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A couple of days ago, a colleague of mine showed me an interesting article on an international auto website. The article was about your new car not being entirely new. It was about how a vehicle can get damaged in the transit, and if the damage is relatively small, and dealer fixes it, the dealership is not legally bound to tell you about the damage. The author is from the US and was explaining the procedures from that perspective. He wrote that if the repairing that transit damage costs under a certain percentage of the actual cost of the vehicle, the dealership can sell you the car without ever mentioning any sort of damage.
I am going to mention the example he wrote in that article to make it easier to understand. He wrote that he bought a Subaru WRX for USD 28,138 from US state North Carolina. In North Carolina, according to the state laws, the dealership can repair a damage worth 5pc of the total cost of the vehicle. Over 5pc, dealers have to inform the customers. So the Subaru he bought was for USD 28,138, and the dealership can spend up to USD 1,400 in repairing transit damage and can sell you that WRX as new. You can read that article for more details here.
This got me thinking, what are the chances that your brand new off the shelf Toyota Corolla made by Indus Motors was damaged, but the dealership didn't bother telling you that. Accidents happen! It is only natural. Honda Atlas has its plant near Lahore, Pak Suzuki and Indus Motors have theirs in Karachi. When cars are being transported, there are numerous ways they can get damaged; whether it's loading unloading or the freight trailer getting in an accident, etc. Even at the dealership, a mechanic might have dropped a spanner on the bonnet of your Suzuki Cultus and the dealership immediately took the dent out and repainted it before you took the delivery. Let's be honest, it's not like paint quality of our brand new cars is so good that you can easily tell if the car has been repainted at the dealership or not. And mostly people are not able to identify if the paint is 'janiyun' (genuine) or a repaint.
You will find umpteenth number of new car owners with stories regarding their new cars not feeling right; misaligned panels, different shades of fenders, etc. I have heard several stories of people fearing their cars might have been repainted at the dealership before they were delivered. I am sure many of you might have seen the images of Hyundai Shahzore pickups with squashed roofs because the driver of the freight trailer couldn't judge how low the bridge on the 9th Avenue was. If not, here are the images. Thread, here. And yes, that is an extreme example, but you get the point.
But here is another issue, the built quality of our brand new cars are not exactly great also. I mean yes, there are chances that dealerships are selling repaired vehicles every now and then but what if you that wonky front fascia of your car was not because of the transportation damage, but the car assembling plant at the backend didn't bother to thoroughly check the vehicle for quality assurance.
Last week, I was driving with the head of PakWheels CarSure team here in Islamabad when I saw a beautifully maintained 10th generation Toyota Corolla in silver. I noticed its rear bumper was of a lighter shade than the body. So was the case with the front bumper as well. I mentioned this to the CarSure head and asked if the bumpers are repainted. He said, no! That's just how the bumpers of those Corollas were. He told me Indus apparently didn't put primer on the bumpers before painting them. So with the passage of the time, the paint on bumpers changes its shade a bit.
What I am trying to say is that as much as there are chances of your car being damaged in the transit, there are more chances of it just being poorly made. That's just a sad truth. The question is, what can you do if you find out that your car has been repaired or something? As mentioned above, in the US, dealers have some legal amnesty when it comes to telling customers about pre-delivery damage. But after certain damage, they are bound to inform their customers. As far Pakistan is concerned, I am not aware of any law like that. I googled and asked around, but no one could give me a definitive answer. But there are a couple of things that can help.
Japanese parent companies of the Big Three operating in Pakistan are quite sensitive when it comes to their image and taking care of their customers. So if you have a problem with your vehicle, but your local automaker and dealer are not cooperating, shoot an email with details to their Japanese bosses. It usually works. I remember reading about one case where a PakWheels member sent an email to Suzuki in Japan because his car had some major built quality issue. I don't remember the exact details, but Pak Suzuki did rectify the problem after Suzuki Japan's involvement. Nowadays, even local car makers are worried about bad PR and image in the press thanks to the social media. One Toyota Corolla customer in Islamabad found out his Corolla to be a serious lemon. He tried his best to get it resolved through the Islamabad Aabpara dealership from where he bought the car but to no avail. Even Toyota Indus didn't bother with his complaints. He ended up making a thread on PakWheels and his story got traction and finally Indus Motors woke up and hurried to resolve the issue but unfortunately for them, their Corolla had already hit the fan, if you know what I mean. That earned them some seriously bad press, although I don't think that made any quantifiable difference in the overall betterment of the production quality of their cars. You can read about Nabeel's story here.
Still, it's better than finding a paper cutter blade in the rear seat of your car.
Other than making some serious noise on social media, there is a legal way as well. We have consumer courts working in Pakistan, working under Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan. And they are pretty efficient as far as I have heard. Say you found out that your Mehran was extensively damaged during the transportation, and your dealership is not cooperating with you, you can always go to the consumer courts. I have mostly heard positive reviews about the courts that they usually side with the consumers, but I don't have a personal experience with them, or personally know anyone who had been to those courts.
So yeah, it's a sad truth about our car industry. States in the USA legally provide cover to dealerships to cover the damage, but only to a certain extent. We don't have any rule or law like that here in Pakistan, and our dealerships take absolutely no blame for any damage. Leave dealerships at a side for a second, our car makers aren't exactly losing their sleep for us either.


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I think Gregg's summary is an accurate description of how we have made decisions in the past, and how they should be made in the future. I still think, after we have agreed on these (or similar) principles, we should write them up and include a summary in the guidelines document itself so that readers can gain a greater understanding of what success criteria are, and how the conformance levels are defined. By doing so, we reduce (but, realistically, cannot eliminate) the risk that the docment will be inadvertently misused by those who are unaware of the rationale underlying the definitions of success criteria and conformance levels. That is, the guidelines document should be clear in itself as to how the success criteria and conformance levels are defined; a reader should not have to search for our requirements document to obtain this degree of insight (though naturally, the requirements document will elaborate our thinking to a far greater extent than any rationale set forth in the guidelines). Instead of a "level 4", we could simply head the level "advice", as that is what it is. In that case, we could easily refer to it in success criteria, as in: The content has been reviewed, taking into account the advice under this checkpoint, and is believed to be... where "advice" is a link to the corresponding advice section for the particular checkpoint. which is what we originally intended to provide for in our assurance requirements (see my earlier message on the subject). As Gregg pointed out, the "advice" then becomes part of the requirement in as much as it has to be taken into consideration in conducting the review required by the level 2 success criteria. As Gregg also said, with this approach, the advice can't easily be omitted from checklists. Thus my proposal is: Call the "advisory" section "advice"; explain its purpose in the introduction. Explain, in the introduction or an appendix, the rationale behind the success criteria and conformance levels. One more proposal and I shall finish for the night: for the purpose of facilitating transitions, we should document precisely what conformance claims under WCAG 2.0 can be made in respect of content that meets levels A, double-A and tripple-A of WCAG 1.0, including the "required" technologies/features list as per checkpoint 5.2. This should make it easy for developers who have already conformed to WCAG 1.0 at some level, to make a corresponding claim on WCAG 2.0, and to know which additional requirements they will have to meet in order to conform to WCAG 2.0 at a higher level.Received on Wednesday, 7 August 2002 07:16:45 UTC
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Who will be the next Donna, Marc, Francisco, Narciso? If you were at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers Wednesday evening, you may have a pretty good idea. Parsons, The New School for Design, http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/, a revered institution known for churning out some of the most formidable talent on the planet (including the aforementioned names), held its annual Fashion Benefit on Wednesday evening. This year, the honorees were Parsons alumni Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, and Bonnie Brooks, President of the Hudson's Bay Company, for their contributions to Parsons, the fashion industry, and philanthropy. Funds raised at this benefit, which is now in its 65th year, are used for scholarships. During the course of the evening, Parsons Executive Dean Joel Towers made the announcement that this year, nearly $1.7 million had been raised.
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The popular event space, situated directly on the Hudson River with floor to ceiling windows, could not have been more perfect, given the summer like weather, and it was maximized to full tilt. While it was fashion gridlock inside, guests including Beth Rudin de Woody, Parsons Trustee; Kay Unger, Incoming Board Chair, Parsons; Bridget Foley; Sally Singer; Hamish Bowles; Margaret Hayes; Steven Kolb; Julie Gilhart; Mickey Boardman; Michael Vollbracht; Olivier Theyskens; Christian Siriano; Parsons alumni Reed Krakoff, Tracy Reese, Narciso Rodriguez, Prabal Gurung, Carly Chusnie, Michele Ochs, and Patrick Robinson mingled about.
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A vast room leading out to the terrace - where many enjoyed their cocktails watching the boats go by - was transformed into the ultimate showroom, with a well edited, highly visual, and compelling selection of some of the graduating students' collections (clothing and accessories) on display. Among those that caught my eye: Wei Ng's beautiful white dress with a painterly abstract design in orange and black, and a sculptural black coat; Hyun Jung Yoo's and Sumaiyah Akhtar's minimal and architectural designs in black and white; and Jung Yun Park's graphic designs in Saga mink.
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A highlight of the event is always the runway show of select collections by graduating students, and the naming of the Designers of the Year. In 2002, McCollough and Hernandez received this honor, as did Marc Jacobs in his graduating year, so I guess one can say this is a pretty good barometer of future success and star status. This year's recipients were Womenswear Designers of the Year Harim Jung from Seoul, South Korea, and Kaye Applewaite from Barbados; Menswear Designer of the Year Yunxiang Sharon Zhou from Tai'An, China; and Childrenswear Designer of the Year Diana Flavio Woodside from Los Angeles.
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The ideology of freedom can be used to rationalize low female participation as simply a matter of personal preference.
'Open' Doesn't Include Everyone
Joseph M. Reagle, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, is the author of, "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia."
Updated February 4, 2011, 3:07 PM
Surveys indicate females are only a fraction of Wikipedia contributors. Can one discern a similar skew in Wikipedia's encyclopedic content, and what might explain the imbalance in contribution in the first place? These are both difficult questions to answer, but here are some tentative thoughts.
While it is not possible to infer a causal link, Lauren Rhue of New York University and I have been investigating if there is a bias against female representation in Wikipedia's biographies. In our research, we compare biographies at the English-language Wikipedia and online Encyclopaedia Britannica with respect to coverage, gender representation, and article length.
We find that Wikipedia provides significantly better coverage and longer articles, and that Wikipedia has more female biographies than Britannica in absolute terms. That is, your best chance at finding a given biography is at Wikipedia because it is just so big. However, when we looked specifically at missing biographies, we found Wikipedia articles on females are more likely to be missing than articles on males, relative to Britannica. That is, the ratio of missing females to males at Wikipedia was disproportionately higher. So there is some evidence for a skew in female representation.
Why are there so few female contributors to free culture projects like Wikipedia and free and open source software? In a draft paper I argue it is the otherwise commendable values and character of these communities which may be a factor.
First, a culture of hacker elitism can be unappealing to those unable or unwilling to hew to the stereotypical features of the hacker (i.e., a singular, narrow focus; argumentative style; and geek image). Also, the openness of such communities means that a minority of high-conflict members (including, for example, a misogynist or an Internet troll) can have a disproportionate effect on the tone and dynamics of the community.
Finally, the ideology and rhetoric of freedom and openness can then be used (a) to suppress concerns about inappropriate or offensive speech as "censorship" and (b) to rationalize low female participation as simply a matter of their personal preference and choice.
I think these communities are undergoing some difficult but necessary growing pains. As "locker-room" type behavior is challenged (e.g., inappropriate images in conference presentations and sexist jokes), I hope this will make way for more inclusiveness and good faith collaboration -- something which Wikipedia has many great examples of already.


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As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I was on John Hawkins fagalicious Right Wing News which had Mark Levin's smear from the Cuckservative Review bashing Donald Trump, and I am becoming amused in all of this new hysteria of "We must kill and eat every Republican, to nourish the cancer dying campaign of Ted Cruz.
Yes who cares about Ben Carson or John Kasich voters, as long as Ted Cruz can rip their hearts out and consume their bravery to continue on one more day. I just am so stunned in this, that this is what the Ted Cruz group is now in hysteria over, in the ship is sinking, but let's kill all the women and children first, so we do not sink faster.
There is now this insane thought, that two tan skinned Cubans, one a Canadian, are going to appeal to all of Americans, as long as Donald Trump is not in the race.
So you get this, most of the GOP does not like this dwindling 36% vote block, which comes in second and third place in every race, being defeated by Donald Trump, and NONE of the Democats are ever going to vote for Taco and Beans in the general. If you want Hillary Clinton as dictator, vote for Rubio Cruz.
But then Rubio can not win we are told, and we find out from the Cruz voters that Marco Rubio was sticking his cock into a little white girl in Florida named............Amber Stoner.
I do not know if Marco Rubio likes nailing shemales, but he does like dancing in fag boy chorus lines. For you Rubio supporters, your Marco liked gay sex. That is all going to come out, and you are going to see numbers of gay men telling us about Fago Rubio when Hillary Clinton gets running with this as Ted Cruz just unloaded with this sex scandal, and there are more Marco at play scandals out there.
Then there is Walt Williams for Crubio, in telling us all that we are gullible, for wanting our jobs back and to punish American corporations in Mexico gouging us. I probably would want to protect these traitor companies too if my University and my retirement rested on all of these stock portfolios and conglomerate grants, but for me and most of America, our lives ended sometime under George W. Bush, and we are through protecting the profits of the nation rapists.
So we learned today that Cruz people will kill Rubio people and that Rubio people will kill Cruz people, and that both Cruz people and Rubio people will kill Kasich people and Carson people in order to kill Trump people.
Let us revisit this, in Rubio and Cruz are Cuban Republicans, meaning they are domestic socialists, and foreign policy gunners. We can not afford from their policies which are Obama policies more spending on welfare and invaders and can not afford a war with Russia or ISIS.
Seriously, you Cruz and Rubio supporters, need to CHILL for a few hours, and look at what you are following and what you have become. You are now part of a group of insane establishment lunatics who are advocating destroying Republicans, for a victory which can never be, so it will destroy everything Conservative.
Just consider Common Sense Conservative ideas for a few moments at least, as what is taking place now is derangement, and I know in the passing of time, each of you is going to be astonished and ashamed you were led into this insanity as this not what you are...........think back to 2009 when you came to the Tea Party. Donald Trump was a hero for challenging Obama on that birth abstract. Sarah Palin was your hero at the Tea Party. You were united and not killing off each other.
This is not what you signed up for, and it is not what any of you are. You have been manipulated, set off balance and are being prodded into committing political suicide by the billionaires who own Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
You are my children and my brats, it is time to stop, unplug and get back to what you were in 2009, and then calmly make a political decision, hopefully after some prayer time and Bible study, and emerge not as a zealot hearing the voice of God, but what kind of political voice you want in Washington to save you for the next 8 years........which is going to win.


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Last week I posted about New Zealand being a lost world of dinosaurs – as long as we think of birds as a dinosaur. Which, of course, they are.
This isn't hyperbole. Today, birds are formally part of the dinosaur clade – the greater family. Specifically, they are avian dinosaurs, whereas the ones that went extinct 65 million years ago were the non-avian version.
This concept has been a long time coming, although it shouldn't have been. The relationship between birds and dinosaurs began emerging in the nineteenth century, starting with the Jurassic-age fossil of Archaeopteryx dug out of a quarry near Solnhofen in 1860-61. It was a bird with toothed jaws, found to be related to contemporary ground-dwelling maniraptors. Even so, paleontologists usually imagined that birds were a dinosaur side-branch that had gained distinctive characteristics and become a separate creature.
New discoveries during the early twenty-first century revealed a different picture. Some dinosaurs – particularly many of the two-legged carnivorous species – were found to be feathered and, though the jury remains out, there has been speculation that all dinosaur families were feathered in various ways. Not all were 'flight' feathers, but some dinosaurs – birds – certainly flew, and they'd been doing it since the Jurassic. In fact there were two dinosaur families that flew – one of which, Enantiornithes, died out during the Cretaceous. What's more, it seems that as the Cretaceous continued, many bipedal non-flying dinosaurs became increasingly like birds, apart from flight.
Birds, in short, were dinosaurs – specifically, theropods, which weren't 'bird hipped' dinosaurs ('Orthinischia'), they were 'lizard hipped' ('Saurischia'). Go figure. Birds were also diapsids, like dinosaurs; and shared features we know existed across a wide range of dinosaur species, including nest-building, egg-laying, feathers of various types, beaks, pneumatised bones, and so on. Lest there be any doubt, experiments at the Max Planck institute revealed that chickens have the gene for atavistically growing dinosaur teeth (it's talpid2, specifically).
From this we can hypothesise that dinosaurs were endothermic, because birds are – chickens, for instance, have a higher body temperature than we do – 41-45 degrees C vs our 37.
To put that in perspective, nineteenth century science classified ectotherms (reptiles and amphibians) as 'cold blooded', anthropomorphising the term into human behaviours such as ruthlessness. Actually, ectotherms can't function when they're cold – they have to warm up. I know. There was one time I ended up with a 2-metre long snake wrapped around my shoulders, and it was as warm as I was.
The problem for reptiles is they're reliant on external heat to get to operating temperature. Providing enough food's around, it's an evolutionary advantage to generate your own – and birds show that mammals aren't unique in developing that trait.
So how did flying dinosaurs survive when others didn't? The Chixuclub impact that devastated Earth's biosphere some 65 milion years ago didn't specifically kill dinosaurs – it destroyed an immense range of life, including reptiles, mammals, amphibians, dinosaurs and plants. Vast areas were reduced to grass and fern-land. One issue, it seems, was the damage to the food chain. All the larger creatures – which included many species of dinosaur – died off. Some flying dinosaurs (birds), it's been speculated, survived because of that ability to fly. Mammals – small rodent-like creatures – survived possibly by virtue of their size.
For me the crucial point is that afterwards, mammals didn't automatically take over. After the Chixuclub impact, surviving species – dinosaurs (birds), mammals, reptiles and amphibians – re-radiated into empty ecological niches. There was nothing inevitable about mammals becoming dominant. They did so in Africa, North America and Eurasia. But in South America, large dinosaurs re-emerged in the form of flightless carnivorous birds. Other mixes appeared in Australia, where the dominant land animals became one of the variants on the mammal theme – marsupials – alongside dinosaurs (birds) that radiated into various ecological niches alongside the marsupials. Examples included a 2.5-metre tall carnivorous duck, Bullockornis. Yes, folks, a gigantic predatory duck. Don't laugh.
In my own country, New Zealand, mammals didn't flourish at all. Here, the reptiles, lizards, dinosaurs and insects that had dominated southern Gondwanaland during the Cretaceous continued – with a few amendments. For reasons associated with erosion and mountain-building, today's land-mass isn't what existed then. But in general the biota – isolated from the rest of the world – survived as the land changed around it. Larger dinosaurs were gone; but the New Zealand ('Rangitata') archipelago was re-colonised by the flying variety – which lost the ability to fly. And the flora was much as it had been through the dinosaur period.
If we want to speculate on how the world might have looked had the Chixuclub asteroid strike not occurred, New Zealand is probably all we need. Setting aside the absence of larger dinosaur species, it's arguably where the dino-world would have gone had it lasted into the quaternary era.
Had? Yeah. A lot of that biota has gone. The arrival of humans around 1280 saw to that. New Zealand's 'lost world' of archaic plants, flightless birds, insects and so forth reeled under the impact of humanity. The arrival of British settlers after the 1840s virtually completed the destruction.
New Zealand was – WAS – a true 'lost world'. Its dinosaur age, basically, ended during the fourteenth century. Today, it's still there in bits, especially on offshore islands. And in some cities, a bit. As I write this, a tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is singing outside my window. A dinosaur? Hell yeah.
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I know, my headline is rather "dramatic," but it's the plain truth. This barbaric crime, will be labeled as "work place violence," just like the terrorist shooting at Fort Hood. The fact that both of the murderers were followers of Islam was mere "coincidence." Eric Holder will go out of his way to prove that in this particular instance, the horrific crime in Oklahoma was not an act of terror, just your ordinary run o' the mill example of workplace violence. And that's because Holder gets his marching orders from the White House. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., is the single most Islam-friendly president we've ever had. Some liberals and others on the left will say, "That's Bulls**t, he's bombing ISIS as we speak." The only reason Obama is doing anything about the Islamic terror army at all, is purely for political reasons. He doesn't want to give the impression that he (or the Democrats) are weak on terrorists. It's all about votes, folks...it's all about votes.
No, I'll bet my pension that this animal who killed that helpless woman in Oklahoma will just be charged with First Degree Murder, and it will not be labeled as an act of terror, or even as a Hate Crime. I even doubt he (if found guilty) will be put to death.
As long as Barack Obama is president, radical Islam will continue to get a pass and those who disagree with him will be labeled as "Islamophobes." And organizations like CAIR are making sure of that also. Even Obama's own brother, Malik Obama, has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. I wrote an article last year to that effect and funny coincidence (ha-ha), Lois Lerner herself signed-off on his tax exempt status. So I don't want to hear any of you left-wingers say that Obama is cracking down on radical Islam....because he's not. In fact, just recently in his speech to the United Nations, he once again praised Islam.
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From reports we have learned the man in Oklahoma was a convert to Islam when he was in prison. Here is some statistical data of religious extremism in our prisons:
Hmm...Interesting. It would seem that our own prison system is a breeding ground for radical Islam...scary, isn't it? You'll notice that paganism ranks a close second, but I don't think we have to worry about the Devil worshipers beheading anyone or becoming suicide bombers in the near future. It's also no secret that, right here in America, the hate group, the "Nation of Islam," is nothing more that: an "I hate whitey" club. And yet, for the last 4 years, who has the DHS and the IRS been going after? The TEA Party. Yep, those "limited government, low tax, 2nd Amendment" bastards are the real threat to America. Islam? Why, that's the religion of peace, according to our president.
So, between Obama's own family having ties to radical Islam, his constant praise of Islam and the fact that, not that long ago, he traded five top Taliban operatives for a deserter, can one really say Obama is even harsh when it comes to radical Islam? This, of course, does not even count on the fact that, with our southern border being wide open, there is no way to even accurately count the number of Al Qaeda, Taliban, Khorasan or even members of ISIS who have already been able to sneak into the United States.
In Arabic, the word "Islam" means submission or surrender – however, it was derived from the root word "salam." From this root word, you can also derive the words peace and safety. But many people feel that Islam implies some sort of enslavement to Allah, but others find it more helpful to define the word "Islam" as "surrender."
The God I pray to does not require me to "submit" or "surrender" to him.
So, whose side is Obama really on? With all that he has done to "help" Islam for the last six years, it should at the very least raise some eyebrows.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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So cute! I am with you, who cares if it is Easter or not, these are lovely at any time.;)ReplyDelete
Have a lovely day Sandy,
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Cute mugs! The chick and bunny remind me of the ones that Bentley had by his dishes for Easter!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for the info about the tutorial with Connie. That helped me although I still ahve so much to learn. I am going to try to set up a site on Etsy next and who knows...Anyway, I love you site, the mugs made me smile!
The mugs are adorable ... I could not have passed these up either!ReplyDelete
The mugs are so cute. I can see how you could not let them in the store.ReplyDelete
Very cute..... Are you still grannie-ing along. Finally, pick mine up again. Isn't it fun. Can't wait to see an update on how your's is going. I'm sure you will be finished before I am. My garden has been calling for attention as of late.ReplyDelete
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In the name of God Amen. Be it known to all men that I Martin Bulger of Portugal Cove in the district of Saint John's, Island of Newfoundland, being weak of body but of sound mind and memory do make and ordain this my last will and testament. As regards the property which God has been pleased to bestow upon me in this life I dispose of in the following manner. I give and bequeath unto my son David Bulger all that property purchased by me from James Winter situate in Portugal Cove aforesaid and near the premises now occupied by Robert Oke. The said David to have and to hold the same during his natural lifetime and after his demise to become the property of his male child or children. Should the said David die without male issue then and in such case the property to revert to the surviving male heirs of my family, namely, John, Martin and James. To my son John Bulger I give and bequeath all that parcel of land situate in rear of Margaret Dooley's in Portugal Cove aforesaid and commonly denominated Gladney's Garden also another parcel called Foxhole Garden and joining property belonging to William Fry. To my son Martin Bulger I give and bequeath all that parcel of land known as Gulsh meadow and situate near property now occupied by Robert Oke. To my son James Bulger I give and bequeath all that parcel of land situate near Portugal Cove aforesaid bounded on the southeast by the Cove road and north by the Main River and commonly denominated the Whales Back. My farm situate near the first Pond on the Road leading from P. Cove to St. John's I give and bequeath to my sons David John, Martin and James, to be equally divided among them. Also another farm situate near Portugal Cove and known as the Greymans Beard I give and bequeath to my said sons David, John, Martin and James to be equally divided among them. The premises which I now occupy I give and bequeath to my sons Martin and James upon the following conditions- The family to live in the house as usual each one doing his part for the good of all. their mother while she remains unmarried to be supported on the premises by the sons. The furniture, horses, cows, carriage cart &c to be kept as usual for their mutual support. For the time being David is to act as head of the house, and when he thinks proper to leave and reside in a house of his own, his authority then ceases, and the next in seniority to take his place and so on with the others. Should either of my said sons get married he is not to bring his wife to reside on the premises without the consent of the others. The foregoing bequests are made by me upon the express condition that they are not to be either mortgaged or sold. Lastly I do hereby appoint Patrick Neary and George Neary as executors of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Portugal Cove aforesaid this twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. Martin Bulger (LS) Signed & sealed in presence of Patrick Flannery, George Neary.
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FBI Director James Comey addressed the assertion by Donald J. Trump of wire tapping of him and his building (Trump Tower) during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Speaking before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey effectively called bullshit on Trump's Tweets.
FBI Director James B. Comey on Monday said there is "no information" that supports President Trump's claims that his predecessor ordered surveillance of Trump Tower during the election campaign.
"I have no information that supports those tweets,'' said Comey, testifying at the House Intelligence Committee's first public hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. "We have looked carefully inside the FBI,'' and agents found nothing to support those claims, he said.
Source: Washington Post, Ellen Nakashima, Karoum Demirjian, Devlin Barrett
Under questioning by Adam Schiff (CA), Comey stated that no president could order such surveillance. This statement ensured everyone in the room or watching on TV understood the lunacy of Trump's claim.
But Comey wasn't done poking Trump. He took the unusual step (perhaps not so unusual anymore considering Comey's recent behavior) of acknowledging the existence of a counterintelligence investigation into the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. Comey explained that the investigation is exploring links between Trump campaign associates and the Russian government.
Altogether not a good day for Team Trump.
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While we were out last week on our play it by ear day, we stopped at Aliso Park and the kiddos played till it was dark. They had a great time and honestly couldn't stop talking about it for days. They played in the sand, they swung as high as they could("push me to the sky Mom") and pretended they were pirates on a ship. I remembered once again the importance of free/open play and making sure the kiddos have the opportunity to let their imaginations run wild and of course get the wiggles all out of the way.
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Noble McIntyre was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1970. In 1971 his family moved to a small town in western Oklahoma called Burns Flat. After graduating as Valedictorian from high school in 1988 and as just 1 of 100 Oklahoma Academic All-Staters in the entire state, Noble attended Oklahoma Baptist University where he graduated with honors and a degree in Accounting with a minor in Business. After graduating from OBU in 1992, he then attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law and received his juris-doctorate degree in May 1995. He passed the Oklahoma Bar Exam in July 1995 and was sworn in as an attorney September 1995. He joined a local firm and was named a partner in the firm one short year later. After several years as a partner, Noble formed McIntyre Law P.C. which focuses on representing severely injured clients across Oklahoma as well as nationally in connection with his Mass Tort Practice. In addition to Noble McIntyre, McIntyre Law has four other attorneys and multiple legal assistants and support staff in the Oklahoma office. McIntyre Law has also entered into strategic alliances with other firms nationwide which allows the firm to actively pursue cases on behalf of clients in states other than Oklahoma.
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On my way to school last week I saw pumpkins on the doorstep of a home….so I guess it's time to start thinking about holiday cards…here are some samples that look great with photos on the beach! Check back for more samples with new colors, designs & shapes!
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Taylor, Brodie & Jaden ~ Manhattan Beach Photographer
Gotta love twins…really I find the whole thing fascinating… 2 babies at one time! Those moms should just get free parking for life…or something. 🙂 These twins were adorable, and fun, and it was immediately apparent that the two had different personalities. Even at such a young age, it's remarkable how they are such […]
Sydney et al ~ Huntington Beach Photographer ~ Heidi Walter Photography
FINALLY I get Sydney's mom & dad in a picture! As much as I love the Sydney show….it's fun to get the entire family in as well. Unfortunately because the weather we have been having has been so unpredictable…it was a chilly and cool day at the beach and Syd was not overly interested […]
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Scalloped edges….unique designes…..set #2. I have been asked for this type of card so many times…so here you go!!! 🙂 (Images are not mine…copyrights again….thank you!)


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Ok ok, I'm gonna start with the same theme than yesterday (even though I post the message 2 days later because they still don't have internet in the outback). Alon is an Israeli backpacker, we met on gumtree, which is an awesome website where we can find everything : from a secondhand vehicle to a premium hand mate. However, we wanted both to explore the Flinders Ranges and he came along on board of the van. Like all the others Israeli backpackers, he travels just after his army service, which lasts 3 years for a man and 2 for a … La suite


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British Airways API
British Airways (BA) is a full service global airline with an extensive global route network based out of the United Kingdom. British Airways offers developers a REST API for the integration of BA data into third party applications. Current public API offerings include: Flight Time Info, for the latest flight information distributed by BA; Flight Offer, for the latest BA flight offers; and Availability, for hotel, car hire, and package offer information distributed by BA. An API key is required.


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Here are five things to know about Besty DeVos, whom President-elect Donald Trump picked for education secretary on Wednesday, Nov. 23:
--As a member of the DeVos clan of west Michigan, she is one of the top Republican fundraisers in the state. The family has given millions over the years – including about $10 million in the most recent political cycle – to elect Republicans, including to the campaign efforts of two other presidential candidates, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
--DeVos' husband, Dick, is the son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos. He ran as the Republican nominee for Michigan governor against the incumbent, Jennifer Granholm, in 2006, and lost.
--She's the daughter of west Michigan businessman Edgar Prince, whose auto supplies company made lighted visors and many other products before being sold to Johnson Controls in 1996. Her brother, Erik Prince, is a former Navy SEAL who founded the private security company Blackwater, which came under criticism for actions during the Iraq War.
--DeVos and her husband led a failed effort in 2001 to amend the Michigan constitution to provide vouchers that would allow students to attend private schools at public expense.
--DeVos is on the board of directors for the Great Lakes Education Project, which advocates for school choice and charter schools. She also chairs the board of directors of the American Federation for Children, another choice advocacy group.


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Level: 5
Required CR:
Required DLC:
Start Area:
Metropolis Chinatown
Mission Giver:
Magent Ardreus
Story: Aid
Magent Ardreus in freeing his beloved from
Faust's evil.
1) Find Madame
Dea near Mannheim's Chinese Theater and defeat
2) Subdue
Soulless and beckon their souls to return to the
living (0/15)
Cash: 7
Reward: Soder
Cola x2
Talk to Magent
Ardreus in front of the Mannheim Chinese Theater.
He will ask you to help free
his love Madame Dea by defeating her to break
Faust's spell. Climb to the top of the theater
and defeat her.
After you
defeat her, you will need to help return the
Soulless to the living. Defeat them and then use
'E' on them to bring them back from the undead.
You will need to save 15 of them.


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Twilight Collection Queen Slat Bed
Product Description
Twilight Collection is a stylish casual contemporary bedroom group that is proudly made in America by American craftsmen. This set features a beautiful Slat Bed that is available in both queen and king sizes. Note the tall shaped posts on the headboard and shaped slats that are reminiscent of calssic Shaker styling, while our low profile footboard is updated for today's tastes. Beveled glass is used on our shadowbox mirror. The "Twilight" bedroom group: American made, American quality and good for the American environment.
Brand: Vaughan-Bassett


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Make your Dreams Come True! (Especially if your dream is custom artwork.)
At the moment, Lee has limited availably for personal commissions. Contact Lee for current rates, availability, and a quote for your project.
Past commissions have been done for birth announcements, birthdays, retirements, Valentine's Day gifts, engagement announcements, profile images, t-shirts, logos, advertisements, employee gifts, and holiday cards. Special requests have included dearly-departed pets, angelic aunts, hot-dog skiing eagles, and bouncing newlyweds.


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As it often happens in practice, a lot of people underestimate the importance of navigation, though it plays very important role for the site. I would compare it to a gateway which leads your visitors from one section of the content to another one. Therefore, it's got to be planned, comprehensive and easy-to-use. Here are a few tips how to build effective navigation system:
1) Don't hide your navigation bar. It's got to be obvious and visible. I doubt very much that web users would spend ages on a site to find the needed information if it's not presented in a clear manner. The navigation system shouldn't take a lot of space but it's got to attract people's attention. For many years web designers have placed it at the top of the site. Naturally, today it's the most anticipated place to look for it. And frankly speaking, it's probably the most convenient place, as no one has to scroll down the page down, left or right to find the bar.
2) The navigation bar should be placed at the same area throughout the entire website. It's got to be designed in the same style and color scheme. Consistency is important in web design. Web users will feel more comfortable on such website.
3) The name of all sections should be appropriate and explain themselves.
4) As practice shows, the simpler your navigation bar is, the more effective it is. A lot of buttons may easily confuse your customers and get them lost. A lot of choices is not always good. Such abundance of options may distract users from the important message.
5) Reminding users where they are on a site is a good practice. Think of the way to highlight the section which a user has arrived at. If your website has got a lot of pages, it's vital to provide your users with a link that would lead them to the homepage. Usually such link is placed at the same area where the logo is.


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Discover the history and secrets of the Nuremberg gingerbread and learn how to make "Lebkuchen" yourself. And the best is, you can take your self-made deliciacies home.
Costs: 19 € / person incl. your own gingerbread-box & table water
Dates: cookionista Event Calendar / Dates for groups (4 - 100 persons) by arrangement
Booking Hotline: +49 911 888161
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Ferrari are hoping updates to their 2011 car will make them more competitive in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix this weekend.
In the race the team fared better with Alonso finishing fourth and Massa seventh, following the exclusion of the Sauber team. The Brazilian set the fastest lap and Alonso the second fastest.
"After the opening round in Australia, we have spent a lot of time analysing all the data acquired in Melbourne and one clear fact is that our race pace there was definitely better than the one we had in qualifying," deputy technical director Chris Dyer told Ferrari's official website.
Stefano Domenicali and several engineers flew back to Europe during the two-week break in the wake of their poor show in Australia.
"After analysing qualifying and race data from Melbourne, there are already things we plan to change and improve for Malaysia," said Pat Fry, assistant technical director.
"We have also added a further three or four test items and probably there will be even more new parts to test arriving in the few days between the Malaysia and China races. It's a case of constant development throughout the season," he said.
Ferrari have not won at Sepang since Kimi Raikkonen took the chequered flag back in 2008.


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Looking for a comfy room in a reasonable price? Stay in stylish, modern budget accommodation with great facilities and relaxing lounge areas. Feel right at home with a diverse mixture of international travellers. We provide private rooms and single dorm beds in dorm rooms that are from 6 to 8 beds from as little as 55 PLN
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Neil Patrick Harris declined Letterman's "Late Show" post
Neil Patrick Harris could have been the next host of the "Late Show" -- but says he turned it down.
The "How I Met Your Mother" star revealed to Howard Stern on Wednesday that he was given the chance to succeed David Letterman at the late-night show, but he wasn't interested in the job.
He said that while he was never offered a specific deal, CBS executives did approach him about replacing Letterman, who will retire in 2015.
"They called me in and sat me down and asked if that would be something I'd be interested in doing," Harris told Stern.
"I sat for a time with it while I was talking to [CBS Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves], and I told him what concerned me about the longevity of that kind of gig," he explained. "I think I would get bored of the repetition fast. The structure of it is so set -- I don't have any interest in doing Monologue, Commercial, Sketch, Guest, Guest, Musical Act, Good Night."
When asked about taking over Craig Ferguson's spot at the "Late Late Show," Harris still said no. "It's still nightly, you're still coming out with the same content," he added. "And now you're just getting bitter that no one is watching."
Last month, it was announced Stephen Colbert will take over for Letterman at the "Late Show." Ferguson's replacement has not yet been named.
Harris told Stern he'd prefer to do a weekly variety series instead, which he said CBS might be interested in.
"A weekly thing, you'd have more time to prep for stuff, you could do pre-taped stuff that would be really exciting, you could flesh it out a little bit more, have more acts and not just do nightly," he said.
Listen to the full interview here.