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Michelle Peckham's favourite reads of 2014
Sarah Hilary - Someone Else's Skin
An amazing first book, which has a great plot, interesting character development and unexpected plot twists that give one pause for thought. If I had to pick my first choice book of the year, this would probably be it.
Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train (pub. 15/1/15)
Another great first book in which the story develops from something that the main character sees while on a commuter train in London, and how it transforms her life.
M J McGrath - The Bone Seeker
The third book from this author, with the unusual setting of the Arctic, and great descriptions of the local culture and prejudices that play a part in the investigation into the death of a local girl by the local policeman and Edie Kiglatuk, half Inuit and half Qulunaat.
Åsa Larsson - The Second Deadly Sin tr. Laurie Thompson
One of my favourite authors, this is the fifth book, featuring Rebecka Martinsson, a determined female investigator, and it tells an intriguing story in which self-important men get their just deserts.
Gordon Ferris - Pilgrim Soul
I've enjoyed all four of the books in this series (this is the third), with the resourceful main character of Douglas Brodie, a journalist, a strong female sidekick (Samantha), and interesting insights into the culture and politics of post-war Glasgow.


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Claims to
~ whiten
~ brighten
~ 'illuminate'
~ moisturize
~ make skin 'translucent' (what does that even mean?)
Ingredients: water, butylene glcol, glycerin, propylene glycol, aloe barbadensis leaf juice, phenoxyethanol, citrus grandis (grapefruit) fruit extract, sodium hyaluronate, cucumis sativus (cucumber) fruit extract, morus alba lead extract, ananas satmus (pineapple) fruit extract, laminaria digitata extract, soluble collagen, lecithin, chlorphenesin aurantifolia (lime) fruit extract, dimethysilanol, hyaluronate, styrene/acrylates copolymer, panax ginseng root extract, pyrus malus (apple) fruit extract, citric acid, prunus yedoensis leaf extract, polysorbate 20, carbomer, iodopropynyl butylcarbamate, xantham gum, frangrance, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide
I couldn't find the ingredients online, so I typed them up MYSELF! I'm such a dedicated blogger. Appreciate me.
Scent: The scent is kind of weird- it's like a perfume/cologne that I recognize but can't put a finger on what it is exactly. It kind of reminds me of some men's cologne I've smelled before... regardless, I like it! It's just not quite what I'd expect from a sheet mask, and fairly strong. If you're sensitive to smells you might want to stay away from this one :(
Packaging: Probably my least favorite of the MBD masks I've tried, just because it's hard to photograph! >:( The shiny silver accents on the light pink background can be hard to see/make it hard to read the fine print on the back, which was annoying when typing out the ingredients. I do like the pink color, but it's not a particularly cute packaging soo, yea. Not that it really matters though, haha.
Fit: Same ooollddd, same old. Just copying + pasting what I wrote in my last review. 'They are too wide and too long to fit my face, the area between the mouth and nose is about double the size it needs to be, and the nose area is designed for a much shallower nose bridge than mine. However, due to the mask being quite thin, you can make small tears to adjust it easily. This at least helps the poor fit! See here for more info.'
Results: I'm very happy with how effective this mask was. It definitely reduced redness and brightened my complexion overall. The full results last for over a day- the day after I'm constantly admiring how much more even my skin looks lol. I was pleasantly surprised by how moisturizing the mask was, as well. It left my skin soft and smooth, which was quite nice C: I have no real complaints about the mask beyond the smell, which wasn't even that bad to me. It's a really good mask that does what it advertises, and does it well. I would definitely re-buy it!
Conclusion: Final Score: 4.5/5
- reduced redness
- significantly brightened skin
- made skin glow
- moisturizing and smoothing
- kind of weird cologne smell

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More good news
As regular readers will know, Tyler is one of those New Jerusalem deniers. And when it comes to Labour's good news crime stats, he's always been particularly sceptical (eg see this blog).
Yesterday we got the final instalment of those stats - the annual update of crime for 2009/10 as recorded by the police, alongside the results of the British Crime Survey (ie the crime opinion poll). And - surprise, surprise - both showed another fall. Naturally the BBC is very pleased:
"The number of crimes committed in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1981...Oh, no wait... that second sentence only appears in the BBC's sister publication (the Grun). Anyway, the left is delighted, especially since it supports their argument that we don't need to build any more prisons. Crime is already plummeting they say, so why waste money on prisons? The cash would be much better spent on restorative arts projects for rapists.
...The statistics show that crime has fallen by 43% since 1997, leaving Labour able to claim that its level is lower now than when Tony Blair first entered Downing Street."
But whatever the BBC and the Grun say, our splendid new Home Secretary clearly shares our scepticism. Theresa says:
'Any reductions in crime are welcome, but we know these statistics offer a partial picture about the true level of crime. And there are many offences, including antisocial behaviour, which are not always reported or fully recorded, but which ruin too many lives...
We are determined to restore trust in crime statistics and are currently considering how they should be collected and published in future. We are working with the UK Statistics Authority and others to consider this carefully.'Good. We look forward to getting stats that at least vaguely approximate our actual experience of rising crime (see previous blog, and this blog for an account of the most recent criminal outrage to hit Tyler Towers).
But just for a moment, let's suspend our disbelief. Let's for once listen to the mellifluous sermons of Bishop Snow and the Rev Easton, and let's assume the existing stats are the unvarnished truth. Let's assume that crime really has fallen by 43% since 1997. What does that tell us?
Well, the obvious, jump-off-the-page, shout-in-your-face, message is that Michael Howard was right - prison really does work.
Let's take a look. The following chart shows how measured crime has fallen since 1995, on Labour's preferred British Crime Survey measure. It also shows how the number of prison places (strictly, the prison population) has risen over the period. For ease of comparion, both series are shown in index form, with 1995=100.
As we can see, as prison numbers have increased, measured crime has fallen (the gaps in the early years reflect gaps in the reported BCS numbers).
Let's look at the statistical relationship more closely. The following chart shows a simple regression of each year's crime numbers against the same year's prison numbers:
Now for those of you who never did get round to reading Teach Yourself Statistics, those regression results indicate a very close relationship between the two series. A very close relationship indeed. An R2 of 0.88 is equivalent to a correlation coefficient of 0.94 - as near as damn it, a perfect fit.
And specifically, what our estimated regression equation says is that each additional prisoner is associated with 275 fewer crimes. In other words, prison works. Bigtime.
What? What's that you say? Correlation does not imply causation?
Well, no, to be sure, you must be right.
Yes. Yes indeed. Well remembered.
I mean that extraordinarily close relationship could be caused by all sorts of other things.
Like... ummm... well, maybe the police have become so much more efficient that that they are preventing crime before it even happens. Could that be it?
Hmmm... no... that can't be right... not our police with their plummeting detection rates and their social worker Chief Constables.
No, it must be... aahhh... yes, better burglar alarms and Krooklocks on cars.
And yes, there must be some truth in that. Mustn't there?
Wellll... you really can't help spotting that those crime stats went on rising right up to the very point where M Howard got his massive prison programme going (see chart at top). Surely burglar alarms and Krooklocks were already improving long before then. How do you explain the sudden break?
Of course, it is possible that all those sermons from the BBC and C4 pulpits have finally done the trick. That the sinners hath repentethed, and the lions hath laid down with the lambs.
Yes, that's possible.
Although it doesn't yet seem to have happened round Tyler's way.


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A duo, Larz the lizard and Erandil, arrive in North Harbour a couple hours before nightfall. They seek out the local tavern and from there determine the location of Peter. Initial questions with Peter lead nowhere though with acute elven insight the duo determines Peter is indeed hiding something. Aggressive negotiations begin and Peter reveals that he has less than reputable dealings with the Black Tides and their flag ship The Flying Duchesse. The party manages to cause only minor disturbances of the peace an avoid getting the town guard involved.
Swimming out to the nearby lighthouse Larz determines that Mark the Red has a reputation with seagoing folk. It's rumored that the bandit captain has a hideout accessible by sea somewhere north of here.
Masquerading as laborers the party sets sail. Once out to sea they hire the ship to carry them northwards. Near midday they spot a shack on the coast and convince the ship to bring them ashore and wait.
Once ashore they scout the area and find 3 bandits near a building which buts up against a large rock outcropping. Setting a trap they ambush the bandits give them "the clap"; teyanage to keep one alive for questioning. With 3 other men inside the party decides against a frontal assault without more numbers. Instead they mangle one corpse with cuts and squeeze the entrails and blood all over the ground of te headless bandit before tossing him to the sea. They make a captive of he surviving bandit and ultimately leave him grievously injured at the lighthouse with a drunken sailor.


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Hi folks.
I named this article with this pretty famous error message. I'm sure that everybody has seen this error at least once.This week I visited our client who asked me very intresting question. They have a table with many columns that most of them defined as VARCHAR(n) datatype. One of the query has been failing with below error.
"Msg 8152, Level 16, State 14, Line 1
String or binary data would be truncated.
The statement has been terminated."
Well ,we knew for sure that the user supplied a string which does not match with column datatype but real question is WHICH of so many columns? As I said, they have more than 50 columns and it was pretty difficult to identify on which column is failed.
My point is that it would be nice to have more information from this error message about which column is failing and I hope that MS will do something for the matter.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Sour Cream Twists
This yeast dough is great for beginners to yeast baking. It only needs one rise and it produces a rich, tender pastry. I love the flakiness combined with the crunchy cinnamon-brown sugar filling. The recipe is from the Fannie Farmer Baking Book , followed to a "t"! They are also a great way to use up extra sour cream if you don't feel like making muffins or coffee cakes. Sour Cream Twists 10-12 twists | Fannie Farmer Baking Book Dough 1 cup sour cream, warmed 3 tablespoons sugar 1 1/4 teaspoons salt 1 package dry yeast 1 egg About 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour Filling 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter, softened 3 tablespoons brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon Glaze 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons water Lemon juice, optional To make the dough: Stir the sour cream, sugar, salt and yeast together in a large mixing bowl. Let stand for a couple of minutes to dissolve the yeast. Stir well again, then add the egg and 2 cups of the flour, and beat until the mixture is smooth. Add enough more flour—about 1/2 cup—to make a soft, slightly sticky dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for a minute or two, sprinkling on more flour if necessary to make a manageable dough. Roll and pat into a rectangle about 10×14 inches. Pull the corners out a bit if necessary to square them off. Spread the softened butter over the dough in a thin, even layer. Mix the brown sugar and cinnamon together, then sprinkle evenly over the butter. Cut the dough in half lengthwise, then stack one piece on the other, so you have a layer of filling in the middle and a layer of filling on top. Cut into 1-inch-wide strips. Twist each strip several times and place about an inch apart on a buttered baking sheet. Cover and let rise for 1 hour. Bake in a preheated 375 degree F oven for about 15 minutes, until the top edges are golden. Remove from the oven and transfer to racks to cool. To make the glaze: Combine the confectioners' sugar, water and few squirts of lemon juice if you like, and beat until you have a smooth paste. Brush on the twists while they are still hot.
Baked by Tia at 12:10 PM
Labels: Fannie Farmer, Yeast Breads
8 comments:
- Jessica said...
I am newly obsessed with yeast baking, so I'd love to try these. I have the regular Fannie Farmer cookbook - I'll have to see if they're in there, too.
- February 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- Jennifurla said...
ah nice, love to have a few of these in the morning.
- February 18, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- Les rêves d'une boulangère (Brittany) said...
Brown sugar filling - yum! I like the twisted design. They look really effective.
- February 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- Renata said...
What a great recipe! I'm not a beginner with yeast dough, but I'm totally looking forward to trying this one! Thanks for sharing!
- February 18, 2011 at 4:49 PM
this looks SO GOOD! will try =D
- February 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Bergamot said...
This looks amazing.
- February 21, 2011 at 2:20 AM
- Jannett said...
You just want to pick one up and eat it.... :o) sound so delicious
- February 21, 2011 at 4:29 AM
- Lot-O-Choc said...
Oh yum i love the look of these, they look so tasty!
- February 21, 2011 at 9:34 AM
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Cook Me Some Ribs
There are hundreds of different ways to cook pork spare ribs but for a kiwi this is the BEST RIB RECIPE EVER. Texans like to rub them down with 63 secret herbs and spices and barbeque them slowly for three weeks. If however you're from the land of the long white cloud you will know that we do things a little more simply. Follow this recipe and you will be in spare rib heaven. This is taken from the book 'Beach Bach Boat Barbeque'. This will serve four.
2 kg of pork spare ribs
6 tablespoons of soy sauce
6 tablespoons of tomato sauce
1/4 of a cup of lemon juice
3 tablespoons of soft brown sugar
3 tablespoons of liquid honey
3 tablespoons of medium sherry
3 tablesppons of hoisin sauce
3 cloves of garlic, squished to bits
2 tablespoons of olive oil
8 large baking potatoes
Mix all the ingredients (not the pork ribs you twit) in a bowl. Place the ribs in some kind of container and pour the marinade over them. Cover and place in your fridge for at least 6 hours.
Place the ribs and marinade in a large flat roasting dish and bake for 2 1/2 hours at 150C basting about every 30 minutes. Put your potatoes in the oven at the same time.
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I found this little gem on the web and its a town with NO roads! Isn't that great?! This just seems like a place you can get lost in thought. I imagine most of our daily troubles would change and shift while living here, stress would melt away. I may be wrong but in my dream life that I am painting, if I lived here it would be like living in a utopia!
Friday, October 12, 2012
Live Here!!!
I found this little gem on the web and its a town with NO roads! Isn't that great?! This just seems like a place you can get lost in thought. I imagine most of our daily troubles would change and shift while living here, stress would melt away. I may be wrong but in my dream life that I am painting, if I lived here it would be like living in a utopia!
What I am Over the Moon For....
Here are a few things I can't get enough of!
This candle that smells like home during the holidays..
It's Crackling Birch by Illume
This Song...
This Lipstick..
This Movie... (always)
and These Hips!
My New Game
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
How Bad are You at....
Monday, September 24, 2012
Brother Comes to Town
Arts and Letters Cafe. We ordered three different dishes to share; the Lamb Salad, the ALC Burger, the Flatbread, and
Monday, August 27, 2012
My Time, More like Needs to Happen Time
So, for "My Time" Mondays I did more of "OMG I Have to Clean" Monday. It was well needed. I didn't have a chance to do a good clean in quite a few days. I did a deep clean in the bathroom and even re-organized Johns closet (that thing had no rhyme or reason). Now I am happy to say I am sitting down and relaxing! The only way I got through it was to have a nice cold beer in the middle (it helped a lot!) Have you ever need to take the edge off cleaning with a drink?
What a Weekend
Well, hello everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. I will be honest mine was FULL! John and I had to drive to San Francisco to get my car, in ONE day. It was a very long Friday, I think I am still recovering. John and I left Thursday night at about midnight, that was when we got off work other wise there is no way we would have left that late.
I am happy to say my car is looking lovely. Having her back was worth the long journey! I love my car and missed her dearly!
I am happy to say my car is looking lovely. Having her back was worth the long journey! I love my car and missed her dearly!
John and I did end up getting quite stir crazy in the car so we made a stop at the Firestone Brewery in Paso Robles, Ca. It was a lot of fun and a well needed drink and stretch of the legs. I wouldn't make a special trip out for it but I wouldn't mind making it another pit stop on a long drive home.
Have you ever had to cram a long drive in a short amount of time? Any Fun pit stops along the way?
Thursday, August 23, 2012
I Got A Tastey Thank You!
I have to say I love unexpected thank you gifts! Today at work I had to stay late ffor an ice cream delivery, and boy did it pay off! Rori (the lovely ice cream maker) gave me a pint of the Lemon Curd ice cream as a think you for waiting around! MMMMMMMM! Have you recieved any unexpected thank you gifts?
Oh No I missed a day!Sorry everyone for not having my "Wardrobe" Wednesday post. I actually never had an outfit on yesterday. I went straight from my uniform for work to work out clothes to PJs. But do I get forgiveness points for being healthy and working out? I hope so.
I think I might miss todays theme too, but for a great reason. John and I have to drive up the coast tonight to pick up my baby (my car) from a body shop in San Francisco. A couple weeks ago John and I went to Outside Lands in San Francisco with a bunch of friends and it was great! But sadly my car had a nasty smash and grab pulled on her and they did quite the number on my car! Now I get her back! I was a mess about it, lots of crying! Have you ever been rob? Please share your own story.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
"Truthful" Tuesday
Here's the truth, I am not always a healthy eater. Today my guilty pleasure was a hot French dip with onion rings from Norton's Deli in Santa Barbara (with a side of ranch). Oh how I love yummy guilt.
Now tell the truth, did you eat anything bad today?
Now tell the truth, did you eat anything bad today?
Monday, August 20, 2012
"My Time" Monday
I spend a lot of time alone, and I love it! I think many people forget how great it is to have time to themselves. Today I had plenty of "me time" after work. I started right off with catching up with my sister Sarah! We live across the country from each other now, she is in Tinley Park, IL and I am in Santa Barbara, Ca, so keeping up is important but doesn't happen enough. Having the house to myself so I can focus on Sarah is amazing and my favorite way to catch up with her, she has all of my attention!
While I was talking to Sarah I also started making my dinner, my very unhealthy dinner! I think like most young working couples John and I (thats my boyfriend who I live with) have a very sparse pantry, so dinner was a box of yorkshire puddings! Yep! Yorkshire pudding for dinner, without the prime rib! And guess what ? It was great! I even made some gravy to put on top. Sinner!
After letting my sister go and eating my sinful pudding I had time to fall into the world of looking at blogs (more "me time" things) when I had I nice phone call from my friend Diana! More catching up time! Diana was living in Santa Barbara and was my daily go to girlfriend but she got an amazing job as an art dealer for Leslie Sacks Fine Art www.lesliesacks.com in Santa Monica (check it out!). I am so happy for her, but now we get to play the lovely game of phone tag.
Now sadly I did have to do my dishes and laundry but while I waited for the clothes I had time to do a little reading and sat down with my new addition of Kinfolk. If you have not heard of this amazing magazine/book I say, start getting your hands on it. Its filled with intimate stories and photo essays, DIYs and recipes. They call it "A Guide For Small Gatherings" and I love it! And you can not sit down for a read with out a drink, today was a hot one so I had red wine over ice with ginger ale, mmm yummy!
Well That was "My Time" for Monday!
What did you do for "Your Time" today?
What did you do for "Your Time" today?
Welcome and thank you for joining me. Simply I am Katie Brady, and I want to share with you. Share what you may ask, just about almost anything, many rules applied :). I have been playing with a few daily topics, "My Time" Mondays (things I do when I have free time for myself); "Truthful" Tuesdays (share a guilty pleasure I had recently such as eating rich food or spending a little too much money on something); "Wardrobe" Wednesday (an outfit put together and what inspired it); "Try it" Thursday (I find a DIY or recipe and give it a go); and "Friend Filled" Fridays (something I did with the girls or something they did that impacted me). Well, what do you think?!
I hope it is a fun start. I think I picked some fun and silly things to talk about. I hope you enjoy and will check in with me often.
I hope it is a fun start. I think I picked some fun and silly things to talk about. I hope you enjoy and will check in with me often.
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Your vision and talent are needed.
The Williston Chamber of Commerce wants a new logo and it wants area folks to show them what they can do.
For the next few weeks, artists of all kinds are asked to submit their ideas.
Rules include:
The purpose of the contest is to design a new logo for the Williston Area Chamber of Commerce. The logo will be used online and in print. The submissions will be considered inspiration. The Chamber will finalize the design with a designer of their choice. The final version of the logo will need to be suitable for high quality printing.
Flexibility is a key requirement. The logo must look good in black and white as well as color. The logo needs to look good at relatively small sizes.
Entrants should take care to ensure that their Entries are not similar to existing logos or other copyrighted images.
The logo must also contain the words "Williston Area Chamber of Commerce" "1985".The logo must not contain any other text with the exception of "Since" or "EST"
The logo must include at least two of the following colors: variation of stone/khaki/mocha, variation of blue and variation of green. Can include black and white.
The Chamber will accept hand drawn as well as electronic submissions. The limit on attachment sizes for our email is 5Mb. If your submission exceeds this size, even after compression, please send the images individually and note clearly in your emails that you are doing so.
Submissions accepted at the Chamber Office or via email to email@example.com.
Contact Mary at the Chamber 352.528.5552
Deadline: Sept. 28
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Is this a More Efficient Way to Develop Your Players?
iSoccer is receiving feedback from across the country that players of all ages and levels are having more fun, working harder, and improving at a faster rate. Why is the combination of time constraints (20 seconds), skill isolation and score-keeping accelerating youth soccer development across the country?
20 Seconds is the Right Balance
20 Seconds is just long enough to tire most players, but not exhaust them. So when you require a player to focus and put forth maximum effort for 20 seconds, you are asking them to maintain their concentration while slowly becoming more fatigued. They are forced to be consistent and focused for the entire time, and that is when skill development goes into over-drive. Executing at top speed, top concentration – all while becoming increasingly fatigued is a fantastic environment for development.
Skill Isolation Is Refreshingly Honest
Soccer is a complex game and it can be very difficult to know when you are improving or if you truly can perform a skill. By isolating a specific skill, there is no guessing, and that can be (surprisingly) refreshing for the player. This ambiguity is now something tangible and players know they can either perform the skill or not. We believe that all skills, no matter how complex they may appear, are built upon very basic fundamentals. When you can execute each of them in isolation – game situations that require combining different skills will be that much easier!
Achieving a New Score is Awesome
Fist pumps and high fives are fun but when, if ever do you see these in technical development? By removing all outside factors, we are able to isolate individual skills, score them and allow for such fun. When you keep score, players are able to measure themselves and actually see their improvement. Players now have better awareness, understanding and ownership when they achieve a higher iSoccer level! And we have said it before, Success breeds Success. A player who knows what it feels like to Raise His Level is excited, motivated, and wants to improve. And that is Awesome!


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NEWS - Friday, October 4, 2013
Rockstar PSA: GTA V and GTA Online updates
From Rockstar Games:
Oct. 2nd GTA V patch
In addition to opening up access to Grand Theft Auto Online, todays automatic update for GTAV on both platforms features a host of fixes for issues you may have encountered in Story Mode. See below for a list of prominent fixes, and if you have any problems downloading this update or are experiencing technical issues not addressed here, please hit up our tech support team at the Rockstar Support Site or on Twitter.
- Fix for interface issues when using Internet on the cell phone after completing the game, or during a mission replay
- Fix for the Vanilla Unicorn occasionally becoming locked
- Fix for issues where the character's money could drop below zero and become stuck there
- Fix for the Epsilon Program missions not progressing properly after delivering some cars
- Fix for issue where the Atomic Blimp sometimes does not appear as a phone contact for Collector's Edition owners
- Fix for issues with saved vehicles going missing, or losing their upgrades
- Fixes for several map escape and collision issues along with other various bug fixes
- For PlayStation 3 users, a PlayStation Network server issue was detected that was limiting the amount of possible concurrent users. This was preventing most players from accessing GTA Online altogether and as of this morning, that problem was resolved.
- There is an issue that is preventing some players from getting through the first tutorial mission across both platforms. Many players have been able to get through this with repeated retries, and we are working on unblocking this for everyone as soon as possible.
- This morning, we experienced some instability across the GTA Online services which is affecting even people who have progressed beyond the tutorial mission. We are identifying these issues now and are working to restore stability for users as soon as possible.
- For the time being and until we have been able to get everybody access to GTA Online and things are running smoothly, we have disabled the option of purchasable GTA$ cash packs. Players can however keep on earning GTA$ by pulling off Jobs and other profitable gameplay activities rather than purchasing cash packs.
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Following the recent tragic death of an Ottawa teen, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has agreed to fund the city's plan to address an ongoing struggle with opioid overdoses, an emergency that's plaguing communities across the country.
The province will provide $2.5 million in funding to increase access to detox and treatment centres and to provide police and firefighters with life-saving Naloxone kits – an opioid antidote that can help reverse the effects of an overdose.
"We believe we need to have a holistic approach that deals with both enforcement of drug laws as well as the treatment and the detox capacity in cities and communities around the province," Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson told reporters following a private meeting with Wynne at Queen's Park.
Moving forward, Wynne said she plans to convene a meeting of Ontario's mayors to discuss their needs in the face of rising overdose rates. Ottawa's plan could inform that broader conversation about what more the province can do to support municipalities in this crisis, she said.
Canada's big city mayors have been in talks already with federal ministers about a national strategy to address the dramatic rise in opioid overdoses. But a provincial/municipal strategy is needed, too — and not just for the big cities, said Watson.
"There are smaller cities and smaller municipalities that are grappling with this terrible tragedy of young people becoming addicted and not having the necessary detox capacity or treatment facilities and, literally, people dying every week in the province of Ontario," he said.
Health Minister Eric Hoskins released the province's first opioid strategy in October, which included measures to enhance data collection, modernize opioid prescribing practices and increase access to naloxone.
He and his ministry also have been working bilaterally with some municipalities on opioids, but he agrees bringing Ontario's mayors together is an important next step.
"It is a crisis in this province as it is in other parts of the country," he said after question period Monday afternoon.
The ministry will reach out to municipalities to determine whether a meeting or something more regular like a table would be best to strengthen collaboration and ensure they have the resources they need, he said.


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Subprime Crisis
To inauguration off, I suggest its big to clarify the unfocused complete simplifications you hear in the word describing the "Subprime Crisis" or the "Credit Crunch." The account begins next to administrative unit empty brokers and ends near consumers struggling to keep their homes as their adaptable charge mortgages (ARMs) switch on to reset after their worker charge interval expires. After a speedy stare at the players in the loaning industry it becomes limpid what happened to the Subprime souk.
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Secondary Subprime Mortgage Market
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Federal Reserve & Federal Debt Fuel Credit Crunch Fire
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It was in realizing these things that I began to conjecture who was really answerable for the subprime failure? Who is it that will be control trusty for taking exculpatory borrowers homes? When the lawsuits begin, it appears all parties embroiled will be pointing their fingers at the organism that sold them the mortgage. Tracing the mortgage back to the organism that was in the leaders job to rule out the evasion would metal to the broker who has been rewarded for a debt that had nonopening respective time of life ago.
Awareness of what it vehicle when they say subprime disaster is called for to have exoteric thought in the region of the same catch. Our state too commonly takes the "buy now, pay later" knowledge that has put us in the state we are in today. By becoming alive you are competent to speak out against insufficiency defrayment and raiding disposition practices that put an unwarranted encumbrance on the normal tax remunerator because the establishment and/or broker acted in their own self zest.
It will be intriguing to see in the incoming how the courts will switch this class of mortgage falsification.


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By JASON COX
Of the Keizertimes
Teriyaki Bento
Location: 3720 Cherry Ave. NE, Keizer
Phone: (503) 463-9899
Hours: Monday though Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Closed Sunday
When Tony and Eva He emigrated to the United States from their native China, their experiences traveling the States dictated where they wanted to go.
Much like their home in the Guangdong province of China, big cities like New York City were too crowded and brusque, said Eva. They wanted somewhere smaller, with friendly people.
So they picked Salem-Keizer, and now own Teriyaki Bento, alternatively known as Bento to Go, on Cherry Avenue in Keizer. The restaurant has been open since the mid-1990s; they bought it in 2007.
Tony is the kitchen mastermind, said Eva. The tiny restaurant serves up Japanese, Chinese and Korean fare, and offers lunch teriyaki and yakisoba specials. Other specialties include the General Tso's chicken and udon chicken.
Tony and Eva had no restaurant experience upon coming to the Salem area, and also spoke virtually no English. They had worked as driving instructors in China. Classes at Chemeketa Community College helped with the language barrier, but they found restaurants were one industry they could work in without needing to be proficient in English.
Tony honed his cooking skills at Lucky Fortune on Lancaster Drive, at Rocco's Bar Grill and at Good Times.
And he discovered he loves it, said wife Eva.
There's a small dining area, but most orders are to-go. They aren't able to offer delivery due to the extremely small staff: Most days it's Tony, son Jordan and his uncle. The He family keeps it that way by design, Eva said.
"When you hire people to do things you can't do them special – you do it as the boss tells you," Eva said. "But Tony owns his business, and he can do whatever he wants."
Many of the sauces are made in-house, including the teriyaki. Meats are marinated shortly before grilling. And Eva said a key difference between their restaurant and others like it is that everything is made-to-order.
"If I go out to eat I don't want that for myself," Eva said. "Sometimes it takes longer because every dish we do is fresh."
The menu has slowly expanded as customers request different items.
Food can be cooked mild or as spicy as you like it, but that's where Eva draws another distinction: Spicy doesn't mean just more chili paste and hot peppers – a dish designated "hot spicy" may have an ingredient or two that "medium spicy" doesn't.


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[Review] Big Bang Monster Music Video
So how many of you are still alive after watching the music video? Haha ok well it was pretty much as epic as the teasers indicated! I'll breakdown my review to a couple of sections such as the music itself, interpretation of the video, and their costumes/style.
The Music
The song starts off with the beautiful piano playing a tragic and sad tune. In an instant I knew it was gonna be a heartbreaking song. Then T.O.P and GD comes in and starts rapping alternately while the piano beat picks up, getting faster and livelier. I really love TOP's deep voice while rapping the first part! *swoons*.
The rest of the song is a beautiful mix of Taeyang, Daesung, and Seungri's vocals mixed with some rap from GD & TOP in between. The chorus is really catchy with the line going like "I love you! Baby i'm not a monster!…I need you! Baby i'm not a monster!". Near the end, the beat slows down and the slight sound of a slow heartbeat is heard and suddenly the piano keys banged in one loud dramatic tone marking the start of the lively chorus again . Soon after, the beat slows down once more with the violins playing a slow sorrowful tune and GD repeating the words "I think i'm sick…i think i'm sick" and thus marking the end of one epic song!
Overall I think the music was beautifully done by switching between the slow and fast paced parts. I also liked how smoothly the rap parts blend together with the rest of the song. I fell in love with it on the first listen! (more…)


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Making the Film
It took a long time to put this film together. In 1983, Chogyam Trungpa asked me to make a Shambhala film. The teachings of Shambhala, the path, were still very new and I wasn't sure what that meant. What would a Shambhala film be about? certain principles? A way of life? And for several years after Chogyam Trungpa's death, nothing happened, and I didn't think about that conversation.
In maybe the early nineties I started tracing my own past, and took up the idea again. In '95 I got initial approval from Trungpa's son and Shambhala heir, Sakyong Mipham to make a film about his father. I started pulling footage from my archives; my ex-husband Baird Bryant and I had shot several films with Trungpa. And in '02 I began to record some of the interviews that appear in the film. Then things fell apart, as they often do in the long life of a documentary; it took two more years just to get full formal approval. Now, here we are in 2010 and the film is finally in final cut.
My goal has been to use the ideas, the questions, the moments in the film to create an open mindedness in the viewer about Trungpa, to film without bias and let him confront the world directly. And let the audience have their own journey. Making a documentary is like starting a painting with a blank canvas. Documentaries are wide open, and a filmmaker learns to sense when one is unfolding correctly. This film is a portrait, and I've tried not to impose my own ideas on it, or on the viewer.
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More picturesMay 26, 2008
We went up to the Lake Elsinore Outlet Malls today. They were having some major Memorial Day sales (after all, what better way to pay tribute to those who have gone before us than to pillage countless clearance racks and haggle prices with underpaid and disgruntled cashiers.
Since the weather was bit gray today, we decided to put Sariah in her new knitted cap from Jana's Etsy shop. She had just woken up from a nap and so she was all smiles. I grabbed my camera and got some pretty good shots (shown below alongside some pictures of her in the morning and some of her playing with her friend Caleb).
Now, whenever I go to any mall, a little energy meter appears about 3 feet above my head. It's just like the health meter that you see above a character in a videogame. The second I walk through the mall doors, that little energy meter starts draining away. It starts off slowly… the loss of energy almost unnoticeable so that I am lulled into false sense of security. I tell myself:
"Hey you have lots of energy left, we can go to several stores and take our time"
But this is not so. In actuality, the longer I spend in a mall, the faster my energy drains away through the soles of my feet, absorbed by thousands of square feet of endless mall flooring. About 15 minutes into the first store, fatigue begins to set in. I start to wonder how long is a reasonable amount of time before I can request that we go to the food court.
30 minutes in and I am a walking zombie, my feet drag lazily across the floor, my eyes roll back in my head and my arms dangle at my sides, dead to the world. There is hope though, occasionally I will spot something I like. This recharges my energy bar a couple inches. In this situation I will try the item on, consider it for awhile and maybe even carry it a few feet away from the rack. I might almost make it to the register. But no, the fatigue returns and suddenly the $14.99 sale price for a pair of originally priced $75.00 FOX racing shoes seems like a paltry discount when overshadowed by the effort it would require to stand in line and go through the entire 45 second checkout process.
So I didn't get anything today. Not a single thing. I'm getting tired just thinking about it.


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I am still posting here until I can get my SU Website problem fixed on Tuesday!! I have managed another layout for my BOM (Book Of Me)!!
This one is about how I love to go to a Sunday Market and look around at all the goodies for sale!! I did a Step By Step with a few of the girls from H & S who are away at the moment at the Brisbane Expo!!
I used Cake Crumb as my base and I stamped with some bubble wrap with Rich Razzleberry Ink! I then made some of my own mist withe ink refill and a bit of water and misted it!! Too easy!!
I used some Paisley Petals DSP and a flower I had made from some of our gorgeous fabric! I made the little bag using the Tab Punch! To make my title I stamped with the Just Perfect Alpha!!
Thanks Heather for the work you put into these SBS for us each month! I love them!!
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Wow. How lame am I? I'll tell you. Two posts in August! [This makes three]. That's super lame. My Analytics is even telling me how lame I am. My numbers are falling. It sent me an email that said "Your readership is falling at a rate of .47% per day. You're not posting. Your blog is entering lameness. If you continue in this sucky blogness and to tarnish the reputation of bloggers around the world, Blogger will hereby remove your blog from existence. This is your first warning."
I blame my lack of blogging on a few things... other than my own lameness.
1) I gave a talk in church last week. I had the entire month of August to prepare and thus spent most of my evenings and weekends researching and writing, time that otherwise would have been spent blogging. Maybe. Plus it was on a crazy huge topic: Grace and Works. I can now teach you an entire lesson on the gift of grace, which is something I couldn't do before last week. Success!
2) I spend all day at work on the computer. But don't you blog on a computer? This would normally be helpful but lately the 8 hours a day of computering has really started to take its mental toll on me. I've been avoiding the at-home computer whenever possible. Also, my at-home computer is slow as spit. Once Obama sends us our 8 Gs for buying a house, we can solve this problem.
3) I've been reading.
4) I haven't been taking very many pictures. What!? I know. Foolishness! This falls into the bigger excuse of plain ol laziness. I have a picture of Jericho and me from my birthday dinner. That's it. It's it lovely?
I also have this one from one of my quiet mornings with tea and a book in my fabulous new kitchen. Other than pictures of food, this is all I got.
5) I keep avoiding doing a post about the house. I have three draft posts started that have something to do with my new house. There's just so much I don't know where to start. And when it starts coming into blog form, it all seems so boring. Plus I posted all those pictures on Facebook. That was a cop-out though. I sometimes would like to think that this blog is my virtual journal and that I'll one day get it printed into a book. Therefore I get angry with myself when I neglect to post in detail about big things. Like the house. And my anniversary! Hello! I know I was in the Caribbean, but still. I should have written something on May 2. But alas, I didn't.
6) I am officially in a funk. Not a blog-funk. An all-encompassing funk. The last few months have been showing signs of an impending funk and I think it's officially here. And I think I know why. But I'm not sharing [part of it has to do with #2, kind of]. It requires more explanation that the #6 bullet point allows.
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Everyone has a crazy friend. Not mentally unbalanced, just someone who is perhaps a little bit louder than most, someone who finds themselves in crazy situations and relishes recounting those stories. Someone who takes risks, who packs a whole lot into their day. Their intense personality may occasionally offend those with more mild manners and easily agitated sensibilities. Undoubtedly, however, I have concluded that we are all better off for having crazy friends.
Matt Stewart is my crazy friend. Amongst other ridiculous activities, we have joined a large group in Sevilla attempting to break the Guinness record for largest group breakfast (close, by the way, but no cigar) and dressed up in 18th century colonial garb during San Francisco's popular marathon and drunken walk, Bay to Breakers, to promote his debut novel, The French Revolution. I would not do this for just anyone. Anyway, I'm going to employ my occasional plug privileges to promote both Matt's novel, as well as his launch party this Wednesday at 8pm at Elixir. Though this is Matt's night, Old World Old School will be contributing as well by raffling off a few bottles of French wine. It may not be Volnay, but it sure as hell won't be industrial plonk, either.
Matt writes fiction well, really well. I applaud anyone who has the focus and discipline to write a novel while working full-time, but Matt has written something original and developed a very clever way to get loads of press by debuting the novel on Twitter last summer. He then continued to pursue a publisher, which he now has in Soft Skull Press. Recently the Chronicle reviewed The French Revolution favorably. I'm a third of the way through and am enjoying it. Matt's long, florid, sentences capture San Francisco perfectly, and his third person narrative shows more than a bit of Matt's own character and unique perspective.
Below are the details for this Wednesday night. Viva la revolution!
The French Revolution Book Launch Party at Elixir
Wednesday July 14th at 8pm
16th & Guerrero
Monday, July 12, 2010
This Bastille Day, Support The French Revolution!
Posted by Joe Manekin at 7/12/2010 03:21:00 PM
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First and foremost, Happy Father's Day to all those dads out there! I am incredibly blessed and grateful for my own dad. I'm very lucky to have such an amazing dad that's been in my life for, well, forever. He helped shaped who I am today, always encouraging me and supporting me. Happy Father's Day Dad!
Now, on to my currently list:
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Arshad Warsi and Maria Goretti have reportedly split up after nine years of marriage and two children. Differences appear to have developed between them due to Arshad's hectic work schedule. "I think I'm fairly good as a father," Arshad says, "My kids just love me, but as a husband, I think I tend to take Maria for granted."
Arshad hit the big time in the role of Circuit in the movies Munabbhai MBBS and Lago Raho Munabbhai, for which he won a Best Comedian Award. He has been busy of late in movies such as Hulchul, Salaam Namaste, Golmaal, Dhamaal, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, Sunday and Krazzy 4. He will reprise the role of Circuit early next year in Munabbhai Chale America.
Maria Goretti, named after the Christian saint, was a star VJ and actress until she married Arshad and settled in the role of homemaker. The pair first met in 1991. As Arshad put it in happier days, "I was invited to Malhar to judge a dance competition where I noticed this lovely girl with a cute smile from St. Andrew's College, who was also participating in the competition and I fell in love with her. But if I have my facts right, it wasn't love at first sight," he says.
Maria picks up the story, "After the show Arshad came up to me and asked me if I would like to join his dance troupe, but I refused," she says, "Three months later I met him again through a common friend and we gradually became friends. He even convinced me to join his dance troupe."
Love is a vociferous beast — once you've gained it, you have to keep feeding it, falling in love over and over again. Once you neglect it, it soon fades to grey.


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Chris and I traveled to Portsmouth to a cookout yesterday. As we drove east on 195, I noticed the shades of the leaves on the trees showing the beginnings of fall. It just seemed too early. Maybe the amount of cool, rainy days this summer and the lack of oppressive humidity (which I will not complain about) added to my body clock being off. I realize that it is time for a shift.
Fall is actually my favorite season of the year. I love the bright blue sky and the crisp autumn air. It my body, fall just feels right: not too hot or too cold. Being outside is enjoyable and coming in from an afternoon of raking to a hot pot of simmering soup is a part of the fall ritual. The smell of the air at night - dried leaves, dewy grass and the beginnings of frost excite me.
Getting back to my kitchen and trying some new recipes is usually a part of my fall routine. Apples baking, chili on the stovetop and a warm cup of tea can be a wonderful image of a fall afternoon. Enjoying the moments of fall and not viewing it as a precursor to winter is my goal for fall. Being right where I am supposed to be and not a step ahead or behind has helped me to appreciate all the seasons. There are so many gifts through all of it.


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If you've never seen the British show Coupling, trust me, it's hilarious. For the uninitiated, the show is a cross between the now-defunct Friends and "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus." And it's funny. Damn funny. Laugh-out-loud-so-loud-your-neighbor-knocks-on-the-door-to-complain-but-decides-to-join-you-and-laugh-so-hard-your-other-neighbor-complains funny. If you haven't seen it, seriously, watch it. It's better than most of the reality-bites crap on TV now.
There was a pitiful attempt to bring it to the American airwaves, but, frankly, the casting is so perfect on the other side of the Atlantic, it really was just destin for failure. Last week, I decided that catching random episodes on BBC America just wasn't good enough. I broke down and bought the entire series on DVD.
I got home late last night (as you may have inferred by the early morning post) and was greeted with the excitement of a package. I don't know what gets me so excited about that little key and that cardboard box. Maybe it goes back to those care packages from camp where my mother made me food and snacks. It's almost the only food I ever remember getting when I was away back then...or was that college? Whichever...you get the idea.
So, I brought in the package, furiously ripped apart the packing tape and found my four-season box set of Coupling. Within the span of 15 seconds I had the DVD in the player and was listening to that great little song, "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps..." Then I got to the DVD menu and realized something. There were only 5 to 9 episodes per season. While my West Wing DVDs can keep me busy for an entire day or two per season, British television just isn't the same!
I started scanning the DVDs and discovered something else. Something horrible. Something that you never want to discover when you buy a new DVD from a television show. I had already seen all of the episodes on BBC America. I don't mean, I saw all the episodes in the first season. No, that would have still given me three more seasons of hilarious entertainment. I mean I saw all the episodes in the entire series.
That's not to say I didn't watch them again and they weren't funny this time, but it's just not the same. Watching an episode of Coupling for the second time makes you laugh at the things you laughed at before. But it's almost like an attempt to capture the pure, unadulturated hysteria that took over the first time you watched the episode. Once you've lost your Coupling virginity, there's simply no going back.
So, if you haven't watched the show yet, look for it on BBC America or pick up the first season on DVD from Amazon or dvdpricesearch.com. Sit back and get ready to laugh hysterically. You might even want to invite a friend so you have someone to enjoy it with. But make sure you take the proper precautions because once you've seen it, it's still good, but there's no going back to your first time.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Hoped You Were Dead.
Lola's mind filled with a kind of black mental grease that covered and clouded everything; her thoughts, her memory, even the pathways of the sensations that futilely tired to run from her spider-like fingers and reed-thin arms, to her brain. "Buck?" she stammered, as she desperately clutched her driver's license. She looked up into Buck's similarly stunned, yet surprisingly expressionless face. Everything escaped from her—--every thought of control, of location, of who she was now. "Buck? Buck. I hoped you were dead."
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The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman from Minneapolis
Love this guy, decided to write this blog about him as I love the
concept. But, because he is from Minnesota, Yahh? He talks about the
competetion is not between US and India or China, but between us and
our imagination.
He is talking to Tim Russert, about end user generated content, blogs,
blogging, and facebook. Wow, this guy is so cool, he is talking about
search marketing, digital footprints, and about being good.
Vipin K. Singh
read my blog
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Dueling Pianos 4 Epilepsy
Dance, clap and sing to an all-request piano showdown featuring your favourite country and rock n' roll hits!
Saturday, March 12, 2016
7pm – 1am
Location: Brookside Banquet Centre
99 Brookside St, London
19 + ID required.
Cash bar.
Cost: Purchase your tickets in advance! Early bird ticket price $40, or after March 7 tickets are $50.
Ticket price includes hors d'oeuvres and live entertainment.
Payment options include the following:
To purchase your ticket(s) online, register below for this event as an individual or as a group if you're purchasing more than one ticket. You will be redirected to PayPal to purchase your tickets.
Please make all cheques payable to Epilepsy Support Centre 690 Hale St., ON N5W 1H4
Please feel free to call The Centre at 519.433.4073 to purchase your tickets over the phone or for more information.
The dueling piano show will feature two musical teams with some interactive comedy, performing: Main Street Dueling Pianos. Guaranteed to be a fun filled night!
All proceeds go directly to event co-hosts: Epilepsy Support Centre and EpLink, the epilepsy research program of the Ontario Brain Institute.
Follow our Facebook Event for updates.
Watch Main Street Dueling Piano's promo video, our entertainers for the night!
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~ Nzalata di Puppu (Octopus Salad)
~ Pasta alla Norma
~ Pasta o Furnu Catanisa (Baked Pasta Catanese)
The Pasta alla Norma was named after the opera "Norma" written by Vincenzo Bellini who was born in Catania.
We also had an additional surprise dish to start off the day. Following the Palermo class last week I emailed Giovanni asking about various types of Palermo street food, and when we arrived he was frying up a batch of chopped viscera (sadly, he had been unable to procure any spleen on short notice) which we enjoyed on a bun with some lemon and grated caciocavallo cheese on top.
Quite tasty (even Alex and Cass liked it), although I am not sure it is really intended as a breakfast dish.Continue Reading »


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Giant centipedes were common here:
While walking around the area, a large lizard about 3 feet in length took off right beside me. I gave chase, but only managed to scratch up my legs while running after it. It was incredibly fast and guessing from it's size, I'd have to say that it was someone's escaped monitor lizard pet or something. I just haven't ever heard of any native lizards being that huge. Hundreds of whiptails were running from me everywhere I walked. Most of these were 6-8 inches in length, although a few were as long as the 16 inch whiptails that I find in Utah. As these photos show, the San Diego whiptails look very similar, but they were found to bite when caught. That is something that I have never seen from whiptails before.
Cool pattern on the backs of these:
Their undersides matched the rocks perfectly:
As you can see, this one had it's mouth open and was panting like a dog:
I first thought this snake was a whipsnake, but then I noticed the odd nose scale for digging, which earns it the name desert patch-nosed snake (Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis). The snake was found inside the coastal patch-nosed snake range, but looks more like a desert than a coastal to me:
I dropped my wife's camera in the sand while going after this guy and then was treated to musking, defecating, and an everted rectum being rubbed all over my arm. I guess it was worth it.
Cool snake after it calmed down.
Then I came across this cute little critter:
A Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crostlus oreganus helleri). There is something about juvenile rattlesnakes that always makes me want to put them in a jar and take them home, even though that would be illegal and stupid. They are just so neat.
This one had a prey lump and was about 21 inches or so.
After the photo session, the rattler headed down a hole:
When I turned around and started retracing my steps, I saw a really large snake that looked like a big stick laying across where I had just walked. It quickly doubled back on it's travel path after seeing me and took off under a barbed wire fence that had "no trespassing" signs on it. Not very far from the fence was a farm house. I just couldn't bring myself to jump the fence to pursue the large snake. As excited as I was, the thought of trying to explain myself to someone holding a 12 gauge was too discouraging. I probably should have jumped the fence though, because when I got to a field guide I found that the snake most looked like a baja rat snake and would have been a very rare find. I am surprised that I didn't find more rattlesnakes. I am not surprised that I didn't find a mountain king, given the short time I spent even though conditions were nearly perfect.


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DESOLATION OF SMAUG (premiers December 2013) and THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN (hitting cinemas July 2014 and will be made from the footage already made for the first two films which were shot back to back, but there will be some additional shootings as well for the final part of the saga). Differently from the first
Thursday, September 20, 2012
DESOLATION OF SMAUG (premiers December 2013) and THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN (hitting cinemas July 2014 and will be made from the footage already made for the first two films which were shot back to back, but there will be some additional shootings as well for the final part of the saga). Differently from the first
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Super excited for this film. and all of these looks at the film keep me so. I am glad that Jackson is directing this. can't wait to watch it!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm also overly happy that no other director got the helm and that Peter is doing the job!Delete
The makeup and costumes spell Oscar material.ReplyDeleteReplies
other films shouldn't even compete in that category :)Delete
Amazing... Can't frekin wait for this one!ReplyDeleteReplies
the wait is almost painful, especially after all these uber cool scenes from the second trailer which is million times better than the first one.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2012 at 7:46 PM
Nerdgasm. Completely satisfying.ReplyDeleteReplies
LOL, yes, indeed, we're having some sweet cinematic sex today LOLDelete
I ABOUT DIED! This is so friggin' EPIC I can't wait!ReplyDeleteReplies
I will have to perform a lot of resuscitation today on my readers :)Delete
now i know i am such a crap monkey on my comments here... this is different. i cannot wait for this movie... it's parts... it's music... the next true movie that will make me smile. thank you for this awesome post!ReplyDeleteReplies
glad we gave you some awesome possum, Zombie, today!Delete
YESSS!!!!! It will be fantastic and the trailer is great to see finally. Wonderful cast choices. I've read this book so many times and pictured it in my head for 40 plus years and now it's finally here!! After LOTR I trust Jackson to get it right. Can't wait for this!!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm also very happy with the second trailer which wowed me and enchanted me with warmth, fairy tale and adventure, unlike the first one which was rather bleh :) And the biggest excitement, a look at Galadriel and the first pic of Thranduil, my fave :)Delete
Wow, wow, wow, that looks so freaking amazing. I can't wait. I'm ready to buy my tickets now. :))ReplyDeleteReplies
we're reserving the whole cinema for December :) Group hobbiting :)Delete
MAN that movie looks BEAUTIFUL. I CAN'T WAIT! The only face I miss is Aragorn's, but what can you do LOL. And look at Lee Pace up there on your banner! He's from my city! Hometown boy!! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
We do adore Lee Pace, he's the main reason I will watch the film, alongside Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman :)Delete
What a great trailer! I can hardly wait. I like how the One Ring spins in the air and then forms the O in "Hobbit."ReplyDeleteReplies
it's a beautiful detail, isn't it?Delete
I'm really looking forward to The Hobbit, it looks like it's going to be a winner!ReplyDelete
Jamie @ Mithril WisdomReplies
winner of the decade! If that film doesn't break records, the whole world should call it a quit!Delete
It's looking pretty good so far! Everyone is getting pretty excited over these pictures and that trailer.ReplyDeleteReplies
the excitement is reaching boiling pointDelete
All I can say is I'm very much looking forward to seeing the Hobbit. I've read the book a number of times and seen the stage play in London. Now bring on the movie!ReplyDeleteReplies
oooh, that must've been a real treat watching the play in London, Lyndy!Delete
I have been looking forward to this movie for years. I can't wait. I might have to take the day off of work! Thank you for the updates:)ReplyDeleteReplies
it will be a marvellous day off work :) Especially in late December, the festive atmosphere.....Delete
I KNOW!!! And I always have my Christmas shopping done before then so I can focus on baking cookies....I think I can squeeze in an incredible movie!!Delete
oooh, my biggest wish in the world is to visit America or UK in the festive season and bake festive cookies with someone :( It will probably never come true....Delete
I hope it lives up to all the hype.ReplyDeleteReplies
fingers crossed, fingers crossed!Delete
I am very excited for The Hobbit!! Love movies like these :) I think James Mcavoy would have been a great choice for Bilbo...too bad that didn't work out :(ReplyDeleteReplies
couldn't agree with you more, Jaxy, McAvoy would've given a whole new aspect to the film!Delete
I wanted to run into my closet, grab my Gimli battleaxe and watch this a dozen times!!!! I'm such a geeky dwarf fan!!! Our whole family has agreed to wait and see this one together. Woo Hoo!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
oooh, if you take your Gimli battleaxe and I take my Legolas bow, we could play together in the sand :)Delete
Now that would be a whole lotta fun! Will you wear your elf outfit? =)Delete
I was born with elegantly pointed elven ears, so I only have to pull on some tight green leggings (sorry for that in advance) and a green hoodie :) And we shall make Annzie play the wise Gandalf :)Delete
Can't say I'm crazy about those eyebrows on Lee Pace but hey I'm still excited to see him in The Hobbit, Dezzy. Hopefully all these gorgeous but underrated actors will get more great roles after this.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh and I'm super excited to see the lovely miss Blanchett too, haven't seen her in a while. I LOVE that banner you have up now Dezzy!Delete
ooh, I love me those eyebrows :P they're so mysterious, I think Peter might have chosen him due to those two bushes :) Our Luke Evans, will have a horrid costume in the film, Flixy, judging from some set pics I've seen :(Delete
It's a sliding banner :) has three pics within it :)
I like the second Trailer more than the first one. I sure hope the movie won't be a disappointmentReplyDeleteReplies
yep, the first trailer was rather boring, this one is amazingDelete
Hi Dezmond ! sorry, I've missed this important post but I had to do on some far countries!ReplyDelete
I've a lot to say about this "Hobbit" but I'll try to be short....
I don't like the Trailer, it's not "The Hobbit", it's something which looks like "the Hobbit", which smell like "The Hobbit" but it's not "The Hobbit" !!!
It's something different and P.J. uses(usurps ?) the name for doing a new story !
Why Galadriel ? what is this guy on a sledge ??
never see (read) about "that" in The Book !!!
I'm really afraid of what I will see on the screen!Replies
Seems like you had your own journey and an adventure then :)Delete
He put Galadriel in the story because millions of people would not see THE HOBBIT without her :) Me for example. She's one of the most popular characters from the LOTR saga. Legolas will also appear in some way, but I'm not sure which way exactly.
Ok Dezmond, I can understand your point of view about Galadriel, but it's ridiculous!ReplyDelete
what's "millions of people"??? if they can't live without the vision of a beautiful woman in the screen, I scare for them!
What I understand, and what I presumed is that it's another $$ "money-maker" movie $$.
It's not for me (just for my little son!)Replies
it's true, Samwise, but you do know that films are never made for readers but for viewers. And Jackson did make Tolkien's books much more popular after he shot LOTR films.Delete
I myself have never read HOBBIT, and in today's times, the film based on the book would be less successful with no female characters in it. This is why they've thrown in Lily Evangeline's Tauriel character as well.


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Saturday, 18 May 2013
She's Never Coming Back by Hans Koppel
Mike likes to think he and his wife Ylva have a pretty solid relationship. Sure, she has strayed in the past, but he was able to forgive and forget and move on. So when she's late home from work one night he assumes she's stayed on for a few drinks with colleagues. But when there's still no sign of her when he wakes up the next day, he's worried. Days become weeks and weeks become months, and still nobody is any closer to finding out what has become of Ylva. Little do they know she is being held captive in the basement of the house across the road, only able to watch helplessly via a hidden camera as her family begin to forget her and get on with their lives.
Meanwhile, a couple of men halfway across the country stumble across their old high school yearbook and start to reminisce about the old days. They were the class nerds back then, tormented by a group of bullies they remember as the 'Gang of Four'. Nostalgia drives them to look up those children who gave them hell and they are startled to discover that all of the 'Gang of Four' seem to have met an untimely end.
From the beginning I found it difficult to engage with any of the characters in this book. All of them are a bit vague and non-descript, almost like shells of personalities. Ylva herself is difficult to work out. When we read scenes that she is involved in she comes across as an inoffensive enough person. But when Mike's experiences are explored there are frequent hints to her promiscuity and disloyalty. This is reinforced at the very end of the book when the motive of her abductors is revealed and we find out more about Ylva's past. The whole thing feels a little like the reader is being pushed towards doing a bit of victim-blaming, which is something I really dislike.
I also had some niggles with the plot itself. It is unbelievable just how little action the police take to investigate Ylva's disappearance. The two officers are absolute caricatures of the typical bumbling cop, more worried about what flavour of ice-cream to choose than about the task at hand. Their suspicions fall on Mike and Mike alone from the very start, and they do nothing at all to investigate any other leads that arise over the course of the novel. The involvement of her two old classmates also seemed tenuous and I found their motive for getting involved to be quite far-fetched.
Something would be amiss if I didn't highlight the fact that Ylva is subjected to numerous attacks of sexual violence during her capture, and these are described on multiple occasions. I can say that I, personally, didn't find them too traumatic to get through. For comparison, I can say that they certainly didn't repulse me anywhere near as much as the rape scene in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which everyone and their grandma seems to have managed to read by now. But if you are somebody who is particularly averse to tackling this kind of subject matter then this book should definitely be avoided.
I am sorry to say that I found little to excite me in She's Never Coming Back. The woman-trapped-in-basement plot is one that has been done several times, and nothing new is brought to the table in this book. The writing is solid but without a flair to make it stand out among its contemporaries. I believe that the author is already an established writer of childrens' books under his real name but that this will be the first in a crime trilogy. This strikes me as odd as there is literally nobody in this book who I can begin to imagine as the lead protagonist in a mystery series. I can't help but wonder how he will take this further.
For those whose interest has been piqued by this synopsis, I might recommend Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen, as that was a really excellent read that uses a similar female hostage situation but has really grea, unique characters. I guess this will teach me to be more discerning about my Scandinavian crime choices in future!
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- Anonymous19 May 2013 at 19:56
What a pity this book disappointed you so much. I read it and liked it, but there were definitely some things that I didn't like about it, too.ReplyDelete
My review (in Dutch, if you're curious, there's Google translate) is here: http://boekblogger.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/boek-recensie-ze-komt-nooit-meer-terug-van-hans-koppel/
I think not all Scandinavian crime writing is equally strong, and how could it? It's just a marketing ploy of course!
The whole plot sounds like something I would not be happy reading, so just as well that I saw your review and won't worry that I missing something. Thanks for this review.ReplyDelete
This doesn't seem like my cup of tea at all. Like Tracy, I too am glad to have read this review and now needn't worry about picking up the book otherwise the title with its melancholic undertones would have made me give it a try.ReplyDelete


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Sunday, August 24, 2008
1/144 Line Barrel PVC fig super advanced pre-order ver.
Item: 1/144 Line Barrel PVC action figure Super Advanced Pre-order Ver.
Height: 14cm
Series: Linebarrels of Iron
Maker: Volks
Retail price: 7,350 yen
Release date: Fall 2008
Info: Only available for pre-order at Volks booth at Wonder Festival 2008 Summer, C3xHobby Chara Hobby 2008, Comiket 74, and through Volks online store.
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