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The West Hollywood home of actor Alan Sues, who portrayed several wacky characters on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" starting in the late 1960s, is on the market at $1.175 million.
The Spanish-style house, built in 1927, is entered through a gated courtyard with a fountain. The 1,830 square feet of living space includes a wood-beam ceiling in the living room, two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The backyard contains a koi pond, a gazebo and a brick patio.
Sues, who died in December at 85, appeared onstage and in film as well as television. His credits span more than five decades and included parts in the movies "The Americanization of Emily" (1964) and "Snowballing" (1984). He had owned the house since 1970.
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this is the official version of latest kodi for android
this is the 32bit version..i have run it all day..with no problems
using an upgraded mygica 582 running lollipop 5.1
this is the official version of latest kodi for android
this is the 32bit version..i have run it all day..with no problems
using an upgraded mygica 582 running lollipop 5.1
Forgive my ignorance but I have no idea what I would get if I install on myGica Lollipop 582,with help from EXTRAFACTO I have surprised myself,I do have a problem with retention of information so I make files for my own way of remembering and I would rather get help from our forum than have to explain my difficulty anywayis there a difference im aresProject and ares wizard and if so maybe someone could help,regards McG
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ares wizard is part of the ares project
ares project= the whole ares team thing..ie builds..repo..tutouriols etc
ares wizard is a way of getting them
now the ares project can be found on the kodi portal
if you have ares wizard installed..say installed 1 month ago or more
on your main page of ares wizard it should tell you they have moved their stuff
to kodi portal..anyone freshly installing ares wizard..needs to go to kodi portal to get it
all new look to ares wizard...installed individual apps..put in your basket..get code to download..
its a far better way in my opion...hope this helps
for futher help..plenty of tutoriols on utube..kodi portal..ares wizard..ares project
Has anyone got this to run on Fire Stick 1st Generation, cannot get to work on mine.
@SatCat, referring to Kodi17.5.1, when I install it indicates that it has installed but just goes back to the list.
I install using "Downloader"
I use ES file explorer without any problems, but although I've never used it, I would assume downloader should work just as good. All I can suggest is do a factory reset and start again. Bit of a pain having to start from scratch, but it could give your stick a fresh lease of life.
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Hi extrafacto,I upgraded mygica with lollipop and have been very happy with it,I find now for about two weeks it only opens to the apps page,I have changed the battery without any result,it may very well need to be retired be but I wait in hope.
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Adventurous couples everywhere are turning to more fun options for their upcoming nuptials. Take Cheetah Platt and Rhian Woodyard, for example; rather than spend their money on an average ceremony and reception in California, they plan on having 38 unique wedding ceremonies across 11 states this year to declare their love to one another. If you're looking for out-of-the-box wedding ideas, look no further; here are six destination weddings that cater to the adventurous couple.
A Wild Ride
Las Vegas is known for chapel weddings officiated by Elvis, but that's been done too many times. However, you can still reinvent the Vegas wedding ceremony — you just have to know where to look. At the New York New York Hotel and Casino, couples can get married in a taxi. This taxi doesn't take you to city hall, though. It takes you for a loop on the Big Apple roller coaster. Take the ultimate plunge in this 15-minute ceremony and roller coaster ride that will be different than anything you've ever done before.
Head in the Clouds
Weddings on land are so overdone, and it's hard to hear vows under water. Take your party to the sky, with an up-in-the-air wedding ceremony and reception from Dinner in the Sky Events. Twenty-two guests are strapped in chairs on a rectangular dining table that rises 180 ft. in the air. The bride and groom are positioned in the middle of their guests, so they can easily communicate with all attendees, swap rings and even have their first dance.
The Great Outdoors
Many couples dream of having their wedding outdoors, and nature certainly makes a beautiful backdrop. Destination weddings are especially popular for this reason. If Mother Nature is calling you, she's probably calling from Canada. With multiple lakes and campgrounds to explore, this is the perfect time to turn your wedding into a weekend getaway for your friends and family. Plan some adventurous activities, but just make sure you take the extra steps and precautions to keep everyone safe. If you plan to be out on the water, you'll need a valid boater's operator card as well as enough life vests for everyone.
Hitting a Homerun
Need a venue that holds a ton of guests but isn't a stuffy, outdated banquet hall? Try a baseball stadium. Stadium seating provides the perfect view for all attendees, and it couldn't be more practical in the off-season. If you and your honey love America's favorite pastime, just imagine the possibilities for a baseball wedding: a big fuzzy mascot as your DJ, Cracker Jacks and beer for your cocktail hour, and racing sausages seeing you off to your honeymoon. It doesn't get wilder than that.
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Tau Game Lodge, located in the Madikwe Game Reserve of South Africa, is known for its luxurious accommodations. A truly unique wedding venue, the lodge takes care of everything — from dinner to hotel rooms to safaris in open land rovers. The lodge can be completely rented out for the happy couple and 60 of their closest friends and family members along with resident wildebeest, impala, lions, buffalo, elephants and more.
If you both love adrenaline and hate conventionalism, the ideas listed above are just the beginning of how far wedding ceremonies can go for adventurers. Use your imagination; no matter how crazy it might seem, this day is all yours and you should spend it exactly how you want.
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IT has been the launchpad of many a country music career – the top 10 of the annual Toyota Star Maker competition at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
The top 10 finalists in the Toyota Star Maker competition were announced on Friday morning – and it includes Wauchope's Angus Gill.
Angus is thrilled to have made the top 10.
"It's really, really cool. Star Maker has always been something I've aspired to. When I learned guitar at seven, a local artist, William Lane taught me.
"It was always his dream for me to enter. I'm there," he said.
William Lane is thrilled at his former pupil's success.
"I'm proud of everything that Angus has done. He has kept a lot of the things that I taught him about his voice and performing on stage," he said.
Ten of Australia's top emerging talent will vie for the honour of becoming the 38th Toyota Star Maker in a winner-takes-all, event.
For the very first time in Star Maker history, the event will be free, with all 10 finalists being judged on the night, with one winner emerging on Sunday, January 22, in Tamworth.
The 2017 Toyota Star Maker finalists, chosen from across the country, are
- Andrew Smith from Berwick, Victoria
- Angus Gill from Wauchope,
- Brook Chivell of Labrador Queensland
- Cassidy Rae Gaiter, Flagstaff Hill South Australia
- Jade Holland of Balgal Beach Queensland
- Liam Kennedy-Clark from Sippy Downs Queensland
- Meg Doherty, Pakenham Victoria
- Megan Sidwell, Melbourne Victoria
- Michelle Plozza, Kingston Queensland
- Rachael Fahim of Cherrybrook NSW.
The winner will receive a prize package which includes a new Toyota vehicle, an unlimited fuel card for 12 months to transport them around the country, plus guaranteed performances at major festivals and events throughout Australia.
Toyota Star Maker coordinator Cheryl Byrnes said she was delighted with the standard of performers applying for Toyota Star Maker 2017.
"Toyota Star Maker is a fabulous opportunity and it truly is getting harder to judge each year as entrants raise the bar," Ms Byrnes said.
"It's a great platform and gives the finalists and the winner a jumpstart in their careers. For the winner, the title also brings exposure to invaluable contacts in the industry and a variety of exciting challenges."
Toyota Australia sales and marketing executive director Tony Cramb was thrilled with the exciting changes to the long-established quest.
"It's a wonderful thing that Star Maker will now be so much more accessible to a worldwide audience, through live-streaming in the park, and an absolutely free event for the public," Mr Cramb said.
"Toyota is very proud of its long association with this prestigious quest and we offer our hearty congratulations to the 2017 finalists."


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Woman accidentally backs car into husband in Rye, pins him to wallBy Gretyl Macalaster
Union Leader Correspondent
May 24. 2013 3:20PM
RYE - A local man was transported to Portsmouth Regional Hospital on Thursday as a precaution after his wife accidentally pinned him between their vehicle and a low stone wall.
Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh said they received a call around 9:16 p.m. from 2000 Ocean Blvd., a condominium building with a common driveway, about a car versus pedestrian.
Officers arrived to learn Ruth McKenney, who Walsh said is in her mid-70s, had accidentally put her vehicle into reverse instead of drive, pinning her husband between the car and a stone wall he had been standing against.
Walsh said the contact was brief and Mr. McKenney did not appear to have any substantial injuries on scene, but was transported to the hospital as a precaution.
Walsh said the whole thing appears to be just an "unfortunate accident."


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The most popular tsundere girls of anime have been ranked yet again, possibly garnering the fabled "tsundere queen" Rie Kugimiya further notoriety due to her voicing almost half of the girls on the list.
The ranking, which had surveyed only a meager 500 individuals:
1. Haibara Ai (Detective Conan)
2. Louise (Zero no Tsukaima)
3. Suzumiya Haruhi (The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi)
4. Shana (Shakugan no Shana)
5. Kashiwazaki Sena (Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai!)
7(tie). Kosaka Kirino (Ore no Imouto)
7(tie). Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
8. Aisaka Taiga (Toradora!)
9. Sanzenin Nagi (Hayate no Gotoku)
10. Yukine Kurisu (Senki Zessho Symphogear G)


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(This is the same post I've put up on Lifepundit.net. Sorry for the repeat, and no doubt everything has been said already about 9/11, but I haven't told my version so I'm taking my turn now. Please indulge.)
It's easier to mark Princess Diana's death than to once again revisit 9/11, the very date itself an emergency phone call. That's because she's gone and mourned (a little puzzling, all that mourning), but 9/11 is the day the world changed, and for that, it is still with us.
Where were you? Of course you'll never forget.
I was at the gym, riding a bike next to an old friend from high school. We had just dropped our kids off at the school we had attended. My old friend is a pilot who now trains new pilots for a major airline. He also flew F-16s in Gulf War I. We were talking about nothing when we saw all the TVs stop their programming and switch to live coverage of the first smoking tower.
My friend tried to think of how this could be, an aircraft hitting one of the towers. "It's a clear day," he said. "Even on heavily overcast days, you can still see the towers. They reach above the clouds. You can always see the towers."
"Maybe it was engine trouble," I said. That was a stretch and we both knew it.
The news said first it was a small plane, then that theory began to change.
"I hope it's not one of ours," he said. It wasn't one belonging to his airline. But we later realized that all the aircraft that day belonged to all of us.
Then the second plane hit. "Terrorists," we both said. We even knew the name.
I had seen Osama's ugly picture on a bumper sticker not long before, on a country road not far from my house. The driver, a young man, had glared at me with hatred when he saw me studying him. You don't see those bumper stickers any more, though I'm sure the young men are out there still. That's the scary part.
I heard about the Pentagon strike on the radio on the way home from the gym. What would be next?
My sky had fallen the month before. My husband had been laid off, just a few weeks after getting an attaboy and a bonus for some outstanding work he had done. They laid him off before they had to pay him the bonus. He had an interview and a flight booked for 9/13. No flights went out that day. And the company put the job he was seeking on hold.
I was surprised at how silent the skies were on 9/11. We live near a couple of air bases, and F-16s and F-18s are a common sight and sound. On 9/11, I wanted to see them busting open the skies. I wanted to hear their shrieks, left so far behind that sometimes the jets are out of sight before you hear them. I wanted to go outside and yell, Fly Fly Fly! But wherever they were, they were silent. They were not in my sky, keeping watch or waiting.
Since then, I've heard two reasons for this and I don't know which is true. One is that they were not flying because they were fully armed and waiting. They don't go screaming over my pasture and house with real weapons on them. The other reason I've heard was that they were patrolling Atlanta.
The silence everywhere, except for the news. And I wept and cried out to God.
Now I know more. This past week Osama said it would all be over if we would convert to Islam. I have read about Islam a great deal in the past six years, and their god is not God. Theirs is the god of death.
I see this as a great cosmic battle, though I know that we are not entirely good. And not all who fight on our side or from our country are believers. But I know that our God is good, and that God has always used imperfect people. And if, as Jesus says, "By their fruits ye shall know them," I can't say much for people who blow up their own children to kill their enemies, who oppress their women and kill the innocent, as being a religion of peace.
I know that's not PC to say. But if they want me to see them as being peaceful, they'll have to BE peaceful.
I won't claim this is the end of times and that there are signs all around. Jesus already told us we wouldn't know, so why do all those mental contortions to try to figure it out? He did tell us how to live, and that seems a better use of today.
I thank God today that I am free to worship him. I thank God that there has been no other 9/11 on our soil. And I thank and praise God that I know that no matter what happens between now and then, our God will prevail.


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I love being pregnant, but not everyone feels that way. I love the way body changes, fuller breasts, added curves to the hips, and that beautiful round baby bump. My husband thinks pregnancy is sexy on me and so do I, but it's not all about looks. It's the process….women can grow, house, birth, and nourish. That's so amazing and beautiful to me!
I'm always drooling over my pregnant friends. I am behaving though. I resist the urge to even ask if I can rub their belly.
Some women don't like pregnancy because they say it makes them feel fat. While it's true that you are gaining weight, it's for a very good reason….You're growing a human being. Plus, you have a growing uterus, amniotic fluid, a growing baby, extra blood,breast tissue, and the placenta.
But, you can exercise during pregnancy to keep your energy up, help with depression, and for the overall health of you and your baby.
Here are some of the exercises you all said that you did during pregnancy when I asked on Facebook and Twitter.
Prenatal Yoga
Running/walking on the treadmill
Going out for walks
Belly Dancing
I'm sure there are more, but you get the idea.
What about sex during pregnancy? Some women say 'yes all the time!' some say 'don't touch me' and some can't because their spouse is deployed, or they were put on bedrest for a while.
Here is a blog on Sex During Pregnancy.
I don't know why people act like sex during pregnancy is so taboo. We all know that's how the baby gets in there anyway.
Plus, towards the end of pregnancy the prostaglandins in sperm can help get labor going.
Do you sew, or know someone who does? Make yourself some cute dresses, or tops. Or you can purchase some of these clever maternity tops.
Get a new haircut, or maybe have a girlfriend get together for manicures and pedicures at home.
Lipgloss and mascara did wonders for me during pregnancy. At my Blessingway I was given Epsom salts, lavender scrub, and candles.
I loved pampering myself after a long day during those last few weeks of my pregnancy.
Tell me, how do you feel about your body during pregnancy?


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CHARLOTTE, NC (Joe Marusak/The Charlotte Observer) - A 70-year-old hiker who hurt his hip deep in the woods near a waterfall in the N.C. mountains was rescued by a Black Hawk helicopter crew that included members of the Charlotte Fire Department.
Night was falling when the man was hurt near Hunt Fish Falls in Avery County on Wednesday evening, according to the N.C. Department of Public Safety.
Facing an extended hike in the dark carrying the injured man, local rescue crews requested help from the North Carolina Helo-Aquatic Rescue Team, known as NC HART.
The team hoisted the hiker into the helicopter, along with a local paramedic who was already treating the man. They flew both to a nearby landing area and transferred them to a waiting ambulance that took them to a local hospital.
The successful rescue caught the attention of Gov. Roy Cooper.
"NC HART represents the best of North Carolina, with our state's first responders and military joining forces to save lives," Cooper said. The rescue "required training and courage, and I appreciate the dedication and service of our NC HART members and local rescuers."
Established in 2004, NC HART have saved hundreds of lives, according to the N.C. Department of Public Safety. Two NC HART crews were deployed to Texas last month to help search for and rescue victims of Hurricane Harvey's widespread floods.
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Hypernym(s): depression, impression, imprint
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· a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds"
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The afternoon we met, A. C. and I got off on the wrong feet. Both of mine and all four of his.
He was known in those early days by the more formal name of Alley Cat, for he had been observed only in the alley alongside the office parking garage. No one knew where he lived. His daily rambles took him from the dumpster behind the cafeteria to a theater trash barrel in the middle of the next block.
No one recalls, either, exactly when he took up residence in the parking garage. We assume he selected the site for its proximity to the theater's stage door, just across the alley, because he loved stale popcorn better than anything.
I had the dubious pleasure of introducing A. C. to civilized human contact, which in the beginning was all but the end of me and in the end threatened to finish him off.
My parking space is in a dim nook at one end of the garage. Nonetheless, I should have seen the dusty paw prints on the car hood, and I might have, except I had been in a distracted frame of mind all day. Arriving late that morning, I did not bother to roll up the driver's window. Departing at five, I tossed a briefcase through to the front seat. I had never known that briefcase to utter a serenade of snarls and hisses, so even then, I should have paused to consider. Instead, I reached for the door handle.
Suddenly, a creature that appeared roughly the size of a hairy brontosaurus leaped through the open window, galloped up my arm and disappeared, while I fell to my knees in a smear of grease, preparing, so far as I can recollect, to plead for my life.
Although our paths crossed frequently in the garage after that, A. C. and I were a bit standoffish. If he saw me coming, he would quit the open passageway and resume his journey, leaping from car hood to car hood like a gazelle. If I saw him, I would saunter out of his way and inch along between garage wall and rear bumpers.
For a time I did not see A. C. and thought he might have moved on. He had found another place to take his cat walks. One morning my brisk march from car to office halted abruptly when A. C., with hiss and snarl, pounced from a rafter to a spot three feet in front of me. It was noon before I could concentrate at all well on anything.
The rafter-plummet ritual became a nerve-racking nuisance to me, although it apparently boosted A. C.'s self-image of feline machismo, knowing that a simple little pounce could elicit from his fearless foe a quavering ''Aye-yi-oh, golly, cat, you startled me-yi-yi!''
Bracing myself psychologically and physically for the pounce was not difficult. The trouble was, he never plummeted from the same rafter twice in succession. It was impossible to ignore him, until one day at a traffic intersection a block from the garage. . . .
It was five-fifteen. I was waiting for the light to change in my favor when a motorcycle patrolman, passing through on green, suddenly made a U-turn and coasted up alongside my car.
''Say, fella,'' he inquired, ''you think that's some kind of smart?''
The question baffled me at first, but then I saw what the officer meant. He was wearing a pair of silvery sunglasses which reflected a clear image of A. C., lounging atop my car and grinning like his Cheshire cousin.
''Your cat, is it?'' the officer asked.
I stepped out of the car, glared at A. C. and turned to the policeman. ''What cat?'' I said as nonchalantly as I could.
That really got A. C. It apparently got the policeman, too, because for quite a while I stared at the image of me staring at him in those sunshades.
A. C. vanished. Either he could not stand being ignored, or he was driven away by the racket of auto horns, a cacophony orchestrated by several irate motorists who had to sit through two changes of the light while the officer wrote me a warning citation for obstructing the flow of traffic.
A week or so later, things began to change. Others who parked in the garage became acquainted with A. C. On a ledge near the door between garage and office building, someone left him a cardboard box for a bed. Someone else brought an old pillow for the box. A food dish and a water bowl soon appeared, and there was a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cat food cartons nearby.
One by one, the old habits atrophied. No more saunters along the alley or even in the passageway down the center of the garage. No more pounces. No more standoffs. As I passed A. C.'s luxury suite coming to and from work, I began to notice he looked more and more like the plump Garfield emblazoned on his homemade lounge chair. My calling this to his attention elicited the merest blink.
Frankly, I've never cared much for cats. I'm a dog man, myself. Still, I hated to watch an old adversary succumb to such indolence. He was smothering under attentiveness.
The other night I went to a movie and - I don't know what made me do it; sentimental, I guess - next morning brought A. C. a box of popcorn. When I was certain we were alone in the garage, I sat down on the ledge. A. C. rolled over and looked up at me. He sniffed the box.
''Aha,'' I said, ''you do remember, don't you? The good old days. I'll bet it's been six months since you ventured out to the alley. Middle-class comforts are fine - but A. C., there's more to life than eating and sleeping and being pampered all the time. Human or cat, it kills the spirit. What d'ya say . . . give me a snarl?''
I do not know who observed and blabbed, but I have had a terrible time lately with people wanting to know if I'm the guy who was sitting in the garage with the cat actually chatting, as if to an old down-and-out Army buddy, and sharing a box of POPCORN?
Well, let them talk. It doesn't really matter, because today . . . A. C. pounced!
As I told him, too much of a good thing can be damaging to one's stamina, but golly, it's nice not to be ignored.


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(Do not feed the oyster) under neath the clouds. He'll suck you like a seagull into the Sound.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Dear A,
The problem being whether you should or should not go visit your Grandmother with whom you have a rather rocky relationship with and not a lot of respect for, but she is perhaps dying.
My answer is easy.
Yes. You need to go see her. As you may already know, I had a terrible relationship with my Mother and she disowned me when I was 24. She died when I was 35 and pretty much died hating me. This is the part where all you good hearted people come rushing in to tell me that OF COURSE, she didn't hate me. She was my Mother, how could she hate her own child?
Well, it felt that way. At any rate...when my Sisters were fairly certain that she was near her death bed (and they were SO wrong, my Mother lived for months after she saw me...), they decided that they needed to let me know so that I could come back home to Iowa to see her and hopefully we could reunite and she could die knowing that all was well with us.
Best laid plans...
They either didn't know my Mother or they didn't know me. She was only prepared to see me if I came with hat in hand and told her that I was ready to make my confession to the nearest priest and go back to being a straight girl. I was very certain that I was not going to say or do any such thing.
So, the whole thing backfired and it was horrible.
So, A...you are now thinking that I am some sort of a sadist, aren't you? That I am leading you to go to see your Grandmother and it will all end badly and you will feel terrible.
Well, that could happen, yes. Or not. We don't know, do we?
The thing is, A...you need to go see her no matter how it ends. Because you will never forgive yourself or understand what happened when you are my age if you don't.
It could go badly, like mine did. I went to see my Mother and she sat staring at me waiting for me to hit my knees and beg her forgiveness. When I didn't, she coldly looked away from me and refused to say another word for the duration of my half hour visit. Instead, my Sisters awkwardly began to ask me inane questions about my work life (avoiding my personal life like gangbusters) and I woodenly answered them, my stomach churning as I sat in the bedroom that had been my parent's room, in the house that I grew up in, had a lovely childhood in. After a half hour, I said that I guessed I should leave. I walked to my Mother, leaned down and said, "I love you, Mother."
She looked me straight in the eye and said exactly five words to me: Don't forget to get mammograms.
She died of breast cancer a few months later without restoring me to my inheritance and not saying another word about me.
And my life, which was already spiraling towards a nasty addiction to drugs and alcohol, spiraled even faster. Because, really? The ultimate question was answered for me.
If your own Mother doesn't love you, how can you be worthy of anyone elses love, including your own?
And then something crazy happened. I came out the other side of the pain. Because it was the only way, you see. I had to either walk through the fire or be consumed by it and I chose the first. It was difficult and I still have lots of trouble with self love. I also have relationship issues, trust issues. I pretty much suck big large at love.
But...remarkably, what saved me was that I realized something. A truth that was difficult. I realized that maybe, just maybe...my MOTHER was lacking in something and I wasn't. That maybe, perhaps, this was on HER and not on ME. That her lack of acceptance and love of her own child said so much more about her than it did about me. About her weakness and her plain...shittiness as a person.
It took me a long, long time to let myself see that. Because, as her child, I wanted her to be right. I felt that the only answer was that she was right and I was wrong somehow.
Having a child of my own helped too. I was a little worried that I would not have enough love in my soul to be a good Mother, but by that time I was older and wiser and had realized that the fault was in her stars, not in mine. So, I had my child.
And now, I look at my daughter and I cannot even fathom disowning her for any reason. I can't foresee anything that she could do that would cause me to turn my back on her forever, to disown her from our family, her rightful place.
And yes, it used to infuriate me. Now, no. It doesn't. Now, I feel about my Mother the way I feel about racists. They do infuriate me, yes...but mostly I feel a sense of deep pity for their ignorance.
Yes, I have come full circle. I now pity my Mother. Because she lost ME. And you know, I wasn't worth letting go like that.
It has taken me DECADES to wallow through all that shit, A.
So, do me a favor and spare yourself. Go see your Grandmother. Maybe it will be truly wretched. Maybe you will come away feeling as if you were burned in a bad fire. Maybe your throat will feel scorched and your pain will be flying all over the place and you will feel as if you have no choice but to let it go or find a big suitcase to put it in until you can look at it with proper attention.
Or maybe, just maybe...it will be wonderful. Maybe you will be so glad that you went. Maybe you will ride home with tears rolling down your cheeks, feeling thankful that you had this time with her. This goodbye.
Either way, if you don't expose yourself to it...you will hate yourself for hiding from it somewhere down the line.
So, brace yourself and reach inside and find that piece of strength that will walk your legs through to her.
You might not thank me tomorrow or the next year or the next. Maybe not for a decade or two or three. But, eventually, you will be glad that you faced her. That you stood with a kind, but firm face and didn't fold, but didn't strike either.
I dare you to do this. And come back and tell us about it, if you can. If not, then...yes...put it away somewhere for now.
But, do it. Do it. Now.
13 comments:
- Karen said...
Love your answer.
- Jacquelineand.... said...
You give good, honest, advice...not 'easy' advice.
Your mother gave away a precious jewel when she left you by the wayside.
- t okaku said...
Great advice from the voice of experience.
- thegrumpygirl said...
Maria, thank you for your reply. Thank you for taking that time. And as to why I wanted advice from you: Because you look back at this experience with a couple of decades of distance. I've been talking to people roughly my own age, but that was exactly the kind of input I was lacking until now.
And as for being in my right mind: Never. ;)
- Optimistic Existentialist said...
I think it was great advice indeed...
- Frontier Mom said...
Wow...powerful advice. Go for it, A.
- E said...
When someone who is dying of breast cancer says don't forget to get mammograms it could be her way of saying: don't end up like me, or take care of yourself, or this is all the concern I can muster right now.
Maybe it was the best she could do at the time.
We are not all able to step beyond lessons learned at home and in school about who and how to love.
- e said...
Good advice, Maria. This especially:
"...you stood with a kind, but firm face and didn't fold, but didn't strike either."
That's how to let go of regrets.
- megan blogs said...
I agree with what you said, Maria. I've been disowned by family members, too. While i still wish from time to time it were different, i also realized that their disowning me said more about them than it did about me.
A friend who's a nurse shared something with me she heard from one of the best nurses she ever knew: "There are times you will need to choose between pain and pain. Choose the pain that will not linger with regret."
For me, regret usually involves things i didn't do. I offered olive branches to those troublsome folks in my family, visited as i was able. In one case, there was a reparation of sorts, and our last conversation ended with a laugh, where BOTH of us laughed. In another, the person came round just before completely slipping into dementia. In the third, the person has chosen to remain obstinate and uncommunicative.
All three situations caused me untold heartache and pain. Like you, i walked through it. Today, i have peace about it. I did all i could do. While i might wish things ended differently, i have no regret for trying to set things right.
Wishing A all the best as she sorts this out.
- the only daughter said...
It was your sharing your experiences coupled with my own experiences that led me to give similar advice to a friend recently.
Sound. Sage.
- kj said...
For what it's worth, my Mother and I didn't talk for nine years because I am a lesbian. Then one day she said, I had a dream I might be wrong . What's the least I can do?
The least! My partner and I still chuckle over that. I responded , 'a cup of coffee'
So JB and I went to my parents house for a cup of coffee , and then came Easter dinner and then my father 's death and somehow everything was alright. I'm grateful because my Mother and I love each other and we are both lucky we made it past those nine years
I think the grumpy girl wants to go and now she knows she can protect herself as needed.
I'm sorry about your Mother, Maria. She lost out
- Jocelyn said...
The fault did seem to be something in your mother, a fact that was obscured since you had sisters who could sort of "hang" in their relationships with her. That would definitely have made it seem like the fault was in you.
However, I'd say a part of that dynamic between you and your mom was your unwillingness to tolerate her version of "love" or what it required to remain in a relationship with her. That's actually a strength in you--not compromising just for the sake of hanging onto something hollow.
Per my brilliant mother 'The hard thing to do is almost certainly the right thing to do.'
Excellent advice. Ever think of writing an advice column??


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DAVIS, Calif., March 12 (UPI) -- Studies show adults exposed to DDT are at higher risk of high blood pressure, but U.S. researchers say prenatal DDT exposure is also linked to hypertension.
Lead author Michele La Merrill, an assistant professor in the University of California, Davis' Department of Environmental Toxicology, said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT in the United States in 1972 after nearly three decades of use.
However, the pesticide is still used for malaria control in other parts of the world, such as India and South Africa, and children born in there could have a higher risk of hypertension as adults, the researchers said.
La Merrill said traces of DDT, a persistent organic pollutant, also remained in the food system, primarily in fatty animal products.
"The prenatal period is exquisitely sensitive to environmental disturbance because that's when the tissues are developing," La Merrill said in a statement.
The study examined concentrations of DDT in blood samples collected from women who had participated in the Child Health and Development Studies.
The women were recruited from those who sought obstetric care through Kaiser Permanente Foundation Health Plan in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1959 to 1967. They also surveyed the adult daughters of those women to learn if they had developed hypertension.
"Evidence from our study shows that women born in the United States before DDT was banned have an increased risk of hypertension that might be explained by increased DDT exposure," La Merrill said. "And the children of people in areas where DDT is still used may have an increased risk, as well."
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
The Law of Nominal Determinism is a Harsh Mistress
1. Avoid any organisation offering counselling for sexual abusers and sexual-abuse victims founded by someone called "Gothard".
2. Avoid organisations where the main advice to sexual-abuse victims is "It was your fault for tempting him. Feel repentance and allow Christ into you."
3. Avoid sexual-morality-enforcement organisations which are essentially job-creation schemes for the founder's family, especially if the founder's brother was eventually sacked for treating its secretaries as his personal harem.
4. Avoid counselling / sexual-morality-enforcement organisations if the founder's name frequently occurs in connection with words like "sexually grooming".
5. "Gothard". Ha.
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Gothard is arcane English for goatherd, but some etymolgies place it squarely in the period of the Danelaw, where a "hard" refers to either a cull of the herd or a single animal isolated for killing, shearing, or heavy petting.
Also, when a Huckabee asks,"What if the Supreme Court decided who was president? Hunh? Hunh?" you know his ambitions have been scaled back to something more realistic, like goatfucking.
- May 24, 2015 at 9:58 AM
- JP said...
Ugh. I really, really hate the whole "suffering gives spiritual strength" when it is applied to other people.
I mean, look, I might personally feel that I have gained some immaterial things by way of going through a lot of awful things. (Although I might also feel irrevocably damaged in certain ways as well. "What doesn't kill you can only make you wish you were dead," I always say.) But I would never dream of going around to other people and saying, "Gee, it sucks that you got raped an all, but just think of all the spiritual strength you'll gain from this!"
(I was once counseled, as a young teenager, that I should just try to find meaning in all the awful shittiness of my life. The person who was doing this was using some misreading of Viktor fucking Frankl to try to make the "point.")
I am also reminded of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's My Book of Bible Stories, which a Witness aunt had given to me as a young child quite a while before my dad bit the dust and my mom converted. This was a book of all the Bible stories, pretty much, including the one about Dinah, which ended up being an illustrated rape-shaming story for children.
I can't find an image of the actual story online, but I am fairly partial to this parody of it. (Some translations of the scriptures in question seem to suggest that Dinah actually had consensual sex with some Canaanite guy, not that she was raped, which makes her brothers' reaction seem really over the top.)
I also really like this version of the Jonah story.
- May 24, 2015 at 1:26 PM
- Smut Clyde said...
the one about Dinah, which ended up being an illustrated rape-shaming story for children.
The Christian pro-rape counselling literature uses Dinah as an example of someone who had initiative and stepped out from under her father's umbrella and therefore deserved to be raped (also it was part of God's genocide plan), and Tamar as an example of someone who listened to her father and and therefore deserved to be raped (also it was part of God's genocide plan).
If the whole sick culture were based somewhere in the Middle East, people would be calling for drone strikes after hearing the reports of their belief system and behaviour.
- May 24, 2015 at 2:49 PM
- JP said...
These people are possibly even a little worse than the Jehovah's Witnesses, which is saying something, but I'm not quite sure yet.
The J-Dubs are also pretty awful when it comes to wife beating and pedophilia.
Then again, Witness kids usually go to public school, and they are typically allowed to listen to the evil rock music, go to the movies, etc. They are not supposed to have non-Witness friends, although I did anyway. This can lead to significant problems if they leave the religion, because they will not have anybody to rely on when everybody they ever knew is required to pretend like they are dead.
- May 24, 2015 at 3:51 PM
- JP said...
Speaking of which, I wonder if the IBLP people do the whole shunning thing?
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Dr. Brody, Mr. Duncan, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Afternoon:
I am Marty Martinez, a student in the Part Time Engineering Programs at Johns Hopkins University. I am a retired Naval Officer with 22 years of prior military service and I am currently working as the Director of Science and Engineering Services at JUPITER Corporation, a Wheaton, MD based consulting firm.
I would like to take a moment to put my current situation in the proper perspective. My present job position typically requires 50 to 60 hours per week of my time. In addition to being involved in the day to day management of 35 scientists and engineers, and performing my corporate and departmental duties I personally manage a couple of the firm's major projects.
I am happily married and my wife Julie and I are the proud parents of three fine, but very active young men ages 13, 18, and 24. The oldest, a recent graduate of Virginia Tech has finally decided to leave our household and go off on his own. However, it seems to me that contrary to my expectations my list of things to do continues to grow. My point being, that I have very limited free time during the typical week.
My current position with JUPITER Corporation, which I have been in for the past year, required a multidisciplinary manager with experience in both the nuclear and environmental areas. Although my Navy experience had prepared me for the former, I quickly realized that I would need to pursue some sort of formal education in the environmental discipline to be eligible for such a position. After looking at most of the possible options I found at Johns Hopkins University a very convenient, practical and diverse environmental management masters program that certainly satisfied my needs and appeared to be compatible with my schedule.
I have been enrolled in what some students refer to as the extended Part Time Engineering Program for the last three years and hope to complete my degree requirements next year. With the exception of one course, that I have taken at the Applied Physics Laboratory all of my course work has been completed here at the Montgomery County Center. I honestly do not believe that the Homewood Campus in Baltimore would have presented a viable option in my situation. And as such, seeking a reputable degree from John Hopkins University would not have been possible.
Regarding the Program, I have been extremely impressed with the quality of instruction being offered. Just recently I hired a young environmental engineer who graduated from Johns Hopkins University this past summer. I consider this opportunity as one of the benefits of being a long-term student.
In closing, I would like to offer a special thank you to Dr. Alavi and his staff for putting together such a fine environmental science, engineering and management program and to Johns Hopkins University and its Montgomery County Center for really making it possible for me to achieve this very difficult and rewarding goal in my life.
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Cyanide Studio has announced another, definitive edition of Blood Bowl: their adaptation of Games Workshop's tabletop fantasy football game. The Chaos Edition will include three new races and an expansive World Championship solo mode, on top of the original game and previously-released content. We've got details, screens and release info below.
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition will bring the race roster up to 23, marking the anticipated debut of the malevolent Chaos Dwarves and Underworld Outcast teams. The main event, however, is probably the addition of the Daemons of Khorne, hailing all the way from the Chaos realms and bringing nightmarish bloodlust to the battlefield. Their new stadium (pictured), recently erected by Amazons and Lizardmen in the very heart of their tropical jungle, is more than ready to welcome all the new teams seeking to win the Blood Bowl tournament.
The new and retooled World Championship mode is set to enhance Blood Bowl's singleplayer functionality. "From national qualifying games to continental cups to the final tournament, the competition just got bloodier!"
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition is slated for a September launch on PC, a few months after Cyanides Game Of Thrones RPG hits shelves. They've got a lot to prove.


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An addictive and fun game for all. The game about acentric circles and iron balls. You need to steer the ball to centre of circle to complete the level. You have 5 different backgrounds that you can choose as per your mood. You also have option to change the ball color. The game has different difficulty level to compete with yourself. Play and set the minimum time for each level.
Please add comments to improve the app.*
If you will have any suggestions please write to email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This page summarizes modifications to the SBVR 1.0 CMOF metamodel that result in a more usable EMF-based implementation and API for tool development. An alternative EMF resource handler will be provided that loads and saves XMI files (with '.xmi' extension) compliant with the SBVR 1.0 specification. The modified metamodel will load and save files using the '.sbvr' file extension.
- The SBVR CMOF model as published with the OMG specification
- The revised model is available as SBVR.uml in CVS org.eclpse.sbvr/models
Class diagrams created from the original SBVR 1.0 metamodel specification:
- concept representation diagram -- Shows a subset of associations between concept, representation, and designation.
- set diagram -- Shows subclasses of set and their associations.
- terminological dictionary diagram -- Shows associations between terminological dictionary, vocabulary, and body of shared meanings.
General observations about the SBVR CMOF model from the specification:
- SBVR is defined in terms of SBVR language
- the CMOF metamodel is generated from the SBVR language
- the CMOF model in the specification was not created or edited using a UML modeling tool
- There is no use of composite aggregation anywhere in the model
- All associations own both property ends and none are navigable from the end classes.
The result of this design approach is that there are several challenges in producing a usable EMF-based implementation and a 'good' developer API.
In general, no associations or attributes are removed from the original metamodel. Additional composite properties are added to create a hierarchical ownership structure that enables EMF commands and validation based on containment. Operations are added that derive values, support validation, and improve developer APIs.


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For those of us that have a love/hate relationship with a weekly box of produce. Follow my adventures to see what I make, what worked, what was a disaster, and what inspires you to Flip your Farm Share.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
The Great Pasta Dish
When I was young, if someone asked, "what's for dinner?" and the answer was "pasta" that meant that either Mom was going to be home late, or *gasp*! Dad was in charge of dinner. My mom would freeze her own sauce for convenience, but sometimes, in a pinch, we'd have Prego--something that Dad would have stored down in the basement for just such an occasion as this. At that age, I thought pasta could only have a red sauce, or on very rare occasions, a white sauce, like the once-a-year alfredo we'd have. But pasta dishes can be oh-so-much-more.
Do you ever fancy a pasta dish that isn't loaded with sauce, but instead is loaded with vegetables, meats and other seasonal ingredients that you like? A dish that is light, but great tasting? Well here's a cooking technique to add to your arsenal.
Save the pasta water.
The starch from the pasta water actually helps the other ingredients you want in your pasta to stick and spread evenly throughout your dish, creating a sauceless pasta which is flavored by your choice of ingredients, not a thick sauce.
When creating your dish, pick ingredients that go well with pasta, and that go well with each other. An easy combination is pork sausage, mushrooms, peas, and sliced onions. Or chicken sausage, sundried tomatoes, spinach and mushrooms. Or my all time favorite, especially for fall and winter, chicken, mushrooms, onions, pine nuts and roasted butternut squash (and greens for color). Also have shredded parmesan cheese (grated yourself is the best) on hand.
Heat up water (salt it well!) for your pasta. I find that shorter pasta works better for this: penne and farfalle (the little bows) are the best, but fusilli and even spaghetti will work if you don't have anything else on hand.
While this is heating, cook each of your ingredients, and flavor them separately. While your pasta itself is cooking, mix all of your ingredients together in a large pan, so that their flavors can meld for a bit.
When you drain the pasta, save some of the water it was cooked in (1-2 cups). Put the pasta back in the pot, add the pan of your ingredients, and a half a cup of the pasta water. Put the heat on high and mix all the ingredients quickly. Add another 1/2 cup of the water, and mix until the ingredients are spread evenly throughout the pasta. Remove it from the heat, and stir in the parmesean cheese until melted. And your dinner is served!
I'll take you step by step through my favorite.
Chicken and Butternut Squash Pasta
1 box farfalle (or other short pasta)
1-2 breasts of skinless boneless chicken
1/2 package of fresh button mushrooms, sliced
1 small onion (or half a large one), thinly sliced
1 handfull of pine nuts
1 TBSP of dijon mustard
1/4 real maple syrup (do not try this with Ms. Butterworth's)
1/8 tsp of Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup of shredded parmesean cheese
2 cups of chopped fresh butternut squash
Salt and Pepper
Olive oil
Chop the chicken breasts into bite size pieces. Whisk together the maple syrup, mustard, and worcestershire sauce. Marinate the chicken in this mixture. Heat a pot of water to boiling, and salt it well. This means about 1/8 cup of salt. While it's heating, put some oil inthe bottom of a large skillet, and put in butternut squash; after about two minutes, pour in a little water so that the bottom of the skillet is covered with liquid, and then put the cover on the pan for 15 minutes, and stir it occasionally. After 15 minutes, take the top off, and turn up the heat to brown the squash. Stir frequently and watch carefully. While this is cooking, chop the onion. For this dish, I like it in small slices; diced just doesn't seem right.
Here is how to chop thin slices easily from an onion. This root technique will help you with any cut of onion actually. First chop off the head (the pointy end, not the end with the root), and cut it in half the long way, right through the root. Peel off the skin, and then take your knife and cut longitudinally almost to the root in small pieces, but not all the way to the root. When you've finished cutting, then cut across the root to separate the pieces, and you'll have perfect slices (see picture for visual).
Saute the onions, and the mushrooms in olive oil. Defrost the frozen spinach, and squeeze the water out. You'll also want to dry toast the pine nuts to get more flavor. Take a small skillet and heat it, with nothing in it put the pine nuts. Keep it on medium heat. You will have to turn the nuts frequently, and watch them carefully. As soon as they brown, take them out of the pan. Reserve these to add at the end with the cheese.
Put pasta in the pot to cook. Meanwhile, cook chicken pieces (drain marinade) in skillet with olive oil. Once they are cooked through, take two forks and shred the pieces. Then turn the heat up and brown them. Add the spinach, mushrooms, onions, and squash. Let these flavors meld, test the pasta. When the pasta is just cooked through, drain it, reserving 1-2 cups of the past water. Return the pasta to its original pan, add the ingredients in the skillet, and a half cup of the pasta water. Turn on the heat, and mix to distribute all ingredients. Add a little more pasta water and continue to heat and mix quickly until everything is evenly distributed throughout. Remove the pan from heat, and add in parmesean cheese and pine nuts in two batches, mixing until cheese is melted.
The best part about this dish is that you can tailor it to your tastes, and to the season at hand.
Here are some tips for making this dish come out just right every time:
1. Flavor each component separately. With a meat like chicken, which doesn't have much fat, a marinade will work; sausages can usually stand up themselves. Definitely flavor all vegetable components.
2. When you put your colander into the sink to drain the pasta, put a pyrex measuring cup into the colander; that way you won't forget to save the water! (believe me, this has happened to me more than once, and the dish is definitely not the same).
3. Don't be afraid of the pasta water. It may look liquidy when you add it back in, but the heat and the mixing will get rid of it. That being said, don't overdo it; it's not soup.
Once you get this down pat, you'll love to make them, and whoever you're cooking for will love to eat them!
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Las Vegas Shooters Left Hints of Their Intentions
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The Lafayette couple whose Las Vegas rampage killed two police officers and a bystander had left some hints of their intentions -- but those hints are clearest only in retrospect.
Acquaintances of Jerad and Amanda Miller have said the Millers often ranted about "revolution." But a neighbor who got the same routine from them the morning of the shootings told reporters she thought they were just "talking smack."
Indiana State Police spokesman Dave Bursten says the slogan of "if you see something, say something" is still valid. But he acknowledges there's a distinction between an outburst about wanting to kill people, and a specific threat to commit a specific act.
Police say they discovered just such specifics in a search of the Millers' apartment after the shootings. But the couple's comments beforehand appear to have been vaguer.
Bursten says there's no clear-cut rule for citizens to follow. Instead, it's what lawyers call the "reasonable man" test: whether a reasonable person would believe something to be a threat.
Bursten says State Police do keep tabs on hate groups with a history of violence. Las Vegas authorities have said they're investigating whether the Millers had ties to any such groups.


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So what do Major League Baseball and NASCAR have in common?
They both will probably have the same nightmare. What's that nightmare? Think about how much trouble the MLB head office went to ensure that the World Series games would not be (1) during the day on a weekday and (2) not up against football at night. So what happens? First, Colorado sweeps the National League pennant. Bosox saves the day by clawing out of a 3-1 deficit to win the American pennant.
Then the NIGHTMARE—a Bosox sweep in four!
So, let's now look at the situation in NASCAR. The New York front office increased the number of drivers in the Chase (and Jr. still didn't make it), hyped the change in the points system to reward race winners, and kept talking about how the top five drivers in the Chase are all capable of winning the championship even as late as the Martinsville race. Three weeks ago I wrote that after Martinsville, the Chase would be down to two drivers — no one even flinched. Well, we now have exactly that — Teflon I and Teflon II.
Who even cares now that we know that Hendrick will once again carry home the trophy — just which of the Teflon men will it be? Do Tony's fans care? Matt's? Denny's? Hardly!
Yes, gentlemen (and ladies): we have a repeat of the MLB Nightmare — except now it's NASCAR's turn. As Mike said, "twice of one or half of the other"! Better leave the lights on so as not to fall asleep.


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Lottery players at Tuzzo's Circle News in Hollywood think today's their day. So do those at a Pembroke Pines Publix and others at Government Discount in Miami.
At least, the numbers are on their side. Those South Florida retailers rank high among venues that have sold tickets awarding $600 or more, according to a Sun Sentinel analysis of Florida Lottery winnings since 1993.
(Visit SunSentinel.com/lotterydata to see where lottery tickets with payouts of $600 or more have been sold since 1993.)
Tuzzo's Circle News, located on East Young Circle, is ranked No. 13 in the state. Tuzzo's owner, Mike Patel, said the store began selling tickets when the lottery debuted in 1988, and regular customers are his base, including a Hollywood man who hit the $5,000 Play 4 jackpot 52 times in 2011.
"It's important to players that the person behind the counter knows what they're doing, and knows all the games," Patel said. "We get them in and out of here as quickly as possible, and they know we won't screw up their tickets."
Among the state's 13,000 or so lottery retailers, the Publix at 8341 Flagler Park Plaza in Miami is No. 1, selling at least 516 tickets with prizes of $600 or more. On average, the grocery store sells a big-money ticket every other week.
"Really? I had no idea," said Marcos Ferrara, who buys Florida Lotto tickets weekly at the store. "I guess that means I'm due."
The Publix supermarket chain, which has 231 stores in South Florida, has doled out the most winning tickets in the state. A Pembroke Pines Publix on Flamingo Road, south of Pines Boulevard, ranks No. 5 in the state, with 443 wins, and a Hallandale Beach Publix is No. 8, with 411 wins.
About 18 percent ($720 million) of the lottery's $4 billion business happens at Publix. Of the state's 10 winningest sites, six are Publix stores. The grocery chain, which is based in Lakeland, doesn't comment about the lottery, but it does have an incentive for selling tickets: Retailers receive 5 percent of ticket sales, 1 percent of tickets they cash, and bonuses for big tickets, including at least $20,000 for Powerball.


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Facebook seems to have a controversy a day over something or other, including their declined stock value from their recent IPO. The site has also often taken to banning bathing suit or bikini photos, let alone outright nudity or sex acts that some have posted on the site. Celebrity Courtney Stodden found herself banned from Facebook because of a bikini photo for example.
But, one Facebook controversy has ended up in court. In the Philippines, 5 girls who attend a Catholic high school were recently banned from graduation because of bikini photos posted on Facebook. And some of the photos of the beach party did show the girls with cigarettes or alcohol bottles present as well. The high school attempted to contend that the girls were involved on possible "immoral" behavior, however a judge didn't agree and forced the school to allow the graduation of the five girls to go ahead after one girl's parents spearheaded the lawsuit action.
And in cases. some employers are using access to Facebook to judge the character of new employees, and to determine whether to hire them as a new employees. It's yet another example where conduct posted on Facebook can impact a person's job prospects or life.
Facebook might be the world's most popular social networking site. But, that hardly doesn't mean that it can also be a career suicide move if one isn't cautious what they post on the site.


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Tie The Knot
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Tie the Knot Bridal Boutique was established in 2006. The original store was located in Howard, WI. After five years in business, we outgrew that retail space and moved to our current location on Military Avenue in Green Bay. We share retail space with DuBois Formalwear and have a wonderful relationship with them. Since opening our doors, thousands of brides have found their dream gown at Tie the Knot Bridal Boutique. We look forward to hearing your love story!
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Too late: the Nanny has already come into the kitchen.
"This is a disaster!" she exclaims. "Give me those markers at once!"
Nanny approaches, but a noise at the window distracts her.
"What's happening out there?"
The two children smile: it's the Macchiopardo, who comes in to help them!
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Professor Daniel L. Feldman in the Department of Public Management and David R. Eichenthal wield their 40 plus years of experience in federal, state and local government and criminal justice research to show how average citizens can function as effective watchdogs against government fraud and abuse in their seminal new book, The Art of the Watchdog: Fighting Fraud, Waste, Abuse, and Corruption in Government. They provide expert advice, tools and techniques for the reader to identify government waste and inefficiency and how people can act to enhance government strength and integrity.
"We must expose and punish those who abuse government power. As important, we must fight the knee-jerk cynics who preach that everyone in politics or in government is corrupt," said Feldman. "Their message undermines the fight for reform, and thus helps the crooks and scoundrels. We will not eliminate corruption, but we must not stop fighting it, or it will destroy us. The Art of the Watchdog shows that it is possible to limit the scope of fraud, waste, abuse and corruption in government, and how to do it."
Mark J. Green, former New York City public advocate and author of Who Runs Congress? said, "This is simply the best book written on the government watchdog function. It smartly explains how a persistent, gutsy, and empirical watchdog can be a tugboat moving supertankers."
Tom Griscom, former White House Communications Director in the Reagan administration endorsed the book saying, "Who really watches out for abuses and waste in government? Often it is committed public servants who understand that oversight is part of doing the people's business. Feldman and Eichenthal show how effective watchdogs can lead to better government performance and improved public confidence."
Professor Feldman teaches Oversight & Investigation, Ethics & Accountability, and Administrative Law. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 1980, and served as a member of the Legislature from 1981 through 1998, writing over 140 state laws, including New York's Megan's Law and Organized Crime Control Act. As Correction Committee chair for twelve years, he led some of the first efforts to repeal the Rockefeller drug laws. For six years thereafter, as a senior member of Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's staff, he exposed HUD's 203k-mortgage loan guarantee scandal and led the investigation of UnumProvident's disability insurance scam.
Until his full-time appointment at John Jay, Professor Feldman worked as Special Counsel for Law & Policy to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. His fourth book, Tales from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York State, with co-author Gerald Benjamin, was published by SUNY Press in 2010. The publication date for his fifth book, The Art of the Watchdog: Fighting Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Corruption in Government, with co-author David Eichenthal, also by SUNY Press, is January 1, 2014. He also wrote numerous scholarly articles, and serves as Perspective and Commentary Editor for Public Administration Review. His current research involves government oversight, administrative theory, and legal philosophy.
For more information about the book, click here.


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So This Is What Offense Looks Like
Jets Manhandle the Raiders, Winning by More Than Seven Points for the First Time This Season
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.—The team misplayed deep passes, fumbled a snap and threw an interception in front of its own end zone. But in a role reversal at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, the squad described above wasn't the Jets.
Instead, it was their opponent, the Oakland Raiders, as the Jets scored their highest point total of the season in an unexpectedly stress-free, 37-27 win that ended their three-game losing streak.


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A Different Approach to Competitive Fishing: The TART Tournament [VIDEO]
The Pacific Blue Marlin TART Tournament highlighted in a new fishing show is unique and noteworthy.
Not every fishing trip has to end in bringing a trophy home, hanging a mount on the wall or cooking a delicious dinner from the catch.
In that vein, an upcoming fishing tournament show with an interesting twist is showing viewers what the "tag and release" approach can do for large game fish.
Check out the preview video from Farish Media.
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The Pacific Blue Marlin Tag and Release Tournament isn't brand new, but will be bringing the action to national television audiences soon. The show is produced by and stars Ken Corday, the EMMY Award-winning Executive Producer of Days of our Lives. Corday founded the tournament 23 years ago, which
Even with the underlying conservation angle leading the way, the tournament still maintains a healthy does of competition and excitement. The format pits five boats, their captains and their anglers against each other over five days in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
The main idea is to earn the most points calculated by tagging and releasing the great fish without doing any harm.
Check out the channel listings for the show here, and consider this: could the future of fishing tournaments look more like this than the current structure?