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The really fantastic thing about this cake, aside from it's great flavor and texture, is that it's a "scratch cake"--a devil's food cake from the Betty Crocker cookbook, made with no adjustments for our high altitude, and it came out beautifully perfect. I'm thinking it must have something to do with the fact that it was baked in a DeMarle pan. The cake was gorgeous as it came from the pan, but Sweet Teen also made chocolate cream cheese icing, from scratch, of course.
She mentioned later that she had had no idea what "shortening" was--so she looked it up on the internet.
We should probably do more cooking together, but with my long intense days, I'm often not good company after work--just way toooooooo exhausted and need time to unwind from the assaults.
She also made one of our favorite blustery day--or cold day, or both kinds of days--winter casseroles.
Sweet Teen's Sausage Potato Dinner
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Sprinkle a couple of ounces of grated sharp cheddar cheese in the bottom of a DeMarle pan (Sweet Teen used the Sunflower Mold) or a casserole pan.
With kitchen shears, cut a link of turkey kielbasa (or a similar sausage) into slices about 1/8 inch thick. Scatter a few slices around the bottom of the pan.
Add alternating layers of potato cubes (or frozen hash browns), a couple of ounces of grated sharp cheddar, and potatoes. (We do use frozen potatoes because our time is so limited.) End with another sprinkle of grated sharp cheddar.
Add enough milk to 1 cup of sour cream to make it "liquidy enough to penetrate the layers.
From the looks of this one, Sweet Teen sprinkled a mixture of Herbs de Provence over the top. (I usually stir them into the milk/sour cream mixture--but I'm not sure it makes much difference which way they are added.)
Bake for about 1 hour.
We often scatter frozen peas or frozen sliced carrots throughout this dish too.
Since this makes a good sized casserole and since it is so rich, we have a simple salad with it and usually get several lunches from the leftovers.
She made the cake in DeMarle's fluted square mold. Cakes (and almost anything else) come out of these molds looking as if you worked some magic glazed finish on them--I think she frosted this one so she could write her message to me.
One of the nicest things was that since she cooked, I did the dishes, and since she used the DeMarle pans, it took somewhere between ten and thirty seconds to wash each pan.
A few years ago, I recognized that although most people think I cook because I love to cook, the real reason I cook is to nourish people I love. The other day Sweet Teen and I both commented that although we enjoy the food [and enjoy it a lot more knowing cleaning up with DeMarle will be so fast], we both cook because we love someone we're cooking for.
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by JRR Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien - 2 stars
It kills me that I'm doing this, it really does, but I can't let my being a fangirl blind me to the truth and so, here we are.
I've always been a voracious reader, and the more eagle-eyed among you will know that my drug of choice is fantasy (with a sprinkling of paranormal). Like many people, Lord of the Rings was my gateway drug. Most people I know read LOTR when they were growing up. Unlike most people, I was rather a late starter and so it wasn't until I was nearly 20, when NikNak passed me a copy of Fellowship of the Ring with an exasperated "I can't believe you've never read this", that my reading world opened up.
After yearly re-reads and losing myself in the many supplementary works of Tolkien, I've since moved on to other fantasy worlds, but LOTR will always remain my first love. So it should come as no surprise that, some time last week, I lost my shit when someone posted a link to this release. I'd had no idea it was in the offing, and sped on over to Amazon where I spunked away £9 for instant delivery to my Kindle. That's right, £9. And I still felt like The Dude.
I feel a little swindled, as it turns out that the long abandoned, unfinished and previously unreleased work only took up about 30% of the book, with the rest being essays and notes by his son Christopher, designed to shine a little light on and place the poem in context (and pad the book enough to justify the price - but a rant on the great Kindle Swindle is probably best left for another day).
Apparently an alliterative Old English poem, I wouldn't know one of those if it walked up and alliterated in my face, but I can say it was somewhat effective (when I understood it) - Arthur seems to be battling some desolate, wind-driven landscape in a foreign campaign while Guinevere (who's given short shrift for being such a tempting slut) is menaced by Mordred, who is trying to take over Arthur's kingdom. Meanwhile Lancelot sulks across the water, waiting for a summons from King or Queen that never comes. If the poem had been finished I imagine it would have made for a good telling of the back-end of the Arthur legend. But it's not finished, and so didn't really do much else for me.
Reading the other 70% felt a little like this:
While Christopher's contributions were helpful when it came to looking at the poem in the context of the Arthurian tradition, and the similarities between Avalon and Tol Eressea, when it came to the evolution of the poem it nearly sent me to sleep.
Oh well, one to learn from then....and I'll head to the library for any future releases from the Tolkien estate.


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For by you I can run against a troop,
Our Training Philosophy
Many martial systems teach the fighting skills to survive a violent encounter, however they do not examine the events leading up to it. The core of Diamondback Combatives is not in our techniques. All our civilian courses are based upon two principles, Awareness and Avoidance. Once that basis has been established, we introduce "hard skills", our hand to hand, edged weapon and firearms techniques. Everything we teach is designed to work under the physical symptoms of adrenaline that everyone from Navy SEALS to bankers experiences in a life and death situation.
In our classes, the one thing we stress more than anything is awareness. In order to avoid danger, you have to have good situational awareness. When I talk about danger, I am not just talking about the strung out crackhead most of us train to defend ourselves against. Think of your everyday life. How many people die by getting hit by vehicles every year? How many people twist their ankles stepping of a curb at the wrong angle? How many people spill hot coffee on themselves because they were not aware of the other drivers and had to stomp the brakes?
Awareness can help to protect you from these deadly, painful or embarrassing situations as well as give off the signal that you are aware. This can be the one thing that causes a criminal to find another victim. There is always an easier one.
We stress this in our classes but it is the kind of thing that is very hard to teach. It has to be a lifestyle.
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And we prayed to our God and set a protection against them, day and night.
As combatives and self-defense instructors, the lives of our students can rest on what we teach. We have learned through experience that no technique works 100% of the time. Therefore using any self defense techniques should be an absolute last resort. Having said this, in my opinion it is TOTALLY irresponsible for instructors to teach fighting techniques without teaching avoidance(and therefore awareness) techniques FIRST. Just because we taught our student a technique does not mean that they can or should effectively employ that technique to win the confrontation. Almost all physical confrontations can be avoided. The problem is many people have too much ego to properly avoid. As I have said before, in street violence the only thing for certain is uncertainty. Watch MMA some time. You can't watch for too long before you see a huge upset. That is from guys who have spent 9 months studying each others style and skill, as well as training for 8 hours a day. In the street you don't know when or what will happen, what your opponent knows, or what he's carrying. So call me what you will, but I will avoid a fight at all costs rather than risk my life over something I could have avoided.
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Steven Wright comedy show visits Penn's Peak Sunday
Probably no comedian skirts so many topics as Steven Wright. His one-liners, jokes, paraprosdokians, and deadpan humor can be on anything from the military to ambition to lawyers to, you name it.
Where does he get all his material?
"Just from noticing the world," he said in a telephone interview. "From the minute you wake up to the time you go to bed, you're bombarded by little pieces of information."
He added, "I get it from noticing my surroundings, from reading a book."
As an example of his humor:
"How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?"
"What happens if you get scared half to death twice?"
"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."
Wright is bringing his comedy show to Penn's Peak in Jim Thorpe tomorrow evening. The event starts at 8 p.m. with tickets at $29 and $24.
His success is well documented by his many major TV appearances, including repeat performances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and starring in one of HBO's longest running comedy specials.
This is a return appearance at Penn's Peak, where he drew a large crowd the first time.
Wright, who has been performing since 1979, said his on-stage presence just seems to have fallen into place naturally.
"I didn't really think of a style," he said. "I like how Woody Allen wrote jokes. I like how he structured jokes. I like how George Burns talked about things."
The combinations of one-liners and jokes flowed naturally.
"They just came out abstract like that," he said. "I was into my abstract past."
When he made his comedy debut, he hadn't intended his act to be one liners. It just happened and the audience loved it.
He enjoys abstract in another form, too - abstract art. His web site has pieces of art work that he has done.
Art has been a passion of his since grade school. "I do it because I enjoy it," he said. "I think it influenced my comedy."
Being funny comes naturally to Wright. He said even when he isn't funny, he makes people laugh.
"Sometimes people will come up to me and say, 'Say something funny.' I will say, 'no,' and then they laugh. Therefore, I was funny to them," he said.
His drawl and straight-faced delivery gives the impression he might be depressed.
"I'm depressed like anyone else is depressed. But they think I'm depressed when I'm not," he explained.
The highlight of his career, he said, was his first appearance on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
"I watched the show since I was 16," he said. "I watched it every night."
He was 26 when he went on the show and met Carson. Wright made such an impression that he was asked to return a week later.
Wright is a native of Cambridge, Mass.
In 1985, his comedy album "I Have A Pony" was released on Warner Brothers Records and was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album.
Four years later, he and fellow producer Dean Parisot won an Academy Award for their 30-minute short film, "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings."
In 2006, Wright starred on Comedy Central with his self-produced special, "Steven Wright: When the Leaves Blow Away."
Four years ago, Wright got another Grammy nomination for his second album, "I Still Have A Pony," which was a CD release from "When the Leaves Blow Away."
Asked for a closing remark, he deadpanned:
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Although I quit my 9-5 job, I will not be completely jobless this summer. I have a part-time job at Sifu Design Studio - a yarn store in the Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago. I will also be teaching classes at Sifu this summer, and they sell some of my art. But on Mondays and Wednesdays, I'm just a regular yarn store employee.
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Happy New Year! Now that school is back in full swing, I'm getting my head together for topics to blog about and that might be of interest to you too! So let's talk about textbooks. In my opinion, and in my practice, textbooks are just a resource. However, there are funds distributed to school districts which are earmarked specifically for new textbooks, so every 5 years we go through the process of choosing "the best one". I recently attended a Textbook Caravan where the publishers and their sales representatives show you all the bells and whistles that their product contains. While they all have positive attributes and something to offer, I couldn't help but think while I sat there that'd I'd like to take parts of some and put them with parts of others to create a specialized textbook, just for my taste. Wouldn't that be cool as a teacher? Tell the publisher exactly which components you want, tell another publisher their components you want, and spend the money making your ideal resource book! That's why I've always viewed textbooks as a resource, not a bible for the content. But, I suppose there are teachers out there who are either told they have to follow the book (poor things), or they just are not comfortable enough creating their own lessons (can't imagine) and so they resort to going by the book. Let me just say this, the math textbook is probably what made me hate math as a student… it was dry, boring, and all those practice problems we were assigned, when what I really wanted to do and what I really understood was the Problem Solving section! If anyone reading this happens to be a textbook publisher, I urge you, please… please… change format, especially now with Common Core State Standards. Put problem solving at the beginning of the lesson, this way students can comprehend and make sense of the math, which by the way, is the most important part of the learning progression. Then put a few guided practice or independent practice standard algorithm type of problems at the end of the lesson. Until we design textbooks for the way students learn, from concrete to abstract, we will continue to lose them, especially in mathematics. But I will continue to design problems and encourage teachers to do so as well, and help students make connections to the math they use in their everyday lives.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about textbooks and how they are used in your school or classroom.
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Why won't Rand Paul admit he's changed his mind?
Back in Washington after a long break last week, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul was stepping off the escalator in the Capitol basement on his way to lunch, when a reporter approached him with a straightforward question.
Rand Paul is so caught up in revising the past, pretty soon he may say he supported the North in the Civil War.- LOLGOP
The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam
- Kerry: 'We Are At War' With ISIS, Just As US Is At War With Al Qaeda
- Iran supreme leader spurns U.S. overture to fight Islamic State
- Arab states willing to join air fight against Islamic State in Iraq, US officials say
- Syrian army destroys Islamic State-controlled bridge
- NATO head: threats from Russia, Islamic State
- New Zealanders under mass surveillance, Edward Snowden claims
Dick Cheney criticizing Obama on ISIS is like Dr. Frankenstein mocking the villagers for not catching that monster yet.- John Fugelsang
GOP Senator Mimics Fire and Brimstone Preacher
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) did not hold back on Sunday in expressing his outrage at President Barack Obama's refusal to send ground troops to confront ISIS, warning that the "gates of hell" would "spill out onto the world."
If George W. Bush was so right about Iraq, how come Republicans aren't including them in all their ads and campaigns?- LOLGOP
Republican Shenanigans
- Poll: Americans disapprove of Republican Party
- Arizona GOPer: Women On Welfare Should Be Sterilized
- Skeet-Shooting Grimes Tells McConnell 'That's Not How You Hold A Gun'
- Ted Cruz-Backed GOPer Wouldn't Say Whether She's On Obamacare
- Scarborough's Latest Hillary Rant: 'She's A Robot'
- Bible-pushing Christians open the door for Satanic activity books in Florida schools
- WATCH: Lindsey Graham Flips Out Over Obama's 'Delusional' ISIS Plan
The US has the lowest voter turnout of any wealthy country and no evidence of stolen elections -- so the GOP wants to make it harder to vote. - LOLGOP
ISIS Is Sneaking In Through Mexico Says Sheriff With No Proof
A Texas sheriff spoke to Fox & Friends host Elizabeth Hasselbeck this morning and warned her that members of the ISIS terrorist group, attempting to consolidate power in the Middle East, are also currently infiltrating the United States by sneaking over the border from Mexico.
Rick Perry's Lawyers Are Going All
Lawyers for Rick Perry invoked a former Roman emperor and 17th-century French King Louis XIV in a motion filed on Monday seeking to dismiss abuse-of-power felony charges leveled against the Texas governor.
If Bristol Palin gets to be an unwed teen mom paid to talk abstinence then the Palin brawl means she can get paid to talk nonviolence.- John Fugelsang
Sarah Palin's Saturday Night Brawl Response. Sorta.
Sarah Palin's camp has finally weighed in on the Alaska birthday party brawl that put the former Republican vice presidential nominee and her family back in the national spotlight this past week.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The wait times at the polls in Florida are so bad that by the time you get to vote Rand Paul might even agree with himself again.- LOLGOP
Rock The Voter News
- President Obama Job Approval
- Hillary Jokes In Iowa: I'm 'Here For The Steak'
- 2 Calif. wildfires prompt more than 1000 to flee
"My big concern is that too many men are being falsely accused of rape."
- a guy who just told you everything you need to know about him. - LOLGOP
Militia To Block U.S./Mexico Border With Guns. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Border militias are threatening to block international ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border later this week to protest the jailing of a former Marine on Mexican weapons charges, and authorities fear the protests could spark violence.
This tweet contains the names of every right-wing pundit who ever complained when a white president went golfing. Thank you.- John Fugelsang
Business/Tech News
- Oil hits two-year low; dollar rises ahead of Fed
- Air France strike amid Europe's low-cost shakeup
- Urban Outfitters is sorry about its red-splattered Kent State sweatshirt
- Penn. Paper Apologizes For Cartoon Comparing Planes To Slave Ships
I can't wait to show off my new Urban Outfitters Hiroshima Hoodie.- John Fugelsang
Have A Glass Of Flaming Water!
Homes in a Texas community face worsening water contamination caused by nearby gas production, according to a study released today.
Republicans don't believe Climate Change can make winters colder but they do believe tax cuts for billionaires will create jobs. Science! - LOLGOP
Odd News
- Space Agency Prepares To Land Probe On Top Of Comet
- Chinese city creates cellphone sidewalk lane
- Officials beg pastor, strip club owner to end feud
- Japanese Festival Puts the 'Fun' in Planning Your Own Funeral
- California nudist camp accused of stealing water
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Great Cover Debate
Magculture is busy putting together a hit list of the top magazine covers of all time ever. Anyone can submit. What a great idea! Go on... why not have your say? Just email Jeremy with your cover image 500 pixels wide.
We had a little think about this. The usual suspects, Twen, Avant Garde... they all pop up. Someone will have been there first surely. So we here at Things to Look At tried to think of something slightly more underrated and U&LC immediately sprung to mind. When you're black and white, and you have no pictures, what do you do? You just do something amazingly typographic. But can they really compete with the usual, more glossy heros such as April 1968 Esquire, Playboy October 1971, Rolling Stone January 1981? Maybe it's a little too stripped down to compete and we should be looking in the dusty corner of Nova's, Queens and Town magazine greats. The musing continues...
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Discussion in 'The Edge of the Forum' started by NeSchn, Sep 28, 2008.
I just made it.
hasnt that been done?
Probably. Oh well, It just kinda popped into my head.
thats what she said
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Not too bad with the black and white color.
Heres my cat, I have posted him before so no bitchin fools!
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We established in the last post that the woman sitting on the beast in Revelation 17 is the Roman Catholic Church located in Rome. Revelation 18 begins with another Angel coming down from heaven to give John more information. 'With a mighty voice he [the angel] shouted: "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."' (Revelation 18:2-3). I believe that God is making it clear – the Roman Church will fall. Why? It cannot get clearer than this - she has become a home for demons. The Lord is telling us that her teaching is not from Him, but from demonic activity. She has committed adultery against God by preaching false doctrine and leading many to idolatry. We are told that the 'kings of the earth committed adultery with her'. I believe this references the governments of the world throughout history welcoming her false doctrines and gaining worldly power from her. This angel ends his dialog with yet another reference to the excessive wealth of this church.
The next verses are powerful. Another voice from heaven says: 'Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes…' (Revelation 18:4-5). The Lord is calling to His people from heaven. He is saying that there are true believers within this church, yet they are deceived. He is telling them to come out of this church and its unbiblical doctrine so that they 'will not receive any of her plagues.' We are also told in verse 5 that God 'has remembered her crimes'. This is chilling. The Lord is going to repay this Church for what it has done to His people. For all of the Lord's saints that have been killed, for all of the people who have been deceived by false teachings – the Lord is going to avenge.
The Lord continues in verse 6: 'Give back to her as she has given; pay her back double for what she has done. Mix her a double portion from her own cup. Give her as much torture and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. In her heart she boasts, "I sit as queen; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn." Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her' (Revelation 18:6-8). We are given more reasons for this judgment. The Lord mentions 'torture and grief' and 'luxury and glory'. Throughout the middle ages this Church tortured the Lord's saints and became rich and powerful. I believe that it will once again persecute the Lord's saints before its judgment. The Lord has heard the cry of his Saints and He is going to avenge them. The Lord is also telling us that He sees the heart of this church and it is boastful and arrogant. Finally, we are once again told that this Church will be judged by fire…..resulting in death, mourning and famine. This parallels Revelation 17:16 '…they [the beast and the ten kings] will eat her flesh and burn her with fire' and Revelation 13:13 'he [the beast] performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men'.
The last verse of Revelation 17 states: 'The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.' (Revelation 17:18). Revelation 18:9-10 states: 'When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: "Woe! Woe, O' great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come!' Since Babylon is a reference to the city of Rome, it becomes clear that the entire city of Rome will be affected by this judgment – not just Vatican City. This also gives us another clue. Revelation 17:16 tells us who the Lord uses to judge the Roman Church – 'The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.' It's clear that the highest leadership of the world government is responsible for the destruction of this city. However, Revelation 18:10 tells us that there are kings of the earth who are 'terrified at her torment'. This leads me to believe that the world's most powerful leaders are deceiving the rest of the world. If all of the kings of the earth knew what was happening they would not be 'terrified' since they would be expecting it. I believe that this world government beast once again uses massive destruction to its advantage. It will use the destruction of Rome to setup its own 'image' of the Roman Church. (What will this image look like? We'll spend some time on this topic in a later post, because I believe we are seeing a glimpse of this image today.)
I also believe that this type of deception will ultimately lead the world to the final worldwide battle of Armageddon. If I didn't know how things ended according to Bible prophecy, I would probably believe that a worldwide government (evil or not) would have a much tighter grip on the nations of the world. How could wars break out if national boundaries disappear and we're all one, big, happy family? This sounds logical – and you hear this at times even today. It would be much easier if we only had one currency that was handled without cash or coins (no need to haul money around, no more armed robbery, etc.). Without national boundaries, no need to attack your neighbor to gain more space since we're all together. It really sounds logical….except for one thing – Satan. This world government isn't one, big, happy family. This world government will rule with an iron fist. All wealth and power will be at the top….forcing the world to adhere to demonic doctrines. No private ownership of land…no buying or selling unless you receive their 'mark'…which will force many to deny Jesus Christ. Ultimately, I believe that much of the world begins to rebel against this 'beast'…..leading to a final worldwide war – Armageddon. Many prophecy scholars today believe that Armageddon will be fought only in the Middle East against Israel. Logically, this doesn't make much sense. Why send 200 million soldiers to attack tiny Israel? Why not just drop a few nuclear weapons? Why march millions of men, hundreds of miles when we have ships and planes that could do the job much more easily. This simply doesn't make sense to me. These scholars are once again fitting Scripture to their prophecy beliefs. It is made clear that everyone in the world will be affected by this final battle: 'For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.' (Mathew 24:21-22). Jesus makes it clear – no one would survive if not for the grace of God. This is a worldwide event.
Let's finish our study of Revelation 18. Will Rome ever be rebuilt? Will the Roman Church ever return before the Lord's return? I believe the answer is no. '"They will say, 'the fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your riches and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered.' (Revelation 18:14). Revelation 18:16-17 tells us: 'Woe! Woe, O great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!' Once again, the colors and wealth of this church are mentioned. These verses parallel Revelation 17:4 and confirm for us that this 'Babylon the Great' is the same entity as the woman whose title is 'Mystery – Babylon the Great' of chapter 17: 'The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls' (Revelation 17:4).
It is clear that destruction is brought on suddenly and without warning. 'In one hour' is used more than once to describe this judgment. In verse 20 we're once again told that the Lord has not forgotten His saints that were tortured and killed by this Church: 'Rejoice over her, O heaven! Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you.' Regardless of what we face in the near future, we should always take comfort in the Lord and know that it is not up to us to repay those that persecute us – the Lord will repay just as we're told in Deuteronomy 32:35: 'It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.'
Chapter 18 finishes with the words of a mighty angel: 'With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again. The music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No workman of any trade will be found in you again. The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. Your merchants were the world's great men. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray. In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints, and of all who have been killed on earth.' (Revelation 18:21-24). This chapter ends with finality. With violence, this city will be destroyed and never be rebuilt. Never again will people inhabit this city. Never again will a church be built in this city (bridegroom and bride). The chapter ends with the reasons for judgment – false teachings that led people away from Jesus and the killing of God's saints. Very clear and very chilling.
I realize that it's hard to believe these things. Much of what I have written about is not easy to believe because it's not what we want to hear. We would much rather hear that things are going to get better and that the world will be peaceful. The truth of God's Word tells us differently. The Lord's truth tells us that things are going to get worse – so prepare yourself. Don't buy into the lies of the world. Our focus should always be on His kingdom, not this world.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
A Woman Rides the Beast - Revelation 18
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So I have been taking Myrna on some dates. We've been spotted hob-knobbing at JoAnns.
From previous posts, you know that my sewing machine is named Myrna. We have had a hate/love relationship but I think I can safely say that the hate half of that is definitely in the past.
A little trivia for you, September is National Sewing Month. So Lizzy and I signed up for two sewing classes at Joann's at half price. We signed up for a Basics Class and a Lazy Pants class.
The Basics class was full, and I quickly realized that Myrna and I had made it a lot further than some of the other people in the class. But still I learned quite a bit that day. All about pattern envelopes, how to correctly set my machine, different stitches, etc. I felt like Myrna and I bonded a little that day.
The Lazy Pants class was this past Saturday. To say I was nervous was a bit of an understatement. I had tried to work on a pattern before, and I ended up confused. Very confused. After the money I had spent on the class, fabric, and pattern, I really needed a wearable finished product. I needed something to show for my efforts.
Our teacher was Ms. Julia, and I think I love her. She was the perfect combination of scary and helpful. Lizzy and I were the only ones in the Lazy pants class, and we were glad because it became very clear that we needed some one-on-one attention.
My biggest mistake of the class was the fabric buying part. After my Basics class, I was cocky about reading a pattern envelope. The pattern envelope said 1 5/8ths yard of fabric, I bought 2 and gloated that I had plenty of fabric, may even make a pillow with the leftovers. So I show up to class and begin to lay my pattern out, and there is a problem. I have nowhere near enough fabric. In fact, Lazy Pants quickly became Lazy Capris since I was so short of fabric. Do you know what I did? I bought fabric for the child's pattern. The child's!
Second biggest mistake was the sizing. Check the picture below for confirmation. You should see me run in these, I look ridiculous. I am not as thin as I once was, but I am not nearly as big as the pants I made.
If you are reading this and saying to yourself, It doesn't sound like that class went very well at all.
You would be wrong.
These are the things that Ms. Julia taught me.
1. It won't be perfect, but it will be unique piece that can never be recreated.
2. Not to be afraid of Myrna. I did feel as if I developed a comfort level with her, and I think that will lead to only good things.
3. How to break down a pattern into manageable tasks.
4. All about grain of fabric and how to ensure my pattern is straight.
5. What the hell fold into the fold means.
6. How to get the crotch of pants to not look bunchy
So you see, I did actually learn a lot. And I know that my second pair of lazy pants will actually be pants and maybe even not look so much like parachutes.
I am trying again! Myrna and I have another date set for Sunday! It is a double date with Lizzy and her machine.
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Bodybuilding Dictionary – Part 2
Super Set
Performing an exercise each for two antagonistic muscles in a non-stop manner is known as a Super Set. For example, you can perform a set of Barbell Curl for biceps and immediately do as set of Pressdown for triceps. You rest for a minute or so and perform the next Super Set.
Compound Set
Performing two exercises for the same muscle in non-stop manner, though referred to as a Super Set by some trainers, is actually a Compound Set. For example, you may perform one set of Bench Press for chest and immediately do a set of Parallel Bar Dips (again for the chest).
Tri Set
Performing three exercises for the same muscle group in a non-stop manner is known as a Tri Set. For example, you can perform one set each of Military Press, Lateral Raise and Bent Over Lateral Raise in a non-stop manner for shoulders.
Giant Set
Performing four or more exercises for a particular muscle in a non-stop manner is known as a Giant Set. For example, you can perform one set each of Chinning, Barbell Row, One Arm Dumbbell Row and Seated Cable Row for the back.
Drop Sets
Assuming that you have completed six reps on the last, heavy set of Barbell Curls and are unable to perform even one more rep in textbook form. Now, take away one kg weight plate from each side of the barbell and perform some more reps in strict form. You may get about four or five reps. Once you are unable to perfom any more reps, drop some more weight as before and continue doing more reps until you are unable to do any more. This is called 'Stripping Technique' or a Drop Set.
Some trainers prefer to drop the weight three times. Some of them also prefer to call this 'triple drop set.'
Note: More stories will soon be posted explaining in detail the benefits of these four techniques and several other such productive techniques.
_ P. Srimathy
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pl send sample work out pictures .It is useful for my workouts.
my work outs are follows pl tell it ok
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I was originally planning on doing some sort of photo-an-hour type post for Saturday, but I'm pretty forgetful when it comes to things like that so instead, you get a nice mishmash of pictures from across both weekend days. Don't you go saying I'm not good to you.
This was the first weekend in goodness only knows how long that I've been in Cardiff, without J, with no plans at all. I woke up on Saturday morning slightly at a loss as to what I was supposed to do with myself- I'm used to having things to do, places to be, people to see. This weekend? Not so.
It began slowly, with blogging in bed (I do love my bed, despite being a morning person) followed by tea, juice, and hot cross buns for breakfast. But I soon decided that I needed to be out and about, and shortly after 10am, I was strolling around Roath Park, where I promptly got caught in a torrential downpour without any appropriate rain gear. Seriously, you'd have thought that living in Wales throughout uni would have taught me to take an umbrella everywhere, but this seems not to be the case.
At least the flowers brightened things up. After pottering at home, blitzing my bedroom, changing my sheets, and generally making the place look awesome, I decided it was time for lunch- quinoa salad with poached eggs. I mean, just look at it. YUM.
And then my bed fell apart. Fortunately, it does this on a fairly regular basis, so I've got pretty good at just jamming it back together. We're buying brackets for it at the weekend to stop it- otherwise, it's going to give me a complex about my weight (ha!)
It suddenly dawned on me around 2pm on Saturday that I had never visited the National Museum of Wales, and I decided this had to be rectified immediately. Despite the dinosaur section being full of screaming children, the rest of the museum was wonderful- they have some gorgeous Impressionist pieces, and the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit was just incredible. Seriously- check if it's coming to a museum near you, it's completely worth a trip.
|This one was my favourite. Full credit to Per-Gunnar Ostby
A free hot chocolate and a copy of The Times kept me occupied in Coffee #1 for a good hour or so, before I made my way home for an indoor BBQ and wine with M and F. We chowed down on delicious sausages, chicken marinated in coriander, lemon, and lime, and sipped wine kindly donated to me by J because he doesn't drink wine- a situation I am trying to rectify.
I was particularly terrible at taking pictures on Sunday- but the morning was taken up by re-painting our kitchen. Previously, it was bright yellow, which suprisingly made the room very dim. The beautiful creamy white we now have makes the room so much brighter, and we are very, very happy with it.
The rest of the day passed in a blur of bikini buying, TK Maxx browsing, John Lewis visiting, tea drinking, lasagne eating, and Cluedo playing. It was blissful.
How was your weekend? Do you have any exciting plans for the bank holiday?


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Ben's degree from Southampton University is a world apart from his artistic life, yet the influence of his academic and professional background can be observed in his art. After graduating in Psychology he became an independent therapist and pursued a career in the field of Autism, working with young children, helping them to overcome their difficulties in communicating with the outside world. Whilst pursuing this career he continued painting in his spare time, teaching himself and extending his range into oils.
Ben's high-impact land, sky and seascapes are inspired by the landscapes and coastlines around the world. He owes an artistic debt to a range of artists, in particular Turner and Whistler. Their influence can be seen in the way he captures the appearance of clouds with such delicacy, while employing a vivid and dramatic palette - a characteristic which lends his work an ethereal quality.
Ben believes that working with children has taught him to value simplicity and to communicate in a very direct and accessible language. His powerful paintings do display a certain innocence which somehow sets them part from the work of his contemporaries. While his subjects are realistic they often have dreamlike overtones, rendering them an intriguing combination of enchantment and sophistication.


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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Ponyo: Pagan? or Pedestrian?
For anyone interested in its possible pagan themes, I regret to inform that Hayao Miyazaki's eagerly-awaited new film PONYO is a huge disappointment. That's not to say the art direction and animation are not first rate as always. But, by combining forces with Disney, Studio Ghibli has produced a film aimed at kids that simply hasn't the depth, heart or magic of Miyazaki's former masterpieces PRINCESS MONONOKE, SPIRITED AWAY or HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE. Even KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (about the child witch, remember?) has more soul than this.
I have a brief review posted here. I don't go into the underutilized pagan imagery and themes. The fact that Ponyo is a fish born of a mortal man (a wizard no less!) and a sea goddess, who becomes a girl through sheer force of will and her own suggested magical powers, or that Ponyo (it is said) can helo restore the balance of the world through love, are all things which could have been powerful threads in the story. But the details of Ponyo's abilities are almost nonexistent. The reason for the earth's inbalance (maybe to do with all the garbage by the sea shore?) are unexplained. And the relationship between the mortal wizard and the sea goddess (voiced by Liam Neeson and Cate Blanchett, no less) is unsatisfyingly vague. Pity. The film is sumptuous to look upon and often thrilling in its fast-paced action. But the ideas and symbolism so clearly aching to be given expression are given a back seat to silly dialogue and juvenile humor. I blame Disney. Hayao, please stick with your own studio next time.
In other movie news: as always Jason at The Wild Hunt has some interesting updates on the WICKER MAN remake, which has been retitled The Wicker Tree. It seems financial difficulties have been addressed and the production is moving ahead. Speed the Day!
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1. Will Ms. Fisher know how to sit on her chair?
Chair-sitting is an acquired skill; it takes time for a Council-person to master. Beth Mason had a team to guide her on how and where to sit on her chair, what is a "good" position versus a "bad position," and whether a cushion would raise her enough so she would not be blocked by Jimmy Farina or the seahag to her right. These advisors, who prefer to be called "volunteers" instead of "political operatives," were believed to throw the Councilwoman a biscuit when she obeyed their instructions.
Will Ms. Fisher know how to sit on her chair without a team of advisors? The 2nd Ward wants to know.
2. Will Ms. Fisher wear a Halloween costume?
It is critical to choose the correct Halloween costume for Hoboken's Ragamuffin parade. Does Tiffanie Fisher have a team to dress her up on Halloween and tell her what treats she will distribute? No???? Beth Mason did. One Halloween, Mason's team dressed her up like a drag queen and sent her out in the street with a giant piece of fruit. Another year, after Beth Mason tried to close the hospital, she dressed up as a nurse and marched with a bloated, green Gumby.
Tell me, what will Ms. Fisher do without a Halloween team? The 2nd Ward wants to know.
|Drag Queen and the Banana
Beth Mason had a team of 'volunteers' (remember DO NOT call them "political operatives") monitoring the popular Yahoo forum called "Hoboken Moms." Not only did they tell the Councilwoman what her constituents' concerns were, but instructed her how to emulate concern ("formulate a response... start posting messages on the Hoboken Moms board") so that her neglected constituents believe she cares. That's how to run a Ward! Posting on internet message boards!
Who will tell Tiffanie when and what to post on Hoboken Moms? The 2nd Ward wants to know.
Because without um, 'volunteers' (don't call them "political operatives") like Beth Mason's to sit Tiffanie on her chair (on a purple pillow), dress her up like RuPaul and force her to post on Hoboken Moms, how will Ms. Fisher know how to govern?
The 2nd Ward wants to know.


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It's 9:07am. I'm at work and I've finished my work for the day. I've got a few more things that I have to wait on others before I can do, which will be done by about 11:00. Other than that I have NOTHING to do.
What a huge switch from a few weeks ago, eh?
At least I get to leave early today to see my bestie, Angelle and her beautiful family and baby boy bump! Can't wait!


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One family owner. Still have window sticker, protecto plate, emission control systems manual and the owners manual. Sticker price $4,466.09 (actual delivered price $3,836.17 including tax, tag, etc.).
Within two weeks after the car was restored, I drove it on a 720 mile round trip to NC and back so my father could see it looking like new again (at least the body and interior). Since then, I have had the engine detailed and painted (will add pictures later).
Since leaving the dealer's lot, this car has not and hopefully will never see a trailor for transporting it. It was my father's commuting car in the 70's and 80's and will still be driven every where. When I retire, I'd like to use it to deliver meals for "meals on wheels."
I looked for a cyber gray metallic camaro for ever and finally found this one about 250 miles away from home and when the family went on a vacation we picked it up.
LT1 V-8 engine (350cid). Automatic transmission (400 Turbo-Hydra-matic). Solid Lifters. 3.73 Positraction rear axle. 4-barrell Holley carburetor. I found a good mechanic and now I've gone back to the Holley carburetor.
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 4-passenger, 2-door coupe
PRICE AS TESTED: $32,195 (base price: $30,995)
ENGINE TYPE: pushrod 16-valve V-8, aluminum block and heads, port fuel injection
Displacement: 376 cu in, 6162cc
Power (SAE net): 426 bhp @ 5900 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 420 lb-ft @ 4600 rpm
TRANSMISSION: 6-speed manual
Wheelbase: 112.3 in Length: 190.4 in Width: 75.5 in Height: 54.2 in
Curb weight: 3859 lb
Zero to 60 mph: 4.8 sec
Standing ¼-mile: 13.0 sec @ 111 mph
Braking, 70–0 mph: 161 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad: 0.92 g
EPA city/highway driving: 16/24 mpg
Center Console. Power Steering. AM pushbutton radio. Special Performance Equipment [Z28 package]. Blue vinyl interior. Mulsanne blue
rs package
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The article provides an overview of the various efforts in West Virginia to become a national leader in health information technology. The op-ed piece states:
As Congress deliberates the economic stimulus package aimed at, among other things, accelerating use and adoption of health information technology, leaders would be well served to look to West Virginia's example as a guide for how to accomplish this objective in a cost-effective fashion.
West Virginia has quietly become a national leader in the use of health information technology, particularly in the area of "open-source" electronic health record solutions that are used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service. These high-value systems, developed with a substantial investment of federal funds over the past 30 years, have been adapted and are being used in a number of innovative ways to improve the health of West Virginians:
The state Department of Health and Human Resources has just completed rolling out Bar Code Medication Administration in all eight state hospitals. This technology, developed by the VA in the late 1990s, has been shown to reduce the overwhelming majority of medication errors among hospitalized patients.
DHHR completed implementation of OpenVista, the commercial version of the internationally known electronic health records used by the VA last fall. This means that all federal and state hospitals in West Virginia now use essentially the same system. No other state has done this.
West Virginia University Hospitals recently launched the second phase of implementing a proprietary electronic health records system.
The Community Health Network of West Virginia finished installing MedLynksTM RPMS, a cousin of OpenVista, in 30 clinic locations located across the state last year, and continues to implement MedLynk RPMS at additional sites. (RPMS is currently used by the Indian Health Service at almost 200 of its facilities.)
A recent survey conducted by the Shepherd University Research Corp. found that 76 percent of state hospitals have at least begun implementing an electronic health records system; this is among the highest rates, if not the highest, in the nation. These are important developments that will result in higher quality and safer health care, reduced costs and saved lives. The people of West Virginia should take pride in these accomplishments - and look forward to completion of additional efforts underway.
Gov. Manchin's strategic plan for improving health care in West Virginia envisions important improvements, including installing electronic medical records in all hospitals and clinics in the state; implementing the West Virginia Health Information Network - a statewide network to improve information flow between different types of healthcare facilities; implementing a new web-based Medicaid claims management system to more efficiently process claims and better detect fraud and abuse; expanding use of personal health records; and continuing to increase e-prescribing.
Under the leadership of DHHR Secretary Martha Walker and Medicaid Commissioner Marsha Morris, the department has launched a Medicaid transformation initiative aimed at creating "medical homes" for Medicaid patients. Medical homes use "health information exchange" technology to connect different types of electronic medical records so that they are integrated to provide more complete information so that doctors can better treat chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease and more effectively work to keep people healthy.
The Medicaid program has established the West Virginia Health Improvement Institute and an Innovation Community to teach caregivers how to integrate health information technology and medical home concepts to support patient education and self-management. Pilot programs to show the effectiveness of these efforts are underway. The West Virginia Medicaid program competed for funding from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to support these efforts.
Further, the West Virginia Telehealth Alliance is one of 69 programs across the country that has been funded to enhance broadband capacity for nearly 300 participating facilities supporting telehealth and HIT applications in West Virginia.
Clearly, West Virginia has taken the initiative and is aggressively moving forward to improve health care using a blend of open source and commercial health-care IT systems. There is much the rest of the nation can learn from West Virginia's experience.
Kizer, a doctor and public health specialist, is a former undersecretary in the U.S. Department of Health Services. Groen is with the Computer & Information Science Department at the Shepherd University Research Corp.


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Cleaning Vintage Lace
If you find vintage lace that is dusty and dingy but has no apparent stains here is a great way to clean it.
Soak in cold water to remove any dust and light dirt. Rinse well and if needed repeat the soak and rinse until water is clear.
If you should have rust or other stains try rubbing the stain with a mixture of white vinegar and hot water.
Submitted by: TheVintageButtonJar
(vmteam is not responsible for any damages caused by using this cleaning method)
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There is nothing I look forward to more than a weekend where I have absolutely nothing planned. I love knowing that if I wanted to, I could just lay in bed for two days straight (other than to occasionally make sure Little Monkey isn't getting himself into too much trouble).
So far, I have planned walks with friends around the park this morning and tomorrow morning and I know I need to get in a 9 mile run. Other than that, my weekend is my own. Ahhh, no stress makes me happy!
Lazy weekends are my favorite
There is nothing I look forward to more than a weekend where I have absolutely nothing planned. I love knowing that if I wanted to, I could just lay in bed for two days straight (other than to occasionally make sure Little Monkey isn't getting himself into too much trouble).
A Streetcar Named Inspire
The YLC (Young Leadership Council) in New Orleans has commissioned 80 replica streetcar sculptures which have been painted in tons of different ways representing different aspects of New Orleans. The project is similar to the cows in Chicago, pigs in Seattle, and the previous fish in New Orleans. Click here for the press release on the project.Anyway, they are really pretty cool so I decided to start taking pics as I come across them and post them on here for y'all to see. I found these first three examples in the French Quarter last month.
Bahamian Trip Giveaway at The Tale of a Southern Belle
This expires tonight so get yourself over to Tale of a Southern Belle right now to win a trip to The Bahamas. She won the trip and can't use it so she is giving it away. Go enter and hopefully me or you may win!
Goodbye Mardi Gras... We'll see you again next year.
Back to blogging about real life tomorrow.
Mardi Gras Anticipation=Stress!
Mardi Gras is now in full swing here in NOLA and with it comes stress that comes with all things Mardi Gras related. We were talking about this at work recently. It seems we all agreed that along with the excitement and anticipation of an awesome time comes an added amount of stress. There are so many decisions to be made...
which parades will I go to?
where will we park?
what will I wear?
will it be cold?
will there be a place to pee?
where will i stand? will it be too crowded?
will the baby get hit in the face with beads? should we take him at all?
how will i carry all my beads? should i bring a bag?Additionally, for us, we have a big parade that passes by the coffeeshop. It is our biggest money making day of the year and takes a bit of planning and lots of work.
But, in the end it is all worth it. Starting yesterday, the City came alive with the anticipation of the first big parades. People wander aimlessly in the streets, kids sit patiently atop ladders waiting for their stuffed animal throws, and the aroma of Popeye's Fried Chicken fills the streets!
Last night, I left LM and BM at home and joined some friends on The Avenue (that's St. Charles Ave, for those not local) and caught three really great parades, Krewe of Babylon, Krewe of Chaos, and Krewe of Muses. We had a fabulous time!Today, I joined some ladies whose husbands/male family members are in the Krewe of Hermes which rolls tonight. We went to Muriel's and as always the food was delicious.
Tonight, I decided to stay home and catch up on my blogging. More Mardi Gras news to follow.
Little Monkey does his first Mardi Gras parade right!
While in Baton Rouge this weekend, my girlfriend and I took our little ones to The Krewe Mystique de la Capitale Mardi Gras parade. We had a wonderful time. Baton Rouge parades are great because there are a lot less crowds and the parades are shorter. The Little Monkey really had no clue what was going on but he did have a great time going for a ride in the Radio Flyer red wagon.
Now, I'm totally getting psyched up for this weekend's festivities.
Happy Mardi Gras!
Was someone named Murphy running with me...
...because, whatever could have gone wrong today did on the 10k race I ran! We packed up the car and headed to Baton Rouge so we could spend some time with the family and I could get a race in for my training. The race started at 9am so I figured I could get there by 8:15 to find parking, register and get mentally prepared.
I woke up, took a look at the clock on my mom's microwave which said 6am. I thought "I've got plenty of time" and went back to sleep. Woke up at 6:40 am, took a shower, and then jumped in the car to get LM some milk at the quickie-mart. As I am heading home, I happen to look at the clock in the car which says 8:10!!! My mom's clock was an hour slow and now I am officially late, so I dump the milk off and fly towards downtown BR. Of course, I don't know the area so I couldn't find parking. Finally, the parking gods lead me to the overflow parking for the casino the race started at. I registered and finally settled in to start.
I then turn on my new Garmin, only to find the battery almost dead! (I can only blame myself. I had ample time to charge it last night, but figured it wasn't needed). Luckily, I have a stopwatch on my Ipod and I set that. So, the Garmin dies 18 seconds into the race and then I notice that my headphones are only working in one ear. So the whole race, I had music in only one ear. What a mess!
The good news, though, is that I came in with my best time ever, by far! 1:04:41! I had expected to come in at about 1:08 so I was stunned when I hit mile 1 in under 10 minutes. As I was running, I was beating my time every mile. Thank God for the Ipod stopwatch. I can not run without a timer.
So, all in all, I am really proud of myself and it motivates me to continue my training for the Half Marathon end of April.
Should Mardi Gras be declared a National Holiday?
Today, I received the following email:
Hi News from NOLA!
I've been reading your blog and can tell you're passionate about supporting the best New Orleans has to offer. I wanted you to know that Zatarain's is sponsoring a petition to declare Mardi Gras a national holiday. We'd love for you and your readers to help by signing the petition at http://www.motionformardigras.com/
Liz Cron
For Zatarain's
I have to admit I have mixed feelings about this. Lots of things make New Orleans special, but Mardi Gras is our shining star. Lots of other cities have little parties to commemorate Mardi Gras but nobody does it like New Orleans. Why would we want to dilute that by sharing it with the rest of the world? So, sorry, Zatarain's, I can't sign your petition, but I will share it with my readers and they are free to join your cause if they see fit.
BUT, I certainly love me some Zatarain's and would love to have you as an advertiser if you want to make an offer!
The Little Monkey loves his blankie
LM has never been one for comfort items. He never used a pacifier and, until now, has not ben attached to any particular stuffed animals or lovies.
Little Monkey's nursery theme was all things monkey, of course, and before LM was born we received a special gift from my step-mother, JB. It was a really cute blanket with a monkey print on the front and soft flannel on the back. For the last couple of months, LM has been put to bed with this blanket and just recently, he has become very attached to it. Unfortunately, it is way to big and he keeps tripping over it as he drags it around the house.
So, I desparately called to see if any fabric was left to make a miniature version and sure enough it looks like there may be. Can't wait to get it in the mail!
Ever wonder how Elmo came to be?
Not much exciting going on in the Monkey House this week and I'm having a bit of blogger's block, so I thought you might find this article interesting. Click on the photo to discover how the Muppets and Sesame Street characters came into being...
It's Carnival Time!?
Well, the first parade of the Mardi Gras season, Krewe Du Vieux, came and went this weekend, and I'm still not feeling the carnival spirit yet this year.
We've only have one king cake at work which is odd. Normally, there would be a continuous flow since the person who gets the baby is supposed to bring the next king cake.
Hopefully, as things pick up next weekend, I'll get more into catching fake dog poop, shiny beads, and ladies' undies!
A Rare Display of Affection
Little Monkey loves his daddy! He usually saves most displays of affection for Big Monkey, but today he ran up to me and sat in my lap and then put his head on my chest like a baby. It was very cute!
Update on half marathon training
This is my first week of half-marathon training. You can follow my progress daily on the left sidebar under my BlogHer ads. I will keep y'all updated there. I am using Hal Higdon's program for novices and am starting on week 7 since I don't have much time. I feel like I've done pretty well so far. Today I didn't have time to get in my 4.5 mile run because it was too cold this morning so I brought Little Monkey to the babysitter at the gym and tried to do it on the treadmill.
I HATE the treadmill! I can't run long distances on it and you are only allowed to go 30 minutes when people are waiting so I only got in 2.5 miles. I am going to have a rest day tomorrow and go for a 50 minute bike ride on Saturday. Sunday will be my longest run ever at 7 miles. I am a little nervous about that.
Forever Young!
The summer camp I went to for 5 years as a kid has been posting old pictures on Facebook. These pics are of me at age 8 and 12, I think.
I was trying to get a picture of The Little Monkey from the same angle as the top picture but haven't been able to yet. Upon examining this photo and photos of LM, he doesn't look as much like me as I thought. His eyes are wider and dark brown, while mine are hazel. He has a definite cleft chin like Big Monkey.
I don't know if you can tell but that is a definite perm I am sporting in the second photo, circa 1988! I look like something out of Welcome Back, Kotter.
Little Monkey Dancing in the Streets!
Little Monkey gets jiggy with it in the French Quarter!
A Beautiful Day in the French Quarter
Saturday, my father and his friend, Ms. K, came into town and BM, LM, and I joined them in the French Quarter. After coffee and beignets at Cafe Du Monde, we were still hungry for some real food so we headed to the place that invented the best sandwich in the world, The Muffaletta. Central Grocery is an awesome little Italian deli and The Muffaletta is the best mix of bread meat, cheese and olives you have ever tasted.
After we were stuffed, we took some time to just relax in Jackson Square. The sun was shining, there was a nice breeze, and it was all around just a beautiful day. Little Monkey had a great time running around and playing on the lawn.


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We Lost in Argentina?
It appears so.
From Reader Daniel:
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Subject: Apparently bad news-? Let's Hope Not-/Awaiting more Information from South America, etc.
If one looks at daily-courier or guest-2, the first article is about an April 15 , 2010 ARGENTINIAN court decision, which....if I understand the google English translation, apparently says that our people lost the court case & it was decided in favour of ROCOR-MP.
The full implications of this, would SEEM to not be good for our church, in Argentina at least, and also regarding ownership of church properties, etc. for the other anti-MP jurisdictions either.


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The updated funding liquidity and term structure factors based on the Bond Liquidity Premia paper are available.
The factors can be found here: FundingLiquiditFactor_19862017Q1.
Economics, Finance and Econometrics
The updated funding liquidity and term structure factors based on the Bond Liquidity Premia paper are available.
The factors can be found here: FundingLiquiditFactor_19862017Q1.
The paper is here. I find that the uncertainty around future changes to the Federal Reserve target rate varies over time. In our results, the main driver of uncertainty is a "path" factor signaling information about future policy actions, which is filtered from federal funds futures data. The uncertainty is lowest when the path factor signals a loosening cycle and highest when it signals a loosening cycle. The uncertainty raises the risk premium in a loosening cycle, reducing the transmission of target changes to longer maturities. Our results trace the information content of federal funds futures to hedging demand.
in Handbook of Fixed-Income Securities, 2016.
In this chapter, we discuss old topics that have returned to the forefront in fixed-income research: liquidity, learning and the bound underlying nominal yields. Progress has been been rapid in these fields in recent years.
We find strong evidence of a funding risk premium in the cross-section of asset returns. Using funding shocks identified in our previous paper, we obtain estimates for the price of funding risk that are robust across Treasury bonds, corporate bonds, equities, and hedge funds. Funding shocks pose a risk to investors because they exacerbate the illiquidity and volatility of securities, increase the dispersions of asset illiquidity and volatility, and decrease contemporaneous returns. Our price-of-risk estimates are also robust to using mimicking portfolio returns, alternative portfolio sorts, traditional test assets, monthly returns or quarterly returns. Funding shocks are not subsumed by common proxies for market-wide illiquidity or dealers' balance sheet risk.
The paper can be found here. The funding liquidity factor used in this paper can be found here: FundingLiquiditFactor_19862015Q4.
Management Science, 2016.
You can find the paper here.
We extend results in Dai and Singleton (2002). Cochrane and Piazzesi (2005) show that (i) lagged forward rates improve the predictability of annual bond returns, adding to current forward rates, and that (ii) a Markovian model for monthly forward rates cannot generate the pattern of predictability in annual returns. These results stand as a challenge to modern Markovian dynamic term structure models (DTSMs). We develop the family of Conditional Mean DTSMs where the yield dynamics depend on current yields and their history. We match these bond risk premium stylized facts. A small Markovian factor "hidden" in measurement error (Duffee, 2011) helps but it is not sufficient to match the evidence.
in Developments in Macro-Finance Yield Curve Modelling, 2014.
Most central banks effect changes to their target or policy rate in discrete increments (e.g., multiples of 0.25%) following public announcements on scheduled dates. Still, it is common to rely on the assumption that the policy rate changes continuously with economic conditions. Most applications also do not distinguish between dates with and without scheduled announcements. This assumption is not innocuous when estimating the policy rule based on daily frequency. I find that accounting for discrete changes leads to economically different estimates of an otherwise standard term structure model.
Working paper version available here.
Updated June 2013.
A recent paper with Hector Perez and Joshua Slive, also from the Bank of Canada. We study how CCP membership rules and risk controls affect the competitive structure of an OTC market. These constraints reduce systemic risk (i.e., CCP default risk) but they also increase the market power of its members. We find that risk controls can serve as an anticompetitive instrument, allowing members to coordinate around a more profitable outcome at the expense of non-members. You can find the paper here : Competition and Strategic Control of a Central Counterparty
Review of Finance, 2014.
With Bruno Feunou. Previous versions circulated as Forecasting Inflation and the Inflation Risk Premium.
Standard Gaussian macro-finance term structure models impose that the conditional mean is a function of the risk factors. We relax this assumption: yields are linear in the conditional mean (but not in the risk factors). To illustrate, if inflation is one of the factors, then yields should span expected inflation but not inflation. Second, expected and surprise yield changes can have opposite contemporaneous effects on expected inflation. Third, the inflation survey forecasts and the inflation rate can be used consistently within the state equation. These three features are inconsistent with the Markov assumption. Our results hold for the US and for Canada. The paper is here.
With Bruno Feunou. Central banks around the world restrict changes in their policy rate to a small set of possibilities. Typically, these are a few multiples of 0.25% away from the current policy rate. In economics, this is an example of the well-known class of ordered choice problems. This paper bridges the gap between discrete-choice problems and asset pricing. We generalize the standard probit-logit case and provide the implications from the absence of arbitrage to develop a wide class of term structure models. Empirically, we find significant non-linearitites in the Fed's policy function and in US interest rates. The paper is here, Discrete Choice Term Structure Models, and the abstract follows.
Continue reading "Discrete Choice Term Structure Models : Theory and Applications"
Review of Finance 18 (1), 2014
With Bruno Feunou, Abderrahim Taamouti and Roméo Tédongap. The paper is here: The Equity Premium and the Maturity Structure of Uncertainty. The trade-offs between risk and returns vary with the investment horizons. The term structure of moments, measurable from option prices, can reveal the risk-returns trade-off associated with Long-Run Risk or Stochastic Volatility factors. Intuitively, we can study the dynamics of hard-to-measure risk factors via their impacts on the term structure of variance and other moments. As predicted by theory, we extract a small number of risk factors with substantial predictive power for the Equity Premium and the Variance Premium. These summarize the compensation for risks implicit in the Equity Premium and the Variance Premium at different horizons.


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I have heard "everyone has a calling" all my life. I used to worry for years that I did not know what my "calling was" until I began to see a pattern in my life.
My Mom used to tell the story about me going to the hospital at five years old to have my tonsils removed, I promptly told the Doctor I had to hurry home and "take care of my little family".
Afterwards, growing up, even now, I love animals and humanity as well. Having all kinds of pets as a child as well as giving my children all sorts of "critters" I also have enjoyed volunteering for numerous human endeavors.
I have on my website a statement that echoes my feelings about caring for animals being important for it speaks to the issue of our treatment of our land, air, water and mankind in general.
When you recycle, not use toxic products , care about the elderly and wish to pass something along to our children that isn't poisoned, destroyed or used up, that should be everyone's "calling".
Take care of our "little family" whether it has two feet or four they don't make more "Earths"! How do you want to be remembered. Remember the old saying in the hippie days of the sixties? "If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem."


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Effects of Initial Condition Spectral Content on Shock Driven-Turbulent Mixing
The mixing of materials due to the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and the ensuing turbulent behavior is of intense interest in a variety of physical systems including inertial confinement fusion, combustion, and the final stages of stellar evolution. Extensive numerical and laboratory studies of shock-driven mixing have demonstrated the rich behavior associated with the onset of turbulence due to the shocks. Here we report on progress in understanding shock-driven mixing at interfaces between fluids of differing densities through three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations using the RAGE code in the implicit large eddy simulation context. We consider a shock-tube configuration with a band of high density gas (SF 6) embedded in low density gas (air). Shocks with a Mach number of 1.26 are passed through SF 6 bands, resulting in transition to turbulence driven by the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The system is followed as a rarefaction wave and a reflected secondary shock from the back wall pass through the SF 6 band. We apply a variety of initial perturbations to the interfaces between the two fluids in which the physical standard deviation, wave number range, and the spectral slope of the perturbations are held constant, but the number of modes initially present is varied. Bymore »
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- Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
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- Journal Volume: 92; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1539-3755
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
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* Artist : Trey Songz
* Song : Alone
* Album : Passion, Pain & Pleasure
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Trey Songz Alone Hot Lyrics N Video
Shawty we been sippin on bub
And I done had enough
Let's get up out this club
Cuz I'm tryna get you
Alone alone alone
You alone alone alone
Shawty we been flirtin all night
And once we outside
Can I offer you a ride?
Cuz I'm tryna get you
Alone alone alone
You alone alone alone
Twinkle twinkle little star
Over there standing by the bar
Would you mind if I came 2 where you are?
Where you are?
When I look in you're eyes girl you're tellin me yes
And when I look at the way you're booty poke outta that dress
Nah nah girl don't try to hide it
I'm on my way over there stand right beside it
I wanna kno how you doin
What's ya name
Girl this chemistry we share is so insane
Girl you kno wats happenin
Me and you just laughing
Plus my phone done died so put you're number on this napkin
Beautiful, Gorgeous,
I aint tryna buy you're time I can't afford it
Wat I'm tryna do is paint a pretty portrait
Me and you a chariot ride with horses
I done came a long way
From white tees and forces
And as a man I understand we can't force it
But if I walk you outside where the porche is
I'm tryna take you back home to my fortress
Woman take my hand
Tell me wats you're name
Girl this chemistry we share is off the chain
Tell me wat you think
You and I been laughing
Baby girl I'm asking
For a night of passion
All I'm thinkin
How can we get
Alone alone alone
(Just you and me baby)
Alone alone alone
(Just you and I)
And once I get you imma kiss you
Imma touch you cuz you're softer than some tissue when you leave me ima miss you
Gotta get you alone
Alone alone alone
I hope you're cool with that
Just you and I girl.
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- large slicing tomatoes, sliced
- soft mozzarella cheese, sliced
- 1/4 cup olive
- 1/8 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons dried basil
I used two large tomatoes for my family of five and about 4 oz (ish) of mozzarella.
- On a large serving platter, alternate tomatoes and mozzarella slices. In a small bowl combine the oil, salt and pepper; shake well. Lightly baste oil over cheese and tomatoes.


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Aerobic exercises are known to improve circulation which affects body temperature. They should be taken for about thirty minutes on a daily basis. One should take two days off in a week to allow the body to regenerate. Consistency will help you reap the rewards of exercising. Use a professional trainer to enhance safety and ensure that your goals are met.
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Foods with low glycemic index take long to digest which helps you reduce intake. There nutrients are absorbed slowly which gives you time to wait for the next meal. They include carrots, cabbages, tomatoes, pears, broccoli, berries, bananas and apples. You are also advised to avoid eating at least two hours before you sleep. Water should replace most of the other beverages.
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Me and my family have just spent the last 6 months travelling around the country in a motorhome. I can't tell you what an incredible experience this has been for us all. If you have the chance to do it, I would absolutely say go for it. It's probably been the best learning experience we've had in all our years home educating.
The thing that shone through most of all has been history. We've visited all manner of places covering pretty much every time period in this country's history. We've seen so many different ways of telling the stories of this land, from dry information boards to organised reenactments to enthusiastic local history buffs happy to spend an evening sharing their knowledge. Some ways of knowledge sharing have been more easily absorbed and more enjoyable than others, and this leads me to the questions I want to ask of anyone out there that still reads this blog!
What does history mean to you? Is it just an interesting way to pass a rainy afternoon, or does it serve a deeper purpose? How do you bring history into your lives? Do you use textbooks; living memory stories; DVDs, museums [insert any other ways I've momentarily forgotten]? What, if anything, would you like your children to learn from history?
I'm really looking forward to reading what you all have to say, as once we move back into a house we won't have such easy access to the wide variety of experiences we've had recently, so I'm interested to know what you all do and why.
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Well, the long-term forecast for the Pacific Northwest is for more winter storms than usual this year. I'm still getting used to what a "winter storm" means here--unlike Missouri, where it's just piles and piles of snow, here, because of the geography of being between two mountain ranges it has much more to do with hurricane-force straight-line winds. Beyond the direct threat of wind damage, more windstorms mean more extended power outages.
The normal state of our home is all-electric, both for heating and in the kitchen, which means that the house is pretty much disabled in the event of a power outage. For lighting (and a not-insignificant amount of emergency heat), I do have a couple of Aladdin kerosene mantle lamps, and as a holiday gift from-us-to-us, we have a third one on the way, which we think is going to be the prettiest one so far. I also have one flat-wick kerosene lamp, which if nothing else is nice for enough light to get the Aladdins warmed up by, along with a couple of mostly-decorative 'candle style' oil lights.
When the power went out a few weeks ago, I realized that while the kerosene lighting is nice, I currently have no way to cook without electricity, which is a major oversight to say the least. I had originally looked at a butane single-burner thing, but the more I looked into it, I didn't like the short life of the butane canisters (only around 1/2 hour of burn time?) and how dangerous storing cans of the stuff around would be, and it started feeling like a highly inelegant solution. It's the same reasons my sweetie and I are totally disinterested in having a gasoline-powered generator: It's dangerous to store large quantities of gasoline, and between the engine noise and the limited amount of power produced, a generator is the very definition of inelegance, in our opinion.
kerosene cooking stove. It has two burners of comparable power to my normal kitchen range, and both burners on full power can run for about 12 hours before it needs to be refilled. Most importantly, the fuel of choice (kerosene) is extremely safe compared to volatiles like butane or gasoline. I went with the wick-fed version... in a way, it feels like a kerosene lamp that you cook with instead of use for lighting. I'm actually considering getting the big-burner one to use for canning even when the power isn't out, since it's not recommended to do it on my ceramic-top stove. There's even an optional oven that would let me bake bread during an outage! The basic two-burner one is on order and will hopefully be here by the next windstorm.
I don't think we'll actually need to worry about heating, with all those things running, but if it turns out we do, a kerosene radiant heater seems like the obvious choice, just to be using the same fuel for everything.
Next, I might need to think about making sure I have enough dry and canned goods, since in a truly extended outage the stuff in the fridge and freezer will eventually go bad. A water filter would be smart too... but I feel like this is a good step in the right direction. It feels nice to know that we are getting prepared to be able to just carry on in an outage, and nicer to know I am doing it in a way that feels simple, elegant, and true to who we are.


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Today, I would like to share some scences of our Eid el Kebir ... but also some info on mutton, also some ideas for preparing it and making the most of it enchallah!
Our sheep from the start I think he knew what was coming to him poor thing as he was just shaky all the evening since he was brought to the house.
- 1 kg cutlets (lamb chops)
- salt/black pepper
- 1 TBS olive oil
- 1/2 tsp each of cumin, dried thyme, coriander,cinnamon, herbes de provences , saffron powder, dried minced onion, paprika
Clean and then dry the meat.Rub the meat with the spices and allow to absorb them for at least 30
minutes.Now you are ready to grill the meat!
- 4 lamb shanks)
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup balsamic vingaer (not very Greek but adds nice sweetness like wine would, omit if you like)
- 2 TBS tomato puree
- olive oil
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 pinch cinnamon
- 2 pinches of oregano
- Salt/ black pepper
- cube of sugar (depends on the sweetness of the tomatoes)
Let the meat take a brown.
Finish roasting by pouring the balsamic and let it evaporate by letting it boil for a while.
Add the tomato paste.
Pour some water and let it cook for 1 hour in 150 C until the sauce thickens.
I serve this orzo but also with roasted Algerian style (with fritte - french fries) placed right in the gravy. Also good with rice.
Ay bsahatkoume!


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"Are we there yet?" This phrase has been repeated almost a dozen times now. It is slowly driving me insane. You'd think that walking to a parked car is really not a big deal, but for some I suppose it can be a trek to Mount Everest. Being foodies is such hard work sometimes. As we finally make our way to my car, we load up and make our way to LA Grill, a cozy, chilled out Steak-House minus the Steak-House prices.
Upon entering the joint, we're guided pretty quickly to our seats. Windows surround us, giving us a nice view of what remains one of the only sunny days we've had in the Greater Vancouver Area in aeons. Yes, AEONS. Sunlight creeps in and the reflections dance on our table. Servers in cute black dresses come and ask us what drinks we need and hand us a menu. I'm in the mood for something diabetic.
"Coke please!"
The Coke arrives. My partners have ordered water. How boring. I secretly hope that it's diabetic water.
We peruse the menu and are shocked. Nothing here costs more than $15! But, this is, in fact, a Steak House right? This is simply too good to be true. There must be a catch. Well, guess I'll find out soon enough now won't I?
"My partners have ordered water. How boring. I secretly hope that it's diabetic water."
After our orders are placed, the food begins to arrive, starting with the appetizer. Nachos with Salsa and Sour Cream. I know it's not very fancy, but hey, it gets the job done. The Salsa Sauce is subtle and balanced in its flavour. I think it's home-made. Win. The Sour Cream is merely okay. Passing grade. The Nachos themselves are lightly salted and light. I think they are Que Pasa Chips. I like Que Pasa Chips.
The main courses begin to arrive. The LA Burger lands by our cutlery. Bacon, Melted Cheddar Cheese, and what appears to be Mushroom Cream Sauce adorn this Burger Patty. Surrounded by Baked Potatoes and a Salad, this entrée provides a satisfying punch. Nothing super creative, but it gets the job done in its own right.
The New York Steak arrives. The portion of Steak is small, but it does taste pretty good. Seared and served with a sweet & savoury Sauce, the chef has also done a pretty good job cooking it exactly the way we wanted it, which is obviously an extremely important part of the process. Unfortunately it doesn't happen as often as you'd think. Especially for cheaper Steak joints. Fortunately, this does not prove to be the case here. While the portion of Steak is good, it is a little small. However, they more than make up for that little fault by providing a massive amount of sides. Pilau Rice, Caesar Salad and Garlic Bread do a great job of complementing the Steak, and filling us up.
The Peppercorn Steak arrives. I eat happily for a few minutes. Then I realize something.
"This is a New York Steak."
I am initially angered. How dare they serve me New York Steak when I ordered Peppercorn?! Don't they know who I am?! A friggin' FOODIE!!!
I take a few more bites and chew angrily. Oh well. It tastes pretty good. Yeah, I guess I don't mind.
All in all, aside from the mis-order, it was a good dining experience. Not the greatest food, but definitely the best low-priced Steak-House I've been to in a long time. Best bang for the buck. 'Nuff said.