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- Name: Wayne Rooney
- Age: 32 years old
- Height: 5ft 9in (176 cm)
- Occupation: Soccer Player
- Net Worth: US $150 Million
- Status: Alive
Wayne Mark Rooney is an English professional soccer player. He's the captain of Manchester United and England's national football team. Rooney stands 5ft 9in and plays the forward or midfielder position. He was born to parents Jeanette and Wayne Sr. on October 24, 1985 in Croxteth, Liverpool. He has two younger siblings, John and Graham. Rooney attended Our Lady & St. Swithin's RC primary school. He continued his education at De La Salle Academy in Liverpool.
Rooney began his youth career with Everton F.C. Reserves and Academy in 1996. He was recruited at the age of 9 following an impressive scoring record with a local junior league team. Rooney worked his way through the youth division and made the under-19 squad at the age of 15. He helped the team advance to the 2002 FA Youth Cup final where they lost to Aston Villa. Rooney made his senior debut with Everton F.C. in 2002. He was honored with the BBC Sports Young Personality of the Year award a few months later. In 2003, he became the youngest player to represent England's national team.
Rooney transferred to Manchester United in 2004 and quickly became one of the club's top goalscorer. He's won five Premiere League titles, a UEFA championship, and two Football League Cups. Rooney won his first FIFA Club World Cup in 2008, defeating LDU Quito. In 2010, he was named PFA Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year. Rooney is endorsed by big names like Nike and EA Sports. He also had a business relationship with Coca-Cola which ended in 2011.
Wayne Rooney has a net worth of $150 million and a yearly salary of $26 million. He signed a four-year contract extension with Manchester United in 2014 valued at $104 million. He's ranked among the highest paid soccer player behind Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar. Rooney married 'Coleen McLoughlin' in 2008 and they have three children, Kai Wayne, Klay Anthony, and Kit Joseph.
Wayne Rooney Age, Birthday, Salary, Wiki
- Birth Name: Wayne Mark Rooney
- Birthday: October 24, 1985
- How Old : Age: 32 years old
- Place of Birth: Croxteth, Liverpool, England
- Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
- How Tall : Height: 5ft 9in (176 cm)
- Occupation: Professional Soccer Player
- Years Active: 2000-present
- Net Worth & Salary: US $150 Million
- Marriage(s): Coleen McLoughlin
- Death-O-Meter: Alive


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the plan revamped processed to fit the man grasp onto a vague notion that everything will be ok desperate heartless dragged down by a crippled will that hides its face in shame too much pride to swallow in one gulp it was so comical but as it turned out i did not break into laughter i wasn't laughing this vision of success has been determined by the false pretense on which it has settled i'm so sick of seeing the same role played with each possession gained the smile on your face grows along with the void in your heart "money brings happiness" it was so well written i detest your perfection and i choose to kill the script
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The Department of Literary Arts is pleased to announce the selected writings for the 2012 Prizes in Literary Arts. Comments from the judges follow each selection.
Thank you to all who entered their work, and congratulations to the selected writers.
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Academy of American Poets Prize
"Homewriting" by Ethan Reed: The story suggested by the lines of story and attendant details rises persuasively in the mind of the reader where the poem actually composes its enactment. With phrasing slightly askew, background rendered in hints and near events, a tension accrues. The language moves true to its time and tone, attentive to all neighboring sounds, their push and flow. The more simply the poem appears to be laid out, in orderly quatrains full of common nouns, essential adjectives and familiar verbs, the more mysterious the whole thing grows. This is a very satisfying engagement.
Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Awards
"The Enigmatic Demoiselle, Eloign and Other Poems" by Tuong Vy T. Nguyen: humorous, quirky writing -- with an attention to formal considerations and playful perspectives.
"A Certain Length of Handhold"by Allison Trionfetti: A magnificent long-poem, dramatically vital, emotionally rich -- with imagery in repetition and a taut, tense, outcome.
"Everything Tasty" by Eric Adamson: Classic, hallowed, personal and yet resonantly epic. These small moments cast refreshing light around them.
"Around the Bone: A Memoir" by Rebecca Ansorge: An investigation, via a shell, into the anatomy of a tornado, and other disasters.
"Fish Story & Other Poems" by Maggie Millner: Expansive, erudite, work that weaves between thinking and imagery, the path of small experiences, governed by larger laws.
Feldman Prizes in Fiction
"Five Stories" by Evelyn Hampton: A series of precise and satisfying pieces that explore phenomenological limitations. These are always intriguing tales, quite well written, and they move in directions that are quietly unlike what you might expect. The characters struggle to maintain their identity, explore the tropes of disappearance and loss. It's amazing how much the writer manages to get into 23 short pages.
"Mary Poppins' Parasol" by Tuong Vy T. Nguyen: Genuinely bizarre moves and gestures pass through these ten stories, and the writer has a real talent for capturing what seems like the wrong word and making it, somehow, right. There are flashes and bursts of genius here, moments when language short-circuits or situations become exceedingly strange and even absurdly funny. But the writer's authority always carries us onward.
"Evil! Doctor Zjock Zjockenstein!! et al." by Nick Potter: A wonderful combination of words and images, in which the words complicate the images and vice versa. The writer can be incredibly funny, even slapsticky, but beneath that humor there lies a kind of dark attention to the things of the world, and there is a view of life that's intriguing and slightly disturbing...
Beth Lisa Feldman Prize in Children's Literature
"Why Stanley Motorcycle is in a Book" by Nick Potter, is a long excerpt from a children's novel in progress. It is elegantly written, very well sustained, delightful, compelling, intelligent, unique, even brilliant. That it manages to be a work of metafiction that will delight ten year olds and their parents alike is nearly a miracle. A few terrific illustrations are included. The only thing wrong with the book is that there isn't yet enough of it. Excellent work!
Frances Mason Harris '26 Prizes
"sick farm incantations" by Valerie Hsiung - a manuscript that holds together in mysterious and deeply satisfying ways. Incantatory and authentic - - the best sort of strange.
"Discomfort" by Evelyn Hampton is filled with surprises and beauty at every turn. The nature of the perceptions and the way they find their way to language, and linger, is a pleasure like no other.
John Hawkes Prize in Fiction
"Hermaphrodite in Iowa & Other Stories" by Tuong Vy T. Nguyen: Sensuous, comic, disturbing, compellingly imaginative prose, reminiscent of John Hawkes' earliest work. In Hawkes that sensuousness was anchored in the human psyche, however strange or eccentric its bearer. Here, too, though often displaced into the inanimate and the particulate, with startlingly original consequences.
"Evil! Doctor Zjock Zjockenstein!!" by Nick Potter: Bold, playfully witty writing, comparable to that of our recent visitor Ben Marcus, further enriched by the wistful Goreyesque drawings. What John Hawkes would have most admired, though, is the way a word can arrive suddenly to surprise a whole sentence.
Weston Senior Prize
"A Certain Length of Handhold" by Allison Trionfetti marries word and image formally and conceptually in this short text of "submerged craft" and "form in use" combining found images with collaged language. Masked somewhat as a swimmer's manual, the primary content is water, and the way it acts on or absorbs a body, while remaining as itself a body. Beyond this, there is a tenuous narrative of posture and position (rigid as a beam, or waterlogged and fluid), stasis and locomotion, tension and length: the body in water becomes also a structure, an object, a canoe, an inanimate plank, or the inanimate becomes active in water: "a restless pier…a recovered beam". Throughout the text, a delicate ars poetica emerges: The length of hand-hold as the swimmers in the photographic image elongate below the water marks the point of tension between connection and disconnect, it is also the length of the body's line, and the length of the line of the text, the question of where and when to break form, break lines, maintain tenuous connections.
Selected Poems from María Baranda's "Atlántica y el Rústico" trans by Lara Crystal-Ornelas: Maintaining both the precision of Maria Baranda's almost scientific diction and, somehow, the music of her changeable rhythms as simple subject verb object sentences shift into lapidary, interruptive, revisionary clausal sequences, Lara Crystal-Ornelas renders a difficult poem, and its odd and gorgeous lexicon, into a stunning English translation.
"Horny Child, Stoned Out of Her Mind" by Nikolos Gonzales is a brief but remarkably sustained and rounded psychotropic fantasy. This piece stands on its own but could easily have risen as an extract from some novel-length project. It was a certain seemingly effortless confidence in the deployment of detail and allusive word-choice that immediately attracted— "the corner bit of brownie stuck in the back of the fridge shamelessly covered in transparent Ziploc safety"—then the flow of enjoyably crafted sentences, with rhythm in variety, and a range of complexity and length. 'Horny Child' switches back and forth between two registers. On the one hand there is the third person narration of an improbable, near-future, sci-fi, erotic, gonzo, cosmic, apocalyptic fantasy. Eventually we feel sure that this in the mind of the stoned child herself and yet it is coherent, fantastically, with the story of the child eating the presumably drug-laced brownie and thus half tricks us into believing that all of this exists in some mad, mad world a little too much like that which will soon be inhabited by global youth. The third-person register alternates with first-person representation of the horny girl-child's thoughts, not quite or only just holding herself together, but definitely holding the piece itself together and finally in shorter, coming-down alternations, managing a return from what might well have been "the worst trip in the world" but was, instead, fantastic, edgy fun.
Weston Graduate Prize
"Not Only" by Mary Wilson exhibits a poet who has honed an exacting sense of line, of language, of abstractly-rendered emotion. I am reminded of the philosophical precision of William Bronk, but combined with the exquisite perceptiveness of the usually overlooked found in the work of Leslie Scalapino. There's a nuanced tenderness to these poems, each alive with a sense of yearning, and through desire, examinations of the human condition through rhetorical vocabulary. "Images in which praise becomes..."
"It Comes and Overcomes Me" by Sarah Schwartz: To enter It Comes and Overcomes Me: an Investigation in Six Acts one must "go out equipped with eyes," and not simply to read what the words are saying but also to witness the space of the page becoming architectural--a crucial architecture for living and remembering. To enter one must be unafraid of occasional glimpses, brushes against one's skin, of an actual tactile, three-dimensional city. This is a piece where you believe in the interstices of the concrete and the abstract, of the performed and the sculpted, of void and life. I am still reeling over the last lines: "I come / upon the next // or if all is still // the same: / I come upon it." A profound meditation of space, action, and immobility.
"Blondlot's Transformation" by Evelyn Hampton takes a noir attitude to sound slippage. It sweeps the reader off into a page-turner of slipping identity and disappearance/reappearance that is masterfully duplicated at the material level through layers of rhyme, off-rhyme, assonance, alliteration, and other sound effects. Playing off of genre expectations on the one hand and poetic unpredictability on the other, it achieves a raucous balance that underscores the volatility of language.


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So why return to F1 now? That's precisely what Autoblog asked Honda's Global President and Chief Executive Takanobu Ito (pictured above with McLaren chief Martin Whitmarsh) while visiting his office in Tokyo. While he wouldn't reveal specifics (like when his company's new engine would be available to other teams, as it most certainly will in the long run), Ito-san was clearly happy to discuss the motivation behind the move and the value he feels it brings to the company and its products.
Aside from the recovery of the economic collapse that prompted Honda's withdrawal from the series (much as it did for Toyota and BMW), Ito says the prime consideration for the company's return to the series was the motivation it brings to his employees. After spending a few days in Japan ahead of this week's Tokyo Motor Show, it's all the more evident to this writer how central a role honor and pride of work play in Japanese culture, and competing at the top level of motorsports is something which Ito feels will drive his company and the people behind it to excel.
Ito pointed toward the proliferation of motors within Honda's powertrains as a development he hopes to take to road from track
Another prime consideration Ito cited was the shift in focus on the part of the FIA under Jean Todt's leadership to make F1 more technologically relevant to manufacturers. A hybrid six-cylinder engine is of course more closely associated to most mass-production engines than a high-revving V12, V10 or even V8 engine – configurations which Honda has historically avoided. In particular, Ito pointed toward the proliferation of electric motors within Honda's powertrains as a development which he hopes to take to road from track.
While avoiding specifics, Ito implied that Honda could use electric motors to combat turbo lag by spooling up the turbocharger electrically and capturing the power generated upon winding down to help spool it back up again when needed. So while motivation itself may be Honda's prime motivation in getting back into the pinnacle series of motor racing, there may be more direct and tangible benefits yet to come.


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I agree that the book is not well laid out/written. It is so confusing!
When I post my schedule on the forum, it is my goal, but it definitely changes every day. Sometimes it's off by an hour or for example, sometimes a nap gets missed completely if we are out of the house.
I agree with you. Just recently, I decided to not get so caught up in the schedule, but in the routine. A routine is easier for me to handle mentally because it can be flexible. A schedule in my mind is not flexible. Until I had this realisation, I was letting my parenting be ruled by Babywise, and that wasn't good. I felt like I wasn't raising my own baby because of that.
I agree that the book wasn't written that well. I do well with a lot of practical advice, and the book didn't really provide that. I'm so thankful for this blog and for the forum! :)
I agree so much with this post! I hate telling people that we "do babywise" b/c i get these weird looks. But you're SO right... its just PARENTING!
And i do LOVE Babywise and recommend it constantly (i even order it and send it to all my patients {i'm a dental hygienist and have great relationships with my patients!} as a baby gift to them!) but i ALWAYS do the disclaimer of: its not well written. i dont like how it makes other parenting styles sound horrific and detrimental, i just would like you to read and see if it interests you and if so, go to the blog for more detail. :-) I hate doing that, too, because i'm SO grateful for the Ezzo's writing the series! I just think the Lord was incredibly wise in laying it on Val's heart to start this blog :-)
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Loved your post, Kristin. I feel the same way you do about Babywise and went through the same torture of trying to perfect the Babywise process with my son. I tell my husband that I have a love/hate relationship with the wise series. I love its guidance and truly think it offers a WISE approach to parenting... but at the same time, when things don't go just as the book suggests, it drives me crazy!!!! This blog has been extremely helpful in smoothing out the wrinkles of the wise books. I like Val's more relaxed approach to using the Babywise Series, while she still suggests that she's a perfectionist! Its a nice balance, which I probably need more of as a parent using this parenting method!!! : ) Anyways, thanks for sharing your thoughts in this post! : )
I'm glad I wrote this and that others can relate! I vividly remember having dreams in the beginning of implementing Babywise of clocks and spreadsheets flying around in my head like a movie montage - I was troubleshooting my daughter's schedule in my sleep. So not restful! I realized I needed to relax a bit and focus on the routine as you all have said. I agree Val's blog is SO helpful and wise. P.S. Love the unicorn pic for this post, Val :).
I totally agree that I got stuck on looking at other people's schedules and trying to figure out how their kids would always perfectly adhere to them. I especially found it challenging when I had my second - how could I have the baby nap all day at home and feel like I wasn't locking my older one up all day... Just like you, I've learned to be flexible and that what I'm doing is good enough for us. :) Thanks for this post!


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Polymer Nanocomposites: Characterization, Applications
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Inês Pardal's Commissions
Inês Pardal offers two types of commissions:
Dharma Teachers Portraits & Dharma Sites.
1) Dharma teachers portraits on paper or canvas. One can order any teacher portrait, previously providing a good resolution image of the dharma teacher in question.
2) Dharma sites paintings on canvas. This type of work also requires one or more images of the place that the person wishes to have a painting of.
Inês' Commission process:
Dharma Teachers Portraits: Inês begins by making a sketch of the teacher either on canvas or on paper. To do that, she uses a projector, adjusting the scale to the support. This sketch is done with a water sepia color.
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Finally, she finishes the work, emphasizing some details that can bring out the work, such as intensification of shadows and light, harmonisation between background and figure, etc.
Dharma Sites: The beginning of the process of this work is very similar to the work of Dharma teachers portraits, starting with the sketch with water sepia color.
Then she applies the paints, pigments, glues and pastes, which on one hand will cover some areas of the depicted places and on the other will bring out the detail of other areas in order to offer some reference of the place in question.
The final finishes are given in order to reinforce the details the only clear reference to the depicted place.
Estimated time for completion:
Dharma Teachers Portraits: Paper: 15 days | Canvas: 1 month
Dharma Sites: 15 days to 1 month
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24cmx18cm $400
30cmx25cm $540
From 50cmx50cm to 70cmx70cm $1400
From 80cmx80cm to 100cmx100cm $2100
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From 80cmx100cm to 100cmx120cm $2200
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Max: 30cmx25cm
Min: 50cmx50cm
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Max: 100cmx120cm
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Salad dressings should never over power your salad. You want salad dressing to add a clean light taste to your earthy greens that are not overly creamy, garlicky or oily. It defeats the whole purpose of a fresh salad. It's important to mix your salad and eat it right away. Leaving your salad to sit for more than 5 minutes with the dressing on especially if you salted it will give you one big bowl of blah. The salt will release the water from the leaves and wilt your lettuce in a matter of minutes leaving you with a soggy salad. Don't be afraid to use the salt, however, it does bring out the flavor of your salad and keep it from tasting bland. Just try to serve and eat it before to much time has gone by. If I'm serving salad on a buffet, I mix it at the last minute and then call everyone to the table.
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1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon finely chopped shallot
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2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Combine the mustard and shallot in a bowl, and whisk in the olive oil slowly. Continue to whisk to incorporate all the ingredients until smooth. Add the rice wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar and lemon juice. Whisk to blend all ingredients until smooth. Add salt. This vinaigrette will keep in an air tight container for up to a week in the refrigerator.
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
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1 teaspoon finely chopped shallots
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon raspberry vinegar
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
In a glass bowl, combine all of the ingredients and whisk together well. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
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1 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons champagne vinegar
6 ounces blue cheese
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Whisk together the buttermilk and sour cream until smooth, add the vinegar and whisk in. Break the blue cheese into pieces and fold into the buttermilk mixture. Sprinkle the cayenne over the top, and mix
Cover tightly. This dressing will keep in the refrigerator for 3 days
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1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons champagne vinegar
1 small garlic clove, smashed
1 teaspoon minced shallot
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
Cracked pepper
Whisk together the olive oil, Dijon mustard, and champagne vinegar until emulsified. Add the garlic, shallot and salt and stir. Add pepper to taste. Place in an airtight container and let sit for at least an hour. This dressing will keep in the refrigerator for 4 days in an airtight container.
Makes about 1-1/2 cups
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 small shallot, minced fine
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon sherry wine vinegar
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon sherry wine vinegar
In a bowl whisk the mustard, shallot and salt. Add the olive oil and whisk until the oil is incorporated into the mustard. Add the rice wine vinegar, sherry wine vinegar, and balsamic vinegar, mix well.
This vinaigrette will keep in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
About 1-1/2 cups
2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
1 small serrano chili pepper, chopped
2 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger root
1 tablespoon dark molasses
1/4 cup peanut oil
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
In a food processor, combine the soy sauce, lime juice, brown sugar, chili pepper, cilantro, ginger root, and molasses. With the machine running slowly, drizzle in the peanut oil and olive oil until the mixture is blended. It will be thick, creamy, and homogenized. This vinaigrette will keep the refrigerator for 3 days in an airtight container.
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cracked pepper
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh basil
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh mint
Place all of the ingredients in a bowl and stir well. This vinaigrette will keep in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 2 days.
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M.R.Walker is a career Coast Guard officer with over 16 years at sea. He has written novels and short stories that have appear in many magazines and now for the first time in the paperless format. Look for his novels to be released in the near future, including Migration, Patrol Boat, and U-31. His home is in Bend, OR. however, he is currently stationed in San Diego, CA.
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Targeted nutritional supplements are an essential part of Dr. Perricone's 3-Tier Approach to a healthy body and beautiful skin. This perfectly dosed daily program of nutrients is specifically designed to promote healthy weight loss and weight maintenance. They assist by boosting metabolism and decreasing body fat while increasing energy levels and satisfying the appetite. The supplements are organized for convenience into morning, noon and evening packets.
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From W Abram and S Cooper St, Arlington, Texas, drive east on E Abram St/Farm to Market 157 N toward Lampe StContinue to follow E Abram Street. Make a right turn at Roberts Cir. Make the first right turn onto Roberts Cir. Make the first right turn onto Harriett St. Arlington Village Apartments will be on the right.
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So this is pretty exciting – I'm beyond thrilled to announce that I'm making my Star Wars fiction debut in the forthcoming 40th anniversary anthology, Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View.
The book was teased this week on social media with the hashtag #OperationBlueMilk, which was lots of fun to take part in. Full details are up over at StarWars.com, but to give you the general gist – this is an anthology of 40 stories, all of which take place during A New Hope, retelling scenes from the point of view of other characters. More information about the author line-up and the stories themselves is coming, but for the moment, the book is out on October 3, 2017. I'll put up pre-order links once they go live, but for the moment all the US pre-order links are available here. Go, order, I'll wait here!
It's no secret that I'm a Star Wars superfan, so to contribute to a project like this – with my first ever piece of Star Wars fiction – is a tremendous honour. I'm also so pleased that as well as celebrating the anniversary of one of the most important pop culture phenomenons in the world, this book is also being produced for a very good cause indeed. From StarWars.com:
All participating authors have generously forgone any compensation for their stories. Instead, their proceeds will be donated to First Book — a leading nonprofit that provides new books, learning materials, and other essentials to educators and organizations serving children in need. To further celebrate the launch of this book and both companies' longstanding relationships with First Book, Penguin Random House has donated $100,000 to First Book, and Disney/Lucasfilm has donated 100,000 children's books — valued at 1 million dollars — to support First Book and their mission of providing educational resources to children in need.
There was obviously a sandcrawler-load of stuff online about the book, but here's the Tor.com and the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog coverage.
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Gene Clark's upbeat rockers "You Movin'" and "Boston" fueled the dance floor mayhem there. These stunning songs are heard here in their earliest surviving versions! Limited edition colored vinyl w/gorgeous picture sleeve!
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The former head of Wal-Mart's Mexico operations is stepping down from his current board positions at MetLife, effective immediately.
The insurance giant announced Tuesday afternoon that Eduardo Castro-Wright had resigned "due to personal reasons."
Castro-Wright was leading Wal-Mart de Mexico at the time of an alleged widespread bribery scheme there. The New York Times reported last weekend that Castro-Wright was the driving force behind millions of dollars in alleged bribes given to Mexican officials in exchange for speedier building permits and other favors to help it expand aggressively in the region.
Experts say Castro-Wright could face federal criminal charges.
On Tuesday, MetLife filed a letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission from Castro-Wright and addressed to MetLife CEO and Chairman Steven Kandarian.
"Over the past weekend, I notified you of recent events that will require my immediate and personal attention. As a result, I will be stepping down from the board," Castro-Wright wrote. "I now must focus my energy in spending personal time with my family and in protecting my good name and business reputation."
Castro-Wright will step down from two board positions: one with holding company MetLife Inc. and another with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. The New York company said Castro-Wright was first elected to its boards in March 2008.
Last fall, Wal-Mart announced that Castro-Wright would retire July 1 from his current role as vice chairman of Wal-Mart and CEO of its global ecommerce and global sourcing business.
Castro-Wright joined Wal-Mart in 2001 and led its business in Mexico until becoming president and CEO of its U.S. operations in 2005. In June 2010, Wal-Mart appointed Bill Simon, who had been chief operating officer, to take over its U.S. operations, shifting Castro-Wright to lead to the retailer's online and sourcing operations.


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BMW 320 diesel M Sport, automatic, very clean car inside and out, 22,000 miles from brand new. First to see will buy, call for more information.
£16,800 £16,600
Location: Plymouth
Contact: Brent
Phone: 07785 783479
VW Passat Executive, 2014, 2.0, 100,000 miles, full service history, 1 previous owner.
Sat nav, cruise control, top spec. 2 keys, all paperwork.
Price: £7,400 ono
Location: Chippenham
Contact: Anthony
Phone: 07447 994424
3.5 tonne pony & carriage box, Iveco Daily 35 MWB on 55 plate. Converted to take a small pony and two wheeled cart. Ramp (inside sliding van door) with compressed gas strut, strap winch for loading cart in to rear.
Tow bar with twin electrics, wireless reversing camera, remote central locking. Low (73K) mileage, long MOT (17 Nov. 2018) with no advisory note.
Brilliant starter and very willing 2.3 litre engine, drives like a car. Could be converted for bigger equines or trail bikes, etc...
Price: £5,950 ono
Location: Near Royal Wootton Bassett
Contact: Alison
Phone: 07725 895654
1998 MAN lorry, very, very good condition, 6 brand new tyres. £850 of work done for the MOT, full 12 months MOT.
6 ton winch on the back. Drives like a new one. Came straight from a company. Just lorry for sale.
£3,900 £2,500
Location: Plymouth
Contact: Barney
Phone: 07497 323028
Full service history, 3x3 point rear seat belts, air bag passenger, air bag side, air conditioning, cruise control. Electric windows (front/rear), folding rear seats, head restraints. Immobiliser.
In car entertainment (radio CD), remote central locking. Spare wheel (space saver). Seat height adjustment, alarm, electric door mirrors, air bag driver, child locks & Isofix system.
5 seats, blue. It comes with 2 keys. It drives very good. Mileage 78,800, 1.8L, MOT due 13th December 2018.
Price: £2,200 offers
Location: Sutton
Contact: Nico
Phone: 07863 669650
Ifor Williams HB510XL carries two horses up to 17.2 hh or up to four ponies. The HB510XL comes with a headroom of 2.3m and a locking groom's door.
Whether you are a livery yard, trekking centre, riding school carriage driver or private individual with a string of ponies, this trailer, with a maximum gross weight of 3500kg, makes an ideal workhorse. The overall length is 5.76m and overall width is 2.3m.
The overall condition is good having recently been serviced and 4 new tyres and rims added. The electrics have been upgraded and are in full working order. There are 3 internal partitions and full width breast bar.
£6,250 £5,750 ono
Location: Banbury
Contact: Stephanie Clark
Phone: 07990 517272
For sale 435d M Sport Plus Xdrive, digital clock, head up display, convertible comfort pack, reversing camera.
Car is fully loaded. Full logbook, two keys. For more info call.
Price: £41,000 ono
Location: Bournemouth
Contact: Jimmy
Phone: 07474 922031
For sale, Ford Custom Limited 125, good clean van inside and out, 28,000 miles. For more info call.
Price: £11,800 ono
Location: Bournemouth
Contact: Jimmy
Phone: 07474 922031
For sale Fendt Diamond 2018, brand new inside and out no scratches or marks.
It came from MB Caravans all paperwork and keys. For more info call.
Price: £24,500 ono
Location: Bournemouth
Contact: Jimmy
Phone: 07474 922031
Hi everyone, I am selling my horse lorry, it is a Volvo fl6 18 HGV. Had new test last week and full service.
It can take 9 horses and has loads of lockers and it has a sleeper cab. I think it is a polo lorry. I have used it for taking my heavy horses all over the country and abroad.
Selling as I have got a newer one on its way. Some more pics of inside.
Price: £7,000 ovno
Location: Bristol
Contact: John
Phone: 07717 774329
Petrol go kart. 240cc. Used but in very good condition. Selling due to moving.
Price: £650 ovno
Location: Guildford
Contact: Ruben
Phone: 07757 203953
Mobile: : 07736 817729
Castration, passporting, chipping, worming, foot care, dental, advice and support.
2 Wheel exercise Shetland cart with brake, swingle tree and trace hooks on shafts. £340
The complete package, pedigree, size, conformation, attitude, speed & soundness.


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Gov. Jay Inslee has directed flags at all state agency facilities to half-staff on Friday, March 22, in memory of former Gov. Booth Gardner who died last week at the age of 76 from complications from Parkinson's disease.
Flags should remain at half-staff until close of business on Saturday, March 30, or first thing Monday morning, April 1, the governor's office said.
Other government entities, citizens and businesses are encouraged to join this recognition, the governor's office said.


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It's going to be a rough night for Raley's employees.
"It's very nerve wracking. I have a huge pit in my stomach," said Dave Turner, a Produce Manager for the supermarket chain.
Compounding Turner's concerns is a letter he got from Raley's management. In it he is informed that the company is prepared to hire replacement workers for an indefinite period of time.
Most the contract trouble comes from the healthcare aisle. The questions: to what extent healthcare will be cut, who will administer the company's plan, and will there be benefits for retirees?
After 23 years with Raley's, Turner says benefits for retirees is a crucial issue for him.
And if the company isn't prepared to provide them, he's prepared to strike.
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I use PicoScope 5203 with PicoScope software 22.214.171.124 and Windows XP. I use an external trigger and the data I want to save is in channels A, B and math channel A*B. I use an alarm to save the current buffer to a .txt file on capture. I use Scope Mode and 'repeat' for the trigger with the intent to save hundreds of .txt files. I encounter two problems:
1. The data of the three channels is not completely saved, the .txt file is only 256 lines long (it goes from about -103ns to about -40ns, where it should go to about +403ns).
2. If the saved data from channels A and B is correct, then the saved math channel A*B is not A multiplied by B. Up to -40ns the signals are just noise in channels A and B, say -0.00027682 V and -0.00036909 V.
If I try the same without math channel A*B the .txt file seems to contain everything.
How come?
Thanks in advance.


text: Grrrrrrrr. INC. is told by one Big Bear that the Chicago Bears are gonna turn into grizzly bears if the charity conflict over ``The Super Bowl Shuffle`` proceeds is not resolved. Flash! ``We never signed a contract and we`ll take matters into our own hands if the conflict isn`t resolved,`` a Bear player said. ``And after this, I`d be surprised if anyone could get the Bears together for anything except a game!`` Atty. Gen. Neil Hartigan, he says, ``is getting a bum rap for challenging the venture. We were never told that all the money would go to charity, but we were told a substantial portion would.


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NCAA, T3Media launch YouTube channel to commemorate 75th March Madness
DENVER -- As a part of its partnership with the NCAA and the season-long celebration of 75 Years of March Madness, T3Media, Inc. (formerly Thought Equity Motion), a leading provider of cloud-based video management and licensing services, and the official licensee of NCAA championship footage and photos, announced Tuesday the launch of an official YouTube Channel, NCAA OnDemand. The channel's videos are linked to All-Time March Madness Voting on NCAA.com -- where fans can vote on their all-time favorite players, teams and moments in NCAA tournament history. Results of the voting (Top 15 All-Time Players, one All-Time Team, one All-Time Moment) will be announced in Atlanta during the 2013 NCAA Men's Final Four®.
"As we celebrate 75 Years of March Madness, we want to share NCAA championship content with fans through as many platforms as possible," said Keith Martin, NCAA managing director of marketing and broadcast alliances. "Publishing our video archive on YouTube allows fans who are searching the web for March Madness content to easily find their favorite players, teams and moments, participate in the All-Time March Madness voting, embed videos and share them with friends. With T3Media's library management tools, we're able to leverage our rich archive and connect the tournament's history to this year's excitement and beyond."
The NCAA OnDemand YouTube Channel features the most memorable moments in March Madness history. The videos have been clipped and tagged so fans can find their favorite winning shots and game changing plays, including:
• 2008 National Championship: Kansas vs Memphis – After trailing Memphis by nine points late in the game, Kansas guard Mario Chalmers hits a dramatic 3-point shot with two seconds remaining to tie the game and set the stage for a Kansas victory in OT.
• 1992 Elite 8®: Duke vs Kentucky – With 2.1 seconds remaining in overtime, Duke trailed 103–102. Grant Hill threw a pass the length of the court to Christian Laettner, who dribbled once, turned, and hit a jumper as the clock expired for the 104-103 win.
• 1983 National Championship: North Carolina State vs Houston – NC State guard Dereck Whittenburg launches a desperation shot from 30-feet out that falls short of the basket; but Lorenzo Charles makes a miraculous play, catching the ball in mid-air and dunking it at the buzzer for a thrilling 54-52 upset against Houston.
In addition to individual clips, the channel boasts great playlists including iconic moments, buzzer beaters, Final Four highlights, greatest upsets, best dunks and more. To help basketball fans get ready for the 2013 tournament, the NCAA and T3Media will release new clips and playlists in the weeks leading up to the tournament tipoff on March 19. Additional NCAA championship sports will be added to the channel over time.
"We've worked with the NCAA for nearly a decade to digitize, curate, and unlock access to their archive," said Kevin Schaff, CEO & Founder of T3Media. "We're excited to leverage the metadata and delivery capabilities of our Platform to launch this rich NCAA YouTube channel. Member institutions and the entire fan community can celebrate 75 Years of March Madness by finding their favorite teams, players, and match-ups with just a few clicks."
To start watching the NCAA OnDemand Channel, visit http://www.youtube.com/ncaaondemand. To participate in the All-Time March Madness voting, visit http://www.ncaa.com/marchmadness. For more information on T3Media, visit www.t3media.com. For media inquiries, please contact Abby Hagstrom at firstname.lastname@example.com or 720.382.2890.


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But guess what, the human race has never, ever had it better! Now that's a subject for another blog post. Today I want to highlight a few ways in which human beings encountered far trickier situations than we ever have and came through them (relatively) unscathed.
The Ice Age
'Oh, the world's getting a tad warmer is it? That must be so scary for you. Ice is melting is it? Fuck me, run for the hills' is probably what your ancestor who lived through the Ice Age would sarcastically say to you. Really though, think about it. Our winters are a bit rainier and our summers are a bit warmer.
Now imagine you're a Neanderthal man and it starts snowing one day and doesn't stop. You're wrapped in a few Sabre Toothed Tiger furs and most likely live in a cave. That ladies and gentleman is what you define as fucked. Every single day of your life going forward is going to be a matter of life or death. Can't find somewhere warm? You're dead. Can't find any food because all the animals have frozen to death? You're dead. Get snowed in your cave? Yep. you guessed it, you're dead as a dodo.
And yet, through this unimaginable struggle your ancestor, my ancestor and the ancestor of that fit girl that works at Boots survived. So buy a new rain mac and invest in some air conditioning. Global warming's gunna be a walk in the park.
The Black Death
Tell you what, bird flu was a bit touch and go wasn't it? When that one dead swan turned up in Scotland I thought it was the end of days. Don't even get me started on swine flu either. I'm not belittling the deaths of 475 people but it was hardly the pandemic we were led to believe it could become. Now 75 to 200 million, that's a more impressive number. That's how many lives it's thought the Black Death of 1346 - 1350 claimed. That's almost unfathomable. It reduced the population of Europe by between 30 - 60% for christs sake!
Now imagine the scene, your whole family is covered in horrible, black, puss filled buboes that burst and piss blood. Their fingers and toes then start to turn black and rot away whilst they vomit blood and sweat buckets. Within two to seven days they're all dead, all of them. If you're not lucky enough to have died yourself you have to deal with beaked creatures removing your families bodies and burying them in mass graves. As an added kick in the bollocks, if you belong to any ethnic or religious minority chances are you'll be blamed for the outbreak and forced from what's left of your home. If you don't you'll be left to scratch an existence while the world recovers. Sounds ideal...
The World Wars
For a couple of generations now the Western World hasn't really known war. Sure there have been forays to distant lands by our salaried military personnel but they've paled in comparison to what our Grandparents and Great Grandparents endured. 122 million lives were lost in both World Wars combined. That my not be as many as those bastard fleas managed to kill all those years ago but it's still pretty fucking scary.
So what did your Great Grandparents have to endure during WW1? If your Great Grandad was of age (or not) he would have ended up in some form of military service. Whether that was going over the top at The Somme, manning a gun at The Battle of Jutland or flying a frightfully unreliable plane called a Sopwith Pup during Bloody April it's likely he would have frequently found himself in mortal danger. Your Great Grandma could well have served as a nurse not too far back from one of the many front lines. She could have come under artillery fire and would most likely have seen some nasty stuff. Or she may have been at home, in the UK, trying to dodge bombs dropped by massive fuck off German Zeppelins.
Grandad and Grandma had it even worse mind. Heard of D-Day? How about Operation Market Garden? The Battle of Britain? Maybe the Battle of the Mediterranean? Yeah, there were plenty of opportunities for your Grandad to buy the farm. Things weren't much better for your Grandma either. If she wasn't working in munitions factories slowly turning yellow and dying she was busy trying to avoid huge Nazi bombing raids that dropped over 100 thousand tonnes of high explosives before the war was over. Starting to feel slightly less pissed off about cracking your phone screen?
The Great Depression
If I had £1 for every time some emotionless talking head on the TV said the word 'recession' or 'green shoots' I would be out chilling with Dan Bilzerian in Vegas right now. But, unfortunately I don't. Instead all I have is a headache borne out of incredulity for the tripe these so called 'experts' feel the need to spout. Ask an investment banker from the 1930's if what we were/are experiencing is a recession and he would most likely have laughed heartily in your face.
The Great Depression was a real economic downturn. National trade was decimated by 50%, unemployment rates rose to as high as a third of the population of some countries and people were forced to dig up wooden street cobbles just to stay warm. Not only that, the conditions that the depression caused in Weimar Germany (they were terrible) supported, if not completely instigated, the rise to power of one of the most insidious men to have ever walked the earth. For all of you who didn't pay attention in history class I'm talking about Adolf Hitler. So the next time you feel hard done by because you're a bit brassic and can't afford to go out be thankful for the fact you're not eating dead horse just to get by (unless you're a fan of Findus lasagne that is).
It was a right piss take when that volcano popped its cork in Iceland and peoples flights to Zante and Magaluf were grounded weren't it! Completely inconsiderate. Pompeii as well. That was a right blag. As you can see volcanoes have a tendency of fucking up peoples days. But no volcano, in the history of volcanoes, has ever fucked up as many peoples days as Toba. (What a badass name by the way!) So sit back, pull out your sack and let me tell you the story of Toba.
About 70,000 B.C. (that's Before Christmas) there was a big bad volcano called Toba who lived in Sumatra. In fact, he was the biggest baddest volcano that ever existed. Toba had dealt pretty well with the lack of Christmases. Every year he would sit there longingly, waiting for Jesus to be born so people could then give each other presents in his name. Unfortunately for Toba, and the human race, it would be a long time until Jebus was born to die for people's sins.
One cold night on December 24th Toba was watching the sky for Santa's sleigh like he always did. He'd had a really bad day because all the other volcanoes were picking on him for being so big. Just as he was about to turn in for the night, disappointed as always, one of the smaller volcanoes started shouting, "Hey Toba, look up there! Is that Santa?!"
Excitedly Toba stared into the dark night sky, his big fiery eyes darting around for any glimpse of the jolly man and his reindeer. But alas, he saw no such thing and instead heard jeers and laughter coming from the smaller volcanoes. One by one they started to chant 'made you look, made you look, made you look.' Rage swept up through Tobas molten lava torso and with an almighty roar he threw 650 miles of molten rock into the air.
This eruption coated South Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Arabian and South China Seas in a 6 inch layer of ash that can still be seen today. This was basically a big 'fuck you' to anything living thing within the eruption radius and a middle finger to everything else on the planet. It's likely the eruption dimmed the sun for six years, disrupted rain fall, contaminated or entirely blocked waterways and covered all low lying plant life in range in scorching hot ash. At this point in time human beings were still restricted to the African continent only, just across the ocean from Toba, so they would have felt the brunt of this.
So, our ancestors were left without food, drinkable water or sunlight for almost six years. In addition to this the eruption probably made an already chilly ice age (yep, another one) even colder by bouncing warming sunlight back into the atmosphere. Yeah, that's right, ice age and super massive volcanic eruption... There are a few estimates knocking about but it's thought that the human race fell to something between 40 to a 1,000 reproductive adults during this time. To put that into perspective there are 3,000 wild tigers left on the planet and they're classed as critically endangered. So, yeah, the human race was really, really critically endangered.
For a slightly more serious, but no less entertaining, account of Toba's eruption check out this post.
So, there you have it. Five examples of times when the human race has faced far more worrying situations than you ever have. So, next time your bird fucks off or you lose your job be thankful for the fact it's warm, you don't have the plague, you've not been conscripted into a god awful war, the economy hasn't taken an unfathomable nosedive and that there's more than 1,000 reproductive adults knocking about (imagine how hard it would be for you to pull if there wasn't!)
Tune in at some point in the future for that list of ways the human race has never had it better. Don't hold your breath though, these things take time to write. Peace!
Written by Ryan Hill


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Western Sydney Parklands Trust is creating a 2000-hectare bushland corridor to maintain, reconnect and restore habitats and ecosystems in the heart of urban Western Sydney.
Western Sydney is home to more than two million people, and the Parklands' open space neighbours two major urban growth centres, which will accommodate an extra half a million new people over the next 25-30 years. At just over 5000 hectares, the Parklands is making a long-term contribution to restoring the balance between nature and urban development in Sydney and enabling Western Sydney's community to connect with the outdoors for generations to come.
Bringing back the Bush Program
The Trust is currently managing 1000 hectares of bush in varying condition. The goal is to double this to 2000 hectares by 2020, with a financial investment of $10 million. The Trust has set a target of expanding the bushland by 33ha annually, which will create protective buffers for the core habitat and link remnant bushland.
To achieve the 2020 target, the Trust has implemented:
Bush regeneration and revegetation: expanding core areas and targeted work to regenerate and revegetate linkages using experienced and qualified teams.
Volunteers: facilitating and managing community volunteer and corporate groups to expand, manage and maintain edge habitats near popular recreational areas. Conservation Volunteers coordinates a tree-planting group at Plough and Harrow East on the last Sunday of every month. Contact 02 4721 4625 or email email@example.com for more details.
Schools: the 500 Schools Planting Program has restored edge habitats to expand the corridor and fostered a sense of ownership and enjoyment of the Australian bush among young people.
- Employment and training: partnering with education and training institutions and NGOs to deliver training and transition to work for unemployed and special needs groups via social procurement contracts. We have put together a video of this fantastic program, if you would like to learn more about how social procurement can work for your business or organisation.
Download a copy of our Biodiversity Strategy for more information.
To be added to our Environment contact database, subscribe here.
Western Sydney Parklands is home to many birds including native cockatoos, lorikeets, rosellas, parrots and so many more. Birdwatching enthusiasts should head to Sugarloaf Ridge and Glendenning, and explore the Parklands track through Plough and Harrow, to capture views of wildlife. To find out more about the birds living in the Parklands, see Birds of Western Sydney - A Photo Guide.


text: Mass for Bess V. Cody, 82, a onetime Chicago real estate broker, will be said at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Justin Catholic Church, Santa Clara, Calif. She died Monday in a San Jose hospital. Miss Cody, a Santa Clara resident since 1953, was a member of a Chicago real estate family. Her late father, Edmond Cody, was instrumental in developing the Belmont-Central Avenue area on the Northwest Side.


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PONTIFICAL COUNCIL for INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
I welcome you and I am glad about this encounter, an encounter that nurtures our responsibility in the care of creation, the gift we have all received — the gift of creation — that we may care for it. Creation is the mirror of God, it is the mirror of the Creator, it is the mirror of nature, nature as a whole, it is the life of nature and our mirror as well.
We, all of us, like mother earth, because she gave us life and she guards us; I would even say sister earth, who walks with us on our journey of life. But our duty is also to take care of her like a mother or a sister, that is, with responsibility, with tenderness and with peace.
I thank you for all that you do in this undertaking and may we remain united in this ideal, in this undertaking, in this work so that our mother, our sister earth may be safeguarded; in the knowledge that to care for, to protect creation, the earth, is to care for and protect all humanity. Thank you.
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Kourtney Kardashian Dresses Baby Penelope In Bikini — Inappropriate?
So shocking! Kourtney showed off her (relatively) tamer side in one-piece bathing suit, but Penelope was all done up in an itsy-bitsy animal print bikini! What do YOU think — is such a tiny bikini inappropriate for the one-year-old?
Kourtney Kardashian loves showing off her bod in a tiny string bikini, but should her one-year-old daughter Penelope Disick be rocking a similar style? Kourt made a controversial decision when she dressed up Penelope in a shockingly tiny animal print bikini — and not everyone thought it was cute!
Penelope Disick In A Tiny Bikini: Inappropriate?
The youngest Kardashian lady and her mama hit the pool in Miami for a family beach day, but some people were shocked and outraged by Penelope's tiny swimsuit. Twitter sounded off about the baby bikini.
@ODonnellSN tweeted, "Is that really appropriate? Photographers take pics of Kourtney Kardashian's 1-year-old dressed in a string bikini."
@emmabrown45695 wrote, "Kourtney Kardashian dressing her baby Penelope in a stringy bikini is pathetic."
@cathy_white36 tweeted, "1 step too far the print ? Kourtney Kardashian putting daughter Penelope in a leopard print bikini?!"
But other people were supportive. @KardashDoll_UK tweeted, "I love how Kourt dresses Penny, this bikini is so cute!" while @KourtneyKrazy wrote, "Aww how cute is penelope in her little bikini."
Penelope would look cute in almost anything, but a tiny triangle bikini top in animal print fabric seems best left to one of Penelope's aunties. Even if Penelope has some serious diva style already, we're not sure if such a small bikini is best!
Kourtney & Penelope Hit The Pool For Family Beach Day
Whether or not baby Penelope's bikini was inappropriate, she still looked like such a happy baby at the pool with her mom Kourtney, 34, dad Scott Disick, 30, and older brother Mason, 3. The happy family splashed around in the water, and hung out on the pool deck in their lounge chairs. At least they are enjoying some fun, family time!
What do YOU think, HollyMoms? Is Penelope too young to be wearing such a tiny bikini, or is it just an innocent baby bathing suit? Sound off in the comments below!
WATCH: Kourtney Kardashian Reveals She Wants Kim To Breast Feed Her Children
— Kristine Hope Kowalski
More Kourtney Kardashian & Penelope Disick News:
- Kourtney Kardashian Arrives In LAX With Baby Penelope — Cute Pic
- Kim Kardashian Buys Penelope Disick $345 Balenciaga Bag
- Penelope Scotland Disick Turns 1 — Happy First Birthday


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Black Youth Project | Chicago, IL
Amount: $25,000
- $20,000 to fund local organizing projects for 7 BYP100 Chapters- This includes paying kids for their time, transportation, and meals.
- $5,000 to fund printing and purchasing of political education materials (e.g. books, e-magazines, documentaries etc.)
For more action, check out their website: www.byp100.org
Gathering For Justice/ Justice League | New York City
Amount: $25,000
- Justice League NYC ($15,000) – 2017's immediate agenda includes legislative initiatives The Right To Know Act, Raise the Age NY and #CLOSERikers; and providing support and human resources to January's Women's March on Washington.
- Justice University ($10,000) – We are extremely grateful for this timely funding from CKF that will jump-start an ambitious new initiative. Building on the success of Justice League NYC's multi-year direct action, nonviolence and organizing trainings, Justice University gives us an opportunity to build a substantive and ground-breaking curriculum that will incorporate all of the above trainings into an in-depth, 12-month program, culminating in a community service project.
For more action, check out their website: www.gatheringforjustice.org
Communities United For Police Reform | New York City
Amount: $25,000
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) is is an unprecedented campaign to end discriminatory and abusive policing practices in New York, bringing together a movement of community members, lawyers, researchers and activists to work for change. The partners in this campaign come from all 5 boroughs, from all walks of life and represent many of those most unfairly targeted by the NYPD. This groundbreaking campaign is fighting for reforms that will promote community safety while ensuring that the NYPD protects and serves all New Yorkers. We are in communities and on the streets, educating people about their rights; and in the courts and on the steps of City Hall and the state capitol, demanding change to the NYPD — until these discriminatory and abusive policies end.
This donation will specifically pay for:
- $10,000 – Coordinate policy campaigns to advance police accountability.
- This will include:
- Citywide campaign to pass the #RightToKnowAct in the New York City Council. The Right To Know Act is endorsed by over 200 organizations in New York City
- NYS policy reform to protect the rights of New Yorkers and promote police accountability.
- This will include:
- $5,000 – Ensure effective monitoring and implementation of the special prosecutor executive order, Community Safety Act provisions and other policy wins that CPR has achieved.
- $10,000 – Strengthen the capacity of grassroots community education and organizing to secure concrete advances for communities most impacted by NYPD abuse and discrimination.
For more action, check out their website: www.changethenypd.org
I Will Not Die Young Campaign | Milwaukee, WI
Amount: $25,000
- $5,000 – Event Organizer, Project Manager, Performer, Facilitator for 10 intense healing workshops for chronically at risk youth + 10 mock funeral ALL school assemblies.
- $5,000 – 50 youth leaders awarded a 100 stipend (5 youth leaders per school at 10 schools) to perform peer outreach and gather as many as I will not die young text petition signatures as possible at each school.
- $500 – Transportation (bus passes) to city hall for the youth leaders.
- $5,000 – Follow-up Counseling Services/Fiscal Agent.
- $2,500 – Guest Facilitators/Speakers .
- $1,000 – Nation Builder Text Petition Website (@ $200 per month x 5 months).
- $200 – Supplies/Materials – mock obituaries, promotional flyers etc.
- $800 – Cost for Casket
- $500 – Transportation of Casket ($50 to transport 10 times toad from schools
For more action, check out their website: www.iwillnotdieyoungcampaign.com