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I joined a bike challenge, but first, let me back-up.
Mr. P and I are cat sitting this week. Wait, what? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!
Well, it means that we're stopping by our friend's house to feed the cats. 🙂 Our friends are currently in Belize on their honeymoon. Yup, that's right, Belize. I AM SO JEALOUS!! But I know they are having a fantastic time. I was also in their wedding this past Saturday too. Wow, how time flies. I was a bridesmaid to one of the sweetest friends I have ever met. I was so honored she asked me and we had a blast.
What's funny is that I met and knew her (now) husband before I met her. Crazy, right? Yup, my husband is friends with her (now) husband and they've been friends for 5 years now. They met at soccer. We've kept in touch over the years and have developed a loving, caring friendship. When I met his (now) wife, it was like an instant-friend-moment and I'll never forget it. We met at a game night and were having a great time. Then all of a sudden, we both made squawking noises. Yup, squawking noises. We instantly became friends. She's one of those friends that no matter what kind of day you're having, you'll walk away with your abs hurting because you laughed so much. She's amazing!!
Anyway, they live about a mile away from us. It's awesome! And since we're cat sitting, Mr. P and I have taken the opportunity to hop on our bikes and head on over. Mile there, mile back. I've really enjoyed the quick bike ride and have been inspired.
Call it fate, call it inspiration, but when I got an email from the Denver Post this week challenging me to shape up, I jumped on it. I'm shaping-up by participating in a 30-day challenge to ride my bike 100 miles in 30 days. That's 3.3333333333333 miles a day. Well, I think it will be easy and quite do-able. Especially as I'm biking over to my friend's house every day with a mile to and a mile back. That's 2 miles! If I do the long route, I can definitely squeeze in 3.333333333333 miles to fit this challenge. 🙂
This afternoon, I plan on biking to the library to pick-up my audio book. That's 4 miles round trip. Do you see how I'm making this work? Yup, getting out of the car and enjoying my bike.
I think what sold me on this challenge is that a) it's free. b) it's easy to participate. Its powered by MyMapFitness which is a company that has a lot of great app's that calculates and records your journey. The best part?? The data is uploaded directly to the website for this challenge. I like easy and I like convenience. I'll be using the MapMyRIDE app for, of course, biking.
If you're in Denver, join me. I'd love to have a support group going. They are also doing the challenge for runners, walkers, and for those who just like to work-out. If your not in Denver, you can see my progress on Twitter.
So, in other words, I'm pretty excited about this challenge!! 🙂 I hope I can keep it up and not get discouraged by the hot weather. After all, I'm doing this challenge in the middle of July. Call me crazy!!
Do you sign-up for challenges to encourage you to do something outside your comfort zone? If so, what challenges have you signed up for? Have you failed miserably or exceeded your expectations? I'd love to know. 🙂
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In response to Media Protect Obama as Record Energy Prices Hit the Poor:
Yet another example of Trial By Media – and, for anyone who remembers the pump panic of the Bush years, an amazing example of it. I still fondly recall the doomsday montages of gas pump prices rocketing upward, mixed with images of worried soccer moms looking anxiously at the kids romping through the back of their SUVs while they went broke filling the tanks. But now we get media stories about how expensive gas is awesome, because it protects the environment, and those portly "fun-employed" jobless soccer moms might just lose a few inches off their thighs by using a bicycle to pick up their benefit checks!
You're not supposed to use the word "inflation," you know. Especially since it's been so cleverly hidden by deflating package sizes at the grocery store.

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As a kid, I was fortunate enough to be able to check out tidal pools. This was incredibly fun for me. In these little places, it was an entirely different world. There I found periwinkles, sea anemones, even sea stars. It was an accessible experience of life in the ocean, and it is my first memory of realizing that different life lived in different conditions. It was my first real understanding that certain creatures can live only in certain habitats.
The interdependence of life within a place as small as a tide pool is a reminder to all of us about the balance that's necessary for all life to thrive around our planet. This weekend, I encourage you to get out and look around. What's your habitat look like? What do you depend on to thrive? Alternatively, is there another accessible habitat that inspires you?
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Resident Virus 2: Mimesis from SHG-Media
Steve Noir's Resident Virus 2: Mimesis is now available from SHG-Media. Like the previous Resident Virus video, it features technical proficiency in terms of establishing a creepy tone and atmosphere, even if it doesn't deliver the kind of hard-hitting action you might expect from, say, Next Global Crisis or Zen Pictures.
The first sequence establishes the setting, which appears to be some kind of abandoned theater. An enormous zombie—nice character design, in my opinion—walks around creepily. Meanwhile, our nameless heroine, who very much resembles Jill Valentine, sneaks around outside as if expecting an undead menace to leap out at her from any direction. This is all reminiscent of the Resident Evil video games, and this opening sequence is made to resemble old, scratchy film—a nice stylish touch that helps to set the mood.
Soon, the zombie sneaks up behind our heroine and starts strangling her from behind, initiating the main fetish-related sequences of the video. The focus here seems to be on specific fetishes, including bound suspension, a throat-lift, choking, unconsciousness, etc. There's also some hair-pulling, bearhugs, and belly punching.
[Spoiler alert] There's also a really dark ending which involves the death of the heroine, which I believe is a first for Steve Noir. Of course, the video essentially takes place in a video game world, so who's to say our heroine isn't simply regenerated and placed back at the beginning of the level (only to be tormented again and again and again)? In any event, the heroine indeed loses her life at the end, which I know has a special appeal to a lot of fans out there. And somehow, an ending this grim seems somehow appropriate for Steve Noir, whose videos are probably darker in tone than just about any other heroine-in-peril producer's. [End spoiler]
I recommend Resident Virus 2: Mimesis for fans of Steve Noir's work (of course), as well as fans of the specific fetishes mentioned above. If you're looking for carefully choreographed fight scenes, you won't necessarily find that here, but you will see a very effective use of editing, lighting and music to create an unsettling tone underlying the action, which is something I enjoy.


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[UPDATE: Most Democrats are now saying they will not raise a fuss over the Porter Goss nomination. For yet another reason why Goss is the wrong guy to head the CIA–in addition to the reasons detailed below– click here….And the reasons why Goss should not get the job keep mounting. For an update to this update, click here.]
In a recent posting at www.davidcorn.com, I noted one big strike against Representative Porter Goss, whom George W. Bush has nominated to be CIA chief. Last year when the House intelligence committee, which he chaired, critiqued the prewar intelligence on Iraq, Goss, a Republican, joined Representative Jane Harman, the senior Democrat on the panel, in blasting the collection efforts of the intelligence community. But Goss, disagreeing with Harman, would not go so far as to assail the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq produced by the CIA and other intelligence agencies in October 2002. This NIE had errantly claimed that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons and a reconstituted nuclear weapons program (and Bush subsequently overstated the overstatements of the NIE). Goss's reluctance to denounce the NIE stands in sharp contrast to the recent Senate intelligence committee report, which harshly concluded that "most of the major key judgments" in the NIE "either overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting. A series of failures, particularly in analytic trade craft, led to the mischaracterization of the intelligence."
Goss's unwillingness to criticize one of the most flawed NIEs in the history of the US intelligence community is troubling. And as one of the key intelligence policymakers of the last decade, he shares the blame for the recent failures of the CIA and the other intelligence agencies. But also troubling is his partisan record. Several times in recent months he has attacked Senator John Kerry's record on national security. For instance, he co-wrote an op-ed titled "Need Intelligence? Don't Ask John Kerry." It is certainly no big deal for sitting GOP member of the House to throw brickbats at the Democratic presidential nominee. But it seems as if Goss has allowed partisan concerns to interfere with his obligations as one of the few legislators who oversee the intelligence world for the rest of us. He blocked a House investigation into the embarrassing prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. He also said no to an investigation of the dealings between the Bush administration and Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi, who has been accused of leaking US secrets to Iran and whose Iraqi National Congress provided false information about Iraq's WMDs. "I would say," Goss remarked, "that the oversight has worked well in matters relating to Mr. Chalabi."


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Google is not afraid to be disruptive. They've proved it time and time again with services like Google Voice, software like Android and most recently, with Google Fiber; Google's experiment in being an Internet and television provider that threatens to turn an entire industry on its head. So what's next? How about a wireless network?
Something is going on in Mountain View. According to a handful of FCC filings, Google is looking to test 50 base stations using 200 devices on what appears to be a wireless LTE network operating on 2524-2546 and 2567-2625 MHz bands[1]. Some sort of proprietary network for Google employees isn't out of the question, and Google experimenting with wireless technology is nothing new, but a few too many things have perfectly aligned surrounding Google's mystery network that could point to it being more than what it appears.
The bands being used for the network are those of Clearwire's. That wouldn't be a big deal, if it weren't for Dish's attempts at purchasing Clearwire, and recent rumors that Google may be forming a partnership with Dish to start a wireless network. But that's not all. Even if you ignored the fact that Google is using wireless spectrum that has to be licensed instead of spectrum that doesn't, and that it's spectrum that has been tied to recent rumors that Google is looking to start it's own wireless network, they want to keep the entire thing as quiet as possible.
When requesting to have certain parts of the filings redacted, Google's lawyers offered up a reasonable explanation: "The information for which confidential treatment is sought concerns the highly competitive consumer electronics market." That doesn't sound like a test or another experiment, it sounds like Google is working on something big. This could shape up to be one crazy year.


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Nina Adlon's recent performances include concerts at the Wiener Konzerthaus as well as to the Musikverein in Vienna, including a role in the rediscovery of Jaromir Weinberger's Opera "Wallenstein" and Mendelssohn's Hymn "Hör mein Bitten" for Soprano, Choir and Organ.
For her newest project performing Olivier Messiaen's song cycle Harawi she joins forces with the wonderful French pianist and Messiaen specialist Roger Muraro, who initiated bringing the one hour long "Song of love and death" to the stage.
Nina Adlon has performed Mozart's Donna Anna, Contessa, Arminda, and Erste Dame, and Richard Strauss' Arabella. Richard Wagner's Elsa, Eva and Elisabeth are also part of her repertoire.
She also enjoys Operettas and has sung Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Hanna Glawari in Lustige Witwe and the Gräfin Mariza in Vienna, New York, Boston and Sydney. On top she also was involved in television and radio productions for SWR and 3sat.
Other engagments took Nina Adlon to the Oper Bonn, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Salzburger Landestheater, Salzburger Festspiele, Opera Monte Carlo to name just a few.
In the summer of 2010 she acted and sung the part of Anna von Mildenburg in the award winning feature film "Mahler auf der Couch" and recorded the four songs by Alma Mahler for the sound track CD accompanied by Rico Gulda.
Amongst others, she has worked with Prof. August Everding, Doris Dorrie, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christian Thielemann, Walter Weller, Ivor Bolton, Per Boysen, Michael Hofsteatter and Cornelius Meister.
Born in Düsseldorf Nina completed her studies for singing and piano at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen at the age of 14. She continued her studies in singing and performance art at the Tschaikowski-Conservatory in Moskau and the Robert-Schumann- Hochschule in Düsseldorf. She lives with her husband and their children in Vienna.
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The Perfectly Healthy & Delicious Breakfast Cake–Gingerbread and Pears Oatmeal Bake, for the busy family! The lovely thing about this dish is it's versatile! Keep reading and find out how.
It's a chilly and wet winter morning so I popped this in the oven to warm us up. It made the whole house smell amazingly delicious. The lovely think about this dish is you can not only eat it for breakfast but also as an after school snack or even dessert. My kids love having this nice and warm oatmeal cake floating in their bowl with milk for breakfast. We call it breakfast cake in our house!
This oatmeal bake is what I consider comfort food. It was first given to me as one of the meals we were receiving from friends after giving birth to our 3rd son. Since then I've fallen in love with it and I've experimented with various fruits.
Since I made two pie pans from this one recipe, I'm using the other to serve to our guest tonight as a dessert with caramel and ice cream which makes it not so healthy. See I told you it's so versatile!
Oh, I'm pretty sure this is a THM friendly recipe! If you use almond milk instead of regular milk it's dairy free, it's sugar free and gluten free.
Gingerbread and Pears Oatmeal Bake
ingredients: Makes 2 pie pans or one med-large casserole dish.
- 6 cups oats
4 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup of sweetener (I use Pyure or Truvia)
3 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cloves
Stir in another bowl:
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
1.5 cups almond milk (use this for THM friendly) or your favorite milk product
3 eggs or 1 cup of egg whites for THM friendly
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup plain greek yogurt
Optional–1-2 tbsp molasses
sliced pears
This recipes does not require flour. When baked it will rise like a cake but with a fluffy, crumbly texture.
- Mix together first 7 ingredients.
- Stir the other 5 ingredients in another bowl then add the wet mix to your dry ingredients.
- Place in baking dish and layer thin pear slices on top. You can also dice a few pears up then put them in the dry ingredients.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes in a lightly greased pan.
To reheat sprinkle a little milk or water, cover and microwave for 30 to 60 seconds.
Various way to eat this cake!
We eat it for breakfast either as is or we place a slice in a bowl and add milk in it.
You can enjoy it as snack cake for an after school treat. We also eat it with dessert and drizzle caramel sauce with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!


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The Top 75: Wishbone/ITP
While that makes for a tidy narrative, what happened in between was far more interesting, highlighting the challenges faced by any small- or middle-sized shop as it attempts to keep pace with the digital revolution. Unlike many other agency chieftains, however, Wishbone founder and CEO Steve Michaelson knew that he had to move fast or risk falling behind. "We were slow on the uptake," he says frankly. "Knowing where the business is going, building a digital capability was very important for the survival of Wishbone and to the value we bring to our clients."The quest to digitalize Wishbone had many twists and turns. While Michaelson started out hoping to establish a digital group internally, he found few candidates to his liking. When he turned to acquisition targets, he found few potential fits. When he explored partnering opportunities, he lamented their short-term and too-casual nature.
"Starting our own unit would have been difficult," Michaelson recalls. "I was interviewing feverishly, but I wasn't seeing people of the quality I needed to see. Most of the digital agencies we looked at were small and they were really in the consumer business, so it would've been like building from scratch. Partnering with a digital agency would have just been a Band-Aid."
Along came Rosetta, one of the few digital-first agencies with significant healthcare intelligence under its roof. Though Michaelson initially rebuffed the advances, he became more impressed with the agency when they collaborated on the launch of Otsuka Pharmaceuticals' Samsca, which treats hyponatremia."Rosetta was doing segmentation analysis, and that's all I knew about them," he admits. "I didn't realize their size." Later in the year, when Rosetta pressed its case more aggressively, Michaelson came around: "We like them; they like us. Strategically, it was right on target." Wishbone can now avail itself of Rosetta's extensive digital capabilities, while Rosetta can now tell digital-only clients that it has a professional healthcare marketing brand under its umbrella.
What changed Michaelson's openness to being acquired was his long-term view of the healthcare-marketing business. "Less than five years from now, there won't be any such thing as a traditional agency and a digital agency—there will just be one agency," he explains. "If you're a traditional agency and you don't build digital out, your slice of the pie is going to get smaller and smaller. If you're a digital agency and you don't get those traditional-type capabilities, you'll be relegated to back-end fulfillment type of projects."Prior to the acquisition, Wishbone had better success than most in 2009. It grew its staff by about 10 people, to 77 total, and ended the year up 20% in revenue, to just north of $15 million. New assignments included Novartis' blood-pressure drug Exforge, Pfizer's Prevnar 13 vaccine and Baxter's heart drug Brevibloc. Early in 2010, Wishbone won Purdue Pharma's Oxycontin, which instantly becomes one of the highest-profile brands on the Wishbone roster.
As for the post-merger integration, Michaelson reports few problems. Internally, any possible post-sale nerves were soothed when it was announced that Wishbone will retain its name and remain in its New York City offices.
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I LOVE the grapefruit tarragon chocolate over at Recchitui in San Francisco's Ferry Building. It's my absolute favorite chocolate there...the flavors just pop like magic! My question is...are dessert and drink recipes as good as his chocolates ? Has anyone ever tried them? If so, what was your experience?
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that sounds delicious! i'll have to try them next time i am in sf...sorry, i haven't tried the recipes, so i can't be of any help.
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340. Do you think there really can be competition?
You have just talked about this new deep water berth at Rotterdam.
How much is that going to cost?
(Captain Bligh) I do not have those figures.
341. How many other people can afford to put
in a deep water berth like that, say in the UK or in other European
(Mr Everard) It is already happening. There are going
to be new developments at Shellhaven for a deep water port for
containers and there is a possible one going to happen at Southampton.
342. So there will be at least three alternative
sites which can take that size ship.
(Mr Everard) There will be enormous developments,
absolutely enormous.
(Mr Good) If, say, in the port of Felixstowe it were
open to other operators, or in Southampton, it would make things
very difficult for the users of the ports because at the moment
Felixstowe perhaps cannot always cope at peak times. If it were
being split with another operator, it could cause quite a lot
of further congestion or even confusion. Certainly in the UK the
efficiency of ports has gone up immeasurably and there is competition
between the ports.
343. You would see the competition as between
the different ports rather than competition within a particular
port and you think that the cost of developing new deep water
ports is not so prohibitive that it will make competition very
(Mr Good) No, the major port operators, as we have
heard, have plans to develop their facilities further.
344. Earlier witnesses were a bit unhappy about
the safety of boats coming in and out of harbours. Do you have
any evidence that the 1987 Act has not worked well?
(Mr Everard) I think the 1987 Act has worked extremely
well. The position before was totally unsatisfactory. For instance,
I run a lot of small ships and we make thousands of voyages in
and out of UK ports every year. Before the 1987 Act in a lot of
places my ships go to, they could go without having a pilotage
exemption certificate. They just had to qualify because of their
trading pattern. What the whole 1987 Act has done is tighten up
all the procedures in that now the ports are responsible for making
sure that ships have the right people on board, who have the local
knowledge and also of course that people on board these ships
know the characteristics of their ships, they know how they handle.
What happened with the pilotage exemption certificates and the
way they work is that the person has to demonstrate ... I accept
the point you made about Milford Haven that the trippage requirement
was too low, but that has been amended and it does not apply,
as far as I know, in any other ports. The port authority is now
responsible for deciding. Remember that each port is different.
You cannot have the same rules in each port. If you are going
up a narrow river or a narrow channel, it is very different for
a ship just calling into a wharf which is well protected and does
not have the same sort of problems. You would expect the requirements
for going in and out of ports to be different in different ports
because of the very nature of the navigation to go to and from.
My view is that the 1987 Act has provided a very safe environment.
Of course there are a lot more pilotage exemption certificates
but what was not said in previous answers was that pilotage exemption
certificates did not exist to the same degree as they do today.
345. You do not think that they are now issued
because a port is interested in its commercial opportunities and
wants to attract shipping and therefore is prepared to issue this
certificate perhaps a little unwisely.
(Mr Everard) This is probably a bit of a problem.
I have a bit of a problem with one port myself which is actually
going the other way and that is that it is contravening the 1987
Act. The point about the 1987 Act was that where a person could
demonstrate he had local knowledge and he had the added advantage
which a pilot does not havebecause remember ships are not
like aeroplanes, they are all different, all have different handling
characteristicswhere that person has both those two things
together, he is a safer person than the pilot who is an adviser.
It is a very important service and I am not having anything said
against the pilots, they do a very good job, but where you have
a pilotage exemption certificate holder who can demonstrate both
local knowledge and the handling of his ship, it increases safety.
I should just like to make the point that if you actually look
at the Sea Empress, that had a pilot on board. I am not trying
to say that was necessarily the reason for the accident, but the
only ship I have lost in my own company in the last 30 years was
one with a pilot on board who we consider caused the incident
in the first place. Just by putting a pilot on board does not
make a ship safer, in fact in many cases a ship is much safer
where you have the person on board who has both the previous points
I have just made. The other point which was made was that it is
terrible to give pilotage exemption certificates to people doing
long voyages because they are too tired. A person doing very long
voyages could never meet the tripping requirements or the local
knowledge requirements so he is not going to get a pilotage exemption
certificate in the first place. The only people getting pilotage
exemption certificates are regular traders on short voyages.
346. So you would not accept that there might
be a problem with people who do not speak very good English.
(Mr Everard) That of course is up to the competent
harbour authority. The great thing is that now you have somebody
who is actually responsible locally to decide whether that person
is actually suitable to receive the exemption certificate.
347. There are commercial pressures, are there
(Mr Everard) There are always commercial pressures
in any form of life. May I say that in the shipping industry there
is nothing more ... An oil accident takes so much pressure and
time. It is in the media immediately. You just have to spill some
oil. I run 17 tankers. I spill some oil and the pressure on myself
is enormous. I only look after one thing day to day in my own
company, being Chairman, and that is safety. That is the only
thing I have day to day responsibility for.
348. Are you sure that everybody else takes
the same view as yourself?
(Mr Everard) You cannot always speak for everybody.
What I am saying, and I know Stephen will back this up, is that
running safe ships is the number one priority. I know you have
had other enquiries here about other spheres. I can assure you
that shipping is a very safety conscious industry. Remember we
are only talking about regular traders and the port authority
can decide whether people meet the right requirements for coming
in or out. They are the ones. Of course there are commercial pressures,
I accept that, but in fact it is rather like the port safety code
which we fully support: if somebody does not follow that as far
as an onshore incident is concerned, that is very good evidence
for prosecution under the Health and Safety that people were not
using the safety code.
349. If you are so concerned about safety, which
is great, is there a shortage of people in the industry now who
have the skills to do the work, both on ships and as they are
coming into port?
(Mr Everard) Everybody accepts there is. What the
solution is, is very difficult. We certainly want to work with
the ports in helping to ease that burden which is obviously on
them. The more seafarers we can have coming ashore who have actual
experience of what it is like to navigate and work, the better.
350. Are there enough seafarers to start with
so that some of them can come ashore?
(Mr Everard) No, there are not.
351. What are you doing about training?
(Mr Everard) What we are doing about training is that
Captain Bligh trains a lot of people, we train a lot of people;
we cannot solve the ports problem. The ports might have to introduce
their own training schemes which they are beginning to do to meet
their own problems. They might actually even have to sponsor cadets
or have their own training schemes in different ways to meet their
problems. We cannot as such solve the problems for them, though
I would love to think that we could have enough seafarers going
through the system who could. With the shipping inquiry you had
here before, there is no doubt that there should in theory be
increased training with tonnage tax, but it is going to need a
great deal more than that to get the right number of people coming
352. May I ask a question for clarification?
Captain Bligh, earlier on I understood you to say that your company
was investing in the Rotterdam development.
(Captain Bligh) Yes, with other partners, port authorities,
Rotterdam and so on.
353. Does that investment by your company as
a user mean that you will be given some priority or exclusive
rights to the use of that terminal when it is available?
(Captain Bligh) There will be an element of that involved
in it.
354. How much of an element?
(Captain Bligh) My own company operates in a consortium
partnership of a number of large shipping companies. The berths
will be available to us and our partners.
355. In the consortium.
(Captain Bligh) Yes.
356. Presumably the consortium are chipping
in, are they?
(Captain Bligh) No.
357. Neverthelessand I am sure you understand
why I am asking the questionare you able to give us some
idea of what proportion of the use of that terminal will be catered
for by yourselves and your partners in the consortium?
(Captain Bligh) There will be spare capacity on the
berths we are building to allow us to offer those to other port
358. Will you as one of the major investors
not only have some priority personal use for your company but
also some decisionmaking powers on who can use it?
(Captain Bligh) That it is based within the port of
359. That is the one I am referring to.
(Captain Bligh) Yes, there will be rules laid down
by the port of Rotterdam. The berth and the shore site facilities
are our responsibility. The pilotage within the harbour area is
still the responsibility of the Rotterdam harbour authority. We
are not building a new port, we are building berths within the


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Family-centered practice is at the core of child welfare work, including work with children and youth in group and residential care. The following resources highlight the importance of working with families to achieve positive outcomes for children and youth in care.
Engaging Families in the Residential Treatment Process Utilizing Family-Directed Structural Therapy
McLendon, McLendon, & Hatch (2012)
Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 29(1)
View Abstract
Summarizes qualitative and quantitative literature specific to family involvement in children's residential treatment and highlights the lack of specific types or methods of family therapy/interventions that might provide effective outcomes with this population. This article includes an overview of Family-Directed Structural Therapy and corresponding assessment tools.
Enhancing Family Engagement in Interventions for Mental Health Problems in Youth
Herman, Borden, Hsu, Schultz, Carney, Brooks, & Reinke (2011)
Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 28(2)
View Abstract
Describes a method for promoting initial and sustained parent participation in residential care service delivery. The Family Check-Up is a structured intervention that integrates aspects of both parent engagement and motivational interviewing methods.
Family Connection Discretionary Grants: 2012 Funded Comprehensive Residential Family Treatment Projects Final Cross-Site Evaluation Report (PDF - 1,638)
James Bell Associates (2016)
Presents findings from a study that examined the effectiveness of five projects that provided comprehensive residential treatment services to families impacted by the child welfare system. The report addresses processes and outcomes at various levels and includes results of a survey administered to grantee leadership, staff, service providers, and collaborating partners that assesses multiple aspects of implementation and impact. The executive summary (PDF - 463 KB) is also available.
Family-Driven Care in America: More Than a Good Idea
Spencer, Blau, & Mallery (2010)
Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 19(3)
Provides a history of how family-driven care has evolved in the mental health care system for children and youth in the United States.
The Future of Family Engagement in Residential Care Settings
Affronti & Levison-Johnson (2009)
Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 26(4)
View Abstract
Reviews the literature on the use of family engagement practices and family-centered practices in residential programs and treatment centers in order to identify evidence-based and best practices and recommend specific strategies and critical steps needed to promote a culture and practice change initiative within residential care settings.
Redefining Residential: Family-Driven Care in Residential Treatment–Family Members Speak (PDF -331 KB)
Association of Children's Residential Centers (2009)
Reports input from family members of children and youth in residential settings who offered their insight on how professionals can promote family involvement in the areas of legislation, higher education, advocacy, communication, and support.
Residential Treatment: A Review of the National Literature (PDF - 339 KB)
Walter (2007)
Summarizes current trends, challenges, and knowledge about residential treatment and examines existing efforts to make residential treatment more family-centered through consistent involvement of families as partners in residential treatment and regular contact.
Stories From Residential Treatment: New Pathways to Family Support (PDF - 313 KB)
Rosenberg, Bellonci, Cooney, & Bray (2007)
Residential Group Care Quarterly, 8(1)
Proposes that residential treatment should be family-friendly and a place where children can begin to piece their lives back together. The article includes case examples that illustrate how residential treatment can benefit a child.


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MoAD in the Classroom (MIC) is an arts-based visual literacy and cultural studies program for third graders in the San Francisco Bay Area. Participating classes received two instructional visits to their classrooms by MIC instructors who introduced visual arts vocabulary, museum themes, and the current museum exhibitions. Classrooms also made two trips to the museum, during which they saw the exhibitions that they talked about in class, learned how to view and talk about art, and participated in hands-on art activities.
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Sometimes you just don't mess with perfection, and the classic Thanksgiving outfit is one of them. If you ask me, the ideal Thanksgiving outfit algorithm is an oversized sweater, stretchy jeans (give me all the pie), and a plaid blanket scarf. Done and done. If I were just going to be snuggling up at home I would throw on my favorite slippers and swap my sunnies for my spectacles, but for a more social outing I like to jazz it up a bit (duh).
To avoid looking like a little troll getting ready to hibernate for the winter, first I did some serious elongating with these amazing OTK boots. Taking this cozy outfit on the road to glam, I also went with my leopard clutch, tortoise shades, tassel earrings, and favorite fall lip kit.
Are you going comfy-cozy or dolled up this Thanksgiving? As usual, I'll probably be a combo of both. Hey, on Thanksgiving, we don't have to choose. That's why I'll be having both apple and pumpkin pie. #blessed
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In Brand Upon the Brain! — the latest from Canadian director Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World) — orphans with holes in their heads are combined with a teenage lesbian romance and narration from Isabella Rossellini. The silent black-and-white film is rooted in the fantastical tradition of early French cinema, and although it may not sound particularly accessible, it is proving to be the best-received work of Maddin's 32-film career (including shorts).
Maddin, who wrote the film with longtime collaborator George Toles, devised the project as a unique theatrical experience with live accompaniment. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last September and has since screened in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and other locations along with a touring 11-piece orchestra, five Foley artists (who create the sound effects), and even a singer billed as a castrato. Each screening has also featured a celebrity narrator, such as Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Crispin Glover and Isabella Rossellini.
More recently, a version of the film with a married soundtrack — that is, with recorded narration, score and sound effects — opened in limited markets in June and will see wider release this month and next. Rossellini provides the narration on this rendering, her unusual voice and histrionic delivery perfectly suited to guiding the viewer along the meandering path of this absurdist tale.
At the beginning of the film, a man who happens to be named Guy Maddin (Erik Steffen Maahs plays the adult Guy; Sullivan Brown plays the younger Guy) returns to the secluded island where he grew up after his dying mother summons him to apply two coats of fresh paint to the family lighthouse. It is the site of the orphanage run by his parents, and soon he is awash in memories of his strange upbringing there.
As a young boy, Guy and his older sister, Sis (Maya Lawson), eke out what childhood pleasures they can under their mother's (Gretchen Krich) puritanical watch. From atop her lighthouse, Mother sweeps the island with a giant telescope to keep an eye on her charges, roaring garbled orders at them over the "aerophone" — their father's invention, said to be powered by the love between the speaker and the listener.
Meanwhile, Father (Todd Moore) toils away at all hours in his basement laboratory, concocting a "strange nectar" to restore Mother's youth. Mother is as freakily obsessed with reversing the aging process as she is with her children's budding sexuality, and she keeps a cradle in her room in heady anticipation of the day she returns to infancy.
After people begin finding mysterious head wounds on the children they adopt from the orphanage, teen detective Wendy (Katherine E. Scharhon) arrives on the island to secretly investigate. She finds herself falling for Sis, so she dashes off and reappears in drag as her brother Chance, explaining that Wendy was abruptly called away. And thus begin the romantic escapades that lend the film most of its humor and heart.
Wendy's departure saddens Guy, but his crush on her soon morphs into a "boy crush" on her alluring and oddly familiar "brother." Sis is also smitten with Chance, and the two girls begin a furtive, pubescent romance that continues even after Sis discovers that the dashing lad is actually Wendy in disguise.
Besides passing as a boy, Wendy/Chance devises creative means for safely pursuing Sis. For instance, the young detective comes up with the idea of "the undressing gloves": only the wearer is allowed the honor of disrobing another and remains protected from being similarly exposed. Of course, it's only a matter of time before saucy Sis steals them.
The film does contain nudity, but not of a seedy sort; their adolescent affair is portrayed as it appears to Guy, a young boy who is still as intrigued as he is confused by such matters.
Brand! is a silent film in the sense that we hear none of the characters speak, but it is rich with sound and playful with language. The orchestral score is fervent, almost frenetic. Menacing strings maintain a hypnotic rhythm, and cymbals crash to heighten the more melodramatic moments.
The action is described in sparing but giddy bursts from the narrator as well as intertitles that appear on-screen: "Young Guy never suspects the secret genders of others!" and "What's a suicide attempt without a wedding?" for instance. Both narrator and titles go heavy on the exclamation points, making it feel as if the account of events we are afforded comes from sneaking a glimpse at a teenage girl's diary.
And on some level, that isn't too far from the truth. There is something girlish about Maddin's exuberant and conspiratorial style. It's what lends his work a certain charm, even as it raises questions about this film's quasi-autobiographical elements. We get the feeling that he is confessing something to us, something he knows will astonish and grip us. He relishes the power of divulging precious secrets.


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One of the cornerstones of the U.S. Constitution, the one we hear the most about is the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That is the one that says the people shall be free from unreasonable searches by the Government, ie., the people shall be secure in their persons, places, houses and effects and no warrant shall issue in the absence of probable cause. This critical legal right, conceived from our founding fathers of this great nation, has been the cornerstone of American jurisprudence and continues to be the bane of prosecutors nationwide Every single day in this country cases are thrown out court because evidence is offered by the Government that was not legally obtained. The same holds true in DUI arrests in Maryland and throughout the country.
In the context of DUI and DWI arrests, the police need to have a legal basis to stop a car. Before the cops have the opportunity to exaggerate their reports by using boilerplate language copied from one report to the next, they first have to dream up a legally recognizable basis to stop a car. Now, in all honesty, that isn't too difficult to do. The cops can stop a car for practically any reason at all, something as minor as a burnt out license plate light. And if they don't immediately see a basis to stop your car, they can even make one or force the issue. For example, they can come right up on your bumper and stay there until you speed up over the limit, or change lanes without a blinker, then they have a legal basis to stop you. It ain't tough and cops know that!
Interestingly however, in North Carolina there was a recent case where the cops boldly didn't even bother to make anything up, they admitted they had no legal basis to stop a woman's car, and the Court of Appeals in Carolina supported this baseless stop under "community care." Apparently the woman hit an animal in the road and kept on driving. The cops evidently saw this but could not put their finger on any bad driving, or driving violations. They didn't even bother to use the time honored, ride the bumper until she does something illegal protocol; they just stopped her and then moved into phase two, cut and paste a report with the proper DUI buzzwords and the rest is history.
This conviction in the lower court which somehow was affirmed at the appellate court is scary. It is a complete erosion of the 4th amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures. If the cops in North Carolina can stop this woman's care for the stated no legal reason, the motorist in that great state have a lot of trouble coming. That means that law enforcement can then stop any car it wishes for a "community welfare" reason and then look for evidence of a crime. If no evidence of a crime is evident, they could then call for the dogs to do a quick sniff test of the car and it's operators just to be sure.
This legal atrocity, accosting a driver with no basis, is the very reason that the framer's of the Constitution drafted the 4th Amendment. It is the cornerstone of our freedoms in this country and the appellate court in North Carolina has just significantly eroded this protection. I hope and prey that the defense in this case will not abandon this case, but rather take it to the next appellate court and all the way to the Supreme Court of the U.S. if necessary. A legal injustice like this in North Carolina threatens the law and lawful citizens throughout the country as prosecutors will look to the law created here to support their BS positions and unlawful searches and seizures in other cases and other states. Bad law like to this can spread it's ugly tentacles across state lines if not quickly eradicated by jurists that have an appropriate knowledge and respect for the bedrock law of this land.


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Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling turns a year old on Thursday, and Stephen Colbert said he knows exactly how the special counsel might celebrate.
"I am so excited," Colbert said Wednesday. "Mueller was appointed one year from tomorrow.
"Of course, the first is anniversary is traditionally the paper anniversary, and with any luck, that is is what Mueller is going to be serving Donald Trump with."
Mueller on Wednesday subpoenaed Jason Sullivan, an adviser to Trump's longtime confidant Roger Stone, as a part of the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The "Late Show" host also joked about news that a grand jury had been impaneled in Washington.
"By law, it has to be a jury of Donald Trump's peers, so guess it's Sean Hannity, the cast of 'Shark Tank' and a cheeseburger," Colbert said. "You are what you eat."
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On 28 December 1911, the NCAA officially recognized association football as an approved college sport in the United States.
Established in 1906, the National Collegiate Athletic Association organizes and enforces the rules and regulations of its member schools. While there are currently over 1,000 such members, there were 92 in December 1911, when the organization's Rules Committee met at the Hotel Astor in New York City to consider making changes to the rules for gridiron football.
While they ultimately decided against any changes for that sport, several representatives took the opportunity to advocate for association football, including Dr. James Babbitt of Haverford College (pictured), who "told about the great popularity of the game around Philadelphia" and "praised the game highly, saying that it was a sport in which boys and men take a great delight because they all could play it without having any special athletic talent."
Upon the urging of Dr. Babbitt and several others, the NCAA appointed a new committee "to take up the game and advocate its institution at all schools and colleges." In addition to Dr. Babbitt, the committee included William Garcelon of Harvard, Dr. Page of Andover, H.E. Ford of Washington and Jefferson, and James Naismith of Kansas, the inventor of basketball.
The game eventually took root at the collegiate level and in 1959 the NCAA started a national championship tournament.


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To mark this milestone, citysocializer has launched their iPhone app, opening up the service for international users to sign-up and "un-lock" citysocializer communities in their cities. This coincides with the release of the company's new white label platform designed to offer brands and media companies the opportunity to extend and monetise their reach offline with their own-branded event and people-discovery networks.
Backed by PROfounders Capital, the launch marks the next innovation from the Shoreditch-based company in the way we enjoy their real-world social lives and meet new people. Core features for members in the first app release include:
- Browse and join "socials" on-the-go
- Guestlist group chat and activity stream
- Private instant messaging
- Push notifications to alert meeting time and venue changes
- Map and GPS-tracking for easy venue location
- Invite alerts to socials from friends on citysocializer
Following the wider platform build, which also includes an Android app for launch later this summer, the company took the opportunity for a brand overhaul of the service, having originally launched as CitySocialising.com.
Sanchita Saha CEO and founder commented:
"Our next phase of innovation in social and people discovery is underpinned by our experience in the space since 2007. Everyone has seen how social discovery networks have scaled online, now we've been able to demonstrate successfully that we can scale it offline.
"The hype surrounding real-world people-discovery apps at SxSW last year was focused around 'engineered serendipity' to make new connections offline. It helped identify it as an emerging space, in so far that none of the major, mainly US players, have yet achieved mainstream adoption. I think mostly this is because they've failed to adequately address three core issues of authenticity, control and safety, and in particular these needs and concerns for women.
"The one million genuine friendships and offline connections that we've generated through our service over the last five years have given us the insights and data around usage and behaviour that have helped us to shape our model - for example, making ours a paid-for service increased the level of engagement from our female members by 200%.
"Now with our new platform, we're ready to scale social discovery further offline through multiple channels."
The citysocializer app is free to download, browse socials, people and wave at others. To join in socials and interact in full with the community requires a membership fee via in-app purchase and monthly, 3 month and 6 month memberships available via the website.
Find the app in the Apple store: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/citysocializer/id581315807
For more information on citysocializer, visit www.citysocializer.com
About citysocializer and CitySocialising Ltd:
citysocializer.com makes it easy to find fun and folk to hang out with whenever you like, wherever you are and whatever you want to do. A fee-based service for members, the company CitySocialising Ltd. have pioneered the convergence of virtual and real world social networking in the UK since their launch in 2007 and has raised over £1.75m from investors including PROfounders Capital with support being led by tech luminaries Michael Birch(Bebo) and Brent Hoberman (Lastminute.com).
Register for free and tag your citysocializer profile with what you're into and the neighbourhoods and cities you like to hang out in, Receive invites when likeminded groups are getting together to do the things you like. Browse and join in "socials" happening around you and create your own to find citysocializers to do what you want, when you want.
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State Rep. Joseph Lopinto, R-Metairie, abruptly dropped his proposal Tuesday to bring back the electric chair in Louisiana.
He waited until nearly the end of the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice's meeting to reveal his decision.
"I know there was a rumor that I was involuntarily deferring this. It's not completely true," Lopinto said.
Instead, House Bill 328 received a dramatic rewrite. It now calls for the details surrounding drugs used for lethal injection to remain a secret.
The rewriting came at state Department of Corrections Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc's request.
Legislators also got a glimpse into the alternatives that LeBlanc is considering amid a struggle to acquire the traditional execution drugs.
"Nitrogen is the big thing. It's a painless way to go. But more time needs to be spent on that," LeBlanc said.
States are struggling to carry out the death penalty because of a clampdown on the availability of deadly drugs used for executions.
European manufacturers don't want their drugs used in executions, forcing states to turn to compounding pharmacies or to explore substances not previously used in death chambers.
Details on the avenues pursued by states come from lawyers for the condemned killers. States themselves are loathe to reveal where they shop for fear of a ban on return visits.
In Louisiana, LeBlanc is embroiled in a legal battle with convicted child killer Christopher Sepulvado over the drugs the state plans to use in Sepulvado's execution.
Sepulvado wants to know how the state got the drugs. The state doesn't want to disclose those details. The execution is stayed pending a federal court hearing in June on the state's two-drug protocol.
"It's very stressful to say the least what we're going through. It's very costly," LeBlanc said, referring to the litigation.
With LeBlanc wrapped up in the Sepulvado court case, Lopinto said he didn't want to divert his attention to dusting off the state's electric chair.
The last Louisiana inmate executed in the electric chair was Andrew Lee Jones in 1991.
The bill now simply consists of a public records law exemption. The name, address, qualifications and other identifying information of any person or entity that manufactures, compounds, prescribes, dispenses, supplies or administers execution drugs would be confidential.
Lopinto also plans to form a study commission on diversifying the death penalty in Louisiana, which now can only be carried out by lethal injection. Both he and LeBlanc mentioned inert gases, which are used to slaughter animals.
Robert Tasman, associate director of the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops, offered legislators an alternative entirely to the death penalty. He suggested doing away with executions.
"God is creative, and the fact that we can't use the drugs right now might be a life affirming message that we shouldn't be executing people," Tasman said.
However, committee members seemed to be soothed by the move away from resurrecting the electric chair.
"We're taking the plug out of the electric chair, right? OK, you've got me. Don't tell me anymore. Don't confuse me," state Rep. Terry Landry, D-Lafayette, told Lopinto.
Lopinto said he initially went with the electric chair because it was the last method used before lethal injection. He said he prefers lethal injection but recognizes the difficulty with it.
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"It's become almost impossible to execute someone," LeBlanc said.
An alternative, he said, is to use inert gases. He said two technicians working on the space shuttle in 1981 died painlessly when they accidentally walked into a nitrogen chamber.
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What is a "RAK"?! R.A.K is an acronym for "Random Act of Kindness" - meaning that you're giving something out of the kindness of your heart. 1 RAK once a month to someone that will totally appreciate your creativity that comes from your heart!
1 - Open To USA, ALASKA and CANADA residents only (To save on shipping fees), as well as those living on a military base in a foreign country (must have US Military Address).
2 - Open to ALL: bloggers, readers, facebook peeps....
3 - ALOHA RAK item MUST be created by YOU!
4 - Please be sure to include your "Created by_____" info on your project.
5 - Only 1 RAK item is required, other goodies are fun but are optional.
6 - For card creations - it is optional to leave card blank or to write your message in there. Just make sure a note is in there to let your receiver know who the RAK came from.
7 - The person you will be RAKing will be assigned by me - Jen, therefore when signing up for this RAK group - you are stating that you are "OK" with whomever your are matched up with, and "OK" with paying for shipping fees. ($0.49 to USA, $0.89 to Alaska, $1.35 to Canada/Military Base - please correct me if I am wrong - these fees are for a simple greeting card size and approximate costs).
8 - This is a monthly thing. I will post on my blog and Facebook pages the beginning of each month, and ask if anyone is interested in signing up for "Jen's Aloha RAK". You must sign up each month - we will NOT assume that you will participate every month.
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According to new data from Kantar Media, US advertising spending for Q2 2013 is up 3.5% over the same period in 2012, to $35.8 billion. Cable TV made the greatest gains, up 14.9%, and Spanish-language TV was up 6.1%. On the other side of roster, newspaper advertising is down 4.3%.
The most interesting news to me, though, is the section on print magazines. Ad revenues for consumer magazines are up 1.9%, although (if you want to quibble over the details) they sold fewer ad pages than last year, each one at a higher average rate. And Sunday magazines, the magazines inside newspapers, grew ad revenues by 4.1% — the same rate by which Internet display ad revenue grew.
Digging into individual titles shows more signs of vitality. The September issue of Vogue is the fattest since 2008 — 665 pages of ads — and the September Elle just broke the record for highest page count ever for a Hearst publication. W, Bon Appetit, Allure, Teen Vogue and Glamour all had their best Septembers since the 2008 financial crisis. The Atlantic, with its diversified approach across print, digital and events, is on a tear.
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In my opinion there are two types of cult product: those that genuinely do perform and over a number of years develop a cult-like following of fans, and products that are hyped-up in the media in order to shift more stock. There are many genuinely brilliant products that either pushed the boundaries when they were first launched, or have multiple functions that make them a great buy. Elizabeth Arden's Eight Hour Cream has developed cult-like status because it really works, while having about three hundred different uses and fans in beauty journalists, celebrities and consumers alike; it's taken decades for them to build this status (its original launch was unbelievably in 1930) and a huge amount of love from women across the globe. Similarly, the Pixi Glow Tonic has developed a huge fan base after it slowly proved to be an unbelievably effective product with an affordable price point; customers have been known to queue outside the store and stock up in their dozens to ensure they never run out. These kind of products really do deserve their cult status because impartial users have sung their praises over a number of years.
However, there are also 'cult' products that have developed that status by nothing more than advertising, magazine hype and blogger sampling activity. The Urban Decay Naked palettes are a perfect example of this - yes, they're a great selection of shadows that really do blend seamlessly and provide a fabulous colour result, but a cult product? Can an eyeshadow be cult? Can something that's re-packaged every year to flog more of the same really be deserving of the same status? In my opinion the Naked palettes just re-packaged and repositioned something that's been around for decades, albeit in a swanky case with a rather large price point. The magazines went crazy for it, bloggers soon followed; the Urban Decay PR department did an incredible job. Although I do really love the UD eyeshadows and use my Naked Basics palette regularly, there's something I can't quite understand about it being called 'cult'. Is it different, unique or effective enough to be categorised with something such as Liz Earle's Cleanse and Polish?
Similarly, MAC's Ruby Woo lipstick is possibly the most cult lip product of all time. You can't swing a cat without a blogger sporting it, a celeb praising it or a magazine presenting it with some kind of award. It may be a great shade of red that apparently suits all skin tones, but it's still effectively a red lipstick... From my experience MAC makeup is drying, uncomfortable and overpriced, which makes me question any cult status associated with their brand. Has this lipstick developed cult like status because we've been told so often that it's a cult classic? How many of us would be perfectly happy with a L'Oreal or Bourjois number that was a fraction of the cost, given a blind test?
Retailers like Cult Beauty have really helped to cut out the rubbish and only celebrate genuinely great products that beauty experts would thoroughly recommend; I love the fact that they highlight singular products from across multiple brands, as well as promoting brands you've never heard of that offer the most incredible formulas. From Stila's bases, to Lipstick Queen's Jean Queen and the BeautyBlender, you know their featured products have been tried and tested in order to bring you the best edit of things you really need to know about. However, magazine awards that recognise 'cult' products or best buys are often manipulated to showcase the best of their advertisers' products as a way of securing future budget; I often flick through the pages of magazines to see which products they've highlighted, only to find 90% of them come from the major advertisers or those brands that have taken them on a rather nice press trip that year.
As bloggers we're equally as guilty of building up products and accrediting them with cult-like status, deserved or otherwise. From the Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer that sold out last year and saw bloggers venturing out to up to eight different stores to track it down, to the Seche Vite topcoat that promised to be the answer to our chipped-nail nightmares, we do like to hype a product and classify it as the next big thing. However, more often than not I find these don't work for me and leave me somewhat disappointed - which again makes me question any product's 'cult' status and whether or not it's become a way of saying 'I really really like this!'
In my opinion, a product is only deserved of the status 'cult' if it's a) been around for longer than three years and b) genuinely works for at least 75% of people that use it. Otherwise it's just a pretty good product for some people. I don't have the magic answer and think this is definitely a topic that's up for debate, but it's an interesting question to answer oneself - both as a beauty junkie and someone that works within the industry. So, what do you think: are cult products labelled as such because they're great, or because of the hype created by a clever marketing department that surrounds them?


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And here they are. Holly Wood, with the highest Rep is the obvious leader.
She decided that they would investigate a farm they were passing to see if they could "liberate" any supplies.
They all fired, and Holly and Sven downed their zombies, but Asthma Al missed the one in the field to the right.
All these shots only generated 2 zombies, 1 to the rear and another to the right.
They moved forward as a group.
Sven rejoins Holly, who steps through the unlocked door (should have told the Ganger something), and comes face to face with 2 survivors, Andy Capp, Rep 4 with a submachine gun, and Thumper, Rep 3 with a pistol.
Time for Meet & Greet, and Holly scores 1 more success than the Survivors, so they join up only for this episode. (Both sides were -2d6 for not being the same types).
Turn 6: Humans 2 Zombies 5.
Holly and Sven go upstairs. The upstairs landing is empty.
Turn 7: Humans 2 Zombies 4
Holly goes into the left bedroom, and find Mon & Dad, zombified! Zombie Surprise!
All this shooting has only generated 2 zombies. Ah, the country!
Turn 8: Humans 1 Zombies 5
Holly searches the room and finds nothing worth keeping. Sven reloads. Al, Andy and Thumper head for the barn.
Holly crosses to the other bedroom, and finds it empty.
Turn 10: Humans 2 Zombies 4
(At this point company arrived, and picture taking became more haphazard)
The zombies charge the group. Rep 3 Thumper passed 1d6 on the Being Charged test and melees her zombie at -2d6 for being charged to the rear, and still takes it out. Andy passes 2d6, turns, fires, hits twice, but doesn't take out the zombie, but kills him in melee
Al passes 0d6, and retires 8" away from the threat.
Holly and Sven descend to the first floor.
Andy and Thumper continue on their way to the barn.
The shooting generates one zombie, about 3" from Al.
Holly and Sven fast move towards Al, and Holly fires at the zombie, missing.
Andy enters the barn, and the ground floor is empty.
Al shoots at the zombie and misses. The zombie charges and Al fires, and misses. The zombie knocks Al OOF.
1 zombie is generated, to the rear.
Turn 12: Humans 5 Zombies 3
Holly and Sven charge the zombie standing over Al, and take him out! The zombies move closer.
Turn 13: Humans 1 Zombies 5
Holly and Sven move to the pump house behind the house, open the door, and find thmselves staring down the barrels of 3 shotgun belong to 3 Rep 4 Survivors. The Survivors pass 1 more d6 in Meet & Greet, and wave Holly and Sven off. "Go away, and we won't kill you!"
Andy digs around on the ground floor of the barn and finds gold: a roll of toilet paper still in its wrapping!
The rest of the turns will become narrative, since the zombies are a little too far away to be really dangerous.
Thumper follows Andy into the barn, with a zombie following way behind her.
There is a Hummer 2 behind the house and Holly sees that there are no people, living or undead, in it, and no keys. Holly finds a rifle in the car.
Andy and Thumper climb the ladder to the loft in the barn. It's empty, except for a baseball bat.
Holly tries to hotwire the H2, unsuccessfully.
Andy and Thumper climb back down the ladder to the floor of the barn. Sven successfully hotwires the H2.
It only generates 1 zombie.
Turn 18: Humans 1 Zombies 2
A zombie moves to unconscious Al, but before it can start to chew, Holly backs the H2 over it, not losing control. Sven jumps out and throws Al in the back seat.
The Holly Wood gang has gained a rifle and an H2.
Al passes his "Harry, are you OK?" test with flying colors, and won't become a zombie. Holly has passed all criteria to increase her Rep, but doesn't make the grade. Sven, with hotwiring the H2 passed his, but doesn't make the grade either. Al has failed, but doesn't decrease in Rep. Holly will have to keep him closer to keep him under her leadership.
For being Gangers encountering two groups of Survivors, they were mighty lucky in the Meet And Greet results. The 3 Survivors with shotguns could have easily taken them out.
This was fun: I hadn't played gangers before, and they react a little differently than the others.


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March 25, 2011 (MILWAUKEE, Wis.) --A former sailor who was stationed at Naval Station Great Lakes is looking for a sweetheart he left behind long ago when he shipped out to duty.
Steve Daubert, 59, took out three ads in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a quest to find a lost love named Mary. He says his wife of 37 years approves.
The ad reads, "Need info on Mary. She was in HS in Jan. 1972 when I was in the Navy. I met her parents and I have a # of pics I would like to send to her. And to say I'm sorry."
What's he sorry for? Well, Daubert told Sentinel writer Jim Stingl that he met Mary, whose last name he does not remember, in 1972 when she was 17 or 18 and he was 20. The two dated for two months before he was shipped out. Things ended with a fight because he wanted a commitment, she didn't.
Daubert said he would like to return some photos to Mary, who may or may not want to be found.