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WHAT is a judge-penitent? Ah, I intrigued you with that business. I meant no harm by it,
believe me, and I can explain myself more clearly. In a way, that even belongs to my official duties.
But first I must set forth a certain number of facts that will help you to understand my story.
A few years ago I was a lawyer in Paris and, indeed, a rather well-known lawyer. Of course, I
didn't tell you my real name. I had a specialty: noble cases. Widows and orphans, as the saying
goes—I don't know why, because there are improper widows and ferocious orphans. Yet it was
enough for me to sniff the slightest scent of victim on a defendant for me to swing into action. And
what action! A real tornado! My heart was on my sleeve. You would really have thought that justice
slept with me every night. I am sure you would have admired the rightness of my tone, the
appropriateness of my emotion, the persuasion and warmth, the restrained indignation of my
speeches before the court. Nature favored me as to my physique, [18] and the noble attitude comes
effortlessly. Furthermore, I was buoyed up by two sincere feelings: the satisfaction of being on the
right side of the bar and an instinctive scorn for judges in general. That scorn, after all, wasn't
perhaps so instinctive. I know now that it had its reasons. But, seen from the outside, it looked
rather like a passion. It can't be denied that, for the moment at least, we have to have judges, don't
we? However, I could not understand how a man could offer himself to perform such a surprising
function. I accepted the fact because I saw it, but rather as I accepted locusts. With this difference:
that the invasions of those Orthoptera never brought me a son whereas I earned my living by
carrying on a dialogue with people I scorned.
But, after all, I was on the right side; that was enough to satisfy my conscience. The feeling of the
law, the satisfaction of being right, the joy of self-esteem, cher monsieur, are powerful incentives for
keeping us upright or keeping us moving forward. On the other hand, if you deprive men of them,
you transform them into dogs frothing with rage. How many crimes committed merely because [19]
their authors could not endure being wrong! I once knew a manufacturer who had a perfect wife,
admired by all, and yet he deceived her. That man was literally furious to be in the wrong, to be
blocked from receiving, or granting himself, a certificate of virtue. The more virtues his wife
manifested, the more vexed he became. Eventually, living in the wrong became unbearable to him.
What do you think he did then? He gave up deceiving her? Not at all. He killed her. That is how I
entered into relations with him.
My situation was more enviable. Not only did I run no risk of joining the criminal camp (in
particular I had no chance of killing my wife, being a bachelor), but I even took up their defense, on
the sole condition that they should be noble murderers, as others are noble savages. The very
manner in which I conducted that defense gave me great satisfactions. I was truly above reproach in
my professional life. I never accepted a bribe, it goes without saying, and I never stooped either to
any shady proceedings. And—this is even rarer—I never deigned to flatter any journalist to get him
on my side, nor any civil servant whose friendship [20] might be useful to me. I even had the luck of
seeing the Legion of Honor offered to me two or three times and of being able to refuse it with a
discreet dignity in which I found my true reward. Finally, I never charged the poor a fee and never
boasted of it. Don't think for a moment, cher monsieur, that I am bragging. I take no credit for this.
The avidity which in our society substitutes for ambition has always made me laugh. I was aiming
higher; you will see that the expression is exact in my case.
But you can already imagine my satisfaction. I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all
know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to
condemn such joys as selfishness. At least I enjoyed that part of my nature which reacted so
appropriately to the widow and orphan that eventually, through exercise, it came to dominate my
whole life. For instance, I loved to help blind people cross streets. From as far away as I could see a cane hesitating on the edge of a sidewalk, I would rush forward, sometimes only a second ahead of
another charitable hand already outstretched, snatch the blind person from any solicitude but mine,
and lead [21] him gently but firmly along the crosswalk among the traffic obstacles toward the refuge
of the other sidewalk, where we would separate with a mutual emotion. In the same way, I always
enjoyed giving directions in the street, obliging with a light, lending a hand to heavy pushcarts,
pushing a stranded car, buying a paper from the Salvation Army lass or flowers from the old
peddler, though I knew she stole them from the Montparnasse cemetery. I also liked—and this is
harder to say—I liked to give alms. A very Christian friend of mine admitted that one's initial feeling
on seeing a beggar approach one's house is unpleasant. Well, with me it was worse: I used to exult.
But let's not dwell on this.
Let us speak rather of my courtesy. It was famous and unquestionable. Indeed, good manners
provided me with great delights. If I had the luck, certain mornings, to give up my seat in the bus or
subway to someone who obviously deserved it, to pick up some object an old lady had dropped and
return it to her with a smile I knew well, or merely to forfeit my taxi to someone in a greater hurry
than I, it was a red-letter day. I even rejoiced, I must admit, those days when the transport system
[22] being on strike I had a chance to load into my car at the bus stops some of my unfortunate
fellow citizens unable to get home. Giving up my seat in the theater to allow a couple to sit together,
hoisting a girl's suitcases onto the rack in a train—these were all deeds I performed more often than
others because I paid more attention to the opportunities and was better able to relish the pleasure
they give.
Consequently I was considered generous, and so I was. I gave a great deal in public and in
private. But far from suffering when I had to give up an object or a sum of money, I derived
constant pleasures from this—among them a sort of melancholy which occasionally rose within me
at the thought of the sterility of those gifts and the probable ingratitude that would follow. I even
took such pleasure in giving that I hated to be obliged to do so. Exactitude in money matters bored
me to death and I conformed ungraciously. I had to be the master of my liberalities.
These are just little touches but they will help you grasp the constant delights I experienced in my
life, and especially in my profession. Being stopped in the corridor of the law courts by the wife of a
[23] defendant you represented out of justice or pity alone—I mean without charge—hearing that
woman whisper that nothing, no, nothing could ever repay what you had done for them, replying
that it was quite natural, that anyone would have done as much, even offering some financial help to
tide over the bad days ahead, then—in order to cut the effusions short and preserve their proper
resonance—kissing the hand of a poor woman and breaking away—believe me, cher monsieur, this is
achieving more than the vulgar ambitious man and rising to that supreme summit where virtue is its
own reward
Let's pause on these heights. Now you understand what I meant when I spoke of aiming higher. I
was talking, it so happens, of those supreme summits, the only places I can really live. Yes, I have
never felt comfortable except in lofty places. Even in the details of daily life, I needed to feel above. I
preferred the bus to the subway, open carriages to taxis, terraces to closed-in places. An enthusiast
for sport planes in which one's head is in the open, on boats I was the eternal pacer of the top deck.
In the mountains I used to flee the deep valleys for [24] the passes and plateaus; I was the man of
the mesas at least. If fate had forced me to choose between work at a lathe or as a roofer, don't
worry, I'd have chosen the roofs and become acquainted with dizziness. Coalbins, ships' holds,
undergrounds, grottoes, pits were repulsive to me. I had even developed a special loathing for
speleologists, who had the nerve to fill the front page of our newspapers, and whose records
nauseated me. Striving to reach elevation minus eight hundred at the risk of getting one's head
caught in a rocky funnel (a siphon, as those fools say!) seemed to me the exploit of perverted or
traumatized characters. There was something criminal underlying it.
A natural balcony fifteen hundred feet above a sea still visible bathed in sunlight, on the other
hand, was the place where I could breathe most freely, especially if I were alone, well above the
human ants. I could readily understand why sermons, decisive preachings, and fire miracles took
place on accessible heights. In my opinion no one meditated in cellars or prison cells (unless they
were situated in a tower with a broad view); one just became moldy. And I could understand that
man who, [25] having entered holy orders, gave up the frock because his cell, instead of overlooking
a vast landscape as he expected, looked out on a wall. Rest assured that as far as I was concerned I
did not grow moldy. At every hour of the day, within myself and among others, I would scale the
heights and light conspicuous fires, and a joyful greeting would rise toward me. Thus at least I took
pleasure in life and in my own excellence.
My profession satisfied most happily that vocation for summits. It cleansed me of all bitterness
toward my neighbor, whom I always obligated without ever owing him anything. It set me above the
judge whom I judged in turn, above the defendant whom I forced to gratitude. Just weigh this, cher
monsieur, I lived with impunity. I was concerned in no judgment; I was not on the floor of the
courtroom, but somewhere in the flies like those gods that are brought down by machinery from
time to time to transfigure the action and give it its meaning. After all, living aloft is still the only way
of being seen and hailed by the largest number.
Besides, some of my good criminals had killed [26] in obedience to the same feeling. Reading the
newspapers afterward, in the sorry condition in which they then were, doubtless brought them a sort
of unhappy compensation. Like many men, they had no longer been able to endure anonymity, and
that impatience had contributed to leading them to unfortunate extremities. To achieve notoriety it
is enough, after all, to kill one's concierge. Unhappily, this is usually an ephemeral reputation, so
many concierges are there who deserve and receive the knife. Crime constantly monopolizes the
headlines, but the criminal appears there only fugitively, to be replaced at once. In short, such brief
triumphs cost too dear. Defending our unfortunate aspirants after a reputation amounted, on the
other hand, to becoming really well known, at the same time and in the same places, but by more
economical means. Consequently this encouraged me to making more meritorious efforts so that
they would pay as little as possible. What they were paying they were doing so to some extent in my
place. The indignation, talent, and emotion I expended on them washed away, in return, any debt I
might feel toward them. The judges punished and the defendants expiated, [27] while I, free of any
duty, shielded from judgment as from penalty, I freely held sway bathed in a light as of Eden.
Indeed, wasn't that Eden, cher monsieur: no intermediary between life and me? Such was my life. I
never had to learn how to live. In that regard, I already knew everything at birth. Some people's
problem is to protect themselves from men or at least to come to terms with them. In my case, the
understanding was already established. Familiar when it was appropriate, silent when necessary,
capable of a free and easy manner as readily as of dignity, I was always in harmony. Hence my
popularity was great and my successes in society innumerable. I was acceptable in appearance; I
revealed myself to be both a tireless dancer and an unobtrusively learned man; I managed to love
simultaneously—and this is not easy—women and justice; I indulged in sports and the fine arts—in
short, I'll not go on for fear you might suspect me of self-flattery. But just imagine, I beg you, a man
at the height of his powers, in perfect health, generously gifted, skilled in bodily exercises as in those
of the mind, neither rich nor poor, sleeping well, [28] and fundamentally pleased with himself
without showing this otherwise than by a felicitous sociability. You will readily see how I can speak,
without immodesty, of a successful life.
Yes, few creatures were more natural than I. I was altogether in harmony with life, fitting into it
from top to bottom without rejecting any of its ironies, its grandeur, or its servitude. In particular
the flesh, matter, the physical in short, which disconcerts or discourages so many men in love or in
solitude, without enslaving me, brought me steady joys. I was made to have a body. Whence that harmony in me, that relaxed mastery that people felt, even to telling me sometimes that it helped
them in life. Hence my company was in demand. Often, for instance, people thought they had met
me before. Life, its creatures and its gifts, offered themselves to me, and I accepted such marks of
homage with a kindly pride. To tell the truth, just from being so fully and simply a man, I looked
upon myself as something of a superman.
I was of respectable but humble birth (my father was an officer), and yet, certain mornings, let
me confess it humbly, I felt like a king's son, or a [29] burning bush. It was not a matter, mind you,
of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Besides, such certainty is of no
consequence because so many imbeciles share it. No, as a result of being showered with blessings, I
felt, I hesitate to admit, marked out. Personally marked out, among all, for that long and
uninterrupted success. This, after all, was a result of my modesty. I refused to attribute that success
to my own merits and could not believe that the conjunction in a single person of such different and
such extreme virtues was the result of chance alone. This is why in my happy life I felt somehow
that that happiness was authorized by some higher decree. When I add that I had no religion you
can see even better how extraordinary that conviction was. Whether ordinary or not, it served for
some time to raise me above the daily routine and I literally soared for a period of years, for which,
to tell the truth, I still long in my heart of hearts. I soared until the evening when ... But no, that's
another matter and it must be forgotten. Anyway, I am perhaps exaggerating. I was at ease in
everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. [30] Each joy made me desire
another. I went from festivity to festivity. On occasion I danced for nights on end, ever madder
about people and life. At times, late on those nights when the dancing, the slight intoxication, my
wild enthusiasm, everyone's violent unrestraint would fill me with a tired and overwhelmed rapture,
it would seem to me—at the breaking point of fatigue and for a second's flash—that at last I
understood the secret of creatures and of the world. But my fatigue would disappear the next day,
and with it the secret; I would rush forth anew. I ran on like that, always heaped with favors, never
satiated, without knowing where to stop, until the day—until the evening rather when the music
stopped and the lights went out. The gay party at which I had been so happy ... But allow me to call
on our friend the primate. Nod your head to thank him and, above all, drink up with me, I need
your understanding.
I see that that declaration amazes you. Have you never suddenly needed understanding, help,
friendship? Yes, of course. I have learned to be satisfied with understanding. It is found more readily
and, besides, it's not binding. "I beg you to believe [31] in my sympathetic understanding" in the
inner discourse always precedes immediately "and now, let's turn to other matters." It's a board
chairman's emotion; it comes cheap, after catastrophes. Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard
to obtain, but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it. Don't think
for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out
if this doesn't happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether
you don't need company, whether you are not in a mood to go out. No, don't worry, they'll ring up
the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful. As for suicide, they would be more likely to
push you to it, by virtue of what you owe to yourself, according to them. May heaven protect us, cher
monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends! Those whose duty is to love us—I mean
relatives and connections (what an expression!)—are another matter. They find the right word, all
right, and it hits the bull's-eye; they telephone as if shooting a rifle. And they know how to aim. Oh,
the Bazaines!
[32] What? What evening? I'll get to it, be patient with me. In a certain way I am sticking to my
subject with all that about friends and connections. You see, I've heard of a man whose friend had
been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every night in order not to enjoy a comfort
of which his friend had been deprived. Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day,
and that will be salvation. But it's not easy, for friendship is absent-minded or at least unavailing. It
is incapable of achieving what it wants. Maybe, after all, it doesn't want it enough? Maybe we don't
love life enough? Have you noticed that death alone awakens our feelings? How we love the friends
who have just left us? How we admire those of our teachers who have ceased to speak, their mouths
filled with earth! Then the expression of admiration springs forth naturally, that admiration they
were perhaps expecting from us all their lives. But do you know why we are always more just and
more generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. [33] They
leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial in between a cocktail party and a nice little
mistress, in our spare time, in short. If they forced us to anything, it would be to remembering, and
we have a short memory. No, it is the recently dead we love among our friends, the painful dead,
our emotion, ourselves after all!
For instance, I had a friend I generally avoided. He rather bored me, and, besides, he was
something of a moralist. But when he was on his death bed, I was there—don't worry. I never
missed a day. He died satisfied with me, holding both my hands. A woman who used to chase after
me, and in vain, had the good sense to die young. What room in my heart at once! And when, in
addition, it's a suicide! Lord, what a delightful commotion! One's telephone rings, one's heart
overflows, and the intentionally short sentences yet heavy with implications, one's restrained
suffering and even, yes, a bit of self-accusation!
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. Notice your
neighbors if perchance a death takes place in the building. They were asleep in their little [34] routine
and suddenly, for example, the concierge dies. At once they awake, bestir themselves, get the details,
commiserate. A newly dead man and the show begins at last. They need tragedy, don't you know; it's
their little transcendence, their apéritif. Moreover, is it mere chance that I should speak of a
concierge? I had one, really ill favored, malice incarnate, a monster of insignificance and rancor, who
would have discouraged a Franciscan. I had even given up speaking to him, but by his mere
existence he compromised my customary contentedness. He died and I went to his funeral. Can you
tell me why?
Anyway, the two days preceding the ceremony were full of interest. The concierge's wife was ill,
lying in the single room, and near her the coffin had been set on sawhorses. Everyone had to get his
mail himself. You opened the door, said "Bonjour, madame," listened to her praise of the dear
departed as she pointed to him, and took your mail. Nothing very amusing about that. And yet the
whole building passed through her room, which stank of carbolic acid. And the tenants didn't send
their servants either; they came themselves to take [35] advantage of the unexpected attraction. The
servants did too, of course, but on the sly. The day of the funeral, the coffin was too big for the
door. "Oh my dearie," the wife said from her bed with a surprise at once delighted and grieved,
"how big he was!" "Don't worry, madame," replied the funeral director, "we'll get him through
edgewise, and upright." He was got through upright and then laid down again, and I was the only
one (with a former cabaret doorman who, I gathered, used to drink his Pernod every evening with
the doparted) to go as far as the cemetery and strew flowers on a coffin of astounding luxury. Then I
paid a visit to the concierge's wife to receive her thanks expressed as by a great tragedienne. Tell me,
what was the reason for all that? None, except the apértif.
I likewise buried an old fellow member of the Lawyers' Guild. A clerk to whom no one paid
attention, but I always shook his hand. Where I worked I used to shake everyone's hand, moreover,
being doubly sure to miss no one. Without much effort, such cordial simplicity won me the
popularity so necessary to my contentment. For the [36] funeral of our clerk the President of the
Guild had not gone out of his way. But I did, and on the eve of a trip, as was amply pointed out. It so happened that I knew my presence would be noticed and favorably commented on. Hence, you
see, not even the snow that was falling that day made me withdraw.
What? I'm getting to it, never fear; besides, I have never left it. But let me first point out that my
concierge's wife, who had gone to such an out lay for the crucifix, heavy oak, and silver handles in
order to get the most out of her emotion, had shacked up a month later with an overdressed yokel
proud of his singing voice. He used to beat her; frightful screams could be heard and immediately
afterward he would open the window and give forth with his favorite song: "Women, how pretty
you are!" "All the same!" the neighbors would say. All the same what? I ask you. All right,
appearances were against the baritone, and against the concierge's wife, too. But nothing proves that
they were not in love. And nothing proves either that she did not love her husband. Moreover, when
the yokel took flight, his voice and arm exhausted, she [37]—that faithful wife—resumed her praises
of the departed. After all, I know of others who have appearances on their side and are no more
faithful or sincere. I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman,
sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life, and who one
evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, that's all, bored like most
people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama.
Something must happen—and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen,
even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
But I at least didn't have that excuse. I was not bored because I was riding on the crest of the
wave. On the evening I am speaking about I can say that I was even less bored than ever. And yet ...
You see, cher monsieur, it was a fine autumn evening, still warm in town and already damp over the
Seine. Night was falling; the sky, still bright in the west, was darkening; the street lamps were
glowing dimly. I was walking up the quays of the Left Bank toward the Pont des Arts. The river was
gleaming [38] between the stalls of the secondhand booksellers. There were but few people on the
quays; Paris was already at dinner. I was treading on the dusty yellow leaves that still recalled
summer. Gradually the sky was filling with stars that could be seen for a moment after leaving one
street lamp and heading toward another. I enjoyed the return of silence, the evening's mildness, the
emptiness of Paris. I was happy. The day had been good: a blind man, the reduced sentence I had
hoped for, a cordial handclasp from my client, a few liberalities, and in the afternoon, a brilliant
improvisation in the company of several friends on the hardheartedness of our governing class and
the hypocrisy of our leaders.
I had gone up on the Pont des Arts, deserted at that hour, to look at the river that could hardly
be made out now night had come. Facing the statue of the Vert-Galant, I dominated the island. I felt
rising within me a vast feeling of power and—I don't know how to express it—of completion,
which cheered my heart. I straightened up and was about to light a cigarette, the cigarette of
satisfaction, when, at that very moment, a laugh burst out [39] behind me. Taken by surprise, I
suddenly wheeled around; there was no one there. I stepped to the railing; no barge or boat. I turned
back toward the island and, again, heard the laughter behind me, a little farther off as if it were going
downstream. I stood there motionless. The sound of the laughter was decreasing, but I could still
hear it distinctly behind me, come from nowhere unless from the water. At the same time I was
aware of the rapid beating of my heart. Please don't misunderstand me; there was nothing
mysterious about that laugh; it was a good, hearty, almost friendly laugh, which re-established the
proper proportions. Soon I heard nothing more, anyway. I returned to the quays, went up the rue
Dauphine, bought some cigarettes I didn't need at all. I was dazed and had trouble breathing. That
evening I rang up a friend, who wasn't at home. I was hesitating about going out when, suddenly, I
heard laughter under my windows. I opened them. On the sidewalk, in fact, some youths were
loudly saying good night. I shrugged my shoulders as I closed the windows; after all, I had a brief to study. I went into the bathroom to drink a glass of water. My reflection was smiling in the
mirror, but it seemed to me that my smile was double ...
What? Forgive me, I was thinking of something else. I'll see you again tomorrow, probably.
Tomorrow, yes, that's right. No, no, I can't stay. Besides, I am called in consultation by that brown
bear of a man you see over there. A decent fellow, for sure, whom the police are meanly persecuting
out of sheer perversity. You think he looks like a killer? Rest assured that his actions conform to his
looks. He burgles likewise, and you will be surprised to learn that that cave man is specialized in the
art trade. In Holland everyone is a specialist in paintings and in tulips. This one, with his modest
mien, is the author of the most famous theft of a painting. Which one? I may tell you. Don't be
surprised at my knowledge. Although I am a judge-penitent, I have my side line here: I am the legal
counselor of these good people. I studied the laws of the country and built up a clientele in this
quarter where diplomas are not required. It wasn't easy, but I inspire confidence, don't I? I have a
good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards. Besides, I settled a
few difficult cases, out of self-interest to begin with and later out of conviction. If pimps and thieves
were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly
innocent, cher monsieur. And in my opinion—all right, all right, I'm coming!—that's what must be
avoided above all. Otherwise, everything would be just a joke.


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Hi all! Fletcher, here! Mommy's taken to calling me Cranky McStinkypants, lately. Hmmmmph. That may be, but I've got two (count 'em, TWO) new toofs to show for it! It's only fitting, after all, I'm all big and ONE now! Papa Ralph brought me a toy box and a real box! I love cake. Mommy says she's trying to get a video of how I act when someone in the room is eating cake and NOT SHARING. That makes them terrible, awful, no-good, very bad mean people. I also love all my new toys. I'm walking, too! Well, almost. I can hold onto stuff and walk. Mommy says I can stand by myself, but I fall as soon as I realize it. I said "Papa" and "Bye-bye" this week! I'm mad at the babysitters too. Do you know they won't share their dog food with me? And I'm the McStinkypants? Hmmph! Now, how to get all big and two…..
{December 13, 2010} Grass ain't growing under MY feet!
Maybe Fletcher is waiting for some magic words before he commits to walking fully. The sentence "Mommy is going to be fiscally responsible and go get a job" caused baby #3 to stand up and walk across the kitchen unaided!

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← Here we see the "Ms. Zada Potato Head" with...unfortunately...NOT detachable ears :) I can't lie to ya...I LOVE the "nose-to tail" photos.
I'd have to say the majority of usage this lil' guy (the camera :) has seen has been outdoors, but the indoor images have turned out well, plus there's not a big delay between shutter and shot. Again, overall this guy gets 4 stars. (Probably not 5; the main "fault" is that it uses Double A batteries which don't last very long.)
Here's Clint cuddling with Zada while watching TV up in the TV room. → She's a huge fan of finding any blanket real estate available and curling up on it.
← Aaaaaand here it is. I taught my dog to "Heil Hitler."
Oops. Not on purpose - it started out as a "hello" / wave type trick; then morphed into the always-recognizable Nazi salute* because of the way she does it. It's not her fault, though, because it's in her blood...she IS German, after all!
Well...there'll probably be many more renditions of the "ratings & reviews" of my point & shoot camera, but this one HAD to be Zada-centric because, well, she hasn't made an appearance for awhile!
PS: I'd like to add that my post last night has an error. It's not "a couple weeks" 'til Bon Jovi...it's one week FROM TONIGHT! Helmet Hair and Big Bangs, here I come!
* Side Note: I'm careful to whom I show this trick. Again, not a politically correct gesture to teach someone - even if that someone is a cute and cuddly dog.


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MUSIC should be for everyone, no matter what their ability, says guitarist and bee-keeper Tim Rowe.
"Guitars are the easiest instrument to sing along to – but they are surprisingly difficult to learn, and especially if you have arthritis or have a few fingers missing," he says.
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Last year Tim had to down-size his commercial bee-keeping venture, because of increasingly wet summers.
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"I'd given up on it many times because progress was so slow," he said. "Getting the correct pressure on the strings was the hardest part. I made 59 versions of it before I got one to work reliably. That was a good day."
Having established (and patented) the new design, he still had to work out how to manufacture them.
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He has started with the simplest model – the Chordelia number five – which makes the five most commonly used chords. With it you can play hundreds of songs. He expects to launch the 7-chord and 9-chord models before too long.
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The Laci Trial: Can He Escape His Lies?
He walks into court each morning wearing his familiar nonchalant grin, as seemingly carefree as a man strolling to the first tee for a round of golf. But whether Scott Peterson is simply confident in the outcome of his murder trial—or perhaps just disconnected from the possible death sentence that hangs over him—is unclear. Certainly his family, who sit behind the defense table at every session, is not immune to the pressure. "I can't speak for Scott," says his sister-in-law Janey Peterson, "but we're all feeling anxieties now." In a show of solidarity the Peterson clan wear a blue and yellow ribbon pin. "We won't take it off," says Janey, "until we find out who killed Laci."
With the Peterson trial entering its endgame in Redwood City, Calif., that hour may be drawing near. After four months of the prosecution presenting its case, defense attorney Mark Geragos is about to get his turn to sow more reasonable doubt that Scott murdered his wife, Laci, and their unborn son. So far, though, Peterson's breathtaking pattern of deceit and sleazy behavior—his infidelities, his fuzzy alibi, his lies to cops and loved ones alike—remains the most powerful evidence against him, if not the only evidence. On Sept. 27 lead detective Craig Grogan disclosed that Peterson had had two affairs before Amber Frey during his five-year marriage. "There are going to be some battles in that jury room," says Stan Goldman of Loyola Law School in L.A. "Some people are going to see this guy as obviously guilty, and some are going to see this as a case in which the prosecution has put on nothing that really connects him to it."
The prosecution—which has been widely criticized for being lackluster and meandering—got a badly needed boost in the final weeks of its presentation with the arrival of the crisp and forceful chief deputy D.A. Birgit Fladager. "I call her Hurricane Birgit," says Bay Area defense attorney Daniel Horowitz. "She came into the courtroom and woke it right up." The prosecution declined to talk about the switch, but there seemed little doubt that the government had at last found its voice. "It's about her passion," says one source who sees Fladager on a daily basis. "If you ever talk to her she is soft-spoken but mesmerizing—that's just how she comes across."
Fladager's debut also coincided with the appearance of one of the prosecution's strongest witnesses, Detective Grogan. Grogan was the one who at last connected the dots in the government's case against Peterson. After weeks of Geragos suggesting that investigators had ignored other leads in their rush to blame Scott for the murders, Grogan tallied what he said were the 41 clues that led police to suspect Peterson: "Mr. Peterson was the closest person to Laci Peterson. He discovered her missing. He was the last to see her alive. It didn't appear that he had an alibi. He was by himself when she disappeared. He didn't call the police," Grogan said. At another point he related how, after the bodies that turned out to be Laci's and Conner's washed ashore near the Berkeley marina in mid-April 2003, Scott, who was arrested a few days later, never even bothered to call to see if they had been identified.
Under Fladager's questioning, Grogan also adroitly led the jury through the strange saga of the missing concrete. He explained that Scott had acknowledged making a single 8-lb. concrete anchor for his boat, but that it was discovered he had purchased an 80-lb. bag of the mix and that the remainder could not be accounted for. That seemed to dovetail with the prosecution assertion that residue at Scott's warehouse showed that he made five anchors—and that he had used the four others to weight down his wife's body. "It's very possible that some jurors might latch onto that as the missing link in terms of needing one more bit of real evidence to finger Scott," says Goldman.
Geragos, however, got Grogan to acknowledge that Scott had begun to cry when told in January '03 that the chances of finding Laci alive were beginning to look bleak, thus undercutting a bit the image of Scott as the indifferent husband. (When autopsy photos of Laci and Conner, the couple's unborn son, were recently shown in court Peterson also teared up.) Grogan conceded as well that, for all the supposed thoroughness of their investigation, the police had not even dusted the Peterson home for fingerprints. Meanwhile, the three prosecution experts who were supposed to show that Conner had died on or about Dec. 24 actually left the door open for some doubt. Two of them agreed it was at least possible that he had lived longer, which would fit the defense contention that Laci was abducted by someone other than Scott and killed later.
As Geragos begins his defense, the one thing that seems virtually certain is that the jury won't be hearing from Peterson himself. His presence on the stand would give the prosecution free rein to focus on their favorite topic: his character. The betting is that Geragos will shrink his presentation down to a few key points. One of the most important: the prosecution's time line the day Laci went missing. Cell phone records show that Scott was in the vicinity of his home at 10:08 a.m. A prosecution witness, Peterson neighbor Karen Servas, originally told police that she found the couple's dog McKenzie running loose at 10:35 a.m. In that time frame it was at least plausible to believe, as the defense argues, that Laci could have been abducted by someone after Scott had left.
But when Servas checked the time-stamped receipt from a local store where she had been that morning she concluded that she had actually gotten home earlier than she had first thought. In court she testified that she had come upon McKenzie no later than 10:18. Suddenly the window of possibility had narrowed to a slit, since it was hard to see how Laci could have gone to walk the dog, been kidnapped and have the dog found, all in 10 minutes. But according to Goldman it now appears that defense team investigators have indications that the store's time stamps are not necessarily accurate, which could give Geragos the chance to argue that 10:35 is closer to the truth after all.
Geragos will also hammer away at the so-called dog-walking witnesses. In his opening statement the attorney promised to produce someone who saw Laci walking the dog that day, which would show, he declared, that Laci "was alive when Scott went to the marina" and thus prove that his client is "stone-cold innocent." But does he have the goods? Geragos has at least several people who will say that they saw someone they thought was Laci after Scott left. If just one of them is convincing, experts believe, it could be game over. "No matter how strong the prosecution's case," says Goldman, "one credible witness, whether right or wrong in reality, unshaken by the government, would be enough to raise reasonable doubt."
Meanwhile, for the two families at the center of the case, the Petersons and the Rochas, the grief over Laci and the months of legal maneuvering have created an emotional tinderbox. The feud between the two camps has been simmering for some time. According to a Rocha family friend, Scott's parents, Lee and Jackie, strongly objected when Laci's mother and father, Sharon and Dennis Rocha (the couple are now divorced), removed various items, including the crib intended for Conner, from the Peterson residence in Modesto several months after Laci's disappearance. By that time Scott had been arrested. For Lee and Jackie, says the source, "it was like, 'How dare you go into our son's house.'" According to the friend, the Rochas have no problem with the fact that the Petersons have stood by Scott: "They're both big enough people to understand" parents' loyalty to their son. But they do object to what they perceive as Lee and Jackie's insensitivity. "It really hurts them when they see the Petersons joking around and sharing a laugh with Geragos," says the source. "They see no humor in that at all."
Through the early stages of the trial the two sides maintained an icy detente, never exchanging words or making eye contact but clearly taking care to avoid confrontation. Then, in early September, things began to boil over when Sharon Rocha's live-in companion, Ron Grantski, and Lee looked like they might come to blows. After Lee challenged Grantski to say where he had gone fishing on Christmas Eve, apparently insinuating that perhaps Grantski had something to do with Laci's murder, Grantski angrily fired back, "You come down here and I'll tell you where I went fishing!" The next day, Laci's brother Brent Rocha exchanged angry words with Lee Peterson outside the courtroom as they both tried to get through a security checkpoint. After that court officials moved the Petersons from their seats behind the defense table, across from the Rochas, to the back of the court. They were later allowed to move back up front after the two families agreed to cool it. "There was a lot of back and forth between them," says one court official, "and we were concerned the jury might see it."
So how might the jury begin to sift through the mountain of evidence? If Geragos has one clear edge it is California's rules for jury instruction in such cases, which gives the defense almost every benefit of the doubt. The rule is that if jurors are presented with a piece of evidence that can be reasonably interpreted in two ways—one that points to guilt and one that tilts toward innocence—they are obliged to accept the argument for innocence. That holds true, says Goldman, "even if the one pointing to guilt is far more reasonable and probable and likely." During his cross-examinations of prosecution witnesses, Geragos did an impressive job of punching holes, even if they were often small ones, in the government's scenarios. "But the biggest challenge for the defense," says Prof. Ruth Jones of McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, "will be that at some point the jury will say, 'Yeah, you can explain away a few of these things, but there are just so many little things that don't make sense.'"
That raises what is perhaps a deeper issue for the defense: the Scott problem. All along public opinion polls have shown that an overwhelming majority of those surveyed believe that Peterson killed his wife. If the jurors share this opinion, the issue is whether they will let their gut feelings carry them over the hump of reasonable doubt to a guilty verdict. As the analysts are quick to point out, "beyond a reasonable doubt" doesn't mean no doubt at all. "It leaves open the possibility that someone else could have done it," says Alamo, Calif., jury consultant Dr. Joseph Rice. "But the evidence doesn't point to anyone but the defendant, so therefore it's unreasonable to think somebody else did do it."
But here again the defense may have caught a break. Courtroom observers believe that the two jurors most likely to be tapped as the foreperson of the panel are juror No. 5, who is both a lawyer and a doctor, and juror No. 11, who is a corporate accountant. Because their professions put a premium on rational judgment and attention to detail, they are also the two who appear most likely to weigh the evidence methodically, strictly applying the legal standards that will have been set out for them. "People reach decisions in very different ways, and some people who are more intuitive in their decision making could well see everything they need to convict here," says trial consultant Richard Matthews. "But your more analytical types, no way. I just don't see it."
Goldman, for one, predicts a hung jury. And that could suddenly turn into a winning situation for the prosecution. The reasoning goes something like this: The prosecution would learn from its mistakes and put on a much more polished case, probably with Fladager taking a more active role from the start; meanwhile, Geragos, who has other paying clients with trials pending, might be forced to leave the defense in other, less capable hands. "If the jury doesn't reach a verdict," says Goldman, "I believe eventually Scott Peterson will be retried and convicted."
That possibility is a long way off. In the meantime the weary families are each hoping for some measure of closure. "We're all hanging in," says Janey Peterson, "because in the end, all we want is justice."
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Toast of Brooklyn Wine & Food Festival celebrates its 11th year anniversary of bringing global fine wines, spirits and culinary specialties to Brooklyn. On Saturday, November 10, 2018, two (2) sessions 12:30pm-4:30pm & 5:30pm-9:30pm at 55 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn NY 6th & 7th floors will be the fine wines, spirits and food sampling.
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Date: Saturday, November 10, 2018
Time: 12:30pm-4:30pm & 5:30pm-9:30pm
Location: 55 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn NY 6th & 7th floors
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Toast of Brooklyn Wine & Food Festival is an annual fall event that combines the distinctive, eclectic taste of Brooklyn's culinary experience with wines and spirits from around the world. Celebrating its 11- year anniversary, this will be an exciting journey, as guests go on a taste-tour overlooking the skyline of Manhattan. Festival guests and celebrities will mingle among the enticing displays of libations and food, unique presentations by artisans, and a mixture of neighborhood wine and food enthusiasts. Live cooking demonstrations by renowned chefs and specialty restaurants will educate and tempt the palate of festival-goers while they are serenaded by some of New York's premiere jazz musicians and live entertainers, leaving guests to groove to "wine and song" all day long, and enjoy food samplings in high style.


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The latest issue of the D71 newsletter includes:
- reports from the International Convention in Vancouver
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Born in Taiwan. She is a writer, photographer and filmmaker, and is currently studying in Film and Video Program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her recent interest is to combine literature with images in filmmaking.
Director, Editor, Sound & Script:劉行欣Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin LIU
Cinematographer:劉行欣Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin LIU、徐海芩Eileen C. HSU
Translator :許曉彤Julienne HSU
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thanks to myDSL PLDT and NuffnangPH
Photo Booth–PLDT myDSL and Nuffnang Exclusive Screening - June 29, 2011
Thanks to http://baicapture.com for the photos
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
If you're environment-conscious like me, then Green is a shoo-in! Who are you voting for? #mmcharacterelections
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Mixology seminar at GSM Blueniversity
But the seminar not yet started because some bloggers on yet present, huge traffic in Makati, "Grabe"
Any way, we attended Mixology seminar at GSM Blueniversity. Thank you to Jeman Villanueva of orangemagazinetv.com for having us an RSVP on the event. The said event was held at Capone's Bar in A.Venue Mall, Makati City
We met old and new bloggers like Ate Lariza of momsworldofartsandhappiness.blogspot.com, Jason Biadog of jaysonbiadog.com, Jonel Uy, the man behind letsgosago.net , Jeman Villanueva of orangemagazinetv.com who confirmed our RSVP for this event, and of course a lot bloggers.
Since the event not yet start, I take some pictures on their product first. they have alcohol and non-alcohol products:
The guest speakers were from the Flair Idol winners. 1st runner-up Professional Division, GSM Flair Idol 2007, Mr. Derick De Borja and Champion, Professional Division, GSM Flair Idol 2007, not other than Mr. Erwyn Unigo.
Did you know the best seller cocktails is Martini, Why? Over the years, the martini has become one of the best-known mixed alcoholic beverages because slowly to drink by socialites, And because of that, Hahaha, that's is a trivia, and because of that, I won a Flair Idol T-shirt. hhahha ( pabilisan lang magtaas ng kamay beh) .
G.S.M. BLUE is a 65 proof, sugar cane alcohol with essences of juniper berries and other botanicals. Its smooth, sweet tastes give drinkers a "light-on-the-chest" feeling without hangover. Best recommended in mixed drinks, G.S.M. BLUE will surely spice up any party, any time with your friends.
Current endorser is actress/host, Ms. Anne Curtis.
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Know more about GSM Blueniversity and Flair Idol 2011 by visiting their Facebook FanPage. You can also add GSM Blue's Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/gsmbluegin.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Photo Booth - Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Launch - June 24 2011
Thanks to Lenscape Photobooth for the photos.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
PLDT myDSL's Internet to Sawa TRANSFORMS my Internet experience from ordinary to extreme extraordinary accessing internet
The was on the past. Here is the future, PDLT offers Internet to sawa up to 5 mbps for all myDSL Plan 3000 subscribers. Free and unlimited speed boost up to 5Mbps from your previous 3Mbps. What you can do on your 5Mbps Internet connection speed? Mag download ng songs and movies on your PCs ok lang. Mag YouTube all the time, mag-blog using blogger.com or wordpress.com Astig! Facebook, twitter and tumblr all night long. Ah basta Internet to sawa talaga.
Visit www.myworldmydsl.com for more information or call 171 to confirm your subscription today!
After I joined nuffnang as publisher or Nuffnanger, blogging, blogging and blogging, then I earned Glitterati. What is Glitterati, this is the sign that your account can earn money.
For more than a year now, I experienced to watched Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito fight, I won a sample perfume and lotion of DNKY and latest was watched X-men First Class Movie with my wife Theresa.
This time, if I have luck, I can watch Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon with Theresa courtesy of Nuffang and myDSL PLDT.
So good luck to me.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
HTC Sensation and HTC Wildfire S Launching @ REPULIQ
HTC Sensation with HTC Sense: "A multimedia super-phone in the palm of your hand"
Want to be entertained like never before? On-demand movies look great with a stunning HD display, and they sound crystal clear with Hi-Fi audio technology. The HTC Sensation also includes an immersive HTC Sense experience making this phone easy-to-use and a top entertainer. The premium design, complete with contoured glass edging, feels great in your hand. The HTC Sensation is a multimedia super-phone. http://www.htc.com/www/product/sensation/overview.html
HTC Sensation is a 2G network (GSM 850/900/1000/1900) and a 3G network phone (HSDPA 900/1700/2100). size is 126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3 mm and 148g only. S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors type display and 540 x 960 pixels, 4.3 inches. On memory, phonebook – practically unlimited entries and fields, photocall. Call records practically unlimited. Connectivity, up to 114kbps at GPRS mode, up to 560 kbps at EDGE mode, on 3G, 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps. Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot on WLAN. Bluetooth is v3.0 with A2DP.
Features, operating system a Andriod OS v2.3 ( Gingerbread). CPU is 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM 8260 Snapdragon. Messaging, SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM. Up to 400 h (2G) / Up to 350 h (3G) on stand-by mode and up to 6 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 8 h 20 min (3G) on talk time.
Full specification of HTC Sensation click here
HTC Wildfire S with HTC Sense: "Express yourself, a phone that reveals the real you."
Your HTC Wildfire S knows that the online world, is your world. Being offline is not an option. With the HTC Wildfire S, surfing the web is easy. Enjoy multi-window browsing, watch text resize automatically on screen as you zoom in and out, and simply highlight text to quickly look up what you're reading about on Google, Wikipedia or YouTube. You're as connected on the move as you are at home. http://www.htc.com/www/product/wildfires/overview.html
HTC Wildfire S has also a 2G Network and 3G Network. The size is 101.3 x 59.4 x 12.4 mm and 105g in weight. Display is TFT capacitive touchscreen with 256 colors, display size is 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches. Gorilla Glass display, Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, HTC Sense UI, Touch-sensitive controls. On memory, Phonebook is practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall. Call records is practically unlimited. Internal 512 MB ROM, 512 MB RAM and card slot is microSD, up to 32GB. On data , GPRS mode is up to 114 kbps, EDGE mode is up to 560 kbps, 3G mode HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 384 Kbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot on WLAN, Bluetooth Yes is has with v3.0 with A2DP, EDR and microUSB v2.0 on USB mode. Camera is 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash,
Features, Operating system is Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread) and CPU is 600 MHz processor. on
Messaging, SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM. Browser is HTML, with Radio - Stereo FM radio with RDS. Games, Yes. Colors available are Black, Silver, Brown, Lilac. GPS Yes, with A-GPS support. Java application, yes, via Java MIDP emulator. Standard battery, Li-Ion 1230 mAh. On Stand-by is Up to 360 h (2G) / Up to 570 h (3G) and on Talk time Up to 7 h 10 min (2G) / Up to 5 h 50 min (3G)
Full specification of HTC Wildfire S click here
HTC Sense is an experience designed around many little insightful ideas. Ideas that seem so simple, you think "why hasn't any one else thought of that? It just makes sense." It's a phone experience full of lots of little surprises, delighting you every time.
Last June 15, 2011 HTC Philippines launched the new 2 super phones in the country. The HTC Sensation and HTC Wildfire S. The event was held at The Repbuliq Super Club located inside New Port Mall – Resorts World Manila. A glamorous night to all of attendees because aside from the introductions of the new phones released, there were a lot of celebrities from 2 TV networks and amazing presentation.
HTC event Hosts : Phoemela Baranda & Megan Young
the night was great because we also entertained by many sexy dancers and sexy fashion models. Wow this was awesomeness.
HTC Philippines, until the next release of your new super super phones.


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Highland Holidays
When the owner and her family purchased this Ladue home three years ago, they got to work putting their personal stamp on the interior, infusing it with bold colors and cozy touches inspired by Scottish charm. The space is gorgeous all year, but it really shines during the winter months, when it provides the perfect backdrop for memorable holiday magic.
T&S | How would you describe your decorating style?
It's more masculine than a lot of homes you see now and not necessarily what's on trend. We've both traveled extensively, and a lot of our decorating was inspired by that—much of the furniture consists of antiques we found traveling. I spent a fair amount of time in Scotland with my family, and my husband is a big hunter. We combined those loves and designed the house for our family and our lifestyle.
T&S | It looks like you go all out for the holidays.
I've loved Christmas since I was a little girl. When I was young, my mom collected ornaments and gave them to me as gifts. It's very sentimental—I've gotten an ornament representing every major life event. My husband and I now do the same for our little girls. For us, the holidays are special because we get to spend time with family, and seeing everyone enjoy the time together makes it that much more meaningful.
T&S | Do you have a favorite holiday tradition?
Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, we go to Pea Ridge Forest to get our Christmas tree, and if you ask my kids and husband, it's our favorite day of the year. Another tradition is having our nieces and nephews over to decorate cookies. The togetherness is magical, and the house is set up perfectly for it.
T&S | Do you do much entertaining during the holidays?
We prefer to entertain in small groups. We usually have a small dinner party with our closest friends, rent a carriage and ride through the neighborhood. We also host Christmas dinner with my whole family at our house. There are a lot of kids, so we open up the dining room doors into the breakfast area so everyone can be together. We love that the house has a mixture of relaxed and formal rooms, but it all flows and blends together easily. When you have small kids, you have to be able to live in the house and not just look at it.
T&S | What renovations have you done?
We drastically changed the house from what it looked like originally, and I did most of the work myself. We wanted something warm and comfortable. We installed new floors, replaced the columns in the family room with beams, added French doors in the living room that open to the patio, and partially redid the kitchen and bar area. But most of the changes came through decorating.
T&S | You're not afraid of bold colors. Tell me about the green ceiling.
I can't say enough about how paint can transform a room. The green is a lacquer from Fine Paints of Europe. The idea came from a wedding I attended in California, in a home that had a red leather ceiling. We have used green a lot throughout the house—my husband and I love the color, and we're always looking for ways to make rooms pop. The green wallpaper in the dining room is a heavy, tapestry-like fabric done by Scalamandré. I saw something similar in a castle in Scotland that I stayed in with my parents when I was in my early 20s. It stuck in my head.
T&S | What about the red room?
That's my husband's office. The paint came from Cook Brothers. I wanted something that would pop and provide a nice transition from the adjacent room. My husband was pretty nervous when I said I wanted to go with red, but now it's his favorite room in the house.
T&S | What room do you spend the most time in?
The family room. We have a fire in there every night during the cooler months. I chose the grasscloth wallpaper in that room because my husband loves it. It was important that he be happy and comfortable in the house—I didn't want him to feel like he was living in a house designed with just my preferences in mind. The rug in the family room is custom-made by Hakimian Brothers Oriental Rugs.
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Yesterday 5 Seconds of Summer launched a mysterious website called The New Broken Scene. While we still don't know what purpose it serves just yet, they've managed to keep us entertained by doing something else for their fans: They've released the first track from their sophomore release, Sounds Good Feels Good! It's called "Money," and it feels a bit more like their first album than the other news tracks we've heard, "She's Kinda Hot," "Jet Black Heart" and the like.
The song kicks off with de facto frontman Luke Hemmings singing about a girl in "Black jeans, white tee, black converse / You know she gets it right." Does the 5SOSfam have a new uniform?
Listen to it below. If you pre-order the album, you get to download the song immediately. So what are you waiting for?
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Category Archives: Scotland
New Year… new adventures!
Hello, my friends, Once again it has been some considerable time since my last post. Aurelie has settled well into her new life in the Middle East and I am missing her very much! Their beloved dog Lily arrived safely, so the … Continue reading
Yarn Fest Fever
It is that time of year again. For the last couple of months, Woolfest has been mentioned at knit group as least once or twice during the evening. We are heading to Cumbria as a group of six this year. Our … Continue reading
Back from Ballater
It has been such a long time since my last post that I feel my head drooping in shame, life has been very busy lately but thankfully Aurelie has been kept the blog interesting and up to date in my … Continue reading
Get your knitting out and bear all to the world….it's Worldwide Knit in Public Day!
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Where did May go?
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Of Blanket, Socks, Madness and Sharks
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House-Repair focusses on an in depth range of quality lifestyle and residential improvement products. The shops are undoubtedly aptly named as the merchandise on offer fixes the numerous issues that one might want fixing at dwelling. Costs is likely to be just a bit costlier (a few greenback or two) from these objects you find at your mini mart or nearby stores under your block, however generally they do refill on objects which are fairly exhausting to seek out elsewhere.
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When they say recruitment is difficult, they are not joking. It is one of the most difficult tasks in a business because it does not only ensure the present, but it also ensures the future of the business. Recruitment deals with people, and it because it is not precise, you are bound to make mistakes. But the thing is, mistakes in recruitment can be quite costly and if you don't know how to do it properly, you are bound to cost thousands to your business.
This is one of the major mistakes by recruiters. It is easy for them to be swayed because of the personal appearance of the applicant. Therefore, they apply stricter filtering on those who did not pass their personal taste. This is not only distasteful and unethical, but also problematic in the long run because you won't be able to assess skills and intelligence by appearance alone.
Some recruiters like to ask some weird questions involving choices as if there is a correct answer. For example, if asked what is their favorite animal, if an applicant chose lion, for them it is a sign of aggression but for the applicant, it's not. These questions unfairly filter applicants making them lose to their other applicants when it shouldn't be the case. Therefore, you should stop asking personality questions and making your decision based on that.
This is a major mistake of some companies who want to hire a specific person even though they know that they won't survive the culture of the company. It will then result to clash and other issues in the workplace that only leads to negativity in the workplace. Remember that it is more important to preserve the values and culture of the company rather than compromise it just to get one person's service.
Normally, companies will promote their hiring through different statements. It is okay if all of them are true. But if now, it is better to stick with the real situation.


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When you cook with fresh prawns, the head of the prawn is usually seen as waste. But you can do so much with them, from making stock to turning them into a prawn oil. Next time, when you get grilled prawns with their heads on, snap the head off and suck it – it's a real delicacy!
How to make prawn head oil
You'll find a recipe for Fried Prawn Heads and Prawn Oil at Kitchenbutterfly.com – this tasty oil made with the prawn heads and aromatics can be stored in the fridge and drizzled over seafood pasta or used to add punch to scrambled eggs with smoked salmon.
Make stock from prawn heads
Boil the prawn heads in water with a few peeled shallots, a bay leaf, a few fresh thyme or parsley stalks and a little white wine until the broth reduces and takes on flavour. Season with salt, strain and freeze in an ice cube tray. Transfer the ice cubes into a freezer bag and pop a cube or two into fish soup or fish risotto for an easy fish stock.
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Pilots' widows say they're vindicated by new Pentagon letter on 2000 Osprey crash
A letter from a top Pentagon official has brought comfort to the widows of two Marine pilots at the controls of a MV-22 Osprey that crashed in the Arizona desert 16 years ago, killing 19 Marines.
Test pilots Lt. Col. John Brow and Maj. Brooks Gruber were flying the revolutionary aircraft when it crashed April 8, 2000 during an exercise in Marana, and for 16 years their widows had challenged the Defense Department's verdict that pilot error was the primary cause, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Friday.
Now Connie Gruber and Trish Brow say they've been vindicated. In an unusual move, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work acknowledged in a letter last month that "it's impossible to point to a single 'fatal factor' that caused this crash."
"It's just a burden lifted," Gruber, of North Carolina, told the paper. "Because for all these years, we've had to feel the weight of, not only did they cause their own deaths, but the deaths of 17 other Marines. That was hard to bear."
She added, "They could not rest in peace until this record was set straight."
Brow said Work's letter softened the sting of this year's anniversary of the crash.
"It's not quite as painful," she told the paper. "There's not quite the injustice."
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) told the Union-Tribune the pilots were convenient targets because the Pentagon needed the troubled Osprey program to continue and succeed.
"It was too easy to let the blame be on those who can't defend themselves, so the plane can't be blamed and the software can't be blamed," Jones said.
The Osprey performs like an airplane and a helicopter but became controversial over its performance and cost. Since the crash, the U.S. used the Osprey frequently on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.


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Have you tried reading aloud with secondary students? I have, and the results are positive!
Many of you have followed me this school year as I work to create a literacy-rich secondary classroom. I've built a classroom library and implemented First Chapter Fridays. My students have positively responded to these efforts.
As I started First Chapter Fridays (where I read one chapter of a new book each Friday), I noticed that older students love when I read to them. They would beg me to read more, and they were attentive so I normally complied. I did not understand the why though. I enrolled in Advancement Courses and began their Building Students' Literacy and Love of Reading Through Read Alouds. I'm glad I followed my instincts: there is reasoning and science behind oral readings.
I began reading aloud more of our class novels together. I began reading aloud interesting pieces from new sources. I began reading an interesting sentence from my personal book. I began reading aloud in general, and the results overwhelmed me.
My experiences in reading to my high school students told me to continue the process and when you try read alouds with high schoolers, you'll be impressed with the conversations you have with students (aside from the literature!) Below, I've listed a few of my positive interactions with students through read alouds.
Humans tell stories. Before modern printing, people shared oral histories. Storytelling was a social event, and until modern times, was not done in privacy.
I knew that, yet I was surprised to learn that reading aloud boosts memory. Could our brains be hardwired to hear stories orally? What if social media was partly successful because our brains were craving their storytelling nature?
Through reading stories together, students and I connected reading and images to what they see on their phones every day.
We know that when humans gather today, we tell stories. Our brains crave those stories, and read alouds capitalize on our nature.
The next generation of parents? Statistically, I have some students who are a few years away from becoming parents. We teachers know to read to babies. Do my students?
Once while reading, I paused and posed the question: when should you read to a baby? Many students remarked that you should wait until children are older; a few said the child's entire life. We had a discussion about the benefits of reading to infants and developing that habit.
It was a slight action in class, not heavily researched. As a parent, I know that instinctively, parents want to do right by their children. I hope that authentic conversation made a dent on my students and that in a few years, they pick up a book for their own infants.
I suspected that auditory learners would naturally enjoy my reading to them. But, I wondered, what could those learners expect in future years?
Students who best retain auditory information should apply different methods for studying. For instance, they can read aloud to themselves or study flash cards aloud. Students who respond well to read alouds might do well with singing or rhyming information.
As I read aloud, I've reflected with students about the metacognition of the process. Do they enjoy hearing information? If so, how can we transfer that idea to the rest of their learning? Reading aloud with my high schoolers has allowed me to broach the topics of study skills, paper revisions, and audio books.
We teachers constantly seek ways to improve our students' understanding of our content, and through reading aloud with my secondary students, I've found great success. Sure, I am enjoying a story with them and analyzing the content. More than that, I am establishing patterns that they enjoy and can use for life. We are working together through read alouds.
Want to try it for yourself? Advancement Courses created an entire lesson plan for reading aloud with older students. Grab a story, read it to your students, and complete the activities in that free download.
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*This is a sponsored post by Advancement Courses, but all opinions are my own. Advancement Courses offers K-12 educators over 200 online, self-paced professional development courses covering both foundational topics and emerging trends. You can read my full disclosures here.