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A collection of convenience functions and macros for Common Lisp.
A compatibility layer for the APIs provided by the Allegro CL Common Lisp implementation by Franz, Inc. It provides interfaces for multiprocessing, networking, and more.
Albert is a Common Lisp doc-generator, comparable to Javadoc and Doxygen.
As a project Alexandria's goal is to reduce duplication of effort and improve portability of Common Lisp code according to its own idiosyncratic and rather conservative aesthetic. What this actually m...
Anaphora is the anamorphic macro package from hell. Not only do you get golden oldies like AIF, AWHEN, ACOND, etc. but it also includes a slightly insane family of anamorphic variants called symbolic ...
Autobench is a tool set to help automatically build and benchmark versions of common lisp implementations. It defines a protocol to easily add supported implementations, and comes with a web front-en...
Bordeaux Threads
Bordeaux Threads (Portable shared-state concurrency for Common Lisp) is an implementation of a portable multi-threading library based on the BORDEAUX-MP specification by Daniel Barlow.
CFFI - the Common Foreign Function Interface
A portable foreign function interface for Common Lisp.
A portable interface to Unix sockets functionality. It includes the CFFI-Grovel tool for automating FFI generation, and the CFFI-Unix interface to basic Unix functionality with a focus on networking.
A set of CFFI-based Common Lisp bindings to the chmlib (CHM lib) C library. It provides access to HTML help files in Microsoft ITSS/CHM format.
Common Lisp interface to the memcached object caching system.
A portable, CFFI-based Common Lisp/ObjectiveC bridge for developing MacOS X Cocoa applications.
This very small Common Lisp library provides a way to add initialization files to ASDF systems. Every time ASDF loads <system>, one or several corresponding <system>.lisp files are loaded automaticall...
cl-store is an asdf-installable portable library for serializing and deserializing Common Lisp objects to and from streams. It currently runs on SBCL, CMUCL, CLISP, ACL, OpenMCL and Lispworks.
A collection of semi-standard, well documented, miscellaneous utilities with good error checking. It includes utilities for sequences, I/O, iteration, mathematics, functions and more.
CLDOC extracts documentation strings from Lisp source files and generates formatted documentation using an output driver, currently HTML.
CLOCC (Common Lisp Open Code Collection) is a large collection of free, portable, self-contained and ready to use libraries and software. It includes development tools, GUI toolkits, portability laye...
CLUnit is a anit test tool designed for environments "characterized by frequent interactive unit test runs". It has a purpose similar to RT, but is simpler to use and supports more powerful types of t...
Clon, the Command-Line Options Nuker
Clon is a library for managing command-line options in standalone Common Lisp applications. It provides a unified option syntax with both short and long names, automatic completion of partial names an...
Closer to MOP
Closer to MOP is a compatibility layer that rectifies many of the absent or incorrect MOP features as detected by MOP Feature Tests in a growing number of Common Lisp implementations.
Common Lisp Librarian
CL-Librarian aims to be a manager for Common Lisp libraries that is focused on libraries updated dynamically by version control systems and targetted at power users. It handles downloading such librar...
Common Lisp and IEEE 754
Comformance test suite for Common Lisp implementations purporting to conform to the IEEE 754 standard for floating point operations.
Prepare HTML documentation for Common Lisp libraries.
Flexible bivalent streams for Common Lisp
FReT (Framework for Regression Testing) is a testing framework inspired by Lift, CLOSUnit and JUnit, with an emphasis on interactivity.
Simple regression testing framework "designed with Common Lisp's interactive development model in mind". It features hierarchical test suites, functions for re-running recent tests, and inter-test dep...
Foreign Structures By Value
Call foreign functions when one or more arguments and/or the return value are structures. In CFFI and most Lisp foreign interfaces, structures must be passed by reference, that is, as pointers. FSBV...
Glouton (A Common Lisp package for programming OpenGL) is a set of FFI bindings to X11 and OpenGL 1.5. It can be used for programming OpenGL using GLX, and is intended to provide Glut-like functionali...
HEUTE (Hierarchical Extensible Unit Testing Environment for Common LISP) is a unit testing framework featuring a hierarchical approach to testing. A test suite is represented by a CLOS class, with sub...
Hello C
A tool for interfacing Common Lisp programs with libraries written in C or with the same calling conventions. It is largely a fork of UFFI, with additional features such as support for callback functi...
Hypertext documentation system for Lisp source code. It provides mappings from (package-name, symbol-name, documentation-type) triplets to documentation URIs.
"A Posix-compatibility layer generated by a port of cffi-grovel to SBCL". It is maintained as part of the IOlib project.
JACOL - Java and Common Lisp
An interoperation framework between Java and Common Lisp. It allows Lisp to be used as an extension language for Java, and it can expose Java APIs to Lisp applications. JACOL uses sockets for communic...
KMRCL is a collection of general purpose utilities used by a number of Kevin Rosenberg's CL packages.
LIFT is a unit testing framework in the JUnit/SUnit tradition.
LW Compat
A few utility functions from the LispWorks library.
A program for generating a permuted index of the LispWorks IDE documentation.
A collection of re-usable Win32-specific functions and macros.
Lisp toys
A collection of small utilities for syntactic extension, global variables, control structures and list manipulation.
Common Lisp package management in Common Lisp.
A Unix logging library based on the Log4j library.
A collection of miscellaneous utilities for container data structures, binding, user interface, dates and times, I/O, symbols, sequences, string manipulation, and more.
Michael Parker's Common Lisp Utilities
Provides Scheme-style LET and COND and a generalized reference system.
A compatibility layer on top of various CLOS MOP implementations, with some additional reflection capabilities.
NST is a test framework for Common Lisp offering separate and reusable fixture definitions, test groups, extensible test criteria, ASDF integration, and optional JUnit XML output.
NST is a test framework for Common Lisp offering separate and reusable fixture definitions, test groups, extensible test criteria, ASDF integration, and optional JUnit XML output.
Lisp binary streams with "odd" byte sizes.
"A tool for unix system status monitoring". It has a GUI based on CLUE.
OpenMCL Code
A collection of utilities for OpenMCL. It provides a remote read-eval-print-loop server, and a tool called LispDoc for automatically extracting HTML documentation from Lisp source code. LispDoc also w...
an estimated-regression planner that can reason about autonomous processes
Osicat is a lightweigh operating system interface for POSIX-like systems. It provides facilities for directory walking, access to environment variables, symbolic links, file permissions and identifica...
PythOnLisp (Python On Lisp: A project to call Python code from Lisp) is an interface to the Python programming language that makes it possible to run Python 2.2 or 2.4 code from inside Lisp. It allows...
Regression testing framework described in a paper by Richard Waters titled "Some Useful Lisp Algorithms: Part 1".
CLIM front-end for the RT regression testing framework.
S-SYSDEPS (An Abstraction Layer Over Platform Dependent Functionality) is a compatibility layer that abstracts facilities for managing processes and process locks, implementing a TCP/IP server, and pr...
S-UTILS is collection of Common Lisp utilities.
SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator)
SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs and libraries written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages, including Common Lisp. It parses C/C++ header files a...
CLIM frontend to the SBCL sb-sprof statistical profiler.
Simple Match
"A simple match macro based on destructuring-bind"
A tool for documenting Common Lisp source code. TINAA "is based on the idea that a system is made up of parts and subparts and sub-subparts", and is able to document them as long as it knows their str...
Torta shows you where your disk space is being used. Its user interface is similar to that of the program filelight.
Trivial Shell
An operating system and Common Lisp implementation independent interface for accessing command shells. It is based on, and is a fork of, the KMRCL utilities.
Universal Foreign Function Interface for Common Lisp.
Unix-Style CLI Option Parser
A parser for unix style command line options. Can act as a simple Getopt for Lisp or can automatically bind values passed in from the CLI.
User Manual: Automatical User Manual Creation
A tool for extracting documentation from Common Lisp source files. It can generate ASCII, LaTeX and Scribe output.
A toolkit for building test suites, based on JUnit by Kent Beck and XPTest by Craig Brozensky. It provides a tradeoff between programmer overhead and good support for fixture setup and teardown.
A static analysis cross-referencing tool.
a set of enhancements to Lisp, including improved macros for iteration, formatted I/O, file management, and even backquoting
A Bourne shell script that simplifies building an ASDF-INSTALL-able Common Lisp software package.
A collection of miscellaneous utilities for string manipulation, filesystem access, unit testing, array processing, operations on sequences, and more.
CFFI interface for Graphviz, integrated with cl-graph.
"A set of bindings and utilites for accessing the OpenGL, GLU and GLUT APIs using CFFI".
Write your Selenium functional test cases or script your web browser in Common Lisp.
Interface to the syslog Unix logging facility.
A common lisp code walker that turns CL forms into a tree of CLOS AST nodes, and vica versa. Useful for implementing e.g. delimited continuations (cl-delico), lisp1 semantics, etc. cl-walker is based...
de.setf.utility comprises Lisp utility functions : - package management, - date formatting - content types - dot graphs - unit tests - ...
defclass* and defcondition* that automatically generates accessors other things that are schematic for most defclass declarations.
A compatibility layer for system definition tools, which also provides a foundation for building higher level tools. It currently supports ASDF and the EKSL Generic Load Utilities, and will eventually...
Tests, stress-test and performance-tests for Common Lisp object-databases and persistence libraries.
Hyperspec-lookup is a documentation system for Lisp software. It provides an interface for mapping from Lisp symbols to documentation URLs for the Common Lisp HyperSpec and the CLOS MetaObject Protoco...
A simple to use, modular unit testing library designed for beginning programmers. It supports test-first programming, the redefinition of functions and macros without reloading tests. Lisp-unit can te...
Logv is a lightweight logging utility for Common Lisp
Portch is a small framework for organizing and running tests written with ptester
ptester is a portable version of Franz's tester library. It is a test framework library.
An INI-file style configuration parser conformant to the Python configparser module.
Simple TEst Framework In Lisp - a very thin, yet full featured test framework that creates instrumented defun's that can be called from the REPL.
A library for querying the user. It adds generality to the standard Y-OR-N-P and YES-OR-NO-P functions, and the ability to time out and return a default value.
trivial-garbage is a simple library that provides a portable API to finalizers, weak hash-tables and weak pointers.
A library which provides an extremely thin compatibility layer for Gray streams.
The project wants to provide a portable TCP/IP and UDP socket interface for as many Common Lisp implementations as possible, while keeping the abstraction and portability layer as thin as possible.

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STOCKTON - San Joaquin County is gaining recognition as one of the leaders in applying public safety realignment to its corrections and justice system.
STOCKTON - San Joaquin County is gaining recognition as one of the leaders in applying public safety realignment to its corrections and justice system.
The California State Association of Counties produced a series of videos that show how four are using "best practices" in implementing the shift of certain felony offenders from state responsibility to county courts, jails and probation departments.
San Joaquin is one that emerged along with Glenn, San Bernardino and San Mateo.
"I was so honored when CSAC initially contacted us," said county Chief Probation Officer Stephanie James. "I thought it just represents our county so well."
Gregg Fishman, a spokesman for the association, said CSAC knew there would be no one-size-fits-all system, so counties were given flexibility to develop their own strategies.
In San Joaquin, the probation department took the lead on AB109 matters in a joint venture with other local agencies and community organizations.
The groups keep each other informed and make decisions in periodic meetings.
Fishman said the county has a good balance of approaching it from a law enforcement standpoint and from a rehabilitation position.
What particularly stood out about the county, he said, is the Assessment Center, a sort of one-stop shop for post-release services. There, individuals released under AB109 have access to their probation officers, county mental health, public assistance, job searches and other programs to help with their transition.
"When you're newly released from jail or incarceration, just getting around can be difficult," Fishman said. "You probably don't have a car.
"If you really want to stop somebody from being a criminal, you give them a chance to not be a criminal. San Joaquin is one of the counties approaching (realignment) in that aspect."
Probation is identifying root causes of crime and mitigating those programs, he said, whether by providing drug treatment or relocating someone from a bad neighborhood.
Across from the assessment center is the county's Day Reporting Center - both are in the Canlis Building in downtown Stockton, next to the courthouse. That center has classes for those interested in earning a high school diploma or GED, anger replacement and other life-skill classes.
Ray Miller, an AB109 client featured in the video, served multiple prison sentences for drug offenses.
"There's a lot of things today through the programs that AB109 has put me through that I've learned about myself," Miller said, noting that he had to take responsibility for what he had done in the past.
Contact reporter Jennie Rodriguez-Moore at (209) 943-8564 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit her blog at recordnet.com/courtsblog.


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For more than 14 years, traders have been whipsawed back and forth by the stock market with little to show for it — except for mounting frustration and declining trading capital. Until recently, since the dot-com era went bust in March 1999, the market has traded with all the zest and enthusiasm of a lead balloon. It has made anemic attempts at bull runs only to roll over into steep price declines before re-starting this up-and-down pattern over and over again.
Sometimes for extended periods, price breakouts will fail with few real trends developing into any meaningful move as the market continues to trade sideways. Trading support and resistance levels would seem logical, even easy, to do in the current market environment, but as with most things in trading, this is easier talked about than put into practice.
One reason for this is the frequent failure of traditional tools for sideways markets. While conventional technical analysis may give you a glimpse into the mechanics behind these moves, if you can see them, then other traders can see them as well.
Human behavior & volatility
There are three market types: Up, down and sideways. Simply knowing you are in the midst of an extended sideways trading period doesn't make the market easy to trade. In much the same way that market conditions have changed for trend trading and breakout trading, sideways markets have evolved and new methods have been needed to trade them effectively.
The goal is to develop a method that pinpoints optimal price levels for resistance and support, minus the unpredictability. To accomplish this, we need an approach that doesn't rely on static points in an underlying security's price action, but one that can reflect the dynamic and ever-changing state of the price action itself.
One reason for this might be that more traders identify the market as sideways. As a result, they have changed their trading approach to adapt, and static support and resistance price levels have become more volatile and less predictable. Static supports are relatively easy to identify by other traders and they become battlegrounds for bulls and bears who are attempting to seize control of price movement. The result is that price action tends to behave erratically, causing stop loss points to get stopped out before trades have a chance to profit.


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Acting Program Co-ordinator: Prof. P. Ayres, Associate Dean of Arts (Undergraduate)
Building on the student's academic grounding in anthropology/archaeology, folklore, history, geography, and other relevant disciplines, the program offers training in object documentation, identification, conservation, and display. Required courses give students both an awareness of the broad range of heritage resources - including objects, sites, landscapes, documents - and specific skills to deal with public perceptions of objects and artifacts. The program also includes a course in tourism management. Elective courses enable students to pursue their particular disciplinary interests.
The Diploma in Heritage Resources helps prepare students to work in the expanding heritage sector in Newfoundland or elsewhere. Students with this diploma will be better able to compete for positions in museums and historic sites and for employment with heritage consultants, and to participate in contracts involving heritage policy and planning, all part of the increasing regional and global importance of cultural tourism. The diploma in Heritage Resources will also be an advantage to students wishing to study heritage or cultural resources management at the graduate level.
This diploma program draws on the expertise of faculty members in various departments and faculties.
Admission to the Diploma in Heritage Resources program is limited and competitive. Students are advised to notify the Program Co-ordinator of their intention to apply for admission into this diploma program. Formal application is made through the Office of the Registrar, normally in the second semester of the student's second year of study.
Students are required to complete a minimum of 30 credit hours of course work, including 6 credit hours in instructional field courses, from the lists of required and elective courses below, with:
at least 15 credit hours from the 'Required Courses' listed below, which must include 3 credit hours in a field course in Cultural Resources Management and at least 12 credit hours chosen from Material Culture, Archaeological Conservation, Collections Management, Introduction to Museums & Historic Sites and Tourism Management.
at least 12 credit hours from the Elective Courses listed below, chosen to include at least 3 credit hours in a course designated as an instructional field course. Instructional field-oriented courses will deal with a wide array of artifact-related research in historic sites/museums. These instructional field courses will be advertised by the Program Co-ordinator.
- Archaeology 3587
- Archaeology/Folklore 3591
- Archaeology 3710/Folklore 3700
- Archaeology 3850/Folklore
- Archaeology/Folklore/Geography 4015*
- Business 6020
- Archaeology 2582
- Archaeology 3290
- Archaeology 3584
- Archaeology 3585-3586*
- Archaeology/Folklore 3800
- Archaeology/Folklore/History 3860
- Archaeology/Folklore 3900*
- Archaeology 3589/Folklore/Medieval Studies 3001/History 3020
- Folklore 3601* (Harlow Campus)
- Folklore 3608*/Geography 3900* (Harlow Campus)
- Folklore 3613* (Harlow Campus)
- Folklore 4601*
- Folklore/History 3870
- Folklore/History 4480
- Geography 2001
- Geography 3610
- Geography 3990* (Harlow Campus)
- History 3110
- History/Folklore 4100
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Fri., 5/31/2013, 10:00AM - 3:00PM
地點SFMoMA, 151 3rd Street
The Green Bookmobile partners with The Kitchen Sisters, KQED Public Radio, and AIR, Inc. at SFMOMA for "The Making Of...." live. This FREE and open to the public program celebrates makers from throughout the Bay Area to the museum to demonstrate and present what they make and why. Click here for more information.
We'll be parked on 3rd Street outside of the museum store from 10am-3pm. Come peruse our special DIY collection!
- Treasure Island Stop
- 星期四, 2018年9月20日, 1:00 pm
- Swing Into Stories
- 星期二, 2018年9月25日, 9:30 am
- Musical Outdoor Storytime
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Hello everyone!
With all the triple attack % THF gets, how much double attack % is too much to get conflicting procs? Here's my gear:
-Oynos knife
-Ziska's crossbow
-Acid bolts
-Raider's bonnet+2 (+3% TA)
-Portus Collar (+3% DA)
-Brutal earring (+5% DA)
-Thaumas coat (+ 3% DA/TA/QA)
-Thaumas gloves
-Epona's ring (+3% DA/TA)
-Rajas ring
-Atheling mantle (+3% DA)
-Twilight belt (+2% DA)
-Thaumas kecks
-Thaumas nails (+3% DA)
Which brings me to +22% DA,+9% TA and +3% QA just from the gear, not counting TA % from our job trait/merits, should I switch some double attack % out or not?


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Hear from Microsoft experts Lee Hickin and Ben Di Qual about Microsoft's 3-pronged approach that helps customers with their storage challenges by covering traditional storage, new options for the datacenter, and new hybrid cloud options.
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LocationPost Falls I-90
714 W. Seltice Way
Post Falls, ID 83854
New 2018 Keystone RV Fuzion 371 For Sale in Post Falls I-90
This 371 Keystone Fuzion toy hauler fifth wheel is exactly what you need for a comfortable and convenient get-a-way to the playground of your choice. That's right, pack up the big toys and head to the trails, dunes, or lakeside retreat! This unit features an 11' garage space with plenty of room for toys and a few extra friends too.
Loading and unloading is a cinch with the 8' garage door. Once you are at your destination and the toys are removed the garage becomes a part of the living space with dual opposing sofas and a top queen bed that lowers from the ceiling for more sleeping space inside. There is also a loft area towards the front of the garage space that the kids will surely love. Enjoy the convenience of a half bath in the cargo, a 40" LED TV, overhead cabinets, and an area that has been prepped for a washer and dryer.
Through the door in the cargo or using the second entry door from outside you can enter the main living space with a combined kitchen and living room including two slides. The curb side slide has a large sofa. A LED TV, entertainment center, and fireplace are on the outer angled wall of the cargo half bath.
The opposite slide features an 18 cu. ft. gas/electric RV refrigerator and three burner range. Next to the slide, you will find an l-shaped counter with double kitchen sink and plenty of overhead cabinets and counter area for food prep. There is also a pantry next to the refrigerator.
Head up the steps to the front bed and bath. The side aisle bath features a residential shower, toilet and vanity with sink, plus a linen cabinet.
The front bedroom provides a comfortable residential queen bed or choose an optional Fuzion king. There is storage on either side of the bed plus overhead cabinets too. You are sure to enjoy the flat screen TV mounted on the wall opposite the bed. You will find plenty of additional storage with a slide out wardrobe that includes drawers for more camping clothes.
A 30 gallon fuel tank outside will keep everyone on the move, and there is plenty of exterior storage and dual awnings along the door side, plus so much more!
Stock# 204254
|38 ft 11 in
|Ext Width
|8 ft 6 in
|Ext Height
|13 ft 1 in
|Hitch Weight
|3020 lbs
|Dry Weight
|13480 lbs
|Cargo Weight
|3520 lbs
|Fresh Water Capacity
|110 gals
|Grey Water Capacity
|88 gals
|Black Water Capacity
|44 gals
|Tire Size
|Furnace BTU
|35000 btu
|Fuel Capacity
|30 gals
|Number Of Bunks
|Available Beds
|Refrigerator Type
|Stainless Steel
|Refrigerator Size
|18 cu ft
|Convection Cooking
|Cooktop Burners
|Number of Awnings
|Axle Weight
|14000 lbs
|Garage Size
|11 ft
|LP Tank Capacity
|60 lbs.
|Water Heater Capacity
|12 gal.
|Water Heater Type
|DSI Gas/Electric
|30000 btu
|TV Info
|Living Area LED TV, Garage 40" LED TV, Bedroom TV
|Awning Info
|Axle Count
|Washer/Dryer Available
|Shower Type
|Electrical Service
|50 amp
When Cole Davis founded Keystone RV in 1996 his vision was clear: Build a quality RV loaded with features priced thousands less than other RVs on the market. To accomplish his goal, Cole would recruit and build a strong team, focus on keeping overhead low, and empower the people closest to the customer to make decisions.
Within a few short months after opening the doors, Keystone produced its very first camper. Delivering big on quality, features and value, the public fell in love with it. A star was born! As the appetite for the camper increased, new Keystone models were added to satisfy growing customer demand. Along with this tremendous growth came the need for expanded production. To meet this need more manufacturing plants were built and staffed.
From new floor plan designs to patented inventions, Keystone leads the way in product innovation. One reason is our mission to stay close to the customer. When talking with campers or visiting dealerships, our sales, product development, and service teams, are always looking for ways to improve the camping experience. And we don't stop there.
Every member of the Keystone family is encouraged to contribute to making our campers absolutely the best possible. Through something we call Kamp Keystone, our employees camp free of charge at local campgrounds in the Keystone trailers we supply. Each year hundreds of our production workers, administrative staff and service team enjoy a day (or a week) at Kamp Keystone. Their evaluation of the experience and the feedback they provide results in continued product improvements. Ask us if we use our RVs...the answer is YES!
All vehicles are one of each. All Pre-Owned vehicles are Used with no warranty. A dealer documentary service fee of up to (Idaho $389, Washington $147.89, Nevada $389, Oregon In-State Doc Fees with No Plate Transfer $150, Oregon Out of State and In-State Plate Transfers $115) may be added to the sale or capitalized cost. All offers expire on close of business day, and all financing is subject to credit approval. All prices exclude tax, title, and license and negotiable doc fees. All transactions are negotiable including price, trade allowance, interest rate (of which the dealer may retain a portion) term and documentary service fee. Any agreement is subject to execution of contract documents. Every reasonable effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this data. Please verify any information in question with a dealership sales representative.


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Not usually - but hey.
This is more like it.
Baby girl asleep.
Big girl at camp.
and me... knitting on the deck in the shade.
Most importantly, knitting with the right color yarn this time. Got both sleeves in the works and on a clip but then..
Couldn't help myself - went inside and chowed down a bag of Chex Mix. I bought a Costco case of it for my daughter's school and camp, and can't seem to keep my mitts off the stuff. Unfortunately theres about 48 bags left. I'll try and make sure the kids get a few.
All that salty goodness makes you extra thirsty.
So I went inside to make a drink. Don't worry it's not a cocktail - would be persona non grata on the playground if I couldn't wait till afternoon for one of those. (at least on a weekday, when hanging out alone) Am already shunned enough - as some of you know...
But doesn't it look pretty?
Cherry cider and seltzer w/ lime. Although I have had it with vodka, pretty good. Hubby likes it with Rum - he swears all fruit juice goes with rum (not so sure of that myself - he ruined a perfectly tasty peach and banana smoothie a week ago...), and my friend Stephanie thinks this goes w/ gin. So pick your poison - the Cherry Cider is from Trader Joes and it's amazing.
Anyways, the above scenario lasted almost two hours - unheard of around here - until the construction truck pulled in to our neighbors yard and Zoe woke up.
And as if all that wasn't great enough, I now have these:
Koigu like goodness from Ebay. What to make of em if you don't do socks? Any suggestions? Mabye mittens?


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(PRWEB) February 10, 2013
On February the 10th at 5:30, Dr. Daniel Ramos will be appearing on "The Arthritis Show" as a guest.
Dr. Daniel Ramos: Dr. Ramos is a Physical Therapist. He provides individualized assessment and treatment based on each patient's condition or medical concern. His practice is located in the city of Aventura, Florida.
A.J. Farshchian MD will continue to push the envelope, like he did in the past seasons. U.S.A. based physician, Dr. Farshchian, is a medical author, humanitarian, and active Republican member. He is best known for coining the term "orthopedic regenerative medicine." Dr. Farshchian is recognized as a leading authority in the new clinical science of regenerative medicine. Viewers can enjoy watching the show live on http://www.arthritisusa.net as it streams live on the internet Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 5:30 P.M. The show also broadcasts on BuenoVision daily at 11:30 A.M.
My Medicine TV programs are independently produced by Mymedicinetv.com. The show provides its viewers an in depth opportunity to find solutions to the health problems from some of the top leaders in health care from across the world. Each exclusive segment is taped in their state of the art south Florida studio."The Arthritis Show" is a global information source dedicated to patients with arthritis and sports injuries.


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Maker's Mark Kobe Beef Burger
Maker's Mark Kobe Beef Burger
By Hiassam and Ali Beydoun, Owners and Chefs, Frites N'Meats
The owners of the Frites N'Meats food truck in New York City, Hiassam and Ali Beydoun, developed this wonderful bourbon-marinated Kobe burger, which is not only delicious, but a leading example of how Maker's Mark® Bourbon can be utilized in the most unexpected of places.
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- 1/2 cup plus 2 teaspoons Maker's Mark® Bourbon
- 4 six-ounce Kobe beef hamburger patties (regular ground beef can be substituted)
- 4 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 4 pieces plum tomatoes, cut in half lengthwise
- 2 teaspoons fresh thyme, minced
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 large onions, cut in half and thinly sliced with the grain
- Salt and black pepper
- Extra virgin olive oil
- 4 soft hamburger buns, brioche preferably
- Marinate the burger patties. Place them in a shallow baking dish and pour a 1/2 cup of Maker's Mark® Bourbon over the burgers.
- Sprinkle the patties with 1/4 of the minced garlic.
- Refrigerate for two hours, then flip the patties; sprinkle with another 1/4 of the garlic.
- Refrigerate another two hours.
- While the burgers are marinating, preheat the oven to 300°F.
- Place the cut tomato halves on a parchment-lined sheet tray, cut side up.
- Brush the tomatoes lightly with olive oil and season with salt, pepper, the minced thyme and the remaining minced garlic.
- Place in the oven and allow the tomatoes to slow roast for about 1-1/2–2 hours until they are slightly dehydrated and begin to color.
- Once the tomatoes have cooled, sprinkle 1 teaspoon of Maker's Mark® Bourbon over the tomatoes.
- Refrigerate until needed.
- While the tomatoes are cooking, caramelize the onions.
- Heat a large sauté pan over medium-high heat and add the vegetable oil and onions to the pan.
- Season the onions with salt and cook until they begin to soften, stirring often, about 10 minutes.
- Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 15 minutes more until they begin to break down more and color slightly.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook the onions, stirring occasionally, for roughly 2 hours, or until the onions caramelize deep golden brown.
- Add water to the pan as necessary if the onions begin to stick to the pan.
- Once the onions are cooked, transfer to a small container and stir in 1 teaspoon of Maker's Mark® Bourbon.
- Refrigerate until needed.
- Heat the grill, grill pan or griddle to high heat.
- Remove the burgers from the marinade, lightly brush both sides with olive oil and season well with salt and pepper.
- Cook your burgers to desired doneness.
- To assemble, lightly toast bun if desired.
- Add the burger patty and top with caramelized onions and two pieces of tomatoes.
- Enjoy!
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I spring clean all year long! Although I do have to admit that I feel more like cleaning things deeply in the spring, so more gets done then. I love Flylady's system for cleaning and have done that for over a decade. (Not every day, but I do try to keep it in mind!) Flylady.net is awesome for those looking for an easy system to get things decluttered and clean, and then maintain it.
I spring clean our tiny apartment every May, at the end of the school semester. It takes about 6 hours to thoroughly clean.
Some. After everything being closed up for five or six months we usually just do curtain, blinds and windows. That usually is sufficient on top of the regular cleaning.
Inside the house, no. We clean it year round.
I do spring cleaning in the yard while prepping the garden for growing season!
We don't do a top to bottom cleaning, but there are some things I do every spring, such as a throuough window and blind cleaning on the inside, cleaning the couches and chairs top to bottom, and stuff like that. There's of course the outside cleanup but that's just part of enjoying the spring and summer :)
I definitely do. There is nothing better than opening all the windows, getting some cross breeze going for some nice fresh air, and making everything spotless. I look forward to doing this keenly, but the weather has simply not been cooperative lately...
No, I don't "Spring Clean" - I do periodically deep clean portions of the house and clear out clutter at the same time. By spreading it across the entire year, it seems a bit more manageable!!
I do not spring clean, I just try and keep my house clean most of the time!!... doesn't always work though!
Yes, I spring clean...it's my way of getting rid of winter! When you look outside and see everything green, growing and new, it inspires me to start fresh inside too.
Yes I always spring clean! It really helps you get to all those places daily life doesn't include time for. I believe spring cleaning is vital to your home. When you don't spring clean buildup occurs,and I'm not just talking baseboard dust!!
I do! I feel motivated to clean & freshen everything when the weather is gorgeous in the spring. I also do a heavy cleaning in the fall before Thanksgiving, when I'm preparing to decorate for the holidays.
I have done spring cleaning once about every 3 years. I should do it yearly, but with small children it is hard. =( Wah, right? =)
Most of my spring cleaning involves closets. These areas seem to accumulate so much junk every year.
I suppose that spring does put me in that mood to get a little deeper with my cleaning, but generally we just clean periodically and no one cleaning is that much more significant than the other.
I guess I do. It's not really seasonal, but there are certainly times I go through and sell/get rid of things around this time of year.
We don't do any specific spring cleaning. But here in the northland, there are lots of transitional chores as we put the snow plow away and get out the deck furniture and convertible.
Would that I had the energy! I always try to tackle at least a couple of major cleaning tasks during the spring-- this year it's windows and gardening clutter. Wish me luck!
Normally I don't do any spring cleaning but I am really thinking about taking it up since my place is starting to get a little crowded with items laying around and it needs to get cleaned.
I spring clean and then I fall clean. When we can start opening our windows I like for them to be clean as well as the doors and baseboards. Then in the fall when we are closing our windows and I like to clean them again so I will be able to look out and see the snow when winter comes.
We just cleaned out the garage this weekend. I usually spread out spring cleaning over 3-4 weekends so I have the energy to get to everything :)
I sure do. In fact, I'm just taking a break from it now. I am taking down and washing or putting away winter curtains and drapes and washing all the windows inside and out. That's just today. Whew! I need this break.
We do try to spring clean some - primarily to declutter. But lately we have been trying to declutter throughout the year so that the spring cleaning job is not so massive. The key is to not go to too many garage sales and buy other people's clutter. :)
I do not - I have a cleaning lady every other week and so i don't get a build up of dirty places. clutter is another thing i keep pretty much on top of. my regular seasonal chores are at xmas and easterish when i rotate decor and clothes. as i do that i go thru the stuff in the storage room etc. and take loads to goodwill.
I used to spring clean, but now with a new baby in the house, I don't think we'll get around to it this year. Might have to be a summer cleaning - before she starts toddling.
I try my best to keep my house clean throughout the year, but with fresh spring breezes, it is nice to air out the place!
I spring clean by throwing stuff away. As soon as the weather starts getting nice, I get the urge to rid myself of clutter.
I do deep cleaning not in the Spring, but whenever I can find a good chunk of time. Having a special time, like Spring, just seems like too much pressure to me.
I'm trying to spring clean. I am trying to tackle the house one task at a time starting with the things that really bug me. My goal is really have done some good cleaning and and decluttering while it is still spring.
I just finished cleaning two closets. This past week I rearranged my living room and cleaned behind all the furniture. Whew! Cleaning in spring is a family tradition. Not only that, but after months and months of winter snow and ice, I love to smell all the aromas from Mother Earth as she wakes to a new season.
We're part way through our first Spring cleaning in a while and we realize it must be done every year. It is hard to believe the amount of stuff accumulated!
I plan to spring clean but it never really happens beyond rounding up junk for the annual spring yard sale.
Yes, I spring clean. I don't have the time to do regular cleaning as thoroughly as I would like, but when I do something, I like to take the time to do it right and spring cleaning is no exception. It is a chance to not only clean my home but to refresh every room by de-cluttering and changing out accessories to suit the season. Every drawer and closet is scanned for things with expired dates, items not used anymore, grown out of, you get the picture. These items are then either sold or donated to Goodwill. When I am done the house is lighter and brighter and a more zen place to live.
I clean the house more thoroughly I suppose at the beginning of each season, that way I can put things away from the season before and get ready for the next!
i usually do but not this year. going to move later this year so might as well leave it until then!
I don't do a real extensive spring clean. I go through closets and switch out all the winter clothes/gear for spring/summer stuff. I also make piles of stuff to give away to thrift shops, or through other avenues.
I quarterly clean! With a 3-year-old daughter, a baby boy, a dog, and a sports-loving husband, I have to! I empty closets, clean junk drawers and even alphabetize movies! Somehow, it keeps getting unorganized! Someone around here has to do it.
No. I don't spring clean. I just clean as I go. Besides I do taxes for AARP and am too busy during spring cleaning time.
I'm not too much into spring cleaning because I've successfully managed to maintain a very clean household all throughout the year.
Yes, I spring clean, but it's late this year because I prefer to do it when the weather is dry and warm; right now northwest Oregon is neither! I do it again in the fall. It makes year-round maintenence easier; that's when I find the little things that need repair or replacement.
Besides, it's good to have the house smell so fresh!
Yes, I usually do a HUGE top to bottom cleaning in the spring as well as in the fall and then try to maintain it in between with smaller cleanings. It's nice to be able to open the windows while thoroughly going over every inch of the house in April or May.
I definitely do spring cleaning. It is totally a necessity for me to function properly, organizationally and mentally. By moving all the winter items into bins, and folding sweaters, to be placed in the upper shelf on my closet, I give myself more space to bring my spring and summer items onto the hanger rack, and also get to dispose of unwanted clothing.
I also like to clean my PC, backing up my files, cleaning up my desktop, and defragging the harddrive.
My car also gets a good cleaning, on the inside out, the whole car gets vacuumed and washed inside out.
Just some of the things I like to get done.
It's a must! I'm a CPA so after April 15 my house needs a good cleaning since it's been neglected for a solid 3 months!
I usually follow my mother's practice of spring cleaning before Easter, and fall cleaning before Thanksgiving. This year I didn't have the energy.
I clean our house all year long. Although I do spring cleaning in our attic to take out things that have been stored and not used for months or years. I also do spring cleaning in our rooms where I normally find stuff that haven't been used for a long time. Great time for yard sale too!
I'm gonna have to spring clean, or at least summer clean, because I'm moving out of my apartment at the end of June. Then I'll have at least a year to get the new place dirty.
i definitely spring clean, i fall clean too. This usually includes giving things that usually get overlooked a really good cleaning, like walls and baseboards and under furniture. This is when i will also shampoo the carpet, it gets mess with 2 large breed dogs 2 indoor cats and a husband who likes to get dirty a lot.
I most certainly spring clean every year. Throughout the year, piles of unwanted things always pile up in the garage and around the house. If I don't clean out all that stuff at least once a year, my house will be overrun with stuff I don't want or need in no time!
Those first warm days each spring are perfect for spending hours in the garage organizing, sweeping and de-cluttering. And I always feel great when I'm done!
Spring cleaning and organizing are regular activities throughout the year for me. A little bit at a time goes a long way and doesn't very long to do. =)
I spring clean. Learned it from my mother. I love to open up the house fter all the months of closing the windows and give it a good thorough cleaning. And throw stuff away! I love the way it looks when it is done and I feel so much more organized.
I do a spring cleaning in general, but I do go through my clothes closet once or twice a year. I do this because, inevitably, I find stuff I've rarely worn, stuff that has come back into style, or new ways of wearing old stuff. It's like going shopping in my own home and saves on my clothing bills.
Spring cleaning is the end result of changing out the winter warm accessories for the springtime colors and textures.
I spring clean every year because I like to think it is the one time during the year devoted to really paying attention to the little things that may be missed. I like to think it's another holiday to celebrate nourishing our humble abodes and creating an environment worth residing in.


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VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — Mark Warren of Scotland shot a 4-under 68 Saturday to take a two-shot lead after the third round of the Spanish Open.
Warren had six birdies to go with two bogeys on the Parador de El Saler course to move to the top of the leaderboard with an 8-under 208.
Craig Lee of Scotland is two strokes back after a 70, with English pair David Horsey (66) and Paul Waring (69) another shot behind.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Europe's stalled economy won't get more help Thursday from the European Central Bank, which is expected to hold off cutting interest rates as it waits for financial markets to heal so that its already low benchmark rates get through to businesses and consumers.
Most analysts say the bank will leave its key refinancing rate at a record low of 0.75 percent when the 23-member ECB governing council meets at its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The bank decides rates for the 17 European Union countries that use the euro currency, affecting the finances of 333 million people.
Some experts say the bank may have already pulled all the levers it can to get Europe out of its recession.
"The ECB is facing the uncomfortable reality that it has almost run out of options to provide additional stimulus for the economy," said analyst Carsten Brzeski at ING in Brussels.
Still, the economy needs help from somewhere.
The ECB has forecast the eurozone economy will shrink 0.3 percent in 2013, with a gradual recovery kicking in later in the year. Some indicators of business sentiment have risen recently, although they remain at levels indicating the eurozone is still in recession at the start of 2013 — just not shrinking as fast. Unemployment has hit 11.8 percent, the highest since the euro was introduced in 1999.
The ECB's key weapon recently has been not interest rates but its offer to buy unlimited amounts of bonds issued by indebted countries, on condition that they tap a European financial aid program that would demand budget cuts in return.
No country has requested that aid so far. But the mere announcement of the program pushed borrowing rates down for two of the most troubled governments, Italy and Spain, easing the risk they might be unable to handle their massive debts.
The refinancing rate is what banks pay to borrow from the ECB. That in turn should influence how much banks charge businesses and consumers to borrow. The problem now is banks hurt during the financial crisis are not passing on those lower rates to customers, but charging significantly more to lend money. Under such conditions, another cut to the refinancing rate by the ECB would do little to help the economy.
Bank President Mario Draghi and Yves Mersch, the newest member of the bank's six-member executive committee, have said that unconventional measures such as the bond purchases offer were doing more to lower borrowing rates in the real economy than a rate cut would. As the bond-buying offer boosted confidence in financial markets, some banks felt more comfortable charging less for loans.
In fact, the bond-buying program — called Outright Monetary Transactions, or OMT — has been so effective in lowering governments' high bond market borrowing costs that some economists are now seeing a chance it may not be used for months, if ever. That's a drastic shift from expectations on Sept. 6, the day the program was announced. Then, Spain was expected to seek a bailout within weeks.
Richard Barwell and Xinying Chen, analysts at Royal Bank of Scotland, wrote in a note to investors that there was a "distinct possibility that we could go through the whole of 2013 without the OMT being activated."
Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank, said that the chance the ECB will never buy bonds is less than 50 percent "but is rising every month."
He warned against complacency, however: "Normally something happens in life — experience tells us things don't always stay calm."
Europe's expected economic recovery is far from guaranteed, especially with governments slashing spending to reduce debt and raising taxes. The help will have to largely come from eurozone governments making their economies more business friendly by cutting excess regulation. That can take years to have an effect.


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stevens 620 pain in my ass
ive been trying to figure it out for months. i cant get it to work. the hammer will cock and release but the slide release stays locked. it must be pushed to rack the slide again after every pull of the trigger. if no one can help me does any one want to buy a stevens 620 parts gun?ive come to hate this gun over the last few monthes. please help me end the hate
|July 21, 2005, 03:14 PM
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maybe I can help
It sounds like the action bar lock may be in the wrong position with the trigger bar. The tigger bar needs to be below the action bar lock before the trigger is pulled. When the trigger is pulled it should raise the action bar lock up so the bolt can be worked to cock the gun again. Remove the buttstock firts. This should relieve the strain on the rear trigger group screw. The uncsrew the rear trigger group screw. Then use a punch to drive out the front pin from left to right. The end of the pin should be flattened out enough to make it not go out but one direction. If it thuds when you hit it with a hammer, drive it out from the other side since it may have been put in backwards on you. Pull the trigger group down and out of the gun. Now look at the bar that comes out on the side in the back facing towards the muzzle, this is the trigger bar. It should be underneath the action bar lock which is the bar pointing toward the buttstock. If it is on top of the action bar lock, use a punch to lift it enough to sldie it back under the action bar lock. This should solve the problem for you, if it doesn't, let me know, you might have a broken action bar lock.
|January 19, 2013, 05:46 PM
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stevens 620 slide release spring assembly
I just got my grandpa's stevens 620 shotgun. I have gone through it, cleaned it, and re- oiled. While doing this I found that the slide release spring that connects to the hammer and the slide release is broken. Because of this when the gun is fired the slide doesn't release itself automatically.
If I understand the way this gun works correctly the idea is that when the hammer strikes the firing pin the spring pushes the slide release and allows the pump action to occur automatically, without pushing the slide release tab by the trigger guard. I have bought a new spring, however because the existing one is snapped I am unsure how it re-assembles. On the slide release mechanism there are two rivets that have a guard on them, I think the spring pushes down on them. Does the spring go above one of the rivets or both? Or am i completely wrong, please help, thanks.. A picture of one properly assembled may be all I need I have searched but can't find any.
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You probably have a broken lock spring . They are available from GunPartsCorp . Don't buy just one , there's a trick to installing them and you will probably break the first one . Now with that being said , they are the cheapest POS shotgun that there ever was !
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Libya said Tuesday it should be allowed to prosecute one of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi's sons for crimes against humanity, but his lawyers objected, insisting the late ruler's son cannot get a fair trial in a nation now run by those who toppled his father.
The diametrically opposed positions came at an International Criminal Court hearing that will go a long way to deciding whether Seif al-Islam Gadhafi will be put on trial in Tripoli or The Hague.
The legal tug-of-war over Seif al-Islam also is a key test for a founding principle of the war crimes tribunal: known as "complementarity," the principle states that the court can only try suspects from nations unable or unwilling to launch their own prosecutions.
ICC prosecutors charged Seif al-Islam last year with murder and persecution for his alleged involvement in the deadly crackdown on dissent against his father's four-decade rule.
But months later authorities in Libya arrested Seif al-Islam and said they want to prosecute him. Prosecutors in The Hague now say they are willing to hand the case to authorities in Tripoli.
While prosecutors and judges are both part of the court, they operate independently of one another and judges do not have to follow the prosecutors' advice.
Where Gadhafi's son ends up being tried is not only a matter of national importance to Libya's new rulers. It's also of huge consequence to Seif al-Islam himself: if he were to be tried and convicted in The Hague, he could face a maximum life sentence, but if a Libyan court were to find him guilty he could face the death penalty.
Libya remains in turmoil almost a year after Gadhafi's ouster and rival armed militias still pose a serious threat to security in the country. Seif al-Islam is being held by a militia in the town of Zintan.
Libyan lawyer Ahmed al-Jehani, who represented the Libyan government at the court, pledged that Tripoli would give him a fair trial.
It would "be a unique opportunity for national reconciliation for a community that wishes to have justice done at home in Libya," he said.
Al-Jehani said that a "rush to judgment" by the ICC would "render the principle of complementarity meaningless."
But one of Seif al-Islam's court-appointed defense lawyers, Melinda Taylor, said the court should not trust Libya and its fledgling justice system to mount a fair prosecution of the son and one-time heir apparent of the country's widely reviled former leader.
Taylor was jailed in Libya for more than three weeks earlier this year, after being accused by Libyan authorities of passing confidential documents to her client.
She said she wound up in jail after trusting Libyan assurances her visit was privileged, meaning she would not be arrested.
Taylor warned that if the court also trusts Libyan guarantees and sends the case to Tripoli, Seif al-Islam "stands to lose his life in a completely arbitrary manner that has nothing to do with justice."
Seif was originally charged alongside his father and the Gadhafi regime's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi in June 2011 with attacking civilian protesters in the early days of the popular uprising against Gadhafi's rule. The United Nations Security Council had asked the court to launch an investigation amid widespread reports of human rights abuses by the Gadhafi regime as it fought to cling to power.
Judges dropped the case against Moammar Gadhafi in November 2011 after he was captured and killed by rebel fighters. Al-Senoussi fled the country, but was later captured in Mauritania and extradited to Libya.
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Thanks to a spike in the agriculture industry, the economy in Mexico grew by close to 4 percent for the second consecutive year.
According to Mexico's national statistics institute, the country's economy grew by 3.9 percent in 2012.
While the findings were in line with government projections made last year, the data shows growth in the country is holding steady as 2011 registered similar numbers.
Mexico's economic performance is closely linked to the U.S., where it sends almost 80 percent of its exports.
To put the value of Mexico's trade relations into context, the country's exports and imports account for 60 percent of its GDP.
The institute said the reason for the consistent growth was the country's volatile agricultural production, which increased by 7.2 percent in the last quarter of the year.
Thanks to higher production of products such as beans, corn, wheat and sugarcane, a strong domestic demand was able to offset the weaker demand for exports from Latin America's second-largest economy.
"So far, domestic demand is giving some support," Bank of America/Merrill Lynch's chief Mexico economist Carlos Capistran told the Dow Jones.
However, Capistran adds that he thinks "it won't be for a long time," with his estimates for 2013 growth at around 2.8 percent.
Mexico's new federal government is trying to pass a series of reforms in the telecommunications and energy sectors that would increase growth and formal employment in the coming year.
"We're very positive about this year, just like last year," Aurelio Adan, the CFO of Mexico's second largest retailer Soriana, told Reuters last month.
"I think that Mexico is ready to grow and generate more jobs."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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|Bright and fun 1st birthday cake for a little girl named Bea
I have decided to just start simply posting pictures of some of the many cakes I have made over the last couple of years. My intention was to have fancy blog posts and tutorials, but honestly that just hasn't happened yet with my busy life, so hopefully you will enjoy the pictures! Here are a few of my favorites, hope they inspire you!
|Up! themed first birthday cake with brownie balloons
|This train cake uses molded chocolate to make the engine really pop!
|One of my favorites! An undersea themed cake and cookies for a mermaid/pirate party. All the inspiration came from the custom made invitations
|Simple bowling themed cake for an "easy" party at the bowling alley! :)
|This rocket cake was the first time I used rice crispy treats to help sculpt a shaped cake. Worked out pretty well!
|Simple yet classy pinwheel cake and cupcakes
|Beach cake for a sweet 16 using pearlized chocolate shells and graham cracker crumb sand
|A little purse for a dear girlfriend who was turning the monumental 21
|Baby shower cake using a new technique utilizing patterns pulled right from the homemade invitations
|Graduation cake and cupcake tower that pulled in all the graduates activities and hobbies. Somehow I made it work!
Hope to post more soon....lots more cake, confections and other creations!


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The Newtown Rugby League Football Club is pleased to announce that Life Membership of Australia?s oldest Rugby League club was awarded to our Official Patron, John Singleton, at the Jets? 2005 season launch held at the Petersham RSL Club on Wednesday evening, March 9th.
John Singleton has been the Patron of the Newtown RLFC since 1995, and first became involved with the club back in 1977. He was instrumental in the club?s revival and recruitment campaign that saw the battling Jets surge into the 1981 NSW Rugby League first grade Grand Final. John has remained a staunch friend of the club ever since those heady days, and his generosity to both the club and to the many friends he has made through his association with the Jets continues to this day. He takes particular interest in the club?s fortunes in the NSW Rugby League?s high standard VB Premier League and Jim Beam Cup competitions, and is very supportive of Newtown?s current partnership with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.
His Life Membership was well received by the crowd in excess of 300, which included Rugby League identities such as John Raper, Tom Raudonikis, John Peard, Bill Harrigan, Steve Rogers, Barry Pierce as well as representatives from the NRL and NSW Rugby League and many guests from Sydney business and political circles. Newtown RLFC President Barry Vining presented John with the (suitably-inscribed) original sideline bell that had signalled half-time and full-time at Henson Park from the 1940?s through to the late 1970?s.
The Newtown RLFC is proud to recognise the achievements of a tremendous Australian identity in John Singleton, who has contributed so much to Australian business and sporting life and to so many charitable causes.
Where to see the Sydney Airport Jets playing this weekend:
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Saturday, March 12th, 5.30pm
NSWRL Jim Beam Cup ? final selection trial
Sydney Airport Jets v Belrose at Henson Park
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A man accused of robbing two banks in Rhode Island has been arrested in connection with a bank robbery and an attempted bank robbery in Hartford, Vt.
Police say 49-year-old Joseph G. Petrarca of Providence, R.I., robbed the People's United Bank on Thursday.
Officials believe Petrarca was wearing a red hat, a taped-on mustache and a wig with long blond hair when he robbed the bank. After fleeing the robber was seen getting into a pickup truck driven by another man. Police arrested a second suspect - John Fenley Jr. of Hartford -on Friday.
Police say earlier that day, Petrarca went into a Mascoma Savings Bank branch wearing a disguise, but left without incident.
Petrarca is being held on charges of holding up two banks in Cranston, R.I.


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To open an account, please bring the following documents to the Office of Student Accounts:
We will forward it to the Dean of Student Affairs & Activities for approval to open your account. Once approval is granted, the account is opened and we will assign an account number.
New clubs are eligible for $50 one time seed money from OBD. This money is used for promotional purposes.
OBD also funds clubs by granting $100 per year per club and by loaning up to $400 per year. Clubs must petition for these funds. Please bring the OBD minutes with this approval to the Office of Student Accounts for the money to be transferred.
When making deposits, please write the account number on the check(s), this will help us trace the drawer of the check in the event of it being returned from the bank. The Foothill Bookstore receives your deposits and issues a receipt to you at the same time. Please present yourself to deposit the money and tell the receiver in the Bookstore where this money is coming from (fund raising, donation, etc.).
All expenses incurred on behalf of a club must be supported by your club minutes, signed by the club secretary to ensure the accountability and responsibility. The only exceptions will be miscellaneous charges made at the Smart Shop or the Paint Room Graphics. Activities-related expenses need OBD minutes for the approval of the activities. With the OBD minutes, the club minutes, invoices and other necessary supporting documents, the payments are ready to be processed.
Please note that a new procedure is now in place regarding signatures on the check requisition:
The advisor needs to sign the requisition and a club representative needs to sign it as a "ASFC Budget Representative." This student must be a club member for at least 2 quarters (preferably 1 year) and needs to fill out a signature card. The check requisition will not be processed if one of these signatures is missing or if the club minutes are not attached.
1. Independent ContractorThe Independent Contractor Form is used to pay individuals who meet the following conditions:
Complete the Independent contractor package and return it to the Office of Student Accounts. You have to complete the whole package each time unless you choose to create an open purchase order for the whole fiscal year.
2. Temporary Employment Authorization (TEA)
The vendor is a current District employee and provides services similar to the job description. Complete the time sheet and forward to the Office of Student Accounts.
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Tickets for events will be issued by the Office of Student Accounts. These tickets are numbered and must be accounted for, after the event. The process starts with a Ticket Manifest Form.


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Navigation will be universal and consistent across all SAP sites, giving you a better user experience. You'll find content quickly and easily, regardless of your entry point into SAP.com.
Across all SAP sites, you'll see the same headers: "Solutions," "Support," "Training," "Community," "Developer," "Partner," and "About."
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Tim Fligg has taken a circuitous route to becoming a successful trader, which recently culminated in him winning his category in the most recent BattleFin trading competition.
BattleFin is a tournament platform that holds competitions to identify trading talent and then crowd sources the winners. The best are chosen and connected with seed capital. BattleFin President Tim Harrington recently told Bloomberg TV that it is a way to help emerging managers get allocations.
Fligg actually was in chef school where an instructor introduced him to trading. He was so interested in it that he changed his career path and began taking trading courses at Oakton Community College in suburban Chicago.
There an options professor solidified his interest in trading as they traded a $100,000 simulated account and took it to $2.1 million in nine weeks. Fligg's professor Asher Bronfeld, who was also a stock specialist on the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX), recognized his talent and offered Fligg a position at CHX. Fligg clerked for Bronfeld and quickly moved up to a stock specialist at Dempsey & Co LLC.
Like many aspiring traders Fligg set out to learn all he could and gobbled up information on successful traders. After reading Jack Schwager's "Market Wizards" he reached out to three traders: Linda Bradford Raschke, Ed Seykota and Paul Tudor Jones. Raschke and Seykota responded. Jones did not.
He went to one of Raschke's classed in Las Vegas. "It was the most influential thing [for my trading] that I ever did," Fligg says. The first day was just a meet and greet, the second day she said, "this is what we are going to be looking for: regression and set-ups and potential breakouts."
She taught him that if certain levels are reached it would trigger a trade the next day. "Sure enough, everything that she said—what is going to happen in bonds, in gold—it all happened," Fligg says. "It was awesome—all the technical breakout stuff. She is really big on only taking high-probability trades."
"Even though I was on the stock exchange floor, not until I took a class with Linda did I ever see anyone really research and have a solid plan going into a trading day. Her game plan still to this day was spot on for what happened when she traded live in front of everyone," Fligg says.
However, this was just the beginning of Fligg's education.
He took portfolio management classes at DePaul University over six years where he was the only undergraduate to be a manager of a portfolio. The class was taught by James Booth who Fligg credits for having huge impact on his trading.
"This class had fund managers come in on a weekly basis and speak to everyone about their views and strategies. Meeting so many successful people and hearing about what they did helped me form and create the strategy," Fligg says.
Fligg trades mainly stock and hedges with options on futures. He coded his own system, which is automated. For the competition he was trading equities and futures, looking for breakouts on the equities and riding the long trends. He was introduced to the strategy by two managers who spoke at DePaul and added a lot of his own twists including covered call and custom made stops created through his regression analysis.
He uses E-mini S&P options to hedge his stock portfolio but will gradually lift his hedge and leave covered calls and his stops when the stocks move in his favor.
Every trade has been tested and proven.
"The system only signals a trade when cetain criteria are met. It looks back three years and if there were 100 trades and 70% worked, and of the 70% on average you made $300 and the biggest drawdown was $150, then you would put the trade on," Fligg says.
"The base of the strategy has been run on more than 18,000 securities over 12 years yielding a 15% return yearly unleveraged. What I've added are stops, covered calls and hedging with futures," Fligg says. He also credits Tom DeMark's indicators for finding exhaustion points.
For the competition he earned 25.1% over three months.
Fligg has taken a vigorous systematic approach to his trading education but is cognizant and extremely grateful for all the professionals in the business who reached out to him and helped him learn to become a better trader.
Fligg still has a day job as a proprietary trader for Susquehanna, but he will be receiving a proprietary allocation for his trading and looks to have a bright future cooking up alpha as a professional trader.


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The Globe's Top Places to Work survey honors employers who care for their most valuable resource: The people who work for them.
Those people told us that their employers pay well, offer progressive benefits and creative perks, allow the flexibility needed to have good lives both at work and at home, embrace the diverse backgrounds of their employees, and offer a promising future to all of their workers.
The Globe invited 1,586 employers to participate in the 2012 Top Places to Work survey. Of those, 304 organizations employing over 210,000 people went all the way through the process, allowing us to conduct a confidential survey of their workers.
Research partner, WorkplaceDynamics of Exton, Pa., specialists in employee engagement and retention, contacted more than 135,000 employees at those companies and received completed surveys from 81,907 individuals. They were asked to grade their organization's performance according to 24 distinct statements, ranging from "New ideas are encouraged at this company," to "My manager makes it easier to do my job well."
All the employers were invited to complete a 10-question survey on workplace practice.
To compile the ranking, each employer was measured according to six factors:
Direction:Do employees have confidence in the leader of the organization? Do they believe it operates ethically, and is moving in the right direction?
Execution: Do employees believe senior managers have a good understanding of what the company needs to do to succeed, and are they sharing information well? Are new ideas encouraged?
Connection: Does the company show its appreciation for employees? Do they feel part of something meaningful and confident about their future?
My managers: Do managers care about employees' concerns and help employees to do their job, to learn and to grow?
My work: Does the company offer formal training, encourage different points of view, offer people with a wide variety of backgrounds other opportunities to learn and grow? Does the company help workers to balance career and family life?
My pay and benefits: Are workers fairly compensated with good benefits?
All of the participating employers were placed into one of four size groups, based on the number of employees in Massachusetts, to account for the ''small company effect.''
Smaller employers tend to perform better in workplace surveys than larger ones. One reason: In smaller groups, employees tend to interact more with top management, giving them a greater sense of involvement.
Small workplaces were defined as those with 50 to 99 employees; medium workplaces were defined as those with 100 to 249; large workplaces were defined as those with 250 to 999; and the largest workplaces were those with 1,000 or more .
In order to determine how many organizations were eligible for each size band WorkplaceDynamics determined where there was a statistical drop in scores for large companies and placed the cutoff point at the nearest multiple of five.
The minimum eligibility scores for small, medium, and large employers were chosen to be statistically consistent with the spread for larger organizations.
The results were compiled in the four charts that list the top small, medium, large, and largest employers.


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VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - An East Texas man has been arraigned for the murder of his wife and the shooting of another man.
Larry Michael Maples, 44, of Ben Wheeler, was arraigned for capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on Monday morning. There was no bond set on the murder charge and a $100,000 bond set for the charge of aggravated assault.
Authorities say the shooting happened around 6 a.m. on Sunday at a home in the 2600 block of FM 16 in Van Zandt County, just east of Canton.
Officials say 44-year-old Larry Maples of Ben Wheeler called police saying that he had just shot his "wife and her boyfriend."
"This is a senseless murder that will no doubt affect many people in our community, especially his family, and my heart goes out to this family," says Van Zandt County Sheriff Lindsey Ray.
Ray says Maples suspected his wife was at Moses Clemente's home so he parked his car down the road and walked to Clemente's house.
"Maples, after seeing his wife's car parked at the rear of the home, entered the residence through an unlocked door," Ray says.
Maples told officials he found his wife and Clemente inside.
"We believe he found the couple in a bedroom in the home and they were startled by him," says Ray.
Ray says Maples got into a fight with Clemente, then shot him in the abdomen with a Colt .45 pistol.
"Maples then shot and killed his wife, Heather Maples, who is 34-years-old from Ben Wheeler," added Ray.
According to Ray, Heather was found shot to death in a bedroom. When EMS arrived, Clemente was also in the bedroom.
Heather's family did not want to go on camera but said Heather and Larry Maples had recently split up. They say Clemente was Heather's friend and they cannot believe this mother of four is now gone.
One of the Maples' neighbors says the family just moved in to this house a few months ago.
"As far as I know, Heather was a good woman and a good mother and the whole story is just really sad."
Heather Maples was pronounced dead at the scene. Clemente was transported to Trinity Mother Frances in Tyler where he is being treated for a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. As of Monday morning, Clemente is still listed in critical condition. Officials say they expect him to fully recover.
According to the marriage license on file at the Van Zandt County Clerk's Office, Larry Maples married Heather on November 20, 2012. Heather's family says Heather and Larry had split up and Heather was staying at Clemente's for safety. Her family says Heather wanted her and her children to be safe from Maples.
"Her dad indicated to me that he did not even know her current husband," Sheriff Ray said. "Some of the family indicated to me that they thought she and Mr. Clemente were still together."
Larry Maples is in the Van Zandt County Jail in Canton, where he is being held for Capital Murder. Record show that Larry Maples has a history of arrests in other parts of the state.
The Van Zandt County Sheriff's office, along with the Texas Rangers, Van Zandt County Criminal District Attorney's Office and the Smith County Sheriff's Office are all investigating this shooting.
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If you want to know whether classes have been delayed or cancelled, or the campus has been closed due to winter weather, there are several ways you can find out:
The easiest and most direct is to visit the COLLEGE WEB SITE and look for a snow-closing information link. Click on that link, and you will be taken to a Newsroom bulletin with all the details you need.
We will also post a link to that bulletin on our FACEBOOK page, and via TWITTER.
The entire campus community can check their E-MAIL for a message about delays, cancellations and closings.
WNBC-TV Channel 4 will carry Wagner College closing and delay announcements. Other area television stations may also carry our announcements.
If you have lost either electrical power or your Internet connection, Mailport will not open, or the college Web site is down, you can use a battery-powered RADIO to check either of the two AM news radio outlets we use for winter-weather announcements:
- WINS Radio (1010 AM)
- WCBS Radio (880 AM)
The college also maintains a TEXT-MESSAGE ALERT system. Visit this instruction page on our website to find out how to sign up.


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ConAgra Foods broke ground on an expanded facility in Russellville. As part of the expansion, originally announced in September 2012, ConAgra Foods is planning to invest about $100 million in the new facility and expects to add more than 80 new jobs. The facility is expanding as a result of ConAgra Foods' acquisition of the Bertolli and P.F. Chang's Home Menu frozen meal business from Unilever. Through the Russellville expansion, production lines will be added to produce the two new items.
Memo to feds outlines Arkansas 'Premium Assistance' plan
A memo to federal officials from Arkansas' Medicaid leaders outlines the framework of the agreement driving a legislative debate on the topic.
Arkansas lawmakers, Gov. Beebe and administration officials have secured permission from the feds to use Medicaid expansion dollars in a forthcoming health insurance exchange that will subsidize premiums for low-income Arkansans seeking health care coverage.
The memo, which was dated March 13 from Arkansas Medicaid Director Andy Allison, seeks to clarify details that would allow those making up to 138% of the federal poverty level to enroll in health insurance exchange plans starting in 2014.
House tax panel approves one tax cut, tax hike
The House Revenue and Tax committee approved a bill that would exempt most farmers from a sales tax on their utilities and a tax increase on timber companies. The influential tax panel approved House Bill 1039 by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, D-Warren, which would provide a sales and use tax exemption on utilities for defined areas of the agricultural sector, such as poultry producers. The fiscal impact on the measure would take about $10 million annually from state coffers.
The Republican-controlled House Revenue and Tax Committee also approved Senate Bill 5 by Sen. Bill Sample, R-Hot Springs. That bill would raise an existing timberland tax from 15 cents to 20 cents per acre. It would raise an estimated $700,000 annually for the Forestry Commission.
McDaniel settles tobacco agreement dispute
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced Thursday that an arbitration panel has issued a ruling that will allow a settlement to proceed between Arkansas and the tobacco companies that signed the Master Settlement Agreement. The settlement ends a long-running dispute and restores certainty to the State's annual payments from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
In the agreement, Arkansas will receive its share of more than half of the money that has been held in escrow for nearly a decade as the dispute was ongoing. It will also include 2013 funding, which will bring the total amount of windfall to $22.7 million.
Inuvo posts loss despite strong revenue growth
Arkansas' newest publicly traded company, Conway-based Inuvo, had a pretty heady fourth quarter and full year in robust revenue, but it did not translate into profit. Inuvo, a consumer app and Internet advertising firm that located to Conway from New York in January, reported its fourth quarter and full year 2012 results on Wednesday.
The company showed fourth-quarter revenue of $16.24 million, which resulted in an $864,000 net loss. That was an improvement from just $6.6 million one year ago when the company lost $4.38 million.
For the full year, Inuvo reported $53.36 million in revenue, posting a $7 million loss in 2012. In 2011, the firm reported $35.82 million in revenue with an $8.97 million full year loss.
Southland, Oaklawn set monthly records for casino-style wagers
The latest statistics released by the Arkansas Racing Commission show that casino-style gambling at Oaklawn and Southland set new all-time monthly records in February. Both tracks saw nearly 14 percent increases in electronic games of skill wagering in February versus the previous year.
Hot Springs-based Oaklawn posted February 2013 EGS wagers of $92.7 million, a 13.7 percent increase from February 2012. The figure was the highest one-month EGS total in Oaklawn history. West Memphis-based Southland totaled $197.4 million in EGS wagers in February 2013, a 13.9 percent uptick from the previous year. Again, the figure was the highest one-month EGS total in Southland history.
Year-to-date in the first two months of 2013, the two tracks have already eclipsed a half-billion dollars with total EGS wagers topping $518.21 million.
Roby Brock, a freelance journalist based in Little Rock, writes weekly for the Arkansas News Bureau. His weekly television program airs at 10 p.m. Sundays in Central and Northwest Arkansas. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com; his Web site address is www.talkbusiness.


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Democrats would be foolish to underestimate Sarah Palin - not because her assertions are substantive (on the contrary, last night she uncorked a long string of fact-challenged howlers), but because of her effectively assertive style.
And style trumps substance, particularly on television. What viewers hear is not nearly as important as what they see and how what they see makes them feel. And I'll wager that a large share of the viewers last night felt good vibes for a feisty "everywoman" who invoked the small-town verities so often ("I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town") that any second I expected her to morph into John Mellencamp. We can all debate whether the best criteria for a vice president is whether the candidate is as average as you or I, but, for now, suffice it to say that Palin easily passes the stagecraft test. And Americans generally love it when a new star takes the stage.
This new star delivered her scripted lines with great verve, even when the lines didn't make a lick of sense. Not that this matters, of course, but let's do a quick review anyway, for the edification of the reality-based community:
1. While reviewing John McCain's miracle rise after his summer '07 plummet, she scoffed at how "the pollsters and pundits" wrote him off. That phrase is code for "the liberal media elite" (a favorite whipping boy at this convention), but the fact is that virtually all commentators, at all ends of the political spectrum, wrote off McCain a year ago when his original campaign team imploded. Indeed, the reaction among conservatives was almost gleeful; their attitude was "good riddance," because they never liked McCain anyway. For instance, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin launched a "McCain campaign death watch," and asked, "So, what will the exact expiration date of the McCain '08 campaign be?"
2. In Palin's alternative reality, the media elite was rebuked by the voters who flocked to McCain during the primaries; as she put it, "the voters knew better." The facts are far more interesting. McCain was saved in the primaries by independents, moderates, and crossover Democrats who were permitted to vote in open contests. In the primaries that mattered most, the exit polls showed that McCain was consistently spurned by conservative Republican voters...the ideological soulmates of the GOP delegates who were cheering Palin in the hall.
3. Palin bragged about her gubernatorial tenure in Alaska by declaring, "Our state budget is under control. We have a surplus." Moreover, she "championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress." Actually, it's not so hard to get the budget under control in an economy that's based so heavily on oil; indeed, Alaska is enjoying a boom thanks in part to the same energy price rise that is widely condemned elsewhere in America. And as for her assailing of earmark spending, she omitted the fact that she has long reaped the fruits of congressional earmark spending, feeding at the federal trough ever since she served as a small-town mayor (the mayoral tab: $27 million; her requested gubernatorial tab: $750 million). This is how the game is played in Alaska, a state long dominated by the GOP, where roughly one-third of the economy hinges on federal spending (thereby contradicting all the GOP convention talk about "cutting the size of government.")
4. Palin last night falsely claimed - as she did in her first appearance last Friday - that she told Congress, "Thanks, but no thanks" when Congress earmarked federal money for the Alaska bridge to nowhere. As I mentioned here the other day, she actually was for the bridge before she was against it. She didn't cancel the project until it became clear that the embarrassed lawmakers in Washington were pulling back the money and that Palin would thus be forced to foot the bill out of the state treasury. But Palin may yet succeed with convincing people that her lie is the truth, because she tells it with so much moxie.
5. She twice asserted that "victory in Iraq is finally in sight." Aside from the fact that Palin didn't bother to define what she meant by "victory," had you heard this news anywhere else? I certainly hadn't. Did Gen. David Petraeus get that memo?
6. She compared herself to Harry Truman, because he too had some small-town roots. The big problem with that analogy is that Truman, when picked by FDR to join the ticket in 1944, had already served in Washington as a U.S senator for 10 years; he had also chaired a special Senate committee on the war. He exposed military waste and corruption, and saved the federal treasury $15 billion.
7. She declared that "I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment...the Washington elite." It's a nice populist line, akin to Jimmy Stewart's aw-shucks appeal in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but the problem is that, for most of the past eight years, the Washington political establishment has been dominated by the GOP - starting with the "K Street Project," by which corporate lobbyists wrote the bills for, and traded favors with, the Republican congressional majority. And sometimes the symbiotic relationship was criminal; witness the jailed Jack Abramoff. Yet the delegates cheered Palin for bashing the political establishment, which means that either they were mocking their own party (nah), or practicing willful amnesia.
8. In another swipe at the so-called liberal media, she declared that "Here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to serve their good opinion." The delegates predictaby cheered the common enemy. The reality, however, is that Palin's credentials have been questioned by all kinds of commentators, including ex-Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan (who unwittingly said on an open microphone yesterday that Palin's ascent is "political bullshit"), and ex-McCain advisor/GOP strategist Mike Murphy, who called the choice "cynical" on the same open mic. But perhaps the most dismissive commentary I've heard is this: "Palin's experience in government makes Barack Obama look like George C. Marshall." That line comes to us courtesy of conservative David Frum - the ex-Bush speechwriter who helped craft the phrase about the Axis of Evil.
(In fairness to Palin, the howler of the night was uttered by Mike Huckabee, who wowed the crowd with this bit of lunatic arithmetic: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States." Well, let's see here....Biden got 75,165 votes in the primaries. Palin got 616 votes in her first mayoral race, and 909 in her second, for a grand total of 1,525. I just checked my calculator, and 75,165 is a larger number than 1,525. I trust that even though Palin, like Huckabee, would like to see creationism taught in the public schools, surely she would endorse the continued teaching of math skills, even if her surrogates are exposed as fabulists.)
It also might have been interesting last night to hear Palin discuss the national security credentials that warrant placing her a heatbeat away from power in the 9/11 era; perhaps she could have repeated McCain's line about how she is qualified because "Alaska is right next to Russia."
But I doubt that much of this matters. Substance can't compete with style and symbolism. In particular, as communications expert (and occasional Democratic advisor) George Lakoff put it the other day, Republicans are traditionally "strong on the symbolic dimension of politics."
A perky, rootin'-tootin' hockey mom who drives herself to work...that's iconic small-town stuff, an appealing cultural metaphor for those everyday Americans who think that all Washington needs is a dose of everyday gumption. It's an illusion, of course, because it masks the reality of the Washington Republican elite, and the manner in which that elite has long operated, but election campaigns have long turned on the mastery of illusion. That's the abiding genius of the GOP. They've made a hash of governing since Bush came to town, but they sure can market.