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Friday, September 29, 2006
sick turnip
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
My job (or) Stay tuned for the happy post
A filthy and wretched condition or quality.
Some days it is very hard to work so closely to So. Much. Pain.
Monday, September 25, 2006
random things that irritate me
- the robotic three stooges. Because the original three stooges arent irritating enough.
- the fact that there is no good way to open and close oreos without leaving them flapping in the freaking wind. Do I want to transfer my damn oreos to tupperware? Why? I dont do it for my leftovers. Why would I do it for oreos?
-rude parents of small children. Ok you know what? your kid is NOT THAT CUTE. I WAS JUST BEING POLITE. Instead of answering my inquiry and compliment in a bored irritated tone, you should have a little grace not only for the above reasons, but also because you are making people that you dont even know hate your guts.
-sporks. I fluctuate on this, to be honest. Next week, you could stop by and sporks could be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Today, however, I had a frustrating episode with a spork and they are back on my list.
- people that have no real understanding of the illegal immigrant situation. NEWSFLASH: Illegal immigrants are NOT AFFECTING YOU IN THE MIDWEST OK? They are not taking your jobs. They are not using your resources. In fact, only about twenty five freaking cents of your tax dollars EVERY YEAR goes towards social programs that they could (but might not even) benefit from. You are ALSO NOT AFFECTED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME IN IOWA OK? Look at the freaking census. Even better, I will give you twenty bucks and then you cannot complain about this for the next 80 years all right? Oh and by the way? Just because some yahoo sends you an email that lists the LA Times (without dates of course) as a source, does not mean that it is actually a source. By definition? You should be able to check out a source without having to go through the past fifteen years of a daily newspaper and "News with views?" IS NOT REAL NEWS!!!!
Ok I feel a little purged now. Back to the case notes....
Sunday, September 24, 2006
So Gill took Norm and the Turnip to the play area at the local mall and guess who came back with a phone number? Yes, my FOUR YEAR OLD picked up an "older woman". Granted, Gill thinks she might have been psycho (because, you know, he clinically diagnoses elementary school girls as a hobby) and Norm was WAY too blase about it for a four year old (or maybe thats because he is four....). When I asked him about what his "girlfriend/wife" princess Fabu was going to think about this, he replied in a voice much older than four..."Do NOT tell her, do you understand? You CANNOT tell her." So Norm is officially a player...
And as Im writing this I realize how fitting it is that he is in the family room playing with the nine year old neighbor girl who frequently comes over to hang out with him....
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Had a horrific dream this morning involving zombies. They were marauding through town in huge bands (a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, a band of zombies. I believe that's the grouping class)creating mayhem. Initially, I was at our first "married" apartment, which actually belonged to a work friend in the dream. (Interesting aside about this friend: she has two little boys almost exactly the same age as mine. Is this significant? I dont know!) We were in some sort of gated community which left the band of zombies outside but we could hear these horrible noises echoing through the entire apartment. Zombie Mayhem. I was never clear what the zombies were doing. Eating brains? (I just made the mistake of consulting with Gill Smoke about zombie activities and got a completely unsolicited "dungeons and dragons" explanation of zombies. Eating brains did come up though, so we will go with that...) It was horrific. Certain we were all going to die, I just waited through the night until about 4am. We then heard a news report that the zombies had started off from our local university and were heading down the express way in the other direction. Sunrise was coming and in the dream, zombies could not tolerate sun.
The next night found me at the home where I grew up. We had just eaten an elaborate dinner (the dream picked up after the meal) and my older brother was cleaning the kitchen (which NEVER happened). I was watching 60 minutes with my father enjoying some sort dream sense of karmic justice (about the kitchen cleaning) and a report came through that they were heading back. We attempted to lock everything but I had the sense of dread that the house was simply not zombie proof. It was extremely disturbing. I cant describe the dread. At that point, Norm (against his father's direct instructions and my pleadings the night before) came in to ask me what time I was getting up (he can't even tell time) and I woke up. I gave little Norm a big hug for getting me out of there. Yet, the whole dream made me realize that my own house is definitely not zombie proof. Not a good feeling at all....
Friday, September 22, 2006
You may notice that my time stamp indicates it is roughly 5am. Yes. Welcome to my new pattern. I go to sleep somewhere between 9 and 11 and am up again at 4. Why? Who knows....I then go back to sleep and have some crazy dreams until I wake to either the screaming or the pounding of the walls from the turnip. Oh sometimes I get treated to a small voice saying "You have to get up mommy. turnip stinks and he is making the room all stinky". This is not a nice way to wake up. Thankfully, the children are eternally cute which takes the edge off. I just try to remember that some day Im going to wistfully look back on the time that my 14 month old managed to spill half a chocolate milkshake all over himself and the carpet, grind about a dozen cold french fries into said carpet and grab an entire bowl of cheerios off his brother and fling them all over the living room all within a two minute time span and say to myself "ah they grew up too fast." On a positive note, it's already friday. Which means the weekend is almost here and gill will be able to rein in his band of spider monkeys and give us all some structure. At least for a few days.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Dare I say Thursday Thirteen is up already?
1. (to a field worker) Im sorry to be the one to tell you, all the sixth grade teachers do NOT have a crush on you. Nor do they think you are the best thing that happened to the school since the copy machine. However, they do find you more and more creepy with each passing day.
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Taco nacho karma
Well it wasnt the day I expected by any means. On the one hand the "perfect storm" was a stepford child today. It was damn spooky. My friend (the worker who was about to cry/quit yesterday) and I were in amazement. It was like a different child. We did have an incident on the playground where we had to talk her off the jungle gym and back inside but even that lasted only about five minutes. On the other hand, fourth grade sucks and is incredibly boring. I did learn that the coconut is really just a giant seed which i didnt know. As far as the taco nachos? What a mess that turned to out to be. For political reasons, I couldnt buy my lunch and had to leave to get it. I dont know why I chose taco bell. Maybe it was because of a subconscious urge to right the wrongness of the taco nachos in my own mind. Maybe because I secretly thought they looked better than I remembered. Whatever the reason, I got taco bell and have been completely sick in my stomach since. The lingering smell of it in my car was completely nauseating. But to end on a positive note, Norm had swim class and did EXCELLENT AND it was free cookie day when the boys picked up burger king after class. Im not feeling well now, but its nice to know the free cookies are waiting for me!
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Brain Scramble
You know its going to be a bad afternoon when you come out of your first appointment and there are three messages from the elementary school telling you that your client (lets call her "perfect storm") has exhausted the resources of all the school employees. You know it is going to be worse when the learning support teacher nervously asks you to please praise the worker assigned to the case as she seems about to cry/quit. And you can be assured that you are locked into the horror when you walk by the guidance office where the "perfect storm" is and she is falling off the couch taking all the cushions down with her. If you had any doubts this day was salvagable? They are swept away by the fact that when the guidance counselor sent PS out of the office briefly, a stunned silence filled the room as if nobody could believe what they were witnessing. And the guidance counselor, the guidance counselor who has 20 plus years experience, the guidance counselor who Ive never seen even remotely ruffled in my six and a half years of working at the school, looks at me and says (and I quote) "Oh. My. God." So guess where Im going to be at 8am tomorrow?
Monday, September 18, 2006
List of things
- the morning. (well some people don't hate the morning, I know.) I just cant stand the knowledge that a whole day lies ahead with troubles I ain't even seen yet. (And I call myself an optimist?)
-birds singing in the morning (or anytime really) I have NO IDEA why I find this sound to be grating at best and soul wrenchingly depressing at worst. But I do.
- sun shining when its cold, or morning (man i have morning issues). When its cloudy the world seems shrouded with a gentle "lets go back to bed" sense. And if you don't? it seems like the world is more appreciative for you showing up. When the sun shines in the morning, I find it to be a harsh directive to handle my business with no nonsense. When its cold? I find it to be mocking.
- babies. I don't abhor babies per se. I just don't get them really. I got my babies of course. I thought it would translate when new babies came. It didnt. I find them boring and when they want to interact for any length of time I become extremely anxious and want out of there.
- the amish. I dont have it in me to go into details tonight but it has to do with entitlement. And a lack of cell phone towers.
- sundays. I don't know if it's dread about the upcoming week. But I actually don't mind mondays. Or any other day of the week for that matter. I dont know why I hate them I just do.
- eating dinner at the dinner table. This one drives Gill nuts. Im not sure if it was because my mom was a horrible cook or because i feel like it sucks all the energy out of the evening or what. And I know its important. I try to spend a lot of quality non-eating time with the kids. And we take them to dinner. I know. Its horrible.
Thats all I can think of right now. More may be added as I think of them. For some reason, I feel a little less bereft. Thank you blogfriends.
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- the sound of other people brushing their teeth. I feel bile rising in my throat just thinking about it. I actually have to avoid the toothpaste and brush aisle if other people are in it because I become freakishly upset by the thought of them brushing. Yet i still promote my sonicare. Do you see what a breakthrough it is for me to even talk about a toothbrush?
Sunday, September 17, 2006
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Never in my wildest (apparently sex filled) dreams would I have predicted lust would outshine sloth. I feel like I maybe need to step up on the sloth to save my own reputation. I blame my job for bringing down the sloth score....ah well...winter is coming. The balance of nature will lead to more sloth...
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Im with creepy
This morning I attempted to crawl back into the land of the living by having breakfast with my family at friendly's and then shopping for a gift at target for princess Fabu's birthday. She is turning six today. It promises to be the social event of the season. Being in public was a bit surreal and overwhelming. The most disturbing part of the morning occurred when Gill took the boys to the restroom at target while I checked out. As I made my way over to wait for them afterwards and was browsing through the dollar bins, I hear a painfully familiar bass bellowing "london bridges" from the men's room. I inwardly winced as the other patrons shared disturbed glances. Its not that Im not happy that he has uncovered the lost verses for our children....I guess i am grateful that at least the kids were with him this time. And he wasnt singing anything like "thank heaven for little boys".
When a picture really is worth a thousand words...
Does anyone else find this not only brilliant but hilariously funny as well? There are two employees and the principal of a certain elementary school that shall remain nameless who I would love to send this to.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Just had to check
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Thursday 13 #10
1. I really like C-Span. I don't know if this is because of my illness or I just happened to find it during my illness. I don't care. I like hearing the debates. When I am too tired to listen, I find their voices soothing. I like the classical music during the breaks. I like noting that some of our representatives are kind of hot. I like C-Span.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
And we are now in officially day 8 of the virus that won't let me go. I got the confirmation call today that yes. It is viral. Yes. I have anemia. And yes. my potassium is low. (awkward alert: I realized too late that it was probably socially inappropriate to argue with the nurse as she was explaining my test results. Apparently it is indeed not impossible at all for this to happen despite the fact that I like bananas and had eaten one five minutes before her call) And yes. I can expect this sense of malaise to linger well into the weekend. Huzzah. The good news is, Im officially on a "convalescence vacation". I have so much to do. The illness needs recorded in so many ways. My TT is due. But that will need to wait for tomorrow as will my need to record this lunesta experience (dr. gave me samples so my mind could rest enough for me to sleep...its been...blogabble)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
A Jesse MEME
Why do you blog?
Several reasons. To keep track of my kids. To keep more "everyday" connected to my friend Luckybuzz. To amuse my friend Madame Fabu at work and my other friends in their settings (school or early morning wind-down after a long night of engraving). And now because ive found all my fantastic new blogger friends! (and im embarrassingly addicted to them!)
How long have you been blogging?
July 4, 2006.
Why do readers read your blog?
well the people who know me want to track the body count. The people who don't? Ambulance chasers? I dont know!!!
What was the last search phrase someone used to get to your site?
this is kind of embarrassing. "girl sexy". It wasnt a google either. I get a lot of eastern european googles for "zamphir" who are more interested in the music of the panflute, i think.
Which of your entries unjustly gets too little attention?
AND THIS IS WHY I HAD TO DO THE ME ME You know what entry unjustly got ignored? And I never thought I would get an opportunity to go back here graciously. MY TOOTHBRUSH POST! I know. I realize it was friday night at 10pm. Labor Day weekend for many of us. That many of you had long weeks. I only blame myself. I should have included a picture. (by the time you read this, it will be done...unless of course you are a really fast reader and click on right when i post this, then you might have to wait a minute...)
I feel like I failed you my readers. And I failed the toothbrush. Somehow I did not impart upon anyone how powerful this toothbrush is. How much its changed my outlook on my dental future. How Im getting my "dont buy me anything" father one for christmas. (and I already told him. Extensively. THe day after I posted about my toothbrush. He doesnt know about the blog....) How one of the first things I do when I become financially solvent is to go and buy this toothbrush for all of my loved ones. I got cold feet. I thought I might put you off if I talked tooo much about my dental phobias which make this finding all that much more miraculous. But please friends. If you are thinking about investing in a new dental product (and Im not affiliated) my dentist (who could be affiliated) described it as one of the top five dental innovations in history. I was afraid to tell you this. Well...as he is a bit...sketchy. Im not asking you to comment on the post. Im just saying that
Your current favorite blogs
what the hell? all the blogs i read are my favorites! otherwise why would i read them? is this a me-me or sophie's choice for crying out loud?
What blog did you read most recently?
Im beginning to think this Me-Me is trying to stir up discord...
Which feeds do you subscribe to?
Or maybe its a spy....(i really only barely understand what feeds are. Luckybuzz tried to explain it but I think I was kind of hungover and off the adderall and so i just nodded)
What blogs are you tagging with this meme and why?
See I dont even know what tagging means. I see the term. And I think does it mean, "tag you are it?" but then why would technorati be involved?
I have to go add my toothbrush picture now. Good night sweet friends. ANd thank you Jesse. This is the opportunity I needed to scourge my soul of the failed posting.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
The Princess and The Pea (the rest of the story)
Ok so we all know the story of how the prince is sooo impressed with the princess's delicacy that he marries her outright. What they dont tell you is that the princess proves to be a colossally high maintenance pain in the ass. And when the princess gets sick? its ten times worse (Oh and you have NO IDEA what you missed since the princess didnt blog through her pregnancies). Case in point. The princess (did you know? its a little known fact that the princess was actually the princess of spider monkeys?) currently (hopefully soon to be recently) has the flu. Her prince is forced once again to deal with an incapacitated spider monkey princess. (oh there will be much blogging about this illness trust me) In an attempt to help the princess whose main pillow is soaked with her toxic night sweats, he dissembles the system (yes I said system. Bear in mind though, the man is not new. He KNOWS about the five pillow system. After all, isnt that why he fell in love with the princess in the first place? Her delicacy?) and throws them in the dryer.
Sadly, the fairy tale does not end well. As the princess defies her prince's dubious faith in her ability to function in the throes of her illness and bravely faces the stairs to actually remove the pillow from the dryer herself and re-case it. She even briefly contemplates putting the wet clothes on top of the dryer into the dryer. Briefly. Please remember folks, she is a delicate princess. As she finally drags her poor fever addled body back into the bed, horror awaits her. Her feather pillow has molted. Quills are poking in her brain. As she waits patiently for her prince to return from the grocery store with the royal princlet spider monkeys, she is slowly fighting insanity. Her neck stiffens. Is it the proverbial pea? (ok, the molting feathers) or slowly ensuing meningitis? Her fever rages at this point because the royal family did not depart for their quest for her theraflu until after 6pm when the prince knew she was completely out at 2pm (stay tuned for upcoming post: "things i could have complained about during my illness and didnt"). As the prince returns he sends a princlet in with the medicine so the princess is forced to call him on the cell phone (Im sure he hears that ring like James Caan hears that scraping crutch in "Misery") (ok I stole that line from my brother but it fits) and share her concerns. The thoroughly disgusted prince says "You don't have meningitis. Switch pillows and go to sleep." And hangs up on the princess.
And that my friends...is what happily ever after looks like.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
The master of social grace
Did I mention my brother and his family were staying this weekend? So as everyone is winding down from the long stretch of festivities this evening, Norm comes running in SOBBING. Because his cousin, lets call her sybil (her mom does...), was "mean" to her. Immediately afterwards, Sybil herself comes running in also sobbing. After prying them off their subsequent parents (GS happened to be the object of Norm's flinging into the mercy of the universe) it was discovered that norm was completely crushed because he wanted to sit in his chair and sybil didnt want to get off but offered to share. Despite this attempt at compromise, norm (who has had too much fair, too much birthday party and too much of everything) was inconsolably shattered by not getting his own way. After much coaching on both sides(during which wiser minds decided it might be time to head back home) norm approached his cousin, thanked her for coming, apologized for his part in the misunderstanding and then added..."but you still have to leave now"
Crikey er... i mean holy crap
Well who would have seen that coming? But despite my underlying feeling that this was darwinism at work (yes I know it was a one in a million shot. yes i know sting ray stings are seldom fatal. yes i know he was filming a segment for the delightfully precocious bindi sue. yes i know i know i know)Im actually feeling strangely sad by this news because although he annoyed the living shit out of me, I think Steve Irwin was trying to do good things for animals.Im a big fan of doing good things for creatures (both human and non-human) that arent pretty and cute. He was good for that. I really admire his work for the creepy crawlies. Because whether we are fans of the creepy crawlies or not...the world really needs its creepy crawlies.
I gotta say though, this is totally not one of these why do bad things happen to good people things for me. I mean its not grizzly man stupid or anything but Ill tell you this. Barring some massive global upheaval that shifts circumstances in my life beyond my worst fears, or some horrible unforeseen tragedy at a zoo or on a sanctioned or guided tour, I can guarantee you that I will not ever be maulled by grizzlies or impaled by a sting ray. (ok I knocked wood after typing that lest the gods of irony decide to have some creepy laugh at my expense) Peace to your soul Mr. Irwin. Peace to your soul....
Friday, September 01, 2006
I heart my new toothbrush
Ok Im completely freaking out my spouse with this but I have to tell the world I LOVE MY NEW SONICARE TOOTHBRUSH. I am not going into a whole oral history (hahahahaha get it? oral history? hahahahahaha). Im not going into how or why I ended up with a forty dollar toothbrush that scared the hell out of me two days ago. Im just going to tell you this toothbrush has changed my whole outlook about my dental future. Those saturn commercials about the saturn cult people? I seriously googled to see if there is a similar one for this toothbrush. Its THAT awesome. So far, they don't have one. So far. This toothbrush is so great, we were at dinner tonight and GS asked what i was thinking about and I had to tell him, I was thinking about getting home and brushing my teeth. He thinks its a sign of pathology. I think he is jealous of my amazing dental experience.
(edited to add) Sonicare. Isnt it beautiful? They range in price from 25 dollars to 125 dollars. Needless to say mine was 25 bucks. It looks like a violent little thing, but it really could not be more gentle. Im not sure where the water comes from (sonically generated? good enough for me!) but it doesnt feel like you are getting sprayed. Its more like "hey, my mouth is full of water! How about that?" Oh succumb to the pleasure of it. Im the queen. No the goddess of buyer's remorse and I will not live long enough to regret this toothbrush.


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North Fork Trail is a 22.8 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Boulder, Wyoming and is rated as difficult. The trail is primarily used for hiking and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Directions from Centennial: West Trailhead: Travel 8 miles northwest on State Highway 130, then 1.2 miles northwest on Forest Road #317East Trailhead: Travel 3.5 miles northwest on State Highway 130, then 1.7 miles northwest on Forest Road #101
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Obituary of Hildegarde M. Bashey
Hildegarde M. Bashey, age 79, of Lafayette Hill, PA died Thursday, January 4, 2018, at The Masonic Village. She is the beloved wife of Reza I. Bashey, who survives her. She is also survived by her son, Ali R. Bashey of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; her daughter Parveen and son-in-law Huw Roberts, and their children Dylan and Gibson; and her daughter Farrah and son-in-law Gerard Visser of Bloomington, Indiana and their children Leo and Cyrus; and her sister, Marianne Moessner of Short Hills, New Jersey.
Hildegarde was born February 2, 1938, in East Orange, New Jersey. She is the daughter of the late Wilhelm and Else (Trinks) Moessner, both originally from Pforzheim, Germany. Growing up in a tightly knit community in Union, NJ, Hildegarde enjoyed dinners with Tantes, Onkles, and cousins, picnics, walks, and swims at Flanders Swim & Sports Club, and vacations at the Jersey shore. Hildegarde was a successful student at Union High School. She studied piano and played at church. Hildegarde, a science major and resident of the French house, was a proud member of the Douglass College Class of 1960. While at college, Hildegarde met a young, Rutgers, PhD candidate from India at an international students gathering. After college, Hildegarde worked at the University of Miami, where she serendipitously met him again.
Reza and Hildegarde married in 1961 and moved to India. The newlyweds lived with relatives in Bombay and New Dehli where their first child, Parveen, was born. After returning to the United States in 1963, Dr. and Mrs. Bashey resided in New Jersey, where Ali was born in Newark. Next, the Bashey family moved to The Bronx in New York City, where Farrah was born.
In 1971, Hildegarde and her family moved to Lafayette Hill, PA. She returned to work after her youngest started school. After a short stint at teaching high school chemistry, Mrs. Bashey worked as a laboratory technician in the biomedical sciences. She worked at Philadelphia General Hospital and then the University of Pennsylvania, the latter for 20 years.
Hildegarde's kitchen reflected her scientific disposition; she kept meticulous notes on the weight, cooking temperature, timing, and outcome of her delicious roasts. She labeled salt and vinegar with their chemical formulae. Hildegarde's children remember a strict and loving mother, who loved Mozart, cats, and nature; and who taught the value of hard work and the joy of continual learning by example. Throughout her life, Hildegarde was an avid reader of nonfiction. Her grandchildren remember their Omi for her large boxes of bite-sized cookies, generous gifts and cards, and her reminders to "be good."
In her retirement, Hildegarde joined St. Peter's Lutheran Church, which provided her with new friends, support, and the opportunity to learn the Bible. She also enjoyed reconnecting with old friends, visiting family, and going to book readings and concerts with Reza.
Her family wishes to thank the doctors, nurses, and aides at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and at Masonic Village, who provided excellent and kind care in the last few months of her life. We also wish to thank St. Peter's for their inclusiveness and good works in the community.
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Dean Ryan Champions
The school secured its record-breaking thirteenth Dean Ryan title when our under-16 ½ hurlers defeated Midleton C.B.S. in the final of the Munster schools hurling competition, which was played in Clonmel on Wednesday last, the 8th of November. Thurles started the game strongly, a Devon Ryan goal helping them to build up a four-point lead before Midleton responded with six unanswered points of their own.
Each side scored four more points apiece over the remainder of the first half and Midleton led by 10 points to 1-5 at the interval. Midleton began the second period well, netting twice to build up a seven-point lead with a quarter of an hour remaining in the fixture ( 2-13, 1-09). With the game looking like it was slipping away, Thurles showed fantastic determination and fighting spirit, clawing their way back into contention through goals from Stephen Ferncombe and Jack Lanigan before points from Darren Flood, Stephen Ferncombe and Devon Ryan helped to secure a three-point victory for the C.B.S. The final score was Thurles: 3-15, Midleton: 2-15. Afterwards, the Dean Ryan Cup was presented to joint captains, Darren Flood and Jack Lanigan. The team now progress to the All-Ireland final where they will face either the Connacht or the Leinster champions. 'Well done' to all involved in securing this prestigious Munster title for the school. We wish the team the best of luck in the final.
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Last Wednesday afternoon two local Gardai spoke to our second-year students about safe and responsible use of the internet. Among the topics addressed were cyber-bullying and the legal implications of online misbehaviour. Students were advised that any comments they make online need to be sensible and respectful and were warned about the dangers of posting inappropriate pictures on social media.
Our under-17 soccer panel was knocked out of the Munster Junior Cup last Tuesday by a very strong De La Salle side. This always looked like it was going to be a very tough draw for the C.B.S. and thus it proved. De la Salle scored twice in the first half and an early goal in the second half effectively killed off the tie. Despite the loss, the Thurles players can be proud of their performances. They battled gamely, against superior opposition and refused to let their heads drop or their discipline slip. The entire team worked extremely hard until the final whistle and in particular, there were impressive displays from Jordan Fahy, Jack Ryan-Casey, Aidan Slattery and Dillon Maher.


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Saturday, 27 August 2016
Seaside Shore Card No 2
Yesterday I spent my day, first of all designing, and then making, a special bookmarker that I'm going to send out to all my customers, with the new Christmas catalogue. Unfortunately, I never do "quick & easy" so this is quite a mammoth task and is going to take up most of my weekend!
I'm so pleased with the idea I came up with, I'll be making a video which I hope will be ready for next Wednesday. All my customers should have received their catalogues by then!
I'm not going into the details because I don't want to spoil the surprise for my customers! ☺
While I was working on these gifts yesterday, I had YouTube playing on my iPad. It was on autoplay and the videos all featured the Limited Edition Thoughtful Branches.
I decided that I'd create a card for today using the set! As you can see it didn't quite work out according to plan! LOL.
I started making the hydranga but I just didn't feel I could do something different. I think having seen so many great ideas during the day, I'd OD'd on Thoughtful Branches.
Instead, I decided to have my second play with Seaside Shore - no idea why I chose that one but I'm so pleased I did. The style of this card is so unusual for me but I love it! I'll certainly use this idea again.
My original idea was to have just the fish and the seaweed as you see it now, but I was going to put a top layer of Marina Mist that had a circle cut out of it, rather like a porthole window.
I had die cut the circle and then dry embossed the layer using the Seaside Embossing Folder.
When I was about to adhere it on top, something made me stop and I decided I liked the scene as it was.
Using Marina Mist Ink and Cardstock, I stamped and fussy cut one each of the two shells, as well as the two starfish.
Then I adhered them in place, making sure I kept my scene just in the centre of my layer.
As I always cut my card bases and layers to the same size and I like a total of three layers, I was now one short!
I'd already adhered the Pear Pizzazz layer to my Marina Mist card base, so I cut the base in half, effectively making it the second layer. Then I took a piece of Pear Pizzazz and cut it a bit larger than normal and adhere the layers to it. My finished card was 1/4" taller and wider but it still fits into one of our regular envelopes.
To create the scene I used Pear Pizzazz Ink on Pear Pizzazz Cardstock and Marina Mist Ink on Marina Mist Cardstock. I fussy cut all the images.
The only parts I stamped directly onto the layer are the bubbles and the sentiment, which is from Guy Greetings.
I'm so pleased with my finished card - I feel it looks very clean and airy!
That's about it for today. I hope you have a great weekend. Until tomorrow, happy crafting.
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I just love your creativity here! Great job.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi, Catherine. Many thanks for your kind words, they really are appreciated! ☺ Happy crafting, JanB.Delete
What a visually pretty card and yet so simple and straight forward. Love the layout, the colour combination that you have used and of course, that Guy Greeting script! (isn't it the best?! Turn to it all the time too) -- it suits the over all layout and the line-art stamps just perfectly though. Very well done!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi, Geraldine. I have used that sentiment sooo many times! Like you, I love the font! I think it's very stylish. ☺ Happy crafting, JanB.Delete
Love this card Jan, you should be very pleased! Love the way the fish are swimming amongst the seaweed. Totally worth all the "fussy cutting"! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Hi, Paowens. Many thanks. I'm lucky because I enjoy fussy cutting! LOL! ☺ Happy crafting, JanB. find fReplyDelete


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Leicester have agreed a deal to sign Nigeria international midfielder Wilfred Ndidi from Belgian club Genk. The 20-year-old will put pen to paper on a five-and-a-half-year deal, subject to the Premier League champions being granted a work permit for the player.
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Gardening plus Texas summers equal a ton of questions.
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How can I get my lawn to fill in the voids a little more quickly? Determine the reason for the voids. If they're due to excessive shade, you must either remove a low-hanging branch or two or switch over to a more shade-tolerant ground cover. If the bare spaces were caused by last summer's drought, transplant sod from within your own yard. Keep it moist at all times, and it will recover quickly. Seeding Bermuda into small portions of an established lawn is not a good plan.
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What is the clumping, weedy grass with deep green leaves, and how can I control it? That sounds like dallis grass. You can confirm its identification by looking at its seed heads. Dallis grass produces flat, disclike seeds with black, peppery specks. The seed heads will develop just a few days after each mowing. We have no selective herbicide that will kill dallis grass within St. Augustine or Bermuda turf without harming the "good" grass. That means you'll either have to remove the clumps manually, probably using a sharpshooter spade, or apply a glyphosate-only herbicide specifically to the clumps. It will kill all grasses on which it's sprayed, but the soil will not retain any residue, so new grass can cover back in very quickly.
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Why are my tomato plants turning brown? That's most likely because of spider mites. This is the time that mites typically start to show up, but because of the warm May, they've already been active for several weeks. Thump one of the yellowed leaves (as opposed to one that's already dry) over a sheet of white paper. If you see tiny specks that start to move, apply a labeled insecticide product to control them. Be sure the spray coats both top and bottom leaf surfaces. Once the mites have made their way halfway up a plant, and especially if you're seeing fine webbing, it may be too late to turn things around.
Why are my tomatoes turning brown on their ends? You're seeing blossom-end rot. It looks like a disease, but it's actually just a physiological issue that shows up on plants that have gotten too dry between waterings. The ends of the fruit are the places farthest from the roots, so they're the parts that dry out first and receive water last. Mulch your plants, and maintain more uniformly moist garden soil. Be especially mindful of watering tomato plants that are growing in pots.
Neil Sperry publishes Gardens magazine and hosts Texas Gardening 8-11 a.m. Sundays on WBAP AM/FM. Reach him during those hours at 800-288-9227 or 214-787-1820.


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I have just returned from a holiday and was disappointed to find that the timestamp mode on my camera was activated. This has affected some of my most precious pictures. As a last resort I know I can crop them, but the time and date is not at the bottom and to crop sufficiently I will lose 15-20% of the photo. I have read that there are programs that can remove timestamps; do you have any recommendations?
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Finally have a nap time to play my Father's Day present, the Star Trek: The Next Generation™ Interactive VCR Board Game. Jealous?
The marks left on the grass by Theo's playset always reminds me of Star Trek IV's Klingon Bird-of-prey.
An awkward freeze frame from Geordi as we watch "Deja Q" from the third season of TNG.
It should be of no surprise to any of you that I am a huge Trekkie. You are probably also aware that I am a total MacAddict. What better binding of bailiwicks than to blather about both?
Star Trek has been at various times credited with inspiring a number of modern gadgets, including the mobile phone (TOS communicator), the PDA and/or tablet (TNG PADD), and touch interfaces (TNG LCARS). The truth of that seems to be a form of loose inspiration (as is often the feedback between science fiction and technology). I'm going to focus in particular on the
tablet iPad as compared to the PADD, because I think TNG missed on this in several key ways.
Depending on the specific "model", a PADD might have:
Steve Jobs famously said "If you see a stylus, they blew it.", but a lot of these design choices come out of the realities of prop design – they needed to convey "futuristic" and "alien" in instant, simple, visual ways, and were not trying to build usable devices. Similarly, at the time of filming, they couldn't embed live video into such a thin device, because the technology didn't exist yet, so they either had backlit images or had to implement it in post-production with special effects.
Additionally, you'll often see characters using PADDs in ways people don't generally use iPads:
I think for the most part this is due to the writers not having any conception of an always-on network. This is pretty understandable, given that the Web didn't arrive for non-academics until the middle of Deep Space Nine's run, and widespread WiFi and mobile data weren't around until almost the end of Enterprise's run (EDGE was just getting started in 2003, and Enterprise was cancelled in 2005). The idea of something like iCloud, where the current state of all of your documents is nearly instantly available on all of your devices, was apparently too impossible for science fiction. They didn't even seem to have a concept of email or file transfer!
Also, I think that for most adults both mobile phones and tablets are 1:1 devices – you are the only user of the device, and you have only one of them. There may be brief cases of lending, and there are certainly plenty of people who have separate work and personal phones, but I believe these are the exception. Children, of course, make heavy use of the devices of parental units until they are old enough to have their own. As such, you wouldn't hand your device off to someone else indefinitely for their use – you'd transfer state digitally. You also wouldn't keep different files on different devices. In this way PADDs were more like futuristic notebooks or clipboards, not computers.
I've been using an iPad for almost two years, and even though I never got around to reviewing it, my uses have definitely differed from my predictions. I even named mine "PADD" (partially in keeping with my theme of naming Macs after Star Trek animals). I checked out the Retina Display today at an Apple Store – it really is astounding, in some ways more so that the iPhone 4/4S. In spite of all of the improvements, especially the screen, I don't feel the need to upgrade from my original 16 GB Wi-Fi iPad to "the new iPad". However, if mine turns out to be unable to support iOS 6, that would be a significant motivation for me to shift.
I like to joke about how using it means I'm living in the future, even a Star Trek future, but in many ways, what we have is better than what Star Trek imagined. I believe that Captain Picard would have been much happier annotating treaties, reading Shakespeare, and writing condolence letters for dead security officers… on an iPad.
George Lucas' crimes against nerdkind are, at this point, well known. One of the better overviews of this nerd tragedy is an episode of John Siracusa's podcast Hypercritical from a few months ago. No matter how you feel about the so-called Special Editions, or other rereleases, including the in-progress 3Dification, the simple fact is that Star Wars, as originally released in theaters, no longer exists. Yes, you can torrent the laserdisc version, or hold on to your old VHS copies (as I have), but the original film negatives are not available, so without a massive restoration and reediting effort, we are unlikely to see a digital release of the original trilogy.
I am not arguing that a filmmaker isn't allowed to modify their work after the fact, creating new versions and refining their masterpieces; nor am I claiming that almost every draft and notecard should be made public, as the Tolkien estate has chosen to do. In this context, I mean that a culturally relevant work, one that changed sci-fi filmmaking and spawned a huge (one might say galactic) fictional universe that is still generating new content in all sorts of media, was not saved. They had that additional responsibility: preserving the original version in a form that would continue to be accessible to future generations. Lucas himself used to agree.
Where George failed utterly, another science fictional universe even more dear to me than his films has succeeded beyond my best hopes. I write, of course, of the recently announced project to remaster all of Star Trek: The Next Generation into high definition. What's exciting about this is that they went back to the original film negatives, which Paramount has apparently been storing in a salt mine somewhere. I'm also glad someone decided to record the show on film and not NTSC television cameras, making this project possible. The one disappointment is the schedule – it sounds like they're planning to release two to three seasons a year.
A few weeks ago, Emery hosted a viewing of Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level, a Blu-ray disc featuring a sample of three remastered NextGen episodes: the pilot "Encounter at Farpoint", plus "Sins of the Father" and "The Inner Light", which are among my favorite episodes. The first establishes Q as a nemesis (and bookend) for the entire series, the second really kicks off the "modern" Klingon storyline, which gets touched on even more in DS9, and the third is probably the most emotionally powerful episode of the series, and a real demonstration of Patrick Stewart's acting ability. Overall, good choices to demonstrate what the HD conversion process entails, and how much is being preserved.
The thing that's really striking is that the conversion to HD really highlights the work of all of the artists who aren't on camera – the set designers, the matte painters, the model builders. You can see the slight color variations in the Enterprise-D's duranium hull plating, the texture of every wall panel, the tiny buildings in the distance on Qo'noS, the fact that the post-atomic horror officer's inhaler reads "ARMY" in a futuristic font. The key thing, however, is that most of these increases in detail are just capturing what was already there, not adding gewgaws where there were none, as Lucas has done. Apparently there are a few places where visual effects were completely replaced, but it's generally pretty subtle, since they tried very hard to preserve the original look.
The one downside is what we already knew about HD – sometimes it is unkind to actors and sets. You can now see askew hairs, more wrinkles, faint stains in the carpet on the bridge, and the like. However, in my mind, these slight jars from immersion are far outweighed by the visual "wow" of the improvement in detail. I did notice one brief clip from a scene in Farpoint that was clearly just upsampled; presumably for whatever reason that section of film was too damaged to be restored, so they had to go back to the SD video. Hopefully the occurrence of those is rare.
Even though I already own all of TNG on DVD (a bulk purchase made several years ago, and totally justified by number of viewings), I'm excited by this huge effort to preserve this key segment of geek culture for future viewers. I can't wait to see how the rest of it turns out, and I do plan to eventually rewatch it all in order in HD. Suffice it to say that their initial pass is amazing, and I hope it sets an example for other shows and movies.
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Something resembling a coherent review, and with the Trekkie fanboy slightly restrained, will come tomorrow. For now, sleep.


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Scientists at the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center recently designed a study to evaluate the decontaminability of prototype packaging material that would be used to wrap degraded munitions suspect of leaking.
The team investigated if high density polyethylene absorbed chemical agents and if it could be decontaminated successfully in the Explosive Destruction System (EDS). The EDS is a WMD-elimination technology used by the Chemical Materials Activity.
"This study was meant to evaluate if chemical munitions stored in the Universal Munition Storage Container (UMSC) can be destroyed directly in the EDS without unpacking the item," Brandon Dusick, a chemist with ECBC's Chemical Biological Application and Risk Reduction (CBARR) Business Unit, said.
Leaking munitions are currently stored in metal overpacks. When the overpacks are opened, the munitions cause a potentially hazardous situation for EDS technicians. If successful, USMC packaging could eliminate the hazards associated with operator handling and halt risks of leaking munitions in storage.
The ECBC determined that the chemical agent was not greatly absorbed by the USMC materials. The study helped the scientists to collect data on how leaking munitions can be safely handled, packed and transported during EDS operations.
The ECBC is the Army's principal research and development center for engineering, field operations, and chemical and biological defense technology.


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A new year means new babies!
Newswatch 16 stopped by Wilkes-Barre General Hospital to meet the first baby born in the new year.
Ryan Louie of Dallas was born six pounds and one ounce at 1:28 a.m. and was the first baby born in Luzerne County.
And in Montour County, Frederick Frost was born at 7 pounds and 12 ounces at Geisinger Medical Center near Danville.
He came into the world at 12:24 a.m.
The proud mom and dad were off to a great start for the new year.
"Exciting and scary, it's kind of surreal," said mom Donna Frost of Selinsgrove.
"I mean it's just wow he's here. Words cannot really describe how I feel," said dad Scott Frost. "We are so happy to have him here. He is a blessing from God."
Frederick is the first child for Donna and Scott Frost of Snyder County.


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- How SmartAccess Works for XenApp and XenDesktop
- Configuring XenApp Policies and Filters
- Configuring User Device Mapping on XenApp
- Enabling XenApp as a Quarantine Access Method
- Configuring XenDesktop for SmartAccess
NetScaler Gateway enables XenDesktop to deliver secure desktops to remote users. XenDesktop can use the SmartAccess capabilities of NetScaler Gateway to intelligently deliver desktops. When you use the Delivery Services Console in XenDesktop to create desktop groups, you then configure policies and filters for access control.
To configure NetScaler Gateway to deliver published desktops, you use the same options that are available with the Web Interface, ICA proxy access, clientless access, and NetScaler Gateway access.
When you create a session policy and configure settings on the Published Applications tab, use the web address for the XenDesktop Web Interface site. After you create the policy, bind it to a virtual server. Then, create a null session profile in which you do not configure settings. The Web Interface configuration is inherited from global settings.


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More PUs deployed than the defined SLA
I have an SLA defining that a certain PU should be deployed 8 times, instances per machine, no backups.
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<os-sla:zone name="Zone3" />
This PU is deployed on 4 machines, so it should be simple - 2instances on each machine.
But what I actually get is 12 instances, spread out unevenly between servers - two of them are running 4 instances.
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For most of us, the memories that make up our life stories stay alive because of our emotional attachments to them. Distance, time, and life stages may change dynamics between us and our loved ones or even within us and our former selves. But when we think about the things that fill our hearts with joy and rejuvenate our spirits, it is the memories of the closeness to our loved ones that give our lives meaning and purpose. Here at Soulful Connections Photography, I aim to preserve your significant emotional connections and soulful everlasting bonds with fine art heirloom portraiture that you can proudly display in your home and treasure for many generations to come.
There is something magical about having physical evidences of fleeting life stages. More often than not, these portraits could also trigger us to reminisce and relive the emotions that were felt at the time these images were created. I feel extremely privileged to provide visual and evocative reminders that you and your loved ones don't just go through life, but you live it well, you enjoy it, and you celebrate it.


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Before discovering the dehydrator, pizza was just one of those things we had to leave behind. Boy! Were we ever wrong! For me, raw pizza has it all! It can be whipped up in no time (provided you keep a stock of dehydrated crusts in your freezer), and you can let your imagination go totally wild. Best of all, you don't have to 'pay the price' for such a tasty treat!
I came up with the following combination one afternoon, and it was so darn yummy, I just HAD to make it 2 days in a row! (For me, that's saying a lot! lol)
What you'll need:
- Pizza Crust of your choice
- Basil Pesto of your choice
- Spinach leaves
- Marinated Fennel
- Marinated Portobello
- Pine Nut Parmesan
Marinated Fennel
- 1 cup fennel sliced thinly on a mandoline or V-slicer
- 1 tablespoon cold pressed olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Nama Shoyu or tamari
- 1 tablespoon raw agave nectar or honey
Toss fennel with the rest of the ingredients and let marinate for at least 1 hour.
Marinated Portobello
- 1 Portobello mushroom, chopped
- 1 tablespoon cold pressed olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Nama Shoyu or tamari
- 2 teaspoons dried tarragon
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
Toss Portobello pieces with the rest of the ingredients and let marinate for at least 1 hour.
Pine Nut Parmesan
- 1/2 cup macadamia nuts
- 1/2 cup cashews
- 2 tablespoons pine nuts
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon ground flax
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
First briefly process macadamias and cashews in food processor.
Add the rest of the ingredients and process until well mixed.
Will keep in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks or several months in the freezer.
Optional: Spread the Pine Nut Parmesan mixture on a non-stick sheet and dehydrate for 2 or 3 hours. This step will help preserve it even better and make it easier to sprinkle.
1. On a pizza crust or slice of Onion Bread spread a generous layer of basil pesto followed by a double layer of fresh spinach leaves.
2. Then put some marinated fennel, Portobello pieces, and finish off by crumbling Pine Nut Parmesan on top.
3. Dehydrate for 1 hour at 110 degrees.
Then dare any cooked pizza joint to come up with something as tasty and delicious! Enjoy!


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Coogan's Bluff/
Imagine a version of Inherent Vice told from the perspective of Josh Brolin's character, and you have an idea of what Coogan's Bluff is like. It's the story of an old-fashioned shitkicker from Arizona, who flies into New York City and engages in some old-fashioned shitkicking. It's a movie that certainly couldn't be remade in 2015 (unless you sanded the edges off, anyway), but there's something devilishly entertaining about the movie's anti-PC swagger: it's filled to the brim with old-fashioned sexism, enthusiastic civil rights violations and dismissive potshots at hippie culture. The film probably ought to feel ugly, but Clint Eastwood's performance is so infectious and Don Siegel's direction is so snappy that it's hard to prevent a goofy grin from creeping across your face.
In a number of ways, Coogan's Bluff plays like a warmup for the work Eastwood and Siegel would do on Dirty Harry. Arizona Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan (Eastwood) is tasked with extraditing an escaped convict named James Ringerman (Don Stroud, Joe Kidd). The job seems simple enough, but when Coogan arrives in New York to pick up the prisoner, Ringerman escapes yet again. Soon, our cowboy hat-sporting hero is stomping through the weirdest corners of New York City in search of the convict. Along the way, he punches a lot of people, serves up a generous number of laconic quips and sleeps with more women than James Bond on vacation.
The most amusing thing about Coogan's Bluff is that Coogan isn't particularly good at his job. Sure, he can handle anyone in fistfight, but his approach to detective work is hilariously simplistic. Generally, Coogan feels the best approach is to punch people until someone tells him what he wants to know. When that fails, he comes up with another brilliant plan: he should just sleep with Ringerman's girlfriend. When his seductive powers fail to secure a solid lead, Coogan resorts to threatening to murder the girlfriend. Coogan doesn't just break the rules, he sets them on fire and shoves them off the top of a tall building.
The film's visual high point arrives when Coogan wanders into a massive hippie happening filled with naked trapeze artists, body painting sessions, hallucinatory drugs and casual orgies. "Hey, Charlie!" one stoned hippie giggles. "The name's Coogan," Eastwood growls. It plays like a friskier, less oppressive version of Jon Voight's bewildered journey through a similar event in Midnight Cowboy (a far more sensitive fish-out-of-water tale about a cowboy in New York City). The whole sequence is such loopy fun that you can practically see Siegel grinning behind the camera. Eastwood reportedly contributed quite a bit to the script, and it's easy to draw a direct line between this and the cheerfully silly Dirty Harry parody The Dead Pool.
Susan Clark (Webster) plays a love interest of sorts – I say "of sorts" because Eastwood romances Clark's character between casually bedding other women. Also, when I saw that Eastwood "romances" her, what I really mean is that he harasses her until she agrees to have dinner with him. After they eat, Clark reaches into her pocket book to cover her half of the meal. "Aren't you a girl?" Eastwood mutters. "Last time I checked," she replies. "Then sit back and act like one," Eastwood orders, snatching the check. In another scene, Coogan declines to sleep with a woman who fancies him. The woman responds by angrily declaring that Coogan must be gay (though she doesn't exactly put it that delicately). This movie certainly was made in 1968.
Naturally, the whole thing concludes with a violent, action-packed climax, which gives Siegel another opportunity to demonstrate that he knows how to stage an action scene. Still, the climax is less interesting than the coda, which once again inspires comparisons to the aforementioned Inherent Vice. It's a strange, sweet, unexpected moment of cross-cultural bonding that defies everything which has preceded it – perhaps the movie's way of gently acknowledging that we'd all be better off if we try to get along with each other despite our philosophical differences. If you approach Coogan's Bluff with a similarly forgiving spirit, you'll have a good time.
Coogan's Bluff
Rating: ★★★ (out of four)
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 93 minutes
Release Year: 1968


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Pupils at Mill Ford School do wear School uniform. The uniform is black trousers/skirt and school T-shirts or Polo Shirts in the colour of the day. These are available with our new school logo, in the colours of the week, which are:
Monday Yellow
Tuesday Blue
Wednesday Red
Thursday Green
Friday Purple
These can be ordered at a very reasonable price from the school – see the forms page – just print it out, fill it in and return to school and we will order the uniform for you and let you know when it is ready to collect.


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A select group hardy walkers gathered in Stanmer Park car park this morning for Steve's latest walk, titled "Walk Off the Xmas Pud". Conditions were cold but clear; it was icy in places, but the snow itself, where not compacted, was crisp under foot.
The walk took us past the new student accomodation at the University of Sussex, which is currently under construction, up to Black Cap. From there it was down to the village of Plumpton, where we stopped at the Half Moon for lunch.
The pub itself is a little up market in its presentation, but is friendly for walkers. They did not, for instance, object to our muddy boots, but rather invited us straight in. The food is typically priced for today's pubs in Sussex (it was ten pounds upwards for a main course), and was very good quality.
The afternoon saw us return to Stanmar Park via another route over the downs. We made it back just as the sun had set. Fortunately, both the university and park were well illuminated.
Many thanks to Steve for the walk; I certainly enjoyed it and I hope the other participants did.
Please feel free to leave your comments on the walk here.


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Find out what's happening in your local borough and city-wide in this exhibition examining key strategies and areas within each London borough.
Illustrating evolving local strategies and aspirations for the future, the exhibition specifically investigates the borough's key objectives, including the Core Strategy, key diagram map, and information of areas of particular developmental importance. Each of these strategies help form the overall London Plan, delivering change and regeneration for the capital.
Download our new Borough Strategies 2017 document which brings together the content of exhibition panels on show at the NLA and provides a snapshot of current strategies; as the new London Plan by Sadiq Khan evolves then these local strategies will need to adapt.
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Please note, from Monday 4 September until late next year, there will be exit only and no entry to Goodge Street Tube station between 07:30 and 10:00 on weekdays. Please use nearby Tottenham Court Road or Warren Street Tube stations for the Northern line.
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Monday to Friday: 9.30 am - 6.00 pm
Saturday: 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
We are closed on Sundays, Bank Holidays, Easter Saturday and for the Christmas period from 24th December to the first working weekday of January.