell'. She a sort of nemesis for Newbury, but also a love interest who complicates matters with Veronica. She's dazzling and intelligent, and dances very much to her own tune. Sometimes she finds herself opposed to Newbury, but sometimes – much to Bainbridge's dismay – they find themselves joining forces against a common foe.
Lady Arkwell has appeared in a few references, as well as a couple of short stories, but it's with the series of drabbles that I've been mapping out her story. Here's the first one in the sequence:
"There's a woman," said the Queen, "who is proving to be something of a thorn in our side." She emitted a wet, spluttering cough, and Newbury saw a trickle of blood ooze from the corner of her mouth. She dabbed it away. The bellows of her life-giving apparatus sighed noisily as they laboured to inflate her diseased lungs.
"A foreign agent?" asked Newbury.
"Perhaps," murmured the Queen. "Perhaps not. She operates under the alias 'Lady Arkwell'. It is imperative that you locate her and bring her to us."
"What has she done?" enquired Newbury.
"Ignored our invitation," replied Victoria, darkly.
Her first full length appearance will be in 'Lady Arkwell's Deceit', which will feature in The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes, a forthcoming collection of shorter cases. I'll keep you posted when this is properly announced!
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We are about to repeat a pattern in the U.S. Midwest that Brazil just completed. Hot and dry weather in the corn belt on top of dry soil moisture. Brazil went from a major exporter to an importer and a crop estimate that has now fallen 25%. They expected a near record crop, just like us.
This is from my friends over at Weathertrends360. I encourage everyone to follow them on FaceBook. They will save you from financial hardship.
The parallels to what happened in Brazil are eerily similar. The simple math suggests the sum of the parts don't add up to these rosy USDA guesstimates. TX and Deep South crops getting fried, MI fried, N IN - OH has issues, W KY - S IN too wet. 4-weeks of heat/drought like stress in WCB in June and now dome of death coming and likely to stick around for a few weeks starting next week. It's been a weather market all year and only going to get worse. Eventually real data like this will come to light.
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Here are the weather trends for the Midwest. Both the U.S. and the Euro models agree.
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The Wedding Heiress
Pamela Ford
Harlequin SuperRomance, Oct 2008, $5.50
In Holiday Bay, Wisconsin, attorney Mike Connery calls Delaney McBride in Boston to inform her that her beloved great aunt Ellie's will is legally ironclad. She is unhappy with his calling her "Pumpkin" as she had a high school crush on him that remained unrequited. She agrees to come home partly out of homage to a relative she admired and loved and because she understands that for everyone to inherit including Mike, Delaney must come backto finish the Storybook Wedding plans that her late relative was working on.
In Holiday Bay, Delaney begins to complete her aunt's final legacy with plans to return to Massachusetts once she is finished here because she still wants Mike and assumes he still does not reciprocate. However, Mike is attracted to her and will do what it takes to convince Delany to remain here working on their wedding plan.
The eccentric flawed cast makes for a delightful Wisconsin holiday romance starring two enchanting protagonists. The irony of the novel is Delaney is set on going back to Massachusetts because she has a life there and has doubts that Mike really loves her while he desperately wants to have her car's oil and filters permanently changed in Holiday Bay. A mystery subplot re Aunt Ellie and her motives add to the enjoyment of a fine contemporary tale.
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I missed riding a steel frame bike after 7 years on an Aluminum bike. In the off chance I hit a car, I'd like to at least put a dent in it. It never feels like there's anything under you with an aluminum bike.
Second pic is 5 hours post purchase when I cleaned it up and threw my wheels and pedals on it. Took for a ride and I like it. Going to ride it without brakes for a bit until I get some new parts. The old center pull breaks have built in reflectors which is a no go for me. This is one of those old monster tall bikes you don't see a lot of. You need a 36" inseam to stand over the crossbar and once on the seat you can barely tippie toe the ground.
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