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Friday, February 1, 2013
spicy adobo potato soup
4-5 small waxy potatoes
2 cans diced tomatoes
1 onion, diced and sauteed in olive oil
1-2 cups corn kernels (frozen or canned if you don't have fresh in the middle of winter of course)
1/8 - 1/4 cup diced chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
1/8 cup cilantro
4 cups vegetable broth
serves 4
Saute your chopped onion in olive oil until browned. Dice your potatoes into 1/2 inch cubes. Chop the chipotle peppers into small pieces. I used about a 1/4 of a cup of chipotle peppers and it was SPICY. Adjust to your taste. Throw it all into a large pot.
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Looks delicious. I can't handle much heat in a dish but my husband loves it. I laughed when I read that you asked Brian to save some soup for a photo. I do that all the time! What we put our families through for these blogs, huh?ReplyDelete
this looks so yum! xReplyDelete
Cheese really should be its own food group. I love it so much. The zuppa looks delicious, very mouthwatering. I also wish they had food transporters. I'd send you your starbucks and you could send me every concoction you make. ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 1, 2013 at 6:22 PM
This weekend. I have potatoes, I have chiles, I have onions. I will buy the cheese. Looks delicious.ReplyDelete
Ah, you've had the same weather weirdness as we have. The one upside to it is all the soups! Oh, & I'm in utter agreement about cheese improving anything!ReplyDelete
Mmmmm, could I use brown rice instead of potato?ReplyDelete
Great recipe... Love that US board!ReplyDelete
Spicy soup on a cold day can't be beat, looks delicious!ReplyDelete
This looks soooo good! Still in love with that cutting board! Your dad needs an etsy shop ;)ReplyDelete


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Saige is committed to awareness of the arts and the importance of them in schools and learning. What better way for her to express her passion than an outfit created just for her by a girl who shares her passion? This outfit was designed and made by Zoe, age 7.
You will need:
- Doll Size Jeans and White T-Shirt (We used the outfit from Springfield Dolls – you can get it online or at Joann, Michaels or AC Moore)
- Embroidery Flosses and Needle
- Pen that washes out in water
- Phoomph 9X12 Stiff-White
- Felt
- Laura Kelly Buttons from Buttons Galore
- Aleene's Tacky Glue
- Print out the doodle patterns as a PDF file
The first step is to write your message on the t-shirt. The pattern above has the words "Art Rocks" so if you don't think you can get it spaced right; you can hold it up to a window under the shirt and trace it. Then you use different colors of floss to stitch the letters. We have found that floss from Coats and Clark tangles less than the others.
To embellish the doll size jeans, Zoe used felt, Phoomph and buttons. Phoomph is a really cool product you can use to give fabric shapes a 3-D look and to give them more strength – it can be found at the craft store. Cut a small piece of felt into a square and back it with Phoomph. Then draw (or trace one of our doodles from the pattern) on the other backing of the Phoomph to cut out. After it is cut out, peel the Phoomph and stick it to the jeans where you want it. Zoe made a flower for one side.
And then she made a heart for the other leg. To attach the buttons she used Aleene's tacky glue.
She was so excited that she decided to stitch and Phoomph felt Saige's cap too. Keeping our faces from the sun is a good way to protect our skin after all!
Happy finding ways to embellish your clothing and supporting arts everywhere you go!
PS – Don't forget to enter to win the mega art supplies giveaway from Laura Kelly that will be ending Friday!

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The Unibet Premier League will be broadcast live on Sky Sports from 7pm on Thursday nights and shown worldwide through the PDC's international broadcast partners.
In addition, the Unibet Premier League will feature radio commentary throughout the season on talkSPORT and talkSPORT2. For further details of coverage, please visit www.talksport.co.uk.
Unibet Premier League
Night Eight - March 29
The SSE Arena, Belfast
Mensur Suljovic 5-7 Gary Anderson
Michael Smith 7-2 Gerwyn Price
Raymond van Barneveld 2-7 Michael van Gerwen
Daryl Gurney 7-5 Rob Cross
Simon Whitlock 6-6 Peter Wright
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DARYL GURNEY ensured survival in the Unibet Premier League with a homecoming win over Rob Cross as Gerwyn Price was eliminated at The SSE Arena in Belfast on Thursday.
Derry's Gurney was making his first big-stage appearance in Northern Ireland as he stepped out at The SSE Arena, and produced a gutsy performance to end any threat of elimination from the event.
Cross led 2-0 and 3-1 before seeing Gurney hit back to level in leg eight, as the World Champion paid for a miss at double 16.
Gurney then took out 119 to move 5-4 up, with Cross responding in 11 darts only to see the home favourite claim the game's final two legs, ending the contest with a superb nine maximums.
"It was unbelievable - I knew that atmosphere would be good but the support was amazing," said Gurney. "It's the best feeling I've ever had, even better than winning the World Grand Prix last year.
"I was nervous from the atmosphere but as soon as the first treble went in it was mad - I wish I could take the Belfast fans with me every week!
"I'm really glad to get the win too. When I went 2-0 down I knew I had to be more aggressive because if Rob had won a third leg he'd have demolished me.
"The 119 was a big shot because he'd have had two breaks of throw. That shot kept me in the game and then I kicked on, and the 180s kept me going.
"There are things I need to improve because although I got nine 180s it was still only 7-5 so I know in my heart that I need to get my finishing right - but this is a night I'll remember for a long time."
Michael Smith eliminated Gerwyn Price with a 7-2 victory over the Welshman, whose debut Premier League season will end in Liverpool on Judgment Night next week.
The pair shared the opening four legs before a stunning four-leg surge from Smith, begun with a 13-dart leg and also featuring a 160 checkout, pulled him clear to 6-2 before double top sealed victory.
The win was Smith's sixth from eight games this season, and the former World Youth Champion admitted: "It wasn't my best performance but I got the job done and winning the two points is all that matters.
"I was trying not to watch Gerwyn because I knew he was under pressure.
"I'm trying to fight and win every match that I can, because I'm playing well away from the Premier League and not producing it on that stage at the moment."
Gary Anderson extended his unbeaten run to five games with a 7-5 defeat over Mensur Suljovic which leaves the Austrian in the thick of the elimination battle.
Anderson led 2-0 with finishes of 74 and 82, only for Suljovic to take out 101 as he levelled following six legs.
Anderson, though, regained the lead and then punished a miss at tops from his rival by taking out 124 on the bull to lead 5-3, and closed out victory with a 14-darter in the deciding leg.
"It was a bit of a scrape but I got there in the end so I'm happy to win," said Anderson. "My scoring wasn't great but I finished okay, especially the 124 on the bull.
"I couldn't get into my rhythm and I never can against Mensur because I've got my own pace, but it's good for me to get past elimination because I'm plodding along and not totally happy with my game.
"I've got a few more weeks now and I'm looking forward to it."
Suljovic and Peter Wright will battle to avoid elimination on Judgement Night in Liverpool next week, after the world number two came from 6-3 down to claim a draw with Simon Whitlock.
Wright now sits one point ahead of Suljovic after surviving a missed match dart to claim a key point, landing an 11-darter and a 120 checkout as he claimed the final three legs without reply.
Wright had lost three successive games by a 7-1 scoreline, but returned to form by reaching last weekend's European Darts Open final before battling back to share the spoils in Belfast.
"I did okay last weekend by getting to the final in Leverkusen and I'm still fighting in the Premier League," said Wright.
"I was getting beaten easily but I'm still fighting and I won't roll over. My game is improving and I can't really explain what the last few weeks were like - I seem to have a spell like this each year.
"I wasn't sure what the situation was in the table earlier but this moves me above Mensur and it could be important. I'm only going to get better now."
Michael van Gerwen maintained his two-point lead at the top of the table with a 7-2 romp against Dutch rival Raymond van Barneveld.
2014 champion Van Barneveld took out 81 and double 18 for an early 2-1 lead, but Van Gerwen levelled with a 132 bull finish before punishing five missed doubles from his rival in a key leg five.
Van Gerwen then landed a pair of double eight finishes to move 5-2 up before closing out victory with six straight legs.
"My finishing was good and I didn't make a lot of mistakes, so I'm happy with this win," said Van Gerwen. "I like winning and I want to keep this going.
"I'm very confident and my form is good. My scoring power isn't there yet but I'm winning my games and all that matters is being top of the table and getting into the Play-Offs."
With Price already eliminated, either Suljovic or Wright will also drop out of the tournament following next Thursday's Judgement Night in Liverpool.
Suljovic will take on Van Gerwen at the Echo Arena knowing that he has to take at least a point from the game to put the pressure on Wright, who then meets Gurney.


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Theodore Roethke's "The Moment": Mysticism Through the Senses
Karen Alkalay-Gut
Poesis V. 7, No. 3, 1986, 38-46.
Theodore Roethke
We passed the ice of pain
And came to a dark ravine,
And there we sang with the sea:
The wide, the bleak abyss
Shifted with our slow kiss.
Space struggled with time;
The gong of midnight struck
The naked absolute.
Sound, silence sang as one.
All flowed: without, within;
Body met body, we
Created what's to be.
What else to say?
We end in joy.
Theodore Roethke's "The Moment": Mysticism Through the Senses
The first response to many poems by Theodore Roethke is often one of poetic pleasure and intellectual confusion. The rhythms, sounds, vague erotic connotations, the sense of waves of movement and a definite forward direction, are typical and frequently noted. Kenneth Burke, for example, points out that in reading a poem by Roethke, "You have strongly the sense of entering at one place, winding through a series of internal developments, and coming out somewhere else."(1) The literal meaning, however, is often ignored, and dismissed as simply unnecessary.
Roethke helped to perpetuate this approach by his mystic directions on how to read his works, as in his guide to the Praise to the End! sequence:
You will have no trouble if you approach these poems as a child would, naively, with your whole being awake, your faculties loose and alert. (2)
This and other hints thrown out in his journals, lectures, and essays, attest to the fact that Roethke sees a clear need to break away from the intellectual and rational approaches in order to reach a more empathic understanding and communication.
His approach is perpetuated by explicators of Roethke as well. Richard Blessing summarizes the prevailing prejudice against a "close reading" of Roethke in his discussion of Praise to the End!
Those who have fared far worst, it seems to me, have tried to do line-by-line 'close readings' of these poems; that is, they have tried to illuminate the obscurities of the non sequitur, the nonsense, the oracular pronouncement, and the cryptic command or question as each occurs, a step at a time.
Blessing bases his opinion on Roethke's distinction between obscurity that yields to a line-by-line reading and the kind "which shines from every sentence, withholds itself from the poem as a whole on repeated readings, but when it does yield 'explodes'." (4)
Roethke's poems, it is agreed, 'explode'. But can communication be achieved in a poem which ignores verbal significance? An examination of "The Moment" reveals that the poem may be approached from various angles: From a purely external, structural description, an emotional reaction, or a literal close reading, the poem follows the same pattern. All approaches yield a single reading, one that seems to "explode" when the many different parts are combined. This essay will attempt to delineate the parts and unite them.
A cursory glance at the poem reveals a pattern: four verses of diminishing line number and diminishing line length. The first verse has five lines of trimeter, the second has four lines, the third three lines and the fourth two lines of bimeter. The relatively longer, complex sentences which begin the poem become simple in construction near the end, with words of single syllables only. This physical structure may be contrasted to the original model - obviously the sonnet structure - and in the contrast we may note that there is in this poem a movement toward concentration and intensity, a physical thrust toward a conclusion after which no language is necessary, and sound and silence become one. In a sonnet, this philosophical concept could be expressed only verbally: Here it is also carefully illustrated.
But this direction is not linear, as we can see in the language and the rhyme scheme. The second verse has longer words, abstract polysyllabic phrases like "naked absolute", which in context jar the reader with their intellectualism. The first verse is relatively physical in its language and imagery (ignoring meaning for the present) and the words are short. The third and fourth verses also seem to be composed of more concrete language, but it is interwoven more inobtrusively with abstractions and there is a more successful combination of concrete and abstract.
The rhyme scheme of the poem, aabcc/adda(slant)/abb/ee, also shows up the second verse as disharmonious, forced. Every other verse interrhymes - only here are imperfect rhymes. But the last line of this second verse, "Sound, silence sang as one", blends into the rhyme of the first line of verse three, "All flowed: without, within;" and the sound (and significance) of "one" blends with "all". We can conclude that something must happen in verse two to alter the disharmony, to move from a "struggle" to a "flow", to allow the poem to end ultimately in "joy".
A literal line by line interpretation, then, is unnecessary to a comprehension of the feeling of a development towards union and transcendence in the poem. However, when a line-by-line interpretation is attempted, it reinforces the structure and simultaneously multiplies the significances: through reference to jungian symbols, literary allusions, philosophical terminology, and other poems by Roethke, an "iceberg" effect is achieved, a sense that the surface of the poem indicates entire systems underneath. Although this is a short poem, I find it inexhaustible in its references and am certain the reader's memory will also be jolted into recalling other sources and references that amplify the implications of the poem.
The ice of pain is the first stage to be passed in the poem. Pain that is ice in Roethke's poems is primarily associated with the agony of the solitary self. Usually this awareness of cold is associated with the awakening out of a trance of self, an emergence from an immersion in the psyche not unlike R.D. Laing's "Schizophrenic Experience", in which the individual is cut off from the external world for a period as he explores the inner regions of his mind. When he ascends from this state, a need for communication, for unity with others, is awakened. In his sequence, "The Lost Son", for example, the protagonist begins to awaken from a kind of self exploration with: "I'm cold./ I'm cold all over. Rub me in father and mother." (5). The outset of "The Moment", marks the beginning of the relationship with the world outside, and the poem passes through the awareness of cold, the recognition of isolation. A relationship is therefore begun between man and lover, poet and reader, poet, lover and sea.
This is the necessary initial stage, the ice breaker. But there is also another level upon which the poem moves, that of literary associations. To the Romantics the image of the ravine beginning in some frozen heights and often flowing down to the sea is the objective correlative for the pattern of the mind of the poet. Describing the Ravine of Arve in "Mont Blanc" Shelley addresses it as "dark, deep Ravine", and illustrates the scene:
awful scene
Where Power in likeness of the Arve comes down
From the ice gulphs that gird his secret throne
This power in the ravine, emerging from the ice, whose source and significance is unknown, is both creative and destructive according to the will of man. In Roethke's poem the potential of the will has become purely positive, in an attitude reminiscent of Book XIV of Wordsworth's Prelude. Recollecting his vision of Mt. Snowdon, Wordsworth writes:
There is beheld the emblem of a mind
That feed upon infinity, that broods,
Over the dark abyss, intent to hear
Its voices issuing forth to silent light
In one continuous stream: a mind sustained
By recognition of transcendent power
In sense conducting to ideal form,
In soul of more than moral privilege.
Wordsworth's concept of the conversion of sensory objects by the senses into ideal forms is perhaps the initial force in Roethke's poem, but it is supby the image of the next line in "The Moment"
The wide, the bleak abyss
Shifted with our slow kiss
The abyss, in Wordsworth the place from which the voices "issue forth", moves and responds to the erotic preliminaries of union in "The Moment". However this abyss will not be transcended here, as in Wordsworth, but will be incorporated by a more expansive experience. It is not surprising that one may find in Roethke's notebooks the demand: "I want it all, Lord, the depths and the heights." (6)
In many early poems Roethke uses the abyss. Since he often uses the same symbols, but continually accumulates additional references, the significance of the abyss alters, although the basic meaning and direction remains the same. For example, in an earlier poem, "The Lost Son", the "abyss" is the nadir of a schizophrenic experience, the depths of the self - terrifying and fecund. In "Mixed Sequence", the sequence which is concluded with "The Movement", it is the pit into which man in his search for transcendence may plunge unexpectedly:
And the abyss? The abyss?
'The abyss you can't miss:
It's right where you are -
A step down the stair'
In the course of the sequence, the fear of the abyss is overcome and the depth and heights are joined in "The Moment", transcended through incorporation.
The awareness of both the fecundity and the terror of non being the abyss has come to indicate must be maintained and incorporated in any transcendent movement.
The transitional line between the ravine and the shifting of the abyss is: "And there we sang with the sea". The "We" has given itself to the motions of the water, the primitivity of the sea, and its universality, rather than endeavoring, as in previous poems, to "outleap the sea".("The Abyss", 219). The sea is collective identity as well as collective unconscious is Roethke's lexicon. It is also a borrowing from Coleridge's "Kubla Khan".
Kubla's pleasure dome, it will be recalled, employs the same images as his contemporaries Wordsworth and Shelley, with the pointed addition of the sea:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
(ll. 1-5)
And this pleasure incorporates all time and space, all sound and silence, all paradoxes of existence:
The shadow of the pleasure dome
Floated midway on the waves,
Where was heard the mingled measures
From the fountains and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device.
A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice.
(ll. 31-6)
Coleridge, however, cannot revive this vision in his poem, this vision in which all opposites combine, and from which he was awakened midway. And Roethke, with Coleridge in mind, proceeds to create this vision - wide awake, to combine the opposition of dream and wakedness.
There follows a kind of explosion - one which goes beyond literary allusions to more simple, abstract words. "Space struggled with time". The struggle between space and time here can be abstractly defined as the attempt of two forces to occupy the same place at the same time. This can be concretized in an erotic metaphor and/or a concrete mystic metaphor. For the attempt is to find eternity in a moment and infinity in a finite space, the dream of Blake - "to hold infinity in the palm of your hand/ and Eternity in an hour." - united in one motion.
This mystic union of space and time, infinity and eternity, is fulfilled at the stroke of midnight, the witching hour and the traditional moment of ascension. Times of day have symbolical significance in most of Roethke's works. In "Mixed Sequence" he describes the abyss as "noon of failure". Noon, like the abyss, is locked in time. Midnight, however, is the apogee and the moment when time may transcend itself to eternity.
And midnight is the moment when the gong strikes the absolute, when time and space unite. The physical terms - "naked" and "gong" - combine with the specific abstract: "midnight" and "absolute". This is the combination toward which Roethke has endeavored to move throughout the poem, the concrete universal. The line that follows, then, almost speaks for itself. "Sound, silence sang as one" does not suggest a transcendence of language so much as a unity between language and silence, meaning which exists whether it is expressed or not. Language does not lie and silence does not betray. "All flowed; without, within" describes this destruction of boundaries, the unification - both of the lovers and of all previous distinctions, with andwithout bodies.
The poem ends on this note. Nothing more need be added, except that the mystic, the literary, and the erotic experience related - as well as the poem itself - end in joy, a state anticipated by many English writers - including Yeats, Coleridge, and Eliot - but rarely achieved.
A literal interpretation of Theodore Roethke, then, is not only possible, but serves to reinforce and expand this initial vague emotional reaction to this poem, and explains the "explosion" Roethke works so hard to achieve. Although the actual subject - love, mystic unity, the relationship between the poem and the reader - is not delineated, the relationship within this subject is clear. This is not nonsense, but all sense.
1. "The Vegetal Radicalism of Theodore Roethke, "Sewanee Review (LVIII, Winter, 1950), 68.
2. Ralph J. Mills, Jr., ed. On the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1965), 37.
3. David Waggoner, ed. Straw For The Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke (New York: Doubleday, 1972), 261.
4. Theodore Roethke's Dynamic Vision (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1974), 84.
5. Theodore Roethke, The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (New York: Doubleday, 1966), 56. All other quotations from Roethke refer to this text.
6. Notebooks, 28.


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In most cases, ordinary users don't have to pay for some necessary software for your system except you really like them or make a living on them. You can always find a good alternative software for commercial software. EX, Gimp - Photoshop, Openoffice - Microsoft office, Blender - Maya, 7-Zip - WinRAR, etc. And lots of free & open source softwares and games are waiting for you. So why you still want to buy a business software? And I highly recommend you have a try with Linux!
All the softwares here I share could be downloaded and used well, any cracked software won't appear at here. :)
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Hannah Yoon captured this shot during the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche last October in Toronto during her internship with The Canadian Press.
View samples of Hannah Yoon's work for The Canadian Press.
View her winning submission for the Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.
By Hannah Yoon
2014 Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award Recipient
Right away I was thrown into the mix of things with TIFF. I quickly learned that teamwork is an essential part of working for the wire. It wasn't about what I wanted to shoot, but what we, as a team, would be able to provide for the wire and it's clients. I was assigned to press conferences all day for over two weeks, but these were important images that would be used over and over again.
I learned the ebb and flow of working for the wire was unpredictable. One day I would be following the Prime Minister, and the next I would be feature hunting because it was a slow day. I was sent to general news events in addition to shooting portraits of designers, musicians and authors. And because news is unpredictable, I had to be ready to go where I was called to go. The pressure to get the image in time pushed me to be ready at all times.
I am thankful to have been part of The Canadian Press family for 6 weeks. The experiences and lessons I learned during the internship have been foundational steps to my growth as a photographer. Staff photographer Nathan Dennette challenged me to go out beyond the given assignments and to be aware of the news of the day. Freelancers Darren Calabrese and Chris Young both endlessly gave me tips and feedback as I worked my way through the internship. Staff photographer Frank Gunn challenged me to be aware of the story we, as wire photographers, were telling. He kindly reminded me that this internship wasn't about the pictures, but rather what I would learn from it. I'm so grateful to the Hanson family, The Canadian Press and The Canadian Journalism Foundation for this opportunity.
Working for The Canadian Press gave me the boost of confidence I was always missing. Through mistakes, through successes, through questions asked and advice given, I'm excited this was my platform to continue to grow as a photographer. The real-life pressure, deadlines, and people you meet and experience during the internship isn't like any other and worth applying for.
(All photos Copyright 2014 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Hannah Yoon)
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This is outrageous. As I travel around the country, I frequently meet with veterans, or their family members, who have been stiffed, ignored or mistreated by the Veterans Administration. Paperwork is lost. Claims disappear. It takes months, sometimes years, to get a response. The treatment afforded a new generation of wounded warriors, with a persistent pattern of new wounds, has been dilatory and scandalously inadequate. I've faulted Eric Shinseki, the VA Secretary, in the past–mostly for not getting out there, in the public, and making the case for the splendid leadership qualities and employability of the veterans now returning home. I'll even grant Shinseki the benefit of the doubt on attacking the bureaucratic disaster that he has had to confront. But this whole issue raises an important question about government: Would this sort of incompetence survive in the private sector?
This is one of the central, and most valid, arguments that conservatism has. There is no creative destruction in the public sector. If caring for veterans was a function of the private economy–and I'm not suggesting that it should be–competitors to the VA would have bitten off chunks of the market, perhaps large chunks. There would be an electronic record-keeping system that accurately recorded every veteran's time and place of service; there would be kiosks, like ATMs, that would give veterans options to pursue the services they need. Iraq and Afghanistan vets with post-traumatic stress would have the equivalent of their own Starbucks (in competition with their own McDonalds)–walk-in centers where they could go and be evaluated, and hang out with comrades, and be treated. If they didn't provide the services in a creative and customer-friendly way, they'd fold. World War II veterans and their spouses would have the sort of chronic elder-care now being pioneered by Geisinger and other private systems.
But we have little of that. There has been no strong market force to goose the VA into transforming itself to serve a new generation of veterans in a new, computer-driven age. It remains, in too many respects, your grandfather's VA. I think it's morally vital that the government provides state-of-the-art services to our returning veterans, to ensure a level of humanity that the private market doesn't always. This is a public responsibility. And, more particularly, it is the responsibility of politicians, especially Democrats–the party that believes in the efficacy of government-provided care–to demand the rigor that would push the VA into the future. I mean, if the government can't perform this function–to care for those who sacrificed so much for the rest of us–you wonder what on earth it can do. As I said, this is the strongest argument that conservatives have and it's one area where I tend to agree with them.


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Philips has produced a line of speaker docks that are compatible with every Android phone. Say hello to the flagship AS851, the slightly smaller AS351 and the alarm clock AS111.
Incredibly, up until now, there hasn't been a single music unit that has been able to work with all Android phones. Philips noticed that gap in the market at the IFA tech show this year (September) and have been working like crazy to produce a line of speaker docks that is compatible with every Android phone device. The result of Philips' hard work is three different Android-only speaker docks. These are the flagship AS851, the slightly smaller AS351 and the alarm clock AS111.
At the launch event, Philips talked about the difficulties it faced with designing a dock that worked with all Android phones. The solution Philips came up with was an "innovative micro USB connector that can be adjusted to different positions and orientations to suit each variable Android device, alongside a dedicated Philips App". However, Philips haven't managed to revolutionise the ways USB's work and this feature is only for charging purposes as you cannot play music directly thought the USB.
The main way that Philips wants users to connect to the dock is through its dedicated bluetooth music app called 'Philips Fidelio'. And although Bluetooth doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to audio quality, we were pretty impressed when we were played the traditional speaker testing song 'Sultans of Swing' by Dire Straights on the AS851 - albeit we only listen to 10 seconds of the track, but the noise was deep and clean. What did irk me about these speakers docks was that Philips have made this speaker dock Android-only, for what appears to be marketing purposes only. They could have relatively easily expanded this speaker dock to BlackBerry, Apple and Symbian OS's too just by created new Fidelio apps, but alas it will remain an Android only unit. There is a separate 3.5mm input located at the back of each unit to allow other device input though.
Philips have designed their own Fidelio app, which basically connects to the Android speaker docks and allows you to play your music via Bluetooth. The Fidelio app also comes with a clock(?), weather app(?), a quick link to its preferred music player the Songbird app and an handy audio equaliser. All in all, it's a solid effort and works well.
The AS851 is the biggest and most powerful of the three speaker docks launched by Philips today. It comes with 30W speakers, micro USB port, a remote control, five band equaliser and Digital Sound Process (DSP) for lifelike distortion-less music. Its current RRP is £199 and is on sale as of today.
The mid-range speaker dock is designed to give you music both at home and on the go. Philips have achieved this by giving the dock the ability to be powered either by AC or battery. The AS351 comes with 10W of speaker power, a Dynamic Bass Boost, clock display, AA battery operation and a micro USB port. The AS351 has a RRP of £129 and available to buy as of today.
The runt of the littler is the AS111 (aptly named as it is released on the 11/11/11). This is designed to replace your radio alarm clock from the mid-nineties. It comes with a 360-degree speaker design (so the wall gets its fair share of music too), soft glow nightlight mode, clock time synchronisation, 10W of power, a clock display and will set you back £70.


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Take a breath – It may save your life
The Palm Beach Medical Society has some advice for us all: take a breath.
Kirk Slobody – who runs a Delray Beach center specializing in conditioning-infused yoga that bears his name – writes for the society's magazine On Call that in today's world stress has become chronic due to job demands, the ever-present smartphones, social media, and long commutes.
He says conscious breathing is one solution for managing stress. He says learning this technique can increase energy, mental alertness and clarity, improve concentration, among other things.
Slobody suggests that when you feel anxiety, tension, anger, try breath control or extension. In yoga, it's called Pranayama.
So what is conscious breathing. Slobody says to:
Find a place on the floor to sit quietly or lay down with your feet flat on the floor. Close your eyes and begin to breath slowly in and out. Extend your exhales longer than your inhales. Breathe in and focus on one's area's tension and as you exhale consciously let the area relax.
You can read his whole article again at On Call's quarter two edition, which is free to read online.


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Dear JTS Community,
Following the publication of this year's Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project report—and the uproar that has since followed—I would like to offer my personal perspective on the current conversation.
I am addressing the questions raised and the challenges facing our community in an article on the Jewish Week website today and in its print edition on Friday, November 29. "Let's Drink a L'Chaim to Conservative Judaism" is both a personal statement and a message from JTS: we're here, we're learning and growing, and there's still a lot of work to be done.
Your thoughts on this essay, the new Pew report, or the current climate in the Jewish world are most welcome.
Arnold M. Eisen
The Jewish Theological Seminary
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Fwd: Chancellor Arnold Eisen Says "L'Chaim!" to Conservative Judaism
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Diving for Pearls Hair Oil
Protect your hair from the sun and surf with this gorgeously scented oil – ylang-ylang oil is used by pearl divers to keep their locks soft.
atur2 tablespoons coconut oil
2 tablespoons jojoba oil
10 drops ylang-ylang oil
Put oils into a glass bottle and shake well to combine.
Taken from: Feeding Your Skin by Carla Oates (Vermilion, £9.99)
Nourishing Banana Mask
This skin treat forms a temporary waterproof layer over your face, allowing skin cells to recover their moisture after being exposed to the hot sun and sea.
1 small organic banana
1 teaspoon hemp oil
1 teaspoon manuka honey
Mash ingredients together, smooth over skin and leave for ten minutes before rinsing off with warm water.
Taken from: Naturally Gorgeous by Charlotte Vøhtz (Ebury Press, £9.99)
Sugar Sweet Body Scrub
Get your skin baby-soft and smooth in time for the surf season with this yummy scrub.
150g (5oz) sugar
25g dried fennel seeds
375ml sweet almond oil
20 drops sweet orange essential oil
5 drops ylang-ylang essential oil
5 drops patchouli essential oil
Mix sugar and fennel seeds in a bowl, then put in a large sealable jar. Mix almond oil with essential oils, and pour over the sugar. Add more oil if needed. Massage into skin in a circular motion and rinse off.
Taken from: The Ultimate Natural Beauty Book by Josephine Fairley (Kyle Cathie, £14.99)
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10 Actors Who NEVER Liked Their Co-Stars In Real Life!
Your hearts are going to break once you hear about your favorite actors who never actually got along in real life. From the afamed Gilmore girls to Game of Thrones. We got it all. Click that subscribe button and let's get started. All you Gilmore Girl fans are going to be disappointed to find out your beloved Lorelai and Luke actually didn't like each other off camera. Ryan Gosling and McAdams fight from the first day on set and end up giving the performance of a century. Will Smith is not as fresh as you may think. He reportedly didn't care about helping his cast members get paid more, he had Janet Hubert removed for trying. Serena and Blair, from Gossip Girl had to live life for years faking the fact they disliked one another. They did it all for the ratings. DiCaprio apparently, is far too immature for Claire Danes and Danes is too uptight for DiCaprio. R2-D2 and C-3PO, the beloved characters, who appeared in every star wars film, actually don't have the greatest friendship fans believed them to have. Sophia Bush caught Chad Murray cheating with Paris Hilton and broke things off, but still had to work with him for five years on set of One Tree Hill. Mad Max, turned Hardy crazy on set causing him to ignore cast and crew while he mumbled to himself while staying in character. Hardy and LeBeouf duke it out over some sort of unknown beef between the two. Game of Thrones, Queen of what we love to hate, actually is the sweetest person giving massages between takes. But her ex Flynn does not approve and caused havoc on set to the point they had to keep them separated at all times.


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Li'l Sonja is a warrior girl who travels the lands testing her mettle against monsters big and small, a younger pluckier version of the famous She-Devil With a Sword. When Li'l Sonja encounters a town plagued by eccentric bandits, she needs to figure out the pattern behind the thefts and bring the baddies to justice. No task is too tough for our crimson-haired hero. And if that isn't enough, each Li'l book comes with a two-page activity sheet!
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Foreclosure listings are a list of properties that are in proceeding due to non stipend of the mortgage on the geographic area. These properties are for public sale at discounted prices because the bank, or authorities agency that has taken ownership of the property, is attempting to compensate the amount lifeless collect on the geographic region.
There are two websites that submission free of charge proceeding listings, which are - 4viv.com and The Free Foreclosure Database. Both of these sites count bank and polity proceedings listings. Other sites ask for a fee formerly you can access any legal proceeding rumour. Some of these sites will permit you to try their employment liberate for a spell of example and ask you for a fee when the instance is up or you will not have right to the lists.
When you have admittance to a proceedings register site, you will gain:
- A absolute computer address for the location of the geographic region.
- Phone numbers to accomplish the institutions that are substance the foreclosed geographic region for sale.
- The interrogative asking price of the proceeding listings.
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As I turn the page,
As I come forward,
As I become myself,
I turn to this image.
This image of myself in the mirror,
this image of self-worth, relief and love.
This same image that drives me crazy
Every other day, every other time.
I look at this image with a constant beat
to see how I have grown, to see how much I have loved.
I see that image staring back at me
Eyes sincere, strong heart and constant smile
That image that makes me lose myself
That image that fuels me to know I can do more
Mixed feelings in this mind, in this heart.
Mixed opinions and change of view
Mixed steps, 3 steps forward, 2 steps back
One step, two-step, now another more
Within this course, this year, this moment
I see this image transforming into my true self
This image that still needs to cry out, vent out,
Still needs to discover and live
This same imagine that is forever learning
And doing each day the best it can.
As I turn the page, to another chapter,
To another book, to another time,
I hold parts of my true self and I search for more
I have the power to love myself
Right here, right now,
With the turn of the page,
With another step forward
I will and I am.
By: Ariadna Arredondo
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The great thing about the Realms back then was the rich and varied detail in the setting. It was very much a high fantasy setting full of magic and wonder populated by varying countries, NPC's, and creatures galore. Within the sourcebooks, there was just enough detail about each region to give a DM an idea on how to incorporate those areas into his/her game. The maps were all fantastic and wonderfully rendered with plenty of space in certain areas for the DM to incorporate elements of his own creation into the Realms seamlessly.
I understand there were a great many products released for the Realms, and a great many of them were crap. TSR, and later WotC, was able to use the Realms as a platform for their product because of the mass appeal of a lot of their novels. As a result, many of the books and supplements were absolute garbage. I know because I threw away many a dollar on their shrinkwrapped splatbooks and modules, only to open them and discover the content within practically useless. Still yet, overall the Forgotten Realms of that era was the most rich high fantasy setting out there. If there was a sourcebook I didn't like, I simply didn't incorporate its contents into my game.
It's sort of funny in hindsight, because I was never a huge Ed Greenwood fan. I never could get into his novels, and felt he focused way too much time doting on Elminster's awesomeness in his writings on the Realms; something that made me throw up a little each time I saw an instance of it. Then again, I was a Drizzt fanboy as well, which is something else that will likely make many readers from the old school cringe. Sorry, I thought he was a great character and I like RA Salvatore's books.
I understand the frustation of many from the old guard who see 2nd edition, and the removal of Gygax from the game, as the start of the long road that has led to the demise of the hobby as they once new it. Just because I am a fan of 2e and the Realms doesn't mean that I'm unsympathetic or ignorant to this notion. Gary was Dungeons and Dragons, we can all agree with that. With that said, however, I can still say I loved the Forgotten Realms and the setting will always have a place near and dear to me. Well, the 1993 edition will anyway.


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Those of you who've been following my personal blog for a while know that I've been working on an album for like 3 years. I'm so FREAKING EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE that the time is finally nigh for me to finish it, and I'd really love it if you helped me do so!
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SUBIC BAY FREEPORT - Members of the Subic Bay Freeport Chamber of Commerce, Inc. lauded Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chairman Roberto Garcia for "resurrecting" the country's premier free port and turning it from being a negative performer to an achiever this year.
Newly-elected SBFCCI president and chairman of the board Rose Baldeo said that as "captain of the ship," SBMA chairman Garcia has successfully led SBMA back to business with his leadership, commitment and perseverance.
The message was conveyed during the general meeting of the SBFCCI held at the Global Silk Pavilion here, where Garcia was invited as guest of honor and to give updates on the agency's programs and prospects.
"The general membership of the Chamber is fully satisfied with the performance of the management of SBMA and the way it helps and supports the locators and investors in Subic," Baldeo noted.
She added that through cooperation and understanding, both the Chamber and the SBMA could maneuver the Freeport towards greater progress to create more employment and generate more income that would help boost the economy of the country.
For his part, Garcia reaffirmed that SBMA maintains the tradition of support and cooperation with its locators and investors for mutual development.
"Because of your support, SBMA has already on its table a committed investment amounting to P24 billion compared to P2.3 billion for the year 2012, or an increase of 931.4 percent, with three months more to go this year," Garcia said.
He also noted that a good number of Japanese investors have signified their intentions of transferring their businesses from China to Subic due to territorial disputes between China and Japan.
He added that while SBMA is gearing towards positive markings on almost all of its statistics, smuggling, especially oil, has been successfully curbed.
"Smuggling, particularly oil, in the Freeport is already a thing of the past and we hope to maintain this positive image. Thanks to the Bureau of Customs, which is requiring oil importers to pay duties prior to shipment," he said.
In the same forum, SBFCCI members applauded Garcia after announcing that his office is pushing the issuance of a single certificate of registration and tax exemption (CRTE) instead of requiring two certificates - one for registration and another for tax exemption.
"We will make the registration process here as simple as possible, as easy as it should be," Garcia said.
The SBMA chairman noted that unifying the certificates is part of the good governance practices being promoted by SBMA in compliance with the government's program to eliminate graft and corruption.
"We want to make Subic a place where we can do business in peace and harmony. So, expect a lot of development in the nearest future," Garcia also told the Subic traders. (30)
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Clackamas board considers gas tax
Voters may be asked May 17 to weigh in on local option, smaller vehicle fee.
Clackamas County commissioners are now floating a local gasoline tax, plus a smaller local vehicle registration fee, as part of a proposed May 17 advisory vote.
After a discussion Tuesday (Feb. 2), the commissioners will have to decide by the end of the month whether to proceed with asking the questions of voters.
Chairman John Ludlow said that a $5 annual vehicle registration fee, plus a countywide fuel tax of 3 cents per gallon, would raise almost as much money in five years as a $25-per-year vehicle fee would generate in seven years.
Let people know we are going to be accountable, we are going to do a specific list of projects, and let us prove we can do it – so it would be an easier renewal the next time we go before the voters, Ludlow said.
A $5 county registration fee would generate about $1 million annually for the county itself; cities would share 40 percent of its proceeds. It would be added on to the states annual fee of $43, which is collected every two years upon renewal.
A 3-cent-per-gallon local gasoline tax would generate about $5.3 million for the county, which would not have to share the proceeds with cities.
That package would raise about $32 million for the county over five years, compared with $35 million for the county from a $25 vehicle fee over seven years.
Clackamas County officials already have laid out 47 specific repaving projects for the original $35 million.
State law allows counties to impose a local vehicle registration fee outright only Multnomah County has done so or refer it to voters. It has failed at the ballot box in Clackamas, Lane and Washington counties in the past five years.
State law was changed in 2009 to require voter approval for new or increased local gasoline taxes. Two counties (Multnomah and Washington) and 14 cities, including Canby and Milwaukie, have taxes in addition to the state rate of 30 cents per gallon. The Portland City Council has referred a 10-cent increase to voters May 17.
Ludlow said a local gas tax would satisfy critics who say a $25 vehicle fee is too high, and a modest registration fee would draw money from owners of hybrid and electric cars that use little of no gasoline.
Commissioner Jim Bernard was mayor of Milwaukie when the city council approved a 2-cent tax back in 2007.
He was dubious about any kind of advisory vote, although he was willing to proceed outright with a $10 vehicle fee and refer a local gas tax to voters in the Nov. 8 general election.
I think putting it as an advisory vote is dangerous. They may vote no, Bernard said. The approach that has worked for me is engage citizens, show them the package and see what happens.
Commissioner Martha Schrader voiced a similar opinion.
My concern is that if its a hell, no response, then we are dead in the water, she said. That would not surprise me in this county right now.
But Commissioner Tootie Smith, who raised the concept of an advisory vote last week, said having the questions on the primary and general election ballots would raise public awareness of the countys need for road repair money.
We need to be honest with our voters about what we are going to ask them for, she said. I think voters are not taking us seriously because we havent said we are going to do something. I think this is where our opportunity comes.
Commissioner Paul Savas said county officials should pursue a campaign to inform the public about repair needs for the countys 1,400 miles of roads.
But I think there is value in educating via a voters pamphlet statement, because voters do not think there is a problem, he said.


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In Asia, the only report from Japan is Retail Sales y/y. On the US dollar's front, the US will release some economic data such as Loan Officer Survey, Personal Income m/m, Personal Spending m/m, and Core PCE Price Index m/m. So there is a probability the USD/JPY pair will move with low to medium volatility during this day.
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Resistance 2: 112.27
Resistance 1: 112.05
Support 1: 111.78
Support 2: 111.56
Support 3: 111.34
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To assist President Barack Obama's effort to "train Americans with the skills employers need and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now," the Third Way identified key traits of successful job training programs in their publication The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Workforce Programs. Each of the seven habits are defined followed by case studies where innovative providers are demonstrating their effectiveness. These habits can only be accomplished if partnerships are developed and nurtured throughout every aspect of a successful and sustainable Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) program.
1. Actively engage local business—Different players in the workforce development field (business, education and training providers, unions, trade association, local governments, and workforce investment boards) need to come together to form training partnerships. Forming these partnerships will ensure that employers have a steady supply of qualified workers, graduates will have a job for them at the end of their training, and local economies and tax bases will grow.
2. Use labor market data to drive decisions—As stated in the Labor Market Assessment (LMA) section, this is one of the most important components to building a successful EWDJT program. Not only will an LMA provide a path for recruitment, training, and placement, it will also identify program supporters, potential employers, and new partners.
3. Treat education like a job—Training programs work best when they simulate the life skills needed in the workplace such as attire, being on time, and working in teams. Business partners can help an EWDJT program identify the life skills they require on the job.
4. Connect people to careers—Placing graduates in long-term careers as opposed to short-term jobs should be the ultimate goal of every EWDJT program. Many times, employers rely on word-of-mouth and hire candidates through referrals. Strong partner relationships will help make an EWDJT program known in the community to better aid graduates being hired for these positions.
5. Provide wrap-around student services—Many of the participants in an EWDJT program have outside issues to deal with—financial, mental health, addiction, childcare, and transportation to name a few. A successful EWDJT program helps students in their complicated lives by offering case management to sign up for government benefits, remedial education or tutoring, life skills and job readiness, counseling, childcare, and subsidized transportation. These services are not eligible costs in an EWDJT grant, but may be leveraged through partnerships that offer these services.
6. Tap innovative funding sources—EWDJT programs must be creative when providing a well-rounded job training program to residents of their community that includes all of the services that students need to be successful. A diverse group of partners will prove most helpful in obtaining monetary, leveraged, and other resources.
7. Embrace evaluation—EWDJT programs can use input from partners to pinpoint areas of weakness and identify areas to improve.
In 1998, the Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI) was awarded a cooperative agreement from the EPA to provide training to the newly EPA-awarded Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots. The first HMTRI-conducted workshop brought the initial eleven pilot program recipients together to brainstorm on the best practices for sustainable employment. The pilots identified "best practices" or practices that have worked for their organizations. From this workshop, HMTRI produced the Best Practices for Job Training Programs in Brownfields Redevelopment Initiatives report. Although the report is dated, it still contains valuable information relevant to today's EWDJT grantees. The best practices identified for building successful partnerships and community involvement follow.
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GROUP 2007 Details
GROUP 2007 was held from November 4-7 in Sanibel Island, Florida.
Table of Contents
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Conference Co-Chairs
Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Kori Inkpen, Dalhousie University
Paper Co-Chairs
Christine Halverson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen
Notes Co-Chairs
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT
Wayne Lutters, University of Maryland UMBC
Workshops Co-Chairs
Jesus Favela, CICESE Research Center
A.J. Brush, Microsoft Research
Panels Chair
Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine
Posters Co-Chairs
Stacey D. Scott, MIT
Samuli Pekkola, University of Jyv�skyl�
Doctoral Colloquium
Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan
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St. Malo
Population:there are is a population of 50 000 inhabitants in St Malo ,there are called the "malouin"
The city: St Malo is a fortifyied city located in britain Brittany .The city is a seaside resort so in summer the population grown grows to 200 000.
Climate and Tide :St Malo have has a tempered temperate climate. The temperature are is warmest than over britain's city than other Breton cities because of the Gulf Stream.The St Malo Tide are is one of the bigger Europe's bigger Tides :the water can grown up of 14 metersThe tide in St Malo
History/Culture:St Malo became a rich city with the discovery of America and the exchange with India,there were a lot of ship-owners and famous people: mariners like Jacques Cartier who discovered Canada, scientists like Monpertuis and writers like Chateaubriand
The city also plays an importeant role in the war against the United Kingdom and Holland because the city has a harbour for Corsair like Surcouf.
The exploitation of the European colony made the fortune of ship-owners and helped the developement of the city.
The developement stopped during the French Revolution but after that the city developped the fishing and tourism industries.
The bigger concert hall is the "Omnibus"wich can receive 920 people ,there are two theatres
there are is also a lot of music festivals in the city.
Eighty Percent of the city was destroyed because of the 2nd world war and was restored after that.


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When I try to compare the men in Ike Reilly's songs—drunk, faithless, and failed, every one—to characters in American fiction (I'm thinking Updike's long-suffering high school teacher Caldwell, from The Centaur), he stops me with a chuckle. The self-deprecating indie rocker says he doesn't really consider himself on the same plane with all that literary stuff. "I write three-minute rock songs," he says.
But he's underselling himself. With his band, the Ike Reilly Assassination, he creates throat-grabbing music with stomping, manic energy and big sing-along choruses. And between the hooks, his lyrics—sometimes bellowed to the back of the room, sometimes barely hissed between teeth—speak tenderly of losers and has-beens hemmed in on all sides by drugs, love, politics, and religion.
And the IRA's latest offering, We Belong to the Staggering Evening, is a return to hard-driving rock, although early on, Reilly was considering making another album as slick and polished as the band's previous, Junkie Faithful.
"But then I said, 'Fuck it, let's just go for a roadhouse kinda feel,'" he says. And with grinding guitars, thinner vocals, and thrashy melodies, the album sounds much more like the band's frenetic live performances than an overproduced studio release.
Reilly says he wanted the album to "paint a picture of celebratory darkness," and the first cut, "8 More Days Till the 4th of July," kicks that theme off with a cheerful rockabilly-punk battle between good and evil (complete with a Jerry Lee Lewis-style piano breakdown). "Well Jesus made me/Can Jesus save me if I open up my heart?" Reilly hollers. "But the Devil plays me/He tempts and sways me, he's been lurking here from the start."
The album rolls on with tracks that drink to the beauty of bar fights and un-beautiful women; it calls for the tolerance of cultural differences with all the grace of a pickup line, and spins yarns of real-estate swindles, labor struggles, and the broken dreams that come after them. Over the whole album hangs a haze of magical realism, as if Reilly's characters all live a little removed from the known world.
But almost overshadowing the entire CD is Reilly's three-four eulogy to American soldiers, "Broken Parakeet Blues." Coming in suddenly after five tracks of rock, the quiet acoustic number downshifts abruptly, highlighting Reilly's scratchy, mournful tenor. The rest of the album sounds like an Irish wake, but this is a somber graveside farewell, as he imagines the soldiers on their way to die—"Out of Twentynine Palms the buses kept creeping/Right through the desert and out to the shore/Twentynine Palms won't see 'em no more."
A lot of critics have called Reilly a political songwriter, citing anti-establishment themes in his music and a tendency to root for the little guy. But though he admits the political angle must be there "because people keep pointing it out," he says he doesn't think about his music that way. "I just think about people who have too much money—who should, who shouldn't. Maybe I'm too much of a pussy." But it's just that unwillingness to take a political side, to focus instead on the people affected by politics, that makes his songs resonate above a cacophony of limp-wristed peace-rock and flag-waving country music.
And though Reilly rags on himself throughout the interview, it's obvious he doesn't suffer from a lack of pride in his music. Toward the end, I start to ask if, after four albums, two EPs, and a few different record labels, he's getting a little frustrated that the IRA's never really made it big. I fumble for a graceful way to phrase the question, and he breaks in.
"Are you asking if I'm pissed that we're not big stars?" he laughs. "Yes. We're a great rock 'n' roll band who deserve great success and tons of money."
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The three basic properties of colours are hue, saturation and value.
Hue: It is the first property of colour. It is the perceptual attribute associated with elementary colur names. Hue enable use to identify basic colours such as blue, green, yellow, red and purple.
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Value: It corresponds to how much light appears to be reflected from a surface in relation to nearby surfaces. It refers to the luminosity of colour. A given colour can be either bright or dark. It is the most important attribute in making contrast more effective.
Figure 19: A saturation/value slice of a specific hue
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text: This studio is inspired by Ruven Alterio's study, which is currently in Monmatre, diagonal to the Moulin Rouge and also inside the same building that the French painter, Renoir, used to work in. Here, there is a transparent ceiling and 40% of the walls are made out of glass, enabling natural light to come in. The best part is that the roof and walls can be either transparent or opaque, depending on what the project requires. There are 23 separate areas in the whole study that can be opened or closed independently, allowing or blocking the entrance of light. The use of beige curtains also makes it an even more fantastic space for painting and photography. Its total area is 40m2 (6.5m x 6.8m). There's a hair and make-up room for 3 people working simultaneously, a modern kitchen, a dressing room and an amazing bathroom. It also has a wooden floor terrace, looking towards a typical residential area of Bogotá, Colombia. Considering that music is essential for these activities, it has the sound system Soundround 5.1. There is Internet access, telephone, fax and a printer. For digital postproduction, retouch service, material management and general revision there is a specific area to do so. And if hungriness is a problem, we also have a delicious and healthy menu to choose from. This photography studio is very special, for many reasons. It will always surprise those in creative missions. Even though it seems it's a daylight studio only, it can also be turned into an interior studio with no natural light coming in from outside. When you're creating something, it's necessary to have certain incentives, such as working in a comfortable place. This study provides not only comfort, but also all the elements needed to feel an excellent energy that can, therefore, let you paint and create successfully.


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I am So So So excited to share with you all, that I have decided to try my hand in the Photography business. I am just so excited about it ~ Excited seems to be the only word I can use to describe it!
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I've also booked a couple sessions for my next trip to NY in May!!! Please get in touch and let me know if you'd like to get pictures taken of yourself, family, baby, pets, etc!!
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We are very excited about our latest show MondaVation Talks hosted by Kelda Senior. Our first shoot day included 2 amazing guests Shante Pressley + Brendan Oconnor. We won't give away too much so you will have to tune in but in the meantime here are some behind the scenes photographs by Stanley Belizaire


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A low-profile agency partially funded with tax money will get a new layer of oversight after Colorado Springs City Councilor Jill Gaebler raised questions.
At issue is mPACT, a 13-member group under the auspices of the Colorado Springs Chamber and EDC. Its members: the city, El Paso County, Colorado Springs Utilities, Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments, Pikes Peak Regional Building Department, Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau, Ent Credit Union, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Pikes Peak Association of Realtors, Pikes Peak United Way, UCH Memorial Hospital and Bryan Construction.
The city and county have paid a combined total of at least $50,000 since 2015 to mPACT, but Gaebler notes Council hadn't been briefed on the group's mission and spending until Dec. 13, when mPACT officials gave a presentation at Gaebler's behest.
mPACT spokesperson Stephannie Finley Fortune says some on Council were briefed in settings outside Council meetings.
City economic development official Bob Cope told Council the chief aim of mPACT is to "focus on action at the federal level." To do that, it's hired lobbying firm Mehlman, Castagnetti, Rosen, Bingel and Thomas in Washington, D.C.
"If any of us has an issue that has a federal implication," Cope said, "we can immediately access our lobbying firm and hit the ground running with a solution. We're told over and over, if we have regional collaboration as one voice, it has much more impact."
Cope credits mPACT with securing $19 million in federal funding for emergency watershed protection following the Waldo Canyon Fire in 2012, for helping set up the National Cybersecurity Center here, and for attracting Fort Carson's Combat Aviation Brigade.
Regional priorities, he said, include protecting military bases from closure, highway funding, flood and fire mitigation, economic development and health care.
After the Nov. 13 briefing, Gaebler told the Independent, "I now understand what their mission is, but I don't have any measurable outcomes. Typically, when we have a dues organization, we ask them to report out to us. It should be transparent about what they're doing with the funds we give them."
Council agreed without taking a vote to appoint Gaebler as a liaison to mPACT's board. (City staff serve on the board.)
Another issue that caught Gaebler's eye was mPACT's hiring of a grant writer. The position is funded with donations of $12,500 each for three years from United Way, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, an unnamed "third-party investor," mPACT itself, and Conspire! owned by Lynette Crow-Iverson, whose daughter, Whitley Crow was hired. Her office is at United Way.
United Way CEO Jason Wood says via email he participates in mPACT to stay on top of legislation affecting "anything benefiting children and low income families" and that he wants to work with others "for the betterment of all."
Still skeptical, Gaebler tells the Indy, "The City and County already have lots of grant writers who can assist with these economic development efforts."


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We've started distributing the 2017 Member Annual Statements (MAS) to more than 600,000 NYSLRS members. The mailing is done in stages, taking six to eight weeks to complete. School employees receive their statements first; most others should expect to see theirs by mid-July.
Your statement contains important information about your NYSLRS membership, including your reported salary, service credit and beneficiaries. Depending upon your own circumstances, you may also see projected annual benefits, loan balances or past service account balances.
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Be sure to review the information in your statement carefully. If you need to change your address, email or phone number, or update your beneficiaries, you can use Retirement Online — our convenient and secure self-service tool. You can contact us to correct most errors, but if you have a question about your reported salary, please contact your employer.
Because the information is valuable year round, after you check it over, file your MAS away securely. It's very likely you'll reference it again at some point in the future.
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As the Ink Flows: Works from the Pen of William Steig
, explores the life and career of the artist, cartoonist, and children's book author/illustrator William Steig. The exhibition highlights materials from the recent gift of over 2,500 original drawings, notebooks and scrapbooks, correspondence, books, posters, and other materials made by Jeanne Steig, his widow, to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, supplemented with loans from his family.
Pen and ink played a central role in William Steig's life, from childhood on. Interestingly, for someone who would become an important artist and gifted cartoonist for
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magazine, it was writing, not drawing that was his first creative outlet. The exhibition explores this world of pen and ink, of writing and drawing, to show how intertwined these activities were for William Steig, who became an author as well as an artist. Unlike many artists, who are not great readers, Steig consumed books, and the ideas they contained. The more one considers the range of his work, the more one can see that his artistry is ultimately informed by language, that is, by ideas that can be thought and written, and then translated into images.
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With the weather turning cooler my thoughts (and reading habits) shift to the pulp-y end of the fiction spectrum. These old Argosy covers show the wide range of genres the magazine printed which mirrors my desire to constantly move between different types and styles of tales. Any of these covers would have enticed me to plunk down my hard earned coins for the promised diversion.
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A common fall/winter fashion trend that has taken me a while to grasp is... the fur vest. Because I tend to be a bit heavier in my mid-section, I have never found a vest that looked, well, flattering. The nice thing about them, however, is that they can be paired with almost anything and worn any season.
I found this furry little number (faux of course) in Barcelona. I recently visited there with a girlfriend of mine. We were saving our last day (we had three days in total) for shopping and shopping only. I was prepared to spend a minimum of 3 hours in the one and only Spanish retailer, Zara! Yet, of course our "shopping day" fell on Independence Day and thus all shops were CLOSED. You can only imagine the devastation.
We managed to track down a local shopping centre that carried the basics. And I, if I say so myself, was quite pleased with what I found.
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A police patrol in the center of Haugesund received an unusual request from a man Friday night. He wanted to sit in the back of a patrol vehicle.
The man asked if he could sit in the rear of the car if the patrol had the opportunity and time, according to the newspaper Haugesunds Avis.
There and then the police had the opportunity. Then they received instructions from the man and were able to get the woman to the car, where they opened the door.
– The man was kneeling, and proposed. She said yes, said operations manager Trond Børge Åsbu in South Western Police District.
On Twitter police informed of the happy news
After the woman said yes, the couple was surrounded by friends.
– There was a lot of tears and a good mood, said a smiling Operations Manager.
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