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Dating a guy going through a divorce
Sure, I've had my share of breakups that were hard to get through. When you go through a divorce a big part of who you were before changes.No matter how independent you are, to some degree your identity is tied up with being married and being married to her.By putting more pressure on him, I pushed him away.
Photo Courtesy of Big Stock Photos You're ready for a committed relationship, maybe marriage. He's everything you've always wanted in a partner: kind, loyal, sexy and smart. Find out how long your guy has been divorced and how he feels about it.
If you do, you're a little ahead of the game because most parents understand the unconditional love and responsibilities they have for their kids. If you don't have kids, you may be a little more challenged but that's okay if you are willing to explore these 6 things you MUST find about: 1.
Get the full story before you start seriously dating a partner who for all legal purposes may not be single at all.
Get to know the legal terms Different places have different laws governing marriage and divorce.
Here are a few things to keep in mind when you are dating someone who is going through a divorce.
Make sure you have the facts Sometimes a person might say that he/she is going through a divorce when what they really mean is that they are still considering getting one.
This list focuses on the things I coached them on that worked and helped them to get through one of the most hellacious periods of their life.
Why Some Relationships Fail Before getting into the meat of what to do, I'd like to take a little bit of time to share with you statistics about relationships.
Divorce is a type of death and requires a process of grief, even when one may have desperately wanted the divorce. Most men live with guilt post-divorce, even when a divorce is more than warranted. BTW, if he's separated versus divorced, consider that a red flag. If he has a hostile relationship with his ex, you can expect a lot more complications than what will already naturally exist when dating or living with a guy who has kids.
When there are kids involved, it's a major loss for them. They feel especially powerless and shameful if the mother of their children turned out to be not such a great mother. There's a reason for the expression, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." 2. Hostile ex-wives tend to extend their bitterness to the new woman in her ex's life.
He already had two children already and even though in the first instance he said he wanted to have another with me, I knew that he had started to change his mind 3 months in as I could sense it and I ignored the signs as I didn't want to face the consequences of that outcome.Tags: Adult Dating, affair dating, sex dating


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Today, we will study "velocity dependent forces." We'll get back into the swing of mechanics by doing a lab where we investigate the concepts of air resistance (drag) and terminal velocity. You'll take advantage of available technology by using motion sensors or by analyzing videos you take and graphing position vs. time and velocity vs. time in LoggerPro. In the end, you'll see how drag force relates to velocity.
Homework: Lab in journal due Friday, March 23rd. LAB QUIZ on Friday! Make sure to answer the following questions in your lab write-up in addition to the usual stuff:

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This is the Harrow Response, which comes in a standard version and a new Marwan El Shorbagy signature frame from Harrow.
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Sunday, August 2, 2015
Vatican protocol team jets in next week ahead of Pope's Kenya visit
Pope Francis. A Vatican protocol delegation to help in the preparation of his November visit to Kenya is expected to arrive next week. PHOTO | FILIPPO MONTEFORTE | AFP
A delegation to conduct preparations for the arrival of Pope Francis is expected to jet into the country next week.
Although the exact date and the size of the delegation are yet to be communicated, the Papal protocol team will be welcomed to the country by Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya, Archbishop Charles Daniel Balvo and Nairobi Archbishop, John Cardinal Njue.
According to the Nyeri Catholic Diocese Archbishop, Peter Kairu, the delegation will oversee the preparations as well as discuss security matters with the relevant government organs.
Archbishop Kairu said the pope will be on a three-day state visit to Kenya.
"We are expecting him to arrive here on November 25 whereby he will be welcomed in the country by President Uhuru Kenyatta since he (pope) is the President of the Vatican," he said as he rallied faithful from Othaya to arrive in big numbers and welcome the head of the Catholic Church in the world.
The archbishop said they are currently forming committees that will be spearheaded by archbishops and other senior people in the church based on the experience of heading other such big church events like the recent Beatification of the Blessed Sr Irene Stefani.
The committees are aimed at making sure the logistics for the preparations and the Papal stay run smoothly.
From the look of things, noted Archbishop Kairu, the Church is blessed and this is why they are asking the faithful to turn up in big numbers to welcome the Pope in Kenya.
According to Archbishop Kairu, they are yet to deliberate on their main agendas that they would want the Pope to address.
However, Fr Peter Githinji of the Nyeri Archdiocese, and who spearheaded the beatification of Sr Irene, said he would wish to see the Pope declare martyrs the 75 Catholic faithful who were killed by the Mau Mau due to their faith.
"Although we would like him to visit Gikondi in Mukurwe-ini where Sr Irene lived and died, our greatest wish is for him to declare the 75 faithful martyrs," he stated.
The two were speaking at Karima Catholic Church during the tenth anniversary celebrations for Fr Joseph Waweru, the parish priest.


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I felt my sphincters constricting as I silently repeated the mantra of I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…..unlike the Little Red Engine that could however, Pat and I were on the verge of becoming the Catalina Sailboat that couldn't. Up to this point everything was going perfectly, we had timed our departure from Georgetown to coincide with the tides, the weather was benign and apart from a finicky chart plotter everything on the boat was working. Now exactly 3 hours after leaving the safety of Georgetown Harbour, I found myself staring down the twisting swirling, almost dry maw of Hog Cay Cut.
Hog Cay is a non descript chunk of rock that marks the southern extremity of Little Exuma Island. The cut which bears its name is the gateway to the west side of Little Exuma and must be traversed by any vessel wishing to explore the wilds of the curving chain of Cays known as the Jumentos and Raggeds. It is a narrow 100 foot wide S shaped pass that hosts a roaring current at all times except for a few minutes at slack water. At the western end of the pass is a coral bar that carries just enough water for our 5 foot keel to pass over it if we didn't find the odd rock or two that were sticking up. Once over the bar, there is another 3 miles or so of absolutely featureless and uncharted shallow water. The alternative to going through the cut was to take an extra day going to Long Island and then back tracking through a less threatening pass known as the Comer Channel.
Since friends whom we respect as sailors and navigators had traversed the cut recently and provided us with a series of GPS waypoints which we could use to navigate the bends, we decided to time the tides and make the attempt to get through. Of course the GPS chartplotter which had been acting up, but still functioning following a software upgrade, decided to quit working the moment we crossed the threshold into the cut. Suddenly instead of following GPS way points we were now committed to eyeball navigation with Pat standing on the bow pulpit as the lookout scanning for toothy rocks. The depth sounder numbers decreased steadily and rapidly until it showed a mere 2 feet under the bottom of the keel as we came out of the last turn and approached the coral bar. Pat was calling back steering instructions as the depth sounder dropped under 1 foot of clearance. As I held my breath, I kept telling myself that many others had made the passage without mishap, otherwise the banks of the channel would be littered with the hulks of broken boats.
Reason however has little place when your home is suddenly less than the height of a beer can off of a rocky ledge and the current is sweeping you along at several knots despite the engine being in idle. And then we were over the bar. The bottom turned back to sand, but the depth sounder stopped changing at about .9 feet and now there were only miles of smooth white sand in front of us. At least if you hit sand, you won't break anything so I breathed a little more slowly. Fortunately I had noted a heading to steer during the planning stages of our trip and now I reverted to blind faith and pilotage as I followed a dead reckoning course towards deeper water. After what seemed like an eternity the depths slowly rose and we found ourselves on the banks heading towards our first landfall in the Jumentos.
Unlike the Abacos and the Exumas, the Jumentos are unpopulated with the exception of the small fishing community of Duncan Town at its southern extremity about 100 miles from our current position. Annually not many more than 100 cruising boats pass through the Cays in search of the clearest water in the Bahamas and the absolute solitude afforded by very few other locations on the planet.
For Pat and me the trip into the Jumentos was a logical stretching of our skills. The Florida Keys was the beginner class, the Abacos were the intermediate and the Exumas were the advanced class. By traversing the cut we were off the grid literally and figuratively as we were going to be completely untethered from any land based support for the duration. In fact the only outside contact we had during our time in the Jumentos was via SSB and HF radio back to Canada each morning.
Since few make the trip, the islands are completely deserted and the beaches are largely untouched. Most importantly however the water is crystal clear and the fish and conch are teeming in the waters. On Flamingo Cay, which is our favorite spot to-date, it was possible for Pat to pick conch in knee deep water and for me to hunt fish by walking off of the beach with my spear. We have also discovered the delicacy that our fish books call Queen Trigger fish but the Bahamians call Turbot, a fish that is as tasty as it is pretty.
As our supplies started to run down, we were slowly making our way towards Duncan Town where we had hoped to replenish our onions and eggs. The plan was to pick up a few supplies and return to the solitude of the islands for another several weeks, but serendipity marks the life of the cruising sailor. One evening I was dialing a frequency on my SSB to call a friend who was heading north. Instead of making my intended contact, another familiar voice popped on line and inquired what our plans were for the summer.
I explained that our cruising license for the boat and our tourist Visas for the Bahamas would need to be renewed by early in May, so our intention was to stay in the Jumentos until then and then either head back to the US for a day, or cross over to the Turks and Caicos and then return to the Bahamas to restart the clock on our documents. The voice on the other end of the radio said "why don't you consider Cuba, it's actually closer than any of the alternatives and you'll be amazed by the warmth and hospitality if the people. And yes you can replenish your eggs and onions for a fraction of what you would pay in the Bahamas.
The light bulb in my head illuminated with loud click as my brain began to evaluate the logistics of making the 75 mile hop across to Cuba. In the end I'm not sure if it was my stomach or my sense of adventure that clinched the deal, but suddenly we found ourselves securing the boat and staging for an over night trip across to Cuba. The surprising thing was that the decision was made, the plans were finalized and the departure date was set in a matter of a few hours. It seems that the confidence Pat and I have gained from living off the grid in the Jumentos has kicked our cruising reflexes into high gear. I guess we have made the grade so Cuba here we come!!
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The inevitable discussion in some of the press is that Carly allowed HP profits to grow and that she was forced out because she is a woman. Nonsense. She was forced out because shareholder value declined during her tenure. HP became a slow witted whimsy of a company beat out at both ends.
What in the world would the board - looking at that performance - offer her a performance bonus? Is that responsible?
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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Shrimp here: OK, pastors who take a stand for family values are labeled bigots, those who argue for the faith received are called fundamentalists, so I wonder what a person who brought up the subject of the Enemy and bending the knee would be called.
Hey we don't have any such problems so we?
"When the leadership of that church kept the enemy out, everything was fine," Mr. Robinson said. "But when the leadership of that church let the enemy in, things began to change."
The authorities - who got the first whiff of trouble six weeks ago when a woman, Nicole Bernard, 36, called the Sheriff's Office from Ohio to say she had fled the town to save her child from sexual abuse - are still trying to piece together what happened.
Nine people have been arrested in the past week. A dozen computers have been seized, at least some of which the police believe contain child pornography, as well as dozens of videotapes, hundreds of computer disks and eight large boxes of documents and photographs. Inside the shuttered church compound, in a "youth hall" behind the sanctuary, the police found the faint imprint of pentagrams on the floor that someone had apparently tried to scrub away."
Read it.
Then go to this page and take it all in,how much child abuse is out there being done by pastors. Take it all in, then put Childs in the find function of edit.
There is more info here.
When you are at assembly, just go to the mike and ask this one question and then watch the body language: What are the legal implications of the recommendation that we keep rules but do not enforce them?
We should perhaps ask that lawyer in Texas who won the civil case against the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, from which Gerald Thomas (a Harrison County jury took only minutes in February of 2003 to find Gerald Thomas guilty on 11 counts of sex crimes against children, and then to give him the maximum sentence of 397 years in prison).
The fact that Childs was part of those proceedings, yet okayed a plan for insitutional unaccountability, well, it just boggles the mind.
Read the ELCA's side of the story.
There's more:
"Lutheran Church Abuse Victims Receive $69 Million Settlement
In what may be the largest per capita clergy abuse settlement ever, nine victims will receive $36.8 million from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America's Northern Texas/Northern Louisiana Synod and two former officials. The civil case follows the conviction of Gerald P. Thomas, former pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Marshall, Texas, for sex crimes against children. An additional $32 million out-of-court settlement was reached before the trial ended. Total awards amounted to nearly $69 million awarded to 14 victims."
Wonder how many mission starts the ELCA could have made with $69 million?
Think the assembly in Orlando will receive an accurate accounting on this? After all, it all happened since the last time they sat in deliberation.
You funny human people if you do not talk from the floor on this one. Any voting members out there? Hello!!!
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
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Let's Make Love is Brazilian Girls' first album in around a decade, but if you're anything like me, this New York dance-pop act sort of snuck past you. (Such is one of the downsides to the internet's promise of an 'all access pass,' so to speak, to new music; there's just too much recorded music for any one individual to take in).
full story http://californiarocker.com/2018/05/03/brazilian-girls-album-impresses/


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I don't know why I'm always making people bald and naked - I guess their vulnerability must be endearing to me ^^
Anyway, yet another head study. I don't know if they'll ever get really easy, but they are getting easier. Still totally need to work on moisture control.
Even better. I finally figured out how to get this thing to do bigger pictures. Now I feel stupid for not figuring it out sooner. Isn't that always the way with technology? I think the designers do it on purpose.


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High School Musical 2 was totally snubbed at last night's Kid's Choice Awards. Other than that, it still hasn't gotten much attention award-wise like its predecessor did. Well it looks like Vanessa's making up for that.
The High School Musical star has been nominated for an Asian Excellence Award for Outstanding Film Actress. The winners will be announced on April 23 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles.


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MEI Online: Pyrometallurgy: Conference Reports: 6th ISASMELTTM TSL Workshop
6th ISASMELTTM TSL Workshop
Every two years licensees of Xstrata Technology's (XT) ISASMELTTM Top Submerged Lance (TSL) smelting process meet to visit the latest smelting facility using ISASMELTTM and to participate in workshop sessions where process improvements and plant modernizations are presented and discussed. This year's workshop was held in Arequipa, Peru and was hosted by Southern Peru Copper Corporation, the owners of the new 1.2Mtpa ISASMELTTM that commenced operation during 2007. Each licensee presented their latest production data and innovations for improved smelting efficiency. Workshop sessions were then held enabling the licensees to share ideas for further improvement.
"The workshop sessions were particularly successful in creating detailed technical dialogue between all the sites" according to XT's General Manager of Pyrometallurgy, Mr Philip Arthur. "This is the 6th workshop we have held, and it has been one of the most successful due to the high level of interest and commitment to sharing experiences by all the participants. It certainly builds on the already high level of expertise in the group" he said.
Participants from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, Kazakhstan, Peru, USA and Zambia took part in the event covering discussions on copper, lead, scrap and nickel smelting. Plant tours to the Southern Peru Copper Corporation (SPCC) Ilo smelter and Doe Run Peru (DRP) smelter in La Oroya were held to enable the ISASMELTTM family members to see the latest technical innovations.
The Ilo copper ISASMELT™TM plant treats up to 1.2 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of copper concentrate. The ISASMELTTM furnace replaced an El Teniente reactor and two reverberatory furnaces. Commissioning of the ISASMELTTM plant commenced in February 2007 enabling the smelter to meet new, more stringent environmental regulations. The reputation of ISASMELTTM as a clean, efficient technology that can be installed for relatively low capital cost resulted in it being chosen by SPCC over competing technologies.
The DRP smelter will have a nominal capacity of 280,000 tonnes per annum of new concentrate and is scheduled to commence operation during 2009. The ISASMELTTM technology was chosen to treat DRP's complex copper concentrate blend. The technology was chosen to improve environmental performance and to achieve separation of minor elements into the off gas stream for collection and further treatment.
The workshop participants from Kazakhstan were from Kazzinc JSC, who are installing two ISASMELTTM plants, one for copper and one for lead. The copper plant will treat 356,000 tonnes per annum copper concentrate in an ISASMELTTM furnace and use the ISA PROCESSTM tank house cell technology to produce 70,000 tonnes per annum of copper cathode. 291,000 tonnes of mixed lead concentrates will be treated in a lead ISASMELTTM furnace to produce lead bullion and a lead rich slag. The lead rich slag will be treated in a lead blast furnace to produce lead bullion. They are on target to start up the copper plant in 2009 and the lead plant in 2010.
The time taken to be at the workshop has proven invaluable for all participants. In particular, the new ISASMELTTM licensees obtained good start up hints from the experienced users of the technology.
ISASMELTTM furnaces treating copper and lead concentrate operate without a water cooled lining. Outstanding refractory campaign life of up to 3 years is achievable with no refractory repair required during a campaign. This is made possible by applying quality engineering and refractories, meticulous attention to refractory installation and the use of a sophisticated process control system. Rebricking at the end of a campaign is a simple maintenance procedure requiring only 2-4 weeks. Productivity gains are realized with longer campaign life as there is more time for the furnace to operate over the years. This feature is an example of how the XT TSL technology package adds value to the user.
XT, Kazzinc and DRP are looking forward to successfully commissioning the new lead and copper ISASMELTTM plants in 2009 and 2010.
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Several militants were also killed and wounded during the gun battle, but their number could not be exactly specified as the militants evacuated their casualties after the fighting, according to the report. The province is reportedly under Taliban control.
Rahmani said the Taliban planted mines to stop reinforcements from coming to help the government forces fend off the attack.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack in Paktia in a text message sent to the media. The district centre, however, is still in government hands.
"In the attack, three mujahideen were martyred and four others were wounded".
The attack was the deadliest by the Taliban for several weeks. "After the attack the forces called for air support and 27 Taliban were killed during the airstrikes and clashes", it added.
Two armored Humvees were destroyed in the attack in Shindand district, Farhad said.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Plays Nigerian Character In New Movie
All these characters make for a movie that never slows down, but among all the mayhem, Johnson is completely lost. Unfortunately, it's the great Jeffrey Dean Morgan who is responsible for a majority of the latter.
The province of Ghazni is located south of Kabul lying along a key route. Travel by road between the capital and southern Kandahar province, a traditional Taleban heartland, is considered risky because of large swaths that are now under insurgent control.
Provincial officials said on April 12 that police and intelligence officers were also among those killed in the overnight raid on the Khwaja Omari district headquarters in Ghazni Province.
He said that 14 people including the governor were killed in the district itself, and that the Taliban then ambushed a relief force as it was leaving the provincial capital of Ghazni City, killing six police officers.
Around 45 insurgents were also killed and several others wounded, he said, adding: "Taliban have set alight the district office complex, but reinforcement arrived at the district and now the situation under control".
The new agencies based in Kabul have expressed their inability to confirm the casualty figures because of the remoteness of the area.
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SALT LAKE CITY -- Ten-year-old Malachi Bradley survived more than 30 hours alone in the Utah wilderness before he was found.
Malachi, his father and a family friend told FOX 13 News about how he was able to endure a night in the mountains.
He explains how he was mushroom hunting with his family when he thought he heard a rattlesnake and began backing away. Before he knew it, he was lost and couldn't find his way back. So he toughed out the night with only a light jacket to keep him warm.
Malachi said he used a hooded sweatshirt to filter water so he could drink it and tried to stay near streams to find food. He says he also stayed in open areas so that helicopters might see him.
K-9 teams located Malachi just before 3 p.m. Monday -- more than 30 hours after he first went missing.


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Today I had a complimentary half hour coaching session with a fellow actor turned life coach. I didn't have high expectations going into it, actually I didn't have any expectations since I've never done anything like this. But it turned out to be a really enlightening experience.
One of the first things I realized is the importance of having a mentor in this industry. I give out a lot of advice to those starting out and making their way up. Yet I have no one that I can talk to about what to expect when the bookings start coming regularly and things start rolling in your career - someone that has been there and can tell you what's normal for this stage. She was just that and I didn't realize how much I was missing out on. Action Item #1 - Make more friends who can act as mentors.
We discussed my performance anxiety, of course. She recognized that it only happens when I view the stakes are being high. Which is very true. It's a confidence issue. She also let me know that it's totally normal, almost every actor has been through it before and she herself experienced it while working on a TV series for three years. We discussed things that I can do next time around, a toolkit to get back in control and overcome the issue. Action Item #2 - Make up a preparation checklist for big auditions. Include breathing exercises, positive affirmations and recall a sense memory of a star moment.
Next, we talked about my "Close, but no cigar" phenomenon, you know, all of the right of first refusals with it going to the other person. She let me know it's not unusual at all and is actually a REALLY good thing. It's a normal phase of progression in your acting career. It's the difference between hoping for something to happen and knowing that it's going to. Action Item #3 - Keep on, keeping on. Oh wait, I already have that one under control.
Best free half hour of advice I've ever gotten. If you'd like one too, you can contact Justina Vail Evans at www.justinavailevans.com. She's awesome!
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Hello I'm 21 yrs outdated and hve experienced psoriasis for 3 decades. A significant problem I've had with psoriasis is don't just the unbearable itching but also the scarring that it leaves at the rear of.
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I would like to attempt to produce him additional snug as his palms crack and bleed but I do not see him shifting his eating plan Considerably. Ideally, a number of the other Strategies I have go through listed here may help. I'll try and post when they do!
The true root of The problem is toxins in your body. The skin, being a PS target, responds to toxins otherwise. Absolutely everyone has toxins, and everybody expels them throughout the pores and skin. PS victims' skin treats the toxins as When they are "getting into" the skin as an alternative to exiting. As a result the skin functions violently toward the toxins, aiming to drive them out with heat and moderate pores and skin fever, then pushes new levels of skin up prematurely which itch till the dead skin is long gone, similar to a scab.
I am 46 and lately been diagnosed with Psoriasis. I have spots all around my hairline and some on my forehead.
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unable to grasp which type of psoriasis i have... guttate or plaque.. i have both equally symptoms.. Is that this problem permanent? ways to heal it permanently with effortless home remedies as rapid as feasible?
I've been Placing adolphs meat tenderizer (The type with papain) on my psoriasis out of desperation. soon after my arms cleared I have been putting it on my still left thigh and not my appropriate 1 to test it out my left a single is clearing extremely very well.
I have psoriasis for the final fourteen yrs. I tried homeopathy, alopathy and ayurvedic cure. Sometimes it served me to remedy thoroughly. However it will come back for me right after four-five months ad if I consider a similar therapy that aided very last time will not aid all over again.
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Facade (Games, #2)
"I think when love sneaks up on you, when it grabs onto you when you least expect it, maybe that's more of a sign that it's real. That it's meant to be and nothing could stop the two of you from falling for each other." ― Nyrae Dawn, FacadeLet me just take a moment to say, damn woman! This is how you write a freaking sequel, people. Everything about Charade that I loved was present and accounted for in Facade. Present and additionally attached to dynamite, wrapped in rags soaked in gasoline, and tossed into the sun where it exploded with heart stopping devastation. I was literally winded by my emotional response when I reached the conclusion. Completely blown away. I don't know exactly what it is about the way that Nyrae writes her characters, but suffice it to say she does a great job. She understands something about the structure of their reactions that makes every decision, thought, and opinion so believable. This, in turn, makes everything about this series so believable. I just die every time I reread them. Facade is Adrian, Colt's roommate's, story. The quintessential badass, Adrian doesn't just fuck around for no reason. No. This guy has some serious baggage to contend with. Nyrae layers vivid recollections of his tragedy throughout the story that when it's finally fully revealed it knocks you on your proverbial ass. I literally gasped when I read that portion. May have teared up. Just sayin'. Adrian's love interest is mystery lady, Delaney. She blows into his life with eyes full of ghosts and Adrian simply cannot resist her or learning more about what haunts her. In turn, she wants to learn the man behind the mask. Why does he put on a facade? Everyone thinks he's a loser who just likes to get high. In truth, he is so much more complex than that. His actions hide his pain. "...and now I just keep running. Maybe not physically anymore, but my mind and heart are backpacking through the darkest corners of the world trying to get farther and farther away." ― Nyrae Dawn, FacadeDelaney's secrets are intimately connected with Adrian's past hurt. She wants to absolve herself and her family of guilt and believes she can do so by showing Adrian back to the light. She wants to tell him all about her connection to his past, but can never find the perfect moment. There would have to be major cajones to tell him in the first place. It's a doozy. Eventually they fall in love. God, if I only had to read Nyrae Dawn's work for the rest of my life, I could probably die happy just from the way she pens a couple falling in love. It's so bittersweet that I can feel it. That's exactly how books should be written, from my perspective. Ah!"She's the fire in my veins, the breath in my lungs, and the glue trying to hold each of my scars together." ― Nyrae Dawn, FacadeWhen they finally lay all their cards on the table, will they be able to see past their pain to be together? "I don't know what it is about you that makes me want you so fucking bad.'They may not be the words a girl longs to hear, but I cherish them. Because they're real and real is better than a pretty lie." ― Nyrae Dawn, FacadeJust fabulous, seriously. I loved Charade, but Facade actually surpassed it. Times a million. The emotional impact of Adrian's story just punched me in the effing face. I could rail on and on about this for days, I'm not kidding. If you haven't read it, please put it on your TBR shelf. You won't regret it. Review of Charade (Games #1)


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ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Elder Care attorney Joe Cordell talks about Cordell Planning Partners is a new law firm devoted to elder law and caring for seniors.
The law office will provide free workshops for people to learn about the increasingly crucial area of elder law, how to provide for the care of the seniors in your family and how the new tax law will affect seniors and those who care for them.
The workshops will take place January 30 and 31 at the Crystal Garden Banquet and Event Center.
For more information, visit eldercarelaw.com.


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In other words, more of a pain than it needs to be just to download the BIOS file so you can reboot and use their suitable UEFI/BIOS flash utility built into their modern motherboards. But then it got even better through the communications with MSI.
I'm happy to say with the MSI X99S SLI PLUS they do offer the BIOS file for download in the zipped package that also contains their EXE file for Windows users. An MSI Taiwan representative mentioned to me they actually have a Linux flash utility!
Suddenly, you need to update the BIOS on your motherboard to support some new piece of hardware, but typically the motherboard vendor is offering only DOS based BIOS flash utilities. So, all you need is a bootable floppy disk image with Free DOS kernel on it.
We are fortunate that guys at FDOS site have prepared one suitable for us.
You do not need to use MS-Windows or MS-DOS system for flashing the BIOS. Here are some good articles that explain the BIOS flashing using Linux: The author is the creator of nix Craft and a seasoned sysadmin and a trainer for the Linux operating system/Unix shell scripting.
He has worked with global clients and in various industries, including IT, education, defense and space research, and the nonprofit sector.
he BIOS is Basic Input/Output System used by a computer, which embedded on a chip on a computer's motherboard.
It is used to controls various devices connected to your computer.
Periodically searching a vendor website for updates is a manual and error-prone task and not something we should ask users to do.
Providing a firmware update service actually requires two things: file that describes the update in more detail.
We can also add extra metadata so we can have fully localized update descriptions, along with all the usual things you'd expect from an update, for example, security classification and licensing information.
This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a Think Pad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. Contrary to the name, GRUB for DOS works fine on Linux.
If you have Windows on your Think Pad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the Lenovo website. Follow these steps: Use "geteltorito" to extract the update image from ISO image, downloaded from Lenovo's drivers page.


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Kathy Richards, PhD, RN, FAAN | Research Professor and Senior Research Scientist
Phone: 512 232-1131
Office: NUR 3.404
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing
1710 Red River Street
Austin, TX 78712
Dr. Kathy C. Richards is a nationally renowned sleep and geriatrics researcher. Previously at George Mason University and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), she was the director of the Center for Integrative Science in Aging. Prior to UPenn, Dr. Richards was at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, where she served as the Alice Sun Professor of Nursing and director of the NIH-funded Tailored Biobehavioral Interventions Research Center. Dr. Richards helped establish and was co-director of the John A. Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence. She also was the Associate Director for Health Services Research, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical (GRECC) center at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System.
Dr. Richards' experience in translational sleep and aging research spans more than 25 years. The focus of her research has been on improving sleep and delaying cognitive decline in older adults. She has shown in the recent MEMORIES 1 trial that treatment of obstructive sleep apnea significantly improves cognitive function and may delay neurodegeneration and progression of cognitive decline in persons with mild cognitive impairment. She has conducted randomized controlled clinical trials of other interventions, such as exercise and individualized social activity programs, resulting in large, clinically significant improvements in sleep and other debilitating symptoms in institutionalized and hospitalized older adults. She has developed and validated measures, including a measure of sleep quality for use in critically ill older adults and a restless leg syndrome diagnostic tool for use in persons with cognitive impairment. Dr. Richards has conducted studies that have illuminated relationships between sleep disorders, such as restless legs syndrome, and behavioral symptoms, such as wandering, in community-dwelling older adults with cognitive impairment. Her program of research has has advanced the science regarding design of clinical trials to test the efficacy of tailored, patient-centered interventions. The results of her research are disseminated in more than 100 publications.
At UT Austin, she is a principal investigator on R01AG51588 "Nighttime Agitation and Restless Legs Syndrome in People with Dementia" (NIGHTREST) and R01AG054435 "Changing the Trajectory of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure" (MEMORIES 2). Both projects are funded by the National Institute on Aging. Visit NightRest Study page for more information.
She is the recipient of outstanding alumni awards from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
She and her husband, John Thomas, have 5 children and 6 grandchildren.
Dr. Richards received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, a Master of Science degree in nursing from the University of Arizona, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
- PhD, University of Texas
- MSN, University of Arizona
- BSN and RNP, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences


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Dahlke recipient of AgStar scholarship
The AgStar Fund for Rural America, a corporate giving program of AgStar Financial Services, announces that it awarded Matthew Dahlke, a 2015 graduate of Glencoe-Silver Lake High School, a $1,000 educational scholarship.
Dahlke plans to attend Alexandria Technical and Community College, pursuing a career in marine and small engine mechanics. He is the son of Doug and Patty Dahlke of Glencoe.
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is partnering with Microsoft in a move that could see Blackberry customers shift management of email and other services to the cloud.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Jim Tobin, senior vice president of RIM's software and business services unit, said the company has been working closely with Microsoft in preparation for the launch of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud initiative this October.
At the moment most companies purchase and manage one or more BlackBerry Enterprise servers on their premises. Under the cloud initiative, companies will have the option of moving this infrastructure to an off-site hosting facility, which would also provide management services and maintain features.
Tobin said this would offer customers a number of benefits including "substantial" cost savings, increased efficiencies, and simpler management. He believes as much as 20 to 25 percent of RIM's existing BlackBerry subscriber base will be using some type of cloud services by the end of the year.
"We're embracing it in a big way and we're going out jointly with Microsoft to all of our customers," Tobin was quoted as saying in the Journal.
RIM has been losing market share to Apple's iPhone's and is facing increasing competition from a raft of new Google Android-powered devices. Embracing the cloud and offering new features to its base of corporate customers is seen as a key way for the Waterloo, Ontario-based company to fend off its rivals.
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Lace Borders, Narborough, 6th June
A Common Purple & Gold Pyrausta purpuralis was a UK first for me. Despite its common name it is far less common (at least in gardens) than Small Purple & Gold Pyrausta aurata. Sadly it got away before I could get a decent look or photos - the one shot I came away with being only just sufficient to confirm the ID. Other moths here were Common Marble Celypha lacunana, 3 Hook-streaked Grass-Veneers Crambus lathoniellus and 3 Silver Ys.
Next stop was Cranwich Heath, a new site for me though I have done Cranwich Camp just across the road a couple of times. A few moths were disturbed from the Broom by the gate most of which escaped during bungled attempts at getting them in a net, but the one that mattered wasn't so lucky - a dark tortrix which proved to be Black Piercer Pammene germmana. Amazingly there is only one previous record of this species on the Norfolk Moths database, a single in 1992. That said, old references show the species as occurring in both of Norfolk's vice-counties so presumably recent recorders just haven't been looking hard enough!
Black Piercer Pammene germmana, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
As we started to wander through the grassland we quickly started to notch up some interesting moths. One of the best was the Breckland special, Tawny Wave, a new species for both of us.
Tawny Wave, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Other macros included Latticed Heath and the first of at least 6 Yellow Shells. Common Blue and 2 Small Heaths were among the butterflies and micro moths included at least 1 (probably 2) migrant Rush Veneers Nomophila noctuella.
Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Another Breckland special was abundant here - we counted at least 30 Little Grass-veneers Platytes cerussella. Among them were 2 Plain Fanners Glyphipterix fuscoviridella, 2 Gorse Case-bearers Coleophora albicosta, 2 Hedge Case-bearers Coleophora striatipennella and the first of 3 Common Marbles Celypha lacunana.
Plain Fanner Glyphipterix fuscoviridella, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Gorse Case-bearer Coleophora albicosta, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Hedge Case-bearer Coleophora striatipennella (female, gen det), Cranwich Heath, 6th June
As we got nearer a patch of gorse, 3 Grey Gorse Piercers Cydia ulicetana appeared. Heading over to the other side we started to see Plume Moths. Some got away but the ones we nailed were 2 Breckland Plumes Oxyptilus distans and a Citron Plume Euleioptilus carphodactyla.
Breckland Plume Oxyptilus distans, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Citron Plume Euleioptilus carphodactyla, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Some nice wildflowers here too, including this one which I think is Viper's Bugloss.
Viper's Bugloss, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Over in the longer grass the grass-moths changed - Platytes became scarcer and Hook-streaked Grass-veneers Crambus lathoniellus dominated with at least 60 counted. The edges of the woodland produced some excellent dusking with moths everywhere. Best of the bunch was a spectacular moth, a new moth for us, and in some ways more exciting than the Pammene germmana and Tawny Wave. It was a Small Barred Long-horn Adela croesella - simply stunning!
Small Barred Long-horn Adela croesella, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Another Long-horn was also a lifer, although perhaps not quite so spectacular: Little Long-horn Cauchas fibulella.
Little Long-horn Cauchas fibulella, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Other moths recorded at this point included a wealth of goodies such as Hawthorn Bent-wing Bucculatrix bechsteinella, Meadow Dwarf Elachista triatomea, Pine Bell Epinotia rubiginosana, Lead-coloured Drill Dichrorampha plumbana and Shaded Pug.
Hawthorn Bent-wing Bucculatrix bechsteiniella (male, gen det), Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Meadow Dwarf Elachista triatomea, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Pine Bell Epinotia rubiginosana, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Lead-coloured Drill Dichrorampha plumbana (male, gen det), Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Shaded Pug, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Perhaps less exciting but still nice to see were Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella, Swan-feather Dwarf Elachista argentella, Cinereous Groundling Bryotropha terrella, 2 Light Grey Tortrices Cnephasia incertana, Yellow-faced Bell Notocelia cynosbatella, Meadow Grey Scoparia pyralella, 2 Common Greys Scoparia ambigualis and Red Twin-spot Carpet.
Cinereous Groundling Bryotropha terrella (female, gen det), Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Meadow Grey Scoparia pyralella, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
No idea what species they are but noticed these two very striking Snails.
unidentified Snails, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
Dave spotted this beauty on the ground: a Small Elephant Hawkmoth.
Small Elephant Hawkmoth, Cranwich Heath, 6th June
As darkness gathered at least 15 Green Carpets were recorded along with Oak-tree Pug and Foxglove Pug.
At home the clear skies kept numbers down, though 2 Common Wainscots and Shoulder-striped Wainscot were both new for the year. The latter is likely to prove the better moth locally - I only ever saw one at Bawdeswell.
Shoulder-striped Wasincot, North Elmham, 6th June
Common Wasincots, North Elmham, 6th June
Also White-shouldered House-moth Endrosis sarcitrella, 2 Common Marbles Celypha lacunana, Yellow-faced Bell Notocelia cynosbatella, Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana, Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata, Blood-vein, Silver-ground Carpet, Green Carpet, Peppered Moth, Poplar Hawkmoth, Buff-tip, 3 White Ermines, Buff Ermine, 2 Heart and Darts, Flame Shoulder, 2 Shears and 10 Treble Lines.
Peppered Moth, North Elmham, 6th June


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|461 Range Rover 'Vigilant'
I am always looking out for Police cars. Well, on the road, that is. Not so much in the Corgi stocklist really as they have never particularly inspired me. The best was the Commer van that had a bulb poking through the roof and a battery inside the removable rear section. I liked models with lights but there were very few. That almost turned me to Spot-on. A school friend had a Rover with lights that lit up and looked so cool at night. Just remembered that as I write and now I must see if I can find one. Back in the mid 1960s Spot-on were pretty expensive. I did buy a Hillman Minx as my dad had one and Corgi didn't make that. That was all.
Anyway, back to Police cars. The very last Corgi Police vehicle (in my series) is the Range Rover. It's a nice model. It was around for a long time and is still very cheap to acquire. I like the signs and things that fold out very realistically and everything packs up nicely into the opening rear. You try doing that with the surfer or skier that come with other models.
There are lots of VW 1200s or, possibly 1300s, as the shape first seen as #256 in East African Safari guise in 1965 is still being used right up to the very end with a Driving School version appearing in 1974. Here is the next longest lived version, a much stripped down model in Police uniform. No steering, no opening boot, no opening bonnet, no jewelled headlamps and not even any mudflaps.
The 1966 green and white VW may have been a Politzei Auto rather than a Police Car but it was such a better model to play with.
Another late entry to the Corgi 1:43 list, this came in 1972 but also lasted well, surprisingly so as the MkIII was generally regarded as the worst of the Cortinas and there would be a squarer and more modern MkIV out by the time this was nearing its end. This is based on the 'Graham Hill' model - a normal saloon + chin in the box - with a strange siren affair slapped on the front bumper and the box and lamp on the roof. Unlike the VW, strangely, the Ford retained its jewels.
From the States came the excellent Oldsmobile model in black and white. Nothing opened but this was very well made and still compares well on display to its modern counterparts.
Also from the States are the Impalas type 1 and 2 in Police style.
The first Corgi Police Car was the lovely Riley Pathfinder. Sheer class and seeing a real one will cause heads to turn still today. That was when Police Cars were black and had bells.
No policeman in his right mind looked forward to driving this one - a Panda car as it was called, possibly deriving from the days when a small roundish car was painted black and white. The Hillman Imp wasn't that fast at the best of times. This cast was actually from the Sunbeam made for an earlier rally car but it was a Hillman that the Police used. It's a pretty little car for all that and apparently has 'glow-in'the-dark' side panels. I'd prefer a lamp that lights up.
This old-fashioned blob of a vehicle has that saving grace - a working lamp on top!! I must replace the battery and see if mine still works.
|373 VW 1200 Police Car
|492 VW1200 European Police Car
The 1966 green and white VW may have been a Politzei Auto rather than a Police Car but it was such a better model to play with.
|402 Ford Cortina MkIII Police Car
|237 Oldsmobile Super 88 Sheriff's Car
|223 Chevrolet Impala State Patrol Car
|481 Chevrolet Impala Police Car
|209 Riley Pathfinder Police Car
|506 Hillman Imp 'Panda' Police Car
|464 Commer County Police Van


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Well, yes, it seems, or closer than other places in PDX, it seems, though I certainly have not been to all.
After reading a few postings here about this place, had to check it out to see if they, indeed, did something besides Chinese for American Taste style food. The answer, happily, is yes. But you really have to dig a bit to get it. The problem is, most of the good stuff, apparently, is on the untranslated Chinese menu, and the waiters I had were not terribly competent in helping with translations, but I won't get into that. We did end up with two really decent versions of Sichuan classics, and a couple of duds. The duds, by the way, were from the translated menu.
From what I've read, the chef there did some training in Sichuan, so there is some of that represented on the menu. Thank the Lawd! After being exposed to "real" Chinese for Chinese Taste, I just can't go back to even well prepared American Chinese....NYC, SF, LA, Seattle, even Austin TX now have great examples of this style of cooking and, now, at least to some extent, so does Portland.
Had to try the lauded Xiao Long Bao, the Shanghai soup dumpling. Just had some great ones in NYC two weeks ago and was hoping for something close that that juicy, spurting goodness. Unfortunately, that well was dry, at least last night...the dumplings were a bit leathery, and not a sign of the fabled soup inside. I'm sure the turnover on these is light here and these appeared to have a bit of shelf wear...not fresh at all, but the flavor was good, just no "burst-in-your-mouth" sexiness to the things. Maybe ask about freshness before ordering....?
Next we ordered the "Szechuan Noodles" which are really the classic Sichuan street food, Dan Dan Mian. Again, having just had them in NYC at Chengdu Heaven, and current fave food stall on the NYC boards, and having made a decent rendition at home last week, I was hoping for more than the mess of soft, over cooked noodles presented here. Aside from the gooey noodles, the spicing was not quite correct, it was good, just not what I've now had in about 10 different Sichuan places around the USA.... even so, I could recommend this dish IF they can promise not to over cook the noodles.
Now to the untranslated menu. Somehow, the waiter hit on one dish I absolutely love right off the bat when I'd requested some of the Sichuan dishes: Water Boiled Fish. However, I really wanted the beef version and that's what we got. It was really quite yummy, plenty of chile heat and Sichuan peppercorn numbingness...the broth was perfect, or almost...maybe a tad on the salty side. But the beef slices were tender, the napa cabbage tucked nicely under and, overall, a hit. One thing it featured that I'd never seen in this dish before was a generous handful of whole red chiles floating on top...normally, the dish is sprinkled with a heavy dusting of chile and sichuan peppercorn powder, and often a bit of cilantro...these were missing, but the dish was still very very good.
Then I'd asked if they had any of the traditional cold dishes of Sichuan, specifically "strange flavor chicken" or another cold chicken dish which features and amazing chile/garlic sauce adorning cold, poached chicken. The waiter seemed to describe such a dish and I tried to confirm with him twice that the chicken was indeed cold, and so on. "Yes," he said repeatedly. WEll, the dish that came out was not cold, and not the dish described. It was, however, another Sichuan specialty I love, Chongqing chicken...the famous dish with, often, 100 red chiles burying tasty morsels of fried chicken cubes. This version was a bit lighter on the chile count, but tasty nonetheless--it was covered with a yummy sprinkle of garlic bits fried with Sichuan peppercorns. Another winner. But don't ask me how to get them to understand what you want. Maybe just describe it, write down "Chongqing" or something. There is not translated name.
Anyway, I'm ready to delve deeper into their offerings, will take some translation cheat sheets I have to perhaps make more sense out of the Chinese menu. I'm sure there are some really great dishes buried therein.
If anyone else has further experience here, please post. And if someone who speaks Chinese could get a copy of the menu and translate, that would do us 'hounds a favor, and this restaurant as well.
A place certainly worth exploring.


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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Come Fill The Cup
Come Fill the Cup is a bit of strange one. The film begins as though it will something akin to The Lost Weekend as we follow a newspaperman, played by James Cagney, fall into the lower depths of alcoholism. About a third of the way in though he's already hit rock bottom and come back up again in short order. The film then instead extends to the man helping a rich man suffering the same problem, but unfortunately for the both of them a gangster wants the rich guy dead. It becomes a thriller suddenly. The thing is despite the rather scattered nature of the film, it's actually pretty good in every aspect. The performances are solid and each side of the story is well done. Now the film does flow rather strangely, but within its strange thru line it never becomes bad. All sections are good even if they don't make absolute sense being pieced together in this way.
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Can comedy antics in Camelot provide another winning instalment for Merlin?
Over at WhatCulture, I've just posted a review of Merlin's seventh episode of the fifth season, A Lesson In Vengeance. This new instalment used more humorous tactics as it bombastically opened the three-part arc of Queen Gwen's possession by Morgana, and for the most part it made for a great adventure. The return of Emrys onto the scene was welcome, and although it was light on overall arc developments, there was plenty of fun to be had! Here's the link to the review: http://whatculture.com/tv/merlin-a-lesson-in-vengeance-review.php#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=merlin-a-lesson-in-vengeance-review


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Be warned, my least favorite writer on this or any other world, Christopher Yost is writing this comic. That means I can almost guarantee I'm going to hate this comic no matter what it's about. Don't expect a fair and balanced look at this comic, because you're not going to get it here. If you don't want to read a angry rant, then please, skip this post. Thank you. As I said earlier, the writer here is the bane of my comic book reading existence, Christopher Yost while Angel Unzueta provides the pencil work.
-Starfire heads to a psychiatrist's office at the request of her friend Donna Troy. She's bummed because her Titans friends are all drifting apart and she is still traumatized as a result of Final Crisis when she gave in to the Anti-Life Equation. We get a quick look at her life and we also discover Vixen offered Kory a spot on the Justice League, but that Kory turned her down. The shrink tells Kory that her problem is the fact that she doesn't seem to have a purpose in life besides her Titans teammates, which is something Kory can't deny.
That's about all that happened here. First off, I have to say I am SHOCKED that Yost didn't just randomly begin to kill characters off in this book! Isn't that his MO? This book wasn't as offensive as some as Yost's prior books have been to me, it was just a boring look at a boring character. I've always found Kory to be annoying and one-dimensional, and this comic didn't change my mind about her at all. For a score, I'll give this comic a 4 out of 10. Hey, a 4 is a much higher score than I expected to hand out, but I'd never recommend ANYTHING written by Yost.Hey, what's Bruce doing there?!? Oh yeah, never mind...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
A Quick(and angry)Look at Titans #16
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I went to lunch with my dearest friend in the whole world yesterday. If you've been following my blog for very long you know that my friend has cancer. She had stage 4 ovarian cancer 6 years ago and beat it. It has reappeared this year and she's been going through chemo the last couple of months.
She has been struggling so much. This is only the second time we have been able to get together to just sit and talk in the last three months because she is in pain all the time and spends so much time in bed. When she first started her chemo she was on three different chemo drugs - she has now had allergic reactions to two of them and her cancer counts have climbed...which means her cancer is growing inside of her instead of going away.
My precious dear friend is struggling with decisions and needs prayer. She has a wonderful family at home who has taken over everything. Her two daughters are 19 and 18 yrs old and they have taken much of the responsibility of looking after their little brother who will be 2 in November. This is the most loving family you'll ever meet. It breaks my heart to watch them go through this one time...now to watch them go through this a second time just makes you question why? I know everything happens for a reason and God's plans are greater than ours...
It's hard ya'll!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Prayer Request for a friend
Posted by Elisa Allender at 8/22/2008 07:26:00 AM
Labels: Friendship, random thoughts
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Praying for you friend and her family. Sounds like she has a fantastic family behind her 100%. God Bless.
- August 22, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Claire said...
Oh man, that's hard. I'm so sorry y'all are struggling.
I read another blog written by a woman who has brain cancer. Although she is afraid that she will be taken from her family (she's in her early 30s), something she said continues to amaze and humble me: NO MATTER WHAT, FOR ME, IT ENDS WELL. It ends well for all of us who follow the Lord, Jesus Christ. That is our only hope.
- August 22, 2008 at 12:46 PM
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Most photographers put away their cameras after the sun goes down. There are, however, a few simple tricks for getting dramatic travel pictures of a city at night.
The basic equipment for outdoor night photos is a camera with a setting for time exposure (marked "B" on the shutter speed dial), a good tripod and a cable release with a locking device.


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This is an old story, but for anyone who are still using the Debian/Ubuntu wodim to burn CD/DVDs, read on. I've picked my side, and I hope Debian has the courage to correct its own mistake.
PPA repository for original cdrtools for newer Ubuntu
I use Karmic which includes cdrkit packages. I would personally want to replace them with original cdrtools which are written better.
I don't want to involve in any copyright fights but it would be nice to at least have packages that don't break cdrtools if installed manually and a cdrtools PPA repository would be welcome.
I saw this: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-burning/+archive/ppa However, support ends on Intrepid;
— mgol
CDRTools has been packaged as a replacement for CDRKit. This may (or may not) solve many CD/DVD burning issues in Ubuntu.
The CDRTools package builds Cdrecord, which replaces Wodim, and Mkisofs, which replaces Genisoimage.
The controversy
maybe read this for your information
— nomnex
These are pointless rants and not really related to cdrtools.
During the past 14 years, I was forced several times to find workarouds for non-stable Linux kernel interfaces. The last incompatible change in Linux SCSI is furtunately nearly 6 years ago. This last one has been introduced by Linus Torvalds and caused any compliant SCSI userprogram to fail. Torvalds has been asked by a big majority of the Linux kernel hackers to undo his change immediately after he broke Linux, to no avail.
The original cdrtools only have been broken by Linux kernel self-incompatibilities from time to time….
Unfortunately many people may believe that there are additional problems, but these additional problem are bugs that have been introduced by Debian in the Debian variants of the cdrtools binaries. The current problems are caused by an unfriendly Debian packager that started attacks against the project in May 2004.
The current version of the fork found on Debian is dead since more than 3 years. There are more than 100 well known and well documented bugs. There never has been any attempt from Debian to fix these bugs.
People who use the original software instead of the fork from Debian know that none of the documented bugs from the Debian variant apply to the original software.
During the past 6 months, more and more people realized the real cause of the problems and started using the original software again.
I don't want to involve in any copyright fights but …
— mgol
I have no idea why some people run personal attacks against cdrtools. It started as a personal attack in May 2004 and in Autumn 2005, the person who started the personal attacks changed his strategy and started to claim a legal problem in the original software.
If you are interested in the legal background, it would however be fairly simple to understand which side is using valid arguments.
Debian and other parties that claim a legal problem did never give any valid legal prove for their claims and all "information" that is floating around is just copies from the original Debian claims.
The legal validation on why the original software has no legal problems is however cleanly proven by legal facts and quotes to the related laws. . .
schily; July 10th, 2010
About legal issues: part of all of this comes from a fundamental incompatibility between principles of Civil Law (on which the Urheberrecht is based) and Common Law (on which the copyright principles are based). . . Legal issues are a lot more complicated than what was initially thought, and, as you can see, Wodim legal safety is challenged.
So, in plain English: keep using CDRecord happily.
Alejandro Nova; October 15th, 2010
I use cdrecord with k3b with full success.
mgol; June 17th, 2010
Having Brasero CD write problems ever since I switched from Linux Mint 7 to 8 (Karmic) 7 months ago, I finally wanted to find a fix for it. While searching for one, I found that apparently the issues with Brasero on Lucid are even worse. In the process I also came across http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html, causing me, to immediately wanting to get rid of that unfortunate childish Linux cdrkit Kaspertheater and replacing it with cdrtools, which I am familiar with from OS/2.
OS/2-User; July 21st, 2010
I wish to thank Schily for his unequaled program. Several bugs which I had with wodim went away. I could not mount audio and video cd's and dvd's after successful burning with wodim, I could not mount any disc copied with wodim, I could not blank my dvd's with wodim.
Alejandro Nova: thank you for your competent exposition. . . your explanation shows clearly that Ubuntu can very safely include unmodified Schily's cdrtools into its distribution.
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True, the gospel is offensive, we can't get away from that. From my perspective to be active in politics, or social issues is not wrong, but it must be done out of an attitude of love.
As Guthrie says: As we seek concrete ways to love our neighbors, Christians are right to
fight sex trafficking, genocide, and aids. But doesn't Christ's love
also compel us to speak compassionately against the new eugenics, gay
marriage, and other attempts to redefine bedrock Judeo-Christian
understandings of human nature and family life? We must fight evil in
the public square—whether we are the political flavor of the month or
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So Wade will be doing a fight on Saturday the 23rd! Could be his last! Ok, so I am proud of him and he has worked incredibly hard and he is really good it, but it sure does make my stomach hurt! I hate thinking about him getting hit or worse, hurt! Honey, I know you are super tough, but I can't imagine you getting knocked out, kicked, punched and cut! Regardless I will always be cheering him on. His sisters, brother and their spouses and I have all got our VIP tickets and we'll be there screaming our guts out! End it in the first round honey, as planned!
I'm so excited too, because that same weekend my sister, niece, and momma will be coming out to go see Ballet West's Cinderalla and to have to fabulous girl time! It's my favorite!
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone tomorrow! Hope you all get some candy or something! :)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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We will be cheering for Wade! (and praying for Brynn...) We wish you luck on the 23rd and will see you on the 22nd-love sis
- February 16, 2008 at 8:48 PM
- Iverson Family est. 2006 said...
I cant believe he's doing another fight. I really wish we could be there. I'll pray he doesnt get hurt, not that he isnt tough but he isnt invisable. Good luck and let us know how it goes, and will it be on t.v.?
- February 19, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- Iverson Family est. 2006 said...
I'm so happy Maverick is finally feeling better. We still cant have him around alot of people but at least he's not like he was. Good luck with the fight. I dont know how you do it, Im sure you worry your self sick. Heck Im not even married to him and Im worried, It has to be hard on you.
- February 21, 2008 at 12:20 PM
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Hey guys! sounds like things are going well there i am so jealous that i missed baseball games and tennis matches and i will miss being able to see Q make the cheerleading team. I know that you will still be playing when i get back so i dont even worry... i did kind of get to see the pics a Brash, but it is always hard to see them on the computer... but i saw him and it brought back so many memories i wish i could be there to see that... i am not sure if i have told you this but i want to try and walk on somewhere for Baseball... i have been really thinking about the school in Virginia. but we will talk about that more in a few months... there is something that we should probably address though... my License expires february of next year and that is before i come home... i will have to renew it so i can continue driving towards the end of the mission. i dont know who we get in contact with to try and get that fixed.Dangit i wanted Deamer to get called here so that i could train him haha i was really hoping that he would get called here but thats alright... there are already like 4 of us from kaysville. i have to write him today so if you see him this week tell him that i am writing him back this week.Yeah i am really excited about L. Tom Perry coming to talk to us... we are going to actually be meeting down in L. A... its going to be cool... it is so soon after General Conference too which makes it even more Sick! we are going to the temple on the 20th also... We are going to the Redlands Temple though so that will be a new temple that i have never been to.This week was pretty good i know that you said that you wanted to hear more from me this week but i have 7 minutes to try and get this all in to you so i am going to try and hurry... my presidents letter went a little bit long so that took a while.We had 6 lessons this week so that was pretty good for this area... but we could have had 12... we had 6 fall through... it was lame but that is how this work goes... i met with president this week and just asked him questions and how i felt about the transfer... we got talking and he said some are called to areas to baptize... some are called to find and some are called to build up the ward... then he said what would christ say if he were to look at the area book in La Crescenta... then he said to me when you started in La Crescenta you were only having 2 Less active Lessons a week... you left there with teaching people and teaching 12+ Less active Lessons a week..,.i thnk you did your part there Elder EmeryIt was really good to hear that from him i am sorry that this is short i have to hurry and send this off i will try and send you a quick note through the mail this week... keep it up you are all so wonderful and i love and miss you so much!!!Love Elder Emery
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Ghosts are always a fun decoration to put out on Halloween!
Floating Ghosts
Materials: lid from a small jar, half of a Styrofoam ball, 5 packing peanuts, 5 squares of bathroom tissues, 5 white or black pipe cleaners, black marker, glue, masking tape, paintbrush and black poster paint
Cover lid with masking tape so that you can paint it. Glue the half of the Styrofoam ball in the lid. Paint the ball and edge of the lid black.
To make each ghost, rub the glue on the sides and end of the packing peanuts and loosely cover it with a square of tissue paper. Make 5 ghosts give each a spooky face with black marker.
Stick one end of piper cleaner into glue and then into bottom of one of your ghosts. Stick the other end into the Styrofoam base. Arrange like they are floating.
Hairpin Ghosts Necklace
Materials: plastic lid, hairpin, Black construction paper, Black thread, scissor and glue
Spread hairpin apart slightly so that it forms the outline of a ghost. Tie a long black thread around the top of the hairpin. The tie the two ends of the thread together to make a necklace.
Set the hairpin on a plastic lid and use a squeeze bottle of glue to fill the area inside the hairpin. Cut tiny round eyes and a mouth from the black paper and stick them in the glue near the top of the hairpin for ghost face.
Place the lid on a completely flat surface to keep the glue from running out of the hairpin, and allow the ghost to dry completely. When dry, peel the ghost off the lid. Trim off any excess glue that has run over the sides or too far from the bottom of the ghost.
You can also hang it on the window.
Little Ghost Table Decoration
Materials: Clear plastic cup, two Styrofoam packaging peanuts, green pipe cleaner, black construction paper, one square toilet paper, black marker, orange marker, scissor and glue
Trace around the rim of the cup on the black paper and cut out the circle.
Make the ghost by dipping one end of a Styrofoam package peanut in glue. Then cover it with tissue and give ghost with black marker.
Make a pumpkin with the cut of end of another packaging peanut and color with orange marker. Poke a green pipe cleaner in the top to act as a stem.
Glue ghost and pumpkin on the circle. Let dry completely. Dip the rim of the cup in the glue and set it over the circle so the ghost and pumpkin are inside the cup.
Store careful
Share your ideas on this or anything here on the blog either here or e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I look forward to hearing from you!


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Me? Opinionated? Well, maybe just a bit. I have very definitive ideas about what works and what doesn't after a woman reaches a certain age, and I like to share them with my baby boomer sisters.
Following are ten items that I think every woman over 50 who cares about style should have in her wardrobe.
A well-made pencil skirt works on just about every body type. The length can range anywhere from the top of the knee to mid-knee for the most universally flattering look. Team it with a blazer or long cardigan if you feel the need to camouflage your hips.
A pair of great-fitting jeans, even if you have to shop all day to find them
The AG "Stevie Ankle" is my favorite for spring. Slightly cropped, they look equally good with heels, flats, or a pair of bright-red Converse sneakers. If hips and rear are a problem, top them with a flowy tunic or a longer cardigan over a tank top. If you're not the skinny-jeans type, choose a style that fits your body best: boot cut, straight leg, flared, wide leg. It seems that designers are offering every shape this season, so there's no right or wrong style.
Not your husband's or boyfriend's shirt, this one is made just for you…smaller and streamlined. Tuck it into a pencil skirt or wear it untucked with a pair of jeans.
Given the fact that I've touted the long cardi as the perfect solution to hide hips, tummy, and rear, I feel compelled to add it to my ten essentials. Choosing one in a bright color adds pop to black and grey.
Contrary to common belief, heels don't have to be painful. These lovely peeptoes by Cole Haan have Nike Air technology, which makes them amazingly comfortable. No, you're not going to run a half marathon in them, but you can walk—even dance!—without complaint. And just for the record, these are $100 off at Bloomingdale's…today only.
Okay, this one isn't cheap, but a watch is an investment. I bought a Tag Heuer very much like the one pictured here in 1996. I paid $1000 for it, and it's now worth nearly three times that much.
If you're not ready to spring for a four-figure watch—or if you want something fun for your more casual days—a novelty watch can make a great statement. This Marc by Marc Jacobs oversized watch works well even on a small wrist…once you've had several links removed. The masculine look of the large face is nicely balanced by the Swarovski crystals that circle the bezel.
Costume bling
There's nothing better than a carefully chosen piece of jewelry to make an outfit. I wear a lot of black and grey, and a tastefully blingy necklace or bracelet can really make the look. Here are a few of my favorites:
ABS by Allen Schwartz chain necklace
RJ Graziano Waterfall necklace
Sergio Gutierrez Liquid Metal bracelet
ABS by Allen Schwartz Stone Cluster bracelet
Sam, my fabulous stylist friend from LA, always starts from underwear up when dressing his elegant clients. He swears a good bra can make all the difference…and any women who's made the switch from a grabbed-off-the-rack bra to one that's been properly fitted by a pro knows he's right.
Spanx, or an equivalent slimmer
I don't know of any woman who doesn't have at least one of these in her wardrobe. It's the go-to solution under dresses, skirts, and pants when you want to look as sleek as possible.


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Good Morning friends. This month we are going to be doing one of our CAL's a little differently. For the month of August, our good friend, Lorene Eppolite of Cre8tion Crochet, will be hosting a CAL on her site. This pattern was first featured in the April 2016 issue of I Like Crochet.
We will be making the Sea Isle Tunic. This design comes in 6 sizes and is flattering to all body types. It features a lovely lace accent on the top and bottom and offers full coverage throughout the body.
photo credit to I Like Crochet 2016
This pattern is no longer available as a CAL design. The pattern can be purchased in Lorene's Ravelry shop, here.
photo credit I like Crochet 2016
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Allright, this is going to piss some people off, and I'm ok with that. I want to talk about modern weddings and why I think they're not only a horrible idea, but flat-out dumb. Our society has always had an industry based on making money from them, but it seems like the past few years they've really been shoving it down our throats. The average cost of a wedding in 2005?
27,000 dollars.
I'm sorry, but doesn't anyone else find that fucking insane? Not to sound cheesy, but couldn't a celebration of "true love" be umm..free? What's wrong with having a backyard reception with a potluck provided by guests? You know, instead of asking for 500$ sheets or something equally selfish that's going to put more financial burden on your guests. Do the prices of gifts on the registry directly correlate to the cost of the reception? That's pretty selfish too actually, sort of the mentality that "If I'm spending 30 grand on a wedding to entertain people (40% of which probably don't even want to be there), I should get something out of it".
So that's just the cost of weddings, I haven't even gotten into the physically superficial aspect of it. How many women do you know have attempted to lose weight to fit an overpriced dress they definitely didn't need? I don't think as individuals they can be blamed, not with the onslaught of cable shows focusing on this very aspect. As anyone who knows me might understand, I have a very, very high tolerance for trashy TV. In fact, I sort of thrive on it, but there are a few shows that have me frantically scrambling for the remote every time they come on. Ever heard of the program "Bulging Brides"?
Well, here is a synopsis directly from the show's website:
"Bulging Brides is a fast-paced, action-packed television series that exposes a bride's desperate struggle to drop unwanted inches so that she can look picture perfect on her wedding day... Racked by tension from the bridal arrangements and petrified by the thought of looking chunky on her big day, the bride-to-be has turned to the Dream Team as a last resort to lose her flab and look breathtaking in her gown."
If you think that's sad, just wait for the screencap of the "fattie" in question:
Oh my eyes! Her non-existent flub is making me nauseated. Instead of being so focused on looking "picture perfect" on her wedding day (Hello photoshop?) you'd think they'd be more focused on actually staying married (insert commonly used rising divorce rate statistic here).
This just makes me so sad, for like, the world. Or feminism. Or whatever.
One of my favorite sites, Jezebel, linked to a video series called Target Women, done by the very funny Sarah Haskins. She takes on media and advertisements focused at woman in general. Specifically: Botox, yogurt that makes you poop (cuz you're fat silly ladies, yogurt is the new laxative!) and wedding shows like the infamous "Bulging Brides".
Maybe I'm not buying into this because I don't actually want to get married, like ever. Or maybe I'm not buying into it because I'm so sick of images and messages regarding womens never-good-enough appearances, wedding-related or not. I realize I'm not alone in this, but I can't help that notice how many smart, educated and confident women not only buying into it, but loving it.
Case in point; Wedding Movies.
Just a few listed below. Most of which I've actually never seen, so if the movie is actually good and is not made to make single gals feel desperate, married gals feel lonely and normal gals feel fat, please let me know.
27 Dresses
Tagline: This January, always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
The Wedding Date
Tagline: Love doesn't come cheap.
The Wedding Planner
Tagline: His big day is her big problem.
My Best Friends Wedding
Tagline: A comedy about finding your heart and losing your head.
Allright I'm going to stop there because I'm actually boring myself, and yes, I've left off Wedding Singer because it's an awesome movie. Now I'm going to go eat some yogurt and dream of someday acheiving happiness via debt-laden weddings, a smooth wrinkle free face and predictable rom-com wedding movies.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Industry of Wedded Bliss
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- Jackie Neher said...
Aw yes... the wedding debate. Not only is the money completely ridiculous... but the divorce rate itself is enough for people to shy away... the fact that so many people now come from so-called "broken homes" also contributes to a major reason for the non-marriage types... I agree with you on so many levels about the ridiculousness of it...
But being recently married I just want to share my views on marriage and such.... I'm extremely lucky to come from a family that has parents that have been HAPPILY married for 30 years. This is a feat in itself... I have seen very hard times and I saw fighting, but they always make it through. I believe marriage is a very special thing in this absolutely crazy sad world now that has so much hate, fear, and chaos. If two people want to vow to love each other for the rest of their lives, I think that is such a wonderful thing, and it should be given everyone's FULL Love and support. Why are so many people scoffing at the idea of marriage when it represents so many wonderful morals and values that seem to be so severely lacking in society today...
But as for the wedding industry... as a wedding planner I'm hoping to capitalize on people's ridiculous spending sprees that they seem to feel they need to do in order to show off their big day... and I am a victim to it as well... I will defend that nothing is fricking cheap anymore either... but I did "need" the chair covers, beautiful flowers, elegant room... I didn't think I'd want to have all of that... but I did... I got sucked in by the industry... do I regret my day at all though - NO. I was happy to have celebrated my marriage with our friends and families and to have a great party that we'll remember forever.
Yes I am a sappy hopeless romantic...
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