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Promotional item gives wonderful opportunity of your business it can enhance your brand image and increase your business relationship among with the other business persons.
Here the following steps should give clear idea about the best of promotional items:
- In the period of ten years promotional items are have a standard image with good reputation demand identity in the market, so still they showing their efficiency and bring more good sales of their business.
- Promotional item are such a trademark, which is more popular in the market. So based on this quality mark your business sales should be high and get more orders in bulk without any done of research about the products.
- Start-up business people are suffered with their starting business means how we have to promote our business into the market without any brand image. Here the promotional items give a big hand to them and they rid of their all start-up problems, it can easily create the way and guide them and participate in their promotional business.
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- The 'promotional giveaways' and the 'customer loyalty' and 'happy customer reviews' all kind of these useful strategies are overwhelm by the promotional items only.
- Travel items, outdoor items, desk & office items, electronic items and Drinkware items many more will be available in the market, this promotional items network is big one to form one big net and get the more fishes.


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To all students of St.Joseph's Convent, as always, we await the day when the Divali presentation is made after lunch in our courtyard. Not only is it exciting, but we miss one, maybe two periods in the afternoon!!!!
On the schedule is the usual: an exciting dance, our form 6's modelling their finest Hindu wear (including the boys!) and much, much more. Just remember: even though you're not Hindu, Divali is a festival that everyone can celebrate.
So, just remember that school still ends at 2:30, so no leaving during the Divali presentation please! And prepare for some serious entertainment!!!!

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I am continually both amazed and disgusted by the way people worship celebrities in our culture. I am proud to say that I did not watch or read any of the coverage of Michael Jackson's funeral yesterday, unlike the untold millions who stopped what they were doing for most of the day to mourn a man who did nothing but sing songs. Some of the grief was particularly over the top. Take, for instance, this Facebook status post by a girl I went to elementary school with:
"I thought I was done mourning over Michael...I really feel as though I have lost a part of my family...."
Seriously?! I would wager that two weeks ago, before he died, most people hadn't even thought about Michael Jackson for months. (Granted, this girl is black and liberal, but still.) I almost left her a comment ("Give me a break!") in reply, but I refrained.
I hate the fact that Us Weekly, People, InTouch, and other celebrity gossip rags are among the best selling magazines, while Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood continually draw millions of viewers, along with vapid garbage like American Idol and Dancing With The Stars. Contrast this with the fact that the vast majority of Americans can't tell you who their Congressional representative is--and a significant number can't tell you who is currently vice president. Nor do most people have the foggiest notion of how government works (or is supposed to work), or of how their liberty is constantly being eroded in Washington. Then again, too many of these people don't want liberty--they want security, provided by the government teat.
As my friend UMCMatt wrote earlier this week, the media might not report on so much of this rubbish if there weren't so many people consuming it. We are being led like sheep to the slaughter, and we don't even know it because we're too busy reading about Britney Spears' latest embarrassing antics or trying to see photos of Brad Pitt and what's-her-face on the beach. Americans worship these people like gods, and so many of them aren't even worth pissing on. I wish there were some way to get the dumb masses to wake up and become aware of all the things that are in desperate need of our attention.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Celebrity worship
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Aggies Move To 4-0 With Win Over UNC-Wilmington + A Quick Glance at Tulsa
Well, Tuesday night's game at Reed Arena may very well go down as one of the most unconventional wins of the year. The Aggies took down a VERY undersized UNC-Wilmington squad by a final score of 84-65. What made the game unconventional was that for the most part the Aggies' top three players were non-existent.
Throughout the first half, the Aggies were able to build a fairly commanding 41-26 lead over the visiting Seahawks, but the way that they got there however was far from normal. Josh Carter, Bryan Davis and Donald Sloan had a combined 7 points at the break.
The good news is that Turgeon was able to get 34 points away from his big three, but the bad news is that over the course of the year, you are really going to need for Carter, Sloan and Davis to be there for you night-in and night-out. Against top tier competition you can afford for one (or maybe two) of those guys to have an off night, but not all three of them at the same time.
So, who was key in coming up with those other 34 first half points? The two biggest guys early in the game were B.J. Holmes (finally ! ! ! ) and Derrick Roland. In the second half, Junior Elonu went off to put together the most complete game of his career and had his first ever double-double with 18 points (on 8-of-9 shooting) and 11 rebounds. Nate Walkup also responded nicely to his first start of the season (in place of Elonu) by having another great line of 9 points and 12 boards.
Holmes finally broke out of his slump with a great night shooting the rock and pitched in a career-high 13 points on the strength of 4-of-6 from behind the arc. Finally, Roland also had his best game of the year on a 5-of-8 night from the field to account for his 13 point evening.
Turgeon was pretty upset after the game on Tuesday night as the Aggies did not look very sharp and had a season high 16 turnovers, but he was happy with their season-high 21 assists. Turgeon said, "This was a little different style than they have been playing. I would not say that we played well. One thing I was pleased about is that we were not selfish."
Two quick hits for you guys tonight:
-- Antoine Wright scored a career high 24 points for the Mavericks on Tuesday night in 39 minutes in Dallas' 109-106 win over the Pacers.
-- The Aggies have now won 50 straight regular-season home games. Their last home loss was an 82-80 loss to A&M-Corpus Christi on Dec. 13, 2003.
The South Padre Invitational now shifts to the South Padre Island Convention Center as the Aggies take on Tulsa tonight in a semi-final game at 7:35. The Aggies will then play either Illinois or Kent State on Saturday.
Tulsa will present a great challenge for the Aggies, and I sure hope they can rise up and take down the Golden Hurricane. Vegas has the Aggies as 5 point favorites, and I think that is probably about right. Tulsa is led by junior guard Ben Uzoh (6'3"), who is averaging 18.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. Joining Uzoh to lead the Tulsa attack is Junior center Jerome Jordan (7' 0") and sophomore guard Glen Andrews (6' 2") who both average 10.5 points per game. In addition, Jordan leads the team in rebounding (7.5) and blocks (3.8). Chad Ford of ESPN.com lists Jordan as the #19 prospect in the country for the 2009 NBA Draft.
Ok - You can catch the game on Friday night on Fox College Sports if you have either Comcast, Time Warner or DirecTV (Ch. 617), check your local listings.
Aggie Hoops Score Prediction:
Tulsa 64
Texas A&M 68
We'll have a couple more notes for you guys along the way this weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Carry on.


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Regional Mental Health Networks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
NAMHC Concept Clearance •
Pamela Y. Collins, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health
Director, Office of Rural Mental Health Research
To establish regional centers for coordinated mental health research and research capacity-building in low- and middle-income countries.
Neuropsychiatric disorders contribute significantly to the global burden of disease in high, middle, and low-income countries. These disorders account for approximately 30 percent of the total burden of non-communicable diseases. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the disability-adjusted life years attributable to psychiatric conditions surpass the proportion attributable to nutritional deficiencies, tuberculosis, or maternal complications from childbirth. Yet, insufficient resources in low- and middle-income countries have resulted in a dearth of research that addresses the prevention, preemption, and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders in these settings. Recent priority-setting exercises that have focused exclusively on the mental health research needs of low- and middle-income countries have consistently identified implementation of treatment interventions, epidemiology and disease burden, and health systems or policy research as areas that need attention across multiple settings.
The goal of the initiative is to develop multidisciplinary regional research centers, with complementary areas of expertise, in low- and middle-income countries, that will conduct research of public health relevance in these settings, build research infrastructure, and develop research capacity. The centers will provide resources to 1) develop or strengthen regional collaborations, including partnerships among governmental and non-governmental organizations, research institutions, and mental health service user advocacy groups; 2) conduct basic, translational, clinical, or policy research, taking advantage of health system and sociocultural diversity; 3) support research capacity building; and 4) educate local communities on research processes and study outcomes.
Scientific areas of interest include:
- Development, evaluation, or optimization of approaches for the implementation of mental health interventions in multiple health system settings (within or between countries);
- Creation of strategies for the integration, analysis, long-term maintenance, and sharing of large, multidisciplinary data sets;
- Development of methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of real-world mental health interventions delivered through community mental health and hospital-based services in the public and private sectors; and
- Provision of innovative research mentoring and capacity-building opportunities.


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Check out a sneak peek of our latest press release!
HOLLYWOOD, CA – February 5, 2009 – Making a stunning appearance, at the 19th Annual Gala Benefiting the MusiCares Foundation, will be Twisted Silver, a jewelry line in its fourth year of wow'ing audiences at this prestigious industry event taking place in Los Angeles on February 6th, 2009.
This year, Neil Diamond the GRAMMY award winning recording artist, will be honored as Person of the Year and Twisted Silver will provide a sneak peak into INSTINCT – its latest line up of soon to be hits with the PHATTY bracelet which each VIP is set to receive.
INSTINCT is Twisted's latest intrigue and foray into authentic metals that have been created to stay current – no pretense, no hype, just pure authenticity. Twisted designs revel in unique tarnishes, imperfections and patinas of brass, copper, silver, aluminum and steel. Tested by the elements, these basic metals become a thing of original beauty — edgy, unassuming and full of character and artistic flavor.
"We are honored and thrilled to be invited for the fourth year to this prestigious event," said Debra Mitchell, Twisted Silver designer and founder. "The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares are wonderful to work and we are so pleased that our designs continue to delight this impressive musical audience!"
Featured performers that night will include GRAMMY nominees Coldplay, six-time GRAMMY-winning Foo Fighters, current GRAMMY nominee Josh Groban, GRAMMY winner Raul Malo, three-time GRAMMY winner Tim McGraw, and more. Also featured will be a special concert performance by GRAMMY winner and 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year Neil Diamond.
With just enough boldness and just enough simplicity, the Phatty bracelet is an instant modern classic that has equal doses of wearability and chic factor. Phatty will give voice to your casual as well as sing up your dressy. Because it will be a solid back beat to your look for many seasons to come, you'll think it's pretty hot and tempting too J


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I think you'll agree that my lovely Tina is very proud of her mucky paw prints, she's done a particularly careful job today, went out in the rain and then straight into the litter box, then straight on the coffee table.
Lets not even talk about the fact she's not technically even allowed on the bloody coffee table shall we?!
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Weekend Cat Blogging-Tina mucky paws
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You really have to appreciate the innate polarity of the medium - it makes a strong statement!
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Very Pleased
When the scale at the weigh-in said I had lost 4 pounds, I will admit I was very pleased. I was worried that I had gained! I think I lost it from pure exhaustion. Moving, painting, packing, worrying, and stressing over the last month have not improved my eating habits to say the least. They have kept me busy and up to all hours of the morning so maybe that is how I lost the weight. Or perhaps it was all water weight that I lost because I do think I was a bit dehydrated. No matter how I did it I am happy! I did not think I would even get this low. My goal is to maintain where I am now for the final weigh-in and to continue to train to run 5Ks and the 5mile Johnnycake Jog. I want to be healthy, not a bean pole!


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Jeff Lemire & Mikel Janin
I wasn't a fan of the original launch of DC's New 52 title Justice League Dark, written by Peter Mulligan, but I like the idea of this book, so with Jeff Lemire coming on board as writer, and him writing some excellent books for DC, like Animal Man and Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E., I thought I would check out what he planned to do to steer this title into new territory. Mikel Janis is still on art, but while his panels were a little unfocused and hard to follow in his initial issue, he does a good job of making the action flow better in this new incarnation of the team. His art style is well-suited for the book and I hope he continues to grow with the title. Jeff Lemire's new team consists of John Contantine, Deadman, Zatanna, the vampire Andrew Bennett, and the shapeshifter Black Orchid. For all intents and purposes, this is like a new book. There are a few references to Mulligan's initial run, but the introduction of the new characters and the new direction make it feel really fresh, like it's the first issue of a brand new series. Basically, Constantine is working for the government to help them with a supernatural threat, recruiting a few friends to help him complete his task, this one being a power-hungry sorcerer in the Amazon who has kidnapped a government operative and is in possession of an artifact of immense power. Along with his friends, Constantine must take along the mysterious Black Orchid, who will be aiding him in his quest, as well as watching him for the government. Lemire brings together a nice blend of personalities that play off of each other well, and I would say that he's created a solid first issue of his run here. I'm looking forward to what else he has up his sleeve.


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In the tentative world of college football recruiting, there seems to be one certainty. Jeremi Powell is a Gator.
In the tentative world of college football recruiting, there seems to be one certainty.
Jeremi Powell is a Gator.
The 6-foot-2, 200-pound linebacker from Pinellas Park High School in Largo who is ranked No. 19 on Rivals.com's linebackers list, confirmed his love for the Gators at Friday Night Lights.
"I had a lot of fun (at Friday Night Lights), it was pretty cool," Powell said. "There was a lot of competition out there, the coaches were great, and I had a chance to showcase my speed, which is the strongest part of my game.
"This is my first and only camp. I love the Gators. There's nothing better than them."
Powell had 15 sacks and averaged more than 10 tackles per game during his junior year for the Patriots, who finished 5-5 last season.
He also had 45 receptions, but says the Gators will be using him strictly on the defensive side of the ball.
"(The coaches) say I could end up playing the WILL or SAM linebacker spots, but probably just the SAM spot depending on how things go," Powell said.
"We also talked about the possibility that I would end up starting right away, but hey, that's up to me, I just have to come in and prove myself."
Powell committed to Florida in February, the fifth recruit to do so from the 2012 class. He picked the Gators over offers from Alabama, Iowa State, Purdue, South Carolina and USF.
"This is it for me this summer, I don't want to mess up anything (by visiting any other school), there really isn't any purpose — I'm a Gator," Powell said.
"It is time for me to start focusing on my last year in high school, to do what I gotta do, to make sure I am as ready as I can be to play right away for Florida."


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Collymore Stanley
I hated you, not because of anything you'd ever done
to me, anyone I know and care about, what you
stood for, have said or possibly planned on
doing; because the truth is you were a
total stranger to me in every way,
not having ever met you or
even conscious of your
actual existence
But all that was of no consequence, principally because I'm
white, you were not, and your life, comprehensively
inferior to mine and others like me by virtue of
our racial superiority over you as white
Caucasians, understandably from
the perspective of like-minded
members of the Master Race
like me, was logically seen as totally
dispensable and, not to put too fine
a point on it, no loss at all to
mankind which I've done
a tremendous favour
by wiping it out.
Your death then should be joyously celebrated and
not commiserated with, far less mourned; and
while I know there are those in this country,
the rest of the EU and elsewhere among
the political and legal authorities in
the civilized and white controlled
world who'll openly mouth the
predictable platitudes expected
of them as to how dreadful
my murdering you has
been, reality though,
I should tell you,
is completely
For privately and even covertly among themselves
they'll be wholeheartedly celebrating the demise
of what's essentially a pretty useless creature;
just one of a horde of subordinate and
uncultivated non-Caucasian brutes, not worthy
of the name human being; and while for obvious
reasons they'll not personally soil their own
hands with such an undertaking, they'll
nevertheless from behind the scenes
continue to do everything in their
power to instigate and ensure
that explicitly proud and
white warriors like me
unashamedly do.
© Stanley V. Collymore
23 October 2013.
The gratuitous stabbing to death in the English Midlands City of Birmingham, also the UK's second major city after London, of Mohammed Saleem, 82, as he walked a few hundred yards from a mosque to his home is a chilling reminder 20 years after Stephen Lawrence's own murder at the hands of identical white racists of how acute racism, politically and ideologically fanned by those at the very top of British society still is.
For me though, even more disturbing were the comments of the official who officially spoke to the media cameras after the outcome of the case when the murderer, Pavlo Lapshyn, 25 unashamedly pleaded guilty in court to what he'd done having no other choice but to do so confronted as he was with a plethora of evidence that substantiated his crime; nor did he show any remorse whatsoever about his racially motivated criminal actions, which didn't just include the killing of Mr Mohammed Saleem a mere five days after Pavlo Lapshyn had been allowed into England for the very first time.
This British official having spoken in glowing terms about Lapshyn's academic prowess and so-called intelligence then in marked contrast uttered, almost as an afterthought, the euphemistic platitude that what this monster, to anyone with an objective and functioning brain in his or her head which clearly this official lacks readily recognized Pavlo Lapshyn as, did was wrong.
"Wrong!" Is this how this fatuous bastard and the white British community generally described the killing of Lee Rigby in Woolwich? No! Then a white man had been killed by non-whites and all the aged-old and reinforced racial stereotypes came out in force and went into overdrive juxtaposed with their attendant venom; and the same would have happened again if instead of being British Asian Mohammed Saleem were white and his killer had been non-Caucasian, with the immigration system being lambasted for letting this killer into England in the first place. Not so with Pavlo Lapshyn however.
Interestingly enough this murderous citizen of Ukraine, which isn't a member of the EU by the way and which belies all the hypocritical and racist immigration crap of the likes of Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, the Con-Dem British regime of which she's a prominent member, and the opposition parties in both houses of parliament that tacitly support this racist agenda.
Even though it must be stressed that key members in all these parties don't have any authentic British lineage, are shacked up with, even those born here, with spouses or partners that weren't even born in the UK and, of course, have among themselves produced children who they see as inalienably British and moreover with all the privileges and entitlements they perceive that they're exclusively entitled to.
So we have a sickening situation where a self-confessed racist and white supremacist who is Ukrainian is freely allowed into the UK in a way that a bright, intelligent and law-abiding non-white individual of either gender from the Commonwealth or any part of the Global South, for that matter, that Britain has individually plundered for centuries, and still recurrently does, to enrich itself and mostly its white elites, wouldn't in a month of Sundays be allowed to.
But this wouldn't be the first time that a British regime and authorities colluded in this kind of terroristic scenario with Ukrainians. The Clement Attlee, post-war UK regime sycophantically at the behest of the USA that would never have allowed such psychopathic and murderous thugs and furthermore do so in such huge numbers into its own territories, warmly welcomed into the UK after the defeat of Germany thousands of Ukrainian Waffen SS members and death camp operatives and liberally housed them and their families here in Britain.
And most ironically their Slavic progeny are the very ones with UK regime support embodied in the likes of utterly moronic clowns like Eric Pickles who routinely and ludicrously charge around Britain, but mostly England, fomenting racial strife as well as hatred and discord against anyone who doesn't look like them, while absurdly as well claiming to be the English Defence League. Not English as in terms of nationality, being physically born in
as it were, but English they asininely assert through Anglo-Saxon lineage. A monumental misnomer if ever there was one, and which makes me and Eskimo I suppose. I hope you're proud of yourselves Theresa May and Co; what a pity that Maggie Thatcher closed so many of our mental hospitals; for the likes of you are prime candidates, in my view, for compulsory sectioning under NHS guidelines. England


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Typically there's always been limits on what could be sold online.
While not impossible, selling art online is difficult because it's is challenging to engage your customer with a small 'preview' of the art, and anything larger than a thumbnail might get stolen/resold by unsavory types.
But what happens when your customers aren't online, and don't even use electricity or cell phones? This seems unthinkable but there's a growing community in the US for WiFi refugees.
In November of 1958 the Federal Communications Commission setup the first and only national radio quiet zone to negate possible interference with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia. This zone is an impressive 13,000 sq. miles of mountainous terrain that is a perfect natural shelter from radio interference.
The degree to which the area is protected is a bit staggering.
I recall reading a story on the area in a 2002 Wired publication where they interviewed a 'patrolman' who protects the area from intrusions.
In that article the fellow describes how he had to locate a source of new disturbance that ultimately turned out to be an old electric blanket that was used to keep a dog house warm. The blanket was worn and had started shorting out, causing the radio interference. The patrolman was happy to replace the blanket with a new one and remedy the source of interference.
This morning the web has been buzzing with an article documenting the area as a safe-haven for WiFi 'refugees' or people who believe they are victims of 'Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity' or 'EHS', a non-medically recognized sensitivity to electromagnetic interference within the human body.
Many controlled tests have been performed on suspected suffers of the condition, yet not one has been able to scientifically assess whether the effects of electromagnetic fields have the ability to produce symptoms in the human body.
Never the less there is a growing community of 'refugees' that swear they had no choice but to move to the area in order to mitigate symptoms they believe are directly related to exposure from electronics and wireless radio signals. In one case, 70-year old Nichols Fox claims that she is better off dealing with the risks of gas powered lighting, refrigeration, and heating because her body reacts so severely to the presence of electronics.
The community is puzzling to many, and Bob Park, a physics professor at the University of Maryland is one of them. Professor Park's observations conclude that radiation emitted by wi-fi is simply too weak to cause the type of changes in the body's chemistry that could make people sick. He went on to state the following on this topic :
"The bigger problem that we face is that in our society, driven by technological change, people have very little education" he says.
"There are lots of things people need to learn and they're not learning it. The thing that's going to kill them is ignorance." – Bob Park
So, to anyone wishing to provide services to such a community, you clearly are out of luck if you wanted to approach the problem online, because your client base would never see the offers you are promoting.
This is truly sad news for fans of the AFDB like Canaille and her owner Wally Glenn:


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Originally posted by TheKeyMaster
Imagine that just recently you felt you discovered all the answers to the riddles we have been looking for... and you were debating with yourself when you should reveal this information... knowing that this Dec 21st date was supposed to be soo key to everything... would you reveal this info now OR not reveal it fearing that you yourself could be the cause of the Dec 21st event?
Also... IF you did have this information... how would you reveal it if you wanted to keep a low profile?
Originally posted by TheKeyMaster
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Let's pretend that the reason this person hadn't revealed the info yet was because it required a lot of explanation. Let's say it took them time just to figure out how to convey this info in a way others would understand it and they were planning on writing a book of some kind.
Originally posted by DAVID64
This "Mysterious Stranger With Secret Knowledge" bit has been done to death.
Originally posted by DPrice
Ooo The Key Master! What an edgy cool name and he comes bearing mysterious knowledge that could change the world! But only if we lowly mortals can decipher his hidden riddles!
Like someone else said, stfu.
Originally posted by TheKeyMaster
Also... IF you did have this information... how would you reveal it if you wanted to keep a low profile?
Originally posted by TheKeyMaster
because you could be either saving humanity or condemning it...
Originally posted by TheKeyMaster
One thing I have wondered is if somehow this info will be revealed at this time even if I am not the one to reveal it.. maybe I am just part of the consciousness that is expanding right now.


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Thursday, September 27, 2007
A sobering visit.
Today we visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. There is virtually no way of knowing how one will react when one enters the infamous grounds of this camp. I had a very strong, yet not completely unpredictable, reaction as tears began to roll down my cheecks within two minutes of entering the imposing empty courtyard known as the "roll call area". I was truly overwhelmed by the thought of the thousands of prisoners that suffered unimaginable treatment at the hands of their fellow human beings. I felt as if my body was filled with the fear, pain, anger, and despair that surely permeated through this camp and soaked and stained each and every structure in this complex down to every stone on the ground. In fact, I could not keep myself from constantly gazing at the stones beneath my riding boots and imagining the raw bare feet of the prisoners whose lives meant so little to their cruel captors. One, two, three....30 thousand...sixty thousand devastated pairs of feet walking over these same stones, some for the first time, some for the last. It is almost too difficult to imagine, and certainly for me impossible to understand.
The memorial site is very well set up and it provides the visitor a pretty complete account of the history of Germany's first major concentration camp which became a model for all future Nazi concentration camps. We arrived at 2pm and were ushered out at closing time and I still could have spent another three hours there contemplating the enormity of the events that transpired in "that time" not so long ago...
It is difficult to talk about this visit without having the urge to go on and on about the whys and the hows but I will fight this urge and simply say that it is imperative that we learn from the lessons of our past and do everything possible to keep from making the same mistakes, because we are all part of the same human race.
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Portland came out hitting hard, and seemed to be going after Henrik Samuelsson. Were they doing it because he has a tendency to lose his cool and get suspended? Brad Ross said post game he doesn't target specific players. Noone except every skilled player in the Western Conference agrees with him.
|Photo: Andy Devlin
However our good vibes work both ways as Sven Bartschi tipped in a William Wren point shot after Marcel Noebels scored a power play goal and brought Portland within one.
The Kings had earlier taken a 2-0 lead thanks to a bull rush from the Moose Mitch Moroz. Martin Gernat put home the Moroz rebound for his 6th of the playoffs.
|Photo: Andy Devlin
|Photo: Andy Devlin
As for Edmonton as a whole, they weren't that crisp in game one, passes seemed to be off a bit, mistakes that we don't usually see were made, but that could be chalked up to nerves and not really knowing Portland like Moose Jaw, Brandon and Kootenay. The bright spot is they won and like after losing to Moose Jaw - they're only loss in the post season - they bounced back with a solid effort in game 5 of the Eastern Conference semi final.
Can't wait for puck drop tonight, full preview on Global Sports at 5 and 6 pm today.


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Dakota Fanning Joins 'New Moon' Cast
She Will Play Jane the Vampire
DAKOTA Fanning (pictured) will join Twilight's Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and company in the hit movie's highly anticipated sequel, New Moon.
Entertainment Tonight confirmed that Fanning, 15, will be sinking her teeth into the role of the young vampire, Jane, in the film which is scheduled to open shortly after Halloween on Nov. 20, 2009.
The sequel, based on the second book in author Stephenie Meyer's popular vampire series, will be directed by Chris Weitz. Fanning recently starred in The Secret Life of Bees and Push, and gave her voice to Coraline. She's currently negotiating to play lead singer Cheri Currie in "The Runaways," the biopic of the '70s all-girl band that has already booked Twilight star Kristen Stewart to play Joan Jett.


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Background and Qualifications
Dr. Mary Pat O'Malley-Keighran is a Lecturer in Speech and Language Pathology. She was formerly a lecturer in the School of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She has worked as a speech and language therapist with the Midland Health Board, the Children's Hospital in Temple Street, Dublin and the Specialist Education Services in Auckland, New Zealand. She has also worked as a clinical supervisor for speech and language therapists in training and as a research assistant in projects related to alternative and augmentative communication, Irish language acquisition (the Lesser Used Languages Project), and the International Corpus of Standard English. She completed an M.Litt. in 2001: Discourse, Silence, and Contemporary Childbirth Culture: Interaction at an Irish Midwives' Antenatal Clinic. She has recently been awarded her Ph.D.: 'To feel good you have to look good': representing women's experiences of cosmetic surgery and dermatology in Irish print and television media. University of Dublin, Trinity College.
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Her current research interests include: discourses of cosmetic enhancement in the Irish media, bilingualism, disability and the media (radio in particular, multiculturalism and speech and language therapy (attitudes and experiences), student attitudes to people with communication disorders, clinical interactions and language development and disorders of adolescence.
O'Malley, M.P. (2011). Exploring gender and power in clinical encounters. In Fourie, R. (ed). Therapeutic processes for communication disorders - a guide for clinicians and students. London: Psychology press.
Healy, J., Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P. & Antonijevic, S. (2010). Preparing health care workers for a bilingual and multicultural context: learning from an undergraduate speech and language therapy programme. Translocations, 6 (1) ( http://www.translocations.ie/volume6_issue1.html).
Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P., O'Connor, P. & Monaghan, U. (2010). 'It's just so lovely to hear him talking': Exploring the early-intervention expectations and experiences of parents. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010 26: 61-76.
O'Malley, M.P. (2010). 'So either you have a foetal monitor or you have your waters broken, basically is it?': Articulating maternity care policy at a midwives' ante-natal clinic. Language Policy, 9, 87-96.
O'Malley, M.P. (2009). Falling between frames: institutional discourse and disability in radio. Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 41(2), 346-356.
O'Malley, M.P. (2008). Voices of Disability on the Radio. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Volume 43, Supplement 1 pp. 18-29.
Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P., O.Connor, P. & Monaghan, U. (2008). "I assume that we wouldn't be interfering": parents' experiences of early intervention. Physical Therapy Reviews, 13, 2.
O'Malley, M.P. (2007). 'Any lumps or bumps up top?'. The discourse of midwifery. Teanga (22): 147-169 .
O'Malley, M.P. (2005). "Silence as a means of preserving the status quo: the case of ante-natal care in Ireland." Multilingua 24-1/2.
O'Malley, M.P. (2003). Mulling over Moldova - one therapist's experience. Update. (July 2003). Dublin: I.A.S.L.T.
O'Malley, M.P. (2008). "You do not know the dark places that we have been to": people who are visibly different and the media. Appearance Matters 3, The Cente for Appearance Research, University of West England, Bristol (July 2008).
Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P., O'Connor, P. & Monaghan, U. (2008). "I assume that we wouldn't be interfering"; parents' experiences of early intervention' 4th Rehabilitation Therapy and Research Society Annual Conference (RSCI Dublin- June 2008).
O'Malley, M.P. (2008). "I'm young inside and I wanted to feel young on the outside too". The construction of irish women's bodies in the media. Irish Association for Applied Linguistics IRAAL. Posgraduate Symposium, Applied Language Centre, UCD (May 2008).
O'Malley, M.P. (2007). Making the Body Beautiful. School of Health Sciences seminar series. NUI Galway (October 2007).
O'Malley, M.P. (2006). " 'Yes I am disabled, so what?' Radio, Discourse, and Disability." Presentation at the International Round Table Discussion on Clinical Disourse Perspective on Clinical Discourse: Means to ends in text and talk.' Wicklow, Ireland (May 2006).
O'Malley, M.P. (2005). " Any lumps or bumps up top?" Discourse & Silence in ante-natal Care. Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin (May 2005).
O'Malley, M.P. (2002). "Silence as a means of preserving the status quo: the case of ante-natal care in Ireland."8th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (July 2002).
O'Malley, M.P. (2002). "Redressing the balance - defining conversational activity at an ante-natal clinic from women's perspective." School of Nursing & Midwifery University of Dublin T.C.D Conference (November, 2002).


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This study is toe first documented account in the British Isles of an evaluation of the effectiveness of clientcentred counselling with young offenders in secure residential care. It is a test of Rogers' (1957) position on the 'necessary and sufficient' conditions of therapeutic personality change within a counselling relationship. Forty teenage male offenders, the subjects of Training School Orders, were randomly allocated in equal numbers to either an experimental or control group. Boys in the experimental group received weekly individual sessions of clientcentred counselling over a seven month period. Boys in the control group received no formal counselling but were shown to have similar intellectual, personality, socio-economic and criminal backgrounds to those in the experimental group. It was hypothesised that counselled subjects would show more positive outcomes than control subjects over a range of measures relating to criminal behaviour and self-conception. The results indicated that the counselled subjects had a significantly lower rate of offending and asrnauer range of offences over a mean follow-up period of 2.5 years. They were also licensed from the institution significantly earlier and spent less time in custody during a one year follow-up after counselling was completed. Self-conception measures gave less clear-cut results. The direction of change towards better adjustment favoured the counselled subjects but the magnitude was often small. Those counselled subjects with most positive behaviour change tended to have significantly improved self-evaluation, less self/ideal self discrepancy and more variation on 'actual' self concept compared to pre-counselling. The results are discussed in the context of client-centred t~eory, methodological adequacy of the experimental design, and their application to the future treatment of young offenders in secure residential care.
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Thanks to the internet, it is now easier than ever to earn an income. While many find themselves using the internet and other technologies to telecommute, there are other ways to earn a living with such tools. The rise of online entrepreneurship has enabled ideas to take form and flourish.
People who previously had no platform to make something of themselves and their ideas can now achieve their dreams. Moreover, the development of these ideas and the world of online entrepreneurship has benefited society as well.
Just about any business can be conducted online nowadays. Just ask Com Mirza, the self-made millionaire who started from the bottom and worked his way up. Through self-study and will, Chowdhry was able to start off working from his bedroom, and now offers consultation work for high profile clients.
If you have expertise or experience in any area, you can sell your services through an online platform. If you have an innovative idea, but lack the capital, you can have your idea crowd-funded. The opportunities are endless. You can be your own boss.
Online entrepreneurship is particularly useful because it significantly cuts down all your costs. You do not need a physical location for your business, and you can work from the comfort of your own home as you will rarely need to travel. Moreover, by conducting your business online, you can reach a much wider audience, opening up more opportunities for you and for your potential clients.
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Friday, September 29, 2006
White Post
My favorite white boy, Matthew McConahsomething, looks horrid in the pics above! I never, ever want to see him like this again. Totally ruins all of my Something New fantasies...
Anna Nicole Smith
You may not know this, but I have always liked Anna Nicole Smith. I watched her reality show and I've quietly supported her quest for millions. I feel so sad that her son recently passed away due to a methadone overdose. How can she truly enjoy her new daughter? As a mother of one son, my heart really aches for her.
Good thing she's got her lawyer/possible baby daddy by her side. They recently exchanged vows before God although they didn't have an official ceremony. (story here) Although Howard K. Stern (the lawyer not the skinny faced former shock jock) says he's the father, another man also claims to be the little girl's dad. It's very easy to prove paternity and end the speculation. Yes - I, too, am thinking that Anna don't know who her baby daddy is.
Pam's Peni-Nipple
Pamela Anderson Lee had a slip up, and the photographer caught her boob.
Yuck. What the hell is that?
All of this time, THAT'S what's been under her clothes? This changes my whole Pamela Anderson Lee thought process.
*Sick titty*
Black Ty Scares Me
Click here to download Tyrese's AKA Black Ty's mixtape, "Ghetto Royalty".
TYRESE has an amazing singing voice. I hate that he couldn't find the success he wanted in R&B and had to thug up for you hoes.
All About Beyonce
I aint answering that.
Another Beyonce post - and I aint apologizing.
Tina Knowles abruptly ended an interview about their clothing line when the interviewer asked why the damn clothes don't fit. Apparently anything deemed "negative" can't be discussed in them Knowles interviews.
Click on the pic above to watch the interview.
Also, everyone is saying that Beyonce was drunk HERE and in the pictures below. You know, maybe she was. Or maybe it was all staged to make her appear normal and not so camera-ready all the time. Nah, I'd put my money on the Alize.
Note: For those who hate Beyonce - I am NOT on your team. I'm a tried and true Beyonce Stan. I'm just saying.
Getting in the car...
In the car...
Gone! (With a run in her hose...)
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Sad news: Condolences to the Simmons Family
Rev. Run issued the following statement earlier today:
On September 26, 2006, Victoria Anne Simmons for some unknown reason chose to come early and unfortunately did not survive. We must accept whatever is there and once you accept unconditionally, then everything is beautiful. Every pain has a purifying effect.
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Is It Hate?
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Being Busted Bobby
Bobby Brown recently asked a television show to pay him with a car. Yes, he wanted them to pay him with some wheels instead of some bills.
"When he asked for a car, we actually thought he meant for us to book him car service, and I told the producers to set it up," the show's executive producer, Datari Turner, told the Daily News. "But then I was told that he actually wanted us to buy him a car!"
"I was open to it at first and wanted to know what price range he was lookign for, because for the standard appearance fee we could have gotten him a 1997 Ford Expo or maybe a 1995 Pathfinder," Datari said. "Maybe even a month long rental car. But we knew he wanted something new, so we had to pass on booking him."
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T.I. Owens Attempts Suicide...or Not?
Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens said Wednesday that he did not try to commit suicide by overdosing on pain medication, as had been reported earlier.
(story here)
I smell SPIN.
I don't mean to be morbid or cruel, but it's not hard to take some pills and just be by yourself for a few hours. If he attempted suicide just to get attention—his way of "reaching out" for help—there's a much easier method. Just talk and save yourself the embarrassment of looking like a heathen who aint scared of HELL.
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Eddie Murphy and his gal, Melanie Brown aka Scary Spice
Beyonce's Milk Ad with her Mother
The dresses really don't go with the mustaches.
Beyonce is making all kinds of money...
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Beyonce Gets Booed
Superstar Beyoncé Knowles was booed by the audience at the Mobo Awards despite being the biggest winner of the night.
The US singer bagged three out of the four Mobo gongs she was nominated for, including best international female, best song and best video.
But even the lure of her favourite fried chicken and a £10,000 goodie bag couldn't get her there.
Singer Mica Paris, who was presenting the Bootylicious star with the best international female award, joked that the singer's absence meant that she could take the gong home.
Afterwards, she slammed Beyoncé's no-show. She said: "Sometimes you do get tired of people who get awarded that don't turn up and Mobo need to look at that.
"Stop giving awards to people who don't turn up."
#1 - why in the hell were they serving FRIED chicken? Because this is a black award? I wouldn't have attended either. Who wants to get chicken grease on an evening gown???
#2 - aint none.
Whitney in "US Weekly"
"Getting sober has given her the clarity to move on from him," a source close to Houston tells Us. Adds another source close to the couple, "After all these years, she cleaned up and got smart. She didn't need him and realized it." (Reps for Houston and Brown had no comment.)
I also hear that Bobby feels saddened by the news. Perhaps if he woud have prevented his fresh-outta-rehab sister from taking pictures of his wife's crack bathroom, she wouldn't have left him.
I'm usually on Bobby's side. I know I was his last bonefied fan. But, I'm sick of Bobby. He can't get that mouth fixed; I've seen his alien feet (I'm a foot person); and, now he's living off of Superhead. This is as sober and sane as Bobby will ever get - and that's not saying much. I hope Whitney does get it together and moves on. Bye Bye Bobbyyyyyyy!
It huuuuurt to say that!
Elise Neal Presents ASSORTED FLAVORS
ELISE NEAL has a sexy girl group called Assorted Flavors. They're a more ethnic Pussy Cat Dolls. Cute.
(from Sister 2 Sister mag)
DMX: She raped me. I mean, you know, that might sound like some bullshit. No man has ever been...You know what I mean, like never? Is that the only thing in he world that's not possible? Because when I sleep my "man " be out. So sometimes you have a baby sitter there so your man can have get some p---. She get in the car, I have to flirt with her and it's like a'ight, just leave it here, dawg, you know? I was out. I was up the day before. I had drunk, did a whole video shoot. I go back to the room, they had some broads, you know what I'm saying? They wanted to get up on 'em. Just put her on the couch. I don't give a f---, you know what I'm saying? I'm going to sleep, with my clothes on.
Jamie: Put her on the couch?
DMX: Yea, like, have a seat in the living room. I have a suite. So, you know what I'm saying, sit your ass right there...
The article continues, and Tashera pipes in to say that she believes him.
Tashera: I know him like a book and when she walked up to us, you can tell he never seen her before. He was like, oh sure. Because for one, if it was somebody he was dealing with he would have never pulled me in.
She makes about as much sense as he does. He had seen the girl before b/c he told his boys to put her on the couch. And what's this talk about not "pulling her in"? Apparently, Tashera knows her man's M.O. when talking to other chics - and she accepts it!
Later he says of his adoring wife:
DMX: First of all, in our relationship, I'm the smart one and she's not the smart one. Blew me away when she told me...[blah blah blah]...
I'm insulted even if she's not. I want to hate Tashera, but I can't because I don't definitively know if she's mildly retarded or not. For this reason, I'll with hold judgment.
And I'm wondering about X's definition of "rape". Does he mean that the woman had sex with him while he was out of it (high)? If so, we can probably deduce that every sexual encounter he has is a rape.
Game/Foxy Brown/Marques Houston (<--LOL)
Don't put my son in your records. That's all I was saying to the dude. He said something like he did that and he can't take nothin' back. And he said, "I'm Ras Kass and I'm out here." Before he could finish the "e", the "r", and the "e" in "here", he was laying flat on the fuckin' ground, man.
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FOXY BROWN IS BROKE. Read about it here...
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There are too many things going thru my head (and obviously his, too) right now. If ever there were an appropriate time to say "not a good look", this is it.
To think... I was a Marques Houston fan until the moment I saw this. Can there be a comeback? I don't even think Puff could come back after something like this. Speaking of...
Puff's sexiness seems to be reaching an all-time low on the 'net. He's still The Man in pictures and music, but he shows a side of himself that I promise you I didn't want to see on his MySpace page. The Proactive one is pretty wild, but the VMA clip is pretty scary too.
Click here to see the videos.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Condi Got a Man!
"Something else I've learned about Secretary Rice is she loves the cool Atlantic breezes here in Nova Scotia, and she left the window open last night," MacKay said to reporters.
Rice said that MacKay had taken her to meet his parents the night before.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, however, was quick to deny any romantic interludes between Rice and MacKay.
"She has a good working relationship, professional relationship, with Foreign Minister MacKay and a lot of her counterparts," he said.
Nevertheless, the blogosphere has been awash with theories of a romance of global proportions. "Question is," one posting said, "is he taking his title of Minister of Foreign Affairs a little too literally?" [Story Here]
What's up? Is Condi trying to defy everything that we know her to be by being... normal? Is she actually digging another man besides Dubya??
I'm glad Condi's having a love life. It will keep her at an even keel and hopefully make her heart fill with peace so she can convince her lover-boss to convince his boss to free the troops!
PIMP C Speaks on East Coast Rappers
Now what else is a pimp supposed to say?
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Lil Fizz feat. Missez - Fluid
Wouldn't normally post this, but I'd like it if I were 16. Bow Wow better get a growth spurt.
Carmen: Author, Baby Mama, Ho, Ho, Ho
Ok, here's the deal: Carmen is a ho. But because she had a kid for Nas, she's managed to fool herself that, somehow, being passed around isn't ho-ish. In her mind, every escapade was a love affair.
Jennifer Lopez got around before settling down with that wilderbeast Marc Anthony. But she seemed to get a ring each time she was rang. Not to mention a couple of devotional songs from ya boy Diddy. Newsflash to Carmen: when a man raps about knocking you down and leaving the rubber in the baby seat, that aint no love story.
Then she says:
In the middle of Round 4, Allen asked, "Nas ever tell you you got some good stuff?" What?
Watching her attempt at making the ho-scapades sound meaningful is downright funny. I can't completely hate on Carmen, either. Them boys dissed her on wax. What is she supposed to do? That she waited five years past the date of interest to respond is irrelevant.
I like when people do things fully - good or bad - and, while Carmen didn't play the game well enough to be in Kelis' place (or, even in Beyonce's), ya girl did restrict her sleeping around to celebs. You get a point for that, right?
Or, at least some real child support.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
I Know You Want a Piece of My Chicken...
I spotted this at C&D today and had to post it. Man, this is funny. The hot pepper....aw, that was me...LOL
He/she cracks me up with the, "You hear me..."
Now see, if you're going to get ignorant get ignorant. I appreciate this. There were no limits. Cooking fried chicken outside. Kids. Long nails. If you are going to snap and pop and make a fool out of yourself, do that all the way. No complaints here.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Being Bobby Brown...Without Whitney
Whitney and Dionne look like sisters. Who's the oldest?
Anyway. I'm tired and over-worked, but I had to do a quick post about my favorite couple. Whitney and Bobby are calling it quits. It's everywhere: Associated Press, CNN, ABC, UK News, everywhere.
To tell you the truth, I don't believe it. Sure, Superhead is supposed to be living with Bobby, and Bobby's been saying that he's left his wife, but they aren't going to break up. I refuse to believe it. They'll get back together.
Why is Whitney looking so old? Poor Whitney. That shit will make a pretty woman understand the average woman's plight. No matter how much money you have, crack will crack you up. She looks like any other newly cleaned up crackhead (I say that in all respect). It's in the eyes, the plump cheeks, the careless make up covering only God knows what... Whit's looking like the women you see going to rehab meetings every few days. I hope she stays clean. And I pray - pray - Bobby gets that mouth straightened out.
If you don't know who Superhead is, CLICK HERE to see her doing her thing. WARNING: This is very graphic and not suitable for work (or a first date).
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Damned if that Asian kid don't look just like Tom and Katie!
Now, that's a pretty baby, I can't even front.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
KELIS feat. NAS - BLINDFOLD ME
Couples either sizzle or fizzle onscreen together. Nas and Kelis are definitely not fizzling. I could say a lot about this video, but I don't want to appear obsessive, gay, deranged, or perverted.
Due to the fact that I've already posted too much about the "light skinned chic from Destiny's Child", I won't make the obvious comparison.
Nas and Kelis win.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
More Kids for Puff
Making a baby is the easiest thing anyone can do, so it's never been "hot news" to me. Still, click on the picture above to check out Puffy's Myspace page for a special announcement from him and Kim Porter. Really, it's an announcement from Puff b/c Kim doesn't say anything other than "Champion!" at the end.
Funny, I thought Puff was going to announce an engagement. Right.
BEYONCE - Live from Budokan
Click above to see Beyonce performing songs (live in Japan) from B'Day. She's also singing DC songs and songs from Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, etc.
I've ducked, dodged, and hid from the word. But there it remains. Lurking. Popping in and out of my consciousness everytime I hear "Deja Vu" or "Ring the Alarm".
OVERKILL. The problem with Overkill is that, unless you are Yolanda Adams, there will be times when people may wonder, "Can she really sing?" By being everywhere, all the time, Beyonce gives us too many chances to examine every aspect of her talent. We begin to wonder if she is "that good".
Of course Beyonce can sing. But, does she sing well enough to play on the radio everyday? For the past 5 or 6 years? I mean, I can go days without hearing Usher, and he made the best RnB album of this era. As brash and arrogant as he can be, Usher Raymond knows when to get out of the public eye. In other words, when to go "sit the hell down". My mother always told me not to wear out my welcome. Did Tina Knowles tell Beyonce?
The AOL performance is cool, but I didn't appreciate the echo behind "A Song for You". That song is made to be heard clearly. It's a poignant tune, and the never-ending echo ruined it for me. The CD is pretty good, though. Upgrade U needs to hit the radio. Love it.
Dear Beyonce,
You're beautiful. You're polite, mannerable, and raised well. You're talented, and we admire your drive and desire to work. We are so proud to have you representing Houston. But, Sweetie, we're going to need you to relax after Dreamgirls. OK, Puddin'? Just take a looong break and sit back and watch the world. Get some none show business experiences. See how much we'll miss you. LET us miss you. Now Beyonce, after the Grammy's next year, we don't want to see you until at least 2008. If you're REALLY the shyt, you'll make us wait until 2009.
Your Fans
*BONUS* Beyonce's Interview with Hot 97's Angie Martinez - worth a listen
**Second BONUS** Beyonce speaks to Ellen about marriage and kids and retiring at 30. (video)
"Flavor of Love" SPOILER
Flave: "Can I ask you a question? Where the fukk did your accent go?!" Buckwild should have taken Paul Wall's Black Dialect 101.
And if you listen closely, you will also hear Flava give Beautiful (sp?) the ax because of her lack of aggression - and that cold sore. UGH.
Monday, September 4, 2006
Back to Work on Tuesday
Well, God blessed me with a new job. I'd been on "vacation" for six months after a departmental lay off. We were told that our division would be sold on March 3, 2006 -- and we were laid off on March 6, 2006. I copied aaaall of my music to CD's and walked out the door a happy camper.
I chilled as hard as possible during my lay off. I spent many lazy mornings at the park, working on my stage play. I traveled. I talked to friends that I never seemed to have time for. I stayed awake until the sun came up, and stayed asleep until afternoon. I stopped being embarrassed at being seen in non-work attire at 10:00 in the morning. I started to understand how people can get lazy.
Then, I looked up and seven year's worth of severance was gone. The 401(k) had dried up, and Unemployment ...is for the the unemployed. The maximum you can receive is $700 every two weeks in the state of Texas. So there I was: nearly broke and spending every dime on bills. I even thought about selling cocaine out the back of the ride.
Damn, why did I race through that money??
Then, my aunt recommended I get FOOD STAMPS. I thought about it and shuffled my way to the food stamp office. I considered wearing slippers to look the part; then I reached in my pocket and pulled out 15 cents and realized I already fit the part.
Until my lay off, I'd somewhat looked down on welfare recipients and unemployed people. I didn't want to be this way, but I couldn't help it. "Just get a job!" was my response to the despondent. I couldn't understand how people could accept handouts instead of working. I thought people should settle for any job until they found the right job. But, here I was: tired, on food stamps, and hesitant to give up my free days. Free days, dammit!
The welfare office jarred me back to reality. Stepping inside that place was worse than stepping in a gay bar. I didn't want to run into ANY body I knew. But, of course I did. The first person I saw was the brother of a good friend. He greeted me like we were in Hawaii on vacation. "Heeey Smokie! So good to see you! What have you been up to?" Inside I screamed, "Where is this grown man's SHAME???" Mine was smake dab across my forehead in blinking red letters: "ON WELFARE -- CRACK IS NEXT".
I ran into a girl I knew and her 4 kids. Yes, her man was in tow, freshly braided, and probably waiting on that steak dinner they'd have later. I tried to hide from Shamika, but she spotted me and raced over, "Hey girl....these fools up here keep you waiting. But I need my benefits. When do you get your benefits?"
I don't remember what I said outloud, but I could only think, "Bitch, move around with all that welfare office banter."
I listened to the mindless chatter among the regulars, and knew this was like jail: some place you wind up in, but never want to return. It wasn't the needing help that bothered me. Anyone can need help. But, it was the defeat hanging in the air. From the girls with all the weave and kids -- to the low wage beasts behind the desk. I sat there and absorbed it all while I waited 7 hours for my $279/month food stamp card. Success and defeat in the same moment.
I went online job hunting after I left the foodstamp office. I won't lie and say that I sent resumes to 50 companies a day because I didn't. I did pray for a well paying job that I'd enjoy. Something not too hard, so that I could focus on my own projects.
When my aunt started throwing around "Section 8" hints, I signed up with a temporary agency. I was even reduced to receptionist work for one day. I swallowed my pride and walked into a beautiful office in the richest neighborhood in Houston just to answer the phones. Oh well.
I'm a Proposal Writer (not a Grant Writer) by profession, so I'd never answered phones before, but I did an excellent job. I didn't enjoy taking packages at the front desk, but the work was mindless and there was no overtime. It was actually kind of fun talking to different people all day. I started thinking of the pros of being a receptionist, and I'd convinced myself that it had benefits. As a Proposal Writer, I sometimes worked until midnight if a deadline loomed. However, the girl at the front desk leaves at 5:00 pm, sharp.
So, I patiently looked for jobs. And, I put the word out that I wanted to do some light editing or word processing. I knew my pay would be reduced, but I figured that I'd look for a better paying job after getting fully re-acclimated into Corporate America. I dreaded the daily grind and wanted to ease back into it.
Then, the company I'd done the receptionist work for called me to interview for a permanent position with them. As a receptionist? Hell no. I'll be working as a Personal Writer for a very wealthy family in the Houston area. The gorgeous office holds only SIX employees and parking is right our front. All I have to do is handle correspondence for this family. I'll be making MORE than I made at my previous job to compensate for the "boredom". Ha haaa, little do they know how much time we spend on the Internet.
This lay off taught me about humility. Taught me to do the best job possible, in whatever situation. Taught me that anyone can get down on their luck at anytime. It also taught me to lean heavily on God because he ALWAYS has a plan.
50 Cent vs. Puffy
50 Cent - The Bomb
Puff - I'm Richer, Bitch
Apparently, 50 and LL are new "best friends".
LL said he's siding with 50 because he's unhappy with the way Def Jam is handling its projects. He said the company's music "gotta be a lot better." New York's Daily News reported Friday (September 1) that LL was heard taking Def Jam President/ CEO Jay-Z to task during the VMAs. "I think Def Jam needs to be a better promoter of hip-hop," the rapper reportedly griped. "I think Jay-Z does a very good job ... of promoting Jay-Z." (more here)
Ouch. I wouldn't mind an "LL vs. Jay-Z".
VMA's = B-b-boring!
I know that JLo didn't perform and wasn't even in the running, but this pic of her describes what I felt about the VMA's... super boring. All of those rock/pop/whatever performances bored me to tears. I didn't even like the dudes on the treadmills. Is that the best you can do?
Although PerezHilton.com can't stop comparing Beyonce's performance to Britney Spears' stiff performance on the 2003 AMA's, I thought Bey did a great job. She always gives a show. Love her or hate her, she's entertaining. "What!"
And who does Kanye think he's fooling? This girl is NOT his fiancee. She's a prop. A mad prop, at that. I hope he's paying her good money to quiet down those "John Legend & Kanya West sittin in a tree...." rumors.
R.I.P. "Crocodile Hunter"
Steve Irwin AKA Crocodile Hunter was killed when a stingray barb punctured his heart during underwater filming off northeastern Australia.
"He came over the top of a stingray and the stingray's barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said the ebullient Irwin's longtime producer John Stainton, who was with him at the time on Monday.
"It's likely that he possibly died instantly when the barb hit him, and I don't think that he ... felt any pain," a tearful Stainton told reporters in the city of Cairns. "He died doing what he loved best." (more here)
How I loved watching the Crocodile Hunter. The first time I saw him, I was like, "No way...", but then I realized he was serious 'bout it. A very passionate and entertaining man, indeed.


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Mar 28, 2017
Santa Barbara, Calif. -- The DePauw women's tennis team defeated Westmont 7-2 on Tuesday to start their spring break trip with a win.
DePauw (6-4) started the match by sweeping doubles play. Maddie Lee and Gretchen Wilder won 8-5; Alyssa Seneviratne and Meredith Breda won 8-1; and Megan Galle and Sarah Wilder won 8-4.
Westmont (2-13) took the first and second flights in singles action. Ali Bush then won at No. 3 singles 6-2, 7-6 (7-1).
At No. 4 singles Colleen Morris won 6-1, 6-3. At No. 5 Seneviratne won 6-1, 6-2, and at No. 6 Galle won 6-1, 6-0.
DePauw will return to action Wednesday to face Gustavus Adolphus.


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Friday, November 30, 2012
Friday's Letters
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Our Mila
If you are one of my dearest faithful followers, you've seen this little lady around the blog a few times or more than enough. She is the newest addition to all of the many animals we have since we established our little family in June, me and garrett just love her to pieces. From the very moment we saw her poofy white butt come from the animal clinics door straight from getting her first shot into our arms. Every lover of fur babies in that vet office wanted to take her home with them, but they couldn't have this little blessing, she was meant to be cared for by us. You would think she was a human baby the way I go on and on about her, could you imagine me with one of those!? The earth will literally stop spinning when that blessed day comes upon us! What can i say, "my heart is too big for my chest, i can't deny".
Word: Every newlywed couple needs a fur baby around. **You must be a lover of animals of course, keep that in mind. Animals are not for everyone i suppose. Boy, that sounded like a caption before a gorey ER reality show didn't it!?
They are so loveable, i've actually found they bring me and my husby closer in a way, does that sound silly? But it's because we both find so much joy just by loving her and having her around, not that we get bored just the two of us, that isn't ever an issue ; )
Without her we wouldn't have mila pancakes or a starving "hammy whammy" who is a lover of all things ham and is now the shape of a perfectly round ham bone from eating way too much of it. Who would I trust to lick up my droppings from the floor while cooking every night, without her around I would depend solely on a broom then and I don't like my broom! Our carpet runner on the stairs would never come unstapled without her running back and forth like a crazy wild cat!
And even though she does like digging in the trash like the practical dog,
i we would not trade her for the world!
So are you a crazy cat/dog lady like myself? I bet you are! Tell me about your furbabies, I would love to hear!!
Happy Tuesday Friends!
Monday, November 26, 2012
Our First Thanksgiving!
Hi friends!
Thanksgiving has come and gone, it's true
I sure hope your Thanksgiving holiday was as great as ours
and I don't know about your family but we are still dopey from all the turkey eatin'!
It's so funny to me how that stuff makes you sooo sleepy
there's nothing like it, it's a good thing we only eat it once a year though
otherwise i would be a total slum for the rest of my life
I wasn't much help either with pine strawing the flower beds with husby
i used the turkey as an excuse card for my slackage
i'm usually a beast at flower beds
ask husb
i'm usually a beast at flower beds
ask husb
On the way to husbys mamaws for thanksgiving
we talked about how thanksgiving and other holidays
just seem to be routine nowadays, it's so much different now i guess because we are living in adult land
But don't you remember those days when you just couldn't wait for each holiday to roll around
it seemed like it took forever then and now it's here at a blink of the eye!
It made me think of my childhood, I was very blessed to have such a great one
and even though our families have sadly drifted apart since then, we still have all of those
wonderful memories in our heart, and it's so nice to look back on them every now and then
..it makes you proud of where you came from..
Afterwards we made a trip to my grandmas
Me and my mama went through a-lot of old, old pictures together
Me and my mama went through a-lot of old, old pictures together
Pictures from when my pawpaw was in the war, i even saw a few of his old girlfriends
Grandma didn't seem to mind, she just giggled and smirked that she had a few of her own past boyfriends photo's as well hidden away
Oh and those two photos i'm holding up there, that's me!
Those two photographs capture my childhood, just perfectly
There i am as a little girl with balloons i possibly snatched from a past family reunion's decorated table
i, assume
i, assume
wet with sweat from running around giggling and playing in my over worn disney outfit
those were the days
Last night me and husby picked out our first christmas tree together
We found this little guy laying on his side among all the other trees that stood proudly
and we like to think we saved his life in a way
We found this little guy laying on his side among all the other trees that stood proudly
and we like to think we saved his life in a way
I plan to cut the bottom from the tree for a keepsake ornament to look back on
thank goodness for pinterest and it's great ideas
who woulda thought to do that otherwise?
Husby did great stringing the tree with lights, i'm the absolute worst at it
And that is no turkey excuse for slackage, i really lack that talent
And that is no turkey excuse for slackage, i really lack that talent
thank goodness for a husby with skills, eh?
Mila superslept while we bedazzled the tree
and wifey had a little too much fun with the sparkly icicles!
Happy Monday Lovelies!
and wifey had a little too much fun with the sparkly icicles!
Happy Monday Lovelies!
Friday, November 23, 2012
Have You Heard!?
So a few short days ago, i received an email from the CEO of this new social networking site called "StoryLane". I don't know if any of you have received his emails offering benefits for your blog but at first glance i huffed and racked out the word "Spam". It just smelled a bit fishy at first, but i have got to tell ya, after i used my nose, i found that it is actually a real site, with real people who write awesome, uplifting, inspiring stories like myself and it's not a spam! It's a great website, if you are as passionate about writing as i am! And here's the plus guys, you can even import your blogs which means what?? Great Blog Exposure!!
Follow my StoryLane here:
Happy Friday!!
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
A Guest Post Wednesday!
Hi there faithful readers! Since i am preoccupied deciding on what color paint to do my dining room in today ( you understand, right? it's a big decision!) , i thought.. why not have a guest!? Don't you worry i will be back shortly, you won't miss me a bit though after you see what i have in store for you today! You remember me telling you about my super cool glam cara box partner Kiki from her blog Glammed By Tarin, don't you!? Well allow her to introduce herself, here she is ladies, meet the fabulous Kiki !
How are you?! I'm fabulous as always
I'm Kiki and I blog over at Glammed by Tarin! There you can find my personal ramblings about fashion, life, being a wife, and most of all my shopping addiction! I live in a town
Well since tomorrow is thanksgiving let's talk about what I usually wear on this fatty holiday! To me there is nothing better than being cute and comfy! I mean honestly speaking who doesn't love being cute and comfy! On thanksgiving to me comfy means stretchy stretchy stretchy! This year I will most likely be wearing a sweater dress/wrap with leggings! I want to be able to stuff my face without having to feel like I have to unbutton my pants and for me that means I'm wearing leggings! Below are some looks similar to the ones that I will be wearing this thanksgiving. Like I said before cute and comfy!
Thanksgiving by kikitarin featuring an oversized cardigan
Oversized cardigan
BKE lace top
People Tree blue tank
$32 - peopletree.co.uk
$32 - peopletree.co.uk
Oasis black skinny pants
$51 - johnlewis.com
$51 - johnlewis.com
Footless tight
$3.18 - fashionunion.com
$3.18 - fashionunion.com
Not Rated tan leather boots
Brown leather shoulder bag
$250 - theiconic.com.au
$250 - theiconic.com.au
Balenciaga handbag
MICHAEL Michael Kors michael kor
Michael kors jewelry
Marie Chavez collar necklace
Not Rated Wild Child - Grey
What will you guys be rocking this thanksgiving?
I hope you all have a fabulous Wednesday and if you have some extra time check out my blog! Until next time
Well there you have it guys, isn't she great!? Special thanks to Kiki for guest posting on my blog today, and to my readers, don't be shy, go follow along with her on her blog as well!
Note: Since i didn't want to take away from Kiki's guest post today, word to the {newly} wife will continue next wednesday so be sure to link up those posts!
What will you guys be rocking this thanksgiving?
I hope you all have a fabulous Wednesday and if you have some extra time check out my blog! Until next time
Well there you have it guys, isn't she great!? Special thanks to Kiki for guest posting on my blog today, and to my readers, don't be shy, go follow along with her on her blog as well!
Note: Since i didn't want to take away from Kiki's guest post today, word to the {newly} wife will continue next wednesday so be sure to link up those posts!
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
November Cara Box Swap!
So i'm super pumped to introduce my sweet, sweet cara box partner Kiki, she blogs over at Glammed By Tarin and i have to tell you.. this girl has serious style! Any girl with as much style as her has to work at a fabulous clothing boutique right? And so she does! She is also a Mary Kay consultant, is she miss thang or what!? She is a lovely Latina lady with a great personality and outlook on life, she is so carefree and fun, i seriously feel like i have known her my whole entire life..! And like myself, she is a newlywed as well, which i just LOVED! It's so nice to have friends who are also newlyweds, and we have swapped a few funny stories as well!
So what about my box of goodies!? Aren't they the cutest!? Wouldn't you love to get a little package like this at your door step every month! Of course, you would!! I was so pleased with every gift she picked out for me, especially the chocolates she packed for me (even though Mila took off running with my last yummy Ferrero Rocher) ,oh and that beautiful yellow scarf.. it's wrapped around me as we speak! But the most beautiful part, was the heart felt letter she included.. and that is what the cara box exchanged is all about, finding a beloved friend! She will forever be my beloved friend and i was so blessed to have been paired with her! She is such a sweet person, so go check out her blog now, i insist! : )
Happy Tuesday Lovelies!
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
word to the {newly} wife wednesday!
word to the {newly} wife:
ladies, always dig in your husbys pant pockets before loading the washing machine
i never thought he would actually pay me to wash his clothes!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Treasured Trinkets
I am a bit of a sentimentalist i suppose, although i'm not sure that's even a word in the american language, sentimental in a way that little things cleave close to my heart, so close that i would not take any amount of money for these little things i have, because they are so dear to me. So today i am sharing only a few ( in no particular order) of my treasured trinkets, because the rest are mine, all mine.
1. keepsake boxes:
these two treasure boxes sit right beside our bed
they are filled with wedding cards full of love, bows and colorful
ribbons from our showers, wedding napkins/invitations etc..
along with just enough room for other
keepsakes along the road.
2. wedding albums:
i LOVE our wedding photo's
they are so beautiful and capture just what i
wanted them to:
that being
the love me and garrett have for each other
it shines on every photo
i will always look back on them and smile
3. wedding broach:
my mama bought this pretty little pin for
our wedding cake, i keep it on our
dresser top and see it every day.
4. geode:
garrett brought this to me just before
he proposed to me. i told him the night
he gave it to me he would have to give
me another diamond in exchange
to get it back from me,
and he did.
5. golden snowflake necklace:
this necklace was my mow mow's
i like to wear it every now and then
in remembrance of her.
we were so close.
6. knife and fork set:
i stole these on our honeymoon at
jim-n-nicks because they magnetized
instantly when i went to pick them up to
begin eating. can you really blame me
for stealing them? i wrapped a blue
ribbon around them and they now lay
in my treasure box beside our bed.
7. my wedding rings:
i LOVE my diamonds
garrett could not have picked a more perfect ring
and i will always cherish it so, so much
i also love his as well, seeing his ring on that finger
gives me the love goosies everytime!
8. natchez:
it is where our love for each other began
so of course it has to be displayed in our home.
we love natchez
9. my collection of good reads:
i love books, but only certain kinds
meaningful books full of passion and life
and i love poetry, i also like to write it
on a whim.
10. golden musical bracelet:
i've had this little bracelet since i can remember
i used to wear it religiously, i just adore it.
So now that i have shared my little things, what are yours? I would love to know what treasures you keep near the heart!
Sunday, November 11, 2012
i'm cheetah-licious
Hi friends, it's a lazy sunday afternoon here at the smith casa, sundays are always so nice, aren't they? Want to know what Mrs. Smith is doing: i'm just sitting pretty beside the wall heater with my trusty new cheetah slippers drinking cranberry juice from a wine glass. Classy i. Who says wine is the only drink intended for such a glass? Although wine is good for the soul, i'm all out of cupcake wine so here's a toast to pure 100 percent cranberry delight, which is good for my kidneys. Kidneys are indeed important, ya know!
fyi: i don't believe i have expressed my deep love for cheetah slippers and such
so today is national cheetah slipper day at the smiths
Since sunday's are the bacon to my grease, i need to make this post a little simple, you won't mind eh? I have to give a big shout out to all my pals who awarded me "The Liebster Award". I was just awarded the award not long ago, but it humbles me that you guys actually like what i write here, so i have to express my undying gratitude. So here's a Big Thank You to: Nicole and Dan @ Grub n Marriage, Karla @ Forever Newly Wedded, and Katie @ Mr.& Mrs. Smith! Don't be shy, go take a lookie at their bloggy woggy, you won't be sorry, these ladies rock!
Happy Sunday!
Friday, November 9, 2012
Yummy {Homemade} Potato Soup
Yummy { Homemade} Potato Soup:
snatch up a few potatoes that fit your fancy
1 or 1/2 stalk of celery
1 cup of milk ( keep it handy though you will need more)
1/4 cup of cream cheese
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp garlic powder
bacon bits ( if you like)
2 chicken buollion cubes
a handful of shredded cheese
place cut-up potatoes in a large boiler, just barely covering them with water
cut up your celery; add them too then add your butter
tell your buds to sit there a while until they are good and mushy
{ i talk to my food}
take a spoon and mush them even more
add your milk, chicken cubes, salt and pepper, cream cheese, and
shredded cheese, garlic powder and bacon bits
then add your flour, it should begin to thicken now
mine tended to thicken up real quick, so i just kept adding milk
until it was the consistency i wanted
and presto!! i think that's what the pro's say!
Happy Cooking!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
word to the {newly} wife wednesday:
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Happy Wife Happy Life!
Am i right, ladies? Can i get an "Amen!" for that clever post title?! It doesn't take much to make this little wifey happy though, Garrett could bring me home an 89. cent pack of Gummie Bears and i would think i was the queen herself! Today, i thought i would share my thankfulness in clips instead of spilling spaghetti o's from my subconsciousness for you to read through. Great wording ,eh?, kind of gross in the same way though.. Let's just us carry on why don't we?...
# 1: I am thankful for my incredibly handsome, smart, caring, hardworking, big hearted husby of mine.
He takes such good care of me, I say that often, I say it because it's true.
I couldn't imagine life without him.
#2: I'm thankful for our beautiful marriage
It's hard to believe June came and went so fast
We will always have the sweet remembrance of that
very special day
I'm also thankful to my parents, friends, and family
for the time and money
they spent on every wedding detail
#3: I'm thankful for the little moments we have together after the day is over
Coming home to my husby is my favorite part of the day
#4: I'm thankful Garrett loves the swivel swifter so much
Sweeping isn't my favorite part of the day
Thank you husby for cleaning up after my messy cooking
#5: I'm thankful to officially be done with my dental assisting ce hours for
this year after procrastinating until the very last minute
#6: I'm thankful my kitchen sink did not runneth over
after someone left popcorn kernals in the sink
someone, as in me
#7: I'm thankful for this happy little doggy, Tobey
I remember bringing him to Garrett for his birthday
He loves him
#8: I'm thankful for my partner in crime in the kitchen kitty, Mila
Flour-Staches are as normal as Milk-Staches in this familia
She's always licking up my messes from the floor
#9: I'm thankful that my first attempt of Homemade Potato Soup was a
Recipe to come!
And to think i almost forgot this one:
my newest obsession
..bob marley, eric clapton, janis joplin, the stones..
i have them all right at my ear tips
life is good when you have pandora
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and it's so easy for me to be thankful for so many things, it's easy for me to lift my head up toward God and whisper a thank-you, but do i put my Thanksgiving to practice on a daily basis? Isn't that what He really wants me to do anyway? & Do i really need all of these things that i own, big or small? Do i share my abundance with the world around me?
Yes, I am thankful for my good health, but do i look to my left to help another who is weary? Yes, I am thankful to be living life quite comfortably, but when i see someone who is not, do i spare a dollar? Yes, I am thankful to be living in a free country, but do i judge those who have a different view on life than i?
We spend too much time dwelling on what we have, what we want, and what we think we need in life. We focus on the days ahead of us, instead of the day in which we have, so are we really living? We forget that we are only human, and this world we build around us, isn't truly ours to claim, to profit, to boast about. Have we forgotten it was made solely to share?
I have a deep love for all things in the purest of all beautiful, and John Lennon's song "Imagine" is it. He's a dreamer and i am proud to join him, because i am too. There are many songs among us, and each song touches a different heart at a different time, but this song should hit the worlds heart as one, if we could all make his song reality instead of imaginary, the world would truly be a better place. Turn his tune on the radio, close your eyes, and just listen. Forget about what's coming up next, your overflowing laundry basket in need of folding, your favorite t.v. show that comes on ten minutes from now, your flat tire which is keeping you from being in the place where you were supposed to be by now, because this just where you were supposed to be anyway. Right here, in your peaceful state of mind.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
and no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will live as one
Friday, November 2, 2012
November Cara Box Link-Up!
This month, i am super excited to be linking up with Kaitlyn from Wifessionals along with many other amazing women around the world for the monthly Cara Box swap! What is a Cara Box swap you ask? You can pretty much compare it to getting a birthday/christmas present in the mail every month! Pretty sweet deal right? So who would turn that opportunity down? But it's not all about receiving little happies through the mail, it's about getting to know one another on a more personal level and receiving encouragement.. and Giving! The act of giving is going to be the most beautiful part of this experience, for me.. So link-up, join in the fun, you don't even have to own a blog.. you can read more details by clicking the Cara Box button at the top of the page! I can't wait to meet who i'm paired with!
So since this months Cara Box theme is, Childhood, i thought i would write a post devoted to things that bring back my own childhood memories.. here we go!
Jellie Shoes:
these snazzy shoes made the worst blisters but i
wore them everywhere, i even dolled them up with
my poofy lace attached socks, remember those?
Pretty, Pretty Princess:
i remember playing this game with my daddy, i wore the
artificial studs off of this little game.. it was my very favorite
Fruit Stripes Gum:
the gum was great, but the tattoos were the ultimate goal
Sky Dancer Dolls:
i actually had this exact doll! mom wasn't a big fan
i always shot her up toward the ceiling fan!
Stick-On Earrings:
you were a pretty cool little girl if you had these stuck on
your ear bobs, but you were even cooler if you had the
glow in the dark ones!
Candy Necklaces:
i'm pretty sure i begged my mom for a candy necklace
everytime we went in a gas station. i thought i had
something then!
Two Words: Trapper Keeper
lisa frank pencil, lisa frank coloring book, lisa frank underwear
say that five times fast!
lisa frank ruled the planet at one time, remember?
Plastic Lunch Boxes with Thermus:
in school, we competed with our plastic lunch boxes, who had the coolest lunch box!?
GooseBumps Books:
these books scared the bejeebies out of me
they should have been called "Nightmares"
i always had the worst luck while playing this pointless game
but it turns out it had no real effect on the boy i was granted, to whom
i'm married to now, my career, the place i call home and the car
i don't drive.
i was obsessed with this show, i think everyone can relate
i could go on and on, about how i thought i was hilarious when i belted out steve urkels "did i do that!?" in his famous nerdy voice, how i knew every move to the macarena and showcased it in the grocery store every chance i got, how i drove my barbie's around in my sneakers because my parents didn't think i needed a barbie jeep at the time, the nickelodeon line-ups everynight, miss mary mack, mack,mack,mack,mack all dressed in black, black,black,black,black..., slap bracelets, collecting pogs that had no absolute purpose other than being, and my collection of mary kate and ashley vhs tapes, that made me wish i had a twin.. but you would have had to been there, to fully understand my childhood, you would have had to been a 90's kid i guess...
i hope you enjoyed going back in time with me, i sure did, there's so many things you forget that you loved back then, and i'm sure i missed a good handful. Be sure to link-up with Kaitlyn, it'll be a blast from the past for sure!
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Our Newly-Weeen!
i realize, i'm short of halloween posting but here we are! I had alot of fun coming up with our halloween costumes this year, we were "prisoners of love" and as you can tell i was the bride who went to jail and he was my partner in crime! it was a big hit, everyone loved it! the only accessory we left out was the handcuffs! husby surprised me with his love for his convict costume, kid he is!
we only had two treat or treaters, captain america and tiger, needless to say we have mucho candy left, husby doesn't mind. mila, being the diva cat she is, was a "princess". she didn't seem to mind the outfit too much, as you can see in the second picture, she was beginning to fall asleep. i nearly had to hold her head up just to get that picture. my poor cat. husby and i are doing two christmas child boxes this year which we finally filled up with all kinds of goodies, went a little overboard as you can tell. we had a great newly-ween, it's going to take me a whole year to think of what our next halloween costume will be! i hope you all had as much fun as we had!
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For some inmates, bread and water would be a welcome relief.
Three inmates are asking a Washington state Superior Court judge to ban use of the dreaded all-in-one-meal "nutra-loaf," served to unruly prisoners as punishment. The bland meatloaf-like mixture of vegetables, meat, oatmeal and crackers is baked in 12 1/2-pound logs for about two hours. An 8-ounce slab is considered a meal.