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I finally got tired of Vista so I have decided that this be the day that I get windows 7. The computer is backed up and ready. With the small problem of having something to boot it from. I have an iso of Windows 7 Ultimate that I want to install.
I have no dvds available. The largest usb drive I have is 2gb. I do have a 1.5TB external drive with ntfs but it's almost full at the moment so formatting it is not an option. Also I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 which I've read is possible to turn into an usb drive.
And here is my canundrum. I read something about shrinking a drive but I must admit I didn't quite understand it. I have about 200gb spare on my external harddrive, is there any way of making a partition of it to boot from without screwing up the rest of the harddrive?
Also there are a couple of different ways into turning the iPhone into an external harddrive, but I suppose it's a very bad idea to start changing the file systems of a partition in order to make it bootable?
Is there any way of making this happen today? I really just want to make this happen. Any and all help is much, much appreciated!
Edit: I tried using the external harddrive as it is and extract the ISO to the root, but I get the ntldr is missing error, which is really what brought about all this chasing around for a solution.
Edit 2: The computer I have is a Lenovo computer and it comes with this 20gig partition of whatever's on there. Going to try and boot the installation from there.
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Really go out and buy a DVD (or a pack of them) or a USB thumb big enough to hold the OS ISO.
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Yeah I took the huge risk of installing it straight from the harddrive instead. No clean install but as clean as can be under the circumstances. Case closed. :)
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It's finally upon us. The Cheltenham Festival - jump racing's Olympics, World Cup and Super Bowl rolled into one – kicks off on Tuesday, and I can't wait.
One of the greatest experiences of my life was when my parents, both former trainers, had a winner in Top Cees in 1998 – the cacophony when he was led in in front of stands, with me by his side, will stay with me forever; in fact, I think the hangover is only just wearing off!
Ah. Cheltenham and hangovers. It wouldn't be a Festival without one, and those without the constitution of a Gold Cup-winning gelding may very well not last the pace.
If the Irish only used to trounce the Brits in the drinking department, they're doing the same on the track now, largely thanks to a man by the name of Willie Mullins.
The master trainer has plundered 48 Festival winners in the past two years, including 15 at the last two Festivals and he again holds most of the aces.
His best chance is the magnificent Douvan in Wednesday's Queen Mother Champion Chase, while Vroum Vroum Mag faces stablemate Limini in the Mares' event - he should have the 1-2.
I really like the look of Brain Power in the Champion Hurdle - he's an unexposed type who absolutely trounced a valuable handicap hurdle field at Ascot last time, and in a race without an obvious superstar, it could pay to back an up-and-comer.
Money has been pouring in for Unowhatimeanharry to land the Stayers' Hurdle on Thursday, but Cole Harden won the race in 2015 and has been primed to regain his crown.
The Gold Cup could be an absolute cracker. Trainer Colin Tizzard has the top two in the betting, Cue Card and Native River; it looks like it's his to lose, but you'd do worse than to have some each-way money on Sizing John, winner of the Irish Gold Cup and tip of many a shrewd judge.
Whatever you're backing, have a great Festival!
My five favourite Festival winners
Top Cees 1998
Nothing's more special than having a Cheltenham winner, and that's exactly what my parents had with Top Cees when I was a teenager. I'll never forget the sheer elation of seeing a horse I grew up with win a race at the toughest meeting of them all.
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Hardy Eustace 2005
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Synchronised 2012
Vintage AP McCoy as he pushed and shoved the game and talented Sychronised for over a circuit to grab Gold Cup glory – a superhuman effort from horse and rider.
Sprinter Sacre 2016
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And while Leslie Knope has written a book this season, Poehler has no such aspirations, since her friends Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling have already written about her so glowingly in their own books. "The dream of a lazy writer is to have everyone write about you," Poehler said. "You never have to do it yourself. I would so much rather read what Mindy and Tina write about me — to be in their books is a dream come true. If I wrote a book, all I'm going to do is excerpt their chapters. I'll write, like, an eight-page book. I'll write a two-line foreword, then I'll use their passages, and maybe I'll ask someone to sketch something in the back. And then I'll be done."


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Dear friends, 😀
Today, my husband's nephew got married! 😀 For the Chinese, weddings and the birth of a baby are considered the most auspicious occasions in one's life. It is a ceremony that is usually steeped in traditions and customs but in this modern age, most weddings have been much simplified in ceremony but one thing remains the same throughout the generations ===> a lavish meal for guests and relatives. After the wedding ceremony, there is usually a lunch followed by a dinner served by the bridegroom's family.
However, this month is the Chinese lunar 8th month, a month that is traditionally as a very auspicious month to get married in and most restaurants are fully booked for wedding dinners. As such, this nephew has to hold a wedding lunch banquet instead of dinner. 😀
So, after attending the wedding ceremony at the nephew's home, we proceeded to a restaurant located in one of the golf clubs in town, for a lavish 9-course sit down meal. Wow, this meant that I have been feasting from 1pm until 3 pm 🙄 😆 because the dishes are served one at a time at about 15-20 minutes intervals. This was what we had at the wedding lunch :-
1) Pearl Five Hot and Cold Combination (deep fried prawns, jellyfish salad, stirfried kung pao squid, fish rolls, crabmeat balls)
2) Braised Shark's Fin Soup with Crab Roe
3) Fried Tiger Prawns with Butter
4) Steamed Mandarin Fish with Soy Sauce
5) Sesame Crispy Roasted Chicken
6) Sauteed 3-Type Mushrooms with Dried Scallops
7) Steamed Yam & Rice in Lotus Leaf
8 ) Sea Coconut, Jelly & Lemon Sweet Drink Dessert
9) Shanghai Pancake filled with Lotus Paste, Cendol Coconut Jelly
We are so stuffed full by the time the wedding lunch ended…we are all thinking that we are going to skip dinner tonight! 😆 It is not usual for us to eat this much for lunch indeed!! 🙄 😆 There was no pork served because this restaurant is a "halal" one, i.e. Muslims can have their meals there. 😉
Oh I almost forgot to tell you …. Here is another funny story.
This morning, my family and I were going to nephew's house which was located in a new housing estate in the suburbs of KL to attend his wedding. We have only been to his house once last time but it was another nephew that brought us there due to the complicated route to their house.
Despite having some instructions on how to go there, we got lost. Even as I was calling my other nephew again on my cellphone, I was worried there as I didn't even know how to tell him where we were because we were so lost.
Then a strange and funny thing happened – we were stopped at a T-junction when suddenly we saw a wedding car procession whizzed by right in front of us!! It was our nephew and his bride!! We were saved! All we needed to do then was to follow the wedding car procession. Easy!
My husband and children were all laughing so hard because of the sheer luck of it all. In my heart, I thanked the Pi Yao (a feng shui placement) in our car for coming to our rescue!
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The (Deeply Determined, Exceptionally Sensitive, Sometimes Insecure and Downright Huge) Heart of a Champion
This story was originally published in the September/October, 2011 issue of Inside Triathlon magazine, before Wellington went on to win her fourth Ironman world title in stunning fashion. It was the first in-depth profile of Wellington—one where a writer uses long interviews with friends and family to paint a picture of who Wellington is outside of sport—ever published. She was featured on the cover with a crown as the Queen of Ironman.
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We all know Chrissie Wellington as a three-time Ironman world champion, the iron-distance world record holder (8:18:13), the Ironman world record holder (8:33:56) and the course record holder in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii (8:54:02). But few of us know who Wellington is as a person. Her fame has come so fast and furiously, getting to know the girl behind the glory has taken a backseat to acknowledging her many achievements. In fact, Wellington has never been the subject of an in-depth magazine profile.
Recently, Wellington, who is originally from Norfolk, England, granted me access to a number of her closest acquaintances, and I shared a marathon heart-to-heart session with the icon herself, helping me to uncover the off-course, off-camera Chrissie. And I can attest, while she's as obsessively driven and outrageously successful in other aspects of her life as she is in triathlon, she's also down-to-earth, at times uncertain and even insecure.
Walk into the home that Wellington rents with her boyfriend and fellow pro, Tom Lowe, on Boulder, Colo.'s north side and the first thing you'll notice is the fireplace mantel. On it resides a collection of six greeting cards, inspirational missives given to Wellington by caring confidantes at various pivotal points in her life. One gives reassurance for her 2007 decision to quit a secure government job and make the precarious leap to professional sports. Another, a fierce "You showed them!" following Kona 2007, refers to the teammates who shunned Wellington when she first joined Brett Sutton's TeamTBB training squad. Wellington carries the cards everywhere she travels.
Wellington's friend and family relationships are utterly core to her being, and she expends massive amounts of time and energy nurturing her connections around the globe.
"As a result of living in so many cities in the U.K. and traveling to numerous countries, Chrissie has met countless people," said her mother, Lin Wellington. "It never ceases to amaze us how she manages to keep in touch."
The three-time world champion is far more concerned with the goings on in her friends' lives than in spouting off about her own.
"When you see Chrissie—and sometimes it drives me slightly mad—she bombards you with questions about you," said Naomi Flood, Wellington's best mate from graduate school at the University of Manchester. "She's not one of these people who wants to talk endlessly about herself."
Matthew Wellington, Chrissie's younger brother, agrees: "Pretentiousness and my sister are like chalk and cheese. It just doesn't happen—ever."
Georgina Cashmore, a former co-worker of Wellington's and one of her dearest friends to this day, summed up her pal's sincerity by saying, "Chrissie will always make space for you in her life. If she says she will be there, she will be there. If she can't be there, she will tell you she can't. She will protect me beyond all else. She rightly expects the same in return and knows that no matter what I will always love, support and ground her. It is a no-fuss friendship—we tell each other what we think even if it's not what the other wants to hear. She farts—I tell her it stinks."
I repeated Cashmore's words to Wellington, and her eyes welled up (despite a burst of laughter).
"That's touching to me more than anything," she said, "because it means I'm doing something right. [It's] sort of a vindication of who I am—that I'm valued as a friend, not just as a sporting icon."
In a way, she hoards love and support; she holds it close, almost in fear it might slip away.
"Chrissie doesn't do second in anything—not as a friend, a daughter, at work, in training or in competition," Cashmore said. "She takes second place extremely personally and it rocks her to the core to feel that she has failed in any part of her life. Chrissie fears how her actions will be interpreted or how they will impact others, she fears not being able to be true to herself and true to others, but most of all she fears being away from those she loves."
The love Wellington cherishes is a two-way street, however, even with those she hasn't met.
"Letters and e-mails and messages—I save them all. I save every single message that I get to my website," she said. "Because it's important."
She replies to fans personally as often as possible.
Wellington's heart stretches even wider when it comes to the charitable causes she supports—groups such as the Blazeman Foundation for ALS, a nonprofit that seeks to find a cure for the fatal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or Lou Gehrig's disease) that attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord; the KIDS Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to childhood injury prevention and recovery; and GoTRIbal, which seeks to use endurance sports to empower women.
Wellington's belief in charity is something she harbored as a young girl.
"In 1986 [at the age of 9] Chrissie was watching a program on TV that explained the plight of some people in Africa who needed urgent medical attention," said Lin Wellington. "Without hesitation, Chrissie jumped up off her chair and announced that she was going to organize a 'bring and buy sale' in our village, to raise money for those afflicted. The result was that over 300 pounds was raised, which in those days was quite a lot of money."
The following year, she wrote a variation of the theater production "Aladdin" and then persuaded her classmates to perform the piece before a packed schoolhouse, announcing to the audience that it was a benefit for victims of the famine in Ethiopia. She again raised a significant sum.
"My dream, even as a kid, was to make a difference in the world," Wellington said. "I remember being so disturbed by the images of famine. I would just get incredibly saddened by inequality and suffering. I try to say this in interviews now and I think it kind of sounds trite, but I want my legacy to be more than any world record. Being a role model for kids, being quite vocal about development and advocating for charities—it's not to be a goody two-shoes. It's not to pull a media stunt. It's because sport has power and as sports people we have a platform. That's really my motivational force."
Early on Matthew Wellington noticed his sister's desire to make a mark on the world: "She could have been a physicist on the Hadron Collider if she wanted. She could have been a hedge fund manager making 4 million a year. But instead she worked for the government and for an NGO in Nepal."
Indeed, Wellington's original plan was to be a lawyer, but a two-year stint traveling abroad opened her eyes to a new world, one in which she felt compelled to champion the underprivileged. She received her master's degree in development studies from Manchester, then landed a U.K. government job working for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that combined her academic aptitude with her natural public-speaking savvy. While at DEFRA, Wellington represented the U.K. at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, wrote and advised on ministerial speeches for British dignitaries including Prime Minister Tony Blair and DEFRA Secretary of State Margaret Beckett, and spearheaded negotiations for the U.K.'s environmental reconstruction policy in Iraq.
"What's weird about my life now," Wellington said, "is I had this whole life beforehand that nobody really knows about. I suppose everyone does—but it's not like I was Macca [Chris McCormack], growing up dreaming of racing Ironman. I didn't watch Ironman Hawaii on TV. I didn't know it existed. I had never heard of it."
Instead, her intensity and passion were channeled first into academics and then into her professional life. Eventually, this segued into athletics.
"I traveled through Africa, Asia and Australia. In Sydney, I started to feel pretty unhealthy from all the eating and drinking I had done. I remember not wanting to run because I'd go bright red, so I just started walking," she reminisced. "Then I entered the City to Surf 14K race. I was very nervous; I'd done no training. In my diary I wrote, 'This is going to be torture. I'm going to go bright red. I don't know if I'll be able to finish.' It was 14K. I did it in 1:19 [a little over 9-minute-per-mile pace] and I was exhilarated! So when I got back for grad school I ran and swam to become healthier. Being an obsessive-compulsive person, that grew quite quickly into exercising every day."
Best mate Flood laughs when she remembers Wellington's initial foray into running: "She just kept running. It was a bit like Forrest Gump. It wasn't necessarily healthy. She didn't have good trainers. Her feet were cut to bits. The blisters were phenomenal. It was really horrible at one point, but she wouldn't stop running. It was kind of her way of focusing on something."
Following her time at Manchester, Wellington lived and worked in London, where she ran the London Marathon as a fundraising event and dabbled in short-course triathlon.
Tammy Nelson, a friend with whom Wellington shared an internship selling charity Christmas cards, recalled, "She did the marathon in 2002. She did really well—she came in the top 100 women [83rd, in a time of 3:08:17, to be exact], which was pretty good considering she was just doing it for fun and for charity. It was at that point I realized she must actually be pretty good at sport."
Disillusioned with high-level government bureaucracy and desiring more hands-on development experience, Wellington took a sabbatical to work in Nepal, where she helped to improve water and sanitation conditions. She also improved her own endurance.
"There's a town called Pokhara, 200K from Kathmandu [Nepal]. We wanted to go there for New Year's Eve, so we mountain biked," she said. "It was me, the Nepali mountain bike champion and a few friends. We set off at 7 in the morning, going and going and going, on these shit roads, carrying our rucksacks. It's friggin' not flat. But I would not give in. In the end it was only me and the Nepali mountain bike champ—everyone else got on the bus. We arrived, had a shower and partied all night long. That was quite epic."
Her brother believes that she found her way into professional triathlon simply because she loved running and riding her bike.
"I reckon some Ironman athletes train from when they're 12, 13 years old. Christine [he eschews her well-known nickname] was mountain biking through the Himalayas only five or six years ago," he said. "She didn't even know she was training for Ironman. If there is ever a film written about Christine, it will be a hybrid of 'Rocky' and 'The Motorcycle Diaries.' 'Rocky' because from early on she did this without money, without sponsorship, without huge amounts of specific training. Rocky came from nothing and trained in the woods lifting logs, whilst Christine biked across Nepal. And the analogy to the Che Guevara character in 'The Motorcycle Diaries' is her freedom of spirit and her ambition to travel and see the world. And the two connected is brilliant."
Eventually, the pull of competition proved irresistible, and after winning the overall title at the age-group world championships in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2006, Wellington gave herself a one-year window to succeed as a professional athlete. That was all the time her savings would allow. She sought the guidance of tough-love triathlon coach Brett Sutton, who, through his controversial school-of-hard-knocks approach, helped channel and calm the rookie's overwrought nature.
"Brett treated me like shit when I arrived. Like absolute shit," stated Wellington. "He went to great lengths to make me angry. He didn't pay any attention. He welcomed the fact that all the other girls hated me, because I was a threat. I've spoken to Brett since then. He knew I had something special, so the way he approaches that is to not make that person feel special. He put me in a house with five guys and told them to steal my food, throw things, be boorish, turn the music up—just to toughen me up and make me into a friggin' warrior. But I guess it worked."


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|Lessing, by Cornelius Rinne
"Lessing never gave any indication of the kind of unified personality whose growth and vicissitudes might make a good subject for biography. He was one of those writers who play perpetual hide-and-seek with their readers: you may admire him but -- as Kierkegaard once put it -- your admiration 'will not let you enter into a direct relation with him, since what is admirable in him is precisely that he prevents such a thing.'"
True or false? The quote from Kierkegaard comes from "Something about Lessing," which Rée considers "one of the loveliest tributes ever paid by one writer to another." ( Another thing to add my reading list.) In it Kierkegaard confesses that he wasn't keen on the "universally admired" aspects of Lessing.
I've recently come across Lessing in connection with my work on the role of commerce in Goethe's idea of world literature. It concerns a trial in which Voltaire was involved in 1751 in Berlin and for which Lessing translated some of Voltaire's court documents. In a marvelous book by Jerry Z. Muller, The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought, I discovered that Voltaire was a big proponent of the free market. His support is usually seen in connection with his attempt to break down the power of established religion: the London stock exchange, for instance, was a site of "tolerance" among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traders. In the Philosophical Letters, according to Muller, the market was pictured "as the basis of peaceful coexistence." Contrary to many in the 18th century, particularly the church and other moralists, Voltaire defended the pursuit of luxury. "Abundance," he wrote in The Wordling, is "the mother of the arts."
Voltaire held that self-interest was good for the social order, and he took care of his own self-interest. It seems that he was quite avaricious, and he became wealthy by lending large sums of money to members of the royalty in return for lifelong annual payments. For instance, he "donated 150,000 livres to Prince Charles-Eugene of Württemberg, in return for a lifelong annuity of 15,570 francs; in case of his death, 7,500 a year would be paid to his niece and mistress, Mme. Denis." Muller says that Voltaire's famed hypochondria may be attributed in part to these economic pursuits. Although he lived to be eighty-four, Voltaire constantly spoke in the last decades of his life of illness and "his imminent demise." In this way he hoodwinked debtors who were only liable to repay their debt as long as he lived.
|Lessing and Lavater at Mendelsohn's home, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856
Weil Ihr den Prozess gewonnen habt, so wünsche ich Euch Glück dazu. Es ist mir sehr lieb, daß diese häßliche Geschichte einmal ein Ende ist. Ich hoffe, daß Ihr keine Händel weiter haben werdet, weder mit dem neuen Testamente ...
Frederick went on to write a play Tantale en procès, a satirical comedy in which he made fun of the avaricious Voltaire. As Stahr writes: "So kam Voltaire aus diesem schmutzigen Handel noch mit einem blauen Auge davon." Lessing, who had before the trial been a great admirer of Voltaire and had occasionally dined with him in Berlin, expressed his opinion of the poet after the trial in an epigram entitled "Der geizige Dichter." Here are a few lines from a later epigram about the affair:
Und kurz und gut, den Grund zu fassen,
Warum die List
Dem Juden nicht gelungen ist,
So fallt die Antwort ungefähr,
Herr V*** war ein größrer Schelm als er.
According to Muller, Voltaire was time and again accused by friends and associates of the traditional negative attributes associated in the Christian tradition with mercantile activity. Voltaire's reaction was continually to denounce the Jews, a classic case, writes Muller, of projection.


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Where Is This Island?
Lesson 2 of 14
Objective: TSWBAT clarify the location of San Nicolas and determine how this setting impacts the decisions made by the characters who live there.
Big Idea: The island may be their home, but if a horrible, money grubbing murderer and his lackeys threatened your space, wouldn't you think twice about staying?
Warm Up
Write ISLAND on the board and draw three lines originating from the I, A, and D to make categories. Lead the discussion around these categories.
Familiarity: "Who has visited an island/knows of an island?"
Characteristics: "What are some things unique to an island?"
Pros/Cons: "What would be great about living on an island? What might be difficult about it?"
The kids will contribute much to the lists and a lot of discussion (maybe more than you'd like about family trips to Hawaii) will follow. The main idea is to get the kids centered on the topic at hand.
NOTE: ISLAND Warm Up will be used later in the lesson. If it can't be saved on the board then jot a quick copy of the kids responses on notebook paper, so you can revisit it.
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Provide a map of Southern California containing San Nicolas island for each student, but don't pass out initially. The island of San Nicolas, the most remote of the Channel Islands, is located about fifty-three miles off the coast west of Los Angeles.
Scott O'Dell writes a description of the the island so beautifully that the students may be able to draw an effective likeness from that description alone. Visualizing is an important gift to a reader. Images in a story create better reading comprehension. If a character or a place can be visualized, the story develops more meaning and the reader is involved. This is not an easy skill for all children. Often, characters are the easiest to imagine. A place, such as the island described below, may be more abstract. If I asked the students only to visualize, some find it difficult, but when they're asked to draw what they hear, even those who are struggling make better sense of it.
Our island is two leagues long and one league wide, and if you were standing on one of the hills that rise in the middle of it, you would think that it looked like a fish. Like a dolphin lying on its side, with its tail pointing toward the sunrise, its nose pointing to the sunset, and its fins making reefs and the rocky ledges along the shore.
The ratio of the island is noted in leagues. A league is about 3 miles long. The students will also note the clues as to its shape by angling it in accordance with sunrise and sunset. They should use the description to draw maps as a kind of rough draft. These will not always be accurate, but the kids have a good time trying to match the descripion, and it's fun to see how closely they resemble one anothers'. I'll give them actual maps of Southern California and point out San Nicolas at the end or for those who really want one.
Next step, each group gets a 9X11 sheet of construction paper in which to draw their island from their rough draft. Those illustrations that are really off base I will monitor and help with, but because they're in groups, the results are usually not to far away from the actual. The Island Maps may be displayed on a bulletin board, but easily accessible so additions can be made as information is given in the book.
Here is a slideshow of the groups' maps Clicking on the slideshow takes you to kizoa.com
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Review and Closure
Allow the groups to take their turn in sharing their creation with the class. After all have had a turn, refer back to the ISLAND visual from the Warm Up.
The first two categories were about being familiar with an island and its characteristics. Certainly touch on those..."Did your group draw what you know to be an island?" and "Does your map show any of the characteristics of what we said is unique to an island?"
Settle on the third category for the majority of the discussion: Pros/Cons of living on an island. "We talked about what would be great, or not, about living on an island."
The objective now is to remind them that the island in the book is home to the people of Ghalas-at. Have them draw a T-Chart and title it HOME on the next page of their Literature Spirals. On the left side they write Pros"Living at Home" and on the right "Living on My Own."
"Think about your own home. On the T-chart, write what makes you happy living at home and what it would be like to live alone." No need to share unless there is extra time.
Explain the island inhabitants are content in their island home, but conflict has come and disrupted that happiness. In their Literature Spirals they speculate about how living on an island might make things difficult in a time of crisis, and what might happen as a result.


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Quick: what chain has the best, the most "life-changing" burgers in America? Los Angeles favorite In-N-Out? Culver's, Wisconsin's Home of the Butter Burger? New York Times restaurant critic-vetted Shake Shack? Not according to Esquire readers.
Instead, when the magazine's asked users to name their pick for the most life-changing burger in America, they picked Dick's Drive-in, which has six locations in western Washington state.
The poll wasn't even close. Dick's commanded a whopping 56% of the vote, putting it worlds ahead of In-N-Out and Five Guys, the chains in second and third respectively.
The resounding victory is especially surprising when you consider how many more In-N-Out and Five Guys locations there are than Dick's. Unlike some other polls, this one was not adjusted for the size of the chains. Dick's, though, is known for its rabid fan base. The restaurant's Facebook page has almost 200,000 fans, who are enthusiastic over the dependable allure of the brand's $2.70 fresh-made hamburgers.
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Wildlife Wednesday
It is a Brown Snake also known as a DeKays snake, it is nonpoisonous so Daddy took it down to the pond and released it. ~ATCAD
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What a lovely little snake! My human loved snakes even before she loved cats.ReplyDeleteReplies
Wow, your human sounds so cool. Ours is a tiny bit afraid of snakes.Delete
guyz.....we haz de heebeez lookin at that thing frum kleer over heer in TT !!!! ☺☺♥♥♥ReplyDelete
Yikes! Mom and I are afraid of snakes. Your dad is brave.ReplyDelete
Love and licks,
Cool snake. We do not see many here in town.ReplyDelete
My Tabby Cat loves to catch little snakes!! Sometimes he brings them to Mom and they're wrapped all around his head. Mom saves him and the snakes and lets them go.ReplyDelete
Molly and my Mom @The Fast and The Furriest
That's really cool!ReplyDelete
Good job! Too many people kill snakes for stupid reasons :(ReplyDelete
What a cute tiny snake ! It's nice of your dad to help him ! PurrsReplyDelete
I wonder how many snakes we'll find when spring comes. Right now, it's too cold for snakes, I think. purrsReplyDelete
Wishing the slithery guy luck at the pond.ReplyDelete
Wow...your Dad sure is brave!!ReplyDelete
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Those are also known as pencil snakes we think, for obvious reasons... Years and years ago when petcretary was about 18 or so...yikes, that was sooooooooo long ago,MOL! Anypaws she was on an outing with a younger gang, and a little boy picked up a snake like that and presented it right to her face. Um...he expected her to shriek or have a conniption, but she said wow, can I hold it for a while. That youngster's jaw fell almost to the ground...ReplyDelete
Petcretary is not scared of snakes,and she finds them fascinating creatures. She has to rescue many of them from dog-guy...we do have Mattawan Rattlers in our state but they are shy and very rare in our area. One of the prettiest ones she has evfur seen is a blue racer. Iridescent blue!! Wow!
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by Roxanne Cheney
We received Max, a 10 month old Bichon puppy from a lady who had utterly neglected him.
So neglected, he wouldn't leave my husband's lap. Curiously, he didn't smell objects (maybe he couldn't???), and he never barked. Finally, after 6 months, a small yip came from Max. My husband and I both looked at Max, and then at each other. Max could bark!
For such a small dog, Max liked to hang with the big boys. The bigger the better. He arrogantly dismissed little dogs his own size. He also dismissed adults; but never a child. Patiently he would stand there while they petted him.
Max became a great traveling partner, as my husband and I joined the ranks of the full time RVer. What fun we had! But, the fun was soon to end, as I was diagnosed with cancer.
Max, who was always Daddy's boy, quickly turned his love and support towards me. Whenever I cried, he sat very close by me, to give me comfort. I could count on Max, and I attribute my good recovery to his inspiration.
Then Max, after a stay in the bowels of the Arizona desert, was diagnosed with Valley Fever.
By the time he was finally able to get a vet who accurately diagnosed him with something other than arthritis, he was at death's door. No one expected him to live.
Miraculously, and despite the skepticism of the vets, Max pulled through, after several very painful and agonizing months of the fungus in his bone.
He would now be on an anti fungal the rest of his life, with yearly titers to see how active the fungus still was.
No one told us that anti fungals would also cause liver failure. But, what good would that have done, if they had? He needed the medicine.
That was 3 years ago.
Four days ago, he started vomiting, and daily he deteriorated further. Via various diagnostic tests, we were told he was in end stage liver failure, his liver was so cirrhotic, it was essentially useless. When he started to urinate blood, we quickly made the decision to put him to sleep.
He was so happy the day we took him on his final ride. Max loved rides. He walked proudly into the vets office, stopping to smell the flower in the outside pot first (oh yes, forgot to mention, he gradually learned the joy of smelling, and nothing got by him without a quick sniff).
After the doctor put the IV in his ankle, he jumped up on the couch, and into my husband's lap. He was so happy. He even smiled at me, as the doctor put the medicine into the IV port. Thirty seconds later, he was gone!
That was yesterday. My husband and I are in the grips of agonizing grief. He was only 8 years old. He should have lived for 7 more years. What a cruel fate was played on this intelligent, loving, and loyal little boy.
We love you so much, Max
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In addition to all the wonderful product we have been getting in from Tim Holtz Halloween, Authentique, Carta Bella, Tonic etc., we just got in an entire pallet of goodies from Prima.
Julie Nutting's 4 new Halloween themed doll stamps are in! Lil' Witch stamp even comes with her very own die set. Also newly released are the die sets for Rita, Valentina, Chiara and Audrey. The die sets include one for the doll and a separate die for the dress and any add-on, like the boots or hat. Each die set comes in its own plastic pouch with snap closure. No more fussy cutting needed for these four girls.
The two new lines from Prima, Rossibelle and Sweet Peppermint, are fantastic! The colors, the ephemera, the flowers! Each line has 10 sets of coordinating flowers. And then there is the ephemera. Sweet Peppermint ephemera even includes a small glass vial with a tree and snow in it.
Oh, did I say flowers? In addition to the flowers from the two lines, we also got in boxes and boxes of other flowers. The colors are so vibrant. You will want to create something just so that you can use these flowers.
3D Wood Alpha Pieces by the box load. Three sizes of letters: 1" 1.5" and 1.75", each size has two different styles. Great for any of your creative projects. And there is new rhinestone strands in 5 colors, new Watercolor books, Watercolor Confections in Pastels, Ribbons and trims, pearls, Planner Glue Sticks, and Memory Hardware albums.
And that's just the Prima product. Still to come: New Distress Crayons, many Ranger products, Lawn Fawn, Pebbles, BoBunny.... I'm sure I've forgotten to list some.
Based on all the goodies being released, I guess summer is over and it's time to get back to crafting.
Now, where do I start.
Be inspired and create.
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BlackhawkBig adventure score, lead melody played by electric guitar giving a slight wild west edge.
Gotham ChaseClimactic and dramatic orchestra backed by synthesizer. Big fast toms and cymbal crashes. Big finish.
Keywords: Batman, Bomb, Break Out, Chase, Conspiracy, Dark Knight, Escape, Expedition, Grandiose, Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Monster Movie, Patriotic War Movie, Police, Pressure, Serious, Showdown, Sneaking, Spy, Tension, Terminator, Terror Squad, Threat, Thriller, Ticking Bomb, Washington Conspiracy
Keywords: 13th Warrior, Ancestors, Ancient Times, Battle, Braveheart, Chase, Enemy Approaching, Expedition, Last Of The Mohicans, Scotland, Warrior
New HorizonsSlowly building staccatos of strings and woodwinds. Melody by solo strings, then full orchestra.
Keywords: Da Vinci Code, Hans Zimmer, Serious
OminousBeautiful and uplifting etherial theme with electronic drum beat and synth pads. Solo vocal with Enya and Enigma flavours.
Into The WoodsThis is an inspirational track with a modern feel. It contains ethereal delayed guitars and piano along with atmospheric orchestral percussion. Gradually builds throughout.
Composed by Aaron Williams
Keywords: 300, A Beautiful Mind, Alien, Amelie, American Beauty, Angels, Antarctic, BBC, Big Ending, Brian Eno, Burglary, Chilled, Cold Mountain, Conspiracy, Corporate, Crash, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Da Vinci Code, Dark Knight, Dramatic, Enemy Approaching, Expansive, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight scene, Film, Film Score, Fire, Flight, Floating, Forrest Gump, Freeze, Grandiose, Hans Zimmer, Harry Potter, Imagination, Jack Johnson, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, John McEntire, John Williams, Journey, Jurassic Park, Last Of The Mohicans, Mission Impossible, Montage, Mountain, My Name is Osama, Noise, Ocean, Rainy Day, Relationship, Relaxation, Remembrance, Romance, Seaguls, Sigur Ros, Sixth Sense, Space Exploration, Spiritual, Squarepusher, Sunrise, Sunset, Surf, Terminator, The Lady In The Water, The Last Samurai, Ticking Bomb, Triumphant, Underwater Search, Vibrant, War, War Film, War Of The Worlds, Wildlife Documentary, Wistful
Space HybridMassive action-score. Big drums, electronic sounds, big strings, and leads up to a big climactic finish
Keywords: 20th Century Fox, 300, Dark Knight, Dramatic, Gladiator, Last Of The Mohicans, Panic, Transformers, War, War Film
ReturningMajestic melody played by orchestra and solo guitar. Military snares. Drumbeat enters at 1:36.
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ootd; feeling like Madeline the Parisienne schoolgirl in my urban outfitters dress
and topshop boots and shirt. (Excuse the horribly smudged mirror, I'm not well
practised at full length photos yet and didn't notice, but I will improve!)
Anyway, the place we went is one I've been to twice before. It's called Epicures of Hyndland. Here are links to it's Facebook and it's website, for all you curious Glaswegians. It's very easy to get to if you live in the west end, you just go down Byres Road in the direction of the University, and turn right at the crossroads with Tinderbox on the corner, and continue until you find it (those are rough directions, but as the name suggests it is indeed in Hyndland).
Website - http://www.epicuresofhyndland.co.uk
As someone well aware of how important breakfast is and who enjoys actual breakfast food more than almost any other food-genre, I very rarely eat breakfast. A crime, I know and I do love breakfast, but I must confess those ten minutes before a lecture are often better spent in bed.
At Epicures though, the breakfast is definitely worth getting up for. I had my all time breakfast favourite; Eggs Benedict. For those of you that haven't had Eggs Benedict before, it is a poached egg, sat on top of bacon and again on an english muffin, and coated in hollandaise sauce. Which is, in my opinion, perhaps the champion of sauces. Simple too, made just by emulsifying egg yolks and melted butter, normally with some lemon juice of white wine vinegar. Yum. I'm making myself hungry again just thinking about it.
Mum and my boyfriend both had the cooked breakfast, which looked just as good.
Calum's verdict; "Beezer, I am full and happy, this was a sturdy step towards conquering my fear of cooked breakfasts after last time, when breakfast made a second appearance after losing a fight with alcohol... *shudders* Good sausages too. I liked the little pot with the beans also."
(As a side note, for those of you who don't like their beans touching their bacon, like my mum, this is the place for you).
For all you veggies out there, I have also had the Eggs Florentine (the same as the above but with buttery wilted spinach instead of bacon <3) and the veggie cooked breakfast, with mushrooms and veggie sausages, which was sublime.
You'll have to excuse the uneven distribution of sausages to black pudding, some swapping was done before I could take a picture.
Anyhow, to conclude this little review (hey, word of the ordinary-man and all that) Epicures is well worth a visit. They do breakfast every day, and whilst I haven't been for lunch or dinner yet, the menus look amazing and I will definitely be trying it out. It is slightly above the average student budget, so my tip for this one is either save it for a well-deserved treat, or get mum and dad to take you like I did. Aside from the food, the staff are friendly and the atmosphere is lovely; laid back, self-assured and definitely in the right place.
Now, to get up the nerve to poach an egg myself.
Orange and lemon chicken (style pieces of quorn) stir-fry for dinner tonight, yum.


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Well, there's always christmas. But these are probably a boatload of cash, more than my little piggy bank can handle, sadly.
Monday, September 27, 2010
all i want is a rock on my finger...
These rings made by Billy Bride are simply stunning! I want one on my finger...
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Friday, September 17, 2010
the time has come, the walrus said
So, yesterday (which was thursday), my mum had her piece in the Gardiner Museum in Toronto (which is a pretty big deal). So the cousins and Ellie (Who is my younger sister, for those of you who didn't know), all trekked down to the Museum and saw the show, which was really cool. And they had cake so that was a plus. Also, we did a photo-shoot, courtesy of my cousin Ali. It turned out amazingly well, and i am so happy with the pictures!!
So in some of the picture i have a rather unfortunate bulge in my pocket, courtesy of my wonderfully shitty cellphone. thanks a lot phone, thanks.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
let's watch the seasons change
The past couple of days here in Toronto have been so cold, compared to the summer long heat-wave that we've been having. But, nonetheless, my cousin Ali still agreed to do a photo-shoot for me. Here are some of the pictures:
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Friday, September 3, 2010
try not to forget the warm summer sun
The last days of summer are trickling down and as the air becomes colder, we start to wear sweaters instead of shorts. Good bye summer- till next year!
Anyways, these pictures were taken by my cousin Ali, of my cousin Zoe.
top and shorts from American Apparel
Glasses from urban Outfitters
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News Release
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War casualties exhibit with combat boots
at Manchester College on May 12
The traveling exhibit, Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Indiana, comes to the Manchester College campus on Wednesday, May 12. Honoring fallen U.S. military personnel and Afghan and Iraqi civilians, the exhibit is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. The public is invited to view the free exhibit from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the College mall in the center of campus.
Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Indiana details costs of war to the state of Indiana. It includes 162 pairs of empty boots representing fallen servicemen and women from Indiana, and a visual representation of the tens of thousands of Afghan and Iraqi civilian casualties.
The Manchester College exhibit is part of the American Friends Service Committee's national Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War network. The national exhibit was last displayed on Memorial Day weekend 2007 with more than 3,400 pairs of boots – the last time the entire death toll was represented in one location. The exhibition now is divided into state displays, traveling to cities and towns. Combined, the state displays include almost 4,000 pairs of combat boots.
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Curse of the Fire Horse
Like me, Haruka was born in 1966. According the Chinese calendar, this was a once-in-six decades Year of the Horse, called the Hinoe Uma, or Fire Horse.[1] Superstition had it that people born in this year have "bad personalities" . . .
Those Chinese have certainly got your number!
Listen. The superstition is even less flattering for women born in that year: the Japanese believe that women born in the Year of the Fire Horse are so headstrong that they will end up driving their husbands to an early grave, a concern widespread enough that the birth rate actually plummeted in Japan in 1966.[2] Haruka used to tell me that thanks to the superstition, it was a breeze getting into the schools of her choice. There was never much competition. The same was true when she started job-hunting: no shortage of work for a cute, young woman with big tits. If only I . . .
Had large breasts?
If only I had been a Japanese girl born in 1966. Anyways, whether you want to believe it or not, Haruka fit that stereotypical image of the Fire Horse perfectly—stubborn, overbearing, selfish. I often joked that sooner or later she was going to kill me. So, it wasn't all that surprising to me that she would one day decide she was going to take it easy and become "a housewife". What did surprise me, though, was when she told me she was going to visit Mexico.
[1] Hinoe Uma (丙午、ひのえうま). In addition to the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac calendar there are five elements—fire, earth, metal, water, and wood—bringing the total number of years in the Chinese calendar to sixty (12 animals x 5 elements = 60 years). Those of you familiar with Asian cultures may have heard that the sixtieth birthday is a special one. It signifies the completion of the cycle and a rebirth of sorts. In Japanese, where a baby is called akachan (赤ちゃん, lit. "Little Red"), those who become sixty are usually presented with something red.
In the 20th century, 1906 and 1966 were Hinoe-Uma years. According to the theory of Yin-Yang and the five elements, Hinoe and Uma are characterized as being on the Yin side of Fire. It was commonly believed that more fires occurred in those years than in other years. There was also a widespread belief that women born in Hinoe Uma year were unyielding, and henpecked their husbands to death. For more, go here.
[2] The number of births dropped some 25% in 1966. The figure was so low that it was not matched again until 1989 when the effects of Japan's dwindling birthrate started to be felt. 50.9% of the children born in 1966 were, like Haruka, the first son or daughter, the highest rate ever. For more, go here.


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S4C viewers in the Carmarthen area are invited to share their views on the Channel's services at a Viewers' Evening to be held at the Halliwell Centre, Trinity University College on Tuesday, 15 September at 7.00pm.
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I have been a big fan of the High Score books ever since I started playing video games. For anyone who doesn't know, High Score is a coffee table illustrated book by Rusel DeMaria that reviews the history of video games from the very beginning. The aspect that most struck me about DeMaria's books was the plethora of images and graphics that never got to the point of being overused. His books take the reader on a very enjoyable yet informational journey through one of the most popular and quickly evolving artistic mediums.
The problem, of course, with the breakneck speed of the evolution of video games is that a book is almost instantly outdated as soon as it is published. So books like DeMaria's need to be updated every couple of years to stay current, but it is hard to keep a publisher for an extend amount of time when the sales pitch is that this book will be instantly obsolete. Recently securing a new publisher, DeMaria is devoting a full 3-4 months of his time to work on this book. Costs not only include his own personal expenses but travel for interviews and the complicated excursion of securing photo rights. The High Score series has not been updated since the beginning of the millennia, and just think of all the change that has occurred in just these last twelve years.
For perspective, in the year 2000 the PS2 was released as well as The Sims, Diablo 2, Escape from Monkey Island, and the second Tony Hawk Pro Skater. That gap of time could easily fit in its own coffee table book which leaves DeMaria with a hard enough task on his time without reworking and updating the previous 30-some years of video game lore.
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