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The Nationals say they're sick and tired of taking it. So, this year, they're going to dish it out: to other teams that try to tread on them, but also within their own club, weeding out rock heads, malingerers and dead wood.
In baseball, this blend of external toughness and internal accountability usually coincides with victory. Few teams have strayed further from this ideal than the Nats of the last five years. But, so far, they're walkin' the walk.
"In the past, if you wanted to say something to another player you were in the minority around here. Now the scale has tipped. It's the opposite," said third baseman Ryan Zimmerman. "If you're not one of those guys, it's time for you to get out."
The first half of this attempt at culture transformation was easy to see this week as the Nats, habitually nonviolent, engaged the notoriously pugnacious Cardinals in a 15-minute bench-clearing etiquette discussion.
The second half, the self-criticism that leads to true professionalism, is harder to detect, but it is underway here in every part of the locker room.
But first, the fun: On Monday, Njyer Morgan accidentally kicked Albert Pujols. Chris Carpenter drilled Laynce Nix. Livo Hernandez deliberately hit Colby Rasmus. So, ex-Nat Miguel Batista plunked Ian Desmond in the back. The old Nats might've turned the other cheek. The current Nats, not so much.
On his way to first base, Desmond stared down the Cards dugout, cussing Manager Tony La Russa. Both dugouts emptied, Nats first — in a novel twist. During the punch-free waltz, Nats Manager Jim Riggleman pointed his finger and hollered in the face of his friend La Russa, the skipper who may be the game's top chip-on-the-shoulder intimidator for the last 30 years.
"That's baseball," said General Manager Mike Rizzo of the mini-fuss. Then, speaking generally, he added: "We're not going to be pushed around. These new guys we brought in, they are not going to let teams ride roughshod over us."
The Nats know that, if they want to build a tradition a fraction as good as the Cards', they'll have to erase a thousand forms of baseball malfeasance, all of which come under the heading of bad fundamentals and lack of focus.
"We have a much more veteran team, more professional," said Zimmerman, ticking off the names of Jayson Werth ("he's not afraid to say something"), Rick Ankiel, Alex Cora, Nix and Matt Stairs, as well as two sons of big leaguers, Jerry Hairston and Adam LaRoche. "It's like we have a whole bunch more coaches."
Throughout baseball, it's assumed that '11 will be a semi-lost season for the Nats while Stephen Strasburg heals, before Bryce Harper arrives and before the Lerners can spend the $100 million for a free agent pitcher that they were ready to offer Zack Greinke. To the Nats, however, it's exactly the opposite. This is the year they need to find out who they are. Or can be.
"This is a prep year for when we take off next season when we are a professional team," Zimmerman said. That sounds harsh, but it isn't meant that way. Ryan's just endured five years watching the Nats audition reclamation projects or troubled souls or develop a dozen youngsters simultaneously. The result: a guaranteed mess.
"This is not a good level to learn the game at — with 30,000 people watching every mistake," said Zimmerman. "We haven't had a team where you could 'let us be us.' Now, with all the veterans, we should be able to police the clubhouse ourselves. Jim can just be the manager."
For the past season and a half, Riggleman has had to be much more — be a good cop in public, so he doesn't damage fragile egos, but a bad cop in private because there was seldom anyone else to do the chew-out tasks.
"I've gotten on some guys very hard," said Riggleman of his tenure. "It gets old when the teacher or parent is always the one doing the talking. It falls on deaf ears at some point. You need to hear it from your peers, too.
"But for the culture to change, you have to be willing to be policed. It can't be an argument and people swinging on each other. You have to say, 'Today, I'm the one being policed.'"
LaRoche has heard about the Nats' reputation. "The manager shouldn't have to come in and baby-sit," he said. "That should be handled by your teammates. It's happened a couple of times just recently. Sometimes other players have to lay it on you. There'll be some hurt feelings for a couple of hours but we're all grown men. We should be able to deal with it.
" 'Professional' is a really good word," added LaRoche. "You meet great guys who weren't brought up the right way [in baseball]. A lot of selfishness comes out of that. But they just don't know [any better]."
They will soon. In theory, there are now a dozen Nats, including old pros Pudge Rodriguez, Jason Marquis and Hernandez, who should be quick to tell 'em the correct way to play the ultimate game of detail. In baseball, pregame preparation and in-game concentration over six grueling months can separate teams of equivalent talent by a dozen games.
Zimmerman and ex-Padre Hairston talked about the Nats' games with low-budget, 89-win San Diego last year. "They were head over heels mentally tougher than we were last year," Zimmerman said.
The Nats, however, can't just talk glowingly about how they've assembled players who should enforce a clean brand of baseball — a new Washington experience. They actually have to produce it.
This week, with Cards on first and second, the Nats put on the wheel play against the sacrifice bunt, with their shortstop racing to cover third base. Ball one. Next pitch, same situation, the Nats reversed strategy and the shortstop dashed behind the runner, who was picked off second base. All teams practice such plays in March. It's fresh in mind. They get it right.
Will the Nats still get it right in a 5-2 game on July 27 that nobody on earth really cares about? Or will they throw the ball into center field because one player's mind wandered?
And when they hash up that play, because sometimes everybody does, will those clubhouse police let it pass with a shrug? Or will the miscreant get an earful, not for the sake of '11, but for all those future teams that may someday play games on July 27, or even Oct. 27, that mean the world?
A franchise's identity is forged in thousands of details over a span of years until winning is in its DNA. The Nats have a long climb up baseball's evolutionary ladder. It has to start somewhere. The Nats say this is that team.
Good. But if they don't mind, we'll all watch, too — from the stands, on TV, in the press box. Sometimes you need cops to watch the police.


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What is chlamydia?
Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection caused by a bacteria called chlamydia trachomatis. Each year 2 to 3 million people contract it. The infection is acquired mainly through sexual intercourse. In addition to transmission through vaginal intercourse, it is possible to contract chlamydia through anal intercourse. Chlamydia is only rarely found in the throat after oral-genital contact with an infected partner.
What are the symptoms of chlamydia and when do they appear?
Most chlamydia infections in women cause no symptoms. Men may have mild symptoms. When symptoms are present, they usually appear within 1-3 weeks of exposure. Men might have pain or burning during urination, discharge from the penis, or swelling or pain in the testicles. Women might have abnormal vaginal discharge, burning with urination, lower abdominal pain, painful intercourse, or bleeding between menstrual periods or after intercourse. Both men and women can have rectal irritation or discharge especially if they have had anal sex.
How is chlamydia diagnosed?
Testing includes a swab test of vaginal secretions from a female or urine from a male or a female. A Pap test (test for cervical cancer) does NOT screen for chlamydia.
Because the majority of people with chlamydia have no symptoms or very mild symptoms, it is important to be screened for chlamydia if you are sexually active or if you have a new sexual partner. The CDC recommends all sexually active women under the age of 25 be screened yearly. Women age 25 and older with risk factors (a new sexual partner or more than one sexual partner) should also be screened annually. Men who have sex with men (MSM) and have receptive anal sex should also be screened yearly. MSM who have multiple and/or anonymous partners should be tested more frequently.
What are the problems if chlamydia is not treated?
If left untreated, chlamydia infections have the potential to cause serious damage. The complications for women include pelvic inflammatory disease (PID, an infection of the uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries), chronic pelvic pain, ectopic (outside the uterus) pregnancy and infertility. The bacteria can be passed to newborn infants of infected mothers causing pneumonia and/or eye infection. In men, chlamydia can damage the epididymis (adjacent to the testicles) and may lead to infertility and chronic testicular pain. Infected individuals are at increased risk of acquiring HIV if exposed to that virus.
How is chlamydia treated?
Chlamydia is easily cured with antibiotics. A single dose of azithromycin or a week of doxycycline is usually prescribed. Persons with chlamydia should not have sex for 7 days after treatment to avoid spreading the infection to sexual partners.
It is important that all sexual partners be tested and treated as well.
It is recommended to be retested in 3-4 months after treatment to ensure that re-infection has not occurred.
How can chlamydia be prevented?
If you are sexually active, the safest strategy is to stay in a long term, mutually monogamous relationship.
Condoms, used correctly and consistently, can greatly reduce the risk of chlamydia transmission.
Confidential testing and treatment are available at the IU Health Center. Call 855-7688 for an appointment with a medical provider.
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A dining room is one of the most important spaces in your home for more reasons than one. Hence, it is essential that you buy the right kind of furniture for the same. Choosing dining furniture is something that you should carefully plan. The most important thing to do is determine your sense of style and consider only those that match it. It's no use buying something just because it's the trend or fad. What matters is that you're actually happy with what you end up with. For you who are looking for a set of dining room chair with vintage look, here we have selected a number of vintage dining room chairs for your consideration.
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You Ask, I Answer: Flavored Powdered Drinks
Are drink sweeteners (things like Lipton iced tea powder, Crystal Light, and other powders you add to water) with ingredients like maltose and dextrose bad for you?
I don't drink them every single day, but I will a couple times a week to help when I get a craving for something sweet, but it makes me wonder if I'm just putting chemicals in my body.
— Jessie Arent
Peterborough, NH
Maltose and dextrose are not artificial sweeteners.
Dextrose, for example, is a corn-based sweetener. From a nutrition standpoint, these two are equal to sugar (4 grams of sugar and 16 calories per teaspoon).
In the case of Crystal Light, the ingredient list reveals the following:
Citric acid (provides tartness), maltodextrin, calcium phosphate, aspartame, modified cornstarch, Red 40, natural flavor, artificial flavor, potassium citrate, acesulfame potassium, salt, artificial color, Blue 1, BHA (to protect flavor).
Maltodextrin is another starch based sweetener. You usually see it in conjunction with artificial sweeteners (in this case aspartame and acesulfame potassium) for flavor optimization. Without maltodextrin, these powders would taste significantly sweeter, believe it or not.
Each serving of Crystal Light only contains five calories (all from the maltodextrin), so you are looking at a mere quarter teaspoon of added sugar.
These powders are certainly test-tube creations. That said, I don't see anything alarming with having them a few times a week.
Remember — nutrition is about consistent dietary patterns. If, for example, these Crystal Light drinks make you crave large amounts of Doritos, that is more troublesome than if these drinks are an occasional addition to a diet is generally high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes.
I'm just generally not a fan of artificial sweeteners because they don't help us train our palates to get used to lower amounts of sweetness in our diet.


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text: This week on We Dig Plants Alice and Carmen tackle the drama of the tulip bulb. Take a look back as far as Greek mythology for a glance at the role tulips have played in the human experience (including reputed healing powers). Find out why you have to plan ahead to plant them, and learn why they can be such a cash crop in Holland and yet so simultaneously unreliable. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a mainstay in the NYC culinary market for over 55 years.


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"ABI's web and digital media services communicate business value"
From podcasts and videos to social and interactive media, ABI's web and digital media services communicate business value, educate decision makers about new technologies, and then convince them to partner with our clients over the competition.
Search engines drive more than half of all online purchases globally, and play an enormous role in B2B transactions. ABI's SEO services combine effective, dynamic, updated website content with link-building efforts, to increase your website's relevance to specific keywords, improving its ranking on key search engines.
Although Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn will continue to be among the most relevant social media outlets for B2B companies, niche industry sites and forums are becoming increasingly influential. ABI helps companies leverage these platforms to communicate with customers and prospects in more authentic and transparent ways, positioning your company and its people as experts in the markets you serve.
For B2B companies, video can be a powerful tool to demonstrate the benefits of a corporate approach, innovative technology or new service offering. ABI develops corporate videos, testimonial vignettes, and exclusive content for the media to engage, educate and entice customers and prospects in new ways.
As a company's primary marketing vehicle, its website should articulate unique value through compelling content and design, and enable intuitive access to this information through an intelligent information architecture. ABI's website development services start by understanding key audiences of focus, before building an environment that provides the content they need, when they need it.


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RivaTuner 2.0 RC 15 HotFix
Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/03/2004 12:32 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
This is a HotFix to be used with RivaTuner 2.0 RC 15 ! The patch addresses two problems detected in RivaTuner v2.0 RC15.
This is the "Promised" hotfix (60KB patch) for RivaTuner v2.0 RC15. The patch addresses two problems detected in RivaTuner v2.0 RC15:
- Fixed bug in driver-level overclocking module, which blocked an ability to enable driver-level overclocking on ForceWare 53.xx and older drivers.
- Fixed bug in diagnostic report module, which caused RivaTuner to decode some R3x0 memory timings incorrectly under certain conditions. Take a note, that unlike it is expected by community, this fix will not synchronize RivaTuner's timings readings with RaBiT's ones. The problem that has been fixed mostly affected TR2W, TWR and TW2R timings detection, but the rest timings are different due to problems in RaBiT timing detection scheme. RaBiTs RAS to CAS read delay and Row precharge time are 2 clocks lower than they should be, Row active time is shifted by 1 bit and really affects both TRAS and TRRD. So to synchronize detected timings in both tools wait for fixed version of RaBiT. Detailed timings datasheet has peen passed to RaBiT creators, so new version of this tool will provide correct timing detection and allow you to edit full range of timings detected by RivaTuner.
Please take a note, that is you don't use ForceWare 53.xx or older drivers and don't need R3x0 timings detection feature, you may safely ignore this hotfix."
To install the hotfix simply extract the patch to RivaTuner's folder, close RivaTuner and run RivaTuner20RC15Hotfix.exe
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For many people, the most compelling aspect of working at Harvard is the sense of mission and community that permeates every school, department, program, and organization on campus. It's a vibrant crucible of intellectual activity, research, knowledge creation, learning, and teaching. Here, results matter and creativity flourishes. We're united by a culture that strives for excellence, but also supports us in our work.
As America's oldest and most venerable institution of higher learning, Harvard's mission is to advance new ideas and promote enduring knowledge. Since our founding in 1636, Harvard has grown to include 11 degree-awarding schools along with our allied institutions, including the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Our faculties are unified by common goals of education and research, but each develops leaders and positively impacts the world in its own way.
Faculty of Arts & Sciences creates new knowledge of the arts and sciences for our changing world.
Harvard Business School educates leaders who make a difference in the world.
Harvard School of Dental Medicine advances oral and systemic health, while developing and fostering a community of global health leaders.
The Graduate School of Design shapes innovators in design.
Harvard Divinity School educates women and men for service as leaders in religious life and thought.
Harvard Graduate School of Education prepares leaders in education and generates knowledge to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success.
- Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences harnesses the power of engineering and applied sciences to address the greatest challenges facing our society.
Harvard Kennedy School prepares leaders to serve democratic societies and contribute to solutions for public problems.
Harvard Law School produces superb legal education and scholarship for the benefit of the world.
Harvard Medical School creates and nurtures a community of talented people committed to alleviating the human suffering caused by disease.
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health advances the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication.
"If Harvard is first of all defined not by buildings or endowments or traditions but by people, we have an overriding interest in attracting to our community the most talented people we can find – as students, as faculty, as staff."
Drew Gilpin Faust
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Forbidden (403) CSRF verification failed. Request aborted. More information is available with DEBUG=True.
Got the following msg when trying to do the 'webify me' thing:
Forbidden (403)
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
More information is available with DEBUG=True.
I use Windows Vista Home, everything was fine, Firefox did an update, now I'm getting errors?
Please explain how I can fix this.
Thank You
Firefox updated on 21 Aug. 2011
- Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.4.5"
- Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 184.108.40.2062
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_26 for Mozilla browsers
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
- BlackBerry WebSL Browser Plug-In
- 用户代理(User Agent): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
-> Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter
- When you see a Warning, click I'll be careful, I promise button
- In the Filter bar, type network.http.sendRefererHeader
- If the preference network.http.sendRefererHeader appears in BOLD text, right-click it and choose Reset
Check and tell if its working.
I got to the preference screen, but my reset option was 'grayed' out?
Options I got with right-click was:
- Modify (in bold) - Copy - Copy Name - Copy Value - New - Reset - 'grayed out' unable to select
Clear Cookies & Cache
Clear the Network Cache
Troubleshooting extensions and themes
Check and tell if its working.
I got this same thing. The next response is just way to confusing and technical for me. Is there an easy fix, or will Mozilla fix this?
Sorry, I got the same problem as AnjieJ
CSRF involves cookies (at least on this forum) to verify that the form that you send was supplied by the server.
Make sure that you allow cookies from the involved sites.
Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
- Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
- Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Thank you for the response. I followed your instructions and removed all cookies and I still get the Forbidden (403) CSRF message.
Start Firefox in Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
- Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
You can try to check with the the Live HTTP Headers extension to see if that cookie is send.
Again thank you but no go. I will just use a different browser when I want to use Pinterest.


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This week the Senate Finance Committee will be holding hearings on multiple tax cut proposals. Both the House and Senate have proposed roughly $4.6 billion in tax cuts, most of which would benefit high income earners and business owners. The state of Texas has an estimated $18 billion budget surplus plus another $11 billion in the "Rainy Day Fund", adding up to nearly $30 billion in available funding for the biennium.
While many lawmakers see excess funds as an opportunity to give tax cuts, there have not been any commitments to fund items that are a high priority for state services and employees. Such items include funding state agencies at a level that keeps pace with a growing population, reining in skyrocketing tuition and increasing funding for universities, providing an across-the-board pay increase for all state employees, and allocating the $377 million needed to sustain the ERS pension fund.
Legislators from both political parties have raised concerns about using the surplus revenue for tax cuts while many state programs and services remained underfunded. Republican State Senator Kevin Eltife (SD 1, Tyler) stated, "We need to deal with the real problems of this state first and then deal with tax cuts…I cannot support tax cuts until I know there's a plan in place to meet the needs of this state." Multiple Senate Democrats have also voiced similar concerns.
The bottom line is that the state of Texas is currently experiencing financial prosperity while state employees continue to endure low and stagnant pay, attacks on our benefits, and under-staffed state agencies. Texas families face soaring tuition rates that are keeping their kids in debt longer as they graduate from universities. And state retirees are still living on the same flat pension annuities they were receiving 14 years ago. Ignoring these issues before giving tax cuts is not only damaging for state employees and retirees but to the 26 million Texans who rely on the services we provide.
Call the members of the Senate Finance Committee from your region of Texas (see below) and tell them:
My name is __________________. I'm a state employee/retiree and I'm calling to ask Senator __________________ to provide the ERS pension fund with the additional $377 million it needs, increase funding for state services and universities, and provide an across- the-board pay increase for all state employees before the Legislature considers tax cuts.
*Calls can be made both today and tomorrow (Wednesday, March 4th)
After you've made the call, email Harrison Hiner (TSEU Legislative Organizer) to report the response you received.
North Texas
Chair- Sen. Jane Nelson- 512-463-0112
Senator Kelly Hancock- 512-463-0109
Senator Royce West- 512-463-0123
South Texas
Vice Chair- Sen. Chuy Hinojosa- 512-463-0120
Senator Carlos Uresti- 512-463-0119
East Texas
Senator Kevin Eltife- 512-463-0101
Senator Robert Nichols- 512-463-0103
Central Texas
Senator Charles Schwertner- 512-463-0105
Senator Kirk Watson- 512-463-0114
West Texas
Senator Kel Seliger- 512-463-0131
Southeast Texas
Senator Paul Bettencourt- 512-463-0107
Senator Joan Huffman- 512-463-0117
Senator Lois Kolkhorst- 512-463-0118
Senator Larry Taylor- 512-463-0111
Senator John Whitmire- 512-463-0115


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Cheverus fall coach openings
Cheverus High School has immediate openings for boys' and girls' varsity cross country coaches for the 2010 season. FMI, Gary Hoyt, firstname.lastname@example.com.
SP first-day practice schedule
The fall sports season begins Monday at South Portland High School. Football (grades 10-12) meets from 7 to 10 a.m. on the high school practice field. Boys' soccer convenes at 8:45 a.m. at Wainwright Field Complex. Girls' soccer meets at the same place at 9 a.m. Field hockey starts at 2:15 p.m., on the high school field. Boys' cross country meets at 8 a.m., on the track. Girls' cross country meets in the same place at 8:30 a.m. Cheering goes from 9 to 11 a.m., on the track. FMI, 767-7705.
Southern Maine Flame tryouts
The Southern Maine Flame ASA softball team will hold tryouts for its U-16 and U-18 squads Saturday at 9 a.m., at Wainwright Field in South Portland. A $100 deposit is required. Deposits will be refunded if a player is not selected. FMI, 571-5526, southernmaineflame.com, or email@example.com.
LaxPros wins Elite League title
LaxPros.com outscored Shays Grill Pub, 13-8, to win the 2010 Men's Elite Lacrosse League title last week. Russell Halliday had six goals and an assist and Greg Smith made 14 saves. Mike Holden had three goals in defeat.
SailMaine seeking coaches
SailMaine is seeking head and part-time coaches for high school sailors on Casco Bay. The season begins in late-August and culminates in late-October. FMI, 650-2085, email@example.com or sailmaine.org.
Frozen Ropes tryouts
The Frozen Ropes Baseball and Softball Training Center will be conducting tryouts for their Jr. Black Bear 12U, 14U, 16U and 18U travel softball teams on Sunday, Aug. 22. The tryouts will be held at the Springbrook Park in Scarborough. 12U and 14U tryouts will be at 9 a.m., 14U at 11:30 a.m. and the 18U tryout will be at 1:30 p.m. The Jr. Black Bear program is overseen by Lynn Coutts. FMI, 878-2600 or frozenropes.com/portland.
Scarborough Summerfest 5K upcoming
The eighth annual Scarborough Summerfest 5K and 1-mile races will be held Friday, Aug. 20 at Scarborough High's athletic complex. FMI, 883-2747 or email@example.com.
Casco Bay Sports announces fall offerings
Casco Bay Sports has openings for several fall sports leagues. Outdoor soccer has an 11 v 11 Sunday league, beginning Sept. 12 and a Monday 6 v 6 league, starting Sept. 20. Coed flag football starts Sept. 12. Coed frostbite softball begins Sept. 12. Basketball features a Tuesday competitive league, beginning Sept. 14, a Thursday all-ability league, starting Sept. 16 and a Sunday all-ability league, beginning Oct. 3. There will also be dodgeball leagues on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. FMI, cascobaysports.com.


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The rapper and producer StefIsDope and his friends couldn't believe how nice the home they'd rented on Airbnb was. There was a huge backyard out back and a beautiful lawn in front of the suburban Atlanta house. The owner of the property was an interior decorator, and Stef, whose real name is Stefan Grant, could see the evidence of her expertise. There were furs on the beds.
Grant, who is 23 and was born in Jamaica, had flown into Atlanta from Washington DC for the A3C Music Festival & Conference; he was scheduled to play a show on Friday at Gallery EAV. Four of his friends had driven up, separately, from Miami.
The group spent the morning hanging out and planning their setlist for tonight's concert. Then, around noon, something happened that was both surprising and not surprising at all: A pair of police officers appeared on the deck, saying that a neighbor had reported a robbery in progress.
"My boy Xali was out on the deck chilling, and then I heard him be like, 'Yo come to the back!'" Grant told me by phone. "I thought he had rolled a blunt and we were about to go smoke! So I walk out all jolly, but then I see two huge cops standing there."
"The cops said, 'Yeah, we got a call from the neighbors saying you guys were breaking into the house and robbing the place,'" Grant said. "Our eyes all got huge—we were like, 'No, this is an Airbnb! The owner knows we're here, we've been in contact with her!"
The officers absorbed this information and took in the scene. "They looked around for a bit, they saw everyone was in, you know, cozy clothes, and they figured out, 'OK, these kids ain't lying.'"
At that point Grant—whose most recent video is "Errything Lit", which you can watch here—asked if he could take a selfie with one of the officers and put it on Snapchat, and everyone had a good laugh about it; Grant also tweeted the picture, which has since gone viral.
"It wasn't totally unexpected," Grant said. "We're black kids in this Leave it to Beaver neighborhood, you know?"
Later on, Grant and his friends met the neighbor who had called the police. "The neighbor lady was like, you know, 'Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you, but we didn't know about the Airbnb stuff, and there've been a lot of robberies in the neighborhood.' I guess she had called the lady who owns the house but she didn't pick up the phone, so that's when she called the cops."
Grant reacted to the episode with good humor, posting videos on Twitter featuring the police officers as well as a second neighbor who came to check on the house and walked through the door without asking. "I smile and laugh at everything," he said. "Not much makes me mad. Or, actually, I shouldn't say not much makes me mad—I just expect this kind of shit to happen, so I kind of laugh it off."
He said he is flying back to Washington DC tomorrow; he bought a plane ticket for early in the morning so he'd be back in time to walk in the Million Man March, which will mark the 20th anniversary of the peaceful demonstration held on the National Mall in 1995.


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Battlefield 1 Joins EA/Origin Access Free Game Vault
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Electronic Arts announced recently that Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 would be joining the EA/Origin Access free game libraries. Titanfall 2 arrived for subscribers last month, and Battlefield 1 is rolling out right now, it looks like.
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Chappelle's Show did an amazing job of infusing hip-hop music into episodes, not only through the musical performances at the end of the show, but by actually using the musicians in various sketches.
Comedy Central Insider has compiled Chappelle's Show best hip-hop moments over on their site, and below I've posted my personal favorite.
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Ok, one more after the jump.
– Aaron
Tupac is Alive
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I'm still busy working on the antique sampler. Yesterday I found a history/genealogy group in the region of England that Elizabeth is from. I emailed them about the sampler and hope to hear from them. According to a dear British friend, Yorkshire is a lovely region of England. Her small village is called Ingleby Greenhow. I have a band to do tonight and then all the family initials. I think I am finally finished with the alphabets. I can't wait to get to the motifs at the bottom.
I do have a bit of personal information to share with you. A week from Friday I am going to have knee replacement surgery. The time seems right as I am in good condition and sooner or later this would be necessary. My walking is limited to about 30 minutes a day and with our beautiful summer coming, I want to be able to do much more than that. I am looking at the recovery time as lots of time to read and stitch-two of my favorite things!! Of course with lots of PT worked in!!I hope to keep all my blogging and answering blogs up to date.


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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
I Voted!
I voted! I took both the children with me, Grace was thrilled to be checked out of school even if it was for only 15 minutes. She felt important that she got to go with me to vote. Her school has a program called "Project Democracy" where the children also get to cast a vote. It was pretty neat. Grace says that someday we will vote for her as President, I'm not sure that I would ever wish that for my child. What a terribly hard job it must be. Happy voting!
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How fun! I can't believe they had school today. It is a SC law that schools must be closed on Presidential Election day.ReplyDelete
First year I have ever voted. I voted also as a south Carolina resident.ReplyDelete
Very cool experiece for Grace! There are free videos and quizzes about the election that Grace might enjoy on brainpop.com. We participated in the Mock Election at school last week too. Our school was closed today, but as an administrator, I was required to work anyway. I actually ended up taking the afternoon off.ReplyDelete
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text: I decided that my first blog post of 2014 should really be something profound, thought provoking, something worthy of an epiphany. Then I realized that I am still slightly hungover from last night and decided fuck it. So instead of a spiritual awakening I am giving a raunchy video from Andrew Christian called #suck. Enjoy.


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Eagles' Thomason Exposed for Draft
Tight end Jeff Thomason and four other Philadelphia Eagles were made eligible Tuesday for next month's NFL expansion draft.
Cornerbacks Darrel Crutchfield and William Hampton, linebacker Ryan Schau and wide receiver Gari Scott also were exposed by the Eagles for the Feb. 18 that will help stock the new Houston Texans.
The Eagles also signed free agents Pita Elisara, David Foye, Clinton Hart, Dwayne Ledford, Brian McDonald, Jackie Mitchell, Josh Moore and Josh Parry.


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Just a little blogfish in a sea of blogfish written by classroom teacher who is now a homeschooling mom who blogs about homeschool, education, and a lot of fun
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Spring Education Linky Party and Spring Egg Printable Freebie
Printable Geometric Eggs Freebie
I've been busy working designing more products for the classroom, and I created these printable geometric Easter eggs. Your kiddos can use paint, color, use ink or markers. It's your choice with these geometric coloring eggs. This packet contains 11 geometric eggs created with 2D shapes. Use the eggs to help review shapes in your geometry units and add a Spring and Easter fun twist. Your students can be creative as they color these eggs in their own unique way. Let them try coloring the sections where shapes overlap with one color and the other shapes another color for their own masterpiece. These are free for a limited time. Head on over to my Teachers Pay Teachers store to download your copy: Click Here As a favor, please follow my store and rate this product for me while you're there, and check out my Kite Glyph, Bunny Glyph, and Easter Chick Glyph too.
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Robin, I just found your blog and I think it's so wonderful that you're doing a springtime linky party. My daughter is 21. I was wondering how old your kids are? I have lots of freebies on my blog. If you'd like to come over, that would be great!ReplyDelete
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A celebration of the life of a woman from Spalding who wrote about her experiences during World War II takes place next week.
Nan du Feu-Cooper (101), whose book Jersey Occupation Diary became nationally known, will be remembered during a thanksgiving service at Broad Street Methodist Church, Spalding, on Monday, August 22, at 11.30am.
The service will be led by the Rev Eleanor Smith who said: "Nan was a most wonderful Christian lady and a generous person who welcomed people to her church, as well as into her home and lovely garden.
"She was always interested in, and concerned about, her friends and their families.
"Nan was very open about her faith, sharing in conversation and speaking from the pulpit when she was an active and loved local preacher in the Methodist Church.
"She spent the last two and a half years at Westerley Christian Care Home in Woodhall Spa where she would occasionally lead the daily devotions.
Nan was a most wonderful Christian lady and a generous person who welcomed people to her church, as well as into her home and lovely gardenThe Rev Eleanor Smith, Woodhall Spa Methodist Church
"Nan had a quiet, gentle manner, always with a smile and was thankful for the care of her family and the staff.
"Her Christian faith was constant through life, to and beyond her death."
Nan supported the British Red Cross which supplied food to her home island of Jersey during World War II and the charity's Jean Goddard said: "I never met Nan but I did receive some delightful letters from her, often containing a cheque made out to the British Red Cross from a talk she had given at a WI or ladies group.
"She had a special affinity with the British Red Cross from her war years when the charity would take letters for her and, of course, the food parcels that helped to keep many people alive through the occupation.
"Nan also generously donated part of the proceeds of her book, Jersey Occupation Diary, to the British Red Cross."
There's no one quite like a Spalding special auntie' called Nan


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I settled into my favorite recliner with a sigh of pure pleasure. Christmas night, everyone back in their respective homes except for Mom, who claimed Sissy's recliner, and Philp Phreeb, who'd gone back to the Citadel comm center. Which was pretty much his home anyway, come to think of it.
"You staying the night, Lou?" Judi passed through the living room with a tray full of brownies fresh from the oven. Young Crystal was learning to bake under my wife's direction and loving it. I grabbed three of the chocolate delights without hesitation; Mom twinkled at me as she took two for herself.
"No," she mumbled around a mouthful of brownie, "Sim wanted to go check on the chickens. He'll be back in an hour or so. I thought I'd let that crazy farmer go talk to his hens while I visited with my son for a bit."
My blondie grinned. "Wouldn't have a thing to do with being able to watch the game of pickup sticks we're starting in the kitchen?"
"Of course not." Louella Jackson waved her free hand airily, dismissing the notion. "You seen one grandchild putzing around with a game that was out of date when I was a kid, you've seen 'em all."
"Uh-huh." Judi chuckled and headed on out to the kitchen to join the game. She won eight out of ten times, no mercy at all, but our daughters were closing the skill gap with ferocious intent. I was betting they'd beat the .500 mark sooner rather than later.
For a time, Mom and I enjoyed the quiet and the brownies. She had something on her mind, though. I could tell.
"How sure are you, Treemin?"
"Sure?" I probably looked as confused as I felt. "About what?"
"The Zombie Apocalypse picture you painted in the meeting."
My brow furrowed. "Was that what I was doing? Surely didn't mean to, Mom."
"And yet you're having the entire Clan focus on extreme prepping. Scratch that. Uber extreme prepping. Do you really think all of that is necessary?"
"No," I replied, my voice quiet but my tone suddenly sarcastic, "I just figured the crew needed a bit of busy work to keep them occupied, seeing as how we're all getting so freaking lazy with nothing to do."
She gave me a dark look. "Getting snippy in our old age, are we? Tree, I'm not attacking you. Honest, honey, I'm not. I'm simply worried about you. You already had more on your plate than any one normal man could handle, and now you've gone and tripled your load."
"Ungh." Parents.
"It's a mommy thing."
"Okay, Mommy." I sighed, not theatrically but just letting the tension out. "Let me turn it around and ask you a question. Do you think I've gone off the deep end?"
"Frankly," she tapped her chin in thought, eyes narrowed, "…maybe."
"Why?" Her opinion hurt more than it should have. She'd thought my brain had jumped the track back in high school when I started stealing stuff, too.
"It's not obvious?" Her eyebrows rose. "No, I guess it wouldn't be. Okay. Let's try it from this angle. I'll grant you that the prepping you've outlined will look pretty smart if Armageddon hits any time in the next few decades, but what if it doesn't? Then you've wasted all those resources that could have been put to better use, buying up more land, expanding your business faster, whatever. Instead, you'll have been pounding sand down a rathole, throwing good money after bad…" She trailed off. For the first time, I could see she was really troubled about this.
"Mom," I asked softly, "why didn't you bring this up in the meeting?"
She shook her head. "Not a chance in Hell, sonny boy. I may not understand half of what you've become, but they tell me you're the Weaver, the one man who can put together a coalition and keep it put together, an amalgam of forces including people who would never even consider working together without you. The day I let anybody see the Weaver's mother giving the Weaver crap in front of the troops will be a cold day in Hell."
"Oh." Frankly, that surprised me a little. Touched me, too. "Well then, I suppose you deserve an answer."
"Maybe not deserve," she grinned, waggling the fingers of one hand at me, "but I would certainly appreciate it."
"It's complicated."
"That's what they all say."
"Ha ha. Mom, we have more than forty people living right here on the ranch, right now. The best projections our management team can produce, they call for closer to one hundred people here in another decade. That's not counting the company town on the other side of Helmville or any of the commuting welders from Lincoln, Ovando, and Drummond, just those who've joined us for life. And every employee who lives on the premises full time knows it's a lifetime deal. It has to be. Quite frankly, to use really overdone wording, they all know too much for it to be any other way. And since they are committed to us with that sort of intensity, I owe them. Every one of them, I owe the best chance at life I can provide."
"Wait a sec." Lou Jackson raised a hand to stem the flow. "Lifetime? They can't leave? And are you saying Sim and I fall into that category?" Her voice was mild, but I noticed her favorite Glock .40 was well within reach of that raised hand. Not that I believed she'd shoot her son; just saying.
"Technically, Mom, they can leave…but they know it's a potential death sentence if they do. Our traditional enemies like the first Ted Kraznick, and now probably the Arvin Clan in Connecticut? You can bet they have files on every man, woman, and child living here. Our people have all either fought attacking mercs, weres, vams, and witches openly or at least provided support for the front line warriors. While they're here, they have the protection of the ranch, which is considerable. If they leave, they don't. How long do you think it would take for one of the older Clans to figure out they were vulnerable, snatch them up, and torture them for intel on Rodeo Iron? And then, of course, dispose of the remains in one way or another."
"How?" I had her attention now. "I mean, Tree, how do they have the detailed files on your people that you say they do?"
I shrugged. "Tax filings, for one. Heartbite has some computer whiz kids who come close to rivaling Philip; it's a good bet other Clans do, too. If they can't crack IRS files, I'd be downright flabbergasted. Street surveillance; Montana is a tourism state and a Clan spy can show up disguised as an ordinary tourist without raising any eyebrows. And gossip."
"Gossip?" My mother was absentmindedly twirling a lock of her curly dark hair with the fingertips of her left hand, a sure sign she was fully absorbed in the conversation. I hadn't seen her do that since I was a kid. Of course, she didn't have any gray stands sneaking in there when I was a kid, either.
"Gossip is probably the worst, Mom. Did you know the Trace offspring, after they lost when they tried to fight my ownership of the Trace Ranch…they've been spreading the rumor that I murdered both Sam and Jennifer Trace."
"That's ridiculous!" There was fire in her eyes now; the mama grizzly instinct had been aroused.
"I've met those characters," I admitted, "and yes, I would say ridiculous is the right word. But effective, too. We're in no legal danger; the official investigations stated firmly that Sam was downed by gunfire from renegade mercenaries known as Morse Code and that Jennifer was killed by a rattlesnake bite. They can't get us into court on this…except the court of public opinion, and that is somewhat divided. I've been careful to get to know our customers–nearly all of them, anyway–and we're not seeing any drop in sales. Even so, I do make some people in the area uneasy. We've had to spike the guns of more than one investigation over the years."
"You're at odds with law enforcement?"
I could tell she didn't like that thought very much. What cop would, even if she hadn't been on the force for thirty years? Louella Jackson could and would take the law into her own hands with the best of them when she had it to do, but in her heart of hearts she was still all about law and order.
"Not locally." I glanced longingly at the TV remote, but there wasn't really anything on the boob tube that I wanted to watch on Christmas night. "We're on extremely good terms with the Sheriff in Deer Lodge. Sam Trace always made sure he was, and I've kept up the tradition. A little dustup here and there with Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, and that attempted frame-up by the feds during the Wolf War. Somebody also sicced the IRS on me three…no, four years ago. We came out so clean on that one that the agents who did the audit came right out and told me they'd never seen a better kept set of books. Not that we showed them the second set."
Mom would have spewed out her coffee if she'd had any to spew. "You're keeping two sets of books?!"
"Gotcha!" I grinned at her until she gave me the finger over finger shame-shame sign. "No, we're not keeping two sets of books." We were keeping three, but the lady who bore me probably didn't need to hear that. The law lady really had given birth to a natural outlaw. Out of the corner of my eye, though, I could see Sissy in the kitchen, shaking her head. I didn't think her head shake had anything to do with the game they were playing. My tall warrior woman didn't mind flouting man's law, but she did sometimes wish I wouldn't needle my mother just to see if I could make her jump.
Maybe she had a point. Time to school Lou Jackson, Mom Education 401. "Mom, do you know why we need to expand our on-site population of in-the-know residents so drastically?"
"Not the details." She shrugged. "Figured that was your business. Above my pay grade, if you will."
"Hah. As if. Anyway, here's the deal. We have a really decent fighting crew in place. Things aren't looking to bad in the Citadel, either, but Philip could use another handful of rebel computer hotshots. However, none of that would require a massive uptick in hiring…except for one thing. We're kind of like the Wild Wild West."
My mother wiped her lips with an index finger, sucked the final bits of brownie from that same finger, and stared out longingly at the kitchen–no doubt calculating the odds of being able to snag another brownie. She spoke without looking at me. "The violence, you mean?"
"No…well, that, too. But mainly I was referring to the scarcity of women. On the entire ranch, there are just six couples. Who's hooked up with a partner? You and Sim, this household and Jack's, Chilly and Crystal, plus two of Jordan Phreeb's security guys and their mates. One wife outranks her husband in Jordan's crew. The other lives with one of Philip's best hackers, sort of a girlfriend Suzy Homemaker type with a twist; she has a natural talent for cryptography. Which leaves more than two dozen men–at least if we include Seed and Beets, and I do–without hookups."
Mom's brow furrowed. "I never considered that. But…how do you plan to remedy that shortage, son?"
"Not easily. The comm center in the Citadel? One of its major functions is to safely recruit people we dare introduce to a lifestyle they can't leave around supernaturals most people can't handle. Philip's people have search programs running all the time, looking for key words and phrases, on social media and elsewhere. Sort of like the NSA snoop programs, but the first thing we want to know is if the potential candidate has the mindset necessary to deal with being around shape shifters and all the rest of it."
I must have spaced off; in the time I was spitting out those few sentences, my mother had slipped out to the kitchen and back, just like that. Brownie Ninja. She was already settling back into her recliner, her eyes closing in bliss as she munched a third brownie, when I heard an indignant "Hey!".
"Cleaned 'em out," she said with a smug smile. Without bothering to open her eyes, she tossed a brownie high through the air.
I caught it on the fly but held off long enough to finish my mini-dissertation. "Philip is always refining his search programs, but let me give you the most recent numbers I have. In a six month period, our computer programs have picked up 27,049 possible Rodeo Iron candidates. 719 test layers later, we're left with exactly three possibles; the programs plus our gut checks have eliminated all the rest. At that rate, it's going to take us a while to make our little Clan structure a fully viable, gender balanced group."
Slow going indeed, but we couldn't make any mistakes in hiring. Not even one. I'd more than filled my quota when I'd hired the guy whose wonderful plan was to take me out with a grenade; strike two was not an option. So thinking, I failed to hear my mother's response. I hadn't had a good night's sleep in a real bed for a while, nor did it look like I was going to get one now; the recliner would have to do.
I knew it when somebody covered me with a blanket, but I was far from awake enough to have any idea who did the honors. Except for one thing. The uneaten brownie was carefully removed from my slack fingers, so I'm betting it was the Brownie Ninja.
January 13. Almost three full weeks of peaceful home bliss before the triple buzzer rang me out of a sound sleep. In the middle of the night. At 2:37 a.m. "Yo," I bark-growled, not bothering to aim at the receiver. We had the intercom default set on speaker phone anyway.
"Treemin. You awake?" Philip Phreeb's voice, one of only six people who could reach me this way. The comm center, then.
"No, I'm talking in my sleep. Whazzup?" I left the speaker phone on. Judi, Sissy, and I were all rolling out; we knew this was not a drill. Across the street, Jack Hill's group would be doing the same; the triple buzzer hit meant the call was for me, but neither the Wizard nor I could afford to waste time. There'd only been two previous Red Alert night calls, neither of which had left us with seconds to spare.
"Got Frank Harding on the line. You might want to take the call."
"Put him on." I searched my memory banks, struggling to clear the cobwebs from my brain. Frank was Rodeo Iron Arizona's newest franchisee, running a manufacturing operation a few miles out of Show Low. Half Native American, Harding also operated a welding school where students paid a ridiculously low tuition, little more than the cost of their supplies.
His business plan called for most of his thirty-eight projected employees to come from the nearby Fort Apache Indian Reservation, White Mountain Apaches commuting from the Rez. He was well on his way, too, but the tension in his voice was unmistakable.
"Speak to me, Frank."
"Hate to be calling you at this hour."
I could hear his relief; he wasn't fooling me one bit. "Told you, call me any time."
"Yeah. Um…there's been a murder. Um…three murders, actually."
You know how people talk about their blood running cold? Mine didn't do that. I swear I shivered, though. "Who?"
"Johnny Larson, his girlfriend, and their baby. Boy was three or…three or four, I think. It looked…the cops…Tree, I'm thinking they're going to write this off as a drive-by shooting. Which it was, I guess, kind of, but not really. Johnny's a new hire, from the Rez originally, but he'd been living in Seattle for the past couple of years. When he heard I might be able to give him a job, he beats feet back here, hired on just last week. They didn't have any place to stay, though, except his old van, so I put 'em up in one of those old shacks that were on the property when I bought it. No running water or electricity, but they were fixing the place up, happy to have it. Don't know the details exactly, but it looks like a car full of whoever drove out there about midnight. Best guess is Johnny heard 'em and went out to run 'em off, you know, riding for the brand, taking care of business. Nearest neighbor is about a quarter mile away, heard the shooting, called me. I grabbed my shotgun, headed out, called 911 on the way. Beat the cops by ten or fifteen minutes. I'm not no old school Apache tracker, you know, but it wasn't rocket science. I stayed clear of the crime scene, didn't need to get thrown in jail myself, but I had my camera and a Maglite. No point in trying to help 'em; they were dead as dead could be. Johnny was face down in the dust, holes blown clear through him. Blue Wing–that's his woman–she was curled on her side, clutching the little one. White nightie, or used to be. Barefoot. Blood…blood everywhere. Thanks to the Mag, I got a bunch of pictures of everything I could before the cops got there. Not the best, but better than nothing. Bodies, different angles, screen door open, tire tracks, and…and the thing that made me call you."
Now I had the chills. "What was that, Frank?"
"Spray paint. The bodies were situated between Johnny's van and the house, but there was a message painted on the van, in red. FANG POWER!"
"Fang power?"
"Yeah. Fang power. I'm not the most superstitious Apache on the planet or anything, but it gave me the creeps. The cops seem to think it's a gang thing, but out here in the boonies? I'm thinking not. I had to talk to somebody, man. If this turns out to be witchcraft or something extra spooky, I won't be able to keep a one of them on the payroll. But most of all, if something is stalking us, you're the only guy I know who–I don't know why, but I just had this feeling that you'd know what to do about it."
I was fully dressed, but Jack Hill must have already been up. I could hear his hail at the door and Judi's soft tread as she headed out through the kitchen to let him in. "You're saying I don't seem like the supernatural would spook me, Frank?"
"Treemin, you don't seem to me like anything would spook you."
The Wizard strode into our bedroom as quickly as he could without waking the girls, waving his hands as he came. "Frank", I said, "tell you what. You remember Jack Hill, right? He was with me when you signed the contract."
"Yeah, sure."
"He's got something to say."
"Yeah, Jack."
"The police are still there, right?"
"They sure are. They've called for a forensics team, but they're not here yet. I'm thinking maybe they have to come clear from Phoenix."
"So they've got the crime scene taped off?"
"Yes. Must be twenty cop cars here. I didn't know they could round up that many out here."
"Are they tramping all over the tracks or being careful?"
"Um…let me move away a little farther; one of the state troopers looks like he's got a stick up his butt. Don't think he could hear me before, but…."
"Take your time."
"I'm good. Jack, they're acting more professional than I would have expected, really. But they have walked around a bit, yeah. I wouldn't want to try to pick out anything on the ground now. Might be possible, but…."
"Okay. I get the picture. Listen, Tree's got a few things he has to take care of before he can leave." The ancient Wizard winked at me and held up a finger in the universal "Wait One" sign, ignoring my wide eyed intention to ask him what those "few things" might be. "But I can be on a flight out of Missoula this morning, arriving in Phoenix this evening. I'll have to move fast to make that flight, though, so could you arrange for a full size rental car at the airport? I'll drive out to Show Low from there, probably hit your place about twenty-four hours from now."
"Okay, yeah, but…." Harding sounded as confused as I felt. "What–"
"Frank, you made the right call. I'm no old school Apache, either, but I'll guarantee you I can get a better fix on things than the cops will. Unless they're calling in some real talent. Tree keeps me around just to solve mysteries like this one."
"Oh." He sounded like he actually believed that. "That's good, then."
We said our goodbyes. Once I was sure the line was dead, I turned on Hill. "Mind explaining exactly what the f–"
"Easy, cowboy." He gave me his patented half smile, palms up and forward in a placating gesture. "I've got maybe an hour before I have to hit the road, so let's talk, shall we?"
Willow and Aspen were still sleeping, so Sissy and I followed Jack over to his place, leaving Judi to stand guard over our daughters.
Carolyn West had a pot of hot chocolate heating; we sat down to sip and discuss things. I should have waited him out, but the old Protector had irritated me, jumping in and taking over like that. "I don't understand this part about you flying, Jack. That, and leaving my big black ass behind. What the heck were you thinking?"
"Somebody had to think." He shrugged, unrepentant. "You sure weren't."
"I wasn't?" From the sudden widening of Carolyn West's eyes, I suspected my tone had gone low and dangerous.
"Maybe you were. Tree, you tell me. Are you guessing that this is an in-your-face message from Charleston and Warisa Blyden in Hartford?"
Well, duh. "Bloody Blydens," I muttered. "This has to be Warisa, pushing Charleston to strike back so openly. Letting me know that maybe other Clans might worry about letting the mundane world see their handiwork, but that they don't give a hoot. And that innocents are no longer off limits."
"Uh huh." Jack studied his mug. Carolyn's artistry with simple hot chocolate and a few mini-marshmallows was something to behold. "And you base that conclusion on…what, exactly?"
"The Fang Power message," I snapped. "Isn't it ob–" I stopped cold. No, come to think of it, it wasn't obvious. It was merely a possibility. "Okay, Jack. I'm back in the world now. So tell me, what's your big plan, besides getting even for me commandeering your truck and running off to Hartford with only Sissy for backup?"
He laughed. "Is that what you think this is?"
"It isn't?"
"Well…maybe a little. Okay. Here's the deal. I'm flying because I can get away with it and we need someone on the ground at Show Low ASAP. What I mean by getting away with it is that I don't have to carry any weapons with me to trigger airport alarms; I am a weapon, right?"
"Can't argue that." I was cooling off now. I also had a pretty good idea I wouldn't be able to rationally disagree with anything he was going to say.
"Horace Tamblyn was a better tracker than me, but with him gone, I'm the best we got, so maybe, just maybe, I can pick up a clue or two at the scene. Most likely, the authorities will still have the area taped off when I get there, but they're not likely to leave anybody on guard. So I'll be free to see what I can see. Now, if either one of your ladies would care to fly down with me, I'd be happy to have the company. Sissy is a walking weapon, like me, and your witchy little wife is getting pretty good with casting forensic spells."
"She is?" Trust a husband to miss what his wife's been up to. Huh.
"She is," Sissy agreed quietly, "although I don't know if either Tree or the girls would be happy to have Mommy traipsing off to Indian Country."
I stayed quiet, thinking, but Jack jumped right on that one. "Very true, Sis. I'm not saying she should go. It's just that either one of you winsome women would be a solid addition. I couldn't explain two of you traipsing along with me; the people down there would think I was an old Mormon or something. But if Judi went, she could pass as my granddaughter or some such, and if you went, well, nobody messes with a six foot babe who looks like she can fight, and you've got more than enough Native American in you to get along okay if we decided to visit the Rez."
"Let me think about that," I said, "and now that you've got me thinking, I can see the possibilities are endless. Or numerous, anyway." Numerous, indeed. This could well have been a vicious strike from Arvin Clan; neither Sissy nor I, having met the woman, would put the slaughter of innocents past Warisa Blyden. Or it could be simply some crazy, hopped-up idiots who'd decided to live out the latest popular Vampire Wars fantasy. Then again…"It could be a trap," I admitted. "That's really why you want to get down there ahead of me, isn't it? Because you figure you can spot that sort of trouble, besides which, they're not likely to start the real fireworks unless they believe they've got me in the crosshairs."
Jack didn't answer. There was no need.
"Okay, Wizard. You need to get going, so I'll leave you to it. Judi is out; there's no way she's leaving the girls for a run like that until they're a bit older. But I think you're missing something."
"Yeah. Instead of Missy, why not take my Mom with you?"
"Lou?" Hill looked startled, which pleased me no end.
"Why not Lou? She's still a cop at heart, a natural born investigator. I'm pretty sure she'd jump at the chance; she'll be breathing fire as soon as she hears about a child being killed. As for weapons, I'll bet she could talk Frank Harding into loaning her one of his shooters. Or if she needs one in a hurry, she'll just take it away from an enemy that underestimates her until it's too late."
"She would at that." A slow smile crept over Jack's face. "But I need to hit the junction in thirty minutes from right now."
"Judi will have called her by now," Sissy put in. "Unless I miss my guess, she's already headed this way."
I sat there, tapping my chin in frustration. Yes, I would need time to prepare before driving down to Arizona. Time to go over defensive protocol with Jordan and the assassins–heh, sounded like a singing group, Jordan and the Assassins. Time to consult with Philip Phreeb, see if he could turn up anything from the victims' past or by putting his computer skills to work on the photographs Frank Harding had taken. Time, time, time.
It wasn't pleasant, hiding behind the women, sending off either my lover, my wife, or my mother. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be a better choice.


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Congenital heart diseases in dogs are malformations of the heart or great vessels. The lesions characterizing congenital heart defects are present at birth and may develop more fully during perinatal and growth periods. Many congenital heart defects are thought to be genetically transmitted from parents to offspring; however, the exact modes of inheritance have not been precisely determined for all cardiovascular malformations.
The OFA gathers data regarding congenital heart diseases in dogs and to identify dogs which are phenotypically normal prior to use in a breeding program. For the purposes of the database, a phenotypically normal dog is defined as:
- One without a cardiac murmur -or-
- One with an innocent heart murmur that is found to be otherwise normal by virtue of an echocardiographic examination which includes Doppler echocardiography
Heart murmurs range from Grade 1 to Grade 6.
Dogs with heart disease may be asymptomatic (free of any signs of illness) if the heart disease is mild. However, if the heart disease is severe enough that the heart cannot compensate for the disease, heart failure will occur and will lead to signs of heart failure.
The types of signs seen in heart failure will vary depending on how severe the disease is and which side of the heart is affected. However, the signs most commonly encountered with heart failure include:
- generalized weakness, tiring easily, depression, lack of appetite, weight loss, coughing, breathing heavily, swelling in the legs, a bloated, fluid-filled abdomen, increased heart rate, weak pulse
Symptoms that are less common include:
- cyanosis (a bluish coloration of the gums), vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, and fainting episodes
Treatment varies widely and is particular to each individual case. Treatment is also based on which side of the heart is affected. Typical treatments can include:
- systemic cardiovascular drugs, supportive care such as nutritional supplements and vitamins, and surgery
Test method
The Congenital Cardiac Database with OFA is for dogs 12 months and over. Examinations performed on dogs less than 12 months will be treated as consultations and no OFA breed numbers will be assigned.
The clinical examination should be performed by an individual with advanced training in cardiac diagnosis. The animal should be standing and restrained, but sedative drugs should be avoided.
Genetic/breeder information
At this time, inherited, developmental cardiac diseases like subaortic stenosis and cardiomyopathies are difficult to monitor since there is no clear cut distinction between normal and abnormal. The OFA will modify the congenital cardiac database when a proven diagnostic modality and normal parameters by breed are established. However at this time, the OFA cardiac database should not be considered as a screening tool for these diseases.
A careful clinical examination that emphasizes cardiac auscultation is the most expedient and cost-effective method for identifying Congenital Heart Disease in dogs. While there are exceptions, virtually all common congenital heart defects are associated with the presence of a cardiac murmur. Consequently, it is recommended that cardiac auscultation be the primary screening method for initial identification of CHD and the initial classification of dogs. Murmurs related to CHD may at times be difficult to distinguish from normal, innocent (also called physiologic or functional) murmurs. Innocent cardiac murmurs are believed to the related to normal blood flow in the circulation. Innocent murmurs are most common in young, growing animals. The prevalence of innocent heart murmurs in mature dogs (especially in athletic dogs) is undetermined. A common clinical problem is the distinction between innocent murmurs and murmurs arising from CHD.
Stats within CdT breed
From 1974-2012 there were 874 Cardiac Evaluations submitted to the OFA. Of those submitted, 99.9% were normal, .1% equivocal, and 0 affected.
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A WORTHING woman is looking for love on ITV's Take Me Out.
Ndana Kafeke, 29, applied to the dating show two years ago, and has finally had her chance to find a date.
Hospital worker Ndana, who has a passion for performing arts, was invited onto the last two shows of the series.
"I was a little nervous at first," she said, "because I came in late, but there were some girls who had been on it since day one and they were really nice and helped me along. I did make some special friends."
The show, hosted by Paddy McGuinness, gives men and women looking for love the chance to win a date on the tropical Island of Fernandos.
Ndana added:"Paddy was amazing, both on and off camera. He's really handsome, but he is married. He is lovely though."
To find out if Ndana gets a date, readers can tune in to the final episode of Take Me Out on Saturday at 8:30pm on ITV.
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GALVESTON - Del Papa Distributing Co. has donated 22,000 sf of island office and storage space at 6918 Broadway to the Lighthouse Charity Team, which provides cooking equipment and volunteer labor to prepare meals during natural disasters and for community causes.
Known to islanders as the "annex," the building is not part of the warehouses and offices at 6702 Broadway that Del Papa put up for sale in April 2012. The asking price for those offices, multiple loading docks, air-conditioned warehouses and some undeveloped adjoining land is $5.6 million.
The building includes a 75-person meeting room, loading docks, storage facilities, and easy access to I-45. Del Papa is providing the space free of charge.
Del Papa moved into a new 126,000-sf Texas City facility earlier in 2012, after a 100 years on the island.
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"Wellness programs take many forms; however, the common feature of all wellness programs is that they are designed to encourage healthier lifestyles, often by rewarding participants for attaining or improving certain health factors. Most wellness programs are subject to HIPAA's nondiscrimination rules … [h]owever, the HIPAA nondiscrimination rules contain an exception whereby group health plans or issuers may offer employee premium/contribution discounts or rebates, or modify copayments, coinsurances, or deductibles based on participation in certain programs that promote health or disease prevention (wellness programs)." (Proskauer)
Earlier this month, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury issued guidance on a number of key provisions of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including regulations intended to prevent discrimination in employee-sponsored wellness programs.
The guidance reinforces the key distinction already made between "participatory" and "health-contingent" programs, write Jean Hemphill and Edward Leeds from Ballard Spahr:
"The new regulations continue to distinguish 'health-contingent' programs from 'participatory' programs. A health-contingent program rewards participants who achieve certain health standards, such as maintaining a particular cholesterol or blood pressure level. A participatory program does not do so. It may base a reward on activities, such as completing a health risk assessment or submitting to certain screening examinations, without regard to outcome, or it may not provide for any reward at all."
For participatory programs, the rules (generally) stay the same. From law firm Proskauer:
"A participatory wellness program is exempt from the nondiscrimination requirements provided it is available to all similarly situated individuals. Examples of participatory wellness programs include employer-paid gym memberships or smoking cessation programs with no requirement of program success."
The rules for health-contingent programs have been clarified and amended, however. For your reference, five takeaways:
1. The programs must be available to all:
"Programs must be reasonably designed to be available to all similarly situated individuals. A reasonable alternative means of qualifying for the reward would have to be offered to individuals whose medical conditions make it difficult, or for whom it is medically inadvisable, to meet the specified health-related standard." (XpertHR)
2. An alternative for obtaining the reward must be available:
"All materials that describe the wellness program must continue to provide notice of the availability of an alternative means of qualifying for the reward. The notice does not need to include details of the alternative. The regulations set forth a new, 'less complicated and confusing' model notice. Employers may continue to design their own notices, however, and various examples in the new regulations make it clear that variations in the notice are expected." (Ballard Spahr)
3. The rules apply to both "grandfathered" and "non-grandfathered" health plans:
"The Proposed Rules apply beginning January 1, 2014 and they would apply to grandfathered as well as non-grandfathered group health plans. A 'grandfathered health plan' is any group health plan or individual coverage that was in effect on March 23, 2010 and that is not changed in ways specified in the implementing regulations… [T]he Proposed Rules would apply the same set of wellness program standards to both grandfathered and non-grandfathered health plans to 'avoid inconsistency across group health coverage and to provide grandfathered plans the same flexibility to promote health and prevent disease as non-grandfathered plans.'" (Proskauer)
4. You can offer greater incentives:
"The Wellness Program Rule also increases the maximum permissible reward under a health-contingent wellness program from 20 percent to 30 percent of the cost of health coverage. Employers may increase the maximum reward further to as much as 50 percent for wellness programs designed to prevent or reduce tobacco use." (Duane Morris)
5. Annual qualification is required:
"The program must give eligible individuals the opportunity to qualify for the reward at least once a year." (McDermott Will & Emery)
The updates:
- New Guidance on Wellness Programs Issued – Proskauer Rose LLP
- Proposed Regulations Address Discrimination in Wellness Programs – Ballard Spahr LLP
- HHS Begins Releasing Long-awaited Affordable Care Act Proposed Rules – Duane Morris LLP
- HHS Proposes Rules on Key Health Care Reform Provisions – XpertHR
- New Proposed Wellness Guidance under PPACA – McDermott Will & Emery
Related reading:
- The Federal Government Issues Proposed Regulations for the Affordable Care Act – Akerman Senterfitt
- Federal Agencies Propose Three Important Health Care Reform Regulations – Mintz Levin
- Federal Government Releases Additional Proposed Regulations Under the Affordable Care Act – Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP
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In its weekly look at movies downloaded from BitTorrent websites, TorrentFreak found The Dark Knight Rises was the most pirated movie last week, with a million downloads in just a few days.
Batman even beat out Skyfall, leaked on BitTorrent the same day it appeared in movie theatres.
The latest installment in the Batman trilogy was more in demand than the new James Bond flick because The Dark Knight Rises debuted on DVD and Blu-ray disc last week, suggests TorrentFreak. In other words, downloaders wanted a better quality version of the film – from a disc "rip" – than a movie currently in theatres, often secretly recorded with a camcorder.
Movie piracy has been called a big problem in Canada, perhaps because of a combination of lax laws, a tech-savvy population and lack of copyright education. And while it doesn't seem to be enforced, it's still illegal, says Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and Toronto Star contributor.
"Unauthorized downloading of a motion picture is infringement under the Copyright Act," says Geist. "It falls to the rights holder to enforce their rights [and] we have seen instances where they have done so."
In 2007, Twentieth Century Fox claimed as much as 50 per cent of the world's pirated movies came from Canada, though Geist argued these claims were "mostly fiction."
"It is worth noting that the government recently passed copyright reform that reduces the maximum potential liability for non-commercial infringement," says Geist, today. "Under the law, the maximum that can obtained for all non-commercial infringements by an individual is $5000, though a court is permitted to award as little as $100."
According to a new blog post at TorrentFreak, the following is the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorent websites from last week:


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It's been four years since I slept, and I suspect it is killing me.So maybe this is less Cover Love and more Cover-Freaked-Me-Out. THAT EYE! It gives me the heebie-jeebies. On the other hand, this cover does grab my attention, and it looks as though it fits the plot fairly well, which means it does everything a cover should. However, when I do get around to reading this book (and how can I not with such a hook?), I may have to cover the cover.
Instead of sleeping, Parker Chipp enters the dream of the last person he's had eye contact with. He spends his nights crushed by other people's fear and pain, by their disturbing secrets—and Parker can never have dreams of his own. The severe exhaustion is crippling him. If nothing changes, Parker could soon be facing psychosis and even death.
Then he meets Mia. Her dreams, calm and beautifully uncomplicated, allow him blissful rest that is utterly addictive. Parker starts going to bizarre lengths to catch Mia's eye every day. Everyone at school thinks he's gone over the edge, even his best friend. And when Mia is threatened by a true stalker, everyone thinks it's Parker.
Suffering blackouts, Parker begins to wonder if he is turning into someone dangerous. What if the monster stalking Mia is him after all?
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Hooper And Law Set Lancashire Record
Carl Hooper and Stuart Law rewrote the record books at Edgbaston as Lancashire stepped up their late challenge for the First Division crown in the Frizzell County Championship yesterday. They put on 360 against Warwickshire to beat their county's previous highest partnership for the fifth wicket, also set in Birmingham by Barry Wood and Andrew Kennedy in 1975.
The duo were only 11 short of the record for any Lancashire wicket when Hooper was finally dismissed for 177 after completing 1000 runs for the season in only his 16th innings. Law became the first batsman to reach 1500 runs this season and stretched his sixth hundred of the summer to 168 before Lancashire were dismissed for 781, the third highest Championship total in the history of Edgbaston.
The massacre opened up a lead of 332 and, following hundreds by Mark Chilton and Mal Loye on the second day, Lancashire had four century-makers in an innings for the second time in a fortnight. The same four players had reached three-figures in a score of 734 for five against Middlesex at Old Trafford last month.
Warwickshire's attack was depleted by the absence of Dougie Brown, who strained a calf muscle when making a century on Wednesday, but even with the all-rounder, they would have been hard-pressed to stop the tide of runs. While Law gave the impression that he was merely ticking over, Hooper hit half-a-dozen sixes off the only spinner, Mark Wagh, and one each from the medium-paced support bowlers, Ian Bell and Michael Powell.
After a relatively sedate start - they took 27 overs to compile a century stand - the runs came in a torrent and Lancashire certainly did not need the assistance of more than 60 extras, mostly in no-balls. Hooper was closest to giving a chance in his century, edging the otherwise wayward Melvyn Betts inches wide of slip on 67, and Law was almost faultless in picking off 23 fours.
Hooper, who hit 24 boundaries including six sixes, was first to go for 177 when caught at long-off by Corey Collymore. The wicket was one of seven for Wagh, a personal-best but at a cost of 222 in 39.5 overs. Alan Richardson was the only pace bowler to test the batsmen and no-one was more deserving when Law's innings, spanning nearly five-and-a-half hours, finally ended with a catch at slip.
It was not much in the way of relief for Warwickshire as Glen Chapple smashed 60 to take Lancashire beyond 700. The only other counties to do this at Edgbaston were Yorkshire (887 in 1896) and Warwickshire, with 810 for four against Durham in 1994 - the match in which Brian Lara made his 501 not out.
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And yet I sometimes forget. Today was one of those days. I was talking to one of my students who is in her 50s about my trip to Hiroshima last month and when I said we spent the day in the atomic bomb museum, I asked her if she had ever been there.
"I was born in Hiroshima. Eight years after the bomb."
The blood stopped in my veins. How could I have forgotten that this was a very real event that was only a few heartbeats ago? This is the country that still carries the burden of the memory heavily and silently. And we treat it almost as fantasy from history books, something we must memorize and feel a momentary twinge of something-we-don't-know-what, then go on about our lives.
Hiroshima is now a beautiful city, bursting with liveliness, a testament to the spirit of the people here, but it remains a bold statement against nuclear weapons with a large section of the city still devoted to the evidences of the bomb.
She told me her family's story. Her father worked for the military in Hiroshima and was sent out on an assignment that day at 6 am, coming back later that night. His wife was killed and never found. He remarried and she was born. Her voice was gentle, calm and factual. I was frozen.
We talked a bit about what the experience was like for me, a Chinese American. My people were collectively the saved, the savior, the destroyer, the guilty, the merciful.... my brain couldn't stop jumping back and forth, but my heart just hurt. All I know for certain is that it should never happen again. Ever. We can't create peace with explosions and burning and cancer.


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Jackson Harmeyer is a composer, music scholar, and advocate of music. Jackson graduated summa cum laude from the Louisiana Scholars' College located in Natchitoches, Louisiana in May 2013 after completing his undergraduate thesis "Learning from the Past: The Influence of Johann Sebastian Bach upon the Soviet Composers." As series director of the successful Abendmusik Alexandria chamber music series from May 2014 to April 2016, Jackson played a vital role in the renewal of interest in chamber music across Central Louisiana. This interest has encouraged the creation of the annual Sugarmill Music Festival and the new series Nachtmusik von BrainSurge, both of which Jackson remains active in as concert annotator and creative consultant. He also blogs at MusicCentral where he shares concert experiences, gives listening recommendations, posts interviews with contemporary composers, and offers insights into his own compositions. As a composer, Jackson has worked to integrate the vocabulary and grammar of modern music into pieces which are not only innovative but also engaging to the general listener. His four-movement Suite for solo guitar, Op. 21 received its world premiere on November 5, 2015 and has also been broadcast on public radio. In fall 2016, Jackson began graduate studies in musicology at the University of Louisville where he has recently been awarded the Gerhard Herz Scholarship in recognition of his accomplishments. His current research interests include French spectral music and the compositions of Kaija Saariaho. He also sings with the University of Louisville Chorus and participates in the School of Music Composition Seminar. Learn more about Jackson Harmeyer, his scholarship, and his compositions at www.JacksonHarmeyer.com.
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Kenyans love their chapatis. We eat them for breakfast with a good strong chai; use them to scoop up soup when we make a tasty stew; and wrap nyama choma (grilled meat) and kachumbari up in them in our own version of a makeshift fajita.
No matter where we go, we seek out our chapatis. Fortunately for us, there are many places to find our favorite bread. Indian restaurants are usually our default treasure spots.
There are some resourceful folks, however, who decide that they can't count on others to provide their favorite bread, and learn to make it themselves.
For those of you who are ready to make your own, we provide a video, and recipe for you to follow. Eat and enjoy.
2 cups white flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix dry ingredients well. Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the flour mixture and mix in with your hands until flour feels a little bit like sand. Add enough water to form an elastic dough.
Divide the dough into 4 equal parts. Roll out 1 ball into a circle and spread 1/2 teaspoon oil over it. Roll the circle up, like a jelly roll, then roll it up again. It should resemble a snail shell.
Do the same for the other three balls.
Let the dough sit 20 minutes to 8 hours, depending on when you make them.
Roll out into circles 10 to 12 inches in diameter.
Melt a bit of shortening in a frying pan (I prefer a cast iron pan) and wait until it is hot to cook the chapati.
Cook rapidly and watch them bubble up.
Makes 4 chapatis.
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Animefringe Web Showcase for December 2002:
Emily's Hana Yori Dango Page
Site By Emily
"When I heard about this site, I have to admit I was intrigued about this series. It's a series I honestly hadn't ever heard of and it made me want to look through the site to see what all the fuss was about. The story page really peaked my interest and I'm definitely going to track down this title. I have to admit though, I might like the manga better than the anime both because the story descriptions and the vast differences in the overall look between them. Aside from that, this site has a cute framed layout that just screams "browse me." Be sure to check out the toy section, it doesn't have a lot of pictures, but the info there is pretty interesting."
"Very tidy little site! Simple to navigate and packed with information, Emily's site is a model fansite indeed. observing the inset images on each page it's obvious that Emily has an eye for detail. I can appreciate that! Manga cover scans, music lyrics, an index of cute toys and an ezboard forum make this a perfect candidate for "premiere Hana Yori Dango site." I wonder if it is. I haven't been keeping up with Hana Yori Dango fansites, so I honestly couldn't tell ya, but I can safely recommend this site for those of you that want a good old-fashioned information overload. ^_^"
"The title Hana Yori Dango sports a distinctive art style and Emily's Hana Yori Dango Page uses that style to its advantage. Emily's page looks very distinctive and very professional. In addition there is a wealth of information, not only on the Hana Yori Dango anime, but the manga, movies, toys and much more having to do with the series (including on fansubbed releases and the live action movie). Emily's page is highly recommended, for those already in the HYD know and those new to the series."
"With a first impression, Emily's Hana Yori Dango Page is perfectly suited to be dedicated to the show. The pastel colours, the flowers and cheery manga image set the tone for the angst ridden show. Her description of the story gives us information to lead us directly into the show, and the episode summaries provide the spoilers that tempt us. I loved how this site had a great fill of information on the manga, the anime, AND the live action show. The detail gone into the information is amazing, and is definitely the best HYD resource in English. ;)"


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Like many other buy / sell / trade media businesses, this locally owned establishment offers a large selection of new and used video games. The atmosphere is laid back and I found the staff to be...
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A three-goal second period propelled the St. John's IceCaps to a 4-2 win over the Albany Friday night in the first of back-to-back games in Albany against the New Jersey Devils AHL affiliate. With Albany leading 1-0 after one period of play, Morgan Ellis tied the game early in the second. It was the first
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Also want the thin look to the bases, possibly with just painted texture and minimal or no flock. I'm yet to try basing techniques. With the guys I've just done, if I was to cover the individual figure bases the result would be a substantial (a mm) and if I was using 1mm plasticard and then magnetic paper it would be over 2mm by the time I'd finished.
My first attempt at painting 6mm Napoleonics in 25 years. They were already undercoated white and grouped as four figure on little bases. I should have washed them as my black undercoated had a few problems taking.
The basing is just temporary, with the little strips held on by blu-tack. I'm happy how the figures look from the distance, but they do need a flag. This base could have an officer along side or other single figure, and of course bigger bases allow even more innovation/styling.
In my 6mm bonanza are a good number of painted figures and I've assembled these to see how they look (just placed on the base, not even blu-tacked). 60x30mm base.
Flags help immeasurably. All I've done to these figures is over paint the base in a matching green (which is Tamiya Olive Green - the older, brighter green can be seen peaking out in places).


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Enablon to Host Webinar Featuring Accenture, MetaVu and GreenBiz on Ways to Leverage Sustainability Programs to Drive Enterprise-Wide Efficiency
Live event Tuesday, June 26th, 2012, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT with replay available from website
Forward thinking companies are reaping the financial and operational benefits of sustainability. With systematic programs they can quickly generate strong returns to support the business case for these initiatives. The speakers will address opportunities from energy efficiency to water conservation programs and waste minimization citing real implementations and metrics.
In this webinar, guest speaker Michael Nicholus, director – global environment program at Accenture, and Mark A. Serwinowski, CEO and founder of MetaVu along with Julien Picaud, product manager at Enablon will provide a framework for companies looking to implement sustainability initiatives to drive efficiency throughout their organization and realize improved environmental, social and financial results. The session will be moderated by GreenBiz Executive Editor, Joel Makower.
Attendees of the complimentary webinar will learn:
- The business case for linking sustainability and financial results.
- Clear guidelines to identify opportunities for better efficiency with an organization.
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You kids already know I love ribs. You just can't do better than short pork ribs, with a sticky, tasty basting… see me eating ribs in Joburg with my bestie here, and at Lefty's in CT here. And now, we have a strong contender set to snatch the title of 'best ribs'. Drum roll please, it's… Fat Cactus, Woodstock! We'd been to Fat Cactus in Mowbray a few times before (even when my Joburg bestie was down for a whirlwind visit, remember? I even went on about how amazing the chipotle sauce was. But golly goodness is having a whole rib basket to yourself a treat! That's what I did on Saturday, and I'd say that was my weekend highlight. But of course, that's not all we did… (and of course I didn't get photos of everything, either) 😉
Saturday, 4 October 2014: Dip in the Blouberg sea, Fat Cactus lunch, exploring the yacht club
Sunday, 5 October 2014: Breakfast at Craft House Eatery, Woodbridge Island
Sadly that's where I stopped taking photos as I went into 'relax' mode when we boogie boarded at Muizenberg (water was still as numbingly cold as it was on Saturday), and later lazed in the sun at Llandudno.
That's all, folks! As you were 🙂