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Tiger Woods was my boyfriend for a year and a half while we were both undergraduates at Stanford. I've never spoken to the press about him; I'm not coming forward now for money or to advance any pathetic showbiz aspirations, but merely to stick up for a friend. I haven't seen Tiger since the late '90s, but I know who he is at his core because we were together during some of his most formative years. He was so human and cared so much about other people and the world around him. This may surprise some people, but Tiger was a great boyfriend.
I have so many fond memories of our time together. At that age Tiger had an amazing metabolism so we spent a lot of time eating. Our favorite restaurant was a Chinese joint in Mountain View; the guys there must have been golf fans because they always gave us free desserts, which was a big deal to us.
I walked many golf courses watching Tiger play, sometimes with his mother, Tida. I grew up on an Indian reservation in Minnesota, and I think Tida accepted me so readily because Tiger and I shared many of the same values. Earl and I talked a lot about politics and national affairs, and Earl often made me laugh so hard, my stomach muscles cramped. He loved to tease Tiger and me about our puppy love.
During our Southern California road trips Tiger and I spent a lot of time at the beach. We would steal a bottle of whiskey from Earl or I'd use my fake ID to buy a jug of wine, and we'd hang out and dream about the future. Tiger was very driven to be a great golfer, but he also talked a lot about wanting to make a larger contribution to society. Settling down was not a priority; Earl had drilled into Tiger that he should wait until his 30s to get married.
Our relationship ended when Tiger turned pro after his sophomore year. Becoming the first person in my family to earn a college degree was so important to me that I wasn't willing to give up my studies to follow him. Like everyone else, I was shocked by the revelations about his infidelities. The Tiger I knew was loyal, devoted and self–controlled. I'm not naive, but I can say with certainty that he was faithful during the time we dated. The speculation that he's being treated for sex addiction is surprising because we enjoyed a normal sexual relationship.
I don't have any insight into how he led such a double life. I will say that Tiger had an ability to shut things out and compartmentalize his emotions. Even back then he felt enormous pressure to be Tiger Woods. Maybe this was his form of escape.
Obviously Tiger has made some big mistakes, but he's apologized and seems to be trying to heal himself and his family. I hope the public will forgive him because he deserves a second chance. He's a good person with a caring heart.


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Paneer Mini
I made this sandwiched Paneer Mini for dinner yesterday along with Beetroot Chawli Soup.The Paneer filling inside the Mini buns was just classy. Can make it really fast. An all time favourite. Children will simply love it. Can pack for lunch box too. Use fresh Paneer as the sandwich will be too good. Yum when served with Beetroot Chawli Soup.
Mini Buns -6 ( available in super markets )
Finely chopped Paneer pieces – 1 and 1/2 cups
Finely chopped onion – 1
Finely chopped green chilli – 1/4 piece
Finely chopped tomatoes – 2
Pounded ginger garlic paste – 1 teaspoon
Turmeric powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Kashmiri chilli powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Everest Kitchen King Masala – 1/2 teaspoon
Garam Masala powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Jeera powder 1/2 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Sugar – 1 teaspoon
Water – 2 tablespoons
To Season
Oil – 2 tablespoons
Jeera – 1 teaspoon
To Garnish
Finely chopped coriander leaves – little
Crushed Kasturi methi – little
Heat a pan. Season. Fry onion on medium flame till transparent. Next add the chopped tomatoes, green chilli, pounded ginger garlic paste, salt and sugar. Cook on sim flame till the tomatoes turn mushy. Add all the dry spice powders. Sauté. Add 2 tablespoons water. Add the chopped Paneer. Stir .Garnish. Use this mix as a stuffing for the buns. Halve the Mini buns . Dry toast them on a tava. Stuff , cover the bun, press it gently. Serve with Beetroot Chawli Soup.
Chef 's Tips
1) Use fresh soft Mini buns.
2)Do not add more green chilli as it will become spicy.

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brining, no soaking - just mix a few common spices together, pop it in the smoker (or oven, or offset on the cool side of a Weber kettle). I've never cooked a piece of meat this large in a gas grill but I imagine if the gas grill was a monster you could cook it on the offset (no burner on) side!?!
Overall cook time is typically between 9 and 10 hours (at 225 - 250F grate temp)
There are a lot of spices listed so I'll list the necessary spices and then the optional spices. This recipe is for one butt - average weight is about 8lbs.
Brown Sugar - 2 cups packed
Season Salt - 1/4 cup
Garlic Powder - 1/4 cup
Black Pepper - 1/8 Cup
Chili Powder - 1/8 cup
Optional Spices (Add to the above)
Cumin - 2 tblspn
Ground Mustard - 2 tblspn
Granulated Onions - 2 tblspn
Paprika - 1 tblspn
Additional Option - I like to slather the butt with yellow mustard - it gets the spices to really stick to the butt. It isn't necessary but some people like it.
The butts are put on the smoker - grate temp is at 225 - 250F.
crutched. Once the internal temp of the butt reaches 165F, place the butt in a disposable half pan with about 1 cup of apple juice and then foil tightly and place back onto the smoker. Depending on when you want the meat to be finished, you can turn the smoker up or down 25 - 50 degrees.
Now the butts are crutched. This term is used loosely in the BBQ world and basically translates to the meat is wrapped in foil or placed in a pan and covered in foil. This traps any additional fat that is rendered out of the meat and also gives you the opportunity to add some juice to the pan / foil to increase the juiciness of the finished meat. Keep in mind that when you crutch meat, it increases the speed at which the meat cooks. Keep a close eye on the meat after it is crutched so you don't over cook. You can see I am using a Stoker to monitor the cook. At the end of this post you can see the graphical display from the Stoker. This allows me to closely monitor the meat during the cook and alarm me via my lap top or cell phone when any set alarm points are reached. I know - super geeky but the final product comes out great when it is properly cooked. It also provides some peace of mind when you don't have to check the meat every 5 minutes. There are some other simpler / less costly methods such as a temp monitor with alarms like this one - but you can't look at it on your lap top or get the super cool graphical display of the cook!
OK - now the meat has reached an internal temp of 202 - 205F. Make sure you are probing the meat in several places. If the butt is bone in - make sure the probe is NOT touching the bone. The probe should also slide in and out of the meat like a hot knife through butter. Temp is a great indicator but after you cook a few butts you will have a great idea if the meat is done by the resistance when you probe (let the jokes begin).
You can see there is a significant amount of juice in the bottom of the pan - pour out about half of the juice. The rest will be included when you pull the pork. I don't add any sauce to my pulled pork - usually people don't even notice because the juice keeps the meat super moist.
sporks?) that your grandma has for family style meals. Me? I use wolverine claws. There are also some light weight but very useful things called bear paws. I recommend them. As you are pulling the pork, pull out any large pieces of fat. Shred the pork to the desired size. It should pull apart easily.
Now place onto a roll or bun, top with some cole slaw, sauce, or nothing! Let's eat!
Here is the view of my Stoker Log during this cook. You can see how the meat cooked (internal temp) in Black Graph lines v. time - Red Graph Lines. The Red Graph Lines or Grate Temp seem to fluctuate quite a bit until I changed the pit temp to "smoke" setting. I have to adjust the digital controller on my pit. This is not something you really want to see in a bbq / smoker. In this case I was using my newer Traeger 075 - a smoker I highly recommend.
You can also see that after I crutched the meat, it dropped in temp a few degrees but the internal temp ramped up quickly after it was crutched. Large pieces of meat like pork butt or brisket are also susceptible to a phenomenon called "getting stuck". It usually happens around 145F internal temp but it can happen all the way to 165F. I never get too nervous unless it stays "stuck" - no temp change more than 5 degrees in 2 hours. If the meat gets "stuck" you can temporarily increase the grate temp by 25 - 50F for a short time until the meat gets "unstuck" and then decrease the grate temp back to the cooking temp. It seems to happen to me about 15% of the time. As long as you are paying attention you can still get your meat done on time.


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Is Fairfax ready for a Ciclovia?Today we participated in an event sponsored by the Alliance for Biking and Walking (formerly Thunderhead Alliance) entitled Bring the Ciclovia to Your Streets: Lessons From Experts. "Ciclovia, a Spanish term meaning 'bike path', is a temporary closure of streets to cars, and opening of streets to people biking, walking, skating, etc." A panel of experts answered questions from advocates around the country about holding Ciclovias.
Ciclovias are great events that open the streets to everyone, usually for a period of time on a Sunday morning. Local groups often sponsor activities in the streets. Some examples are dance and yoga groups doing demonstrations and holding classes, bike rentals and bike repair stands, aerobics classes; the possibilities are endless.
Organizers of events in Chicago (Sunday Parkways), Cleveland (Walk+Roll), and San Francisco (Sunday Streets) provided many tips on holding such events. It's important to meet early in the planning process with affected businesses and organizations to explain the concept, including examples of events in other areas. To many people it's a new idea, unlike most other events that require the streets to be closed. The first event is always the most difficult. Once people how well the events are received by the public, subsequent events become much easier.
Is Fairfax ready for a Ciclovia? Where would you like to see the streets opened up to the public for a few hours on the weekend?
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A man armed with a number of handguns opened fire indiscriminately on a room of students at Monash University's Clayton campus today, killing two and injuring five people.
The man, aged in his mid-30s, was tackled by several people after opening fire in a classroom at the Menzies Building, part of the campus in outer south-eastern Melbourne, at about 11.20am.
Two seriously injured men were airlifted to the Alfred Hospital in inner-Melbourne in a critical condition. Three others were taken to the nearby Monash Medical Centre.
An Age reporter at the scene, Padriac Murphy, said police told reporters the shooting happened on the 6th floor of the building during a tutorial.
Superintendent Trevor Parks said the man, of Asian background, had been taken into police custody and was being questioned.
"He was in the possession of a number of handguns," Superintendent Parks said.
"He went into a classroom. It would appear there has been indiscriminate shooting following that."
Police are also urging Monash students to contact their parents or next of kin to allay any safety concerns.
The victims were also of Asian appearance and in their early 20s.
An ambulance spokeswoman said the most seriously injured were two men, one aged in his 30s and the other in his 20s.
The first man was shot in the upper body, the other was hit in the leg and arm.
Both men were found near the two dead victims, in the room of the Menzies Building.
Paramedics were later called to the medical centre where a further three people were being treated.
One of the three - a man who was shot in the shoulder and also lost the top of a finger - was taken to St Vincent's Hospital for plastic surgery.
A woman suffering facial injuries, and a 23-year-old man shot in both legs, were taken to the Monash Medical Centre.
Police won't speculate on the motive, but said the gunman was over-powered by other students or staff in the classroom before being arrested by police.
He was taken into custody for questioning.
Monash University Vice-Chancellor Peter Darvall said classes had been called off for the day in the Menzies Building, which would have housed up to 2,000 students at the time of the shooting.
Classes in the David Derham School of Law building have also been postponed.
Students have been asked to call friends and families to assure them of their safety.
Police have released two phone numbers for family and friends of Monash University students to call for information about the fatal shootings.
The numbers are (03) 9545 6961 and (03) 9545 6579.
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- Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you develop sites that look beautiful at any screen size. Skeleton uses 960 grid as its base.
- 320 and up prevents mobile devices from downloading desktop assets by using a tiny screen's stylesheet as its starting point.
- Gridless is a solid HTML5 and CSS3 framework for making responsive, cross-browser websites with nice typography. Gridless takes a different approach to responsiveness: it uses media queries to serve a progressively-enhanced responsive layout, starting from mobile and building up to desktop sizes.
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If I hadn't seen the author's name on Death is a Lonely Business's front cover, I would have never guessed it was Ray Bradbury. That Ray Bradbury, who wrote the denunciative critique Fahrenheit 451. The same Bradbury, who shared his childhood memories in the amazingly nostalgic Dandelion Wine. No, this genius of 20th century literature cannot possibly write such a mediocre collection of words. I wouldn't call it a novel; it doesn't deserve this praise.
Death is a Lonely Business is a criminal thing. However, those of you raised with Chandler, Christie, Doyle, etc do not be misguided that you might enjoy this. You won't. The plot is set in Venice, California, a small town near Los Angeles and Hollywood.A mysterious murderer kills innocent people without leaving any trace behind. Our character (also an author but unfortunately quite a bad one) together with a provincial detective (who also attempts to be a writer) try to solve the murder. At the end our "brave", "clever", and extremely boring protagonist manages to do this by himself through shallow conclusions. Really,even I could have come up with a better plot and I am not really into detective stories.
The author mentions in an interview that he grew up i Venice, California and a lot of the images in the novel were actually memories from his childhood there. In addition, most of the characters were inspired by real people, whom Bradbury met at some point of his life. Again, we can feel a slight nostalgia (very slight) as in Dandelion Wine. Also, critiques claim that the protagonist is Bradbury before he got married. I sincerely hope that one of my most favorite authors was not such a person. This is by far the worst thing (again not a novel) that I have read in a long time.
First of all, the plot – shallow, predictable, unrealistic, and boring. The protagonist – scared, oversensitive, constantly crying or complaining about something unaccomplished autor.He quite resembles Hamlet, to be honest. I would never believe that such a person will have the guts to go after a murderer, let alone solve the crime. Yet, by the powerful means of Bradbury's imagination, he does. OK, Bradbury claims that he didn't want to focus on the plot line but on the feelings created in his personages. The author aimed to deflect the attention from the crime and into the experiences and the anguish of the main characters. Than why did he write a criminal thing? Why didn't he just write a novel about feelings, nature, signs, whatever he wanted to show and just guide the reader through his intimation and even make him/her feel as if he/she was actually there, looking through the narrator's eyes, feeling the shivers through his body or the pain in his soul. No, he had to burden us with this ridiculous crime, which at the end becomes even more ridiculous when the murderer and his motives are revealed.
Throughout this collection of words, Bradbury attempted to be original. Either that or he was just high or drink. His comparisons and descriptions makes me wonder whether I am at a crime scene or in the zoo. Really. To compare waves to elephants is just too much. To say that the elephants were roaring and to expect me to deduct that the waves were crashing on the shore is as insane as to tell me the sun is rising and to want me to imagine the moon. I mean, metaphors are good; they make the text richer, more sensual, more influential, more touching. However, they only do that when they are clever and to the point. As if trying to sound smart Bradbury opened the metaphor synonyms dictionary (something like the Word synonyms dictionary) and changed everything. Attempting to look original, the only thing he does is sound weird and stupid.
As I soon as I finish writing this review I will do my best to forget I ever read this and mainly the fact that this was written by Ray Bradbury, an author whom I greatly admire.


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Hello Everyone,
"Tradition is the illusion of permanance."- Woody Allen
Have you ever wondered why so many Westerners, secular and religious alike, have put such a valued emphasis on Christmas family traditions?
Every year as December rolls around, I am constantly bombarded by the diversity of ideas with regards to the meaning of Christmas and togetherness. When you ask your friends or family members what some of their favourite traditions are and why, most of the time they are somehow related to annual rituals of putting up a tree, creating an advent wreath, baking tasty holiday treats together, and possibly enjoying a delightful Bailey's coffee by a fireplace with those whom you are closest with, while dreaming about the snowflakes falling in Southern BC mainland.
Ok, so perhaps that is just my idea of what Christmas looks like; but in all seriousness, many people define this holiday as a time to gather around with their loved ones and feel a common sense of belonging, wherein meaning is generated through what Emile Durkheim refers to as the "collective consciousness" (Allan, 2011, p. 84).
This type of shared and social cohesion can be understood into two parts: cognitive and emotional (Allan, 2011, 84). Although Durkheim acknowledges that rational thought does create a sense of collective consciousness, he puts more emphasis on the role that emotion and culture have in determining the collective (Allan, 2011, p. 84). The ritual-processes that occur, in that moment of consciousness further generates and facilitates a shared understanding and meaning amongst individuals who partake in such practices (Allan, 2011, p. 84).
Depending on the community and family an individual is apart of, the type of social solidarity that occurs can differ. The first type is known as Mechanical Solidarity, this is where the division of labour is almost non-existent, and the values and meaning of culture is relatively the same for all individuals (Allan, 2011, p. 88). The second type is called Organic Solidarity, this is something that we as a Modern Western Society experience on a daily basis (Allan, 2011, p 88). Although the values and cultural rituals may be similar to that in a Mechanical society, the division of labour is extremely high as modernization and innovation continue to progress (Allan, 2011, p. 88). Furthermore, people become more diverse in how they may approach their rituals and practices, as the society becomes more individualized and less collective in some ways (Allan, 2011, p. 88).
The sharing of rituals, and rationale within the Christmas season amongst family members and friends creates a sense of social solidarity (Allan, 2011, p. 87). This sort of solidarity consists of three particular components: individual subjectivity in where the individual member feels a sense of belonging to the group; the constraint of individual desires and functions depending on the collective; and lastly the interdependence and coordination of the individuals and social units for the greater good of the collective (Allan, 2011, 87). So how does Durkheim's theory of social solidarity fit into this delightfully, romantic and consumer-based Christmas analogy you ask?
The traditions and the meaning of Christmas differs per family and community. An example is when I have visited various families over Christmas and noticed how different their rituals can be from my own family's Christmas practices. In some ways, I had to learn about their traditions in order to be considered part of their collective consciousness in that time and place. If I refused to partake in some of those traditions, I would be seen as an outsider to the group and a potential threat to their social cohesion, thus not sharing in that social solidarity with them, this can be an example of the need for sameness as described in Mechanical Solidarity (Allan, 2011, p. 88). If the family or group was open to modifying or changing some of their traditions due to the changing elements within that society, as they embrace diversity in how Christmas rituals are acted upon, that kind of social cohesion would be identified as Organic Solidarity (Allan, 2011, p. 88).
Overall, there can be a reflection of both types of solidarity depending on the social-cultural type of society in which the group or family is apart of. Who knew that Christmas would encompass both types of solidarity? So next time you partake in some of the Christmas rituals, think about why or how this relates to your sense of social belonging within the collective conscience as you gather together with loved ones this season.
Works Cited:
Allan, K. (2011). A primer in social and sociological theory: Toward a sociology of citizenship. Los Angeles: SAGE/Pine Forge.


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To Honor the Dragon
Some soldiers fight for money, some to spread their version of liberty, still others for a sense of adventure. For the men and women of the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery there is only one reason for service: the honor of the Dragon.
From the moment Shiro Kurita raised the Dragon's banner, the soldiers of House Kurita have remained dedicated to the warrior's path above all others. For seven centuries they have spread fear and respect in equal measure, expanding and protecting the Dragon with loyalty and honor tempered by the ancient code of bushido and forged in battles on a hundred worlds.
BattleTech Combat Manual: Kurita contains information on these warriors. This manual examines the combat commands of the Draconis Combine, detailing their histories, tactics, unit crests, paint schemes, and notable personnel. This Alpha Strike expansion includes special rules for unique character abilities, faction-specific rules, force-building, and a mini-Technical Readout—everything you need to field your favorite Draconis Combine unit on the tabletop, or create your own.
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A british pub in Toronto.
The story of Upper Canada was written in its taverns. Everything that mattered in life was conducted within the walls of local hostelries: post offices, political meetings, even school lessons and church services.
The traditional tavern was a place to gather and exchange news, to catch up with neighbours and meet travelers, to enjoy an honest meal and quench an outdoor thirst. And it was a place to plot revolution.
A gathering of farmers and firebrands at Montgomery's Tavern in 1837 marched into history as the Upper Canada Rebellion. Virtually unarmed and seriously outnumbered, the rebels faced the King's forces, led by sheriff Jarvis, in several battles on Yonge Street between Eglinton and Bloor. Some paid with their lives, sentenced to hanging from the gallows, at the old court house at present-day King and Jarvis
The Rebel House is named in honour of the spirit and independence of these pioneer fighters.
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I love Friends. Too much for words. I could probably watch that show 24/7. It's always hilarious.
Kyle, Selena, Gabe, and I went with my in-law's to my father-in-law's mother's house.
Mouthful, huh?
This was..in February. She had made us some food, and part of it was this french bread with about a half inch of garlic butter in the middle. Kyle's been going on and on and ON about it ever since. And it's almost April. Sheesh.
I was making spaghetti the other night and decided to give a try at some french bread with garlic butter.
It came out amazingly.
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Shrewsbury and Telford were amongst most of central Shropshire, enveloped in a sea of fog - and if you don't believe me - check out the later images. I was hoping with Yvonne to get amongst the Waxwings but despite visits to Stokesay at 9.30 and 1.30 - they'd gone!!!
The reason could of course be the local aggressively territorial Missile Thrush (yes that is spelt correctly). I didn't see it eat a single berry but it certianly did it's utmost to prevent any other birds eating them too. Undoubtedly it's destined to be reincarnated as a Sparrowhawk!! Needless to say, I couldn't catch it in flight!
One or two of the Blackbirds were allowed pickings off the ground....
No Holly, so had to make do with a gravestone for the Robin....
The only other worthwhile Bird image of the day came at Vernalls Common - a speculative cruise around the area, just in case the Black Redstart reported in 2008 had stuck? The only bird seen catching flies on a rooftop was, unbelievably a Grey Wagtail!!
A Longmynd finale - check out these atmospheric pics of Mid Shropshire bathed in a sea of fog.....
......followed by the most amazing views of a pair of Hen Harriers flying in to roost, not enough light for photography sadly. The male came in first, only to be unceremoniously ousted from the heather by the female and giving an extended display. Brrr, the temperature was now -8'C!!
Saturday, 3 January 2009
South Shropshire - fog free zone!
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Here're a few quick pics (photo credit: the lovely Jen McQuaide) from yesterday's RunningShoes.com Duathlon. Great fun, great friends, great workout esp. on the 29er single-speed. Above, check out my shirt. Fetching, huh? Below, Johnny Boy Clark heads out on the ride. Speaking of the ride, I shot video with my helmet cam but can't seem to post it here. So here it is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpoHSLL7gk.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpoHSLL7gk
Team Unattacked including the Titanium Cowboy complete with new scaphoid McNugget cast. Great to see the boy.


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Patients entering hospital could be asked on their admissions form whether they wished to donate their organs for transplant under plans being considered by the NHS.
Another potentially controversial suggestion involves recording the wishes of the dying and those placed on so-called "end of life" care by doctors.
Incentivising donations by offering state subsidy of funeral costs, asking those filling in standard tax and passport forms to become donors, and raising organ donation issues with children at school are among ideas put forward in response to a survey in preparation for a shake-up of organ transplantation, which will challenge current ethical, professional and legal rules.
Two other suggestions – including a box on the donor registration form saying "I don't want my family to override my wish to donate" and asking the next-of-kin as well as the donor to sign donor cards – are aimed at encouraging the discussion of donation within families but also reduce the possibility of grieving relatives trying to countermand donation decisions.
Earlier this week authorities in Scotland suggested about 15% of potential organs for transplant are lost because families wanted to override their loved ones' dying wishes.
Research published by the NHS Blood and Transplant authority in the summer suggested half those who wished to donate organs hadn't told family or friends. The NHSBT survey launched in July and completed last month asked about extending the practice by which the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre "nudges" those applying for driving licences into deciding whether they want to join the donor register to other documents, such as marriage applications or wills. The option is also already present on applications for a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) which covers UK patients for free treatment within the EU.
Sally Johnson, the NHSBT's director of organ donation and transplantation, has personally suggested using the new universal credit, the single payment to be launched next year for those seeking work or on low incomes. Many of the ideas would need ministerial approval from governments in the UK, and some legislation.
Responses to the survey suggest medical support for ideas already floated by NHSBT, including presumed consent for organ donation unless people have actively opted out (an idea Welsh ministers want to implement in 2015) and using "elective ventilation" to prolong the lives of people who have no chance of survival in order to harvest their organs. This has not been tested legally. One move regarded by NHSBT at present as "possibly a step too far" - that the 19 million people on the organ donor register should get priority if they need a transplant - was backed too.
Some ideas would mean hospitals needing more intensive care beds and more time in operating theatres devoted to organ removal and donation. The NHSBT board believes transplants should be concentrated at fewer specialist centres across the UK. At present, there are seven heart and lung centres, seven for pancreas transplants and 24 for kidney transplants.
James Neuberger, NHSBT's associate medical director, said of discussing organ donation on hospital admission: "We have to reassure people that the role of any healthcare professional is to save and improve life ... We have got to work very hard to maintain trust so that people have confidence that if they go into hospital that they will be there to get treated and cured if possible, and that donation is considered only when it is the right time. People need to have confidence too that we treat donated organs with respect, dignity and gratitude."
Donors' wishes were paramount, said Neuberger. "The key issue is that if somebody has indicated clearly they wish to be an organ donor at their death and their family are really very, very distressed and upset, then clinicians are faced with a difficult dilemma. You want to respect the wishes of the donor but in some circumstances, it is usually unanticipated, sudden death, you don't want to add unduly to the distress of the family. So there has to be some flexibility on this. The key thing is for the potential donor to let their families know so they are prepared, and they won't feel any reservation in having those wishes fulfilled."
Although organ donation after death has increased, there are concerns this trend is slowing. About 1,000 people a year are said to die because they could not get a transplant. Senior managers at NHSBT will meet other experts later this month before drawing up priorities for change. Final drafts go to the organisation's board in January before being shared with UK health departments. The strategy will be published in April.
There were nearly 3,960 organ transplants carried out in the UK last year involving donations from 2,134 donors, more than 1,000 of them living kidney donors.


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I used this firstly on my newspaper nails where i'd used a base coat, two coats of white polish, the newspaper ink, and then a top coat and it's safe to say it took longer than a second. So you put your finger into the hole, twist it then pull it out (that would sound dodgy out of context), although I had to do this about 5 or 6 times untill it had gone, which to be honest is still easier than removing nail polish with cotton wool. I used it again on nail varnish where i'd used just a base and 2 colour coats and left it to dry for about and an hour and it only took one second to remove it.
If you smell the sponge it definitely smells of nail varnish remover, although once you've taken your finger out and it has dried, it does in fact leave a fruity smell on your fingers, which is a major plus in my books.
I highly recommend this nifty little gadget it's a great time saver and the size which I have (75ml) could quite easily fit into your handbag. Plus it's only £4.99, the price i'd usually pay for a half decent nail varnish remover anyway.
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From Philly.com:
Some donors have told Susquehanna University that they intend to keep their cash now that the "Crusaders" nickname and logo are being replaced.This is another example of political-correctness run amok. If Muslims don't like the Crusaders name, they don't have to enroll at Susquehanna.
Others offered donations in support of Monday's decision to move on from the moniker that dates to 1924, according to university president L. Jay Lemons.
The issue has split opinion in three directions: approval, refusal, and apathy.
By Wednesday, a day-old change.org petition to keep the name had passed 1,500 signatures. Supporters are rallying on Twitter and Facebook. There's been a run on Crusader merchandise at the campus bookstore.
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Or, "How Tabula Rasa Made Me Love WoW General"
Most of you who check this site probably know me from Maintankadin, the Paladin Tanking forums for which I act as moderator and community manager. What you may not know is that I've been cheating a bit. Yes, I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've been having an affair with another game, and another online community related to that game. I'm speaking of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa.
Blame Ciderhelm, it was his siren song that lured me. I was weak.
Anyway, desperate housewife analogy aside, I enjoyed Tabula Rasa. It served as a pretty decent diversion from the farmed content blah's I discussed in my previous post, and the prospect of being one of the founding fathers of theorycraft in a new MMO was enticing. However, all was not well in Garriottsville.
Tabula Rasa has no official forums. It's not the first game to try this, but it's the first I've had any experience with. Instead, they have a fan site program which serves as a listing of sites that fit certain criteria, and a feedback form that players can use to contact the developers directly. Some employees browse some of the forum-oriented sites, and occasionally post random insights on some of the more popular ones.
"But Lore," I hear you say, "That sounds great! Fan-run sites tend to be more focused and closely moderated, and the official WoW forums are a pit of agony and despair that serve only as an exercise in masochism and mental destruction!" to which I respond in two ways. First, get out of my head. Second, that may be the case, but the official forums serve a very real purpose, and unfortunately there's some precipitation looming outside the silver-lined utopia of Tabula Rasa's community management stance.
For one, lack of official forums gives disgruntled or concerned members of the community no real outlet for their concerns. Yeah, there's the feedback form, but this is an MMO we're talking about. The goal is to nurture and grow a community around your game. You can send in your feedback, and that's fine, but you get no backup from the community. It's just you and the poor sap who gets to sift through all the incoming feedback and decide what's important enough to show to the developers and what isn't. It's not public. No one else gets a chance to weigh in on it, and regardless of how often they say "we read everything submitted through the feedback form" you still get the feeling you're talking to no one. This also has had the effect of creating "Feedback Form Campaigns" in which several members of the community submit the same notion through the feedback form in an effort to show the developers that there's a large number of people concerned about a particular issue. That, to me, seems at best counter-intuitive and at worst two steps away from spamming.
For two, the fan-run communities don't really serve as a decent stand-in like you'd think. I'm not even sure they could. The idea is that pointing people towards fan-run forums would not only promote fan-run community but let the community govern itself as it sees fit. This fails in practice. If you want to keep tabs on what Blizzard has to say, you check the official forums for blue posts in the categories you're interested in. If you want to keep tabs on what NCSoft has to say, you have at least 3 forums to keep track of, all of which have different structures and rules, many repeated threads on the same topics from other forums, and no easy way to tell if a developer has responded to any of the threads there. On top of that, since there's no real NCSoft "Community Managers" - just a couple employees who keep tabs on things - comments are few and far between.
You would think, at the very least, this would cause more activity on the fan-run forums. However, there's a problem. The 3 or so forums that get NCSoft attention tend to be where everyone goes, and fan-run forums tend to frown on posters directing people to other fan-run forums, even in a niche environment. After all, why not just talk about whatever it is you wanted to talk about at our forums instead of going to that other place? On top of that, the fan site listing is pretty much just a wall of text and makes it very hard for individual sites to shine. The result is the community becomes splintered at best and stifled at worst. Sub-communities like Maintankadin or Tankspot have become quite popular and beneficial to the health of the WoW community. Sites like that simply do not survive in Tabula Rasa's fan-run community.
At least there aren't all the QQ posts, right? I mean, the fan-run forums obviously have closer moderation, they lock or delete all the posts that serve no purpose other than random whining. Forum trolls and "Nerf Warlocks" threads just don't exist, making everything generally more pleasant and constructive, right? I don't believe that's true. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that QQ posts need to exist - in some fashion or another - for an online community to thrive. This is probably the biggest failing in Tabula Rasa's approach.
The general response on WoW fan forums like Maintankadin is "Keep the QQ to the official forums." Well, if there's no official forums, where does it go? Believe it or not, those threads aren't always worthless. If I post a thread about how "my guild gives all the tanking loot to the Warriors and doesn't let me have any qq" on the official forums, the community will weigh in and help me learn how I can convince my raid leader to let me loot tanking gear. If nothing else, QQ posts serve as an indication of how the community feels. Maybe 50% of the Tabula Rasa community absolutely hates the first zone. You wouldn't know this by looking at the fan-run forums; random bitching threads get locked or deleted immediately, without anyone at NCSoft ever knowing. Yeah it would be nice if every player would just list out their concerns in an easy-to-read and convincing format, but that's just not going to happen. Not everyone is an English major, and their opinions are valid regardless of how well presented they are.
Long story short, I think the purpose that the official WoW forums serve is often overlooked and taken for granted. Even if all you see is "nerf warlocks" and "casuals need epics" that's still good info. That lets you know, regardless of how nicely it's phrased or how productive the thread becomes, how your community is perceiving your game. This is obvious even on a smaller scale like Maintankadin - if I see the same question coming up over and over again, that tells me that I need to make that information more readily available (usually through a sticky). Yeah, those people probably should have used the search function. Yeah, those threads are just going to get locked. That doesn't mean I can't use what I learn from them to make the community stronger. I'd like to think WoW's community management team looks at those threads in the same way. If I locked 50 "AV is biased towards Alliance" threads in one day, that would, at the very least, tell me that there's probably something that could be improved.
Players' opinions are valuable regardless of the method in which they are presented. Ignoring them is foolish. Cutting them off entirely is just plain stupid.
Monday, January 21, 2008
3 comments:
- Michael J. said...
We should all use the TR feedback form to send us the message provided by Lore.
- January 21, 2008 at 2:01 PM
- Antuan said...
I tried this game in Beta it did not grip me at all. So I skipped on it, any other games you looking at down the pike?
- January 25, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Lore said...
Looking at Age of Conan (just because it's made by Funcom) and obviously Warhammer, and I'm very much intrigued by what Blizzard's unnamed next-gen MMO might be.
I'm gunning for World of Starcraft.
- January 28, 2008 at 5:02 PM
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Apocalypse, Wow! Praying for a Bloodbath
"Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. … They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission."
Michael Ledeen
Neo-conservative ghoul
There are several revealing articles out on the web right now covering the "Literary Lunch" Maximum Ruler held at the White House with a group of A-list neo-conservatives. Accounts of that luncheon from both the left and right confirm very clearly the apocalyptic thinking of the "War President". For instance:
Accounts of a Feb. 28 "literary luncheon" at the White House suggest that President George W. Bush's reading tastes -- until now a remarkably good predictor of his policy views -- are moving ever rightward, even apocalyptic, despite his administration's recent suggestions that it is more disposed to engage Washington's foes, even in the Middle East.
The luncheon, attended as well by Vice President Dick Cheney and a dozen hard-line neo-conservatives, was held in honor of visiting British historian Andrew Roberts whose latest work, "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900", Bush reportedly read late last year and subsequently sent to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Cheney took the book with him on his recent trip to Pakistan.
A major lesson of history, Roberts told Bush, is that "will trumps wealth," according to Stelzer's account of the meeting in the Weekly Standard. He warned that "the steady drumbeat of media pessimism and television coverage are sapping the West's will" to fight and defeat the enemy which, in his view, includes Iran, as well as Sunni radicals, such as al Qaeda.
OK, so that's just a guy giving the President advice, right? You can't blame Bush for things people say to him, you say? Fair enough. But what about this?
In his article, Stelzer, an economist at the Hudson Institute and London Sunday Times columnist, disclosed that Bush had also recommended that his staff and friends read another, even more apocalyptic, analysis of the current war on terror, "America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It", by Toronto-born neo-conservative columnist Mark Steyn.
Steyn's book, which, unlike Roberts', actually made the New York Times bestseller list, sees Europe's demographic trends and its multicultural, "post-nationalist" secularism -- of which his native Canada is also guilty -- as leading inevitably to the "Eupocalypse", the "recolonization of Europe by Islam", the emergence of "Eurabia", and the onset of a "new Dark Ages" in which the United States will find it difficult to survive as the "lonely candle of liberty."
Well, the above characterization aside, what do we really know about this book and why should we assume that it's influence on the most powerful man in the world it's a bad thing?
Christopher Hitchens, no bleeding-heart liberal himself, reviewed this book for the City Journal and quotes Steyn as follows:
"Why did Bosnia collapse into the worst slaughter in Europe since World War Two? In the thirty years before the meltdown, Bosnian Serbs had declined from 43 percent to 31 percent of the population, while Bosnian Muslims had increased from 26 percent to 44 percent. In a democratic age, you can't buck demography—except through civil war. The Serbs figured that out—as other Continentals will in the years ahead: if you can't outbreed the enemy, cull 'em. The problem that Europe faces is that Bosnia's demographic profile is now the model for the entire continent."
"Cull them"? Excuse me but... did he just endorse ethnic cleansing?
Dave Neiwart, what do you think?
I don't see how it's possible to interpret this excerpt -- given that Steyn is also contending that these demographics are inevitable throughout Europe, and he offers no solution that would accommodate or assimilate Muslims -- as anything other than outright advocacy of genocide and the Bosnian model of "ethnic cleansing" for the rest of Europe.
Agreed. The President of the United States is now running around recommending this book both to his staff and to friends and associates.
Oh, but wait. There's more. What about that other book mention earlier that Dick Cheney keeps under his arm for long trips abroad?
Glenn Greenwald has the goods:
Roberts recently wrote the right-wing historical revisionism tract entitled History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. The book, as Roberts himself described it in an interview with Front Page Magazine, "does not consider British imperialism to have been a Bad Thing, argues that the Versailles Treaty was not harsh enough on Germany, [and] defends the bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki . . . . " A central theme is that "Intellectuals of the Left bear a heavy responsibility for the cruelties and savagery of the 20th century," and Roberts' world-view is filled with banalities like this:
I fear, in the light of Congress's recent nonbinding (and utterly self-contradictory) resolution opposing the surge, the gross bias of much of the Left-Liberal media, and the present poll ratings of Sen Hillary Clinton, that the US will lose the will to fight the War against Terror in any manner that might hold out the hope of ultimate victory.
So one can see why Roberts was chosen to be honored as the President's new favorite historian, and why his "history" book, which affirms George Bush's imperial worldview in every way, has become one of the President's favorites.
That's quite a reading list he has there. But, isn't there a lot of pressure from the American people to abandon this destructive course, Mr. Bush?
"I just don't feel any," he says with the calm conviction of a man who believes the constituency to which he must ultimately answer is the Divine Presence.
Ah, of course...
See also:
Doomsday Book: Bush Literary Lunch Foretells Horrors Ahead
Empire Burlesque
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Lot's going on here in Jamie's quilting studio, testing patterns, working on current ones, finishing others. This is actually part of my living room. It is such a convenient spot with plenty of light.
I have started livening up my Facebook page where you can see all my newest creations. With collaboration with my daughter, Shirley, we have opened up a new section called "Touch of Faith" that features quilted bible verses and other inspirational sayings that make wonderful "everlasting" gifts. I'd love to have you go on over there and like the page. Just press the Facebook line in blue above and away you go.........
I start every morning off with a couple of cups of coffee while reading a dozen or so quilting blogs and Facebook pages to keep up with what's going on in the world of quilting, fabric, new patterns and just plain enjoyment.
I would like to recommend one that is very interesting that is written by Bonnie K. Hunter, one of the most fascinating blog writers that I have come across in a long time. Her blog is called Quiltsville. She is the author of "Leaders and Enders" and several other great books. Celtic Solstice is one of my favorites from her blog. It was a mystery Quilt-A-Long (QAL). if you would like press the Quiltsville blue above and press the line under her heading. She also has some wonderful free patterns. if you enjoy her blog, go on over there and tell her so.
It would also be great if you would be so kind as to leave a comment below and let me know if you enjoy reading about great blogs and patterns that definitely made my bucket list.
Thanks for stopping by and remember when you want something beautiful and handmade, visit GoodiesByJamie.etsy.com


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You are "walking the character into the room." Why would you leave yourself outside the door when you audition? Start with yourself and everything is possible. Dare to be fully present and something authentic and compelling will happen. Experience a few simple exercises to address being fully present when you're working. And if you would like to be considered to present a monologue or prepared scene/sides, please arrive early with a copy of the material along with a headshot & resume. Four- six actors will be selected.
Bio of host: Marilyn McIntyre is an actor and teacher and coaches privately at the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood and in Melbourne, Australia. She also teaches at the Ted Brunetti Studio (on-camera), the SAG-AFTRA Hollywood Conservatory at AFI, and is the Coordinator of the Acting Program for "Elon in LA: Climbing the LAdder" (Elon University, NC). She has taught at California State University-Northridge (CSUN), the Old Globe/U of San Diego MFA Program, University of Southern California, University of Texas-Austin, Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, among others. In New York, she studied at HB Studios, and with Michael Shurtleff. In Los Angeles, Marilyn had the privilege of studying with Uta Hagen in her Master Class and is featured on Ms. Hagen's teaching video, "Uta Hagen's Acting Class" doing "Object Exercise #10: Historical Imagination", playing 'Charlotta' from The Cherry Orchard. Marilyn coaches privately for theatre, film and television - from script analysis to the audition through finessing a role already in production. Ms. McIntyre is an award-winning actor whose credits include leading roles on and off Broadway, regionally (South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Alley Theatre, Utah Shakespeare, et al) and in Los Angeles where she has garnered multiple Ovation, LA Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, and BackStage Garlands awards and several nominations for her work. Ms. McIntyre's numerous TV credits include Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Watch Over Me (series regular), Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Judging Amy, X-Files, The Profiler, LA Law, et al. Film credits include Kurt Kuenne's Shuffle (with TJ Thyne, Bones,) Heaven's Rain (opp. Mike Vogel, The Help), On Holiday (opp. Harry Dean Stanton), First Daughter, Ring 2, Peter Berg's Very Bad Things, and the hit short, George Lucas in Love, among others. She starred in the festival favorite short, Into The Unknown.
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Leading trainer Anthony Freedman is planning on giving German import Waldpark a light preparation in the lead-up to the Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on October 26.
Waldpark is set to make his Australian racing debut in the Group 2 Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on September 14 and Freedman said he is toying with the idea of that being the son of Dubawi's only start before he contests the Cox Plate.
"He'll trial in three weeks or so and then possibly run first-up in the Feehan (now known as the Dato Tan Chin Nam)," Freedman told Racing Victoria.
"He may not have another run before the Cox Plate, he might but I'm not sure where because I don't know the horse well enough yet."
Waldpark was brought to Australia by Australian Bloodstock, who partnered with Freedman to win the 2012 Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m) with fellow German import Mawingo, and Freedman has been delighted with what he has seen from the horse so far.
"He's been with me about three weeks," Freedman said.
He's a nice, neat and compact horse.
"He came to me in very good condition and he's settled in well."
Based on his form in Europe, Waldpark is set to be a leading contender for the Group 1 Australasian Weight For Age Championship.
At his last start in Germany, in the Group 2 Grosser Preis Der Badischen Unternehmer (2212m) he finished only a head behind Novellist who has stamped himself as arguably the best middle distance horse in Europe after his win in the Group 1 Grand Prix De Saint-Cloud (2412m) and dominant victory in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2412m) at Ascot on Saturday.
Anthony Freedman is searching for his first Cox Plate victory as a trainer in his own right but his families stable has previously won the race with Super Impose (1992) and Makybe Diva (2005).


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Collier talks about faculty aversion to "online" resources -- and instead of just complaining about difficult-to-teach library assignments, she provides examples of how to other librarians have worked with faculty to improve those assignments.
I recommend it especially to students interested in working in an academic library, but it's got some actual instruction interactions which would be interesting to librarians of most stripes.
For More Information
- Collier, Ellie. Stepping on Toes: The Delicate Art of Talking to Faculty about Questionable Assignments. In the Library with the Leadpipe, March 18, 2009.


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- Publish your Farm Fresh Friday post on your blog.
- Once it is published, click on the title of the post. This will lead you to the static link for your post. The static link is the page with only that post on it. Copy the url from your browser at the top of the page.
- Paste the url into the appropriate inlinkz box in this post.
- Type your name in the appropriate inlinkz box in this post.
- Click on "Enter"
- Please link back to this Farm Fresh Friday post so that your readers can find other posts related to the party!
Friday, June 29, 2012
Farm Fresh Friday #9
14 comments:
- Jan Berry said...
What a sweet love story! :)
- June 29, 2012 at 7:51 AM
- barb said...
Was he wearing bib overalls? They get me every time.
- June 29, 2012 at 8:10 AM
- Deana said...
Thanks for hosting : )
- June 29, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Thanks for visiting my blog and for Farm Fresh Fridays!
- June 29, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Thanks for visiting my blog and for Farm Fresh Fridays!
- June 29, 2012 at 8:40 AM
- TexWisGirl said...
that is too sweet! i love potatoes so could have easily been wooed with them. :)
- June 29, 2012 at 9:54 AM
- bj said...
O, Shoot...I didn't know about your weekly link party. I don't have much HOMEGROWN but I do make homemade. :)
Love your romantic story....
- June 29, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- heyBJK said...
That's awesome! It's the first time I've heard of someone being wooed with veggies!
- June 29, 2012 at 11:39 AM
- Melinda said...
What a cute story!
Wooing takes all forms!
- June 29, 2012 at 12:17 PM
- Country Gal said...
Country romance , gota love it ! Have a great day !
- June 29, 2012 at 12:23 PM
- barbara l. hale said...
Great story and beautiful pics!
- June 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM
I adore new baby red potatoes with a bit of butter and parsley.. No wonder it wooed you too. What a cute story!
- June 29, 2012 at 3:13 PM
- sweetvintageofmine said...
Well, I have to say, you've made my night! Can't wait to tell my Mother this one....she'll get a kick out of this LOVE STORY! You have a KEEPER! VEGGIES and ALL! LOL! From one sweetie to another..roxie
- June 29, 2012 at 9:34 PM
- My Journey With Candida said...
I am going to try to remember to join in next week.
I love Yukon Gold potatoes and do you know that gold, red and sweet potatoes are alkalizing for the body. That means they don't create acid. My Doctor suggested I eat those instead of most grains or pastas..... Oh.... you need to eat them with the skins on though.
- July 1, 2012 at 5:56 AM


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From piano lessons as a little girl in Brazil, to composing for her jazz quartet in Denver, Carmen Sandim has found in music her lifetime adventure and purpose.
Over the past few decades Carmen's eclectic musical aesthetics have drawn her in many directions: classical piano studies, jazz composition and performance, film scoring, and a long-lasting commitment to improvised music pedagogy.
Through her diverse journey, the unifying thread has been the search for a sound that is unique and honestly expressive.
Some notable ventures in her journey include experiences as a student at Berklee, where she enjoyed the guidance of world class musicians and educators such as Luciana Souza, Vuk Kulenovich, Hal Crook, Ed Tomasi, among others. After graduating, she moved to Washington, D.C., finding employment as a composer for radio, television, and political ads. She won several Addy Awards for compositional excellence, ran her own music production company, JAM – JustAddMusic, and had her work published and released internationally by the German publisher SONOTON.
Carmen moved to Boulder, Colorado in 2005, and for the first time since leaving Brazil, felt she had found a place to call home. And embrace her new home she did – Carmen sold her music production company in DC, bought a condo, enrolled in a masters program at University of Colorado, started a piano lesson studio, and began writing music that felt expressive and meaningful to her - unrelated to selling products or political candidates. In return, Boulder offered its breathtaking natural treasures, a refreshing spiritual, health-centered culture, and exceptionally inspiring musical friendships.
Some of Carmen's most cherished musical friendships were featured in her debut album as a bandleader. "Brand New" was released in 2011 on the Dazzle Recordings label, and produced by internationally acclaimed pianist and music community amalgamate, Art Lande. The album also featured world-renowned trumpeter and musical angel, Ron Miles. Carmen's Brazilian-Jazz-fusion compositions were brought to life by tenor saxophonist Danny Meyer, guitarist Matt Fuller, bassist Jean-Luc Davis, and drummer Josh Moore.
For better or worse, destiny chose to synchronize Carmen's most enthused musical years to her most fertile. Juju was born in 2013, followed by his little sister Amelie, two years later. Carmen is still only an infant in this new incarnation of herself as a mother and partner, while remaining a pianist, composer and educator. This new reality has inspired fresh melodies, harmonies, and grooves. The inherent challenges of family life have emphasized the vital importance of creating music as a means of processing joy, pain, love, and a sense of self within the surrounding world.
In 2016, Carmen won a grant from Pathways to Jazz to record her next album. Her new compositions are Brazilian influenced, jazz rooted, intricately arranged expressions of humanness. Her new quartet features Khabu Doug Young on guitar, Bill McCrossen on bass, and Dru Heller on drums.
Carmen Sandim holds a B.A. in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music, and a M.M. in Jazz Performance and Pedagogy from CU Boulder, she currently teaches at Naropa University, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and University of Colorado Denver.


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Detroit Lions: Better Than Advertised?September 30, 2009
Step in line, I'm serving up some flavored water.
I'm looking at the Lions schedule and I see possibilities that most find impossible. I find hope where people are giving up. I see salvation where others see Flavor-Aid.
I see the Lions winning more than six games. I even see glimpses of a team that could make the playoffs.
Playoffs?! We're talking about playoffs?!
Okay, back down to earth. I see that it could happen. I see a Lions team that can play with just about anyone. Including the division-favorite Bears and the reigning champs the Steelers.
Wait. They only won once, and that was against a gosh-awful Washington Redskins team. Why do you think they have a chance against a good team?
Because they haven't given up. Not once this season have I seen the Lions give up. They've put pressure on teams they should have had no business playing with. They've learned from mistakes and improved with each game. They've shaken off the shackles from their predecessor's perfectly futile season. They've made their own identity and proved they weren't the same team that resided in Detroit a year ago.
In short, they're good.
Not great, but good. Anyone who actually thought that the Lions wouldn't win three games this year was looking at 2008 too much. Every writer in America made their predictions based on 2008 only.
They started off in typical Lion fashion, giving up a quick lead to New Orleans. Bar patrons started calling for their check. Same old Lions.
Wait. The Lions drove their next drive to cut it to 14-3. Okay, so we won't see the three straight 21-point deficits we saw last year, but they'll just march against us again. These are the Lions after all. Nope. Three and out. For the Saints. Since when can the Lions stop a top-tier offense on three (well, three and a penalty) plays?
We get another chance. We blow it, and the bar patrons start shelling out their tip. The Saints muff the punt. The Lions recover. They score a touchdown on a fourth and goal from the one. The game's within reach.
That was the last time they sniffed the Saints score, but even when they were trailing by 18 points, multiple times, they would fight for a score to try to keep it close. In the end, the Saints were too much.
However, many positives came from that game. The Lions scored more points in a game than they had since before this streak started. The special teams and defense each had highlights against an overpowered Saints offense. The following week, the Eagles, who are a playoff contender known for their defense, stunk it up worse on their own field against this Saints team.
The Lions also gave the Vikings a good game. Yes, the Vikings won by two touchdowns, but the game was a lot closer than that. The Lions led after the first half and required the Vikings to make heavy adjustments. They had done a great job of stopping Adrian Peterson, who ran for 180 yards the week before. They kept Favre in check. Three drives of the first four ended with punts on the fourth play.
The Vikings came out in the second half supremely motivated. They must have had something beat into them during those 12 minutes. They came out and dominated the second half to take a 17-point lead going into the final minutes.
Detroit was still fighting, though and cut it back to 14. Yes, Favre was out by then, but Minnesota gave a little respect to the Lions team. On a fourth and two, rather than kick a field goal to put the lead back up to 17, they went for it to ice the game. Did they really think the Lions could score 17 in two minutes? Probably not.
The Redskins game was a mess. If anything, I thought some of their play had dropped a bit since the Vikings game, but they did something that we didn't expect. They held the lead until the very end. The patrons in the bar, every one of them, expected the Lions to blow it. The two-point conversion failed.
We've seen the Lions give up 14 points in mere minutes. The Redskins got a touchdown. It was win or lose. A field goal doesn't make a difference, a touchdown wins it. The Lions get a first down, hope rises, then they blow it and punt.
Here we go again. The Lions have such a threadbare defense that Campbell is going to look like Elway. They let some yards go, and only let one play go out of bounds to stop the clock. Then they stiffen up. Incompletion, incompletion. Could this be it? The last pass, the last ditch effort, the lateral. Another lateral. Flashes of "The Band is on the field!" go through everybody's head. Foote gets the tackle.
A split second of silence as the crowd in the stadium and the ones in every bar around Michigan grasp what just happened. The Lions didn't blow it. Then a loud cry from each of them, even the bar patrons who were there to see the Bears, Browns and Patriots. I wonder if anyone in Michigan didn't know, it was so loud. All those who exited the bar and stadium missed a moment they'll never get back. The moment we'll tell our kids. The one we'll be spinning as "When the Lions started to get good", not "When the Lions stopped sucking". It really was a moment, much like the Gibson home run in the World Series. Maybe not on a global scale, but in our hearts.
But these are the Lions. It was the Washington Redskins, who barely beat the Rams. The Redskins are in such shambles the win doesn't count.
Whatever. The win counts. Not only does it count, but it gave the Lions a chance at being not-in-last-place for a couple of hours as Chicago struggled with the Seahawks. If Chicago lost, we're not in last place anymore (well at least when you consider tiebreakers and such).
The Lions are heading to Chicago where the linemakers are predicting that Chicago will win by double digits. Don't let the expert picks of the Lions fool you, they're still expecting the Lions to lose. But you know who doesn't expect the Lions to lose? Lovie Smith. Well, no, he's not expecting them to win, but he knows this team's not as bad as the critics say.
Chicago's not a team to sneeze at. They're looking at the playoffs this year, with the Super Bowl as their ultimate goal. The Lions haven't thought of that in a long time, at least not since this streak started. They should, though. It's not that they don't have a shot to make it. Right now, they have a better shot than the Tennessee Titans.
Are you kidding me? The Tennessee Titans? They'll make the playoffs easy.
They have a huge uphill battle. They're in last place, three games behind the red hot Colts. They should beat Jacksonville, but don't be so hasty. They lost a shootout to Houston at home, who in turn lost to Jacksonville at home. Jacksonville's hosting this game. Is it possible that the Titans, whom many picked to be in the Conference Championship, lose again? That would put them at 0-4, with Indianapolis next. 0-5's possible, and Indy would likely be 5-0. That's a long way to the playoffs.
Let's look at Detroit. They're 1-2, so already they're ahead. Only two games back from Minnesota. Probably a bit much to ask, as the Vikings already beat the Lions, so it's more like three games back.
Chicago's not invincible. In fact, I think we stand quite a bit better than the "ghost's chance" the experts and linemakers are calling. They're not playing up to snuff. They really haven't been all year. Not even against Pittsburgh. Something's wrong.
Seattle lost half their defense and their starting quarterback and only lost by eight points, of which seven were in the last two minutes. Give them Hasselback and they would have had this game. Give them Tatupu and Trufant and they dominate. It wasn't pretty, and I don't mean the Orlando Thunder knock-off jersey.
Enter the Detroit Lions. They have a new uniform, a new Bubbles, and a new attitude to match those fangs. They have a division matchup against a visually vulnerable team. The Lions have Lovie's attention.
NFL Yardage rankings have the Lions at No. 8 passing, No. 5 rushing, No. 6 overall offense at 394 yards a game. What? No. 4 passing, No. 22 rushing, No. 7 overall defense at 302 yards a game.
Come again?
The Bears, comparatively, are at No. 14 passing, No. 17 rushing, No. 15 overall at 327 yards a game, and No. 13 passing, No. 19 rushing, No. 12 overall defense at 323 yards a game.
Okay, yardage doesn't mean much, but it must to some if they keep using that as the team ranking rather than points. Why are the Lions looking so good here but so bad on the scoreboard? Turnovers and field position.
The Lions lost to the Vikings by 14 points, namely the 14 points scored off Detroit turnovers in their own zone. New Orleans had the ball in decent field position (NO 40 or better) six times. Four of those six ended in touchdowns, one in a blocked field goal and one ended the game. 28 points off good field position with 4-6 conversion; 17 points otherwise with 3-6 converson.
The Bears don't have the offensive capability of the Vikings or the Saints. Their defense is top notch, but so was Minnesota's.
I'm not guaranteeing a win, but if Chicago doesn't step up their game from the exhibition matchup against Seattle, Detroit's going to steal a road division win. We're trying to forget the 2008 Lions, but they also had a shot against the Bears in Soldier field. The '09 Lions are better, are the '09 Bears?
Okay, so maybe the Lions have a chance against Chicago. That doesn't mean they'll make it to the playoffs.
Again, I'm not guaranteeing anything. I'm saying that this Lions team has earned the right to be an NFL franchise once again. I think they've very much "Restored the Roar". We'll see how much of that's Kool-Aid at the end of the season.
Everyone knows what a brutal schedule Detroit has to start the season. Leading up to the bye week, the only team with a 2008 record under .500 was the Green Bay Packers. Even the Redskins were a .500 team.
I've gone over Chicago already. What about Pittsburgh? Are you saying they have a chance against the reigning Super Bowl champs? Actually, I do. It's a slim one, but right now, I could convince you that Pittsburgh could come out of Ford Field with an "L".
Pittsburgh's playing sloppy right now. Much similar to Chicago. They start with a defensive win against the Titans on opening night. The two teams put up a total of 20 points in regulation. We really thought that was expected. They looked about right.
Until they played someone else. Tennessee moves on to open the door to 34 Houston Texan points the following week and 24 against the Jets. Something's wrong with their defense. Maybe it's the Schwartz.
The Steelers look almost as bad. A team that prides itself on its defense. In the past, if you had a 4th quarter deficit against the Steelers, it was like facing Mariano Rivera in the 9th inning down by three. Forget about it. The Steelers have shown their steel for the last forever and they don't give up the lead. They pound the ball and run out the clock and stuff your passer and win 13-0. They don't give up 10 fourth quarter points to lose 17-13, and they certainly don't give up 14 fourth quarter points in Ohio.
Hmm, something's wrong with the Steelers. If this continues, you could have upset special No. 2 for the growing Lion cubs.
Next is Green Bay. In Green Bay. It's cold and we're losing. 'Nuff said. Wait, it's not in December? Wait, Favre's not here? Wait, we're not fighting a historical losing streak? Wait, Green Bay let the Rams stay in the game UNTIL THE 4TH QUARTER? Yep, they led by nine points at the half, six at the end of the third quarter. Then they realized what they were doing and turned it on. Wait, they lost in Green Bay? When does that happen? Green Bay's running game is suspect, and Rogers is good, but not great. Their defense is still adjusting, apparently. If they are still playing this bad, they may see the Honolulu Blue get on the ferry with a Win.
St. Louis. They should be okay with this matchup. That is, unless the Rams learn that they can throw the ball. Detroit seems to be doing well against the run (Yes, they gave up lots to the Saints, but it can be explained). St. Louis can't pass well. I think Detroit should handle this easily and send the Rams on their own collision course with the Buccaneer record (do you think Spurrier and Company will celebrate with champagne?). 0-16 and 0-26 all rolled up into one. The 2008 Lions will be a thing of the past. By the way, it's very possible.
Seattle? Three starting defenders on IR. Hasselbeck should be back, but will he be 100 percent? He's really not doing that great this year. It's on the road, but it's winnable.
At Minnesota? We know we can play them tough. If we can repeat our performance in Game Two by holding AP and Favre to minimal performances, we can take this game. It's the mistakes that will kill us. I'm teetering on the maybe here, but there's more than a 5% chance, I'd say.
Cleveland. I'm trying to go to that game. Should be good seats available. My father-in-law's a Browns fan. I'll take him anyway. At least he likes the Lions.
Home vs. Green Bay. See the previous Green Bay game. We might win our first Thanksgiving Classic in six years when we beat...the Green Bay Packers. (Even if they still had Favre.)
At Cincinnati. This will be tough. I can see it being tougher than the Steelers. The passing attack will be what kills us. If we can stop it, wow a road win.
At Baltimore. No shot. But we'll see. A lot can happen in two months.
Arizona. We'll probably lose this one, as Arizona can chuck the ball with the best of them. However, their defense doesn't look as good as the Saints, so we may have a chance.
At San Francisco. Frank Gore should be back. But San Francisco's passing reeks. What happens when the Lions face a running team that can't pass? See Washington and the first half of the Minnesota game. If their defense steps up, we'll lose. If they give holes, this one goes to the Lions.
Finally, home against Chicago. Chicago should have their act together by now. If they don't, expect a packed Ford Field to give them nightmares.
This is what I think. Now before you say "Wait, you just gave them 13 wins", just remember I'm pointing out the possibilities of Detroit winning. I'm showing 12 additional teams that have issues that Detroit can exploit to win games.
Before the season, I predicted seven wins for the Lions: vs. MIN (L), vs. WAS (W), vs. STL, vs. CLE, vs. GB, at CIN, and vs. ARI. That was then. That was before Pittsburgh, whom I had winning their first 10 games right until their battle in Baltimore, lost two straight. That was before Seattle, whom I had winning the division, lost half their defense and starting quarterback and still keeps Chicago close. That was before the Saints repeated their 40+ point performance against a touted defense.
I've lost the Minnesota pick, but I'm expecting one vs. Chicago. I'm adding Seattle and San Francisco. Yes folks, nine wins. I'm serving Playoff-flavored Kool-Aid. Wanna take a swig?


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Well, I've done it again, folks. So pleased was I with last week's expansion of Killer Covers' summertime book-fronts gallery, that I decided to update another post from around that same time.
In May 2009, I cobbled together an assortment of "suburban sin fiction" covers from the mid-20th century, including works such as Adultery in Suburbia, Sexurbia County, Split-Level Love, and Shopping Center Sex. In the years since, however, I've found many more examples of that genre, and have now added to my gallery--boosting the number of paperbacks on display from 16 to a whopping 76.
Click here to enjoy the whole set.
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Tite Kubo's Bleach, long time Jump mainstay and hit franchise is about to go into its next arc in the manga, with the teaser ad in the latest issue of the anthology teasing at the possibility of it being the final leg of the long-running story.
Of course, cynics will point out that the arc will not be the last and will invariably stretch on for volumes as found in the following comments from 2ch:
It's going to be longer than the Arrancar arc.
When it gets popular again, the title is going to change to Bleach2
and it'll enter a new arc...
と思うけど破面篇より長くなるってことは 後30巻ぐらい続くんだよな
I thought "So I'm finally hearing it's the last arc" but if it's going to be longer than the Arrancar arc its going to continue for another 30 volumes.
Personally, I'd like to see Kubo fix his massive issues with pacing and characterization, but the fact that I'm still reading and watching even after all of the issues means that he must be doing something right. I would have dropped it a long time ago, otherwise. What about you guys? Anyone looking forward to more Bleach, or have you given up?
Greg Lanson contributed translations for this report
via 0takomu
Humberto Saabedra is the Editor-in-Chief of AnimeNews.biz, PhoneNews.com and an occasional columnist for Ani.me. He can also be found musing on his favorite 2D girls at @AnimeNewsdotbiz.


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DOB – 21 July, 1993, Time 03:50 AM, Mandi (Himachal OPradesh)
When will i meet my soulmate according to my zodiac sign? What will be my career. will I be government employee or i get success in private sector or in my own business. How will be my relationship after marriage. and also about the career.
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Dear Akush,
Welcome to My Astrology Stars,
You were born under the ascendant of Gemini and constellation of Ardra. Your moon sign was Cancer and moon constellation was Asresha.
Your birthchart shows you highly intelligent and wise person. You are soft spoken and like to share your views in soft manners. It seems like you are aggressive and vast imaginary person. You are very much attached to your motherland and you are having ideal terms with your mother.
As your concern is marriage, marriage is expected in 2019. You are going to meet your soulmate in second half of 2017. Your career in on the motherland in the private sector.
As your most important concern is the soulmate's traits:
- Very Soft spoken
- career related to arts
- Evil Genius
- a person with big social circle
- working In government sector
- Name starting with P,Th, or SH.
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MyCiTi bus fares will increase on July 1 in line with the annual service tariff increases levied by the City at the start of a new municipal financial year.
However, fares on this high-quality service will remain comparable to and in some cases cheaper than equivalent fares on buses and minibus-taxi services.
The fares will increase as follows:
• From R10.60 to R11.50 for a trip on the main route between the Civic Centre and Table View (with area services free if a direct transfer is made).
• From R5.30 to R5.80 for a trip on a residential or central city service.
• The airport service tariff will increase from R57.00 to R62.00 for adults and from R28.10 to R30.30 for children aged four to 11 years old.
• The cost of a monthly ticket for the airport service will rise from R449.50 to R484.60, and the cost of issuing a myconnect card will increase from R23.00 to R25.00.
• Children under four or under one metre tall travel for free.
• MyCiTi fares are exempt from VAT.
The increases were included in the City's 2013/2014 budget, which was passed on Wednesday May 29. The municipal financial year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30, 2014.
"The City has sought to keep the fare increases as low as possible and we are confident that the increases are reasonable," says the City's Mayoral Committee Member: Transport for Cape Town, Councillor Brett Herron. "The MyCiTi service still remains an economical way to commute and we welcome absolutely everybody aboard the service."


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What The Hell Kind Of GD Couple Is This?
The Mac Dude and fauxmosexual Tila Tequila were caught doing nasty things together at some club in Los Angeles. Some nosy person with a strong gag reflex told Page Six that the Mac Dude "asked her to straddle him while making out. Eww." I love that the nosy person said "Ewww." Only Blair Waldorf would say that shit.
The Mac Dude and Tila have also been seen together at LAX and a club in Las Vegas.
This dude is throwing me off. First, he was getting it on with Drew Barrymore, then he was slapping flour sacks with Kiki Dunst and now Tila?! The fuck? I would expect him to go from Kiki to Mischa Barton and then to the homeless hipster on the corner. But Tila?!
And what happened to Tila and Nay Nay?! Although, Nay Nay sort of looks like the Mac Dude…..if he got hit by a semi-truck, dragged four miles and then thrown into the sewer. Don't know who Nay Nay is? Google her, you dumb fuck!