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It is the summer of 1959 and Mariette Puttnam has just graduated from boarding school. When she returns to her privileged life at home, she isn't sure where life will take her. More schooling? A job? Marriage? Nothing feels right. How could she know that the answer is waiting for her within the narrow stairwell of her father's apparel factory, exactly between the third and fourth floors?
In this unique and tender story of an unlikely romance, popular author Eva Marie Everson takes readers on a journey through the heart of a young woman bound for the unknown. Readers will experience the joys of new love, the perseverance of true friendship, and the gift of forgiveness that comes from a truly fine life.
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I tip my hat to Eva Marie Everson for her wonderful portrayal of a young women living in the 1960s in her latest novel, This Fine Life. Eva is an excellent storyteller and her characters bleed authenticity from their impulsive young love to the pressures and expectations they face as a young minister and wife in a small back blocks town. Told in young Mariette Puttnam's first person voice, this is an artfully executed novel of the struggles, secrets and passion of Mariette as she finds herself a minister's wife, confused by her own superficial beliefs and unable to find her place. Eva avoids clichés and stereotypes and instead provides a unique and delightful read that is both moving, heart wrenching and joyous. I can highly recommend this book to all generations but I know my Baby Boomer mum will especially love it!
Available May 2010 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
With thanks to Revell for my review copy
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Self-employment can be an attractive option for people who wish to quit working for bosses, make their own hours, and strike out on the market using their entrepreneurial skills to make a living and a name for themselves. Though many people may not know where to start, there are several self-employment ideas for anyone who wishes to pursue them.
Anyone who has expert experience in a particular field, such as in management, mediation, or finances, can open a consulting business. Consultants have a wide variety of services they offer, including advice, technical expertise, and managerial skills. Consultants often have multiple clients, and the flexibility of their job allows them to take on a variety of different projects.
Freelance Writer
Freelance writers write diverse content for a variety of clients. Freelance writers are typically hired on a contract basis, and some freelance writers have specialities in grant writing, technical writing, fiction writing, Web copy, blogging, or advertising. Anyone with writing skills can become a freelance writer, though being a successful freelance writer also requires the ability to market effectively, interact with clients, and write to a business's specifications.
Video Editor
Video editors work with directors to polish and cut video, and arrange scenes in a logical sequence to create a smooth flowing finished movie. Video editors may have to take graphic or computer courses to learn the best ways to edit film. Video editors can work as freelancers or run their own video editing business.
Computer Programmer
Computer programmers use code languages such as Java and C++ to design programs for businesses, video games, and websites. Video programmers can be self-taught or learn computer programming at a university. Programming can be a stressful and demanding job, because often programmers must meet production deadlines and spend a lot of time fixing the code to a client's specifications. However, freelance programmers have the flexibility to choose clients and select the programming jobs they wish to pursue.
Website Designer
A website designer works from home to build websites for businesses. A good website designer knows how to design websites in a variety of codes and programs, such as Dreamweaver, Flash, Java, and XML, as well as how to operate various popular blog and social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and Wordpress. Website designers are hired by individual businesses on a contract basis.

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Free From FallsPosted: Updated:
Trips and falls affect everyone at every age. From the time we take our first steps as a toddler, to our senior years when our balancing skills may become more challenging. "Free From Falls" is an 8-week fall prevention program designed specifically for people with Multiple Sclerosis, but the principals apply to everyone. Wendie Marlais teaches the Free From Falls program for the Arizona Chapter of the National MS Society and explains below some of the exercises and tips to keep you on your feet.
· Biological Risk Factors
Walking (gait) balance, and coordination problems
Muscle weakness
Spasticity and/or muscle tightness
Dizziness and vertigo
· Be Aware Of Your Environment
Unfamiliar territory
Uneven or slippery walking surfaces
Clutter on the ground
Small animals and/or children that can run in your path
Vision obstructions (dark, foggy, glare)
Cognition – Are you paying attention or distracted?
· Exercise, Exercise, Exercise
Flexibility training
Strength training
Center of gravity training
Access your balance confidence
Are you over confident or not confident?
»Overconfidence can lead to risky behaviors
»Fears can stop you from doing activities you enjoy
Gait pattern training
Posture training and awareness
Multisensory training
Endurance training
Functional Exercise
Creating an exercise routine from a functional approach begins by identifying the movements that you would like to improve. Start by developing and maintaining strength that is specific to the activity. For example, if you want to improve your ability to stand from a seated position, you would focus on the muscles that will enable you to stand from various surfaces and heights. Also include a variety of exercises that work on flexibility, core, balance, strength and power.
When performed successfully, functional exercise can help maximize strength and minimize the overuse of muscles that have been compensating for their weaker counterparts. Ultimately this will lead to overall improved health, the ability to easily perform daily activities, enhance your quality of life and live with greater independence.
For more information about the Free From Falls Program contact The Arizona Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (480) 455-3959, Erika Edholm, Education and Advocacy Coordinator (http://www.arizonams.org).
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
School Punishment
What do you think about School punishment? School punishment always done by the discipline teachers to avoid students make any trouble at school. School is one of a place students to learn the good discipline and teach them about their future . Give me your opinion.
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HK/Aussie trip: From Hong Kong to Perth.
If Hong Kong was in all ways overwhelming, for sheer density of people and buildings and constant sensory stimulation, Perth was more like a ghost town. We showed up late on Friday night, and Saturday morning while running through the city to King's Park I saw fewer than ten other people in the city (there were some more in the park itself). Everything was so quiet that even in the middle of the city, I could hear my own footfall while running. What a weird constrast, to go from one of the busiest, densest cities in the world to the most sparsely populated and remote. That, more than any changes to do with language, made the Hong Kong part of the trip feel completely removed from the experiences that we were having in Perth. If I stop to consider the third week that we had in Sydney, it really feels as though we had three different weeklong trips to three totally different locations. I haven't traveled that way before so much -- either I've gone to one place and really spent time there, or I've gone to several places for just a couple of days each, so that in the end everything runs together in one big blur. This trip offered three strikingly different experiences, each for long enough that I was able to spend real time in every location.
I can't imagine what a week in Perth would have looked like if we hadn't been there for the wedding. Carlton and Sindy really put together an incredible range of activities for the week, so much so that our week in Perth actually feels like the most action-packed of the entire trip. I wish that we had had our acts together wrt hotel much sooner so that we could have found a nice place in Fremantle to stay near the beach, but even staying in the empty city, things worked out. With so many people having moved all over the world, this was really the first time in a very long while that all of this group of friends was in the same place at the same time; it's amazing how things didn't feel very different, even though we were in this corner of Western Australia rather than in Seattle, and even though Seattle isn't so big on Supa Golf or surfing or 100-degree heat. Or mosquitos! Man, the mosquitos in Perth were out of control.
I really liked Fremantle, and if I ever end up back in Perth -- which occasion is hard to imagine, but you never know -- that's where I'm going to stay. And not just because it was a pit stop on The Amazing Race and Jeff, Katherine, Chris, and I all bought sunhats there. It was just a really chill beach town with fun little cafes and bars and shops -- cafes and bars and shops that had actual people in them, in stark contrast to the city of Perth.
The running in Perth was fantastic. They take their public space pretty seriously there, and for a place where it gets so amazingly hot and dry in the summer, it's remarkable how green everything was. I saw tons of runners, walkers, and cyclists on the paths along the Swan River, and I found the overall vibe pretty enjoyable. As an area it was very pleasant and relaxing to spend time, and it almost feels like a place where I could live until I stop to think about how far away it is from everything. And I thought that moving from NYC-Philly to Seattle was moving to the middle of nowhere -- I had no idea.


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/PRNewswire/ -- Southern Company CEO David Ratcliffe and visionary business leader and environmentalist Ted Turner today announced a strategic alliance to pursue development of renewable energy projects in the United States.
"This alliance unites our common goal to explore and develop new renewable energy projects," said CEO David Ratcliffe. "We have said for some time that renewable energy should play an increasing role in this country's energy mix and that Southern Company would seek opportunities to expand our renewable portfolio where it makes sense. This is evidence of that commitment."
"I've always been passionate about developing renewable energy, and I'm excited to join forces with Southern Company to explore our renewable energy potential," said Ted Turner, owner of Turner Renewable Energy. "Southern Company's experience in power project development, construction and operations, and customer relations help make this a strong alliance, and I look forward to working together."
Initially, Southern Company and Turner will focus on developing and investing in large scale solar photovoltaic projects in the U.S. Southwest where solar resources are currently most efficient and in demand, with the goal of further commercializing the technology and making it more cost competitive.
Southern Company and Turner also may consider developing other renewable technologies.
Turner is the largest individual landowner in North America with more than two million acres. The alliance will explore renewable projects both on Turner land as well as other suitable sites.
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This is about life in my gardens. One is an acre on a hillside in Laguna Beach, California and the other is an acre in San Juan Capistrano, California.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sage and the Bee
I am not sure what kind of native sage this is, I planted it years ago in a mixed bed outside the dining room window in SJC. It is kind of woody and blooms all year round with soft, hazy gray-green foliage. The unique thing about this plant is that it attracts a specific kind of bee. I don't know much about bees and I don't know what kind of bee it is, but at all times there is one, single, big fat black bee buzzing this plant. The bee moves from stem to stem, flower to flower, gathering pollen and then takes off. He returns in a few minutes to continue this quest. Now I am sure that it could possibly be more than one bee that loves this plant, but you only see one bee at a time, all the time. I never see that bee at any other plant, or in fact, anywhere else in the garden except on this sage. Truly a match made in heaven!
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Download: Canyons 'See Blind Through' (DJ Harvey Remix)
'See Blind Through', from Canyons' forthcoming album Keep Your Dreams, has been remixed by the legendary DJ Harvey and is today available as a free MP3 download.
Canyons - See Blind Through (DJ Harvey Remix) by modularpeople
Keep Your Dreams is out October 28 (AUS), iTunes, Mod Shop, JB HIFI. Rest of the world, be on stand-by for November 14/15.
Also on the download tip, check out last week's Rolling Stone feature on the duo.
Architecture in Helsinki's latest video, directed by fellow Melbournites Krozm features the very same animatronic dolphins used in the late 90s, Jessica Alba-featuring, teenboy fantasy TV series 'Flipper'.
In the bands' words: "W.O.W acts as the soundtrack to a film about one man's quest to find answers, and in turn his place, in the natural universe. Somewhere along the line we convinced Cameron to make his acting debut, which involved him swimming fully clothed in freezing water for a whole day."Architecture in Helsinki are heading off on the final US Tour in support of the ARIA-nominated (for Best Pop Release) Moment Bends next week, dates here.
John "Juan" MacLean is a busy guy. Since his last full-length album (The Future Will Come) he's been relentlessly touring, guested on a number of other records (including Holy Ghost and Shit Robot's latest offerings), turned out a slew of remixes (apparently there are ones for Yoko Ono + Stevie Nicks in the works too) and is working on a new house project, going under the moniker 'Peach Melba'.
He's now back in the studio with Nancy Whang working on a third full-length Juan MacLean album.This week he's released a collection of new tracks, remastered favourites and remixes. It's called Everybody Get Close and is out on DFA. Here's a Modcast to mark the occasion.
1. Tale Of Us - Dark Song
2. Ramadanman And Midland - Your Words Matter
3. Motor City Drum Ensemble - Basement L.O.V.E.
4. Radio Slave - K-Maze (youANDme secret vocal mix)
5. Son Of Raw - A Black Man In Space (Sax mix)
6. Dualton & Wollion - Fakin' Pages
7. Butch - Sweet In The Morning
8. Barila and Lodetti - El Jazz Del Barrio
9. Sonny Fodera - Get By
10. The Juan MacLean - Human Disaster (House of House Remix)
11. Fantastic Man Presents Plastic Fantastic - Nuthin' But A Thing
12. The Juan MacLean - Human Disaster (Holmes Price cover)
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Before we get to the business at hand is there's some new work in the streets straight from #TeamGRF that truly you should be aware of if you weren't previously!
With all the news that dropped this week about KoF XIV is I had to put a voice to the words that usually come.
I enjoyed the work that went into it so expect more videos like this in the future.
J & I are back to work with the 1st episode of Dynamite Deka Sentai Caribbeanger as we take the battle once again to save the president's daughter and the world from Wolf Hongo AKA Grandaddy Mendoza and his goons!
You know we get the job done! You're just joining us for the boat ride!
Out in your hood right now is the Sega 3D Classics Collection and for $29.99 you're getting a whole lot here so please consider adding this to your 3DS collection!
Mira's been added to Killer Instinct and and with her a balance update which you can read about HERE.
If you bought the Season 3 Ultra Edition or Supreme Edition is she's available right now.
A week from now anybody who owns the Combo Breaker Pack will have access and will then roll out to everybody else a week after that.
You can get the Supreme Edition for $59.99 which is the way you should hop on the train because it's everything you can get for the game right now outside the colors you have to purchase those statues to get.
In comparison the Season 3 Ultra Edition is $39.99 for just the Season 3 content and there isn't a classic KI game to make it worth it but if you care about Double XP forever then maybe consider it.
KI is a system is where you either pick a character and stick with them or just get all the content. There's really no middle ground on the subject because of how much things cost.
Think about it.
After all this time The Sound 4 are playable in an Ultimate Ninja Storm game and they'll be available for purchase on 5/10 for $6.99. If you have the Season Pass then you'll get access a week early to all the content which also includes Combination Jutsus for The Sound 4, Zabuza & Kisame/Haku
You can get the Season Pass for $19.99 for PS4, XBONE & Steam. You also get the exclusive Akatsuki Combination Jutsu for either purchasing the Season Pass or all the DLC.
Koihime Enbu will soon be in a hood near you on Steam on May 19th for $39.99 thanks to Degica Games!
Until the game drops is you can preorder the game for 20% for $31.99!
I'ma need y'all to hold me down and give this game a shot!
Knowing the history of this series and localization is I'm super surprised this is even happening so go and support this one!
You can preorder the game HERE!
My Hero Academia: Battle for All drops on May 19th as well and a look at Eijiro Kirishima & Shouto Todoroki is in order right now!
June 7th! Heaven! Hell! Revelator!
Also on that same day is Odin Sphere Leifthrasir and this week's story is The Black Sword starring Oswald!
June 24th is Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE and Nintendo's going dumb with getting this game over here.
I'll just wait for somebody to what they do so I can get an experience that's worthy of the game.
June 28th is Eyes of Heaven and with that a look at the cast of Stardust Crusaders is what's on deck right now!
Genkai Tokki: Seven Pirates the lastest in the series is taking its special on the high seas on August 4th!
Either scroll up and watch the "React" vid or READ THIS!
Just a reminder that EDF 4.1 is out there and you should get on that ASAP!
#TheHustle's always got what you need with deals from all corners of infinity!
Check out Steam's Anime Sale HERE!
Too many games on sale to list, however you'll find something to spend money on! Trust me!
The Friends of Nintendo Bundle HERE breaks down to just this...
$1 gets you Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (3DS/WiiU) & Retro City Rampage DX (3DS)!
I'd suggest waiting to see what the extra games are for the average and making a decision then.
Also, EVERY EPISODE OF YU YU HAKUSHO IS FREE ON FUNIMATION!
I can't even tell you what I've been in the lab doing! You'll know what it is by the end of the weekend! Just know what's about to go down is very, very inspired! Years in the making! Just the time to make it happen!
Reign's back and it has been sorely missed! More of the misadventures of Queen Mary & the Crew is always what I need!
Views From the 6 goes in! This installment of #TheCool was written with this as the soundtrack for it! Drake does it once again!
The Usual Suspects doing what they do with everything going dumb because the end is coming! In a couple of weeks this'll be filled with final thoughts on everything! Can't wait!
Sunday is Payback and I already know AJ isn't beating Roman but what's the screwy finish going to be? We'll go with whatever they're going to with Balor, Anderson & Gallows because they have to put Roman with somebody new and they've gotta keep AJ busy somehow. We shall see!
Everything from PAXAMANIA II!
Shouts to @havochq on Giant Bomb for the poster!
Thanks to Giant Bomb Unarchived for the Pre-Show and the PAXAMANIA II Bootleg DVD!
Always check The Unofficial, Official Official site of PAXWrestling for the latest including the fallout of PAXAMANIA II!
New episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged & The Mark Remark!
Lindbeck & Lee! Tang! The Love List!
We didn't need this proof but SSFF is going to investigate whether Drake of the 99 Dragons is really that bad!
Not a PAX without a Giant Bomb panel!
Emezie with the crossover action!
Street Fighter X Porkchop 'n Flatscreen!
Watching the following in this order this makes a whole lot of sense in the context given and not so given!
Thanks to BronyDoc Studios & ILoveKimPossibleAlot!
All spotlight on Fumio936 because I can do that!
Always my #1 and my favorite kitty cat!
What is your command Mistress Maximov?!
Maybe if Remy was a girl people would've cared more!
It's the Queen of the Kanzuki Zaibatsu! Say no more and bow!
If you're asking me if they should've used Son Son more after Marvel 2 then the answer is yes!
I told Laura we could be Grappling Buds but she hasn't gotten back to me yet! I'll wait!
Jam stay part of the Waifu Gang! Always a beauty! Always love a high kick!
Nobody tell Koko that her mom and I have a thing too! She'd invent something to kill me for fun because it's a day that ends in Y! MILFy!
Marie Neko-chan! Never enough of that!
Love that Callie & Marie are a package deal! I should've featured this picture in #TheHustle!
Rule 63 Kenshin? Yes!
Rule 63 Sano? Very much indeed!
Rule 63 Saito? Yep!
Might be time for a Rurouni Kenshin marathon!
Just a half-naked kitty with a sword! Why would I not give this some shine!
Tatsumaki is Love! Tatsumaki is Life! Ask no more questions!
Of course we finish it with the gateway drug known as Jessica Rabbit!
Not mine!
We'll discuss that another time though!
Thanks so much to Fumio936 for all this art and be sure to check the Tumblr for so much more!
That shall be that!
As usual, we thank you for coming to ride with us!
Always noted and appreciated!
Heat is coming! Already researched and planned so get ready! About damn time!
Be sure to tell friend and foe alike how we do what we do better than anybody else in the business!
Same #TheCool time! Same #TheCool channel!
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According to the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center in California, studies on Cell Phone Tower health effects have shown that "even at low levels there is evidence of damage to cell tissue and DNA, and it has been linked to brain tumors, cancer, suppressed immune function, depression, miscarriage, Alzheimer's disease, and numerous other serious illnesses."
A study by Dr. Bruce Hocking in Australia found that children living near Cell Phone Towers in Sydney had more than twice the rate of childhood leukemia than children living more than seven miles away.
According to Dr. W. Lšscher of the Institute of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy of the Veterinary School of Hanover in Germany, dairy cows that were kept in close proximity to Cell Phone Towers for two years had a reduction in milk production along with increased health problems and behavioral abnormalities. A cow with abnormal behavior was taken away from the cell phone antenna and the behavior subsided within five days. When the cow was brought back near the antenna, the symptoms returned.
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In 2011, Americans spent $2.3 billion on candy for Halloween. When I see the need around me and hear of starving children dying in their mothers' arms, I say "yes," Halloween is over the top. When my children were little I made their costumes, limited the homes they went to, and then made them share half with some place like the mission.
I say the fun needs to be in the costumes and running from house to house together. No child needs that much candy. When teenagers get into the act, one wonders where the parents are. We had probably 75 kids at our door. It's fun to see the little ones. It should be embarrassing to the bigger ones to go begging house to house.
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The Office of Developmental Primary Care is a program within the Department of Family and Community Medicine. We are dedicated to improving health outcomes for people with developmental disabilities across the lifespan. The greatest area of need is for adolescents and adults. We are partnering with other stakeholders to develop resources for clinical service, advocacy, research and training.
We encourage you to access resources, provide feedback and join our growing collaborative of clinicians, educators, caregivers, students, and self-advocates.
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All people with a developmental disability have access to health services that maximize their wellness and function.
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Alan Wilson got a pleasant surprise in Miami last week. As the managing director of a long-established tour operator specialising in US holidays, he is a regular visitor to the city's trendy South Beach resort, and is accustomed to offhand treatment from waiters and hotel staff more interested in posing than serving.
This time was different. "Try to get a drink at somewhere like the Sagamore and, in the past, if you weren't one of the beautiful people you were shunned," he said. "Now they've lowered their criteria. They want even the likes of fortysomething me."
With hotels, restaurants, bars and theme parks crying out for custom in recession-hit America, wherever you go you can expect a warm welcome this year.
Financially, too, this summer is arguably a good time to choose the States for a holiday. With £1 buying about $1.45, the £/$ exchange rate is far from great, and a long way off the heady days of $2 to the pound of a year ago. Yet many of the costs of holidaying in the US are low at the moment, particularly when compared with those in popular European destinations, where British travellers are having to put up with the even worse pound/euro exchange rate. (Though from November next year, thanks to this week's Budget, a family of four holidaying in the US will have to pay an extra £80 in departure tax.)
Three-bedroom villas with private pools near Disney World on the outskirts of Orlando this summer are widely available for about £500 a week. Similar accommodation in Spain will set you back double, if not treble, that. A week's rental of a decent-sized car in California costs about £140; from Pisa airport, you will pay more than £200. Moreover, according to the latest AA fuel price report, a litre of unleaded petrol costs about 36p in the US, compared with £1.06 in France.
As the recession bites in America, fewer people are travelling and, with hotel occupancy rates falling, room charges have fallen too. This is especially true in Las Vegas. Rooms in five-star hotels on the Strip can be found for as little as £100 a night. In a European city, you would be hard pushed to get three-star accommodation for that. Prices for shows are also falling. At www.cirquedusoleil.com/love, tickets for the Beatles-inspired Love – one of the city's best-selling shows over the past few years – are being advertised at a discount of 25 per cent.
Ruby Briggs, managing director of the upmarket tour operator North American Travel Service, said: "Just about every hotel in every destination and city across the US is offering reduced room rates, as well as added value benefits such as free nights, free room upgrades, free breakfasts and resort credits."
Despite the exchange rate, it also seems there are still shopping bargains to be found. "Thanks to the recession, the deals in the discount outlet malls are unbelievable at the moment," said Richard Wimms, a regular traveller to the States who was in Florida recently. "Dollar prices on clothes are often half what they were a year ago."
Financial considerations are not the only reason a trip to the US this year looks appealing. Visitor numbers to many US theme parks have been falling, so there are shorter queues for rides.
"Though Orlando's theme parks were packed over Easter, in off-peak periods so far this year attendance has been as low as I've seen any time since immediately post-9/11," said Simon Veness, author of the "Brit Guide to Orlando". "Numbers are down especially in the non-Disney parks such as SeaWorld and Universal, which are losing market share to Disney."
In California, the situation is somewhat different, believes Robert Niles, editor of ThemeParkInsider.com. "Attendance declines are worst in Orlando now, which is dependent on visitors from outside the local area. The southern California parks seem to be doing better, with millions of locals from the Los Angeles area heading to places like Disneyland instead of Hawaii, Mexico or Las Vegas."
Beyond the theme parks, the US is also arguably more pleasant for visitors at the moment. Tim Donovan spent last week with his family in New York. "We were pleasantly surprised to be able to go straight up the Empire State Building without having to queue," he said. "The Met wasn't at all crowded, Macy's was absolutely clear, and we were always able to find a table on spec for dinner in the evening."
Bookings are easier to come by in top restaurants, too, said Billie Cohen, deputy editor of "Time Out New York". "I've just checked – I could get a table at the Union Square Café [one of America's most famous gourmet restaurants] at 8.45 on Friday evening." And Broadway shows? "The popular, huge hits are still sold out months in advance, but there are definitely more discounted and last-minute tickets to be found because people are scaling back on their expenses."
Ten good deals on US holidays
The following deals were on offer earlier this week – availability and prices can change. Package prices are per person sharing a double room.
Theme-park tickets
Disney (www.disneyworld.co.uk) is selling its seven-day Premium Ticket, which gives unlimited access over a week to all four Disney World theme parks plus multiple visits to the water parks, for the same price as its five-day ticket (adults £219, children aged three to nine £199). For online bookings, Universal Orlando (www.universalorlando.com) is offering a Two-Park Unlimited Admission Ticket, usable for a week, for the same price (about £75) as its Two-Park/Two-Day ticket.
Disney stay
For bookings made by July 15, Disney is offering free "Dining Plans" (covering two meals and a snack each day) for guests buying theme-park tickets and staying at least five nights at many Disney World hotels between August 2 and December 17.
Again, see www.disneyworld.co.uk The deal is available through tour operators, such as Travel City Direct (0844 557 6969, travelcitydirect.com).
Villa in Orlando
Florida Vacations (01582 469777, www.floridavacations.co.uk) is offering a "gold-rated" four-bedroom villa (Lotus Court 1, Oak Island) close to Disney World, with a games room and private pool, for £395 a week from now to early July, a discount of 35-45 per cent.
West coast motorhome
There are enticing deals outside the peak summer months. For two weeks' rental of an El Monte C25 vehicle sleeping four in early June from Los Angeles, including insurance and a 2,000-mile allowance, Motorhome Bookers (0207 193 2873, www.motorhomebookers.com) is quoting £782. For a fortnight in August, the price goes up to £2,500.
Ranch holiday
Ranch America (0845 277 3306, www.ranchamerica.co.uk) says many ranches are having a hard time of it, so deals are plentiful. For bookings made before April 30, it is offering 50 per cent discounts on stays at the Tiger Mountain Ranch in Oklahoma. A week in May now costs from £999 full board, excluding flights.
Coach tour
Jetsave (0871 231 2295, www.jetsave.com) is selling a nine-night Music Trails of Tennessee tour, departing June 17, for £695 b&b, including flights – reduced from £1,107.
Five-star Las Vegas
Five nights at Wynn Las Vegas, room only, including flights, in May/June, costs £679 through Bon Voyage (0800 316 3012, www.bon-voyage.co.uk) The same holiday was priced at £975 last year.
New England fly-drive tour
A package including flights to Boston, car hire (compact size), and seven nights room only in four-star hotels in Boston, Stowe and the Berkshire Hills, costs from £695 in May/June through Bon Voyage (see above), 10 per cent less than for the same holiday at the same time last year.
New York break
Three nights at the upmarket West in New York in Times Square in late June costs £589, room only, including flights, through Virgin Holidays (0844 557 3859, www.virginholidays.co.uk), nearly 20 per cent off the brochure price.
Trailfinders (0845 058 5858, www.trailfinders.com) says airfares to many US destinations are a little lower than this time last year. For bookings made by April 30, travel by June 30, it is offering return economy flights with British Airways from London to New York from £285, Boston and Miami from £329, and Los Angeles from £355.


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Dear Leader, Yes We Can!
No comment is necessary, except for crediting Reason.tv with this great mashup celebrating the best (worst?) of Obama-sycophancy.
This video is also available on YouTube, where it will live on and on and on as a reminder to these children about what their well-meaning but muddle-headed parents made them do. (I've passed this along to some Red Diaper Babies of my acquaintance, to give them a dose of nostalgia.)


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Summer Sketch Group
We can make the sketchgroup great. Guaranteed. -Eva
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Pokemon Revamp
Tyranitar by Eva
Gengar by Julia
Wartortle by Tom and Ian
Kabutops by Tracy
Scyther vs Hitmonchan By Ian
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Paint It In
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Draw My Character
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Pass the Panel
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Self Portraits
Post a self portrait of yourself, in whatever medium you want!
Ian- pencil and sumi inks
Tracy- digital
Ian- pencil and sumi inks
Tracy- digital
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The Wawascene was created by Dr. Mark Stock, former Superintendent of the Wawasee Community School Corporation. Due to its local popularity, Dr. Stock has left the blog site to future Wawasee administrators.
Blog Rules
Comments should be respectful and pertain to the topic posted. Comments about personnel matters should be made directly to the administrators responsible. Blog moderators reserve the right to remove any comment determined not in keeping with these guidelines.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Fog Delay - September 29, 2011
Wawasee Community Schools will delay the start of school two hours on Thursday, September 29, 2011, due to fog.
Posted by Superintendent, Dr. Thomas Edington at 5:57 AM No comments:
Monday, September 26, 2011
United Way
On Friday, September 30, the varsity football team will be playing the Warsaw Tigers at Warsaw in the first ever United Way Game. The theme for the evening is 'A battle on the field, but living UNITED in the community'. The spectators for Wawasee and Warsaw will be in direct competition with each other. Each school will have donation buckets on their respective side of the field. The money will be collected and counted throughout the game. The winning side will be announced between the 3rd and 4th quarters. The losing school's principal will get to wear the opposing school's shirt all day on Monday following the game. Please support the Warriors on Friday!!
Posted by Superintendent, Dr. Thomas Edington at 12:51 PM
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
Update on SMART Start Wednesdays
Wawasee Community School Corporation's administrators and teachers have been working hard on SMART Start Wednesdays. Teachers have been busy doing the following:
Each school has made arrangements for students to be supervised whose parents need to drop them off at school at the same time they do the rest of the week. For information specific to your student's school, please call the school's main office.
- Being introduced to a program Wawasee Academic Monitoring Package that has the capabilities for teachers to be able to see student data and look at in terms of a classroom as a whole or as an individual student in order to better make instructional decisions for students
- Collaborating on curriculum in an effort to put curriculum in a format that can be put online where eventually parents and students will have access to the information and so that teachers will be more consistent in what is taught across the district
- One of the following (all schools will cover each in the next five months): studying and discussing assessment data specific to their building, collaborating on special education issues specific to their building, learning vocabulary instruction tools to better help limited English proficient students along with studying the assessment data for their limited English proficient students, learning additional math instructional strategies, learning additional reading instructional strategies
Each school has made arrangements for students to be supervised whose parents need to drop them off at school at the same time they do the rest of the week. For information specific to your student's school, please call the school's main office.
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I've been uber busy, so I haven't posted on Angelina's Scene in a few days. My bad. My bizz-nad. My bizzad. Okay, I'm through with that. I really don't even have time to be posting on this shizznit! Truthfully, I'm supposed to be learning my lines! Remember that audition I went on Friday?? Yeah, I ended up getting a part in another play, that actually opens tomorrow night! What?! I'm in a play in Hollywood! Right off of Sunset! It's at Trestage Theatre! Every Thursday night, I'll be playing Ms. Brown in "Reservoir Bitches", an all-female cast version of "Reservoir Dogs"! I know, cool right? And it's my first play, and yes, I have the butterflies! All of the butterflies!
It's okay though, because I joined the cast late, exactly the same week as the opening, but I die halfway through the play. But get this, I start the play! The first lines are from me! And I play Quentin Tarantino's character, so everyone who's seen the film knows I get killed. I have like 4 scenes, but the first scene, I have a decent amount of dialogue, so I'm brushing up on it. I haven't had that much rehearsal. I rehearsed Monday, today, and then tomorrow right before we open. And I'm doing mad promotion for it too. The guy who casted me, Michael, has been really nice and understanding over the fact that I hadn't learned all my lines yet because I just got the script Saturday, but tomorrow, no excuses! Oh, and "Like" my Facebook page:
Now the kids are in bed, so I'm going to go learn my lines!
And if you're in L.A., come see my fucking play! "Reservoir Bitches", Trestage Studio Theatre, 1523 N. LaBrea in Hollywood. It's $20, and I promise you, it's really cool to see a bunch of chicks with guns!


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Recent press coverage in the UK about harried GP practices offering patients Skype and email consultations in order to address the estimated 50 million occasions during the last year on which it was not possible for NHS service users to schedule face-to-face appointments have taken many by surprise.
Only a few months ago, concerns about the 'safety' of using VOiP services such as Skype in a healthcare setting were being brought to the privacy debate that focused on the UK's forthcoming electronic health record system.
"What if Skype calls are intercepted, or recorded?", it was asked.
Such questions are seldom posed as a duty of care with regard to safeguarding the security of novel forms of patient access to provider services, but as a means of evading the hard work involved in redesigning existing provider workflows.
VOiP is neither more nor less secure than any other existing means of patient-clinician interaction.
Overlooking the fact that patient consent is customarily taken to include all forms of provider communication unless expressly stated, from a logical standpoint it makes no sense to say that VOiP calls are less private than medical records left open momentarily at a GP's reception, or an overheard telephone call between a doctor and their patient, or a patient-clinician conversation that might be audible through a door during a consult, or an intercepted or otherwise lost piece of correspondence such as a test result.
Technology has the ability to reduce the cost of delivering healthcare, and can be utilised effectively in order to reduce the personal and economic burden of care in single-payer healthcare systems.
It's just a shame that this has had to be pointed out 50 million times in the UK, at an untold human cost to patients and their families.


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Centreventure's cinematic solution to spiff up downtown Winnipeg
CentreVenture's latest plan for revitalizing downtown Winnipeg is breathtaking.
Not breathtaking like when a stunningly beautiful woman walks into the room.
But breathtaking like when your boat overturns in Lake Winnipeg and you're going down for the third time.
The plan as outlined to city council Thursday consists of spending all the money in CentreVenture's bank account over the next three years and heading for the exit doors before the public starts asking questions.
Left behind to distract the mob, if all goes well, will be three new parkades, some spruced up parks and maybe some flashing neon lights along Portage Avenue. It ain't the bright lights of New York's Broadway, but it'll do in a pinch.
And, boy, is CentreVenture in a pinch.
Its clear that CentreVenture has openly abandoned its designated role in revitalizing downtown Winnipeg.
"The CentreVenture mandate is to lead and encourage business investment and development downtown, and enhance the use of heritage buildings and land in the downtown area." says Destination Winnipeg.
"The City shall promote downtown development to stimulate revitalization . . . by implementing a visionary downtown plan (CentrePlan) through an action-oriented development corporation (CentreVenture) to provide clear direction, coordination, planning and implementation, and strong leadership for the downtown. . ."
says the city's own strategic white paper, Plan Winnipeg 2020 Vision.
Yet there's no mention of interesting projects on the horizon in the three-year plan pitched to City Hall.
Nothing about the rock and roll museum/nightclub proposal for the decrepit Metropolitan Theatre that CentreVenture put on ice last July.
Nothing about the water-park proposal floated by the Winnipeg Convention Centre way back in 2004 when two other water-parks plans had been announced.
Nothing about the worst kept secret in the city, a proposed 38 storey condo tower for 100 Main Street which would be the tallest building in Winnipeg.
We guess that even a hint of what developers have in mind would only serve to excite the rabble needlessly.
Hell, we were excited by the Aspers' proposal to build a new media tower just off Portage and Main (complete with Broadway-style lights and electronic billboards that Centreventure wants to see) only to have our hopes dashed when they scrapped the plan and sent the message that real businessmen invest in Toronto, not Winnipeg.CentreVenture sure got the message.
And if they needed any reminder, they just had to read the Winnipeg Free Press story (Jan. 15, p. B4) on downtown office space."Vacancy rate downtown one of highest in two decades" read the sub-head."The biggest problem is that when tenants move out, there is no one waiting to replace them," wrote reporter Murray McNeill.
So any announcement of new office space available in a refurbished CentreVenture building only means a possible reshuffling of addresses, and not the growth that revitalizes a city centre.
The agency has, instead, turned to the movies for a solution. And we can even pinpoint the year.
CentreVenture has realized that the patient shows no vital signs. Put away the paddles. But if they can dress and manipulate the corpse for awhile, they may convince everyone they're still players.
Does Weekend at Bernie's sound familiar?
Then how about Field of Dreams.
Build it and they will come.
Build parkades, and they will come downtown.
Build world-class parks, and they will come.
Put up some flashy lights, and they will come.
Or at least it will look like something's happening downtown, and that's the next best thing.
To be fair, maybe the parks thing isn't completely a CentreVenture idea. In October, newly elected mayor Sam Katz "challenged" CentreVenture "to find new innovative ways of developing more world class destination parks downtown." Well, you don't say no to the mayor.
Katz had in mind the success of the skateboard park at the Forks which was built in partnership with the Burns Family Foundation. We're pretty sure he wasn't thinking about the shoplifting epidemic at the Forks that followed the park's opening.
But the concept of "world class destination parks" has diminished in CentreVenture's plan into a new stage for Old Market Square, a skating oval on Argyle Street, and a dog park off Pioneer Avenue which come with a hint of a doggie spa and hotel. World class, we presume.
Oh, and our own Broadway, (now renamed Broadway Promenade by Centreventure), needs a walking path.
Note to CentreVenture: Broadway already has two walking paths. One is known as the sidewalk on the north side and other is called the sidewalk on the south side. Don't knock yourselves out overthinking this one.
But what about the parkades? Goodness knows, everyone is always complaining about parking downtown.
Yep. They are. And the parkades will be built. (Winnipeg currently runs three parkades-- Winnipeg Square Parkade, Millennium Library Parkade, and Civic Centre Parkade--and owns 8 surface parking lots downtown run by the Winnipeg Parking Authority.)
The driving force for more parking structures is the high-end condo developments that were built in the CentureVenture development zone and which served as the symbol of the agency's success in its early years.
The developers figure if there was more assured parking, then maybe, just maybe, they would build more condos. And Centreventure feels this is a risk worth taking. What's the downside? More parking?
The true downside is what CentreVenture has designated The Dead Zones.
What are The Dead Zones, you ask? Bottom line--Portage Avenue downtown and Main Street from Higgins to Portage.
Pretty much the area CentreVenture was created in 1999 to revitalize.
Now they've put a nifty new name to the area and buried it in a ton of verbiage on how the agency plans to woo developers.
It's good to see they haven't lost their sense of humour.We've heard this joke before, only the punchline was different. But it still cracks us up.Rewind to the year 2000.
The location--Higgins and Main.
The producer---The Winnipeg Development Agreement, which was sort of like CentreVenture's richer step-sister.
The opening of Thunderbird House also represents a vital step forward for the development of North Main Street, and is a testimony to the importance of strong partnerships between the community and government.
Who said that?
Councillor Dan Vandal.
The opening of Thunderbird House also represents a vital step forward for the development of North Main Street, and is a testimony to the importance of strong partnerships between the community and government.
Who said that?
Lloyd Axworthy, the then-federal minister responsible for the Winnipeg Development Agreement.
Six years later, that "revitalization" is in shambles.
Parts of the building are falling off. Its tens of thousands of dollars in hock to the city for back taxes. A colony of sniffers terrorizes bus riders across the street. The management has decided that the prostitutes and gang members brought to the building for social programs are not such a great attraction for tourists, who have been staying away by the tens of thousands. Today, Dan Vandal is back at City Hall.
And Lloyd Axworthy is back in the downtown revitalization business thanks to oodles of University of Winnipeg cash and the expertise of Mr. Crocus Fund, himself, Sherman Kreiner.
Lifeguard....over here....we're goin' down.


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HAMPTON — More than 200 runners braved the cool and misty day and evening in late April to participate in the Sandy Bottom Nature Park ultra run.
"Our participation was way higher than in previous years," event organizer George Nelsen said. "It was an outstanding turnout."
The ultra run that began at 7 a.m. April 20 and ended 24 hours later took runners around a 3.75-mile course along the park along Big Bethel Road.


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Balltown Road reopens after crash
NISKAYUNA -- Balltown Road reopened Monday afternoon after a crash, the state Department of Transportation reports.
According to town police, a head-on crash occurred about 1:30 p.m. near the intersection of Route 146 and Providence Avenue. The road was closed in both directions from Morrow Avenue to River Road until about 5 p.m.
At least two people, one of whom had to be extricated from an SUV, were taken to local hospitals, police said.
The extent of the injuries has yet to be released.


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If you have been reading this blog for very long, then you already know that my pregnancy was, hands down, the most joyful season in my entire life. I loved being pregnant.
When I was pregnant with Sean, I was deliriously (and obnoxiously) joyful. I had a Cover Girl complexion (thanks to the can of sardines and three avocados I ate every day), my hair was full and lustrous and bouncy (probably from the steady diet of Filet-O-Fish). I was never more creative or funny or witty (too bad I didn't have a blog then) and everyone was nice to me. Oh, and my boobs were very perky too, which is saying something at my age.
I was radiant from the inside out and everyone seemed to take notice of it, which only served to encourage the blue birds to circle around my head and the sun to shine even brighter upon me. I announced to everyone I came in contact with that !* I *! was pregnant! Would you like to touch my tummy? No? Oh go ahead, touch me! No really, touch my tummy Mr. Fed Ex! Do it or I won't sign for the package!
I don't know how you would explain a non-hugger like me grabbing the hand of a complete stranger and holding it against her tummy other than wacky hormones. I just don't know.
I was seven weeks along when I found out I was pregnant with Sean and he came six weeks early, so I figure I got cheated out of at least three full months of fun-filled, sun shining, blue bird singing pregnancy and it still grieves me. That I ever conceived still baffles the best doctors in Dallas, doctors who are extremely nervous to give credit to God for that which is not understood. Yet they have done so.
Up until last week, I held out hope that I would have another child, that I would enjoy another pregnancy. That I would get another miracle. That Sean would have a biological sibling to torment. That those blue birds would circle me one more time. Even though at my age and with my health issues, pregnancy is probably not ideal. But if I could, I would.
But tomorrow, on Valentines Day, that hope is no more. I will be having a complete hysterectomy. And while hope is a good thing, the upside to having none is that you can move on. And that's what I intend to do. I shall move on grateful for what I have rather than disappointed over what I have not. Gratitude — it's just a better way to go people.
So. Then. It has been said.
In the meantime, until I'm back in the blogging saddle, I'll be time-releasing a post or two and beyond that I may post some vintage Antique Mommy stuff from the archives. Thank you in advance to my faithful circle of cyber-sisters who lift and cover me in prayer. You comfort me.


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I have finished Buddha Is as Buddha Does, by Lama Surya Das. I don't know what to say about it. I started reading this nearly three months ago, and a book this long of this nature should not take so long to read. Especially considering as I enjoyed reading it.
It is not a book meant to be read quickly. It is to be considered, studied, pondered, meditated over (I didn't do enough of that last). It became frustrating toward the end as the teachings in it began to diverge significantly from my own rational beliefs--and yet even as it did so Lama Surya Das brought me back into it by acknowledging the metaphorical nature of much spiritual writing and belief. Who is to say that things we did not see ourselves are literally true? Ah, but isn't there a lesson even if such things are merely meant as metaphors?
Indeed. I will return to this book again, many times perhaps. But it remains a challenging text. I think I'll pick something easy for the next one.


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Dear Boston Globe,
Salon is reporting today, via a story reported by a Dutch Journalist, that the McCain campaign assigned "volunteers" to ghost write astro-turf letters in support of McCain and Palin after the Republican convention. They assured the volunteer, who was actually a reporter, that they would ask their supporters in battleground states to sign these letters and send them to local newspapers to create a false groundswell of "popular" support by "average" people. I've been wondering about the flood of pro-Palin propaganda when I have yet to meet an actual New Englander who can stand the woman. Can the Boston Globe be certain that the many letters they have published from angry, authentic, local supporters of McCain/Palin weren't actually from an outsourced McCain astroturf program?
Here's the first paragraph of the article: and a link (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/24/mccain_letters/)
"Sept. 24, 2008 | "You can be whoever you want to be," says an inviting Phil Tuchman. "You can be a beggar or a millionaire. A mom or a husband. Whatever. You decide!"
I volunteer in political campaigns now and then. After a series of outings for Obama and a first mission as a phone banker for John McCain, I returned to McCain's headquarters in Arlington, Va. The offer was too alluring to delay -- they wanted to put me into action as a ghostwriter. Next to commercials and phone banking, writing letters to the editor is the most important method of the McCain campaign to attract voters. At least that is what's written in the guidelines that McCain campaign worker Phil Tuchman presents to me.Today he is training six ghostwriters. (bolded text from the article)"


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I've had a real corker of bad day today and it all went downhill at precisely 07:15 this morning when I woke up, probably because I was supposed to be out of bed when the first 2 alarms went off at 06:00. Bloody marvellous.
Well I was lulled into a false sense of security by having a good morning and then lunch struck and it all spiralled into a pile of disaster. I won't go into the tedious details of what happened but my afternoon ended in a trip to River Island and Marks & Spencer...
I left with this playsuit which I had been after for a little while and I think I'll have to wear it with a little crop top underneath otherwise there's a little too much on show up top! Tights may also be called for until my legs are a little more toned too, I'll put some proper photos up soon though :)
|Picture courtesy of River Island website
|That's correct, I eat my feelings...I only really like fruity cheesecake.
Until today I had forgotten just how much I used to dislike Tuesdays (worst day of the week apart from Sunday) Things just always seem to go wrong on a Tuesday for me even when I forget it's a Tuesday. Oh well, tomorrow is Wednesday and from there it's just 2 days until the 4 DAY WEEKEND!!
Thank you Greg James for reminding me how much I love this song today


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Team USA Coach Dan Henderson has been a man of very few words throughout this season of The Ultimate Fighter. However, immediately following Frank Lester's loss to Team UK's James Wilks, Henderson summed up the situation perfectly for Lester; "You were worn out before you got there".
Lester has been the most interesting story on this year's show both inside and outside the ring. He overcame the loss of four of his front teeth and a broken nose in his first fight against Wilks to defeat David Faulkner while fighting as an injury replacement for Jason Pierce. Prior to his fight with Faulkner, no one would have given Lester a chance to win if both he and Pierce were allowed in the cage at the same time, but somehow he found the will to beat Faulkner when the Brit refused to fight in the sudden victory round. Lester gave new meaning to the word "emotional" (and perhaps also to "scary") and provided more entertainment value than any other fighter by far.
But after four fights in 32 days, Lester simply had nothing left for the semi-final bout and lost easily to a better fighter in Wilks. To no one's surprise Lester's emotions got the better of him the night before the fight where he cried in anticipation of letting people down, and then after his fight when he felt he had. Despite the loss, Lester has impressed UFC President Dana White who called him "one of the toughest guys he's ever met" and I'd be very surprised if he doesn't find himself fighting in the UFC very soon.
Wilks controlled the entire fight. He picked Lester apart with punches in the first two rounds, then kicks and knees in round 3, eventually ending the match by TKO with a devastating knee strike to Lester's face. He seems to have the skills and the poise to give American Demarques Johnson a great fight in the final on June 20th. Johnson is no fan of Wilks and I'll chalk it up to a case of "there's just something about himitis". Demarques said he can't stand the "manneurisms" of his British opponent and you know you're under someone's skin when you cause them to invent words.
Wilks wasn't the only Brit who managed to annoy his American opponent. Dan Henderson had some choice words for UK Coach Michael Bisping as it seems Henderson hasn't taken too kindly to the pompous attitude of his British counterpart. Henderson didn't mind having his ears compared to asparagus by Frank Lester earlier in the show, so you know it isn't easy to upset him. Or perhaps, like me, Henderson didn't quite follow where Lester was going with that. At any rate, there will be more interest in the Coaches' Fight as a result.
I know that Dana White would have been pulling for a Johnson-Lester final, but Wilks is a better opponent for Demarques and now that this match it set Saturday looks like a night of fights worth watching.


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An interactive website launched Monday by anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny paints a vivid picture of suspected cost overruns and conflicts of interest at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Russia has spent about $51 billion to deliver the Olympics in Sochi, which run Feb. 7-23, making them the most expensive Olympics ever even though winter games have many fewer athletes competing than summer games do.
Navalny claims that Russia spent twice as much as necessary to build at least 10 of the Olympic venues — including the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the Fisht Stadium for the opening/closing ceremonies and the speed-skating arena.
Allegations of corruption have dogged preparations for the Sochi Games for years, as reported by The Associated Press and others. Navalny's new website — Sochi.FBK.info — combines data gathered during his own investigations along with media reports and other activists' analysis.
Using colorful graphics, the website makes a wide range of data accessible in English and Russian.
"Athletes are not the only people who compete in Sochi," Navalny, who finished a strong second in Moscow's mayoral election last year, wrote on the website. "Officials and businessmen also took part in the games and turned them into a source of income."
President Vladimir Putin has rejected claims about rampant corruption in Sochi, saying the inflated prices were due to the honest mistakes of investors who underestimated the costs.
"If anybody has got this information, please show this to us," Putin said in a recent television interview. "But so far we haven't seen anything except speculation."
A 2012 report by the government's Audit Chamber found about 15 billion rubles (about $500 million) in "unreasonable" cost overruns in the preparations for the Sochi Olympics.


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When I was in Salado last Christmas, I picked up a mystery bag of fabric strips. I didn't know what I was going to get, but I hoped it was good...ever done that? After all, it was fabric and it was $3.00 for the bag.
The other day, I was visiting one of my favorite blogs - Film in the Fridge, and Ashley had posted a tutorial for a strip quilt...and LIGHT BULB! I had strips!
The strips turned out to be a variety of fall leaves that were either set in blue or brown and I ended up using Kona Cotton (Charcoal) for the backing - I so love this color...
There was just enough in my little bag to get a sweet little boy's baby blanket...Can't you just see a dad buying this quilt for his little hunter?
All in all, it took about four hours to make - I like to hand stitch the binding to satisfy the old fashioned quilting idea I have, that is before machine sewing came along! Don't get me wrong, I *heart* machine quilting...but this does make it a little more personal for me when I give something as a gift.
Anyway, back to the sewing room I go! Have a few more items I want to make before the day is over!


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Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a two part series that provides an alphabetized listing of a small number of African languages and their word/s for "father" and "mother".
Part II provides entries for African languages from M-Z.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/09/words-for-father-mother-in-various.html Part I of the list. Part I includes entries for African languages from A-L.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
Additions and corrections are very welcome.
Please share the words for father and mother in other African and non-African languages in the comment section below. Thanks!
WORDS FOR FATHER AND MOTHER in VARIOUS AFRICAN LANGUAGES, Part I
This small number of languages were selected somewhat at random from this listing of African language names http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/african_languages.htm "Official and Spoken Languages of African Countries" That website indicates that "Africa is a continent with a very high linguistic diversity, there are an estimated 1500-2000 African languages."
In this list, the nation in which the featured language is spoken is given in brackets after the language's name. The African word/s for the English language words "father" and "mother" are then given, followed by a citation of the online source where I retrieved that information. A quote from that source, or from Wikipedia, and/or from some other website may also be included for that entry.
Mandinka (also given as Manding) [Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea-Bissau and Chad;]
Father = baaba
Mother - naa
That dictionary also indicates that "mama" and "mamoo" means grandparent; "mamakee" means grandfather and "mamamusoo" means "grandmother".
Mende [Sierra Leone] (entry added September 21, 2014)
Father -Keke
Mother - Yie
Grandmother- Mama
Maada - Grandfather/Paramount Chief
Kenya -Uncle
Oshiwambo (Namibia and Angola)
Father = Tate
Mother: Meme
Citation for "Tate" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovambo_language
Citation for "Meme" https://worldpulse.com/node/2016 from comment written On January 27, 2010 by justina She also wrote "Grandmother is called Kuku."
Here's a quote from that Wikipedia page for Oshiwambo:
"Not to be confused with Ambo language (Zambia) or Ambo language (Nigeria). ... The language is generally called Ovambo, Ambo, or Oshiwambo in English. ..Ovambo, also known as Wambo or Ambo, is a dialect cluster in Angola and northern Namibia".
Here's more informaton from "Hai ti! – A Beginner's Guide to Oshikwanyama - wingolog" http://wingolog.org/pub/hai-ti/hai-ti.pdf
Ovaneumbo / Edimo:
My father Tate
Your father Xo
His/her father Xe
My mother Meme
Your mother Nyoko
Sethoso [South Africa]
Father – ntate
Mother - 'me
Setswana [Botswana, South Africa and Namibia (Southern Africa)]
father - ntate
Mother – mma
Here's a comment about the pronunciation of "mma" from https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090203213954AA0bMzk "How do you say mother in Setswana?"
"It's "mma". And be sure to lengthen the "m". The "m" sound is long, and the "a" sound is short."
Sheng [Kenya]
Many words in Sheng change rapidly and otherwise differ. "Budako" (father) was the word for father in this 2007 article https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9966974377 "Cultural Production and Social Change in Kenya: Building Bridges" [p. 94] by Kimani Njogu, Garnette Oluoch-Olunya and in this 2013 article http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol6no6/6.6-Kihara.pdf "On Mchongoanos And Riddles In Kenya" by C. Patrick Kihara [in The Journal of Pan-African Studies vol 6, no 6, December 2013]. "Budako" was also
"Mathako" was the word for "mother" that was given in that 2007 article. However, the 2013 article gave the word "mathako" for "mother".
Here are other Sheng words for "father" and "mother" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_slang
"mdosi, fathe, mbuyu, buda" = "dad"
"masa, mathe, mnyaka, mokoro, moda" = "mum"
Here's some information about "Sheng" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_slang
"Sheng is a Swahili-based cant, perhaps a mixed language or creole, originating among the urban underclass of Nairobi, Kenya, and influenced by many of the languages spoken there. While primarily a language of urban youths, it has spread across social classes and geographically to neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda...
The word "Sheng" is coined from the two languages that it is mainly derived from: Swahili and English. The "h" was included from the middle of "Swahili because "Seng" would have sounded unusual...
Although the grammar, syntax, and much of the vocabulary are drawn from Swahili, Sheng borrows from English and from the languages of various ethnic groups in Kenya, including Luhya, Gĩkũyũ, Luo and Kamba. Words are also borrowed from languages that are neither a local language nor English – such as the Sheng word dame "lady" — which is a title of honour for a lady in English, or morgen "morning" – a Sheng word used in some areas with a similar meaning in German.
Sheng vocabulary can vary significantly within Kenya's various subdivisions and the larger African Great Lakes region, and even between neighbourhoods in Nairobi"...
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/prince-nico-mbarga-sweet-mother-sound.html for a pancocojams post on Sheng.
Somali [Somalia]
Father - hooyo
Mother - aabbo
citation: Google translate
Tigrinya -[Eritrea and Ethiopia]
Father = Abo
Mother -Ade
Tshiluba [Democratic Republic Of The Congo]
Tatu - Father
Mamu - Mother
Twi [Ghana]
Father - Agya
Mother - Ɛna
That source also indicated that "Nana" is the Twi word for "Grandfather / Grandmother". Nana is also a Ghanaian title.
"Amongst the Akan clans of Ghana, the word Nana generally denotes social eminence derived from either nobility or advanced age. It is most often used as a pre-nominal honorific by individuals who are entitled to it due to the former of the two ( E.g. kings and chieftains such as Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, the reigning Asantehene of Asanteman)". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_(title)
Here are two other citations for the Twi word for father and mother (and grandparents):
From http://ghanamagazine.com/twidictionary/
Father – Papa
Mother – Maame
Grandparents – Nana
From http://www.interpals.net/note.php?nid=99757 "My African language short phrase book"
Twi (pronounced 'chwee')
Father = papa
Mother = maame
Wolof [Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania]
Father – Baye
Mother - Yaye
Xhosa [South Africa] Revised June 19, 2016
Father – ubawo, utata
Mother - umama
From http://www.101languages.net/xhosa/xhosa-word-list/
"Utata" and "umama" are usually shortened to "tata" (father) and "mama" (mother).
Comments from the discussion thread of "sarafina.the funeral song", a video on the 1976 Soweto Uprising indicate that the word "tata" is an abbreviation of "utata" and "mama" is an abbreviation of "umama".
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/06/sarafina-1992-movie-about-soweto.html for a pancocojams post about the Soweto uprising and that particular video.
Yoruba [Nigeria]
Father- baba
Mother - iya
citation: Google Translate
Zulu [South Africa]
Father- ubaba
Mother - umama
Update: June 19, 2016: http://www.101languages.net/zulu/zulu-word-list/
This concludes Part II of this series.
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
Visitor comments are welcome.


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1440 Wall Street: Yahoo Gets Free Advice
From 1440 Wall Street:
Sanford Bernstein is raising a ruckus in the shares of Yahoo! today, calling on management to break up or sell the company. They think the sum of the parts come to at least $39 a share.
And they are not the only folks agitating for change. Eric Jackson at Breakout Performance continues to harangue management, and wants anti-takeover provisions removed. That might be harder to do than getting rid of Terry Semel was.
But not all news is bad in Sunnyvale. Compete.com is noting that while Google is the King of Search, Yahoo! might be the King of Fulfillment: As I noted a few weeks ago, Google gets about 2/3rds of the web search volume. So from this perspective Google appears to dominate and have the most successful search engine. If volume is an indication of effectiveness, one might be ready to crown Google the best search engine. However, if we look at the numbers from a "search fulfillment" perspective by engine we get a very different story.


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Sup! The name is Letrick and I'm an 18 year old going into college soon. I blog about anime, manga, and video games, plus I do reviews and impressions of manga chapters, anime episodes, etc. I'll also be playing visual novels and giving impressions about stuff that's going on that interests me. If you have any questions or requests feel free to ask in the comments! I'll be sure to respond within 72 hours or less if I can. 8D
Thursday, March 29, 2012
I'm moving over to my new blogspot, which can be found on my new twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LetrickBlogs
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The sun is always present.
It is just the clouds that hide the sun.
The trees have begun to unfold their leaves towards the sun.
So have the flowers.
The flowers in our tiny garden have just started to unfold their petals
and are showing us their lovely smiles :)
Our soul, our true self, is like the sun, it seems.
It is shining and smiling deep inside our heart, always and forever.
I remember that whenever I visited Val's former blog,
the photos on her blog appealed to me.
I could sense the sunlight from her photos,
which was filtered through her eyes, her true self.
Happy belated birthday, Val:)


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Peter J. Leithart takes a brief look at Kuyper's common grace
Darryl L. Bock looks at Kuyper's book on Common Grace:
This is my first read of Kuyper, a famous Reformed theologian of the late 19 and early 20th century. His style is clear. His address of issues is direct. He raises and pursues questions that many do not even raise. He reasons in detail, sometimes one senses he infers to answer questions that may not have an answer. Still it is a worthy read. If one has ever wondered why there is so much discussion of covenants to Adam and Noah in the Reformed tradition, this text will help to explain why the topic is raised.Robert Covolo's review of Bratt's biography of Kuyper is now online at academic.edu, as is his 2013. "Faith in a Fashionable Age: Abraham Kuyper and Charles Taylor on the Secular Nexus Between Mode and Modernité" International Journal of Public Theology 7: 297–314.
And as has been mentioned before John Boer's translation of Abraham Kuyper's The Ascent of the Son - The Descent of the Spirit is available from lulu.com.


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(AP) Ted Turner's son vying in SC congressional primary
By BRUCE SMITH
Associated Press
Teddy Turner inherited his love of sailing from his father, media magnate Ted Turner. But there is less of a family resemblance when it comes to politics.
While the elder Turner leans Democratic, Teddy Turner is running as a Republican in a crowded race for an open South Carolina congressional seat created by a U.S. Senate appointment.
Teddy Turner is one of at least 10 Republicans and two Democrats running in the March 19 party primaries in this coastal district.
The contest has already attracted former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican seeking to make a political comeback after an affair with an Argentine woman derailed his career, and comedian Steven Colbert's sister, who is vying for the Democratic nomination.
The younger Turner, during an interview with the Associated Press in his home overlooking a marsh in this bedroom community near Charleston, described how his conservative views were decades in the making.
One of five Turner children and Ted Turner's son by his first marriage to Julia Gale Nye, Robert Edward Turner IV graduated from South Carolina's military college, The Citadel, then worked in the then-Soviet Union with CNN, the cable network his dad founded.
Later Teddy Turner held positions both with Turner Broadcasting System and Country Music Television before returning to Charleston 13 years ago. He ran several businesses and worked with underprivileged children at the South Carolina Maritime Foundation. Now he teaches economics at the Charleston Collegiate School, a private school near Charleston.
Working for CNN, Turner said he saw firsthand a busted centralized economy and experienced socialized medicine after being in a Soviet hospital following a serious traffic accident.
What concerns him most is the federal budget deficit. He said he decided to enter the race after discussions about the issue with former U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, hearing his student's questions about the state of the economy and looking into the eyes of his three young children and wondering what kind of nation they will inherit.
Scott, a Republican, was appointed to the U.S. Senate seat left vacant when Republican Jim DeMint resigned.
The 1st Congressional District extends from the sea islands northeast of Charleston southwest to the gated communities on the resort of Hilton Head Island. It leans strongly Republican _ it's been decades since it last sent a Democrat to Congress _ and Sanford held the seat for three terms before he was elected governor.
Making his first political race, Turner casts himself as a newcomer, not a career politician, and one who is willing to talk with those across the aisle in Congress about the nation's troubled finances.
He said he would push for a commonsense approach, telling each agency to trim its budgets by a certain percentage. That, he says, is exactly what a business or a family would do during hard times.
With Turner, what you see is what you get, said Hacker Burr, the head of Charleston Collegiate, from which Turner is on sabbatical.
Scott Buchanan, the executive director of The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, said being an outsider may not work in Turner's favor in the GOP primary.
Buchanan said he sees little evidence that likely GOP primary voters are willing to be accommodating across the aisle. He gives the early edge to three state legislators in the race, as well as to Sanford.
Turner said his dad is supportive of his congressional bid but that he doesn't expect him to see him on the campaign trail.
Ted Turner did not immediately respond to a message from the AP seeking comment on his son's candidacy.
The younger Turner is not a total stranger to South Carolina's political world.
The Turners and the Sanfords own rural property in the same area of coastal South Carolina, and Turner has known Mark Sanford for years, hunting and sailing with him.
While Sanford has high name recognition after two terms as governor and a sex scandal, Turner doesn't see it as a positive. "I think Mark has had his time," he said.
Turner said not being a politician may be an advantage for his campaign, which began airing its first television ads last weekend.


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Disclaimer: Most of the numbers discussed here are based on various media-reported estimates of revenues and costs. They should not be considered anything resembling a thorough accounting of the A's operations. Estimates take into account rules described in the current CBA.In an effort to further this discussion, I've taken the time to dissect the revenue sharing model, A's-style. But first some explanations:
- Concessions numbers don't match ticket sales because concessions sales are based on turnstile count, which runs at about 80% of ticket sales (you can't sell concessions to no-shows).
- Parking sales numbers are based on 8,000 spaces sold per game over 82 games. This may be generous given actual parking lot usage at the Coliseum.
- Non-game events include tours and other activities outside of game days.
- In-stadium advertising, sponsorships, and broadcast revenues are placeholders for the purpose of fleshing out the model. So are the items listed in "Actual Stadium Expenses."
- It is not assumed that the new stadium will immediately benefit the A's in terms of more lucrative local broadcasting deals.
- Revenue sharing contribution is defined as 31% of Net Local Revenue. All teams pay in this percentage, plus luxury tax if applicable.
- "Recovered debt service from dev rights sales" is the "refund" the A's will get from selling development rights to ~310 housing units per year. It's this amount that is intended to finance the ballpark debt. That boils down to a $300 million loan, financed at $31 million per year over 15 years. The final loan structure is likely to vary greatly from this.
- "Revenue Sharing Receipt" is the share of the revenue sharing pool the A's get.
- "Central Revenue" is national and international revenue taken in by MLB. This includes national broadcast contracts from FOX, ESPN, and TBS, plus merchandising sources.
A combination of low operations costs and revenue sharing make the A's a reasonably profitable franchise. That $140 million figure looks tantalizingly large, but don't be mislead. Lew Wolff has held close to a "guideline" that dictates teams should spend no more than 55% of revenue on payroll, as is done throughout pro sports. Using the 55% rule the A's payroll should be around $83 million, which is pretty close to this season's actual payroll. Before we move on, remember the amount of the "Revenue sharing contribution."
(estimates not adjusted for inflation)
In this model, A's revenue has risen $25 million. Yet the "Revenue sharing contribution" is almost the same as in the current model. How can this be? The "Actual Stadium Expenses" table totals a whopping $52 million, thanks to stadium debt service and operating costs, which are all deductible from the amount used to determine the contribution. Consider it similar to your annual 1040 form's "Adjusted Gross Income." The A's would service the stadium debt with sales of housing development rights, not stadium income. That would allow the A's to reclaim all of that debt service and put it towards the team - or ownership partners. Notice that even in this instance the A's would be receiving some form of revenue sharing receipt. This is because the A's new revenue streams from the stadium would still place them slightly below the league-wide revenue average, squarely in mid-market territory. This number is smaller because it's expected that most if not all teams that still are developing ballparks will have theirs open around the same time Cisco Field opens. New stadia for the Yanks, Mets, and ongoing improvements to Dodger Stadium and Fenway Park allow the big market teams to take the same deductions, limiting the amounts they pay into revenue sharing.
Apply the 55% rule to the future revenue model and the payroll grows to $97 million. Is that enough to remain competitive? In spurts. A fantastic diary posted by Taj Adib at Athletics Nation goes in depth on future iterations of the A's. $97 million isn't enough for anyone to turn into Brian Cashman. It is enough to invest in more than one franchise-type player while maintaining a young, cheap core of players. The franchise-player investments have inherently high risk, and if those players come through with career years while your young core stays healthy and produces, you might end up like this year's Rockies or Indians. Gamble and lose, and you get this year's Orioles or Rangers. 6 or 7-year deals are not easy to trade if a player seriously underperforms, so GM's won't have frequent chances to roll the dice. What we could see in the future might be shorter and more frequent rebuilding cycles for the mid-market teams. What we don't want to see is a situation like the NBA, where GM's are forced to trade bad contracts instead of trading players based on exchanges of talent. (It's an ugly system, though for a number-cruncher like me it's strangely fascinating.) Thanks to the number of roster spots per team, MLB's salary/trade model is somewhere between the dog-eat-dog tendencies of the NFL and the egregious excesses of the NBA. And that's a good thing.


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Yesterday I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Duffy & Steve of The Rooney & Moon show on the Morning Mix 107.5 broadcast in Texas and New Mexico! They even played 2 songs by the chorus on the air -- "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay and "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House! Chorus members Tashee and Baaba even got to say a quick hello too. Have a listen by clicking on the podcast above.
Thanks to Duffy & Steve for reaching out to us, putting us on the show, and sending the embed link for the broadcast so that we can share this with everybody!


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Thursday, November 8, 2007
I think we might be done....
With all of the changes going around here the prospect of moving away from diapers forever is great. It means I don't have babies anymore, I have boys. I'm so excited about going to school in January. In a few years I will have a job outside of the home. But I will be working when my kids are in school and home when they are home. It will be a huge step forward for us financially where we will not only be able to get by but we will also be able to afford nice extras like vacations, shoes, more yarn, etc.
Now if anyone knows how to get him to move out of the terrible threes, I am all ears!
9 comments:
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Based in Shinjuku, Soliton's eDiscovery partner in Japan is Ji2, Inc. a subsidary of Soliton Systems, K.K. and sister company to Soliton Cyber & Analytics. Ji2, Inc. provides data collection, data processing, data hosting and review services for clients whose data resides within Japan. Our native-Japanese staff is bilingual (English/Japanese) to interact clearly and consistently with clients within Japan. Our services may be white-labeled through other eDiscovery partners or we may be engaged directly by a client and we only provide what the client needs - we can provide either the full-range of services or just part of our offerings.
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Despite the fact I have tomatoes and a bushel of apples to can....I've not done it today. About all I have managed to do today has been to eat and sleep. I missed a training today at the fire department, and I may be missing a family dinner tomorrow. My eyes continue to be very sensitive to the bright sunlight.
The poison ivy has spread, and the worst of it is on my eyelids. I have been taking benadryl for it, then I fall asleep. Today has basically been a series of naps.
With my luck however, I am sure that when bedtime rolls around, I will most likely be wide awake.
I get poison ivy every year, usually more than once. But this time is by far the worst-mainly because of where it is located.


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Monday, December 22, 2014
A' Perfetto @ SS2 Petaling Jaya
25 comments:
Love the colourful tortilla pizza and the 'Dancing Eel' maki...the scallop risotto with shimeji mushrooms sounds good too =)ReplyDeleteReplies
Ulric: ya, i think maybe i should have ordered one of the scallop dishes ... there were options of scallop pizza, scallop risotto, scallop congee :)Delete
Scallop risotto for me...cose I m still trying to find the lost magic of the oyster n barley risotto from Ozeki Italian =)Delete
Ulric: oh i think i remember that one ... risotto in a sizzling pan with parmesan cheese, mushrooms and steamed japanese oysters. so good ;)Delete
Hokkaido scallop congee with truffle oil sounds yummy! That's remind me of the crab and uni congee I had in Hokkaido. :DReplyDeleteReplies
CK: oh yes, if they added some uni into the congee here, it might be even tastier, heheh. but it would be very expensive :DDelete
The decor, plates and placemats are very attractive. I have to say, though, for myself, I can't imagine having pizza without what I am used to. I usually order the vegetarian (green bell peppers, mushrooms, onions and melted Mozzarella cheese), and here in Montreal, there are restaurants that will sell you just one or two slices as opposed to the whole pizza, if this is what you want, and I like that. As well, I like the thin crust. All in all, I love the decor and look of this place, Sean. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Linda: that's an interesting perspective on pizza ... yeah, i like the very flavourful cheese-&-tomato varieties, but i think i'm also looking for lighter pizzas these days that still manage to pack a punch without relying on mozzarella, etc. and yes, being able to just buy one slice instead of an entire pizza is very convenient. am glad you like the look of this place :)Delete
Oh, and by the way, Merry Christmas. I know that people take a lot of time to put their blog posts together, (as do I), and so I don't feel it a good habit to comment with a simple "Merry Christmas", so I wanted to comment on your post in detail. Love and hugs to you, Sean. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Linda: thank you for your very warm wishes! appreciate your thoughtfulness. here's hoping this will be a wonderful week for all of us as we get ready for 2015 ;)Delete
i likes the sushi type of rice there, hehe, btw, don't mind i added your google search in my latest post yeah~ hahaReplyDeleteReplies
Happy walker: oh yes, japanese rice is tasty :DDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2014
True to the name, everything looks absolutely perfect!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Suituapui: glad you like how it looks :)Delete
Those pizzas look lovely and light, tortilla bases are a good idea. Of course FREE WINE is always a good reason to stop by ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
YouHadYourLunch: yeah, they're a cool change from the regular pizzas. and yes, what better way to get into the spirit of the season than with a free-flow of free wine (i think i had four glasses) :)Delete
Awesome deal! How many glasses of wine for you Sean? :PReplyDeleteReplies
Ken: if you pass me the entire bottle, i'd be pleased as punch :)Delete
The flavours of that eel maki will surely 'dance in my mouth' =). Perfecto!ReplyDeleteReplies
Contact: eel ecstasy, unagi unbridled! :DDelete
looks supremely enticing! What wine was it.. i would want to check it out before the year is up.. but then I won't be in KL for much longer! LOL . Happy hols!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Ciki: oh, it was an argentinan cabernet sauvignon ... oooh, not in kl for much longer? sounds ominous! but here's hoping you enjoy the year-end festivities too before leaving! :)Delete
Very interesting pizza topping, do you think so?ReplyDeleteReplies
Choi Yen: ya, you're right. the avocado paste for the pizza was a nice change from the usual tomato-based topping :)Delete
We had a wonderful time at your restaurant on 28 Nov 2015. Thank you for the little birthday cake surprise too.ReplyDelete
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