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Tasting Trail Pack $460
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Welcome to Stanley Package $820
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- One night Accommodation and comprehensive breakfast provisions
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Happy Friday! Is there anything more fun than a waffle bar? I don't think so. And who says you have to sign up for a breakfast buffet at a casino or on a cruise ship to enjoy one? Why not make a waffle bar at home? You could to it this weekend, or if you have a mess of relatives arriving for the Thanksgiving holidays, then it's the perfect casual extended-family breakfast.
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Photo Share day! You send me pictures of your pets. I share them. Everybody wins. Even you, readers. All you have to do is scroll down the page and say "Awwwww." The theme, as you may know, is Oral Fixation.
First I'm going to switch it up. I'm going to start with what's not in their mouths. Stacy shared this picture of Amelia awhile ago. She couldn't catch her in the act of destroying her toy, so we just have to visualize her with this toy in her mouth.
Speaking of not having anything in her mouth, I really have to share this picture of Daisy. Daisy is a service dog I met via Instagram @gal_vet. This trick is pretty impressive, no?
Just so you don't think Daisy never gets to have any fun, here she is enjoying her stuffed guys just as much as the next dog.
Max is another dog shared via Instagram. Max was shared by Meg, who is Masen's mom. Readers, that's a lot of "m"s to work into one sentence. Alliteration doesn't intimidate me though. I'm an English teacher.
Finally, I need to share one of Lizzie's playing stratgies.
I bet most of you have seen this move before. I always get a kick out of when dogs play on their back. They are so defenseless in that position. To me it suggests they are having so much fun and are so relaxed. Here she is playing with her dad, Bill.
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Mercedes believes its inability to win the Canadian Grand Prix shows there is no longer a clear performance pattern among Formula 1's top teams.
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes won the previous three races in Montreal and looked the favourite for a fourth straight win last weekend.
But Hamilton struggled for pace and wound up fifth, with team-mate Valtteri Bottas a distant second behind Ferrari's race winner Sebastian Vettel.
"We came to Montreal expecting our car to be really strong and we are leaving seeing we haven't been where we thought we should be," said Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff.
"That's why there is not the usual pattern, the historic pattern of cars being strong on certain circuits and then weak on others.
"I still think we are not pretty good in Monaco or Singapore, that may be the odd outlier, but you need to expect people to be strong everywhere."
Wolff said that the loss of that kind of trend was "the new reality" of a tight fight with Ferrari and Red Bull, which beat a Mercedes on merit for a second straight race.
"Somehow this year the margins have become so tight – five cars within a tenth," said Wolff.
"This is why this year's championship is going to be decided by the ones who make the least mistakes and bring the best development onto the engine on every single weekend and that is the new reality.
"It's a three-way fight, six cars can win races. You can't take anything for granted.
"You can't come to Montreal and think it's going to be a walk in the park because that's the kind of wake-up call you get."
Wolff pointed out that Mercedes should have won in Australia, where it was more competitive than it was in 2017, and dominated in Spain after being bested by Ferrari last season.
He said these were more examples of the lack of a pattern, adding that it "makes the championship exciting, because you don't know what to expect".
"You have to come to the weekend, all your preparation work has to be spot on," said Wolff.
"There's no time to be lost in terms of preparation on the Friday because it's going to come and bite you."
Mercedes failed to bring its second-specification of 2018 engine to Canada after a last-minute reliability scare on the dyno.
Wolff said he was the "opposite of confident" that everything is sorted and Mercedes would immediately resume its previous form, reiterating that it was "a major wake-up call for every single member of the team".
Pressed on the upgraded engine, Wolff said: "I don't want to say too much because we were expecting to have the engine here and then on the last long run we spotted a potential issue.
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In an email conversation in 2002, I told Jim Puckett of BAN that the worst recycling was better than the best mining, and he agreed. What we disagreed on was how far recycling can improve, and how fast, without tipping the scale back to more mining.
In today's New York Times there is another article about the elephant in the room - mining sensitive areas for high tech or "rare earth" metals.
When you get a new technology - like color TV in the 1960s - I think it is natural to be so fascinated by the taste that you never peek into the kitchen. That's how we wound up with cadmium phosphors inside "new" color TVs back in the 1960s. The first color CRTs were of course used by the military, which is where BAN found evidence of cadmium in CRT phosphors in a US Navy MSDS sheet almost ten years ago.
The new technologies of today, the NY Times Keith Bradsher points out, are often energy savers, "green devices", which are championed as a way to have our cake and eat it too. We can continue to enjoy rising consumptive lifestyles and conserve the environment at the same time with a technical solution. The article is found in the Business section.
As the article shows, China provides the rare earth metal mining. If you need to buy cadmium for a new device today, it will come from Chinese mines. But heaven forbid that the chinese techs washing cadmium phosphor for CRT recycling start to use recycled cadmium.
But this gets right back to my "baby seal pelt" packaging analogy (a reuseable, organic, renewable source of product packaging). It is the basic, and sometimes fatal flaw of the OECD-centered Basel Convention. It does not cover mining, refining, smelting, manufacturing, production, assembly, all of which have been the growth industries in the developing (soon to be, not yet OECD) world. It is a great tool for what it is designed for - to prevent outsourcing of DUMPING and DISPOSAL. The linguistic problem is the contagion that defines recycling as a form of disposal, and in BAN's world, even the process material from upgrades (a 128 RAM replaced by 512) makes the entire remanufacturing process a 'disposal' process.
This I believe. There are scientists and engineers who have the patience to try and try to resolve really stubborn problems, and we are not mistaken to put our faith in them. But the "problems" they are given to resolve are too often oversimplified by environmentalists without the same sense of patience and problem-solving skills. In the same way as the engineer is given the assignment of designing a battery which is not too heavy to compromise MPG (the solution was the rare earth metal mining in China in the article), we need to give them a key directive:
This simple directive was missing from the "leadfree solder" or ROHS directive from Europe, which gave a prime directive of not putting anything toxic into the double-lined and monitored landfills we had asked engineers to design for our municipal solid waste. The engineers, when asked, gave us solder made from tin and silver, two of the most notorious rare earth mining metals. They gave us cell phones with tantalum mined from gorilla habitat.
The fate of the gorillas is the Monkey's Paw outcome of our wish for more efficient cell phones. I can't tell you the relative weight of demand for timber, demand for pineapples, demand for cell phones, and demand for hamburgers has on rain forest development, but the fewer economic reasons we give to build roads into rain forests, the less bushmeat traffic we will inflame. Biofuels may be the next big rainforest killer. All I can do is hope that my writing might influence someone to pay for such as study.
The environmentalist, ecologist, engineers do NOT need to be told that the new process cannot be done by a women's coop in Mexico, by the manufacturer takeback programs in Singapore, or by racists or religious bigots or neo-cons or flower children that the process needs to be centered geographically around a 4o year old definition of "developed" economies. If the entire process, from extraction (preferably from waste) to ISO14001/ISO9000 EHS standards, to socially progressive corporate management, to meeting affordable demand for computers, to "end of life" recyclability, is all good, then drop the ZIP CODE FETISH.
Singapore is in a non-OECD zip code. Get over it. It also has a higher environmental enforcement and standard of living than Silicon Valley CA.
Here is my dilemma... I'm taking potshots at BAN because they are running a negative campaign and have been dragging their feet at presenting a truly vetted positive alternative. The new "certified" ewaste program will probably force them to deal with the tough choices (like glass-to-glass recycling only being possible in non-OECD countries), just as reuse is always going to be done best in less affluent areas.
My partner Gary Hepler and I won the 1980 Arkansas state debate championship by running a positive case. It is generally the rule that you choose negative if you win the coin toss, because it is always easier to go negative and to raise questions than it is to anticipate every possible negative attack on your plan. Gary and I had seen the finalists from North Little Rock High School defeat our school's strongest debate team (John Smart and Chris Doughty) with their well-practiced affirmative case. We saw they were extremely well rehearsed in their positive case, and their weak point seemed to be improvisation. So we presented a positive case.
WR3A's positive case is Fair Trade Exports. Creating environmentally positive jobs in developing countries. It is the win-win. The jobs it allegedly exports are mostly immingrant and sometimes illegal aliens in the USA (creating jobs for Mexicans in Mexico). It is creating the same infrastructure allegedly missing in the countries which have established demand for reuse. It has had nowhere near the success that the "export ban" idea has had, but like a stubborn engineer, I have not seen the hypothesis disproven either by Jim Puckett's interpretation of MPPI and Annex IX or by the challenge of auditing overseas end markets.


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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
10 comments:
- ~Mrs. Guru~ said...
A lot of people are talking about these books! I need to add them to my reading list!
- November 19, 2008 at 9:05 AM
- It's A Jaime Thing said...
I think I might have to pick these up myself...I know, the movie looks good, but I always enjoy a good teeny-bopper movie...and I love vampire movies, so this might just be my cup of tea! :)
Thanks for sharing! :)
- November 19, 2008 at 9:32 AM
- Rebecca Taylor said...
Haven't read them yet!
- November 19, 2008 at 10:09 AM
- Jenny.Lee said...
My friend let me borrow the first one but I haven't started yet...I guess I need to do that. :)
- November 19, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- Being Brazen said...
I LOVE LOVE Love the Twilight saga. I am on book 3. I read them so quickly.
I didnt think id get so into them either, but im hooked :)
The movie is only coming out here at the end of December - which is horrid.
- November 19, 2008 at 12:08 PM
- Being Brazen said...
Heehee..It is a bit of a problem how much i like these books.
- November 19, 2008 at 12:09 PM
- Amanda said...
Oh god oh god oh god isn't he DREAMY?!?! I didn't get anything done for two weeks when I read these.
- November 20, 2008 at 3:10 PM
- The Mrs said...
How has your weight loss been? How much are you down so far?
- November 21, 2008 at 3:58 PM
- Belle (from Life of a...) said...
Yes...totally and completely obsessed.
- November 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- Newport Nuptials said...
I just finished the first one. I never thought I would get into them either, but I am obsessed. I'm waiting for my friend to finish the second one so I can read it and I am being oddly impatient over a book. They are SO good!
- November 22, 2008 at 9:28 AM


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Major League Baseball officials have asked the Miami News Times for records the alternative newspaper obtained for a story on alleged use of banned substances by several players, including Alex Rodriguez.
Miami New Times editor Chuck Strouse said Tuesday the paper had not yet decided how to respond. Strouse described the MLB move as a request and noted that the league does not have legal subpoena power.
Investigators from MLB's Department of Investigations want to learn how the notebooks that the New Times reported belonged to Biogenesis anti-aging clinic founder Anthony Bosch were obtained, SI.com reported.
They also want to know the names of other players in the notebooks who were not named in the New Times report and, most importantly, want to see whether the publication will hand over the records.
The New York Daily News, citing two unnamed sources, reported that the MLB investigators had examined the notes and documents and were seeking to acquire them.
The Bosch notebooks and other logs describe PED regimens for Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera, Gio Gonzalez, Nelson Cruz and others from 2009 to 2012. Rodriguez has admitted doping from 2001 to 2003 but has vehemently denied these latest allegations.
According to SI.com, investigators will attempt to link the dates in the notebooks to independent evidence such as receipts for plane trips and overnight packages.
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In a major boost to Army's firepower, defence PSU Bharat Dynamics Limited has been given a Rs 3,000 crore contract by the defence ministry to produce Russian-origin Invar anti-tank guided missiles for the T-90 tanks of the force.
"Bharat Dynamic Limited, Hyderabad, signed a contract with Defence Ministry for supplying Invar anti-tank guided missiles to Indian Army here yesterday. The contract is valued about Rs 3,000 crore," defence ministry said today.
The deal was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Security headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier this month to help the Army in meeting its requirement for anti-tank missiles.
Former Army Chief Gen VK Singh had written a letter to the government last year highlighting the shortage of such missiles for the Army.
The BDL would be licence-producing these missiles at its facilities and the deliveries are expected to be completed in next five years.
The 5 km-range Invar is a laser beam rider anti-tank guided missile capable of being fired from T-90 tank. The missile can neutralise adversaries tanks fitted with Explosive Reactive Armour Protection, ministry officials said.
BDL has been manufacturing these missiles under technical collaboration with Rosoboronexport of Russia.
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KPK Schools Winter Vacation Notification 2016-2017
Peshawar (Saturday, December 17, 2016) – Yesterday Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has issued notification of winter holidays / vacations. All Private of Public sector schools will remained closed due to prevailing cold weather in the province.
Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elementary & Secondary Education Department
A-Block, Civil Secretariat Peshawar. Dated Peshawar the 1611212016
No. SO(G)fE&SF.1)/14f1/2016tWInter Vacations. The Government of Khyber Pakhlunkliwa. Elementary & Secondary Education Department has been pleased to notify the following schedule of winter vacation for the academic year 2016-2017 for all the Government Schools and Private Institutions within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: –
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Plain Area's Schools
WINTER VACATION 23th Dec, 2016 to 31 Dec, 2016.
(Both days inclusive)
SCHOOLS OF HILLY/SNOWY AREAS IN KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa.
WINTER VACATION 23 Dec, 2016 to 28th Feb. 2017.
(Both days inclusive)
Secretary to Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Elementary. & Secondary Education Department
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I. Additional Chief Secretary, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Peshawar. 2. Additional Chief Secretary, EATA Peshawar. 3. Secretary to Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Establishment Department. 4. Secretary to Govt. of Khyber PakInunkhwa, Finance Department 5. Secretary to Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Higher Education Department. 6. PSO to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar. 7. P.S to Secretary to Governor. Khyber Paldmmkhwa, Peshawar. 8. P.S to Chief Secretary. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Peshawar. 9. P.S to Minister for Education (E&SE). Peshawar. P.S to Secretary, E&SE Department. 11. Director. Information Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar with the request to give wide publicity through Print and Electronic Media. 12. Director. EASE Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Peshawar with the request to circulate to all the Executive District Officers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 13. Director of Education, FATA• Peshawar. 14. Director, Curriculum & Teacher Education Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Abbottabad. 15. Director. PITE, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Peshawar. 16. All Chairmen. BISE in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 17. Chairman, Text Book Board, Peshawar. 18. Managing Director, EEF Shami Road, Peshawar. N. Managing Director, PEE, Abdara Road, Peshawar.
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Cortes, a former member of President Trump's Hispanic advisory council, was reacting to a proposed Los Angeles law that would require contractors to divulge whether they have provided materials for or worked on President Trump's border wall in any way.
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(f) Mountains
A quarter of the Earth's surface lies at heights above 3,300 feet or more above sea level but these mountain areas are thinly populated by man. Mountains are the closest we can get to the heavens on earth and this says much about their symbolic significance in stories. From the peak of a mountain a character has a better perspective on things. Perhaps he can even see the divisions of ecosystems from his lofty observation point. He can see where the deserts end and the prairies begin and where the oceans stop and the land begins.
Throughout history, mountains have symbolized constancy, eternity, firmness and stillness. Mountain tops, notes J.C. Cooper, "are associated with sun, rain and thunder gods and, in early traditions of the feminine godhead, the mountain was the earth and female, with the sky, clouds, thunder and lightning as the fecundating male." On the spiritual level, observes Cooper, "mountain tops represent the state of full consciousness." Cooper notes that pilgrimmages up sacred mountains symbolize aspiration and renunciation of worldly desires.
The profoundest symbolism of the mountain, Cirlot notes, is one that imparts a sacred character by uniting the concept of mass, as an expression of being, with the idea of verticality.
"As in the case of the cross or the Cosmic Tree, the location of this mountain is at the 'Centre' of the world. This same profound signicance is common to almost all traditions; suffice it to recall mount Meru of the Hindus, the Haraberezaiti of the Iranians, Tabor of the Israelites, Himingbjor of the Germanic peoples, to mention only a few. Furthermore, the temple mountains such as Borobudur, the Mesopotamian ziggurats or the pre-Columbian teocallis are all built after the pattern of this symbol. Seen from above, the mountain grows gradually wider, and in this respect it corresponds to the inverted tree whose roots grow up towards heaven while its foliage points downwards, thereby expressing multiplicity, the universe in expansion, involution and materialization."
Mircea Eliade in Images And Symbols, emphasizes the mountain as the center of the earth. He says that the "peak of the cosmic mountain is not only the highest point on earth, it is also the earth's navel, the point where creation had its beginning." This mystic sense of the peak, writes Cirlot, "also comes from the fact that it is the point of contact between heaven and earth, or the center through which the world-axis passes."
(g) Polar
Sunless in winter and capped with permanent land ice and shifting sea ice, the world's polar regions present an image of intense and everlasting cold. Polar conditions preclude all but the toughest life forms on land. Anartica, the great sothern polar continent lies under an ice mantle 5.4 square miles in area and sometimes 13,000 feet thick. In the Artic of the northern hemisphere the three islands of Greenland lie under a pall of ice more than 700,000 square miles in area and up to 9,800 feet thick.
The place symbolism of the polar regions is similar in ways to desert place symbolism in that they are vast areas of unchanging landscape. But unlike deserts, these regions have little life and symbolize the most barren places of the world. And unlike deserts which have a rich tradition in storytelling and story genres, they have found their way into very few story genres. Probably the best-known stories of polar regions are those from Jack London.
5. Places Within Ecosystems
Within the large ecosystems of the world are smaller natural places. Often, they will serve as background for an entire story because they provide a significant amount of space in which to play out the action of the story.
These internal elements of the larger ecosystems are caves, valleys and canyons, islands, rivers, lakes, peninsulas, bays and shores. It is not difficult to see various connections between these and their larger ecosystems. In fact, they are often a part of the larger ecosystem and could not exist without it.
For instance, an island is part of the ecosystem of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake. Likewise, a shore is part of the ecosystem of a body of water such as a lake or an ocean as also is a bay or a penisula. A bay is almost a lake within the larger water ecosystem and a peninsula is almost an island against the larger water ecosystem. A valley needs mountains to be defined as valley.
All of these smaller background settings have played a strong symbolic part in many very famous stories and in fact have a strong correlation to various literary genres. For example, the early adventure genre stories of Robert Louis Stevenson utilized islands as story background. In these stories, the islands were places to go to rather than places to live on. Other writers such as Daniel Defoe and William Golding used islands as entire narrative background settings in stories such as Robinson Crusoe and Lord of the Flies. The Hardy Boys stories often used islands as background but the islands were most often islands in lakes rather than islands in oceans. Islands are places which can hold secret treasure (Treasure Island), dangerous monsters (The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad), and a primitive way of life (Robinson Crusoe and Lord Of The Flies). They can also serve as places where the main character struggles to escape from as in the modern children's story The Island Of The Blue Dolphins.
(a) Rivers
River symbolism has played an important part in many story genres. This symbolism, though, is somewhat ambivalent. J.E. Cirlot notes that river symbolism "corresponds to the creative power of nature and time. On the one hand it signifies fertility and the progressive irrigation of the soil; and on the other hand it stands for the irreversible passage of time and, in consequence, for a sense of loss and oblivion."
If ocean symbolism is based primarily around water in a relatively unmoving form, river symbolism is based around water in movement. In the book Jung And The Story Of Our Time, Laurens van der Post notes that a river is the image of "water already in movement, finding its own way through great ravines, carrying all over cataract and rapid through conditions of external danger, to emerge intact and triumphant for union with the sea out of which it rose as vapour at the beginning." He says that it succeeds in doing so:
"...only because it finds its own way without short cuts, straight lines, or disregard of any physical impediments but in full acknowledgement of the reality of all that surrounds it, implying that the longest way round is the shortest and only safe way to the sea ... The Rhine is one of the great mythological rivers of the world, a dark and angry stream, as dark and in as strange a rage and passion to get to the sea as the Congo issuing straight out of the darkest center of Africa."
It is the great movement of rivers which have given rise to labeling them with them with personalities and seeing in them symbols for the progression of life itself from small bubbling mountain streams to raging youth to death at their conjunction with the seas and oceans.
Rivers have played an important part in stories. They were important boundary markers in western films and crossing the Rio Grande had a symbolic significance beyond the relatively quick and simple act of moving across a body of water. Besides symbolizing boundaries they also symbolize roadways into the heart of continents and civilizations or away from the heart of continents and civilization.
The Amazon River provides a passageway into the heart of the jungle ecosystem as does the Congo River. In narratives using trips up great rivers the symbolic significance of this setting has to do with a return to the primitive heart of mankind. By going up a river the character must push against the natural flow of the river's current and this presents a significant struggle to overcome. One of the most famous stories of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, demonstrates one of the most effective uses of combining the symbolic background setting with the main idea of the story. This is done by Kurtz's trip up the river into the "heart of darkness."
In addition to providing a passageway into the heart of a continent and a nation, a river can also provide a way of escaping from the culture of the nation. The stories of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn utilize the Mississippi River as something to flow down, with the current, and away from civilization.
Significantly, cities on rivers take on a symbolic importance in stories. There are cities like St. Louis at the intersections where smaller rivers flow into the great rivers. There are cities like Memphis and Cincinnati which are along great rivers. There are cities like New Orleans and London which are at the mouth of great rivers.
For the smaller towns on the rivers, the river brought life to the town. Mark Twain in his Life On The Mississippi talks about this symbolism:
"Once a day a cheap, gaudy packet arrived upward from St. Louis, and another downward from Keokuk. Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing. Not only the boys, but the whole village felt this... the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores ... the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side ... bounding the river-glimpse and turning it into a sort of sea ...Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those remote 'points' ... The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up ... and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving."
It is the river which brings life to the "drowsy" little towns along its banks and so much defines the characters which live in these towns.
Apart from providing life along their banks, rivers also possess their own life. This symbolic life has also served as symbols in much literature. Few rivers provide as great of a symbol as the great Colorado River.
One of America's greatest nature writers, John C.Van Dyke, catches this life cycle of the Colorado in his book The Desert. "The career of the Colorado," he notes, "from its rise in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming to its final disappearance in the Gulf of California, seems almost tragic in its swift transitions." He tells the life story of the Colorado River from its "birth" high in the Wyoming mountains to its "death" in the Gulf of California. The passage might describe the life of a person, from the person's youth:
"It starts out so cheerily upon its course; it is so clear and pure, so sparkling with sunshine and spirit. It dashes down mountain valleys, gurgles under boulders, swirls over waterfalls, flashes through ravines and gorges. With its sweep and glide and its silvery laugh it seems to lead a merry life."
And then after youth the period of struggle of adult life:
"But too soon it plunges into precipitous canyons and enters upon its fierce struggle with the encompassing rock. Now it boils and foams, leaps and strikes, thunders and shatters. For hundreds of miles it wears and worries and undermines the rock to its destruction. During the long centuries it has cut down into the crust of the earth five thousand feet. But ever the stout walls keep casting it back, keep churning it into bubbles, beating it into froth."
Then the period of old age:
"At last, its canyon courses run, exhausted and helpless, it is pushed through the escarpments, thrust out upon the desert, to find its way to the sea as best it can. Its spirit is broken, its vivacity is extinguished, its color is deepened to a dark red - the trail of blood that leads up to the death."
And finally, it meets its "obliteration" or death by flowing into the Californian Gulf:
"Wearily now it drifts across the desert without a ripple, without a moan. Like a wounded snake it drags its length far down the long wastes of sand to where the blue waves are flashing on the Californian Gulf. And there it meets - obliteration."
And the waters of the Colorado, remain a mystery to those who try to understand it:
"The Silent River moves on carrying desolation with it; and at every step the waters grow darker, darker with the stain of red - red the hue of decay...there is only one red river and that is the Colorado...there is more than a veneer about the color. It has a depth that seems luminous and yet is sadly deceptive. You do not see below the surface no matter how long you gaze into it. As we try to see through a stratum of porphyry as through that water to the bottom of the river."
Van Dykes says that to "call it a river of blood would be an exaggeration." And yet, he concludes, "the truth lies in exaggeration."
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Ronnie James Dio's brief stint back into Sabbath showed that the master was still able to deliver the goods with an age far beyond the average peak of a metal singer. While Dio has proven many times that he's almost invincible (he still delivers to this day - just check the new Heaven & Hell single "The Devil Cried" - but that's another review) "Dehumanizer" is definitely one of the best Black Sabbath albums and also one of the strongest in Dio's entire career.
This is, without a doubt, one of (if not) the best traditional heavy metal album(s) of 1992. We all know that the early 90s were a bad time for heavy metal since the uprising Grunge scene took the mainstream by force, but "Dehumanizer" is a gleaming gem amongst the masses of so called "alternative rock" artists.
Songs like the grand opener "Computer God" are incredibly dark and haunting while being witty in the lyrical department (the whole album features great poetry) and strong in the songwriting. "Dehumanizer" is also one of the heavier Black Sabbath albums, featuring crunchy doom-style riffs and a fierce vocal delivery by Dio.
"After All (The Dead) is probably the strongest song lyrical-wise, featuring awesome lines like:
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It says in a book I once read; yes there's a chance of returning"
Brilliant. The metaphors and hidden meanings behind many of the songs featured on this album are rare gems of lyrical excellence. Definitely a highlight of this album.
Iommi's and Geezer's performances are once again stellar, wiping the floor with many of modern songwriters who simply don't even possess half of their songwriting qualities; Geezer's bass intro in "Master of Insanity" and Iommi's guitar solo at the end of "Computer God" being great examples of this. The overall guitar work drinks heavily from the doom-style, showing an even darker faceted side of Black Sabbath. Many songs are slow- to mid-paced, filled with a fairly large amount of bludgeoning and delightful riffs.
There are no bad songs to be found here, but the definitive highlights are "Computer God", "After All (The Dead)", "Master of Insanity" and "I".
If you enjoy classic heavy metal, which is quite a bit darker than usual, then this album is definitely recommended. Another shining moment in Dio's career.


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sunny day..." Val chuckles a bit.
Sunny casually walks onto the set of 'Under Covers With Sunny' and starts to
slowly untie her white silk bathrobe as she looks at Val and licks her lips,
getting a sultry look on her face. Sunny smirks as she glances down at Val's
nicely firm and toned backside as his back is turned to her. "You must be Val
Venis..." Sunny says in a seductive tone, finally speaking up.
Val turns his head and looks at Sunny, "That's right..." He says in a bit of
a heavy tone, "Mmmm and you most certainly are Sunny..." Val looks up and
down at her, scanning every inch of her body with his eyes. "Mmmmm... very
Sunny smiles as she slowly opens up her white silk bathrobe, revealing a
stunning white laced piece of lingerie underneath her bathrobe. Sunny
watches Val's eyes as she slowly peels the bathrobe completely off of her
body "You're the adult film star, aren't you?" Sunny asks in a seductive
tone as she sets her bathrobe down on top of the bed.
Val chuckles as he flicks his thumb against his rugged chin, "That's right...
I am the real man of steel... the big Valbowski... the man takes women to the
Mount Everest of orgasmic peaks..." Val chuckles again, "And makes all their
boyfriends seems... like small impoteted geeks..." Val licks his lips as he
gets fully on the bed, sitting up against the headboard, with a pillow right
behind his back.
Sunny places her left knee on the edge of the bed mattress, she slowly lifts
her right knee onto the bed as she looks directly at Val Venis, in front of
her on the bed as she's at the other end. Sunny flips her golden locks of
hair back as she licks her lips, while slowly crawling on her hands and knees
up to the front of the bed where Val is. Sunny licks her lips as she talks in
a soft, slightly deep voice "Well Val...I didn't see any of the production
crew yet...how would you like to start a bit…prematurely?"
Val watches the blond haired seductive beauty as she slowly comes closer
to him and smirks, "Sunny... normally the big Valbowski is against doing
anything premature..." Val then places his hands on his wrestling trunks
as a rather large bulge starts to form that quickly looks as if it's
going to rip through the material of the tights. "But under this...
cir-cum-stances..." Val chuckles a bit as stresses a certain part of his
statement, "The Big Valbowski is all for starting prematurely."
Sunny licks her lips as she slowly raises her eyes up to lock her eyes with
Val's eyes "Good...because I want...to start prematurely..." Sunny says as
she straddles herself over Val's legs and gently places her hands against
the crotch of Val's wrestling trunks, feeling the decent sized bulge. Sunny
licks her lips as she moves her right hand up his wrestling trunks and slips
her hand into his trunks, brushing her fingertips against the head of Val's
Val licks his lips as he places his left hand on Sunny's firm left thigh
while slightly adjusting how he's sitting so that her fingertips inside of
his trunks brush against the head of his cock once more. Val smirks a bit,
"Mmmm you know Sunny... the big Valbowski is like a clock... and since time
may be short... you should put your face and two hands on it, so we know
exactly what time it is..." Val chuckles once more as he lightly squeezes
her left thigh with his hand. Sunny licks her lips as she scoots down a bit
as slowly lowers Val's wrestling trunks, freeing his cock from the confines.
Val's cock almost springs up like rocket, standing at an impressive fourteen
inches, and is incredibly thick. Val scoots himself further back against the
bed's headboard so that Sunny can lower his trunks even further.
Sunny licks her lips "Mmmm...Now…I know I want that.." Sunny says with a
slight moan as she lowers her head and flicks her tongue against the head of
his cock.
Val smirks as he places both of his hands behind his head, "Well I see that
it's true... What Sunny wants... Sunny gets...." Val says as he spreads his
legs a bit and bucks his hips slightly to press the tip of his cock against
Sunny's soft tongue. Sunny gently taps her tongue against the head of his
cock as she holds his cock firmly with both of her soft, smooth hands. Sunny
slowly lowers her tongue from the head of his cock and begins to lick down
his thick shaft. Val moans slightly, but keeps his reaction muffled by
keeping his mouth closed. He looks down at Sunny and smiles, "Heh... nice
starting technique... quite professional..." He says to complement her
Sunny slowly drags her wet, warm tongue down Val's shaft, slowly bringing his
cock back up his shaft. She opens her mouth and lowers her head down on his
cock, taking his cock into her hot mouth. She wraps her lips around his cock
and starts to slowly lift her head up and down on his cock. Val opens his
mouth a bit and lets out a low moan in response to feeling his impressive
shaft inside of Sunny's mouth. He brings a hand from behind his head and
places it on the back of Sunny's head to slide his fingers through her hair,
"Mmmmm... keep those... lips tight around it... so you can savor the taste of
the big Valbowski..." Sunny begins to gradually bob her head quicker as she
starts lap her skillful tongue around his shaft, occasionally slapping her
wet tongue against his shaft after every other head bob.
Val continues to slides his hand through Sunny's hair, and at times flips her
hair backward to she can see all of her lovely face as she bobs her head up
and down on his shaft. "Mmmmm... Jenna has some competition now..." Val
groans as he begins to push his cock up into Sunny's mouth. Sunny tightens
her lips around the head of Val's cock as she slightly twists her head around
on the head of his cock before she slowly brings her head up with a pop as
Val's saliva covered cock leaves the hot mouth of Sunny.
"Ahhh damn..." Val licks his lips as he looks down at his own cock to see
Sunny's saliva drips down his cock. He then looks her in the eyes and smirks,
"You sure know how to get the blood pumping to all the right spots..." Val
Sunny smiles and licks her lips as she slowly pulls down the straps of her
white laced lingerie off of her shoulders. Sunny shrugs "I am pro...on many
levels..." Sunny winks at Val "But lets see how intense you can get..."
"Intense?" Val laughs a bit, "Sunny... when it comes to being intense... no
one can match the big Valbowski..." Val leans forward and assists Sunny in
removing her white laced lingerie from her physically fit body. Val licks
his lips, "Just like a hot summer day..."
Sunny flips her hair back as she places her hands over her large, voluptuous
tits. Sunny licks her lips and moans slightly as she pinches her already
erected nipples. Sunny opens her eyes and smirks at Val "Well then Val...
make the summer day even hotter..." Sunny says with a wink as she slowly
opens her legs a bit showing Val her cleanly smooth, shaven hot pussy.
Val licks his lips as he takes hold of Sunny's perfect hips and moves her
so that she's now laying on the bed, with her head resting on a pillow.
"First... a meal..." Val says as he positions himself on the lower half of
the bed, with his head between Sunny's legs. He lowers his head slightly
and flicks his tongue against Sunny's clit while sliding in two fingers
into her warm wet pussy. Val begins to pump his fingers in and out of her
cunt while circling her pussy with his rough tongue.
Sunny closes her eyes and tilts her head back against the soft pillow as she
gently pulls on her golden blond locks of her hair "Ohhh Val..." Sunny moans.
Val withdraws his fingers from her pussy and replaces them with his tongue.
Laying both of his hands on Sunny's flat stomach, Val swirls his tongue
around inside of her to lap up the wonderful taste of her pussy. Sunny opens
her eyes and bites down on her bottom lip as she places her left hand on top
of Val's head, and threads her fingers through his medium-long hair. With her
right hand Sunny grabs at the sheets as she grits her teeth feeling Val play
with her clit with his tongue.
Sensing that Sunny is totally becoming enthralled by his the expert work of
his tongue, Val lifts his head up from her pussy and slides forward so that
now his muscular upper body is over Sunny's. "Time to take it up a notch..."
Val smirks as he looks down at her as he grips his cock and guides it into
Sunny's waiting pussy. He shoves all fourteen inches of his cock into her
pussy with one swift thrust.
Sunny tilts her head back as she reaches up and places both of her hands on
Val's strong arms "Ohhhh fuck Val!" Sunny groans as she feels all fourteen
inches ram into her glorious cunt. Sunny gently wraps her smooth, sexy legs
around Val's waist as he begins to thrust into her pussy.
Val doesn't waste any time to begin fucking Sunny at a hard quick rate. Val
grits his teeth a bit and lays his hands on pillow under Sunny's head as he
throws all of his weight behind every thrust. "Ahhhh yeah... you like that...
don't ya..." Val grunts as he starts to sweat slightly.
Sunny grits her teeth as she grinds her pussy up against Val's cock as she
moves her hands from Val's arms to his muscular and toned chest. As Val
continues to fuck Sunny's warm and glorious pussy, she begins to rake her
fingernails against Val's rock hard chest. "Ohhhhh ahhhh yess...give it to
me! Give it to me harder!" Sunny moans as her pussy becomes more moist.
Val gets a smirk on his ruggedly handsome face as sweat drips from his
forehead, "You... want it harder? The Big Valbowski... always takes
requests..." Val pulls his cock out of Sunny's hot tight cunt and flips
her over onto her stomach. He pulls her up so that she's on all fours
and quickly re-enters her pussy with a powerful thrust to re-stuff her
with his fat fourteen-inch shaft. Val grabs hold of Sunny's delicious
looking hips in order to pull her back against him as he fucks her doggy
Sunny tilts her head back as she leans up slightly places her hands on the
headboard of the bed and grips the headboard tightly as Val thrusts her
tight cunt. Sunny begins to sweat a bit as she starts to pushes her nice
and firm, yet slightly juicy ass back against Val's waist, ramming his cock
deeper into her own warm cunt "Awwww ohhhh...ahhh fuck!" Sunny moans louder
as she clenches her eyes shut.
Val grunts and moans constantly as he rams his cock into her Sunny's pussy,
"Yeah.... you like it raw don't ya..." Val chuckles a bit while moving one
hand to her ass in order to push his thumb into her ultra-tight asshole to
see what he has to work with if he decides to fuck her perfect ass.
Sunny tilts her head back more as she slams back against his cock as drops
of sweat fly off of her gorgeous tanned body "Ohhhh Val...you knew I wanted
this...didn't you?" Sunny moans.
Val smirks, "Really... I haven't.... ahhhh yeah... notice.... but... I
know... you wanted me... every woman wants the big Valbowski..." Val suddenly
stops Sunny from pushing back against him in order to pull his cock out of
her pussy. Before she can complain, Val presses the head of his cock against
her asshole and pulls her backward to cause his dick to enter the depths of
the best buns in wrestling.
Sunny's eyes almost bulge out of her head, feeling her ultra-tight asshole
being violated by the cock of Val Venis "Ohhhh Jesus...Christ..." Sunny moans
as she puts a hand between her legs and places to of her fingers against her
hot pussy and begins to rubs her pussy as Val thrusts into her hot ass.
Val once again throws all of his weight behind his thrusts while pulling the
spirited blond hair beauty backwards non-stop. "Ahhhh yeah.... the sun...
also rises...." Val says as he wraps his arms around Sunny's body to pull her
upward so that she's leaning against him. Val's hard thrusts, makes her body
jolt upward, but with Val's arms around her, he pulls her right back against
him, impaling her asshole with his monster dick once more.
Sunny furiously rubs her fingers against her warm pussy "Ohhhhh ahhhhh
Val! Give it all to me!" Sunny yells and moans as she starts to cum on her
delicate finger "Mmmmmm...ohhhhhh...Sunny likes...Sunny likes..." Sunny moans
softly as she closes her eyes.
Val grits his teeth and thrusts a few more times into Sunny's asshole,
before he pulls out of her ass and pushes her down onto the mattress. "Ahhh
and now... for the most... explosive... finish... the money shot..." Val
grunts as he turns Sunny over so she's facing up and straddles her sexy,
sweat covered body. He grips his cock and begins stroking it while he uses
his right hand to lift up Sunny's head.
Sunny holds her mouth open as she sticks her tongue out and slides her
tongue against the underside of Val's cock, gently patting her tongue against
his cock, slowly taking the head of Val's cock into her warm mouth. "Ahhh
ahhhh yeah..." Val moans as he backs his cock a bit out of Sunny's mouth as
he starts to cum. His load shoots out and some lands on her face, but the
majority of his warm thick cum lands perfectly into Sunny's mouth.
Sunny licks her soft lips as she swallows his warm, delicious cum "Mmmm...
Val...mmm you taste amazing..." Sunny moans.
Val licks his sweat covered lip as he dismounts Sunny's body, "Heh Heh...
that... was certainly... a bright and sunny encounter..."
Sunny smirks as she folds arms over her chest "So...are you ready for that
interview?" Sunny asks as she glances down at Val's cock.
"Not yet..." Val smirks as his cock remains fairly hard. He lays next to
Sunny and pulls up the covers so that they are covering a good portion of
their bodies, "Now... I ready... after all, this is called Under the Covers
with Sunny..."
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Tomato, Fresh Mozzarella, Roasted Pepper on Whole Wheat Bread
Tomato, Fresh Mozzarella, Roasted Pepper on Whole Wheat Bread
Other sandwiches I love that don't require heating up are Prosciutto Arugula and Balsamic Sandwich, Greek Salad Sandwich and Open Faced Heirloom Tomato Sandwich.
I live two blocks away from a really great Italian ravioli store called Pastosa. Aside from the best homemade raviolis they carry an amazing array of fresh breads from Brooklyn, homemade fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers, and lots of other temping goodies. It's actually dangerous walking in there as all their mouth watering goodies are displayed right there in front of you.
Today I had a plan and didn't stray, I picked up some roasted peppers, tomatoes, a wonderful whole wheat loaf and fresh mozzarella, sliced thin (great trick to keep yourself from using too much as it is not low in fat!) I came home and picked some basil from my garden and put this delicious and satisfying lunch together.
Tomato, Fresh Mozzarella, Roasted Pepper on Whole Wheat Bread
Rustic whole wheat Italian bread, fresh mozzarella, summer tomatoes, basil and balsamic vinegar. My favorite meatless sandwich!
- 3.25 oz whole wheat Italian or French Bread
- 1 oz thin sliced fresh mozzarella
- 1 oz roasted red peppers
- 3 slices ripe tomato
- 3 basil leaves
- 1/4 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp balsamic vinegar
- salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste
- Cut bread in half horizontally, layer ingredients on the bread, drizzle olive oil and vinegar and finish with salt and pepper.
Nutrition Information
Yield: 1 serving, Serving Size: 1 sandwich
- Amount Per Serving:
- Freestyle Points: 10
- Points +: 9
- Calories: 356.5 calories
- Total Fat: 8.5g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Cholesterol: 22.5mg
- Sodium: 800mg
- Carbohydrates: 53.5g
- Fiber: 2.5g
- Sugar: 4.5g
- Protein: 16.5g


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Approximately 35% of the inventory available on our global platform comes from apps instead of websites. That's over a third of the opportunities to reach your audience, yet app inventory is still a tricky thing for buyers to get right. We've got lots of exciting features planned to make app targeting, tracking, and performance optimization "just work", but first let's start with giving buyers better data on where they're serving ads. Our reporting has been updated to get you the most up to date app name and app ID for every piece of app inventory, including all new data on Microsoft Windows apps (both mobile and desktop devices!).
But for most, dealing with app names and IDs is still a pain. They're difficult to brand check, specific to app stores, and don't even get me started on SDKs sending bundle IDs. So to help simplify life for all our clients, we now include the URL to each app's page in its respective app store under our site domain field in reporting.
To start using this data, pull any report in Console that includes site domain or mobile app. Data is also available in our log level data feeds.
For app publishers using our SDK or prebid offering, this app store URL data is also sent to all our external bidders along with app ID, giving them twice as much targeting information to better help you monetize.
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Art Basel
Despite Zika and Trump, Art Basel boasts a strong showing
In a year of upheaval — Zika, Brexit, a grueling U.S. presidential election — art stands strong.
The barometer was Miami Art Week. A week ago, anchor fair Art Basel and the many satellite fairs seemed headed for a less-than-stellar 15th anniversary. Zika visitor warnings were still in place is some areas. Economies worldwide were wobbling. The U.S. had just elected Donald Trump in an unexpected turn to a long and grueling election year.
But Miami Art Week pulled through, with premier fair Art Basel in Miami Beach matching the 2015 attendance of 77,000, Art Basel officials said Monday. Art Miami and sister fair CONTEXT attracted 78,500, down about 500 from 2015.
Exhibitors reported smaller crowds throughout the week (a welcome change for some who have complained about packed hallways at the Miami Beach Convention Center in the past). But those who did come were ready to open their wallets, gallerists said.
This year's Art Basel in Miami Beach has been much better than we expected from start to finish.
Johann König, owner and founder of the König Galerie in Berlin
The top reported sale at Basel was a large-scale Lee Krasner painting titled "Storm," which sold for $6 million to a private collector. The sum was less than half of last year's biggest sale: a $15 million Francis Bacon oil from 1954 titled "Man in Blue VI." (Participating galleries are not required to report sales to organizers, although many do so.)
Other sales with a seven-figure price tag this year: a $2 million 40 foot-by-40 foot Roxy Paine commissioned work, a $2 million Mark Bradford mixed media piece on canvas, a $1.4 million Giorgio Morandi oil painting from 1948 titled "Natura morta," and a $1.2 million Yoshimoto Nara acrylic on wood, "Broken Heart Bench."
"The steady flow of visitors and level of serious collectors this year has allowed us to do very well," said Xavier Hufkens, whose Brussels-based gallery sold a $950,000 Paul McCarthy sculpture, in a statement. "We were not overwhelmed with crowds and are very happy to have doubled our business from last year."
Mary Cork, director of Pilar Corrias in London called it their "best fair of 2016."
77,000 Attendance at Art Basel 2016, on par with the show in 2015
At Art Miami, a $1 million Josef Albers oil on masonite, "Desert Dusk," from 1958 sold in the first 10 seconds of the show, setting the tone for the week. The fair also sold a $2.5 million Gerhard Richter painting, a $1.1 million Robert Rauschenberg painting and a $900,000 John Chamberlain sculpture.
Galleries including Simon Capstick-Dale and Klein Sun, both New York-based, reported five and six-figure transactions. UK-based Osborne Samuels, although reporting not having one of its best years, sold several six- and seven-figure pieces.
Art Miami, now in its 27th year, announced last week that it will expand and move to the former Miami Herald site on Biscayne Bay for Art Week 2017, leaving its 10-year home in Midtown. The museum's namesake, Jorge Pérez, took home Art Miami's Lifetime Achievement award.
On Miami Beach at the UNTITLED fair, the top sale was Leo Villareal's "Buckyball," a 30-inch-tall geodesic sculpture that went for $55,000. Other major sales included KAWS' "Permanent Thirty-Three" — painted-bronze head sculptures — to a private collection in Hong Kong for $50,000 and Tess Jaray's "Changing Blues to Scarlet" painting, which sold within the first 30 minutes of the show for about $50,000 to a private collection in Hong Kong.
Chicago-based Monique Meloche Gallery revealed Sunday at the UNTITLED tent that Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson will have a solo show at the Pérez Art Museum Miami beginning November 2018 as part of the museum's Focus Galleries.
The steady flow of visitors and level of serious collectors this year has allowed us to do very well. We were not overwhelmed with crowds and are very happy to have doubled our business from last year.
Xavier Hufkens, founder and owner of Brussels-based gallery Xavier Hufkens
Although sales are critical to a fair's success, the week brought many once-in-a-lifetime, sometimes-quirky experiences. At Satellite in the Parisian Hotel on Miami Beach, performance artists Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw alternated floating in a "cereal bowl" in the hotel lobby, while upstairs a group of printmakers showed patrons how to create works, New Hampshire's Rick Skogsberg offered hand-painted shoes and a consortium offered pole-dancing lessons. At the Fondation Beyeler booth in Art Basel, 20 pounds of pasta were cooked up daily to fill the mock-studio apartment exhibit by the Toilet Paper collective.
Real estate and art often go together, and this year was no exception. Developer Edouardo Costantini and artist Jeff Koons used the week to unveil two sensuous Koons sculptures incorporated into the Oceana condo in Bal Harbour. The Related Group hosted events including the RUSH Foundation auction and a PAMM dinner at its newly opened SLS Brickell. And in the Faena District in mid-Miami Beach, the Faena Time Capsule, video works by Coral Morphologic, artist talks and a performance by rapper Kendrick Lamar as part of its district launch festivities.
And for one lucky buyer, one only-in-2016 experience is still up for grabs.
A former Trump campaign bus — decorated in anti-Trump slogans — that was rejected by one fair and eventually displayed in Wynwood, is still available on eBay for $150,000. Serious inquiries from anyone "threatened or bullied by Donald Trump" only, please.
This story was updated from a previous version.
Jane Wooldridge contributed to this report.


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With more and more companies embracing agile development methodologies – which differs greatly from Waterfall development methods, many QA testers are wondering how testing fits in with this new and faster environment. What role do testers have when companies use agile methodologies?
Difference between Agile and Traditional Methods
Traditional, Waterfall development methods clearly define when and how testing takes place: Testing takes place at the end of the process by dedicated resources. This methodology requires a lot of documentation.
Agile development, on the other hand, requires testing to take place on an iterative schedule: Basically, testing is done alongside development in real time. This methodology also doesn't have as much documentation.
So does that mean that agile requires less testing? That couldn't be farther from the truth. QA testing is just as important in both types of development approaches.
How to Ensure Proper Testing
Proper QA testing in an agile environment has different requirements than other methodologies. These requirements include:
- Ensuring QA resources are flexible and can perform real-time testing during the different development phases: QA professionals must be testing throughout the sprints.
- Obtaining the right people: QA testers who are entrenched in the traditional testing methodologies may not be the right people for an agile environment. They'll have trouble adjusting to the faster pace. Companies may need to hire new people with the right skills, or partner with a vendor who can assist with this.
- Performing daily testing.
- Determining what a completed project looks like: While not as rigid as in other methodologies, agile still has project and business goals to meet. Teams must define what a successful end state looks like to ensure that project meets customer demands and that the right resources are in place to meet the goals.
While agile teams may be under pressure to produce a working product as quickly as possible, QA testing is still an important part of the equation. It just must be done differently than older approaches and may require different skill sets than what's available on the team.


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The German rider André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) won the bunch sprint that decided Stage 5 of the 99th Giro d'Italia, Praia a Mare – Benevento (233km). Arnaud Demare (FDJ) and Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani CSF) finished second and third.
Tom Dumoulin (Team Giant – Alpecin) remains the race leader and keeps the Maglia Rosa.
1 – André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) – 233km in 5h40'35", average speed 41.047km/h
2 – Arnaud Demare (FDJ) s.t.
3 – Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani CSF) s.t.
Seconds after the stage finish, stage winner André Greipel said: "It was a really hard chase to bring the four breakaway riders back. Luckily other teams helped but I owe a big thanks to my team. They are a big part of this success. Before the start, I said it would be a nice finish for me and it really was. I was behind the crash [involving Rein Taaramae] but I found my way through and launched my sprint when I saw a gap with 300 metres to go. I hesitated a bit, then I gave it everything. I'm really happy".
Race leader Tom Dumoulin said: "I was told the Giro is a difficult race. Now I know why. Today it was up and down all day and the peloton went crazy in the finale. I didn't bother when Bob Jungels went for the sprint because the bonus of four seconds that he could have taken isn't much. I just looked after myself and that was already hard enough".


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2013 Year in Books: Highlights
Reflections posts on 'Books Read in 2013' are beginning to appear in my feedly, some of my favourite type of chats. Goodreads record I have read 200 books this year so I'm joining the chatter. As 200 is a fair amount I've chosen a few highlights from each month to share, focusing on adult literature.
Kate Shackleton's mysteries, were a new find, which I thoroughly enjoyed
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh was completely thought provoking.
Discovered Anna Jacobs and began her Swan River Saga with The Trader's Wife. I'm always a fan of well written Australian historical novels.
Continued reading Anna Jacob's historical novels.
Discovered Daisy Dalrymple's mysteries
Read The Secret Keeper – Kate Morton as with all of Kate Morton's books totally engrossing, though this wasn't my favourite Morton book.
Also read Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult, I admit the plot lost me, I couldn't work out the 'verdict'. Picoult writes well, tackles some tough topics but I just can't say if I'm a fan or not.
Discovered Rhys Bowen's Her Royal Spyness Mysteries
Re-read an old favourite for the upteenth time, The Family Nobody Wanted – Helen Doss
Read The Seventh Trumpet, a Sister Fidelma Mystery. Not recommending these books as regards Church history they are inaccurate, but if I read them as a well told story they are most enjoyable.
The Peach Keeper- Sarah Addison Allen, a thought provoking sisterhood book.
Call the Midwife – Jennifer Worth was very raw, depressing in parts, uplifting in others.
Read an Australian historical Absolution Creek by Nicole Alexander. Well written, though I had trouble getting into it, could have been me.
Continued reading lots of Daisy Dalrymple mysteries.
Butterfly's Child – Angela Davis-Gardner totally hooked me, tragically sad and yet engrossing.
Long Spoon Lane – Anne Perry a previously un-read mystery. Anne Perry is my absolute favourite mystery writer so I'm always thrilled to find a new book of hers.
Enjoyed a couple of Mary Stewart's novels, The Moonspinners and The Rose Cottage. I'm a long time fan of Mary Stewart.
Also read and re-read a whole slew of Anne Perry mysteries, I'd bought a bundle at the op-shop.
Finished the year with some brilliant reads, some worthy of their own reviews.
Discovered Australian author Joy Dettman, read her Woody Creek series, completely engrossing to begin with but after a while becomes a saga, how many tragedies can one person sustain?
The Memory Keeper's Daughter – Kim Edwards, completely thought provoking.
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini set in modern Afghanistan, a novel of betrayal and redemption.
The Dry Grass of August – Anna Jean Mayhew Life in the deep South in the midst of segregation.
Finding Grace – Laura Pearl The main character has been inspired to become a saint, set in the early 70s.
Style, Sex & Substance, a bit of disappointment, lighter read than I had hoped.
Two novels from my favourite spiritual author Louis de Wohl, Citadel of God and Lay Siege to Heaven, de Wohl more than delivered, totally powerful books.
- How was your year regards reading?
- Any books you'd recommend as must reads for 2014?


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Construction costs have changed dramatically over the course of the past year.
In the recent webinar "Construction Cost Trends 2018" by RSMeans data from Gordian, the first and foremost experts in their field provide specific insights into how these costs have and will continue to fluctuate.
These presenters walk attendees through developing trends in this important data and the significant impact construction cost will have on a variety of industries.
The information presented in this webinar will help prepare construction professionals for 2018 and set up future projects for success.
RSMeans data cost engineers spent more than 22,000 hours annually researching material, labor, equipment and productivity rates across the nation.
Below are a few of the notable developments Gordian observed looking toward 2018.
- 71 percent of line items experienced a price change.
- 29 percent of line items' prices fluctuated by more than 5 percent.
Materials prices have been generally rising. In some locations, lumber rose as high as 26 percent, steel 29 percent and concrete 31 percent.
The following cities experienced the highest cost change year-over-year:
- Richmond, Va.
- Fargo, N.D.
- Elizabeth City, N.C.
- Twin Falls, Idaho
- Shreveport, La.
- Sioux Falls, N.D.
- Lynchburg, Va.
- Wenatchee, Wash.
- Augusta, Maine
- Kittery, Maine
To learn more and prepare for the year ahead, view the full webinar here.


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Yaya Isay celebrated her birthday yesterday, Aug. 5, 2012. Actually, her birthday falls every 4th of August, but since 1.) Uno celebrated his birthday on Saturday; and 2) We had classes Sunday early morning, it was decided that Yaya Isay was to celebrate her birthday on Sunday evening after our classes, so everyone could stay up late.
Anyway, here's what I wore on Sunday as I taught for five hours before Yaya Isay's birthday celebration:
By the way, here are some snapshots of Yaya Isay's birthday celebration:
Happy birthday Yaya Isay! We feel so blessed to have you as Raviv's staunch defender! More birthdays to come!!!
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Sharon was prompt and efficient as always. She didn't even ask me if I had brushed my teeth after Trick or Treating. I appreciate the professional and skillful service.
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Good experience being new to the area, very welcoming.
Big thank you to the whole staff for making my first appointment so nice. Very welcoming staff and very knowledgeable. Thoroughly enjoyed meeting Dr Aurelia. He was very understanding and thorough with his exam. Looking forward to using him for our family in the future.
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Dr. A. knew how worried I was about this appointment and did everything to make me feel pain free and at ease. The time went by fast And the fillings almost pain free. Office and staff are very friendly. It was a good experience for a dental visit.
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The recorder's office registers documents relating to land evidence (deeds, mortgages, liens, etc.) for the City of Providence. Maintenance of the paper and digital holdings of the City's non-archived land evidence records. We provide accurate and courteous service to customers requiring land document assistance and recording as well as execute the state law to monitor foreclosure mediation compliance to protect the City's homeowners.
You can search the City's on-line database of land evidence documents from August 1, 2004 to the present. There is no cost to view these documents, although a charge will apply to print copies.
Recording a document
- Hours are from 8:30-3:30.
- Deeds must have the actual sale price noted on it in order to be recorded.
- Only original documents are accepted for filing. The document is returned to you.
- See button below for a complete list of fees
Payment for Recording or Copies
- Copies cost $1.50 per page.
- We accept checks and money orders only. We will accept currency (exact change) for up to two copies (in other words, $3.00)
- A self-service copy machine is available.
Researching a document
- The research room is open from 8:30-4:25.
- Documents recorded from July 1984 to the present can be computer-searched in our research room.
Non-resident Landlord filing
Non-resident landlords must comply with RIGL sections 34-18-22.3 (designation of agent) and 34-18-57 (absentee landlord enforcement act) by registering with the RI Secretary of State and filing information with this office.
In complying, we recommend recording the Secretary of State's form with us and annotating on the form the absentee landlord's phone number.
The Secretary of State's form ("Designation of Agent for Non-resident Landlord" form 34-18-22) is available on line at www.sec.state.ri.us/corps (look under Miscellaneous Filings).Search Land Records Document Database Statewide Recording Fees Foreclosure Ordinance


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Everybody knows I am a lipgloss junkie. I kicked the habit for a while, I hadn't bought a new lipgloss in 6 months. Then, last weekend it happened. I was browsing Sephora with no particular purpose (big mistake), and my eye caught a glimpse of a tube of nude, glittery, shiny lip gloss.
I picked it up and felt I needed to have this tube. It even had a cute name, "Park Avenue Princess." I dabbed a little on my hand and thought, "Yes, I have to have this barely there, glitter for my lips." Two minutes later, I was in paying for my filthy habit yet again.
I couldn't wait to open the box and layer it on my lips. But once I did, I was a little disappointed. It basically looked like clear gloss with a little bit of sparkle. I thought it was going to be a little more of a pale pink/nude color underneath the glitz. On the bright side, I love a scented gloss and this one smells like cotton candy/marshmallows. YUM! It's also a little sticky, which I like (I know a lot of people don't). It's not as sticky as a MAC gloss, but sticky enough to know when you need to apply more.
Here it is, freshly applied to a makeup-free face. Don't mind the splotchiness.