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RE: [gnso-sti] RE: Draft STI Report- Part II
Paul: Maybe I'm wrong, but I am hopeful that you might be reading into this proposed change too much. I don't see it as a retreat. The suggestion is to make comparable the level of consensus specified in the URS section and the TC section. The current draft states that there is unanimous consensus for the URS and rough consensus for the Clearinghouse. My suggestion in these summary sections is to just use the word "consensus" and leave the sub-designations for the specific principles enumerated in the chart. In the spirit of compromise, could folks live with just saying that there is "consensus" for the URS and a Trademark Clearinghouse without specifying rough or unanimous? Thanks. Jon ________________________________ From: owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of McGradyP@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 5:59 PM To: robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [gnso-sti] RE: Draft STI Report- Part II Thanks Robin. Respectfully, your comments don't clarify. I think Kathy's statement on our last URS was quite clear and this 11th hour retreat is not reflective of all the hard work all of the stake holder groups put in to address NCSG concerns and the consensus that was reached in the process. We think the report should reflect the consensus that was, in fact, reached and to the extent NCSG has any clarifying statement it wishes to make along the lines below, you put those in a statement to the GNSO Council or make them through your Counselors rather than having a report that does not reflect what actually happened. Paul D. McGrady, Jr. Greenberg Traurig, LLP 77 West Wacker Drive, Suite 2500 Chicago, IL 60601 312 456 8426 tel 312 899 0407 fax mcgradyp@xxxxxxxxx Assistant: Loyanna Grierson (312) 236-4952 Direct Dial (312) 456-8435 Facsimile griersonl@xxxxxxxxx -------------------------- This email was sent from my BlackBerry device. Please forgive any typos. ________________________________ From: Robin Gross <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: McGrady, Paul D. (Shld-Chi-IP/Tech) Cc: gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx <gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon Dec 07 16:39:30 2009 Subject: Re: [gnso-sti] RE: Draft STI Report- Part II Dear Paul, I apologize if I came across as back-peddling, which we are not. We do agree with the consensus on most of these points, we just think the wording in the draft to describe the support for the URS is too strong of an endorsement for the need for the URS in the first place. Yes, we are agreeing to go along with it because we want to see new gtlds introduced, and given the alternatives, we think it is the best compromise that could be reached. So I don't mean to imply to we do not support the consensus, we just don't want the board to get a report that says all the GNSO is unanimous that a URS must be created before new gtlds can be introduced as the current wording seems to imply. I hope that clears up my intention with the suggested edits. Thanks, Robin On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:54 PM, <McGradyP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: This is unexpected and disappointing. We spent many hours on calls with members of the NCSG working constructively through its concerns related to the URS all so that we could reach full consensus on the URS, which consensus Kathy provided - with some much appreciated dramatic affect - on our final call. To have NCSG attempt to back pedal like this at this late hour is truly troubling. Paul D. McGrady, Jr. Greenberg Traurig, LLP 77 West Wacker Drive, Suite 2500 Chicago, IL 60601 312 456 8426 tel 312 899 0407 fax mcgradyp@xxxxxxxxx Assistant: Loyanna Grierson (312) 236-4952 Direct Dial (312) 456-8435 Facsimile griersonl@xxxxxxxxx -------------------------- This email was sent from my BlackBerry device. 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To reply to our email administrator directly, please send an email to postmaster@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:postmaster@xxxxxxxxx> . ________________________________ From: owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx <owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx> To: GNSO STI <gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon Dec 07 15:42:40 2009 Subject: Re: [gnso-sti] RE: Draft STI Report- Part II NCSG will be sending its detailed comments on this draft to this list shortly from Kathy. I wanted to make a general comment in the meantime about the use "unanimous consensus" to describe support the URS and "rough consensus" to describe support for the Trademark Clearinghouse in the Report. >From NCSG's perspective, the URS should be more accurately characterized as "rough consensus" since NCSG's first preference was not to create one at all, but we agreed to this as a compromise to induce the roll-out of new gtlds. Our support for the URS is contingent upon that understanding, so I'd suggest re-wording the first paragraph of the URS section as follows (changes in blue): There is a rough consensus among the members of STI that creation of a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) procedure would be a beneficial rights protection mechanism for inclusion in the New GTLD program. The STI recognizes that the URS could provide trademark holders with a cost effective, expedited process in instances of clear cut instances of trademark abuse, provided that the procedure includes appropriate safeguards to protect registrants who may engage in legitimate uses of domain names. Despite the expedited nature of the URS, staff shall recommend a uniform procedure for and URS Service providers shall provide procedures consistent with fair notice, justice, and due process. Thanks, Robin On Dec 5, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Margie Milam wrote: Dear All, Attached for your review is the second draft of the STI Report, that includes the Trademark Clearinghouse and URS recommendations. Although I have received a number of comments already to the first draft, this version does not address any of them except to change the references of "broad consensus" to "rough consensus." I thought it would be more appropriate to wait for additional comments before circulating the next draft. 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The 49ers are ready for Aldon Smith to come back.
Smith, the outside linebacker who entered an alcohol rehabilitation program after playing for the 49ers in Week Three, has been activated from the non-football injury list.
The 24-year-old Smith is one of the NFL's most talented pass rushers, but off-field problems have been a concern throughout his career, and last month he was arrested for drunk driving for the second time in the two and a half years he's been with the 49ers. During his absence from the team he was also charged with three felonies for allegedly possessing illegal assault weapons.
Smith may still have legal trouble and may still face league discipline, but he is back with the team and likely to play when the 49ers return from this week's bye and host the Panthers next Sunday.

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Imagine my surprise to discover that an off-hours bit of work done with a couple of colleagues got a mention in the mainstream press. XFN, which seems to be spreading through the blog world and is generating some very good feedback, was mentioned in a Seattle Times article titled "Social networking beginning to take shape on the Web." I'm amused that years upon years of work on CSS, which is arguably a cornerstone of the modern Web, netted me (so far as I know) exactly zero newspaper coverage, while something to which I made minor contributions merited ink within a month of its launch.
With that article still fresh in my mind, I received something like my fourth or fifth invitation to join LinkedIn, which was mentioned in the very next paragraph after the bit about XFN. Since I'm rather interested in social networking technologies these days, I decided to set up an account and experiment a bit—do some compare-and-contrast between LinkedIn and XFN, from a user's point of view. It's interesting, but I'm not sure I quite grasp the point of it. Are links intended solely to deliver prospective clients to vendors? Or is it supposed to be a way to show who you know, and thus who they know, and so on? For myself, I've decided to limit my connections to people with whom I've had some contact professionally. So if you're a member and want to invite me, go ahead.
One of the people I did invite to link to me is George Nemeth, Cleveland-based superblogger extraordinaire. I dropped by his site to see what he's talking about, and spotted a link to a LEGO® recreation of M. C. Escher's Relativity. The same people also did Ascending and Descending, and a few others besides. Color me impressed! From there, I visited some other LEGO®-sculpture sites, finding at one point a really large model of a stegosaur, which was even more impressive, both from a sheer achievement point of view as well as a testament to the amount of free time some people have available. And check this out: the guy who came up with a model of the Nebuchadnezzar, a mostly working badger, and a whole bunch of other LEGO® sculptures besides, lives right here in Cleveland.
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Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun and here is the challenge!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:
1) Determine where your ancestral families were on 1 January 1913 - 100 years ago.
2) List them, their family members, their birth years, and their residence location (as close as possible). Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist?
3) Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status or Google+ Stream post.
My maternal grandparents, Michael Connery (b 1861 in Kilfinnan, Limerick, Ireland) and Alice Fleming Connery (b 1872 in Ballylanders, Limerick, Ireland) were living at 4140 W Washington Blvd. in Chicago, Illinois. Living at home with them at the time were their children Mary Elizabeth (20), Kathleen (18), Alice (14), Pauline (13), Thomas (10), John (8), and Eleanor (4). Son Leo had died in 1905 and my mother Elizabeth was not born until 1917. All of their children were born in Chicago. This is not their exact home but it is very similar and would be reversed.
4140 W Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL (photo google maps)
600 N Lockwood Ave Chicago, Illinois (photo google maps)
In 1913, my paternal grandparents were living at 600 N Lockwood in Chicago, Illinois. Adolph Hansen (b 1880 in Oslo, Akershus, Norway) and Henrietta Burbach Hansen (b 1888 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) lived with their children Dorothy Eva (b 1908 in Chicago) and Donald George ( b 1910 in Tooele, Utah. Since they moved often for Adolph's work, I checked the City Directories to verify the address.
My Great-grandparents Patrick Connery and Mary Hayes along with ThomasFleming and Mary Hennessy were in Limerick, Ireland. Eva Schmitz Burbach Meuller (b 1858 Milwaukee, WI), was living in Milwaukee, WI her husband Hermann Burbach (b 1852 in Villmar, Hesse, Germany) having died in Milwaukee in 1896. Adolph Hansen's father, Adolf b 1852 in Oslo,Oslo, Norway. died in 1911 in Bergen, Norway. His mother, Dorette Christiansen (b 1857 in Oslo, Oslo, Norway) died in Oslo in 1887.
The photos are representative of the area at the time but I believe both residences are long gone. Even the house I grew up in existed in 1913 but is also gone now.
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Sadly, this has not been a summer of canning. Rather, this has been a summer of work, writing a cookbook, throwing a pop-up beer garden for the World Cup, and getting ready for a tiny human. I've been distracted, to say the least.
In the midst of the craziness, I've found pockets of spare time to can and preserve a few precious jars of goodies. I inherited a rather large stash of blueberries recently, and made a number of different dishes (including these blueberry and corn crostini). I set aside most of the blueberries, however, with the intention of making jam as I absolutely adore blueberry jam. In fact, blueberry jam might be my second favorite jam of all time. (It should go without saying that my Grandmother's strawberry freezer jam is the best jam of all time.) Blueberry jam is just so dark, sweet, and wonderful. It is especially delicious when slathered on biscuits, toast, scones, or any other bready item.
For this particular batch of blueberry jam, I wanted to mix things up a bit. So, I decided to add lavender and vanilla bean. Because, why not? It sounded good. As it turns out, the combination of blueberries, lavender, and vanilla bean really is quite good. If you happen to have a few extra blueberries lying around, I highly encourage you to make a batch of this blueberry lavender jam. You won't regret it.
- 8 cups fresh blueberries
- 2 tablespoons dried culinary lavender
- 4.5 cups sugar
- Zest & juice of one lemon
- 1 vanilla bean, scraped
- 3 tablespoons Ball RealFruit Pectin
- ½ teaspoon unsalted butter
- Wash and sterilize jars and lids. In a large canning pot, cover jars with water and bring to a boil. Boil for at least 10 minutes, then turn off the heat and allow jars to rest in the hot water until needed. Additionally, places the bands and lids in a small pot and boil for a 5 minutes.
- Place lavender in a small bowl or cup, and pour ½ cup of boiling water over the dried lavender. Allow to steep for 15-20 minutes. Strain out the dried lavender and reserve the remaining liquid for the jam.
- Using a blender, immersion blender, food processor, or potato masher – mash or crush the blueberries.
- In a small bowl, combine ¼ cup of sugar with the pectin.
- In large stock pot or pan, combine the crushed blueberries, lemon zest and juice, vanilla bean seeds, and lavender liquid. Stir in the sugar-pectin mixture and the butter. Heat over medium-high heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Once the mixture is boiling, add the remaining sugar (4.25 cups). Return to a full rolling boil, and boil for 1-2 minutes. Remove jam from heat and skim off any foam.
- Remove jars from the hot water, and ladle jam into hot jars. Leave a ¼" head space. Wipe the jar rims clean, and place lids and bands on the jars. Process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes.


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I spent some time with Dan Arcy from Shell Lubricants a few weeks back at the Technology & Maintenance Council's annual meeting, talking about how the concept of "lubricant management" is getting some legs within trucking circles. In essence, lubricant management is about looking at all the engine oils, greases, coolants, and other fluids a trucking fleet uses not so much as individual products but in terms of goals: reduced wear and longer life for engines and components, longer drain intervals to lower overall maintenance costs, etc.
"It's more than just looking at products individually - it's also about dialing in the services behind them as well, such as oil analysis, benchmarking results against our collective database, etc.," Arcy told me. "It's about getting the whole package."
Now, obviously, Shell is biased towards this concept, because they see it as a way to secure more of their customer's business: for the end result of "lubricant management" should be a fleet going with one supplier for all of their greases, engine oil blends, etc.
Yet if you look beyond that bias for a second, the concept of "lubricant management" does make a lot of sense. Lubricant suppliers are compiling tons of detailed data from individual customers on the performance of various oils, greases, and fluids, adding them to a massive internal database. I can see a lot of benefit for fleets to benchmark their results against those of operations similar to their own. For example, that could help them better determine drain intervals and other details that can help save money over time.
(Dan Arcy, at left, and Jonathan Ubil conduct a demonstration of Shells' Video Check service for engines ... more on that farther down in this entry.)
"We can look at everything in great detail: the impact of engine idle time, stop and go operation versus over-the-road, and other variables," Arcy said. "We can roll the engine oil, transmission fluid, and other lubricants all into one model and look at performance metrics. We can analyze the whole maintenance impact from this kind of data."
"Lube Match" is one of Shell's newest services in this arena: comparing the lubes used by a particular customer against data gleaned from hundreds of fleets worldwide in similar operations, using a variety of engines. "It takes a lot of the guesswork out when a fleet is looking to change lubricants and engines," Arcy explained. "And they can also look at a variety of blends, too, from 'premium' down to low-cost products, so they can factor in price as well as lubricant performance in their decision-making process."
Shell also offers its own unique twist when it comes to engine oil analysis, through its "Video Check" service. Introduced two years ago, Video Check uses a miniature digital camera to inspect the interior components of an engine to spot problems, reducing the need for a costly and time-consuming physical breakdown.
(Shell's Video Check service in action).
The camera is fed into the diesel engine through the cylinder fuel injector port using a fiber optic cable, illuminating the inside of the engine and transmitting the images to a monitor. The service can inspect the piston crown, combustion chamber, cylinder wall, valve seats and head, Jonathan Ubil, one of Shell's skilled Video Check operators, told me.
"During routine maintenance, it is virtually impossible to inspect the internal components of an engine to identify damage and prevent failures that can lead to greater expenses," he said, noting it takes about 20 to 30 minutes too look at an engine this way, versus the many hours needed for a physical inspection. "This is a valuable tool to help identify engine problems and cut down the cost of diesel engine maintenance."
And it's not just about getting a "snapshot" of the fleet's engine health, added Arcy. This system can also be used to look at used trucks pre-sale or verify the impact of extended oil drains on pilot test trucks. There's many different ways to use this technology to save fleets money when it comes to maintenance, he stressed - again, a service that's part of Shell's lubricant management package.
"If we can maximize lubricant life across the fleet, then we save them money." Arcy told me. "And we use all the other tools we have - our laboratories for lubricant analysis, our database, and Video Check, among others - to verify the results they are getting. That's what getting the whole package is all about."


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Caesars is a Swedish alternative rock band. In their native Sweden, the band was originally known as Caesars Palace, and in the rest of Scandinavia they are known as Twelve Caesars. Elsewhere they go by the name Caesars. Outside of Sweden, they may be best known for the song "Jerk It Out", which was originally featured in the snowboarding video Afterbang in 2002 and later appeared in an iPod advertisement in 2005, as well as the Electronic Arts video games SSX 3 and FIFA Football 2004, also known as FIFA Soccer 2004 and on the PlayStation 2 game LMA Manager 2005, and arcade game Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova. The song is featured on their 39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World) Paper Tigers, and Love For The Streets albums. They have won Swedish Grammy Awards for best album and best new artist. Their song "We Got to Leave" is the theme music to the television series Confessions of a Matchmaker. It was also in the movie John Tucker Must Die. The song "You're my favourite" is on "The Coolest songs in the world vol. 2"
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Japan tourism aims to top pre-earthquake arrivals recordMay 14 (Mon ), 2012
Japan tourism aims to top pre-earthquake arrivals record
Japan's travel and tourism industry is forecast to stage a complete recovery following last year's earthquake and tsunami during the first half of 2012.
A new report by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), its fourth and final report since the earthquake of March 11,
2011, forecasts the full recovery of international tourism demand during the first half of 2012, having initially fallen 62 percent in April 2011.
According to WTTC, Japan's travel and tourism industry is set to directly contribute JPY10,276 billion (US$129 billion) in 2012, marginally above the JPY10,246 billion (US$128.5 billion) in 2010. This followed a fall of 3.9 percent in 2011 due to the earthquake and tsunami.
David Scowsill, President and CEO of WTTC said: "Japan is the third largest travel and tourism economy in the world, so its health is of crucial importance to our industry across the globe. Japan's travel and tourism recovery has been much better than anyone could have anticipated 12 months ago. With help of a forceful marketing strategy, Japan is open and ready for business. Domestic travel recovered strongly last year, and 2012 is forecast to be the year for full recovery of international visitors.
"It is particularly fitting that WTTC is holding its Global Summit in Sendai and Tokyo from April 16-19. We are delighted to be taking the leaders of our industry to Japan at such an important time for the country."
Other selected highlights from the report show:
- Outbound travel and tourism has followed a similar path to that of domestic tourism, as Japanese travelers quickly regained confidence and recovery was more rapid than under any of the original scenarios. For 2011 as a whole, departures were 2 percent higher than in 2010 – to just under 17 million from 16.6 million in 2010 – with growth evident from as early as July. This means that outbound travel has not only recovered back to previous levels, in terms of trips, but has also fully recovered losses from the period during and immediately after the disaster. However, outbound travel expenditure was still more than 8 percent down on 2010's level after the first ten months of the year.
- Oxford Economics, WTTC's research partner, suggests the strengthening of the yen may also have added as much as 4 percent growth to departures over baseline forecasts. But the increase in outbound departures averaged roughly 7 percent in the last six months of 2011, suggesting that other factors are also having a significant impact.
- JTB Foundation is currently forecasting a 4 percent increase in Japanese outbound travel, with a continuation of the trend to more short-haul and less long-haul travel.
- For 2011 as a whole, inbound arrivals were 28 percent down on 2010's level – to 6.2 million from 8.6 million in 2010 – with January 2012 showing only a 4 percent down on the same month of the previous year. By contrast, visitor exports were an estimated 28 percent below 2010's level through the first ten months of 2011.
- Business travelers have been quickest to respond to the reality that Japan remains a safe and attractive destination, with inbound arrivals approaching 2010 levels during the second half 2011. But leisure traveler volumes were still significantly lower than a year earlier in October, the latest month for which a breakdown of arrivals data is available.
- South Korea – Japan's leading market source – was down 32 percent over the year, with just under 1.7 million visitors as against more than 2.4 million in 2010. Arrivals from number two market, China, slipped by 26 percent, although the last couple of months saw strong double-digit growth, thanks in large part to a major year-end promotional drive and an easing of visa requirements for Chinese.
- The Japan National Tourism Organization is aiming to top 2010's record 18.6 million arrivals count in 2012.
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SeaTac Police Chief Jim Graddon to Retire
by Jack Mayne
Jim Graddon, chief of the SeaTac Police Department and a major in the King County Sheriff's office, plans to retire later this year.
"After nine years of service to the City of SeaTac, the last six as your Chief of Police, I have decided to retire at the end of April of this year," Graddon wrote in a letter to SeaTac City Manager Todd Cutts.
"I have had remarkable fortune over my 39 years in Law Enforcement, the last 34 with the Sheriff's Office. And I am humbled to have been able to serve so much of that time in the communities where I and my wife were born and raised. Few people have that opportunity."
He said he "long ago" told then Division Chief (later sheriff) Sue Rahr that he "would truly love to end my career in my present position. I get to fulfill that dream.
Graddon said he "could not have greater admiration for what we have accomplished as a city."
The future, he said, holds more good things and he said he would miss being part of that, "But I will tell you that the hardest part of leaving will be stepping away from a management team and staff for whom I have such great respect. I have been afforded opportunities here that I could not have imagined when I took this position. This was only possible due to the dedicated people, the teams that work here every day under your guidance to serve our citizens."
He said he felt he had the "strongest support" form Cutts and other SeaTac city leaders.
"I remain fully committed to my work here over the next 3 months, and to a smooth transition of this office with the person who follows," he said in conclusion.
"Of course I could not be happier for Jim and his wife, but frankly I was devastated otherwise!" said King County Sheriff John Urquhart. "He is a good friend and has been such an asset to SeaTac and the Sheriff's Office for so many years. Jim's patience, knowledge, and overall good humor will not be easily replaced. I know the decision to retire was a tough one, and everyone at the Sheriff's Office wishes him the very best."
City Manager Todd Cutts added:
"It was with mixed emotions that I accepted Chief Graddon's notice of retirement. I am thrilled for Jim personally as he enters the next chapter of his life, able to devote more of his time to his family, friends and outside interests. His retirement is well deserved. He will certainly be missed at the City of SeaTac. His blend of leadership, professionalism, commitment and compassion brought an exemplary level of service to the SeaTac community. Having been born and raised in the Highline area, he has a keen grasp of the complexities we face from both a law enforcement and a community building perspective. While I'm certain Jim's successor will continue his commitment to service, the SeaTac community and the City of SeaTac family will miss him."


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Big Mama Six, Big Daddy Six, and their son, are standing in the living room, having a conversation.
Big Mama: We're so happy you're our son.
Big Daddy: So very, very happy.
Son: Thanks.
Big Mama: We recognize what a good job you're doing.
Big Daddy: Such a better job than your brothers and sisters. I know we're not supposed to play favorites, but son... you're our favorite.
Son: Thanks. Look, I really need to tell you something.
Big Mama: We're so proud of you. Do you remember when you were just a baby?
Big Daddy: Needed us to wipe your nose.
Big Mama: All the poopy diapers we changed.
Big Daddy: But look at you now. All grown up.
Big Mama: I must say, Big Daddy, we sure did a good job raising him.
Big Daddy: We sure did. And look at him now! Such a strapping young man.
Big Mama: We've done so much for you.
Big Daddy: And we'll keep doing it. Because we're your parents, and you need us.
Son: Guys...
Big Mama: The risks we took! The time investment!
Big Daddy: And the monetary investment! Buying you food all those years. Clothes. School supplies. You couldn't have gotten those straight A's if we didn't buy you pencils.
Son: (sighing) Yes. You bought me pencils. You're the best parents ever.
Big Mama: We've been talking, your father and I. And we have some news.
Big Daddy: It's true. We've discussed it, and we've decided we're going to raise your allowance by 2%.
Big Mama: Aren't we generous?
Big Daddy: You're now making $21.50 a week. How do you feel about that, young man?
Son: You both are making this awkward.
Big Mama: Now don't think that 2% raise doesn't come with added responsibilities, son. Besides doing the cooking, the cleaning, the yard work, and building that addition onto our house, you'll also now be required to service all four of ours cars, twice a month.
Big Daddy: We have a lot of bills to pay. Rent. Utilities. Food. And let's face it, you eat a lot. So we're going to have to charge you for the extra food you're consuming.
Big Mama: But it's okay. Our relationship isn't just about food, or money. We nurture. We protect. We guide.
Big Daddy: When you painted that beautiful watercolor, who sold it for you and gave you 17.5% of the money? We did.
Big Mama: That's what we do. Because we're a team.
Big Daddy: Risky business, raising children. But you've made us so proud.
Son: Enough! I wanted to tell you I'm leaving home.
Big Mama: What?
Big Daddy: Are you serious? You can't survive without us!
Big Mama: You need us!
Son: I'm going into business for myself.
Big Daddy: You'll never make it!
Big Mama: Without us to do all that we do for you, you'll never succeed!
Son: In the last three weeks I've earned over $100,000.
Big Daddy: Uh....
Son: That's more than you make annually, isn't it, Big Daddy?
Big Mama: But... but... we've done so much.
Son: These past few years you've done nothing but rip me off while boasting about how valuable you are. But you actually haven't given me any value whatsoever. You've worked me almost to death, taken heaps of money from me, and there isn't a single thing you can do for me that I can't do for myself.
Big Daddy: You ungrateful little jerk! We made you what you are today!
Son: Goodbye.
Big Mama begins to cry. Big Daddy puts his arm around her.
Big Daddy: It's okay, dear. We don't need him. We still have hundreds of other children.
Big Mama: But what if they all figure out they don't need us?
Big Daddy: They won't. We're authority figures. They need our approval. Plus, they're really naive.
Big Mama: How long will they stay naive? Without our kids to help pay our bills, we won't be able to keep the house.
Big Daddy: It'll all work out just fine.
Big Mama: Maybe I should go after him. Offer to triple his allowance.
Big Daddy: I don't think he'll be persuaded.
Big Mama: What if, next time we sell one of his paintings, we give him 20%?
Big Daddy: I've done some research. He can get 70% on his own.
Big Mama: That much?
Big Daddy: Yes.
Big Mama: Can we match that?
Big Daddy: No. We have too many bills to pay.
Big Mama: Do you think he resents us for using him for his talents all those years?
Big Daddy: Hush, dear. We didn't use him. We provided guidance and support. We nurtured him. We loaned him thousands of dollars.
Big Mama: He paid back those thousands of dollars, and then some.
Big Daddy: That isn't the point. The point is there will always be children who need the validation, coddling, and reprimanding that we have to offer. And they'll let us rob them blind in order to get it.
Big Mama: I hope so, Big Daddy.
Big Daddy: Trust me. Now run into the bedroom and fetch my Kindle. There's a new Konrath ebook on Amazon for $2.99. I love how he can offer such low prices.
Big Mama: Me too. I have no idea why some other ebooks are so expensive.
Big Daddy: It's simple, dear. Big corporations are wasteful and don't care about their customers. They charge a lot to pay for their overhead without providing value to either the authors they work with or the readers they sell to.
Big Mama: (shaking her head) I'm glad we're not self-delusional like that.
Big Daddy: Amen.
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- Simple
- Writing a blog engine - what can be simpler?
- Unexpected
The first surprise is the medium - that was the one of the first popular screencasts to circulate the Internet. But of course the main load of unexpectedness was in the fact that a simplistic, but still functional, blog engine can be build in 15 minutes. Not months or years of a team of programmers, a designer and a HTML coder - but 15 minutes of one person - that is surprising.
- Concrete
That was not an abstract plan, framework with holes to be filled in later - but a concrete implementation. And once again - blog engine - what can be more concrete for the web afficionados?
- Credible
You can see it for yourself - it is not a description of how to do it - it is filmed the whole process of doing it. And later you can also try it on your own.
- Emotional
Not really - but you don't need to cover all of the points.
- Story
This is the most important thing - the screencast is a story. The viewer can easily imagine himself writing his own web application with the same efficiency - this is how stories work.
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Oh, It was my birthday on the 4th, Ma Petrillo's on the 16th and the blogiversary on the 11th (iThink? See? I am losing it!). October sure is a special month.
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Oh, It was my birthday on the 4th, Ma Petrillo's on the 16th and the blogiversary on the 11th (iThink? See? I am losing it!). October sure is a special month.
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Na wa for NYSC o, at least start the enforcement with the next batch, what's the rush? Pele jare.ReplyDelete
Accept my condolence on ur grandma's passing. Death sure puts life in perspective.
What network provider are you using? Maybe you should ask around your area to find out which network performs best there.
NYSC is sure mean.kilode....pele about your Grandma. LOL about the rush for party souvenirs, why would one person have 5, that's ojukokoro.ReplyDelete
Happy gbogbo everything in October oh. it sure is a special month for you.
Take care
...Happy belated birthday and blogversary. I miss you here.ReplyDelete
She shows up finally...ReplyDelete
Internet can be so crappy yea, I have 3 internet sticks and the best of them still messes up
Nysc and their many wahalas, eyah!
So madam HD placed an embargo on her household...lol.
Happy October celebrations
Ah, she finally shows. So sorry about your grandma but i get death. I get it very well now. It makes everything seem pointless. I was telling a friend how it's easier to have a terminal illness because at least you have a time line. Ok, let me carry my morbidity away from here.ReplyDelete
NYSC ba? Welcome to Nigeria.
As for the hustle for party souvenirs girl, hi 10! I've seen it too many times. Even the ones given to me, i wana throw away. If you know how many mugs and plates are at home at the moment ehn, you'll tell me to open a retail shop sharply.
Happy everything *kisses*
Welcome back. I kinda sorta missed you. Ok, so i missed you here. Big deal :P
nice update... although it was partly about a funeral. Everytime I read a post on nigeria, i feel like I've been there b4... Maybe it's the many movies I watched as a child lol. But either way, welcome back. Hope you get to sort out your NYSC soon...ReplyDelete
welcome back girl, you have been missed awww about your grandma, my grandma is still alive i will miss her a lot when she is goneReplyDelete
AHa, I knew it was Naija that had swallowed you up. I thought you were only back for a short stay, ah well, NYSC is a good cause! But how far with changing requirements midway? crazy people. Abi they were expecting to be bribed?ReplyDelete
sorry to hear about your Grandma's passing away. lol@gangsta. I for fear if you no cry.
Take care alright? and be safe.
Sorry about your grandma, may her soul rest in peace, and may God console your dad and entire family. As for your gangsta? LOL..ReplyDelete
Too bad you went all the way to Abuja before getting to know the rules have changed. But seeing Donald Duke? iLike!
Happy birthday in arrears. I pray your grandmother rests in peace. She don try sha.ReplyDelete
Happy everything in arrears.ReplyDelete
Sorry about your Grandma; may her soul RIP. I promised myself never to attend a lying in state again after I saw my very fair pops become very black some yrs ago.
Don't be unnecessarily stressed over Nysc jare; it somehow always gets sorted.
Weirdly enough, I missed your blog and thot I should say hello...
You are right about VANITY plus VANITY its all VANITY, that why i cant stress jor..
About courses?You should look into industry that are thriving and will like to grow... Social Network??
Ah, she's finally back. Welcome.ReplyDelete
Sorry about the NYSC thing. Trust Naija and our matters.
And about life being vanity, you're certainly right. Sometimes I get tired and wonder what we are all struggling here for. Sigh.
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HUMPH! She is back! *sideeye* to you HD!ReplyDelete
ok! first thing first!..mean 2nd...happy birthday in arrears on all counts.
Sorry about the loss of your pappy's mother, may her soul rest in peace...84 ehn? It is a life to celebrate, understand why the tears did not come initially...but you can't help it when you saw it face to face...*youthinksayyoustrong* abi?..ehehehhe.
Souvenirs?! Jeez! i had a taste of that doing my younger sibling wedding..some catered away dozens of it while some didn't have any! It was an experience i learned from..keep it in the car and bring it out small-small.
NYSC????...seriously, i wish the programme should be scrapped! or people sent to their own local govts....so many lives lost!
Marketable programme??..hmmm...nothing comes to mind...laughed at everybody and dogs doing project management...it is the trend....just like computer studying was the hot cake then.
Yeah..the internet sucks big time...WELCOME TO 9JA my dear :D
Sorry about granny's death HD and also pele about NYSC ish, I can only imagine how annoying that must have been.........Happy celebrations in arrears o and welcome back home!ReplyDelete
Sorry about your grandma Hun, i can relate to how u felt when the coffin was open. I was in total shock when I saw my dad too after his body had been embalmed. Sorry about the Nysc stress o, that's naija for you, I can imagine how frustrated you were.ReplyDelete
It's good to have you back though I have also been MIA.
Sorry about your grandma.NYSC is useless so i'd say,sorry about that too.ReplyDelete
All the networks are the same cos they tell the same old story. I pray your grandma rests peacefully with the Lord, sorry about the loss. First time here and following, would you mind following and adding me?ReplyDelete
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Wishing you a merry Christmas and happy new year.ReplyDelete
The Lord's blessing be upon you as we walk into 2013.
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NEW YORK — Just a few hours after a 112-86 victory over Puerto Rico at Madison Square Garden on Friday and six days before it needed to, the U.S. National Team finalized its roster for the FIBA World Cup in Spain.
In a bit of a surprise, two players – DeMar DeRozan and Andre Drummond – who didn't play on Friday made the final roster. Drummond is the fourth center on the team, while DeRozan made the cut over Chandler Parsons and Kyle Korver. He offers more playmaking and explosive scoring ability than the other two.
In addition to Korver and Parsons, Damian Lillard and Gordon Hayward did not make the 12-man roster.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski and USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo had previously indicated that they might take more than 12 when the team flew to the Canary Islands on Saturday afternoon, because some of the final decisions were proving to be difficult. But Krzyzewski made it clear after Friday's game that they decided not to take any extras, for two reasons.
First, because it's "really difficult," according to Krzyzewski, for a player to travel abroad and eventually get sent home early. Second, with just one exhibition game remaining (Tuesday against Slovenia), it's time for this team to finalize its rotation and everybody's roles.
"Now that we're down to 12," Krzyzewski said, "we can get a little bit more precise with things."
DeRozan and Drummond join guards Stephen Curry, Kyrie Irving, and Derrick Rose; wings James Harden and Klay Thompson; forwards Kenneth Faried and Rudy Gay; and bigs DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis and Mason Plumlee.
The starting lineup – Irving, Curry, Harden, Faried and Davis – seems to be set, with Irving having replaced Rose for the two exhibition games this week.
Rose is going to Spain, though. If Irving is the starter, Rose will be one of the first players off the bench, along with Thompson (backing up Curry and Harden) and Gay (backing up Faried).
There was no need to see how Rose felt after his second exhibition game. He got four days of rest after last Saturday's win over Brazil, but Krzyzewski has clearly seen and heard enough.
"I feel very confident about Derrick," Krzyzewski said. "I think Derrick feels very confident."
It remains to be seen how many of the USA's nine potential games Rose will play at the World Cup. It's safe to assume that it's less than nine, especially with the five pool-play games in the first six days.
"If he needs a day off," Chicago Bulls head coach and USA assistant Tom Thibodeau said of Rose on Friday, "he'll get a day off."
And Krzyzewski is fine with that. As the U.S. tries to win its fourth straight gold medal in international competition, it will also be trying to get Rose back into top basketball shape.
"These guys want to play with him," Krzyzewski said. "Part of getting back is to be around a group of peers, who want you to be really good.
"That's what we've seen over the years. That's where the brotherhood develops. That's one of the cool things about what's happened over the last nine years. We think that can happen again and hopefully, that will help Derrick as he gets ready to keep participating in this, but also for the NBA season. I think it's a huge, huge help for him."
So the U.S. will have just one full-time point guard – Irving – on the roster, with Curry starting at shooting guard and Rose unlikely to play every game. That could be some extra burden on the Cavs' All-Star, but the USA's best talent is still in the backcourt and the staff clearly wanted extra depth up front, with Cousins, Drummond and Plumlee backing up Davis, who could see some time at power forward.
The need for three backup centers is a bit puzzling, especially since Davis will likely rank first or second on the team in minutes played. Two of three back-ups will certainly have limited roles.
But the U.S. may have its sights set on the frontline of Spain, which features Marc Gasol, Pau Gasol and Serge Ibaka. The hosts are the clear favorites to reach the gold medal game from the other side of the bracket, though they'll have a tougher road than the Americans.
The U.S. got a tough 20 minutes on Friday, as Puerto Rico took a five-point lead in the first quarter and hung within two until Thompson beat the halftime buzzer with a pull-up 3-pointer. Veteran guards Carlos Arroyo and J.J. Barea were able to take advantage of the USA's aggressiveness on the perimeter to push Puerto Rico to 47 points on just 40 first-half possessions.
The U.S. tightened up its rotation and its defense in the second half, using a 14-2 run to take control.
"We tried to do too much trapping [in the first half], and they're just too good," Krzyzewski said. "Second half, I thought we played really, really well."
Still, the U.S. will need Tuesday's exhibition game against Slovenia (2 p.m. ET, ESPN2) and all five pool play games in Bilbao to sharpen up for single-elimination action in Barcelona and Madrid. With the roster set, the focus can go from choosing a team to winning another gold.
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Running on a mere 2½ hours of sleep and exactly 12 hours after winning the Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Luminaries," Eleanor Catton sat down for an interview with the Guardian's Charlotte Higgins and brought her A game.
The 28-year-old novelist from New Zealand, the youngest ever to win the prize, addressed the critics who have approached her complex novel with trite assumptions about gender.
Catton said the "people whose negative reaction [to 'The Luminaries'] has been most vehement have all been men over about 45." She went on to say that there seems to be a misconception by some men of a certain generation that her gender and relative youth have bearing on the book -- more than 800 pages long -- itself. There is, she said, "a sense of irritation from some critics -- that I have been so audacious to have taken up people's time by writing a long book. There's a sense in there of: 'Who do you think you are? You can't do that.' "
Other young women whose literary achievements have catapulted them into the spotlight have faced similar biases. In 2000, Zadie Smith, whose first book, "White Teeth", was published when she was 25, was dubbed an international "Girl Wonder."
"I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," Catton says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are -- about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime."
Her comments echo the minor storm that followed a Publisher's Weekly interview with Claire Messud earlier this year in which the author was asked about the likability of the protagonist of "The Woman Upstairs." Messud's startled reply, which included a list of indelible, unlikable male literary characters (Humbert Humbert, Hamlet and Oscar Wao), sparked a discussion of the different expectations put on male and female writers and the characters they create.
"The Luminaries" is the longest book to win the Man Booker; Catton, the prize's youngest winner, has created a work of complexity her critics didn't expect. She told the Guardian, "There's a feeling of: 'All right, we can tolerate [this] from a man over 50, but we are not going to be spoken to like that by you.' "
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Earlier today, The CW revealed plans to create a spinoff series for The Flash after unveiling the character on Arrow this coming season. "We'll introduce a recurring character [on Arrow] and an origin story for Dr. Barry Allen, who you know as The Flash." said CW president Mark Pedowitz in his initial address during the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour.
Arrow co-creators/executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg will work with DC Entertainment's Geoff Johns to bring the Scarlet Speedster to life, with the trio set to co-write each of the scripts that the character will appear in this season. Allen will be a presence in the 8th, 9th and 20th episodes of Arrow, with the 20th acting as a backdoor pilot. The pilot will be directed by Game of Thrones Red Wedding/"The Rains of Castamere" helmer, and vetran TV director, David Nutter - whose many pilots include Smallville and Arrow. Casting is now underway. In fact, the announcement was made in part to allow The CW to widen the net to a far larger range of potential Barry Allens.
As expected, the revelation sparked a bevy of questions about what The Flash's introduction in Arrow meant for the character's possible inclusion in the DC cinematic universe, as well as The CW's plans for the Wonder Woman series that had been in development. (You can take a look at Pedowitz's responses here.)
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"Part of the hope with Barry is to start to introduce powers into our universe," Berlanti told us today when asked if, as we imagine, The Flash would mark the first wave of actual superpowers on Arrow. Johns and Kreisberg were on hand for a conference call this afternoon where they confirmed that there would be no workaround; and that the character would retain his superhuman abilities. "He does need powers; and he will be The Flash," assured Johns.
The Origin of The Flash - Arrow-Style:
The network's adaptation of Dr. Barry Allen's saga will be an origin story in a similar vein to Oliver Queen/Arrow's, though seemingly with a more linear narrative. "When we first meet Barry Allen, he's just a forensic scientist, an ordinary man," Kreisberg said. "As we always do on Arrow, we keep things as grounded and realistic as possible. That's the way the audience can be introduced to him and get to know him; and then life gets a little faster."
The producers were reticent to indicate exactly how he attains his super-speedy abilities, but we do know that Allen will be in Starling City in his first two episodes, where we imagine the inciting incident takes place, and in "his own world" for the 20th.
"Part of the fun for the audience is to see how we do our Arrow take on the Flash legacy," Kreisberg continued. "Some of it will feel very familiar to DC Comics, some of it hopefully will feel different, fresh and exciting. The same way we approached Arrow is the same way we're approaching Barry."
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Does the introduction of The Flash indicate that superpowers are going to become a part of the reality on Arrow in a larger context? "We look at it like when he [The Flash] first appeared, he ushered in a silver age for DC superheros," said Johns. "In the same way he's going to usher in some new and pretty insane concepts to the Arrow world, but like Andrew said, it's in a very Arrow way."
"Our characters that you have come to know and like will respond to the extraordinary changes in their world in a very realistic way. These 'powers' will not be commonplace, they will be extraordinary events, and the world, and our characters in them, will react accordingly." Kreisberg said, emphasizing that Arrow would maintain its established tone.
The Flash Is A Good Counter To Arrow:
Aside from the fact that The Flash is a favorite among all three producers, the character was selected as the next featured DC character in the CW programming line-up because, as Kreisberg says, "Despite the fact that he has superpowers, there's something more relatable about Barry among the Big Seven of the Justice League. He got his powers by accident; he's not a god, he's not an alien, they came to him by accident, his reactions to that feel very human and grounded."
Additionally, the producers feel that Barry and Oliver stand in stark contrast to one another and will, as such, create an interesting counterbalance.
"Oliver Queen is a very dark and tortured soul and Barry is not," Kreisberg said, stressing the profound impact that Allen would have on the Arrow universe. "He's a great character who is going to affect all of our characters lives. It will be fun to see these two characters together because they have two different worlds... As much as Oliver now thinks he's a hero, Barry isn't always going to believe that."
"We're also exploring a very personal story for Barry," Johns said. "His life as a forensic scientist and the people around him, the tragedies and how he deals with them in a very different way than Oliver Queen." Though Flash will have a significant impact on the people of Starling City, the producers did say that the intention was to "add" to Arrow, not "subtract." Read: it's unlikely that previously established Arrow characters will be making the transition to the new series.
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The team isn't thinking about things like costumes or the specifics of how The Flash's abilities will be rendered on the show just yet; but the producers do promise that it will "very different, and not just blurring around." They are excited to "bring something fresh, new, and exiting" forward, something "people have never seen." Johns said that he was inspired by every incarnation of Flash, but did call out the Justice League: Flash Point Paradox animated film as having some stunning depictions of superspeed which he hoped to incorporate into the live-action series.
As far as what they are seeking out in terms of the casting, Johns joked, "Someone who looks good in red." Kreisberg laughingly added, "blond is preferred," closing out by stressing that there would be "no sweat suits or strange code names. He will be The Flash."
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By: Daniel Mareno Jones
OK D-Day Fever- The fever that usually comes around about 3
months or sooner before the D-Day event. Sometimes annoying
to self and others. Your mind is D-Day, but can only be satisfied
by being there. Symptoms: Packing 2 months or so in advance.
Buying new paintball gear. Finding every excuse to get time off
work to go. And a few others. Note: Fever usually caught after
first year at event.
Fever not really curable.
Each year in June, at least for the past 13 years, an event takes
place in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Wyandotte. The
event, which is called 'The Annual Oklahoma D-Day Event,' is held
to help honor and preserve the memory of all those who fought
during WW II, specifically those who took part in the invasion of
Normandy during the evening of June 5th and on the morning of
June 6th,1944.
One of the new aspects of this yearly event this year is a competition
to see who can produce and submit the best event background video.
Winners will receive a variety of valuable prizes as well as satisfaction
of knowing that their video has been selected to help promote the
event. The clip I've attached today (see below) is just one of the
entries in this competition.
Preparations for D-Day go on year round, but they really begin at
the site on or around June 7th and the final day long battle for the
beaches kicks off at 0900 hours on Saturday, June 12th. Starting
on the 7th and throughout the week leading up to the battle over
3,000 participants from around the world will arrive on site to get
familiar with the field, as well as spend time training and working
together as teams. They'll be divided up into groups which represent
all the many combat units, from both sides, which took part in the
actual invasion.
When they're not busy training participants are free to visit a number
of newly built, air conditioned stores which have recently been erected
on the site, including a D-Day era cafe decorated with historic
photos, uniforms and memorabilia. For the third year in a row
everyone will also get to meet and listen to a WW II veteran of
the actual invasion, Mr. Jake McNiece, a life long Oklahoma
resident and veteran of the 101st Airborne Division.
On that Wednesday evening those on the site will have an opportunity
to take part in yet another new event aspect, a USO style amateur
hour talent show and canteen dance. Music of the 40s will play as a
number of participants dressed in period uniforms take part.
Residents from the surrounding area are also cordially invited to stop by
and observe the preparations for this epic battle, including the annual
parade of the units which takes place that Friday afternoon, as well as
visit the D-Day Cafe, or take rides around the field as the battle unfolds
that Saturday.
Video competition entry -
For more information about the D-Day event please contact either one
of the event officials in Wyandotte, at 918.666.3411, or call my office
here in Florida at 407/563-3884.
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Cell: 239/410-9632
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Re: Oklahoma D-Day 2010
haha! i've already packed for it and annoyed everyone already!
My MR2:
J&J 16" Ceramic Barrel
Ashuramirage Electro Red and Green 4 Dot Sight
Assault Body Kit
Trinity AK-47 Expansion Chamber
Custom Made Bamboo Foregrip
Qloader w/SP8 Mod Kit
Modified G36 Scoped Carrying Rail
RAP4 Folding Stock
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."
-- Ronald Reagan
Re: Oklahoma D-Day 2010
Hi, this is Andy Van Der Plaats, or as some folks may also
know me "Dorsai," writing today on behalf of the 'Allied
Command,' the world's largest paintball team. Yes, I said
the world's largest team because the past two years we've
fielded at least 1,700 players The Annual Oklahoma D-Day Event.
My reason for writing you today is to issue an appeal to
join us this year for The Annual Oklahoma D-Day Event. If
you accept and I hope you will, you'll have an opportunity
to meet and play along side some of the very best players
not just from here in the US, but from around the world.
D-Day, as you may already know is a one day event, but it's
also fair to say that it's a week long event as well, because
there's also a whole series of daily mini scenarios and a night
exercise, not to mention nightly speedball. A week is also how
long we have to organize and train everyone who takes part,
so they'll be ready. While it's not mandatory that you come
a week early, we do encourage players to come early so they
can learn the field, as well as how we're proposing to secure
the necessary number of points for our side to win.
Here are three clips which show just one of handful of key
locations, all of which are being fought for simultaneously over
the course of the day. As soon as this objective is secure and
the points are awarded, action for these players shifts without
pause to another objective and so on. Adding to the challenge
faced by hundreds of players are issues like the terrain and of
course insuring that everyone stays properly hydrated.
Utah Beach Assault -
Pt#1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VLWUFA6BwM
Pt#2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkXb2grFFh4
Pt#3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_1Tw7ZHh58
Next is a link to a monthly newsletter we've created to help
keep everyone up to date on the progress being made on
getting the site and teams ready for June.
Player registration for the ENTIRE week is just $70.00 and
that includes all your HPA or CO2. Paint is being supplied
by PMI (Kee Sports) and access to the camp grounds,
including use of the showers, is just $5.00 for your entire
Well that's about it except to say thanks for taking the time
to review my invitation. If you've got questions or want to
know which unit might be best suited to your style of play,
feel free to write, or give me a call. I'm available most any
time between 6 AM and 8 PM (eastern time).
Brigadier General Andy Van Der Plaats
J-1, Office of the CofS, SHAEF
"in bello, parvis momentis magni casus intercedunt"
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Carlowrie Area Code is 204 and Time Zone is Central (GMT -06:00).
Carlowrie Postal Code - Manitoba
Carlowrie Postal Code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. Like British and Dutch postcodes, Carlowrie - MB postal codes are alphanumeric.
The first three characters (alpha-numeric-alpha) of the postal code which represent a geographic area in Carlowrie.
The last three characters denote a Carlowrie local delivery unit (LDU). An LDU denotes a specific single Carlowrie address or range of addresses, which can correspond to an entire small town, a significant part of a medium-sized town, a single side of a city block in larger cities, a single large building or a portion of a very large one, a single (large) institution in Carlowrie, Manitoba, such as a university or a hospital, or a business that receives large volumes of mail on a regular basis
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The false reality is exposed here. Turn off your cognitive dissonace before reading. If you believe ANYTHING, prepare to be insulted. FEAR NOTHING. Love really is the answer.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
WAKE UP ALERT. Prepare to be insulted, angered, frustrated....
What's the point of being a conspiracy theorist if you don't question everything?
Great movements that have shifted the affairs of humanity have invariably been instigated, controlled and brought to an awful and terrible conclusion by hidden hands.
This you understand.
We are witnessing and involved in a great movement that will shift our species onto a new path.
This new path is prepared for us, though we can hardly credit such a truth, by the same hidden hands.
This you cannot believe.
This new path will lead to the very end you have been taught to fear and been taught to despise.
You are being prepared to implement this plan.
This you cannot believe.
"I know that most men...can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of
conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which
they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by
thread, into the fabrics of their lives." (Tolstoy)
If you are a Christian, a Jew or a Muslim your understanding of these conspiracy theories is coloured by your unprovable beliefs and by your largely ridiculous, vicious and fake un-holy books and the centuries old organisations of child-molesting snake oil salesmen you revere as holy men, as clergy, as preachers.
Silly hats. Dog collars. Robes. Gucci suits. Ritual. Fear.
They make you feel special. Chosen.
I guess you have been.
You are being taught to point the fingers of accusation at each other, and particularly at the Jew, again.
Even the Jews do it.
May god forgive you all.
And if you are no believer in these old fashioned and outdated mumbo-jumbos then perhaps you have found the true light? Perhaps you know a big secret? Child of the sixties perhaps, drawn to the new age, lover of rock and an amateur musician, striving to open the third eye and become truly conscious for then you might prove to yourself and others that you are truly special, that you are a little slice of the godhead itself, that you will usher in a new world.
But not a new world order.
Oh no, not that, not you............not you.
"Follow Hitler! He will dance, but it is I who have called the tune! I have initiated him into the Secret Doctrine, opened his centres in vision, and given him the means to communicate with the powers. Do not mourn for me: I shall have influenced history more than any other German." [Satanist, Dietrich Eckart]
Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine".
The birth of the new age religion. The creator of the first texts which are meant to form the next "bible", a century old path to follow, a new bunch of mumbo-jumbos already drenched in blood.
John Lennon. Richard Paige, who bought Aleister Crowley's house.
Imagine that.
JRR Tolkien (Order of the Golden Dawn). Did you read the Lord of The Rings as a kid?
JK Rowling.
Do your kids read Harry Potter (written by the chap with the same name)?
Got them too.
There are more than 15,000 New Age organisations in the USA alone.
Reminiscent of early Christianity.
All you need is a godhead. And guess what? He'll be called Maitreya. (See previous posts!)
Or maybe you are a non-believer, in anything?
The conspiracy world has been created for all tastes, all persuasions.
Maybe you stand on your own two feet and look at the world as a human being?
But hang on.
Are you a patriot?
Still believe your nation is the best?
Are you awake, and see the Zionists as the root of all evil?
As you have been taught.
As Hitler taught the Germans.
And do you sometimes say Jew instead of Zionist, by accident or with intent?
Like those folks that say nigger, or paki?
Or maybe you're an end-timer, a watcher of the skies, a 2012 believer?
Or a 9/11 researcher?
Or a post "Green" vegetarian big pharma hater, head full of Monsanto?
Or a vaccine hater.
Or an anti-cop, anti-law "Freeman".
Are you investing in silver and gold, as Jones and Icke and countless others suggest you do, when you know the world's metals markets are in the hands of the same families you despise?
And yet failing to make that connection.
There is truth in all these things.
There is truth in the bible and the koran (love, peace, truth, sharing), truth in the 9/11 theories, truth in the evil committed by the "nation" of Irsahell, truth in the potentiality of human consciousness, truth in the idea that love will conquer all eventually, truth in the coming of a new "christ' figure, truth in an alien threat (fabricated aliens, that is), truth in the existence of pure evil, truth in the NWO plot, truth in the deliberate creation of war, of hatred, of sickness, of famine.
Of course there is. You're not stupid.
What you understand is not necessarily wrong.
It is WHY you have discovered this understanding, this knowledge, where from, and who is behind it that you need to question.
You see, the biggest conspiracy is conspiracy theory itself.
The biggest conspiracy is conspiracy theory itself.
The biggest conspiracy is conspiracy theory itself.
One of the following probably brought you into the world of conspiracy theory.
Guess what?
Alex Jones
Noam Chomsky
Greg Palast
Edward Griffin
Aaron Russo
Amy Goodman
Jeff Rense
Bill Deagle
David Spangler
Dewy Kidd
Alan Watt
Jim Tucker
Daniel Estulin
Leo Zagami
Benjamin (Japan's Sinking!) Fulford
Ted Gunderson
Ray McGovern
Webster Tarpley
Paul (NOT CFR honest!) Craig Roberts
Michael Parenti
His Holiness David Shayler
Charlie (Mr Love) Veitch
Dutchsinse and all the Youtube boys and girls
Dog Poet Transmitting
Eric Hufschind
Texe and Jim, the boys from Marrs
Jesse (John Wayne)Ventura
Jordan Maxwell
The Zeitgeist liars
David Icke
Michael Tsarion (and him so clever too, for shame).
Benjamin crème
Zechaliar (sic) Sitchin
Richard Mr Physics Hoagland (Duck, everybody!)
Eckhart Tolle
And THE LIST goes on, dear reader. Et Cetera Ad Nauseam.
Do humanity a favour and look into it.
"I know that most men...can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of
conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which
they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by
thread, into the fabrics of their lives." (Tolstoy)
Test those words.
You see, they have prepared a place for everyone, a bait and hook for all mindsets, built the internet as their spider's web, built a haystack of truth and buried their needle of a lie in it.
Well of course they would.
They saw you coming, and knew they must lead you into the new world order.
Otherwise, you'd find your own way without them.
And that would never do.
Olive Farmer xxx xxx xxx
(I told you it would insult you. Time to lift the next veil. There is yet one more.)
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I came to this realization myself not too long ago. I try to read everything and sift through the BS to find what is true. I think our hearts lead the way to the truth.
Now, I do not want to be disrespectful, but how can we be sure that YOUR name should not be added to the list you have posted here? If everyone on the internet is a disinformation agent, then that would include you as well, no?
- September 15, 2011 at 4:32 AM
- Olive Farmer said...
Hi Karen. Love to you.
Well of course you can't be sure.
It may be I'm the "5th Ray" that the luciferians refer to, who is claimed to live here in Crete and therefore I'm an ascended master!
(Without realising it!) Perhaps without knowing it I'm the first of the two witnesses of Revelation, the "Olive Tree", but god hasn't let me know yet!
Truth is that you can't trust me because you don't know me, and that is as it should be in these times. The entire conceit of the false reality is built on people giving their trust to someone, somewhere. Politicians, newsreaders, drug companies, thinkers, preachers. Human beings are hard to fool as individuals, easy meat en masse.
The whole of the internet has a vast collection of real human beings searching for the truth. Many, if not most, have been brought to truth by those on The List. I was, by Icke initially. Many find truth there, many have had their lives changed by what they read. Many become bloggers and activists (I missed adding "Activist Post" to the list)and pass on their learning.
This is why I believe these shills are so dangerous.
By my understanding our masters had an expectation of the awakening we are witnessing. They predicted it and laid plans for it as only they could with their limitless money and age old systems and the knowledge they have which is denied to us mere mortals. I believe they feared it. I believe they still do. All that we see in the world right now is to do with it. Revolutions, war, currency collapse, the unfettered criminal theft of liberties and privacy, and I add to that list my "List".
I'm a strange bloke and always have been. I was tested more than once for IQ and scored in the 160's. I enjoy crosswords and have composed cryptic crosswords for newspapers. I come from a family of puzzlers, a family of Oxford and Cambridge firsts, a family of questioners. When I worked for corporations I was payed to steer companies through change, to put them in the right position to meet the future. I did that for a big chunk of the BBC. All that time I was sick of the people I worked for, sick of myself for not finding some way to pay my bills and raise my family with dignity and in the end my body became sick, my immune system told me enough was enough. I have always had a somewhat strange ability to see into people's core and there is a weird thing I do by laying my hand over someone's palm where they feel a strong warmth and tingling and I can tell them everything that is on their mind like some form of Fakir. Lord knows what that's all about but it's there. My beautiful and loving wife stops me from doing it, the effect is often so strong on people. I have to say I'm usually a bit tipsy when I feel in the mood to show off when I do my "party trick". My whole life I have had an air of expectancy, a feeling that there's something I needed to do, to be a part of something less ordinary. I feel it now growing stronger every day, this sense of imminence. This blog is what I see. My opinion is just one of nearly 7 billion opinions and has a value of 1/7 billionth of the world and not any more nor less than another's.
Question everything.
Do so with love.
Thanks for reading.
OLive xxx
- September 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Thank you for your response.
I have a question for you. I am wondering how sinister this disinformation thing is. Do you think that they are all being paid off in some way--that they are given specific directions as to what to print or reveal?
The only two that surprise me (and it's not the kind of surprise that paralyzes me anymore) are the dog poet and that dutch guy with the weather you tube. For some reason, when my BS radar doesn't go off with those two. I've been wrong about lots of things, however, so it would not surprise me to be wrong about them as well.
It really is a sad commentary on humanity that we cannot trust anyone. There has to be a secret agenda to everything--nothing is pure. I keep thinking that there has to exist someone who is brave enough to do the right thing without wanting something in return, without hurting others in the process. I keep that hope alive regardless of a life that continues to prove otherwise.
I would be interested in what you think of this website: http://illuminatimatrix.wordpress.com/ There is a lot of information there that when you take the time to really investigate, holds true. A lot of it I find hard to follow, but this guy tells you from the get go that you cannot trust him anymore than you can trust anyone else which is what I like about him. It's refreshing.
I have to tell you that even though I see a lot of darkness and despair all around me, I feel safe in this world. I worked very hard at removing fear from my life and it has been so liberating for me. I feel protected from harm and surrounded by love. I am not afraid of anything.
Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts and wish you well.
- September 15, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Before entering despair, frustration or anger please note how nothing the zionists or NWO ever tries to do turns out anything remotely like what they had hoped or planned. They are just incompetent nepotized nephew idiots making a mess out of everything, and this will go on until they eliminate themselves and a new bunch of worthless scum under an equally worthless new social paradigm will emerge from the steaming pile.
That's it!
- September 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM
Why is Eckhart Tolle on your list?
- September 17, 2011 at 1:46 AM


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Working Without the Lights On?
Management and Cave Protection for the Ozark Big-eared Bat and Gray Bat in Oklahoma
Up in the mountains of northeast Oklahoma (yep, we have mountains!) are some of the most important geographical features known to wildlife. Caves are one of the most sensitive ecosystems that exist. Therefore any wildlife that requires them must be habitat reliant. Or else they probably wouldn't be there!
Oklahoma is home to 22 species of bats. Of these, there are three species listed as federally endangered- Ozark big-eared, Indiana and gray bats.
Again, human disturbance to populations of cave-dwelling wildlife species of greatest conservation need is difficult to control. Any human disturbance can cause nursing female bats to abandon habitat and/or simply abandon their young.
Recently a study was done to identify caves that were considered critical habitat for colonies of Ozark big-eared bats and gray bats in northeastern Oklahoma. This habitat is one of the least common and most difficult to manage for wildlife. This study was
performed by posting a warning sign at cave entrances, placing human restrictive structures at or within caves such as fencing around the cave entrance or a gate/grill structure within the cave's passage. Caves also were monitored to determine the effectiveness of restrictive management plans, particularly gated caves, to determine the impact of these structures or other protection measures implemented at the site. As problems were identified with the cave protection plans, they were corrected.
With so many difficult issues that can be encountered with northeast Oklahoma caves, there is still work to be done. Thankfully the job has been started and is simply one step closer to finding the happy ending.
E-22-14, Principal Investigator: Dr. Keith W. Martin. Keith is an associate professor of biology, as well as the dean of the school of mathematics, science and health sciences at Rogers State University. Written by Lesley B. Carson. Lesley is the wildlife diversity information specialist with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
This project is funded by the State Wildlife Grants Program. The State Wildlife Grants Program provides federal money to every state and territory for cost-effective conservation aimed at preventing wildlife from becoming endangered. This program is administered by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and continues the long history of cooperation between the federal government and the states for managing and conserving wildlife species. For more information, visit www.teaming.com.
The Big Birds are Back
Purple Martins Come to Town
For many wildlife enthusiasts and backyard birders, spring is announced by the arrival of one of the most popular migrants, the purple martin (Progne subis).
Migrating to take advantage of seasonal insect movement, purple martins winter in South America, and summers are spent north of the equator. Primarily traveling to the eastern half of the United States, the purple martin is also found along the west coast, and even ranges into central Canada. In Oklahoma these birds can be found statewide, though less commonly in the Panhandle. Older adults arrive first in early spring with large flocks of juveniles and other adults migrating several weeks later. Once thought to be scouting for new nesting sites, the earliest migrants are in fact setting up breeding territories at the previous year's nest site and exploiting early insect activity.
Historically, the purple martin nested in natural cavities like snags and abandoned woodpecker nests in riparian zones. Ideal areas are close to both permanent water bodies and meadows or other open spaces used for feeding. Increases in deforestation, along with growth of agriculture and urban sprawl in sensitive areas have challenged many species, including several purple martin populations.
One way to offset habitat loss is the use of nest boxes. Modestly beginning as groups of gourds hung by Native Americans, these artificial nesting sites have transformed into elaborate multi-chambered houses. While western purple martins still use natural cavities, the eastern birds almost exclusively nest in these man-made houses colonially, with the females being responsible for most of the nest building and all of the incubation. Four to six white eggs are laid, and the helpless chicks are hatched after 15-18 days. Both parents bring insects to the hatchlings, and chicks fledge 28-29 days later.
Written by Jena Donnell. Jena is a wildlife biologist with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Note from Editor: By mistake one image of a Texas horned lizard, taken by Dr. Greg Sievert of Emporia State University, has been used twice without permission. Once in April 2009 and again in November 2010. We regret this error and we have corrected the photographer credit online.
To see more of Greg Sievert's photographs, please be sure to order A Field Guide to Oklahoma's Amphibians and Reptiles.
Birding Hotspots in Oklahoma
The Birds are Coming!
Boasting of 13 distinct ecological regions (the same number as Texas and California, by the way!), combined with its location in the middle of the country, it is not surprising that bird diversity is high in Oklahoma. For those interested in locating the birding hotspots, there are many venues available. If you are interested in reading online discussions about bird sightings in the state, the Sutton Avian Research Center sponsors the Oklahoma Bird List Service. You can subscribe by selecting the "Oklahoma Bird listserv" under the "Education" menu.
For information on birding routes in the state check out the Tulsa Audubon Society website and view the interactive maps on their "Guide to Birding in Oklahoma". A source for birding routes in western Oklahoma specifically is the Great Plains Trail of Oklahoma, a project of the OK Wildlife and Prairie Heritage Alliance in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Thirteen scenic driving loops highlight native wildlife, prairies, culture and terrain. Loops take the visitor through areas that provide the greatest likelihood to see wildlife (boasting 220 bird species), while offering routes that traverse the most scenic and remote roads in the state. For the birdwatcher, each loop has a recommended birding route detailing where to start at dawn and where to end at sunset with bathroom and eating breaks included. Each loop can be printed off the website or to receive the Trail road map click here.
Within the Oklahoma City area check out the Oklahoma City Audubon Society's website with links to all the good birding spots in and around the metro area.
Attending birding festivals is another great way to learn about birding hot spots in the state. This spring there are four great festivals to attend. From the Cherokee Birding and Heritage Festival and the Woodward Lesser Prairie-Chicken Festival in the northwest to the Arbuckle-Simpson Nature Festival in the south central to the Red Slough Birding Convention in the far southeast. Grab your binoculars, wear clothes for any possible weather condition and experience the bird life in Oklahoma!
Written by Melynda Hickman. Melynda is a
wildlife diversity biologist with the
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife
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The Wildlife Diversity Program - a program of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation - monitors, manages and promotes rare, declining, and endangered wildlife, as well as common wildlife not fished or hunted. Oklahomans help fund the Wildlife Diversity Program through an annual state income tax check-off, the purchase of wildlife conservation specialty license plates, product purchases, and individual donations.
This program operates free from discrimination on the basis of political or religious opinion or affiliation, race, creed, color, gender, age, ancestry, marital status or disability. A person who feels he or she may have been discriminated against or would like further information should write: Director, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, P.O. Box 53465, Oklahoma City, OK 73152, or Office of Equal Opportunity, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240.


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Original recipe by Jude Russo Caserta
Makes 3 ½ – 4 pounds
Uncooked chicken breast rubbed and ready for the oven.
Preheat oven to 400F degrees.
3 ½ – 4 Pounds skinless boneless chicken breasts
House Seasoning:
1 ½ Tsp Old Bay Seasoning
1 Tsp Onion Powder
½ Tsp Dried Rosemary
½ Tsp Dried Thyme
½ Tsp Garlic & Herb Powder
½ Tsp Dried Mustard
½ Tsp Fresh Ground Pepper
½ Tsp Corse Salt
Mix all dried ingredients in a bowl with fingers rubbing herbs to get the essential oils.
In 13" x 9" glass baking dish drizzle about 1 TBSP D'Avolio Arbequina Olive Oil. With clean hands, rub oil around dish. Place chicken breasts in dish and coat with oil. Sprinkle half the dry mixture on chicken and rub. Flip chicken and repeat rubbing chicken well with mixture. Place in 400F degree oven for about 25 minutes until cooked through and juice is clear.
Remove from oven, cover tightly with foil and allow cooling.
Either slice in strips or store chicken in well sealed plastic container and refrigerate. The strips make a great lean protein snack. Make these up over the weekend for use during the week.