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NEW YORK – It's been a tough season for St. John's. The Red Storm hope a close loss to No. 3 UConn can help salvage what remains.
Shenneika Smith scored 21 points and freshman Aliyyah Handford added a season-high 17 in the Red Storm's 71-65 loss to Connecticut on Saturday.
With 3 minutes left, St. John's found itself locked in another tight contest with the Huskies. Once again they couldn't come up with the plays down the stretch to get a win.
"This right here was what we needed," Smith said. "Play UConn — a tough team — and match them and play hard. This might be the corner we turned right here."
The loss was a microcosm of the season for the Red Storm, who advanced to the regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament for the first time last season. They just haven't been able to pull out close games.
The defeat dropped the Red Storm's record to .500 (10-10, 4-4 Big East). Time seems to be running out for St. John's to try and make the NCAA tournament — especially important with the Red Storm hosting the first two rounds.
"They know what's on the line," St. John's coach Joe Tartamella said. "We understand that this group has to have a great run at the end of the year. They are resilient ready to work. It gives them another look at what they're capable of. It can be a springboard. We're not going away."
The Red Storm have had a rough season with three losses on their final possession, including on a buzzer-beating 50-footer against Syracuse in their last home game. The Red Storm also lost in the last seconds to No. 25 Delaware and No. 18 UCLA.
"Joe's done a great job," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "They are maybe three or four possessions away from having five more wins."
St. John's couldn't pull off the same upset as last season when the Red Storm ended UConn's 99-game home winning streak.
"There's no solace to a loss, we've talked about it a lot this year," Tartamella said. "We really as a staff were very happy with the way our team played today. That's a fun game. It's a fun game against a great opponent. They competed today, played harder than they have all year. They showed them what they are capable of."
With the game tied at 57, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis took over, scoring UConn's next seven points. She had a three-point play and then hit four free throws to give UConn a 64-59 lead with 1:55 left.
Handford hit one free throw to make it a four-point game with 1:37 left. Kelly Faris answered with a 3-pointer 20 seconds later to seal the win for the Huskies (20-1, 7-1).
"I was trying to get her the ball down the stretch because I knew she would do something good with it," said Faris, who added 17 points for the Huskies.
The Red Storm showed no fear against with the Huskies, who were missing starting center Stefanie Dolson because of an illness. The Huskies didn't find out until just before the game that Dolson wouldn't play.
"She's become a huge part of what we do offensively and defensively, a lot of our offense runs through her," Faris said. "Some way or another, the offense kind of stems on what she does."
Handford helped the Red Storm build a 51-46 lead midway through the second half. UConn used a 9-2 run to take a 55-53 lead. Faris' 3-pointer capped the burst.
The game was tied at 35 at the half before St. John's went on a 10-4 run to open the second period. Smith had five points and Handford four during the spurt. UConn answered quickly with its own 7-0 run to take a 46-45 lead with 12:56 left.
Handford and Briana Brown combined for 23 points in the first half. Handford scored consistently in transition while Brown hit all three of her 3-pointers. St. John's shot 54 percent in the first half.
The Huskies lost guard Brianna Banks to a right knee sprain in the first half.
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C. Scott Ananian is the Director, New Technologies for One Laptop per Child. He received his PhD in computer science from MIT, and before joining OLPC was a local activist and organizer for copyright issues. He organized Free Sklyarov Boston in July 2001, and in 2004 and 2005 was the lead programmer for the Election Incident Reporting System, which collected real-time data on elections across the US. He's a kernel hacker, advocate of voter verifiable elections, and part-time khipu researcher. Now he tries to build robust and reliable systems to allow kids to discover, share, and learn.
C. Scott Ananian es el Director de Nuevas Technologías de Una Laptop por Niño (OLPC). Recibió su Doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación del MIT, y antes de incorporarse a OLPC era un organizador local y activista de derechos de autor. Organizó el "Free Sklyarov Boston" en julio de 2001, y en 2004 y 2005 era el programador principal para el Election Incident Reporting System, que recogió datos en tiempo real sobre las elecciones en los EE.UU. Él es un hacker del kernel de Linux, defensor de las elecciones verificables por los votantes, y en parcialmente también investigador de khipus. Ahora se encuentra intentando construir sistemas robustos y confiables para permitir a los niños descubrir, compartir y aprender.
XO-3 goals
- Bring the Sugar stack to the modern GTK3/gobject-introspection world.
- Language-neutral Sugar APIs
- First-class web-native applications in JavaScript
- Mesh networking
Desiderata for 9.1.0
- Better "legacy app" compatibility; this should allow us to run existing apps like firefox, pidgin, and gimp in a reasonable manner:
- Replace matchbox window manager with XMonad, Metacity, awesome, etc. Should provide both 'full screen' mode and traditional 'tiled' mode.
- Switch to standard freedesktop.org startup notification mechanism: <trac>5271</trac>
- Implement freedesktop.org notifications mechanism for alerts (low battery, low disk space, available software update)
- Refactor home/friends/mesh view as operations on root window, so they make sense in a multiwindow setup. (It's been suggested that looking at the xpenguins code is instructive for understanding how nautilus,etc arrange their root window.)
- App launching & mimetypes via XDG mechanisms (thanks, erikg)
- Improved antitheft mechanisms:
- ECO fix and EC improvements
- Security control panel, with "am I stolen" and lease renewal buttons: <trac>1502</trac>, <trac>6428</trac>
- olpcrd work: <trac>7397</trac>
- Revoke root capabilities when booted with security enabled: <trac>7562</trac>
- Improved update mechanisms
- Real COW for pristine versions, allowing... <trac>3581</trac>
- ...binary-diff updates over http (avoiding rsync in many cases) <trac>4259</trac>, etc
- Integration of core OS updates with software update control panel: <trac>7618</trac>
- Integration of software updates with notification system
- Incremental updates of activity bundles (only changed files)
- Send back statistical data when checking for updates (batmon, etc) <trac>4594</trac>, <trac>6447</trac>
- Security/isolation work
- Implementation of P_SF_CORE, P_SF_RUN
- Mechanism to validate updates to loopholed activities & allow user to manage exceptions
- Persistent activity storage
- NSS modules for rainbow users and for olpc/root users
- Rainbow
- Journal improvements
- Proper display of 'new versions' of activities
- Tagging system to allow folder-like management for advanced users
- Datastore rework
- Direct execution of activities from datastore (avoid installation step) <trac>7713</trac>
- Ability to have multiple versions of an activity installed concurrently. (API work necessary: <trac>7713</trac>)
- Translation improvements
- "multiple languages, multiple places": translation system should look in local, then activity, then system translation tables, then repeat for each in a set of fallback languages (eg, quechua, spanish, english)
- separable translation packs
- "click-to-translate": wiki-like editing of translatable labels in the UI
- "Asynchronous internet"
- Integration of wwwoffle with small local cache
- Content bundles to seed that cache
- Mechanism to request downloads later
- Library improvements
- The current API is a mess, doesn't match the documentation on the wiki, is inconsistent with the activity.info format, etc.
- Merging content and activities -- a bundle ought to be able to have *both* a library.info *and* an activity.info
- Using a content format which is consistent with "offline internet" content -- more or less consider installing content files as pushing stuff into an offline cache
- Dynamic generation of the top-level "home" page so we don't need to run the indexer after installing content bundles.
- Fedora integration
- tools to manage forked packages better. To start with: a notification tool to let us know if a new upstream release has occurred for a package we have forked.
- Printing support
- Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to school server via CUP (IPP?), and install a "decent selection" of printer drivers on the school server. Control panel for 'default printer name', fixed to 'XS' by default.
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- Anthony Pettis
- Bruce Buffer
- Carla Esparanza
- coronavirus
- coronavirus pandemic
- coronavirus reopening
- COVID-19 reopening
- COVID-19 virus
- Dana White
- Dominick Cruz
- Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone
- Donald Cerrone
- Francis Ngannou
- Greg Hardy
- Henry Cejudo
- Jacaré Souza
- Joe Rogan
- Justin Gaethje
- Khabib Nurmagomedov
- new coronavirus
- novel coronavirus
- Tony Ferguson
- Uriah Hall
Kicks, punches and grunts echoed through the empty arena. Coaches, commentators and camera clicks resonated like never before. Blood, sweat, swollen eyelids and face masks signaled the return of UFC, the first major sporting event to resume since the coronavirus shuttered much of the country for nearly two months.
UFC 249 ushered in a new look for sports, too. One without fans and amid several safety precautions.
It was definitely different — two fighters adjusted their approaches because of what they heard announcers say — and a welcome reprieve for a sports-craved country that went nearly eight weeks with few live events.
"We did this for you, to bring sports back," fighter Tony Ferguson told fans following his loss in the main event, which took place in Jacksonville.
Five hours after President Donald Trump congratulated UFC for restarting the sports world, Justin Gaethje stunned heavily favored Ferguson (26-4) in the finale. Gaethje earned a TKO in the fifth and final round of the headliner that was deemed an interim lightweight title bout. It essentially gives Gaethje (22-2) the right to fight titleholder Khabib Nurmagomedov next. Nurmagomedov was unable to fight this weekend because of travel restrictions.
Gaethje flipped over the top of the cage and back in following the biggest victory of his career. He then screamed repeatedly.
"I want the real one," he said as he threw down the interim belt. "There's no other fight I want right now."
The stacked card saw 33-year-old Henry Cejudo, with blood gushing from his forehead and running down his chest, defend his bantamweight title against Dominick Cruz and then announce his retirement in the middle of the octagon.
"I really do want to walk away, but money talks," said Cejudo, an Olympic gold medalist in 2008. "It gets stagnant. I want to leave on top."
The event also included heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou pummeling another opponent, former NFL defensive end Greg Hardy winning for the sixth time in eight fights and former welterweight champion and fan favorite Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone losing his fourth straight.
Trump grabbed the spotlight early. His taped message was played during ESPN's broadcast of the undercard.
"I want to congratulate (UFC President) Dana White and the UFC," Trump said. "They're going to have a big match. We love it. We think it's important. Get the sports leagues back. Let's play. Do the social distancing and whatever else you have to do. We need sports. We want our sports back."
UFC 249 was originally scheduled for April 18 in New York, but was postponed in hopes of helping slow the spread of COVID-19.
The mixed martial arts behemoth will hold three shows in eight days in Jacksonville, where state officials deemed professional sports with a national audience exempt from a stay-at-home order as long as the location is closed to the public.
The UFC came up with a 25-page document to address health and safety protocols, procedures that led to Jacaré Souza testing positive for COVID-19 on Friday. His middleweight bout against Uriah Hall was canceled that night. Souza's two cornermen also tested as positive, the UFC said.
All three men left the host hotel to self-isolate elsewhere, where UFC's medical team will monitor their conditions remotely and provide assistance with necessary treatments.
The positive results surely increased the focus on the event. Every other sport is watching closely to see how it plays out.
"The whole word is weird right now. Everything's weird. This event's weird," White said. "It's different. We live in a different world than we did two months ago. The bottom line is the system worked. What you don't want to do is two days after the fight say, 'Awe, Jacaré tested positive.' So it worked. The system worked that we put in place.
"Without sounding like a jackass, we're really good at what we do. We're very, very good at what we do. We'll just get better. The longer this goes, the better the testing technology's going to get and the faster it's going to get. We're going to prove by next Saturday that professional sports can come back safely."
White didn't want to postpone any fights. He tried to host the event on tribal land in California and still hopes to create a "Fight Island" for future cards.
He settled for Jacksonville for at least a week — without fans and with social-distancing rules in place.
Judges and broadcasters worked from separate tables. Fighters, trainers, referees, judges, UFC staff and even outside media had to undergo COVID-19 testing to get inside Veterans Memorial Arena.
Many of those in attendance Saturday wore masks and gloves, although several were seemingly exempt from the mandate. Referees, ring announcer Bruce Buffer, other officials inside the octagon and the ring girl were unmasked. Play-by-play commentator Joe Rogan, who initially was supposed to interview winners remotely, ended up doing them inside the octagon.
The cage floor was disinfected between bouts, and the padded parts of the octagon were wiped down between rounds.
Without fans, though, sounds that usually would be muted or completely drowned out filled the desolate arena. Fighters said it affected their bouts. Hardy and Carla Esparza said they altered their approach after hearing commentators during early rounds.
"It's hard to assess without the crowd," Anthony Pettis said after beating Cerrone in a wild welterweight fight. "When I land stuff, I hear the crowd and know it was a good one. This time, there was no crowd. I saw his head pop, but there was nothing behind it, so it's hard to tell."
Also on the card:
— Cejudo (16-2) caught Cruz (22-3) with a right knee to the face that sent him reeling to the canvas. Cejudo then delivered nearly a dozen unanswered blows before the referee stopped it. Cruz argued it never should have been called because he was working to get back on his feet. Cejudo surprisingly ended his career a few minutes later, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.
— Ngannou knocked out fellow heavyweight Jairzinho Rozenstruik in 20 seconds. Ngannou rushed Rozenstruik and delivered a flurry of blows that left Rozenstruik so woozy he had trouble getting into his slides long after the fight ended. It was Ngannou's fourth consecutive victory totaling less than 3 minutes in the octagon.
— Calvin Kattar (21-4) stopped Jeremy Stephens (28-18) in the second round after consecutive elbow blows, one standing and another on the ground.
— Hardy (6-2) celebrated a unanimous decision over Yorgan De Castro (6-1) in a heavyweight bout.
— "Showtime" Pettis (23-10) beat Cerrone (36-15) in an unanimous decision. Pettis and Cerrone last fought in 2013. Pettis won that one as well. Cerrone has dropped four in a row, including losses to Conor McGregor, Gaethje and Ferguson.
— Aleksei "The Boa Constrictor" Oleinik (59-13-1) beat Fabricio Werdum (23-9-1) in a heavyweight bout featuring a pair of 42-year-olds. It was a split decision that included more toe-to-toe blows than ground grappling.
— Carla Esparza (16-6) edged Michelle "Karate Hottie" Waterson (17-8) in a split decision. It was Esparza's third straight victory in the straw-weight division.
— Vicente Luque (18-7-1) won for the seventh time in eight fights when he beat Niko Price (14-4) in a bloodbath. The fight was ruled a TKO in the third round after Price developed a nasty cut above his right eye. Luque was ahead on all three cards when it was called.
— Featherweight Bryce Mitchell (13-1) defeated fellow grappler Charles Rosa (12-4) in a unanimous decision.
— Spann (18-5) extended his winning streak to eight by beating veteran Sam Alvey (33-14) in a split decision.
Reprinted with permission from The Associated Press.


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3D Graphics on Mobile Devices - Part 4: Polygon Rasterization
by (03 September 2003)
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|This is the last part of the series of articles on 3D graphics for mobile devices. In the previous article I described the racing game we developed at Overloaded. There's one piece that is still missing: Polygon rasterization. This final article will describe the rasterizer I implemented for Fantom Overdrive.
Polygon Rasterization
In this age of hardware accelerated polygon rasterization nobody cares about exactly how a single polygon is drawn on the screen. Instead the interesting stuff is done by a GPU and all the programmer has left to do is boring stuff. Not on mobile devices though. Let's brush up on classic software polygon rasterization a little:
A polygon is a mathematical shape, a 2D area bound by a set of line segments. On screen however, it's an approximation; the edges start looking like stairs and the interior is filled with small rectangles with varying colors. The screen is a raster, and thus polygon rendering is called 'rasterization'. The polygon is reduced to a set of horizontal lines (or vertical, of course). When the resolution of the raster is high enough, our eyes believe that we actually see the original mathematical shape.
The whole rendering process is of course one big fake show: Besides the polygons that consist of rectangles you are watching a 20 frames per second slideshow. In the end all that matters is wether or not your eyes believe what they see, so it's important to focus on 'perceived quality'. I encountered a good example of this a couple of years ago. I had a spinning meteor, shaded with gouraud shading, running at 30fps. Then I added 'fake phong shading'. The frame rate dropped to 20fps, but with much higher image quality, it looked smoother. The perceived quality increased. Another example of 'belief': I once implemented reflective surfaces in a software renderer. I took a very simple approach: The object simply was textured with the previous frame. Despite the fact that the object appears to reflect itself, the eye has no problem at all with believing that the object is really reflective. Apparently, eyes don't do many calculations on reflections to verify that they are real. I found that eyes are not too picky about shadows either.
So let's have a look at basic polygon rasterization. I decided to use 'n-gons', not just triangles (see previous article). N-gons are best rendered by tracing the edges, storing them in outline tables (wich contain two x-coordinates per scanline) and finally drawing horizontal lines of pixels between these two x-coordinates for each scanline. Here's some code:
where y1 is the scanline where the edge starts, y2 is the last scanline, cx is the start x position of the edge, dx is the slope of the edge and m_Left / m_Right is the outline table.
The 'cx' is an interesting variable. I just said it is the start x position of the edge, but that is not accurate. Check out this line rasterization:
Note that both lines start in the top-left pixel and end at the bottom-right pixel. So when we are working with just integer coordinates, both lines should be equal. But when we take the sub-pixel position of the line coordinates into consideration, the two lines are no longer equal.
Now check the code snippet again. The scanline indices y1 and y2 are integer, since we want a pair of x-coordinates per scanline. The 'cx' variable however is fixed point. So when a line starts at x = 10, y = 1.5, we still start rasterizing at y = 1. Now suppose the slope is 2, and x = 10 when y = 1.5. Then x should have been 9 at y = 1.0.
If you think this is not a big deal, you're wrong. Working with integer coordinates or omitting sub-pixel correction results in polygons that shake noticeable. With perfect sub-pixel correction, a very cool effect occurs: Your raster display starts to look like a set of small lenses through which you view a world that is perfectly accurate. This effect is so strong that you can get away with a lower resolution with sub-pixel correction.
For a very cool demonstration of sub-pixel accuracy, fire up a copy of Quake 1 and complete a level. The level statistics screen has a camera view that moves very slightly. You see the 'pixel stairs' gently moving across the polygon edges, and you get the impression that you're looking at a world that is much more detailed than what the raster is able to display.
Here is a code snippet for the sub-pixel correction I just described:
(where sy1 is the fixed point (16:16) screen coordinate of the first vertex of the edge). 'Fix' is the one minus fractional part of the fixed point coordinate. This value is multiplied by the slope of the edge and added to the x-coordinate of the first vertex of the edge.
Check out the following image:
Here we have an n-gon consisting of three vertices (v1, v2 and v3). The horizontal green line on the triangle is a scanline that we wish to draw. The triangle is textured. To get the u and v coordinates for the green line, we interpolate u and v over the edges. To get u and v for each pixel on the green line, we interpolate u and v in texture space (right image).
The u and v coordinates need to be corrected just like the x-coordinate to compensate for the integer y coordinates of the scanlines.
So, we expand the snippet that fills the outline tables to interpolate u and v as well:
Most of this code should be self-explanatory, except for the odd line that keeps track of the maximum width of the polygon. There is a very good reason for keeping track of the widest span: It is used to calculate the slope of the spans in texture space only once for triangles. If you go back to the above image, and try to add some extra lines, you'll notice that the lines in texture space are all parallel. Since calculating the slope of this line requires a division (and divisions are expensive), it's worthwhile to exploit this. The slope can be calculated best with the widest span, since this gives the best accuracy. Here's a snippet for the slope calculation:
If the polygon has three vertices and the widest span is more than zero pixels wide, then du and dv are precalculated for the entire polygon.
Perspective Correction
All 3D accelerators are capable of perspective correct texture mapping. To see why this is needed, have a look at the following image:
Suppose we are tracing the green line in screen space and texture space, like we did earlier for the triangle. If you start on the left side, you'll notice that a couple of screen pixels represent a far smaller length in texture space then the pixels at the end of the line. We can no longer interpolate linearly in texture space.
We could simply ignore this, and in fact lots of older games do this. The PS1 doesn't have hardware with perspective correction either by the way. For the racing game, I found this unacceptable, especially for the road polygons. You're watching the road closely the entire race, so it needs to look good.
Perspective texture mapping is implemented by interpolating u/z and v/z instead of u and v. U/z and v/z can be interpolated linearly, but you must retrieve u and v for each pixel in order to be able to fetch a pixel. This can be done by dividing these figures by z again. So we interpolate u/z, v/z and z and perform two divisions per pixel… Yeah right. There are tricks to get this faster, but let's ignore that for the moment.
There's something funny about the road: It's always horizontal. If you look at the chess board again, you'll notice that while the green line can't be interpolated linearly in texture space, any random horizontal span of the chess board can be interpolated linearly. On a horizontal line, each square has the same size, although it differs for each scanline. This is called 'constant z-slope'. For each pixel on the horizontal line, the depth is the same. This means we still need to interpolate u/z and v/z over the polygon outlines, but when drawing the spans, we can simply interpolate u and v again. With the improved edge tracing, the road polygons now look rock solid.
I already mentioned several ways to cut down on the number of divisions needed for rasterization. There's one more cool technique: Winged edges. This is a simple technique that links polygons that share the same edge. By storing the results of certain expensive calculations in the edge object the results can be re-used when the edge is needed again.
The winged edge struct looks like this:
The winged edge structure for a mesh is calculated by finding shared edges; for each edge of each polygon you search through all other edges of all other polygons to see if there's a match. If so, a pointer to the neighbouring polygon is stored in the object.
A gentlemen from Autodesk once mailed me with a better way to calculate the winged edge structure: After loading a 3D mesh, you probably already have a list of coordinates for the vertices. For each coordinate, make a list of vertices that use the coordinate. Now the number of polygons that need to be checked is much smaller.
Note that for a perfect winged edge structure you need a very clean and closed mesh. No gaps, never three polygons on one edge.
Last Words
That's about it. I hope you enjoyed reading the articles. If you have questions left, don't hesitate to drop me an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Thank you to everyone for playing along in this Cookie Challenge! I've so enjoyed seeing everyone's favorite cookie of 2011! You all did an amazing job on creating beautiful cookies in 2011. I'm loving being a part of this cookier community and learning and growing and getting to know you all!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Cookie Challenge - Best Cookie of 2011 - 62 submissions!
Thank you to everyone for playing along in this Cookie Challenge! I've so enjoyed seeing everyone's favorite cookie of 2011! You all did an amazing job on creating beautiful cookies in 2011. I'm loving being a part of this cookier community and learning and growing and getting to know you all!
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- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2012 at 11:08 PM
May I add you to my Pinterest "Cookies I lust to make and eat" page? Nita Kimberlin from facebookReplyDelete
Cristin, what an amzing collection of fantastic cookies! Kudos to you for putting it together! I wanted to join in, but was bogged down. I would say my favorite cutter was the small, round cutter that can make so many different and EASY cookies:)ReplyDelete
@Sue We missed you playing along in this one Sue! I totally understand about being bogged down though! I'm wading through 166 emails tonight!ReplyDelete
@Anonymous Of course Nita! I'd be honored! You can find my Pinterest page here: http://pinterest.com/cristinscookies/ReplyDelete
Wow! So many awesome cookies were submitted for this challenge. Thanks for taking the time for putting this challenge and post together.ReplyDelete
I do really am happy to see # 16:DReplyDelete
Wow, what awesome cookies. I don't know how you found the time to post a write up like this. :)ReplyDelete
Awesome and thanks for sharing all of this with us,
- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2012 at 3:46 AM
Thank you for putting this all together!! It must have taken forever to do the creative commentary on each entry :) Julie/SugarReplyDelete
Incredible job Cristin. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this for the rest of us to see everyones cookies. There's some really cute and creative cookies here, from all lots of different places. Awesome!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2012 at 5:20 AM
This is an impressive collection! Thank you for doing this to bring us all together to encourage and appreciate each other's beautiful work....you play a big part in that encouragement too, Cristin!ReplyDelete
Blessings, Donna B.
Love it, Cristin! Thank you for bringing us all together! Everyone's cookies are amazing and so much fun to look at! And a great way to build up our cookier network!ReplyDelete
I laughed when you mentioned you had read The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher with your son! It's a cookier's must have picture book! lol
You're the best! ~ Kara from Cookies in the Cupboard
Love all the amazing cookies. Lots and lots of talent out there!ReplyDelete
Thanks for putting this together Cristin, and for including my spider man cookie :) All of these other cookies are such an inspiration and I can wait to get started baking some new ones!ReplyDelete
wow, so much talent all in one place. And no worries about fixing my pic, as I'm a bad photo editor!ReplyDelete
Such a great post, Cristin! Thanks for bringing together this much talent to show us! I forgot it was happening, or I would have entered a couple myself (NEXT time for sure!)ReplyDelete
And a little btw..the holiday cartoon character was Heat Miser ;) Now I can't get his song outta my head! LOL many thanks again. ~Scott
@Chef Scott You're right Scott! Thanks so much for helping me with the name of the character. I've even adjusted the post. Thanks! I hope you join us next time!ReplyDelete
You are just so great to put all this together. I love looking at all the cookies! :) On a side note, I love that your comment section is also PINK! :)ReplyDelete
Cristin! What a job it was to put this post all together and what a great lady you are to have hosted this and completed the post. So many wonderful and talented cookiers...every one of them. Thank you! So enjoyed it.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful collection of cookies! So fun to see all these awesomely talented cookiers and to read your sweet comments about each one. You never cease to amaze me with your thoughtfulness and creativity!ReplyDelete
Great round up, thanks so much for this fun challenge.ReplyDelete
What a great challenge! I meant to jump on the bandwagon, but got bogged down:( I'd say that my little round cutter came in handy this year for many easy and fun cookies:) Happy New Year, Cristin!ReplyDelete


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ANCOR is pleased to announce the release of a Model Shared Living Contract designed to be used as a template by providers entering into certain shared living arrangements, often called adult foster care or host homes.
This model contract was developed by attorneys Petruccelli Martin & Haddow, LLP, a Maine Law Firm, utilizing general contract law without regard to the specific requirements of local law in different State jurisdictions, with the assistance of the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) and National Association of States United for Aging and Disabilities (NASUAD).
The development of this contract would not have been possible without the assistance of ANCOR members Chimes Family of Services, Dungarvin, Keystone Human Services, and The MENTOR Network.
The following Model Shared Living Contract should not be used without consulting local attorneys familiar with all applicable laws and regulations in the location where the contract will be performed.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Rome Photo Diary
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Rome Photo Diary: Gelato
I don't want to say that eating tons of gelato was the best part about visiting Rome because it wasn't, but it was pretty great. The oldest gelateria in Rome, Giolitti (pictured second), tops their already giant cone with whipped cream. I got almond and chocolate and it was decadent and delicious. At the classic Sicilian gelateria Origini (pictured third from the top) I got banana and vanilla with flecks of chocolate and nuts. It was absolutely delicious, but not my absolute favorite. That honor went to Gelateria Del Teatro where I got salvia e lampone (sage and raspberry) and the most intense chocolate I've ever tasted. The raspberry sage combo was incredible and definitely something I'll be searching for here in NYC.
On the one day I didn't get an afternoon gelato I tried a granita from Gran Caffè Tazza d'Oro (pictured second from bottom) which was amazing, but gave me a bit of a tummy ache from all of the caffeine and creme. As for the best part of visiting Rome? Hanging out with my BFF Maddie who moved there in January. To read up on more great things to do in Rome, visit the site she's been working on YoungInRome.com.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Need: Alexander Wang Robyn Hobo Bag
From the instant I saw this bag it felt like the modern update to the classic Coach that my mom carried for years. Simple and luscious and just a little bit '70s.
Alexander Wang Robyn Textured-Leather Hobo Bag, $985, at Net-a-Porter.com
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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The Girls in the Beauty Dept. They picked up my Prada-inspired manicure and mixed in some very chic clothes to match.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Cage Jewerly by Gaia Repossi and Dominic Jones
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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It's not a coincidence that one week after Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In gave feminism a much-needed reboot and sparked a national conversation about the innate gender biases that need to be dismantled so that professional women can achieve their full potential, New York Magazine pooped our party with an incendiary cover story about the "legions" of "feminist housewives" who're "having it all by choosing to stay home." Choosy feminists choose choice! And I'm choosing to roll my eyes.
Look, feminism and housewifery are not mutually exclusive. Nobody is saying that—or at least I'm not. I'm sure there really are feminist housewives somewhere out there. Maybe they're reading this right now. (Hey, girl.) But the two women—TWO!—that New York writer Lisa Miller could find to justify this "trend" piece (even though the golden rule of journalism is that three makes a trend), say things that are so fucking infuriating that I felt like Mrs. White in Clue. Flames on the side of my face.
The bulk of the piece is centered on Kelly Makino, a 33-year-old former social worker who ultimately became a stay at home mom because she "believes that every household needs one primary caretaker, that women are, broadly speaking, better at that job than men, and that no amount of professional success could possibly console her if she felt her two young…were not being looked after the right way." Also she argues that because girls typically grow up playing dolls, "women are raised from the get-go to raise children successfully. When we are moms, we have a better toolbox." She keeps going with a slew of "reasons" — more accurately described as "gender stereotypes" — about how women are naturally better at raising a family. I don't find that notion as offensive to women as it is to men, who are not only capable of nurturing their children but excel at it when given the chance.
One would think that since Makino identifies as a feminist that she would recognize that her beliefs aren't based on any kind of proven biological certainty, but rather, internalized sexism—the same innate gender biases that Sandberg, in her book, says enables women to place limitations on themselves and their professional achievement. Honestly, though, if women keep insisting that we vacuum and car pool and make dinner better than men (all absurd assertions, BTW) then they aren't going to bother trying. And we can't achieve true equality if we aren't equal in the home.
But it's also totally cool if Makino and other SAHMs want to be housewives, if that's where they feel the most fulfilled by making "home their highest achievement." But phrases like "the subversion of her personal drive" indicate that that might not be the case for Makino. And then there's this:
Kelly calls herself "a flaming liberal" and a feminist, too. "I want my daughter to be able to do anything she wants," she says. "But I also want to say, 'Have a career that you can walk away from at the drop of a hat.'"
1.) If you want your daughter to "do anything she wants," shouldn't the statement just end there? Why does it need to be qualified with anything? Isn't this whole piece about how you can be a housewife and a feminist because you're exercising your choice? So do you want to stay home or not? Because when you add a caveat like that, it would appear that you don't.
2.) If you're really a feminist, give the same career advice to your son.
Moving on. Who are these "legions" that are "awakening to the virtues of the way things used to be" as the piece refers to them? Legions. For real? No, not for real. Looking into Census Bureau statistics Jessica Grose points out women like Makino are "still pretty rare."
Of women with graduate or professional degrees, 75 percent of them who had a child in the past year work, and 60 percent of those women work full time. When you look at highly educated women who have older children, about 86 percent of them are in the work force. So we're not talking about hordes of women who are "too busy mining their grandmothers' old-fashioned lives for values they can appropriate like heirlooms, then wear proudly as their own," as New York claims. Such women, if they exist, are a minuscule sliver of the whole pie.
In fact, the real trend is that more and more men are choosing to stay at home while their wives focus on their careers.
Perhaps one of the most telling quotes came from Patricia Ireland, the other "feminist housewife" interviewed for the piece:
I'm really grateful that my husband and I have fallen into traditional gender roles without conflict.
Why, though? I mean, I understand about being happy that you and your husband found the kind of balance that works for your lives and your family. But why not say that? Why state, specifically, that you are "grateful" that what you do is gendered? What the fucking fuck. Am I in the Twilight Zone? Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. Don't sell me some conservative flimflam and package it as neo-progressivism.
"The feminist revolution started in the workplace, and now it's happening at home," says Makino. "I feel like in today's society, women who don't work are bucking the convention we were raised with … Why can't we just be girls? Why do we have to be boys and girls at the same time?"
OH MY GOD STOP. Who is she? Malibu Stacy?
On one hand, it's gross that New York is contributing to the insidious cycle of implicit sexism with no real evidence or hard data to back up the claims. But on the other hand, I guess it's kind of a win that feminism is so "cool" again that they'd make an attempt, however sloppy, to chime into the conversation.
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Dear Readers (specifically, dear book review bloggers),
As a lead-up to the release of my first full-length collection of short stories, I'll be giving away an advance review PDF copy to book bloggers who promise to write an honest review of the book in the months prior to the release date.
Before and Afterlives will release on March 18, 2013. I'd love to give away enough advance review copies that would enable a book review per week between the months of January and late March. If you review books regularly, and aren't back-logged, and would be able to read and write a review of the collection within that period of time, please contact me at christopherbarzak AT gmail DOT com.
I'm excited for this collection to appear. Here are the two initial blurbs from the authors Jeffrey Ford and M. Rickert:
"Although Christopher Barzak is now better known as a novelist, I've always been an admirer of his short stories. His new collection, Before and Afterlives, will make you one too. This generous offering of his best work displays impressive range, depth of feeling, a sharp sense of humor, and a fantastic imagination both lyrical and dark."
-Jeffrey Ford, author of Crackpot Palace and The Physiognomy
"How to conjure souls? Resurrect the past? Speak to the dead? Christopher Barzak has a talent for ghosts. In a world composed of more than its material aspects, Barzak seems to know that the things unsaid are what haunt us most. He offers his considerable gift of story as a talisman. Before and Afterlives is a generous contribution to the art of being human."
-M. Rickert, author of Map of Dreams and Holiday
I'd love to have reviewers join into the conversation about the book as it gets nearer to launch date. So please send me an email with a link to your book blog to join in.
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Do I need toilet repair - I've got a serious problem with my toilet.
Toilet repair is one of the last things you want to think about, and toilets are probably the most under appreciated appliance in the home. Toilets will get your attention quickly when they don't operate properly. A toilet is a plumbing fixture and disposal system primarily intended for the disposal of the bodily wastes. There are two basic types of toilets: the dry toilet and the wet toilet. The wet toilet is the most common type and is used in most residential homes. The dry toilet needs no plumbing for water input or evacuation, but is often coupled with some ventilation system.
There are three parts to a toilet; the water tank, the bowl and the siphon tube.
A toilet is ready for use when its water tank is full to the brim, roughly 2 gallons of water. This is the part of the toilet that sits against the wall above the bowl. Inside the tank are refill tubes, overflow tubes, a float and a stopper. When you flush the toilet, a chain attached to the toilet handle and the stopper is pulled, and the stopper is removed from a pipe into which the tank water flows. The water from the tank is pumped directly into the bowl. Once the water is removed, the stopper goes back into place so the tank can be refilled.
Attached to the bowl is a siphon tube that curves so that it will only drain water from the bowl when it reaches a certain height. When the tank water is quickly pumped into the toilet bowl, the siphon tube overflows and the toilet automatically flushes.
Then, after the water has been sucked out of the bowl, the tank and bowl refill. When the tank water level lowers the float inside does as well. When it reaches the bottom the refill device is activated, which sends water into the tank and also into the toilet bowl. More water is sent to the tank until it is refilled. When the float reaches a certain height, the tank stops filling. If your toilet does not work like this, you may need toilet repair.
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My path to the priesthood, as with all priests in the United States, involved many years of higher education. I earned two degrees from the University of Notre Dame before being ordained a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1983. Later I received yet another master's degree from Notre Dame. I learned all the appropriate professional skills. I studied the correct rubrics from scholars of liturgical history. The vision of the Second Vatican Council prepared me for what I thought my work would entail.
The education that truly formed me, however, has been learning to pray through my own suffering and the inconsolable pain of others. I am now a student of an uneducated orphan and sickly man, Brother André (Alfred) Bessette, C.S.C., born 30 miles from Montreal in 1845. Ironically, the frail, illiterate brother is our first saint in the Congregation of Holy Cross, a religious order that is best known for our achievements in education.
Brother André dedicated his life to St. Joseph and to people suffering from spiritual and physical illness. He convinced the Holy Cross community in Montreal in the early 1900s to build St. Joseph's Oratory. Today, the oratory houses the many crutches, canes, and wheelchairs left behind by healed pilgrims who prayed to St. Joseph upon Brother André's request.
Because of his ill health, members of Holy Cross did not initially want Brother André as a member of the Congregation. His novice master begged the community to allow him to stay because of his intense prayer. He professed vows and was assigned as porter at Notre Dame College in Montreal, the only formal ministry he held his entire life. He began to welcome the sick and the fragile, the ill and the outcast. His door became his entry into people's deep suffering and isolation. André's formally educated confreres quickly became displeased with so many sick people congregating around the schoolyard.
Brother André persevered in his devotions. He told people who were ill to pray to St. Joseph, to rub oil on their wounds, to believe in the miracles of Christ Jesus. He experienced God's healing of thousands of people. He became known as the "miracle worker of Mount Royal."
It is with the smallest of brushes that the artist paints the most beautiful pictures.Brother André Bessette, C.S.C.
Now that I have come to the doors of the Downtown Chapel in Portland, Oregon, I have learned to pray and serve from Brother André's example. These red steel doors open every day to hundreds of people who cry for help dealing with mental illness or who are consumed with unending loneliness.
Our parish staff and volunteers welcome to our daily hospitality center people struggling to get off drugs, the recently unemployed, and those who have spent their entire adult lives living outside. We welcome people who lash out at others because they cannot heal from their own sexual abuse. We welcome people with gangrene and people who have just been released from jail. Every day we are confronted with our insufficient answers to unsolvable problems.
I arrived here at the red doors of the Downtown Chapel more than eight years ago disillusioned with many aspects of the church. I arrived here in great need of spiritual healing. I turned to Brother André to welcome me, just as he welcomed others in need of healing and consolation in Montreal. Now I experience what André encountered, the inconsolable pain of people. People living in poverty are now my teachers.
Because he could not read, André memorized the Beatitudes and other passages of scripture that offer hope to people in pain. He believed that faith alone was the answer to real human suffering. Confronted with hundreds of people each day waiting to speak with him, André often lost his patience. He was often rude and curt with people who did not want to pray. His curmudgeonly style did not deter people from wanting to be physically touched and emotionally affirmed by God.
I lose my patience as well when I realize in recent years the church has moved away from its healing mission, relinquishing many hospitals, nursing homes, and orphanages. The personal touch of healing has been replaced by large corporations and impersonal technology. At our parish doors, I realize that faith alone can motivate people to give of themselves when other people hurt in so many ways.
Brother André died on January 6, 1937. More than a million pilgrims streamed to Montreal for his funeral. In those days before jet planes, the Internet, and cell phones, the real communication of faith and gratitude spread rapidly among believers.
The Catholic Church canonized Brother André Bessette in Rome on Sunday, October 17, 2010. On that day, I unlocked our red doors in Portland and praised God for André's example.
This article appeared in the December 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 12, pages 47-48).
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The biggest threat to preventing the establishment of a native savanna community is non-native and aggressive species outcompeting slower growing native species. Diligent maintenance and monitoring of the restored community is required for the first few years to ensure successful establishment. Typically, an ecological professional will perform an annual maintenance consultation for the first four or five years. The professional will advise on maintenance practices including treatment of invasive species and identification of native species, as well as mowing and prescribed burn frequency cycles. During the first growing season, the native species will use most of their energy into developing their root systems and will not grow very tall. There will not likely be enough vegetative matter to carry a prescribed burn during the first two years of establishment so mowing will be an important maintenance tool for this time. Along with mowing, the basin will be maintained with the use of herbicide spot treatments using a low-volume foliar spray for the first few growing seasons.
By approximately 2013, the community will be more established and a prescribed controlled burn will be the primary maintenance tool. Annual burning is used to control undesirable woody, cool-season vegetation and stimulate growth of desirable, warm-season species. Many native species rely on fire and heat for germination, so a controlled burn is necessary for successful establishment. After 2015, an ecological professional will inspect the basin and develop a reduced burn frequency cycle that includes a prescribed burn once every three to four years. Appropriate firebreaks will be established prior to the burn in order to contain the fire in a controlled area. Firebreaks are anything that will stop a fire and can range from a plowed field, a road, or a mowed path.


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It's finally Spring in New England (I got out of Wisconsin just in time, apparently; I beat the blizzard by a day) and I get to be home with my dog for a whole three weeks before I head back to the Midwest.
With spring come the historical re-enactors. There's a pile of them camped out on the town common currently, firing off muskets and terrifying my poor dog. He would like you to know that he is not a gun dog. He doesn't mind thunderstorms in the least, but the musketry was bad enough that he had to climb into my lap and tremble.
I was half tempted to go out there and give them a piece of my mind, but I suppose it wouldn't be neighborly. And they probably have a permit or something.
The bugler playing Taps horribly was more frightening to me. But I'm not a Briard.
ETA: Oh, god, now they're playing fiddle. Badly.


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text: [Charlie X-Ray] is having some modern fun with the phone system by pulling dialed numbers from the audio track of YouTube videos (translated). The first step was to find a video where a telephone is being dialed and the sounds of the keypresses are audible. You can't tell those tones apart, but a computer can. That's because each number pressed generates a combination of two out of seven closely related frequencies. [Charlie] isolated the audio using Audacity, then wrote a python script to generate a spectrogram like the one above. By matching up the two dark nodes you can establish which two frequencies were played and decode the phone number being dialed. So how does this work again… find audio of a phone being dialed, decode the number.. profit?


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The Wilderness GC, Fortune Bay MN (Aug 2011)
The Wilderness at Fortune Bay is part of Northern Minnesota's premiere vacation destination at Fortune Bay Resort Casino. Atop high granite ridges just hours north of the Twin Cities, The Wilderness offers spectacular panoramic views from the shores of the magnificent Lake Vermilion. Wrapped around picturesque Minnesota woodlands, which include majestic white and red pines, thick evergreens, and dramatic rock outcroppings, the challenging course is as visually stimulating as it is enjoyable to play, making it a true golfer's dream. Link: http://www.golfthewilderness.com/layout9.asp?id=215&page=6692Read More


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4 TED Talks All Brand Storytellers Must Watch
TED talks are a gold mine of knowledge. Because the TED website's topics include not only technology, education and design (TED) but also business, science, activism, health, storytelling and everything in between, one can get lost on the site for days.
A number of these short talks (most are around 20 minutes) revolve around storytelling. While they don't necessarily address brand storytelling, they do offer insights that a brand could apply to its efforts to engage audiences through its brand story. I've gathered four talks I found particularly useful, and I've included a brand takeaway for each. Enjoy!


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Some Cute Things to Say to Your Girlfriend
Impressing a girl and pursuing her may the first step in charming a girl and getting her to go out with you.
1. Last night I was looking at the stars and matched each star with a reason why I love you. It was going great until I run out of stars.
2. Last night I sent an angel to look over you as you slept. The angel returned to me and when I asked why? The angel said that angels do not watch over angels.
3. Life without you is like a broken pencil, pointless.
4. I can conquer the world with a single hand so long as you are holding the other.
5. God must have been showing off when he created you.
6. You deserve the world, but since I cannot give that to you, I will give you the next best thing, which is my world.
7. I could hold you forever.
8. I tell you I love you so much because you never know, a day might come and one of us would end up in the hospital, and I want the last feeling you feel is of me loving you.
9. Are you a dictionary? Because you add meaning to my life.
10. Baby you are a thief because you stole my heart.
11. Did it hurt when God removed your wings and sent you to earth?
12. I will love you F.O.R.E.V.E but no R because it would be the end of forever.
13. If love were a cup of coffee, our love would be a mocha latte – sweet, hot and filled with pep.
14. I long for you just as much as a drowning man longs for air. It would kill me to have you just a little.
15. You have just made me realize that the Beatles had it all wrong. Love is not all we need, it is the only thing there is.
16. Every time I see you, I fall in love with you all over again.
17. Babe, you are my dream girl, and like my parents always say, never give up on your dreams.
18. I would rather be in hell with you than in heaven without you.
19. I will love you until death, and then some.
20. I brought you this flower so that it would see what true beauty is.
21. I went to the hospital and got an x-ray, do you know what they found? You in my heart. The doctor said my heart will always be fine with you in it.
22. I wish life had a pause button. I would pause every moment we spend together.
23. I put a tear in the ocean and the day you find it is the day I will stop loving you.
24. If I were to die today, I would be happy because I got to spend time with you.
25. You are all I have ever wanted in a Girlfriend.
26. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me.
27. I want to grow old with you.
28. You have a sweet smile, sweeter than (insert the sweetest thing you can think of).
29. Your love is what keeps me going every day.
30. We are a match made in heaven.
31. Even after the years we have spent together, you still make my heart skip a beat.
32. Even when we are old and gray, I will still be holding your hands in our rocking chairs.
33. You even look beautiful when asleep.
34. I just want to see that beautiful face every morning forever.
35. Listen to your heart; I would like to fill those gaps between each beat.
36. My life is so much better, and I owe it all to you.
37. I may not be a photographer, but I can sure picture us together forever.
38. You must be religious because you are the answer to my prayers.
39. You must be a camera because every time I look at you I just smile.
40. I always thought that happiness started with an H, but now I see that it starts with U.
41. You are the only girl I love right now, but in about ten years, there will be another. She will be calling you "mommy".
42. When I first met you, I could have sworn we had a class together, more specifically chemistry.
43. If I had a star for every minute you crossed my mind, I would own a galaxy.
44. I without you is like a sentence without spaces, shoes without laces, and a nerd without braces.
45. Your eyes are as blue as the ocean, and I am now lost at sea.
46. Are you a magician? Because every time I look into your eyes, everything else disappears.
47. When I first laid my eyes on you, I started looking for a signature because all masterpieces have one.
48. I do not donate organs, but I couldn't help but give you my heart.
49. If I had a rose for every though I had of you, I would have a garden that had no end.
50. When I grow older and start reflecting on my life, I'd think of the day you gave birth to my children, the day we married and the day I met you.
51. I play baseball, and it looks like I hit homerun when you became mine.
52. Today I saw the most beautiful flower, and it reminded me of you.
53. You must be an expert thief because you stole my heart without even realizing it.
54. When I close my eyes, I see nothing. That is my life without you.
55. There is something in your eye. Never mind, it is just a sparkle.
56. Do not eat that cupcake. You are already sweet enough.
57. Did you take lucky charms for breakfast because your look is just magically delicious!
58. The angels must be crying for losing one of their own to me.
59. I did not now that angels were allowed to walk on earth.
60. Can I borrow your cell phone? Because I want to call my mum and tell her than I am dating the girl of my dreams.
61. If I could take the alphabet and re-arrange it, U and I would be together.
62. If loving you is wrong, then I never want to be right.
63. You must be tired because you have been running through my mind all day long.
64. Your parents must be bakers because you sure are a cutie pie.
65. I want us to commit the perfect crime: I steal your heart like you have stolen mine.
66. If you were a tropical fruits, I bet you would be a fine-apple.
67. I am thinking of you and the only thing I want to tell you is that I love you.
68. I have tried, but it is now official that I cannot stop thinking about you.
69. You are the only reason why I smile even on the dullest of days.
70. Eagerly waiting for you. Come back soon.
71. You make my life worth fighting for.
72. My love for you is endless.
73. To you, I am probably just one person but to me, you are the world.
74. I do not know what I would do if I ever lost you.
75. Is it hot in here or is it just you?
76. My knees are killing me because I fall for you every day.
77. Is there something wrong with my eyes? Because I am looking at an angel.
78. Someone call the cops! Because it must be illegal for one girl to look that good.
79. You remind me of a magnet-always attracting m your way.
80. There must be a rainbow somewhere here because I seem to have found the treasure.


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Here is a nicer shot of the new iMac. You can see more at Apple.com
Hi Quality shots of the new iMac
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The back looks cool, but the dark bezel around the screen? Ick.
I feel the exact opposite…I love the iPhone feel of the front with the black, but the black back looks…cheap. But I don't know how many times I plan to look at the back of my computer.
Meh I really hated the black trim around the screen when I first saw it, but its growing on me lately and I actually don't mind it as much. I'd like to see one of these in person but I think its safe to say I will be getting myself a fully loaded 24 (2.8ghz wooo) asap.


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Import Selection: Orvieto Classico, 1987, Bigi
June 6, 2016
Orvieto is a white wine from Italy that is named after a town. (Southeast of Florence and north of Rome). All wine called Orvieto must originate from grapes grown in a zone of vineyards of sixteen communes around the town, by specific area limitation according to the DOC regulations. (Denominazione di Origine Controllata). Orvieto wine… read more »


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This is a great way to showcase your risk-related work, and it's easy to submit:
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Sightings of vehicles provokes fears of martial law
Paul Joseph Watson
St Louis City residents have been warned to not be alarmed at the sight of U.S. Army tanks rolling down residential neighborhoods after sightings of the vehicles provoked fears of martial law.
The exercise is part of a U.S. Army program run by military police from Fort Meade, Maryland focused around training MPs from St. Louis how to drive heavily armored tanks "on highways and on city streets."
Sightings of the tanks prompted hundreds of residents to flood news channel KSDK's Facebook page, with some expressing fears that martial law had arrived with others promising to "stop and salute" the tanks as they rolled by.
Reporting that he was told by the Army not to disclose the location of where the exercise was operating out of for "security reasons," KSDK reporter Casey Nolan downplayed the exercise as "not such a big deal."
U.S. Army Sergeant Cornelius Ivory discouraged citizens from taking video and photographs of the tanks and urged them not to get too close.
"They need to know to stay away from it," Ivory told KSDK.
The exercise will run from June 21-28 in St. Louis, with the presence of the tanks being most noticeable in the area of the sixth district.
As we have exhaustively documented, the increasing shift towards domestic militarization of law enforcement is part of the acclimation process to get Americans comfortable with the idea of troops and tanks on the streets as a routine occurrence.
Earlier today we reported on how scores of paramilitary troops and soldiers appearing to be from the National Guard were deployed onto the streets of Hartford, Connecticut to break-up a recent annual Puerto Rican-American cultural event.
This is just the latest of scores of examples of how the military and National Guard is increasingly being deployed domestically to target the American people.
National Guard and U.S. Army troops are routinely involved in 'urban warfare training' drills. Usually such drills take place within the confines of military bases, however, more recently heavily armed troops are increasingly seenpatrolling residential neighborhoods and even the downtown areas of major US cities.
Such "invasions" are often reported on as nothing to worry about and even as "cool" by the mainstream media.
Back in 2008 the Washington Post reported how 20,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq would be stationed inside America under Northcom for purposes of "domestic security" from September 2011 onwards.
Northcom officials were forced to subsequently issue a denial after the Army Times initially reported that the troops would be used to deal "with civil unrest and crowd control."
An article published in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece for the influential Council on Foreign Relations, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Raymond T. Odierno, advocates the army be "transitioned" into a more "flexible force" by deploying in situations normally reserved for domestic law enforcement officials. He argues that by doing so, troops will be better equipped to deal with conflict elsewhere.
Domestic deployment of troops for purposes of law enforcement is a clear violation of section 1385 of the Posse Comitatus Act, which states, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."


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F/ El-P
Shutup... Yo, yo, yo, yo
My life's not right check one
My life's not right check two
My life's not right check three
Are you ready???!!
(you know this was supposed to be for my album right?)
When I send a sickness (ease down) dark soldiers
Fallin in with flying debris
And bad programs of landmines
That remind me of the sexiest of slow jams
I pull a glock or fiver murder the group by numbers
I was nursed by the biggest of buildings
And had the sonic volcanic cap
That the butcher have attached to his dead mother
Now this material might walk with a twitch and live for the twisted shit
Image is of voice cast getting pistol whipped
Electronic talents fold
The realest television is the one that talks out loud to you
When the plug is corroded out
And they say productivity is up this month but I've lost my passion
Sick of waiting in line for my weekly chocolate ration
Its bad health and industrial sadness
Never helped by tofu franks or? Hedistic? Maggots
This addiction is more random
I walk door to door Mormon style spitting my sick tantrums
Because I wasn't born handsome
Now that my life's complete with a capacity to push greatness buttons
With beats that have to be registered
As s** offenders represented to the public
I'll exfoliate your face with the acid inside my stomach
Binge and purge, we live in thirty second blurbs
And if consumers stopped existing we'd forget how to use words
Just fuckin' eat each other til the next space age occurs
Or at the source awards scratchin our heads like what happened
If the kids would've disclosed that you all lost if you just ask them
Out to plant life that sits and looks pretty
To attract curious? And section? Angels when in the city
That's below any self-respecting actress in a german schiester film
Who gobbled doggie dick and human feces
My fingers tap buttons with sanctified awareness
From heart scan to pulse readings
This a voice from a dead dimension without astral projection
The sluggish rugged discuss bunk that hovers
Acme lab rat escape barely breathing through the heating vents
I'll try to come back for my family before the poison feeding commence
But if I should exhaust God's patience on? Some? Better take my place nigga
Tell 'em it's the love that got me this far
And it's in my dreams I see their faces and
Murderers is like handles that clap sandals
Hand sand off tools and I can't stand on two
Amped off booze wheelie with my ancle bruised
On the block silly with a mint? Ellie?
Watch young ladies hop scotch with the pink jellies
That's me trying to wop vetti
With the longness and pot-bellied
Til it's nauseous a raw dog orphan straight out of the orphanage often
Lost in a realm tryin to find cells
Strapped like a marksman with raps that'll off kids mad hi
Got my mind wrapped in a coffin resurrect thoughts in amorphous
Morph into Aquaman polyin in waters talkin to dolphins
To get that bilingual spittin? Charm? Tryin to get it on
And spit a thorn that'll split a form in half studyin math
Light 'dro Eaton's love mixed with ash
Spit bats that stick to dat's
Sip snapples and twist off caps when you fuckin with the sickest cats
[Vast Aire]
My life's not right check one
My life's not right check two
My life's not right check three
Are you ready???
See I exist
Iron fist
Metal speech
Came out the womb of a phoenix expect nothin less
Then a mature flame velocity's my plane my thought is my train
The galaxy's the body sun is the heart and the black hole's the brain
Heard my verse had nuthin to say
I leave your mouth open when you're standin
(the word's the midget) esophagus is the cannon
Cipher unknown the upper hand on overstandin watch the landin
Believe it or not I'm walkin on air
Last of America's heroes here to close the circle
I still remember the days of Coleco
A daily struggle but I hold onto the vision
Hip hop at it's best when it lacked television
And everybody wasn't an emcee
You know where the flows be and if you check the rhyme slowly
You'll find out cats is unseen like Jarobi
And most likely openin doors with the psyche
If it's a Mikey, they'll eat anything
Starving but hack or crush anything
Not stars from the songs we sing this shit's ridiculoid


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Naw, his name's not Al, it's Michael. (Couldn't resist…)
Sometimes a family's best souvenir is the delicious evidence of silliness carried home in the camera.
Errin's family visited recently from Newark, Ohio. She says her family camped here for a week and each of their three children got to bring a friend along.
This is Michael, a friend of Errin's son Thor. (Okay…and how cool a name is Thor?)
Errin says this picture is extra fun because Michael is normally a rather quiet fellow. They really got a kick out of his antics.
And so, apparently, did the carousel horse in the background. Can't you just hear a little whinny?