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Johnny Dante– The Overview…
Food: Big Breakfast, Chilli Scramble, Pancakes
Food: 4/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Value: 4/5
The details…
We first visited Johnny Dante several years ago – at a time when it was probably the only place bothering to open in Cheltenham on a Sunday, and we were practically alone while enjoying our coffee. Fast forward to now, and the venue is bustling. Fortunately, a table towards the back cleared just as we arrived, and while there wasn't a queue, tables were being taken by new customers almost as soon as they cleared. We were pleased at how far this cafe had come, while still managing to appeal to the eclectic locals of Cheltenham with its mix of long term older residents and up and coming young families – drawn by the closeness of Southland and the affordable (ish) housing.
It's quite a creative menu, with dishes such as the smashed in Johnny's way or Johnny Stack being a little out of the box. Johnny Dante is what Cheltenham needs. This up and coming suburb has lacked behind neighbouring Highett in terms of great brunch options for many years, so it's good to see cafes like Johnny Dante leading the way to change this. As well as the menu, there's a fully stocked counter of cakes, sandwiches and pastries if you'd like something a little lighter (or something else for later).
The big breakky was very traditional, and fairly simple – beans, mushrooms, sausage, plenty of bacon, a hash brown, eggs and toast. It was definitely a BIG breakfast, and there wasn't anything weird and wonderful going on to try and make it different, just a great, filling, typical big breakfast. The bacon was particularly good: nice, thin and cooked extra crispy, just as I'd requested. I loved the no-frills approached to this dish, and it shows how Johnny Dante are treading that careful line to retain long-standing customers and be aware of what their local clientele expect, while also using other dishes on the menu to show off what they can do. They've worked out the right times and places to be creative!
The Chilli scramble packed a serious punch, further topped off with the chunky cut spicy chorizo on top. They don't hold back with this one, and it's the perfect dish if you love your spice. The scrambled eggs themselves were light and fluffy and it was another generous portion.
Finally we ended with the pancake stack. We really enjoyed the small light and fluffy pancakes, but this was the only dish we wished they'd go a bit wow with the presentation. We loved the taste and texture of the pancakes, and the simple addition of berries and ice-cream on the side. It's a great dish, and while I'm sure I'm totally wrong, as Johnny Dante seem to have their finger on the pulse of what's hot and what's not in Cheltenham, I just wish they'd bump up how it looked a little to allow themselves a slightly more competitive edge on the Melbourne brunch scene! (But yeah, basically, don't judge a book by its cover – they tasted just as amazing as some of the ones covered in nutella and fairy floss!)
Everything else…
Website: https://www.facebook.com/johnnydantecafe
Address: 253 Charman Road, Cheltenham
Opening Times:
|6am – 4pm
|6am – 4pm
Parking: There's plenty of car parking around Cheltenham. While Charman Road can get hectic at times, there's car parks on most of the side streets. Some of the signs can be a little confusing though so read carefully!
Getting here on PT: It's about 1 minute from Cheltenham train station on the Frankston line.
Disclaimer: We dined as guests of Johnny Dante, Cheltenham. Reviews are honest and based on our own personal experiences. We cannot guarantee things at a cafe won't change including, but not limited to, menu items and opening hours, so please confirm any details with the venue before visiting.


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23 Bible Verses about Multiplying
Most Relevant Verses
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.
God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
'From them will proceed thanksgiving
And the voice of those who celebrate;
And I will multiply them and they will not be diminished;
I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase.
But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.
But I will harden Pharaoh's heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way." The disciples *said to Him, "Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?" And Jesus *said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven, and a few small fish."read more.
And He directed the people to sit down on the ground; and He took the seven loaves and the fish; and giving thanks, He broke them and started giving them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven large baskets full. And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. And sending away the crowds, Jesus got into the boat and came to the region of Magadan.
After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias). A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs which He was performing on those who were sick. Then Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat down with His disciples.read more.
Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a large crowd was coming to Him, *said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these may eat?" This He was saying to test him, for He Himself knew what He was intending to do. Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little." One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, *said to Him, "There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?" Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks, He distributed to those who were seated; likewise also of the fish as much as they wanted. When they were filled, He *said to His disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments so that nothing will be lost." So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, "This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world." So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone.
Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, "I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count."
Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham. I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
"Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers.
Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never again return that way.' He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.
saying, "I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you."
Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.
Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?
Naaman went in and told his master, saying, "Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel." Then the king of Aram said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." He departed and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold and ten changes of clothes. He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy."
Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
From Thematic Bible
Chariots » The jews condemned for » Multiplying
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land has also been filled with
And there is no end to their chariots.
Topics on Multiplying
Animals MultiplyingGenesis 1:22
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
People MultiplyingGenesis 22:17
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Monday, April 28, 2008
A Fresh Start
I got exercise this morning. I put Jackson down for a nap and he slept long enough for me to exercise! Yea! I pray this can happen on a regular basis...for both of our sakes!
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Monday, April 21, 2008
A moment in reality...
I need to be real here. I feel fat. Very fat. I feel trapped in this body that is no longer me...no longer my own. Honestly, I feel a bit of discouragement. I want to be able to exercise 5 days a week. WHY CAN'T I??? Is having a baby a good excuse? Should I even have an excuse? I don't think I should. Am I being too hard on myself? Maybe. That may be what it takes for me to kick myself in the behind and get in shape. Sorry. I just had to vent.
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IFTTT has made it easy to automate actions on your web services like tweeting articles posted to your WordPress site or setting up email alerts for new Craigslist listings. Now, a new channel on IFTTT will allow you to connect actions by many of your Web accounts to triggers from the New York Times.
IFTTT stands for "if this, then that," and lets you create "recipes" for automated tasks triggered by certain actions on the Web. In the case of The New York Times channel, for example, you could setup a recipe such that that if a popular article is published to The New York Times, then the article will be saved to your Pocket account for you to read later. The New York Times channel supports various triggers, but no actions.
Triggers available
- New article in section: Set a trigger for every new article published to your section of choice in The New York Times. The trigger will support 20 items per check
- Any new popular article: Triggers your chosen action every time a new popular article or blog post is published by The New York Times
- New article from search: Conduct a search on nytimes.com and set a trigger for newly published articles that fit the search criteria. This trigger will support 20 items per check
- New Critics' Pick movie review: Trigger an action every time a new Critics' Pick movie is reviewed
- New book on the Best Sellers List: Set an action for every time a new book is added to the Best Sellers list of your choice
- New event in category: Trigger an action for each time a new event in the category you specify (for the New York area only)
Using these triggers will make it possible to automatically save new Fiction Bestsellers to your Evernote account, for example, or share popular articles in the Business section with your LinkedIn connections. For more The New York Times Recipes, browse submissions from the IFTTT community.
A Shift Toward Popular Use
The New York Times joins BuzzFeed and ESPN as trigger-only media channels available on IFTTT. The The New York Times channel, however, is such a widely read publication that its addition signals a shift in IFTTT from an automation service geared toward techies to a tool for popular consumption. And IFTTT doesn't plan to stop at The New York Times. CEO Linden Tibbets told The Verge that IFTTT has plans for expansion: "This is just scratching the surface," he said. Content providers like The New York Times are "looking at all the ways readers want to consume or get alerted about their content," but many are greatly challenged by the technological resources required to cater to each and every one of their readers' needs. IFTTT wants to provide a solution to this problem.
In order to accelerate IFTTT's channel expansion, the company is developing a way to make channel creation easier. By the end of the year, Tibbets said, IFTTT will open channel creation to the public. It's not yet certain whether this will involve an open API or another solution.
Recently, IFTTT added a channel for the popular RSS reader feedly, and in July IFTTT released its iPhone app.
How do you plan to use The New York Times channel on IFTTT? Share your recipes with us in the comments section!


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Athena, aka Gun Goddess (www.GunGoddess.com) is a competitive shooter, a business woman and a really nice person. Gun Goddess, which made it presence known in the market a mere 3 years ago filled a void in the market, specializing in women specific products. Since then, Athena has launched some men's, or gender neutral, products; but her passion is still focused on helping women find fun, functional, gun related items. She works tirelessly to find new products, or works with vendors to create them just for her. I have enough of her pistol cases, in leopard and zebra, to prove that. From Gun Bling to jewelry to range bags and more…
Unlike some businesses, Athena doesn't just color a product pink and call it a woman's product. She researches, interviews and personally tests her products. If she wouldn't be comfortable using it, you will not find it on her site. That is the definition of integrity. Customer Satisfaction and good Customer Service are crucial aspects of her business model.
Check out the website, I promise you will find something to love, or if you are like me, LOTS OF THINGS TO LOVE!
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Marriage Violence
If you rush in to marriage you will as well rush out – only if you are lucky enough to stay alive to narrate your survival story.
"My biggest and shameful regret was getting married and getting married to the wrong person, as it now becomes a memory I regret it would hunt me for the rest of my life". – Mercy (A client we spoke with).
The rate at which women are eager to get married these days now becomes very alarming. So does the rate of wife battering and sexual battering dramatically increases. Every lady out there wants to get married as soon as they are above the adolescent age.
Marriage Dealings
Marriage is a good thing and it is ordained by God but, it is quiet opposite when dealing with humans, especially when we get married to the wrong person. In here, battering starts to take its course.
Even if marriage is for better and for worse, and for richer and for poorer, does it mean that we should die in a marriage that we can not handle? It is so painful how people with great potential lost their lives in marriages just because they wanted to get married.
"Any woman who manages to survive the violence in marriage as a result of wife battering and somehow overcomes it, yet stays alive before or after a divorce, can only tell their testimonies to the world and advise young ladies out there not to rush and be very careful before engaging themselves in marriage too". – Dorcas
The Prone And Crones In Marriage
One good thing is to get married; the worse thing is to marry the wrong person. It is so sad that many people in relationship do not take note of this, while others do not even know the essence of marriage and what marriage entails.
"Marriage is an experience in life that will shock you to the bones, because most times, it is not what you bargained for that you get at the end" – Grace
Values In Marriage
Many people in relationship values the ceremonial aspect of wedding rather than marriage. What most people don't understand is that wedding can be best done the way we want it, everybody is happy as we all have fun, we spend our resources on material things and we merry, but after that what next? Have we for once thought about this?
It is not new that many women get married because they want to show the world and their friends that their wedding is more charming and well programmed and fun than their friends.
They take wedding as a competition while they forget that there is a big challenge ahead; Oh! Did they tell you marriage is fun, a place to seek comfort and a time to relax and have the best fun every time with your spouses?
Hum! Well, it is, but only when we are with the right person, only if we haven't made the biggest mistake we may ever regret. Just because of our ignorance to understand the pros and cons in marriage, many marriages failed.
Or do we think that most couples who smile to us are happy in their homes? Absolutely not. Everybody keep their problem to themselves. But does that mean we can not get married to the right spouse and be happy?
No, I never say that. Marriage is more complicated than we think, even when we are in courtship as we are trying to study our spouses, we may sooner get convinced that they are the right person for us, but that doesn't really guarantee or assure us that we are not going to face challenges in our marriages or homes.
The Essence Of Courtship Before Marriage
The above statement is for those who took their time to understand their spouses in courtship before marriage because; the essence of courtship is to know the strengths and the weaknesses of our spouses before marriage.
Those who jump into marriage because they want to entice or impress their friends they must times end up in regret.
What we forget is that wedding is just for a day, people rejoice with us and we all have fun after that day they leave and we are left with our cross to carry.
Don't be surprised that marriage can be violent and it could cost us our lives as a result of battering. Wife battering is the most common of violent acts in marriage, and it can turn brutal and fatal if proper care is not taken.
What is Battering in Marriage?
If you are a woman who values the idea of wedding than your marriage, then there is a very high tendency to face the challenge of wife battering in your marriage rather than peace.
Battering in marriage is vocal, oral or physical combat, between couples in marriage. However, wife battering does not apply to someone who takes their time to understand their spouse while in courtship.
What is wife battering?
Wife battering is a form of violent, a psychological and mental disorderliness or charge in marriage which involve both partners (a man and woman) in an exchange of words as a form of argument which in turns results into a physical combat.
It is clear that men are the strongest, when it comes to power and strength as they make us of their masculine advantage over women beating and molesting their wives indoors and also in public in a brutal and fatal way that could result in severe damage and could eventually leads to death, if no one intrudes.
"I have seen, I have fought and I have conquered. It is only the brave, determined and committed that can survive the pressure marriage especially when it comes to the act of battering" – Praise
Don't be fooled; don't let people push you into the marriage you are not well prepared for. It is better to stay single than to get married into a whole new world of war and endless pain with little or no joy. Learn and stay away from battering.


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Au Petit Budapest
96, Rue des Martyrs, 75018 Paris (Map)
Phone: 01 46 06 10 34
Métro: Abbesses
Au Petit Budapest ("Little Budapest") is a tiny Hungarian restaurant in Montmartre that serves delicious traditional Hungarian dishes. This might be hard to imagine, but there aren't a ton of places in Paris where you can find a perfectly done paprika chicken, just like (someone's Hungarian) mom used to make. Au Petit Budapest also has a small selection of interesting Hungarian wines, and of course sligovica and other delightful libations. I totally got my gang a cool hook-up here one time; I was telling my party how to toast in Hungarian (it's "isten-isten," pronounced a bit like "ishta-ishta" — a guy in Budapest taught me a long time ago; there's also a longer and more formal way but it was way too hard for me) and the owner overheard us and asked if were Hungarian! We said no, of course, but he still poured our whole table a free round of sligovica. Pro-tip: I keep lots of foreign toasts handy for this very reason; it works like a charm surprisingly often.
Bon appetit!


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GlassFish City Revisited
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The way we are looking at Code
On a day to day basis we are looking at source code. Classess, Packages, Deployment Units. And for what you usually do, this is far than enough. But there are rare cases where you have to get hand on very big code-bases. Need to navigate stuff or find a way to identify problems very quickly. In these cases alternate views onto your problem might help. CodeCity is one of those tools. Developed back in 2009 you can still use it if you are able to generate a FAMIX 2.1 format which is the input for CodeCity. CodeCity is an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems are visualized as interactive, navigable 3D cities. The classes are represented as buildings in the city, while the packages are depicted as the districts in which the buildings reside. But let's start with some basics.
My first post about this kind of visualization featured a tool called inFusion. This was available for free or at least as a trial to generate the needed models for CodeCity. As of today it is only available as a demo version and a licensed versions. The first one isn't able to export the mse models. Thanks to the team at intooitus I was granted a license to be able to bring you the GlassFish city update. But please don't think that inFusion is only good for that. It's an eclipse based tool which provides intuitive insights, semantics-rich interpretations and matching refactoring recommendations, which identify and address inadequate underlying design decisions. So I will feature some more details about it later on this blog.
For now lets get back to the post. May I introduce GlassFish. More precisely the com.sun.*, org.glassfish.* and javax.* classes and packages that are contained in GlassFish 3.1.2-b15 which was shipped a few months back. On a high level overview (subsystems) this looks like this (thanks to Headwaysoftware for Structure101) :
GlassFish Skyline
The skyline view is the most impressive one to me. I didn't publish it one year back but without any intention.
Overview Pictures
Now you know the basics about "city building". Time to look at the overview. The complete city from the front looks like this:
Special Areas
Back in the days I started to look into some special areas. One was the Apache district. The Apache towers are more or less the same. You have some additional areas where you find Apache code. Those are highlighted in green and represent any occurrence of org::apache packages in the sources.
Another interesting area (at least to me) is the weld integration glue code (again, the little green in there). Remarkably less compared with the impact CDI has on the platform. I agree, that this simply is the "glue" and not the complete CDI implementation.
One last area of interest. The complete CMP container spreads over different packages. This is functionality which is going to be pruned with Java EE 7. Your last chance to take a look at it is here:
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Barth Bakery
Frozen Peanut Butter Pretzel Pie
Updated: Dec 13, 2021
Need to cool off from the heat of the summer? This frozen pie is cold, easy, and addictively delicious. With a chocolate graham cracker pretzel crust, a rich peanut butter cream cheese filling, and topped with chocolate, peanut butter, and pretzels, this pie combines sweet, salty, creamy, and crunchy in a perfect harmony of irresistible flavors and textures.
Chocolate Graham Cracker Pretzel Crust
1 ¼ cup chocolate graham cracker crumbs
¾ cup salted pretzel crumbs
½ cup unsalted butter, melted
3 Tbsp light brown sugar, packed
Pinch of kosher salt
Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Filling
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1 ¼ cup smooth peanut butter
1 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
¼ tsp kosher salt
2 cups heavy whipping cream, cold
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 ½ cups chocolate chips (dark, milk, or semi-sweet)
½ cup heavy whipping cream
⅓ cup salted pretzels, chopped
½ cup mini peanut butter cups, chopped
Chocolate Graham Cracker Pretzel Crust
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray the bottom and sides of a 9-inch pie pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, pretzel crumbs, butter, brown sugar, and salt and mix until well combined and the crumbs are evenly coated with butter. Press into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared pie pan. Freeze the crust for 10 minutes. Then bake the crust for 10-12 minutes, or until set. Remove the crust from the oven and allow it to cool completely.
Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Filling
Use an electric hand mixer to beat together the cream cheese and peanut butter until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the confectioners' sugar and salt and mix until incorporated, ensuring there are no lumps.
In a separate bowl, beat the heavy whipping cream and vanilla until fluffy and stiff peaks form.
Using a rubber spatula, gently fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter mixture until combined.
Pour the pie filling into the cooled crust and spread evenly to the edges.
In a microwave-safe bowl, combine the chocolate chips and heavy whipping cream and microwave on 50% power for one minute. Stir the mixture, and microwave at 50% power for another minute. Remove the bowl from the microwave and whisk for one minute until the chocolate is melted and smooth.
Spread the chocolate ganache on top of the pie filling. Then evenly sprinkle with chopped pretzels and mini peanut butter cups, using your hand to gently press the pretzels and peanut butter cups into the chocolate.
Place the pie in the freezer for about 2 hours, or until firm. Remove the pie 10 minutes before serving. (Run a knife under hot water to cut the pie easier.)
Looking for other delicious and unique pies? Check out these fun pie recipes!
Cherry Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Pie with Corn Streusel
Philippines' Authentic Coconut Pie
Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie
Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Pecan Pie
No-bake Frozen Butterfinger Pie
Tropical Pineapple Coconut Cream Pie
Pumpkin Biscoff (Cookie Butter) Pecan Pie
Are you nuts for peanut butter? Then check out these other recipes featuring peanut butter in all of its creamy, salty, and nutty glory.
Gluten-free Trail Mix Muddy Buddies
Easy No-bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Cookies
Gluten-free No-bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Lasagna
Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie
Chocolate Peanut Butter Buckeyes
Chocolate Caramel Peanut Butter Popcorn Bars
Chocolate Caramel Peanut Butter Chex Mix Bars
Barth Bakery has a wide variety of summer treats and desserts…some that are light and bright, others that are cool and refreshing, and many that feature fresh seasonal fruit. If you're looking for an easy treat to pack up and bring to a pool party, barbecue, or picnic, or just on the hunt for the perfect pick-me-up on a hot summer day, this list has something for everyone.
Blueberry Lemon Coconut Cake Bars
Easy No-bake Red, White, & Blue Jell-O Cake
No-bake Raspberry Peach Icebox Cake
Creamy Homemade Mango Ice Cream
Piña Colada Macadamia Cookie Bars
Mini Lime Tartlets with Macaroon Crust
No-bake Frozen Butterfinger Pie
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Crosslake, MN (November 4, 2020) – He's known as Doctor Sonar, but for over a decade professional angler Bruce Samson has looked through the lens of an Aqua-Vu camera to boost his underwater intelligence. Now, the Central Minnesota fisherman is being recognized for his lifelong contributions to the sport he cherishes. One of seven legendary individuals inducted into the 2021 class of the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame, Samson remains a passionate, inquisitive student of the underwater world.…Read More
Aqua-Vu® Pro Dr. Bruce Samson Inducted into Fishing Hall of Fame
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By Daniel Nemukuyu
Brutally assaulting villagers and denying them food and water while in holding cells has backfired on the police after a court ordered them to pay damages to the tune of $4 700.
Six men from Chinyamukwakwa Village in Chisumbanje were rounded up by the police over violence allegations at a local private farming entity called Macdom Estates.
The arresting officers approached the six who were working in their fields and indiscriminately assaulted them with batons all over the body, accusing them of masterminding violent acts at Macdom Estates.
As a result of the assault, the six sustained injuries, but they were never taken to hospital.
Instead, the police officers took them to Chisumbanje Police Station where they were detained without any food or water.
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights engaged a team of lawyers comprising Mr Langton Mhungu, Ms Peggy Tavagadza and Mr Blessing Nyamaropa to represent the six villagers.
Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri, Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo and a police officer identified as Mazarura were listed as defendants in the summons.
Chipinge magistrate Mr Poterai Gwezhira found that the police had unlawfully attacked the defenceless villagers and injured them.
"The plaintiffs managed to prove their case on a balance of probabilities that they were assaulted by police details while at Chinyamukwakwa Village allegedly over a dispute between villagers and a private entity known as Macdom Estates," ruled Mr Gwezhira.
"There was recklessness of some sort in the manner the police details executed their duties at the time as they ended up injuring villagers who were carrying out their farming activities in their fields.
"The treatment the plaintiffs received while in detention at Chisumbanje Police Station is clearly out of sync with the expected minimum standards in a civilised society."
To that end, Mr Gwezhira ordered the police to pay the damages.
"Accordingly, judgment is entered for the plaintiffs and against the defendants as follows: "There will be an order for the plaintiffs against the defendants jointly and severally, the one paying the other to be absolved for: 1.payment of the sum of $500 for pain and suffering to each plaintiff. 2. payment of the sum of $901,80 for pain and suffering to Vaina Ndhlovu, $735 to Samson Muyambo and $60 to Chipo Shiripinda being medical expenses incurred".
The magistrate further ordered the defendants to pay costs of the suit.
Initially, the six were claiming $800 each, but the court found it too much and unjustified.
Pictures showing the injuries suffered by the victims were presented in court as evidence that indeed the six were assaulted.The Herald


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Former Texas head coach Charlie Strong has been fired from USF after his third season in charge. The Bulls lost to arch-rival UCF 34-7 on Friday night to drop them to a 4-8 record in 2019.
Strong was a career 21-16 at USF, but his last two seasons have been poor. After going 10-2 in his first season in 2016, the Bulls started the 2017 season a perfect 7-0, including wins over two Power 5 teams. They then went on to lose their final six games by an average of 18.8 points per game. 2019 was the final straw for Strong, going 2-6 in the American Conference.
An offer for Longhorns fans
Texas will open its 2020 football season with USF and will be going up against a brand new head coach. While a reunion with Charlie Strong would have been nice, it will not be happening anymore.


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Om Malik ends a post about widget mania and measurement with an astounding quote from Fox boss Peter Chernin that I had not seen:
Peter Chernin, the big cheese at News Corp., while speaking at the All Things D conference said: "We won't allow people to create for profit platforms on our platform…. the Wall Street Journal doesn't allow people to sell ads on their platform."
That's the essence of the old media architecture: 'I own the platform (read: distribution) and you don't and I will get all the benefit from it and you won't nya nya nya.'
The new media architecture: the more you help others benefit — which includes making money — from your platform, the more they will distribute it for you and develop and extend it for you. YouTube. Google. Openads. See Seth Goldstein on whether Facebook will become the social platform; he says it all depends on whether developers can benefit from building on it.
I am reminded of a meeting probably more than two years ago when I introduced Fred Wilson to Upendra Shardanand and Daylife in its very earliest days. Fred asked: "Can others build profitable businesses on top of your platform?" And without a breath or a moment for us to respond, he said: "The right answer is 'yes.'"
At the Murdoch newspaper confab in Monterey where I ran a panel with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, I got him to talk about turning your business into an API so people will use it in more than one sense of the verb. I said that we need to turn news organizations into APIs. Nick Denton, also on the panel, disagreed; I may have been alone in the room thinking that. But I'd say that the more people can use news and build on top of it the better off news organizations will be.


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Shilton SR Series Fly Reel
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The Shilton SR Series is the latest addition to our already sterling range of reels. The SR range have been designed from the ground up with the saltwater angler in mind, rugged functionality with high grade 6082 T6 aluminium to give you the edge you need in any saltwater scenario. We have increased the overall diameter of the cork drag, resulting in less start up inertia and more stopping power, as well as adding one extra plunger (from 2 to 3), for extra drag engagement and durability. The reels are available in SR9 (9 weight), SR10 (10 weight) SR12 (12 weight)
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Jackson family upset by rumors that Katherine is on her deathbed
News that Katherine Jackson suffered a "sudden and devastating stroke" over the weekend came as a shock to the Jackson family — especially Katherine.
"The story is bulls—," said longtime Jackson family publicist and friend Steve Manning, who rarely responds to rumors about the First Family of Pop. "Mrs. Jackson is fine. She's with (daughter) Rebbie. I don't know where they get this fake news."
The shocking report was published on Monday by RadarOnline — an American Media Inc. property whose sister publications include Us Weekly and The National Enquirer.
Their story describes a dire situation in which the 87-year-old family matriarch "has the family around her 24/7 since the stroke."
Multiple Jackson family insiders tell us that Katherine has received visitors in recent days in Los Angeles, but she's healthy and fully expects to see her 88th birthday in three weeks.
One of Katherine's nine children, who asked not to be named, also said that their mom is in good shape and doesn't want friends to worry.
"It's not true, It's a rumor," said that Jackson sibling. "She's fine."
Genevieve Jackson, the 28-year-old daughter of youngest family sibling Randy Jackson, posted on @geneviecejaxn: "Guys calm down! This isn't true. Whoever put that story out is lying. She didn't have a stroke and her health is definitely not failing. Katherine is okay!"
Genevieve also claimed that Katherine was alive and well on Sunday when the kids gathered for "Game Night at Grandma's."
A third source, who'd hastily sent best wishes on Facebook after catching wind of Katherine's alleged health problem, wrote to Confidential contributor Flo Anthony that the posting was a mistake: "I spoke with a family member. I'll take it down. Thanks Flo."
Katherine's granddaughter Paris, the daughter of Michael Jackson, doesn't seem to have a care in the world. Paris spent a chunk of her Wednesday FaceTiming model Cara Delevingne, whom she was photographed kissing last month, thus setting off new couple alerts.
It was announced Wednesday that along with actress Charlize Theron, the King of Pop's 20-year-old daughter will be honored at the Life Ball 25th anniversary in Vienna. Paris is being recognized for her work with her godmother Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS foundation.
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I don't know what we would do without Suede. I know that, during that long, very long, endless pause they pressed on creating music, the world seriously dimmed down a touch.
Sept. 21st saw the release of The Blue Hour, their third album since their comeback, completing a triptych, as Brett Anderson has branded it, that started with Bloodsports and followed by Night Thoughts. A triptych that kicked off in a fantastic way and just kept getting better – in a very unnerving way.
Suede is, of course, not an average, feel-good band, so «unnerving» and «unpleasant» are in no way adjectives that bemuse a Suede fan in any way. Their penetrative gaze on urban, middle-class life is what sets them apart.
This time, Suede take their unpleasantry to the countryside – and the results are spectacularly dark and beautiful. Through experimentation paired with familiar grounds, in excellent songwriting style and storytelling touch, they recount the hardships of childhood, the sharp beauty and crude comfort of rural life. Haunting and vulturous, yet alleviating and familiar, The Blue Hour will take you down roads in your soul you didn't even know existed.
You can buy the album here


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Higher taxes on the rich have been the holy grail of Barack Obama's presidency. He spent four years talking about it, ran his reelection campaign on it and was willing to take the nation over the fiscal cliff to get it.
Now, he has gotten his wish. Taxes on the wealthy have gone up.
1) So, is this going to fix the deficit? No, the deficit is actually getting larger because of new spending in the fiscal cliff deal.
2) Did we only raise taxes on the rich? No, of course not. The payroll tax went up, too.
3) Will it create more jobs? No, in fact it will slow down job creation a bit because it will take money that job creators could have used for investment and move it into the government's coffers.
4) Will it help the economy? No, in fact it will probably slow down the economy a bit by transferring money from the private sector to the government.
5) So, what did raising taxes on the rich actually accomplish? It reduced "inequality" by helping to make everyone a little poorer and it made a great campaign issue for Obama. So, there's that.
So, if as expected, the economy continues to splutter along, the jobless rate stays high and the deficit remains huge, the question for Obama then becomes, "Now what?"


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Last week was light on the big-time match-ups in the college football world, but Saturday more than makes up for it. Top 25 clashes fill the schedule. Make sure your couch groove is ready.
Navy and Air Force kick off the day with a game that starts at 9:30 a.m. local time in Colorado. I suppose if any group of students can handle that early of a start, it would be the service academies.
Arizona and Stanford start the Pac-12 slate at noon on Fox. LSU and Florida face off in a big SEC battle at 12:30 on CBS. At the same time, Oklahoma travels to Texas Tech as the undefeated Red Raiders face their biggest test of the season.
The big game of the day pits Georgia against South Carolina in a game that could determine an SEC championship game bid. The Bulldogs and Gamecocks face off at 4 p.m. on ESPN. West Virginia travels to Texas at the same time. UW and Oregon follow at 7:30 to cap the night.
This is your place to discuss all the action. We'll have the Cougars-OSU game thread up at 2:30.
You wouldn't entrust your children to a convicted felon. Why would you entrust your college football knowledge with anyone less than the Sunday Morning Quarterback?
Loving that Florida line? Ready to knock some motherf**rs out? Before you put money down, compare point spreads and game totals from online and Vegas-based sports books, updating live in real time.
All of today's games making you feel a little overwhelmed? Relax. You're in good hands... Andy Hutchins guides you through Saturday's action.


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A Dog Like Daisy
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Max meets A Dog Called Homeless in this sweet and poignant middle grade novel told from the humorous, thoughtful perspective of a rescued pit bull as she trains to be a service dog for an injured veteran and his family.
Daisy has only ten weeks to prove her usefulness or else be sent back to the pound. Yet if she goes back, who will protect Colonel Victor from his PTSD attacks? Or save the littler human, Micah, from those infernal ear muzzles he calls earphones? What if no one ever adopts her again?
Determined to become the elite protector the colonel needs, Daisy vows to ace the service dog test. She'll accept the ridiculous leash and learn to sit, heel, shake, even do your business, Daisy when told to.
But Daisy must first learn how to face her own fears from the past or risk losing the family she's so desperate to guard—again.
"Daisy's wry comments on human foibles and eccentricities...combine to paint a moving picture of suffering and, ultimately, redemption. Daisy is distinctive and memorable, and this depiction of PTSD is useful, making this a fine, compelling tale." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Avid canine lovers will surely appreciate the intimate look at Daisy's yearning for purpose. The focus on...service dogs should enlighten readers about the ways our four-legged companions function as more than just pets. A poignant animal tale, and a strong addition to most collections." (School Library Journal)
"Daisy's voice is strong, painting a world with canine synesthesia: happy days are yellow, untruths taste like turkey bacon. With joint appeal to children of soldiers and dog-lovers, this is likely to find a broad audience." (Booklist Online)
"The emotional journey of veterans experiencing PTSD is a difficult subject, and this book explores it with empathy and candor. The commitment of these characters—human and canine—to confront their past and find freedom in the future offers an inspiring example of personal resilience." (Chapter 16)
"Beautifully written, this big-hearted book is filled with courage, guts, loyalty, and hope, just like Daisy herself. Truly a celebration of the healing power of love!" (Bobbie Pyron, author of A Dog's Way Home)
Praise for The 13th Sign: "An original, action-packed plot, a resilient heroine, a twist ending and 12 sly, angry Keepers will hold readers on edge. The ultimate astrological fantasy." (Kirkus Reviews)
"The swiftly paced plot will please readers used to Hunger Games-style action. Kids into astrology and horoscopes will hang on every chapter, especially when they find out that the concept of Ophiuchus exists and is used in some beliefs." (Booklist Online)
Praise for Selling Hope: "Tubb deftly ingrains a thoughtful ethical question into the story…but never overdoes it in this bouncy tale populated by a terrific cast of characters. The well-synthesized period flavor extends right down to the one-liners that punctuate Hope's earnest, easygoing, and perfectly pitched narration." (Booklist (starred review))
"Tubb uses rich historical material well in this clever story whose time line is a 17-day countdown to the comet catastrophe." (School Library Journal)
About the Author
Kristin O'Donnell Tubb is the author of The Story Collector and The Story Seeker, the award-winning A Dog Like Daisy, John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy (written as E. F. Abbott), The 13th Sign, Selling Hope, and Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different. Kristin lives near Nashville, Tennessee, with her bouncy-loud family. Just like her two dogs, she can be bribed with cheese. You can visit her online at www.kristintubb.com.


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Vince Rapisura
Mariel Vincent Andres Rapisura , or "Sir Vince" to most people, was born on November 8, 1978 in the far-flung outskirts of Maddela, Quirino. Vince grew up in a small rural neighborhood and was the town's pride as he was the first one to study in Ateneo de Manila. He grew up with his parents training him to be an entrepreneur exposing him to various business endeavors at a young age.
In 2001, Vince was one of the few youth ambassadors who represented the Philippines in a cultural exchange program – the Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program. He also represented the Philippines in the Global Youth Leadership Program in Japan in 2004 and was the youngest National Leader among 40 participating countries worldwide.
Vince Rapisura has been teaching microfinance and social entrepreneurship at the Ateneo de Manila University for the past 15 years. He established SEDPI, a social enterprise that provides financial literacy trainings to low-income OFWs in 15 countries worldwide. Since 2004, SEDPI has trained more than 30,000 individuals and has managed social investments close to PhP325 million. SEDPI's experience has been shared in various international conferences held in India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Myanmar, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Thailand, Spain, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. For his work, Vince received awards from Ernst and Young in 2012; Price WaterhouseCoopers in 2015; National Confederation of Cooperatives in 2017; and Ateneo de Manila University in 2019.
He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Management from the Ateneo de Manila and a Master's Degree in Entrepreneurship from the Asian Institute of Management. In 2016, he wrote a book on personal finance entitled "(L)Earning Wealth: Successful Strategies in Money Management." It was well received and launched his career as a blogger and social media personality.
His tagline, "Ang pagyaman, napag-aaralan!" emphasizes his two-pronged strategy to (1) reach out to Filipinos who yearn for practical money management knowledge and skills; while (2) making the learning experience fun, easily understood and not intimidating.


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Endoscopic Endonasal Odontoidectomy
Supported by preliminary anatomical and clinical studies exploring the feasibility and usefulness of approaching many ventral pathologies of the craniocervical junction (CCJ) using the endoscopic endonasal approach, four European centers joined forces to accumulate and share their growing surgical experience of this advanced technique. By describing the steps that led to the development and continuous refinement of this approach to the CCJ, a article delves deeply into an analysis of the cases operated on since 2010 at these four institutions, and discusses in detail the operative nuances that so far have allowed achievement of successful outcomes with excellent perioperative patient comfort and satisfactory long-term quality of life 1).
The gold-standard surgical approach to the odontoid process is via a transoral approach. This approach necessitates opening of the oropharynx and is associated with risks of infection, and swallowing and breathing complications. The endoscopic endonasal approach has the potential to reduce these complications as the oral cavity is avoided.
Transoral microscopic odontoidectomy followed by posterior fixation has been accepted as a standard procedure to treat nonreducible basilar invagination during the half past century. In recent years, the development of endoscopic techniques has raised challenges regarding the traditional treatment algorithm. The endoscopic transnasal odontoidectomy is a feasible and effective method in the treatment of irreducible ventral cervicomedullary junction compression, which has several advantages over the transoral approach. The endoscopic odontoidectomy includes transnasal, transoral, and transcervical approaches. The 3 different approaches for endoscopic odontoidectomy present complementary advantages and limitations. The necessity of posterior fixation after odontoidectomy should be considered in every single case on the basis of the peculiar anatomic and clinical conditions 2).


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Family Fun Event: Pre-Kindergarten Story Time – Austintown Library
This is a program for 4- and 5-year olds that helps develop pre-literacy and kindergarten readiness skills. Books, stories, rhymes, music, movement and crafts are used to help your child get ready for kindergarten.
Where: Austintown Library, AU Meeting Room (600 S. Raccoon Rd., Austintown)
When: Wednesdays in October (Oct. 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st) – 11:30 am


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Described in 1817 according to Nomenclator Zoologicus, 1816 according to Eschmeyer. [details]
Authority needs more research; Daudin (Oct. 1816) predates Cuvier (Dec. 1816) by some months. [details]
Lacepède, 1802 [details]
(Müller & Troschel in Schomburgk, 1848) [details]
Trachipterus arcticus (Brünnich, 1788) [details]
Mycrenophris is considered as a subgenus of Taurulus by Eschmeyer. [details]
Holotype: HUJ 13615; type locality: Gulf of Aqaba [details]
Fishes in vol. 3 of 5. Published in 1827, not 1826. [details]
year of description is not corresponding with year of publication [details]
In family Torpedinidae in Baranes & Golani (1993). [details]
A. oxyrhinchus [details]
misspelled as Aphanacanthe reticulatus [details]
misspelling as Authistes argenteus [details]
misspelling as Authistes puta [details]
misspelling as Baikalocottus grewingkii [details]
Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus, 1758) [details]
misspelling as Campylodon fabricii [details]
misspelling as Cockeridia lactea [details]
misspelled as Doidixodon freminvillii [details]
misspelled as Dolichthys stellatus [details]
Echiodon drummondii Thompson, 1837 [details]
Enchelyopus cimbricus is a misspelling for Gadus cimbricus [details]
misspelled as Gallichthys aegyptiacus [details]
misspelled as Gastrotokeus gracilis [details]
misspelled as Guntheria devisi [details]
misspelled as Hidronus marlucius [details]
misspelled as Latropiscus purpurissatus [details]
misspelled as Limamuraena guttata [details]
misspelled as Limamuraena melanotis [details]
misspelled as Lemurgus labordii [details]
misspelled as Monopterinus griseus [details]
misspelled as Oncocottus hexacornis [details]
misspelled as Oncocottus quadricornis [details]
misspelled as Paragillelus macropoma [details]
misspelled as Poecilioides reticulatus [details]
Rhiniodon Smith 1828:2 on Official Index for purposes of priority (Opinion 1278). Appeared first as Rhiniodon Smith ... [details]
misspelled as Rhyacanthis carlsmithi [details]
misspelled as Rhynchana greyi [details]
Misspelled or unjustifiably emended to Scylliorhinus, Scyliorhynchus, and Scyliorhynus by authors. [details]
misspelled as Syphonostoma typhle [details]
misspelled as Triantennaus zebrinus [details]
Recognized as a valid full species name, but not documented as such in FishBase, yet [details]
Originally proposed as a subgenus of Chrysophrys [details]
Genus name misspelled in original publication [details]
Was first synonymised with Hippocampus ramulosus, now again valid species [details]
Replacement for Lesueuria Duncker 1928, preoccupied by Lesueuria Milne-Edwards 1841 in Coelenterata. [details]
Hybrid between Lepomis cyanellus x Lepomis macrochirus macrochirus [details]
Named after father and son Veysel, so mandatorily changed to veyselorum. [details]
Since 1999, a number of molecular works have shown that T. chalcogramma could be deeply nested in a clade that ... [details]
Apparently name is not available, described after 1930 without designation of a type species. Can date to treatment ... [details]
Name suppressed and placed on Official Index in Opinion 1787. See also Thomson 1997:544 [details]
Regarded as misspelled, emended to Ruppellia and therefore preoccupied by Ruppellia Swainson 1839 in Gobiidae; not ... [details]


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Uzumaki Naruto Quotes:
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki! What I like is ramen, especially the kind at the Ichiraku Ramen shop. What I dislike is the three minute wait after you pour in the boiling water. My hobbies are eating ramen. And my dream... is to be the next Hokage!"
"If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead, have the courage to change it to what you want it to be!"
"Home is where someone is always thinking of you."
"Nothing wrong with crying when you're happy."
"Once you question your own belief, it's over."
"I'm not gonna run away, I never go back on my word!"
"Hard work is worthless for those that don't believe in themselves."
"While you're alive, you need a reason for your existence. Being unable to find one is the same as being dead."
"Real strength is not what you have when fighting for only yourself. When you have something special that you want to protect, only then can you become truly strong!"
"Someone once asked me what a ninja was. My sensei told me that a ninja is one that endures."
Sakura Haruno Quotes
"My name is Haruno Sakura. What I like is [Sasuke], or more like the person I like is [Sasuke], and my dream for the future is [Sasuke]. What I hate is NARUTO!"
"Didn't you know? Women have to be tough to survive."
"Hehe... so predictable. My choice is the daffodil... It's a persistent flower that shows its beautiful face even in the blaze of the winter... patiently waiting for a reprieve without bowing to the monstrous savagery."
"It's not scary to die... for the people who are precious to you!"
"The things that are most important aren't written in books. You have to learn them by experiencing them yourself."
"Every one of us must do what's in their power! If we're going to die anyway, then it's better to die fighting than to do nothing!"
"A smile is the easiest way out of a difficult situation."
Uchiha Sasuke Quotes
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are plenty of things I dislike, considering there is almost nothing I do like. It is pointless to talk about dreams...That's just a word...But one thing I have is determination. I am going to restore my clan and there is a certain someone who I have sworn...to kill."
"No matter what darkness lies ahead, I will pursue that path. No matter what, I will obtain power!"
"I never want to see another important person die in front of me again."
"You are someone who knows the same pain of loneliness that I do. And.. That pain makes a person stronger."
"Tears and rain, fall down on my face, my body is unable to stay yet my heart is unwilling to leave."
Hatake Kakashi Quotes
"Oh...me? My name is Kakashi Hatake. What I like...I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future...hmm...never really thought about that...as for my hobbies...well, I have a lot of hobbies."
"In the Ninja World, those who break the rules are scum, that's true...but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum!"
"I'm telling you this because you don't get it, and you think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it?"
"Trust me, for those who follow the path of revenge, it never ends well. You'll only tear yourself apart and even if you succeed with your revenge, what would you have then... nothing, emptiness."
"I never let my comrades die."
"To abandon your duty is not courageous. Below the courageous, there is nothing. Those are the previous Hokage's words."
"You can not open the mind of another if you do not have an open mind yourselves."
Jiraiya Quotes:
"Jiraiya's here!"
"It's not only jutsus' and power. As Shinobi, we must be able to make sure we have proper judgment and make good decisions. If you want to live as a Shinobi, you must be wise. If you're a fool... then it will be a world full of pain. That's reality."
"Any man that doesn't learn to laugh at rejection is worthless as a man."
"Protection is important, but some things a person must learn on their own."
"A person who feels nothing at the death of those close to him is no different than a butcher."
"Pain allows people to grow... and how you grow is up to you."
"The true measure of a shinobi is not how he lives, but how he dies."
"Now my job is to help the next generation, and set a good example for them. And for that I'll gladly lay down my life, and I'll be smiling the whole time. It's what makes us old guys cool, you see."
Orochimaru Quotes:
"The title of Hokage is a piece of crap. Only an idiot becomes one"
"The body ages, but the mind is immortal."
"It's human nature that people won't realize the true value of something unless they lose it"
"Either people change or they die before they do. It's one or the other."
"Hate only gives birth to even more hate."
"The best cure is always the hardest one to find.. Right?"
Uchiha Itachi Quotes:
" The village does have its dark side and its inconsistencies, but I'm still Itachi Uchiha of the Leaf."
"It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know."
"It is not wise to judge others based on your own preconceptions and by their appearances."
"Your comrades are there to make up for what you cannot do and to prevent you from ignoring things that you actually might have been able to do."
"The ones who aren't able to acknowledge their own selves are bound to fail."
"People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define "reality". But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts... Their "reality" may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?"
"How can we evolve when regulation is the only thing we've ever known?"
Hyuuga Neji Quotes:
"The strongest opponent I ever met said this to me: "Unlike me, you're not a failure." I have always been called a genius; and I cannot lose, for the sake of those who believe I am a genius!"
"I cannot lose. Even if my enemy is far stronger. Even if my body should fail me. I cannot lose. There is a reason. I cannot lose!"
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
"No one can determine another's destiny."
"The only destiny that every person shares.. is death."
"The heavens will not allow a pawn who can only seek victory at the cost of himself to advance..."
" I can't be sure if a person's destiny is like a cloud floating on a fixed current that it can't escape.. Or if people are able to ride on whatever breeze they choose. I don't know. I don't completely understand it yet. And maybe the destination is the same, no matter what you choose. Just when you choose one course, along comes someone who's picked a different path, one that's devoted to living life to its fullest. There's real strength to be found in that love of life, I finally understand that because of this latest battle. Now father, I have only one goal: To become stronger so I won't lose to anyone again."
Hyuuga Hinata Quotes:
"I have to do my best! In front of the person I admire most, who's finally seeing the real me!"
"I will never go back on my word, because that too is my ninja way!"
"Because you fail, you have the strength to get back up… that's what I believe true strength is!"
Rock Lee Quotes
"I am the valliant green beast of the Hidden Leaf Village!"
"Please be my girlfriend! I vow to protect you with my life!"
"A dropout will beat a genius through hard work!"
"If you believe in your dreams, I will prove to you, that you can achieve your dreams just by working hard."
"A genius, huh? What does that mean? "Genius"? So I was not born with a whole lot of natural talent, not gifted like Neji ...but I work hard and I never give up! That is my gift, that is my ninja way!"
Might Dai Quotes:
"If you know your weaknesses, your strengths will shine."
"Victory is not becoming the strongest, but is being able to protect what is most important to you."
Yashamaru Quotes:
"Only one thing can heal the heart, and that's love."
"A wound of a heart is different from a flesh wound. Unlike a flesh wound, there are no ointments to heal it, and there are times when they never heal."


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PTR Signs Two Corporate Members
Hilton Head Island, SC — Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) announced that BoomerTennis.net and Solar Bat Leverage have signed on as Corporate Members.
BoomerTennis.Net, the ultimate online tennis club, combines robust social networking opportunities with significant consumer discounts and expert, age relevant information to form the premier site for active, adult tennis players of all skill levels. "Everything about the site appeals to me," Hall of Fame player, Stan Smith, said after joining Tony Trabert and Cliff Drysdale on BTN's advisory board. "Travel, fitness, nutrition, medical advice, instruction. Each is important to the Baby Boomer tennis player." Check it out at boomertennis.net
Solar Bat Leverage is the most advanced tennis sunglass lens ever developed. With its patent pending gradient green tint, the tennis ball and lines are illuminated, while blocking out damaging and often blinding rays of the sun. Solar Bat Leverage presents advanced technology with superior visual enhancements of a player's most important tertiary targets, the ball and lines.
The Leverage Series has hydrophobic coating on all tennis lenses that resist moisture, including distracting perspiration. Leverage Series offers lightweight frames with temperature controlled nose pads and temple boots that grip better as body temperature increases. Visit www.solarbatleverage.com
PTR is the largest global organization of tennis teaching professionals with more than14,000 members in 121 countries. It has the greatest percentage of multicultural and women members of any such organization. PTR is dedicated to educating, certifying and servicing tennis teachers and coaches around the world in order to grow the game.
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***/**** Image A- Sound A Extras B
starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench
screenplay by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, based on the novel by Ian Fleming
directed by Martin Campbell
by Walter Chaw A genuinely good updating of the James Bond mythos from plastic, moldering relic to bloody, sweaty sociopath drunk on his own virility and general misanthropy, Martin Campbell's Casino Royale--though the umpteenth chapter in a decades-old testosterone fever dream--is very much a part of this day and age. It's a film that makes sense of the franchise using a modern vernacular of vengeance, terrorism, Texas Hold 'Em, and paranoia. It's unnecessarily padded by at least fifteen minutes, but when it switches into gear it announces itself a worthy peer to the Jason Bourne films with action that's fantastically choreographed and alive with weight and violence. Most importantly, it finally has a protagonist who is, if not already, well on his way to becoming a serious psycho--post-modern man. What Daniel Craig brings to the role is a feral intelligence, this self-awareness that he's a bad person. Any good that he does is tainted by the knowledge that this Bond's only in it for the cheap thrills (drugs and murder, in particular) that lube his insect brain. Casino Royale summarizes the trend of detached, savage pictures from the last couple of years (Miami Vice, in particular, another bleak updating of a camp curio); when we talk about good action films now, we seem to be talking about the degree to which we have, as a culture, regressed to the Old Testament in matters of the heart and the hand. Call it "caveman vérité."
Bond has just been "00" certified, which, as you probably know, means that he has a "license to kill"--indiscriminately, it appears, as his superior M (Judi Dench) notes that he's already amassed a sizeable body count ten minutes into the picture. The brutal black-and-white prologue presages a nasty distillation of On Her Majesty's Secret Service into one difficult scene set in Venice that is the rare Bond set-piece to fully utilize the peculiarities of its locale. "The bitch is dead," says Craig at one point, and it lands like a hammer-blow in the middle of the urbane bullshit of the bulk of its twenty predecessors. Obvious in context, it's pretty easy to make the leap that Casino Royale is pissing on (the rest of) the franchise. Blood-weeping archvillain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) observes that Bond has changed his shirt at one point; at another, someone has to defibrillate our previously-indestructible superhero. (His first words upon resurrection: "Are you okay?") All of it marks the picture as unusually smart about the shortcomings of its origins and dedicated to creating a work that will mean something to a contemporary audience. I imagine the ultimate effect of it to be that of a new Star Wars film directed by someone with a working frontal lobe--that is, the bar has actually been raised for maybe the first time in thirty years.
Casino Royale is fantasy in a world that's earned its darkness, a mature film that doesn't demand to be taken seriously but doesn't expect you to believe that the world is the same as it was when Sean Connery leered at Ursula Andress walking out of the surf like Venus on the half shell. In fact, when that scene is replicated in Casino Royale, it's Craig who's in the swimsuit, wearing a challenging look on his face that essentially invites the kind of torture he receives in the last half of the film, strapped to a chair with only his braggadocio and mental instability as armour. It's not about the misuse of women now, it's about being incapable of any kind of relationship that doesn't involve some degree of treachery and blood-letting. This Bond expresses an awareness that he's a murder or two away from losing his soul completely and then proceeds to kill an entire building of antagonists with his bare hands. It's nihilistic in the way that Scorsese's The Departed is nihilistic: Both films are so hopeless that they destroy every signpost on their way back into the social breach that spit them out. It's the end product of our machineries of despair; that we see it as a renaissance speaks a little to the straits in which we find ourselves.
by Bill Chambers Sony presents Casino Royale on DVD in competing 2-Disc widescreen and fullscreen editions; we received the former for review. Perhaps a smidge overmatted at 2.44:1, the 16x9-enhanced video transfer is nevertheless a technical marvel, boasting lush colour, deep contrast, and fine detail. I've heard that whites look blown-out on the Blu-ray alternative, which might in fact be a small price to pay for the higher definition (I freely admit that Eva Green's hair at times looks solid and untextured), but let it be said that no such clipping plagues the SD release. The accompanying DD 5.1 audio is a predictable blitzkrieg of discrete effects; it's a soundtrack sure to impress but also one with a slightly-undercooked centre channel and slightly overcooked surround channels. Rounding out the first platter are startup trailers for Spider-Man 3, The Pursuit of Happyness, and The Holiday, all in anamorphic widescreen and 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Disc 2 houses three moderately interesting mini-docs as well as the dorky video for Chris Cornell's Bond anthem "You Know My Name," which sounds a little more guitar-driven here than it does in the film. Rob Done's/Special Treats' complementary featurettes "Becoming Bond" (26 mins.) and "James Bond: For Real" (23 mins.) emphasize Casino Royale's back-to-basics approach, with the former focusing on Daniel Craig's casting and the latter on the pyrotechnics, particularly the fancy footwork of "freerunner" Sebastien Foucan. If the dry, British sensibility of these pieces makes them seem a little more probing than they actually are, at least the participants are forthcoming (Barbara Broccoli touches on the lawsuit with eventual Casino Royale distributor Sony Pictures that had threatened the Bond franchise, though she remains mum on Quentin Tarantino's inciting interest in the project) and the anecdotes range from enlightening (Craig received vicious hate mail from Bond fanatics) to amusing (producer Michael Wilson loved screwing the screenwriters at the poker table). We also learn that a stunt made the Guinness Book of World Records--can you guess which one?
The disc's centrepiece is Maryam d'Abo and John Watkin 's 2002 "Bond Girls Are Forever"; updated to include junket interviews with Eva Green, this 3-part, 49-minute special is d'Abo's attempt to answer the existential question "What does it mean to be a Bond girl?" by visiting with other actresses who share the distinction of having portrayed the love interest (or the villainness) in a James Bond movie. Though she's as unsuccessful as the franchise itself has been in reconciling the burden that feminism places on these pictures, her homey conversations with Maud Adams (The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy), Lois Chiles (Moonraker), Carey Lowell (Licence to Kill), and still others (the less said about Halle Berry, the better) are unexpectedly melancholy, especially as it dawns on d'Abo that, as a refugee of the thoroughly chaste The Living Daylights, she was one of the least-objectified Bond girls. And let's face it, the whole thing holds a ghoulish fascination for its promise to show the effects of the aging process on once-spectacular beauties who in most cases have not had the spotlight shone on them in years. A provocative feature all-around. Trailers for Premonition, Spider-Man 3, Rocky Balboa, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Holiday, and the upcoming DVD-exclusive Spider-Man 2.1 finish out the package. Originally published: March 12, 2007.


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Yoga is a holistic exercise that 36.7 million Americans practiced in 2016. It not only strengthens and tones the body, but fosters mental and spiritual awareness and centeredness.
Daily yoga sessions with your infant will help them sleep better, increase brain, digestive, and nervous system development, stimulate awareness and use of their core, and strengthen their bond with you through synesthesia.
As your child grows, yoga for infants can continue to help by: increasing the control baby has over their body, build their strength, and help develop motor skills.
The Early Stages
After being curled up in the womb for 3/4 of a year, gentle stretches will help infants navigate the space around them, while discovering their own body-movement connection.
A great time to help baby be aware of their body is when they wake up in the morning, after you have changed them.
Lie baby on her back and gently extend her arms over her head while at the same time stretching her legs straight. After holding for a second or two gently release the baby yoga pose and allow her to move her arms and legs on her own.
Another great stretch while she's on her back is to softly bend her knees by pressing lightly on the bottoms of her feet and guiding her knees towards her chest. Hold for a moment or two, and then release. This infant yoga pose can also be done one leg at a time, waiting a second or two before switching legs to help baby become fully aware of which leg is moving.
Older Babies
As your child develops physically and is able to roll over and hold up her head (generally around 5 months) you can begin to introduce the Bridge posture. Laying on her back, gently bend her knees in (with her feet on floor), then gently guide the hips up to create a straight "bridge" extending from the shoulders to hips.
Once your baby starts to crawl, she may be ready to try Downward-Facing Dog. Place her gently on her tummy and gently try to get her to get on all fours. Do it yourself beside her so she is encouraged to copy your movements. Show her how to lift the buttocks up while pressing down on hands and feet. Give her lots of encouragement while she tries to mimic your posture.
Keep It Fun And Easy
With gentle guidance, your child will also experiment with postures that are natural for her body. Never force your child into a stretch she is uncomfortable with, and above all, be patient and loving as she explores the wonderful miracle that is her body.
Keep baby flexible and comfy in these adorable animal-print yoga pants, made with 100% organic, Egyptian cotton.
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The HairStyles Kids For Fashion
The Hair Styles Kids For Fashion
If there's one thing that stands out in editorials and parades is the good-looking "Black Power" hair, super feature and reliable. It's not precisely a trend, but a standard stylish hair. What we are about to address here, in reality, is not only the fresh look, but how to take care and not let the likely beauty of this hair to get lost in a world where the "straight hair" is dictated as the most well-liked.
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If your little solitary has a thin or fantastic wiry hair, you're going to enjoy the super precious tips that we've selected here to take care of this amazing hair, which is great fragile and dry, even if it doesn't look like it is.The hairdresser and drift dictator in the fashion world, Ricardo Rodriguez, chains the "Black Power" style. He is a expert in all types of hair and gave us fabulous restricted tips for both girls and for moms!
1 – No curly or wiry hair can be brushed when it is waterless.
2 – Only use moisturizing shampoo.
3 – Soften a little water in moisturizing shampoo in array not to harm the hair of your kid.
4 – Want to dry obviously? Use moisturizers and no rinsing.
5 – Dryer; forever use the diffuser. It protects, maintains the unique shape of the hair, and reduce the frizz.
Keeping our kids with its spirit, without letting what's real to get lost, we've selected some profiles of our FK's that motivate us daily with style and without losing its creativity.


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Loneliness in old age, the unspoken killer
Did you know that loneliness accounts for 15% of early deaths among the elderly, more than obesity, lack of exercise or smoking 15 cigarettes per day?
There are two key types of loneliness, social loneliness; the fact that they want more social interaction than they currently have, or emotional loneliness, they miss one special person, usually a spouse, child, or best friend. For some people, loneliness is constant, for others it is often at weekends or over holiday periods. It is shocking to read that over one million people can go a whole month without speaking to anyone, and that over half the 'over 75's' say that the television is their main source of company.
Due to our increasingly ageing population, and with local budgets for the elderly being under threat of cut or closure, this figure is set to rise. With loneliness significantly contributing to increased cases of mental health, and depression, the government is encouraging us to get involved in looking after the more vulnerable in our community through 'Befriending' schemes, and involvement in the 24 hour Silver Service telephone line. We can also learn from other cultures, particularly Asian, where it is not uncommon for three generations to live together under one roof, they are horrified at our apparent lack of care and respect for our elders.
For some, loneliness is constant, with one million people going a whole month without speaking to anyone
Even if family or friends are close by, the pace at which we lead our lives, means we have little time for others, so even when we do help, we make the elderly feel a burden on our precious time. I overheard an elderly lady say recently, that whilst she was grateful that her daughter took her out regularly, she never completed her shopping as her daughter was always on a tight time schedule. The daughter, had a job, children and a home to run, so she wasn't able to give the time her mother really needed. Another elderly person waited over six months till someone could take her out to buy new wellington boots. It's simple things that are needed, like changing a light bulb, or resetting the clocks once the clocks have gone forward or back.
So often, family or friends get the essential jobs done, but don't have time for a chat over a cuppa. We must remember that the elderly were young once, and many have led exciting lives often abroad or have compelling stories of their time in the military; we should encourage them to reminisce.
Companionship is fundamental, like food and water, without which we simply cannot live.
Further Reading
The NHS have some useful information on loneliness in the Elderly, click here for more information.
The BBC have published an article on beating the curse of old age, again, just click on the link to read the article.


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Henson Trust FAQ
Parents of people with disabilities have been successfully implementing Henson Trusts since 1989. Thousands of people are benefitting from this form of trust and continue to receive ODSP benefits.
What is the Henson Trust or Absolute Discretionary Trust?
In simple terms, a Trust is an arrangement where one person holds and manages assets for another person. With the Henson Trust, the person (Trustee) who holds and manages the assts has the sole, unfettered discretion in making spending decisions.
How will the Henson Trust help preserve ODSP benefits for my son/daughter?
The funds do not vest in the person with the disability and as a result of this, and a variety of other clauses of the Henson Trust, it is not considered to be a liquid asset under the ODSP regulations. Therefore, it will not affect the entitlement to ODSP benefits.
Who can be the Trustee of the Henson Trust?
Parents will have the responsibility of designating trustees for the Henson Trust in their original trust document i.e. their will; it will be their responsibility to ensure they choose trustees who are familiar with the needs of their son/daughter and will make good decisions about when and how much money to spend from the Trust.
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If you wish to learn more about Power of Attorney and Living wills, visit the Attorney General's website.
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The TSA's FAST Personality Screening Program Violates the Fourth Amendment
New law journal article: "A Slow March Towards Thought Crime: How the Department of Homeland Security's FAST Program Violates the Fourth Amendment," by Christopher A. Rogers. From the abstract:
FAST is currently designed for deployment at airports, where heightened security threats justify warrantless searches under the administrative search exception to the Fourth Amendment. FAST scans, however, exceed the scope of the administrative search exception. Under this exception, the courts would employ a balancing test, weighing the governmental need for the search versus the invasion of personal privacy of the search, to determine whether FAST scans violate the Fourth Amendment. Although the government has an acute interest in protecting the nation's air transportation system against terrorism, FAST is not narrowly tailored to that interest because it cannot detect the presence or absence of weapons but instead detects merely a person's frame of mind. Further, the system is capable of detecting an enormous amount of the scannee's highly sensitive personal medical information, ranging from detection of arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease, to asthma and respiratory failures, physiological abnormalities, psychiatric conditions, or even a woman's stage in her ovulation cycle. This personal information warrants heightened protection under the Fourth Amendment. Rather than target all persons who fly on commercial airplanes, the Department of Homeland Security should limit the use of FAST to where it has credible intelligence that a terrorist act may occur and should place those people scanned on prior notice that they will be scanned using FAST.


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Gaiam Print Yoga Mat Review
I think these Gaiam Yoga mats are by far some of the most attractive mats out there. I have two of them with different designs and they remain among my favorites.
Although I had seen others with these mats before I purchased my own, it took a situation where I was without a mat and needing to teach a class before I bought one. Other than dealing with the typical new mat smell after I unrolled it for the first time, I found the mat to be perfectly fine for my knees and hands in most poses.
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Why would you want a Gaiam Print Yoga Mat?
- You want a non-rubber mat due to latex sensitivity.
- You want an attractive mat to brighten your yoga workout.
- You want a mat that is value priced.
- You forgot your mat and need to get one so you can teach your class.
Gaiam mats offer several design and color options
These mats always catch my eye when I see them in a class. People have commented about my own two Gaiam mats more than any other mats I have owned.
They have over 20 different designs and many different colors, so your mat can stand out from the crowd. That can make if very helpful if you forget your mat somewhere as it will be easy to identify instead of just another blue mat.
Pros about owning a Gaiam Print Yoga Mat
These mats are latex free, which is a consideration for those with latex allergies. They are also free of several other things like Phthalates, DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIDP, and DNOP. I don't know what that stuff is, but I certainly don't want it in my yoga mat.
These mats are durable and my own have lasted many years. They are light weight and best of all they are relatively inexpensive. For under $30 you are getting a quality mat.
Cons about owning a Gaiam Print Yoga Mat
Okay, so it is not all perfect. With just 3mm of thickness there is not that much cushion. If you need more thickness, you can get around this by doubling the mat under your knees or using it as an attractive topper to another mat.
I have used one mat on top of another and have seen many other people do this as well, but I must admit that carrying a second mat around kind of defeats the whole 'light weight' benefit to these mats.
This is a basic mat that over-achieves in price and attractiveness. For someone looking to buy their first yoga mat, this mat has all you need. You will get a lot of color choices and you won't have to spend a lot of money. That is an all around winner in my book.
Where to Buy:
You may be able to find this mat at some local retail and big box stores. To get the full selection of colors and designs shop online. I find Amazon's prices and selection to be good and you can also find it at other online yoga retailers.
Would you like to have a yoga mat that meets your individual needs? The modern world of yoga mats is filled with a multitude of choices. This review will quickly and easily guide you through the important differences...
Are you looking for a yoga mat thick enough to protect your knees but steady underfoot? Are you interested in a lightweight mat that won't crush you when you carry it. All this and more is found in the Hugger Mugger Earth Elements. Read all about it...
The current abundance of yoga mats is a relatively new phenomena. Learn a little about yoga mat history and my personal journey with the long ago 'matless era' of yoga...


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Watching the take-over of our country by the politicians currently in power is a bit like watching someone you've known and respected all your life suddenly become stinking drunk, unrecognizable and out of control.tchi You might watch in disbelief. You might leave the room. Both are choices. There's a litany of words written daily to describe the madman, now becoming all too familiar. They do not inspire confidence: inexperienced, bombastic, moron, #@%*#@g moron, impulsive, narcissist, bully, undignified. And so it goes, month following month, week following week, day following day. At the moment I've mostly chosen to look away, or have left the room. It's just too painful and causes too much distress.
A few days ago, I thought my husband had a peculiar look on his face. When I inquired what was the matter, his voice was flat as he related the awful news of the Las Vegas massacre. I felt frozen in place.
Early on in our new dangerous political game, I found myself slightly amused by #45. He just seemed like a bad joke, who would soon be forgotten. Now, he's toxic. Nothing remotely funny here.
Trump's in person response to hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico? Toss them a roll of paper towels. How to deal with this disgusting behavior NOW as a responsible citizen? The mid terms feel decades away right now.
I was numb when I learned of the recent massacre in Las Vegas. I've been beaten down by the daily outrages. Numbness is not a helpful response to a friggin' massacre. It's come because I know too well we probably haven't reached the ultimate low point that might cause enough outrage to get significant gun control legislation passed. It's come because I no longer recognize what tries to pass for leadership in my country of birth. What's happened to our country? Are we past the point of no return? Is the only answer at the moment to give the stage to the lunatics and hope at some point they'll wear themselves out? Can they ever recognize that their votes and support for Trump et al have raised a threatening tide for everyone?
I cringe when I read about our president lying with impunity, annointing himself daily with the gold dust he requires to polish his egomania.
I've started to live in fear that we might be on the edge of a nuclear war with Korea.
Our environment, so dependent on humanity to set it right, is at the tipping point.
Whales are dying. Just read that two days ago.
North Korea is flying rockets over Japan, my much-loved second home.
China is filling in the blanks at the openings our loss of leadership has provided.
I don't want to listen to the smug talking heads on cable news assess the crisis du jour, although, when I do tune in, I foolishly hope that I might learn something from one of them. Hasn't happened yet.
It might be time to stick my head in the sand, cover my ears and scream loudly to block out the all-pervasive irritants. It might be time to make more art. It might be time to plant a garden, read a book, or write a more positive blog.
Forgive me, if I've brought you down.
I remind myself that I've lived through challenging times at other points in my life, but previous experience did not prepare me for today's threatening reality. I am capable of focusing on the good and the hopeful. I can breathe deeply. The man is just too dangerous to try to ignore, I'm afraid.
"This too shall pass," I tell myself a little too often.
May it pass quickly! and peacefully. May I learn some new coping skills.


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Tips for Marketing Your Bar and/or Restaurant With Twitter
Tweet Regularly
Try to tweet several times a day. You may want to follow a schedule related to points in the day where you want to drive people to your establishment. For example, tweet a lunch special around 11 a.m. when people are thinking about where to eat during the week. On Friday afternoon, tweet about an amazing new cocktail your bartender just created. On Saturday tweet about one of your dinner specials at 5 or 6:00 when people might be trying to decide where to go for dinner.
Twitter is Timely
Twitter is all about "real time", uses that to your advantage. Have too much of a particular dish on hand, tweet about a special that is 1/2 off for the next two hours. Is it a slow night at the bar? Tweet a "buy-one-get-one-free" drink deal for the next 10 customers who come in in the next 2 hours.
Make it Special
Reward your followers with specials just for them…. A special word they can give the bartender or server for a free drink or appetizer. Make sure to track how many customers use the code words, and you'll get insight into how well your Twitter efforts are paying off.
Be Funny and Personable
People want to see what kind of environment there is at your establishment. Who can say that better then great management! Make sure you are funny and personable in your tweets and what is going on in your bar / restaurant.
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Wine: Peterson, Zinfandel, "Tradizionale" 2002
Added on: 06/20/2007
Notes: This Zin from one of my favorite Dry Creek wineries is a traditional "field blend" where other varletials are intermixed in the vineyard and fermented together. This practice dates from the 19th Century where Italian immigrants practiced techniques similar to their homeland. Over 90% of this blend is Zinfandel with Petite Sirah, Alicante Bouschet, Carignane, Semillon, Palomino and Chasselas mixed in. The last three varieties are whites which is used to add aromatics and help extract color during fermentation from the red grapes. The Peterson's like to season their reds with a fair amount of American oak but this wine seemed to have a lighter hand in this area; perhaps it's also the age of the wine where the oak component is nicely integrated.
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Deep ruby in color with aromas of black raspberry, sage, vanilla and licorice. Well balanced bramble fruit with black pepper and spice finishing with moderate tannins. Very nice, old school Zin and a good value.
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China's financial system has recently begun to expand rapidly as monetary policy becomes integral to its overall economic policy. As a result, banks are becoming more important to China's economy by providing increasingly more finance to enterprises for investment, seeking deposits from the public to mop up excess liquidity, and lending money to the government.
As part of US$586 billion economic stimulus package of November 2008, the government is planning to remove loan quotas and ceilings for all lenders, and increase bank credit for priority projects, including rural areas, small businesses, technology companies, iron and cement companies.
NPS is a customer loyalty metric that measures customers' willingness to not only return for another purchase or service but also make a recommendation to their family, friends or colleagues.
It is a powerful and effective technique, which can greatly increase a company's revenue if used properly.
The main advantages of NPS are close correlation with a company's growth and easy collection, interpretation and communication of the data.
Net Promoter Score is a number from -100 from 100.
Scores higher than 0 are typically considered to be good and scores above 50 are considered to be excellent.
The industry average for Finance / Diversified Financial Services is 0.
The final Net Promoter Score of a company strongly depends on a context in which the satisfaction is measured.
Consider an example: If China Lending Corporation sends out NPS surveys immediately after purchase, they are tracking their customers' initial excitement and the checkout experience.
On the other hand, if they survey their customers a few weeks after the purchase they are also tracking how satisfied their customers are with their products and services over time.
Therefore, comparing the NPS score of China Lending Corporation with your own without any further context is not that useful.
What is extremely useful though, is using the NPS methodology to track the satisfaction of your customers over time. That's where Customer.guru comes in.
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