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We are so tired of sitting here. We want to go home. No. We want a home. We want someone to take us home, any someone. As long as that any someone is beautiful and will take us the places we deserve to go, take us miles and miles away floating over this laundromat...
Oops. Wrong commercial. Can you imagine US in a laundromat? Inane! Insane! Impossible!
So who will take us places, take us out to dinner, to shows, to museums, out dancing-
OMG! Out dancing. We must pick someone who will take us out dancing. Oui! Certainement! Absolument! Sans doute! That is more important than anything else we will do because dancing will lead to... Oh yes, we must go dancing! Swing is good, that's fun, the waltz, measured and stately, the tango. We were made to do the tango. One two three, dip, one two three, spin, one two three, fuck, one two three. Not hip-hop. Could you imagine US doing hip-hop? That has got to be the most ludicrous image in the world. Hip-hop is for sneakers, not for shoes. And never ever for shoes such as the pair of us.
One two three, fuck. Yesss. We want to fuck. All else is commentary, a prelude, foreplay to that. Look at us. Don't you want to fuck us? We are so sleek, so shapely. Look at ou tiny waist, the flare of our instep, our vamp, our long sculpted heel. Look at our zipper. Zzzip! The sound it makes putting us on and off, snug around a shapely ankle, bend over to zip us on, adjust our straps around that ankle. Now throw us up in the air to fix the last strap, way up in the air. Oh my, we are so far apart and what is happening at the other end of the leg from us?
That is why you must take us home. So we can take you dancing, find you a pair of black patent wingtips to rub up against us and then he can explore the rest of you while we lie in the closet with our heels snug inside those wingtips which held his foot just as he is snug inside you, enjoy you, please you.
Oh yes, we must find someone to take us home so we can have a good time. Oh yes.
Her. Look at her. Why, she's been crying. She drips tears, she leaves a trail of tears. What? She will fight no more forever? What does THAT mean? Of course she will fight. That is why she is here. To fight dirty. Here, lovely lady. We will be your weapon of mass destruction. We will give you unfair advantage in this war you fight. Hineni, lovely lady! Hineni! Come on, you see us. Yes, you do, don't deny it.
Mmm hmm. You hear our siren song. We will seduce you, we will lead you down the islet that stretches between the Scylla and Charybdis. Pick us up. We will make it better, we will stop the crying for a while if you let us help you, if you take us home. We will make it go away. We will, just look at us. Imagine us.
Hello there, beautiful. You are, you know. So beautiful. Oh lovely lady, living well is the best revenge, you know that. He'll like us, too, like how we make your legs look, your whole body will be enhanced. He will see you in these and he'll want to grab us and kiss us, throw you back on the bed, fling us over your head and oh my!. He will bite your ankle, lick your calf, suck on that tender part on the inside of your knee while his hands touch us, his fingers find places to slide into, stroke the arch of your foot next to us, snug into the ankle strap, slide into and and and. Goodbye right foot! Goodbye left foot! I can barely see you so far away!
What will he do when he sees you in us, lovely lady? What won't he do when he sees you in us? Just think of it. You can feel it, lovely lady, yes you can. You like it. You want to see him on his knees admiring us, admiring you wearing us.
And if not him, we'll help you find someone new to make you feel beautiful and desired and sleek and sexy. We will make you stand out from the rest of the cattle, we are the only one of us in this world and you are the only one of you.
Yes, lovely lady, yes.
"Visa or Mastercard?"
"American Express."
"Sign here, please. Enjoy them. They are stunning."
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I have only looked at two Memory Care facilities and I'm exhausted already. Its probably just my attitude and I will work on that .....tomorrow.....tonight I am fighting a cough and cold.
Here is my dilemma, once Gary goes into a facility, I will be footing the bill by paying for the facility and dipping into savings. I guess that is ok since we worked for savings our whole lives. I should not expect help from anyone.
So, for now, we are status quo. We seem to be managing life now.....I am torn. The doctors say I am providing great care for him. He goes to day care, he has a caregiver and I take care of him at night. He still knows me and I think he is safe. Well, as safe as he will be anywhere. If that changes or his condition changes, I will reevaluate.
He did scare me this morning. When my alarm sounded to my usual "Jesus take the Wheel" alarm sound, I arise and go around the bed to see if he needs to use the bathroom. Normally, we either go to the bathroom and then back to bed or he stays in bed while I go down and make coffee and get his morning pills. He usually repeats whatever I say.
Today was different. As I stood next to the bed, he was staring through me and whispering numbers, in order. I could not break his focus. 33, 34, 35, 36.......I talked to him, asked him questions and tried to get him to respond. He continued counting through 100. I wasn't sure what to do. My thoughts went from "oh my, he just slipped to the next level" to "I'll just go downstairs and come back and he will be normal." So, I went downstairs and came back in about 15 minutes. He was still counting......he counted all the way through 3000 before I put him in the shower. He counted (whispering still) through the shower. Every time he was interrupted, he started back where he left off.
As we dressed and got in the car, he had reached 10,000. At that point, he stopped. It was kind of like when Forrest Gump was running in the desert and just stopped. For no particular reason, he was done.
We had George Strait on the media in the car and he sang "All my Exes live in Texas". I did not know he knew the words. Everyday is a new day. Every night brings its challenges.
All I can do is pray and trust that God's plan will lead us where we need to go in his time. Prayers are appreciated.

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Of course, St. Patrick's means more to a medievalist than green beer, green clothing, green rivers, and corned beef & cabbage. It has nothing at all to do with snakes, either…but it does involve raiders. Really, though, St. Patrick's day serves to remind me of a few things every year, and the most powerful thing […]Continue reading
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This is going to end up being another short post, but I at least wanted to say Happy New Year. 2016 has more than once been described as a "dumpster fire" of a year. 2017 was pretty bad, too, although most of that originates from a single source. My hope is that 2018 will be […]Continue reading
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Just take a look at the photo above. I took that photo earlier today, December 29th, at the local Kroger clone. That's right. These folks have gone all in on St. Valentine's Day a whole four days after Christmas. Most folks haven't even finished the returns and exchanges process yet and we're already getting more […]Continue reading
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The Convention is over. I liked the shortened convention. This should be a template for future ones. They are, like the whole election process, way too long. The Republicans handled the hurricane issue responsibly and the media hopes and predictions for failure were proven wrong; just as they will be in November.
I worked evenings when it was going on, but had access to CNN to at least keep up somewhat, and had to accept the delivery source (CNN) like a dose of highly disagreeable medicine, and trying to focus on the speakers. The attendees seemed to be a responsible and respectable lot, refraining from obnoxious signs, banners buttons, etc.
The same cannot be said of those whom, while receiving almost no media attention, still sought to make their Leftist/Anarchist statements by damaging property, assaulting attendees, and acting as the reprehensible slime that they are. Many of their cowardly, terrorist types, wore bandannas or scarves to hide. Fortunately good police work kept this group mostly impotent and out of sight and lacking any influence over the proceedings.
The star was of course Sarah Palin. While I have felt she would be a good pick for the last 4 or 5 months, the speed at which she was selected and introduced to the nation was dizzying. I pray that she is not "too good to be true". She seems to channel the same excitement and common touch that Ronald Reagan had and her background is even more unlikely than his! Michael Reagan wrote his observation of the same thing in todays WSJ.
Laying in bed on that Friday morning, hearing the news on the radio from Fox news channel, I literally had a chill of excitement, and strange sense of deja vu that the unlikely "outside the box" person I had been in favor of- actually got the position! I had a sense that something had occured and that from that point on, nothing would be the same. I dont neccesarily mean in an all good way; but in a wild, crazy bet the farm and chance to score BIG dangerous kind of way. I wanted to attend the meeting they held in St. Louis that Sunday, even though I hate crowds......it would have been exciting to be among the first 20,000 that had a chance to meet her and measure her against media views and material I had read over the last several months. Work commitments prevented that. I wa glad that they had the meeting in St. Louis and hope they will return before November.
I got that same excited, exaulted, admiration in watching her speach on Thursday. But it was also coupled with the nervous worry over someone working without a net.
No net was needed.
I read a description of her that seems to be accurate at least to this point in her light speed career....she seems to be a "political savant" History shows that they dont come around very often. I hope for the country, she is as she appears. I feel it could be truly a historic time and one where America regains the footing that it lost since Reagan. It's not going to be easy and at this point seems to be more akin to watching an Evil Kneivel jump, than the mundane, frustrating political plodding that we've become accustomed to since 2002.
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Alabaster; semi-circular; name incised on one side only.
From Nuri, pyramid 3 (tomb of Senkamanisken), NE foundation deposit. 1917: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Sudan.
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Nubian, Napatan Period, reign of Senkamanisken, 643–623 B.C.
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Christmas Reflections
During our post-Christmas debriefing, Regina and I were discussing our favorite part of this holiday season. For me, it was the build-up. Watching Dylan's Christmas excite-o-meter bump up another notch with each new open door on her chocolate filled advent calendar was the coolest part. It was like watching someone blow up a balloon much bigger than you thought imaginable. For Regina, it was Christmas morning. When Grady received a gift he appreciated, he settled in and started playing, uninterested in the gifts, the toys, the chaos around him. Dylan, on the other hand, tore open each gift -- I LOVE IT!!! NEXT!!! -- and watching the yin and yang of those two was the joy for Regina.
Let me rewind. After our trip to Cabo, we returned and immediately jumped into super-holiday mode. The first item on the list was the tree-cutting. Often, that involves lots of peppermint schnapps and hot chocolate, dogs and dads roaming the woods like lost hunters, and a truckload of freezing kids. This year, we braved it alone. We slid and spun our way over backroads to get to the perfect super-secret tree spot. We arrived with a triumphant chest pounding and I turned around to see both kids sound asleep in their car seats. I slogged through the snow alone, found two good trees, and returned to a truckload of well rested children.
And all this, of course, brings us to Christmas morning. Santa had eaten the cookie, decorated with gummy bears and peppermints stuck into inch thick frosting, that we left out for him (oh, my gut), and had filled our stockings. We shuffled out to the living room and Dylan realized that full stockings = Santa. When we reminded her that Christmas is also Jesus's birthday, she nearly blew a gasket. "It's Baby Jee-jus birthday? Yiiiii!!!!" Grady found his perfect toy, a dump truck, and Dylan spun in a gift wrapped whirling dervish until bed time (mercifully, without any meltdowns -- another Christmas miracle!). And when it was all said and done, Regina and I sat down and talked about the day. It's too easy to race through Christmas without much reflection, especially with young kids in the house, and I was thankful that we could reminisce about the past month and put some perspective on the season. And you thought our "debriefing" meant something else. Shame on you.
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This biamplified 2-way monitor uses EEEngine (Energy Efficient Engine) Technology to deliver an ultra-cool and high-powered 310W punch to an advanced design 12" woofer (225W) and a 2" titanium-diaphragm compression driver (85W). The 90x40 constant directivity horn ensures crowd-covering sound dispersion. The back panel features a mixer section with mic and line inputs, gain control on each input, a 2-band EQ (low, high), and master volume with XLR and 1/4" I/O. And it's flyable, stackable, and pole mountable.
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JOHNSBURG — Over 50 grant applications were submitted to the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation this year.
Of the applications received, the foundation either fully or partially funded 33 of them, including:
• The Johnsburg Chapter of Imagination Library bringing free books monthly to children under 5 years of age.
• Moriah Central School to help fund their food backpack program.
• Saranac Lake Youth Center to support their teenager's facility and programing.
• Lake Placid Center for the Arts to help underwrite their School Day Matinee Programming.
• Lake George Music Festival to purchase office equipment.
• First Night Saranac Lake to support their community New Years Eve events.
• Johnsburg Historical Society to underwrite additional signage at the historic John Thurman site at "Elm Hill".
• Adirondack Research Consortium to support Student Scholar Research programming.
• CanAdirondack Engineers 4H Club to help fund additional equipment so that they can compete in the annual FIRST Tech Challenge robotics competition.
• Adirondack Public Observatory to help underwrite equipment for an interactive classroom.
• Pendragon Theatre to fund expanding student workshops.
• Seagle Music Colony to bring children's opera curriculum and performance to 15 Adirondack schools.
• Adirondack Curriculum Project to support the annual Adirondack Day at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake.
• Ticonderoga Festival Guild to support expansion of free children's performing arts offerings.
• Champlain Valley Outdoor Educators Cooperative to staff field classes and fund creation of educational materials for four Essex County schools to experience, study and draw conclusions about water quality and the aquatic biology of the Boquet River.
• North County Ministry to send 5 staff members and 7 key board members to "Bridges Out of Poverty" training sessions as well as help fund food for students attending the YMCA Adirondack Outreach Center in Brant Lake.
• Johnsburg Fine Arts for continued funding of the North Creek Mosaic Wall and partnering with the Johnsburg Summer Youth Program.
• Lake Placid Sinfonietta to support a two day in-school residency by the Eastman School of Music Wind Quintet and performance of "Quintensity" in two Adirondack schools.
• Northern Forest Canoe Trails to increase scholarship amounts so that Adirondack children can take advantage of a 5 day paddling trip led by local outfitters and an intern to learn outdoor skills, leadership and an appreciation of environment responsibility.
• View in Old Forge to support After School programming.
• Adirondack Marathon a one-time gift to help cover recent financial shortfalls.
• Fort Ticonderoga Association to provide outreach programs to four Adirondack schools.
• Mountain Lake PBS to help underwrite their MLPB "Spotlight" programming.
• Wildlife Conservation Society to help underwrite their efforts to engage local communities to find a common ground between environmental protection and maintaining the economic viability of Adirondack communities.
• Upper Jay Art Center to help underwrite their winter play, keeping admission fees voluntary.
• North Country Public Radio for underwriting.
• Ticonderoga Central Schools to support their student food backpack program.
• Adirondack Council to support the Council's efforts to organize and host community meetings and provide meaningful follow-up.
• Whallonsburg Grange to install acoustical panels to improve the audibility and sound quality for their films, lectures and performances.
• Tannery Pond Center, North Creek for new equipment and technology up-grades and helping underwrite the Seagle Colony Children's Opera performance there in July of 2017.
• Wildlife Institute of N.Y. to underwrite their "Silent Wings" programs in elementary, middle and high school students with the Park.
• Up Yonda Farm in Bolton Landing to purchase materials to construct a larger, more permanent butterfly exhibit.
• Adirondack Community Outreach Center to support their student food backpack program.
The Glenn and Carol Adirondack Foundation is a private foundation established in 2000 and "dedicated to improving the quality of life for year round residents of the Adirondack Park."
Since its inception, the foundation funded 366 not-for-profit grant requests totaling over $582,000.
Additional information on past grant recipients and the grant application process is available at pearsallfoundation.org.


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I stared out my window wondering how government spending could get into such a crisis in such a short time.
The Arizona legislature is into a second special session trying to balance the fiscal 2002 budget with the same budget-balancing task ahead for fiscal 2003.
Any cut made by our legislators will have dire consequences, according to some interest group.
Babies will starve, illegal immigrants will go without heart transplants, universities will close and all state employees will go on food stamps without the promised raise is the cry head across the land!
I asked myself how the state could get in such a financial mess in just a few short months and why a solution is so difficult.
More than 30 states are doing the same thing.
The feds project a deficit for the budget beginning in October.
Mohave County appears near the edge of bankruptcy.
What happened?
The downturn in the economy and the Sept.
11 attacks get the blame, but I am not so sure that is the real answer.
Last year, economists predicted a slowing of the economy and a reduction in revenue GROWTH.
Note: The prediction was reduced growth, not a reduction in the actual dollars collected.
The state does not have fewer dollars to spend than the year before! The 6 to 8 percent annual growth common the last ten years had been predicted to stop.
It did.
While state lawmakers were ignoring the signs and continuing to write budgets based on the "growth in revenue" habit, the Kingman City Council was listening to then-Financial Services Director Roger Swenson and his predictions that the revenue would not increase very much.
Recent reports indicated the city still overestimated a bit, even after reducing the former 8 percent to 4 percent.
Growth of 1 or 2 percent resulted in a predicted $400,000 overestimation of revenue.
Tight budgeting and extra contingency funds cut the risk.
The Miner headline shouted that the city would have a $400,000 shortfall.
Had the council gone forward with the old 8 percent growth that felt so good, the shortfall would have approached $1 million!
Lawmakers argued with Gov.
Jane Hull about the estimates and found themselves making a third attempt to put state finances in balance.
How did we get into this fine mess?
I took my sharp pencil and started compounding by 8 percent, the growth rate some folks had gotten quite comfortable with.
Assume a $100 million beginning budget ten years ago.
Assume an 8 percent annual growth in revenue that is spent each year.
What would that $100 million be after ten years?
Try $215 million, more than double the original amount.
The annual 8 percent growth alone becomes a $16 million figure in the tenth year.
A prudent family could have taken that beginning $100 million and kept household spending at the same level for the ten years.
Ten years later, that family would have $115 million to add to their savings JUST THIS YEAR!
They would call that an opportunity, not a crisis.
Governments spend what they can get each year.
When tax revenue estimates decrease, governments are in trouble.
So many new programs have been funded that any cuts seem impossible.
Every program has become "essential." Our very lives depend on each program that has grown during those fat years.
We have heard great outbursts about President Bush proposing a deficit budget.
His budget is short $80 billion.
The Senate just axed his $77 billion economic stimulus package.
Some nosy newsperson asked members of Congress whether that would not now make the budget virtually balanced.
Not a one of them would admit that.
Do you suspect the folks in Washington will spend more than Bush asked for and blame the president for a deficit budget?
Small annual growth in the budget becomes a huge increase during just a few years.
That is so simple that no politician or special interest group can grasp it.
At the same time, tax collection has moved away from the local area so someone else can get the blame for taking the money.
Then, state, county and city politicians can brag about getting "grants" for local projects no one would approve if they recognized their dollars coming back home!
Gradual increases in budgets add up to real dollars.
Maybe the current financial crisis will allow governments and voters to take another look at what we really need.
It is a time to take a new look at our priorities.
Unfortunately, a crisis never seems a good time to do that.
When you are up to your hips in alligators, it is difficult to remember that the original mission was to drain the swamp.


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Re: Timestamp transformationJonathan Brough Jan 15, 2013 4:00 AM (in response to phil rumbold)
The number with decimal places sounds like QlikView's representation of the data and time combination.
How about recreating the required date and time formats on the front end once you've loaded the date in ?
Re: Timestamp transformationGysbert Wassenaar Jan 15, 2013 2:44 PM (in response to phil rumbold)
Dates and timestamps in qlikview have both a numeric and a text (formatted) value. You can use the date(), time() and timestamp() functions to specify the textual formating. If you're loading a large number of records it's recommended to split the timestamp into separate date and time fields. Qlikview can store these more effeciently because the cardinality of the separate parts is a lot smaller than of the timestamp.
time(frac(MyTimeStamp),'hh:mm:ss') as MyTime,
date(floor(MyTimeStamp),'DD-MM-YYYY') as MyDate


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I have recently been involved with the worst of the news media and with the best of the news media. Both related to the same matter.
My company, The Greater Construction Corp., has sold approximately 350 houses in a subdivision in Lake County known as Greater Hills, and we have another 300 homes to build.


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This short film, shot entirely on a Nokia N8, was the winner of the Nokia Shorts competition:
A split screen was used to show two narratives of two individuals with different yet similar lives, and the journey towards the moment they finally meet.
It's pretty amazing and is reminiscent of Michel Gondry's "Sugar Water" for Cibo Matto sans the time forward/backwards element.
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So i got an beta invite for the open beta for The Elders scrolls online , the second time allready after i missed my first chance on
From Friday, January 10th at 6:00PM EST
Until Sunday, January 12th at 11:59PM EST
I read the email to late and so i missed the beta, i joined the next beta on 8th of Februar, but wait actually i could not cause there was an "Unscheduled Maintenance" which lasted a few hours.
However as announced it ended and i joined the game, after Creating my first character the game crashed and turned back to the launcher with a so common screen the next hour (feels like hours)
Anyways i relaunched my game was able to join and then it crashed again before i left my cell. The graphics were quite nice, but nothing to enjoy cause of constant crashing. After a few more crashes i came to the first foes to fight, combat felt so unsteady didnt even know if i hit them they just fell apart. Seeing lots of other people just lagging away to the exit, my fps was fine latency wasnt. Nonetheless i came to the part where i enter the portal to Tamriel , however the game kept crashing no matter how often i restarted.
I then repaired the game in the launcher , wow i was suprised then i could actually get past the crashing loop. However in tamriel it crashed again after 5 minutes, i tried changing the graphic settings down maybe it was graphic card related , however when i changed it i got to a loading screen and it crashed again.
Oh between i was very often in wait queues for my character to login , which made the time to relogin into the game more painfull.After all i cant now even get to the character screen , and cant be bothered to try fixing this mess, i know this is a beta but very unpleasant.
*Crashing* *unplayable*
Could not even join the beta forums , dont seem to have the right to access them.


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This one on the other hand was fab. The plot was simple and easy to follow and there were loads of gags, the characters were dopes and no one was serious about anything.
Animation was stunning too, not just churned out because Disney noticed there's a black president.
A few too many songs but other than that the whole family enjoyed it, loved the horse!
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I wish I was more comfortable being brave. Right now, I'm Chester, all curled up, too scared to do something new.
I'm not good with change. I'm not good with handling my emotional roller coaster. I'm an over thinker and I usually take everything very personally and I am paranoid.
And I feel like I am failing. Failing at my job, failing at my graduate school work, failing at having clean clothes. Failing at eating healthy and failing at being consistent with my workouts.
I need to be more like Chester the brave. Chester stood up in class and recited his lessons. I need to be brave and less of the coward hiding behind streaming TV.
Wish me luck.
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Chinese Ascendancy in the Global Textile Trade
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The textiles and clothing industry has been essential to the industrialization strategies of many African countries. In Kenya, this industry is crucial for development because it has very low entry barriers, has the potential to improve livelihoods because it is labour-intensive and thus provides many jobs for low-skilled workers, and also because it generates foreign exchange much needed to support imports. The performance of this industry has been propelled by the creation of Export Processing Zones (EPZ) in 1990, and the enactment of the African Growth Opportunity Act


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This Dress is so so cute for summer a must have even over some cute jeans. Love this print hurry over to my store or my new online store at www.vintagefoxboutique.com to get it today!!
Wear with at cute tee under it or plain with a no tee under it but the buttons on the tank is so dang cute!
Even with my new shoes we just got in either way these are super hot
Look at this fun bright print it is even cuter in person you will die
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Come ride with us!
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Join us on the first Friday of every month for a civil and lawful demonstration that we are traffic. We ride at a pace that is accessible to most people (~9mph). We ride many styles of human powered vehicles — from townies to road bikes to cargo carriers to recumbent trikes. Learn more about First Friday.
We also organize full moon rides, ice cream rides and cargo bike rides. Stay tuned to the calendar for upcoming fun!


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Day One of Summer Vacation
We're off to a great start! After a super jam packed weekend it was nice to cuddle in jammies and have two breakfasts by 9:30am. The kids have changed so much since last summer. This morning I could hear giggles from the backyard while I was catching up with the Kardashians and folding all our clean laundry. I love that I have time to fold it as is it still warm from the dryer!
We had a fun-filled lunch with Papa Wayne. Whew, it was crazy but boy oh boy, he can wear them out in 75 minutes! We found out Victoria loves chili as much as I do. As if we didn't know, no matter how big the bowl Christian will eat ALL the chocolate pudding.
It's naptime. Catching up with the Housewives of OC and going to do my nails.
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Home » VoIP » FreeRinger offers Free International Calls to 30 countries
FreeRinger offers Free International Calls to 30 countries
Whats the difference between FreeRinger and Talkster? The only difference is the caller now is not tied to the Phone. Talkster needs you to use their service via Phone but now FreeRinger allows you to bypass the Talkster gateway and connect directly to your party. However the rest of the communication is still carried on the Talkster platform that means the other party still needs to call into talkster to be connected to your call.
I see Free Ringer as a good altenative if you are already using Talkster and confortable with their platform and the way they work. FreeRinger is powered by Gtalk2VOIP and Talkster. We always said that Gtalk2VOIP is a strong VOIP platform which can hook into anything and we have successfully designed many hacks using their forwarding platform.
For newbies, Lets understand how you can possibly make free international calls using FreeRinger:
1. Enter your friend's phone number in international format: country code followed by area code followed by local number. Examples: 16502345678 is for USA/California, 442012345678 is for UK/London.
2. Press Call button. If this phone number is not yet listed on your roster, a subscription process will be initiated and new contact created.
3. Upon success a new Talkster number will be allocated for your friend to reach you back on the web. A phone call will be placed to your friend's phone number and you will hear a voice prompt informing you on call progress.
4. Once connected, you will have 10 seconds to tell your friend to call you right back to their Talkster number, while you are staying on hold and waiting. Your friend will learn their Talkster number from: a) SMS message sent during subscription, b) CallerID displayed to them, c) you can tell them their Talkster number.
5. After your friend calls you back, the system will connect you both again and you may talk as much as you want.
6. Press Hangup button at any time to terminate your call.
7. Click on a contact and press Call to initiate another call to same number.
Besides this, You can now also call other SIP URI. 1. by entering SIP address in phone number input box, or 2. by providing SIP URI in the URL, like: http://firstname.lastname@example.com
Of course, Free Ringer will only allow you to call 30 countries which fall under the Talkster allowed country list, mainly USA, Canada and most of the european countries.
Overall, I would qualify Free Ringer as add-on service to talkster platform than a stand alone VOIP service.
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CVS was good to me this week! I went to the coupon kiosk and two great coupons printed for me...$0.50 in ECBs and $5.00 off of any Halloween item...accessories, decorations, or costumes.
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Schick Hydro Razor
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- $4.00 MF coupon
Made $5.00 in ECBs
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- $5.00 CVS coupon from coupon kiosk
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Buy 2, get one free sale
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I spend $.46 OOP and made $5.00 in ECBs! I basically made $4.54 on this trip.


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Batik fabric corded pocket with cute elephants brooch
This little beauty measures 5" long and 7" wide and carries just what you need for the day or night. Made from cotton fabric and is fully lined inside.It has a satin cord which is worn cross body. You wear this like an accessory to complete your attire for the day or night. Great to take to a wedding, casino, craft fairs and flee markets when a purse is too much to handle.The base price for this size pocket is $15.00 plus the price of the brooch. My pockets are machine washable gentle cycle in cold water with the brooch removed and the cord tucked inside. No one else will have the same pocket.Satisfaction guaranteed.
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When we were young, the fair was one of the biggest things of the year. We waited with tremendous anticipation and couldn't wait until the day arrived. I usually went with older brothers and sisters, and they had this dumb rule that you had to go in and walk around the whole fair before you rode or did anything. I guess it was so you didn't squander your money at the beginning, only to find something later than you really wanted to do.
The fair was about 5 miles from one end to the other. Or maybe it just seemed that way. And there were about a million people. And the guys running the little booths were very nice men, upstanding citizens who would never dream of cheating a little blond, curly-haired girl. My favorite ride was called the Paratrooper.....seats under canopies designed to look like parachutes. Maybe that was the beginning of my desire to skydive. I loved the ferris wheel, but I didn't really want it to stop at the top. And I did.
Because only at the top could you look around and see the whole wide world. Seriously. The whole world.
I loved cotton candy but hated the stickiness it left behind. I hated candy apples because it took too long to bite through the tough coating on the apple. And once I got to the apple, I was done anyway. Who goes to the fair to eat fruit?
We went to the fair tonight, and either the fair has changed a whole lot, or I have. We bought $20 worth of tickets, which was 20 tickets. And the two rides we picked out required 5 tickets each. Seriously. We rode two things. On the ferris wheel, your legs don't even dangle anymore. And you can't subtly make the car swing back and forth.
I don't think this guy found the fair all that much to write home about either. He may be seriously considering a career change.
I made hubby go into the building where they were showing livestock. We saw these two goats, and they weren't all that thrilled to have their picture taken. I didn't see a tip jar, so it wasn't that. Maybe they were shy. We also saw a massive bull with massive........bull parts. I put my hands on the railing to get a better look at him, and they came away wet and sticky. They were right about where the drooling bull slobber would have landed. Excuse me, I have to go wash my hands....... Okay, I'm back.
Just as we were leaving the fair (because it was, after all, 8:00 and approaching our bedtime), my sister sent me a text message saying that Billy Joel was on public television. You'd have to know us to know what seriously addicted Billy Joel fans we are. I haven't missed a Billy Joel concert in Atlanta since 1978, which is the year most of this footage was shot. I got home in time tonight to catch the tail end of the program. Of course, most of my favorite songs weren't even written yet.
Apparently Billy Joel ain't what he used to be either...
Friday, September 12, 2008
The fair ain't what it used to be....
Posted by Bragger at 8:56 PM
Labels: Billy Joel, fair
2 comments:
- Ann(ie) said...
We're hitting the Puyallup Fair on Sunday and I anticipate spending a ridulous amount of money and massive crowds and lame rides. But, as long as I can eat my weight in scones all will be good!! 8)
- September 13, 2008 at 12:34 AM
his wife wrote the cutest cookbook! We're thinking about the fair today...if the children can hide their devil horns long enough to behave.
- September 13, 2008 at 1:19 PM
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You'd think when the world economy jumps off a cliff that one should be exceedingly pessimistic. But, somehow I'm not. Which isn't to say that I'm deluded, I understand that we're completely screwed for a good long while and that it comes towards the tail end (probably already over the breaking point) of when we really needed a lot of extra money to funnel into projects aiming to save the world. The world economy is going to collapse and the fossil fuels in the air are going to cause further catastrophic changes over the long haul. The food shortages in some areas are going to deepen as the droughts get worse and large populations are going to be displaced or die off.
It seems like it should somehow make me keel over, assume a fetal position and cry, but it doesn't. Maybe it simply hasn't hit home yet. 'Scourge the shire' and perhaps I'll fully understand how screwed we are. It just doesn't seem to be within my powers and so out of my concern. My simple view of life is that it goes on, even if it doesn't.


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Owning Palette: File I/O VIs and Functions
Requires: Base Development System
Reads binary data from a file and returns it in data. How the data is read depends on the format of the specified file. This function does not work for files inside an LLB.
Refer to the Preallocated Read from Binary File function for information about reading binary data and placing it into a pre-allocated array without incurring a copy.
|data type sets the type of data the function uses to read from the binary file. The function interprets the data starting at the current file position to be count instances of data type. If the type is an array, string, or cluster containing an array or string, the function assumes that each instance of that data type contains size information. If an instance does not include size information, the function misinterprets the data. If LabVIEW determines that the data does not match the type, it sets data to the default for the specified type and returns an error.
|prompt is the message that appears above the list of files and directories, or folder, in the file dialog box.
|file can be a refnum or absolute file path. If it is a path, this function opens the file specified by the path. The default is to display a file dialog box and prompt you to select a file.
If you specify an empty or relative path or if the file does not exist, this function returns an error.
|count is the number of data elements to read. Data elements can be bytes or instances of data type. The function returns count data elements in data, or if it reaches the end of the file, it returns all the complete data elements read thus far and an end-of-file error. By default, the function returns a single data element. If count is –1, the function reads the entire file. If count is less than –1, the function returns an error.
If you wire data to count and the specified data type is an array, the function automatically returns a cluster of arrays or cluster array because LabVIEW does not allow arrays of arrays.
|byte order sets the endian form of the resulting data. Byte order, or endian form, indicates whether integers are represented in memory from most-significant byte to least-significant byte or vice versa. The function must read the data in the same byte order that the data was written.
|error in describes error conditions that occur before this node runs. This input provides standard error in functionality.
|refnum out is the refnum of the file that the function read. You can wire this output to another file function, depending on what you want to do with the file. The default is to close the file if it is referenced by a file path or selected from the file dialog box. If file is a refnum or if you wire refnum out to another function, LabVIEW assumes that the file is still in use until you close it.
|data contains the data read from the file in the specified data type. It can consist of a string, an array, a cluster of arrays, or a cluster array, depending on which data type you are reading and how count is set.
|cancelled is TRUE if you cancel the file dialog box. Otherwise, cancelled is FALSE, even if this function returns an error.
|error out contains error information. This output provides standard error out functionality.
Use the Deny Access function to make sure no other users change the file while you read from it. Use the Set File Position function if you need to perform random access.This function opens files as read-only. If you wire the refnum out output of this function to the file input of a write function, LabVIEW returns a permissions error. Use the Open/Create/Replace File function to open the file with the default read/write access and wire the refnum to the read and write functions.
Refer to the following VIs for examples of using the Read from Binary File function:
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BANGALORE, INDIA: The much talked about Unique Identity Project (UID) is not just about providing citizens with biometric cards. In fact, the new identity cards can be used for multiple purposes and can even replace the debit or credit cards one day.
The UID project will be a key enabler in economy and will pave way for the second wave of M-commerce, observed panelists at a session on 'Ride the New Mobile solutions Wave triggered by UID' during the Nasscom Product Conclave 2010 which began here on Wednesday...


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Years ago, Hilton Head Island was ordered to reduce its use of water from the Upper Floridan aquifer to about 9 million gallons a day. This edict necessitated the island's utilities getting water from the Savannah River.
At the same time, paper mills and other industries on the banks of the Savannah River in Georgia were drawing down enormous amounts of good drinking water and using it for its industrial processes. They could have used Savannah River water, but did not want the expense of treatment before use. I remember an estimate of their total draw down as 50 million gallons a day, but that figure is so fantastic I am not sure.
In the newspaper's coverage of discussions of aquifer problems with Georgia, I do not remember seeing anything about the problem I have described. Is this industrial use continuing or has it been curtailed?
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Transparency Market Research Report Added "Heart Valve Devices Market" to its database.
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/04/2016 -- A market research report published by Transparency Market Research, titled "Heart Valve Devices Market - Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Analysis And Forecasts 2012 - 2018", offers a comprehensive overview of the global heart valve devices market. The report estimates the market to expand at a CAGR of 7.0% during the period between 2009 and 2016. In 2011, the overall heart valve devices market was worth US$1.26 bn. With the introduction of new-age tissue heart valves, the market is anticipated to register consistent growth and reach a valuation of US$1.7 bn by 2015.
The report states that the introduction of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices has boosted the growth of global heart valve devices market. Developments in minimally invasive devices and advances in related technologies have played a key role in fuelling the demand from the market. The rapidly growing geriatric population has further augmented the market growth. The 60 years and above age group susceptible to cardiac problems, including valve malfunctioning is the largest demographic group in the global heart valve devices market.
On the basis of type of devices, the global heart valve devices market has been segmented into biological, mechanical, and tissue. Mechanical heart valves have been available since the 1950s. The pyrolytic carbon parts in mechanical valves do not wear out from the normal wear and tear inside the heart. The strength of mechanical heart valves has contributed to the longevity of patients. The advantage of tissue valves is that in approximately 50% of patients, anticoagulant medication is not needed on a longer run. Among the heart valve device implants, Transcatheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) shows healthy growth. Transcatheter valves have made it possible to conduct valve-replacement and repair procedures on patients facing high risks of complications related with heart surgery.
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The report studies the global heart valve devices market across four key regions: Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, and Rest of the World. There has been significant growth in the heart valve devices market in North America and Europe. However, during the forecast horizon, growing geriatric population suffering from heart ailments in Asia Pacific will drive the market in the region.
Describing competitive landscape, the report profiles some of the key players in the global heart valve devices market. The global market has been monopolized by three key market players: Medtronic, Edwards Life Sciences, and St Jude Medical. Together, these companies account for nearly 70% of the overall market. Heart valve device SAPIEN, developed by Edwards Life Sciences has been approved by the U.S. FDA and has brought unprecedented ease to valve replacement procedures. The report offers insightful details about the players including their business segmentation, revenue, and recent developments.


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Reactivity of organomanganese derivatives. VIII. Preparation of ketones by acylation of organomanganese compounds. Effect of acylating agent, solvents, and ligands
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|Tetrahedron. 1984, vol. 40, no. 4, p. 683-693
|The influence of the nature of acylating reagents, solvents and ligands on the preparation of ketones by acylation of organomanganous reagents is studied. Thus acid chlorides in ether, symmetrical acid anhydrides in ether or THF and mixed carboxylic-carbonic anhydrides (R'COOCOOEt) in ether are compared, they lead to the corresponding ketones with good or excellent yields. Some problems of reproductibility are encountered and discussed when mixed anhydrides R'COOCOOEt are used in THF. The addition of a great variety of cosolvents (e.g. C6H6, AcOEt, CO3Et2, CH2CN, CH2CL2,..) to the reaction mixture before addition of the acylating reagent does not affect the yield of ketones. In comparison the complexation of organomanganous reagents by several ligands (e.g. Me2S or Ph3P) has no subsequent effect on their acylation. The main limitation for the choice of solvents or ligands is the use of amino derivatives which generally lead to a very low yield of ketones (e.g. C5H5N, TMEDA, Et3N) or unreproducible yields (e.g. HMPA). Two applications of these studies are described:The stabilization of s or t-alkyl manganous derivatives by complexation which leads to the best yield of the corresponding ketones The use of a cosolvent in order to increase the yield when mixed anhydrides R'COOCOOEt are used in THF.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
What'cha Makin'?
I'm searching for new stuff for summer more updates on that, soon! Now I'm off to stamp and wrap and slice.
2 comments:
- Rainny said...
Hello There Magic Hands Workshop!!
So I stumbled on your SNS sale with the soapie, lip balm, polish or butter for under eleven buckaroos! From that whimsical stumble I found your blog!
Oh my gawsh, I love this posting. It's so true. All around us are grumpy wonky-choppiness!! You said it!! You nailed it! And I loved it!
I tell my teenage daughter this all the time that when shit happens: It ain't about us. And when it is trust me, we'll know so f'get about stuff that's temporary from things and people that have nothing to do with us nor we with them. Our patience, empathy and compassion are the only true weapons we have while tryin' to make the magic still happen in our everyday life.
So many of life's doldrums slides off of us like creamy suds in a warm shower and ain't that lovely? I believe strongly in the Art of Happiness and detachment. Creation and laughing. Thanks for that awesome post.
I've been dying to indulge in your soaps as I'm a soap junkietier and there's so much stuff on Etsy that I get "shoptracked!" Thanks again for the words of magic from the hands that loves their own personal journey!! It's evident in your creations. Off to your shop I goooooo!!! ~<]:o)+K
- April 18, 2009 at 9:28 PM
- FuturePrimitive said...
Those look so lovely. Llove the gardeners soap. I recently made one which looks quite similar, except mine has a yellow top as I used a Kumquat fragrance.
Your soaps really stand out. Love 'em.
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Choose a word to fill the gap in the sentence. "Gene drives are an ambitious experiment in …". Genetics? Ecology? Evolution? Obviously, gene drives are all this and more. They may also represent a significant social experiment in risk communication, public engagement, participatory processes. Potential applications of this technology include controlling the transmission of vector-borne diseases and eliminating invasive species from sensitive ecosystems. We do not yet know if these genetic elements, designed to foster the preferential inheritance of a gene of interest with CRISPR's help, will work in field trials as hoped. To find out, a green light to test this technology out of the labs will have to be negotiated with the public, stakeholders, regulators, and governments of affected countries. A first step in this direction was taken last week with the commitment to respect shared guiding principles in gene drive research and communication published in Science by the technology main sponsors and supporters. Signatory organizations are scattered around the world, from the US to India, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the forefront with its Target Malaria project. Continue reading
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Anti-terror training for CRISPR
"Safe genes" is what it's called, and it's a program for the responsible development of gene editing technologies funded with $65 million by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). The grant will go to seven teams including top scientists such as CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna and synthetic biologist George Church. Finding reversible ways to control gene editing is a national security issue, in the event CRISPR falls into the wrong hands. But Darpa intends also to foster peaceful applications, by encouraging innovation and mitigating risks which might accidentally arise in civilian labs. Think of new CRISPR variants that can distinguish between highly similar genetic sequences, or molecular mechanisms to finely modulate the technology of gene drives, which is experimented to propagate modifications through entire populations. Continue reading
Everything you always wanted to know about gene drives
Mosquito nets are not enough, vaccines are late to come, land reclamation in Africa is a challenge. But there is a new hope for defeating malaria, coming directly from the most advanced CRISPR frontier. The trick is a kind of genetic chain reaction fuelled by genetic elements called "gene drives". Researchers are experimenting their power with the aim of crashing the number of mosquitoes responsible for Plasmodium transmission, by spreading genes that are bad for Anopheles gambiae. A gene behaving in Mendelian way has a 50% chance of being passed on from parent to offspring, but it can virtually reach 100% with a little help from a drive. Thus a gene designed to damage a harmful species can propagate within a few generations with a domino effect, until the population collapses. One of the founders of this futuristic strategy is an Italian molecular parasitologist: Andrea Crisanti, of the London Imperial College. We asked him to explain times and ways, strengths and risks of this approach. Continue reading


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During the middle of the night I woke up and took a look at the Ship Map Channel. What the…? We had done a couple of zig-zags and now were doing a loop-de-loop. Huh? The map zoomed out a bit then I could see – Belize and Roatan are so close to each other that it doesn't really take long to get from here to there. . . so we were in a holding pattern. Didn't really want to dock at night. So I went back to sleep.
Woke up early and checked the Ship Map Channel again. (I'm becoming addicted to it.). Winds are 20-25. But as we make our way around the south side of the island, the wind drops. Hey! This could be good. During breakfast we all make predictions on whether we'll actually get to snorkel. And as we dock, we can see clear blue water and coral right beside us. Hey, just let me jump over and do some snorkeling here!
Then the announcements started – most of the tours including ours are on the north side of the island. The side that's getting pounded by 25 knot winds and big waves. Canceled again. Rats! So we all dash downstairs to see what is available. Hey – Coral Cay Island Snorkeling. Sweet! We quickly choose that one. If the water is anything like what's outside our ship we'll be fine. There's no wind and waves on this side since the wind is out of the north. This could be really good!
We hop on a tired old van and head off to the snorkeling spot. Heh – the van was on its last legs about 10 years ago. Don't know how it was still running, but it got us there. The skies were still a bit overcast and we could see mist in the distance coming our way, but the water – beautiful. Serene. And we were going snorkeling.
A couple of large ships had wrecked during storms years ago, their hulks standing guard over the snorkeling area. The water was nice and warm and calling our names. We started off in some shallow water – about 6 feet, but the guide told us it would quickly drop off to 50 feet down a ledge, then all the way down to 2000 feet. Cool.
The shallow coral had a lot of sand on top, and I started preparing myself for a disappointing time. But as we headed out to deeper water, the topping sand gave way to the most beautiful coral fields I've ever seen. I was floored. The variety. The color. The expansiveness. Unbelievable.
I took picture after picture. I'd drop down to 20 feet and snap a few pictures until my out of practice lungs would start screaming at me to surface. Oh, for a scuba tank! Just let me stay down here for a couple of hours. I don't need to go too deep – just anywhere along here. Beautiful coral.
I have been spoiled.
I'll post a couple of pictures here, but take a look at some of the others over on my Flickr site. I'll wait for you to come back.


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Many of the quest hubs in WildStar are devoted to a single race or faction, offering us the opportunity to get to know those people more as we progress through the game. Probably one of my favorite types of hubs is any that features the clone-tastic Protostar corporation.
Protostar is the ethics-free, mercenary business outfit that's there to make a profit at any cost without much of a thought to whether such actions are right or not. They stab each other in the back and offer up hilarious commentary on the nature of space bureaucracy. It kind of reminds me of Mom's corporation from Futurama, the world in the movie Brazil, and SpaceQuest's various corporate entities (such as ScumSoft). Having a faction that's blindly capitalistic is a refreshing change of pace from high-minded ideals and goals.
Thus I was pretty psyched to encounter another big Protostar hub in the middle of Malgrave. Psyched… and a little disturbed that there was a sentient Mechari head sitting on a table and being used as some sort of oracle attraction. There's nothing Protostar wouldn't stoop to for a buck.
I was instructed to take a safety test to see what I'd be qualified for, and I deliberately tried to fail it. No, I don't know my favorite color. No, I can't recognize the color red. But Protostar wants to use everyone, so I guess it really didn't matter past my own amusement.
I will say that one of the reasons that I'm progressing so slowly through Malgrave is that I will one day be loathe to leave this zone. It's not the prettiest in the game, but it is so comfy to be in. It continues to feel like the better parts of the American southwest, including canyons cut with clear flowing streams. I am always willing to give a game a pat on the back when its higher-level zones aren't oppressive-looking death traps.
I'm also not in a rush because I really don't have an idea what I'll be doing when I finish up the remaining zones. Contracts and dailies seem like obvious candidates, and perhaps veteran adventures or dungeons. I haven't really gotten into the WildStar dungeon scene past a few forays, and I'm worried that I'll be too undergeared and inexperienced to do so at 50. Maybe I'm thinking that if I drag my feet enough, Carbine will add more zones and solo content to the top so that when I get there, I'll have even more to do.