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Sometimes we need to get the total number of days in month for given date, there is no build in function which can help us to directly use and get our result, so we need to write a small SQL statement to get the total number of days for a particular date.
I found on some blog sites to use this but it will not work for every date
DECLARE @date DATETIME SET @date = '05/17/2020' SELECT DATEDIFF(Day,@date, DATEADD(Month,1, @date))
Try to use date '1/31/2013' or '3/31/2013' or '5/31/2013'
For 1/31 it will give 28 and for '3/31/2013' and '5/31/2013' it will return 30 which is wrong, so we will use the correct one like this
DECLARE @date DATETIME SET @date = '05/17/2020' SELECT DATEDIFF(Day, DATEADD(day,1 - Day(@date), @date) , DATEADD(Month,1, DATEADD(Day,1 - Day(@date),@date)))
Try it with above dates or any other date you want to check and it will always give correct result.
In SQL Server 2012 a new datetime function is introduced (actually 7 new datetime fucntions introduced) named EOMONTH which return last date of month so we can also use this to get the number of days in a month
Let's see first EOMONTH
SELECT EOMONTH(GETDATE()) LastDayofMonth
Result: 2013-05-31 00:00:00.000, so simply we can get days from this result so use like this
DECLARE @date DATETIME SET @date = '1/31/2013' SELECT DAY(EOMONTH(@date))AS DaysInMonth


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Review: A Stupid and Futile Gesture, by Josh Karp
First of all, my apologies for the light, even for me, level of posting lately. I had to go on another field trip for work, which included an attempted salvage of December's conference performance, demanding no shortage of analysis (much of it from me) of my flaws as a scientist and a speaker. The stress from this crap I think has been affecting me badly. As one antidote, I've been trying to minimize the time I spend staring at screens. It's been applied with limited success, but in terms of bug-eyes and headaches, the internets can be pretty ennervating. I also had a kid's party to plan and attend (roller skating! I have moves!). I'm as sick of looking at that guy's manjo as you are, but the truth is that I'm less inclined ponder the human condition when I'm feeling a bit off, or when I'm able to enjoy childish things. Either one makes the miserable collective reality we create seem that much more farcical.
The world needs satire, doesn't it? Something to offer a good clinical bleeding, to bite us where we forget we hurt, snap us out of shock or fatigue and let us know the wound is still there, needing attention? If it wasn't for the internet, I'd have lost hope on a cogent contemporary social critique; if it weren't for Colbert and, sometimes still, the Simpsons, I'd have given it in for the popular media too, which is otherwise even worse the closer you look. I don't believe that poison pens are missing from the world--I find them once and a while!--more that my parents' generation's acid vintage gradually got blandly subsumed into the mainstream, and with all the information today, what fraction that rises above pure juvenilia or sheer meanness, we don't yet have the benefit of hindsight to tell what has been the underground phenom. Or I don't anyway, even though I'm reading some of it now. The subtitle of the book is How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever, and I guess what I'm getting at, circuitously, is that I have a fairly good idea of what Kenney and the magazine changed comedy into, I have an incomplete mosaic of what it changed from, but I missed the actual magazine in its heyday, and I rely on Josh Karp to tell me what it meant in its time. I'm left with the impression that it was to a too-long, humorless current Saturday Night Live sketch (or for that matter, the embarrassing walking corpse of the NL college humor franchise) much what every piece of crap slob comedy for the past thirty years has been to Animal House. I wish I knew for sure, though--I might well find I hate it.
Karp confirms my suspicion that the sitcom was the apotheosis of 1950s comedy writing, and the simmering reaction to that sort of spackled-over social conformity was concomitant with other cultural revolutions. (The lack of outlet was probably anomalous. Prewar humor, Karp notes, was more cutting and suggestive. The removal of class, race, and dirty politics from the national dialogue that Mom, Dad, and Doug Kenney heard in grade school was a tad premature.) Kenney's bit (or at least the bit that was focused on in the biography, and certainly mirrored in Animal House, which he co-wrote) was nostalgia for that past at war with a contemporary reality. There's some genuine love of the past, but it's trumped by the knowledge that, as much as the present, it's constructed from the purest bullshit. He understood that you had to know institutional dignity in order to mock it. It's clever in that he could take nostalgia and humor to soften the anarchic picture he was painting. Those fraternity kids were loathsome too, but they were also responding logically to their absurd times. Well, sort of.
The biographer places the tone of National Lampoon about halfway between the sophisticated humor of the prewar New Yorker essayists and short story writers (limited familiarity here), and the budding subversive satire of early MAD magazine (considerably more). It's the pure essence of "sophomoric," base ribaldry put forth by highly educated minds, not shy to put literary jokes amongst the farts, simultaneously knocking down pretension and lending gravitas to their own immaturity. It's egg-throwing at a deserving establishment by smart young white people with at least enough self-awareness to realize the position that lets them hurl in the first place. Possibly it includes the realization that you can't respect yourself either. Not exactly alien territory for me, but again I want to emphasize that any such judgement of National Lampoon magazine is necessarily the author's. Here's Karp discussing the early aesthetic vs. the downturn that eventually came due:
"[T]he [earlier] panels gave off a whiff of self-parody and mocking obsession with sex.[...] Distinguishing sexual material and exploitive sexual material is a tricky business, and [Sean] Kelly believed that they were crossing the line. [...] [T]here was a shift--as with the treatment of sexuality--from commenting on hatred, atrocity, and stupidity to making fun of its victims as well. It may have been splitting hairs, but there was a new sense of rage within the pages that lacked the righteous indignation, sophisitication, and wit that marked the first five years.I prefer to believe I can judge that line too.
Doug Kenney seems to have been a good guy in the early years. Karp has him as straddling worlds of conformity and personal isolation, with conflicted feelings of self-wroth. He was a kid who grew up around class but not of it--more the outsider looking in or the actor playing a role. The guy who played Stork was good-looking and sharp, indiscriminate in the people he befriended, and used humor to relate to the world. I feel I've always known people like him--they're not the centers of attention, but are the foundations of the party. The sorts of people who could always manage to keep the attitudes small, and the punks lovable. For all the dichotomies that his biographer sees in there, it doesn't seem an unusual bunch of traits, although Kenney was also uncommonly bright. To hear Karp tell it, he eventually made it as everyone's friend in the ferocious personality battle at the magazine because he was smart enough to command respect in his own right. It lasted as long as he could stand it.
I liked reading how the publication developed from whole-minded but half-assed notions to something of a high-functioning bastion of brilliant disgruntlement. National Lampoon collected errant personalities like a magnet in a scrapyard, but put together the things somehow ran. For some reason, I found myself identifying with the burnouts and corporate misfits that managed to find a career there, more than the ambitious misantrhopes. Karp makes the point that there wasn't anywhere else to go for a comedy writer--it must have been like a haven, if you could take the hours, egos, and negligible pay.
Kenney burned out on the magazine after a couple years, and after a hiatus, survived as an emeritus writer. Thanks to shrewd early dealings with the publisher and the success of the movie, Kenney did hit it big, which didn't agree with his personality. He moved from recreational pot to cocaine abuse, and watched his world crumble, culminating in an untimely death. Arguments remain whether it was a suicide, but the inner conflict was tough on him, according to Karp. I don't read a lot of biography, but I'm still sensing some common literary themes here: youthful talent, meteoric rise, tragic fall. I'm not sure I trust the presentation, but one consolation for flaming out young in this way, is that you get to have a denoument. As an artist, Doug Kenney didn't have to suffer a slow descent into age and unfunniness like any number of his peers. As a human being of course, it's another loss.

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In waging this war on inequality, it makes no sense to do a grand bargain on entitlements. What would that solve? It would freeze the status quo in place. But the war on inequality can never rest, can never end. A century from now, liberal scholars will be mining the national income data to find another "wave of rising income inequality" while "more struggle to get by."
How can the president rest in his lifelong struggle, his quest for the Great White Whale of equality, while the tide of inequality continues to rise?
So it makes complete sense that President Obama and his Treasury Secretary Geithner have not proposed a "grand bargain" on entitlements. The president is not interested in doing a deal on entitlements. He just wants more money in taxes to spend on his war on inequality.It may be a humorous political cartoon, but this Branco cartoon over at Legal Insurrection does show Uncle Sam (meaning America as we know it) being pushed off the cliff via BHO's "fundamental transformation" by "taxing the rich," "no spending cuts," and "billions more in stimulus spending" [that didn't work out the last three times tried].
What does it mean when someone keeps doing what doesn't work despite all the evidence that shows it hasn't worked? It means that it's being done purposely!The American Thinker article is good and worth reading. It describes BHO's "war against inequality" and how such a war would never end until those suffering under "inequality" include all but the political elite. "Soft" Communism....anyone? Actually, we know what communism, taken to it's ultimate conclusion inevitably results in. Just look at the gruesome history.
I think that the very first comment under the article link at American Thinker reveals the ultimate truth of the matter:
Remember. We were forewarned!
Hat tip: American Thinker


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Pelo menos alguém que não cultiva a hipocrisia e o auto-engano: o ex-Secretário da Defesa James Schlesinger...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
* Wall Street Journal, JULY 11, 2009
Why We Don't Want a Nuclear-Free World
The former defense secretary on the U.S. deterrent and the terrorist threat.
By MELANIE KIRKPATRICK
'Nuclear weapons are used every day." So says former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, speaking last month at his office in a wooded enclave of Maclean, Va. It's a serene setting for Doomsday talk, and Mr. Schlesinger's matter-of-fact tone belies the enormity of the concepts he's explaining -- concepts that were seemingly ignored in this week's Moscow summit between Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev.
We use nuclear weapons every day, Mr. Schlesinger goes on to explain, "to deter our potential foes and provide reassurance to the allies to whom we offer protection."
Mr. Obama likes to talk about his vision of a nuclear-free world, and in Moscow he and Mr. Medvedev signed an agreement setting targets for sweeping reductions in the world's largest nuclear arsenals. Reflecting on the hour I spent with Mr. Schlesinger, I can't help but think: Do we really want to do this?
For nuclear strategists, Mr. Schlesinger is Yoda, the master of their universe. In addition to being a former defense secretary (Nixon and Ford), he is a former energy secretary (Carter) and former director of central intelligence (Nixon). He has been studying the U.S. nuclear posture since the early 1960s, when he was at the RAND Corporation, a California think tank that often does research for the U.S. government. He's the expert whom Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on last year to lead an investigation into the Air Force's mishandling of nuclear weapons after nuclear-armed cruise missiles were mistakenly flown across the country on a B-52 and nuclear fuses were accidently shipped to Taiwan. Most recently, he's vice chairman of a bipartisan congressional commission that in May issued an urgent warning about the need to maintain a strong U.S. deterrent.
But above all, Mr. Schlesinger is a nuclear realist. Are we heading toward a nuclear-free world anytime soon? He shoots back a one-word answer: "No." I keep silent, hoping he will go on. "We will need a strong deterrent," he finally says, "and that is measured at least in decades -- in my judgment, in fact, more or less in perpetuity. The notion that we can abolish nuclear weapons reflects on a combination of American utopianism and American parochialism. . . . It's like the [1929] Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war as an instrument of national policy . . . . It's not based upon an understanding of reality."
In other words: Go ahead and wish for a nuclear-free world, but pray that you don't get what you wish for. A world without nukes would be even more dangerous than a world with them, Mr. Schlesinger argues.
"If, by some miracle, we were able to eliminate nuclear weapons," he says, "what we would have is a number of countries sitting around with breakout capabilities or rumors of breakout capabilities -- for intimidation purposes. . . . and finally, probably, a number of small clandestine stockpiles." This would make the U.S. more vulnerable.
Mr. Schlesinger makes the case for a strong U.S. deterrent. Yes, the Cold War has ended and, yes, while "we worry about Russia's nuclear posture to some degree, it is not just as prominent as it once was." The U.S. still needs to deter Russia, which has the largest nuclear capability of any potential adversary, and the Chinese, who have a modest (and growing) capability. The U.S. nuclear deterrent has no influence on North Korea or Iran, he says, or on nonstate actors. "They're not going to be deterred by the possibility of a nuclear response to actions that they might take," he says.
Mr. Schlesinger refers to the unanimous conclusion of the bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, which he co-led with Chairman William Perry. The commission "strongly" recommended that further discussions with the Russians on arms control are "desirable," he says, and that "we should proceed with negotiations on an extension of the START Treaty." That's what Mr. Obama set in motion in Moscow this week. The pact -- whose full name is the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty -- expires in December. But what's the hurry? Mr. Schlesinger warns about rushing to agree on cuts. "The treaty . . . can be extended for five years. And, if need be, I would extend it for five years."
There's another compelling reason for a strong U.S. deterrent: the U.S. nuclear umbrella, which protects more than 30 allies world-wide. "If we were only protecting the North American continent," he says, "we could do so with far fewer weapons than we have at present in the stockpile." But a principal aim of the U.S. nuclear deterrent is "to provide the necessary reassurance to our allies, both in Asia and in Europe." That includes "our new NATO allies such as Poland and the Baltic States," which, he notes dryly, continue to be concerned about their Russian neighbor. "Indeed, they inform us regularly that they understand the Russians far better than do we."
The congressional commission warned of a coming "tipping point" in proliferation, when more nations might decide to go nuclear if they were to lose confidence in the U.S. deterrent, or in Washington's will to use it. If U.S. allies lose confidence in Washington's ability to protect them, they'll kick off a new nuclear arms race.
That's a reason Mr. Schlesinger wants to bring Japan into the nuclear conversation. "One of the recommendations of the commission is that we start to have a dialogue with the Japanese about strategic capabilities in order both to help enlighten them and to provide reassurance that they will be protected by the U.S. nuclear umbrella. In the past, that has not been the case. Japan never was seriously threatened by Soviet capabilities and that the Soviets looked westward largely is a threat against Western Europe. But now that the Chinese forces have been growing into the many hundreds of weapons, we think that it's necessary to talk to the Japanese in the same way that we have talked to the Europeans over the years."
He reminds me of the comment of Japanese political leader Ichiro Ozawa, who said in 2002 that it would be "easy" for Japan to make nuclear warheads and that it had enough plutonium to make several thousand weapons. "When one contemplates a number like that," Mr. Schlesinger says, "one sees that a substantial role in nonproliferation has been the U.S. nuclear umbrella. Without that, some and perhaps a fair number of our allies would feel the necessity of having their own nuclear capabilities."
He worries about "contagion" in the Middle East, whereby countries will decide to go nuclear if Iran does. "We've long talked about Iran as a tipping point," he says, "in that it might induce Turkey, which has long been protected under NATO, Egypt [and] Saudi Arabia to respond in kind . . . There has been talk about extending the nuclear umbrella to the Middle East in the event that the Iranians are successful in developing that capacity."
Mr. Schlesinger expresses concerns, too, about the safety and reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons, all of which are more than 20 years old. "I am worried about the reliability of the weapons . . . as time passes. Not this year, not next year, but as time passes and the stockpile ages." There is a worry, too, about the "intellectual infrastructure," he says, as Americans who know how to make nuclear weapons either retire or die. And he notes that the "physical infrastructure" is now "well over 60 years" old. Some of it "comes out of the Manhattan Project."
The U.S. is the only major nuclear power that is not modernizing its weapons. "The Russians have a shelf life for their weapons of about 10 years so they are continually replacing" them. The British and the French "stay up to date." And the Chinese and the Indians "continue to add to their stockpiles." But in the U.S., Congress won't even so much as fund R&D for the Reliable Replacement Warhead. "The RRW has become a toxic term on Capitol Hill," Mr. Schlesinger says. Give it a new name, he seems to be suggesting, and try again to get Congress to fund it. "We need to be much more vigorous about life-extension programs" for the weapons.
Finally, we chat about Mr. Schlesinger's nearly half-century as a nuclear strategist. Are we living in a world where the use of nuclear weapons is more likely than it was back then? "The likelihood of a nuclear exchange has substantially gone away," he says. That's the good news. "However, the likelihood of a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States" is greater.
During his RAND years, in the 1960s, Mr. Schlesinger recalls that "we were working on mitigating the possible effects [of a nuclear attack] through civil defense, which, may I say parenthetically, we should be working on now with respect, certainly, to the possibility of a terrorist weapon used against the United States. . . . We should have a much more rapid response capability. . . . We're not as well organized as we should be to respond."
Mr. Schlesinger sees another difference between now and when he started in this business: "Public interest in our strategic posture has faded over the decades," he says. "In the Cold War, it was a most prominent subject. Now, much of the public is barely interested in it. And that has been true of the Congress as well," creating what he delicately refers to as "something of a stalemate in expenditures."
He's raising the alarm. Congress, the administration and Americans ignore it at their peril.
Ms. Kirkpatrick is a deputy editor of the Journal's editorial page.
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Below you can check out video footage from the Marvel Studios Hall H panel at Comic-Con from last night.
In attendance were the cast of Ant-Man as well as The Avengers 2, with a special appearance by none other than the Mad Titan Thanos himself, Josh Brolin.
Brolin appears in Guardians of the Galaxy for the first time as Thanos, which gets officially released on Friday, August 1st.
Marvel also showed off Ant-Man footage and footage from The Avengers 2, as well as announced Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
Update: 16 video interviews have been released:
Avengers 2 --> http://on.cbnws.cc/1oxdrEN
Avengers 2 (more) --> http://on.cbnws.cc/1oxdDUD
Avengers 2 (more) --> http://on.cbnws.cc/1oxdHnn
Ant-Man --> http://on.cbnws.cc/1oxdmku
"The Avengers: Age Of Ultron" hits May 1, 2015 directed by Joss Whedon starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver, Paul Bettany as Vision, with James Spader as Ultron.
Head on over to the Cosmic Book News Avengers movie hub for more.


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There's just one problem.
It's not a cookie.
Yup, you heard me. But, yet, it tastes soooooo much like the molasses cookies Grandma used to make when you were a child. I thought I would never taste a molasses cookie again. I'm immensely glad I was wrong.
1/2 c. walnuts
1/4 c. dates
1/8 tsp. ground ginger
1/8 tsp. cloves
1/8 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black strap molasses
1 T. maple syrup
1. Pulverize walnuts, dates, spices, and salt until ground to your liking.
2. Add the molasses and syrup. Pulse until thoroughly combined.
3. Shape into bars or balls.
4. Freeze until firm or skip step 3 and eat it straight out of the food processor!
Makes 2 bars or 6 balls
Substitution Notes: Sub the walnuts for any other kind of nuts you have on hand. The dates can be replaced by raisins or even prunes. If you don't have black strap molasses use any other kind. The maple syrup can be subbed for honey or agave nectar.
Inquiry of the Day:
Have you ever had a molasses cookie?
When I was younger we used to make them almost every Christmas. We haven't made molasses cookies in a long time, though. Sunday, I just happened to have a hankering for 'em and thought they'd be delicious in Larabar form.


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Clinton School of Public Service hosts a panel discussion about the Arkansas Repertory Theatre's season opener "Pal Joey" with Producing Artistic Director Robert Hupp and members of the cast, noon, free. Author and University of Arkansas professor Hoyt Purvis will speak and sign copies of his new book, "Voices of the Razorbacks," at CALS Main Library, 5:30 p.m. The END MASS Incarceration Movement Arkansas Chapter and the Social Justice Initiative at Philander Smith College will screen "The House I Live In," followed by a panel discussion, Philander Smith, 6-9 p.m. Cindy Woolf plays an album release show at Stickyz, with Amy Garland, 9 p.m., $5.
Little Rock food eaters take note: Food Truck Fridays returns to downtown at the corner of Capitol and Main. This week, the lineup is Clyde-n-Kiddos, Kona Ice, Philly's Steak and Cheese and kBird, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The Weekend Theater begins its production of "100 Saints You Should Know," about a priest who must reconcile his desires with his role in the church, a teenage boy confused about his sexuality and a young woman desperate for spiritual validation, 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Sept. 21, $12-$16. Mississippi bluesman Lightnin' Malcolm brings his swirling, hypnotic guitar playing to White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $7. Fayetteville party instigators Boom Kinetic bring the ruckus to Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $10. Fayetteville-based Southern rockers Backroad Anthem play at Stickyz, 9:30 p.m., $8.
"The Affordable Care Act Made Simple" is an information session about obtaining health insurance through the ACA, Faulkner County Library, 2 p.m., free. The Urban Raw Festival includes food, music, theater and a variety of arts-related workshops and presentations, Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, 9 a.m.-10 p.m., $5 adv., $7 day of. Rodney Block and the Real Music Lovers bring their mix of hip-hop, R&B and neo-soul to the cozy environs of the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10. Faith-driven emo-rockers Red Jumpsuit Apparatus play at Juanita's, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. Turnpike Troubadours offer up an evening of Americana and Red Dirt rocking at Revolution, 9 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of.
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It's too bad the sound system at Stickyz sucks so bad. It's *all* midrange; sounds…


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Synthetic Diamonds-Chapter 3
Continuation of Chapter 2
Because it can be made for less than it costs to mine and process natural diamond, synthetic diamond is used in many industrial applications. Reduced costs and the ability to engineer its physical and electrical properties give synthetic diamond the potential to become a disruptive technology in many areas, such as electronics and medicine. Although the technology for synthetic diamonds came into play in 1954, no synthetic diamonds were ever seen on the market until the 1990's. Because many found that it cost more to produce a synthetic diamond than it did to mine and cut natural diamonds. Thus the synthetic diamonds are this much popular, but at the same time the cost required to do it is really not an affordable one for most of the makers. That's the reason these synthetic diamonds are yet to achieve a good position in the market. So try to get the value of a diamond and realize that how much special it is for us… I hope that this article will help you a lot to know something about the synthetic diamonds. Check this out and make use of it…
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Synthetic Diamonds-Chapter 2
Continuation of Chapter 1
For a change in this article we will see about the interesting information of synthetic diamonds. Gem quality synthetic diamonds have entered the jewelry market in recent years and the technology used to create them is improving rapidly. The created diamonds are made through various ways like from human ashes, chemicals and so on. It is a term used to describe diamond crystals produced by a technological process, as opposed to natural diamond, which is produced by geological processes. Synthetic diamond is not the same as diamond-like carbon, DLC, which is amorphous hard carbon, or diamond stimulants, which are made of other materials such as cubic zircon or silicon carbide. The properties of synthetic diamond depend on the manufacturing process used to produce it, and can be inferior, similar or superior to those of natural diamond.
To be continued...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Holiday resorts
Hi friends are you planning for the holiday trip to some place. here just check this post, we will discuss about a site called breezes.com, which provides all facilities like resort and everything. According to us our holiday trip is a family calling thing, where bonding and having fun are the buzz of the day. With cheap deals to all inclusive resort Jamaica, holidays closer to home are often forgotten. Holidays in Caribbean island offer a top class sunshine destination with a good infrastructure of Caribbean resorts and accommodation. Booking for your hotels, air-fare and local commutation are all takes care of in these all inclusive family holidays and that too at a discounted rate. Booking in Jamaica all inclusive vacations for your vacation too is an easy task now through this site. Just log on to a good online travel website called Breezes.com, which offers you a great service in arranging hotels and resorts, at various destinations. So let us make use of this great online service and enjoy our vacation.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/29/2009 10:39:00 AM 0 comments
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Joined L&T Infotech
Finally I joined my dream company L&T Infotech. Now I am enjoying my days in Chennai. In addition to my company work, I am composing a Tamil album with my friend, it is about self confidence and life. The lyrics, tunes are ready now but we are waiting for the mixer and programming equipments. After we get all those things we will start to do our work. We hope that this will bring a new tatse to music world. Wait for it!!!
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/29/2009 10:33:00 AM 0 comments
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Synthetic Diamonds-Chapter 1
Nowadays many people are earning money and doing lot of things through it. Some of the things that they do using the money that they earned are buying lands, ornaments and so on. But as we all know that among the different kinds of ornaments that we have, Diamond is one of the best and precious one amongst it. Many are showing the interest towards getting a diamond for their own because of various reasons like its glossy look, cut of it, and color so on. How diamonds are made? No one knows it except few, right? For kind information to get a small diamond around 2 tons of ores has to be refined and mined. So in order to get just a one diamond we have to work this much hard, this itself shows how precious and rare it is.
To be continued...
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/24/2009 11:35:00 AM 0 comments
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Web Hosting Reviews
To do anything in internet by using websites, first thing we need is good domain. And the second thing is we need good web hosting service for our websites. But at he same time, so many web hosting companies are available in internet. Few of these have no hidden fees and good customer support. I saw a website in internet, which really gives some amazing web hosting reviews of the hosting websites. If you are looking for affordable web site hosting our top 10 hosts offer cheap web hosting, unlimited domain hosting, and are among the best hosting companies on the web. AlreadyHosting.com is an independent web hosting review site. The reviews are really awesome and giving a good amount of knowledge about all the web hosting companies to us. All reviews are carefully done by analyzing all their features like offers, bandwidth, storage and so on. As all hosting providers reviews are done here one wont find difficulty in finding the best one. So just visit the site and make use of their web hosting reviews. Feel the best hosting...
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Orange County Massage
During holidays going to some tourist spots is always a great experience for all of us. At the same time, whenever we go to some cool places, if we get a chance to feel nice body massages, then that would be a added advantage for us. Likewise I recently came across a site named massagebyjodi.com in internet. From them we can experience a sense of wellness and relaxation through a wide range of Body Massage Treatments and Services. The main goal of orange county massage is to provide a peaceful & professional environment where people can recover from the pain and stiffness that inhibits their natural ability to achieve goals and have fun doing it.The site is designed in such a way that we can get all the details regarding different types of body massages, their rates etc,. We can get massages like sports massage, oxygen massage, prenatal massage etc, from orange county massage. They are serving areas like Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Irvine, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Rancho Santa Margarita, Trabuco Hills, Tustin and surrounding areas in orange county. So just visit their site and places, then get rid of body aches and pain.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Katt Williams arrested on burglary
Hip-Hop influenced comedian Katt Williams has a pretty big Milwaukee following. Therefore fans might find this bit of news interesting. Though he has retired from the spotlight and decided to focus on shaping up his rap record label Katt Pack Records, trouble still has found a way to reach beloved comedian Katt Williams. Apparently, the comedian was arrested for burglary and criminal trespassing just outside of Atlanta, Georgia overnight.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/11/2009 12:30:00 AM 0 comments
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Many people are working day and night in their life to earn money to lead a better life. But at the same time, when we work hard so many chances are there to get frequent body aches. So in order to get rid of it in a very easy we should go and check with respective specialist to cure it. You also need to be very thorough and careful dosage cause side effects. I recently found a nice remedy for this in internet. The best solution can be found in a pharmacy is Tramadol. This Overnight tramadol - Buying your prescriptions online is such a useful one for us at all times. In order to know how much dosage of Tramadol you got to take and the place where you can get it for the cheapest price , you need to visit tramadolbluebook.com. It is your place to gain knowledge about tramadol online – blue book. Tramadol side effects can cause dizziness or drowsiness. If you experience dizziness or drowsiness, avoid these activities. Avoid sleeping pills, tranquilizers, sedatives, and antihistamines except under the supervision of your doctor. These drugs may increase drowsiness caused by Tramadol. We can also get Important information from Drugs.com about tramadol (ultram) . According to me, this site really helps us to find some useful information regarding tramadol. So just visit the site and get the required information about tramadol, then feel the difference in your hard living lifetime.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Urban Excess
If you go and search in the website, we can see many online shops for women to buy t hings like clothes, footwear's etc,. Am I right? But here I found a site where we can buy good quality Mens hats, Mens clothing, Footwear in different styles, sizes, in many variants. These products will definitely add your elegance and beauty and in addition you will feel comfortable. The site is designed in such a way that we can ind all the required information by just through clicks. Please visit the site Newsboy Caps because it has many accessories which are also very attractive. The accessories like Beautiful Bags, Wallets, belts, Buckles, sunglasses of various kinds, Flip flops, Neck Scrafs, Trapper Hat, skinny Ties, gloves are available in different brands, in different types suitable to different climatic situations. We can get any items as per our desire at affordable prices. The shop is available for us in exact working hours, so we can do shopping very easily. Rush to visit the site and know all the details available at this site.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/10/2009 08:41:00 PM 1 comments
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Free Bingo
Money is very important to all of us. Am I right? At the same time, we all should work hard day and night to earn our hard money. But if get that money in a easy way then what you all will by that time? You all will get excited right? Now in this post we are going to discuss about the site named superfreebingo.com, where we can play free bingo games and can earn money in a much easier way. The site is designed in such a way that we can get all information regarding playing bingo games at various levels. So many games are available there in this site where we can chose the best one which suits us and play that, win money. It is such a nice site to play many free games and to earn money. The free bingo games like Wink Bingo, Ladies Bingo, Foxy Bingo, King jackpot etc,. are available in this site. All are really good and proved to be worthy for all the beginners. One main thins in this site is there is no need of any deposits to play in this site, hence we can be in a well secured place as per money is considered. One of the better bingo portal sites getting around. I get their newsletter, which is great too. Really cool site that lets you pick different free bingo money offers at online bingo sites. There's reviews and everything and ratings that you can do. I hope that this site will help you all a lot to earn some useful for some useful purpose. Just try them out and make sure that you play al the games and win more money. Thanks for reading this post, try them and have fun.
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Living with Snakles in Pune!!! - Part 2
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/10/2009 02:21:00 AM 1 comments
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Medical Assistant School
Medicine is one of the best and important fields in today's world. So to become a medical assistant you should chose a best school in your area. But at the same time it is really impossible to chose a school to do medical assistant course. Are you looking for school that is convenient to you? St. Augustine School of medical assistants is the right answer. Their program is intended to help the full time working individuals to have an online education. It's very convenient because you will study at the comfort of your home. You can select other programs on what's best for you from dental assistant program, pharmacy technical program, medical assistant program and a lot more. Whether one chooses to achieve big dreams or one just simply wills to live on, one should still go to college.
From the experience I got from the site learning I hope this school will be good for your son/daughter. So if you want to invest your hard earned money, just study at St. Augustine School of Medical Assistants as they are very reasonable and surprisingly convenient school.Just join with them and feel the difference in your school life.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/10/2009 02:20:00 AM 0 comments
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Names directory
In this massive world it is really a tough job to identify the people, especially the people about whom we don't have any details of them except their name. But at this time if we get any resource to find the required people in a much easier way through internet, then that would be added advantage right? Directory names website are the best option for it to get the required results. The common names will be there to choose in this site. Names Directory enables you to find the names of the people with their details. It will definitely help the people who are looking to find the numbers of people. It is definitely the best choice. It makes this task of finding the details very easy. The names directory is really helpful. They are having less difficulty in finding the numbers. The directory name is the best because it is the most simpler of the sites which offer this. It will make the task very easy. So choose names directory save a lot of time and stress. Just visit the site and make use of it in a much better and correct way.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/10/2009 02:08:00 AM 0 comments
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Holiday Eyeglasses from Zenni
Opticals are the main assets for our eyes, but if they look out of fashion means then it won't be nice. Here I am going to suggest one frame provider to all of you, which provides Holiday Fun Eyeglasses of different varieties and colors. The zennioptical.com provides its customers with many kinds $8 Prescription Zenni Glasses. Some notable things from Zenni optical is they sell products of very low price directly to the customers without any intervention of third parties and the products are also of good quality. Many new arrivals are available in the site from where we can chose the best one for us. Try them out and get a look and style for your eyes.
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Living with Snakes in Pune!!! - Part 1
On Nov. 8th, 2009 about 12 30 PM, we all were busy in preparing lunch for us. Suddenly I saw a snake near to the basketball court where we usually play cricket match, lol... We finished playing cricket by morning 10 AM and came to room. But this Snake came by around 12:30. Thank god... It is the place where I usually have my night time phone talking. After I saw the snake I ran to next house and called the guy who usually catches the Snakes. Their business is killing insects in all the flats, catching snakes etc,. That guy is so friendly to us because he usually come to our room to watch cricket match, movies etc,. He came with some tools, then...... Just check out these cool photos to know more about it,
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/08/2009 09:59:00 PM 2 comments
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Globe Runner
Internet is such a vast area where it is really impossible to search for a thing in such a easier way. But at the same time we all will feel in such a way only, if there is no option like Search engine option for us in internet. That is why anyone who wants their site to get traffic would only think of one thing: Search engine optimization. It is one of the best ways to increase the traffic for our sites and to improve the business. It should be active, because you have to constantly maintain and optimize to keep your site up high in the search engine rankings. We surely need a SEO specialist to do this main job in internet. Globe Runner SEO offers professional link building services that puts you on the map! Their staffs are top notch and know everything there is to know about SEO and how to apply them to your site. Globe Runner SEO provides not just expertise, but personal service. Because of their small size, their prices are pretty reasonable and they take the time to get to know your business, understand everything there is to know and develop solutions to bring out the most effective SEO solution. I can assure you that as per the feedback from their clients, this site really offer good SEO services for our business, so try them out and see the other part of your business.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/08/2009 07:58:00 PM 0 comments
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SEO Boston
As we all know, Internet plays a vital role in our day to day life. Especially for business and learning purposes. Many people have started websites to promote their business, technology and so on. In turn they can reach new heights in their activities within a short period of time. But it may look very easy for us to reach those heights using Internet very easily. Actually it is very tough job like promoting websites to public etc,. I found a new way of achieving this through SEO works, which I saw in Internet. SEO plays a major role in promoting our sites in internet and to reach the public. Search engines are very important for our business, Am I right Google??
Just go and look at the site named brandidentityguru.com, they really offers nice SEO services for us at affordable rates. They are following new modern trends and tricks in doing SEO works for our business. I say active, because you have to constantly maintain and optimize to keep your site up high in the search engine rankings. This is no easy task and most likely you would look for an SEO specialist to maintain and optimize your site. SEO Boston offers SEO services at very affordable costs. Their staffs are top notch and know everything there is to know about SEO and how to apply them to your site. So for what you are waiting!!! Just grab this opportunity and improve your business in new way.
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Posted by Selerines Group at 11/08/2009 07:43:00 PM 0 comments
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Track Time And Attendance
Time is very important in our life and it should be used in correct and proper way. Especially in places like companies, educational institutions etc,. time plays a vital role. Employees will have the good discipline on what they are doing in your office, if they follow time in a proper way. Therefore, you need to Track Time And Attendance of your employees. So based on that we can come to know for how much time they worked, leaves and so on. I think all companies will do such a thing, but I am not sure if their Employee Time Clocks are the best ones.
Recently I came across a site named timeclockeshop.com, which really offers cool products for time and attendance tracking in company. If you are looking for the accuracy of Employee Time Clocks to track time and attendance, TimeClockEshop.com is the answer. They provide the devices from many top brands such as Acroprint, Amano, Icon Time, InfiniTime, Isgus, Lathem, NovaTime, and Time Wolf. I am sure that their products will surely meet your business requirements at affordable prices. Just visit the site and look for the products which meets your business needs and then feel the difference in your life.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/08/2009 07:22:00 PM 0 comments
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Sachin reached 17000
|Strike rate
|100s/ 50s
|4/ 21
|8/ 18
|13/ 7
|9/ 14
|7/ 19
|4/ 12
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Digital Frames
We all have the habit of giving gifts to our friends or relatives during auspicious occasions. But at the same time we have to chose best gifts to our beloved ones. Giving gifts like digital frames is also a perfect way of displaying advertisements and promotions for your business. At Digital Frames Direct you can find a wide range of digital photo frames as it was labeled as the largest digital frame wholesaler in the UK. Along with its exceptional offers, Digital Frames Direct is also bringing us the best quality of Digital Photo Frame and digital photo frames with awesome and interesting features such as automatic slide shows, movie players and audio. We can get many frames at affordable prices and at required prizes. Just visit the site digitalframesdirect.com and chose the required from the site. These gadgets are not that complicated as what you think. Its actually easy to get it to work. These products are the perfect ones which would look more beautiful and attractive to everyone. Just try them out and feel the difference...
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/06/2009 03:50:00 AM 0 comments
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Best TV packages
As we all know technology has been improved a lot and it has brought a new way of television viewing to viewers. One of the biggest advancement is Satellite TV which is today's easiest way of getting Television channels to our home. The kind of picture clarity that we get through satellite telecasting is far more better than cable signaling. So many companies are there selling this satellite Direct TV System but only few are good channel package with very less cost. And I came to know about the company Direct SAT TV, which really offers nice TV packages to its customers.
This is the only company providing more than 265 channels in very little cost. They are also having all local US channels based on customer requirements. Good relationships between company and customers are really something and DirectTV also offers that. Great savings with great service comes from a great company, a customer will hate lose this wonderful opportunity for what we need for satellite television.
I hope that this kind of customer service will bring a new joy way of experience. Just try their services and feel the difference of satellite telecasting.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/03/2009 12:46:00 AM 0 comments
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India-Australia 4th ODI
Hi to all cricket lovers... Now currently the series is 2-2 and still 3 matches to go to decide the fate of this ongoing India-Oz series. Good knock from top order batsmen have helped the Australia to post a fighting total to India in fourth ODI. It was India's game to lose after they restricted Australia to a par total of 250 on a good batting pitch, especially after the fiery start provided by Virender Sehwag. However, Australia won the vital moments during the chase to level the series in Mohali. Like in Vadodara, Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar threatened to pull off a heist; like in Vadodara they failed.
How did India lose this one though? Sehwag and Tendulkar had provided them the ideal start and though Tendulkar's dismissal was vital, even then, India held the advantage. Or so it seemed. Dhoni and Yuvraj, the heroes from the last game, were still in, the wicket was still batting-friendly and the bowling wasn't too threatening.
Australia's task was made harder by the discipline of all the bowlers except Ishant Sharma. The new-ball bowlers, Praveen and Ashish Nehra, found enough movement to keep the top order quiet and both returned to choke the batsmen in the end overs. The spinners, too, found enough bite to cover up for Ishant's wayward spells. Harbhajan put in his best performance of the series, slowing up the pace and fighting on off and middle stump line. Harbhajan tried with the bat too but it was always going to be a tough for him to pull off the improbable.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/03/2009 12:27:00 AM 0 comments
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Christmas cards
Since Christmas is coming closer to closer, people are becoming ready to enjoy it and share the happiness to others. One of the great ways to share our happiness and greetings with others is by giving them Christmas greeting cards. Christmas cards are regular greetings cards with for example Santa, trees or snow on it. You buy cards in a store or you can make a card on your one. You write something friendly and send it to friends, family and every one you know. You can also send christmas cards through the computer if you have e-mail. Thus there are many ways for sending greeting cards to others. But unfortunately, in the present, Christmas has became something commercial and for many of us, just an occasion to take some days off from the work or a chance to sell our products and grow our income. I hope that these wonderful Christmas greeting cards will bring you at least the memory of the Christmas spirit. There are a lot of online stores available in the net, selling a great number of cards to its customers. But only few stores like Christmascards.uk.com, lets us to customize our greeting cards on our own. This store also delivers our card instantly to our home, with great quality and colors on it. Thus this is the best place for one to buy Christmas card at affordable price and with great quality.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/01/2009 06:23:00 AM 0 comments
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Audi S5
Day by day, many famous car companies are introducing their own products into the market for sales. Even though these car companies have a good brand name and quality, a company called Audi has got a special name among the people for its stylish and colorful cars and also for its quality. They introduce at least 5 cars per year with great style, quality and at an affordable price. In this row, Audi has introduced a car named "2010 Audi S5", which is having a great look and performance. Most car manufacturers use S to denote a sports edition of a model. Even some of the most economical models have an S version, some of which are simply sporty looking trim. The audi s5 is truly a great touring sports car that can literally smoke most other vehicles and do it all in incomparable style and comfort. The standard features of the 2010 Audi S5 include 4.2L V-8 354HP engine, 6-speed auto and as well as manual transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags and much more. It is available in the market for an affordable price of $52,400 - $58,250. Thus it is a great choice for one to buy 2010 Audi S5, than to buy other ones.
Posted by Selerines Group at 11/01/2009 06:20:00 AM 0 comments
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text: Feds Crack Down on Prison Tax Scam Law enforcement moves to end millions in refund ripoffs By Mark Russell, Newser Staff Posted Feb 3, 2011 3:44 AM CST 5 comments Comments New York Sen. Charles Schumer arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington yesterday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Newser) – Fraudulent tax returns filed by federal and state prisoners have soared over the past five years, but under pressure from the Senate, the FBI and Bureau of Prisons finally got their act together and signed a memo of understanding to crack down on the operations, reports AP. "This agreement means that prisoners will no longer be able to bilk taxpayers out of millions of dollars," said NY Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. "The impasse needed to end, and today it's over." The scam was outlawed in 2008, but red tape between the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Justice Department made enforcement difficult. The number of bogus tax returns from prisoners doubled between 2004 and 2009 to nearly 45,000, with the refund amounts claimed more than quadrupling, to $295 million. One New York prisoner claimed $15,000 in refunds on 21 different tax returns, which he had visitors submit. "It's shocking that inmates are ripping off the taxpayers right under the government's nose," said Florida Democrat Bill Nelson. My Take on This Story Report a story error Show results without voting | 18% Annoying 7% Hilarious 0% Intriguing 51% Depressing 16% Brilliant 9% Scary


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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Review: Exchange
Title: Exchange
Author: Dale Cozort
Genre: science fiction
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Stairway Press
Point of Sale: publisher Amazon
Reviewed by: Chris Gerrib
I've met Dale Cozort in various science fiction fandom events here in Chicago over the years. When I ran into him a few weeks ago, he said "I got a book published!" To which I reply, "I review books!" This resulted in me leaving the event with a free copy of his novel Exchange.
The story is set in and around Rockport, Illinois in the immediate future. For reasons unexplained and apparently not well understood, random chunks of our Earth are "exchanged" with the same piece of Earth in a different timeline – one in which the large mammals of the Pleistocene didn't die off, and humans apparently did, leading to the Exchanged areas being referred to as Bear Country. As in, lots of lions and tigers and bears. These areas revert back to their previous timeline in a matter of days or weeks, further complicating matters.
The story opens with Sharon Mack, a young single mother, getting stuck inside the Exchange boundary and thus being sent into the Bear Country reality. Fortunately, she's not alone – a number of US Marines and others are going with. Unfortunately, those others include her violent and anti-social ex-husband, who wants to take their seven-year-old special needs daughter Bethany with him as he tries to set up housekeeping in Bear Country land that's not returning to our timeline. We meet him when he crowns Sharon with a whiskey bottle at the start of Chapter 2, setting up attempts by Sharon to get her daughter back. This personal drama, although gripping and interesting, isn't the only thing going on in Bear Country, as Sharon discovers during her quest.
I like Dale, and I found the book engaging and entertaining, but I do have some issues with the editing. Editing runs on a spectrum from line to story editing. Line editing is grammar, spelling and punctuation, while story editing focuses on the authorial decisions in telling the story. I felt that Dale's editor fell a bit short on the story editing side of the ledger. There were several instances of "maid and butler" dialog, including early on when the local radio station was busily explaining to those inside what had happened to them. Also, I was repeatedly told how big the Exchanged area was, something I didn't need to be told so often.
There were also some nits with the story that may fall on Dale's head, not his editor's. First, there were a lot of guns in the story, but they were never described as other than pistol or rifle. This really bothered me, especially when at one point somebody substituted an unloaded gun for a loaded one. Without knowing if it was a revolver or a semi-auto, I found it difficult to see how the substitution was made. Second, on several occasions, Sharon got snuck up on from behind. I found that a bit difficult to swallow, especially for people moving in woods and grasslands.
Having said all of that, I enjoyed Exchange, and found it well worth the read.
Rating: 7/10
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However, a friend mentioned recently that she wished I would post what I'm eating. I didn't even realize she read my blog :) BUT yo. I love it. I'll share whatever I can that might be helpful.
|Zucchini, Squash, Onions and Eggs...
broccoli slaw is my staple breakfast 'veggie' though
An average day of Food
Breakfast = 3 eggs and some mix of veggies sauteed in Coconut Oil.
ALWAYS with coffee + canned coconut milk on the side.
*If I'm feeling a little spicy I may cut one of the eggs and throw in a diced Italian sausage.
Snack = follows breakfast by 2-3 hours.
|I was out of blueberries... back up= mixed berries
I have NO guilt over this when my training volume is heavy and high.
If I'm more relaxed in training... and more conscious of weight control,
a good snack is1 Hardboiled Egg or Ounce-ish of Chicken + Cherry Tomatoes + a few almonds
OR just the berries with cinnamon and coconut shreds, without all the extra fatty goodness.
Midday Training is followed by 1.5 scoop Progenex. (I hate to love it).
|Note: I did not make this salad.
A restaurant did. Mine is better.
here are two samples:
top it off with some chicken (3-5 oz) and balsamic vinegar and call it delicious!!
|fresh cilantro makes it best.
OR if I've made it and it lasted this long I may have my favorite chicken Salad with home made mayo... mmm!
Go to "the clothes make the girl" for the mayo recipe. It's bomb.
Sometimes there's time and hunger for afternoon snack... It follows along with morning snack's options.
Evening training is followed by 1.5 scoop Progenex.
|Confession: this was my lunch and
dinner yesterday.
Almost always a hot plate of sorts. Sauteed up veggies with pre cooked meat source tossed in with some spices.
Example: Spaghetti Squash with Ground Turkey, onions, and mini peppers. Sauteed, with Sundried tomatoes tossed in for a little oil and extra flavor (I do this ALL the time in place of sauces). This one has a little balsamic on it as well.... but if you're going for the asian flavor reach for the coconut aminos.
OR, maybe I'll have cooked a roast in the crock pot and serve it up with roasted veggies (tossed in EVOO, and baked for 30-40min at 400 degrees)
Finally, IF i'm not concerned at all about weight issues... I may or may not throw in dried mango, and dark chocolate, into my day at will. I know myself. I can tell when it's slowing me down, so that usually is enough to keep it in check. Fats give me energy, but extra sugars drain me, so if I need to cut treats it comes from the mango and chocolate before the nut butters and almond or coconut milk.
Disclaimer: Actually the beautiful simple thing is that any meal can be eaten at any time of day. Foods don't have to be exclusively for one particular meal or another... so much flexablity.
Important Ingredient: all of this is accompanied by a gallon of water a day... give or take a bit depending on heat and training volume.
Important Ingredient: all of this is accompanied by a gallon of water a day... give or take a bit depending on heat and training volume.


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Lunch With Books. Event starts at 12:00 PM.
Ever hear of Wheeling's Coney Island?
The park was busy and popular and was the site of operas, circuses, and the Saengerfest. Unions often rented the park for a whole day. The park was damaged by floods in 1906 and $100,000 worth of renovations were done for the 1907 season.


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This year, my school piloted a 1:1 program with our freshman academy using Chromebooks. Next year, we are going 1:1 from 9-12, which means we have some major revamping to do in terms of technology in the classroom. I'm really excited about the new challenges that the 1:1 initiative will bring, so I've spent some time researching how to best utilize them in my AP Stat class. We will be using Canvas as our LMS, which I know several of my friends use at other schools, but I'm looking more specific for statistics. Here's what I have so far...
Gathering Data from Students
One of the things that I'm REALLY excited about is the ability to have the students gather data and be able to share that data to the class. For example:
In the above example, I can ask students to go to a webpage, record their observations, then use the results to gauge how students are doing.
I also visualize seeing Google Forms utilized for exit tickets, short daily quizzes, etc. I used Flubaroo this year for my mock AP exam and it was pretty awesome. How else do you use Google Forms in the classroom?
Stat Software
I've also been on a hunt for Chrome-friendly web apps to use in my AP Stat class. The web-based stat software that I've used before is Java based, so that won't be something I can use with the Chromebooks. Here's what I've found so far:
Any other awesome apps out there? Please share!
Other ideas
If you have other ideas on how to utilize the technology, I'd love to hear it!


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Cloudy Summer Days
Delicious frozen goodness
New statement piece from Zara
Favorite sandals from Rachel Roy
Fun manicure Essie with Opi combo
Vintage inspired earrings
Wearing new Zara gem
New pair from Steve Madden
Favorite moments from past week through Instagram.
Hope you enjoyed your weekend! Have a wonderful week ahead!
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NORTH Warrnambool Eagles coach Jody Roth says the Billings twins are reaping the benefits of forced time on the sidelines.
Jordyn and Skye have returned to Hampden open grade competition in 2017 after back and knee injuries wiped out their 2016 seasons respectively.
"Both Billings girls are in really good form. The year off has been good for their bodies," Roth said.
"Both are travelling well and are super fit."
Jordyn will play her 100th game for the Eagles against Cobden on Saturday.
Roth said Jordyn had overcome setbacks to reach the milestone.
"She's been with us since juniors so it's nice for her to achieve that," she said.
"Our focus is to get a win and it would be nice to do that with it being 'Bills' 100th game."
Roth said the regular defender would show her capabilities in different roles this season as the Eagles look to catch opposition on the hop.
"Last week she was in goal shooter for the last five minutes of the game," she said.
"I am looking to have a very versatile team this year. There were no set positions put out to the girls.
"It gives me depth."
Jordyn is joint vice-captain along with Annie Blackburn.
Kate O'Meara will skipper the Eagles as they look to push for another finals berth.
Roth is hopeful 17 and under trio Maggie Kellett, Zoe Bussell and Molly McKinnon will play roles off the bench throughout the season.
"Maggie played her first full game against Terang Mortlake and really held her own," she said.


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Sunday, September 11, 2011
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I love mornings/days when I just feel immensely creative. :) And yes, this has been one of those mornings.
This particular idea actually came to me yesterday morning when I was in the shower. I had some body scrub that I finished off yesterday, and I didn't want to just throw away the container. It was too perfect for using for something else. So, this morning, I did a little refurbishing and gave that container a new life. :)
Yes, this was a scrub from Bath & Body Works. I absolutely loved this scrub. And Orange Sapphire is one of my favorite fragrances. (And yes, I am currently employed by BBW, but that still doesn't change how I feel about this scrub!). Sadly, the company discontinued the Signature Collection scrubs back in June during the Semi-Annual Sale. But, if you want the scrubs, you should still be able to get them online.
Anyway, this container is big enough to hold pretty much any jewelry or other miscellaneous items I need it to, and it's small enough to fit on my dresser and not take up too much space. I just needed to give it a little makeover. :)
I have a ton of scrapbooking paper, so I took a sheet that I liked, and that would work well with the colors in my room (my curtains are pretty much that shade of orange). I originally was going to cut enough to cover the entire container, but then I thought that I would just cover up the label. That way, I could still see inside without opening it up, and it gives it a little more flair. :) So, after cutting and measuring, and cutting another strip, and then trimming that strip, I finally got the right size to do what I needed it to do. I then put it around the label and glued it using regular white glue.
I then glued on some scrapbooking letters around the container. If you want, you could make your own letters, or find any other way to decorate this. And just so you know, this spells "Misc". :)
I even cut a piece of paper to cover the "Bath & Body Works" name on the lid, and I added a cute little sticker to add a little more flair.
And there you have it! Now I have the perfect little container for all of my little knick-knacks. :)


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I whipped together a princess party for Princess Maya! We invited playgroup over and asked everyone to dress up in their prettiest princess dresses:
So cute!!! We played "freeze dance," "pass the purse" (hot potato), decorated goodie bags, had races with a magic wand as the baton (this was the favorite game), played pin-the-princess in the castle, Disney movie trivia and had some fancy snacks and cupcakes. I have always wanted to have a princess party, and I love that Maya wanted one as her first "friend" party. She so big now!!! I can't believe 3 years have gone by since I had Maya, and saw that precious little baby with dark curly hair, and the perfect little lips. She's still my curly, girlie, girl, my spider monkey, munchie munchkin, pumpkin pie, Maya papaya, Maya-boo.
If we were to judge by the shrieking and giggling, the girls had a lot of princess fun! Ricky hung around and played the games with the girls, a little bit curious about all of the little girls in pretty dresses running around. Tonito got to go with his friend (and older brother of a princess) to the Science Museum- and when they came home they literally munched and munched and finished all of the goodies left on the table!
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Finding Randy a Landing Spot
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
With the Vikings releasing Randy Moss yesterday it's time to try to figure out just where he might land / who might claim him. We'll do this by process of Elimination.
1, Team That Just Cut Him: Minnesota Vikings, They just cut him.
2, Teams With No Point in Claiming Him: New England Patriots, They are last on the list meaning they might as well not claim him and see if they can get him to resign if no one claims him so they pay him the veteran minimum instead of the $3 million.
3, Teams that Already Had a Failed Moss Experiment: Oakland Raiders There is no way that the Raiders bring back Moss after what transpired there years ago. Especially not when they are actually playing well, mostly by pounding the rock.
4-11, Teams that Are Too Far Out of It to Spend $3 Mill: Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Detroit LionsThese teams are down and out. Are all but eliminated from the postseason and really have no need to add salary.
12-13 Teams Where the QB is Just Not a Match: Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, The Max Hall experiment will not fly with Randy Moss and the Bucs are not going to risk their 5-2 record and emergence of Josh Freeman with the signing of Randy Moss.
14-16 Teams With a Superstar Wideout they Probably Don't Want to Annoy: Atlanta Falcons, Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins I just don't see the Texans, Falcons or Dolphins signing Moss and than trying to convince Andre Johnson, Roddy White or Brandon Marshall that this is a good move for them.
17-23 Teams with No Place for a Wideout: New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants, New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Green Bay Packers I just don't see any of these teams going out and bringing in a wideout given the current plethora of wideouts each team has.
24 It's Just Not How They Do Things: Indianapolis Colts, The Colts may have injuries at wideout (and everywhere on offense) and they do have Peyton Manning, who could make any wideout happy, but this just does not fit the bill of a Colts move.
25-26 I Doubt the Coach Would Be On Board Here: Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, The Redskins and Chiefs might have room for them in their offenses but Todd Haley and Mike Shanahan don't really seem like two guys that want to bring in a diva wideout during the middle of the season.
27-28 Fringe Candidates: St. Louis Rams, Jacksonville Jaguars: I could see either of these teams claiming Moss because they could probably use a wideout (especially the Rams) but I see reasons why they wouldn't. The Rams probably would rather not toy with Bradford's development while the Jags could safely assume that Moss would not be a happy camper in their uniform.
29 True Candidate #1: Tennessee Titans, The Titans just lost Kenny Britt, aka essentially their entire passing attack, so they desperately need a top flight wideout. Vince Young / Kerry Collins certainly aren't ideal but Jeff Fisher has been around a long time and should be able to handle Moss and the Titans are a fringe playoff team right now and need to make a move to get there.
30 True Candidate #2: Seattle Seahawks, The Seahawks lead the worst division in football by a game. Their wideouts are all inexperienced and young. Pete Carroll loves himself a little flash and Randy Moss would be the solution to those issues.
31 True Candidate #3: Chicago Bears, Since arriving in Chicago, Jay Cutler has never remotely had the #1 wideout he had with Brandon Marshall in Denver. The Bears are currently a 1/2 game behind the Packers, are reeling badly, and desperately need a spark to awake the franchise.
32 The Landing Spot: San Diego Chargers, Let's Just run through a checklist of things that make sense for why a team would bring in Randy Moss.
1) Needs to be a playoff contender (Check), The Chargers may be just 3-5, but they always start out slow and I refuse to believe Kansas City is that good.
2) Need an Open Spot to Put Him (Check), Malcom Floyd is injured. Vincent Jackson is still suspended. Patrick Crayton is not good.
3) Need a QB That Can Handle Him (Check), Philip Rivers is probably a top 5 NFL QB.
4) They Need to Throw Him the Damn Ball (Check), The Chargers throw the ball basically more than any team in the league.
5) Need to Have Waiver Wire Priority, At 3-5 the Chargers sit in a position


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Create Your Own Custom Day Planner
I've bought dozens of different types of Day Planners. I've found a few that I like (In the Leafy Treetops has been one of my fav's). But I really struggle finding one that doesn't have loads of stuff I don't use, is the wrong size, or is too expensive.
For 2017 I googled "how to make your own day planner" and found several articles that aided me in my attempt to try something new and design my own, with pages that fit my specific work and home needs. It's nowhere near as cute as the ILT planners, or as professional looking as a Franklin, but it's functional and it's specific without a bunch of stuff I'll never use and it only cost me about $20. Not to mention it could be a lot cuter if I wanted to take the time to design it that way, I'm just not that patient.
What I need from a planner:I'm a mom, a writer, and a Sunday School teacher. I have meals to plan, activities to chauffeur, book events to attend, writing targets/deadlines to make, and lessons to prepare. I have marketing to do, bills and budgets to balance, and scriptures to study. I have a house to clean and a husband to date:). I need a way to see my week (and month at a glance) to make sure I hit my goals and keep my priorities in order.
Since this is my first attempt, I'm sure I'll be keeping notes on things I want to include/not include when I design next year's planner. Here's the basic rundown of what I made for this year.
For the cover (top left), I bought an image off Shutterstock for an event I spoke at. It made me think of reaching for higher things so I used it here as well. I then topped it with a quote from one of my favorite movies, We Bought a Zoo, "If you do something for the right reasons, nothing can stop you." (I have an amazing friend who is talented with lettering and asked her to write this along with a few other favorite quotes for me.)
On the first page I have this quote:
My next page is a picture of my family, my number one priority, followed by a page containing my personal mission statement.
Each month starts with a quote on the left and a place to write inspiration or notes on the right (bottom right), followed by a goals page and a calendar (bottom left). I needed a place that showed me important events for the month and my marketing schedule, along with a full calendar to see at a glance.
My weekly pages (bottom middle) are specific to my day-to-day.
On the left is a column listing weekly tasks and goals, along with a spot for me to write how many hours to work on writing, marketing, research, and study, all with check boxes.
At the bottom of each day is a check-list for daily tasks. At the bottom right of the week is a space to write events or things to remember for that week.
At the back of the planner I included pages to write in birthdays and important notes.
I created everything in Microsoft Publisher and saved each page as a JPEG image.
Then I went to Blurb.com a photo book site that you can find 40% off coupons for all the time online, and created my planner with their online tool called BookWright.
What I liked about this is you can choose what size you want to make it, either a "trade magazine" which is about 8 1/2 by 11, or a 6x9 "paperback" photo book.
In BookWright you'll upload your pages and organize how you want. Create a cover and be as creative as you want. When designing your pages prior to upload you can add as much background or photos as you want, it won't affect the price. Just a word of caution, look at the size requirements for the book you are creating so when you make your pages you can create them that size, otherwise when you upload the images may be fuzzy.
The final cost will be dependent on how many pages you make your planner.
Once your pages are all uploaded, and your cover how you want it, you can save and purchase. It takes about a week to get it.
I wanted the functionality of a spiral binding so once I got my planner in the mail I went to our local print shop and had them do the spiral binding. It cost me $2.50.
It's definitely not the easy route to go this way. It took a few hours to design and upload. So this is probably not the way to go if you want something quick.


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Registrations took a big boost last week with the launch of the .club gTLD when 25,690 domains were registered on the first day (7 May) of their General Availability. But as with most, if not all, of the gTLDs to launch to date, there is a flurry of registrations on day one which quickly tapers off to daily incremental growth.
In the case of .club, day two of General Availability saw 4,818 registrations, day three 3,701, day four 1,942 and day five 1,092.
But registrations for .club are still impressive and the gTLD now sits comfortably in third place behind .guru with 56,184 registrations and .berlin with 47,622.
To date there are nine gTLDs with more than 20,000 registrations, 21 with more than 10,000, 40 with more than 5,000 and 87 with more than 1,000.
But there are a couple of gTLDs that have recently launched and are set to radically change the order of things. The gTLDs for the cities of London and New York City have great potential – cities of more than eight million each and relatively crowded TLDs - .co.uk and .com respectively. While .com is not a ccTLD, it has to a large extent acted as both the world's default TLD and the ccTLD for the United States.
For .london, there are reports there were more than 50,000 pre-registration leading up to its launch on 29 April. Since then, figures are hard to come by, but it has been estimated there have been over 100,000 applications for domains in phase one since then.
Phase one runs until 31 July and gives priority to registered trademark holders and Londoners applying for domain names.
Allocation of names during the first phase will depend on a priority ranking. The following is the priority ranking of customers in order:
- those in the Trademark Clearinghouse
- those having a London address AND a right to a name (e.g. it matches their business name)
- those having a London address for any name
- those without a presence in London
Where there is more than one application for a name those applicants will be validated by an external validation agent. If, after validation, multiple applicants for the same domain name end up in the highest priority ranking then an auction process will be used to determine who will get the domain.
General availability commences on 9 September when .london domains will be available on a first come, first served basis to all.
For New York City's gTLD there are some differences, but the main one is .nyc domain names will only be available to businesses and residents of New York City. For .nyc, the Sunrise period will run until 20 June while a .nyc Founders Program will run concurrently (until 13 June).
Following the .nyc Sunrise period and Founders Program, the .nyc domain will continue to roll out to the general public in a phased manner. City affiliated names will be allocated between 25 June and 31 July. Next, high-value .nyc domain names will be allocated for a premium price during the "landrush" period, between 4 August and 3 October, and then .nyc domain names will launch to the general public on 8 October.
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You wouldn't have to spend very much time with me to find out that I am a "woman of words." (now this doesn't just mean that I love to talk, although I do). I enjoy words. I like how they fit together. I like written words and spoken words. I like how they sound. I especially like when I find just the right words to express EXACTLY what I am thinking.
I did not come to love words on my own. This is one of the many things that I learned from my Dad. My Dad enjoyed words. Dad taught his children to speak correctly. He told us the importance of being able to communicate clearly with each other. He always told us we were smart and special and that what we thought was valuable to him. My Dad also taught me that nothing has the potential to affect a person like words. Words are powerful! They can be positively powerful or negatively powerful. Very few things in the life have the power to lift our spirits or tear us apart like words.
- Excerpt from Take Off Your Mask by Janet Harward
Generation to generation there is great wisdom and help available from both those who have walked our path before and those who see the journey from a fresh new perspective. This blog is to help connect the generational wisdom needed to be the best wives, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, friends and mentors that we can be...from a Biblical perspective. Join the conversation!
Boyfriends (1) Calling. Prayer (1) Children (1) Church (2) Decisions (2) Gentleness (1) God's Love (1) Leadership (1) Leadership in Marriage (1) Love (2) Making Memories (1) Marriage (1) Mother's Day (1) Motherhood (4) Mothers (1) Parenting (4) Patience (1) Relationships (2) Salvation (1) Schedules (1) Seasons of Life (3) Self-Examination (2) Shepherding (1) Spiritual Growth (3) Submission (1) Teamwork (1) Words (1)
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Lily and Derek have been dating for nearly a year, and they both think that their relationship is almost perfect. But then Lily moves to college, and suddenly things don't seem as perfect as they could be. Then Jack comes along, and he is the complete opposite of Derek, he's sexy, broken and mysterious, and despite her best intentions, Lily is instantly attracted to him. Then after one argument too many with Derek, Lily finds herself in Jack's arms and in his bed, spending a week in the most intense pleasure she has ever known. But who is best for her in the end? Her brother's best friend, Derek, or the troubled Jack, and how will she choose between them.
Forget Me Not is not a story intended for younger readers, it contains strong language and scenes of a sexually explicit nature, including descriptions of threesomes and light bondage.
I will admit that Forget Me Not was not quite what I expected, from the blurb I was expecting a sweet, coming of age story, and instead it is much more realistic to what starting college is like. I actually found that Lily was very relateable, having been in a similar situation to her, albeit starting university instead of college, with a boyfriend who consumed all my time, and no friends, meant that her experiences really struck a cord with me.
This meant that despite the sex, her character developed well, she gained more friends, more confidence and more independence, and I suspect that any girl who has been through the beginning of college or uni would be able to sympathise and relate to Lily. There was a quote early on in the book that I read and just thought; 'wow, that sums the experience up perfectly.'
No one tells you when you start school how homesick you will be, or how hard it will be to start life over with no direction and no friends or family. No one says that becoming your own person is terrifying.To me even the sex was relateable, as in the idea behind it. I'm pretty convinced that most people have that person in their past that opens their eyes to sex, and makes you feel more confident through it, and that is what Jack was to Lily, meaning that yet again the characters seemed really real.
Even though there seemed to be a large focus on the sex, there were also some particularly sweet moments between the characters, and serious moments about young relationships and young love.
All in all, I really enjoyed Forget Me Not, it might even have changed my mind about contemporary romance and encourage me to give more of it a go!
Additional note: Having finished Forget Me Not about an hour ago, and thinking on it, I really wish that I could go home and read it some more. The characters, particularly Lily, engaged me and drew me in so much that all I want to do is read more about their lives and loves. And to me that is part of what makes a good read!
Forget Me Not
by Sarah Daltry
Published by SDE Press
New Adult erotic romance
18+ for explicit sex and language
Heat Level: 4
Length: 309 pages
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Lily had a crush on her brother's best friend, Derek for years - which led to their steamy night ten months ago in her bedroom. Now, Lily is going off to college and she and Derek are still going strong. However, when school starts, she realizes it's hard to maintain a relationship while also trying to live her own life. She and Derek find themselves falling apart and Lily has no idea where to turn.
Enter Jack. Everything about him is wrong for Lily and she knows it, but she can't stop herself from being attracted to him. When things implode with Derek, it's Jack who is there to pick up the pieces - and show Lily an entirely new set of experiences she didn't know she was missing.
Of course, Jack has his own problems and once Lily gets to know him better, she starts to wonder if she can handle all of Jack. When Derek reappears on the scene, Lily is forced to decide between two guys and herself. Can she find herself without losing the people who matter in the process?
See where it began in the short story, "Her Brother's Best Friend."
Enter Jack. Everything about him is wrong for Lily and she knows it, but she can't stop herself from being attracted to him. When things implode with Derek, it's Jack who is there to pick up the pieces - and show Lily an entirely new set of experiences she didn't know she was missing.
Of course, Jack has his own problems and once Lily gets to know him better, she starts to wonder if she can handle all of Jack. When Derek reappears on the scene, Lily is forced to decide between two guys and herself. Can she find herself without losing the people who matter in the process?
See where it began in the short story, "Her Brother's Best Friend."
He moves closer and already my body is responding. He smells like cigarettes and leather, two smells I never thought were sexy until now. I want to fall into his body, to be wrapped in his arms, and I fight it. It's wrong and it makes no sense. I have everything I could ever want. Jack is just a distraction.
"I'm not that kind of girl," I tell him.
He steps closer still and kisses my neck. His lips are soft, which is unexpected, and it sends a shiver through me. Jack brings me in to his chest. I can feel his heart beating; it's quickening and it matches mine. I feel his tongue sliding down along my collarbone. There is nothing like this, but I need him to stop. And yet, I never want him to stop. "I'd love to know exactly what kind of girl you are."
Almost as if they are not my own, my hands slip between his jacket and his shirt. The heat of his skin burns me even through the fabric of his clothes. His lips continue to travel downward, but as they reach the curve of my breasts, something in me wakes up. I tear myself away from him and back up a few inches.
"I have a boyfriend," I repeat. "I can't do this."
"Where is he?" Jack asks. His eyes are burning.
"Where is your boyfriend? You've mentioned him before, but you run into me a lot for someone who's so in love."
About the Author:
Sarah Daltry writes erotica and romance that ranges from sweet to steamy. She moves around a lot and has trouble committing to things. Forget Me Not is her second full length novel, although she also has several story collections and two novellas available. Her other novel, Bitter Fruits, was available shortly, but is now in the contract phase with a major publisher. When Sarah isn't writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out the window.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Party switching in Tenn. and retiring in Alabama
Henderson County, Tn Sheriff Brian Dukes has filed to run for reelection as a Republican in the Sheriffs race in that county. He was originally elected as an Independent back in 2006. In Birmingham, Al. today Jefferson County Commissioner Jim Carns(R) announced he's retiring this year. Mr Carns has only served one term on the commission but he was a State Rep before that. A little trivia on Carns. He represented the district where Natalee Holloway lived before her disappearance. If Mr Carns had run again he was going to face a stiff challenge from an aide to Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale(R). Sheriff Hale is still very upset with the entire commission over the drastic cuts he had to make last summer in his budget and he was going to try and extract some revenge on Carns and the others. But now that looks less and less likely since the commission appears to be in the midst of a huge turnover. William Bell was elected Mayor of Birmingham last week, Sheila Smoot is a frontrunner to replace Artur Davis in the US Congress then add Carns retirement, that only leaves two. But there are indications that County Commission President Bettye Collins(R) may retire in the next few weeks as well. So Jefferson County could very well end up with only one incumbent county commissioner running for reelection.
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