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Ligor City Hotel
1488 Sri-Prach Rd., Tawang, Muang, 80000, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
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- Massage center
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My hair has secretly been growing long enough to do almost anything with now. I had almost forgot how easy it was to roll it up into something nice, although for me, the biggest problem is seldom the back of my hair but the front - the last months I feel the hair around my far has been very odd and not wanting to hang or fall nicely at all.
This hair do is a version of this rolled up-do with large pin curls, just rolled a little differently. It's a under ten minute do. (Or, it is if your hair is in the right mood and plays along so to say. Otherwise you might have to fetch a curling iron or so for easier rolling; curl each section together first and then roll and pin). No back combing or anything; you get some volume and height from the big rolls/curls you make.
The ear drops are vintage and the dress is Trashy Diva.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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This is the original cover of Fantastic Four #1 published in 1961
One obvious difference is the policeman in the back, missing in the reprint, but there are more. Can you spot all of them?
An interesting question is "what is the original cover?". It seems that the one printed in FF#1 has been modified just before printing. The unaltered cover was however put on film, and this was usually the version sent to foreign publishers.
Here is the b/w film of the original cover as was sent to a Spanish publisher (from Ferran Delgado nice blog)
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Source: iUniverse Blog
iUniverse blog came across the above headline to a recent article the other day. This intrigued us as it inferred that a major barrier to the acceptance of self-publishing had finally been overcome. The reality has not always been so; self-publishing is accepted by authors, the major book-sellers, both in-store and on-line, book readers themselves and the buying public across the globe. However it is now pleasing to note the book critics and reviewers, with their links to the traditional publishers, are now coming on board.
The revolution in the book publishing world has happened.
See the numbers
Bowker, the global leader in bibliographic information, in releasing its annual report on U. S. print book publishing for 2011, compiled from its Books In Print® database on June 5 2012 stated the following:
"Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that traditional print book output grew six percent in 2011, from 328,259 titles in 2010 to a projected 347,178 in 2011, driven almost exclusively by a strong self-publishing market. This is the most significant expansion in more than four years for America's traditional publishing sector, but removing self-publishing from the equation would show that the market is relatively flat from 2010."
"Transformation of our industry has brought on a time of rich innovation in the publishing models we now have today. What was once relegated to the outskirts of our industry—and even took on demeaning names like 'vanity press' is now not only a viable alternative but what is driving the title growth of our industry today."
said Kelly Gallagher, Vice-President, Bowker Market Research and she went on to say:
Indeed a more recent study by Bowker says the number of self-published books produced annually in the U.S. has nearly tripled, growing 287 percent since 2006, and now tallies more than 235,000 print and "e" titles.
iUniverse positive moves
Added to this are the recent moves within the publishing world such as Penguin buying Author Solutions (the parent of iUniverse) and virtually all the major National and International Book awards organizations accepting self-published books. (See recent blog post: iUniverse brings you the lowdown on book awards.)
iUniverse welcomes these positive steps in the world of publishing and looks forward to the day when similar headlines are redundant because there will no longer be any kind of distinction made about the publisher of any book.
Please note the book being reviewed was 'The Revolution Was Televised,' by Alan Sepinwall; And you can read the very positive review by Michiko Kakutani at www.nytimes.com


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If you want to have fun, the Wii is a great choice, but it does not look great on an HDTV. With the Xbox 360, since it has a Media Center extender, you will be able to view your content on a Media Center PC on the Xbox. For web browsing, there is a Media Center 3rd party browser.
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Big Cats & The Big 5
Big Cats & The Big 5
Let Asilia show you the Big 5 and magnificent apex predators of the ecosystem for memories that will last a lifetime.
Romantic Experience
- Camps in Big 5 hotspots
- Unrivalled predator sightings
- Extraordinary conservation initiatives
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Mysterious, exciting and remote, Africa is the perfect choice for a romantic holiday of a lifetime.View moreActive Safari
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Experience a different kind of safari.View moreWalking Safaris
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Experience the African bush on foot.View moreNight Drives
Night Drives
Spot unique nocturnal animals.View moreBirding Safaris
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Witness East Africa's incredible birdlife.View moreGame Drives
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Spot game from specialised vehicles.View morePhotography
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Featured itineraries at Jabali Ridge:
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Ruaha: Sense-ability in Nature
There is nothing better than the feeling of cool mud between your toes after a long dry spell!
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If there's one thing that makes a safari unsurpassed, it is the ability to capture amazing scenes and portraits of the rich wildlife.
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Set high on a rocky kopje overlooking a landscape dotted with spiky palms and bulbous baobabs, Jabali Ridge is a sophisticated base from which to explore Ruaha National Park. The remarkable beauty of Ruaha is not only in the landscape and its diversity of flora and fauna, or the impressive big game, but in the feeling of having the wilderness all to yourself. With only a handful of visitors at any one time in an area the size of New Jersey, this is an exceptional safari experience.
Jabali Ridge's 8 suites are hidden amongst the rocky boulders that cocoon the property. An infinity pool, spa and plenty of places to laze ensure that time off is as memorable as time out in the bush. Expert guides lead walking safaris, game drives and night drives.


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Kate, of the Midnight Book Girl Blog!
Congrats, Kate! Send me your address, and I'll drop MARA in the mail for you!
Speaking of contests, you might remember that I promised to give every single person who entered the Creative Contest a prize. Well, there's been some trouble getting charms shipped (so much trouble that I actually ordered some back up charms, which means everyone gets two!), but I finally got them in, and I put them together to make a special thank you for each and every person who entered...
Yay! They're currently in the mail, so you should get them either by this weekend or early next week. Please let me know if you don't get yours by the end of next week.
Annnnnnnnnnnd speaking of contests........
PENGUIN JUST SENDED ME A PRESENT. And you know what that means! When Penguin sends ME a present, I send YOU presents! Wanna know what it is? Well, HA! You have to wait!
Want to know how you can win the mysterious mystery prize? Welllllllll....you could try to guess the password of the secret page. Don't know where the secret page is? Hint: look closely at the telescope up above. If you crack the code, you get to enter for the prize.
But just in case you can't figure out my code (it's pretty tricky, I'll be honest), don't worry: on Monday I'll announce what the prize is, and on Tuesday I'll tell you where you can find the password.


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Why can't we just be friends and live happily ever after?
Why comes in all the complications of society?
Why can't we just be young and enjoy spring forever?
Why live in the confusion and fight with the faceless rather than enjoying the peace in the restless?
Why do we have to part ways and never meet again?
Why can't they just stop fighting and play like kids again?
Why can't he forgive her for misunderstanding him ever?
Why can't she trust anyone anymore?
Why don't all get to experience happiness, while everyone gets a kick of the contrary?
Why can't birds swim and humans fly?
Why does gravity pull everything so close to it, that once dead, one can never rise?
Why can't we just catch a rainbow and light the dark room?
Why do we always need to be groomed?
Why are the snow leopards white and the walruses brown?
Why are men so different from women as is a cake from a bread?
Has anyone any answer to my queries of life and its accessories?


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US credit rating threatened
We'll ask what a downgrade for the US credit rating could actually mean as both Moody's and the S&P throw around more threats. Then find out the latest details of a hunger strike going on in California's prisons. Also the latest on the bloated defense budget and military waste, details on a project gone wrong that could cost you $600 billion. And then don't miss our happy hour.


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Back at Thanksgiving, I made a Pumpkin Marble Cheesecake (you can find that recipe here). Recently, we had friends over and I decided that a cheesecake would make a great dessert. The Pumpkin Marble Cheesecake recipe that I had used produced a very nice cheesecake, so I wanted to use that recipe, but didn't feel like pumpkin said spring. I felt that I needed to use something for a swirl, but it had to be 'wet'. I decided that for this first attempt, I would try a ready made pie filling, so I picked up a can of cherry pie filling.
I simply swapped the same amount of cherry filling as there had been pumpkin and skipped the pumpkin pie spices. I relied on my mixer to beat apart the chunks of cherry, but allowed some chunks in the swirl. It was met with rave reviews. I was very pleased with the result. It gives me inspiration to try more...I'm not sure what I will try next, but some ideas that I have include caramel (ice cream topping), lemon (lemon pie filling) and chocolate (hot fudge or chocolate syrup).
Cherry Swirl Cheesecake
Servings 10
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup butter melted
2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese
3/4 cup sugar divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 eggs
1 cup cherry pie filling
Preheat oven to 350.
Spray 9" spring-form pan with cooking spray. Combine the crushed graham crackers and melted butter. Press into the bottom and up sides of the pan. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Allow to cool.
Combine cream cheese, 1/2 cup of sugar, and vanilla. Cream until smooth and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Reserve 1 cup of the batter, refrigerate covered. To the remaining batter, add the remaining sugar and the cherry pie filling. Mix until blended.
Remove the plain batter from the refrigerator and spoon about half onto the crust in dollops. Cover with the pumpkin batter and then dollop the remaining plain batter on top. Using a butter knife, gently swirl the batters together.
Bake for 50-60 minutes. Allow to cool on wire rack in pan. Refrigerate for a couple of hours before serving.


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I sold at my very first market on Saturday and I have to say I did ok. For a market that's mostly full of second-hand and preloved wares, my handmade goodies did well.
I have committed myself to selling at three different markets before I decide whether markets are for me or not.
Two days before my first market I was stressing as I thought I wouldn't have enough stock and that my stall would look a little bare, however it looked great on the day.
Two days before, I also received a call from Mathilda's Market saying that I'd been selected for their 'Fabulous Finds' program and that if I were interested they had a spot for me next Sunday at Hawthorn Town Hall.
How could I say no?
How would I make enough stock in time?
Would I have enough time to get everything prepared?
Is my stuff really good enough for Mathilda's?What have I gotten myself into?
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Well not quite......downtown LA to be exact!!! Yes, you got it I am in LOS ANGELES!!
Wendy (from The Stamp Attic) and I decided to escape to CHA (trade show if you didn't know) here in LA. We arrived yesterday after a very long flight.......
Watch this space for all the fun and interesting stuff from the show which starts tomorrow.
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Ukrainian human rights watchdogs Center for Civil Liberties and EvromaydanSOS sent an open letter to Secretary General of the Council of Europe drawing his attention to human rights abuses in occupied Crimea. This was done in response to the report of the special mission headed Ambassador Gérard Stoudmann.
"We have to state that a number of serious issues were omitted in the report of the special mission led by Ambassador Gerard Stoudmann as far as implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights is concerned. The report concludes that 'repression is mainly directed against certain opponents', a claim which runs contrary to the reports of international and Ukrainian human rights organizations," the letter says.
The letter cites specific examples of human rights abuses in law enforcement, judiciary and penitentiary systems, abuses of Crimean Tatars' rights, violations of freedom of religion, expression, assembly and education, providing a number of recommendations for each item.
"The overall situation with human rights and fundamental freedoms in occupied Crimea is rapidly deteriorating, which is why everybody is pinning high expectations on the Council of Europe. We once again reaffirm our commitment to giving full support to the Council of Europe with monitoring the situation with human rights and fundamental freedoms in occupied Crimea, including providing essential documents and contact details. We believe it is very important to ensure that the European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights is used in the monitoring of Crimea as part of Ukraine's territory," the report says.
It was reported earlier that the main objective of the Council of Europe's human rights mission to Crimea that visited the peninsula on January 25, 2016 was to report human rights abuses, including violations of minorities' rights, freedom of media and prisoners' rights.


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Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Morning Show
At my visit school we record a brief English radio program with a highlighted phrase or word per day. It consists of a short English conversation between another native English speaker and me, and then two students using the key word or phrase in "their own" sentence. The most amusing thing about this is that the students don't volunteer, have time to practice/prepare, or get to choose what they will say. No this is no Wayzata New's Break where I imagine getting air time was competitive (though I don't actually know, because I would have had give up a gym class in order to try a class like that, No thankyou!). Anyway, the students are chosen at random by the teacher in charge of the program. He just walks around the hall grabbing whatever students happen to cross his path. It was hilarious watching a group of girls launch themselves into a classroom when they heard him around the corner. And they didn't stop there, they proceeded to shove into the only area in the room (right behind the door) that is not visible from the hall. Surprisingly enough since I have never enjoyed hearing my voice as it actually sounds rather than as it is in my head, I really enjoy doing these recordings and letting my newly discovered cheesy DJ alter ego out.
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Would love to hear this show!ReplyDelete
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Just got your blog address from your dad - congratulations on your decision to go to teach English in Japan! I loved reading your reports and am amazed at your fortitude on Mount Fuji! Good luck and keep writing - what a fun way to share your experience. I hope to see more photos as well.
Take care,
Hugs from
Michèle (Kunz - UUCM connection!) :-)
thanks much, and there will indeed be far more pictures once I have my own internet set upReplyDelete
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Senator Specter unveiled his 5-point plan today at the US Steel Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, PA. He says the nation continues to see manufacturing plants plants and jobs head overseas. He says the steel industry is especially under threat.
Specter says for many years American Steel Workers have had to compete in a world that preaches free trade but often practices illegal trade. He said the chief threat is from China whose predatory trading practices and currency manipulation are flooding the market with low-priced imports in violation of international trade laws.
He says it is time for American workers to have a bill of rights like the first ten amendments to the Constitution that would protect them from unfair competition and destructive trading practices.
His proposed bill of rights includes:
1- The Yuan Must Float: American Workers have a right to expect China and other states in the WTO to allow their currencies to fluctuate with the rest of the market.
2- American Workers have a right to expect the government to act aggressively to defend their jobs and livelihoods from illegal trade.
3-Congress should rescind the President's authority to overrule recommendations made by the ITC
4-American workers have a right to speedy remediation if claims arising from illegal trade.
5-American workers have a right to have the strongest possible "Buy American" requirements for funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Specter Proposes Worker's Bill of Rights
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|Perl Monk, Perl Meditation
Re: Is readdir ever deterministic?by merlyn (Sage)
|on Sep 17, 2001 at 18:52 UTC ( #112869=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
readdir on Unix returns the underlying raw directory order. Additions and deletions to the directory use and free-up slots. The first two entries to any directory are always created as "dot" and "dotdot", and these entries are never deleted under normal operation.
However, if a directory entry for either of these gets incorrectly deleted (through corruption, or using the perl -U option and letting the superuser unlink it, for example), the next fsck run has to recreate the entry, and it will simply add it. Oops, dot and dotdot are no longer the first two entries!
So, defensive programming mandates that you do not count on the slot order. And there's no promise that dot and dotdot are the first two entries, because Perl can't control that, and the underlying OS doesn't promise it either.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom


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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Pete Caluori
A good friend, Pete Caluori just put up his website after working and mulling over it for ages. Pete works almost completely in film and uses amazing cameras that capture on film with sizes over 8x10 and even panoramic images. He also prints using resurrected alternative processes with Palladium salts or the Van Dyke process. His photographs are quite amazing and their radiance is something that cannot be readily expressed in the limited palette of the web. Check his website out over here.
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Term or Perm Insurance, Whats The Difference?
There are many types of life insurance including; Whole Life, Universal Life, Indexed Universal Life, Variable Life and Term Life:
Whole life:
You generally make level (equal) premium payments for life. The death benefit and cash value are predetermined and guaranteed (subject to claims paying ability of the issuing company). Your only action after purchase of the policy is to pay the fixed premium.
Universal life:
You may pay premiums at any time, in any amount (subject to certain limits), as long as the policy expenses and the cost of insurance coverage are met. The amount of insurance coverage can be changed, and the cash value will grow at a declared interest rate, which may vary over time.
Indexed Universal life:
You may pay premiums at any time, in any amount (subject to certain limits), as long as the policy expenses and the cost of insurance coverage are met. The amount of insurance coverage can be changed, and the cash value will grow at an interest rate declared annually and based on the performance of a stock index, which may vary over time. What is Indexed Universal Life: Indexed universal life insurance is a lot like universal life insurance. An indexed universal life insurance policy gives the policy holder the opportunity to allocate cash value amounts to either a fixed account or fixed index account. Indexed universal insurance policies typically guarantee the principal amount in the indexed portion, but cap the maximum return that a policy holder can receive. Since these policies are seen as a "hybrid" universal life insurance policy, they are usually not very expensive (due to lack of management), and are safer than an average variable universal life insurance policy. However, the upside potential is also limited when compared to variable policies.
Variable life:
As with whole life, you pay a level premium for life. However, neither the death benefit nor cash value are predetermined or guaranteed; they fluctuate depending on the performance of investments in what are known as subaccounts. A subaccount is a pool of investor funds professionally managed to pursue a stated investment objective. You select the subaccounts in which the cash value should be invested.
Term Insurance:
Term insurance will last a specified amount of time based on it's term. If you were to purchase a 20 year term policy it would last for 20 years. If the policy owner was to pass away within the 20 year term the death benefit would be paid to the beneficiary. If the policy owner was to decease after the 20 year term there would be no death benefit. The premium payments are at a very low cost and there is no cash value. You are purely purchasing for the death benefit only. There is also (ROP) Return of Premium Term Life Insurance which comes at a much higher cost.
How do I determine the amount of coverage I need?
There are many factors that need to be considered before purchasing Life Insurance. It's affected by how many people depend on you, what your current budget is, and how much you can afford. It's best to consult with a qualified licensed professional agent before making these types of decisions. Example: I ran into an old friend that is now 40+ years old that had purchased a 20 year term policy back when he was in his mid-20's, before he had any children. I asked him, why did you buy only a 20 year term policy? His answer was "that is what my agent told me I needed". He now has 3 children all under 10 and he needs to go through underwriting again in order to purchase the necessary insurance. The new policy will most likely be much more expensive because he is much older and could possibly have health issues. That is just one minor example of how important it is to purchase the correct policy and the correct amount from the start.
Why should I purchase permanent insurance?
Permanent coverage is a way for you to regularly save money and a way for you to leverage wealth. Your policy builds up value as you grow older. In many cases, it's more flexible than term life and is designed to change according to your changing needs. It will also help you take care of the people who depend on you financially. A permanent policy may bring more value to a person that has good cash flow. A permanent policy is significantly more expensive than a term policy.
When should I purchase a term policy?
Term life lasts a certain period of time and then must be renewed or replaced in order to continue. This makes it a good choice if you are unable to afford a permanent policy and only foresee a need for a certain time. Term life is an excellent choice for young families who have a greater need for insurance when their children are young.
Why do people own life insurance?
People own life insurance to provide death protection, or to increase their savings. The cash surrender value accumulation can be used as a disciplined savings plan. The money accumulated could also be used to provide for education, retirement, emergencies or any opportunities that may arise.
What are some advantages of permanent insurance?
- You gain long-term cash accumulation.
- The values for your premium and death benefit can be guaranteed.
- You have an increasing death benefit.
- You can receive funding during disability.
- You get life-long insurance protection.
- The values may be sheltered from creditors.
- The proceeds at death are generally tax free.
- You have more flexibility and higher funding limits than some qualified plans.
- There are no early withdrawal penalties or forced distributions.
What are the benefits of whole life vs. universal life insurance?
The benefits of whole life are:
- The policy never has to be renewed as long as premiums are paid.
- The premiums remain the same through the payment period.
- The accumulating cash values act as a savings element.
- Some policies include the possibility of receiving dividends.
- Non-forfeiture options allow the policy holder to retain some benefits even if unable to pay the premium.
- There are guarantees which last for the life of the contract if premiums are paid.
The benefits of universal life are:
- The amount and frequency of premium payments is flexible although there are certain requirements.
- There is also flexibility in the amount of the death benefit, but it is subject to rules requiring the policy to maintain its status as insurance.
- You have the ability to take partial withdrawals from the cash value of the account.
- In most contracts there are guarantees which, if premiums are paid, will last for the length of the contract.
What are beneficiaries and contingent beneficiaries?
A beneficiary is the person or entity you name to receive your death benefit. Beneficiaries are often spouses, children and other family members, but you can name a friend or even a charity. Usually you name a secondary or contingent beneficiary to be next in line to receive your benefit if your first beneficiary dies before you.
If you feel life insurance may fit situation; consulting with a trusted independent Safe Money Advisor may make product selection and the accomplishment of your goals a much easier process.


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Fancy Jewels Draw a Beautiful Crowd to River Oaks District
This de Boulle Party Shimmered and ShinedBY Hannah Swiggard // 05.04.16
Ceron and Todd Fiscus personify casual chic at the David Webb trunk show at de Boulle in River Oaks District.
What: David Webb Trunk Show
Where: de Boulle in River Oaks District
Who: de Boulle owners and hosts Denis and Karen Boulle and son Nick Boulle; David Webb co-owner Mark Emanuel in from Manhattan; and guests Ceron and Todd Fiscus, John and Becca Cason Thrash, Tracy Glesby, Maren and Michael Watson, Emily Smith, Rachel Edwards, Jeanne Ruberti, Helen Perry and Trish Millard.
PC Moment: A stylishly dressed crowd flocked to de Boulle's David Webb trunk show at the upscale jewelry boutique nestled in River Oaks District. The luxe cases presented a grand collection of Webb's signature baubles, showcasing iconic designs alongside images showing the people, places and decades where the extraordinary bijoux were originally worn. Gem seekers admired and acquired the striking David Webb creations while enjoying bites by A Fare Extraordinaire and Deep Eddy Vodka's Lemon Drop Martinis.


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Saturday, September 3, 2016
Small Things With Huge Impacts
She sent me a slow cooker. It was a simple, but heartfelt gesture of incredible kindness. And it was exactly what I needed.
Tomorrow the work crew is coming to put up some dry wall boards in the garage. It is a single garage attached to the carport. In Baton Rouge we call that a Boat Port for some reason.
When we get this finished, hopefully by noon or so, we will move the few remaining pieces of furniture out of the Big House into the boat port so they can start on the dry wall in there. And we will create a small living space that will serve as kitchen/storage/slow cooker space.
The flexibility this space will give us will be enormous. It will literally triple or maybe even quadruple our living space. He says I can cover his workbench with a table cloth! LOL. That ought to be picture worthy.
He had tools like I had quilting supplies. We used to do a lot of woodwork and we had saws, routers and drills and sanders galore. All of which had motors below the water line. So to see that space cleared out and empty hurts a lot.
But.......I think it will serve us well. With a table cloth and a slow cooker we can begin to make meals that will fill us with more than just food.
Thank you Christa, you have no idea what your small gesture of love means to me right now.
Darn it, I am crying again!
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Hurray for your new "kitchen" and the kindness of friends made in blogland!ReplyDelete
You are receiving mail? Hurray for that small bit of normal! Heck, a table cloth is civility itself amidst the chaos. I'm guessing the tears are always close at hand and will be for a long while. Be gentle with yourself, being flooding out is a major life stress event....respond as needed. It must be a comfort to have folks who have experienced a flood to calibrate your feelings with. I'm guessing you are holding up with the best of them....just hard to see it, right?ReplyDelete
Hooray for happy tears and for the very thoughtful Christa.hoorayReplyDelete
So thoughtful of her! A reminder that there really are a lot of good people on this world. Glad to see things progressing even if it's slow. You will make the space work.ReplyDelete
Love the possibilities embedded in this post !ReplyDelete
Yay! Christa is such a thoughtful friend. Crying happy tears is good for the soul. Wait, tears of any kind are good for the soul, I think. It's what I tell myself when they're flowing, and for me, that's very often.ReplyDelete
Here's an easy steak recipe to get you started:
Season a steak (round, shoulder, t-bone, it doesn't matter) drop it into the slow cooker and pour in a can of golden onion soup and a can of French onion soup. Turn the cooker on low. Wait 6 hours, more if you're not home, and enjoy. (Side note, I put less salt on the steak and use Healthy Request soups because we've cut back quite a bit on sodium, and Richard loves the "gravy" over mashed potatoes.)Replies
I am embarrassed. But it looks like I got a great recipe out of it 😉 Thanks!Delete


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Yesterday, Jim's sister, Joan, Sarah, Lily, Emma, William and I went to Safari Niagara for the day.
It was hot in the sun. I was glad for the areas that went through the woods.
Lily's favourite animal is the giraffe, so she was thrilled to be able to feed one. She had the pellets in her hand and the giraffe wrapped it's tongue right around her hand to get the food.
We stopped for some lunch. I did as well as I could. I had pulled pork, didn't eat the bun, and had a side salad and water. There wasn't too much BBQ sauce on it.
William really wanted to go on the rope course, and Sarah eagerly took him. I think she was just as excited about it as he was! It was REALLY high!
There was even a ropes course for the little ones! They loved it!
On the way home, we stopped at Nigh's Chocolates. OMG...it smelled SO GOOD in there! I probably should have waited in the car, because I caved. I got a chocolate bar with peanuts and pretzels, AND a single peanut butter-filled chocolate. It was delicious, but I felt like crap the rest of the way home. The rest of the day was not good. I got munching on pretzels, then, Sarah and I went shopping after dinner, and ended up at Perkins, where we shared a piece of Peanut Butter Silk pie. This is something that we used to do occasionally when she lived here. Then, just before bed, to finish it up really good, I ate a piece of chocolate covered red licorice and a bowl of cereal for good measure. No wonder my sugar was 13.7 this morning!
But, I am back on track today, for the most part. It wasn't perfect. I did have the other piece of licorice that Jim didn't want. It could have been worse.
Jim got a book from the library about paleo eating by Robb Wolf: The Paleo Solution. I have also found a good website that looks like it will be very helpful in continuing on the Paleo way of life. Paleo Diet Lifestyle has lots of info and recipes.
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School of Education Students Wrap Over 200 Presents for Underprivileged Children
Posted by Jamie.Lettre on Wednesday December 16, 2009
On Friday, December 11th, School of Education students gathered in the Education Lab to help wrap over 200 presents for the ministry ARK (All Rockland Kids for Christ). The presents will go to underprivileged children in Rockland County. We were reminded what Paul taught us in Acts 20:35, "In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
What a blessing to be service minded during this time of year!
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My family moved when I was nine years old, and with that move, my parents also found a church to attend. We went briefly, at the beginning of fourth grade. The people were nice, but there were not many kids our age. I didn't like getting up early, and I didn't like wearing dresses. The only thing I liked were the doughnuts that were served afterward - and even those did not compare to the ones Dad sometimes brought home as a special treat. My sister, 6-year-old brother, and I sang in the choir. I loved music, but did not know how to read it. I was more concerned about missing Doogie Howser, M.D. (which aired the same night as choir rehearsed.)
Five years later, my sister and I returned to Lakeview United Methodist Church. My sister shared in a private journal entry that it had been so long since we had attended, we did not remember the name of the church, but that, upon walking in again, "it felt homey."
While I didn't keep such a detailed recollection of my teenage years, I do remember coming to confirmation class. The church had had a shift in leadership since we had last been there and now, was headed by a lovely woman I'll call Pastor Sarah.
Confirmation class was like nothing I had ever experienced before. I had no sense of how to find scripture in the Bible, so Pastor Sarah showed everyone. No judgment. We were asked to memorize all the books of the Bible, in order. (Thanks to Wee Sing Bible Songs, Tara and I had that down the same night it was assigned.) We studied the female attributes of God. We made masks covered in symbols that we felt represented us. We even went to a service at a synagogue one evening.
We did a lot of serving others, from teaching Sunday school to the younger kids, to working in soup kitchens. Pastor Sarah even asked Tara and me to sing for one of the Sunday services, perhaps having heard us sing many a confirmation night. We performed God Without and Within. I did not spontaneously combust. I was never left out of anything during the more service-oriented tasks. I was always expected to help, even though I was often tentative about taking initiative, unsure of how to make unfamiliar situations work for me. I was expected to take a turn reading scripture in front of the congregation certain Sundays, just as everyone else in class did.
Prior to a camping trip with our small confirmation class (only four others, in addition to Tara and me) Pastor Sarah informed me that she was required to bring on a seemingly random woman. "Why?" I asked.
"So you can come with us."
Whatever the policy was that indicated leadership must bring another person, specifically because I was there, made me bristle. I knew it was because of my CP and I didn't like it. A couple of dads were already coming, and Pastor Sarah. To my 15-year-old mind, that was more than enough adults.
But Pastor Sarah never wavered. I was going with them. Of course, I was. If that meant a random lady had to come along, then so be it.
On the trip, one of two boys along volunteered to piggyback me across long portages, while everyone else carried canoes, tents and packs. We had gone to second grade together, and his help was always matter-of-fact. He never made me feel like a burden. At the end of the week, when we were told to find something in nature for the person whose name we drew early on to do nice things for, I was shocked to find out that he did not have mine. I had been sure the whole trip that he had drawn my name, and that was why he was being so nice about helping me and not making a big deal out of it. But no. It was never like that.
All of us confirmation kids were expected to lead for a day. That meant me, too. Of course, me, too. The only difference was that Tara and I were each paired with one of the two able-bodied girls, to co-lead. This was Pastor Sarah's doing, I'm positive, and I appreciated her for thinking of even these details, so that our co-leaders might take on the more physical aspects of leading, while Tara and I took on the other equally daunting aspects of leading for a day.
|[Image is: Me at 15, sitting on a picnic bench, on the camping trip I took with my confirmation class.]
I remember, in the early days of confirmation class, all I felt was insecurity. Though no one spoke about me being different, I knew I was. By now, my childish dream of being able to someday walk without crutches was long gone, as I had begun using my wheelchair at school the previous year, to save my stamina.
Perhaps, it was this shift or my ever-present low self esteem, but I was convinced that everything I did was wrong. If anyone at church knew I wrote prayers to God in a journal sometimes, I felt sure I would be ridiculed, so I stayed very quiet, rarely speaking.
In one of these early meetings, Pastor Sarah mentioned something about God being a "perfect God." I mulled over this during the rest of the lesson and when class was dismissed for the night, I remained behind, voicing my confusion to Pastor Sarah:
"How can God be perfect?" I asked. "Nobody's perfect."
"God is perfect."
Somewhere deep inside me, I felt my real question burning to be asked:
How could a perfect God have made somebody like me?
Quiet and perceptive, Pastor Sarah spoke again. "You know," she said thoughtfully. "There are some people who don't feel at home in their bodies."
I looked at her.
"There are girls who feel in their hearts they were supposed to be born boys and vice versa. Boys who feel in their hearts that they are girls."
I thought I had Pastor Sarah caught.
"See?" I said. "Those kids aren't happy. How could a perfect God make those kids if they're not happy how they're born? How could a perfect God do that to them?"
Pastor Sarah looked at me thoughtfully and then spoke again. "I don't know," she admitted. "But I know God made them."
Months later, and completely by chance, I was flipping through the Bible the previous pastor had given to me when I was nine. Words that looked like poetry and were, therefore, a bit easier to read than the dense blocks of text caught my eye, from Psalms 139:
You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb...when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there--you saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book before any of them ever began…
With these words as a kind of confirmation of the ones Pastor Sarah spoke, I began, slowly, to accept myself.
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Source:Star Online, 4/12/2008
TEMERLOH: The home of popular entertainer, the late Sudirman Arshad, at Kampung Bukit Tok Embun, Mentakab, near here was destroyed in a fire at about 4am yesterday.
Mentakab Fire and Rescue station chief Asst Supt Md Yusof Mustafa said the fire is believed to have been started by a lit candle left by drug addicts who had been using the empty house as their haunt.
A forensics team from the Fire and Rescue Department was investigating the real cause of the fire as well as losses incurred.
ASP Md Yusof said the station was informed that an electric pole 15m from the house was on fire, but on arrival at the scene, saw the house was also gutted.
"When firemen got there, about 90% of the house had been gutted," he told reporters here yesterday.
Meanwhile, a neighbour, Ramlah Daud, 43, said she realised the house was on fire when she woke up to check on an explosion she heard at about 4am.
"I saw sparks from the fire hitting an electric pole nearby and contacted the Fire and Rescue station for fear that the fire would also spread to my house and a few other houses nearby," she said.
Sudirman's brother-in-law, Ahmad Nizam Hamid, said he had found some drug-taking paraphernalia like tin foil and needles there.
"I had lodged police reports when the grilles and the roofing of the house went missing," he added.
He said Sudirman was born at a house at Jalan Ibrahim in Temerloh, but later moved to the house at Kampung Bukit Tok Embun, where he grew up and completed his secondary school before studying law at Universiti Malaya. — Bernama


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Official: 73 Bangladesh civilians killed by Indian border guards this year
DHAKA, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Touhid Hossain Sunday said it is unacceptable that 73 Bangladesh civilians has been killed this year by Indian border guards and he has raised this with the Indian side.
"I told my counterpart (External Affairs Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon) that India is our friendly neighbor. Such huge number of the civilians' killing is unacceptable," he told reporters here on his return from the Foreign Secretary level talks held in New Delhi on July 17.
Touhid said the Indian side recognized Dhaka's concerns and they agreed to work out a mechanism at the Home Secretary level meeting to be held here in August to stop the civilians killing along the border.
Touhid said during the talk, the two sides agreed on border rivers bank protection and a joint technical committee will meet soon to prepare a common design of the bank protection embankment.
Besides, the issues concerning the trade imbalance, sharing of waters of the common rivers, exchange of enclaves, demarcation of the maritime boundary and sharing information on terrorism and bird flu were also discussed.
In terms of the killing of two Bangladesh Rifles personnel by the Indian Border Security Force in northern border last Thursday night, Touhid said it's unwarranted and the Foreign Ministry lodged a strong protest against the incident with the Indian government.


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Here is a quick update of life in the southern reaches of South East Asia.
General work and life is still good but it seems to have settled into a routine of sorts. I guess it is a little hard to escape that when you have to go to work like the rest of world from Monday to Friday and I shouldn't be too ungrateful because at least I don't have to do a 6 day week like all of the staff at my hotel and let's face it, I am a complete whore to the money and I love my weekly pay day!
I have still been doing enough though to keep life interesting.
3 weeks ago I took a hop, skip and a 55 minute flight over to Singapore for work reasons for a total 4 days and 3 nights. Having previously visited as a backpacker I wasn't overly impressed with the city primarily due to the fact that there are too many rules and it comes across as a little sterile, lacking in any sort of adventurous spirit.After this re-visit I still am not taken by the city but being there at the expense of your company allows you to gain a little more appreciation for the finer things that Singapore has to offer.
Of the 3 nights that I was in town I was required to join my fellow colleagues for an all-expenses paid dinner twice – not bad. The first meal was excellent and some of the dishes were superb, even if we did have to talk shop but the second meal will be forever tainted and I am still upset about it now.
We were taken to some high end Chinese restaurant and having been to China I know that they will eat practically anything.
All was going well until we were presented with a soup dish and I took a mouth full of what I thought was sliced onion – due to the patterning.
Having chewed on it and not getting the expected crunch I enquired as to what it was; shock, horror and complete dismay – Shark Fin Soup.
I had just eaten the thing on the very top of my 'never to eat' list.
I actually surprised myself by dropping my chopsticks and launching into a foul-mouthed tirade that didn't go down too well with my more respectful and well-mannered Asian colleagues; I just lost it.
Fortunately I wasn't alone as two others also spoke out, although a little more calmly than me.
For those of you who don't know, Shark Fin Soup, like many other 'delicacies' all too frequently consumed primarily in but not just confined to Asia is a f*cking abomination.A shark fin has been scientifically proven to contain no nutritional or medicinal qualities so basically it is completely worthless; as is tiger bone or rhinoceros horn for that matter.
Where it isn't worthless is on the back or on the sides of a shark!
Per year it is estimated that over 100 million; yes, 100 million sharks are fished out of the oceans to have their fins hacked off whilst they are still alive before being dumped back into the ocean to either bleed out if they don't drown first.
And here we were, a bunch of suits numbering approx. 40, sitting around a table eating and in many cases wasting who knows how many shark fins and to make it worse some thought it was all a bit amusing and others lapped it up completely ignorant to the facts of how it is sourced.
I still can't explain how angry I was and still am that not only was I subjected to it without warning but I am working with what I would deem to be very intelligent people who when it comes to the really 'important' things in life, not profit and bottom lines, are as stupid and dumb as you can get.
From that moment on I mentally distanced myself from the table, I didn't speak that much and the next day I tried to avoid everybody and felt much better in myself for it.I do not see myself as a very moral and ethical person when it comes to a lot of things in life and I like to take it easy, but this bothered me and it still bothers me now.
Luckily the third and final evening was my own and I got out of the office as soon as I could and headed out into the night.As I was staying by the canal I decided to follow it towards the posh end by the harbour and was rewarded by finding a part of the city I had not come across before. Along the river for about 2 kms from the hotel to the harbour, against the backdrop of the skyscrapers were dozens are bars, restaurants, cafes, shops and the most decadent of hotels all brightly lit up to entice you in. There were street performers, live musicians, moored boats acting as floating restaurants and the continual buzz of the boat taxis drifting by, all in a balmy evening atmosphere that felt as though it was still 35 degrees.
As the canal reached its end it opened out onto a familiar scene – Singapore harbour flanked by the Singapore Flyer (think London Eye), as I call it the DNA Bridge and Flower and the Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Casino (which 3.5 years ago I entered with 2 other backpackers to break the rules and swim in the infinity pool and jacuzzi's on the roof).It is always an impressive sight but what I didn't know was that like Hong Kong they have a nightly laser and light show and I had turned up at exactly the right time to see it all.
It was a good way to spend my final night in the city and helped to partly banish the previous evening's ordeal.
Back in KL I have kept myself busy by playing football with some lads from work, going out for dinner with another work mate and his family and then also going out for a few beers with completely different work mates.On one particular night I had to go and buy some trainers as the fake ones that Beck bought for me in Egypt literally fell apart on my feet as I was walking, and it was raining, and once this was done I had to go and meet my mate in a brothel!!
Now in England it doesn't happen this way, but in KL apparently you go and have a good time after work before you go out for a drink and some food.
It was all a little bizarre.
Anyway, he showed me where to meet him, so I turned up and sat in the waiting room / bar / restaurant and watched the comings (no pun intended) and goings of the business.I reckon I am the only guy in the history of brothels to go, behave myself whilst I wait for a friend and get some fried rice with a fried egg on top for free!! Apparently all customers get fed for nothing so I either my mate had paid for extras or I just qualified by association.
Feeling like I needed to part with a least a couple of quid I bought a can of Guinness and sat back with the staff to watch The Expendables as various men skulked in and out of the establishment.
Once he was finished my mate kept the classy evening going by taking us to eat again at a street restaurant where I kid you not, we ate outside whilst the rats ran amok on the inside.
However, as he put it, it is better that you can see the rats ie. if you can't then what is the meat that you are eating???
I have also made friends with a homeless man called Simon.I had seen him about so decided to have a chat and he is fascinating. He used to be part of the Malaysian mafia and as a result of this was very wealthy, connected and managed to find himself a hot German wife. For 8 years they lived together in Berlin and he added German to 1 of the 8 languages that he can speak.
In the end she couldn't give him children so his dad made him leave her in the hope of continuing the family line back in Malaysia.
Being a gangster he was a marked man and one night some of his enemies attempted to kill him by running him over.
He was left with serious injuries (which he showed me) and one of these was to his leg where to save it they had to essentially tie a knot at the top of it.
As a result he slowly became destitute and now he sleeps outside of a shop as a sort of neighbourhood security guard in return for food and I get to see him most days in his usual begging spot where he asks for money for medication.
Basically, the onset of diabetes and the previous injuries have left his leg pretty much dying in front of him. The doctors have told him to amputate it but he has so far refused.
He has a deal with an ex-military doctor who gives him cheap injections once a week to help him, and for this he needs to raise the equivalent of £30, which to me seems like a lot for a beggar to raise in the UK, let alone here where the exchange rate is 5 to 1 in my favour.
Fortunately he has a network of ordinary people who help him out from time to time with food and cash and I am now on clothes duty!
When I met him I was hoping that he would just need a one off sum to cure him but that it isn't to be, so I will help him where I can whilst I am here and he can repay me with his stories.
Last weekend I decided on a whim to visit another part of the country so flew up to Georgetown in Penang.Georgetown is a UNESCO listed town full of colonial history and famed for being a foodie's heaven.
Traveling very light (literally 3 pairs of underwear and 1 spare t-shirt) I arrived and had the pleasure of wondering around and sightseeing before I even thought about finding a place to stay.
The town is characterised by being split into sections. There is Little India, belting out classic Bollywood hits and sending out the aromas of homemade curry, the Muslim quarter where you can walk by the mosques as the daily calls to prayer are sung out with mystical charm and then there are the Clan Jetties, wooden jetties sticking out into the ocean built by the first Chinese settlers as a place for the family/clan to live.
These jetties are individual streets on stilts and contain dozens of wooden shacks that double up as houses and shops and you can actually stay on some of them – which I very nearly did.
As I mentioned they were built by the first settlers who were fishermen by trade and so being over the water made sense and each jetty could only be populated by members of that particular family, whose ancestors still live there to this day.
Apart from this the rest of the town was dotted with temples, churches and colonial mansions and this is without the extraordinary amount of restaurants, hawkers (selling street food at a stupidly cheap price), bars and independent cafes all offering good coffee and homemade cake.If this wasn't enough the people here were unbelievable. Traveling on my own has never been an issue but in Georgetown everybody wanted to talk and if they had seen me earlier they spoke to me like we were mates or would wave to me – it was brilliant.
I finally settled on a colonial guesthouse right in the centre of everything as a place to stay and I felt so at home, hence why I didn't move on to the jetty for the second night.It was relatively new establishment owned by 3 girls from Kuala Lumpur and I spent quite a bit of time just chin-wagging with them and any number of their mates who would drop by.
One of the main attractions for me visiting Penang was to go to the Kek Lok Si Monastery, well out of town and built into the base of the hills.As Buddhist Monasteries go this was a good one and having specifically gone early to avoid the masses I spent 2 hours alone and in my own quiet world, when the French backpacker wasn't trying to talk to me, exploring the buildings and temples by barefoot.
So I reckon that covers it for now.The Sultan of Johor is currently staying at my gaff. A Sultan is the same as a King so it is a big deal; apparently.
I haven't seen him yet but having read up on him he seems like someone to meet.
He is a billionaire, has an extensive jewel collection, a very good car collection, was convicted of murder before being acquitted and has been in trouble for various misdemeanours such as starting a fight after gate crashing a wedding and a woman refused to dance with him.
I am not sure how I will get to him yet but I am thinking the fact that his mum is from Torquay is my way in!! Random.
I am also going to an invitation only event at my hotel this Friday. For 10 days we have one of Spain's top chef's presenting Spanish food in one of the restaurants and I am going to the opening night to dine and watch some flamenco etc.I may get to hunt down the Sultan here or at the very least practice my ailing Spanish on the chef himself.
If all this fails the Sultan's football team are playing in the Malaysian Cup Final on Saturday and the team is staying at the hotel. Will I go to the game, or get to join the after party if they win??
Who knows but either way, I am going down in a blaze of glory / embarrassment.


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About Alistair Adcroft
These are my personal pages on my various hobbies and interests.
I am a research oceanographer at Princeton University. My work is centered around the development and use of numerical models of ocean circulation. I maintain a separate site at GFDL, about my work interests. Not sure what to do with my University page!
Outside of work, my interests include Woodwork, Cooking (and eating), Old houses, Astronomy, Sci-fi, Investing, and App development.
"There's no greater love than the love of food" [Bernard Shaw, 1903].


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Sunday, December 03, 2006
Going to Seed
Today's new visitors were a pair of magnolia warblers, wee little things, smaller and sleeker than a sparrow, with brilliant yellow breasts and heads and black and white wing bars. They have a lovely song.
At one point the yellow warblers and the hoary redpolls, with their deep pink caps and breasts, were at the feeder at the same time. With a handful of natty little slate coloured juncos as counterpoint it was a pretty color combination, made all the more attractive by their darting movements and bright eyes.
We got a chuckle out of two quail this morning. They were standing beak to beak, then hopped up to bump their chests together repeatedly. Maybe this is a courting ritual, or maybe they were having quail fisticuffs, but it was highly amusing to watch.
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- OutHouse Capital of Canada said...
Apart from quail, are you seeing different birds to me across the fence, we have birds with a black cap, but cant find them in the book.
Oh, plenty sparrows and just one Mourning Dove.
We also get regular visits from a hawk looking for a tasty treat.
We dont feed the birds, we just fatten them up for the hawk
- Deb said...
The feeder is drawing a good variety of birdies, but I'll bet lots of them are bedding down in your cedars.
The black-capped ones could be either chickadees or slate-coloured juncos. The juncos are commonly called "snowbirds". Today we had a pair of western fox sparrows, which are lovely chocolate-coloured birdies. I'd never seen this species before. I've seen the hawk (up close) but not the dove. I'm hoping for a sunny day so I can take pictures that look like something other than grey blobs. :)


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Black Bean and Avocado Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Mmmm... these are ridiculously good. They're my new food craving. Buy a few sweet potatoes, bake or microwave them, and top them with black beans, guacamole, and cheese! It might seem like a strange combination, but it's super healthy and actually delicious all together. I was inspired to make these by Peas and Crayons and her crazy good looking sweet potatoes (how amazing do those look!?). I made mine into a "recipe" but it's really just an idea. You could fill these babies with anything for a super healthy fall lunch. =D
Black Bean and Guacamole Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
yield: 1 serving
1 sweet potato
1/4 cup black beans, rinsed
1 lime
1/2 avocado
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 ounce sharp cheddar cheese, grated
salt, to taste
Poke the sweet potato all over with a fork and microwave until soft (or use the oven). Slit a hole down the middle and open up the potato. Fill with the black beans and microwave for another 30 seconds. Squeeze some lime juice over top and sprinkle with salt. In a separate bowl mash the avocado, garlic powder, more lime juice, and salt. Scoop on top of the potato and top with cheddar cheese. Enjoy!
inspired by Peas and Crayons
AuthorSarah Catherine
2 Response to Black Bean and Avocado Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Now this is some healthy stuff!! Looks fantastic. Have a great weekend. ~ Ramona


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In a message released on Tuesday, the Leader said Hojat-ol-Islam Morvarid was a veteran combatant of the country's Islamic movement and a sincere companion of Imam Khomeini (RA) during the years of struggle against the Pahlavi regime.
Ayatollah Khamenei expressed condolences to the cleric's bereaved family and wished God's mercy and forgiveness for him.
Born in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad in 1924, Hojat-ol-Islam Morvarid studied religious sciences in the city and later in Tehran and Qom.
He joined Imam Khomeini's (RA) movement against the despotic Pahlavi regime and was arrested by the regime's forces several times.
He died on Saturday at the age of 93.


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Elizabeth Kantor of Human Events' Right Angle blog offers a three-part response to my criticism of the way that she and another writer promote female virginity on its own rather than promoting virginity for both sexes. (I also criticized the writers' emphasis on virginity rather than chastity, something she touches on only in passing.)
I'm in complete agreement with the first part and the second part of her response. The second evokes G.K. Chesterton and St. Francis de Sales with its insights into Christian history, capped off with the persuasive assertion, "If we want to keep or restore the parts of the Christian sexual ethic that seem attractive to us, hadn't we better be careful about rejecting the parts that we don't find attractive, or don't understand?"
The final part of Elizabeth's response, however, fails to convince me that there is good reason to promote virginity for women more than for men. She writes:
Now, we can all agree that bad sexual behavior is equally wrong for men and women. If a double standard means giving men permission to behave badly, that can't be right. But if it means reminding women that there are special reasons for them to take chastity seriously, I'm all for it.She backs up her argument by noting that women can get pregnant and are vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases that can damage their fertility, adding, "We're fertile — and sexually attractive — for a shorter period of time."
Just because fornication is equally wrong for men and women, does it follow that it's equally harmful in every particular?
Men and women have equal souls, but they don't have the same biologies or psychologies.
The Argument from Short-Term Sexual Attractiveness completely eludes me as a reason for virginity until marriage.
As for the other reasons Elizabeth offers, they still fail to convince that virginity should be promoted to women more than it should be to men. For one thing, if men are left to their own devices, they'll still get sexually transmitted diseases and pass them on to the few poor women who didn't get the virginity memo. But more than that, while the assumption that fornication doesn't hurt men as much as it hurts women may be true on a psychological level, it is certainly not true on a spiritual level. Any Catholic priest will tell you that the sin is the same regardless of whether a man or woman commits it. Elizabeth makes it clear that her promotion of virginity is based upon her faith. Taking the sinfulness of fornication into account would seem to require her all the more to emphasize virginity for both sexes alike.
I say that fornication may be less psychologically harmful to men. Truthfully, however, with regard to the "Sex and the City" question — "Can a woman have sex like a man?" — I am no longer convinced that a man can "have sex like a man," let alone a woman. When I think back upon the men I have known who have had premarital sex, none of them escaped being damaged by it. Perhaps they were not damaged in ways that psychologists measure, such as the tendency to suicide and depression (though a 2003 study did find that — sexually active teenage boys as well as girls had a higher rate of depression than abstinent teens), but I believe they were damaged in other ways, such as being:
- Less able to achieve intimacy in relationships
- Less able to maintain long-term relationships
- More likely to seek out pornography
- Less secure in their faith
- Less mature
- Less able to choose and focus upon long-term life goals
As Christians, we are called to love our neighbor. Sometimes that means sounding an alarm where everyone can hear it — not just those whom we may think need the message most.


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September 2013 - Manhattan New York
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Blue Monday
Posted by Jackie Mc Guinness at 7:00 PM
Labels: 2013, blue, Blue Monday, Manhattan, new york, Photography, travel
Location: Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
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I've seen this play and loved it! However, it was not on Broadway but in a Florida theater. Thanks for sharing your blue bus.
Happy Blue Monday!
Brilliant show - no wonder it is the longest running on Broadway. How great to spot a blue bus, perfect for Blue Monday!ReplyDelete
Have a great week, Jackie
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George's parents got an invite to the Steadman Resort on Triple Tree Lake from Henry and his wife, the owners and friends of theirs. Since they can't go, they let the girls take their place. Nancy and her friends quickly find a gorgeous lake with dozens of things to do and tons of people.
Not long after arriving, they hear a scream from a neighboring cabin and rush over. Ann and Carrie, two sisters who work at the resort, came back to find their cabin trashed. Nothing is missing but they explain that it's just another weird thing to happen. They also give them the low down on people who work there like Rodney, the horse trainer who is a total hottie.
On a canoe trip, they meet Steve, yet another hot guy. He points out Horse Island to them and tells them that under no circumstances should any resort guest go out there. Legend says that a family once lived there, died in a mysterious way, and now haunt the island. Plus, hunters go out there to hunt illegally and once shot two guests. It gets its name from the wild horses who once lived there.
One of the guests on the canoe trip starts talking about how she wants to leave really badly. All this weird stuff keeps happening, but they keep ignoring it because their kids want to stay. Nancy talks to Henry, who admits that some suspicious things have happened and that he wants to keep everyone calm. Our hero also has a run in with a guest named Teresa who acts weird and doesn't want to talk to anyone.
The girls borrow a canoe and sneak over to the island. George brings along some guidebooks and starts pointing out all these birds and flowers. They find what looks like a brand new fence on a deserted island and the old mansion. After a quick investigation, all they find is a tower filled with bats and some minor proof that someone has been living there or at least staying there.
Sadly, a storm rolls in and when they head back to the canoe, it's gone. There's also some proof that someone dragged their canoe away, so they go back to the mansion and try to get some sleep. The next morning, Bess comes dangerously close to eating poisonous berries before George recognizes them from her book and stops her. Nancy uses her camera to take pictures of everything they see and later sees Teresa on the water. Though she looks right at the girl, Teresa takes off and leaves them there.
Bess is convinced that she saw a ghost the night before and shows them the exact spot where she saw it. Nancy finds a pair of sunglasses there, which a ghost probably wouldn't wear. The girls also wind up nearly trampled by a herd of wild horses, which is odd since horses supposedly no longer live on the island. Steve comes by with a group of guests on a canoe trip and helps them. He doesn't recognize the sunglasses but takes them and agrees to ask around and find the owner.
The next day, someone sets fire to their cabin. Henry rushes over with other staff members to put it out before it can spread. Nancy finds proof that someone deliberately set the fire but did it in a way that stopped it from moving beyond one room. The only thing destroyed in the fire was her camera with the photos from the island still on it. Gee, I wonder what Nancy would think about cell phone cameras!
On a horseback riding trip, their group comes across a dead body hanging from a tree. Nancy gets close enough to learn that it's actually just a dummy set up to look like a real guy. That pushes one more family to leave. Yet more people leave at dinner that night. Everyone who eats the blueberry pie becomes dangerously sick, including Bess. It turns out that someone put the poisonous berries in the pie. Though Nancy suspects the resort's chef Otis, he claims that someone stole a resort pan and made the poisoned pie.
While walking back to her cabin, someone hits Nancy from behind and pushes her into the resort swimming pool, almost drowning her. That person leaves behind a blue bandanna, exactly like the one Teresa wears. George and Nancy follow her into town and see her making a call on a pay phone. They confront her, she claims someone stole her bandanna, and she continues acting like a major bitch to both of them.
Nancy decides that the mystery must somehow be related to the island and goes back by herself. She sees Teresa following her through the woods and tries to ignore her until she hears Teresa scream. The other woman fell in a pit that someone set up as a trap. Even after Nancy saves her life, Teresa still acts like a witch. She finally confesses that she's a writer and working on a story but refuses to say anything else.
After following her back to the shore, Nancy sees Teresa have a conversation with Rodney, the horse trainer. A sudden gunshot rings out, and Nancy ducks to hide but instead finds that someone turned the fence into a corral to capture some of the wild horses. Someone knocks her out, and she wakes up in a canoe with Steve.
Steve confesses his whole plan to her because he assumes she'll die soon enough. He captured the wild horses with plans to sell the animals to others. He also set up the whole haunted island thing and did all the other weird stuff to try and make the resort go under. Steve assumed that he could then guy it back from Henry for a fraction of its value. After taking her back to the old mansion, he leaves her tied up while he deals with other stuff.
It's clear he doesn't know Nancy. She breaks an old clock and uses the glass to cut through her bindings before sneaking into the tower and hiding. She makes just enough noise to let Steve know her location. When he goes to the tower, she scares the bats enough that they freak out and attack, which gives her time to run downstairs and lock the tower door behind her. Teresa and Rodney then show up with the cops to save her.
It turns out that Steve brought Rodney in on his plan because he needed help with the horses. Rodney started feeling bad about catching the wild animals and contacted Teresa at her newspaper with the story. They secretly worked together to bring down Steve for weeks, but Nancy did it in mere days.
*Multiple people suspect Otis, the resort chef, because he's surly and complains a lot about not getting paid enough. Nancy thinks it's strange that he keeps bringing up how much he makes, but even Henry admits that people come back just for the food he makes and that he's seriously underpaid.
*The girls come back one day to find the cabin ransacked and completely flip out until they find a raccoon in their kitchen. Nancy is smart enough to trick the raccoon outside with crackers.
*The whole poisoned pie thing was kind of funny because George stopped Bess from eating the berries because they might kill her. Multiple guests then ate the pie laced with those berries and basically just had some mild discomfort. They didn't even need to go to the hospital!
*The sunglasses they found were Steve's, which Nancy figured out after way too long. He was the only one in the resort with prescription lenses.
*When they first get to the resort, the girls all change into skirts and tops for dinner. A rustic lodge in the middle of nowhere doesn't really seem like the type of place that would have a dress code for dinner.


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Media companies — whether they produce video, print or social content — are all struggling to price and sell their products today. In a digital world, stolen content is also an increasing concern. But at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York Monday, speakers seemed to agree that the future of media lies in providing access — not ceding ownership — of content.
A major problem for media companies (film studios and record labels especially) is this idea of content ownership. Maintaining tight control of property may feel good, but it often leaves money on the table
As a growing crop of companies are leaning (ZipCar, Netflix or iTunes, for example), simply letting consumers access content for a period of time can be very profitable. As Fred Davis, Founding partner of CODE Advisors, put it:
"It's not about owning, it's about accessing."
During a fireside chat, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz reiterated the point:
"I don't know that anyone owns anything anymore."
Social media brings this point home most clearly. Companies do not own their social media output. It's an ongoing conversation they can guide, but not control. According to Bartz, that's alright:
"As long as you get your hands on the information, and you can, with the right intent, do something great for the user. That's good."
Furthermore, negative social media feedback can actually improve the quality of available content. That's what Boxee founder Avner Ronen said:
"If you are going to create bad content, people are going to be turned off. I think [negative feedback] makes for better content."
But many companies aren't ready to embrace the idea of sharing access to their content according to demand. For instance, film studios still use a rigid windowing strategy to release films that Davis says contributes to digital theft. As he said:
"The entertainment companies need to migrate. It's not going to be an onwership thing going forward."
Still, ownership continues to be an idea often equated with success. Davis thinks that will change over time. He says:
"The generation growing up will not own."
Leasing, sharing and renting are common practices of both old and new businesses. But those strategies are moving into increasing areas of business.
That doesn't mean that ownership is losing its advantages. But in a digital world, where media is so easily shared, it's less often an available option.
"I'd love to own information," says Bartz. But she thinks that is an unrealistic attempt to harness what cannot be controlled:
"I'd also like to be Queen Poobah of the world. But I'm not."
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How many people do you know that will pay a subscription to access news?
Dear Will, I understand your point you try to make with your simple question. Bare in mind though that News Corp have already made the first step towards an online news subscription scheme. It might just be that Mr. Murdogh a potential revenue stream from monetizing news. It isn't only individuals who now benefit from news sites, its also sites with no journalists which capitalize on the free news and it is quite possible that those sites will pay the bill.


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Baby No. 2 on the Way for Jay DeMarcus
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Another lil' rascal!
Jay DeMarcus and his wife, CMT personality Allison, will welcome their second child this summer, the Rascal Flatts bassist's rep confirms to PEOPLE.
The new addition will be a sibling for daughter Madeline Leigh, 13 months.
"This was definitely a huge surprise, but we're so thankful and excited that Maddie is going to have a brother or sister," DeMarcus, 40, says. "We're really gonna have our hands full!"
Adds his 35-year-old wife, "Jay and I are thrilled about completing our family. Madeline is going to love having a sibling and we are bracing ourselves for the many sleepless nights ahead."
The couple were married May 15, 2004 in Nashville, Tenn.
— Sarah Michaud with reporting by Cynthia Sanz


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An investigation was carried out into policy, practice, provision and management of dyslexia from the pre-five to primary stage of education. Factors in the early development and home life of young dyslexic children were considered to establish if and how these are contributory to the unfolding of dyslexia in later years. The early development of dyslexia was studied with questionnaires sent to the parents of all preschool year and Primary 1 children, a total of 1994 children, in the 1997-1998 school session. Both the phenotype and the genotype were considered. The initial survey was repeated in the 2000-2001 school session with parents of children from the same age groups (2305 children in total). In phenotypical areas, there were found to be no difference between the dyslexic group and the non-dyslexic, whereas there were differences apparent in the genotypical areas at these early stages. Structured interviews were also carried out with head teachers, parents and dyslexic pupils from schools throughout East Renfrewshire, and a questionnaire was given to educational psychologists. These were to establish the perceptions of school personnel, parents, pupils and educational psychologists on what exactly is involved in dyslexia and what can be done about it. Implications for policy, practice, provision and management were then considered. Case studies of individual children who showed early indications of possible dyslexia were studied longitudinally over the period of the study and these gave further insight into practicalities of management. Various other measures were taken into account to widen the scope and credibility of the study. A systems perspective is taken in making recommendations of possible ways forward. A novel and major outcome of the study has been the proposal of a new perspective in defining dyslexia focusing on the curriculum with wide implications for practice in both education and psychology.
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453.000MHz ******* Should read 453.900MHz
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Neil57uk wrote:Mike
Its nice to find sombody who knows how to use the WTR properly.
Typo. 453.000 = 453.900
jason35 wrote:right fellows I have the 3500xlt and I heard you can pick up train station on a pmr scanner if that's what or not and if so what freq are they on.
also I live near asm and cant pick them up on close call not sure why though as well cheers.
does any one have the 3600xlt I am thinking off getting one.
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453.025 in ch.2. 440.900 is ch.1. Previously on WTR but not now listed. Ch.3 was 453.6125 but not sure if current. Virgin on 453.900 single freq.
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Deacon Bob Seidler, Assistant to Bishop Gerald Wilkerson, credits his three summers (1957 - 1959) at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul's Circle V Ranch Camp, with his interest in ministry. "In those days, most of the counselors were seminarians," said Seidler. "They were a big reason I went to the seminary."
Seidler rediscovered a photo of the ordination of Monsignor Peter Amy (above). In the photo, left to right, are Reverend Amy, Bob Seidler, Mario Nargi, Tim Nielsen and Ted Schneringer. "The four of us, and others from our grade school class at St. Patrick's in North Hollywood, were all at St. Vincent de Paul Ranch Camp where "Dead Eye" Pete was one of our counselors," said Seidler.
Seidler went to St. John's Seminary (1964 - 1968) but discerned a call to married life, later marrying and having two children and four grandchildren. Seidler was in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, trained as a motion picture lab technician, spent 31 years in that industry, at Universal Studios from 1990 to 2005, and left there as Vice President of Digital Video Services.
"We were always involved in ministry," said Seidler, of his wife Pon and himself. "Once my kids were old enough to stay home on the weekends by themselves, I became a deacon."
One of Seidler's cherished mementos is a hand-made, copper-plated athletic award from the Circle V Ranch Camp. Most of the counselors wrote their names on the back. Perhaps some of these names will bring back memories if you attended the Circle V Ranch Camp in the late 1950s:
Tom Haggerty
Rich Boylan
Pete Amy
John Clarke
Dave Regalado
Bill Flaherty
Don Farmer
Emery Tomar
Paul Dotson
Phil Berryman
Nick Barnett
Bundy Noonan
Larry Lynch
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Hi fellow chowhounders,
I never get on this particular forum (I'm in MD, however am a native from NYC). I have a question regarding Albany in general and good places for food. Here's the scenario....
My neice who is in Boston, and her husband who is in Albany in the Navy in Nuclear school for subs , will be spending their time together after Christmas (he has to be in school/work during the holiday). I thought a nice Christmas gift would be to give them a night out at a restaurant so they wouldn't have to cook one night. (she will only have a short time to spend with him as she has to get back to Boston for grad school as does he for his school/work).
So, is Albany a large city? Are there any recommendations on restaurants? (at this point, cuisine doesn't matter - I'll find that out from her mom what they prefer). What I don't want to do is send them a million miles away for a night out, as they are newlyweds and I'm sure they would want to get home quickly LOL! Or, now that I think about it, maybe a catered dinner at home??
Any ideas, suggestions? Thanks in advance... I'm sure you guys are as awesome as the Mid-Atlantic folks!


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