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So today at 1:09pm, I made my 100th sale! **Yay me!**
So, as promised, I did a drawing for a $15 graphic giveaway for sales 76-100!
The winner? beccahacom on etsy! woot! woot! gotta let us know what you want beccah!
another great big thanks for being my 100th sale to heartstringdesigns1!
thanks for supporting my shop! the next giveaway will probably be at 150 sales!
Monday, July 27, 2009
100th sale!
So today at 1:09pm, I made my 100th sale! **Yay me!**
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Featured Seller! LathersbyLinds
For Father's Day, I ordered Lindsay's manly beer soap. I decided that I just had to get some for myself too! It is sooooo great! All of her soaps are cold process and smell fantastic!
Some questions by me and answers by lindsay
How did you hear about Etsy and when did you join?
I actually just stumbled upon etsy one day a year, 2 years ago maybe, while surfing Livejournal communities like Craftgrrl and seeing the stuff people were making (and where they sold it.) I then joined to buy items, and it was only until 5 months ago that I decided I needed to make soap and sell it! What is your inspiration?
My inspiration comes from my favorite foods, scents, flowers, and objects in nature. My boyfriend, friends, and customers help me out a LOT with scent or color combo suggestions all the time. But to be honest? I crank the local dance radio station and bounce around the kitchen while I'm making soaps!
Do you have another job? How do you balance your "real job" and your Etsy shop?
I actually do have another job! I'm the drive-thru girl at the local Taco Time! (Not taco bell!!) I work a combonation of early mornings (8-4) where I open and make taco shells, fresh salsas, and other yummy stuff! Or, I close the store in the evening (5-11pm) My job is actually really fun, and we're owned by a great guy instead of a big corporation.
When did you start to craft?
I started crafting in Girl Scouts! :D I'm a proud member, and started when I was a wee Daisy! We made candles, soaps, and tons of other crafts. It really opened my creative doors, and i started crafting in my time at home. My mother taught me how to crochet when I was 10, and I got my first sewing maching for my 14th birthday. I also learned how to knit at the age of 15, but soap making always stood out as my personal favorite. I had a melt & pour soap "company" when i was 12, but stopped making soaps until after i turned 18 and could deal with the "dangerous stuff" without my mom's permission ;)
What market is your shop geared towards?
My etsy shop is geared to anyone who wants to be clean! ;) Of course, but i do make a lot of very feminine scents. I find that usually mothers who could use a nice soothing bath love using my soaps, as well as younger women who love the yummy smelling scents, and kids as well. My boyfriend is definately my biggest fan though.. I have to tell him not to lick them!
Words of Wisdom or advice?
Always offer a helping hand! NEVER bring your internal business issues to the public, especially transaction info. Karma is always coming around, so be aware of how you behave! Don't lick the soap!
We love your shop, where else can we find you?
I can be found in a few places!
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lathersbylinds
blogspot: http://lathersbylinds.blogspot.com
facebook: http://tinyurl.com/or2ogj
LathersbyLinds is offering a promotion where you can enter the code "JULYBLOGG" in the notes to seller section during checkout and receive a free gift with purchase! (This might be a bar of soap, lotion, bath fizzies. It's a surprise!)
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Labels: cented, cold process, Etsy, etsy shop, featured seller, interview, lathersbylinds, soap
Cupcake Finds
Here is a selection of cute cupcake finds. This morning I really, really (REALLY) felt like a cupcake, so I figured a picture one might have to do.
just the tops (of the the cupcakes) by tinetemptations
set of 3 cupcake clippies by charity5
polka dot cupcake cozzie can koozie by partypoofers
berrylicious cupcake purse-let by arkitekonika
Posted by Nicole at 5:09 AM 1 comments
Labels: can cozzie, clips, creations, cupcakes, Etsy, faux cupcake, hair clips, handmade, items, koozie, members, polka dot, products, purse, purse-let, treasurie, treats, wristlet
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Panda Finds
I was staring at my screen. haha. and i was trying to think of what to look for, so I came across my random decision: pandas. here are the makers of these fine items :D :
Panda Bear Hand carved Stamp-cupcaketree
Me and My Panda Original Painting- danitashop
Panda Bottle Cap- rubymtnbeads
Adjustable Scrabble Tile Panda Face Ring- steppie
Posted by Nicole at 1:24 PM 1 comments
Labels: bottle cap, collection, hand carved stamp, original painting, panda, panda bear, panda face, print, ring, scrabble tile ring, stamp
MMMMMMmmmmmm....Vegan candies by SweetFritsy on Etsy!
I was browsing Etsy for some sweet treats, and came across some Vegan Cheesecake Chocolates. I am not a fan of cheesecake, but my sister is hooked, so these caught my eye. Everything in this shop is VEGAN! So everyone can enjoy these goodies! SweetFritsy has chocolates, cookies, fondant toppers, cupcakes, muffins, brownies, nuts, and more! I may just have to order something! ;D http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7143500
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Labels: brownies, chocolate, cookies, cupcakes, Etsy, etsy shop, fondant toppers, goodies, muffins, nuts, sweetfritsy, treats
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Purple Sentiments Treasury
Another treasury! I really like this one! My favorites? First up is the Purple Polka Dot Hello greeting card made by lavendergreetings. In my opinion, the fact that it simply says "Hello", is sorta funny. (maybe a little bit? :?) Check out lavendergreetings; they have 25% off during the month of July! **Nicole cheers in the background**
Next are the Violet Elephant Postcards by krearivekelors. As some may know, the elephant is pretty high up there on my "favorite animals list". Check out "Notes and Sorts" on Etsy- http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5478785
My final pick is the Violet Wedding Cake- Handmade Greeting Card by matdi123. I just love the adorable cake embelishment! Be sure to take a peek at "Not Your Everyday Cards" by matdi123- http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5596958
A final thanks to EnchantedQuilting for making this fabulous treasury!
Be sure to click and comment on this treasury!
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Elephunk's Trunk Guide to Beginner's Product Photography
The great Elephunk's Trunk has written a tutorial on how to take great pictures of your products! Here it is:
Step One: Find the Macro setting on your digital camera. This is essential if you sell jewelry or any other small items, and very useful for taking close-ups of details on larger items. Using the Macro setting on the camera will put your item in focus and the background out of focus. Depending on the size of the item and the angle you shoot, you can get part of the item in focus and part out of focus. The icon for macro looks like a little flower.
Step Two: Find good lighting. Most people recommend indirect sunlight. I take all my photos outside on my porch which is always shaded. Early morning or late evening light works really well. Whatever you do, do not use a flash. It will wash out your colors and reflect oddly off your product. If natural light is not an option for you, you can make a light box. I haven't actually tried that yet, but lots of people swear by it.
Step Three: Find an uncluttered background. Interesting backgrounds are great, but only if they don't draw away from the item. If you take a picture of your earrings hanging off a sunflower that stands tall in a field full of crows, it might make an interesting picture. But if I glance at the photo and can't figure out what you are selling, or can't see the earrings clearly, I won't buy them. This is the part I struggle with the most, and the focus of most of the photo critiques I get. For my hats, I usually let the wooden planks form the background. For my purses and haircombs that I don't want to put on the ground to photograph, I keep a large white piece of plastic handy. Also, think about how your photos will look in list view--the thumbnails are tiny! You want to make sure your item stands out.
Now, take the picture! Good luck all and a HUGE thanks to Elephunk's Trunk! You are so awesome (and so are your pictures!).
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Labels: camera, Elephunks Trunk, Etsy, item photography, photography, pictures, product photography


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Ornamental grasses are essential components of many landscapes. We offer a wide variety of both native and non-native grasses, as well as grass-like plants such as rushes, sedges, and liriope. Grasses are generally very low maintenance plants, usually only requiring that they be cut back once a year to remove old foliage, usually in late winter or very early spring.
Grasses should be planted while they are actively growing. Evergreen types may be planted any time, but plants that go winter dormant should be planted before they turn brown in the fall.
(If you are a wholesale customer, please note that we cannot ship Imperata 'Red Baron' outside of Virginia.)
Common Name: Sweet Flag
Dwarf fans of bright golden leaves make a colorful evergreen groundcover or highlight for a rock garden. Moisture loving plants, they form mats of stiff, narrow bladed leaves. Can tolerate clay soil. Deer resistant. Moderate foot traffic. Space on 8" centers.
Common Name: Sweet Flag
Bright, golden fans of grassy leaves are narrowly edged in green. Evergreen. These moisture loving plants form mats of flowing, narrow bladed leaves. Can tolerate clay soil. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Giant Reed Grass
This new cultivar of giant reed grass has wonderful gold striping that lasts all summer and into the fall. At 7' it is much easier to fit into the smaller landscape, yet still makes a great impact. Plants resemble corn plants.
Common Name: Giant Reed Grass
Tall, sturdy canes that resemble corn plants are adorned with wide green and white striped leaves. Unlike the species, this cultivar maintains its variegation throughout the summer. In fall it is topped with 18" tall bronze-burgundy plumes.
Common Name: Feather Reed Grass
Upright, clumping, grassy green foliage displays "see through" reddish-bronze plumes in summer which fade to tan by fall. Good winter interest. 2001 Perennial Plant of the Year.
Common Name: Feather Reed Grass
This warm season clump-former has stiff, bright green leaves 1/4"-5/8" wide. In late summer they produce pink tinted blooms on stems up to 4' tall standing well above the foliage. Plumes mature to light tan. Great for light shade to shade!
Common Name: Appalachian Sedge
Fine-textured grassy leaves with a fountaining habit characterize this native of dry woods in Eastern U.S. A medium to fast grower. Makes a great groundcover for slopes.
Common Name: Sedge
A selected strain with fine evergreen foliage that is deep fox brown to red and characterized by a strongly upright habit. Tips may have a decorative curl. Good winter hardiness even to zone 5. Fantastic planted with silver or burgundy leaved plants.
Common Name: Sedge
Vase-shaped clumper with interesting fine textured brown foliage that is rusty orange at the bottom and somewhat curled on its tips. Deer resistant. May self-sow.
Common Name: Sedge
Fine textured weeping foliage forms swirls. Very narrow leaves seem almost iridescent with a silvery green color. Evergreen. Benefits from a haircut to about 1/3 height in early spring. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Sedge
Fine textured leaves are bordered in gold. Beautiful swirl-forming Carex. Evergreen. Benefits from a light haircut in spring. Makes a good, deer-resistant groundcover.
Common Name: Sedge
Clear, bright golden-yellow foliage with a narrow green margin is stunning planted with golden variegated hostas and ferns in partial shade. Deciduous. Effective when used as groundcovers or edges.
Common Name: Sedge
Strong clump forming sedge with glaucous blue foliage that is 1/2" wide. Spreads slowly and is drought tolerant. Excellent evergreen groundcover! Native. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Sedge
This New Zealand native forms widely arching clumps of olive-green, grassy foliage providing great color and texture in the garden. Evergreen. Excellent in containers.
Common Name: Blue Sedge
This pretty sedge has attractive, narrow, blue-green grass-like foliage that grows in clumps 10"-16" tall. It is more upright and its color is lighter blue than the species. Usually evergreen, it spreads slowly by rhizomes. Excellent for rain gardens.
Common Name: Bunny Blue Sedge
This low-growing native sedge has lovely silvery blue, evergreen foliage and forms large, dense moderately spreading clumps. Works well in the border, shade garden or in containers. Plant patent applied for.
Common Name: Sedge
Bright white and dark green grassy leaves make a showy groundcover. Semi-evergreen plants have a vigorous habit and spread by underground rhizomes. Deer resistant. A favorite! May be cut back in early spring.
Common Name: Sedge
Narrow 1/2" green leaves have white margins that give it a fine textured appearance. Forms thick, silvery clumps. Great semi-evergreen groundcover and also effective as an edger. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Sedge
Deep blue-green, leaves edged in bright white form pretty fountain like mounds. Lovely in containers! Prefers partial to light shade and average moisture. Clumping. Evergreen.
Common Name: Sedge
Handsome creamy-yellow and green variegated grass-like foliage. Mound forming with a swirling habit. Evergreen. Deer resistant. May be trimmed back by 2/3's in early spring.
Common Name: Sedge
Grassy, lime-green leaves form mounding fountains that light up the border. Leaves gradually deepen to golden yellow. Best color is maintained with some morning sun. Performs well in dry shade! Evergreen. Plant patented.
Common Name: Sedge
Shiny deep green leaves have bright limy yellow centers. Plants form fine-textured, weeping mounds that maintain their good looks year round. Nice in containers. Evergreen. Plant patented.
Common Name: Oak Sedge
This native makes a wonderful groundcover for dry, part sun to shady areas. Fine textured, slowly spreading plants have a tough constitution and provide both food and shelter for small birds. Try this one under trees where grass won't grow.
Common Name: Seersucker Sedge
Broad (1+"), shiny, evergreen leaves are puckered like seersucker. Very attractive for moist shady areas where it thrives and spreads to make a lovely groundcover.
Common Name: Broad-leaf Sedge
A broad-leaved, deciduous sedge with bright chartreuse yellow leaves that have fine green margins and stripes. Blade may get up to 1" wide. A striking form, wonderful for containers and brightening the shade. Slowly spreads by rhizomes.
Common Name: New Zealand Hair Sedge
Fine grassy foliage emerges olive green to red-brown and changes to coppery-brown with orange tips. Red/orange shades predominate in fall. Great in containers or for massing.
Common Name: New Zealand Sedge
Shiny, olive bronze spring and summer foliage becomes fiery orange in winter. Elegant arching form spills over the edge of containers and walls. A bit more red than the species, color is best in full sun. Great as specimen or for massing.
Common Name: Northern Sea Oats
Soft green foliage with graceful clusters of tan seeds that dangle from delicate stems in summer. Remove seed heads to prevent heavy self-sowing. Yellow fall color. Deer resistant. Long blooming. Native.
Common Name: Blue Lyme Grass
Beautiful, bright steel blue blades have an arching habit. A very heat tolerant and vigorous grass from Gr. Britain. A rapid spreader, it may be invasive in garden conditions.
Common Name: Purple Love Grass
Fluffy clouds of magenta to purple tinted flowers over coarse green foliage. Nice for the late summer and fall naturalized garden! Deer resistant. Cut back in February.
Common Name: Blue Sheep Fescue
Fine, powder blue foliage creates an evergreen mound. Maintains its color throughout the season without browning. Plant patented.
Common Name: Blue Sheep Fescue
Slate blue leaves are more stiff and upright than 'Elijah Blue'. More tolerant of heat and humidity than most fescue. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Blue Sheep Fescue
Bright blue foliage. Green blooms in late summer have a purple tinge. Afternoon shade during the summer is appreciated. Requires well-drained soil. Deer resistant. Divde every 2-3 years for best performance.
Common Name: Blue Sheep Festuca
Fine foliage has great blue color and very upright seed plumes. Plants usually hold up well in summer. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Common Rush
Upright to arching, round green stems characterize this wetland native. Plants form clumps that spread by creeping rhizome and seeds. Usually evergreen in Zone 7. Use for water's edge or rain gardens.
Common Name: Bog Rush
This attractive rush is excellent for wet or boggy areas, forming clumps of stiff, slender, upright, blue green blades. Good for containers. Evergreen. Cut back in late winter.
Common Name: Monkey Grass / Lilyturf
Lavender to violet-blue flower spikes over deep green, strappy, grass-like leaves. May be clumping or running. Tolerates drought, dry shade and clay soil. Attractive to butterflies. To remove old foliage, mow to within 1" of the ground in late winter.
Common Name: Monkey Grass / Lilyturf
Milky white flower spikes over dark green, evergreen leaves. Must have partial shade. Clump forming. Can tolerate drought, very moist soil conditions, and clay soil. Attractive to butterflies.
Common Name: Monkey Grass / Lilyturf
Narrow, bright yellow leaves form a showy clump with lavender blooms on 12" stalks. Color intensity depends on the amount of light it receives. Best in bright shade or edges of shade beds. Great for providing contrast in the border. Attractive to butterflies.
Common Name: Monkey Grass / Lilyturf
Dark green, strap-like, evergreen foliage compliments large purple bloom clusters held well above the foliage. This is a tight clumping variety with exceptional flower production in late summer/fall. Long leaves have a weeping habit. Plant patented.
Common Name: Monkey Grass / Lilyturf
Grass-like foliage with green and cream markings & lavender flowers on reddish stems. Best appearance is achieved in light shade during the summer, although it can tolerate full sun. Can tolerate drought, very moist soil conditions & clay soil. Attractive to butterflies.
Common Name: Creeping Lilyturf
Rapidly spreading stoloniferous habit makes it excellent for erosion control. Narrow leaf blades with lavender flower spikes. Can tolerate drought, very moist soil conditions, and clay soil. Attractive to butterflies.
Common Name: Creeping Lilyturf
Variegated foliage that appears white in a shaded landscape. Violet flowers. Excellent to lighten a shady area. Stoloniferous but not as vigorous as L. spicata. Can tolerate drought, very moist soil conditions, and clay soil. Attractive to butterflies.
Common Name: Maiden Grass
Thin silvery-gray foliage with pink flowers that turn white. New foliage is tinted red. Orange-red fall color. Excellent dwarf variety. Long blooming and deer resistant. Bold, clump former that is well suited to mass plantings or the low maintenance garden. One of our favorite miscanthus.
Common Name: Maiden Grass
Wide, variegated leaves have a bright white center stripe that contrasts strongly with dark green margins. Copper plumes fade to pink. Exceptional. Long blooming and deer resistant.
Common Name: Maiden Grass
Dwarf form of M. 'Variegatus' that is perfect for smaller gardens or containers. Excellent specimen plant. Long blooming and deer resistant.
Common Name: Maiden Grass
Very fine textured foliage with attractive bronze red flowers that turn to silver. Graceful, upright, arching habit. Long blooming and deer resistant.
Common Name: Dwarf Maiden Grass
Thin, silver-green leaves with a bushy appearance. Silver plumes in fall. A favorite dwarf form. Long blooming and deer resistant.
Common Name: Maiden Grass
Smaller version of 'Zebrinus' that has a neat arching shape and vivid yellow horizontal banding. Reddish plumes in August. Long blooming and deer resistant. Plant Patented.
Common Name: Maiden Grass
Narrow, vertically variegated leaves are grayish-blue to blue-green and creamy white. Lovely. Long blooming and deer resistant.
Common Name: Maiden Grass
A nice, upright form with 3/4" wide green leaves that display dramatic horizontal golden bands all along their length. It is excellent in mass or as a structural specimen.
Common Name: Japanese Silver Grass
Graceful, upright habit. Prominent creamy stripes create a dramatic white effect. Long blooming and deer resistant.
Common Name: Muhly Grass
A glittering haze of delicate pink-purple to mauve flowers floats above slender green foliage in autumn. Long blooming. Deer resistant. May self sow. Native.
Common Name: Muhly Grass
Many of the great characteristics of the species but with beautiful ivory colored blooms. Form is more upright than the species and bloom begins later. Long blooming. Native. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Muhly Grass
A wonderful upright grass with pretty pink plumes shooting out like fireworks in late summer. Fine gray green foliage forms a compact, slightly arching mound. A warm season grass, it performs well throughout the south and mid-Atlantic.
Common Name: Ruby Muhly
Nice fine- textured plant with a late summer display of airy, pink and amber flower spikes. Native to north Texas and southern Oklahoma. It blooms earlier, shorter, and is hardier in colder temperatures than Muhlenbergia capillaris. Plant patented.
Common Name: Dwarf Mondo Grass
Compact habit and glossy, dark green leaves make this perennial a natural as a ground cover or edging. Spikes of light lavender bell-shaped flowers are followed by small blue-black berries. Rhizomatous habit. Excellent between stepping stones. Deer resistant. A slow grower it tolerates moderate foot traffic. Space on 4" centers.
Common Name: Variegated Mondo Grass
Narrow, dark green foliage has bright white variegation giving it a lovely silvery look. Lavender blooms appear in summer and are followed by glossy purple berries. A refined groundcover, it slowly spreads by underground rhizomes. Charming!
Common Name: Black Mondo Grass
Distinctive narrow, purple-black strap-like, evergreen leaves. Pink flowers in summer develop into black berries. Stoloniferous habit. Slow growing but exceptional. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Switch Grass / Beach Grass
A native selected for its glaucous blue foliage and graceful, fountain-like habit, this is a favorite for coastal plantings as well as average gardens. Airy, bluish tinted, light beige flowers emerge in fall and remain through the winter. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Switch Grass
Compact, upright plants are early flowering and maintain good green foliage color as late as Halloween. The light airy flower panicles stand above the foliage where they catch the breezes. Very showy!
Common Name: Switch Grass
Blue-green foliage turns wine red in early summer. Forms sturdy 2' tall, tight, vase-shaped clumps. They hold up to wind and rain and persist through the winter. Airy, wine-red flower panicles rise to 3' in August. Has an upright growth habit with showy clusters of loose airy flowers that appear in late summer and persist into winter. It is a larval host for butterflies and a source of food for songbirds. Deer resistant. A Proven Winners selection. Plant patented
Common Name: Switch Grass
Full plants have wide bluish-purple blades and large purplish flowerheads. Deer resistant. Plant Patented.
Common Name: Switch Grass
Very stiff, upright growth. Attractive metallic blue leaves turn yellow in fall. Upright growth habit with showy clusters of loose airy flowers that appear in late summer and persist into winter. It is a larval host for butterflies and a source of food for songbirds. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Switch Grass
Upright, steel blue foliage is wider and more substantial than 'Heavy Metal'. Upright growth habit with showy clusters of loose airy flowers that appear in late summer and persist into winter. It is a larval host for butterflies and a source of food for songbirds. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Switch Grass
Narrow, upright plants emerge with blue-green foliage that turns to burgundy-red in mid-summer. Wine color intensifies as season progresses. Plants are topped in late summer with airy red blooms that lend winter interest as seed heads. It is a larval host for butterflies and a source of food for songbirds. Deer resistant. Native. Plant patented
Common Name: Switch Grass
Blue green foliage starts to turn bright red by June and is followed by airy, maroon flowers. A little shorter than many of the switch grasses. Very attractive with and upright growth habit and showy clusters of loose airy flowers that appear in late summer and persist into winter. It is a larval host for butterflies and a source of food for songbirds. Deer resistant. Native.
Common Name: Fountain Grass
Fine textured grass that produces countless light reddish brown flowers that change to amber in fall. Bright green foliage turns beige in fall.
Common Name: Fountain Grass
A sport of 'Little Bunny', this dwarf starts to take on red color in mid-summer. This intensifies into the fall creating a haze of burgundy red. Small tufted plumes appear above the blades in mid to late summer.
Common Name: Dwarf Fountain Grass
This mid-height, warm-season grass has creamy-pink tinted bottlebrush blooms in midsummer. Blooms usually persist into September. Leaves take on pretty oranges and reds in October. Needs a protected loacation to winter over in zone 5.
Common Name: Dwarf Fountain Grass
Fine textured grass that produces countless light reddish brown flowers that change to amber in fall. Foliage turns beige in fall. Identical to P. alopecuroides except this one is shorter. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Fountain Grass
Mounds of narrow green foliage are topped in late summer by fluffy, bottlebrush-like, tawny plumes making them look like little fountains. Cute for edging or containers. Shorter than Hameln and finer textured. Plant patented.
Common Name: Fountain Grass
Deep green, arching foliage with rose-pink flowers throughout the season. Clump former. Bright green foliage turns beige in fall. Plant Patented.
Common Name: Ribbon Grass
Bluish-green and white striped foliage emerges with a pink flush. Similar to Strawberries & Cream, but with smaller leaves.
Common Name: Ribbon Grass
Striped green and white, ribbony foliage with a touch of pink on the new growth.
Common Name: Little Bluestem
A great performer, this one maintains its tight, upright habit throughout the season, even in rich soil. Thicker than typical leaf blades. Bluish-green leaves turn to shades of orange to purple in autumn. Plant Patented.
Common Name: Little Bluestem
Upright very blue foliage contrasts nicely with its pink stems and purplish-bronze flowers. Rich golden amber fall color is accented by silvery seeds.
Common Name: Prairie Dropseed
Fine-textured, emerald-green leaves produce a magnificent fountain that is topped with pinkish blooms followed by pale golden seed heads that smell like fresh cilantro or butterd popcorn (depending on your nose). Native prairie grass.
Common Name: Feathergrass
Very graceful grass with fine textured, arching, bright green leaves and feathery panicles to 12" long followed by airy seed heads that last well into the winter. The whole plant billows in the slightest breeze. Very attractive! May self sow heavily, possibly invasive.
Common Name: Bird's Foot Violet
Large, pale to deep lavender flowers with orange stamens. Leaves are deeply divided into many narrow segments resembling a bird's foot. Attractive to butterflies. Drought tolerant once established. Will self sow where happy, but is not invasive. Deciduous. Native.

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For those in search of a more advanced Steuben adventure, Woodland Bog is the place to go. It's another treasure hidden just off the beaten path. In fact, if you blink you'll literally miss the small sign on the north side of the road just off 100 N. This trek isn't for the beginner, those with little energy, or the directionally challenged. Just to reach the bog, visitors must hike a quarter mile back following a fence through a field. Yes, those are country directions, but there really isn't any other kind when you get out into the "wilds" of Steuben! When you come to the place that looks a little like the Haunted Forest from the Wizard of Oz, you'll know you've reached the entrance to Woodland Bog. Why would anyone want to do such a thing? Because this is a very special bog. For starters it's incredibly old. Whereas most bogs are lakes that have grown over with peat moss, Woodland Bog has past that point and, as its name suggests, has transitioned back into a wooded area. It still has a slightly spongy peat floor, which can be muddy at times. Make sure to wear footwear you don't care if you ruin. Bogs, which can also be called fens, muskegs, quagmires or just plain mires, are really important parts of the ecosystem. They help with lowering greenhouse emissions by naturally storing carbon dioxide. A famous bog in Russia was recently calculated to remove 52 teragrams of carbon annually from the atmosphere. They can also be great natural preservation "bins" for archeologists. Human remains such as the Haraldskaer Woman and Lindow Man have been found fully preserved in European bogs. Not to mention a 5 thousand year old Neolithic farming area, including huts and field walls was found fully preserved under a bog in Ireland's County Mayo. In the US plenty of Native American artifacts have been found in bogs. Steuben's little Woodland Bog most likely doesn't contain any dead bodies under it,at lest not human, but it does boast a wide variety of trees from big tooth aspen, to pin oak, and the reds, elm, maple, and osier dogwood, not to mention swamp white oak and...Read More
You've probably heard the saying, "You can't be in two places at once." And maybe that's true, but you can absolutely be in three! It's not that this location is a major secret. You're probably familiar with it from those grade school maps you had to fill in once upon a time. Think back and you'll remember Indiana converges with the corner of Ohio and they both sit right below Michigan to form a kind of weird 'T.' That place isn't just a theoretical space in the minds of cartographers. It actually exists. You have the ability to go there and stand in three states at once! Technically speaking the location is in plain sight. But it is down a dusty country road in the middle of nowhere. So it can be easy to miss if you don't know what to look for. There's a rock on the east side of the road with an inscription, denoting the convergence of states takes place 130 feet to the south. The reason being is that they converge in the middle of the road. On the day I went with my son we found the rock easily. Then spent the next ten minutes searching for what we'd been misinformed was "a pile of rocks to go stand on." There is no pile of rocks—so don't look for them. Fortunately, a mail carrier happened by. We told him what we were trying to find and he nodded. "I think it's under my car right now," he said. Then pulled his vehicle back a few feet. "Kick the rocks off there," he pointed to the road beneath my feet. I skeptically gave a half-hearted kick. Not knowing exactly what I was supposed to be doing. "Not there," he laughed then pointed, "there." I didn't see anything but followed his instructions. Soon a metal plate with the letter 'M' embedded in the road emerged. (It's actually right before the gravel road becomes paved almost dead center.) He nodded. "There you have it. I was here a while back when a family had their three daughters stand one in each state and took a picture. Kind of matter over mind," he laughed. Once he left my...Read More


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Christy Ring Cup hurling champions Kerry have applied to the GAA's Central Council to be allowed enter the All-Ireland SHC qualifiers from next season on.
Kerry have already decided against competing in the Munster Championship as they feel that they are not yet good enough for that level. However,officials believe that it would benefit the Christy Ring Cup winners to go straight into the first round of the qualifiers.
"We have applied to Central Council asking that the winners of the Christy Ring Cup be allowed to enter the All-Ireland SHC qualifiers from next year," Kerry County Board chairman Jerome Conway confirmed.
"That would demand a small bit of change because it's not possible at the moment. We feel that while we are not ready to step up to Munster championship level at this stage, Kerry needs a step up from where we were that season.
"They are changing the league format and they will be a bit more competitive from next season on, but we still feel that we need more of a step up when it comes to the championship. We expect a decision on our request very shortly."
"We are not ready for the Munster senior championship next year but maybe the year after, if we can do well in the Christy Ring Cup again next season," Conway said.
"If our proposal is carried, it would be a great incentive for all teams in the Christy Ring Cup as it will allow a team to go on and play in the qualifiers, which allows a team to test itself against some of the best teams in the country.
"It would have been ideal this year because the first round of the qualifiers were the weekend after the Christy Ring Cup final.
"We have also spoken to the National Hurling Committee about our proposal.


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I saw him, I saw the grinning man. During my trip to Roswell I stopped by some small towns and spoke to the denizens. My most eventful of trips was to New Jersey, Home of the New Jersey Devil but more on that later.
The Grinning man is the name given to mysterious men who appear usually around the times of UFO sightings, link? The grinning man is often said to be brutal, beating people up. His appearance is that of a bald, grinning face on a sparkling green suit, some reports say he wears even stranger garb with a large black waist belt.
Well that fit the description of the man I saw, I was driving at the time. On a somewhat secluded road, brush on the sides. I was listening to the radio at the time, Phil Collins and Phillip Bailey's Easy Lover. However, before the amazing chorus, the radio cut out, replaced with static. Soon afterwards, I drove past a man standing in the brush, I thought he was hitchhiking so I sped past, you know, hitchhikers=bad news. Anyway, I didn't think much of it at first but as I sped by, I noticed a green glistening so I inspected the rear view mirror. I saw the man from behind, he was bald and over 6 feet tall, wearing a sparkling green jacket, the rest was obscured by the brush.
When I arrived in town I was told by some locals I'd just missed a UFO. Many confirmed reports. This was no coincidence and things just get weirder let me tell you that.
More to come.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Grinning Man
Posted by H. R. Zapruder at 4:59 AM
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Holy crap. That must have been one hell of an experience. Did you catch the grin on his face though?ReplyDelete
I'd like to meet this grinning man. I think he's there to dig up some stuff he lost a long time ago. Maybe he can tell me about the bell found in a lump of coal in Mass.ReplyDelete
One more mysterious being to add to the list my paranormal team(don't have one right now but I'm working on it) is going to be hunting for!ReplyDelete
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Charles Barkley Agrees With T-Mac After Curry Wins Unanimous MVP :"NBA is the worst I've ever seen it." (Video)
On Tuesday, Golden State Warriors G Stephen Curry became the first player ever to win the MVP unanimously, not to mention it's his second straight MVP. Former NBA player Tracy McGrady took a shot at how bad the NBA is now because of that.
"For him to be the first player to get this unanimously, I think … it just tells you how watered down our league is"
On Wednesday, Charles Barkley echoed those sentiments when he was a guest on the "Dan Patrick Show".
"The NBA is watered down," Barkley said. "The NBA is the worst I've ever seen it."


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On Monday ahead of the crucial elections to the U.S. presidency, Wall Street managed to show some enthusiasm and rose a little on very low trading volumes.
Just about 5.16 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE on Monday, below this year's average daily volume of 6.5 billion.
Analysts, who have been tacking the market and the political developments closely, said that the market has been directionless for a long time without any real drivers.
On the Nasdaq, the Apple stock rose about 1.4 percent and pulled the index up along with it. It closed at $584.62, though the stock has fallen about 17 percent from the high it hit on September 21.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) advanced 19.28 points, or 0.15 percent, to end at 13,112.44. The S&P 500(INDEXSP:.INX) rose 3.06 points, or 0.22 percent, to 1,417.26. The NASDAQ Composite (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) gained 17.53 points, or 0.59 percent, to close at 2,999.66.
In New York, people still seem to be gripped in the aftermath of the havoc and destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy that swept across the western coast earlier last week.
The CBOE Volatility Index or VIX, Wall Street's favourite barometer of investor anxiety, rose 4.72 percent - a relatively big move compared with the S&P 500 - to end Monday's session at 18.42.
Analysts attributed the slight uptick in stock prices to investors taking positions ahead of the results of the elections, which looks as if it could swing either way.
Vringo, Inc.(NYSEAMEX:VRNG) was the notable gainer and soared 43% as the jury deliberating over the Google trial reportedly asks for instructions on damages."


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As videogame rhetoric continues its intellectual promiscuity, many of the culture's pettiest affects persist inside the husk of objective-seeming argument. There is special and hypocritical nastiness given to war shooters like Call of Duty, which many categorize as a sub-genre of "dudebro" adventurism, stories told about men so masculine their gender needs repeating. I too have indulged in this loose and prejudicial stereotyping, subheading a criticism of Gears of War 2 as "The Broman cometh." I hoped the contrast of lowbrow social stereotype with a callback to early 20th Century melodrama would capture the tonal disparity of that game, serious as a sandbag in one scene, and thoughtlessly savage in another. But these words have become so imbued with negative social coding that, like the empty signifiers of hippy, douche, hipster, and nerd, they mean nothing now, vessels meant only to carry aggression, directed toward a demographic that the writer presumes most of her readers will dislike.
As I have attended midnight launches of Call of Duty games for the last three years, it's become apparent that a huge percentage of the player population are not dudebro's, monsters of class privilege sent off to an expensive college for a four year-education in hazing, binge drinking, and date raping before ascending to careers in marketing, engineering, and investment banking. Most of the men–and it is almost exclusively men–who gather in the middle of the night to buy these games as soon as possible, are young and poor, mostly uneducated, late teens or early twenty year-olds, children of the working poor in the early stages of repeating the lifecycle of their parents, pushed into low-paying jobs without benefits, a status which subconsciously transforms them from a human kid into a socio-political stereotype. There is a demographic who understand that domination through implied and expressed violence is the basis of our social structure, a fact that usually guarantees a fraternity kid can drink their way to a Bachelor's Degree and a job while another kind of kid gets flunked out of school and winds up trying to support himself and maybe a child and girlfriend on 25 hours a week working at Best Buy or Wal-Mart. Violent shooters can be seen not just as cheap adrenaline rushes for the spawn of upper middleclass luxury, but as a fantasy relief for the people whose labor and disenfranchisement makes that separatist privilege possible.
When I wrote about Call of Duty: Black Ops II last year I wanted to include some experience of my night buying the game at midnight in New York, but my editor cut the section, claiming I was investing "arbitrary meaning" in the "vision of socially stunted, aggressive dudes playing violent videogames." It seemed to me like he was transposing "socially stunted" into the place of "exploited and long suffering," warding off the effects of a creative work he didn't like by derogating a social group he felt was most associated with it. In comparison, this deleted section is self-consciously sentimental, romantic in its political affectation, excusatory, turning anecdotal assumptions into broadsweeping social connections. But it's something I think about whenever I hear another thoughtful-seeming game writer turn "bro" into a sarcastic fulcrum of ridicule for anyone who finds meaning in a kind of game they can't. I have no special claim to the full truth of these games nor their players, but here's a vision of one side of it that I've experienced, standing in line with these boys and men that everyone else seems to disdain.
To wit:
"It is the same crowd every year, young men with hard faces, nervously shifting their feet, avoiding eye contact, wearing hoodies over work uniforms. When someone has to ask which line is for which version of the game, it's a hard blast of language, confrontational confidence masking the fear of not knowing already what everyone else seems to. I remember these postures and customs by instinct. I know the humiliation of never having money, and the way being surrounded by expensive things in a store makes one feel like a foreigner. I remember the total loss of hope I had the first time a cop put a pair of handcuffs on me at 23. I like these people. I recognize the mistrust, the anxiousness, the shame, the false swagger. No one here is nice, we fear the worst from one another. And I realize when I walk out of the store with my game that I am always leaving them here, in the middle of the night, each of us returning home to sit alone in the relief of these angry little dreams, a hell we have inherited, where survival is possible only if we continue to follow the orders given by people whose holstered guns guarantee they never have to be wrong about anything."


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The most creative of us feel things deeply and passionately and although that's an amazingly beautiful thing, it can also lead us to dark places that we have to find our way out of without a flashlight. It happens to me from time to time. Unpredictably and inconveniently, without warning... It never gets easier, but you learn to manage through it, to let it pass, to keep walking even though you don't know when (or if) you'll find enough light within yourself to escape. But you have to embrace the darkness, to let it pass through you and believe that there is more than just this. There is life waiting for you on the other side. Life and beauty and art and love. ~KLiedle/@cococaffeine
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I'm pleased to announce that my short story, "A Small Act Of Rebellion" has been published in The Fiction Issue of Chicago Literati Magazine. Honored to be a part of this quality publication! Please enjoy the issue via the link below.
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Well, it's been a while...again. Time to play catch up (this is how laundry works at my house too...)
Needless to say, we have been busy. Too busy to even tell you about all our busy activities. I will do my best to post some pictures of our growing up (way too fast) Rylee & fill you in on all of the bussiness that has consumed us this fall!
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If New South Wales is the Alpha Dog of Australia, then South Australia is the Gamma Dog. South Australia is the third state to be born out of New South Wales the same year Arkansas became a state - that was 1836. South Australia was around to remember when New Zealand was still an adjunct area of New South Wales.
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Many people get irritated by screaming children on planes, but one man took it to a whole new level – by slapping a crying toddler.
Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, allegedly demanded that the mother of the crying toddler 'shut that n****r baby up' before slapping the infant in the face.
Now Hundley has been charged with simple assault after the incident with Jessica Bennett, 33, and her 19-month-old son Jonah. He has also lost his job with an aerospace company as a result.
Jessica, who was travelling on the Delta flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta in the U.S for a family funeral, told authorities that her son 'started to cry due to the altitude change' as the plane prepared for landing. The mum she was unable to stop the infant crying.
A report compiled by FBI Agent Daron Cheney alleges that Hundley turned to the mother and used the racial slur in telling her to shut up the child. It is reported that Hundley then 'turned around and slapped' the toddler in the face 'with an open hand, which caused the juvenile victim to scream even louder'.
According to the mother, the slap 'caused a scratch below [the child's] right eye.'
Hundley was charged with simple assault in federal court in Atlanta this week. If convicted the man faces a maximum of one year in prison.
Hundley, who was the president of an aircraft parts manufacturer based in Idaho, denied slapping the child or using racial language.
He claims that he did 'ask the mother to quiet the child'. He said he was travelling to Atlanta to visit a hospitalised relative, described his emotional state as 'distraught' and that he had one alcoholic drink on the aircraft.


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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Traditions of the Season: St. Nikolaus Day by Lisa
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Lovely page Lisa - and that's a very decent boot-full of gifts - someone must have been VERY good all year!ReplyDelete
fabulous layout and great to see how you observe that tradition. For us St Nicholas Day is about giving anonymous monetary gifts to the poor. And children are given gifts of oranges and nuts in a stocking.ReplyDelete
Yes, someone was very good this year and deserved to be remembered by St Nick! I think he might have forgotten me though this year :-( Oh well! Isn't it great to learn all about how different cultures/families/etc celebrate different things at this time of year. It's all so interesting!ReplyDelete
Passing thru, Lisa. Love the boot...to boot ;) lol. Have a great day! and thanks for sharing your goodness as always. xoxo HeidiReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 2:20 PM
That older paper still works brilliantly! Love all the different traditions people have. Sorry you got forgotten - but at least you didn't get coal! Maybe Father Christmas will make it up to you ;)ReplyDelete
I love this! I love how you smashed the two of your best together to make such a unique holiday celebration. I also LOVED St Nick when I was growing up (Dad was army and stationed in Germany for 8 years). I would get so excited, but since stockings are my favorite thing why wouldnt I love shoes full of surprises?ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing! I have some of that Cosmo Cricket (the one with the vines) and can't bring myself to cut into my last sheet of it - I really liked that line :). Love your sparkly title.ReplyDelete


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Vanya on 42nd Street; Drama, USA, 1994; D: Louis Malle, S: Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Brooke Smith, George Gaynes
New York. A couple of actors enters a theater in order to rehears Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya". The costumes are weak, the stage is falling apart, but they start the play: Sonya lives with her uncle Vanya (47) who regards his life to be pointless and considers suicide. Vanjya loves Yelena (27), the wife of the old professor Serybryakov, but knows his feelings won't be met. Sonya is in love with Dr. Astrov, but he doesn't love her. When Serybrykov decides to sell their home, Vanya fiercely opposes the move and fires two shots from a gun. Everyone makes up and leave, Sonya comforts Vanya that God will reward his suffering. The rehearsal of the play ends.Louis Malle's drama, his last film, has an unusual 'film-within-a-film concept': in the opening, all actors from New York enter a theater and start performing Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya", which is why their whole rehearsal (!) becomes this whole film. An interesting and daring move, but of a lax, inert execution. One of the surprises is that the not very popular actor Wallace Shawn (who is often reduced to small, but excellent supporting roles, like in "Manhattan" and "Heaven Help Us") finally got a leading role and portrayed it masterfully serious: his character of uncle Vanya, i.e. the actor to plays him in the theater, is full of nihilism. It's a play full of anxiety and depressive dialogues ("The truth, even if bitter, is better than uncertainty"). But the whole film is lifeless and stiff, the characters passive (Vanya only does something when he shoots in the air) and thus nothing much can be learned to offer a practical solution to such a negative view on life, whereas the mood is pretentious.


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Zionism was conceived and hatched in
The Double Axes since the time of Minos are preserved in the halls of government as the various forms of that or the Double Eagles. In these various forms (the "fasces lictoriae" [bundles of the lictors] of ancient Rome, or the dual Keys of the Vatican, for instance) in many halls of government, as in the Duma of current modern Russia or the ancient Roman Empire, are preserved the symbol of the Lodge of Ancient Egypt, now for millenia spread throughout the world in all of the major Capitals. That lodge is the true Freemasonry and the true base of the Illuminati and the owner of the 300 trillion dollar ($300,000,000,000,000) secret money fund that currently manipulates all of the wars and governments and economies and nations on earth. The weak imitation of that which the Haburah of the Jews in Baylonia, a mere 2,500 years ago (circa 500+ B.C.) came up with, is only the base for the Jews' form of Apostasy from God which is Zionism in its political form and Talmudic Judaism in its religious form.
The Illuminati are the ones in control of
The evil that European elites have caused, centers on
The key player in this is the Apostate Vatican and the current Anti-Pope[s] Benediktos [and his puppet Frank "Marrano" Berg] along with all of the antipopes since the 1958 Stolen Conclave and ongoing. That is the Whore that will sell out the world to the New World Order and their representative, the Jew Zionist ad-Dajjal Masih (False Messiah, the Antichrist), in
False Prophet - The Pope's Attitude towards Judaism
[The first great error of this article below is assuming that Rome fell, theologically, a long time ago. It did not. It did not fall until the 1958 Conclave and Vatican II. But the parasites of error, Freemasons, Communists, Ultramontanists, Aristotelian sophists, and many others were hard at work to bring it about.]
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In this presentation, Professor Bowersock will speak on the emergence and interrelated fates of Rome, Constantinople and Moscow. Rome became the capital of a great Mediterranean empire, which tried through myth and mystique to reconcile its legendary Trojan origins with its presence in Italy. As Roman power grew, the city's name became synonymous with the center of imperial government and, as Christianity grew, of ecclesiastical authority too. But when Constantine transferred the imperial capital to Byzantium and re-named the city after himself, Constantinople became a new or second Rome. For many centuries, this eastern Rome was both the capital of the Byzantine empire and the center of orthodox Christianity. It succumbed to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and the Russians, who had accepted Christianity from the Byzantine Greeks, could then claim that Moscow had become the Third Rome. Professor Bowersock will discuss the implications of the triadic concept, and the lessons it has to teach us about our past and our present.
Do not be fooled by Putin, a candidate for the Antichrist, or the Apostates in the "Orthodox Church" ecclesiastical positions which are totally allied with their Diabolic Zio-Judeo-Freemasonic fellow demons in the first Rome, the Vatican: The Justice of God: Communista Internationale Sixth: The synagogue of Satan will not change
Two Romes have fallen, but the third stands, and a fourth there will not be.
Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome
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The Three Babylons
Daniel, the only one who could interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream, was a nobleman of Israel, deported to Babylon in 605 B.C. in his early teens. His book describes current and future conflicts, but God's control over all events is clearly demonstrated.
The tree stump represents Israel which is restrained with an iron ring until the time of Jesus's return.
The New York Times, by Jane Perlez - KUWAIT CITY, April 7 2003 — American forces took control of a major presidential palace on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad early this morning in the strongest coalition thrust yet into the city. Explosions thundered and thick smoke covered portions of Baghdad as the Americans entered the city center in the early hours.
As many as 70 tanks and 60 Bradley fighting vehicles rolled down the wide streets as A-10 Thunderbolt planes, nicknamed the Warthog, and pilotless drones flew over Baghdad unchallenged.
There were reports of heavy machine fire and mortars during fighting around the presidential compound. American commanders on the ground said that three army battalions would stay in the city center, and not leave as happened in an initial lighter raid on Saturday.
Two American soldiers and two journalists — one Spanish and the other German — were killed and 15 people were wounded today in an Iraqi attack on a tactical operations center established by the Third Infantry Division, Second Brigade on the outskirts of Baghdad.
"Some sort of a rocket hit near the Second Brigade's tactical operation center south of the city," Major Michael Birmingham, chief public affairs officer for the Third Infantry, told Reuters.
Elsewhere, British commanders told reporters traveling with them in Basra that they had found the body of Ali Hassan al-Majid a cousin of Saddam Hussein known as "Chemical Ali." Mr. Majid, who the United States says ordered a poison gas attack which killed thousands of Kurds in 1988, is commander of Iraq's southern front and his death would be interpreted by the people of Basra as a sign that the regime was close to collapse.
The British defense secretary, Geoff Hoon, said in London that the ministry had strong indications that Mr. Majid was dead.
At the daily briefing at Central Command in Doha, Qatar, Brig. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, said that the Iraqis had blown up one of Baghdad's major bridges. He also said that there were pockets of resistance in the Baghdad area.
"What we don't see is an overarching structure that can order action from north to south and east to west, throughout the country. Only the coalition has that capability right now," General Brooks said. `And as each day passes, there's less and less that the regime can do to order action by their forces.`
In an effort to discourage too much confidence too soon among the British public, Mr. Hoon described the progress of the war as a mixed picture outside the cities of Baghdad and Basra. The results so far, he said, were not as good in some areas as the coalition forces had hoped.
This was an apparent reference to instability in towns in the south that the Americans passed by on the way to Baghdad. Mr. Hoon said that military officials estimated the operating ability of the elite Republican Guard at 50 percent.
In Baghdad, however, American officers appeared pleased with the gains today. Aside from the major palace on the river bank, American soldiers had captured another palace in the city center belonging to Saddam Hussein, they said.
"There are two palaces, we own both of them," Lt. Col. Peter Bayer, operations officer for the Third Infantry Division, told reporters traveling with the troops.
At one of the palaces, half a dozen Syrian soldiers were found, one of them hiding in a refrigerator, military officials said. The Republican Guards responsible for the security of the palace had fled.
The Americans were also reported to have toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein astride a horse.
A spokesman at Central Command headquarters described the morning's efforts in Baghdad as an armored raid through the city bringing down resistance and attacking leadership capabilities.
At the Pentagon, a spokesman cautioned that today's raids should not be interpreted as the battle for Baghdad but rather as a message that the Americans could come and go as they choose.
In Qatar, General Brooks said: `The commanders on the ground will make the decisions on what parts of Baghdad they wish to retain control of."
he defiant Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahaf, denied that Baghdad's defenders had lost ground.
But this morning, he was forced to appear on the streets, talking to reporters in the open air instead of the usual briefing room. The city was strong, fortified and safe, he said, a short time after the American warplanes had flown overhead and clouds of smoke obliterated the skyline.
American officers had said earlier that their forces surrounded the Information Ministry and the Rashid Hotel, but it was not clear later in the day whether those forces had stayed or had entered the facilities.
As an illustration of how the Iraqi government had lost its grip, Gen. Brooks said workers at the airport outside Baghdad had helped American soldiers turn on the electricity, and showed them around the complex.
In Basra, the second city of Iraq, British forces strengthened their control by pushing in to the narrow alleys of the old part of town. Iraqi fighters were believed to be holding out in the warren of streets where the thoroughfares are too narrow for the coalitions armored vehicles.
It appeared that British soldiers could have to flush out the Iraqis in the old city by fighting on foot. But in a show of control of the population of just over 1 million, about 400 British and American troops, guarded by tanks and helicopter gunships, walked unopposed almost to the city center this morning. The soldiers had taken off their helmets and chemical warfare gear.
Residents, including women and children who have been more reluctant to emerge, came out and smiled at the passing troops. Some of the residents asked for water.
Earlier, British troops easily took an elaborate presidential palace in Basra belonging to Mr. Hussein. British soldiers met no resistance there, and inside found an immaculate residence decorated with polished marble, mosaic tiles and fretted woodwork.
In the northern city of Mosul, coalition airstrikes continued their bombardment on military targets, particularly ammunition dumps.
April 4, 2003 - Salina, Kansas
Before I get into our 4-hour fellowship with Michael, a professor in philosophy at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas, I'd like to answer a letter from one of our brothers, which we met along the way-I think this will be helpful and it will address a number of his concerns, as well as yours.
Actually, the correspondence was addressed to Dene, but, since Dene was not in that meeting, and I was, I think that my answers will be much more realistic than Dene's, in that Dene simply was not there in Winston-Salem for the "give and take" of the conversation and atmosphere - so here goes:
Dear Jay -
I would like to answer your letter as an "open letter" to our subscribers because it will accomplish several things:
(1) Give me an opportunity to share with you the answers to your questions-yet maintain a modicum of privacy, and . . .
(2) Give me an opportunity to express how I feel to everyone out there - both our subscribers, and many individuals who will be "hitting" on our site throughout the world.
Dear Dene,
I would like to try to summarize my impressions on this eve of war. I do so with CNN faintly flooding the background with its many words.
On Friday evening I met with Steve, and Doug and a number of other saints in Clemmons, NC.
In summary, I would describe their focus as a call to, "come out of Babylon". Babylon, the, "apostate church", as reflected in the evangelical constituency of George Bush. (They made a very good case.)
As I understood them, the apostate church is riding the back of the beast which is the "American New World Order System".
In our sharing, of course, we present what we call: THE TALE OF TWO CITIES. Steve presents the "Big Picture" of God's eternal purpose and plan - i.e., that God's original intent and purpose is to build up His City, the Holy and New Jerusalem - wherein He has effectively done, and is doing so, by working with Israel from Abraham until the time of Christ (approximately 2,000 years); and then, seemingly, He has placed Israel aside for the past 2,000 years to work on the Church (from the time of Christ until today). Both Israel and the Church constitute the New Jerusalem, prepared as a Bride descending out of heaven prepared for the Lamb.
There are a multitude of Scriptures, which at each of our gatherings, we will read in order to substantiate this thesis.
Also, the antithesis of the New/Holy Jerusalem (i.e., that which is being built by God and is called the "Bride" in the Revelation) is Satan's counterfeit City: Babylon the Great. This City, as well as its administration and development, actually commences from the fall of humankind (wherein man's attempt at deification ("you shall be as God, knowing good and evil"), by partaking of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, commenced Satan's strategy to build the Great City, Babylon.
However, in actuality, after the flood, the first "expression" of such a Great City was the founding of "civilization" on the Plains of Shinar, and the building of the Tower of Babel under Nimrod. From here, although there as a "confounding" of languages and a disbursement of false unity under Nimrod by divine intervention, the concept of "Babylon the Great" continued through civilization's ever-increasing march through history until we reach the Kingdom of Babylon under King Nebuchadnezzar.
The CONCEPT of Babylon the Great, the counterfeit city, the antithesis of the New and Holy Jerusalem, is the ever-expanding march of the Biblical, and ultimately, the DOMINANT civilization of the world. This concept was outlined in King Nebuchadnezzar's dream, which was interpreted by Daniel the prophet. The dream was that of an IMAGE of a man wherein different metals and parts of the body of the image are singled out as EXPANSIONS of that ever-increasing civilization. [Source http://www.endtimesnetwork.com ]
Israel is without a husband. God divorced her and she is a widow but defiantly calls herself a queen.
The vengeance of the Lord is of long standing. In the Old Testament's Book of Jeremiah 52:10-11, we find that the King of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. Next followed the destruction of the First Temple of the Lord:
[This below is the second great error here - "the Bride of Christ is removed" - in this article: the Secret Rapture and Chiliast Millenium and Jews ruling from Jerusalem in fulfillment of pretended Old Testament promises. This is Judeo-Freemasonic Christian Zionist absolute heresy and apostasy. The Antichrist will occur and the final judgment of all creatures at the return of Christ, but nobody is vanishing into thin air and NOTHING replaces the final covenant of God which is the Sacrifice and Gospel of Christ 2,000 years ago.Also see: The Coming of the Antichrist: The Great Purification Hoax = Catholic Charismatic version of the Secret Rapture inverted ]
The final battle will involve the great city of Jerusalem, also called Babylon, when the times of the Gentiles are concluded and the Bride of Christ is removed. The Antichrist makes his appearance in Jerusalem and claims the world's highest position and calls himself a god, a god above all gods, who is to be worshipped by all human beings of the world.
Here is why God considers Jerusalem Babylon..
The ten horns depicting 10 kings will receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These haveone mind.. The ten kings hate the whore, in other words they hate Israel even though they run together and they will make her desolate and naked, and burn her with fire. (see Revelation 18:12..16)


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What I needed at this time was some Musical Methadone {that song that unlocks the key to getting another song out of your head} and it actually hit me like a bolt of lightning last night, "I'm layin' awake at night .. I can't get you out of my mind .. All I can hear is my heart beat .. And a voice in the dark of some kind .. Where are you now .. The fears are comin' back to me once again .. Oh, I wish you were here .. Takin' good care of me .. I want you .. I feel as though I'm out in the cold" and it was eradicated like Small pox. Ah remind me to send a thank you letter to Rob Halford and the rest of the Judas Priest boys for that one. I of course send this tidbit to everyone as a mental note part 2, and back comes a message from Billy "Or you could use Breaking the Law?", which brought up a strange conundrum, because unlike "Out in the Cold", "Breaking the Law" is hokey, and commercial, and now … very much stuck in my head.
"There I was completely wasting, out of work and down .. all inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town .. feel as though nobody cares if I live or die .. so I might as well begin to put some action in my life .. Breaking the law, breaking the law .. Breaking the law, breaking the law" …. arg … so now the overnight "Scooby gang of sad" {this includes several work mates, as well as Billy, Terri, Lori in absentia in text messaging … Lori being useless at this as it appears the only songs she has ever heard were from Duran Duran, and thus useless} is mulling over Musical Methadone. My Capo came over furious as she had heard "Breaking the Law" for the 17th time as I walked by, and barked out at me "How about some f*cking Mr. Crowley, while you are hopelessly lost in the gay 80's asshole?" and yanno what? … "Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head .. Mr. Crowley, did you talk with the dead ..Your life style to me seemed so tragic .. With the thrill of it all .. You fooled all the people with magic .. You waited on Satan's call" … ah ha! … we seem to have found a certain G-Gnome to this whole madness!
The chain of events from there went from that to "High Enough" by Damn Yankees … "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror Show … "Here to Stay" by Korn …"Schism" by Tool … "November Rain" by Guns & Roses … that stupid "Hazel Eyes" song from that chic that won American Idol … "Complicated" Avril Lavigne … to OMFW … "We're leaving together .. But still it's farewell .. And maybe we'll come back .. To earth, who can tell .. I guess there is no one to blame .. We're leaving ground (leaving ground) .. Will things ever be the same again .. It's the final countdown .. The final countdown," my issues get so much more complex with every passing day. I am obviously now a sick and pathetic music junkie.
It wasn't actually the Musical Methadone that pulled me out of this one, it was the Mental Masturbation, that came from one of those gigantic boxes of rags that came into the shop. You all must know what those are, they are ripped up T-Shirts and crap like that, factories use to clean up messes, and then simply throw them away. One of my co-workers popped open the new box and pulled out a rag to start wiping down an old asphalt leak, and then he held the shirt open for all of us to see. The inscription on it says "It takes 14 inches of White Helmet to get inside my mouth, otherwise I am dark meat only, baby!", and after the initial shock of that, a bunch of us ran over and started pulling all of the rags out of the box. I don't have a clue where this stuff came from, but it wasn't Wal-Mart. Another shirt said "I am what I eat! A big fat pussy! F*ck You!" {with a cat flipping the bird} on it, and another classic "I'm with stupid, but he has a big cock" {with a picture of Foghorn Leghorn flipping the bird}, and throughout the whole box, it was T-Shirts like this.
My Capo, came along {the angry lesbian, with the temper control issues} to start yelling at us, because the lines went down during our "Naughty Nightie Party" {and yes there were quite a few of those in there too}, and then she reaches into the box to pull out a HUGE pair of crotch less panties made for a baby elephant, and as she held them in front of her the things almost touched the floor, as she said, "Now that is just F*CKING WRONG", and a rather nice shade of red flowed across her face, but it was her idea to strategically place all of these things around the plant, so that our HR director {flaming feminist with absolutely NO sense of humor whatsoever} could do nothing but trip over them all morning after we were all at home in bed.
The events of last night lead me to believe four things …
Spending time with my friends in a Cell Phone so they can get me hooked on singing bad music
.. 64.95 a month
Losing my mind over said bad music and in the process pissing off many of my co-workers
… 12.45 an hour
Having our own sadistic yet private "Naughty Nightie Party" at work to laugh away the time
… 32.49 a box
Watching the militant ex-marine, ball busting, lesbian at work blush over Dumbo's crotch less panties … priceless
For everything else there's blogs {and thanks to some of us, I am sure you haven't yet heard it all} ;8o)


text: Denver radio legend Jay Mack, who attracted listeners with a cast of invented comedic characters, died Saturday March 2 in Denver. He was 64 and had been in failing health.He worked at KIMN-AM in its heyday in the 1960s, luring listeners with such make-believe characters as Niles Lischness, Farley McCloot and Betty Jo Bioloski. He left the market for several years, but returned in the 1990s where he spun "oldies" at KOOL-FM until retiring in January. Michigan native had no immediate survivors.


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Thanks everyone on WOYWW and others for being so patient whilst I've been AWOL....!!! I've had quite a few problems on dialysis and not much energy to catch up or the inclination to be honest. I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but boy, this has totally knocked me for six.
So what cards have I made? Well I've done a few and will post them for you all to see. I can't show you my Workdesk, as it's my bed and I've put it all away before realising I'd not taken any photos. So for now, I will show you some of the cards I've made.
I'm really pleased to let you all know that I've now raised over £100 for charity in the last few months with my cardmaking. I donate 100% to the charity and this time I'm sending it to the South West Thames Institute for Renal Research and St Helier and Surrey Kidney Patients Association (SHAK).
It's too late for me I think, but it might save others going through dialysis after having chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Even if it helps just a couple of people it will be worth it. To save someone else going through this is what the researchers are working hard for.
If you go past a collection box for Kidney Research, please donate generously! It all helps as they say!


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Howto time function execution with PythonSubmitted by dimaj on Mon, 05/05/2014 - 12:09
I recently had a requirement to test performance of a function call in a python script I have written. After searching the web, I finally stumbled upon a python module called timeit. After searching how to use it, I stumbled upon this blog post that explains how to wrap a function call and execute that function with timeit several times to get average execution time.
So, here's the code that I've taken from above mentioned blog post.


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Tube Memorials & London Remembers Re-launch
Last week I was very kindly invited to a party for the re-launch of the London Remembers website. Quite simply it aims to capture, online, all of London's memorials. The new site has been developed by the guys behind Londonist's site & its editor Matt Brown gave an introduction to the site & how he met Richenda, the lady that runs the project.
I'm a bit of a fan of blue plaques and memorials, so was pleased to see the site was easy to navigate and really liked the "On this day" section and "Puzzle Corner" - both a good inspiration for blog posts & pub quizzes.
It was good to see the memorial for the people who died at Bethnal Green Tube station in the worst civilian disaster of the second world war & the commuters who lost their lives in the King's Cross Tube fire in 1987 and a blue plaque for Frank Pick, London Underground's MD in 1928, who was responsible for commissioning the Tube's classic Johnston font and the man behind much of design we admire so much today - including the Tube Posters where his eye for up & coming artists meant that people like Abram Games, Man Ray, John Nash, Paul Nash & Edward McKnight Kauffer produced some outstanding Tube artworks.
However, it is lacking some other major London Underground Memorials & as Richenda insists on taking all the photographs herself, when I was chatting to her, I nerdily pointed out that she needs to add the following:
The London Bombings Monument in Hyde Park for the 52 people who lost their lives on July 7th 2005
Monument in Hyde Park to the Victims of the London Bombings on July 7 by The Londoneer
Harry Beck - London Underground Tube Map designer who lived in Finchley & died on 18 September 1974 - he also has a plaque at Finchley Central Tube station
There are a number of memorials for Alfred Hitchcock on London Remembers but the amazing mosiacs at Leytonstone Tube Station are missing. Hitchcock, was born in Leytonstone in the East End of London in 1899 and in 2001 a series of 17 mosaics illustrating his life and scenes from films were installed at the Tube Station there.
I'm sure there are a lot of others which could be subject of another whole post and that's not including London railway memorials too.
Richenda has such great reasons as to why the memorials may be missing including "We have the memorial but have not yet published it on the website (known technically as a "back-log" and it's too darn big). We have not yet searched that area. This applies to a lot of London, but we are working on it."
I wish her every success with the website and if I or she are missing any other Tube related memorials please let us know in the comments.
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"Many of the detained men exude menace. But others claim they are innocent. And Kurdish officials say they have a limited capacity to disentangle the groups."apparently menace-exuders are not innocent.
* clemons:
"In my view, Hussein has committed outrageous crimes for which he should be held to account. However, I can just as well think of many others who have evaded responsibility on our side of the equation for errors in judgment combined with duplicity that have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis.
But Hussein was a monster -- no doubt. But he was at times "our monster." He was also a "controllable monster," and a classic kind of thug whom we could have dealt with in ways far smarter and less crippling to this nation and its military.
But we need to be clear-eyed about the possibility that Saddam Hussein's execution at the instruction of Iraq's highest courts and judges -- which many Iraqis see as puppets under American control -- may actually have an enormous negative impact on the survivability of the current government and could ignite a much higher octane of nasty civil war inside Iraq.
The track has been laid. I don't see any way that Hussein can escape execution -- but everyone involved needs to realize that Hussein is no longer just a criminal, thuggish, murderous tyrant in the eyes of most Iraqi citizens.
To many, he has become a defiant leader fighting American oppression and someone who portrays himself as a proud and ferocious Sunni force. Many Sunnis want him back -- and we need to prepare for something big, very big, when he dies."
* amy:
"At 2,974, US Death Toll in Iraq Exceeds 9/11in other news, the US death toll in Iraq now exceeds the number of calories in 42 eggs.
The US death toll in Iraq has now exceeded the known number of deaths in the September 11th attacks. According to the Associated Press, the US toll has reached 2,974 ---- one more than the official count of those who died in the World Trade Center, Washington and Pennsylvania. "
* amy:
"My Name is Rachel Corrie" Cancelled at Canadian Theatre
A play featuring the writings of the late American peace activist Rachel Corrie has been silenced --- for the second time. The Canadian theatre company CanStage has announced its canceling plans to present the play "My Name is Rachel Corrie" in Toronto. Corrie was twenty-three years old when she was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in March 2003. Earlier this year, the New York Theatre Workshop drew international headlines when it backed out of an agreement to stage the play. The Theatre Workshop cited complaints about the play's criticism of Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories. It appears similar concerns have led to the CanStage decision. In an interview with Variety magazine, CanStage boardmember Jack Rose admitted he had neither read nor seen the play but said: "My view was it would provoke a negative reaction in the Jewish community."
* this i didnt know:
"the Director of CIA, cannot after his term of DCIA subsequently run for Vice President or President, which is what happened with George Herbert Walker Bush, that rule was bent for him. He went on from being the DCIA to running for Vice President. That's a no-no."
* laura:
"With holiday travel, it's taken a while to give this the attention it deserves. But the NYT report excerpted below on Iranians detained by the US military in Iraq raises as many questions as it answers. For instance, one wonders, where is (outgoing) US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad in all of this? He has reportedly supported US-Iranian-Iraqi talks on Iraq under the auspices of the Iraqi government. Such tentative talk of talks was reportedly scuttled by Cheney's office. Now those talks appear to have been happening - between Iraq and Iran at least -- and the US has reportedly arrested some of the Iranians invited by the Iraqi government to participate in them. Was Khalilzad in the background, an observer, etc. in these Iraq-Iran discussions before they were interrupted? Who precisely in the US demanded that the military arrest some of the Iranians involved, and for what reasons? Who are the Iranians arrested? And why has the Iranian reaction seemed at least from afar somewhat muted? And what's Hakim's role in all of this? What's his role as a seemingly close associate of both Washington and Tehran? What does it mean that some of the Iranians were arrested in his compound?"
* jorge hirsch:
"If Bush had any intention of reaching a negotiated agreement with Iran, he had plenty of opportunities to pursue such options, as recently detailed by Flynt Leverett ( complete article here [.pdf]). In the absence of any concession by the U.S., Iran will not submit to U.S. demands, and weak sanctions resolutions do not exert any real pressure on Iran. This has been clear to many observers, including this author, for many months. The only rational explanation to understand the U.S. push to pass resolutions against Iran, no matter how weak, is that its purpose is to lay the ground for planned military action.
If the intention is to attack Iran, it was important for Bush to have this UNSC resolution (and the preceding one of July 31), which makes a demand that Iran will not meet, approved unanimously to provide a fig-leaf argument that "the world" demands action, as UNSC 1441 did in the case of Iraq."


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Looking for something to wow your guests with? This yummy fruit tart should do. Perfect if you have both the time and the patience. It's from Martha Stewart {or course}. Every time I try to recreate one of her recipes it never quite looks like "her" photo!!
Have a Happy and Safe 4th of July!! It's one of my favorite holidays.
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Kevin Garnett hurts legPosted by Inside Hoops
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Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald reports:
The Celtics lost a basketball game last night, and if that's all they lost in the long run, they will be ecstatic.
The 104-92 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Pistons was very much a secondary concern to the health of Kevin Garnett, who left the game in the first quarter with a lower right leg injury.
X-rays taken at the Palace revealed no fracture, but an MRI and other tests will be coming when the Celts return to home.
Garnett looked as if he suffered the injury as he planted to go up for a dunk with 2:38 left in the first quarter. The occurrence was reminiscent of the injury he suffered in February 2009 that essentially ended that season for the forward.
"I know it's a muscle, not a knee, which is good," coach Doc Rivers said.


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Senior HR Consultant
- Recruiter
- Search HR
- Location
BirminghamWest Midlands
- Salary
- £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + benefits
- Posted
- 03 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 22 Aug 2017
- Sector
- Recruitment & HR Services
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- Full Time
Senior HR Consultant - Birmingham - Education Sector - £40K - £45K
Our client is a growing consultancy firm who have a strong presence delivering outsourced HR solutions to Schools and Academies across the UK. Due to expansion they are now looking to appoint a Senior HR Consultant from the Birmingham area to help service clients and develop the business in the West Midlands.
To be successful in the role of Senior HR Consultant you will be an experienced HR professional (ideally CIPD qualified) who has extensive experience of working specifically with schools and academies and as such has a working knowledge of the burgundy book (and to a lesser extent the silver book) T&Cs as well as demonstrable teaching union experience. You'll be supporting on a whole range of issues from ER resolution through to TUPE, change, consultation and restructures.
You'll be working with senior managers at Head teacher level and thus will need to have excellent communication skills both verbally and written. You will need to have an understanding of the education landscape in the West Midlands as part of your role will be to develop the business as it grows, ensuring you target the right schools and education establishment to grow moving forward.
As this is a brand new role it will be a fantastic opportunity for someone to really make it their own and grow as the opportunity grows. Ideally you have come from either a very similar organisation, advising schools on HR, or have come from a local authority role where you have been part of a HR team advising schools.
For more information about this fantastic opportunity, please contact Mark Dayman from Search HR on 0116 247 3308 or email email@example.com
Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.


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LAST WEEK Pete Knowles, the outgoing Sanford city manager, in a question- and-answer feature, called the Seminole County Fire and Rescue Department a ''rural'' firefighting service.
I must respond.
When the department was organized in 1974 it was small, with limited manpower and resources.
Today the department has some of the best equipment, stations and personnel available. It provides whatever level of service needed, be it rural or urban. The county department has the equipment, manpower and training to fight any type of fire.


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I can't find the driver for Picoscope2000 in matlab When I connect PicoScope 2000seriesvia matlab with usb.
I downloaded the PS2000_DRIVER and in the directory PS2000, and when I execute the function : Ps2000Config.m, the error indicates :
??? No appropriate method or public field AWG_BUFFER_4KS for class PicoConstants.
Error in ==> PS2000Config at 72
x = [0:(2 * pi)/ (PicoConstants.AWG_BUFFER_4KS - 1):2 * pi];
Could you help me,


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Then we have a rule-breaker by the name of Solange who opted for a wide leg satin pants paired with some asymmetrical long sleeve top that well, we can say she safely pulled off pretty well. So who's your pick? Who was on fire at the red carpet?
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Early morning. The ocean looks like a frozen lake, the air so cold that vapor rises from the sea: sea smoke. I am sitting in my window seat, propped on pillows. I've been sitting here for days, now, ordered to rest by Dr. K. Rest is not my usual way of being in the world. I'm accustomed to filling the rectangular spaces in my calendar with times and necessary places to be, yoga class, coffee with friends, a movie with Dick, my husband, a hair appointment, another for a bone density test, and those times I don't mark with ink, I mark invisibly in my mind, write from nine to one, lunch, walk the dogs for an hour, maybe longer, water and fertilize orchids, check the calendar for the weekend, a movie at the library, family coming.
Yet, as I sit in my window seat, all of that has peeled away. I've been sick for more than a month, and now blood work has confirmed a clinical diagnosis: Mycoplasma, Atypical pneumonia, Walking pneumonia. That is what has brought me here and given me a gift of time unbounded by the face of clock, analog or digital, marking seconds, minutes, hours, then discarding them like balled up tissues. Here in my window seat, time drifts, past into present, present to past. I've read Great House by Nicole Krauss, Nemesis by Philip Roth, finished the second half of A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, a book I'd started more than a year ago. I've day dreamed of family and of friends. I've read the daily paper from end to end, all of Harper's.
This morning, I watched as the sea smoke began to dissipate, drawn skyward by the sun, a white hot orb beating down, turning the snow on the ledge outside my window to crystal. Now, clouds hover at the horizon as higher clouds stretch in the wind. Under them the tide, nearly silent this morning, moves toward land. I wonder at the ocean's quiet, wonder at the gulls I don't sea. Perhaps, they're waiting for slack tide, And so a routine has evolved. Mornings, I am in my window seat, reading, writing, dozing or simply closing my eyes and banishing thought—in the words of Dr. K. "like savasana. That's what the body needs to heal." Along, I suppose, with the second round of an anti-biotic he prescribed.
The other day, my friends, Susan and Victoria, arrived bearing a huge pot of chicken soup, that healing elixir, that Gene, Susan's husband had made. There was also an assortment of veggie chips for munching. I love munching. In the living room, we spoke briefly, but long enough for me to explain my routine, after savasana, that pose of total relaxation, making it one of the most challenging of the asanas, or poses, lunch, then upstairs for a nap. "Ah," Victoria said, "the discipline of rest."
Or, I thought, later, of letting go.