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I am the happy owner of a new gate made by my loving husband. We had an old Mexican gate we had bought in Laredo many years ago. I loved that gate. But over the years it went from a cool vintage gate to an old rotten gate. At one time it had been painted red. The bottom had began to rot. We wanted to try and build one to be similar to our original gate. The main structure was made from bead board so we used bead board and I painted it teal with a distressed finish of sanding and staining.Here are the boards painted and sanded but not yet stained.Here is the "tool" I used to make worm holes in my boards to distress it further. The original gate had wood posts in the windows but we wanted to put hammered steel bars. Jim also hand forged the latch. The clavos were taken off the old gate and put on our new gate. Now I think I need to get a pot with a cactus in it to put next to the gate. Oh, the bell is from my husband's grandparents farm in Missouri. They called it "The Maples". Here is a before picture of the gate:I kept the doors. I know I can find something wonderful to do with that beautiful distressed wood.
November 16, 2011
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November 16, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Your new gate is gorgeous! Beautiful job, I love it!
November 24, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Beautiful gate! I love the color. You guys did a great job.

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Well, now that I've moved away from my friends and family, very few people call me Alli. I didn't realize how much I missed it until Sam came to visit this weekend, calling me (and introducing me as) Alli. It was a little piece of home.
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So one of the many parts about travelling that I love is getting to experience so many amazing kinds of food! Whether it is hot pot in China, fried chicken in Cambodia, Thom Yum soup in Thailand, Bun Cha in a Southeast Asian country, or ethnic deliciousness in Central Asia, there is many a dish that I have eaten on this trip that makes my mouth water as I think about them. Drooling on my keyboard is probably an electrocution risk right? Not to mention unsanitary. Anyway, the point is that travel provides a great opportunity to not only open your mind to new persepctives and ideas, but to also open your pallette to new flavours, textures, smells, and sensations. I think that it is important for us to be searching for new foods and opportunities to experience dining in whatever culture we find ourselves in. Unlike most of North America, many countries observe eating in a sort of intimate way. A great deal of importance is placed on food. From preparation to consumption and every step in between. Sharing a meal with people can give you great insight into that culture, more so than most other activities. And as eating is a necessity to life you will be more likely to share a meal with them then let's say get a traditional tribal tattoo or something of that nature. Being in Kolkata for a little over a month now I have been able to experience a lot of different foods and dining experiences. Some of them have been more enjoyable than others, but each tells a different story and holds a unique memory. So below I have compiled a list of the foods that I have enjoyed most!
So this was one of my first "Indian" meals in Kolkata. My friend, who is a local, took me to a place about a 10 minute walk from my hotel in a sort of strip mall style restaurant area. The chicken kassa is a typical chicken curry in West Bengal, it features pieces of chicken, bone included, stewed in a rich dark gravy made up of numerous spices and chilis, and left to cook for hours to allow the flavours time to deepen and intensify. It is a heavenly chorus of flavour that knows no competitior! Combine this with piping hot, freshly stretched rumali ruti, the chipati's larger and thinner cousin, and you have got yourself a match that could be featured in a commercial for e-Harmony. It is truly that delightful of an experience! Fun fact: Rumal is the word for handkerchief in the local language, so rumali ruti is kind of like saying "hankie bread." At least that's what my friend told me.
Price: The most expensive meal on the list 100 INR – 150 INR depending on your portion size and number of Ruti
Ah, puchkas. All my instincts told me it was a risk and that I should probably pass on it. But, this time I told my instincts to get lost and I am thankful I did. Puchkas are a delicious little crispy potato chip-like shell with a filling made of potato, chickpeas, fresh cilantro, and various spices. Mixed by hand I should add. Maybe it's the risk of food poisoning that adds to the experience. Anyway, the shell is broken by the street vendor and filled with potato and then dipped in a dark brown liquid that my local friend only called "sour water." This process is repeated until you have had your fill and tell the man that you are finished. This may not sound like an appetizing street food however, I assure you that it is indeed delightful! There is nothing quite like standing on a street with horns honking behind you, stuffing your face with puchkas. True bliss!
Price: I think I paid 10 INR for 5 Puchkas or $0.20
Kati rolls. Kolkata's iconic street food, or so I have heard. Either way, they're delicious! A piece of dough is flattened and rolled out. Then fried in hot oil on a giant griddle type pan. If you are lucky, this process will be a lot more visually enticing than it sounds. Some of Kolkata's Kati roll providers are extremely skilled in the tossing and frying of dough as a performance art, it's quite the spectacle. After the frying, the dough is filled with your choice of toppings, ranging from veggie, to egg and chicken. It is seriously one of the best street foods I have ever come across, and it is only available in the evening, at least as far as I know.
Price: 40 INR – 80 INR or $0.79 – $1.60
Another dish that features some type of bread. I could just write about the varieties of Indian bread available, but that is another post for another time. This is one of my favourite breakfast foods in the world! You can save your Corn Pops and your Eggo waffles, this is truly the most satisfying breakfast I have ever had. Three pieces of dough are flattened and fried, the same way as the beginning of the kati roll, these are the paratha, a common form of bread eaten here. These are accompanied by a insanely delicious potato curry that is made fresh each morning. They serve it on a sectional stainless steel plate garnished with fresh diced red onion and a seriously intense mustard sauce. As you try not to burn your fingers you rip off pieces of the bread and pinch the potato between them. It is truthfully one of the most enjoyable experiences this city has to offer. The best, and only spot I have found so far, is near a mall called Metropolis in Kolkata. It's just a little shack with old bamboo poles supporting a less the waterproof tin roof, but man is it ever delicious!
Price: 17 INR – 35 INR or $0.33 – $0.70
5. LASSI (or LOSI)
One of the more famous Indian treats, and although technically not a food, it deserves a spot here. Let me first say that before I had a real Lassi I was quite skeptical because I did not particularly enjoy my Lassi experiences in Indian restaurants in Canada . However, since I have had a real Indian Lassi, I have been born again! My friend took me to a place that is famous in his neighbourhood for having the best Lassi in Kolkata. The old man at the shop combines a sort of room temeprature yogurt, (safe) ice cubes, and copius amounts of rock sugar, in an old fashioned blender that I'm sure has been around since the 40's. After it is blended to his satisfaction he opens the spout and out comes a delicious dairy laden delight that I am convinced is a gift from the heavens. He tops the drink with a piece of what I can oly describe as crust, which souds far less appetizing than it really is, and hands you your prize. It is seriously the best thing after a hot curry, or really anytime. The best Lassi is said to be found at a shop in the Tagore Park area, or at Sonarpur Railway station. I preferred the shop in Tagore Park, but if you are ever in Kolkata you will have to try them for yourself!
Price: 20 INR or $0.40
Thank you all for reading! I hope you enjoyed hearing about he food at least half as much as I have enjoyed eating it! If there is any sort of cultural topic that you would like to read about I would be happy to do research and write about it! Leave a comment below if you have any suggestions!
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Birds Bring World Peace?
There's a young lady who works in my department. Normally she is dressed in black, her T-shirts usually depict punk bands, death, or other depressing subjects.
So imagine my surprise when she walked in other day wearing this:
"It was the only thing clean."
Birds, helping hands, peace, love... and a map!
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Wheeling (US): A retired police officer armed with an assault weapon and a handgun has fired up to two dozen shots at a US courthouse in West Virginia before police returned fire and killed him, authorities said.
Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger identified the gunman as Thomas J Piccard, 55, of Bridgeport, Ohio. He was a retired Wheeling police officer.
Schwertfeger did not say whether Piccard used both weapons during the assault on the Wheeling Federal Building yesterday or speculate on a motive. Officials said they had no knowledge of any sort of note left behind by Piccard.
Three on-duty security officers were injured by flying debris during the onslaught, he told a news conference.
Mayor Andy McKenzie said police who briefed him earlier yesterday told him that Piccard was a 20-year-plus veteran of the force who retired 13 years ago.
Investigators were seeking a search warrant for Piccard`s home in hopes of determining a motive and if he acted alone, said Chief Deputy Mike Claxton of the US Marshals Service in northern West Virginia.
Asked if the gunman had any beef with the US government, Claxton said, "We`re really digging hard at this point to find out."
Claxton said a man later identified as Piccard began firing from a parking lot across from the federal building. "He was observed in the parking lot very quickly after the first shots were fired," he said.
The building houses a variety of courtrooms and related offices, including those for judges, prosecutors and law enforcement.
Officials said it was too early to tell whether Piccard was targeting anyone in the building or what his motive may have been.
"That`s still trying to be determined," said Bob Johnson, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI`s Pittsburgh office.
People inside the building ducked under desks as the shots struck the building and shattered windows.
US Attorney Bill Ihlenfeld said shots were fired into at least three rooms in his office on the building`s second floor. He described hearing gunshots, then panic among staff.
"Members of my staff were crawling on the floor or running from office to office telling people to get away from the windows," he said.
Ihlenfeld said he knew Piccard from 1997 when he started working in the city prosecutor`s office until the officer retired in 2000.
He said he had no reason to believe his office was targeted, and that Piccard was not under any sort of investigation by federal authorities.


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Saturday, June 30, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
After we left Simone and Darryl, we were off to meet our oldest friend in world, Ms. Tricia Benitez, for dinner. But we had a few hours to kill, so we swung by the Chateau Marmont for a quick double espresso to sober up. There, we ran into another friend, Ms. Joy Bryant, who was enjoying an alcoholic lunch of her own. We hung out with her for a bit and reminisced of our days together working in fashion photography back in the late 90s. Ugh. How old do we feel right now???
Our next stop on the alcoholic train was the famed Mexican restaurant, El Cholo. Above you'll see that we're not the only ones who like a little bit of the sauce during the day.
A sneak peek inside the tacky eatery! Please note the traditional Mexican garb of the hostess behind the front desk! J'Adore!
We really shouldn't have been driving home after all that we imbibed that day, but what were we going to do? Sleep on a park bench? Haven't done that since our teens!
On the day we visited, we were the only ones on the second beach. We felt like were on an episode of LOST. We kept an eye out for Desmond, but he never showed up.
Around 1:00pm, we were joined by the most unexpected little visitor! A baby seal just pulled up out of the ocean and plopped down for some much deserved sunbathing and relaxation.We went in for a closer look, and baby seal freaked out just a bit. He thought we were going to pull out our club and beat him over the head. We are in need of some seal skin pants, but we're not looking to go out and hunt for them on the beach. We'll just swing by Gucci next week.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
But due to his recent popularity via his gorgeous photo in the April issue of GQ and the glowing write up on him in the June issue of OUT Magazine, we've been receiving a tremendous onslaught of emails asking us for more information about Brad and his work.


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|They are very close to the same size 18 inches at the shoulder and about 30 lbs.
|They had a natural tie on Thursday May 15th
up in the mountains by Beaver Utah
|This was one of the most beautiful trips; the canyon was gorgeous!
|We did a side by side AI at the Veterinarian's in Beaver Ut
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Author: Kiera Cass
Publication Date: April 2012
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Thirty-five beautiful girls. Thirty-five beautiful rivals…After feeling like pretty much the only person who hasn't read this series, I decided it was time to finally give it a go. I've seen the glowing reviews and I've seen the loathing reviews so I was intrigued as to where my opinions would fall. Whilst I didn't completely loath it, my opinions aren't overly glowing either.
It's the chance of a lifetime and 17-year-old America Singer should feel lucky. She has been chosen for The Selection, a reality TV lottery in which the special few compete for gorgeous Prince Maxon's love.
Swept up in a world of elaborate gowns, glittering jewels and decadent feasts, America is living a new and glamorous life. And the prince takes a special interest in her, much to the outrage of the others.
Rivalry within The Selection is fierce and not all of the girls are prepared to play by the rules. But what they don't know is that America has a secret – one which could throw the whole competition… and change her life forever.
I love a royal setting so I had high hopes that the world would at least be a positive for me. Unfortunately, the world-building is really poor. The society of Illea is separated into different social castes with each caste simply represented by a number. This country and its system apparently came about due to a world war 3 in which America was invaded by China and Russia. The palace is constantly under attack by rebels but I still don't really get why as it's never explained. The author tries to give us background information in the form of a history lesson but I think it just makes things worse. It's all a bit messy and unbelievable.
None of the characters are particularly likable. Our main character America Singer (who sings for a living..) spends the entire time moaning. She is one of those girls that can't accept her beauty and gets annoyed when someone tells her she's beautiful. What a hard life it must be to be constantly told you're beautiful. Please. There are plenty of more important things to be pissed off about. She also goes on about how she's poor and the other girls don't understand because they're from better social castes but really she doesn't seem that bad off to me. She can't afford magazines or make-up but she has three meals a day, utilities and other occasional treats. She's not exactly destitute. (Especially when you compare her lifestyle to those in the castes below her).
Maxon comes across as a little creepy when we first encounter him. He also feels a bit too good to be true. He's gorgeous, polite, sensitive and wants to change the country for the better. There's really nothing complex about him. It's a bit boring. Aspen has potential but he isn't around in the middle of the book so we don't really get to know enough about him.
What I will say is that the story is very readable. It's light and fluffy but the depth that it's lacking, the issues it has as well as the predictability factor let it down.


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Yeah, I have no energy to think of a creative title.
I'm making good progress on my Olympic sweater. As of this moment, I've completed the body and sleeves. I just need to seam everything together and then knit on the collar.
I also started a mindless garter stitch shawl this weekend. My husband and I went to see Shutter Island and I needed something I could knit in the dark. Not much progress has been made since then, but it will see some action once I get Mystere finished.
In non-knitting news, I was busy baking the past two days. I made some delicious asiago cheese bread and a batch of cinnamon rolls.
Also, my trusty Power Shot S2IS died earlier this week. So here are two gratuitous cat pictures from the new camera, a Power Shot SX120 IS. The cats were much better models than the toddler.


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Wendell Berry was AMAZING. Seeing him in person was wonderful. When I was a sophomore in college, Jane and I were in the same humanities class that forced us to read Jayber Crow. Neither of us actually read it during the semester, but I'm the eternal geek and read it after the semester ended. I'm glad I did; his writing brought a whole new perspective to me. It sounds cheesy, but his mellifluous words taught me to see the world as a whole, not just focusing on the small piece that I make up – I finally began to catch hold of the idea of season, of continuity, of communalism, of redemption.
You can find the link to Berry's message at the Kennedy Center here.
The argument of Howards End has its beginning in a manifesto against materialism:
"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?14″
"The light within," I think, means affection, affection as motive and guide. Knowledge without affection leads us astray every time. Affection leads, by way of good work, to authentic hope. The factual knowledge, in which we seem more and more to be placing our trust, leads only to hope of the discovery, endlessly deferrable, of an ultimate fact or smallest particle that at last will explain everything.


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This time i am playing with mimi stamp and some sentiment stamp.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Fisking Emily Glassberg Sands
In a nutshell, as I read her paper, I began to have doubts about her data - both her sample of "female-written shows" (which seemed to include musicals which had a female book writer, but a male composer and lyricist), and her "proxy" for the profitability of the shows she was considering. It hadn't really come clear to me when I viewed the PowerPoint presentation that Sands gave in New York that she didn't actually have any hard data about the profitability of these shows (although on a second look, you could probably construe this from the fine print of her tables, and she may have mentioned it during the actual proceedings).
But this issue struck me as key to her argument that producers had ended the runs of female-written shows "earlier" than those of male-written shows. After all, a simple explanation for this might be that producers ended the female-written shows because they weren't as profitable as the male-written shows - perhaps they had higher production costs, for example, which cut into their weekly revenues (or a major star left the production, etc.).
But Sands didn't have this data (which in the text of her study she admits openly - it's hard to come by). Instead, she estimated the variable of production cost by a "proxy" of show type (musical, straight play, one-person show, and "exception"). I couldn't make out from her study, however, how accurate these proxies might be - and I wondered, frankly, if the method she was using was truly valid given that she lacked this hard data.
I therefore felt I was looking at a study in which the final section relied on a possibly questionable sample and a problematic proxy for a central variable. My conversation with Sands, however, yielded little real insight into these issues - perhaps, as she often reminded me, because I'm not as trained in statistical analysis as she is (my "training" goes no further than the standard introductory college course, taken some twenty years ago).
So I'm throwing open an invitation to any reader with a sophisticated statistics background - would you care to more thoroughly fisk Ms. Sands's thesis? I can email you her study, which I've downloaded (contact me at email@example.com), or you can find it here. If my doubts about her methodology turn out to be ill-founded, of course, I'll happily publish those findings. (It's entirely possible, too, that if hard data on profitability were available, it would back up Ms. Sands.) In the meantime, I've emailed Ms. Sands my questions in the hopes that the explanation which eluded us in conversation can be found via printed text.
I'll be following up later this week, so stay tuned . . .
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Sands has no argument without profit data. Period. Her whole project is to show that discrimination exists in economic terms, and you can't do that without profit data. The production costs aren't available, so I don't have them, Emily doesn't have them, nobody has them. Therefore the profit data is unavailable, and without that, you can't do the analysis Emily is pretending to do. It's too bad, but that's all there is to it. I'm almost amused by the double consciousness of her supporters - on the one hand they say, "But she admits she has no data!", while on the other hand continuing to argue as if she had the data.ReplyDelete
Or, perhaps, you and her other supporters don't really understand the structure and requirements of this kind of analysis. To you, this is a bunch of technical gobbledygook that seems to align with your personal beliefs (a lot of pseudo-science operates like that). Indeed, I think that reaction was pretty much what Emily was counting on.
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Look, Molly, you need certain data to make the math work - marginal analysis (which is what Sands is doing) simply requires data about marginal costs and profits, which Sands doesn't have. What she's doing is like trying to measure the footprint of an object, when the only data she's got is its height; maybe the two measurements are related - but maybe they're not. Or think of it this way: producers open and close shows because of profits. A show can have very high revenues, but if its costs are even higher, then it will close regardless, because it's not profitable. Therefore if you're trying to determine that a show closed because of bigotry (which is what Sands is trying to prove), you have to show that it was profitable, but closed anyway. To get that data about profitability, you have to have accurate measurements of production cost AND revenue. And you can't assume production costs are "about equal" for various genres, because, to be blunt, they're often not equal. Musicals are usually more expensive than straight plays - but then again, a musical like The Fantasticks has much lower costs than a play like The Coast of Utopia. If the effect Emily came up with her rigged data was a huge one, her case might be believable. But the effect she came up with was rather small - and the gaps in the data were huge. Her paper is obviously a con job. Obviously.ReplyDelete


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And ask her why has the U.S Government been SILENT on the death threats against Malaysian Civil Rights activists for their posted "Ït Gets Better" Videos. Secretary Clinton herself, posted an amazing video to the "It Gets Better" project eariler this year.
The silence from our State Department on these death threats, some made by Malaysian Government Officials, is very disturbing.
You can email the United States Department of State here.
He is one of Malaysia's most recognisable sexuality rights activists. His quote "Stop censoring who I am" was even Time Online's quote of the day on 25 Feb 2009. At the time he wrote a lengthy letter to the press to protest Malaysian cable TV operator Astro's decision to censor the words "gay" and "lesbian" from Sean Penn's and Dustin Lance Black's Oscar acceptance speeches – for their movie Milk about American gay rights activist Harvey Milk – in which they called for equal rights for gay men and lesbians.
Pang Khee Teik, 36, co-founder of Seksualiti Merdeka
Pang Khee Teik is also the co-founder of Seksualiti Merdeka, Malaysia's annual sexuality rights festival; and Arts Programme Director of The Annexe, Central Market.
In this video, the fifth of the It Gets Better in Malaysia series, Pang shares his journey to self-acceptance as a gay man from as a schoolboy in Singapore who was often bullied by his classmates to undergoing reparative therapy at a church for 12 years where he was told that being gay is wrong and it is possible to change one's orientation from gay straight.
"For 12 years, I stopped myself from loving. Every time I fell in love or had a crush on someone, a guy, I stopped myself. I did not allow my heart to feel what it needed to feel... There are many ways to kill yourself. One of the ways is to stop yourself from loving, to stop yourself from living. And for 12 years I did that. And I died slowly everyday. Until one day I realised and I asked myself what is wrong with love."


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Thursday, December 09, 2010
Movie Remakes
I had a lengthy discussion about movie remakes and wanted to say my two cents worth here about when a movie remake should be made and when it shouldn't.
First of all, the overall rule of thumb should be on movie remakes is that it should be an improvement in all ways (not just special effects) over the original. It used to be easier, when films transitioned from silent to sound and black and white to color. These breakthroughs somewhat necessitated a remake, otherwise a film like "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) may not have been made. In this case, the previous films were quite inferior and in most cases black and white and silent.
"The Wizard of Oz" is a classic and it is not one that should be remade. Sequels may be fine, but to remake the original at this point would be a risky proposition. As far as sequels go, they should remain in the vein of what was successful. For example, while "Return to Oz" (1985) had elements of what was good, but they added this creepy backstory of Dorothy going through shock therapy.
That is one of my complaints about most remakes, film makers seem to want to tell us the origins of everything. "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (1966) was an excellent TV special based on the 1957 book by Dr. Seuss. When they made the Jim Carrey "Grinch" movie (2000), they were stretching the half-hour show into a 90-minute feature by adding a useless backstory as to how and why the Grinch became bad. I liked it before, where this information was shrouded in mystery.
Like the three recent "Star Wars" films. I don't care why or how Darth Vader came into power or why he was evil. He just was. Now, we have to contend with three movie that show Vader (to borrow from Patton Oswalt) "as a kid".
The Coen Brothers (two of my favorite filmmakers) are currently doing a remake of "True Grit" (2010). Usually, I balk at this because the John Wayne one, although dated and a bit superficial is fine. But, I trust the Coens to make a different type of film. In this case, I welcome a remake. Now if it sucks, I'll be a bit disappointed like I was with their version of "The Ladykillers". I must admit that many people never saw the original, so if you were that way, you probably liked the film better. It's just that Tom Hanks is no Alec Guinness.
Many remakes suck because all they do is take the title of something good and then make an awful movie with no connection to the source material. "The Avengers" (1998), "The Spirit" (2008) , "The Shadow" (1994) and "The Wild Wild West" (1999) come to mind.
I like it better when movies are remakes in disguise. That way, when they blow it, it doesn't seem to be so glaring. Good examples of good remakes this way are "West Side Story" (1961) ("Romeo and Juliet") and "Clueless" (1995) ("Emma").
Recently, I was watching "A Song is Born" (1948) with Danny Kaye. As I was watching I felt I had seen this before and indeed I had. It was previously made as "Ball of Fire" (1941) with Gary Cooper. This is the way they SHOULD do remakes.
Above all else, I always say this. If you don't want to see a remake of your favorite film, just don't go see it. Hollywood will continue to make them as long as there's an audience.
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Required Steps for Approval of Organization Of A School Club
- ASB President discusses and explains district procedures/requirements and issues an application. The application process is conducted yearly for new and existing clubs.
- Students must acquire a commitment for sponsorship from a faculty member.
- Students, with the assistance of the faculty advisor, draw up the club constitution consistent with district procedures, complete application, and submit both to ASB President and/or Advisor for initial ASB review (if the validity of a possible club is uncertain, it is best to propose the idea to the ASB Advisor to assure its feasibility before filling out the required paperwork).
- The ASB President and Advisor review the club application and documents. If all district requirements have not been met, the application and attachments will be returned to the originator with appropriate comments. If all district requirements have been met, the ASB President and Advisor signs the forms and submits them to the Principal or the Principal's designee for approval.
- The Principal or the Principal's designee reviews and signs if approval is granted.
- Club paperwork will then be filed in the financial office (available for student perusal) and the club added to the official club list (also available to both students and faculty).
School Club: A group of students participating in extra class activities organized and conducted under the direct control of the school for a specific purpose.
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We are not well. Have a merry christmas and a happy new year.
P.S these are my pets
Baby. I call him the Babester.
Dizzee Rascal. We call her Dizaroo. She is quite old for a hamster. Her and Baby were born at the same time. April 2009.
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May we introduce to you Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Hart!!! That is right, Kevin got married yesterday in Las Vegas. So, instead of letting the happy couple elope, the family followed them to the Garden of Love. She wore a beautiful dress, had the prettiest pink roses and was so happy to marry Kevin. The ceremony was sweet. They sealed the ring exchange with a kiss on the rings. I think that was my favorite part.
I've never been to a Vegas wedding before so I wasn't sure what to expect. The way it works... You change into your wedding atire, choose a chapel, tie the knot, pick a bouquet and a ring if you don't have one, pay and leave. Crazy! Okay, that is for people who are drunk. Kevin and Felicia had their wedding all planned out. I was the first person at the chapel and I was able to witness some love birds! There was a couple that was trying to decide which room to choose. Bride: " I don't care, it is just the two of us." Groom: "You go ahead and pick, Honey." Bride: (yelling) "Make a decision for once!" Groom: "We'll take that one."
When Brian flew into town the weather was really nice. We have had such rainy weather in WA he was really excited to feel the sun on his skin. Anyway, he is waiting for the shuttle and he sees a man who looks a little down on his luck. Brian says, "Gee Mister, You sure are lucky to live here." Man says, "I wish I was dead." Vegas is such a weird place, not my favorite city to visit. It is usually so stinking hot. You walk miles and miles in the scorching sun and have boob sweat stains. Yuck! Then you go into a casino and have an old person blow smoke in your face. Double yuck. I leave there with a distinct film on my body. YUCK! Well, this time it was quite cold. There was an arctic wind that could compete with Gold Beach. Just another example of me not packing for any type of weather.


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I just enjoy it then get back on track and try to think of how much worse things could be. I think of it like I exercise and eat healthy so I can eat donuts and not look like I eat donuts.
Besides that, ppl recommend smaller treats during the week, so you're not completely depriving yourself. I find it really difficult to control myself once I eat a little junk, though.
Eat enough. And allow yourself to have some 'bad stuff' every once a while.
I personally like chocolate. So I still eat it almost everyday. I just control my portions. This way I still feel like I can eat whatever I like. But I control my energy intake. Which is always most important.


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Despite Google Play's largest market share in terms of volume, iOS is still the most profitable venture in mobile applications development. Both the iPhone and iPad have a huge fan following and both of these users usually have a larger spending capacity than Android users because Android is also available on budget hardware whereas iOS is not. Apple's clientele is more posh and the app store has more quality apps than others. The popularity of the Apple devices has encouraged many to create mobile apps of their business or ideas on them.
Launching a new application requires three steps, mainly – building, distributing and promoting. Before that, one needs to chalk out a proper plan. There can be necessary delays and expenses if a comprehensive strategy is not planned. Entire app development life cycle needs to be decided beforehand. Understanding target customers is important and planning a marketing strategy for the same is also important. User experience is perhaps the most sought after thing after usability. So UI and UX of an app should not be neglected. According to a recent survey, gaming apps are most popular on the app store. So adding a little gaming touch to your application, wherever possible, is considered a good plus point in terms of increasing the want-factor.


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Welcome HomePosted by tb4
PostersandToys.com will be offering an Australian Brush Fire Relief version of Tyler Stout's classic "Welcome Home" art print. This version features a new color scheme, including four glow in the dark inks. It's a 16" x 24" screenprint, and is easily one of Tyler's most sought-after images ever. Half of all profits will be donated directly to the Australian Red Cross' Brushfire Appeal Fund.
Here is how this will work: postersandtoys.com will be putting these up for sale on Monday, March 16 at noon CST. They will allow open sales for 48 hours, ending on Wednesday, March 18 at noon CST. After the sales period, the edition will be announced. The price will be $50.


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InControl is a group of "connected" products using mobile and internet technologies which enable connectivity in and outside of your vehicle.
How do I purchase InControl?
InControl products are selected when you order your vehicle, as the hardware can only be fitted at the factory.
Can I buy InControl for my current vehicle?
Currently it is only possible to have InControl on your vehicle if it is selected when the vehicle is ordered, as the hardware is fitted at the factory. Future options are being explored.
What happens when I sell my InControl equipped vehicle?
When selling, trading in your vehicle or transferring ownership of your vehicle privately, you must remove your vehicle from your InControl account. To do this, log in to My Land Rover InControl website and click on ""Vehicule Settings"" on the vehicle dashboard page and on ""Remove Vehicle"" as per the InControl Terms and Conditions.
The InControl Services will be transferred to the new owner of your vehicle for the remainder of the subscription term, subject to new owner completing the InControl account setup.
I have bought a used vehicle, how do I create my InControl account and activate the InControl Services?
If you purchase your vehicle from a dealership, the dealer will assist you with the setting up process. Alternatively start by checking that your vehicle is equiped for the InControl Services. The overhead console of your vehicle should have two flaps which can be pressed open to reveal the SOS emergency call button (SOS icon) and the Optimised Land Rover Assistance button (spanner icon).
If the SOS emergency call button light is illuminated and the Optimised Land Rover Asssitance button light is off then please go to www.Land Roverincontrol.com/owner and follow the steps to create your InControl account and activate the InControl services.
If you notice that the Optimised Land Rover Assistance button light is illuminated please contact your dealer for assistance as you will not be able to link your vehicle to your InControl account.
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Here is a brief section on politeness which will appear in the listening chapter in the next edition of Interpersonal Messages
Listening and Politeness
Politeness is often thought of as the exclusive function of the speaker, as solely an encoding or sending function. But, politeness (or impoliteness) may also be signaled through listening (Fukushima, 2004).
Of course, there are times when you would not want to listen politely (for example, if someone is being verbally abusive or condescending or using racist or sexist language). In these cases you might want to show your disapproval by showing that you're not even listening. But most often you'll want to listen politely and you'll want to express this politeness through your listening behavior. Here are a few suggestions for demonstrating that you are in fact listening politely. As you read these you'll notice that these are strategies designed to be supportive of the speaker's positive and negative face needs:
• Avoid interrupting the speaker. Avoid trying to take over the speaker's turn. Avoid changing the topic. If you must say something in response to something the speaker said and can't wait until he or she finishes, then say it as briefly as possible and pass the speaker's turn back to the speaker.
• Give supportive listening cues. These might include nodding your head, giving minimal verbal responses such as "I see" or "yes, it's true", or moving closer to the speaker. Listen in a way that demonstrates that what the speaker is saying is important. In some cultures, polite listening cues must be cues of agreement (Japanese culture is often used as an example); in other cultures, polite listening cues are attentiveness and support rather that cues of agreement (much of United States culture is an example).
• Show empathy with the speaker. Demonstrate that you understand and feel the speaker's thoughts and feelings by giving responses that show this level of understanding—smiling or cringing or otherwise echoing the feelings of the speaker. If you echo the speaker's nonverbal expressions, your behavior is likely to be seen as empathic.
• Maintain eye contact. In much of the United States this is perhaps the single most important rule. If you don't maintain eye contact when someone is talking to you, then you'll appear to be not listening and definitely not listening politely. This rule, however, does not hold in all cultures. In some Latin and Asian cultures, polite listening would consist of looking down and avoiding direct eye contact when, for example, listening to a superior or much older person.
• Give positive feedback. Throughout the listening encounter and perhaps especially after the speaker's turn (when you continue the conversation as you respond to what the speaker has said), positive feedback will be seen as polite and negative feedback as impolite. If you must give negative feedback, then do so in a way that does not attack the person's negative face, for example, first mention areas of agreement or what you liked about what the person said and stress your good intentions. And, most important, do it in private. Public criticism is especially threatening and will surely be seen as a personal attack.
A somewhat different slant on politeness and listening can be seen in "forcing" people to listen when they don't want to. Generally, the polite advice is to be sensitive to when the other person wants to leave and to stop asking the person to continue listening. And, closely related to this, is the "forced" listening that many cell phone users impose on others. Here are a few guidelines, necessary largely because much cell phone usage occurs in a public space and in effect forces people to listen to conversations they have nothing to do with:
• Avoid using cell phones where inappropriate, for example, restaurants, hospitals, theatres, museums, a commuter bus or train, and the classroom. If you must make or take a call when in these various situations, try to move to a less public area.
• Put your phone on vibrate mode or let your voicemail answer and take a message when your call might interfere with others as it would in the classroom, for example.
• When you can't avoid taking a call, speak as quietly as possible and as briefly as possible.
• Don't take pictures of people who aren't posing for you and erase photos if the person you photographed requests it. Of course, if there's an accident or a robbery, you may want to photograph the events.
• Avoid extended talking when your reception is weak. Walking along a crowded street while talking on your cell is likely to result in poor reception, which is annoying to the other person and generally impolite.
• Because cell phones are always with us, it's easy to assume that when we have nothing better to do, that the person we're calling also has nothing better to do. As with any phone call, it's wise to ask if this is a good time to call—a strategy that helps maintain the autonomy (negative face) of the person you're calling.


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Since 1990, I've adopted the strategy of doing whatever needs to be done, coupled with the desire to answer the question "I wonder what being a Real Estate Agent/ Professional Driver/ Tyre Fitter/ Contractor/ Marketing Consultant/ Military Officer/ Small Business Advisor, etc. would be like". So I did the following:
1.lived in four states in Australia,
2.Moved about 2500 new and used cars from one place to another , (all with no petrol in them) and dealt with a total of 26,000 tyres.(purchased, fitted, disposed),
3.Inspected over 3000 houses for sale, and sold several hundred of them in two states,
4.Helped hundreds of people start their own businesses in extraordinarily diverse fields,
5.Spoke in heaps of weird and wonderful places about "Marketing your Business on a Shoestring",
6.Became an Officer in the Royal Australain Air Force, met some fantastic people of all ranks who work wonderfully well as a team, lived in a hole I dug with a crow bar and slept with an automatic weapon while not showering, changing clothes or boots for a week, hosted all manner of dignitaries, flown over Sydney Harbour in a Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopter with the doors open,
7.Raised four children with my wife Elethea,
8 Helped my wife start a clothing line for kids (her brains entirely, my brawn in helping her out with markets, etc),
9.Got into road cycling,
10. Renovated lots of houses, marvelled at Elethea's house painting and plastering skills,and mastered the art of period home fence building, and
11. Had our youngest child late in life (which required mastering the art of Nappy/ Diaper Changing all over again at age 42.
Life Hint: There are many times in life where you may reflect and think you havent done much. (I do it all the time!) However, after making a list of cool stuff you have done, it will quickly mount up. Seriously.
What happens then? You will be energised, ready to set some more goals!
Live life. Take educated, considered chances. And... Don't take yourself too seriously!


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Back in the summer Nick Walker was asked to paint a piece that would be filmed and used in a TV documentary about butterflies.
This TV programme:
Natural World: Butterflies: A Very British Obsession
was broadcast on Friday 17th December at 8pm on BBC2. Nicks sequence can be viewed here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cnvzd or of course you can watch the whole programme on BBC Iplayer too (for 4 more days)
Tags: BBC, Butterflies, Graffiti, Natural World, Nature, Nick Walker, Obsession, Stencil, stencil art, street art


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Friday (last day of the break) we took all the kids to the pool and ate out at McD's
Indoor glow in the dark mini-golfin' at Trafalga
My girls also got into the movie SELENA over the break...
Aw...looks like you guys had a great Spring Break. LOL the rainbow during the car trouble with Sasha Fierce. I'm glad you saw the silver lining during this cloud. Love ya!
girl, what a great way to spend your Spring Break except for the car trouble but the photos is priceless.


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Although Americans fought and won a vicious and protracted war two centuries ago against the UK, we still have an obsession with all things royal. Case in point, Princess Diana is still a Rainmaker to the cover of People magazine. Right up there with "The World's 50 Sexiest Industrialists and Cabana Boys."
OK, maybe "obsession" is a strong word. There are those of us that are still suffering a hangover from the Charles/Diana regalia almost exactly 30 years ago. (Yeah, 30 years.) There are probably some of us that aren't all that excited about the upcoming nuptials like others would be. I've seen more people camped outside "Best Buy" waiting for the new iPad than were camped out waiting for a good spot for the Royal Entourage parade.
Those of you that are looking forward to all the ritual and glitter that comes with a royal wedding, good on you. (Any bets that Prince Harry will meet some gal and get married in a small chapel officiated by a British Elvis?)
There are many of you that are NOT looking forward to the wedding, either because your invite got lost in the post, or you hate weddings or you're not looking forward to the months and months and months of tabloid coverage with various headlines like "Prince William Discovered to Be Lizard Person!" "Kate Has Affair With Bat Boy" or "Aliens Confer Royal Gifts to Newlyweds", etc.
If you're one of those that loathe the brouhaha that will come from all this, here is a list of things that you can do that would be a better use of your time.
- Watch reruns of the Charles/Diana wedding and tell yourself, "Well, THAT turned out well."
- Write a new Declaration of Independence to Prince William on behalf of the United States. You know, just to reaffirm our intentions with the upcoming Monarch.
- Do damage to your brain with a spoon.
- Start an office pool to see what child they will have first: Boy, Girl or some mutated Human/Bat Boy thing.
- Watch your cable PPV channel to see if they will air the "QEII/Camilla Wedding Smackdown". Oh, yeah. It's gonna happen.
- Tell your gullible coworkers that the Royal Couple will be spending their Honeymoon in the _______ State Park. (use a State Park that is very close to you.)
- Send flowers to yourself at work with a big card that says, "Sorry we missed you at the wedding. Hope to see you soon. Will & Kate"
- Spend hours imagining how fun it would be if a couple thousand Harley riders joined in on the procession in full Sturgis leather riding gear.
- Try to bribe the Bishop of Canterbury to do the vows like the guy in "Princess Bride" "Wuv... twoo wuv, wiw fowwoah you fowevah"... (OK, YOU try to spell that out phonetically)
- Crash as many local weddings in your area as you can, wearing a shirt that says, "Too Bad Your Wedding Will Be Forever Overshadowed By That OTHER Couple."
- Take shots of the Royal Wedding from online and Photoshop yourself in as many of them as you can. Sitting next to the Queen, giving the Bishop "bunny ears", kissing the bride, etc.


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Organised by the Lake District Calvert Trust who deliver challenging outdoor adventure holidays for people with disabilities, to celebrate their 40th Anniversry and with support from community interest public art consultants Art at the Edge, the trail will aim to raise funds for it's wonderful work, by auctioning the sculptures in the autumn 2016.
Go Herdwick will be launched by the popular 'Herdy Shepherd' James Rebanks, at their Charity ball at Low Wood Bay Hotel, Windermere on Sept 11th . If you would like to sponsor a ewe please contact the Trust on 017687 72255.
My design 'Star Grazer' ( aka Betty!) is inspired by a beautiful Cumbrian meadow and it highlights the importance of sheep in helping to re-seed meadows by trampling the seeds into the earth. It features some of the plant and insect life of a typical Cumbrian meadow.
My ewe arrived at the weekend and here is an early work in progress picture!


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Sunday, December 15, 2013
GTFO Michael Martinez
Michael Martinez, Mini-Mart, M&M, Worthless Heap of Shit; no matter the name, we are thankful you will no longer be Amaro's go to guy to summon from Triple-A. Alas, the Pirates signed him to a minor league deal, not sure why, prying him loose from Amaro's grip. The 31 year old versatile moldy turd hit .187/.495 over the past 3 seasons with the Phillies appearing in 162 painful games. Adios douche-nozzle!
11 comments:
- GM-Carson said...
Amaro trying to move Rollins. Replacement would be Galvis?
- December 16, 2013 12:52 PM
- Andrew said...
Maybe the thought is getting both Asche and Franco on the field at the same time?
- December 16, 2013 2:07 PM
Neither Asche or Franco are top defense 3rd Basement.
Neither could ever play SS.
These are just slow news day made up stories. J-Roll of 50 some hits away from being the Phillies All Time Hits Leader.
He will be paid. He is getting older and less effective. To move someone would have to pay him extra.
He is 10-5 member and cannot be traded without his consent. No team is going to pay extra enough to have him move as he is becoming less effective.
He is not bad. There are hundreds of millions of dollars coming in the Next TV Contract. He was underpaid. This is just slow news day stuff.
- December 17, 2013 7:05 PM
Christmas Wish List
AJ Burnett who lives near Baltimore and hopefully does not want to face the AL East Hitters for the Orioles,
might pick Philly to pitch near home.
We need a Starter.
- December 17, 2013 7:10 PM
- Morak99 said...
Who would take Rollins for all that money now that he's in the late phase "no-hit, ok defensively" phase of his career? He's worth more as a reminder of the good old days here than anywhere else, and his extension, if it kicks in, would be just about enough time for JP Crawford to get to the show. Might as well keep him a career Phillie.
- December 17, 2013 8:14 PM
- Beer-a-Thon said...
Shut up about these players being underpaid. They're all compensated quite handsomely. Step into reality for a minute SirAlden.
- December 17, 2013 8:44 PM
- Andrew said...
These are highly trained professional athletes. They can "learn" a new position with some training if need be for the betterment of the team. They need to stop being coddled so much
- December 18, 2013 8:15 AM
1) Jimmy Rollins was underpaid - this was Ed Wade's best contract.
2) He is overpaid now and will continue to be overpaid and no team will want him unless the Phillies pay over 50% of his contract.
3) He is a 10-5 player and his contract is going to pay him so he has no reason to move.
4) I never said the players were underpaid - I said the owners with new Television revenue will be pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars - so I believe they should go to the Luxury Cap and even beyond to reward the fans who are giving them that revenue.
5) Go drink some Iron City Beer.
- December 18, 2013 9:33 AM
A great book to read is Bill James - back in the 1970s he theorized that there is a line of fielding value from hardest to easiest.
Players as they are less talented fielding wise, or as they age go from left to right on the scale.
So if someone comes up as a SS in HS, and cannot cut it on a Major League Level (giving up extra runs defending) that player will move right to CF then 2B.
So even though people could be talented they never move to the left on a team that finishes in the 1st Division.
- December 18, 2013 9:41 AM
The Mariners and Franklin Gutierrez are in agreement on a one-year, $1MM contract, according to Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes (Twitter links). The Octagon client can earn an additional $2MM via incentives
Raj Davis and now This. Both would have been better than what we signed.
Not sure why the Phillies are not signing a medium level reliever.
- December 18, 2013 11:00 AM
- Beer-a-Thon said...
I'd have give Frank Gut 1 YR/$2M just to not have Mayberry back.
Also, SirAlden you always are saying how the players were underpaid and now deserve their overpayment. For example, Howard. He was underpaid when he was young and productive. Now he's overpaid, old and unproductive.
Same with Chooch. Same with Rollins.
You blame the owners, but it's Rube making ill-advised extension and contract offers.
- December 18, 2013 8:21 PM


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Every once in a blue moon, I'll take a risk on a recording that could possibly hit the trash can after a first listen. I happened to stop by the Juilliard Store yesterday while my computer was in the repair shop. As I rounded the last CD section, I saw they were running a $9.98 sale on single disk Urania recordings. Knowing Urania can be a real mixed bag when it comes to sound quality, I looked over the group of cd's and saw this oddball Mahler's 1st with Rafael Kubelik conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai in a live radio broadcast from Turin in 1956. So, being a sucker for Mahler's 1st I thought, what the hell, $9.98, what do I have to lose? I told my friend Seth Winner, a noted Sound Engineer about my new purchase and he chuckled. Though he had to admit he never heard the recording before. Anyhow, Urania released this recording from the original master tapes in 2005, the first time the performance had been published in any form.
Wow!!!! is the best descriptor for this recording. A true tribute to Kubelik, as it is completely obvious he spent the time needed to take the Italian out of the orchestra and focus on Mahler's dynamics. The brass as one would expect from an Italian orchestra is strong, but note overdone as I have heard in any number of recordings of the period, the strings are glorious, but the most surprising aspect is the clarity of the woodwinds. The engineer who strung the microphones knew the hall, but also knew the piece, as the woodwinds are well emphasized and the detail in the first and third movements is something to behold and something which engineers do not always emphasize. On the weak end of the engineering is the underplay of the percussion and over-emphasis of what becomes a virtual tuba solo in the rounds of Frere Jacques at the beginning of the movement. Happily, the orchestra also has a real feel for the Klezmer vs. Funeral dynamic in the same movement. The transfer engineers do a terrific job as well and I can heartily recommend this recording for overall sound quality.
Interestingly Kubelik takes the 4th movement in a very deliberate way. Mahler's marking of Stürmisch bewegt – Energisch (Stormy and Energetic) are built upon, rather than raging from the moment the movement begins. I personally like this aspect of the performance very much, but it may not be to the absolute puritans liking. I am quite reminded of the deliberate conducting of Hans Knappertsbusch's in his Westminster recording of Fidelio when I hear something like this which is in absolute good taste, but not quite the way others envision it.
Anyhow, I am sure this cd is available from a variety of sources, however, the sale makes this all worthwhile. You can call the Juilliard Store at 212-799-5000, or contact them via their website, Juilliard Store contact page to take advantage of this particular cd.
The Music Antiquarian Blog, Harmonie Autographs and Music, Inc. and their employees have not received any financial compensation in the publication of this article.


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Just yesterday, my oldest was talking about how dad never gives up. (apparently not on me either - teehee) Right now he has the boys semi-convinced that he is Batman.
So I told him a story from when we were first married.
One day back when we were newly married, I winked at BN. BN looked at me and blinked both eyes. I asked him if he meant to blink both eyes or could he not wink and he stated that he could not wink.
I was stunned because I never knew this about him. Prior to marriage, we had dated for almost 5 years. How could I not know this about my beloved, the future father of my children, the one with whom I share all my secrets?
Ten years pass and we had our oldest son. BN looked at me from across the room and winked. Needless to say, my mouth fell agape and I asked, "when did you learn to wink?"
He just laughed and said, "I've always known how to wink."


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November 15, 2016
Momentum has been building this year to repeal the caps on debit interchange imposed by the Durbin Amendment to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. While predictability is not a word usually coupled with him, the election of Donald Trump as president probably will not cool those efforts. Merchants and issuers have been grappling over the costs associated with payment card acceptance for decades. The financial upheaval caused by the housing bubble and the resulting global recession gave merchants the upper hand to get Durbin passed at the end of the last decade, but banks may feel a clean sweep by Republicans in the most recent U.S. elections are an opportunity to claw back some of that ground.
The latest salvo is a survey conducted by polling and market research firm Morning Consult for the Electronic Payments Coalition (EPC) that found more than 60 percent of consumers are in favor of repealing the Durbin Amendment if "merchants are not passing the savings on to consumers." Banks contend that merchants have not done so (and offer up a Federal Reserve report to back their claim). The Morning Consult survey also found two-thirds of consumers believe government should be left out of the matter and interchange "should be negotiated by merchants and processors."
While it is clear the cap imposed on how much interchange issuers can charge merchants on debit transactions has resulted in many merchants paying less for processing, determining if that reduction has been passed on to customers is difficult at best and may not even be possible. And, the Fed paper the banks use to say how much money merchants are making also reported that those specializing in small-ticket items actually paid more since the legislation. The banks and card networks through the EPC, however, are very explicit on what they believe is the correct course of action.
"It is clearly time to repeal the Durbin Amendment, which is nothing more than a merchant markup that has served the special interests of big box retailers for far too long," said Molly Wilkinson, executive director of the Electronic Payments Coalition. "Customers are not benefitting from the price controls on debit interchange transactions and this new data shows consumers support ending this failed policy."


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It seems trite after thirty years' realization of the dangers of second hand smoke to run headlong into this scourge here in Colombo. The amazing thing is that there are large parts of the country where cigarette smoking is nearly absent. It's expensive. And simple people in the countryside don't have the resources to squander.
Too bad that's not the case in Colombo where money sloshes around, at least among certain classes, like water in a too-full tub.
The first day I met our acquaintance Michael at the guest house he asked if I minded did he smoke near me. What an idiot I was to nod my assent. 66 years old he started two years ago and seems dead set on killing himself that way. Don't want to get flushed down the toilet with him though. The steady waft of irritating acidic smoke that he emits fills my nose, then my clothes, then my pores. Basta! I have to pick myself up and leave. It's like a threshold has been crossed and mild tolerance quickly changes to intolerance and revulsion. Could just be me. I think it's the smoke.
Last night Janet took me out for a snack. We sat above the beach in a restaurant just down from the guesthouse. The breeze off the ocean was delicious and steady. It slowed, then stopped, and although no one near us was smoking it was pouring up through the floor. Just below was the bar where people literally sat lined up spewing smoke. With no one at the tables near us the feeling of claustrophobia that overtook was enough to ruin a nice night out. Could have been me. I know it was the cigarette smoke.
Downstairs we waited for the rain to stop. Either you were dripped on or choking on smoke. A first-world problem maybe, here in the developing world where girls are sent as slaves to mediaeval satraps where they are stoned to death for random sex. Here in the developing world where cultivators are poisoned by needless agrochemicals, where whole families are dying of kidney disease brought on by those chemicals. Here in the developing world, a country just emerging from poverty and disaster, where the former president stole billions from his people.
There is money somewhere in Sri Lanka. There is money in Colombo. The money is being burnt like tobacco in cigarettes sold by the same corporations that dumped the agrochemicals on this society. Is it too much to assume people might wake up to the harm this causes?


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Well My Little Girl is growing up right before my eyes, She is a big 6 year old, going into 1st grade. She was so excited and counted down the days to her big day for at least a week before. She asked me if I was working on her Birthday I think she thought it was a major Holiday (I guess to her it may seem like that) not so as you get older but that is fine with me.
I found myself days before her birthday flipping through pictures and recalling her birth 1st, 2nd , 3rd, 4th, 5th birthdays. Remembering my whole labor experience and It's so weird how you can re-live it over and over again.Wow has time flown by she continues to change each day and I see qualities in her that I hope she has far into her adulthood. She has such an expressive sole, I like to use that term better than calling her a drama queen she is so animated and I think girl lets get you into those acting classes, can't push that now after the recital disaster this year. Anyway she has a big heart she always wants to draw pictures for her friends and mail them, or she will see something in the store and think of someone who would like that.
For her Birthday she wanted to go to Friendly's (only after my coaxing) so we invited out Best Friends whom I like to refer to as the Creedon Clan. This would had been really Jacob's first restaurant experience around food that is Illegal. Well Amber was so nice at knowing what she should not have because she knew that he could not have it, She was cool with it and was more than happy to oblige to it. The waitress was numb and brought French fries and Jacob did spy a peak but they quickly disappeared and he was fine. When we went to Build a Bear she told the lady stuffing her bear that it was her birthday and that she went to Friendly's well she asked if she has ice cream and Amber told her " we did not because my friend Jacob is Allergic" the lady told her that she was a great friend for doing that for him. She smiled and I know that made her feel good, another lesson that I want Amber to have is to be giving of herself and I think she is on her way their. It was a great way to spend a birthday as a family and with our best friends whom I know that Amber can learn a lot of these lessons from. Happy Birthday to my Honey Bear, My Love, My Princess, My Drama Queen, My Dancer, Miss Dramatic and My Daughter, I love you more each day, you are the light in my life and add soo much to my life each day as I wake you or watch you sleep. Happy 6th Birthday Amber Lee
This is me. . . Who I am, Who I have become, How I deal This is me. . . . Letting It All Out
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Remember the Ones Who Count
Life is too short to wake up with regre ts. So love the people who treat you right.. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong. Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late. I don't want to let that happen so I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Rain Rain Go AWAY
Another Rainy Summer Day in Maine, Come on now what else would you expect, it's Maine where the weather changes in an instant, I have given up on listening to the meteorologist talk about a great day to be expected or chance of showers or well you get the picture and you know they are usually WRONG. That's OK we can all be wrong once or twice. Anyway I'm just a little sick of the rain. But you know we would complain if it was too HOT or too COLD or too WET or too much SNOW. We are just never happy. For me it's just how everything feels Damp and wet even though your inside. The fact that I have a boat sitting in my yard but can't go out on the Lake because our luck we would get thunder and lightning storm. Well I guess I might was well sit in the boat in the drive way and watch as the rain runs down my drive way washing it out while it runs onto the road and pretend I'm on the Lake. (maybe I could get up on skis then) Oh the poor dog I ponder each morning to the thought of do I leave him out for the day or do I keep him in the house, I think that he has been in every rainstorm this year. Oh well one less bath I have to give him.My daughter is bored nothing to do, next time she may as well play in the rain. What is it that attracts kids to Rain or Puddles but hate to have to take a bath but would rather play in a muddy hole filled with water, I'm stunned. I'm sure that when I was a kid I did the same thing. Well if we have to have rain then we may as well enjoy that we are here on earth to enjoy what ever weather mother natures tosses our way and next time your in the rain, take the time to dance in it, splash in a puddle or enjoy it because it's just one of those things in life RAIN.
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At Carolina Farm Credit, we are committed to providing educational opportunities for young, beginning, and small farmers that will ensure the future success of North Carolina Agriculture and allow us to stay connected with our customers.
Statesville, NC (PRWEB) March 28, 2014
Carolina Farm Credit recently hosted its 14th annual Agricultural Leadership Institute in Asheville, N.C. The institute, held at Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C., brought together and celebrated young, beginning, and small farmers. It was created to equip these farmers to meet the challenges of modern agriculture and encourages the sharing of ideas and networking within the industry. This year's 25 participants were couples or individuals from farms across Carolina Farm Credit's territory and were selected for their leadership and achievements.
The dynamic and interactive three day seminar was led by Dr. David Kohl, professor emeritus at Virginia Tech and professional speaker, and Dr. Alex White, financial advisor and Virginia Tech Professor in the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics. Dr. Kohl's topics are designed to help participants meet the daily challenges of modern agriculture while maintaining balance between family business, family life, and personal life. Dr. White discussed the results of the DISC personality profiles that the attendees completed online prior to the event and offered suggestions on how to work and interact with different personalities.
Other speakers for the Institute included Vance C. Dalton, Jr., CEO of Carolina Farm Credit; Dr. Ted Katsigianis, Vice President of Agriculture at the Biltmore Estate; Tom Haarmann, Manager of Financial Services with Carolina Farm Credit; and Dr. Michael Hester, Director of the Pastoral Counseling and Growth Center in Asheville. The group enjoyed a reception and dinner at the Omni Grove Park Inn Country Club on Friday evening that was attended by several elected officials and Carolina Farm Credit Board members. A bluegrass band from the Asheville area including David Lee, Bryan Konsler, Randy Gardner, and Bill Yarborough provided entertainment at the reception. The group took a tour of the Biltmore House and learned about their farms on Saturday.
"We had a very diverse and extremely hard working group this year," said Vance C. Dalton, Jr., CEO of Carolina Farm Credit. "It was evident from their participation and interaction throughout the weekend that this group has a passion for agriculture and is committed to ensuring education remains an integral part of their future. Their dedication to learning renews my faith in the future of North Carolina Agriculture. Additionally, the relationships established within the group will hopefully provide opportunities to network with each other and collaborate to be more successful on their individual farms. At Carolina Farm Credit, we are committed to providing educational opportunities for young, beginning, and small farmers that will ensure the future success of North Carolina Agriculture and allow us to stay connected with our customers."
The participants voted to send three outstanding couples/attendees to the North Carolina Cooperative Leadership Conference in Hiawassee, GA later this year. The three outstanding couples/participants are Jonas & Neelie Asbill, Asheboro; Jenaleigh Beatty, Sherrills Ford; Coy Beard & Brittany Watson, Lexington.
Attendees of the 2014 conference were Bryan Abramowski & Jason Roseman, Rockwell; Jonas & Neelie Asbill, Asheboro; Coy Beard & Brittany Watson, Lexington; Jenaleigh Beatty, Sherrills Ford; Casey & Ashley Collins, Siloam; Ryan & Beth Hargett, Peachland, Jamie & Ashley Lee, Shelby; Luke & Megan Mathis, Roaring River; Joe & Jessica Smith, Stony Point; Tommy Tran, Vanessa Tran, Henry Vu, & Kevin Vu, Mexia, T.X.; Tou Thai & Ginny Vang, Troy; Emily Williams & Julie Patton, Mocksville.
A committee of Carolina Farm Credit employees also attended the conference as hosts, including Kelly Adams, Controller; Michael Almond, Regional Lending Manager, Monroe; Ryan Bledsoe, Loan Officer, Yadkinville ; Kelly Bumgarner, Loan Officer, Taylorsville; Ben Cabaniss, Loan Officer, Lincolnton; Andrew Carey, Loan Officer Trainee, Mocksville; Jay Cook, Chief Lending Officer; Rob Crain, Capital Markets Manager; Vance C. Dalton, Jr., CEO; Tom Haarmann, Financial Services Manager; Maggie Hamm, Chief Marketing Officer; Gary Hastings, Regional Lending Manager, Shelby; Judy Hewitt, Marketing Administrative Assistant; Kerie Hildreth, Marketing Specialist; Chad Puryear, Chief Credit Officer; Matt Gutierrez, Loan Officer, Murphy; Melanie McLeod, Loan Officer, Ellerbe; Craig Pugh, Regional Lending Manager, Statesville; Terry Peterson, Loan Officer, Burnsville; Jody Smith, Loan Officer, Monroe; and Danny Snider, Principal Appraiser.
Carolina Farm Credit is a stockholder-owned cooperative providing financing to full and part-time farmers and agricultural-related businesses and also provides financing for the construction and purchase of homes in 54 counties through 36 service centers. Other financial services available are credit life insurance, crop insurance, appraisal services, leasing programs and financial planning.
Carolina Farm Credit serves over 9,000 members with loans outstanding totaling more than $1.4 billion. The association's territory covers the western half of North Carolina, with service centers located in Albemarle, Asheboro, Asheville, Boone, Browns Summit, Burnsville, Carthage, Concord, Ellerbe, Graham, Hendersonville, Hillsborough, Jefferson, Lenoir, Lexington, Lincolnton, Marshall, Mocksville, Monroe, Murphy, Newton, Pilot Mountain, Roxboro, Rural Hall, Salisbury, Shelby, Siler City, Sparta, Spindale, Statesville, Taylorsville, Wadesboro, Waynesville, Wilkesboro, Yadkinville, and Yanceyville.
Carolina Farm Credit was recognized as a 2013 Best Employer in North Carolina. The list of the Best Employers in North Carolina was created by Business North Carolina, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) – NC State Council and Best Companies Group.
Directors for Carolina Farm Credit are Mark A. Bray, Chairman, Lawsonville; L. Kim Starnes, Vice-Chairman, Salisbury; John M. Barnard, Statesville; E. Bernard Beck, Seagrove; W. Rex Bell, Statesville; David M. Coltrane, Pleasant Garden; Susie J. Gambill, Sparta; Joseph A. Lail, Shelby; W. Steve Love, Graham; Bobby J. "Bud" Matthews, East Bend; Clark M. Newlin, Haw River; Thomas E. Porter, Jr., Concord; Tony L. Ragan, Sanford; D. Kaleb Rathbone, Waynesville; Lewis E. Smith, Lincolnton; Vickie N. Smitherman, East Bend; Dr. Alton Thompson, Summerfield.


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With the all the media hype about Swine Flu, it's not unreasonable to think about trying to avoid unnecessary public outings, including air travel. But the FAA and the CDC only warn against flying if you're already feeling the symptoms of an illness or if you've come in contact with someone who's seriously at risk of contracting the F1N1 flu virus.
Federal officials have just asked that everyone consider common health safety precautions when they're in public and surrounded by other travelers. Because discount airfare, in particular, often fill up fast, making for crowded planes and airports, you'll want to follow these basic guidelines for keeping yourself healthy on your flights.
- Keep in mind that everything you touch, including your airline tickets, the handles on your bags, and your ID, have the potential to be touched by someone else and vice versa so wash your hands more than often with soap and water, lathering for at least 30 seconds.
- Carry hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial wipes (in a small enough container to pass carry-on regulations) with you everywhere. You can essentially wash your hands anytime any place and wipe down any plastic surface you come in contact with ¬ armrests on airplane and airport seats, ticket counters, etc - when you're armed with these two items.
- Avoid using the pillows and blankets on airline flights. Believe it or not, whether you're flying on cheap flights or premium airlines, the planes don't have a washing machine or dryer hooked up in the back to sanitize pillows and blankets between flights. Bring your own pillow or blanket as a shield against the seats themselves.
- You'll be hard-pressed to find cheap flights that aren't crowded with travelers; as a common hygiene practice, make sure to sneeze and cough into your own body, preferably into the bend of your arm. Always carry tissues to avoid spreading any of those germs to other passengers.
- As helpful as flight attendants, ticket counter, and baggage claim employees can be and as much as we appreciate what they do, it wouldn't be unheard of to kindly request to handle your own belongings if possible at this time. Many of the discount airlines don't charge for checked baggage, but you might want to still consider carrying-on your luggage on these cheap flights to avoid having the ticket counter and baggage handlers germ up your bags.
- Airlines have probably already started opening up cheap airline tickets to Mexico and areas of the country that have had Swine Flu outbreaks, but federal officials do warn against traveling to these places and they ask travelers to be particularly cautious around friends and family who may have recently visited those parts of the world.
- Remember that you're usually contagious one week prior to exhibiting symptoms of the flu, so if you think you may have come in contact with someone who could be carrying the flu this might be one of the few reasons to postpone your airline tickets for another time.
- You can never be too cautious, so wearing a mask in public to protect yourself from other traveler's germs and to keep yours from spreading may be a good idea.
- Remember that just once you've stepped off the plane that doesn't mean you're out of harms way. If you're going to be staying in a hotel room and you have space in your suitcase, you might want to pack your own sheet and pillow case.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Just because....
A friend of mine was over here about a month ago and was nice enough to bring over some fabric she wasn't going to use. So the other day I was going through it all and found this great green poka dot. I just had to put it on my floor and wall and take some pictures of my kids. I was going to do them outside but the weather here has been crazy!!! But hopefully we will be able to get out there sooner then later and get some good shots of them all.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
the leafy suburbs, part 3: other people's children
One of the issues Ms. Slaughter mentions confronting is her son's disruptive classroom behavior.
Well, suppose Ms. Slaughter and her husband fail to improve their son's classroom behavior.
Where does that leave the other kids in the classroom?
We experienced this ourselves when C. was in middle school. I remember one day talking to him about his math class, where he was learning virtually nothing due to the Death March to Algebra nature of the curriculum, we assumed. So I was interviewing him, trying to nail down whatever was or was not going on that week, and at some point in our conversation C. mentioned in passing that he could not hear what the teacher was saying in class.
You can't hear?
I had no idea what he was talking about -- I'd certainly never noticed him having trouble hearing. I was thinking, Is this one of those boy things where boys' hearing is slightly not as good as girls' hearing?
It wasn't.
It turned out - news to me - that C. could not hear what the teacher was saying because he was in "the bad class," which is to say the noisy, hyperactive, out of control class. So every day was pretty much bedlam, and C. couldn't hear anything the teacher was saying because the other kids were so loud.
The other kids are so noisy you can't hear? Mind you, this was the accelerated class, the class with the kids who were headed to calculus and selective colleges. So noisy C. couldn't hear the teacher.
I was probably in my 2nd year of dealing with the school's insane curriculum at that point. It had never crossed my mind there was another whole dimension of awful going on.
At least one boy in the class had ADHD; there may have been as many as 3 boys with ADHD (I don't know). I happen to know that their parents were doing everything they could do on their end, but even if they weren't, the classroom disruption was (apparently) such that my own child could not hear what the teacher was saying.
Which of course got me to wondering whether C., who was a bit shy, had been placed in the class precisely because he was a bit shy. One of his other teachers had told me that he always had C. sit next to the noisy children as a means of classroom management (fine in that case), and C. had told me an endearing story about a very quiet little girl in his math class who, he said, was always being used as a separator for the noisy boys. "She hates it," C. said.
We can argue about the extent to which parents are responsible for their children's behavior at school.
But the school, not the parents, has to be responsible for maintaining classroom order.
It's not just that the quality of a troubled child's K-12 education shouldn't depend on his parents, which is my belief.
The quality of the other children's K-12 education shouldn't depend on that child's parents, either.
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To keep classrooms orderly schools need to be able to expel disruptive children. This is the ultimate sanction and should not be done lightly, but the credible existence of this sanction can encourage students to curb themselves.
When schools are run by the government, attending them becomes a right, and this right is strengthened for students labeled "special needs".
Schools don't need to be run by the government any more than grocery stores do. When they are run privately, principals have more freedom of action and can use it to maintain order.
- June 25, 2012 at 5:21 AM
>>The quality of the other children's K-12 education shouldn't depend on that child's parents, either.
That goes into the tricky area. What should be done with parents who refuse to medicate a disruptive intelligent ADHD child, or to provide him with the time and space to get some exercise in or give him a pass on learning basic manners? Learning for all others does not happen b/c one cannot think with all the noise, blurted, impulsive not-thought-out comments & questions and body movement. It's an issue. Similar issues with the included emotionallly disturbed.
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This group of artist (except for one of them) was quite unique in their own way.
A really friendly bunch~ They were talking so much, and about so many random things that it was practically impossible for me to follow at all :)
I don't have names for any of them, so let me just go in order from left to right!
Blond haired guy
Favorite item: Boots from East Side, Vintage store
Green jacket guy
Favorite item: Jacket from Value Village
Red haired girl
Favorite item: Her black veil from Value Village
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"…you don't realize how amazing [New York] is until you leave. [New York] is so awesome and crazy and it's the perfect place if you're 21–25; you can go out dancing and then it's 4am and you're at some after-hours thing. But then you turn 28 and the kind of social life you're interested in has less to do with 4am party nights and more to do with marathoning Breaking Bad and learning how to make fancy cocktails at home."
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Its the 10th of the month, which means its time for the monthly Muslimah Blogger Challenge! This month's challenge was to cook something Indonesian. I havent been to Indonesian but hubby has. According to him the food is almost like Malaysian cuisine but sweeter. I found lots of recipes similar to Malaysian food and decided to try this Egg recipe I found in youtube called Balado Telur.
According to this blog, Balado Telur means chilli eggs , the recipe is pretty straightforward, the boiled eggs are fried so it gets nice crispy coating and then cooked in a chilli sauce. The lady in the you tube video used long red chillies, since I cant them here in Maldives I used a red bell pepper and added 5 small chillies to add heat. I used a small onion , instead of shallots and since there werent any indonesian bayleaves I didnt use any . The dish was lovely I served it with plain cooked rice and dhal.
Recipe : Indonesian Chilli Eggs, adapted from the recipe Balado Telur from youtube.
Serves 4-5.
4 or 5 hard boiled eggs
1/2 a large red bell pepper
4-5 red finger lenght ( tholhi mirus) chillies
3 fat cloves garlic
1 small onion, quartered
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2-3 slices galangal, thinly sliced
1/2 piece ginger, bashed up.
1 plum tomato, sliced thinly
about 4 tbsp oil ( I used corn oil)
First, make the chilli paste, place onion , garlic chillies and bell pepper in to a blender or food processor with a little water about 1/4 cup , and blend to a paste.
Heat a wok or frying pan add oil so it covers the bottom, say about 3-4 tbsp. Add the eggs and stir them around carefully . Let the skin brown and blister a bit, and yes the oil will splatter a bit so be careful.
Now once the eggs are coloured , remove and drain on kitchen paper. Return the wok on stove add the chilli paste, along with the garlic , tomatoes and ginger and stir fry over medium heat for 5 minutes till the colour darkens. Add sugar and salt and keep stirring. the oil should separate.
Return the eggs to the wok and stir to coat the eggs with the chilli mix. Cook 1-2 minutes and then switch off and serve!.
Come and check out the other ladies of the Muslimah bloggers and view their Indonesian Creations as well.