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Certainly a pleasure to have Lin and her refreshing postcard aboard the Affair. She shares advice that is often employed here: "Just pretend". Her charming and winsome smile reflect that notion very nicely. A powerful little ATC!
Glad you could visit Lin. I also love vintage US postage and especially stamps that commemorate US space exploration missions like the 1978 "Viking missions to Mars" stamp seen above. Sweet! The 15 cents domestic mail rate had just been increased from 13 cents. Thank you very much Lin - love that card! Keep an eye on your post box!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Heebee Post #524 - Lin Collette - Pawtucket, Rhode Island - USA
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Dave tries to take the kids' birthdays off so we can have a fun family day spending time celebrating. Collin's birthday fell on Saturday (the day of his party) which was fun, so Dave was sweet and took Friday off and we had a great day!! We started off our day with brunch at the airport for our little airplane lover. He had fun opening his presents in the restaurant.
He LOVES his "grabber"! He has been interested in them for awhile and was so very excited to have his own.
After we ate, we finished opening presents outside by the airplanes. A big jet had landed while we were eating and the lady who owned it saw us celebrating Collin's birthday and invited him on board! He was shy at first, but quickly made himself right at home!!
It was super special!
Happy Birthday Boy!
Finishing his present unwrapping.
And of course we had to take a picture with his airplane!
His two favorite presents stayed close to him the rest of the day, his leaf blower and grabber!
Next, we moved the fun to the pumpkin patch!
"The middles" on top of a haystack.
Corn maze!
The big, tough four year old insisted on pushing the pumpkins all the way back.
The kids thought it was neat that this tractor's tire was the same height as me.
So much fun, the birthday boy crashed....but not without his grabber!
Our next stop was Ethnic Expo where Collin gobbled up lots of Chinese biscuits. We spent the rest of the day outside playing. Unfortunately, that led to probably the worst "boo-boo" (he loves to talk about boo boos so much that Grandma calls him Boo Boo) he's ever had. He was running after Benjamin to tell him something and tripped and somehow face planted into the sidewalk (he was even wearing a helmet!). His poor face was scraped so bad under his eye.
He also cut into the inside of his upper lip which bled so much. I think that's what upset him the most, all the blood. It really scares him when he bleeds. Here he is trying to show me his lip "boo boo". Gotta love his expression here though!
Collin has been so grateful lately! He told me so many times, "Momma, I loved this day. I wish I could have it over and over again. But I hope I never get hurt like that again." He also told me that he was going to cuddle me for 10 minutes as soon as he woke up the next day. He was a man of his word and he, bear, and I enjoyed an awesome birthday cuddle! (The camera flash was super bright, btw!)
After our cuddle it was time to get busy....we had a birthday party to get ready for! Collin absolutely LOVES Peter Rabbit. He has never been one to watch any tv, until he discovered Peter Rabbit. He will watch the same episodes over and over again as many times as we let him. So we made a fun Peter Rabbit party including cupcakes!
Mr. McGregor's Garden
Four years old!! He has wanted to be four so long, so badly!
Aunt Katie read Peter Rabbit to Collin's friends.
Look how Collin's playing with his hair below, twirling it in the front. He has always done this when he's getting tired or relaxed. Once I accidentally cut his hair too short in the front and he was so sad to not have anything to play with! I haven't made that mistake again.
Next we had bunny sack races to steal from Mr. McGregor's garden.
We also made Peter Rabbit puppets.
Collin had a very special helper, his love....Tierney!
Present time!
He loved all the planes he got!
He really wanted this Jake Lego set!
Happy Birthday to you!
Cupcake time!
What a big four year old bite!
Anna planned for days that she was going to put her cupcake decoration behind her ear like this.
After cake, all the boys immediately ran off to play on the playground and be wild boys while the two girls quietly colored.
It was a very fun party and we so enjoyed celebrating our Monkey!


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Walter C. Nicksa, a Farmington resident who was active in civic affairs for many years, died Friday at Hartford Hospital. He was 71 Mr. Nicksa lived in the Unionville section of Farmington. He was involved in the Farmington Little League for about 10 years in the 1950s and 1960s. Besides being a coach and manager, he was president in 1958. He also was active on the Farmington Recreation Association from 1954 to 1965 and was treasurer for two years. In the early 1960s, he was among a group of parents who organized the Farmington High School Boosters Club.
Born in Burlington, Mr. Nicksa moved to Farmington after serving in the Navy during World War II.


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I have no idea who Tron was aimed at.
On the one hand it appears to have been aimed at hip computer-savy teenagers, as that's who the main characters are.
On the other, much of the film is set in a fictitious universe where computer programs all have their own society and personalities, which would suggest it's aimed at the under 10s.
Unfortunately, these are not two premises that can easily share the same film. I mean of course they CAN, they DO, I mean this film is proof of that, isn't it? But how many 'cool' teenagers were going to buy into a magical virtual universe inside the world's computers?
Yeah, twenty years later, I've really lost this argument, haven't I?
What does impress me about Tron though are the absolutely stunning visuals, and you can't help but laugh at director Steven Lisberger's later soundbite on the subject:
"In the year it was released, [1982] the Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate Tron for special effects because they said we 'cheated' when we used computers..."
What impresses me even more than the effects though, is the writer's uncompromising vision of the programs' universe and society.
However the greatest source of enjoyment, for me, must be David Warner as the villain. Every time he speaks, it's like listening to the Lobe threaten Freakazoid.
Where did his career veer so off course and into ironic science-fiction?
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Since joining a nationwide campaign to support St. Jude's Children's Hospital three years ago, Texas Tech University is proud to announce that as of the June 30 deadline for the St. Jude Up 'til Dawn Executive Board Fundraising Challenge, the school ranked as the second-highest college fundraiser, behind the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
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There is something so reassuringly narcissistic about having a website, and not quite as tragic or try-hard as having a vanity plate for your car. It's democratic and autocratic at the same time – I can have my say and say just exactly what I want… but you can't. Because this is mine, and if you want your say, then off you go and get your own blog.
Not in an unfriendly way, of course. Just an autocratic way.
So welcome to my little corner of the internet. There is likely nothing to interest you here, it is basically my journal – santitised for general consumption, just in case someone stumbles across it
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride
Not Wrong, Since 1973
Well no, not entirely – but partly I guess.
The "tagline" comes from a bastardisation of a Judge Judy quote and is as tongue in cheek as it is a façade for a more serious edifice. The first part of the edifice is that there is such a thing as "absolute truth" – that some things are true, whether we believe them or not; their being true does not depend on anyone believing them to be true. The second part of that edifice depends on the fact that we all have opinions and beliefs that shape our being.
And this is the fun part. Where we disagree on what is true (actually, universally true) then someone is right, and someone is wrong.
There is such a thing as "absolute truth" and if we have differing views on that truth, then plainly one of us is right and the other is wrong – and I am the one that is right
You may say that in Christchurch right now it is raining; and I might say that the weather is fine with a beautifully sunny Canterbury summer's day. What the weather is doing is a matter of fact. I am right, and you are wrong (because it is actually a beautiful day out there, even though I am wasting it inside writing this)
The same is true for things that cannot be immediately demonstrated. You may say that "God exists" and I may say that she doesn't. Again, one of us is right and one is wrong, because (once we have dealt with semantics) either there is "God" or there isn't… Just because you believe there to be "God" doesn't make you right, when it turns out that there isn't.
Where you disagree with me, please try to remember that I haven't been wrong since 1973. It must be true, because it's online
Oh FFS!
Despite never being wrong, I do sometimes make mistakes, mainly the result of laziness and half-heartedness.
The failure to back up websites is an example of such a mistake. Those of you that are returning to the site to re-read a very well written and entertaining blog post, or to drool over a scantily clad man who tickled your fancy will notice that those very same posts no longer exist. It's because I am lazy and didn't back up, and now those posts are lost and gone forever.
You are not as pissed off as I am, trust me. So we must both let it go, move on, and enjoy whatever comes next. It will be equally entertaining, distracting and infuriating, I am quite sure!
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I have a slight obsession with creme eggs (if you are not from the UK they are chocolate eggs with a sweet fondant filling and are delicious) and every time Creme Egg season comes about (yes, there is a "season") I stock up and gorge myself.
Last year I saw an article on London Timeout, describing a place called Rinkoff Bakery, in the heart of Whitechappel; the only place that sold the British equivilant of the Cronut (they called it the Crodough) and best of all the sold a crème egg flavour. Immediate I was hook, line and sinker. I had to go. At the time they were the only place in the capital selling the crodough. Even the more reason to go!
On their website you can pre-order treats for collection. So I went off and preordered one Creme egg croughdough and the following day, I left for work extremely early and took the 1 hour roundtrip from City Thameslink to Whitechapel. (FYI it was totally worth it!)
Typical me, I got a little lost finding the bakery but I was kindly aided by two friendly locals who pointed me down a little side alley.
Upon entering the small, characterful bakery I noticed a massive array of different flavoured crodoughs. I couldnt help myself and decided to get 3 more – this seemed appropriate as it was "Friday" (the Thursday before Good Friday – aka the fake Friday treat).
From top left to bottom right: pistachio, oreo cheesecake, lemon drizzle and crème egg. They tasted as good as they looked and was worth every inch they added to my hips.
Check out the Rinkoff Bakery site and their bakery in Whitechapel, you will not regret it (they now sell rainbow bagels)!
Happy gorging, Jessa.


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Scarlett Johansson's Step Away From Trans Role Is Better Late Than Never
It took the actress a while to get that she shouldn't play a trans man in an upcoming movie. But it's the right call in a Hollywood that's too comfortable with actors donning racial or gender identities like costumes.


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Easton has had a sponge bath every day since he was born, but we had to wait till his umbilical cord fall off before we could really bath him. We had a baby tub but when we went to get it out we couldn't find it so we decided that since this is our last baby we will just bath him in the sink till he is old enough or big enough to bath in the tub instead of buying one!!! He loved his bath and just laid there, he even fall asleep for a few minutes.
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If you want something sweet, cold and can be eaten in a mouthful, try these Bite-Sized Ice-Cream Sundaes. Despite being the holidays, I'm sometimes too lazy to pull out ingredients from my pantry and instead, want something that's fast and simple, i.e. a quick fix.
Only three ingredients are used to create these treats. I had the most trouble with melting the chocolate to the right consistency. Everytime I proceeded to dunk the treats into the chocolate, it would melt the ice-cream ball and create a drippy mess. This resulted in me running back and forth between the freezer and the kitchen counter to prevent the ice-cream from melting and the chocolate from hardening. I could only dip each treat into the chocolate one at a time and I couldn't cover them fully.


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The Maryland General Assembly opened its 202nd annual session here today under the cloud of the state's protracted savings and loan crisis, a financial disaster that legislative leaders said could threaten their full agenda of social, educational and other government programs for 1986.
As more than 200 savings and loan depositors staged a caustic protest in the frigid air outside the State House, members of the state Senate and House of Delegates held largely ceremonial elections of presiding officers and heard mixed reports about the impact of the S&L crisis on legislative initiatives in the 90-day session.
"All of us have been in the cold for eight months, so why should today be any different?" bellowed David Zinner, who led the two-hour protest that was designed to draw attention to the 100,000 thrift customers with virtually no access to their $1.2 billion in deposits. Their signs directed some of their most bitter invective yet at Gov. Harry Hughes, including one that read, "Heave-Ho Harry-O, Out of Politics You Go."
The protest featured a fiery, extemporaneous speech by consumer advocate Ralph Nader who advised the demonstrators to lobby for the formation of a consumer watchdog group to monitor financial institutions in the state. Depositors sang songs and lampooned Hughes for his failure to issue a comprehensive plan to return money to depositors whose funds are frozen.
One song, to the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," chided Hughes for avoiding a confrontation with the depositors in a recent fund-raiser held to support his aspirations to a U.S. Senate seat:
"Take me out the back door please. Get me far from the crowd. I'm a bit slow to get the right track. So what if it's years till your money is back?"
The state has been embroiled in the thrift crisis since last May, when runs began at several privately insured savings and loans that were loosely regulated by the state. The runs prompted Hughes to freeze withdrawals at all of the thrifts as the state tried to sort out the problems and move the thrifts into a federal insurance program. The state now controls four of the most troubled thrifts.
Meanwhile today, the 187 lawmakers convening their 90-day session tried hard to maintain the traditional aura of good cheer and optimism that accompanies opening day. But beneath the pleasantries was unease and dissatisfaction that was only slightly more subdued than that of the depositors outside.
Many lawmakers complained that Hughes' failure to meet self-imposed deadlines for a relief plan could place them all in political jeopardy, especially in an election year that is expected to produce a dramatic reshuffling of the state's top political leadership.
"There's a lot of frustration and anxiety," said Del. Mary Boergers (D-Montgomery). "It just seems to me we ought to be doing more. The fact is, we're being held politically accountable. We've done everything we've been asked to do and it still isn't resolved. We're hanging out there with the governor. I don't mind hanging out if there's something I can do, but when there's nothing on the table to consider . . . . "
In their opening remarks and interviews, House Speaker Benjamin Cardin (D-Baltimore) and Senate President Melvin Steinberg (D-Baltimore County) reiterated their earlier pledges to offer their own plans for resolving the crisis if Hughes does not make public his blueprint soon. Hughes is scheduled to make a five-minute television address Thursday night and to review his progress with the General Assembly in a speech Friday morning.
"We are prepared to act, whether he [the governor] has a plan or not," said Cardin. Although the lawmakers set no deadline for Hughes, Cardin said, "we have 90 days and we're going to take action as soon as we can."
One key point of contention between the governor and the legislature, said legislative sources, is whether to raise money to pay back depositors by selling off the assets of Old Court Savings & Loan, as the administration prefers, or to use state funds first and hold onto the assets in the hope that the state will receive a better price in the future.
Nader told depositors the state should float bonds to pay depositors with interest immediately, liquidate the troubled thrifts, then retire the bonds on the proceeds of the liquidation.
Another key issue is how to pay for the multimillion dollar reserve fund requested by the agencies that evaluate the state's creditworthiness. Hughes aides said today that the administration will propose to borrow $100 million out of the state's transportation trust fund.
Despite all the emphasis on savings and loans, both Cardin and Steinberg cautioned their members not to allow the thrift crisis to obscure other issues before the Assembly this year, including escalating commercial insurance costs and an array of social concerns such as teen-age pregnancy, housing for the poor and juvenile services.
Cardin, a candidate for Congress who will serve his last term as speaker this year, was generally optimistic that all the legislature's goals could be accomplished. Although "we don't know how expensive the resolution of this problem will be . . . ," he said, "fortunately revenue growth this year will be adequate to establish these reserves without jeopardizing funding for services needed by the people of this state."
But others, particularly in the Senate, were not so sure. "It's not going to be a pleasant session," said Sen. Laurence Levitan (D-Montgomery). "We don't have any money to play with."


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China's wine market but spain, argentina, portugal and south africa are invading france's supremacy france's loss of market share is attributed to chinese wine drinkers contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site if you need to flag this entry as abusive. Entry modes of foreign direct investment in china: a multinomial logit approach discusses the binary or multinomial choice between broad international market entry modes such as trade, licensing and fdi, and examples include agarwal and ramaswami (1992), kim and hwang.
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Doing business in argentina market overview market challenges market opportunities parts for oil field rigs, and refined fuel oil argentine exports include goods like wine, fruit juices, crude oil, and intermediate goods like seamless pipe market entry strategy. Macedonian wines - strategy for uk market entry a report for usaid feb 18 2008 by andrew birtley, winedirectcouk 4 20 the uk wine market - general overview. The decision to venture abroad involves the evaluation of alternative entry modes international entry and country analysis 1 the opportunity to make profit by selling its products in a foreign market.
A theoretical approach to the methods introduction to international markets assist prof dr yakup durmaz faculty of economics administrative (root, 1994) described the international market entry mode as an institutional arrangement that makes possible the entry of a company's. Eusme centre eusme centre ways to enter the chinese market wwweusmecentreorgcn a r e y o u r e a d reports introducing different aspects of market entry are accompanied by an online quiz tailored to while each mode of market entry offers its strengths and weaknesses. Joseph johnson & gerard j tellis∗ exhaustive survey of the different modes of market entry, root (1994) identified 15 different forms of market entry following root we categorize them into the following five main classes. Page 1 of 33 determinants of market entry modes used by universities to expand internationally dr ali bhayani abstract the article analyses determinants of the market entry modes used by. Wide numbers of researchers have study about market entry mode because it lies at the vey heart of international business (koch, 2001) diageo is one of the world's largest producer and distributer of branded premium of wine. The entry of a company in an industry is a threat to all existing companies the main substitute of wine for the greek market is beer the beer market is highly seasonal and substitutes mainly red wines in summer.
How do you enter a new market a guide for entering a new market: steps to take, tips and advice, as well as success stories c l e v e r i s m c l e v e r i s m or via an online survey can help provide some basic results that can provide data to make any changes before a full market entry. Management international marketing international marketing : modes of entry in international business part ii modes of entry in international business 00:29. Summary this study explores the antecedents of market entry strategy in emerging markets and examines the market environmental, transaction-specific, competitive strategic factors and organizational capability that influence the choice of market entry mode empirical results based on a survey of japanese companies support the combined relevance.


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It was, however, an exhausting day… Fingers crossed I'll post some pictures of the beautiful harbor view from my hotel tomorrow!*
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It was, however, an exhausting day… Fingers crossed I'll post some pictures of the beautiful harbor view from my hotel tomorrow!*
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I met up with another MSTP today to practice physical exam skills. This is something I haven't done in a while, and it was a good refresher. I wish I'd done it earlier, but that's life… In any case, I'm doing it now, and I'm doing as part of !!!MSTP 201!!!
What is MSTP 201 you might ask… The MSTP doesn't actually offer any courses, but they have created options for clinical preceptorships for those of us who are in the PhD phase of our training. These are varying levels of intensity but all with the goal of easing yourself back into the clinical skills you learned as an M2 and forgot during your research years. Knowing what I do about myself, I realized that it would be better to freak out briefly about having to do a standardized patient earlier this month and then get over the anxiety than to wait until I actually had to see real patients and freak out then. The gradual approach has worked well.
I'm paired with an internal medicine doctor who is incredibly kind and patient with me, and we met up to do a history and physical exam on a standardized patient (read: an actor) for my first experience. I only go through it without tears because I knew that it didn't really matter and than I could stop and ask for help at various points. After writing up my findings (and recognizing the gaps in my history-taking skills), we agreed to meet again in May to see a real patient together. It doesn't seem nearly as scary now. It seems even less scary now that I've reviewed the cranial nerves and found a triceps reflex on a friend. The first lesson here: know yourself, and always give yourself plenty of time. The second: find someone(s) patient when you have forgotten to do the first.
Congratulations to all those graduating medical students who found out today where you'll be spending the next few years of your lives!
For me, match day was much easier this year. Last year I struggled with the fact that my medical school class was moving on without me. They'd moved on before (like when I left for PhD-land), but not in such a concrete and substantial way. This year, I'm just happy to see friends who took a year off moving on and matching! It's also exciting to see MSTP students (other MD/PhD kids, for those you not in the know) that I actually know matching and moving on, living proof that it can happen, really, in just 8 short years.
I'm still a little jealous of the exciting places everyone is going, though I know that my time will come. I can't wait!
1/4 c corn syrup, honey, or maple syrup
and then later calls for another 2 Tbs corn syrup. I've been keeping the 2 Tbs of corn syrup constant as I work with this recipe (apparently this is part of making "sticky bun sugar"), and varying the other parts. In the first batch I used all corn syrup. As I've mentioned to many of you, this was a mistake. Not because they weren't the most delicious bars you've ever eaten, no, no, because nothing, I'm convinced, makes granola bars as delicious and chewy as corn syrup. This is why our country is obese – it's like a drug. In order to avoid obesity myself, the second batch used honey instead of corn syrup. This was not nearly as amazing texturally, but was tasty and is probably a good compromise. This time, I decided to use maple syrup (still keeping the 2 Tbs of corn syrup). Enter the granola… bars?
These tasted delicious, but only the edges of the pan maintained their shape long enough to be considered bars, and even those fell apart as soon as they were moved. Maybe I need a different grade of maple syrup? My next plan: mixture of honey and molasses to see if I can achieve something chewier…
An aside: In the first batch I used the lower end of the recommended added sugar (above and beyond the corn syrup… I know…) and they were really, really sweet. In the second batch I cut out most of the sugar, and they were still really sweet. Apparently honey is pretty sweet… In this last batch I cut out the sugar completely and they were still delicious. I know I shouldn't have varied several things at once, as I'll never be sure that it wasn't the added sugar that made them so chewy and amazing, but I don't think so.
This will be a short post, because I'm about to go present the collective opinion of the Executive Committee of the Action Committees and Teams about the various House of Delegates resolutions to the Reference Committee… Suffice it to say I'm at the AMSA National Convention, and it's pretty great. We're at Disneyland (mixed feelings there), but overall the speakers have been good, and I'm really enjoying seeing my AMSA buddies.
Also, if you're interested, I hear they're "tweeting" the convention at #amsa60. (It's our 60th annual convention.) I'm not even sure I know what that means, but there you have it.
Despite this, and I apologize for the down-turn of this post into morose and whiny, which is not where I intended it to go when I sat down to write, I still don't regret choosing to do the combined degree program. As I've been meeting prospective students for my doctoral program I've been explaining (for the 1,000,000th time) what my program entails, and lately, I've been feeling pretty good. It's exciting (even as it's terrifying) to state aloud that I'm planning to defend my thesis in about a year. It's terrifying (even as it's exciting) to talk about going back to medical school for the best of times and the worst of times: third year and clinical rotations. The best part of feeling like the end is near: I can really enjoy other people moving on, knowing that really, truly, someday… I will too.
Which is what this post was initially supposed to be about: Dorothy and Justin's wedding! It was so exciting!!! I've known Dorothy and Justin since M1 year, though they weren't dating then (!), and it was wonderful to see them get married on Sunday. The ceremony was beautiful, and the reception was at a stunning venue, the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. I must say that my favorite part of the whole thing, apart from seeing the two of them blissfully happy throughout, was the photo booth. That's right, you read correctly, the photo booth. Each set of photos was printed twice so that one copy could go into the guest book. It was brilliant, and in addition to photos Alicia and I took together, we joined several large group photos, fitting at least 14 people into the booth at once for an amazing group photo experience.
To Dorothy and Justin: Congratulations, and thanks for a wonderful day!
They have been keeping me warm since I finished them, but now I'm looking for something less bulky, perhaps with a little less wool content. Enter socks! I am in love with this yarn, brilliantly named "Tofooties," which is made of soy silk, wool, cotton, and chitin, a unique fiber made from the shells of shrimps and other crustaceans. Apparently it's antibacterial, and I've noticed it has a really unique smell (not bad, just unique). Socks also allow me to indulge myself in terms of my love of technical knitting. Having realized long ago that I'm not a designer of beautiful knitwear, but rather a modifier of really excellent patterns, I've also discovered that I love learning new techniques, puzzling out better ways to do things, and watching something a little crazy develop into something cool. Lace knitting comes to mind (pictured below) – it looks like something out of Spiderman meets Sheepman, and then when you block it it's beautiful.
Socks allow for an incredible amount of flexibility, so these have provided me with a new way to fake a 1x1 crossed cable (in the cuffs) and to recombine several patters to try a new heel that matches the toe. Welcome springtime!
1/4 cup pepitas
1/3 cup cashews 1/3 cup almonds
2/3 cup dried apples
1/2 cup golden raisins
Even as I spread them in the pan I was already thinking about dried mangos, cardamom, cinnamon, and chunky chaat masala…
The results: The honey isn't as chewy and sticky as the corn syrup, but they are still delicious and really sweet. The cinnamon is wonderful, though I think experimenting with other nut butters would be exciting. I've put some away in the freezer, anticipating a side-by-side comparison in the future.


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I also have another new pack releasing today. It's called 123 Scrap v.3 and is one of my favorite packs. I love scrappin' 3 photos on a layout and this one also has room for lots of journaling so you can tell the whole story in style.
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Fremington Manor has a musical afternoon
Residents recently spent an afternoon enjoying a musical performance and getting involved, playing instruments and singing.
Fremington Manor residents welcomed back a much loved visitor, Rowena. Rowena is a talented musical performer who helps residents to reminisce over music; music can be a powerful trigger for memory. Rowena treated the residents to a fantastic, colourful performance of songs. The residents all got involved, playing along on ukuleles, xylophones and drums, and singing to their favourite songs. Rowena is easily recognisable in her amazing handmade hats, which the residents loved trying on at the end of her performance.
Everyone had a wonderful afternoon, and the music brought back lots of fond memories for the residents. The residents are already looking forward to their next musical session with Rowena.


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Brooklyn Grange was the embodiment of business. The mixture of an idea brought to life by daring to try, collaborating with friends and partners, working hard, managing others, owing the whole chain of activities from planning to planting to pricing. This is business in the modern day that probably sees the least amount of outsourcing possible. Anything that has to deal directly with their work, they do it. And in modern terms, that is kind of amazing. Though, most likely, they pass off some of their non-core work to paid expertise, the ownership of so much of the foundation building activities was pretty amazing.
What was impressive about Brooklyn Grange was how much they took on considering their staff count. Ben Flanner gave the impression that among the handful of staff, so much responsibility and accountability was on their shoulders. Though that might sound stressful, given the power to move a company – to be the steward of its direction – has a very uplifting and rewarding appeal to it. In such a place, one stops being a cog and is the motor that turns the world towards the future.
Monty Graham gave me ideas. Its been said, in every moment of failure there is an opportunity for success. Society has been on a path of self-destruction and there an opportunity to save it. Although we needed to hear it, the warning of doom and gloom is pretty much out in society. "Without change, the seas will be poisoned. Without repentance, their will be hell to pay." And always, in counter, in the balance, there are those that work in opposite, that work in response to prevent the destruction of human kind.
Monty Graham's work in compiling information about PPT networks is evidence that all the solutions to salvation are at hand. The hard work is not inventing something new, but organizing the effort to make sense of the information, organize the actions, and monitor the changes to the ecosystem. By concentrating on collecting the data generated by what people do everyday and learning what opportunities exist in reducing the impact humanity has had on the earth, there is the possible profit to be made in keeping the world in tune where it can both work and exist – the definition of sustainable.


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Pardon my language, but ....
Part of the economy problem for hundreds of thousands, including me, is the exorbitant cost of medical coverage. Many go without, or at best, like me and this guy, have insufficient coverage, because it is all we can afford .....
Yes, at least we have a choice (about out bodies, about who we vote for.....). But we'll lose that is some people/parties have their way.
Don't forget to vote in November!
This is really the thought process of, well, one of the parties.
Well, there you go! There is a solution to many problems, according to that party. Works for them!
Well, at least it would leave only, gasp, talking about his own strengths. A good position to assume, IMO.
OK, I'm done.
For now! :D
These are random musings of my life journey, the people, animals, places, and events which have woven, and continue to weave, a tapestry that is me. We all know there is no real destination, only the ongoing experiences which blend together, creating the trail. Each step gives a glimpse of what is to come, without allowing me to see the end result. It is exciting. I have a home base that is mine, that gives me a place to rest. This is it. This is where my heart is, no matter where I journey...................
Thursday, September 04, 2008
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This Oops! Happy Dog Light is a comforter and night light all in one. Turn the light on by pressing Happy the Dog's belly to sooth your little one to sleep. The light changes colour when pressed from red to blue to yellow. This soft toy makes a perfect companion for the buggy, cot or car.
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Something to add to the list of things I never thought I would here on CNN. . . .
" Pres Obama was back on the campaign trail the way he talked today, and it seemed like he was campaigning against George Bush. . "
wow, when even CNN starts to admit you keep pushing Bush even though he has been out of office for over a year now you have got to wonder. I am starting to have some hope that the media is losing it fascination with the big O and that would be great for the November elections. . . .
I just hope Obama and team don't wake up to the fact that Bush is not running this time. . . the rest of the country seems to be waking up to that fact and it makes them look a bit behind the times. . .


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Play-by-play and studio hosting samples from my work on radio broadcasts in ice hockey and basketball, as well as radio features.
Hockey Play-By-Play
AHL – Portland Pirates vs Bridgeport Sound Tigers
Play-by-play from the Portland Pirates 4-2 win against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers during an AHL regular season game at Cross Insurance Arena.
ECHL – Stockton Thunder 2013-14 Season Highlight Calls
Some of the best play-by-play calls from the Stockton Thunder's 2013-14 ECHL campaign.
AHL – Syracuse Crunch vs Portland Pirates ECQF Gm2
Play-by-play from game two of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals between the #3 Syracuse Crunch and #6 Portland Pirates in the 2013 Calder Cup Playoffs. Game at OnCenter War Memorial on TheScore1260.
ECHL – Stockton Thunder at Ontario Reign WCQF Gm4
Play-by-play stretch from game four of the Western Conference Quarterfinal, which saw the Stockton Thunder come-from-behind to defeat the Ontario Reign and complete a four-game playoff series sweep. Game on April 23, 2014 at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, CA. Brandon Kisker on color commentary.
Hockey Scoreboard Updates/Radio Features
AHL – Portland Pirates Postgame Show Scoreboard – 12/12/14
Stretch from work as intermission host on the WPEI Portland Pirates Radio Network. Final look at the "out of town scores" to start the Portland Pirates Postgame Show after a 3-1 loss to the Manchester Monarchs on December 12, 2014.
ECHL – Ryan Hayes Feature Story Part 1
Part 1 of 2: Feature story on Stockton Thunder forward Ryan Hayes and his journey to the pro ranks, from his start with the Syracuse Stars in junior hockey to his move to the U.S. National Development Team Program.
ECHL – Ryan Hayes Feature Story Part 2
Part 2 of 2: Feature story on Stockton Thunder forward Ryan Hayes' journey to the pro ranks. After his time with the U.S. development team Hayes faced the decision between NCAA and CHL hockey, before making his move to the pros in the ECHL.
Basketball Play-By-Play
MBB – Syracuse Orange vs. DePaul Blue Demons – 1st Half
Basketball play-by-play from the first half of Syracuse and DePaul from the Carrier Dome on March 6, 2013. Dan Cohen on color commentary. Broadcast on 88.3 FM WAER.
MBB – Syracuse Orange @ Seton Hall Pirates – 2nd Half
Basketball play-by-play from the second half of Syracuse against Seton Hall at the Prudential Center on February 16, 2013. Chris Lewis on color commentary. Broadcast on 88.3 FM WAER.


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Any idea to put any of the moderator picture on the left side?
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Sedikit suggestion sahaja.
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I shall start my construction work soon.
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Fines against hospitals
for errors few and small
for errors few and small
Capital District hospitals have faced dozens of lawsuits alleging wrongful death and serious injury – and settled many of those claims. But they almost never get fined by the state; no hospital has been fined more than once since 2002, and none of them since 2008.
The following information is taken from the Department of Health's Web page www.hospitals.nyhealth.gov. It covers the years 2002-2010.
Seton Health System - St. Mary's Campus. 2003. Fine: $10,000, based on the occurrence of a wrong-sided surgery. The patient was admitted for drainage/thoracentesis of a right pleural effusion. A needle was inserted on the patient's left side. The patient experienced hemorrhage and death.
Albany Medical Center, South Clinical Campus. 2008. Fine: $6,000, based on the findings that a pediatric patient was admitted for a left side inguinal hernia. A right side inguinal hernia repair was performed. Further review of records identified multiple instances where the facility was out of compliance with internal policy and state guidelines for performing surgery involving laterality.
Samaritan Hospital. 2003. Fine: $2,000, based on an occurrence where a patient with severe lower back pain was diagnosed with right lateral disc herniation. A left-sided laminectomy was performed.
St. Peters Hospital. 2003. Fine: $2,000, based on the investigation of an occurrence involving the surgical repair of a hernia. Although the patient had a left inguinal hernia, an incision was made on the right side. Following incision, the mistake was identified, the site closed and the left-sided procedure completed.
Albany Memorial Hospital. No fines.
Ellis Hospital. No fines.
Ellis Hospital/McClellan Campus. No fines.
Bellevue Women's Hospital. No fines
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Joined CBC: Apprentice 1994, Corps de Ballet 1995, rejoined 2009
Training: California Ballet School, U.C. Irvine
Featured Roles: CBC – Prince, Russian and Chinese (The Nutcracker), Van Helsing (Dracula); U.C. Irvine – Jonathan Harker (Dracula), the Prince's Aide (Cinderella) Favorite Repertoire: Barnaby (Hello Dolly!), Tulsa (Gypsy), Cagelle (La Cage Aux Folles)
Noteworthy: Obtained B.A. in Dance and Drama from U.C. Irvine, has performed professional theatrical productions nationally and internationally since 1999 and is an active member of the Actors' Equity Association. He currently works as part of the California Ballet Company staff as an Executive Assistant and Social Media Coordinator.
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Talk: Thursday 19 January 2017, 7.30 pm, at the Tony Cooper Suite, Cottenham Village College.
Archaeology and genetics in Oceania: the history of humans and their crops in the Pacific by Andrew Clarke
Doors open 7.15 pm; meeting begins 7.30 pm
The islands of Oceania (or the Pacific Ocean) are fascinating places to study human history. The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the Earth's surface and, although dominated by water, contains some 25,000 islands. The majority of these islands were either inhabited in prehistory (the pre-European era) or show evidence of prehistoric human contact. Oceania is the location of some of the oldest human migration events (e.g., New Guinea) and some of the most recent (e.g., New Zealand). This lecture will describe how archaeology and genetics are being combined to understand how humans have moved across the Pacific, the tempo and mode of crop selection, and how agriculture has spread across a vast island world. Some areas of current research and unresolved questions in the human history of the Pacific will also be discussed.
Andrew Clarke is an Early Career Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
Note: The Tony Cooper Suite is in the sixth form block behind the main school.
The speaker previously announced had to cancel so we are grateful to Andrew for stepping-in.
Our speaker meetings are open to everyone. Admission: Members £2; Non-members £3.
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Americans' life expectancy reached a record high of 78.1 years in 2006, with disparities among ethnic groups and between the sexes generally narrowing, according to government data released yesterday.
The death rates from most diseases went down, with influenza mortality falling steeply and AIDS mortality marking its 10th straight year of decline. Infant mortality in 2006 also fell from the previous year, continuing a trend stretching back nearly 50 years. More


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(Group: "Hiiiiiiii Desert Girl!) It has been 2 hours since my last drink. I ran out of tequila (Yo – thanks again, Cinedude) and I had to mix Khalua with my granola. I figure, it tastes like coffee, so it must be a breakfast drink. Petite brought it over as a gift. That was so cool of her. Got my day started.
The 99.7 Radio Babtain Nissan Jingle:
Who cares for your
And your Nissan vehicle too
Al Babtain, Al Babtain
Who's always there with great advice to share
Al Babtain
Who helps you drive
And makes you feel that you're alive
Okay, what the phuck IS that? When I hear this stuff I wonder several things:
- If I call Al Babtain and say, "Hi, this is Desert Girl," will they know who I am (they are supposed to "care for me", right?)
- If I need advise in the middle of the night, can I call them? (phone 826000). Do you think that if I write to them (firstname.lastname@example.com) for advice – let's say on some obscure subject – do you think they'll write back? "Dear Al Babtain, my dog just yakked up something that looks like a fish, but it has hair. (like that nasty picture on Dire Straits of Kuwait blog) What is your advice?"
- If I call them, will they send someone out to help me drive? Maybe they can send someone who will shift while I push the clutch? After all, their motto is "Shift" isn't it?
- They haven't made me feel that I'm alive. Buying a car won't do it for me (I can think of other ways, but how….) Hey – what do those Al Babtain guys look like anyways?
Somebody (you know who you are) did something incredibly kind for me yesterday. He arranged for me to pick it up anonymously and only told me that it was a surprise. This is a fellow blogger and although we've been corresponding, we've never met. I wasn't worried (like I might be in the States) about what it was – or where I was picking it up (at a Starbucks from one of the employees). I was kindof worried that he would be there and see me having a bad hair day, at the end of a work day, in pants that make my butt look too big. It was just a really really really nice, kind thing for him to do: he got me the Miami 1996 tape that I was looking for. Now, for those of you who have been wondering if good people (okay, let's get realistic – men) actually exist; let me just say that there are still a few out there. I hope that someone is able to do something kind for you, dude, and maybe when you least expect it or when you need it the most. It all comes around. God bless you, my anonymous angel. You did make someone very happy.
Does anybody know where I can find a 5 karat diamond? I've been looking everywhere…. (hey, it is worth a shot, isn't it?)
I went out last night with SheeshaGirl, MuslimArtist, and Petite to have dinner at Ruby Tuesdays under the Balls of Kuwait (Kuwait Towers). I have a lovely view of all 3 of Kuwait's balls (this is reminding me of Bo Jaij!). I never ever ever want to eat at Ruby Tuesday's again. All we ate was fat and sugar. Yuk. Okay, I'll admit it – I probably picked THE most fattening item on the menu (the ribs), but still; it didn't have to be served with French fries AND fried onion thingys and cole slaw. The ribs were totally salty and that blue drink thing that I ordered was reminescent of a blueberry slurpee from 7-11 that turns your tongue blue and puts little sugar sweaters on all your teeth. ew.
It was nice hangin with the girls, though – even though I was almost gonna smack SheeshaGirl upside the head if she continued her ramblings about her latest man (who happens Naz – MY good buddy and friend that I hooked her up with). I don't want to know what she thinks about the equipment. I don't want to hear the details. I consider him one of us. He's never had a gender to me! Why assign one now? Damn. He's always been Bunny's Boyfriend to me (they are teezain fi serwal and get along really well – even with a rather large age gap). MuslimA, you are going to hurt yourself, honey, if you keep rolling your eyes like that. It's not healthy.
Why is it that whenever we girls go out, we always seem to end up at a restaurant full of women? Do I have to tell you how bad that sucks? Where are the men? Would someone please tell me!


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Ranunculus, my favorite flower
Paris Flower Market (I should have bought some, just 6 euros!)
Cutest postcard ever via Colette Paperie
Style inspiration for the summer via Anthropologie
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And fantasizing about a trip to Jamaica where I could wear summer clothes :)
Warmth and beaches sound really nice right now.
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What Did They Know And When Did They Know It?
An interesting document has turned up on the interweb: the 27-page pitch for Lost. It's May, 2004, and at this point, the pilot had been shot and just getting that massive amount of work done in a short time had almost destroyed J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof. But now they had to explain to ABC just how the premise--a group of survivors from a plane crash stuck on a mysterious island with some sort of monster--could play as a weekly show. (I believe this was the end of J.J.'s involvement in the show. Lindelof would take over and bring aboard Carlton Cuse to help run it.)
They admit there'll be trial and error, and the first season would spend a lot of time finding what the show is actually about. But here's their blueprint.
They say the show will have elements of the fantastic, but grounded in reality, and sometimes it'd be fully realistic. I think they tried this with the first season--probably because they knew that's what ABC wanted--but moved further and further toward the fantastic as the show went along.
They promised, even with the overarching concepts and the character arcs, that each episode would be self-contained. I think they generally stuck to this, but the mythology was never so "easy to follow," as they promised. I suppose they put this in not only because they believed it, but also to reassure the suits--shows with huge arcs weren't so common on network TV a decade ago. Executives were frightened (especially in the days before widespread DVDs and Netflix and On Demand and so on) that if you couldn't drop in on any episode and understand what was going on, you'd simply lose fans as you went along without adding any.
They promise in the first season it'd be about the day-to-day struggle of the Lostaways, and they got this right. They predict the first season would take place over about forty days, and that's pretty close to how it worked.
They also claim there's no "ultimate mystery" to explain, feeling this is a rabbit hole down which they don't wish to go. They were wrong about this. As the mythology got more complex, the mystery that would "explain" the Island was foremost on viewers' minds. They were forced to give an ultimate explanation, one which didn't satisfy many.
As for the Monster, they have vague ideas--it's man-made and has rules and is some sort of an elaborate security system. They hinted about this in the first couple seasons, but then decided on a very different explanation that's hard to square with their original ideas. They do know, however, that the Monster is related to others on the Island, opponents of the crash victims, who'd make themselves known in the first season.
There were 47 survivors but only 13 regular characters, so what to do with the rest? By the third or fourth episode, they were to start disappearing mysteriously, perhaps returning at a later date with half-remembered stories. This didn't quite happen. Instead, the rest of the characters were mostly in the background and used as cannon fodder. Meanwhile, new survivors would be introduced in the second season--though most of them would be killed as well.
For practical reasons, Abrams and Lindeloff recognized it would be good to have regular, standing sets to shoot a lot of scenes, rather than have everything done outside. So, they figured, in the first season the Losties would have to relocate, near where there's food and fresh water. This became a huge deal in the first season, but in the wider story simply didn't matter, and was essentially dropped as a plot point (or even as a set, I think).
They go into a paragraph for each character, much of which points toward the flashbacks we'd see. But some ideas never made it onto the show. Boone suffers from schizophrenia? Shannon falls for Sawyer? Hurley a repo man (and not a lottery winner)? And they don't seem to know Locke was paralyzed before the Island cured him, or Walt has magical powers.
They also come up with 33 potential storylines, most generally realistic, and most of which were ignored. A few were followed, and at least one would blossom into quite a lot--the Losties find a mysterious Hatch.
This is how TV pitches are, even after the pilot is shot. No matter how much you plan, the show, the actors, the viewers, often tell you what direction you need to go in. As far as the mythology, Lindelof and soon Cuse were so busy just creating hourlong stories that I'm not sure they had too much time to prepare for the long-range. They couldn't even be sure, after all, that Lost would last more than one season. But eventually, before the second season started, they had time to work out a lot more regarding the Island's mythology. And by season three, when they got ABC to agree to end the show at a certain point, they could even decide specifically how things would go. But this early, it's often catch as catch can.
PS Someone asked Damon Lindelof about the pitch, and he explains its main purpose was to show new president of ABC Steve McPherson that this show could work as a weekly series. They were especially interested in distancing it from J.J.'s previous show, Alias, which was serialized and was genre and had a big mystery behind it.
Once the show started and real writers had to come up with real episodes, they soon realized they had to do it their way and could ignore the pitch. I'm sure it helped that the show was a huge hit from the start (and was shot far away from Los Angeles or New York) so ABC would give them the freedom to find their way.


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