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Projects Aimed at Advancing State-of-the-Art Carbon Capture from Coal Power Plants Selected for Further Development
August 15, 2011
US Department of Energy
"Four projects aimed at reducing the energy and cost penalties of advanced carbon capture systems applied to power plants have been selected for further development by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (FE)". The projects are valued at $67 million over 4 years, with the overall goal to achieve at least 90 percent CO2 removal at no more than a 35 percent increase in the cost of electricity.
Crops with deeper roots capture more carbon, fight drought: study
August 5, 2011
Doubling root length from the typical 1 meter to 2 meters could help capture and sequester more carbon under the ground, as well as "make crops more drought resistant, improve soil structure and moisture, store more nutrients and reduce erosion". The study is published in Annals of Botany, and includes a carbon calculator for global crop and grasslands.
U.S Billion-Ton Update (pdf, 6.7 mb)
US Department of Energy
6 years after the original Billion Ton Study (pdf, 2.6mb), the DOE has released an update. "The conclusion remains the same: There are more than enough biomass sources to satisfy a goal of displacing 30 percent of the country's petroleum consumption by 2030 (http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2011/08/12/5)." In 2 scenarios provided for future biomass supply, the 1 billion ton mark is reached in each, and in the high yield scenario, the mark is far exceeded.
Guildelines for Constructing Climate Scenarios (pdf)
Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Oregon State University
This article represents the lessons learned from an October 2009 workshop organized by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute on scenarios of future climate (details of the workshop are here http://occri.net/news-and-events/workshop-on-scenarios-of-future-climate). The article appeared last week in EOS, the Transactions of the American Geophysical Union.
The Model Forest Policy Program (MFPP) is now accepting applications for 2012 Climate Solutions University: Forest and Water Strategies (CSU).
This program offers rural U.S. [only] communities the opportunity to be part of climate adaptation solutions urgently needed across the country. This educational opportunity is being conducted in collaboration with the Cumberland River Compact.
Local communities are on the front line making key land use decisions in regards to climate change. Through a peer learning network that links underserved rural communities across the U.S., Climate Solutions University (CSU) provides training, expertise, and support to communities engaged in climate adaptation planning.
Climate Solutions University (CSU) helps rural communities design and implement climate adaptation plans that protect local forest and water resources and support viable rural economies. CSU strengthens local leadership and public engagement and promotes the following outcomes: protection of forests, streams, human and ecological health; preservation of natural resource based economies; and builds broad public support.
Each community develops and implements a Forest and Water Climate Adaptation Plan and Case Study by participating in a four-step multi-year process.
Scholarships Available : Six communities will be provided $10,000 scholarships.
Application Deadline: 5:00 PM, Monday, September 19, 2011
Apply Here: www.mfpp.org


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I have this debate at work, with friends and online. Are American science and technology competitive in the world marketplace? Is science capable of all the things that the public seems to believe it is capable of? Have we lost our competitive edge?
I'm going to explore this in a series of posts.
|"I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds" - Oppenheimer at the Trinity Test
When I'm talking about science and technology, I'm not talking about this:
|You can exchange snarky comments and yearbook photos like you did in high school, only over the internet??? OMG! That sounds like about as much fun as getting a colonoscopy!
I'm thinking more like this:
|Launch of Apollo 11, from NASA history site (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/vonBraun/vonbraun_4.php )
What's the difference? Well, one is a simple program that turns social interactions into a Pachinko-like MMOG The other takes serious f--king skill to engineer.
Ignoring for the moment that Mark Zuckerberg is being called a genius for taking World of Warcraft and removing all the fun, the technology behind social networking has been around for a very long time. The technology has just gotten cheaper. It's pretty easy to write a program that allows you to text back and forth and share pictures; it's not particularly impressive.
However, building real things in the real world that can do things like go into space or hit an object very far away is actually quite difficult.
There's this presumption that because we did it once we could do it again any time we like. It's just a matter of choice, right?
We could totally go back to the moon if we wanted to - further, if we wanted to. Technology only moves in one direction, right?
The Constellation Program: The Scary Reality of NASA and American Science
Most of what I'm about to discuss regarding Constellation is in this Government Accountability Office report:
For those who have never visited the GAO site (http://www.gao.gov), I strongly recommend it. GAO is where the reporters learn a good deal of the interesting government waste stories that they later expand and put on TV. So, if you don't like your food chewed for you, GAO is a great information source.
But first: what is the Constellation program?
Constellation is a program that is supposed to allow us to return to the moon and eventually send a manned mission to Mars.
Founded in November 2005, the program has cost $10 billion as of August 2009. While this is trivial compared to the entire Apollo program - NASA estimates that in today's dollars the 17 Apollo missions cost a total of $170 billion dollars - when the program is considered in full, Apollo only cost about $10 billion per mission.
The Constellation program, on the other hand, cost $10 billion in the first four years supposedly simply trying to accomplish what we've accomplished before: a manned flight to the moon.
But that's exactly the problem: we couldn't rebuild the Apollo materials. We couldn't rebuild the shuttle at all.
Problems Listed in GAO Report
There are many problems listed in the GAO report, but some of them are inexcusable.
For example, NASA could not re-create the ablative heat shield used in the Apollo missions. The ablative heat shield is the material that slowly burns away on re-entry, protecting the contents of the ship, i.e. keeps the astronauts from turning in to charcoal nuggets.
When asked by Congress why they couldn't build the same shield they built in the 60's and 70's, NASA replied:
"NASA is using an ablative material derived from the substance used in the Apollo program. After some difficulties, NASA was successful in recreating the material. Because it uses a framework with any honeycomb-shaped cells, each of which must be individually filled without voids or imperfections, it may be difficult to repeatedly manufacture to consistent standards." - GAO report above
The fuel tank is also giving huge problems. Hydrogen and oxygen tanks are separated in a region of the ship called the common bulkhead. While the Saturn rockets used common bulkheads, many have suggested that the common bulkhead design is inherently flawed and dangerous, in part due to the proximity of hydrogen, oxygen and heat. Despite the fact that previous missions during the 1960's and 1970's used common bulkheads, NASA can't quite seem to re-create a common bulkhead.
Other problems arise from engine vibroacoustics, that is, that the engine generates such tremendous noise and vibration that other portions of the ship are susceptible to damage; problems with drag at lift off; and the fact that the ship in its entirety might be too heavy to lift off the ground.
All of these problems had been handled by the first Apollo missions in the 1960's and 1970's. And yet, we cannot seem to recreate the materials.
Is it just that NASA sucks? Or could we actually build these things if we wanted to?
That is a profoundly difficult question to answer.
To start to attempt to answer it, another place to look is another GAO report: the European missile defense development report: http://gao.gov/assets/600/590277.pdf
If we look at the analysis, we can see that the same ballistics problems are listed in the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) tests. Ballistic missiles use the same technology as NASA rockets, and we can't quite seem to build them, either.
Now, this is spotty evidence as I do know we can build tanks and cars but we couldn't for decades handle building the M2 Bradley. So just because the military can't build a missile defense system for Europe doesn't mean that all American ballistics technology is failing or retrograding.
But the fact that NASA, probably the single most successful ballistics program in all of American history, cannot build the same equipment is disturbing.
So... What's your point?
My point is that everyone assumes that we can build these things just because we built them a half a century ago. However, that's faulty logic, and it appears to me that every time we try now we fail.
This is important because people are crying about things like Congress proposing to cut NASA's budget.
But if NASA is an abysmal failure, why should we hand them more money? Isn't that evidence that maybe NASA has outlived its usefulness and maybe we need a new, leaner program to take its place?
I'm not saying we shouldn't develop ballistics, missiles and jet technology, which is what NASA really does.
What I am saying is that if they can't make good on their promises to the American people, then NASA itself is useless and should be scrapped.
We can't get teary-eyed and emotional about what they "did." The scientists who did those things are long gone. We have to focus on what NASA does and if it's accomplishing its stated objectives. It appears that NASA is failing in this regard; ergo, it may be a good idea to trash it and build something new.
If we really can't develop the technology with a new program then we need to stop and ask "why." If American defense technology (which is what NASA develops) is retrograding, that is a serious issue to scientists, the military and science lovers.


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Ok OK , I know I am not there yet... But they have been steadily growing, and I would like your input... What should I do when I reach 100 followers on this blog?
It will be a major milestone for me, as I am not much of a writer, but I love the community that I have met through posting my thoughts over the past few months.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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It's pretty straightfoward if you read the title.
With the Japanese Client in the works, voices for the Japanese client have come out, and holy crap are some of them legendary. Favourite by far is Shyvana's, though I do love Teemo = Chopper voice and the Shen voice(though partly it's because of the "Shinderu" line). Fav/not so favs, discuss below.
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Tl;dr: Considering the new Lore overhauls Riot is beginning to be doing, which champions and areas do you believe need to be re-evaluated.
Sup guys, like, 3rd blog thing by me. Dunno why I'm even doing this, but anyway better get to it. I'm one of those guys who quite likes the LoL lore and the champions that are part of the 'big story', seeing as character makes the first immpression when I look at a champion (Though it's really an excuse for me to be unbiased towards Noxians and though I wanna get Riven soooooooooooo bad). Anyway, I've been thinking about what other lores and stories Rito might tweak in order to give characters a little bit more depth and try to revisit some places that we don't hear about.
First up, the Shadow Isles. The …
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TL; DR Viktors getting his passive redone, or something like that, and I have come up with a few ideas to make him even more completely broken and op... HOORAY.
Quite a while ago, Riot accidentally added second tier augments that buffed the first upgarde as well as added additional effects to the storm to the PBE. The item wasn't available, but it was a small insight into how they were thinking of creating second tier augments a year and a half ago.
A lot people have different views on what good and what bad are about Viktors item passive, and a fair number of players are thinking about giving Viktor the Rengar treatment, and I don't mean periodically n…
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If you're lazy and you don't feel like reading: I tried Nautilus solo-top and I liked it. I've got some insights into it and I might try adding stuff as I practise it more and more. Also, I really like Peter Crowley.
Sup mah homies gees. Sorry guys, but this is gonna be really, really long. I got picked into a group of guys who said they were gonna troll ( 3 of these b*****ds) and so I thought I might do some trolling myself. I had toplane so I picked random and got Nautilus.
I've been playing Nautilus for a while and I have the basics on his abilities down. Passive = You will hit like a truck every 12 seconds which can help you last hit effectively and you can get 1 more basic attack in, Q = 1 basic attack and flashy escape mechanism, W = A…
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If you're lazy and don't feel like reading: Should there be a jungle tier for champs who can push lanes and backdoor like nothing else. Champs like Yi , Jax , Trundle , Fiora , Xin Zhao , Udyr , Rengar, Tryndamere ...
Sup mah homie gees, and this be my second blog on this wiki. I'd like to talk about junglers who can get rid of enemy structures easier than they can get rid of enemy champions.
I bet 5 dollars that somebody is already thinking about our dear old samurai, Master Yi. I'm here to talk about champs like him but are also suited to jungling. This idea came into my head when I decided to jungle Fiora. One of my friends I was premade with at the time said I'd lose us the game (because Fiora sucks)(Actually, she's not too bad, she's j…
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Mudigonda (Khammam), July 29: Handed its own Nandigram in Andhra Pradesh, the CPM is using it to settle the Bengal Nandigram scores.
Politburo member Sitaram Yechury demanded the resignation of Congress chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy for yesterday's police firing in this village that killed four Left land activists and two by-standers.
"Reddy demanded the resignation of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on account of police firing in Nandigram. He should quit on the same grounds," said Yechury, who has rushed here with other Left leaders.
The CPM appears to have decided to use the tragedy at Mudigonda, 15km from Khammam town and 211km from Hyderabad, to polish its pro-landless image and offset its mistake in Nandigram.
Unlike Bengal, where the CPM is acquiring plots for industry in the face of Opposition-led farmer protests, the Marxists have joined theCPI in Andhra to agitate for land for the poor.
The firing happened during a Left bandh to protest the Congress regime's failure to keep its poll promise of handing vacant government land to the urban homeless to build houses and the rural poor to cultivate.A mob had attacked the revenue divisional officer's (RDO's) office at Mudigonda, burning documents and furniture, when the police caned them, fired tear gas shells and then 70 bullets.
Yechury and CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta claimed the police had fired on peaceful protesters.
Police hide
Mudigonda today bore close parallels with Nandigram. The administration seemed to have collapsed amid simmering public rage, with most personnel having deserted the police stations in Khammam town and Mudigonda, which are being guarded by the reserve police.
The police's morale appears to have been hit after the government transferred Khammam police chief R.K. Meena and suspended his deputy, additional superintendent M. Ramesh Babu. A circle inspector and a sub-inspector, too, have been suspended.
The police may not have expected such a carnage. ASP Ramesh Babu, believed to have ordered the firing, left the scene in plain clothes, a resident said.
"He took off his uniform and escaped in a lungi and T-shirt borrowed from a constable," said schoolteacher Harinarayan, 46.
The bodies are still lying in front of the collectorate. Since morning, supporters of the Left, who have called another bandh, have been descending on Khammam.
As in Nandigram, motley Opposition leaders — such as the Telengana Rashtra Samiti's K. Chandrasekhar Rao and the Telugu Desam's N. Chandrababu Naidu — are making a beeline for the carnage site.
But not a single Congress leader dared follow them. S. Chandrasekhar, a minister from the district, chose to slam the Left from his secretariat chamber in Hyderabad.
'AK-47s, SLRs'
Tales of police brutality and charges that they used self-loading rifles (SLRs) and AK-47s have worsened the government's worries. "For the first time, state police used AK-47s," Naidu alleged.
Neither the police nor the government has so far denied the charges.
The bloodstained RDO office compound and the road leading to it are strewn with bricks, handbags, torn shirts and saris, battered mobile phones, half-eaten food packets and empty water bottles. They lie side by side with police batons and bamboo shields, metal hats, cartridges, unexploded teargas shells and official wireless sets.
Witnesses said one of the policemen had provoked the protesters, prompting some to throw stones and some others to barge into the office.
"A sub-inspector lost his eye in the stone throwing," an officer countered.
"The policemen seemed to be waiting for such a thing to happen. Within minutes, we heard gunfire from all three corners. It went on for 15-20 minutes," said Bagaru Babu, a farmer who was watching from a half-closed shop nearby.
Residents said 40 to 50 people were injured in the stampede and lathi-charge. "The police beat up the protesters with metal lathis and bamboo and wooden sticks," said Veerabhadra Rao, a demonstrator.
Five people with head and kidney injuries are in hospital, three of them in a coma, the police said.
The government has announced Rs 5 lakh for the family of each of the dead and Rs 50,000 for each injured.
Housing irony
The site of the land battle, ironically, is a place where the government had been touting its showpiece housing project for the poor.
Mudigonda is dotted with 500-600 half-finished houses, being built under the Indiramma project, which features 25 lakh houses across the state, each with a portrait of Indira Gandhi in front.
The Left says the houses are too expensive at Rs 40,000-45,000 and wants free plots for the poor instead. The Congress accuses it of playing politics.http://www.telegraphindia.com


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Holy Dynamic Duo Batman!
I've been thinking a bit about how you could tell a Batman story without Bruce Wayne as a bit of Hypothetical Etcetera. So this is Dick Grayson as Batman, with Nightwing/Dark Knight inspired costume and an older Damian Wayne Robin. In Arkham City, the Nightwing character model fights with short staves with stun prods on the ends, which I thought was cool. Also, I was quite keen on the ASBO style Robin that they went for. Damian Wayne is a lot more emo, so I've kept him Dark and Edgy. So, these two fight with weapons. Notice the lack of capes!


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November 25, 1973
Dear Family,
Hi! It's now Sunday night - I had planned on going to Church tonight but at 7:15 my good-friend Dorothy called . . . . and at 7:30 the F.B.I. came on . . . . so I'm watching it!
After a day like today it will sure feel good to get back to school tomorrow! I had the busiest Sunday at work that I've ever had! It was really neat – I just stood up at the cash register most of the time and rang up sales. If people needed help at all - it was just too bad – or they waited. Usually Sundays drag - but today it sure didn't! Instead I'm dragging! (HA!)
Thanks for your last letter - got it yesterday. Also appreciated the articles - on W.W. and F.A.U. The newspaper down there really gets alot of publicity. There's something about it in the Miami Herald from time to time.
We saw the article in the W.N.J. about Mom talking to the Woman's Club. We all had a good laugh about yo all having to walk up to the ~~~~ [Machu Picchu] and how they let the women walk down. We remembered you telling us about it.
The F.B.I. just about have the bad guys. It's a good thing too - there's only about five minutes left!! If they don't get them soon I'm not going to have any finger nails left!!
That was quite a write-up in the W.J.J. about the trip the Janes & Schultzs took! It sounded just like Esther Janes talking!!
I would welcome a gift of W.W. magazine prescription for Christmas. If you need an order blank - let me know. (ho, hum) Or maybe you could get one from Doris.
Starting tomorrow all the new classes of W.W. open up down here. There's been alot of ads in the paper. Also there's a special price for the next two weeks. Usually it cost $5.00 to join and $3.00 for the 1st week. (It's more expensive all the way around down here) But for the net two weeks the combined fee for joining & the first week is just $5.00. A big savings of $3.00.
I'll be working 3 classes – oh - did I tell you that I did quit Burdine's on Fridays for the next two weeks. But told them I would be able to work Friday afternoons & evenings over Christmas break.
I hope we get lots of new members for the new classes. I'm afraid if I hadn't already started I would wait "til the 1st of the year" to start. If you know what I mean . . . . . .
This week on the Today Show is going to be all about the many FAT Americans. Have you seen any of it??
Well I better go. The F.B.I. came out OK - boy am I relieved. (HA!)
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Yep, it's my birthday! I usually don't give much attention to it but this time it really got into the middle of attention.
The girls from the Cuttlebug Challenge design team have dedicated a whole post to me and it also happens to be the debut of our countdown for CHA, revealing the new Provo Craft folders.
So let me tell you how I was drawn attention to my b-day.
I was working on the Be Inspired #37 post from the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog when I saw my name on a card. Of course, my mouth was already to my ears smiling, so I began to look closer at the other cards and realized half of them were for me and there is also a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY right at the beginning on the Be Inspired post.
THANK YOU LADIES! You really made my week!
Here are some of the cards but you will have to go to the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog to see the rest.


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The Kentucky Market Pavilion
The Kentucky Market Pavilion is a non-profit market that helps Kentucky producers to market their local products. This dream was able to become a reality thanks to grants from the State of Kentucky. The market sells food products, arts and crafts, candy, and much more!
The Kentucky Market Pavilion also has a fully equipped kitchen, The Lunchbox, which serves delicious food for lunch and dinner daily! The Lunchbox serves hot lunches for just around $6, and if you are in a rush you can grab a box to go. On Friday and Saturday they also serve mouth watering, homemade cinnamon rolls!
Don't Miss It!
Many community events are hosted by The Kentucky Market Pavilion throughout the year. Here are some upcoming events:
The Kentucky Market Pavilion One Year Anniversary
Saturday, April 21st
- Vendors will be sampling and selling products
- Vendor demonstrations
- Square dance lessons at 2pm by Kentucky Old Time Music Inc.
The annual Ale-8 celebration
July, 13th
- Celebrating years of business with Ale-8 and Ruth Hunt Candies
- Will be giving away FREE caffeine free diet Ale-8's and Ruth Hunt Candies
- Local Vendors will be selling their products
- Door Prizes from local businesses and Ale-8
Farmer's Market
- Tuesday, Friday and Saturday mornings 8am-noon
Produce Auctions
May – October
- Monday and Thursday evenings 6-8 pm
Here are some of the popular products sold at the Kentucky Market Pavilion:
Ruth Hunt Candies
Gluten Free Mixes
Ale-8 Products
Candy & Treats
Dog Treats
Check out the new Kentucky Market Pavilion website: www.kymarketpavilion.com
Who to Contact:
Annalyn Slade, Director
Kentucky Market Pavilion
(606) 674-6688
2914 E. Hwy 60
Owingsville, KY 40360


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If you work in or around the Austin Technology Industry, you need to mark you calendar for THIS Thursday, April 10th.
Don't miss a special "High Technology Industry" gathering to support tech industry veteran Randi Shade in her bid for Austin City Council, Place 3.
I have never gotten involved with a local campaign before… but Randi Shade is an above average candidate and a friend. She has experience in the public sector, non-profits and has run a business. Her unique experiences will make her a fabulous city council person!!!
This will be a fun event for you to come see many old friends (Randi has LOTS of supporters in the Technology World !!!), and unlike many political events, there is NOT a mandatory suggested donation at the door. Just come and have a good time and hear what Randi has to say about the future on Austin (although her campaign will gladly accept donations!!!).
This is a chance for the Austin Tech Community to come together and meet a candidate who will represent everyone!
Feel free to bring your friends and co-workers.
Also, we all know that very few people actually turn out to vote in our City Council elections….so in addition to supporting Randi…I encourage you to plan to show up at the polls on May 10th (or to vote during the Early Voting period) . She can only win if we all vote!!!
Host Committee for this Thursday's event:
Randy Baker
Bill Bock
Jeff Browning
Cybele Diamondopoplous
Aruni Gunasegaram
Kim Paschall Hughes
Heidi Johnson
Jack McDonald
Eugene Sepulveda
Thom Singer
Lynne Skinner
John Thornton
Steve Vandegrift
Don't miss this event!
Have A Great Day.


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7 deadly bomb blasts, 190 people dead, over 400 injured.
Western railway services are back on track between Andheri and Churchgate, services between Virar and Borivli not running. Many long distance trains to Gujarat have been cancelled. More details on inbound and outbound train schedules available here.
Additional security is being provided in the trains.
Many long distance trains to Gujarat have been cancelled -
People are going to work - although shaken, many say they are not going to sit at home.
Sources: NDTV, CNNIBN
Update at 2 pm:
DGP Maharashtra talks to media - says 183 dead and 714 injured. The CRPF, RAF and Home Guards have been called in for additional security. Metal detectors and sniffer dogs are in use at stations. High alert in the state of Maharashtra.
Additional information:
Police sources have suggested that RDX was used in the blasts, operated by remote timer devices.
The stock market is stable - that's a good sign.
Wednesday, 12 July, 2006
The Morning After - updates
Posted by Dina Mehta at 9:45 AM
3 comments:
- Anonymous12 July 2006 at 2:54 PM
Rumors about blast at Elphinstone college not true. Checkd with journalist friend.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 July 2006 at 6:33 PM
Mumbai is absolutely back on track. Trains in Western Line functioning normally although the crowd level is substantially lesser.ReplyDelete
Hats off to the spirit of mumbaikars....
I just want to drop in a word to say even though we are far away from home, we are thinking of you all in Bombay. Truly, it is a remarkble city. I heard on the BBC this morning that a 'spirit of defiance' dominates the city. Yes, that's why I tell people proudly that I am from Bombay.ReplyDelete
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As a vintage "enthusiast", hair styles can play a major part in getting the right look whether it be forties, fifties or whatever era you chose to follow because if this isn't done to a certain standard it can ruin an outfit and I think there is nothing worse then a lady looking gorgeous in a vintage frock but having awful styled hair, you may or may not agree but I think it is something that has to look right and you know, I'm one of these ladies that struggle with getting her hair to look "authentic".
Recently at Hemsby 46 I decided that I would change this by getting my hair styled by the wonderful gal's from Lipstick & Curls, when I asked what I wanted, I just blurted out "umm like the 50s pin curl style??" for a start 1. that is really awful English but that is the manner in which I speak and 2. How would they ever know what I meant? But luckily they did and I had a hair style that looked so nice, was done in a matter of minutes and actually looked authentic!
This isn't a very clear image I know but you do get to see my nice dress though, but
you get the idea!
I've tried pin curling before and I've still not got the hang of it with a few times turning out to be a mini afro!
I also find it quite time consuming and will only really give it a go if I'm feeling brave!
This was a successful Pin curl story! I've still yet to have another one! Unfortunately you can not see it all because of the angle but I still remember it like it was yesterday because it brushed into place so well and like I said, I've yet to do it again!
Recently I've managed to figure out how to do victory rolls which I didn't realise how easy they are once you know!! I have had a lot of arm ache trying to perfect them though! So ladies if you are looking to do rolls prepare yourself to gain some upper arm strength! (unfortunately I have no pictures of my attempts but I'm sure you'll see some soon enough!). I do intend on using this style more often for photo shoots because it is quick and easy and looks the part!
But to be honest I'm not one of these girls that can sit at home and practise until the cows come home, I really wish I was but I've got the shortest attention span ever! So how am I ever going to learn?
There is also the decision on whether to keep my hair short or to grow it, I have found in practise my hair is so much easier to style when its shorter but I tend to miss having long hair which I haven't had for a few years now but I do not have the patience to grow it and usually end up going for the chop but if I keep it short I would love nothing more then to be able to style my hair like this
The beautiful Rosemary Clooney, Ohh I love her! How did they do this hair? Pin curls?
I'm always a bit wary of brushing my curls out just in case all of my hard work goes to waste but I think brushing it out could be the key!
But then if I was to grow my hair I would love it to look like this
This image of Jane Russel looks huuuugely edited! but the hair is whats important! She had a pretty long mane so if I was to grow my hair I think it would take even longer to style then it does now and that's a pretty long while... oh what is a girl to do!
Changing the subject ever so slightly I have noticed how women's "vintage hairstyles" have changed over the past 20 years, ladies on the rockin scene all had very similar styles during the 1980s with rather massive curled fringes and pony tails where as today ladies are going for rolls then anything else, I like to do this with my fringe, by using tongs or heated rollers, curling my fringe can be done in a matter of minutes but I don't understand where this look came from because I've never seen many women in the 50s with this style so how did it come about?
I'm hoping I may give myself a kick up the backside at some point soon and try teach myself some new styles, because there are some great styles out there that I really want to give a go so I might just head over to YouTube and see what it has got to offer! If not I guess there's always companies such as Lipstick an Curls for my hair dilemma's but I'm not always going to have the money to have my hair styled to such a high level and they wont be with me on a day to day basis, so I've got no choice but to get practising! Because frankly I'm quite sick of having sausage looking curls!
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When it comes to programs such as SS disability and welfare it makes me crazy to see how they are being abused. They are both great programs that are being overyl taken advantage of by people who don't necessarily need them while people who DO need them struggle to get the assistance.ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Ann!!! We need to see if we can get the people who are abusing the system to use their powers for good and not evil. For anyone who can use the system to their unjust advantage is absolutely brilliant!ReplyDelete
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I'm not trying to minimize her accomplishments. I know she travels the world and inspires millions. But while she does all those things, she's a real teenage girl.
If a nineteen year old girl can interview the president, then I can do anything.
We can do anything.
Mota-I'm not calling her Bethany, even though she's in my age bracket-she brought up topics teenage girls actually care about, like bullying and the Boko Haram kidnappings. Naturally, she's received some backlash for not focusing on different issues. Y'know, because we should be talking about pollution and terrorism and the NSA and...and...and...and...
Come on, people. If you've got a problem with this, spend six years building up a viral YouTube platform, and interview the next president. Go on. Shoo shoo. I'll wait.
Oh, and while you're doing that, you may be interested to know that Obama's term ends in 2016. Because, you know. Add the 4 to the 2012. I've been counting down since sixth grade but apparently this isn't common knowledge.
|I'm going to close my eyes and pretend most of the searches didn't come from voting-age adults
Yes, there are millions of American voter-googlers who devote significant chunks of brainspace to politics. Mota doesn't. But does she have to? She's a nineteen year old fashion vlogger.
Real teenage girls take selfies.
Real teenage girls are worried about what they're wearing tomorrow, how they're paying for college in four years, and where the government's going to be twenty years from now.
The passions and problems of young women merit just as much attention as GloZell and Hank Green's demographics. The world needs all types, not just political minds. But still, I know plenty of real teenage girls who are more capable than the google-voters making their voices heard right now.


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Saisons, lagers, wheat beers, and the inevitable IPAs: it's been a busy couple of months on the Irish beer scene, from festival to pub to beer launch. Here's what I've been drinking lately, in my attempt to keep up with it all.
There wasn't a huge amount of fuss about Marching Powder, perhaps surprisingly. This new IPA from Black's of Kinsale is the first in the country brewed with lupulin powder, the next stage in ingredient evolution, past whole hops and pellets. They've badged it as a "cryo IPA", and I guess we'll see if that catches on. The pint I got in 57 The Headline was a vibrant orange colour, and almost completely clear, which is noteworthy itself in these hazy days. The texture is pleasantly soft and fluffy, with no yeast interference in the flavour. Instead there's an odd mix of savoury and citrus, opening with spring onion before moving on to more tropical mango and mandarin. A slight perfume spice is the only real bitterness, and I kind miss the kick of proper hops, but I suppose that's not part of the programme when you go cryo. The onion quality grows as it goes, leaving the fruit very much in second place. I think I get what it's trying to be, and it's a good beer, but the novelty aspect of it doesn't do much for me.
I was even more underwhelmed by Bullet Proof IPA, though pleased to find this beer from Galway-based Limerick-brewing Soulwater on tap at The Headline: their beers rarely seem to come this far east. This is 5.7% ABV, presenting pale and hazy, and clocking up an eye-watering €8.50 a pint, pro rata. At that price I think it's reasonable to expect a clean beer, but it's not: a nasty yeast bite pervades it and all but covers any hop fruit character. The savouriness survives and I got a sizeable dose of onions right up front, alongside bathsalt minerals. From the residual orangey flavours I picked up an impression that there's a good IPA buried under here somewhere, but it's in need of a major cleaning up.
I had a lot more fun with the beer I followed it with: Old English IPA from Boyne Brewhouse's pilot brew series. This is a serious dark orange colour, with a serious ABV of 7.5%. None of your modern pine or mango flavours here, it opens instead on a heavy incense and cedarwood spicing. Citrus fruit does enter the picture later, mixed with dry and bitter herbs, creating a Camapri or Aperol sort of effect. And like those liqueurs it's wonderfully dry, with no booze or stickiness from the high gravity. This beer manages to be fun and interesting, while also offering very grown-up beer flavours. And depsite everything going on, it's all integrated masterfully into a single coherent whole. Well played, Boyne Brewhouse.
The first run of Indie Beer Week happened around the country in late June. I only made it to one event: the launch of Weisse Guys, a collaboration between Rascals and the client brewers they usually host, Brewtonic. It's a hopfenweisse, which is a style I don't often enjoy, much like its twin, white IPA. This one's pretty good, however. It's an extremely opaque yellow colour and with that comes a slick and creamy mouthfeel. The hops aren't overdone, having been all added in the whirlpool, and just imparting a gentle citrus. In defiance of the style's Bavarian roots there's added lemon peel, and this winds up being the dominant flavour, coupled with a mild peppery bite. 6% ABV means it's a big beast, but the texture is smooth enough and the flavour subtle enough to keep it refreshing and drinkable. I had it on draught at The Back Page where a couple of pints slipped back easily, and the can presentation will doubtless make it an outdoor favourite this summer.
Brewed under Brewtonic's own steam, but still at Rascals, is Nautical Boogie IPA which I caught up with on my first visit to MVP, their outlet by the canal on Clanbrassil Street. It's a golden amber colour and smells rich and malty, not far off a red ale, with just a hint of hop spice. The hops are in control of the flavour, however, driving a blend of dry savoury onion powder and naughty resinous dankness. Fruit does not feature, making this an IPA for the grown-ups: a bittering punch up front, a long oily finish, and home to bed with no supper. I liked it, though would prefer a slightly lower ABV than the 6% here. It tastes sessionable but it really isn't.
For the first time ever I got an actual press release about a new release from 5 Lamps, which was welcome: more breweries should do this. It's a classic pale bock, called Bang Bang, and once again 57 The Headline was where it showed up first. This pours a flawless clear gold and leads with green and spinachy noble hops. They're balanced perfectly with a weighty malt, showing all of the 5.7% ABV but not claggy or hot, as can sometimes happen in this style. I only had a half pint at the end of a long night's tasting, but it was a real breath of fresh air and I fully intend to come back for more.
The Headline's own brewing subsidiary Two Sides celebrated the summer, and the return of a certain TV series, by bringing out a pink grapefruit witbier called Little Finger. It's a middle-of-the-road 5% ABV and offers a simple flavour profile on a light body. There's the dry crunch of wheaty grain husk plus a spicy and herbal complexity. A vague breakfast-juice fruitiness comes from the grapefruit, but no real bitterness. This is a solidly-built, if unexciting, summer refresher, ideal for the tables outside The Headline and T.O. Brennan's where most of it will be served.
To UnderDog next, and that's where I encountered the new session IPA from YellowBelly The Imposter. I suspect this has been rushed out of the brewery too quickly because it's full-on murky and the yeast has a strong influence on the flavour and texture. It's slick and gloopy, with kind of a meringue feel. The flavour, meanwhile, is a dessertish mix of lemon and vanilla, making it taste more like ice cream than beer. An interesting effort, but not what I'm looking for in a session IPA.
On UnderDog's opening night, as well as the collection of Lervig beers I mentioned here, they were also pouring's YellowBelly's new saison Get the Table. As the name sort-of hints, this is low-strength: a mere 4.5% ABV. It possesses a lovely balance between the earthy, gritty Belgian farmhouse flavours and lighter, fruitier melon and peach notes. An odd, but not unpleasant, sour tang sparks off in the background, adding further complexity. Interestingly, it doesn't taste or feel any way weak, the body having a proper heft. Overall it's a nicely refreshing beer with plenty of classic saison character.
UnderDog was also the first pub to serve Silk Road, a new saison from Trouble Brewing. It's quite a big one at 5.8% ABV, and there's lots happening in the flavour. A sharp spice dominates proceedings, backed by ripe apple and soft apricot. A herbal aniseed element adds further to the complexity. It all makes for a very pleasant sipper with none of the heat or cloying esters that often come with stronger saisons. Very nicely put together, all told.
Completing the trilogy, Galway Bay, too, have a new saison on rotation in their bars: Subsolar. This one is only 5% ABV and gets a lot of its character from some very generous dry hopping. There's a beautifully summery mix of peach pith and melon rind making for superb refreshment. I thought that was going to fade after the first few sips but it keeps going all the way through, bright and fresh. The countermelody is a gritty bitterness from the yeast but one gets used to that. It's very different from both Silk Road and Get The Table, but just as enjoyable. Saison is the beer style that keeps on giving.
The Black Sheep played host to the first tapping of Eight Degrees Berliner Weisse, an especially light one at 3.1% ABV, though with a substantial €6.75 a pint price tag. Redcurrant and rhubarb are the beer's embellishments and they're responsible for the cheeky, cheery blushing pink colour. There's an invigorating up-front sour bite though I think this slightly drowns out or assimilates the rhubarb as I could detect very little of it in the flavour. The redcurrant is a different sort of tartness, more fruity, and it complements the harder acidity well. Unsurprisingly, the texture is extremely thin but I think that actually helps boost the refreshment power here, as does a carbonation which is sparkly without being fizzy. As hacked Berliner weisse goes, this is one of the less busy ones, letting the beer speak for itself.
Wicklow Wolf has optimistically titled its summer beer The Sun Machine though I opened it on a drizzly July evening. It's a 6% ABV wheat beer, brewed with Meyer lemon, a citrus fruit I last encountered in Deschutes's session IPA Hop Slice. The fruit is playing second fiddle to the malt here, however, and it's very grainy, with a dry and dusty porridge oats effect. The lemons offset this somewhat, but there's a definite twang of soap about it, and quite a lot of sickly sweetness. It took about half of the 33cl can for me to decide this one isn't for me, neither as a wheat beer nor as a fruit beer.
It's been a while since there's been a new one from Brehon, but here's Fiesta, behind a suitably garish label and representing the Monaghan brewery's first foray into 33cl bottles. It's a 4.7% ABV pale ale, a clear coppery amber colour. "Dry-hopped with Simcoe" they say on the label. I wouldn't have guessed it. There's a bit of jaffa and maybe grapefruit, but mostly it's a smoky phenolic taste that suggests an infection to me. I don't think this has turned out as the brewer intended. A squirt of spritzy citrus at the end hints at the beer it could be, but that middle is pure dirty.
Dublin's shiniest new brewery Hopfully hasn't fully emerged from its chrysalis yet, but I thought I'd include this bottle from its planned first run: Beetjuice beetroot saison. In with the headline root veg there's sage and lemon thyme, and though it's as purple as might be expected from a 4.2% ABV beetroot beer, the herb garden contributes most to the flavour: I get sweet ginger and cinnamon right up front. Behind it there's the pleasing earthy complexity of the beetroot, playing a solid bassline to the herbs' main riff. The saison element is a little lost in all this, but it's there if you look: a dry kick, and some mild pepper spice. The oily winter greenness of the sage is the last survivor of an otherwise very clean profile. Overall it's a beautifully constructed beer that's very different from anything else on the market. I hope it gets to meet the public properly soon.
And finally Finally, the first ever lager from Kinnegar. It's in the Dortmunder style but unfiltered, so presents as quite a murky orange colour. There was a lot of foam as it poured and I got a slightly disconcerting whiff of vinegar from it. That was only momentary, however: the full glass smells like proper central-European lager, all fresh grass and clean golden syrup. For all the bubbles it's surprisingly full-bodied, though maybe not quite as substantially bready as one would expect from a Dortmunder, or anything at 5.5% ABV. Though there's a touch of dry cracker in the finish, the hops are leading the flavour, floral and perfumey at first, given a complementary spark of spice from the yeast. The finish is a proper noble-hop wax bitterness, though not as long-lasting as I'd like. This performs well the task of being an accessible-yet-complex lager; perhaps missing a trick on the cleanness front because it's unfiltered, but it's still properly refreshing and very well-designed.
That's probably enough to be getting on with for this post. Even now the next tranche of new Irish beers is starting to pile up. If you haven't had JW Sweetman's New England IPA yet, go and do that. It'll be gone by the time I get around to reviewing it.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Reading, Dreams, and Poetry
I don't remember you ever reading, but you did crossword puzzles. To me, that's harder.
Last night before I went to sleep I finished Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis by Catherine Rankovic. Excellent book. I had no idea we're so fortunate to have so many writers from St. Louis. My reading list just got longer.
I also listened to Sightlines by Janet Riehl. It touches your heart in so many ways, and what a beautiful tribute to her family.
Then I read a chapter from Stranger by the River by Paul Twitchell.
I knew when I went to sleep, traveling to other places, writing—particularly poetry—would surface. And sure enough as I entered back into semi-consciousness, here's what I heard:
Pounding head!
I stay wrapped in the covers.
My bladder demands more attention—
slither out of bed,
drag my body,
feet shuffling like my Parkinson's Dad,
back and hip hurt too,
shoulder has a kink,
eyes less than a slit.
This cleanse gives you energy?
Hurry up coffee maker!
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OMG Lynn, this is terrific. Your writing is taking a new direction and I love this kind of prose poetry. Great stuff.ReplyDelete
I loved this, too, Lynn! It's a wonder you didn't dream 10 different kinds of dreams with the diversity of your reading/listening before sleep! And wow...aches and pains and kinks? Dang! What's happening to us?? We're too young for these things to happen!! :)ReplyDelete
Hi Lynn, I agree with the ladies. Loving it.ReplyDelete
Kelly L. Stone wrote "THINKING WRITE: The Secret to Freeing Your Creative Mind" about using the subconscious mind to enhance our writing potential. I attended her workshop at the Red Clay Conference last fall (Georgia Writers' Association) and it was super interesting. She talked about that semi-sleep state as being particularly prolific. Thomas Edison would deliberately try to fall asleep because he solved invention dilemmas in that state of consciousness. Cool, huh? And you just proved her point! Keep it up!
Thank you gals - I always love when things like that come through. Not that it's all that great, but...ReplyDelete


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Last year Mythbusters did a special pirates episode. One of the myths they explored was that pirates wore a patch over a perfectly good eye so that they could remove it and see in the dark. They tried it and it worked so they classified it as plausible.
Presumably a pirate would do this in anticipation of taking a ship and having to do a hurried search of the hold. There is a gaping flaw in this theory - no one in his right mind would cover an eye before going into battle.
The Pirate Master site says this:
Another theory: the eye patch stereotype predates the "Golden Age of Piracy" by some 200 years. Up until the 1500s one of the key tools of maritime navigation was the cross staff, which required the navigator to look directly into the sun at high noon. This led to a lot of sailor/navigators who were partially blind in one eye. After significant sight loss, many would likely have taken to wearing an eyepatch over the afflicted eye. By the 1500s other tools like the back staff had been invented which eliminated the need to look directly into the sun, but by then the sailor/eyepatch image had snuck into public consciousness.There are lots of problems with this one. First, it gets the dates wrong. While the cross staff was invented around 1300, it was not used for navigation until after 1500.
More important, looking at the sun does not make you lose an eye. If you look long enough it causes blind spots. even with multiple blind spots, there would be no need to wear an eye patch.
Most important, this would only affect navigators and it would affect all navigators equally regardless of any association with piracy.
Unlike many things that we think of as "pirate", eye patches are not associated with sailors, just pirates. This makes this a very unlikely reason for wearing an eye patch.
There can be no doubt that piracy was dangerous. All of the surviving articles that pirates sailed under list cash sums to be paid to anyone who loses an arm, leg, or eye. There was good reason for this. Since pirates tended to attack any ships they came across, they might see more fighting than any other sailors, even members of a navy.
While some pirates undoubtedly lost an eye, this does not seem to be how they were perceived. When researching this posting, I looked over most of the period pictures of pirates. I couldn't find any with an eye patch.
The root of all pirate legends, Hollywood seems to have invented the image of a pirate wearing an eye patch in the 20th century. This site indicates that it came from the 1950 Treasure Island along with talking like a pirate and nearly everything else pirate-like.
Probably the people doing the research saw the same articles I mentioned above and over-represented pirates in eye patches.
I am still researching this but one strong indication is the lack of pirates (real and fictional) under Wikipedia's list of eye patch wearers.
So - bottom line, some pirates definitely lost an eye but not enough to influence the image of pirates until it was defined by Hollywood in the 20th century.
A pirate who wants to wear an eye patch is on solid historic ground but he should be in the minority and he should represent it as an eye lost in battle.


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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday became the latest Democrat to offer a sharp rebuttal to Howard Dean over the former Vermont governor's call to "kill" the Senate health care bill now that the bill includes neither a public option nor a Medicare buy-in option.
"I would ask Dr. Dean, how better do you address those who don't have insurance: passing a bill that will cover 30 million who don't currently have it or killing the bill?" Gibbs said, as quoted by Sam Stein at the Huffington Post. "I don't think any rational person would say killing the bill makes a whole lot of sense at this point."
In a sign of a rift within the Democratic Party over the removal of all public health care options from the Senate reform bill, Sen. Jay Rockefeller strongly criticized former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's call for the bill to be voted down.
"It's nonsense," Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia, said of Dean's call to "kill the Senate bill." Added Rockefeller: "It's irresponsible, and coming from him as a physician, it's stunning, and he's wrong."
Rockefeller told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday that there are still many useful measures in the Senate health care bill that are worth passing. Rockefeller noted that the bill mandated a "medical loss ratio" for health insurers of 85 percent to 90 percent, meaning that insurers would be required to spend that percentage of their revenue on providing health care.
Rockefeller said the bill would extend children's health benefits for 14.1 million children whose benefits were set to expire, and noted the number of children covered under the benefits would be expanded, but did not say how many more children would qualify for the benefits.
The senator from West Virginia noted that he had been a supporter of the public option and Medicare buy-in, "but [we] were shot down, so what do I do? Do I take my football and run home and sulk? … No, I look at the entire bill and I say, 'What is in the interest of the people of my state and the people of America?' and then I vote. In my case I'm going to vote yes."
Dean, who worked as a physician before his stints as governor of Vermont and then chair of the Democratic National Committee, said earlier this week that the removal of the Medicare buy-in provision represented "the end of health care reform in the United States Senate." He suggested that Democrats should start from scratch and craft a new bill.
While many progressive supporters were alarmed by the announcement earlier this month that the government-run public option would be ditched in the Senate bill in favor of a Medicare buy-in option for people aged 55 to 64, Dean came out in favor of the proposal.
That helped to solidify progressives' support for the idea. And it may have also helped convince Sen. Lieberman to come out against the idea, despite having voiced backing for a Medicare buy-in as recently as three months ago. Some supporters of health care reform have criticized Lieberman's decision to oppose the buy-in because it had the support of progressives as "deeply immoral."
This video is from MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, broadcast Dec. 16, 2009.
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text: Will Bates stall takeover for Chelsea reunion? TSS November 1, 2012 Leeds United 31 Comments Leeds United drew Chelsea in last night's League Cup quarter final draw, setting the stage for the first meeting between the two sides in eight years and a reunion of sorts for Ken Bates. Success for the two clubs has contrasted greatly since 2004; after ridding themselves of Bates, Chelsea went on to enjoy the most successful spell in their history propelled to success by Roman Abramovich's squillions. Leeds United meanwhile became the next club to be "saved" by Ken Bates' prudent business skills (or so he tells us anyway). Relegation to the lowest point in our history (League One), administration, countless court cases, the constant sale of key players, criminally high ticket prices and key players constantly sold to build his various loss-making vanity projects (not unlike Chelsea Village). Chelsea fans can be forgiven for feeling a little envious. With a seemingly perpetual takeover process still underway at Elland Road, it's possible that Ken Bates may have packed up and left LS11 by the time Chelsea arrive on December 19th, but if I know our Ken, he'll do everything in his power to stall the process and ensure he's still at the helm when the European Champions role into town – his extreme narcissism won't allow for him to pass on an opportunity for global publicity. As such, the draw is a somewhat tainted one. For the last few years I've been hoping to draw Chelsea in the cup, mostly because my Father's a Chelsea fan so the rivalry has a little something extra for me. This time around I was torn, part of me hoped to avoid them solely because it may result in Ken Bates hanging around a little longer – nearly 8 years is more than enough. Whatever it is we're being punished for, surely we've served our time? Nevertheless, the draw still managed to retain some of the excitement I'd been hoping for and irrespective of Ken Bates' status on the 19th of December, a packed-out Elland Road should provide the perfect setting for a rekindling of old rivalries on what is sure to be an interesting night. 31 Responses Dubai White November 1, 2012 Let the takeover go through and Ken can be the special guest of David Haigh, or A Another chairman. Looking forward to this one! Reply NottsWhite November 1, 2012 Ken will definately hang around for this one. A full house, opportunity for more self promotion and a tidy sum to pocket from the gate receipts. Call it a retirement gift then do one Ken!!!! Reply EFeomeno November 1, 2012 Ken Bates saved Chelsea FC, if it wasn't for him and his wheeler dealings Chelsea quite possibly wouldn't even exist today. He is much apprecated by many Chelsea supporters, I imagine he will be tby Leeds fans, when Leeds United rise again. I don't imagine this cup encounter is going to be a pleasant affair, but hey ho………….. Reply lufcaidan November 1, 2012 "Ken Bates saved Chelsea FC, if it wasn't for him and his wheeler dealings Chelsea quite possibly wouldn't even exist today." Yet another reason to hate the man just in case there wasn't enough already. Reply MarkoLUFC November 1, 2012 99% of people will not appreciate ken bates in years to come. Even if he did "save" us (I'm sure somebody else would have stepped in), he's done more than enough since then to cancel out that one good act. Reply Matthew November 1, 2012 I'm dissapointed by the Chelsea draw to be honest, mostly as I was wanting a Wembley trip this year. Perhaps I'll get my wish if Chelsea play a weakened team, just if I can be honest here, I'm not sure how we'l win that game. And because its the final 8, Chelsea will be a hell of a lot more serious because its do or die at this point. Lets hope for the best hey. Out of all the remaining teams we got the hardest to beat lol Reply Ben. November 1, 2012 On the contrary, Chelsea are participating in the FIFA club world cup competition more or less the same time as the tie and we all know how christmas fixture congestion gets the better of some clubs, in comparison to other campaigns chelsea are participating in i dont think the Capital One Cup ranks very highly. Saying that, Chelsea have a very deep squad full of class and i doubt it will be an easy fixture regardless of the squad they put out. It will be a good game none the less! Reply Matthew November 1, 2012 Chelsea do love their trophies though, and once they hit a certain point in a competition they withdraw their second string side and put on their first teamers, or a side very close to it. Which does worry me quite a bit, that said if we can get past them, we can win the cup. I'm pretty certain of that. If we can overcome the Chelsea threat I have absolutely no doubt we'l lift the trophy at Wembley as no team in the competition will come close to matching such a feet. We've got to make the day a day of positivity before and during the match. Irving08 November 1, 2012 Excellent draw: we are at home and against a team with whom we share some history: in my case, going back to the 5-0 drubbing we handed out at Stamford Bridge in 1970. I watched it with my father, when it was still possible to stand amongst opposition fans, without being accused of provocation. Reply Jon-paul Jones November 1, 2012 maybe he'll sell up and then come to the game in his chelsea shirt? Reply Counte Of Monte Fisto November 1, 2012 For me this was always THE BIG ONE, not the red side! Any Leeds fans who came of age in the 80's will be feeling the same excitement I felt when this was drawn. To all fans of our one sided (your side) rivals Hull, cleckuddersfax, Millwall et all this is a real rivalry, bring your tins hats its gonna be tasty. Hope GFH have finished the buy out before this game otherwise they may walk away with the publicity from the inevitable clashes that are a 100% cert Reply sauxboy November 1, 2012 Gotta give that man credit, he saved a club and got them moving in the right direction. We had the red Peter Kenyon, you got Ken…. Personally Ken did it for Chelsea, Kenyon did it for himself. Ken's a winner. Put your aligence aside…he's doing to save the club, he did before why not again. Reply Pete Hinds November 1, 2012 I personally couldn't care less whether the old goat's there or not, as long as we've got a new owner! Reply oldschoolbaby November 1, 2012 I heard that as festive gesture of Christian goodwill Bates is to declare this a £10 game and write a personal cheque of £500,000 to cover free admission, a pie and a pint for the Leeds faithful Actually, given the protracted naure of this "takeover". I am wondering how we`re supposed to tell if Bates draws the process out to cover this game Reply songster November 1, 2012 I love the fact its Chelsea. If Bates is gone GREAT, if not I think the Chelsea fans will join us in a resounding chant of "Bates OUT". Reply Yorkshirian November 1, 2012 If this takeover is 99% done, and GFH have already put in £2M and they intend to invest more. Why, as a finance company, are they not putting in the piddling bits of cash to bring in loan players now ? On the understanding that Leeds Utd will pay back that money, if the takeover does not go ahead ? £200k on loan costs a couple of weeks ago may have already bought us 8 or 9 extra points by Xmas. Why don't they dig a bit deeper for the good of what is surely about to be their investment ? It's like watching a classic car rusting in the garden. Reply mrbigwheels November 6, 2012 Exactly… Why, Why oh Why?…. It beggars belief. What is going on between a selfish bloke and the flash pretenders?. £200k is total peanuts to the overall income and table position that it would propel, Bates is hoping GHFC will sign the cheque very soon that is for sure but every day that passes just makes the purchasers true objective even more difficult to achieve that by the seasons end. £200k for heavens sake!… with 20 days left to add to the squad and get this challenge moving. Warnock has got his head back up but don't count on the baffoons above him to keep it up there… Reply bob November 18, 2012 Agree with u pal bitmore money n few more points simples Reply Irving08 November 1, 2012 TSS: if vanity was Bates' motivation, surely he would have spent it on a team that could secure promotion, when he would have been proclaimed some sort of hero. He is too bloody-minded to be swayed by vanity. Reply Australia White November 2, 2012 If (and it's a big IF) the rumours that have been doing the rounds this week are true, about meetings in Monaco, Bates being in the UK, meetings with banks etc, coupled with the recent statement put out then it would seem that completion of the deal is close. I wouldn't be surprised if the deal goes through and Ken comes to the Chelsea game as a guest of David Haigh (or whoever), and wears a Chelsea scarf – that would be his ultimate two-fingered salute to all the Leeds faithful who have supported the club and lined Bates' pockets over the last 7 years. Reply mrbigwheels November 3, 2012 And on and on we go…. Bates continues to strangle this club with no other motive but personal gain. Watching Brighton play just drives the frustration to a deeper level. Warnock and us the fans have been robbed by this despot who still won't invest in the playing team. If anyone thinks the January window will save us they are seriously dreaming. So sad. Reply Tyler75 November 3, 2012 If we're still in and around the play-offs in January – would you bet against Warnock with some money to spend, not getting us on a run good enough for promotion ? I wouldn't. Reply mrbigwheels November 6, 2012 I certainly wouldn't bet against it Tyler but being in and around the play-offs in January and the injection of some cash are the big 'ifs'. To be there or abouts is a considerable task if one factors in the size of the squad with any sustainable playing ability and quality, the overall MORALE of everyone involved, (Bates and GHFC excluded) and how long Warnock can believe in the task before he throws in the towel. Unfortunately him and his men are running out of sticky tape to paper over the cracks. Let's hope Hall, Poleon, Ross and Somma can offer him a breather before everyone calls for his head. Some are 'rearing' this week and while that can be expected, the total limiting factor is Bates and please… none of us… lose sight of that. Andrew Grainger November 7, 2012 Sorry but you are deluded. What I saw v Brighton and many other games is a poor side hanging on the coat tails of a few good players. We will be looking down not up. thanks to Bates making us a selling club. Imagine us with Snodgrass, Delph, Johnson, Howson and Beckford. Was it so hard for us to keep them with 27000 average crowds not so long ago…though not now? 4 million profit in a season…why shouldnt we have kept them? Because someone is syphoning the money off, of coures…guess who?!!Look…just don't go any more!!! If the cash cow dried up the twot would be out of the door before December comes in Andrew Grainger November 6, 2012 After tonights loss to Burnley I cannot describe my hatred for Bates…we are on the brink of a relegation battle, make no mistake. We are a poor side and Bates is to blame 100% Reply Matthew November 7, 2012 I agree with you, but pretty much saw this coming weeks ago when I wrote that long ass rant about the state of the team, tactics, and the general way we've been playing. It's easy for armchair fans to say OMG DON BE NEGATIVE!!111 mentioning that we're only 4 points off the playoffs but considering the teams lack of skill, and general shiteness, I honestly can't see how we can hit the playoffs, I didn't think we could do it weeks ago but the only thing that has changed is, as you've said, you can feel the pull of the relegation zone, we're getting close and unless something changes soon, I can see is being in the bottom 3 come the new year. I'm sick to death with this takeover shit too. GFH needs to like decide one way or the other if they want us or simply fuck off and let someone with actual money come in and purchase us to give us a fighting chance next season. Reply mrbigwheels November 7, 2012 There's trouble at mill…. let's all keep nice and quiet, stick pins in the manager and "dare to dream". Don't worry… exit plans are already in place. Seize the day chaps. Reply Matthew November 7, 2012 Sacking Warnock now would result in us being in league 1 next season if nothing changes, I think we have a 50/50 chance of avoiding if he remains in charge and this takeover collapses. Sack him and we're dead. Simple as, we'l be playing in the likes of the JPT again, on the plus side Ashdown is a decent enough keeper and could get us out of there should someone buy us in league 1 and build from there. If Kenny leaves with his idol Warnock if worse comes to worse, we won't be that hard off with Ashdown. Reply mrbigwheels November 7, 2012 Wasn't referring to Warnock getting the sack Matt, although some fans are openly shouting for Warnock out, heavens I agree with you… everything needs to be done to stop him walking off. Nooooo, as just announced, Bates is about to leave the building…. for ever. I picked it up on the bush radar… this morning. Only a few days and we'll be free…… Roll on. Smudger78 November 8, 2012 Why no now aricles on here for ages given the Burnley game and yet more takeover rumours?? Reply bob November 18, 2012 Get this horrible cunt out of our club now i wnt b bk at elland rd til ur gne mr bates wot a prick u are from revie stand Reply Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Name* Email* Website Comment


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Observant Gmail users may have noticed small change in their inboxes today. Google announced that it would be implementing a click- to-call feature in all e-mails starting today. Any phone numbers appearing in an e-mail in the standard 555-555-5555 format will be hyperlinked. Clicking on a number will bring up Google's number pad and the option to place a call. To get the feature to work, users will have to install the voice and video plug-in. A small green phone will also appear next to the phone numbers of your Gmail contacts.
On Wednesday, Google rolled out a new click to call feature in its mobile browsers as well. Anytime a mobile browser uses Google to find an emergency service such as the police or poison control, phone numbers will appear at the top of the result. Searchers can then call those numbers with a single click.
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According to Shannen Doherty, her years are numbered.
The 45-year-old actress, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2015 and is currently battling the disease through chemotherapy, said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that she has five years left to live.
While discussing a conversation she had with her film producer husband Kurt Iswarienko, Shannen said, "I told him [Kurt], 'You need to enjoy every single second you have with me because I'm going to be dead in five years.'"
The Beverly Hills, 90210 star continued by sharing details about how she broke the news of her diagnosis to Kurt. She said, "I called him, which was horrible of me. I was in the car. I was with my mom, and the doctor called me and I'm, you know, 'I'm going to wait until I see him,' and I just couldn't."
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When Shannen returned home and pulled into her driveway, Kurt was waiting for her.
"[He] hugged me and said, 'We are going to get through this. You are going to be okay… You're strong and you're powerful and you're not going anywhere. You have so much in your life. We are going to get through it as a family," she said.
Although her cancer has spread to her lymph nodes, Shannen said the disease has made her marriage "a thousand times stronger" and that she "could not have gotten through this without her husband."
The Charmed actress also told ET that she believes her dog Bowie (named after the late David Bowie) was the first to sense the disease. She said Bowie obsessively sniffed the right side of her body before she sought medical attention and was "supersensitive" to her right side after she underwent a single mastectomy.
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Leek roundabout protesters refuse to move from site
Protesters camped at a roundabout in Leek have refused to move despite letters by Staffordshire County Council asking them to leave.
They have been there since 11 June when work started to remove it.
A statement from the protesters said they "care deeply for their town" and the £5m plans would make the roads more dangerous.
Councillor Neal Podmore said people in the town had been complaining about the protesters.
Protesters have been taking it in shifts to man the site where about eight tents have been erected.
The statement from the protesters said: "The scheme is ill thought out and the council should reopen the roads until we leave, there is no reason to keep them closed at this time."
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Mr Podmore, county councillor for Leek South, said: "Both our engineers and the police have asked them to move and we are receiving complaints from people in the town centre.
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To say that my kids are "growing like weeds" takes on a lot more meaning if you have ever seen my yard. While my closets are neatly organized and my pantry is a masterpiece of space management and convenience, it is an understatement to say that my garden could use a little tweaking. Sure, I appreciate other people's beautiful landscapes and wish I had one too, but I don't do bugs, snakes or itchy creepy crawly stuff. Thus mine is a tangled patch of overgrown weeds that I can't keep up with…much like my kids. Do you see where I'm going with this?
Like most moms, it's important to me that my progeny look presentable. Heaven knows that I have expended more energy than I probably should on arguing with them over proper teeth brushing, appropriate haircuts and fingernail length. I'm frankly surprised that Child Protective Services has not appeared on my doorstep yet, given the blood-curdling screams my son lets rip on nail-clipping day or my daughter's gnashing of teeth at the mere prospect of having her hair braided. Apparently I could teach the CIA a thing or two about torture.
I gave up the stripes with plaid and boots with shorts war years ago due to pure battle fatigue. They are now free to express themselves (within reason) with their wardrobe choices. I've even recently developed a new "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy toward tears and stains after discovering the multiple holes my 9YO son created in the crotch of his new shorts…I just don't want to know. I simply don't have the time, energy or budget to stay on top of it, and some days this weary mom feels lost in the weeds.
It is upon this backdrop that I looked up last Sunday evening and realized that my son's sleep pants were about 5 inches too short. They have worn well and still fit perfectly in the waist. More importantly, he loves them! But so pathetic did he look in them, that I had to do something to save my poor child from the certain ridicule that awaited him if one of his neighborhood friends should come knocking at the door after he was ready for bed (as they sometimes do). My solution was so quick, easy and free that I had to share it. After all, it isn't often that he and I are both this thrilled with a wardrobe solution. All it took was a pair of scissors and within five minutes, he had 6 pairs of adorable, comfortable, summer sleep shorts!
- Turn a short dress into a tunic by pairing it with leggings or bike shorts.
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- Convert stained t-shirts and comfy elastic waist shorts into pajamas.
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Victorian Players' 'Fantasticks' is just that
By David L. MUNNELL
The Victorian Players has decided to tread new ground this year by producing its first musical, directed by J.E. Ballantyne Jr. What this little theater has managed to accomplish is nothing short of fantastic.
"The Fantasticks" was originally produced in 1960 off-Broadway and is one of the longest-running musicals in theater history. The plot is relatively simple. It is the story of young love and adventure spanning the excitement of the moonlit nighttime beginnings of love to the eventual reality of spending a lifetime with another person in the sun. All of this is told as a show within a show.
The Narrator, played by Tom Kusiowski, introduces the cast to the audience. There are the girl, Luisa, played by Sarah Puhala, and the boy, played by Nathan Robert Pecchia, who are madly in love. Their cunning fathers, Hucklebee, played by Tom Gent, and Bellomy, played by Brian H. Lee, seem to keep the lovers apart. Later on, two players join the cast: Henry, played by Ballantyne and Mortimer, played by Ed Vostand. Also running around the stage wherever he is needed as props or scenery is The Mute, played by Vinnie Dragos.
Puhala and Pecchia are absolutely delightful as the exuberant young lovers. It is difficult to not grin from ear to ear from the explosion of energy they put into their characters. Not to be outdone, the elder actors, Gent and Lee are equally dynamic as the conniving fathers. The two gentlemen have almost perfect timing as they perform with vaudevillian aplomb. These four actors carry this show fantastically.
Kusiowski as the Narrator, and later as El Gallo, is pleasant in his approach to his character. However, as the puppet-master of the evening, reciting poetry and being a flamboyant vagabond, he lacked the level of intensity showcased by the other actors. Though Ballantyne's portrayal of Henry the player is as old and tired as the character he is trying to play, Vostand is a joy to behold as Mortimer, his assistant. Also, take a closer look at this "fresh, new" actor. You may recognize "him."
The biggest issues I took with this production was in the staging. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the director had only some of the actors onstage when they weren't needed if he was just going to have their backs to the audience. They might as well have exited. Also, I felt awkward for Dragos as The Mute as he was given very little action to do with such potential in the part. However, what he was given he did very well.
Gripes aside, I cannot recommend this show enough. The intimate setting and dynamic characters set the bar high for seasons to come. "The Fantasticks" will be performed today at 2 p.m. and for the following two weekends at The Victorian Players Theater, 702 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown. Call 330-746-5455 for information or reservations.
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In Jessica Hagedorn's first commissioned play for Campo Santo, "Stairway to Heaven" (2005), a San Francisco Tenderloin recluse's privacy is invaded by her haughty, materialistic sister, who had just abandoned her wealthy third husband. Playwright and company are together again for "Fe in the Desert," which backtracks to explain why the earlier play's sister left her adoring spouse. But, nothing is very satisfactorily explained in a work that, like its predecessor, puts vivid personnel in attention-grabbing circumstances that ultimately confirm one figure's musing: "Ain't life one crazy howling bunch of contradictions?"
That might be message enough for a comedy, and Danny Scheie directs "Desert" as such, his customary high-energy style sometimes bordering on overkill in the close Intersection space.
Likewise, Margo Hall's Fe (a role she originated, and the only returning character from "Heaven") has snap-queen 'tude to spare, but this time it risks being too much of a good thing.
Most frustrating, though, is that Hagedorn has again come up with lively, distinctive protagonists whose dialogue frequently crackles while their twisty interactions keep surprising. Yet there's never a sense of why these characters are connected or fated to encounter each other. It's never clear whether the events that unfold are meaningful or just cleverly arbitrary.
Nonetheless, the play is never less than entertaining on a scene-by-scene basis. Fe (short for Felicidad) kicks things off by reciting a list of high-end designer labels and products she uses, which are bankrolled by indulgent current mate Bill (Danny Wolohan). They live in custom-built palatial splendor in the Southern California desert. Yet Fe is impatient, restless, hypercritical.
This is not a good day: Fe has already had a near-fatal car accident (her fault no doubt). Now she's snorting coke and snarfing rare wine to defuse the remaining anxiety while not appreciating Bill's attempts to celebrate the birthday she'd rather forget.
Her suspicion that there's something "creeping" in the distance outside is dismissed as paranoia, until, in the wee hours, this pricey private oasis is suddenly invaded by two gun-wielding perps.
Just what middle-aged Tyrone (Robert Hampton) and hair-triggered young Mook (Jonsen Vitug) have in mind isn't immediately — or, ever fully — clear. But it does result in some choice standoffs between various members of the foursome. Temperamental Fe can't stop mouthing off, while Bill, by contrast, cries and cowers.
Tyrone seems both ruthless and refined. His tony vocabulary and mind-your-manners clucking hold sway over raw youth Mook, who may or may not have been his prison "bitch" for the last five years. Meanwhile, brash Hollywood mogul Ramon (Michael Torres) shows up with German-by-way-of-Beirut secretary Suze (Sara Hernandez).
During the night's long course, recreational and prescription drugs get consumed; there's a joyous but violently terminated dance interlude. Flashbacks range from "earlier today" to nine years prior, while most characters address us directly in a monologue or two. Many such digressions are amusing, but they are near-incessant, and an occasional dud idea (as when Ty and Mook do a lip-synch routine to the Chi-Lites' soul classic "Have You Seen Her?") make the play seem too impish for its own good.
While these characters' motivations remain undeveloped, the actors dive into their contrary surfaces with relish. Vitug is particularly good at ringing funny variations on what might easily have been a one-note gangbanger part.
Lisa Dent's clever set design (which features a functioning automatic garage door) is a plus. Use of music tracks ranging from opera to show tunes to Helen Reddy to Beyonce and Jay-Z is, like much here, entertainingly antic if not always relevant. Timothy Jordan's dual-monitor "media design" is likewise more distracting than pointed.


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Last Sunday's dessert, Truffles Boston Cream Pie
We got the Chocolate Truffles in a Christmas Care package my Sis sent us, they were so decadent! When it came time to gather up all my ingredients for the Boston Cream Pie, I discovered I forgot the one main ingredient: chocolate chip morsels!!!
DH suggested I use the Chocolate Truffles, perfecto! The recipe called for 1 ounce chocolate morsels, so I guestimated and added 4, then one more, and finally 6 Chocolate Truffles to the pot, tasting as I added, until the mixture tasted just right.
DH saved the day!