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Top Ten Inspiring Quotes from Books
(Feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish)
I like post-it notes. The skinny tab kind, preferably in bright colors. I don't dog ear my pages. I don't write in books. But I do use my brightly colored skinny tab post-it notes to mark passages and quotes that tug at my heartstrings, make me cry, make me laugh, and get me thinking in a book. In a lot of ways that's the indicator of a book I love. The more post-it notes, the more invested I was in the story. And those little post-it notes are why I love reading. From the comfort of my own chair I get to experience empathy, stretch my imagination, travel the world, and maybe learn a little bit about myself, and life, along the way.
Not everyone can pull this off, but some of the best make poetry out of words. Here are just a few of my favorite quotes.
What's on your list?
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1) "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
There are so many J.K Rowling quotes that I love, especially scenes between Dumbledore and Harry, and this one stayed with me. Now if I can only get the teens that come into the Teen Room to understand this idea...
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
2) "I wish it need not have happened in time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
So Gandalf and Dumbledore are kind of cut from the same cloth. Both very wise old me. Both understand that any creature, no matter how old or young, big or small, can make a big impact, they just have to choose to do so.
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
3) "...the truth about forever is that it is happening right now."
I was tempted to put down "all of Sarah Dessen's words"...but of all of them, this is my favorite. While I hate "live like you were dying," I do like realizing that life is finite, and you can either wait for things to happen or live the life you want.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
4) But you see, Meg, just because you don't understand doesn't mean that the
explanation doesn't exist."
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, A Wrinkle in Time is my book, and Meg is my girl. Faith is hard. Love is hard. Courage is hard. But it's there, even if you can't see it.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
5) "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin,
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
And this perfect line is why I'm not sure if I'm going to read the new Harper Lee release. Harper Lee is just so good.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
6) "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Every time I read this small children's book, I find something new to tug at my heartstrings. So short, yet so profound and dear.
Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
7) "KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!"
The feels! Oh the feels! Just six small words and you understand real courage, friendship, and love. I'm tearing up just thinking about it...okay, got to move on...too much...
Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
8) "Sometimes we set off down a road thinking' we're going' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start."
Truth! And probably the hardest obstacle for me to over come. Just start.
John Green, Paper Towns
9) "What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
This one I fell in love with more and more the further I got from it. I read it. I liked it. But only now, several years (and experiences) later, do I truly
appreciate what it's saying.
Libba Bray, Going Bovine
10) "You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it's about dismantling all that false armor,
getting down to what's real."
You didn't really think I'd have a list without Libba Bray, did you? She's my girl. My imaginary best friend. Who you are has always been there, you just have to have the courage to admit it.


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In adopting the United Nations Charter in the aftermath of the Second World War, the founders of the United Nations reaffirmed their "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, [and] in the equal rights of men and women". While much progress has been made in terms of international governance on human rights (through, for example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the creation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights), human rights violations continue to occur in different pockets of the world. In this context, it is imperative that diplomats understand relevant international institutions and legal frameworks at work to prevent and protect against human rights abuses.
At the end of this orientation programme, participants will be able to
- Describe and distinguish the core institutions and mechanisms of the international human rights protection regime;
- Analyse the human rights dimension of various negotiation areas, including development, climate change, etc.;
- Actively participate in human-rights related negotiations at United Nations Headquarters.
Over the course of a full day, the orientation programme will examine:
- Concept of human rights and its normative framework;
- United Nations policies on human rights;
- Mandates and functions of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR);
- Mandates and functions of the Human Rights Council, including the Universal Periodic Review;
- Human rights treaty bodies, or committees of independent experts that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties.
As an informative face-to-face event facilitated jointly by UNITAR and OHCHR, this orientation programme features human rights lawyers from OHCHR, other international organizations and civil society. Following their presentations, participants have an opportunity to engage in in-depth discussions with the speakers. Participants also receive study materials to enhance their holistic understanding of the topic.
All participants who successfully complete the orientation programme will receive a OHCHR/UNITAR Certificate of Participation.
The orientation programme is open to members of Permanent Missions to the United Nations and other diplomats, in particular those in charge of the human rights file and who follow the work of the Human Rights Council and other relevant organs.
UN Ground passes are required for this event

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Jay Z, Beyonce Are 'Drunk in Love' at DirecTV Super Bowl Party [VIDEO]
Rapper Jay Z was the headliner for DirecTV's "Super Saturday Night" party in New York on Saturday (Feb. 1). The rap mogul gave audiences a great show and even brought out a surprise guest.
The invite-only affair attracted a VIP crowd that included celebrities like Jamie Foxx, Spike Lee and Ashanti.
Hov performed an hour-long set of his most notably hits including 'Holy Grail,' 'Big Pimpin' and 'Tom Ford.'
The highlight of the energetic show came midway when Hov introduced his lovely wife Beyonce to the stage. The powerhouse couple performed their ubiquitous love anthem 'Drunk in Love' for the packed crowd.
Queen Bey looked gorgeous in her sexy black Roberto Cavalli gown, peep-toe Christian Louboutin heels and Lorraine Schwartz jewels.
Beyonce effortlessly strutted back and forth on stage while Jay rapped his lines and encouraged the ladies to sing along. At the end of their performance, the two shared a warm embrace and a kiss.
"All hail the queen!" yelled Jay Z as Beyonce walked off the stage.
You can check out more photos of Beyonce's beautiful black gown here.


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The Storytime – Joey Spiotto
Do you ever wondered how your favorite movies look like if they were made for children? Joey Spiotto might help you in this with his amazing gallery where he reimagined the best-known movies and TV shows as children's books. The book covers are so adorable that turn any kind of movie (from A Clockwork Orange...
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It seems that LeBron James has done more than trigger the second largest winning streak in NBA history. He is also responsible for another trend, one that Kevin Durant ably followed (much to the delight of all parties involved) after a fan hit a half-court shot in OKC during the Trail Blazers-Thunder matchup Sunday night.
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Can definitely dig the tribute from Durant, a buddy of James. But mostly, kudos to the fan for first running past the $20K check he won to get to his wife. Clearly, this is a smart man.


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If your MADCAP RACE ENGINE is equipped with a Vacuum Pump please read this entire sheet!
Install a vacuum gauge on your engine. Remove
the 1/8-inch pipe plug located on the back of
your valve cover. Then screw in the appropriate
fitting that allows you to use your vacuum gauge.
If you are working on a brand new engine or one you just got back from MADCAP for a freshen, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ADDED OIL. Start your engine and check the timing, make sure all cylinders are firing. Take a vacuum reading from your gauge.
On your Post-Dyno inspection report that came
with your engine you will see the max vacuum setting.
We have tried to set your pump to the proper setting.
When altitude changes so can your vacuum reading.
We recommend your vacuum gauge be located where
the driver can safely monitor during a run down
the track. Engine Vacuum is a great way to monitor
how your engine is performing.
If vacuum is not within specs on your sheet, you can adjust by following these simple instructions. Or Call us. 1-800-349-8590
Unscrew the cap on the Vacuum Regulator located on your Intake Manifold, in front of the distributor. BE very careful, this may be warm and there are some small parts involved. After removing the cap, remove spring and plunger. To INCREASE Vacuum add a small washer under the spring assembly. To LOWER vacuum remove a small washer from under spring assembly. Screw cap back on valve, make sure O-ring is in good shape and clean. DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN.
You may find your engine runs better with more
vacuum. Be VERY CAREFUL. If you run more vacuum
than the max we recommend SEVERE INTERNAL DAMAGE
may occur.
You are looking for your gauge to increase as you run or to reach a reading and stay steady.
During a run; if you notice the pressure decrease slightly as RPM increases or if you see a Rapid Spike in your reading this is a sign of Detonation. (This is bad) Retard your timing before making any more runs.
If your vacuum suddenly drops and does not recover this may mean a pump, pulley or belt failure or a massive air leak due to a blown seal or gasket. In some cases this may also indicate internal engine damage. The first thing to do is check for an air leak. Remove your gauge line; then cap the hose that goes from your pump to your breather tank. Blow compressed air into the fitting where you removed your vacuum gauge. BE VERY CAREFUL. DO NOT blow too much air; it takes very little pressure to check for leaks. After putting air into the valve cover plug the fitting with your finger and LISTEN for any air leaks. Get some help so you have people on the bottom (oil pan) and both sides of your engine. Any air leak at all can make a BIG difference. The most common place is valve cover gaskets. Repair air leak if you find one and then re-start your engine and check gauge reading.
If you hear no vacuum leak then you must remove the spark plugs and perform a leak down test on your engine.


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DEL RIO – Four people were arrested and are facing charges of drug possession and damages to a hotel room, in connection with a fight taking place on Monday, August 29, 2016 at the Ranch Motel, in Del Rio, Texas.
Monica Hernandez, 25-years-of-age; Wendy Ramirez, 25; Hector Sanchez, 24, and Javier Jesus Martinez, 30-years-of-age, were arrested and charged with possession of controlled substances. Martinez is also facing charges for criminal mischief.
According to police reports, a fight was reported at 3:14 p.m. in a room at the Ranch Motel on the 1300 block of E Gibbs Street. The fight spilled over to the parking lot, and before the police arrived the party jumped into a green pickup truck and took off.
A description of the 1996 Chevy pickup was given to police officers. The vehicle was found around the corner, near the intersection of Bedell and 1st St., and a traffic stop ensued. Upon a search of the people involved, drug paraphernalia was found in one of the subjects.
The search continued into the vehicle where police officers located .2 grams of a substance that field tested positive for crystal meth, and .4 grams of alleged methamphetamine.
Back in the hotel the TV was found damaged, prompting the criminal mischief charges.
All were taken into custody and the case was turned over to the Criminal Investigations Division.
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At most universities, admission essays are considered as an opportunity to see an applicant as a person. The best statements are personal stories. If you can't deal with your admission essay, there are two ways out. The first one is to check out some tips that can help you, and the second is to place an order on the university admission essay writing service.
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Word can pull data from a variety of data sources to perform a mail merge. As part of the Microsoft Office suite, Word easily accepts data from Outlook, Excel, and Access, and other data sources such as web pages, OpenDocument text files, and delimited data files stored as plain text. And if you don't have an existing data source, you can create a new one in Word.
Important: Accessing any of the named data sources from an HTTP location isn't supported. Save the file to your local hard drive before you use it as a mail merge data source.
Data sources for mail merge
Here are a few examples of data sources you can use for a mail merge in Word.
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
An Excel spreadsheet works well as a data source for mail merge if all data is well-formatted and on one sheet so that it can be read by Word. For more information, see Format-your-mail-merge-contacts-in-an-Excel-2016-for-Windows-spreadsheet.
Microsoft Outlook Contact List
You can retrieve contact information directly from your Outlook Contact List in Word. For more information, see Use Outlook contacts as a data source for a mail merge.
Microsoft Office Address List
You can create a simple Office Address List during a mail merge, and then use it again later. This is the best solution when you want to create a short, simple list for infrequent use.
Word data file
You can use a Word document as a data source. The document should contain a single table. The first row of the table must contain headings, and the other rows must contain the records you want to merge. For more information, see Set up a mail merge list with Word.
Microsoft Access database
With Access, you can select data from any table or query defined in the database. For more information, see Use mail merge to send Access data to Word.
Text files
You can use any text file that has data fields separated (or delimited) by tab characters or commas, and data records separated by paragraph marks.
Other database files
You can use other data sources for a mail merge. To access these sources, you need to start the Data Connection Wizard.
In Word, on the Mailings tab, in the Start Mail Merge group, choose Select Recipients > Use an Existing List.
In the Select Data Source dialog box, choose New Source to open the Data Connection Wizard.
In the Data Connection Wizard, choose the type of data source you want to use for the mail merge, and then choose Next.
Follow the prompts in the Data Connection Wizard to complete the data connection to the merge document.
Once you have your data source you can create labels, envelopes, letters and email using mail merge
See also
Do you have a question about Word mail merge that we didn't answer here?
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You may never play in the Super Bowl, but you can soon own a ring…or even enough of them to put one on each finger of both hands. Heritage Auctions is offering ten different authentic Super Bowl rings during its February Platinum Night Auction. Some of the rarest and most desirable pieces in the hobby, Super Bowl rings continue to appreciate in … [Read more...]
Super Bowl Rings With a Story Sell for Big Bucks
Any NFL player will tell you the ultimate prize in pro football is a Super Bowl ring. But the hefty hunks of 10K gold emblazoned with diamonds and iconic team imagery are not easily won. They're even harder to obtain if you're a collector of sports memorabilia. Almost always, if a Super Bowl ring is to be sold, it ends up at auction, where it's likely to make the most … [Read more...]
Jerry Kramer Consigns Super Bowl I Ring, Jersey to Auction
Green Bay Packers great Jerry Kramer is putting 60 items from his personal collection, including his Super Bowl I ring and jersey and 1965 NFL Championship ring up for auction. Kramer, who turns 80 next Saturday, has consigned the collection to Heritage Auctions, which will offer them in February. Having made a good living in business after his career ended in the late … [Read more...]
Player Collections Highlight Worthridge Auction
The 1970s high school letterman sweater worn by Moses Malone before his historic jump to the NBA as a teenager is among the items up for bid in Worthridge Auctions' latest online catalog. Malone helped his high school team win back-to-back Virginia state basketball championships in 1973 and 1974, then became the first player of the modern era to go straight from high … [Read more...]
Former Cowboys' Star Erik Williams Selling Collection
Former Dallas Cowboys' offensive lineman Erik Williams is selling his personal memorabilia collection including a Super Bowl ring, trophy and two game-worn jerseys. The auction is being conducted by Albersheims, a Las Vegas-based memorabilia company. Highlights from the Erik Williams Collection include: 1992 Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring– the first of three … [Read more...]
1869 Peck & Snyder Card on Tap in Huggins & Scott Auction
Huggins and Scott's fourth Masterpiece Auction of 2014 gets underway Monday, July 28 with an 1869 Peck and Snyder Cincinnati Red Stockings team card among the hundreds of items up for bid. The card is a recent discovery, having been located by a collector in Ohio who has consigned it to the auction. The card is one of only eight 'small' versions of the Peck and Snyder … [Read more...]
Robinson Bat, Jordan Items Pace $2.3 Million Auction
Collectors paid $2.3 for more than 1,100 lots of rare sports, entertainment and historical memorabilia as the 2014 Goldin Auctions Winter Auction closed in the early morning hours of Saturday. Among the highlights were a 1955-56 Jackie Robinson game-used bat selling for a whopping $162.267 and a 1966 Mickey Mantle bat which sold for $45,720. Four lots of Michael Jordan … [Read more...]
Baugh, Luckman, Brown Jerseys Part of Super Bowl Auction
Hunt Auctions will once again collaborate with the NFL and NFL Players to produce the annual Super Bowl XLVIII Live Auction and Appraisal Fair being held this year at NFL Shop at Super Bowl, Macy's Herald Square in New York City. The sixth year of Super Bowl auction events will open on Tuesday, January 21 with the Auction Preview Exhibition showcasing for fans to check out over … [Read more...]
Super Bowl, Championship Rings on Auction Block
Goldin Auctions is offering collectors the chance to slip their fingers into more than a dozen football championship and Super Bowl rings including one from "the greatest game ever played" and another marking the first 2012 Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl XLVII player ring to be available at auction. These items, as well as more than 1,000 other lots will be open for bidding in … [Read more...]
Lance Alworth Gets Stolen Super Bowl Ring Back
It's been 21 years but Pro Football Hall of Famer Lance Alworth has his Super Bowl ring back. Alworth, who spent several seasons with the San Diego Chargers and still lives in the area, earned the ring when he played for the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI at the end of the 1971 season. He caught a touchdown pass in the Cowboys' 24-3 win over the Miami Dolphins in New … [Read more...]


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Entity Motion: Walk, "Gliding," Shuffle, "Jerk."
Certain entity types seem to always walk — in the subject's home, outdoors, and onboard the ship — whereas others are seen only in a "gliding" mode or other form of levitation. Many cases involve both walking and levitating — by the same or separate beings. In 31 cases a being walked. In 21 of those no other form of locomotion was ever apparent, but in the other ten the same or some other entity levitated at some point. In all, gliding or other levitation by an entity was present in a total of 25 cases.
Three subjects described a being's shuffling motion, not specifying whether this was on or above the floor/ground. And two indicated a "jerky" motion.
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The growing U.S. deficit and the increasing attention being paid to it by financial markets is creating what many see as the "perfect storm" that will drive the debate over tax reform. Whether "tax reform" will include tax increases –and whether "tax simplification" will include a flattening of existing tax rates through cutting back on deductions and credits to which many individuals and businesses have grown accustomed– are questions that will soon be raised as Congress starts a tough fight over the FY 2012 federal budget.
Consensus had been that nothing would get done on taxes until after the 2012 presidential elections and that tax changes would not take effect until 2013. Now, with inflation looming, if Congress does not show quickly that it can control the deficit, the timetable may be getting pushed up. While tax changes may still not take place until 2013, decisions over what those changes will be may be made earlier. The compromise on taxes made between Republicans and Democrats late in 2010 extended the so-called "Bush tax cuts" for two years, through 2012. The temporary nature of that delay makes a decision on what to do about taxes for 2013 pivotal to the current tax reform debate.
Two versions of tax reform
The House approved a FY 2012 budget resolution ( HConRes 34) on April 15 along a party-line vote (235 to 193). The resolution proposes to reduce federal spending by more than $6.2 trillion over 10 years. HConRes 34 proposes to replace the current marginal rate structure ranging from a low of 10 percent to a high of 35 percent with just two rates: 10 percent and 25 percent. The 10 percent rate would apply to single individuals with taxable income under $50,000 and to married couples filing jointly with taxable income under $100,000. The 25 percent rate would apply to single individuals with incomes over $50,000 and married couples filing jointly with incomes over $100,000. The budget resolution also proposes to reduce the corporate tax rate to 25 percent.
Meanwhile, President Obama described his vision for reducing the federal budget deficit and tax reform on April 13. The president is opposed to renewing the Bush-era individual income tax cuts for higher-income individuals, which the White House defines as single individuals with incomes over $200,000 and families with incomes over $250,000. The president also proposed more than $3 trillion in cuts to federal spending over 10 years.
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Part of the below (text marked purple) was previously posted as a comment on Huffington Post's article but at the time of posting this blog entry this comment was still pending approval.
Private schools for the 1 percent huff.to/P06fPa
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) August 9, 2012
It's to easy for Huffington Post to tweet about "Private schools for the 1%" copying and pasting info from the institutions' websites onto their own to suit that agenda, conveniently leaving out that plenty (if not all) of the schools referred to offer fee-free places and scholarships to pupils whose parents could never afford the tuition fees.
Khadeeja Safdar happily mentions the popular statistic regarding children on free school meals who never make it to Oxbridge, conveniently leaving out any statistics of how many former Etonians going to Oxbridge made it there on scholarships and completely ignoring Britains anti-class attitudes that are damaging children's opportunities in education, work and life.
On a day that dumbed-down envyists rejoice in News Corp's losses and celebrate HuffPo journoTs, may I suggest perhaps engaging in proper research, for instance into how the UK's state care system is letting down young people while costing more per child than private boarding schools charge per place?
Note: While Huffington Post profiles itself as 'The Internet Newspaper' and is structured with editors, chief editors etc., it's still a blog (and at times p*** poor at relaying 'news').
If we, as consumers, value our serious press/media we best invest in their outlets, be it through buying (electronic) papers, advertising with them, or shopping through affiliate links.
In the meantime, I hope the serious, professional ('proper') journalists stop blaming the public and the internet for what could become their industry's slow demise, and show us, through quality journalism, how they distinguish themselves from blogs and gutter press (because right now the difference isn't always noticeable; it's almost if some have lowered their level to compete with bad journots) and why they are worth paying for.
P.S. Khadeeja, if you're reading this: in your Twitter bio you claim to be a Journalism graduate from Columbia University. If you are, and this copy-and-paste job is what you're churning out as acceptable 'journalism', I'd go and ask my tuition fees back if I were you, seriously. I have nothing against you as a person, but that. Was not. Journalism.


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Gas Tractors
The two pictures above are of the 35-70 Minneapolis gas tractor my dad bought at the Oscar Cook sale in Billings, Montana.
The smaller tractor in the picture on the left is a 22-44 Minneapolis.
Here the Minneapolis is loaded after the sale on it's way to it's new home.
Here is the 30-60 Aultman Taylor gas tractor my dad has. This picture was taken the day after he bought at an auction near David City, Nebraska.
We were getting ready to remove the extension rims and the canopy to reduce the size for shipping home.
Now the tractor is ready to be sent to Florida at a later date while we take the extension rims, canopy and the 10-20 Titan tractor my dad bought home.
20-35 D Emerson Brantingham s/n 14704 (with 5 bottom mounted plow and furrow guide)
20-35 D Emerson Brantingham (missing plow, engine and furrow guide but has extension rims)
17-32 Type B Cross motor Minneapolis
10-20 Titan
20-35 E Allis Chalmers
16-32 Nichols & Shephard (Manufactured by the John Lauson Company)
MRS (Mississippi Road Service)
This is the first Antique tractor my Dad restored. It is a 1920 Cletrac W.
This is a 32 horse power Fairbanks Morse N. It runs real nice and slow.
This engine was built in Jacksonville Florida by the Gibbs Engine Company. It is a 6 cylinder engine with the cylinders cast separately. The crankcase is completely open on both sides and the bottom. It has a two stage pump and was built to pressurize the water mains for fighting fires.
Other tractors not pictured:
18-32 Cross motor Case
Super Four Cross motor Huber
8-16 Avery
Moline Universal
Cletrac F
Cat 30
Cat D7 (with cable lift blade)
Cat RD7
Farmall Regular
Farmall Irregular
Farmall F-30
Sullivan (Home made by Willard Moore with a Cummins Model A engine and White truck transmission and rear end)


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Metart COO, Shaun Lenihan, is pleased to announce that the company has acquired VivThomas.com for its Metart Network of adult entertainment properties.
Metart and Viv Thomas entered into a website management agreement in March 2013. When Viv Thomas recently announced plans for his retirement, negotiations were opened, culminating in the outright purchase of VivThomas.com by Metart. The change of ownership will have no effect on existing affiliates as they are already in the Metart program.
A fixture in the international adult market since the early 1980s, Viv Thomas has created an instantly recognizable style and crafted a massive catalog of high end erotica.
In collaboration with his wife and a support crew of artists and technicians, the VivThomas brand delivers beautiful people in wonderful places and combines passionate, explicit action with intense, pure emotion. Long recognized as a leader and innovator of lesbian erotica, VivThomas.com also offers boy/girl content, further broadening the appeal of the brand.
The Viv Thomas motto - "A Cut Above The Rest" - is a guiding principle of the company that has earned it a large and loyal fan base as well as numerous awards and the respect of leading industry professionals.
Viv Thomas was delighted to hand over the reins to Metart who will carry the VivThomas brand forward as their own, while honoring the style and vision of its creator.
Speaking from his base in Portugal, Viv Thomas said: "My career has been a roller coaster ride with all the thrills and joy, ups and downs, and the pure pleasure of working at something I loved. VivThomas.com and Metart is the perfect match, I can't wait to see what the future holds."


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Teenage Wasteland: Are The New Kids On The Block Reuniting?
To be honest, I never liked New Kids. They always remind me of being the awkward ages of 15 and 16. More importantly, I just never liked their songs... well, save for that Christmas trash, "This One's For The Children," for maybe a day or two.
Luckily, they were here and gone in a blur, or at least what seemed like a blur. Their arrival coincided with my first flirtation with the dirty words "Top 40 music," since up to that point I'd mostly walked around the halls of high school pretending to mope around while listeneing to The Smiths and The Cure on my $10 K-Mart walkman.
Suddenly, it was March 1989 and this new crop of MTV stars were doling out upbeat dance/pop -- Roxette, Paula Abdul, Milli Vanilli, Fine Young Cannibals. There were also some good singles by pop veterans out at that point, too -- Howard Jones' "Everlasting Love" and Donna Summer's "This Time I Know It's For Real."
But smack in the middle of it all was New Kids On The Block with their generic "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" and "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)," the latter of which was so bland, yet somehow became the template for every boy band that followed on how to make in insipid, mind-numbing ballad. (Jesus, now that I think about it, I really hated them.)
Every girl in high school had a tsunami in their panties over these dorks, and I just didn't get it. In fact, it just fueled the loathing. I couldn't go over to one of my gal pal's houses without their being some kind of New Kids concert video or notebook being flaunted in my face. I spent the summer of '89 hangin' tough at the local pool, and those f***ers were constantly on the radio. It was enough to make you walk around moping to The Smiths again.
Famously, at my high school, there was a girl who finally gave up her candy shop to her boyfriend of a year in return for New Kids concert tickets. Do kids still have sex at 15? Or is it 12 now?
Right, so then something odd happened. They kind of went away for, like, a month or two, and popped up out of nowhere with "Step By Step" in spring of 1990. Suddenly, there was an NKOTB single that didn't grate on my skull. It was like, Shit! The New Kids discovered house music! They followed that up with the charming, Beatles-esque "Tonight," the video for which might have benefited from a more retro theme to match the tune.
And then they were gone. Just like that. It was as if radio and MTV yanked the fivesome off the stage with a cane just as quickly as they'd sent them synchronized-dancing down our throats. There was some minor hit with a banal ballad in spring/summer of 1992 ("If You Go Away"), and then a failed attempt at a more hip-hop return for them in 1994, but by then they were a complete joke.
At any rate, the Boston fivesome, now ranging in age from 35 to 40, appear to be staging a comeback. And, why not? If Paula Abdul can do it... In fact, if Take That -- a British boy band whose manager modeled them after New Kids -- and Spice Girls, in turn modeled after Take That, can do it, then New Kids have ever right to reform for a bit of nostalgia cash-in.
All that said, here's a naughty disclosure: Jordan Knight's spring 1999 solo hit, "Give It To You" -- which I blogged about in 2006 -- will always be a jam in my book. And here's a bit of trivia: it was co-written by Jordan and Robin Thicke(!). Also, Joey McIntyre's "Stay The Same," which was out at the same time, is still one of my guilty pleasures.
Plus, if there's anything good out of this reunion, it's that Joey still looks like a hot boff.
The U.K. Top 10:
1. "Now You're Gone" - Basshunter *3 weeks*
2. "Chasing Pavements" - Adele
3. "Rockstar" - Nickelback
4. "Don't Stop The Music" - Rihanna
5. "Superstar" - Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos
6. "Piece Of Me" - Britney Spears
7. "Work" - Kelly Rowland
8. "Elvis Ain't Dead" - Scouting For Girls
9. "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" - Soulja Boy Tell'em
10. "Be Mine!" - Robyn
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After I had my second son, someone once told me that at some point I will no longer be a mother, but a referee. Well … I am most certainly still a mother (whatever that meant), but I now get the whole referee thing. My boys actually fight over everything and it is sooooo frustrating: "that's my seat" "that's my toy" "I want to listen to my music" "that's my mommy" "I want to watch my show" and the list goes on … and on … and on!!!!!
Netflix has come up with their own way to help with sibling rivalry with sibling playlists:
A Tale of Two Distant Ages Playlist:
this one is for your 5 year old and your 14 year old
1. Antz
2. Fuller House
3. How to Train Your Dragon: 2
Sugar and Spice Playlist:
got one sassy kid and one sweet kid? This one is for you!
1. Lego Friends: The Power of Friendship
2. Dawn of the Croods
3. Project MC2
"Meet in the Middle" Playlist: (this is ours)
comedy meets action for this one!
1. All Hail King Julien
2. Pee-Wee's Big Holiday
3. The Adventures of Puss in Boots
Looking to bring your kids together to watch a communal Netflix show, try King Julien! Something about that opening song (it's catchy, I'm singing it in my head as I write this) gets both my boys up off the couch (typically from their fighting) dancing and laughing their heads off … try it!!!
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On Monday She chose to forget her blues,
Washed his clothes and wiped his shoes,
Helped with their homework in subtle clues,
At three in the morn opened the door, in came Mr Rules.
She became a whore,
On Tuesday She did,
He forcefully ripped the dress she wore,
He taken all, still took more.
It'd been their wedding day,
So held the bliss of that Wednesday,
He forgot to come home had nothing to say
On to the next so came Thursday.
Rough and tough, She'd made it through
Came home late, a few minutes though
It began with a slap, 'A show of love'
Young eyes watched as he gifted Blows.
A black eye for Friday and a broken tooth to match,
She told it all, everything but the truth
She'd been wrong, herself she blamed
And that night he brought home a 'Backstreet Famed'
She'd take no more, was Saturdays resolution
Packed hers and theirs, goodbye-ing her destitution
But turned back at the door, they'd find a Solution
and that night….. Died for her Hesitation!


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Soo.. iam sorry if i bothered you with my story - to make it short.. i have a few "candies" for you all prepared. I brought it down to the basics :-) just the stamp. I think most of you have already so much paper and all the extra stuff and for me it is less shipping costs and i can have more little candies up on my blog, so more of you can benefit.
For today i have "Sighlent Night Tilda" for you. She is brand new and on EZ mount ready to go. I will pick the winner sometimes on Monday.
Thank you all and have a wonderful 2. Advent weekend
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Menu planner helps you cook through the holidays
Monday: Meatless
Your easy Middle Eastern menu will buy you all kinds of time tonight. And time is what we need around the holidays. Make a tabbouleh salad using a kit from the natural-foods aisle and serve with roasted red pepper hummus dip and crackers.
To make the dip, mix prepared red pepper hummus with feta cheese crumbles and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Serve with some whole roasted almonds and dried apricots.
Tuesday: Pot o' gold
Turkey Chili (see recipe) is a hearty dinner that you can make over the weekend and heat it up as you need it. The recipe calls for a full slate of spices, but you can substitute a packet of your favorite chili seasoning if you'd like. (I'd also drop in a 1-ounce square of unsweetened baking chocolate to the bubbling mix.) Serve with corn bread.
Wednesday: Chicken salad
With big dinners planned at your house or someone else's, you won't feel much like preparing other meals. During the day, encourage the family to nibble on chicken salad with grapes and pecans as a sandwich or wrap filling or on crackers. Shred the meat from a rotisserie bird and mix with mayonnaise, salt and pepper, halved grapes, and chopped pecans. Make sure there is some fresh fruit around.
Thursday: Give food
Today is the day to think of others, so why not put together a basket of food to deliver to a friend with lots of relatives visiting? Or make peace with your mother-in-law. Load up a tray with some pastries, a loaf of crusty bread, good butter and an interesting jar of marmalade or jam along with a few cheeses (a cranberry-studded white cheddar and a spreadable St. Andre, for example). Fresh orange juice in a pretty container is a thoughtful accompaniment.
Friday: Go light
After one week of indulgence and another week to come, take a deep breath, if you can, and eat simply today. The leftovers will keep. For dinner, serve Caesar salad with grilled shrimp.
On the grill or your inside grill pan, cook skewered shrimp that have been brushed with a mixture of lemon juice and olive oil. Serve the skewers over ice-cold, crunchy Caesar salad. And then brace for New Year's week.
Saturday: Easy Entertaining
Baked flounder with fresh lemon pepper will please any guest. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Combine 2 tablespoons grated lemon zest, 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, 1 1/4 teaspoons crushed black peppercorns, 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt and 2 cloves minced garlic.
Place 4 (6-ounce) flounder fillets on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Rub lemon mixture evenly over fillets. Bake 8 minutes or until fish is opaque throughout. Garnish with lemon wedges. Serve with parsley buttered potatoes and sliced fresh carrots. Add a Boston lettuce salad and baguettes. For dessert, buy a cheesecake.
Sunday: Family Day
Prepare your own roast chicken for the family. Accompany it with Baked Wild Rice with Mushrooms (see recipe). Add fresh broccoli and whole-grain rolls. Buy a Boston cream pie for dessert.
Main dish
Easy Spicy Turkey Chili
For the chili:
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 medium red bell pepper, medium dice
1 medium yellow onion, medium dice
2 medium garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
1 pound ground turkey
3 tablespoons chili powder
2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus more as needed
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 (28-ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 cup low-sodium chicken broth or stock
2 (14-ounce) cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
1 bay leaf
For serving:
Shredded cheddar cheese
Sour cream
Tortilla chips
Heat the oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat until shimmering. Add the bell pepper, onion and garlic, season with salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables have softened, about 5 to 8 minutes.
Increase the heat to medium high, add the turkey and cook, breaking it up into smaller pieces with a wooden spoon, until it's no longer pink and is just cooked through, about 4 to 6 minutes.
Add the chili powder, measured salt, oregano, cumin, cayenne and cinnamon, stirring to coat the turkey and vegetables, and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add the tomatoes and their juices as well as the broth or stock, stir to combine and bring to a simmer. Add the beans and return to a simmer. Reduce the heat to medium low, add the bay leaf and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the flavors meld, about 30 minutes.
Remove the bay leaf. Taste and season with additional salt as needed. Serve with the cheese, sour cream and chips, for topping. Serves 6.
Source: chow.com.
Side dish
Baked Wild Rice with Mushrooms
1/2 cup uncooked wild rice
1/2 cup long-grain rice
3 cups cubed day-old French bread
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
8 ounces sliced crimini mushrooms
1/2 teaspoon dried sage
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 1/2 cups unsalted chicken stock
1/3 cup toasted chopped pecans
Rinse and cook wild rice according to directions; cook long-grain rice according to directions. Spread bread cubes in a single layer on baking sheet; broil 5 to 6 inches from heat 4 minutes or until lightly browned. Stir after 2 minutes; set aside. Heat oven to 325 degrees. In a large nonstick skillet, heat olive oil on medium. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir 3 minutes. Add mushrooms; cook 3 more minutes; stir occasionally. Add sage, thyme, salt, pepper and both cooked rices; cook 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in stock. Add pecans and toasted bread; toss lightly. Transfer to a 3-quart baking dish coated with cooking spray. Cover and bake 40 minutes or until hot. Makes 8 servings.
Per serving: 183 calories, 5 g protein, 6 g fat (28 percent calories from fat), 0.6 g saturated fat, 28 g carbohydrates, no cholesterol, 167 mg sodium, 2 g fiber. Carb choices: 2.


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Comic-Con 2014: 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Character Posters Get Intense
On the heels of today's 'Mad Max: Fury Road' panel at Comic-Con 2014, we now have more official looks at the main characters via some official character posters featuring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, and original 'Mad Max' film star Hugh Keays-Byrne. And these guys look serious revved up and ready to go bonkers.
Slashfilm debuted the four new character posters which are a bit different from the initial teaser poster that went online this week. While that first poster was a bit more somber and dusty, these give us super intense and gnarly looks at our main quartet: Tom Hardy's Mad Max, Charlize Theron's Furiosa, Nicholas Hoult's Nux, and Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe. As writer/director George Miller informed us today during the panel, Keays-Byrne appeared in the original 'Mad Max' film as Toecutter.
These posters definitely go along with the footage we saw today, which was so wildly violent and insane that we had a hard time describing it: tornadoes, blood, sand, car chases and crashes. It's pure chaos.
'Mad Max: Fury Road' takes place in a stark desert wasteland where people are driven to senseless fighting just to get what they need to stay alive. Hardy's Mad Max is a man on a mission to find peace after the loss of his wife and daughter, while Theron's Furiosa is a rebellious woman who believes she will only be able to survive if she can make it across the waste and back to her childhood home.
The film hits theaters on May 15, 2015. Check out the new posters below:


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Jeff Driskell completed 18 of his 22 passes for 245 yards and two scores, tailback Devin Singletary had 108 yards and two more touchdowns, and the FAU Owls used a dominant first half to spoil Charlotte's Senior Day, 31-12. The Owls moved to 9-3 after the win, including a 8-0 mark in conference play, to clinch the division and will play for the Conference USA Championship next week against North Texas.
Hasaan Klugh finished 10-21 for 171 yards, one passing touchdown and a rushing touchdown to lead the 49ers, while TL Ford II had two receptions for 50 yards in his last collegiate game. The 49ers (1-11, 1-7 C-USA) managed only 119 yards on the ground, which had been their bread and butter coming into the contest. Safety Ben DeLuca was the bright spot on defense, as the true sophomore had 16 tackles and 2 forced fumbles. Jeff Gemmell had 13 tackles, and it was the sixth straight time he finished with at least 10.
"Offensively, we couldn't get drives moving. In the first half, defensively, we couldn't get off the field on third down," Charlotte coach Brad Lambert said. "We came out the second half and played a lot better on third and fourth down on defense. … We gave up too many big plays on defense… they had 563 yards. … Give FAU credit. They've got a good football team."
FAU got on the board first when Singletary punched in his first run at the 9:48 mark of the first quarter. The Owls extended the lead to 10-0 after a field goal with four minutes remaining, but the Charlotte special teams unit struggled. After a long drive, kicker Kyle Corbett missed a field goal from 45 yards out. He would also later miss an extra point attempt, and the Niners turned the ball over on downs after a fake punt-pass play fell incomplete.
In the second quarter, the Owls scored again, this time on a 20-yard pitch-and-catch pass play from Driskell to Kamrin Solomon. Charlotte finally got on the board when Klugh found running back Benny LeMay downfield for a 28-yard touchdown. LeMay, who finished with 45 yards rushing, had his second touchdown reception of the season. The Charlotte defense couldn't get off the field, however, and Driskell found Willie Wright downfield for a 41-yard touchdown reception with a minute remaining until halftime. Wright, who tallied 103 receiving yards, helped push the FAU lead to 24-6 at the half.
The Owls scored their final touchdown early in the third period, when Singletary punched in a score from a yard out at the 10 minute mark. The Charlotte defense took a stand, as DeLuca forced his second fumble, and the 49ers were able to turn it into points. DeLuca's fumble led to Klugh's touchdown scamper with two minutes left in the third quarter, but the two point conversion try failed. Klugh's score at the end of the third quarter marked the final margin, and the Niners fell 31-12.
"I told the seniors thank you. This is a group that came here, believed when no one else did when we started, and they put in a ton of work here. We really appreciate them and all that they've done," Lambert said. "It's not the record we wanted. We had some opportunities to win some other games. It's obviously not where we want to be. ….We have to move forward, get better and win games."
The Niners' calendar will flip to 2018, as the coaching staff will hit the road to start recruiting for next year's class and will look to replace the 12 seniors. Departing from the team include seniors Karrington King, Chris Montgomery, Trent Bostick, TL Ford II and Uriah Lemay. Despite the record, Charlotte hopes to come back stronger than ever in 2018 and will look to showcase their progress during the annual Spring Game in April.


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Richard Eyre's new production of Ibsen's classic at the Almeida Theatre is delivered with quickness of speech and thought
It's all Ghosts a-go-go down Islington way, with a Richard Eyre production of Ibsen's emotional shocker that clatters straight through in 90 minutes and finds unexpected humour all over the place before the worm-eaten Oswald starts gibbering in the rosy glow of dawn like a stricken mountaineer falling short of the summit.
The action is consecutive, though not continuous, from morning to small hours, and the marvel of the play is always how many crises and revelations it packs in without seeming forced or arbitrary. The difference here is the quickness of speech and thought.
Eyre's own text – using a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund – wastes no time in highlighting the maid Regina's impatience, and her acquisition of French phrases (for the anticipated escape to Paris with Oswald), and even makes her drop a tray of crockery; Charlene McKenna's notably vivid performance is the opposite of pert and simpering. Her destiny is being condensed into a theatrical time-scheme from the off.
As in Stephen Unwin's sedately lucid version for English Touring Theatre, Regina and her father Engstrand (robustly done by Brian McCardle, without a hint of "comic relief") are Scottish-accented; but the history of their abusive relationship is more darkly suggested.
I much admire Kelly Hunter's Mrs Alving for the ETT, but Lesley Manville, very different, offers a powerfully projected portrait of a young woman grown old before her time, while big Jack Lowden as her sickly bohemian son, just back from Paris, is prematurely ageing.
This redefines the dynamic of their relationship as a more bizarrely tragic mismatch, and that in turn becomes hysterically physical in the last scene. The ghosts and shadows in the play, and the undiluted corruption of Captain Alving, are contained in the "look" of the room, designed by Tim Hatley as a deliquescent mausoleum of mottled glass panels, with the orphanage fire and the rising sun flooding the interior panels as a painterly, spreading infusion.
It's an almost symphonic treatment of the play, with Peter Mumford's lighting and John Leonard's sound (there's a premonitory rumbling in the air all night) creating an atmosphere in which everything seems inevitable; the big scene where Mrs Alving signs the papers for Pastor Manders (Will Keen) is the crucial seal of disapproval.
Keen plays this scene like a nervous spider, a bundle of tics and caveats, malicious slights and hypocritical cross-fire, his voice a sort of disembodied, husky telling-off. No wonder Manville audibly sighs with resignation, worn down by a battering of moral diagnoses and self-righteously despatched poisoned darts.
This is a play where everyone's a loser and nobody wins, although Engstrand still has faint hopes for his sailors' refuge and Regina at least has something still strong about her. It's Manville's Mrs Alving we're left pitying the most, a frail, broken bird, separated from her son since he was seven when she saved him, she thought, from his own father by sending him away; the life-line was a death sentence.


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1. Cat
It was plain that the cat knew the rules of her name perfectly well, and enjoyed it keenly. It was equally plain that the fly could not make head or tail of what it was all about. If it had been able to do so it would have gone to play in the upper part of the window, where the cat could not reach it. Perhaps it was always hoping to get through the glass, and escape that way; anyhow, it kept pretty much to the same pane, no matter how often it was rolled. At last, however, the fly, for some reason or another, did not reappear on the pane, and the cat began looking everywhere to find it. Her annoyance when she failed to do so was extreme. It was not only that she had lost her fly, but that she could not conceive how she should ever have come to do so. Presently she noted a small knot in the woodwork of the sill, and it flashed upon her that she had accidentally killed the fly, and that this was its dead body. She tried to move it gently with her paw, but it was no use, and for the time she satisfied herself that the knot and the fly had nothing to do with one another. Every now and then, however, she returned to it as if it were the only thing she could think of, and she would try again. She seemed to say she was certain there had been no knot there before---she must have seen it if there had been; and yet, the fly could hardly have got jammed so firmly into the wood. She was puzzled and irritated beyond measure, and kept looking in the same place again and again, just as we do when we have mislaid something. She was rapidly losing temper and dignity when suddenly we saw the fly reappear from under the cat's stomach and make for the windowpane, at the very moment when the cat herself was exclaiming for the fiftieth time that she wondered where that stupid fly ever could have got do. No man who has been hunting twenty minutes for his spectacles could be more delighted when he suddenly finds them on his own forehead. "So that's where you were," we seemed to hear her say,as she proceeded to catch it, and again began rolling it very softly without hurting it, under her paw.
---Samuel Butler,"Thought and Language", Collected Essays, Vol. II
2. There Is Love When We Give
There were two fish in the desert and the water which they lived on was absorbed slowly but relentlessly. But just at this moment, one of them went so far as to spit to moisten his fellow fish. In this way he sped his own death to increase the other's life. There was love when the two fish shared happiness and pain.
One doctor who taught in the university went to a small village in Taiwan. He saved a poor villager's life, but he asked for no money. That villager went back home and cut a heap of wood. Then he walked day and night to town and put the wood in front of the doctor's door. He did not know a heap of wood is no use in modern life, and it looked as if his toil had gone to waste. However, every time the doctor told the story to someone else, he always said: "This is the most precious present I have received in my life." There is love when our values are put above money.
Love is always beautiful at first. A boy and a girl fell in love at first sight. They loved each other deeply, but one day, the girl told the boy light that she had fallen in love with another young man, and she would marry him and go to another country. Before leaving, she said coldly: "Marriage is very important for a girl, and I would not marry to a skins man!" From then on, the boy and the girl did not get in touch with each other. After a few years, the boy had become a successful man. He had money, home and company, but he could not forget the girl although she was so hardhearted. One say when he was driving in the street, he came across the girl's mother. He followed her and just wanted to prove he was not down and out any longer. But a last, he was surprised to find that she was going to a cemetery. She stood in front of a gravestone. The girl was smiling to him on the photograph. Her mother told the boy she gad cancer, so she had told a lie to him in order to let him forget her. Tears dropped from his face. There was love when the girl told a beautiful lie at the eleventh hour in her life.
Love is giving, not receiving. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of one's aliveness. When we live, we love; when we love, we give.
3. Love Makes the World Go AroundNot long after I entered Peking University, I saw many societies publicizing themselves, ready to take in new blood in the well-known place called Triangle Area. I was attracted by them and went for a closer look.
Love Society? I knew it was one of the two most famous student societies in Peking University. So I decided to join.
I am always deeply moved by the stories of disabled people which are not from novels but from the real life. These heroes lived around us; yet, I had not paid much attention to them until one day I caught sight of a one-legged girl holding a stick while walking to the library. You can imagine how many difficulties she had to face, but she finally had come to Beida and fulfilled her dream. She is heroine in our real life.
So I joined the handicapped-helping department in Love Society, wishing to do some useful work for disabled people and learn from them.
After s short period ,words came that some students in Beijing School for the Blind would visit our college, and I was chosen to be their guild. I was so glad to have the chance to communicate with blind children that I prepared well for the day coming.
On one sunny afternoon, the children came with big smiles. You could not even tell whether they were blind or not because everyone was so lively and happy as healthy boys and girls. I made myself known to a blind girl named San, and she told me that she was learning piano and kneading then. The Yanyuan Campus was so beautiful but she couldn't see. I took her hand and led her to feel the old trees, the big bell in the gloriette, the statue of our former school master, Mr. Cai Yuanpei, and all the things she could reach. I told the stories about every famous place in the history of Beida. We seemed to have forgotten the passing of time.
From then on, I began to understand those disabled people —— they won't let self-contempt occupy their hearts, they are holding an active attitude towards life, and they are hoping to have a better future just as we do. And I want to make friends with more disabled people, because I know love, only love can make the world go around.
4. Yesterday Once More
It is now the sweetest season, if not right, the best time of the year.
It is May, the end of spring and the beginning of summer. The sky is cloudless; the sun shines bright and warm; the songs of birds, and myriads of catkin, fill the air.
Right now I am by the lake, missing you. The sparkles the shining sun throws on the surface of the water draws my attention and lead me into the days we shared together.
Do you still remember? We met with each other in the same season—— the end of spring and the beginning of the summer. I never thought there would be a girl who understood me even more than myself, until I met you.
We were by the lake that day when the naughty wind brought my hat away. "A lovely hat." You picked it up and gave it to me, smiling. What a light smile, and how beautiful it was! I knew, from that moment, we could have our story.
Then came summer. Trees and grass presented their ever-changing shades of deep rich green. We would stroll by the lake, hand in hand, talking and laughing. Our voice quavered with excitement. Flowers in my heart bloomed little by little when your benign and deep eyes, and your smart and shining smile surrounded me.
And then came the autumn and winter wherein we shared our sorrow and joy together. And then the next year, and the year that followed … Golden time, wasn't it?
… But now you are not by my side, maybe you'll never be back again. You are too far from me, too far to reach, except in my repeated dreams.
Every other moment I ever enjoyed has vanished into the air, but the moment we shared together is enduring. It is just like the little drop of water on the petal we ever found in the morning. Tiny as it is, it magnifies the stripe of the petal; fragile as it is, it shines with the sunshines; brittle as it is, it reflects the whole of the blue sky.
The Internet has fundamentally changed pour lives. Among the various things we can do on the Interne, OICQ, which satisfies the man's innate desire for communication, is the most popular.
Thanks to the rapid development of modern technology, we could easily get touch with our old friends in virtually every corner of the earth's surface through OICQ, far more convenient and less expensive than the traditional ways of communication. We optimistically believe this ongoing technique will become more accurate and more perfect.
Furthermore, talking with strangers is a very exciting and curious experience. If you are lucky, you can confront some interesting people. As you are not able to see the other person, thought appears to be the only attracting factor in the chat. It seems easier and more direct for people to exchange ideas. As we all know, none of us could experience all kinds of life within the confines of time and space. Hence we may learn divergent ways of, living and different attitudes towards life through chatting with others who come from different backgrounds and have their own particular experiences. OICQ offers a good approach to enhance knowledge.
Everything has two sides. Although OICQ helps us escape the complexity, burdens and tensions of reality temporarily, everyone must inoculate himself against the negative effect on OICQ. Some people are so engulfed in this illusory world that they ignored their daily study or work. Somebody has posited that what one says might not be consistent with what one veritably is. A joke puts it this way. The person you are talking to might be a clever dog that can type. The Internet has undermined the individual's bonding to practical life.
In brief, we should keep equilibrium between illusory environment and real life. One ineculatable conclusion is that OICQ's advantages far outweigh the disadvantage.
6. What Has the Internet Brought?
Today in the information era, the Internet has brought us human beings efficiency, as well as convenience. In almost every field, we use the Internet to communicate and share information with others. No matter where we are, we can easily keep ourselves well informed of the world's latest advances and news. It is the Internet that has provided us with a quick and simple way to keep up with the world's developments.
Through electronic communication, the Internet has increased our efficiency by saving us a great deal of time and money. With the emergence of the Internet, our daily communication has taken on a new look. We no longer have to go to the post office to send our letters, but can just sit in front of the screen to send the e-mail. All these can be finished in several minutes, and the receiver can get them in few seconds. How efficient it is! Another case in point is that working at home has become more and more popular, which has helped the companies increase their efficiency. The boss can even have a net meeting on the Internet so as to save time for his employees to gather in the meeting room. The Internet is increasing our life pace just like an accelerator.
Apart from efficiency, the Internet has simultaneously provided convenience to us by means of shared information. From international news to mp3 music, anything we can think of can be shared on the net. All we need to do is click the mouse and download the information. Also, we can do banking and shopping on the net, which can save us the trouble of going to the bank or the shop. Moreover, on-line library has made it easier for us to get information from all sorts of libraries, including the biggest and most famous ones. The Internet has turned our dream of learning from the world into a reality. We can't help thinking how convenient it is. Thanks to the Internet, our daily life is becoming more and more convenient.
Given the fact that every coin has two sides, the Internet is not an exception. It has brought something filthy, too. One of the most famous criminals on the net may be the hacker. However, on the whole, the Internet is of great help and importance to mankind. We are living in a world full of changes. Only with the help of the Internet can we keep up with the changes. We have every reason to be grateful to the Internet, which has brought us a new style of life full of efficiency and convenience.
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|A lousy photo of a decent painting of the schooner Mercantile.
|Alison painting on a small canvas.
But that required waiting for the tide to rise. In the morning, I painted the schooner Mercantile at anchor. I loved Old Glory's reflection in the water, and I walked around the harbor trying to find the best angle. I settled on painting from a floating dock. This is the easiest place from which to paint but it is hard on the legs. The docks rock constantly. So after five hours or so, I retreated back up to dry land.
|Camden harbor with correction.
There I was happily surprised by my friend Alison Hill, a painter from Monhegan. She set up near me with an enormous jute canvas. In less than an hour she'd limned out a lovely painting of the harbor, and we'd had a great chat.
|A little tailgate critique. Nice, nice group of artists.
Tomorrow, I have choices—a farmer's market or the Mighty Megunticook?
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Pattern of the Month September 2013: Baby Argyle
It's time again for a new Pattern of the Month! This month we selected the
Baby Argyle
Angela Yosten
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This past week I had to restock some items for my tutor bag, and that got me wondering what other tutors have to have in their bags with them at all times. I asked my Facebook fans and received many different responses.
You can read the responses by clicking on this tutor bag from (the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com)
So what about you? What do you have to have with you when you're teaching/tutoring? Do you have a favorite type of bag? Sound off in the comments below.
Here's a quick peek at a project I'm working on right now... I REALLY hope it turns out the way I planned!!


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You may have heard the latest buzzword 'minimalist' floating around, people claiming to be one or to live in a minimalist abode and how it has changed their life and made modern living just that much easier. People have written books on it, given ted talks and seminars, but what is minimalist living really, and will becoming a minimalist really make your life simpler?
What does it all mean?
A minimalist is the word used to describe a certain style that pares down elements of design. The term minimalism originated in the art world, referring to painters and musicians that were stripping things down, only doing what they saw as the bare essentials and letting that speak out of their art. Over the years it has become a word used for anything that strips things back, minimalist clothing or design, usually referring to simplicity not lack of fabric!
In the context it is now used in, people are refereeing to themselves as being minimalists and living minimalist lives. When they say this they are talking about striping their lives back to the bare essentials. Minimalists talks about giving up a lot of material possessions, focus less on having 'stuff' and more on having space and the freedom that comes from that space.
So do you think the minimalist life could be for you? Lets delve in deeper and take a look at the first simple steps you can take towards having a more minimalist home without having to give everything away and more in to a caravan!
Cutting It Down
The first thing that springs to mind as we talk about minimalist living is obviously owning or having less. Do you often walk in to your garage and stub your toe on a box that you have no idea what is inside it? Are you laundry cupboards full to bursting with who knows what and do you have that one room with all of you craft supplies that haven't seen sunlight for years? Having a lot of stuff can often lead to stress, always trying to look for places to put things, feeling guilty about buying new things because you have so much already.
Maybe once a year you manage to do a big spring clean and get rid of some of the clutter, but most of the time it's just organizing things back into boxes that won't be opened until the next spring clean. Living with less is one thing that the minimalist movement is founded on. Here are a few tips to get you started on the path to less.
A very personal way to start is with clothing; you can do this for yourself without stepping on any ones toes. Fast fashion is something many of us fall victim to, and we will buy and buy to keep up with the latest trends, often cheaper clothing too so we don't feel too bad for spending. These clothes often get used a few times and then go back in the closet where they stay and take up space, but still you look at your hanger and complain there is nothing to wear! Well it's time to get real and brutal. A great place to start is by taking all of your clothes out and sorting them first into piles.
– Love (your favourites)
– Useful (Things like winter jackets, or exercise clothes)
– Staples (the items you find yourself wearing most days, jeans or work clothes)
– Like (those items you are not in love with but you still like)
Now if there is anything that doesn't fit into those categories they go on the chuck out pile immediately. Maybe a pair of old sweats with holes in the knees that are your comfort pants, or an old t-shirt with a silly slogan on it!
Now take a closer look at each category. Start with your staples, do you wear jeans a lot but have 10 pairs? Well which do you use the least, or don't fit quite right? On the chuck out pile they go. You can go through each group of clothing quite methodically and ask your self these questions.
– Does it fit well?
– Have I worn it in the last year?
– Do I like the colour/pattern?
– Do I feel good when wearing it?
For this to work you will have to be quite honest with yourself. It helps to envisage the nice clear space that you will have in your wardrobe when you have whittled away at your clothing stack.
Once you have cut away about everything you feel you can then reassess. If it looks like there is still a lot, and you feel the need to cut down further but don't have the heart to throw anything else out, then I suggest this brilliant trick. Put everything on hangers facing the one way, everything you wear an item of clothing from your wardrobe put the hanger facing the other way. Over the next few months it will become apparent the thing you wear regularly and the things that are just taking up space and you can make further cuts accordingly. There are many methods like the ten item wardrobe method that people do use when redesigning their wardrobes, which are great things to look into if you need that extra push.
Ornaments/Decoration/Knick Knack's
Now we've all been a bit guilty of keeping little knick-knacks that we are fond of, ornaments and decorations around the house. A lot of the times these things collect dust and look out of place and random around the house. It's time to take a harder look at what is really there to beautify the home, has large sentimental value or what is just there because your aunt gave it to you for Christmas last year and you have put it on the mantle piece and forgotten about it. This is a great time to do a revamp of your home, decide on a particular design theme, if you haven't already, and start to tidy things up. Look around of your desktops, benches and bookshelves. You can use a similar method to that of clearing our your clothes. Either take everything down and put it in the one place of go through your house room by room and look at each item to see if you really love it, if it hold great sentimental value or is in keeping with your design theme, or if it is in fact, just collecting dust. Clearing space will allow for less cleaning and having DE-cluttered benches has quite a soothing affect. This isn't to say you must get rid of everything and have blank walls. But just pair down what you do have until it is back to the essentials of design.
You obviously need furniture in a house, people need somewhere to sleep, a table to eat at and comfy chairs but do you have random furniture around the house that seems to be taking up space and hardly gets used? Some people have a habit at finding bargains or verge side collection finds and bringing them home and trying to make space for that cane arch that just seemed to be too good not to have even though there is no real space for it in their home! Take a look at what you use and what you need and also the quality of those products. If you are buying a cheap lounge set chances are it's going to break down quicker and have you looking for other replacements. So take a good hard look at what is around you and what is essential.
The kitchen cupboard can become their own black holes. There are always so many different gadgets out their to supposedly make your life simpler, but that pasta maker gets used twice and the zucchini curler and yoghurt maker never even got a look in! Go through all of your draws that only keep the essentials that you use on a weekly basis. If you have only used something once or twice the chances are you will not use it again and all it is doing is taking up space and giving you a headache each time you are searching for something you do really need.
You may have old pans that have lost their stick but they stay in the cupboard just because you haven't got time to throw them out. The kitchen is always full of strange one of devices, and there never seems to be enough shelf space, so take a further look and see what you can rid yourself of to free up more space.
Kids Toys
If you have kids, chances are you have a lot of toys and games that are floating around the house and seem to never be in their toy box but instead all over the floor. You can probably relate to that feeling of dread when you see your children pull out another game before packing up the last and knowing how much of it is going to end up under the furniture for you to try and sweep up. Kids don't actually need every new toy or game and are often quite content with cardboard boxes and some simple Lego. Go through your kids toys and games and see what games are missing pieces and give them the flick. There may be games that they have hardly ever used too, so these can go on the give away pile. A great idea for toys is to keep them in rotation.
Put some of the toys and game sin a separate box to your main toy shelf or box and every month or so you can switch it up and bring out some other games putting the ones they have just had, away. So even though you are not buying anything new it feels new to the kids because they haven't seen it in a month. This way you don't have to deal with them pulling out every activity you have at once and making a huge mess. Let them be creative and make the most of what they do have instead of over stimulating them with every game under the sun.
Toys and Devices for Big Kids
Now that you've sorted the kid's toy situation out, it's only fair you do it for yourself also. Do you find yourself wanting the latest fads and electronic devices? First sort through your old things, do you have a model plane on a shelf in the garage that has a wing broken that you've been 'meaning to fix' for three years now? Get rid of it! Do you really need a tablet as well at your laptop and smartphone? Just like with your kitchen goods and furniture take a look at what you really need, but you use on a regular basis and what you think stimulates your body and mind in a healthy way. We can get so caught up in advertising for the latest fads, or maybe there is that special on gym equipment, but you actually find it really hard to be motivated enough to work out at home, how about save that money, get a gym membership if you really do want to stay fit that way, and then save your space and have more freedom to be flexible. Often our argument of 'it will be cheaper in the long run' doesn't quite work out because we may lose interest quickly in our jet ski or be working so hard to pay it off we don't have time to use it anyway. Renting things like boats and jet skis, even cars if you live in the inner city, can be a better way to go. Free up your bank balance by only paying for something when you really need it.
Is It For You?
So is it for you do you think? Would you like to be freer from stuff? Try out these first steps and see how if feels, you may find it becomes easier and easier as time goes on to live with less and you'll have more time and money for the things that are really important. When you do go through your house, consider donating clothing or appliances to goodwill, to give people with less of the basics a bit of a helping hand. Living in a minimalist way does not have to be a strict lifestyle where you own nothing and never work to give you more 'time'. It is much more about cutting out of your life the things you don't really need that take up your time money and attention that could better be spent elsewhere. Take a look at your life, try out some of these steps and see how it feels for you and who knows where it will take you.


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Effective Social Networking Conversations: What Do They Sound Like?
The conversations I keep having with presidents of organizations around social networking go something like this:
"Hi Melissa. We've called you in because we are finding that we just are not getting the same results from our marketing initiatives that we used to get."
I respond, "Yes. I am hearing that from a lot of company heads. What do you think is happening?"
"Well, I think that people just aren't reading the magazines, newspapers or other publications like they used to; I think, instead they are searching online. for services like ours"
I respond, "It could be. But what other evidence do you have that they have shifted their attention to online search?"
"Because there isn't a week that goes by that I am sent some kind of email from someone I have met somewhere that mentions things about me like 'I know you are an avid golfer.' or 'In that talk you gave at The Executive Club you shared some great insights on new product devleopment.' or 'Congratulations on that 10K race you ran.' They are getting this information from online sites. There is no question. People are searching online for me and our organization."
So now that these companies are "awake in the network" what can we do to make social networking more successful? Simply, focus on mutually beneficial opportunities versus the "what's in it for you" mindset. What would this look like? Taking the time to really get to know what unique problems your prospects and clients are experiencing. From the conversation above, I know that my prospects and clients want to know what to do to keep up or even ahead of the curve around social networking. My goal is to not just push my services but to provide solutions that address their current needs. One quick example would be the upcoming presentation I am making to heads of pubic relations for about 45 top colleges. I spent the last weekend analyzing each school's website to see who was on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. I then went through each participant's LinkedIn profile to see how developed each was or was not. I did searches on Google on each school to see what they were doing outside of their main site. I was looking for a good snapshot of the quantity and quality of their social media activites.
Now I have a much better understanding of the gaps they have created and are in need of being filled with suggestions I can offer and by doing so, ad great value. The process is the same for you and your industry. What else can you offer here? What gaps are you seeing in your industry? What solutions do you have to offer that others would benefit from receiving?