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I am scouring the Internet to find gifts outside the box!
(X-box, Play Station, Wii).
HERE is a link that will take you to my posts
about Inspiring Gift Ideas.
I have a philosophy about too much "gaming time". And let me disclose for the record- I am not ANTI Video Games. I just think MODERATION is important. I believe learning how to MANAGE YOUR TIME is needed.
So we have an Xbox. There are some benefits to video games. My brother, who is a doctor, says in medical school it was obvious the people who had games and who did not growing up. The medical students who DID - were able to maneuver the tools for surgeries involving - going into someones body with a probe. All those fine motor muscles in their hands, fine tuned already by using game controllers. There is a dexterity you develop- that is hard to develop any other way. That is just ONE benefit.
We have the Kinect- added to our Xbox. Now that we live in a snowy state- I love that my boys can still get moving- jumping, running in place, swinging, etc... by playing these games. There is a cute game I bought a few years ago for my preschool son who loved to dance. The songs are popular kids songs: Our version has Insy Winsy Spider, Jingle Bells, London Bridge, etc... and then many other popular songs. What I love is you can set a time limit (I usually do 20-30 min, make sure they get a work out.) AND you can set skill level! (So all the songs selected have dance moves he can do- and not get frustrated and quit.) Select START- and off he goes! There are kids dancing-- doing appropriate moves. They have boys and girls dancing.
SO- I want to make it clear. I am NOT anti Xbox.
Having said that- my philosophy about too much gaming is:
Kids today lack confidence. So many are stressed out and depressed. WHY?
There are probably a lot of factors.
But life isn't harder.
I think growing up in the Depression would be hard.
I think growing up during WW1 or WW2 would be hard.
I think growing up where you had to cut wood for your fire and grow your own food- would be hard.
Life has always been "hard".
But I do think life is different. Our children spend so much time in a virtual world- they don't gain real life experience that helps them build confidence in themselves to solve problems, do hard things, and gain confidence in their abilities.
For example: A child who builds his own dog house.... ( or any real/tangible/hands on experience)
and SATISFACTION, etc.. etc.. than the child who takes care of a virtual "pet" or reaches level 120 in some game.
Here my son was about 10 years old. We didn't even have a dog at the time- but boy did he want one! (read here) He was bored with nothing to do and I suggested he build something. He was working with just scrap wood we had. A neighbor saw his project and donated some additional ply wood for the tops and sides. We ended up getting a dog- about a year later.
So THAT is my goal this year- is to buy gifts that will inspire them. Help them DO. Gain some confidence, learn something NEW about themselves. Interact with people! (Face to face)
It's a long shot.. (lol) but a worthy goal to strive for!


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Just goes to show how much companies rely on this BS tactic and try to keep something they believe to be good behind it. And if you don't pre-order, but buy the game and want it later, you end up paying for it.
Resident Evil 6, with all its flaws, had the same thing, but unlocked after completing the game's campaign and allowed you to be different creatures. While with Dying Light, the most important part of the coop multiplayer is behind a paywall, be of faith or money.
This mode looks cool, because just like Dark Souls, sometimes it's great to be the villain and wreck another player's game, but this pre-order BS should be restricted to cosmetic things like skins for characters and weapons, and not for gameplay contents.
I can almost see the day when multiplayer or single-player will be sold as DLC, if that hasn't happened already.
I do however think that devs should make the preorder extras available to everyone after so long, maybe let people who preorder get the extras for maybe a month then release it for everyone else to use
The biggest reason companies created and use pre-order bonuses is to try and make sure people buy the games new, not used copies. So if you don't want to risk losing money and prefer to wait for reviews, you will either lose that extra content or have to wait and pay for it when it becomes available.
So, for example, let's say you buy a game on the day its released after reading/watching reviews, you bought a new copy on day 1, but you will get less content because you didn't risk pre-ordering the game.
This is only one example, the truth is that you may just discover a game a few weeks after release, with so many games being released, it's easy to lose track, specially when you work and/or study, and don't have enough time to catch up on everything. Or you might have had an extra expense you weren't expecting and need to buy it later when you have more money.
I don't mind giving something extra for those that believed in your game, as long as that is purely cosmetic. As soon as you start messing with gameplay content, you are effectively taking away from the core game. So in this case, you lose an integral part of the coop gameplay, which is the ability to play as the Night Hunter and terrorise other players.
Just like Alien: Isolation with the pre-order bonuses, this isn't just something cosmetic, but something important for a lot of players. So regardless of whether you will use it or not, it's still an important part of the game that you lose and will have to pay for when it becomes available, should you want it.
Plus you might even like this content if you play it, but without having that option unless you pay for it, you might never bother. What you said is what Nintendo did - not sure if it still does - with some of their games, as long as you bought it in a set period of time, you would get the extra content immediately and for free.
To me, this is the best option, but who knows why companies don't do it. Also worth nothing is that if a game doesn't rely on day of release embargoes, pre-ordering becomes more accepable since you can have a more solid idea of what you are buying, it still doesn't help people who buy it after release, but it alleviates the problem.
I never saw the point in preordering games before because stores and online stores never run out of copies of the game..infact there has never been a game that ive bought and the stores have sold out of it and I usually like most big games.
But then I decided to preorder the ps4 and I got it 5 days early, so I decided to preorder ps4 games because I actually saw that a lot of places had the games a lot cheaper for preorder than others and cheaper than I could get in any store on the high street and the fact I also get the games 3-5 days before actual release date
like the new alien game it was shipped this morning so I will get it tomorrow if not it deffo will be Saturday and I got it for a bargain £34..i did have it preordered at amazon but that was £44 so cancelled that one.
I do think any preorder bonus should be a timed bonus specially if its extra missions, tbh I don't give a crap about extra clothes for the character as that adds nothing to the game
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just release the game already, no one gives a shi* about this, OMG
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Dane Cook
Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18, 1972) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
He has released two albums, Harmful If Swallowed and Retaliation, the latter of which went double platinum and became the highest charting comedy album in twenty-eight years. Dane Cook performs on many television shows and in the fall of 2006 performed in his own HBO special, Vicious Circle. As an actor, Cook has appeared in fifteen films since 1997, and starred in the 2006 comedy Employee of the Month, with Jessica Simpson.
Early life
Cook was born in Boston, to Donna and George Cook. He grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb and, along with his five sisters and one brother, was raised as a Roman Catholic.[3] Growing up, Dane worked at Video Horizons and Burger King.
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What's the lowest donation amount your small nonprofit has received? In a general way, would you say that person and the number of other persons like that one receive the same acknowledgment as the ones who make the really substantial donations? Do you have tiers? Special events and premiums that donors in one donation bracket get that others don't?
Probably. And at least one of Jason Dick's responders felt that was the way of things and it would be naive to think otherwise. You should definitely read the post and the attending comments.
Social Media as a Leveler
One thing I really love about social media is that it's pretty much the same for everyone. There are no brackets and no set of events that some can attend and others can't. I think it's probably more likely to find your engagement is more often with donors of small amounts than with major donors. So social media is one place where you really can get to know the bread and butter donors, because cultivating donors is all about relationships and that is what social media is all about as well.
Once a year, you throw a party for the major donors and a show-and-tell that is a highlight reel of your accomplishments using their funding. But you have an opportunity every day to communicate with people who may only send you $100 a year or less, but for whom that is a generous slice of their budget.
Newsletters and emails are informative and can be somewhat interactive with links and polls, but on FB or Twitter or Instagram or Pinterest, you can not only post about what you are working to accomplish, but get almost immediate feedback on how well you are communicating that effort. Then you can follow-up and keep the conversation going.
Some areas of fund-raising are still stratified and that's probably not going to change. But there are plenty of avenues for cultivating smaller donors as though they were bigger donors, and they're right at your fingertips.
Resource of the Week: Let It Ripple - Mobile films for global change.
These folks have some really nice films they have put together and they're offering your small nonprofit customized branding so you can make use of these wonderful films for to the benefit of your mission. These are the films available for customization:
- The Science of Character (doesn't include a call to action)
- Engage
- Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks
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I have always been a tea drinker... My parents brewed a pot of coffee every morning. They kept it going all day long!
It was 13 years before my husband got me to give coffee a try. I drown it down with way too much chocolate! Today, well, I am hopelessly committed to that morning delight!


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And other pleasant side effects of hiring & developing the best
Disclaimer: This article represents my personal opinions, experiences & learning and is in no way representative of others at Amazon.com or of Amazon.com itself.
14 months ago, when I was offered an opportunity to work at Amazon, I felt good about making it through the interviews. The interviews were insightful, challenging and engaging. Just like any rewarding intellectual discussion should be. At the time I did not understand why the interviews were designed like that and why all of my interviewers kept talking about leadership principles as if they were powerful tenets. Once I started working here, I learned a lot more about the leadership principles. They really are powerful tenets that break down the decision making process to fundamentals of both personal traits and business. They deserve a separate series of articles by themselves so I will not digress. You can read more about those here.
One of the leadership principles at Amazon is to "Hire and Develop the Best" which is best summarized by this definition.
"Leaders raise the performance bar with every hire and promotion. They recognize exceptional talent, and willingly move them throughout the organization. Leaders develop leaders and take seriously their role in coaching others."
Interestingly enough I find the spirit of this principle even more strongly represented in the opening text to the leadership principles.
"Whether you are an individual contributor or the manager of a large team, you are an Amazon leader."
When I actually started hiring software engineers, technical program managers and web developers; I learned that the hiring bar was definitely higher than where I thought it was. At first I found that to be ridiculously unreasonable. Eventually it started to make sense. It became so obvious that I felt stupid for not always having approached hiring in this way. Combining a high hiring bar with continuously growing and developing the people that you hire creates very interesting and strong ambient forces at the organization. I must share some of the assumptions that this allows management and peers to make simply because I find this very liberating and exhilarating.
People who meet a high bar of leadership principles are natural ownersSo you look for people who can own problems, solutions and customer experience. People who act in the same way whether you are looking at them or not. People who have very high standards for themselves and others. People who are experts at their jobs. Such people are natural owners and do not require supervision. This allows us to create small teams that can work independently and can be trusted to do the right thing.
When builders build then innovation is natural
If you create small independent teams of builders who can build without supervision then you create bubbles of innovation. Every individual and team starts working in a natural state of self-driven problem solving and innovation. This is fundamentally not very different from what drives start ups to innovate and be creative at a pace that is vastly different from large organizations. The same concepts and practical setup allows Amazon teams to work more like start-ups than like 'departments'.
If you create small independent teams of builders who can build without supervision then you create bubbles of innovation. Every individual and team starts working in a natural state of self-driven problem solving and innovation. This is fundamentally not very different from what drives start ups to innovate and be creative at a pace that is vastly different from large organizations. The same concepts and practical setup allows Amazon teams to work more like start-ups than like 'departments'.
If you can assume trust, transparency and honesty then productivity soarsLeaders who meet a high bar have to be self-critical, aware of their surroundings, willing to learn fast and be transparent. Once you take any grey areas associated with these traits off the table then nobody has to look over their shoulders. That means people, their managers, their managers' managers to the executive leadership can focus their entire energies on doing the right thing instead of supervising and 'keeping an eye' on other people.
A productive and innovative team drives big thinking and great solutionsSo I have a productive team with builders building innovative solution almost all the time. What happens as a natural outcome of that? Big thinking! You start thinking about solving problems bigger than you can otherwise imagine a team of five engineers to be solving. You start having people building 'one click buying', 'cloud computing' and many such amazing solutions. One of the senior engineers explained this to me beautifully.
"I am not really looking for someone who just knows the technical difference between a list, a map and a set. I am looking for someone who reads a customer feedback about wanting to share shopping ideas with their friends and then goes on to actually build a shared shopping list with a scalable and reliable design"
What he was saying was a blend of thinking big, inventing and timely implementation of ideas.
Great people can be developed quickly by giving them more responsibilityThis structure allows for expecting more from people, giving them more responsibilities and allowing them to succeed or fail fast. Coupled with smart peers and honest feedback this allows rapid development of individuals just like that of software in the same environment. Once you give people more responsibilities, you still don't have to supervise them. You can still continue to assume that they will be owners.
And all of that creates another virtuous cycle...This flow of hiring great people, making them owners, allowing builders to build in innovative teams. These people working in an environment of trust, transparency and honesty drive big thinking to solve important problems. This environment allows people to develop fast and take on more responsibilities while delivering great products and services for our customers. This is yet another virtuous cycle that I see around me and that I am still so excited to be a part of. There is obviously constant room for improvement and making it even better but I would absolutely love to see this approach adopted by other large organizations to create an even larger eco-system of amazing innovation!


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I don't understand the way you think
Saying that she's yours, not mine
Sending roses and your silly dreams
Really just a waste of time
Because she's mine
The doggone girl is mine
Trivia: This was the first single released from "Thriller", reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. But it was definitely was not a song that foretold the coming "Thriller" phenomenon.
On one hand, it's good that this dispute over a girl descends into lame singing, not lame fisticuffs ("Paul, I think I told you I'm a lover, not a fighter"). On the other hand, it's pretty certain that the "doggone girl" will be gone after hearing this song. For these are the possibilities:
- If neither guy is telling the truth about her claims of devotion, she'll quickly disabuse them of the notion that she's either of theirs.
- If both them are telling the truth, they'll come to the realization that they've been played and send her packing.
- If only one them is telling the truth, she'll have to wonder "WTF does he mean 'doggone girl'?"
Regardless of where the truth lies, she'll undoubtedly be convinced that these guys are way lame. Very very rich, but lame.
And the less said about the "25th Anniversary Remix Featuring will.i.am." the better.


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Four Boston-area teens were seriously injured in a two-vehicle car accident Friday afternoon on the Arborway in Jamaica Plain. According to police reports, an SUV driven by one of the teens hopped the median on the Arborway and collided head-on with a pickup truck.
According to police, the 18-year-old driver of the SUV and the driver of the pickup remained in critical but stable condition as of Saturday. A 15-year-old and two 14-year-old passengers of the SUV were also injured in the wreck. The two 14-year-olds remained in pediatric intensive care as of Saturday. A passenger in the pickup truck was also injured, police said.
The accident caused traffic to jam on the Arborway for over an hour. The Latin Academy varsity hockey coach said he was sitting in the traffic when it dawned on him that the accident may have involved some of his players. Unfortunately, his sneaking suspicion was correct and two of the teens involved were members of the Latin Academy hockey team.
"This one hits home," the hockey coach said in an interview.
Police are now investigating to determine the cause of the accident. Accident reconstruction experts are piecing together an analysis of the accident as other investigators are interviewing witnesses and victims of the crash who are able to talk. The 911 calls from the scene are also being studied.
At this point, it seems unlikely that drinking played a factor in the accident as it occurred during the afterschool hours, but distracted driving is often brought up as a potential cause when teen drivers are involved in wrecks. With school back in session, teenage drivers need to be reminded of safe driving tips as they head out for practice, games and other events.
Source: The Boston Globe, "Horrific Arborway wreck 'hit home' for Latin Academy coach," Dan Adams, Sept. 7, 2013


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Just on the top four (for now). We went to the dentist about a month ago and I explained that Riley has not lost her two bottom middle teeth yet but she has lost several others. I was only concerned because usually those two bottom middle teeth are the first to go. They agreed that was odd and did an x-ray. What we found out was that Riley is missing her adult bottom middle teeth. In addition, she is also missing her adult top lateral teeth. They told us it would be wise to consult with an orthodontist sooner rather than later.
We met with an orthodontist about a week later, and she confirmed all of the above. She also pointed out that Riley's top middle tooth came in where the lateral tooth should have which is why she lost that baby tooth. That is a tooth she will never get it. Also, the middle tooth came in behind her bottom teeth instead of in front (when she closes her jaw). The orthodontist was concerned that as the tooth moved forward it would knock out another one of her permanent teeth down below. As she put it "this girl cannot afford to lose any more adult teeth!". And so, Riley has braces.
The plan is to get her front top teeth in better alignment. Then she is going to wear a retainer until she has lost all the remaining of her baby teeth. Then she'll get braces again, and at that time we'll figure out what to do with all the missing teeth, or rather the spaces where those teeth should be.
Hurray for good dental insurance.
The dentist also gave me a referral for both Austin and Ellie. They have their orthodontist appointments in six weeks. Cross your fingers they have more normal mouths!


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Even though you like the guy or girl, the fact is he or she is dating someone else. You can either get over it or you can make a decision to show this person what he or she missed out on.
Part One of Three:
While your crush is datingEdit
1Use music to soothe your soul. Listen to music that is upbeat and positive. Avoid listening to music that makes you feel worse. Instead, find the songs that talk about surviving, being strong and getting on with your life.
2Hide your emotions from your crush. There is no need to go around moping and acting dramatic. You do not know what is going to happen down the track and letting your crush see how positive you are might just be your absolute best defense and your possible chance in the future should things not work out with the person he or she is dating now. Stay calm and avoid making any biting comments.
3Hang out more with your friends. Your friends will know and understand your pain. They can empathize with the way you are feeling and will comfort you. Spending time with them will help to keep you happy and away from speaking about your crush and the loss you're feeling.
- Talk about sports, the latest stuff, and fun things to do.
- Stay with the people who really care for you know how you feel.
4Get on with your schoolwork, your activities and your life. You're young and there is a lot to happen yet, both now and into the future. Setting yourself up for a good future means focusing on self improvement, studying well and working out what you want for your life. Even if this includes a partner some day, it isn't the only thing in your life and it's important to be well rounded and to stand on your own two feet. Realize too, that you may actually start finding someone else a whole lot more interesting, and you need to be alert to this possibility.Advertisement
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Knowing when and when not to hang out with your crushEdit
1Take care when hanging out with your crush while he or she is still dating. When you go to hang with your crush, make sure it's not with their girlfriend/boyfriend. Why? Well, here are some good reasons why not!:
- The girlfriend/boyfriend may dislike you and perceive you as an enemy.
- That person could be your best friend or one of your best friends.
2Take care to not be a nuisance. When not hanging out but you see them, take care to avoid:
- Trying to be the third wheel on their date.
- Intruding on a date. Just say hi and bye, leaving to where you were going.
- Reacting angrily or petulantly. If the girlfriend/boyfriend decides to be rude, just fake a smile and walk away. Keep your dignity intact.
Part Three of Three:
When your crush is no longer datingEdit
1Consider whether or not this person still seems desirable to you. With the passage of time, it may just be that you're no longer interested. In which case, there is no point trying to light any sparks between you, not even for the sake of "just seeing" and definitely not for revenge or out of spite. If you do still like this person, proceed to the next step.
2Spend time with this person again. Try to talk more or even hang out sometimes. Get to know each other before making a decision about making a move. Do not rush into targeting this person for a romantic alliance. He or she will need time to get over the former relationship and you won't be very happy if you end up being the "rebound" person who also doesn't last.
3Decide whether it's worth asking this person out. If you do still like him or her enough, then pluck up the courage to ask him or her out. The answer may be yes, it may be no. If yes, great, proceed as needed. If no, realize that he or she still needs time or simply doesn't view you as an appropriate match. It's part and parcel of growing up and everyone experiences rejection as well as acceptance.Advertisement
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He is the most popular guy in the class and the person he is dating is the most popular girl in the class. I'm his best friend but I'm still in the friend zone. What I do?Answered by wikiHow Contributor
- Be a good friend. If you honestly think that this girl is not good for him then tell him. If you're accused of jealousy just say you're worried about him.
What if your crush's boy/girlfriend is treating her/him badly?Answered by wikiHow Contributor
- Unfortunately, it's really none of your business. You can be there for your crush, but trying to break them up will not end up well for you. If you believe real abuse is occurring, tell a trusted adult.
How do I react to my crush being with another person? I'm not mad nor do I hate them, I'm just very upset and confused and I don't know what to do really.Answered by wikiHow Contributor
- It is just something that will take time. It is a strange feeling and it is normal to feel upset about it. The best thing you can do is to try and keep busy and try to move on.
What if I think that I have no possible chance with my crush?Answered by wikiHow Contributor
- If you have absolutely no chance with your crush (like if they are not interested in people of your gender or something), follow the steps in the article to move on and forget about them. If you're just saying this because you don't think you're good enough, you should give it a shot and tell your crush how you feel. You never know what might happen!
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- Sometimes, yes. If it was a bad break up between the two of you, then the other person is probably just trying to rebound. Just enjoy your life as a single and start dating only when you're ready.
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Sir, Gillian Tett, as an anthropologist who believes "that discipline to be woefully underappreciated", applauds Ford "hiring a group of social scientist… to study the culture of modern carmaking", "The drive to make a more humane car" March 14.
Great idea! That would at least give me some comfort that if automobile engineers were so dumb so as to design a car that would rev up especially fast, whenever the driver perceived everything as safe, and slow it down more than normal, whenever drivers thought it to be risky, an anthropologist would probably inform him that was a very bad idea.
Like they would equally consider it to be a bad idea to have both a driver learner and his instructor driving simultaneously a car with two driving wheels.
But of course these social scientists must have enough character to speak up and not be blinded in awe by car engineers' supposed expertise.
For instance I wish Ms Tett hade believed more in herself as an anthropologist, so as to speak out against those risk adverse bank regulations that have us and our banks, driving fast off the road of prosperity.


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Poetic Thursday
i am a little church(no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
--i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april
my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
my prayers are prayers of earth's own clumsily striving
(finding and losing and laughing and crying)children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness
around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains
i am a little church(far from the frantic
world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature
--i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence becomes singing
winter by spring,i lift my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)
I chose this poem in response to a comment a poster made about being insignificant. It reminds me that even a little church can dance in the splendor of the world.
I'm weary--I feel sleep deprived and shouted at and generally beaten down by life today. But finding this poem was like taking a little mental vacation.
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Fallin Welcomes Perry, But No Endorsement Yet
Governor Fallin said Wednesday she's not yet ready to endorse anyone in the Republican presidential race, but she welcomes Texas Governor Rick Perry's entry into the race and said he'd be good for Oklahoma.
Fallin, in Washington to promote Oklahoma as a potential base for unmanned aerial vehicle research and flights, said Perry would be a strong advocate for issues important to Oklahoma, including oil and gas development.
She said Perry has fundraisers scheduled in Oklahoma later this month.
She said, "I'm not going to make a commitment right now" in the Republican presidential primary race, adding that there are had several credible candidates to take on President Barack Obama next year.
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Vote Count Confirms Obama Win in Florida
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Toaster would like to thank the great state of Ohio for the 18 electoral votes it awarded to President Obama.
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Olbermann Files Suit Against Current 'Dilettantes'
Keith Olbermann, fired last week from his show on Current TV, has followed through on his threat to file suit against his former employers. The suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeks damages of $50 million to $70 million.
They are GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!
(Toaster loves a good fight!)
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Current TV Dismisses Keith Olbermann
For nearly a year now, Al Gore and Joel Hyatt have been building their liberal cable news channel, Current TV, with the mercurial television anchorman Keith Olbermann at its center.
This week, the center collapsed.
It's not a good time for Toaster to ask Bwana for a raise in his allowance.
Toaster might have to resort to scavenging for loose change in Prometheus Fountain.
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Hokey smokey! The years sure roll by fast!
There's no better way to celebrate the day than with a slice of hot toaster topped with butter.
And a case of Champagne.
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Toaster wishes everyone a Happie Valentine's Day!


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I have finally got to adding some items to my ETSY page. While, I do still have a bunch of stuff to get to, I have added a nice variety of Vintage Horror, Sci Fi, Halloween and Entertainment related items.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
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There's been quite a bit of buzz about SociaLybrium, the new band featuring Bernie Worrell, Blackbyrd McKnight, TM Stevens and Cindy Blackman. There should be some buzz about it with major players like these putting out some great music. The new group recently formed and is now out doing their thing in Europe, hopefully they will grace us with some dates here in the states soon.
Check 'em out on My Space @ http://www.myspace.com/socialybrium and add 'em to your friends.


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Aku jarank nk tulis kat fb or kat mane mane pon mengenai personal life aku.. so aku tulis kat sni :)
Rabu, 15 Jun 2011
this feeling :(
Tak bole tdo.. y? i dont really know.. huhu.. but this is something that i can be sure. One of the reason is that i don't know what to expect in my relationship.. i put so much in it. i dont know what will happen in it in a long time. will i have my happy ending? i really dont know.. this is so much to handle.. why i have to think all of this.. cant i just enjoy the moment. sometime i really dont like the way i was born with. to much thinking. i will freak out over a simple thing that sometime i dont even have to think about it. i dont know how to handle with this feeling. i dont know who to refer to give an answer that can satisfied me. this is really frustrating. :( it really bothering me. hmm, i want to ask him the truth what he has on his mind about this relationship but im too shy to just shout the questions.. taknak la cm aku je yang teburu buru.. aku bukan nk smthing lam mase tdekat ni aku just nk smthng yg bole uat aku rase selesa ngan bnde ni n yakin. k, la. da lwat. out. just nk cte kat someone n this is how my way to express it. huhu.
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
DERBY Weekend Schedule at Lexie's Trading Post
DERBY Weekend Schedule at Lexie's Trading Post: Oaks Day - THIS Friday, May 3rd we will be closing at 4:00pm, Derby Day - THIS Saturday, May 4th CLOSED ALL DAY....We will be back to our regular hours again next week - Wednesday-Saturday, 11:00am - 6:00pm. Ya'll have a WONDERFUL (and for some of you Profitable!) and SAFE Derby Weekend! =0)
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Nominal exchange rate neutrality: the case of Australia
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Harbinger, C & Wijeweera, A 2010, ' Nominal exchange rate neutrality: the case of Australia', International Journal of Economics and Business Research, vol. 2,no. 5.
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This study uses quarterly macroeconomic data over the period of 1984-2003 along with a seven-variable structural vector autoregression model to investigate the nominal exchange rate neutrality hypothesis for the case of Australia. Impulse response functions and variance decompositions are generated for four different variations of the model for empirically testing the hypothesis. Empirical evidence presented in this paper support the nominal exchange rate neutrality. In addition, we find that the neutrality is invariant to the choice of the nominal exchange rate or the measure of monetary aggregates used in the estimation.


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This post is neither an excerpt from Michael Neumann's The Case Against Israel, nor a critique of Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel. Rather, it is a mirror copy of the page located at rense.com. For a long time I have wanted to write about the contention between Israel and Palestine, but, as I researched, I found the issue to be of far more depth and complexity for me to cover in a post or two. Therefore, I have to rely on this excerpt from Michael Hoffman and Moshe Lieberman's The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians.
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Capacity Trucks' parent company, REV - Vehicles for Life, is the largest manufacturer in North America of emergency vehicles and small buses, as well as the leading manufacturer of terminal trucks, recreation vehicles and street sweepers. Respected worldwide for its operational excellence and innovation, REV companies hold #1 or #2 market share positions in each of its core markets.
In an intensive two-year collaboration, REV committed its extensive engineering resources to assist Capacity Trucks in expertly designing, engineering and rigorously testing Sabre, the industry's next-generation terminal tractor that delivers durability, quality and reliability in every dimension.


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SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - March 24, 2013 --Officials say six cars of a CSX train carrying an industrial chemical derailed in South Philadelphia, but no injuries were reported.
CSX said in a statement that the cars were part of an 87-car train arriving from Rocky Mount, N.C., and three of the cars were left on their sides.
One car on its side and one car remaining upright after the 12:30 p.m. Sunday accident in the company's yard contained vinyl acetate, but officials said no leaks or injuries resulted.
Emergency dispatchers said no fire department service was needed.
The company is investigating and was sending crews to rerail the cars.
Vinyl acetate is used to make latex paints, paper coatings, adhesives, safety glass and other products. The EPA says exposure can cause eye and upper respiratory tract irritation.


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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
NEWS: Competition
Hail Mighty Readers,
We are having a fiesta in celebration of the forthcoming Puss in Boots and as part of this, our friends at Random House/Bantam have let us have five copies of the four Dreamwork Puss in Book titles (Puss in Boots: The Novel, Puss in Boots: The Cat, The Legend, The Boots, Puss in Boots: 3D Movie Guide and Puss in Boots: Colouring and Activity Book) to give away to five lucky winners.
The competition will run from today (15/11/11 to 30/11/11) so that we can get the prizes out to our lucky winners in time for the opening of the film. So dig deep and answer the question to our usual email address, drosdelnoch (at) hotmail (dot) com:
Name the duo that Puss is most associated with:
A) The King and Queen
B) Dragon and Fiona
C) Shrek and Donkey
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Kewpie and the Carousel Horse
Kewpie Contemplates the Tree of Life
Kewpie Does the Diner
Kewpie Hits Gold
Kewpie and Feathered Friends
Indulge me in a mostly visual post this week, a selection of Dollscape collages from my Kewpie series. I had to pull of out the art show I was slated to do at a local church; it just didn't work out. Politics, poor communication and ever-changing contingencies are some of the reasons why I said "adios", and feel much the better for it. The pressure is off. My art career is still and will probably always will be a work in progress. I am investigating other opportunities to show and sell my work. The Kewpie series is mostly light and/or mock serious. I hope you enjoy them....
Kewpies originated in Germany, and are said to serve as an alter ego of Cupid. Here in the United States, they were popularized by a cartoonist/illustrator named Rose O'Neill during the early 1900s. Kewpies are highly collectible. There is also a Kewpie Mayonnaise sold in Japan (and on amazon.com). Kewpies were some of the first mass produced dolls, and have been made of bisque, wood, paper and celluloid. Rose O'Neill envisaged Kewpies as friendly little creatures who helped people get out of trouble and/or heal broken hearts. May many Kewpies be with you!
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Roy's Hall
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I happened to catch the end of this building over on Martin Luther King yesterday. While the Demo Dive excavator looked a bit Jurassic as it chomped into the facade - and the people across the street told me about how they'd had their wedding in the upstairs years ago - this instance of demolition stood out as sort of the perfect contrast to the demolitions I oppose Inside the Footprint.
Here, a massive new project is not necessitating wholesale demolition. It's a targeted effort to reduce blight. The building shown above is also not historic or architecturally significant in the National Register sense - it likely dates from about the 1950s. And it's not very moveable as a cohesive whole.
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|Some guy driving toward an eyeball hill
Trying to figure out where I left myself as my brain kept spinning upon waking up. At least was able to sleep in that one day. I remember saying something to my significant other, she said she was off to take a bath, I told her I was going to go soak my brain in sleep. That's exactly what happened as I quickly visited the bathroom and laid down for what was close to 9 hours. I can barely remember dreams folding into dreams like a distant haze.
Today I decided that it's time to start sharing my sketches. A lot of them are quick and crude, yet fun to share nonetheless. Although I've posted tons of digital paintings I figured it would be nice to let people know that I pencil sketch all the time. I feel it's something that helps to get the imagination going and it's great practice for later when I break out the digital paintings or oils. It's also nice because every day I can't do a grand production, music videos and what not. This helps to formulate ideas and I can look back on my sketches over time to see what frame of mind I was in.


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The sky was overcast when we got up. At noon the drizzle started. Soon it turned to rain. The walkways turned to muck, even with the hardening promoter Mike Wilson has already accomplished. Gene Daniell provides such good sound that many people were able to stay under their camper awnings to listen. The bands looked out onto a vast glade with a few scattered people huddled under umbrellas or standing in rain gear coming down to watch as well as listen. It was the sort of day-crowd killing day a promoter dreads, despite the excellent bands who, consummate professionals, gave their all. The tradition in bluegrass is that the show goes on unless the weather is dangerous. Discomfort is not an option. We stayed, enjoyed the show, visited with friends, and went home at the end of the evening chilled, wet, and happy.
The Grass Cats
The Grass Cats have been around North Carolina for a long time under the leadership of tenor Russell Johnson. They play a lot of their own work, originals from other writers, and a well-selected group of classic and not-so-old covers. They feature excellent instrumental work and good singing to offer a product that deserves to be heard by a broader audience.
Russell Johnson
Tim Woodall
Chris Hill
Steven Martin
Rick Lafleur
Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice
When we first saw Junior Sisk fronting his own band a few years ago, right here at Roxboro, he seemed uncomfortable in his skin as an emcee. Always known as one of the best lead singers in the business, talking on stage and keeping the show rolling along was not exactly his thing. No More!. Junior has emerged as an engaging host, introducing the songs and band members, allowing his sense of humor and human warmth to show through, expressing his admiration for other performers, while demonstrating his faith and love of home and family. He's gone from being a great singer to being a first rate band master as well. Meanwhile, the current configuration of this band, with cousin Tim Massey contributing his voice in expanded roles, Billy Hawkes back with the band, Jason Davis always improving on banjo, and Jason Tomlin lively and animated on mandolin. has become a supple and varied unit. This band is currently one of the two or three the strongest traditional band touring.Combining old sounding originals with a few covers, they are consistently entertaining.
Junior Sisk
Tim Massey
Billy Hawkes
Jason Davis
Jason Tomlin
The Expedition Show
Kimberly and Blake Williams' band The Expedition Show provides tuneful and entertaining bluegrass music. Kimberly has one of the most beautiful voices in the genre, clear and subtle. Blake in addition to being a fine banjo player is one of the rare, and much needed, stand-up comics in the business. He combines some corn with real wit to provide an interlude for the band and wholesome laughs for the audience. He keeps his material fresh, so it doesn't pall on people. Wayne Southards is more than solid on guitar, singing lead, and offering his own songs. Alex Hibberd on mandolin has been with the band a couple of years now. He fits in well, completing this strong four piece group. Kimberly also does double duty as one of the top publicity agents in the business, representing several top bands as East Public Relations.
Kimberly Williams
Blake Williams
Wayne Southards
Alex Hibbets
Promoter Mike Wilson
New Found Road
New Found Road's name has become increasingly appropriate as they continue to develop and emerge as a cutting edge band. Beginning as a mainly gospel group five or six years ago, they have discovered new dimensions in their music under the leadership of Tim Shelton, continuing to play some traditional bluegrass, but always with an edge and often reaching for new interpretations and means of presenting their music. Tim Shelton has an expressive, bluesy, strong voice. His version of Glen Campbell's "Houston" is an outstanding example. Joe Booher, plugged in on mandolin, uses his virtuosity along with a pedal for extended solo riffs. Josh Miller continues to be one of the fine young gun banjo players seeking new horizons while still incorporating Scruggs style and more into their work. Jamey Booher continues to grow as a bass player, and has begun to sing, too. You can see New Found Road as an independent group and as back-up bound for the touring Joe Diffie.
Tim Shelton
Joe Booher
Josh Miller
Jamey Booher
The Seldom Scene
Sitting in the rain watching The Seldom Scene and listening to their songs coming from the stage and being echoed back by the audience, many of whom knew the lyrics to all their songs, I began to think about the history of this storied band. Later, I asked Ben Eldridge, the only remaining founding member of this band formed in 1971, whether there had ever been another lead singer who's had so much influence in two such distinctly different bands as The Johnson Mountain Boys and Seldom Scene as has Dudley Connell. He looked stumped and couldn't come up with another person. The biggest problem this ground-breaking group has is they can't get around to much new material, because their audience knows and loves so much of their catalog that requests for older, familiar (and more obscure) material just keep coming. The words "deep catalog" were new vocabulary for me when Dudley uttered them. I never heard live the earlier iterations of this great group, but I've listened to their recordings. The current band is as good as any version, a true delight each time we see them. And they keep their brand alive by remaining true to their name.
Dudley Connell
Lou Reid
Ben Eldridge (Lay Down Suzie)
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Reading Faithful Departed
This is a great book. I expected a great book. But it has exceeded my expectations.
I'm happy to report that I may have been the first human being to be in Cambridge (the People's Republic if there ever was one!), sitting on a park bench outside the "Marxist Education Building" (and no, I am not making this up) and the office building that housed the "Abortion Access Project" (ditto) and reading The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture.
Why is it great?
1. Well written
2. Well reasoned
3. History is explained in an interesting way. (and how often does that happen?)
4. "Corruptio optimi pessima" (corruption of the best is worst) great synthesis of why the abuse scandal so horrified us.)
5. Explanation of the anti-Catholic foundation of the founding of America
6. Fair
A dear friend got me this book. I am reading it slowly. It's a book to be savored.
Order it from Amazon. Get the First Edition. It will be worth more.
And a tip to those who are "in the know" or want to be "in the know". When this book was first available for pre-order on Amazon it was selling $14 and change. Then it went up to $15 and now it's $17. It's available for as much as $39 used!
And if you want to know why I was in Cambridge, well my daughters had a dance lesson at the Dance Complex. They are studying Kathak dance: a form of Indian storytelling dance.
Traditional Catholics infiltrating Cambridge. Look out.
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I too am reading it. I jumped ahead to the end to see if those of us living in the Archdiocese of Boston had something to be hopeful about (in the near future). I won't give it away... :-(
I'm just happy/thankful I have a TLM relatively close to me (Holy Trinity) although the Mass in Still River is beautiful.
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No happy dances this time, but I have been working on my canvas and beading project, as the classes will be coming to a close sometime in the couple of months, and a new class (that I signed up for with one of my stitching buddies) will be starting
This isn't the best picture, and I'm not finished all the blocks, I'm still missing the ultra suede that needs to be added in the middle three boxes and one beaded flower in the left box (I managed to break it when I was trying to attach it! - now to just figure out exactly how I managed to make them in the first place!)
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Friday night we hung out at Lauren and Todds house and we cooked out and have delicious white sangria! Saturday we are up super early to tailgate and head to the game. It was scorching outside! Lauren and I were sweating like no other so when the score was already 28 to 0 with 9 minutes left in the second quarter we said we are out of here and walked to a restaurant near by to have some drinks and appetizers while the boys sweat it out! I know Jeff wanted to see all of his coaches from college so that was good.
Since my birthday was a couple of weeks ago Lauren made me homemade oreo ice cream cake! I hate to admit it but I had two slices of that sucker. It was probably one of the best desserts I have ever made. I am going to have to try to make it.
We had to get up early on Sunday so I could drop Jeff off downtown at the Jaguar game and I came home to relax and get ready for the week to start. It was great seeing Lauren and Todd as always. We sure wish they lived closer so we could see them more frequently.


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Tonight I decided to try and make some pesto - and as you can see, I didn't do too badly. You'll probably know that pesto consists of:
- basil
- Parmesan
- olive oil
- garlic
- pine nuts
You can use a variation of weights... It's all a matter if trial and error or what you prefer really. Tonight I added too much Parmesan. Next time I'll add more basil! I realised that one basil plant does not hold enough leaves.
The recipe is really simple - just pound all the ingredients with mortar and pestle, adding the olive oil slowly. It's really that easy.


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Introducing William Michaelian
William Michaelian's newest releases are two poetry collections, Winter Poems and Another Song I Know, both published in paperback by Cosmopsis Books in San Francisco. His other books include his steadily expanding Songs and Letters, a current work in progress; A Listening Thing, a novel published here in its first complete online edition; No Time to Cut My Hair, a collection of seventy stories; and One Hand Clapping, a daily journal in two volumes. Michaelian's stories, poems, and drawings have appeared in many literary magazines and newspapers, including Ararat, a quarterly that features literary and historical work on Armenian subjects. His work has been translated into Armenian, published in Armenia's leading literary periodicals, and read on Armenian National Radio. His artwork continues to capture attention, and is used widely online. The author lives with his wife, Denise, and their family in Salem, Oregon.


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Edgar fished for sharks off the beach of Anna Maria Island. The tourist who flock to that beach today wouldn't want to know there are so many sharks swimming around them so it is rarely mentioned in the local newspapers.
Back then sharks were caught for their oil, much like whales had been. They would setup a big cauldron on the beach and cook the the flesh down to oil, bottle it up and sell it to pharmaceutical companies.
This photo is of the Great White shark Edgar caught on Christmas Eve 1937. He caught it on a fishing line less than 100 yards from the beach. Edgar was by himself that day and so had to fight it alone, finally tiring it out and using his skiff, pulled the shark up to the end of Longboat Beach.
The size of this shark has been debated ever since. Some say it was the largest Great White ever caught in North American waters. Edgar said he laid his fishing oar next to the shark and it was longer than the oar by another 6 feet. That would have made it 22 to 24 feet long. The record Great White caught in North America, most people recognize today, is a 20 foot shark caught off Canada in 1988.
Edgar was a pretty successful fisherman and caught some other large sharks. This picture shows him with a large hammerhead.


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This has been a great few days in California. And productive…ugh. Talking about work, I know. But it has been good all around.
Landing Sunday was by far a good choice. Who wants to spend a few hours in a truck after being on a five hour flight? Not me!
While performing the highway study I was sent out to do, the driver pointed out some local tidbits. You know things that don't show up on tourist sites. Things like: a Tiki- themed drive-in movie. Or animals made from metal scraps.
Or a gas station from 1915 and the parking lot from Back to the Future where Marty sped off into the past. Pretty cool places if you speak with the locals.
Perhaps one of my favorite finds was a blast from my past: Jersey's Mike's Subs!
Who would have thought I had to go to the West Coast to get lunch from one of my favorite places to eat on the East Coast? Yes, this picture made my husband jealous. We already planned to go there while visiting next week. But I was able to get a preview!!
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Salo is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region. The municipality has a population of 55,243 (January 31, 2011) and covers an area of 2,168.27 square kilometres (837.17 sq mi) of which 181.78 km2 (70.19 sq mi) is water. The population density is 27.81 /km2 (72.0 /sq mi). In Finnish salo means woodland, backwoods but also a wooded island. It is thought that Salo has meant the island that over thousand years ago existed to the South of the current town but is today a hill, not even very close to the sea. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Salo has existed as a centre of rural commerce since at least the 16th century, grewn in the location where the Great Costal Road, the important East-West road, crossed River Salo; the river provided the fairway to the sea. In 1887 Salo officially became a market town and, in the beginning of 1891, an independent municipality. The area of the municipality was initially very small, only 0.65 km². In 1932 it grew to 18 km² when areas from neighbouring Uskela and Halikko were annexed to Salo. Eventually Salo became a town in 1960. Today its main claim to notability is as a developing and manufacturing plant for Nokia, and can therefore be considered as the original home town of Nokia phones. Nokia also is one of biggest employers in this region. Salo is located between the capital Helsinki and the provincial capital Turku, making it a busy small city. The short distance from these bigger cities keeps the Salo region and its business life growing. Farming also plays a considerable part in the area.
On the card is featured the Salo Art Museum (the round house in the upper part of the card). In the lower part of the card is a locomotive shed with an ancient steam engine by the name of Kana (meaning chicken). This nice card was sent to me by my dear friend Ella.


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The Taylor Trench is the ultimate ladies trench coat pattern. It's got the wow factor and more.
Choose from trench (between knee & mid-calf) or coat (mid-thigh) lengths. Plus there's an optional hood, and three pocket options to pick from (welt, patch or none). And of course, gorgeous optional details like front and back yokes, shoulder tabs and a belt.
The different options you choose will change the difficulty level. The welt pockets are an intermediate to advanced level sew. They are quite fiddly, but ever so satisfying! The patch pockets are far simpler and more of a beginner to advanced beginner level technique. The rest of it is totally doable by an advanced/adventurous beginner.
It's a long but incredibly satisfying sew. You'll be amazed you made it at the end and so so proud of the finished trench. The details are heirloom quality. It's a coat you'll keep (and wear!) for literally years to come.
This is the ladies version but it's also available as a matching dolls and childs patterns so you can do matching "Mommy and Me" sets! Get all versions as a bundle here.
The pattern is trim-free, comes in A4 or US letter size, and has layers in the PDF so you can print only the size/s you want. There is also an A0 format (pattern pieces only) in case you'd like to take it to a professional printer.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
I thought it would be fun to have another bright color available. I have an exciting new design, that will be perfect for the green canvas. COMING NEXT SUMMER!
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Inside the Snootsie tent.
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Finally at Folk Fest.
Well the days finally Came and gone. My shop was cuter than I had visioned. It was quite an experience. Now I look forward to getting Etsy back up and running. Many thanks to my wonderful friends for enduring a very hot and long weekend with me.
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Philippine officials are trying to determine who set off a deadly explosion in a marketplace crowded with shoppers.
Sunday's blast in the southern city of General Santos killed at least 13 people and injured dozens more. Police said the blast may have been caused by a homemade bomb.
No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion, and officials initially offered competing explanations.
Muslim separatists were blamed for a previous deadly explosion in General Santos, and officials say the groups continue to operate there.
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This was my first time to Marenakos Rock Center in Preston. What a wonderful place!
They have all kinds of stones and rocks and things to see.
I walked around until I actually found something that I was looking for, it was perfect.
Then I headed home, stopping to buy some plants on the way. I found a water lily with a lovely peachy-yellow flower.
|I laid the rocks out on the walkway first to wash them and try to pre-fit them together.
|Here's what it looks like after. I'm going to add some plants in the empty spaces.


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Photographs shot with a Nikon D60 using an 18-55mm lens.
Dupont Farmer's Market
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Photographs shot with a Nikon D60 using an 18-55mm lens.
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This critically acclaimed documentary is currently on Netflix, where I stumbled upon it two weeks ago. I do not usually watch documentaries, to be honest, but I thoroughly enjoyed Wasteland. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has traveled the world and over the years become a well-established artist, living and working primarily from New York City. Muniz started as a sculptor then moved to mixed media and photography. This documentary follows Muniz on a trip to Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill in terms of trash received daily, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The first several minutes feel uncertain to me, like the director was unsure of what to show for background on Muniz to establish the artist for the viewer. The very first scene of the movie is a clip from a Brazilian talk show, and in it the host praises Muniz several times for being the "greatest artist alive," which one might think you would say to someone who has agreed to come onto your talk show, but this air of being the best follows Muniz around for several scenes as he talks about his art. What choice is the director making by starting with the talk show clip? It is to show how great Muniz is, and how great he thinks he is as well. Muniz says later that he is the Brazilian artist "who sells and is the most popular overseas" when he is introducing himself to the President of the Pickers. This might be to help legitimize an outsider to the Pickers, but several scenes look prideful. The first presentation of the Pickers is a mix of shots from ground level, with Muniz, and from above, mimicking the way Muniz's work will be viewed: aerial snap shots. If the content of the film were not as captivating as it is, then film would not have been as successful as it has been. There is nothing technically impressive about the videography, but the momentous weight of the film's content carry it to award winning success.
Before Muniz leaves America, he talks with his studio director in Rio about his new idea to work in a landfill, and they have a conversation about the physical and environmental dangers of working in Gramacho. This conversation continues with his wife and with the camera, and we see the preconceptions that Muniz and others have about working there. He flies down to Brazil and starts talking to the Pickers, walking in and around the trash in Gramacho and then through a picketing of the Mayor's office. The Pickers collect 200 tons of recyclable materials per day from the landfill, "that's equivalent to the garbage produced by a city of 400,00 people," says the manager of Jardim Gramacho. The leader of the Association of Pickers of Jardim Gramacho (ACAMJG) says that they have paved roads and a recycling center because the Pickers built one. The Pickers are picketing outside of the local Mayor's office for a recycling collection program to be started on land that the federal government gave them for such a project. On this land, the Pickers built the recycling center without help from anyone, and now are waiting for the local mayor to get with the program and start up the collection program. What else is the Mayor waiting for after the Pickers have done all the work?
By the middle of the movie we begin to see that despite desperate circumstances, it is a happy environment because the Pickers believe in the work they are doing. They are proud because they know that if they did not do what they did, there would be much more trash and recyclable materials would be lost to the landfill.
Muniz's and his group of artists' preconceptions about Gramacho are dashed to pieces. The Pickers care about taking care of the world in which they live. The vice president of ACAMJG, a very old, uneducated man, does the math for Muniz about Gramacho, saying that they are keeping the rivers and lagoons from pollution, they are picking out materials "that won't clog the sewers or be buried … in the landfill, doing such great harm to nature and the environment. I try to explain to people what they can recycle and what they can compost… 'But one single can?' One single can can make a difference, because 99 is not 100." I saw this clip and I thought what if there were more people like that in America, which is full of highly educated people? Here is this man who is obviously so passionate about this work. This shows exactly why the Pickers of Gramacho do what they do: for the good of the people of the world and for the land we live on. In the end, Muniz seems to be very humbled by this whole experience, even changing the form of the art project after living and working with the Pickers. In the end everyone learns a lesson, and the Pickers of the organization see their dreams and ACAMJG's potential realized.


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Nolan wasnt any more "faithful" then Tim Burton
also before i say anything more, i want to say that faithfulness to the "source material", especially something as juvenile as a comic book, does not overly concern me as a person. comic books are not classic literature, so whether or not they interprete the ever-changing comic strips is not a very big deal to me. what matters is the film itself and how it effects me, if it rubs me the right way while keeping the general spirit of the character.
with that said, i know enough about the batman comics to know that the arguments between the "burtonites" and "nolanites" is rediculous. both directors have put there stamp on the character and both are considered the best directors to interpret batman, although i really did enjoy joel schumachers versions as well. however i see that in the fan community there are alot of stupid inane bashing of the older movies because the nolan fans seem threatened that alot of people still prefer burtons version. and in defense they site that burtons was unfaithful to the comics. what. a load. of BULL. if anything nolan got more wrong, and yes, here i will list the reasons.
batmans suit. when has it EVER looked like puzzle piece armor with a helmet head and skeleton neck?
the tumbler thing. when has the batmobile EVER looked like a tank? (please dont site the one time only elseworlds DKR)
who the hell is rachel dawes? she was never in the comics.
batman faking his death and retiring as batman? ...... this would never happen in the comics.
bruce wayne stops crimfighting for 7 years after harvey died??? another WTF decision by nolan. batman would never do this in the comics.
scarecrow wears nothing but a simple burlap bag over his head, looking like a common hood and not the costumed horrific master of terror like he in the comics and the akrham assylum game.
catwoman looking more like julie newmar from the 60's show and not like the masked avenger of the comics. this is clearly a case where burton trumps nolan. also, no whip??? only a gun??? cmon now, this is a hallmark of the character.
when has joker EVER been a greasy long hair painted up psycho? he was supposed to be dropped in the vat of acid that made his skin white and everything. thats the official comics canon, not this nolanized made-up "realistic" joker whos no different then your average serial killer with a brain.
of course alot of people may point out "when did penguin ever look like a pale ugly deformed mutant with green bile and living in the sewers?" yes thats true, which basically proves my point that nolan and burton took about the same liberties. burtons joker wasnt changed very much frrom the comics. nolans Ra's wasnt changed very much from the comics. but burtons penguin and nolans joker were both RADICAL departures from there comic counterparts.
then there are the aesthetic choices, like making gotham city into a normal everyday place and not the dark creepy foreboding city of the comics or past films.
much of nolans creative choices just seem so uninspired to me. and the acting is so underplayed it makes me yearn for those dramatic slightly over the top villian performances of yesteryear.
these are just some of the complaints i have against nolan. i just wanted to point out that nolan is really no better then any of the other directors as far as faithfulness goes. i would even say nolan took far more libertites then burton or schumacher did.
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Well... of course? There are many interpretations of Batman. That's because the hero and his world lends itself to multiple interpretations. There's no one singular solidarily defined mythos to argue about faithfulness towards.
P. S. Some of your "Batman would never do this in the comics" critiques are laughably silly.
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well answer my question then, when has batman ever simply retired? or stopped crimefighting cuz his GF died? please. there are no excuses for this. why people give nolan a free pass is beyond me. at least admit when a director goofs up.
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You seem to think that those things are integral to the character, when they aren't. I don't have to answer your question because the question is silly, irrelevant, and pointless, and doesn't get at the issue of what it means to create a Batman story that faithfully depicts the character.
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Who the hell is Carl Grissom?
Btw you know they've adopted that Scarecrow look into the comics?
Should we start on Penguin having a mob of murderous circus guys working for him in Returns? That is a hallmark Joker's style trait, not Penguin's. He doesn't affiliate with gangs of clowns.
When has Joker ever been an art obsessed, Vicki Vale stalking psychopath who was screwed over by a crime boss because he was diddling his girlfriend?
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^The Joker wins. End thread.
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If you haven't done your homework, you probably shouldn't burst into a forum making controversial, reflexive statements just because you're fed up with the more irrational fanboys.
Most of us agree that 'Nolanites' and 'Burtonites' are completely out of touch.
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Nicely done my friend.
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Regarding the reason Bruce retired after TDK: Everyone is always arguing it's one reason or the other, but it seems more likely to me that it's a bit of everything.
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Completely agree that it was a bit of everything just simply taking a tole physically and mentally.
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Joker's post cut truth into some of your claims, but I'm gonna go into the others, as well as expand a bit on a couple of his.
Believe it or not, in 1989, there were people upset that Batman was all-black and wearing rubber, because it was so 'outlandish' and different.
See: The 'Secret Origins' Batman stories.
Should be noted that Nolan also had a pair of cops in The Dark Knight based on Bullock and Montoya, but with new names.
I don't see the need to nitpick creative redesigns (all of which have been good if you ask me), but you're simply incorrect.
The Joker has never had a solid origin story. It's all what-ifs. The Joker himself doesn't even remember. The acid thing was one of the what-ifs.
I would prefer a more unique city too, but let's not skew reality.
He reinvented and improved major things, breathed new creative life and depth into them. The way Batman's suit functions, down to the last microscopic detail, for starters.
Just going to pretend you never said the 'underplayed' or 'the Schumacher days were better than this' rubbish.
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I think Nolan's weakness is that he is TOO faithful to the comics in some aspects, not the other way around.
I want to see the essence of the characters, but I'm not concerned with minor details such as what colour Batman's suit is. As long as they don't stray too far from the original concept.
But I wouldn't say either Tim Burton, Joel Schumacher or Christopher Nolan are any more comic accurate than the other.
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Burton wasn't anymore faithful than schumacher.
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Burton's films imported a lot from the comics, along with Nolan's.
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Batman, faking his death. Courtesy of another user:
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Burton's Batman killed more bad guys than the comics Batman did
Nolan's reject killing
More faithful in that aspect
To say comics are juvenile you say movies are juvenile as well, they are both ways to present stories to their audience, one with moving pictures and sound, another uses still art and text
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I remain fan of both Burton and Nolan films.Obviously some decisons Nolan made with
DKR I don't agree with.The whole John Blake Character.Turning Talia Into a straight up
Villian with no conflicts.Taking whip away from Catwomen.Toning down villainary from
Catwoman.Taking away a lot of dominatrix subtext to Catwoman and her relationship with
Batman.Bruce faking his death and running away from Gotham with Selina.Nolan took a lot
from comics.Burton also took elements from comics for his films.
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i see there seems to be 2 camps here. the blatant nolan-is-god people (they still exist?), and the more sane people who recognize nolan took just as many liberties as the other directors.
for my money, burton got the look of batman perfect and the villians actually looked more like there comic counterparts. but nolan changed them way too much. twoface is more like half a face, joker's an ICP clown, scarecrow just a guy in a buisness suit *most of the time*, bane lookin like a mortal combat ripoff, catwoman more like the 60's show without the whip. i just dont like nolans version of these classic villians. they seem rather dumbed down in order to ground his movies. i like the more comic book approach. for instance, it would have been cooler in TDKR if when they showed crane at the court, he was wearing his scarecrow mask. but alot of the scenes are just people talking alot. just seems lazy to me, especially what is supposed to be a comic book movie (despite what the nerds try to make it into something "more").
also, they have incorporated burtons style of penguin into many comics and animated shows like BTAS and the "the batman", and the long halloween comic. but they ussually tend to do this for whatever is popular at the time in the movies.
the point of my thread was simply to state that christopher nolan took just as many liberties with the comic books as tim burton and joel schumacher did. so why the hell people gets so worked up over nolans films as being these great adapatations is beyond me. as decent crime movies? yeah, perhaps. as great comic book adaptations? no. at least not to me. personally i dont think any director ever could get it 100% right as the comics are not the Bible and they are constantly changing characters, origins etc. but like i said, for my money, tim burton got it the closest.
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Carl Grissom
Jack Napier
Who are those people?
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Book Review-Six Thinking Hats, Edward D Bono.
I recently read this book and quite liked it.
Here is the book review
I was amazed by the simplicity of Edward's theory and the difference it could bring to our day to day life, though leveraging from the theory would require a lot of practice on our behalf. I was very happy reading about such a singular and channelized framework for thinking, though I was just getting the information about the same but somehow it felt right. My next task was to find out how I can practice it in my daily life what sort of exercises can be built in and around the concept. Here is what I came out with:
Every color has its own mantra or one word definition, every time you try to come out with an appropriate approach to start thinking about it! STOP
1. Go blank for some time and just imagine the color bands we use to see in good old days on Doordarshan when it used to go blank.
2. THINK of this jumbled word 'Framework Facts Emotion Problems Opportunities Action Items' (FFEPOA), I tried coming out with a word for this but could only come out with this "Filthy Freaks Espouse Problems for Others All the time", ok I know it sucks but I just came out with it. You can come out with your version of definition.
Here each letter gives the mantra of each hat described in the book:
Framework- Blue Hat
Facts- White Hat
Emotion- Red Hat
Problems- Black Hat
Opportunities- Yellow Hat
Action Item- Green Hat
Once you are done with this exercise start thinking again, and you will notice how naturally you tend to start filtering your thoughts under various hats. Now consciously try to segregate them. The motive is to streamline the process and make it simpler and not always postpone it for better times or be miserable/impulsive/indecisive with whatever you decide to pursue. You don't need to be an expert in any of the hats but you should know about all of them while you are consciously investing your time to think about a situation.
It's a good/effective practice to indulge in sometimes. J


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A new look is on the way for London Canals. The old look is quite tired, its the longest the site has ever gone without any changes.
After some further coding, modifications and tweaks, hopefully the new format will be up in the next week or so.
The old version is shown below for the sake of posterity!
Update 14th October 2015: London Canals' website has a different look – its ultimately a simpler version of the older style combined with a couple of elements from the newer style that was drafted. The background in the earlier version shown at the top of the page was too distracting in many ways.
Update 29th October 2015: Improved version greatly enhancing the 14/10/2015 release published. A better & more relevant background has been created. Other improvements to be expected in due course.


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"Subsea harvesting" is an interesting way to describe open cut strip mining of the sea floor, and all this European interest in seabed mining casts a rather different light on the SPC's EU funded seabed mining project – just who is that project set up to benefit…
David Foxwell | Offshore Support Journal | 17 March 2016
February saw a European consortium launch a new Horizon 2020 project known as Blue Nodules. The project addresses the challenge of creating a viable and sustainable value chain to retrieve polymetallic nodules from the seabed. It will develop and test new highly-automated and sustainable technologies for deep-sea mining with minimal environmental pressures.
The technical side of the project is dedicated to subsea harvesting equipment in addition to the in-situ seafloor and sea surface processing of polymetallic nodules. The operational aspect focuses on sea operations and logistics, including compliance with, and development of, rules and regulations, and the business case. The independent, environmental part of the initiative will focus on environmental pressures and on an environmental impact assessment. In all areas, Blue Nodules will build on the results of the European FP7 projects, MIDAS and Blue Mining and the EcoMining pilot action funded by the JPI Oceans initiative of the European science foundations.
Rodney Norman, director at IHC Mining, part of Royal IHC, which is co-ordinating the project, explained that Blue Nodules is significant because it allows the European consortium to expand technological development beyond the vertical transportation system of Blue Mining to the seafloor mining vehicle and other components of the system. On 9 and 10 February, IHC Mining, which is the coordinator of the project, hosted a Blue Nodules kick-off meeting at its premises in Kinderdijk.
"The partners are excited to launch the project and start working together to achieve its objectives," they said in a statement. "Stakeholder expectations will be taken into account by way of a stakeholder group and an advisory board. An independent ethics advisor will safeguard the ethics standards of the project."


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Oooh I've been finding some wonderful vintage jewelry lately, a fabulous vintage Selro Bracelet with tribal faces and faux ivory swords
a beautiful french hand painted porcelain paneled bracelet,
Three vintage doublestrand necklaces, the first two are plastic
and the third is glass
and this oh so cute Canadian souvenir brooch
and finally this tribal style chunky pendant made of horn and wood
You'll find them all (except the Selro which sold in the blink of an eye) in my shop at the flea market, stall 69.
and .....
Just Listed on my eBay
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This gorgeous Kramer of New York Brooch with pastel blown glass beads gently cradled in enamel painted leaves and this Subtle and Organic raw amber necklace, perfect for summer.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Pacquiao vs Cotto
Pacquiao vs Cotto Live Stream Online. We are 4 days away from the much awaited fight event of the year, the Pacquiao vs Cotto fight, also entittled as Fire Power, which will be held exactly on November 14, 2009 6:00 p.m. PT/9:00 p.m. ET. at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Pacquiao vs Cotto fight is believed to be one of the most exciting fight of Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, for in this match he will be able to win another title/belt (name of the belT) in addition to his being the no. 1 pound for pound champion. So lets just wait and watch on November 14, 2009, and find out who will reign supreme in the Pacquiao vs Cotto fight.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Phone pictures 25/05-29/05/10....4 days in May.
.........through the gardens on the way home for some lunch we saw these amazing colours...
Then we went out for a ride, me and ione in the seat on the back and we headed for a quick geocache down by the Cork Ferry.
Found the Cork Ferry Travel Bug waiting room and left the spider travel bug we had found the week before near Kidwelly.Geocaching over and we headed back round the bay all the way up to Mumbles.......ione fell asleep on the bike with the excitement of it all and the heat.
Ione on the bike sleeping from Jono on Vimeo.
Cardiff on the train
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Trying to shake the fear and get some strength back before i attempt a rocknroll on Wales smallest miniramp....my nemesis and the thing that put me out since last August, rocknrolls, not so much a trick but a way of turning...the next step up from a kickturn....anyway i don't bounce back as well as i did when i was a mere youth of 31, 10 years on and a few days before the birth of my second child i am being a bit wary. These days of documenting everything on blogs have led me to record my phoenixlike rise from the ashes of injury, breaks and strains will not stop me so this is the first of many seemingly repetitious clips.....hopefully, if no more appear then i am once again in plaster or leg up with ice packs...giddy up!!
Learning to skate again (Part 1) from Jono on Vimeo.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
My new camera..........
Flip HD camera is working out pretty good, here are a few clips from the first couple of weeks of playing with it......
Flip HD camera is working out pretty good, here are a few clips from the first couple of weeks of playing with it......
Spring in high definition?? from Jono on Vimeo.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Mum got hold of a video of the street party for the royal wedding in 1981....Desborough embraced the party spirit and this was our local one in the next street....someone had a video camera in 1981 too, it must have been massive but i don't remember seeing one....battery problems at the end of the clip...i'm in one of the races and so is Rich.
Desborough street party from Jono on Vimeo.
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Gay Repubs celebrated this week as the central fundraising arm of the GOP, the Republican National Committee, named the executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans to the Finance Committee. This is a huge step of inclusion for gays in the GOP, as until now the LCR has existed on the fringe of the conservative movement. Some say the move is signaling a shift away from social issues on the Republican Party's agenda, and a small but very vocal element of the right is very very unhappy about it.
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Defending champions Mumbai Indians, captained by Rohit Sharma, will square off against 2012 winners Kolkata Knight Riders, led by veteran opener Gautam Gambhir, in the event-opener at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium. (JPN/Agencies) Latest News from Sports News Desk
The UAE is hosting the high-profile T20 event's first leg from April 16 to 30 owing to a clash of dates with the Indian general elections and security concerns emanating from that.
The tournament will return to India on May 2 after being assured of security in states where voting would be over by that time.
The razzmatazz, which has made IPL a magnet for both the fans and the cricketers world over, is not expected to just vanish because of the unsavoury scandal but the organizers have promised to tone down the glamour bit.
To start with, there would not be any opening ceremony this year, replaced by a gala dinner for the teams where Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise, is one among the stars who is expected to perform.
But when the curtains go up on perhaps the most popular domestic cricket tournament in the world, focus will also be on the off-field matters in the backdrop of the ongoing Supreme Court monitored investigation into the betting scandal in which some big names of the league have been implicated.
For one, BCCI President N Srinivasan and Chennai Super Kings co-owner N Srinivasan has been forced to step aside and the event's COO Sundar Raman is also under the scanner.
Its reputation might have taken a beating but what is likely to remain unchanged is the fans' adulation for the IPL.
Even though UAE is foreign land, finding a fan-base for the tournament has not been much of an issue due to the huge expat population which has shown its support to the event by buying off tickets within a few days of them going on sale.
But questions have been raised about the choice of UAE as a venue to host the event given its history of being a hot-bed of match-fixers. The IPL organisers have tried to justify it by saying that the decision was based purely on logistical grounds.
The negative buzz at the start of the tournament notwithstanding, cricket will take centrestage when the matches start and focus would be on the multi-million dollar buys who would be aiming to justify their fat pay cheques.
In Wednesday's high-profile clash, which seems perfect to kick off the tournament, Mumbai, despite being the defending champions, are slight favourites even though the impressive balance that KKR seems to have attained after some smart buys in the players' auction.
KKR, which retained just two players from last season's team (Gambhir and spinner Sunil Narine), seems quite solidwith the inclusion of some value players such as Australian express bowler Pat Cummins and Indian pacer Umesh Yadav.
Fitness-permitting, both of them can make a huge difference to the side' fortunes even though the batting would continue to rely heavily on Gambhir, veteran Jacques Kallis and the off-colour Yousuf Pathan.
Mumbai more or less retained the squad that won the trophy last year but strengthened the team by bringing in Australian veteran Michael Hussey, who has previously only played for the Chennai Super Kings.
The Teams:
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (c), Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Michael Hussey, Zaheer Khan, Pragyan Ojha, Corey Anderson, Josh Hazlewood, CM Gautam, Aditya Tare, Apoorv Wankhade, Marchant de Lange, Krishmar Santokie, Ben Dunk, Pawan Suyal, Sushant Marathe, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Jalaj Saxena.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (c), Sunil Narine, Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar, Morne Morkel, Piyush Chawla, Manish Pandey, Veer Pratap Singh, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, SS Mandal, Pat Cummins, Debabrata Das, Suryakumar Yadav, Manvinder Bisla, Ryan ten Doeschate, Kuldeep Yadav.
Defending champions Mumbai Indians, captained by Rohit Sharma, will square off against 2012 winners Kolkata Knight Riders, led by veteran opener Gautam Gambhir, in the event-opener at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
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Obama Rewrites History, Clinches NominationGlad they put that second sentence in there. Might have missed that point. Wonder why the media have been so reticent about that?
History was made last night when the Democratic Party nominated Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as its candidate for president of the United States. He's the first African-American presidential nominee of a major party. [NPR]
So, what has Senator Obama rewritten, exactly?