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ALEXANDRIA, VA – The National Beer Wholesalers Association's (NBWA) 75th Annual Convention will be taking place October 14-17 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego in San Diego, California, where it's always 75 and sunny! The General Session will feature an outstanding lineup of speakers including keynote speeches by General Stanley McChrystal, former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan, and leading pollster and public policy expert Peter Hart.
Called "one of America's greatest warriors" by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, General McChrystal is widely praised for creating a revolution in warfare that fused intelligence and operations. He is also known for developing and implementing the counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan and for creating a comprehensive counter-terrorism organization that revolutionized the way military agencies interact and operate. The four-star general is the former commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan and the former leader of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees the military's most sensitive forces. His leadership of JSOC is credited with the 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein and the 2006 location and killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. General McChrystal, who is known for his candor and innovative leadership, will share stories from his exciting career and provide insights on leadership, teamwork and strategic thinking.
Peter Hart is regarded as one of the top analysts of public opinion in the United States and a leading shaper of national trends and political messages. His work with Peter D. Hart Research Associates has been key in determining the future for some of the most influential corporations and politicians in the country, with clients such as IBM, Coca-Cola, Tiffany & Co. and more than 40 U.S. senators and 30 governors. He has been a pollster for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal since 1989 and appears frequently on Meet the Press, The Today Show and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Just a few weeks before the 2012 elections, he will provide Convention attendees with his unique perspective on what to expect on Election Day.
"This year's Convention celebrates the start of NBWA's 75th year as an association, and it will be a milestone event that industry members won't want to miss," said NBWA President & CEO Craig Purser. "While we celebrate our history as an association, we also look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead for this great industry. NBWA is excited to offer a dynamic program with insightful speakers, 21 education seminars taught by the industry's leading experts and a Product Demonstration Showcase filled with more than 120 vendors featuring innovative products and services for beer distributors."
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department is making another multimillion-dollar investment in high-energy lasers that have the potential to destroy enemy drones and mortars, disrupt communication systems and provide military forces with other portable, less costly options on the battlefield.
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The River and My Dad
It's been five months since I posted last. Five months... when I last wrote I was worried but hopeful. Counting down those months on one hand I'm amazed at how little time we had left with my Dad.
Remember when I last said the prognosis was good? That changed. It was in August that we were told that the cancer had spread too far and had been caught too late. I remember Dad asking the oncologist, "can you give me ten more years?" and his very quiet reply that he could not.
A few days before we got the news that the cancer was inoperable I had an accident on a river. Our late spring led to flooded streams and rushing water. Perhaps not the best of times to take one's first inner tubing trip. Due to a breakdown in communication the company we rented the tubes from sent us on the adventurous run instead of the gentle run. We expected a pleasant day floating lazily down the river and got a white water experience sans lifejackets. And really, I should have known better than to be on the water without a floatation device. I grew up around boats and sailed enough with Dad to know the dangers of water.
As chance would have it, I was on the wrong side of the river when we got to the pull out area and the current would not allow me to get to safety. I gave up my tube and tried to swim for it but it was no use and I was swept away through narrow and rocky rapids and disappeared for some time under the white water.
Three miraculous things happened. In the middle of chaos I came back in contact with my inner tube and was able to use it as a life buoy to keep me off the worst of the rocks. I was then thrown into a tiny cave where I was able to breathe for a little bit. Once the force of the water pushed me back out of the cave, I washed up on a rock and held onto it with my fingernails until my Dad, who had just showed up to give us a lift back, rushed to the shore and grabbed my hand and held it fast and made sure I didn't go tumbling onto further danger downstream.
My Dad still felt fairly well then... it was a handful of days before the oncologist would tell him he couldn't give him time... and a handful of months before the night I would stay up until the dawn light keeping him as comfortable as possible at home in a bed by the Christmas tree. My Dad passed away on Christmas Eve... my hero, my Christmas angel.
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Retired advertising exec Richard "Dick" Tarlow and his wife, Kristin Kehrberg, just bought a $16.5 million apartment at 1050 Fifth Ave., at 86th Street.
The three-bedroom, 4½-bathroom apartment was on the market for 35 days, according to StreetEasy, and sold at its asking price.
The co-op has an 80-foot stretch overlooking Central Park, and views from every room. "This apartment has everything," the old listing notes.
That includes two terraces, "multiple seating" areas for entertaining, an open chef's kitchen and a laundry room that can double as a catering kitchen.
The master suite features a private terrace, two sets of baths and closet space.
White-glove building amenities include a doorman, elevator attendant, garage, gym and bike room.
The listing brokers were Leslie J.W. Singer and John Venekamp of Brown Harris Stevens, while the buyers were represented by Douglas Elliman's Anne Easton.


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What kinds of Japanese foods are there?
Noodles, steamed dishes, kaiseki, rice, wagashi, sak and shochu (wine)
Different Kinds of Japanese Trees?
Japanese trees are among the most visually appealing garden specimens. Some are evergreen, some develop juicy fruit and some offer brilliant color displays. Japanese trees come in various shapes, f...
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What is your top 3 favorite kinds of foods besides American?
I agree! Mexican, Chinese & Italian!
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While corn syrup is used in some foods as a thickener, sweetener and humectant, is is its high fructose relative that is most prevalent on ingredient lists. High fructose corn syrup is an inexpensi...
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March 12th, 2011, 7:31 pm
Restarting Chapter
Ok guys,it's been a year since we didn't update. I've been trying to get everyone back in the mood for updating but nothing works. Since Coco has been totally inactive over the year,and Strife,....well,I dunno about him. So,I take self charge over the comic. We'll be restarting the chapter,I already got a new and interesting plot which i'll reveal later. I really don't wanna see my friend Coco's comic die any longer. AH is coming back.
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If some pistola or hand cannon catches your eye you may be able to find it in this unique database. I was looking for the hand cannon used by the Italian mobster in John Wick 2. It is the Arwen 37 Gas Powered Grenade Launcher. Nifty.
|Amazing, posted on March 6, 2017 at 11:31:29
Thanks, this is a terrific reference with an apparently very active community.
Of course many scifi and video game sources simply fabricate their armaments. However, what is surprising is that many such weapons are actual weapons, either current or historical.
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I used it quite a few times before.
One I would like to find is the movie watch ID. There were some nice looking watches that I did not recognize in some films. One that comes to mind is from the Spanish film Cannibal.


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The mountains eat the rays of dawn
as the sun rises along the crashing sea
Clouds bare with disbelief,
their storm subsided in despair.
Depraved calm, the breeze whistles low
like hauntings of dusk past.
Not a bird flies over this ocean
and its skies shall remain as such.
The mountains have consumed the morning
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Fabulous 3 Bedroom Ranch in the desirable Evergreen Meadows neighborhood. This property features a large backyard composite deck, subtle landscaping and an attached 2-car garage – all within a couple miles of the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail and Parchment businesses. The builder, Bob Keller, took great care in his work which you will notice immediately upon visiting this home. Top-quality laminate flooring can be found in the kitchen and dining rooms, with elegant vaulted ceilings in the kitchen, dining and living rooms. Kitchen highlights include the pantry and snack bar – as well as the included appliances! All three bedrooms are good sized, and the Master Suite includes a double closet and its own private bath. Main Floor Laundry. Down the wide staircase you will find the unfinished basement with 2 egress windows, loft ceilings, and 2 bedrooms framed in with a third bathroom already studded in and plumbed.


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Major: Communications (Mass Comm. & Journalism Emphasis) & Spanish
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
What are your career goals?
I'd like to start in the news reporting field preferably in television then, move towards entertainment and hosting and finally I'd like to have my own show.
Why did you choose UMKC?
I chose UMKC because of the resources that are near campus and allow for advancement in the entertainment, broadcasting and reporting fields.
What are you involved with on campus?
Campus Ambassador, Debate, Volunteering at various events, Alumni Fund Call Center
What's your favorite thing about UMKC?
What's your favorite thing about KC?
First Fridays!
May you share a fun fact with us?
I've lived in 7 states and 2 countries.
What is your ultimate comfort meal or food?
Fried Chicken/Buffalo Wings & Fries/Potatoes
So you've been doing this college thing for a while now. Any advice for students?
Take the time to actually get involved in the things going on campus.


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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Flashback to the late 1980's
I mentioned in a previous post--that I couldn't find my old photo albums... Well, guess what?! I found 'em!! Here's a little gander down memory lane: a picture of a designer and I standing on a porch of the Cecil B. DeMille Estate in Los Feliz, CA. (Sorry for the blurry face, I'm out of touch with the designer and thus didn't get his permission to post his picture...) Anyway, we painted the murals here for a design home event... The event showcased a different designer in different areas of the home. What I wouldn't give to be that skinny again. (: I still have those pants. Note the paintbrush slipping out of a hole in front pocket.
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You are SO cute, I do love the paintbrush! And, you look like you're about 12 years old! This photo put a big smile on my face.ReplyDelete
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I can't believe you still have those pants! After all the moves you've been through.ReplyDelete
Joan: Who can remember back that far?! I do remember the heavy security on the property, the limited parking and I remember wanting to see more of the grand old estate and not being allowed to explore!! Pat: Yes, they were my favorite pair for years.ReplyDelete
The murals look amazing, Diane.ReplyDelete
You look like a little kid!!! So cute!!ReplyDelete
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My baby sister, my only sister, got married in the second week of March 2013.
She is now a Jarvis and not a Peterson.
Her husband is a great fit for our Family.
I approve.
She looked gorgeous on her wedding day.
The bridesmaids helping her tighten her dress, over her tiny baby bump.
My little man looked as handsome as ever getting ready to carry the rings.
The girls in Black.
My two cousins, Cassidy and Charee, and Cher's bestie Chelsey.
The Wedding Party.
left to right, Chelsey, Courtney, Cassidy, Charee, me- the bride and groom, friend, friend,
Grooms brother, grooms brother in law.
My cute little family after the wedding.
Baby Brooklyn just turned 3 months in this picture.
Jackson age 4.
Having a DJ at a wedding is the way to go. it was awesome having live music to dance to.
This cabin is where Lee and I got married on May 14th 2005.
It felt magical to be back at the place where we said "I do."
It made me want to rewind time and do it all over again.
Night highlight number 1:
Dancing with my Dad.
Dad and Daughter Dance.
Watching my Dad dance with my Gram, his Mom, was one of the sweetest things I have been able to see.
I will treasure that memory all of my life.
Weddings have a way of bringing people together.
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YOLO of the Week 1Posted: March 23, 2012 Filed under: Lardner, YOLO of the Week | Tags: Basketball, Matt Lardner, Miami Hurricanes, Shenise Johnson Leave a comment
By Matt Lardner
By now, high school kids, Twitter, and high school kids on Twitter have ensured we all know that it isn't possible to live twice. The "word" YOLO sounds like mutated frozen yogurt, but it's mutated frozen yogurt that's taking a generation by storm. That's why I've decided, in the one life I'm allotted, to Scrawl ferociously. I'll be spouting off on a myriad of subjects, but effective now, I'm instituting a shared column in which we profile recklessness, ignorance, and a general disregard for caution. Scrawlers, welcome to YOLO of the Week.
I was going to claim that this piece on The U guard Shenise Johnson would catapult her into celebrity, but she already seems like quite a hit in the mainstream realm of women's college basketball. Shenise leads her team in points, rebounds, and assists, and projects as a lottery pick for the WNBA team with the most Nick Gilbert mojo. Coach Katie Meier even calls Shenise "the face of the program."
Unfortunately for the lady Hurricanes, Shenise Johnson is a descendant of the Scot Pollard Tree of Terrible Advice. In the February 20th edition of ESPN the Magazine (which I guess makes this the YOLO of a couple weeks ago), Shenise was asked, "What's the worst advice you've ever heard?"
It's important to note that Shenise is a member of the YOLO generation. Her name sounds like it was pulled straight from Petey Pablo's biggest hit (a song that I can't wait to use when I breed a daughter– it's like an auditory 21st-century baby name book). I hit the Twitter goldmine, where I verified the YOLO in Shenise within 10 days of recent tweets.
Also, The U doesn't exactly have the reputation of an upstanding school with academics at their forefront.The Nevin Shapiro incidents, where players were spoiled by boosters and making bank on an NFL level, soiled the program's name. The 7th Floor Crew dropped a track that traded the school's reputation for an in-depth look at Greg Olsen's ejaculatory tendencies. Googling "miami u scandal" yields close to 8 million results.
Now that the scene is set, we can move on to Shenise's answer. What does the face of a program trying to rebuild its academic reputation consider the WORST ADVICE she has EVER received?
You know what I admire about Shenise Johnson? That in the face of adversity (adversity being literally every study ever conducted), Shenise sticks to her guns: "Who says school will help you have a better job at the end of the day?" Only The United States Government, wire service Reuters, and Georgetown, a school that apparently took time off from brawling with the Chinese to conduct a study with the most obvious conclusion of all time (next up: is Jared Lorenzen a bit too large to play quarterback?).
Shenise Johnson's hatred of general statements must create problems on the court; imagine if one of the 16 fans shouts some passe encouragement, like "You can do it!" or "Defense!" Would Shenise turn the other cheek or would there be Malice in the BankUnited Center? Perhaps the reason why that advice is so general might just be because it makes sense.
Shenise is more than willing to believe in the Bible, yet dispels education as a myth. Ahh, yes. I was reading this super-prestigious science journal about making an entire new person out of someone's lung and walking atop water for yards at a time (do you think Jesus' watertop 40 time was wind-aided?), and then in my leisure time I read a fairy-tale about reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic.
Speaking of fairy-tales, 11 seed Gonzaga is the talk whisper of the NCAAW tournament, Cinderellas for knocking off 6th seeded Rutgers before defeating Johnson's 3rd seeded Lady 'Canes. I firmly believe that if Johnson wasn't so busy thinking about petty distractions such as academics, they would have been focused enough to win. She lamented having to work on a book review in February ("who still does book reviews in college as a senior? Geeesh…"). Yet somehow, Johnson has navigated through that useless minefield called learning, and is set to graduate in the spring. Rumored destinations for her diploma are mixed, but the one spot ruled out so far is on her resume.
Shenise's next question asks her who she doesn't envy, and she replies Lebron James, because he is subjected to so much scrutiny. To that I say:
1. "scrutinized" wouldn't be in Johnson's vocabulary if she practiced what she preached.
2. Oops.
Matt Lardner lives vicariously through his Twitter followers. Join the fun @bigpoppalard. Promise I won't make general statements.


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With RESTful services becoming ever more popular as a way of sharing information between systems, and PHP still widely adopted as the language of the web, these two technologies are regular bedfellows. As always with PHP, there's more than one way to work with a RESTful service, but a great option is to use streams. The streams interface is more elegant than PHP's clunky cURL extension, and is always included in PHP. Best of all, this is stream handling, so if a response is very large it can be processed in bite-sized chunks. Let's look at some examples of consuming a real REST service with PHP streams. We'll use GitHub as an example since they have a good RESTful service, great documentation, and are widely known.
Starting Simple with a GET Request
Let's begin by grabbing a list of the gists associated with my GitHub account (a gist is like a pastebin, if you haven't seen one before):
ini_set('user_agent', "PHP"); // github requires this
$api = 'https://api.github.com';
$url = $api . '/users/lornajane/gists';
// make the request
$response = file_get_contents($url);
// check we got something back before decoding
if(false !== $response) {
$gists = json_decode($response, true);
} // otherwise something went wrong
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The response is an array of the publicly-visible gists on my account, each represented by an array and including information about the user that created them (me). The documentation for working with gists using GitHub's API is here:http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/ The
file_get_contents() stream wrapper is by far the easiest and quickest way to grab content from a URL in PHP. There is so much more we can do with it though!
Write Operations with Stream Contexts
All the stream functions in PHP have support for a $context argument, which allows us to send more information about the stream we're sending. For an HTTP or HTTPS stream like the ones in these examples, that means we can set the headers, verbs and body to send with our request. To try this out, we'll create a gist on GitHub, and do so we need to be logged in. In API terms, that means we need to identify ourself when we make the request, and since GitHub uses Oauth2, we can just send a header containing a valid access token that I acquired by following their excellentation documentation which you can find at http://developer.github.com/v3/#authentication Our next request also needs to send some body data as well as auth information; this is the content for the new gist which we'll POST to Github. We can set the verb, the body data, and the headers we need all in the context of the stream. Take a look at this example:
include "github-creds.php"; // sets $access_token
ini_set('user_agent', "PHP"); // github requires this
$api = 'https://api.github.com';
$url = $api . '/gists'; // no user info because we're sending auth
// prepare the body data
$data = json_encode(array(
'description' => 'Inspiring Poetry',
'public' => 'true',
'files' => array(
'poem.txt' => array(
'content' => 'If I had the time, I\'d make a rhyme'
// set up the request context
$options = ["http" => [
"method" => "POST",
"header" => ["Authorization: token " . $access_token,
"Content-Type: application/json"],
"content" => $data
$context = stream_context_create($options);
// make the request
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
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First of all I'm pulling in my access token from a separate include file (to avoid oversharing or having to revoke tokens). Then we set the URL and assemble the data we want to send. This will be different on different systems but I'm working off GitHub's documentation for creating a gist: http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#create-a-gist. Setting the context is probably the trickiest bit, and even then you can see the pieces clearly. Set that this should be a POST request, then give some extra headers; we set the
Content-Type because we're sending JSON in the body of this request (the GitHub API works only in JSON), and the
Authorization header contains our access token so GitHub knows who we are. Finally we set the data we prepared earlier as the content for the stream. When the gist is created successfully, the response will give full information about this gist and its new URL, along with a 201 status code to tell you it was created (inspect this by checking the
$http_response_header> variable). If the first code sample was run again now, we'd see a new entry appear in our list, and it's also visible on the website: [gists.png] We can work with gists and other types of API data programmatically, and PHP is a great tool for this.
Going Beyond GET and POST
The streams solution is a more friendly interface than the more traditional PHP curl, and it's equally powerful as we've seen in the examples so far. It can be used to make requests using any HTTP verb, the only requirement is that both client and server should understand it. For example, if we wanted to update the gist that we just created, then we'd make a request to GitHub using the PATCH verb. PATCH isn't supported everywhere, but GitHub have adopted it as a great way of updating records, including partial records, and this is becoming more popular in RESTful services. Here's an example of how we might do that using the stream context:
include "github-creds.php"; // sets $access_token
ini_set('user_agent', "PHP"); // github requires this
$api = 'https://api.github.com';
$url = $api . '/gists/5501496'; // URL of the specific gist
// prepare the body data
$data = json_encode(array(
'description' => 'Rather Lame Poetry'
// set up the request context
$options = ["http" => [
"method" => "PATCH",
"header" => ["Authorization: token " . $access_token,
"Content-Type: application/json"],
"content" => $data
$context = stream_context_create($options);
// make the request
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
echo $response;
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The changes are accepted by GitHub and the response contains the updated gist, in this case the script just changes the description field.
PHP and Streams
The streams extension is core to PHP and so it will always be available, making it a great choice for code that needs to be deployed to a number of platforms. The interface is simple and elegant, so as a developer it's easy to work with while at the same time being completely configurable, allowing even the more complex kinds of requests as we saw here. Best of all, if you're dealing with very large responses, you can handle them in segments rather than loading the entire response into memory, as well as getting all the other features of streams such as being able to filter them as needed. There are many ways to make HTTP requests from PHP but streams are definitely one of the best, combining power with flexibility.
Lorna Jane Mitchell is a web development consultant and trainer from Leeds in the UK, specialising in open source technologies, data-related problems, and APIs. She is also an open source project lead, regular conference speaker, prolific blogger, and author of PHP Web Services, published May 2013 by O'Reilly.


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A recent Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) decision concerning Vodafone demonstrates that a reasonable cooperative approach may significantly affect the level of fine imposed on an undertaking, as the HCA reduced the fine imposed on Vodafone by more than 50% based solely on its cooperative measures. Although this case is unique, it signals that compliance and cooperation efforts which exceed the necessary legal requirements do not go unnoticed.
The Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) was recently given significant new investigative powers under the framework of its merger control duties. Should parties decide not to submit a voluntary filing when meeting the voluntary notification threshold, the HCA can initiate an investigation on its own accord and undertake a fully fledged merger control proceeding. The HCA recently announced that it has commenced its first such ex officio merger control investigation.
Following a Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) decision that its rebate system violated the Trade Act, retail chain Spar went all the way to the Supreme Court. All judicial forums upheld the HCA's decision and the illegality of such rebates seemed to be settled. However, the Budapest Metropolitan Court recently overturned another HCA decision, which was somewhat surprising considering that the Supreme Court had already upheld the HCA's decision in the relatively similar Spar.
Public procurements are often targets for bid rigging and the Hungarian authorities and legislature have made extra efforts to fight this kind of behaviour. While it is not the primary authority for monitoring public procurements, the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) is one authority fighting anti-competitive behaviour in public procurement. Besides investigating violations, the HCA is also taking steps towards prevention and raising awareness.
An important part of the recent major amendment to the Competition Act was the timely implementation of the EU Antitrust Damages Directive into Hungarian law. While it was already possible to claim damages for a competition law infringement under Hungarian law, the directive's implementation introduced special rules for damages claims arising out of competition law infringement and the enforcement of such claims. It also introduced several solutions which are new to Hungarian law.
With the constant development and advancement of digital technologies, the use of paper-based documents is gradually decreasing in all areas of life. This trend has inevitably affected the employment sector, as both employers and employees have an increasing need to reduce the volume of paper-based documents used in employment relationships. At the same time, the use of electronic documents has raised several practical questions.
The Supreme Court recently issued a reasoned opinion on certain legal and procedural aspects of employment-related suits involving equal treatment claims. The reasoned opinion addresses, among other things, the interpretation of the burden of proof in such suits, the equal pay principle, the concept of discrimination based on other grounds and the way of hearing and deciding anti-discrimination claims in suits initiated on the grounds of unlawful dismissal.
Employers are often frustrated by employees' incapacity to work for health reasons, but they must act with care when addressing such situations. In an attempt to protect employee interests, legal regulations provide certain restrictions on what employers can do if an employee is unable to work for health reasons. A recent Supreme Court decision has further clarified some of these restrictions.
Organisations with legal entities and employees in several EU member states often try to centralise their human resources (HR) functions to some extent, which occasionally requires them to share employee and HR data within their group. Although existing Hungarian law provides a stable legal environment with clear rules for employers as data processors, there is a general feeling of uncertainty around this topic, which is partly due to the upcoming entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Although the Labour Code fails to define a 'conflict of interest', its general principles prohibit employees from engaging in conduct which could jeopardise their employer's rightful economic interests. Depending on the circumstances, a conflict may constitute a severe violation of the employee's employment terms and can be punished appropriately. In other cases, a conflict may arise that is not the employee's fault, which can therefore be appropriately rectified without penalties.
The government is supporting a range of projects to achieve its 2020 renewable energy targets, including Hungary's first small-scale geothermal power plant and an e-mobility action plan. Alongside these sector and project-specific incentives is the mandatory feed-in tariff system – an overall system of incentives for renewable energy intended to subsidise electricity that is produced from renewable, waste and co-generated energy.
In 2003 the feed-in tariff (FIT) system was introduced to subsidise electricity production from renewable, waste and co-generated energy. In January 2008 MAVIR Zrt, which operates the FIT system, established the mandatory feed-in balance group. Electricity producers that are eligible to join the balance group are subject to certain requirements regarding annual production forecasts, payment obligations and takeover terms.
Brand owners often distort descriptive terms or generic names in order to register them as trademarks. Whether they succeed depends on the level of difference between the two terms. A recent Metropolitan Tribunal opinion in this regard was supported by the EU General Court's judgment in Doublemint, according to which a word's descriptive character must be material in respect of the relevant goods and enable the public to immediately recognise the characteristics of such goods.
Case law clearly demonstrates that opponents in opposition and cancellation procedures must often prove the genuine use of their mark. However, whether online publicity constitutes acceptable proof of use has been the subject of debate. In a recent case, the Metropolitan Tribunal expressly recognised the role of the Internet in commerce and imposed a higher standard of use – namely, evidence of realised sales – as proof of genuine use.
The Hungarian Intellectual Property Office and the Metropolitan Tribunal recently dismissed an opposition of an applied-for mark on the basis that there was no likelihood of confusion. However, the appeals court disagreed, holding, among other things, that an assessment of a likelihood of confusion is more sensitive for conflicting pharmaceutical marks than for marks designating other goods. Although the court's decision is well grounded in Hungarian case law, it has been disputed for a number of reasons.
The owner of the EU trademark ARIEL, registered in Class 3, recently requested the cancellation of the later mark ARILUX, registered for goods in the same class. The Hungarian Intellectual Property Office granted the request and cancelled the ARILUX mark. It found that, as the two word marks had identical beginnings and both consisted of three syllables, there was a strong similarity between them. The Metropolitan Court of Appeal upheld the ruling.
The Hungarian Intellectual Property Office recently rejected an application to register a device mark featuring the term 'DRONEHUNGARY', holding that the mark's wording was descriptive. However, on review, the Metropolitan Tribunal held that a word composition is descriptive only if it is grammatically correct. This is not the first time that the HIPO has been more rigorous than the tribunal in assessing an application, especially with regard to a mark's descriptiveness.


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One of Tessa's favorite movies of the moment is The Sandlot which I think is awesome cause it's a great movie. That movie plus "Rookie of the Year" taught me everything I know about baseball (which isn't much).
One of the things that the kids love about this movie, other than the beast, is the music on the closing credits. Enjoy the show!
Dancing to Sandlot Credits from Laura Sargent Bennington on Vimeo.
Oh and btw, no Charley isn't drinking a Diet Dr. Pepper. Just playing with the bottle.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Sandlot Dancing
1 comment:
- Stephany said...
That is way cute!!
- 6:44 PM, January 20, 2011
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|Half Baths
|1,700 sq ft
|Property type
|Minimum Stay
|2 - 5 nights
Charming, clean, picturesque home in perfect location for exploring Seattle (1.5 miles to downtown).
This three bedroom dutch colonial is located in the center of historic Queen Anne, near everything. The house comes with full amenities (cable, dishwasher, internet, laundry, etc.), and accommodates 6 comfortably.
The house is baby-proofed and owners can provide baby 'amenities' for guests if needed. Groceries can also be provided as a service (contact owner for details).
The house is tucked back from a lovely and quiet street, with a welcoming garden in front, and a private fenced-in backyard with alley access.
Upper Queen Anne as a neighborhood is quiet despite being in the heart of Seattle, and there is plenty of free parking.
Within a few blocks you have the best Seattle has to offer in restaurants, shopping, exploring, sightseeing, etc...all in walking distance! A 5-7 minute cab ride (20-30 minutes walking) will land you downtown Seattle, South Lake Union, or Fremont. 10-15 minute cab ride gets you to Capital Hill, UW, Ballard or Sodo. Bus line is one block away.
House Amenities
-free laundry
-3 queen beds, 1+ bath
down comforters, down pillows, etc.
-Shampoo, soap, towels, etc.
-coffee, tea
My name is Blair and I'm glad you are interested in this house. I've lived in Seattle my entire life, and would be happy to help you plan your trip. Please let me know if you have any questions. -Blair
Blair Roberts purchased this house in 2007
This is a beautiful house located in one the premiere neighborhoods in Seattle. You are central to everything, and you can walk to anything you might need.
This home is very private, and and in a lovely quite neighborhood just two blocks from a large park, and 5 blocks to historic Queen Anne Avenue.
As I read reviews prior to booking, I was prepared for the home to be a bit out-dated/unclean. However, I needed a three-bedroom home on somewhat short notice so I went forward with booking. The owners are quick with responding prior to booking. Unfortunately, the main bathroom was not very clean and the shower needed to be redone/updated (tiles were falling off and mildew/mold was evident.) The kitchen was decent but could use newer pots/pans. The landscape is very overgrown and needs to be maintained. This could help limit bugs in the house. The bedrooms were fine, beds comfy enough. The listing does mention a second toilet in the basement and this is literally all it is - a toilet with a shower curtain - so it is a stretch to call this 1.5 bathrooms. The washer/dryer in the basement is very nice and modern. The neighborhood is residential and very nice, there is a good coffee shop and a donut shop nearby and many places are walkable or short drives away.
Lovely home. Great, no fabulous location. Only 2 complaints:
*No dishwasher soap.
*Blowup was a twin, not a full/queen. Sofa's were not pullouts.
The home worked beautifully to gather our family other than the sleeping arrangements.
The property could have been cleaned up a little more. There were dust/cobwebs on the wall and the bathroom was in rough shape, tiles falling off and the vent hasn't been cleaned in years. It also smelled...like cats? Not sure what the smell was, it was not so bad once we aired the place out. kitchen was super and bedrooms were just fine. Location GREAT!!!
This house is really lovely. Perhaps because they were criticized in the past for the house being dirty, I found the house to be extremely clean -- the smell of cleaning products was in fact overpowering! The beds were super comfortable and everything about the house worked for us. The garden was well-maintained and the rooms pleasant. As others have noted, the "1/2 bath" is a toilet partially behind a shower curtain in the basement. I think the owners could invest fairly inexpensively in a wall there. Also, as with any old house, there are things that could be maintained a bit better. There are several tiles missing from the shower area, for example. I was disappointed that there were not extra keys. When I called the owner, he said the prior guests must have taken them and could we do without. It was ok to just use the lock box, but I would have preferred if the owner had come by to give us some spares. I would book this place again because of the perfect location and comfort of the beds.
Cute, clean, home with a responsive caretaker. Would stay there again... Great times!
Great location. But extra bathroom was a toilet in an unfurnished basement with a curtain, and a utility sink. Hardly useful. Landscaping needed some serious trimming both in the front and backyard. Backyard patio furniture dirty and unable to be used. Also spider were found in master, bathroom, back porch, basement. Child proofed? Not even basics covered: No cabinets were locked, cleaning products under sink, no gate for stairs, table corners exposed. The screens in windows were barely in and kept falling off. Place needs some work. I guess the beds and sheets were clean.
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Ham and bean soup makes my mouth water. As soon as I finish a meal with ham I instantly thing ham and bean soup. Especially delicious on cold winter days. Smelling this cook all day makes you want to cuddle up and read a book while it simmers.
This may sound difficult and lengthy but it really is not.
Prepare and cook beans according to your preferred method. See my Cooking with Beans if you don't know how to prepare your beans for this recipe.
The above picture will show you how much the beans can grow in size. 2 cups of beans will yield 4 cups cooked beans.
In a large pan or crock pot, cook the ham bone all day on low. 2 hours before serving. Strain the meat, saving all the juices, let bone cool for 15 minutes. Wipe out any residue that is in the pan. Remove meat from bone and add back to slow cooker along with beans. In a small sauté pan, sauté the onions in a small amount of oil until opaque, add to crockpot. Add sliced carrots. Remove as much fat from juice as possible using a fat separator add the strained juices to the crock pot. Add enough water to cover the beans. Taste for saltiness add salt if needed don't over due it, the saltiness will increase as the cooking goes on. Let cook on low for 2 more hours or all day in the crock pot.
For those that work all day. Simmer the ham bone in a crock pot overnight. Prepare all ingredients the night before. Clean ham bone as directed above, then add soup ingredients to crock pot before going to work. Be sure your crock pot has a super slow method or this will over cook. Make sure there is enough water in the pan. It is so nice to come home and have dinner ready to eat.
For thicker soup, using your hand blended, puree about half of the soup until desired consistency
Note* this goes awesome with cornbread, a bread bowl or bread sticks.
- 2 cup great northern white beans
- 8 cups water
- 1 ham bone
- any ham scraps
- 3-4 carrots
- 1 medium onion
- salt to taste and will depend on saltiness of ham
- Once your beans are cooked, simmer with ham bone and scraps for several hours with onions. Be sure the ingredients are covered with water. This can be done in your crock pot all day on low.
- I like my carrots crisp so I do not add them until just before I serve them. I cook them on the stove top for 15-20 minutes.
- You can thin the soup to your desired thinness or you can thicken it by taking out 1-2 cup of beans and liquid and pureeing it then adding back to soup.
- At this point test for saltiness. Add salt and pepper to your taste.
- I serve this with corn bread or a soup bread bowl. For a delicious cold weather warm up.


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At the mercy of the waves
POSTED: Friday, November 27, 2009
With the boat rudder broken, Luke Harmon had just lowered the main sail and was crawling back to the rear Monday when a huge wave hit, capsizing the boat and throwing him under in an air pocket in the cabin area in 20-foot seas in waters off Lanai.
";I kept thinking about not seeing my family, my fiancee, about how we're not going to be together anymore,"; he said.
Harmon and his friend David Alfredo Lugo-Valby, both Waikiki residents, were rescued at sea after being missing for nearly two days.
Harmon, 25, who works as a nurse, and Lugo-Valby, 32, a student and a member of the Hawaii National Guard, were sailing a 24-foot boat from Honolulu to the Big Island when the rudder broke off Lanai and a huge wave capsized the vessel Monday morning.
";The wave hit us from the left side ... and we went flying under the boat,"; Harmon recalled.
Harmon, who was on his first interisland sail, said when the two left Honolulu at 8 a.m. Sunday, the weather was not bad.
He said Chris Clark, the owner of the boat in Hilo, reviewed the forecast.
Harmon said they sailed through Sunday night and decided to anchor in the ocean for several hours in Lanai waters to rest before continuing their journey.
Early Monday they awoke and continued their sail toward the Big Island, when the rudder snapped and the boat had no steering and began to flounder.
Lugo-Valby, who has 14 years' sailing experience and has sailed from Oahu to San Francisco, told Harmon to lower the main sail at the front of the boat.
";Right after I got it down, I was crawling down to the back when a wave hit and capsized us,"; Harmon said.
Harmon, who recalled the capsizing occurring at 10 a.m. Monday, said his life vest automatically inflated when he hit the water, and he was in an air pocket in the capsized cabin area and struggled to get out from beneath the boat.
He said he surfaced and was working his way to the bow of the boat when another wave hit and righted the vessel.
Harmon said Lugo-Valby was clinging to the cockpit and ended up on the boat as it righted itself.
Harmon said Lugo-Valby reached out to help pull him aboard the boat as the waves kept hitting them.
The capsizing had washed away the boat's two-way radio and soaked and damaged Harmon's cell phone.
Harmon said they were able to salvage flares and a flare gun.
Harmon said to attract attention, they rigged an assortment of inflatable gear onto the mast and jib, along with strobe lights from their jackets.
Harmon said they also dragged mainsail and jib off the bow to act as an anchor and to point the boat's nose into the wave, rather than be struck sideways and be capsized again.
";The waves were really big the rest of the day,"; he said. ";It was pretty rough all night.";
What made it even more uncomfortable was when Harmon saw a couple of sharks swimming around the boat.
Harmon said besides the owner, his fiancee, Allyson OBrien, was expecting him in Hilo at 4 p.m. Monday, and he hoped she would call authorities for help.
Harmon said they saw a cargo ship at a distance at midnight and fired a flare and lit hand flares.
He said the ship sailed in a straight line toward them, stopped for a while, then drove away.
Harmon said he tried to maintain a positive attitude, but he kept thinking about the possibility he might die.
Harmon said they saw no ships through most of Tuesday and had drifted away from the sight of the Hawaiian Islands, when they saw a Coast Guard search plane fly pass them near sunset.
Lugo-Valby, who knew about the crossing pattern of the search planes, advised that they should shoot their last remaining flare when the plane came back, which it did 20 to 30 minutes later.
The plane flew by and dipped its wings, indicating its crew had seen them, then flew near the boat for a couple of hours until a rescue helicopter arrived that night.
A Coast Guard diver was put into the water and swam to the boat.
Escorted by the diver, they swam away from the boat to be lifted by a rescue basket onto the helicopter.
Harmon said from talking with the Coast Guard, the search plane was close to returning to base when its crew spotted them in the water.
";I feel so lucky to be alive. ... We have a lot to be thankful for,"; he said. ";It's the best Thanksgiving ever.";


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I love Saltaire…. its the Hebden Bridge of Bradford (haha). Actually it is a jewel in our crown because we have a UNESCO World Heritage site in a BD postcode.
Saltaire's history is pretty intertest. It is named after Sir Titus Salt, a great philanthropist who built a textile mill and this village on the River Aire. Sir Titus provided well for his employees but was very particular about how they should have good and healthy lives. You can read more here It hosts an amazing Arts Trail every year and a Festival too, plus there are farmers markets, makers fairs and vintage shows in the beautiful Victoria Hall. There is a church and a heap of cute and quirky shops – plus the titanic Salts Mill.
I only discovered Saltaire about 10 years ago when a friend moved into one of the cute little terraced houses there and I was jealous that her local pub was an old Tramshed (imaginatively named The Old Tramshed) complete with good pies and comfy sofas.
Since then, she has moved further into the hills but another friend has taken her place. Not that I need an excuse to visit nowadays. I can always justify a trip to one of the following:
1. The Bookshops – there are 2 of note. The Saltaire Bookshop and The Salts Mill Book shop – very different experiences – but both with their merits.
2. Rose and Brown and now Ivy and Co – Vintage loveliness.
3. Massarellas – the best lemon cake EVER.
4. The Galleries – mooching around the 1853 gallery and Salts Mill then some of the smaller art shops is very calming.
5. Carlton Antiques – a perfect selection of antiques from beautiful rings to clothing, furniture and knick knacks.
6. Fannys – The Ale House – always packed and always good fun.
7. The Canal – stroll in either direction towards Shipley or Bingley and you'll find lots to see and feel very healthy with it!


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We have on a number of occasions recently commented on the global re-direction of capital by the E&P industry (the Majors and the IOCs) from higher sovereign risk areas such as South East Asia back into the good old USA. This represents a ~45 year tidal turn, from when the US's oil production peaked in the 1970s and after the oil price crisis of later that decade sent capital looking for new opportunities in the likes of the North Sea and around the world.
The main home for this return of capital has been Texas' mighty Permian Basin. A recent snippet from Tudor Pickering Holt's daily note succinctly summarised why:
"..we believe the fact that Permian is lower risk (both geologically and politically) than offshore/international projects, deserves a lower cost of capital, gives capex flexibility, has easy monetization potential, provides reserve replacement and production growth and possesses upside from acceleration, downspacing and delineation…".
It is thus somewhat ironic that sovereign risk is now rising in the US, with some economic policies being mooted in Washington which appear to come from the Kim Jong-un playbook. However, as noted on other occasions, what the Feds want to do and what will happen in each very different State are not necessarily the same (phew says Exxon after spending >US$5B in the Permian in recent weeks).
Major Government intervention into markets through taxes on imports (and the US still imports a lot of crude) would create significant disruptions in oil/gas, currency and equity markets – with many un-forseen consequences. For instance, an associated rise in the US dollar might make investment destinations outside the US (with cost bases in debased currencies) more attractive again.
Commodity prices
Crude prices fell slightly overnight, with Brent down ~0.5% to US$55.22 and WTI down ~1% to US$52.65. No particular drivers appeared on the day and the media concluded that Friday's rig count, providing evidence of ongoing activity growth in the US, was reacted against during Monday's trading.
Henry Hub fell ~3% to US$3.23. In the longer term, the large US gas exports to Mexico (mostly by pipeline – but also by LNG) could suffer from the increasing likelihood of a trade war between the countries. Excess supplies looking for a new home could hit Henry Hub hard – with flow on affects on the competitiveness of US gas – competing as it might be in a complex new world of shifting trade tariffs, etc.
LNG and international gas
Reuters recently reported on comments from Wood Mackenzie on the profitability levels achieved by the vast investments made into Australia's LNG industry over the last half decade. Wood Mack concluded that average rates of return achieved were below 8% – rather than the planned for 13% (and Santos and Origin Energy shareholders like your unfortunate blogster can only dream of high rates like 8%).
We are sure that the politicians currently looking to tax the industry even more will soberly observe this economic data and amend their expectations accordingly….
Company news – Woodside Petroleum (WPL)
Readers of today's Australian Financial Review (AFR) may have noted on article on WPL in which the company's CEO was extolling the role that artificial intelligence and robots were, and could increasingly, play in the company's management and operations.
Against the strong advice of our editorial Board, we thought this article provided a few opportunities for mischief – in terms of naming some ways that robots could take over new tasks at WPL, including:
- Robots could now throw the darts at the map of the world in order to find new exploration ventures for the company.
- A zillion robot-hours of thinking could be commissioned to determine that Browse and Sunrise will not go ahead until the sun freezes first.
- An especially crafty AI fuelled robot could advise the Chairman how to increase his tenure by another decade or so.
- When the CEO asks his executive team about the many lessons learned from the Pluto development, a robot prompter behind each Vice-President could whisper in his or her ear "don't hire a megalomaniac as CEO".
- Etc.
Quote of the day
Anyone who has ever been at a work meeting and listened to the CEO being utterly un-self aware, would have had their toes curl this morning when reading in the AFR of WPL's CEO's account of a meeting at which he asked his multi-million dollar salary executives (as noted above) about the lessons learned from the company's Pluto investment – and how a robot could do better:
"You could see the shuffling in the seats. This is only two years after the project was complete. We could not consistently give five [examples] in our executive team. If we can't give five, how in the heck do we think the rest of the organisation is going to do it? And so we said – there's the business case."


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It's early days, but Andrej Sekera's performance three games into the season doesn't match the expectations placed on him. He's not alone — the entire defense has been wobbly at times this year. That's good news. Why? The future of this Oilers defense is finally coming into view. (source: HockeyAnalysis.com)
NHL coaches say lots of things but their actions are the things worth paying attention to, and for Edmonton Oilers fans the past can probably predict the future.
- If there's a change, expect a young player to be sent down/out. Remember last season, in the fall, when Martin Marincin was up and down like a yo-yo? He was sent to the minors October 5th and recalled on the 16th. He was inserted into the lineup, and Edmonton went 4-1 in the games he played (between 15:46 and 18:07 in those games). The Oilers then went 1-6 in the games he played through the end of November, and MM was back in the AHL. He was inconsistent in those games but veterans were making as many (or more) errors. After the November 25th game Marincin didn't see NHL ice until February.
- Veterans get more chances and it sometimes drives fans crazy. This has been happening since I was a kid — the old grizzled veteran starts slow and fans are up in arms because the fresh daisy is wasting in the AHL. A coach knows the veteran can be relied on and is willing to wait an extra game or even several for said player to turn it around.
Edmonton is in an unusual spot because two of their most expensive blue liners, Andrew Ference and Nikita Nikitin, are unable to fill the roles one associates with their respective cap hits. Many get mad at the player, but for me the Oilers signed both men and if you're going to yell at a cloud, best make it orange and blue.
Veterans who Todd McLellan will likely rely on this season? Andrej Sekera, Mark Fayne, Justin Schultz, Eric Gryba. Youngsters he'll probably retain all season? Oscar Klefbom.
After that? We're left with two young men (Griffin Reinhart and Brandon Davidson) who need to show well in their NHL opportunities.
In his game, Reinhart got the zone-start push with Gryba and both men had a solid possession number. McLellan, like most coaches I've ever seen, isn't going to assume one good (or fairly good) game by a rookie automatically means another, but most of us (myself included) were somewhat surprised Reinhart didn't get the next game.
This is last night. Davidson got a very similar zone start (fewer minutes) and his possession number (this is all 5×5 via HockeyAnalysis.com) were less, but somewhat similar.By eye, Reinhart was the more effective player, but that's not much to go on. I would say that both men have value to the team but that Reinhart is likely to have the more prominent role as seasons roll along.
Notice the 'tough zone start' pairing changed in these two games, further indicating McLellan is getting the lay of the land.
For Oilers fans, it looks like more auditions (Reinhart next is a good bet) before eventually settling in. Andrew Ference is also in the mix and don't count out a Darnell Nurse recall or a trade. Two things we can conclude about this Edmonton defense:
- Todd McLellan hasn't found his answer on the third pairing
- This is not an outstanding group. Two too young, two too old, and so very little in their prime.
We talked about it during the Schultz arbitration period. At that time, Edmonton could have bought out Nikitin and signed Cody Franson. The Oilers decided that wasn't better than the status quo. Which brings us here.
There's every chance we're witnessing Todd McLellan's education on what Oilers fans already know: This team needs more talent on defense in its prime. Let us pray we don't have to wait until Klefbom, Nurse and Reinhart are 25.


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Tradition's Value
I am a big believer in 'tradition'. The traditional way that we do things, particularly in cooking, is usually for a very good reason — bread rises better under certain circumstances, meats become less tough when cooked with the proper method, etc.
That being said, as we learn more about our art, we need to open ourselves up to the idea of challenging traditional values. At a recent job, I had the opportunity to learn a traditional recipe and method for making Italian pizza crusts. I made many many of them. And then I got to try one, and compare it to the tradition-inspired-but-now-MY crusts that I make for my wife and I, and there was no difference. The actual handling of the dough traditionally is where I learned the most useful info to integrate into my own skillset, but the actual dough itself was, well, it was what a traditional pizza crust is supposed to be: nothing more than a delivery vector for the toppings on it.
My crusts, by contrast, tend to be packed with flavour – whatever flavour I think is going to compliment the toppings planned for the pizza, I will work into the crust. I want my guests to enjoy their last bite of the crust at the end of the pizza pie as they do their first bite of the all-topped tip of the slice.
Tradition says "keep your crust light, but bland, while I look at my pizza and say "crust, time for tradition to go OUT the window – do you want to be curry infused, or Italian herb infused, or even filled with diced-up oven-roasted bell peppers and a bit of balsamic before I roll you out and top you up?"
Tradition is good. Without it, I wouldn't have that solid base on which to develop my own take on pizza crusts, but at the same time you need to know when you're ready, and willing, to step away from tradition and start making your own way, your own art.
And now if you wonderfully fine readers will excuse me, I need to go figure out how I'm going to infuse this morning's crust for a fine fine breakfast pizza, the recipe to which will follow this afternoon! 'Cause after all: nothing says 'tradition' like pizza topped with hollandaise, scrambled eggs, bacon, and other breakfast-y goodness. 😉


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I had some red yarn. I'm 99% sure it's Red Heart "With Love" or whatever that's called. The softer, squishier Red Heart, you know the one.
Over the past few days, I tried using it for several different projects. None of them seemed right. I got 3 rows into a pillow, 5 or 6 rows into a sweater. It just never worked out.
Then I found a pattern book that my mother had given me for my birthday, that I had never made anything from yet. And within it, I found a rug pattern. It's technically for bulky yarn, but this is a thicker worsted yarn and I think it'll work just fine. As I searched through my stash, I found blue yarn that I think is the same as my red (they feel very very similar if not), and some teal worsted from Hobby Lobby. I like the contrast between the red and the blue/teal, but then the similarity between blue and teal. Together, the three are jarring but cute.
Here it is so far:
I love it to death. It's squishy, it's bright and obnoxious, and it's working up SUPER fast. I've learned this is called the "linen stitch", even though the pattern never mentioned that name.
Apparently this is a very popular stitch, and I've somehow never used it before! I agree with all the love. You can do it mindlessly, it feels really fast because you're only doing half the actual crochet stitches it seems you should (alternating chain and SC).
And in this project specifically, it feels fast because just when you get bored of red, you do a row of teal! Then one row later it's blue! When you get bored of blue…teal again! Yes, it is that exciting to me. Shut up. I have no idea how wide (long?) this is going to be. Basically, I'll work on it until I feel it's a decent rug size. I just hope I've figured out the right yarns so I can buy replacement skeins.


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There is little doubt that the tendrils of America's global military presence have proliferated and strengthened since 9/11, and that the deployment by our government of that protean enemy, "terror," against which we purportedly are at war, assures they will continue to do so for years to come. Yet there is also little doubt that, as war fronts keep popping up, fewer Americans are fighting our wars than ever before, creating social conditions that cry out for deeper understanding that we can begin to bring about through the stories we tell, the songs we sing, and the images we create.
A predictable, but troubling, result of how few Americans actually fight our wars can be seen in the deepening gap that is perceived between those who have served in the military and those who haven't. A recent Pew Research survey reveals that "84% of [. . .] modern-era veterans say that the American public has little or no understanding of the problems that those in the military face." While those who haven't served in the military share a similar view—the same survey shows that 71% percent of non-veterans polled agree with the veterans—that's cold comfort when that lack of understanding affects real consequences, such as the push from Congress this past fall to reduce increasingly expensive healthcare benefits for members of the military.
One can almost hear the reasoning behind cutting these benefits: economic times are tough; everyone has to buck up. This, of course, while Republicans insist on maintaining unsustainable tax breaks initiated during the Bush presidency and that for a small, but very rich, percentage of the population who benefit most from those tax cuts, "tough economic times" means losing annual profits from investments it would take most middle class families several lifetimes to earn. And that's to say nothing about the sacrifices veterans have already made in the name of our country.
The possible psychological impact on soldiers and veterans of such wholesale misunderstanding from the public is raised in Ellen McLaughlin's astute new play Ajax in Iraq. Bringing together scenes from Sophocles' tragedy Ajax with original material representing the plight of American veterans of the Iraq War (among other conflicts),
McLaughlin reminds us of the historical depth of this issue. And, in fact, we have already seen in western art a number of representations of veterans being mistreated because they have been misunderstood: the plight of physically and psychically wounded Vietnam veterans in late '70s American cinema; the mauled veterans of WWI, missing legs and arms, their faces deformed from wounds or eaten away by STDs, begging on indifferent street corners in the drawings and paintings of Georg Grosz; the elementally efficient killing machine Coriolanus unable to secure a place in Rome in times of peace, his power, even his allegiance to Rome, called into question in Shakespeare's Coriolanus; and on and on, going all the way back, of course, to at least Sophocles, in Ajax.
In Sophocles' play, the mistreatment of soldiers by Greek society occurs when the morally upright Ajax is denied Achilles' armor—armor that he had been all but assured would be his—after losing a contest to Odysseus. As a result, Ajax snaps. As McLaughlin has Athena, essentially Ajax in Iraq's narrator, conclude:
And it's not like everybody thought Ajax would be fine with [losing Achilles' armor to Odysseus], it's just that no one expected him to go completely bananas. Well, they didn't. I did. I knew exactly what would happen. 'Cause a guy like him, he's got a rudimentary but absolutely infallible sense of justice and when you take away from him the thing he's spent his whole life earning, you better duck. KABLOOEY!
And Ajax definitely goes "kablooey." Angered beyond consolation, he decides to kill Odysseus and all who allowed him to win the armor. Athena intervenes, however, blinding Ajax with a momentary madness, and he ends up killing a herd of sheep instead.
In McLaughlin's play, Ajax's crime is repeated, perhaps a bit too literally, in the story unfolding in Iraq. A.J., for a while the only woman in her unit, goes on a routine mission that ends badly, when a house she and her companions were preparing to search explodes and, under enemy fire, she drags every person she can find out of the house, in case any had survived the blast. None had. After the mission, she is called in to see her sergeant with whom she had been trying to break off a sexual relationship. After congratulating her on her bravery, the sergeant turns on her:
SERGEANT: Get your ass over here, Soldier.
(A.J. takes a step toward the sergeant. He grabs her and
spins her around so that he has her pinned from behind,
clamping her throat with his arm, breathing into the back
of her neck.)
SERGEANT (cont.): Yeah, that's it, that's the smell I miss so much.
A.J.: This isn't what I deserve.
SERGEANT: Sergeant.
A.J.: Sergeant. It isn't what I deserve, Sergeant.
SERGEANT: Huh. So you really thought I was going to pin a medal on your tit? Is that what you thought when you came in here?
A.J.: No, Sergeant, not you.
And, as with Ajax, A.J. responds to the disservice done to her by going "kablooey," killing an entire herd of sheep that she thought was "someone else [. . .] A whole lot of someone else."
I don't think it's necessary to be literal here, which is why I don't think McLaughlin needed to be so literal in her update of Ajax's story: this is not about soldiers not getting medals, and it's not about soldiers killing indiscriminately when they don't get them. It's about the very real problems that arise—which most definitely can include violence and too often do—when veterans do not get what they deserve, but instead are left to fend for themselves or are even discouraged from getting the help they might need. As the number of soldiers suffering from PTSD is on the rise, and more veterans find themselves without jobs and homes, these are pressing concerns that need to be addressed and dealt with. As McLaughlin shows us with Ajax in Iraq, art can be, and should be, on the forefront of closing a rift that is beginning to tear this nation apart.


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i am sitting at a fontain and try myself to calm down. i don't know why i'm tense. i hate my personal disorder but i can't change it. i want to cry but i'm not alone here. in this moments i want to rund away.but where can i become a rest for my screeming soul? my only wish for myself is peace. i'm strong enough to force this bad feelings. now, but tomorrow? i hope the best.
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You can take 5 items/men to a fully catered desert island – what/who would you take? J
Honestly...I'm not taking men. All the men around me want food and clean clothes and shit all the time. So I'm taking my laptop, sunscreen cause I burn like bacon left on the sidewalk in Vegas, my Kindle, sunglasses, and a big ass cocktail glass for endless cold drinks. I'd love to be alone for awhile with no one to bug me.
Do you have a favourite author(s)? Who is it/are they?
Of course I do. Kim Harrison, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, Cherise Sinclair ... crap I'm wracking my brain and my kid is next to me playing an obnoxious ass game and I can't concentrate.
I love UF and PNR and high fantasy best. A strong storyline with lots of twists and turns and magical realism are what really do it for me. Cherise Sinclair is just fucking awesome, so anything she writes is going to be amazing, regardless of genre.
How did you start your writing career?
One day, early in the morning, I woke up and my hands had detached themselves. They were busy scribbling in a notebook ... and I couldn't stop them. Off they went all around the house with a marker.
J Actually I've been writing for a long time. I wrote stories as a child, I took a few classes in high school and college. Then I went back to college and took more writing courses. I landed my first contract with Decadent publishing for Love Kinection.
I spent some time writing book reviews for GraveTells as Captain Dirty Pants, but once I was contracted it was recommended we not write book reviews (since as an author you could be seen as being shady ... or mean or whatever.) So that part of my life was over.
Which character was the hardest to write and why?
They're all hard in their own ways. They're all different people with individual hurts, hopes, fears, jobs, families. I had a very hard time with Ronin from Unmasking Her Dom in the Sin Circus anthology. I cried a lot over him.
Ronin is a veteran who was injured while in service and he gets shafted when he comes home. Overcoming his hang-ups and shoving him out of the shadows was difficult. Plus, I had a limited word count to do it in. I've had several requests for more about Ronin and Maggie/Elektra, so I might write them another book. (Elektra is Maggie's stage name.)
Who's your favourite character? And what would let him/her do to you in the Dungeon?
My favourite character? Wait, there's a Dungeon? You're asking me to willingly go into a Dungeon with these people? You do realize it's my job to torment them, screw up their lives as bad as possible, right?
Ummm ... yeah I dunno that I'm going in the Dungeon. They would have me for breakfast thank you very much. I mean, sure they got a happy ending, but I think given the opportunity these people would spank me and it wouldn't be funishment.
I'm not going. No. I am a chickenshit.
Although ... I do kinda sorta have a crush on the Masters from Cherise Sinclair's Shadowlands. So if I was single, and they weren't fictional ... yeah. *cough*
If you write under an alias/Nome de plume, how do you deal with being addressed by that name?
Well, no one has ever called me by my alias in real life. Occasionally I am called JJ by a few people, and that seems normal, I guess. Jennifer is my real first name. J I've been writing for a few years, so being Jennifer James is real to me. I have another alias I write under, but I don't advertise it.
I know now you're wondering what the fuck that is, and why am I saying that and not telling ...Well, I dunno. It slipped out. I don't advertise it much because my kids know that I write, and what I write as JJ is pretty explicit ... and under that name I get even a little bit dirtier. Plus, I kinda like to have a sorta secret name. It's like being Peter Parker and Spiderman or something. I dunno. Someday I'll shout it from the rooftops. Just not today. J Sorry.
*ducks* Stop throwing stuff at my head.
Quit. Or no books for you. *glares*
Actually I'm kidding. Here's your book back. :D
What made you decide to pick an alias?
Weird internet interactions. I've gotten some strange messages on FB, emails and things. So I'm glad I went with an alias. Plus I have kids, and since I'm a crazy worried person who wonders if everyone I see is a psycho killer, I like to think this keeps them a little safer.
What was it about kink that made you choose the genre?
I think sex is awesome. I'm good at writing sex scenes. My brain is rather ... naughty and it comes naturally.
What extent do you go to, to research for what you write?
I Google search and read lots of articles about subjects I might explore or am interested in. (That goes for everything from ménage to toys to BDSM to PTSD to famous landmarks.) I'm kinda like Number Five from Short Circuit. I want to learn about everything and have an intense curiosity that leads me in all sorts of directions.
If you're trying to ask if I ever engage in the things I write about ... well you are a naughty minx and I don't discuss my personal sex life online. *Spanks Amanda* But I will say I've been married for 15 years and I'm a happy girl. Very happy. J
~I can't believe I just got spanked in an interview!!~ Amanda ~
If you weren't an author, what would you have ended up doing?
Well I'm a dental assistant. So I'd still be doing that, and my evenings would be filled with more sewing and crafting and cross stitching and drawing and painting and reading and bike riding.
I'm not a full time writer, although I do aspire to be. That'd be amazeballs. With cherries on top. And also whipped cream and shaved chocolate.
Honestly, thinking about that question my stomach curdles. I can't NOT be an author. This is how I came outta the womb. I've tried to not write before. Tried to walk away from it when I was having personal issues. The less I wrote, the more depressed I got. Absolute misery. I must write.
Do you have any rituals/habits when you write?
Sometimes I listen to music. I like to move the places that I sit now and then if I'm having a hard time and the words aren't flowing. So I could start at my desk and end up on my bed or the couch or the porch. I almost always have a drink with me. Water, hard cider, coffee, spiked cocoa, something. No eating though. That's distracting.
But I'm not sacrificing goats or poking voodoo dolls or burning incense below a picture of my editor. Although maybe I should have a shrine for her. She's amazing.
My desk is in a corner now, and I like to have stuff hanging on the walls around my area there that have my goals, quotes, pretty pictures, that kind of thing around it. I'm a big believer in writing my goals and dreams down and then seeing those things all the time to help me stay focused. It does help with the depression that always accompanies finishing a book, poor sales, paying the bills ... you know, the poopy part of writing.
Is there anything on your current/upcoming release schedule?
Nymphs of New York Volume One (Has Wet For The Titan and Rock Hard and Wet in it) just became available as a bundle. In print too! Yay!
Um, I'm rereleasing some short stories/short novellas that were in anthologies. They'll be up soon for $0.99, so if people missed the anthos, those will be out. I released Peyton's Ride back in February, and I'm busting ass on this full length NA contemporary thing I've tentatively titled Pants On Fire. It's trying to kill me, but my editor loves the pages she's seen so far. I have the follow up to Hunger Embraced that I'm hoping to release this year, but I don't know for sure when it'll be out. It's called Hunger Unbound.
As far as other series stuff, I'm going to be releasing another ménage book under my other alias ASAP, then I'll be doing a werewolf short featuring my characters Kayla and Jack from Marked. After that I'd like to do a follow up to Covert Craving (cause it's sorta sci-fi and I love it, even though the book is pretty much invisible) and then more Nymphs of New York and maybe, if I'm insane enough, I'll manage another Riding With The Hunt story.
Where are your books available?
Amazon, B&N, ARe, Kobo, iBooks, Diesel. A few are up on Smashwords and BookStrand. I'm trying to get them all up everywhere, but as I'm only *me* I have a hard time doing all the writer/business person stuff, and still actually writing. So if I have to choose between the two, I pick writing.
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