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marisa, i'd like to know how hubbing has worked for u?
i'm a yoga/pilates teacher with a writing emphasis, similiar to u i would think. . .i'm new to "examiner" and "hub pages" - your work is amazing, i'm just starting with a website too (may need help), anyway, i'd like to know professionally if this feels "safe" to make a living (i can't seem to get in touch with anyone else) so, woman to woman, thankx, firstname.lastname@example.com
Sorry to take so long to answer. Thanks for the kind words!
These Hubs give you an overview of my journey plus some tips:
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Yo Brah!
I'm semi-back. Life has been nothing near a whirlwind adventure land that I am used to. Well except for the drinking part. I've been doing a lot of that and eating of Domino's.
Saw Julian (think the Strokes) last night. What an amazing/sexy performance. I took some fotos, but my camera died shortly thereafter. Reminder to self: never again use your vibrator's batteries for digital cameras, it will die. I will however post them up.
Let's see...
Oh! I went to Texas and it was amazing. Huge portions and lots of Texan pride. All the food I ate was rarely never in the shape of the state. But it tasted so good, especially the Mexican food. It was so good it didn't even give you the shits after. Now that is GOOD. And the house parties down South are major. They know how to have a good time for sure.
The Texas party hardy crowd. That's me already blacked out drunk.
I have this goal of going somewhere every month for this year. January was Texas, next month might just be Atlantic City, March can be either Toronto or Texas (SXSW) again, April will be France. Now I have to make this happen, but I have the motivation.
The Fitch has been cutting back on hours which is lame and tempting me to go back to American Apparel. Might as well work where I model. Just have to pull a few strings :D. No fashion week for me this year. I don't have the time to waste on being a size 0 and going to a billion castings to get 10 gigs. Oh and school starts in two weeks, so definitely wont have the time.
FFFFFFFFFFAck! I'm 23 next month. Joan Rivers cry me an ocean please!
My home girl Jessica wrote this article and I fully blame her for getting me back on the internet dating wagon which is more time consuming than Farmville and ShopNastygirl.com combined. This my friends is worse than e-expensivo and matches.com combined because not only is it free but I have been recognized at least 3 times. One guy remembers me as the girl who took BC for SC, the next for being in his English class at Hunter, and the last guy works with me at the Fitch. How fucking embarrassing is that?
But let me tell you - the shetloads of hipsters/cuties on that site who contact me on a daily basis not only give my ego a rush of Whoa I might actually meet a nice guy who will say hi to my who-wha and date me longer than four months and that is sweet.
Oh yah brah! How about blast from the past.
Yeah, I'm sorry Arv. I was totally not expecting a cameo of him in life again.

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Crisil is one rating agency which everyone has heard of. This is mainly because it finely rates a wide array of debt instruments such as bank loans, commercial paper, asset backed securities, bonds, guarantees etc. Because of this reason, ratings by Crisil have been heavily relied on by investors as well as by lenders for their internal evaluation process, before they go out to make an investment.
Crisil ratings are known to be well established and are considered to be one of the most important benchmarks. If we talk about mutual funds here, then we can suggest that Crisil Ratings may be good enough because unlike other rating agencies, Crisil manages to describe all the variables in their rating methodology description.
Just a brief that we would give her about Mutual fund rating – this is the best way to judge a Mutual Fund, and coming over to the ranking, Crisil is one of the best in case of Mutual funds. Why these rankings are necessary is because they are a good selling point for Mutual fund distributors to sell their products. So if you talk about reliability, yes we would say that Crisil ratings are the most reliable to judge a direct mutual fund platform.
Talking about how selecting mutual funds only on the basis of the ratings, given by Crisil or any other rating agency, may not be such a good decision. This is because even if it may look like a good investment at one point of time in life, but after a period of time, it may or may not be the same. The market is said to be pretty volatile. There are some other factors which also should be kept in mind while rating mutual funds.
Firstly, you need to know how the fund has performed in the last 3-5 year period. If it's giving out consistent returns, plus it has a good rating, then you can say that investing in this fund may be a good decision. Apart from that, you should be able to check how volatile the fund schemes have been, as it is said that more volatile schemes generate better returns, but you also need to see the consistency and ratings of it too. After that comes the liquidity check and then comes the quality control. Try not investing in funds whose credit quality is not that high.
So, you need to know as well as consider all these factors while you go with the Mutual fund ratings provided by Crisil, or be it any other rating agency. Not only will it help you in having a healthy portfolio, but also the risk involved will be way less in this case. So, if we talk about reliability here, and if it means analyzing the funds past on the past performance as well as its quantitative metrics, then Crisil is pretty reliable.
Lastly, you need to know that the ratings which are given by credit rating agencies are usually set on some pre parameter. What happens is that they charge the companies which provide ratings for accessing them as well as for providing the ratings. Also, all the data which has been given by the mutual funds, is usually open to the public domain.
Thus, all in all, in terms of reliability and trust, Crisil is said to be one of the best rating agencies, not only in terms of mutual funds but in other domains as well. So, to answer the question, Crisil is highly reliable as it follows all parameters needed to be followed.


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Pentathlon Results
Relays Results
In their first competition of the season, the Cerritos College women's swimming team took third place at the Palomar Relays. The Falcons, who competed in the Palomar Pentathlon the day before, will now swim in the South Coast Conference Pentathlon, which will take place at Pasadena City College on Friday.
Leading the team at the Pentathlon was sophomore Jackie Oliveros (Gahr HS), who was the first Falcon to finish in all five of the events that took place. Her best finish came in the 50-yard backstroke, with her time of 32.74 putting her in 10th place. Oliveros recorded a pair of 12th place finishes, posting a time of 30.72 in the 50-yard butterfly and 27.25 in the 50-yard freestyle. She added a 15th place time of 1:14.04 in the 100-yard IM and took 27th place in the 50-yard breaststroke with her time of 40.96. Sophomore Vanessa Perez (Sonora HS) recorded a time of 29.05 to earn 25th place in the 50-yard freestyle.
In the relays on the following day, Oliveros turned in a fourth place time of 1:11.64 in the 100-yard backstroke, with Perez taking fourth place in the 100-yard butterfly with her clocking of 1:22.86. Sophomore Lindsay deHaas (Hacienda Heights Wilson HS) turned in a fifth place showing in the 200-yard IM with her time of 2:58.58, while Oliveros (27.81) and Perez (29.41) came in eighth and 10th place, respectively, in the 50-yard freestyle. Sophomore Breanna Zuniga (California HS) competed in the 1000-yard freestyle and turned in a second place time of 13:37.65.
March 30, 2018 W. Swimming: Final dual meet results in split
March 16, 2018 W. Swimming: Falcons split conference meet
February 16, 2018 W. Swimming: Cerritos competed at the SCC Pentathlon
February 10, 2018 W. Swimming: Team takes third at Palomar Relays


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"I've got to get home earlier than two in the morning." That was my goal for the last day of my speaking tour on Thursday. I was confirmed on a flight from Anchorage that was to arrive in Seattle at 2 a.m. Around 48 hours prior to my flight home, I made a bunch of calls to the Alaska Airlines 800 number hoping to get on standby for the earlier 5 p.m. flight. Every call ended the same: that 5 p.m. flight is completely full.
Now. It's Thursday. We finish our last day of training. It's time to head for the Anchorage airport. We turn in our rental car, and, I head for the Alaska Airlines ticket counter. "Any room for me on your 5 p.m. flight to Seattle?" I asked.
The gal at the ticket counter said, "Nope. In fact, the earlier 3:25 p.m. flight was cancelled. Now. We're overbooked. I can't even put you on standby. You can go to the gate if you want to, but, you probably won't get on."
I head to Gate C3. I walk up to the gate agent and ask, "Any room for me on your 5 p.m. flight?" She replied, "Nope. In fact, I already have over 12 people on standby. But, you know what, let me put your name on the standby list anyway. Just have a seat. I won't know what's available until everyone boards."
The 5 p.m. flight final boarding announcement is made. Everyone is boarded. It's a completely full flight. I keep my eyes glued on Connie — the gate agent. Then, Connie yells out, "Run, Sandra."
I jump up, grab my new boarding pass, and start running. I run past the terminal door — it slams shut behind me. I run down the bridge — the baggage guy grabs my bag — then his door slams shut behind him. I run onto the airplane — and the cockpit door slams shut and gets locked.
I'm on. I look around. Every seat is taken. And, the passengers are staring at me like, "Where the heck did you come from?"
I uncrumple my boarding pass, and look at my seat number. Connie gave me 1A. That's the first seat — in First Class. In a word: Unbelievable.
Bottom line: You never know. So. Never give up.
Life Is Fabulous!


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Last night we didn't do any training at all. When mom got home, she heard the whining sound that was coming from the bathroom. She thought it was an electrical short. She turned off each circuit breaker in turn, to try to figure out which circuit it was, and if it actually was electrical.
It wasn't.
So she went outside again (leaving me behind all this time although I am certain I would have been of great assistance) and turned off the water to the house. So now, no water pressure, and the whine continues. So it wasn't a pipe.
Now, I have great hearing, and if mom had just asked me, I would have told her what it was. So obvious.
But instead of asking me, mom called friends and asked them what they thought it was. They didn't know.
This morning I decided to help out, even though I still haven't been asked....or thanked come to think of it. It was my little toy that used to talk to me all the time before I threw it in the toilet. It stopped talking after mom pulled it out of the toilet, and it then it started whining. It's been whining a while, but mom didn't hear it until just now.
So this morning I took pity on her because she was so worried about the noise. I picked up the toy and handed it to her with a very satisfied look on my face. I'm so helpful!
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
2 comments:
- Cal the Wonderdog said...
Splash, you are really helpful. Sometimes we have to help humans by pointing out the obvious. Problem is, is they think WE belong to THEM. Yeah, right, tell me something else. (insert precious pup snicker here)
Your weblog smells very good. I can't wait until they perfect bark-to-type, my paws are getting sore from trying to hit the right keydsafdsfdasgg - oh I give up
- vicky said...
Hey Splash, Lucy wants to know how you did with the big storm. She has had some experience now in the Midwest, so she thinks she could give you older girl Labrador advice!
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There's no stopping the ever-popular and successful cartoon comedy Bob's Burgers. Especially with the lovable Tina Belcher around. However it's the real life folks who give the characters a voice who we should all be watching out for. Especially Harry Jon Benjamin who plays Bob Belcher.
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Now the actor, comedian, and TV personality, can now add author to his skills with his memoir Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir. He takes us on the journey of his career, family, and love life. The times when he crashed and burned and the times when he cruised along to get to where he is now. A relatable story of what it means to fall and get back up.
For all you BB's fans out there, check out his interview on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!
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The instinctive feeling that there is indeed some kind of spirit that rolls through all things, some fearsome memory in stones, in wind, in the lives of birds---.
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Women's March: More than 1,100 march — for many reasons — in downtown Prescott
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Despite the cold from a lingering storm, more than 1,100 people marched around the Yavapai County Courthouse for the 2nd annual Women's March on Prescott Saturday, Jan. 20.
Those marching were both men and women. Peggy Staples, one of the marchers, said she was participating because it was a way for her to express concerns she has in the world.
"I'm especially concerned about the way we are looking at the immigration issue," Staples said. "I have very major concerns about our environment and some of the policies that have been changed in a way that I think is detrimental to the environment."
Michele Van Haecke said she was marching for democracy. She did so to keep democracy alive and to find positive channels of communication, she said.
There was also Erica Muse, who said she marched for the women she knows who have been raped, sexually abused and sexually harassed and nobody did anything about it or they were afraid to say anything. She also marches for children who have been abused and to have a voice for people who don't necessarily have one, Muse said.
Ray Cage said his motivation revolved around President Donald Trump. He was wearing a sandwich-board sign calling attention to the president's taxes, but said it was more than that. He said Trump is insulting to the presidency and the line of presidents, while President Obama was articulate and intelligent.
"He's getting away with a lot of things that he is impeachable for, he should be impeached. He's pretty much an insult to our country," Cage said. "We talk about human values and moral outlook on life, he's a pretty shallow man, very self-centered."
Counter protest
While the participants were marching around the courthouse, there were a few counter protesters standing on the corner, showing their support for Trump.
One of the supporters, Susan Shipley, said she stands across the street every Tuesday between 1 and 2 p.m. to protest, when Prescott Indivisible usually takes to the plaza. Shipley said she was there Saturday to thank God that Trump is president and celebrate his first-year anniversary.
Margaret Gifford-Mitchell said she didn't know what the people who were marching were protesting for. Women's rights were achieved in the 1970s and she is against abortion, Gifford-Mitchell said, adding that a child conceived through any means is a human being.
"It is not that child's fault, it should not be aborted just because, and (abortion) is not a form of birth control," Gifford-Mitchell said. "That's my number one reason."
Sandra Elkins brought up the number of marchers and compared it to those standing in support of the president, stating it was about seven people. Elkins said she heard a woman marching say they have the power and noted it didn't make any sense to her.
"So what are you doing here then if you have the power?" Elkins asked. "Why do you need to be here?"
During the march, a flash mob performed the "One Billion Rising" routine. "One Billion Rising" is a global movement founded in 2012 in an effort to end rape and sexual violence against women.
Representatives from The Vagina Monologues were also selling shirts and tickets to the Friday and Saturday, Feb. 23-24, production of the show with all proceeds going to Prescott Area Shelter Services, said Producer John Duncan. The event will be at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at 7:30 p.m.
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Show me a cookie, I'll tell you a story.
They say taste is the sense with the longest memory. It must be true because my most memorable moments growing up involve food. Baked goods, in particular. With six kids, my mom always had a full cookie jar. With five daughters, she had a full kitchen. On Saturdays my sisters and I would each choose a different cookie recipe, then get out the bowls and measuring cups and tie on our aprons. Mom had only one rule: We had to clean up after. Mine was this: Cross the line and get shot. I was the Berlin Wall of baking. Nobody messed with my cookies.
Ah, sweet memories. There was the time my sister Karen mistook the barrel of diatomaceous earth (for the swimming pool filter) for the flour barrel—both contained white, powdery substances—I almost lost a tooth biting into one of her oatmeal cookies.
Most of my memories are good ones. Even the bad ones have become humorous with the passage of time. Now, whenever my sisters and I get together, a sure way to have us clutching our sides with laughter is to bring up a baking-disaster story. We bond over remembered triumphs as well. The Christmas cookies. Laura's chocolate cream puffs. The chocolate-dipped sandies Patty made for our dad every year on his birthday.
Oh, yeah, and let's not forget the wheat germ Mom sneaked into every batch of chocolate chip cookies. Not something I recommend. Chocolate chips and wheat germ go together like Martha Stewart and the Dalai Lama. And speaking of Tibetan monks, I eat like one, so when I indulge I prefer to go all out. Butter, sugar, the works. Otherwise, why bother? Life is short and to deny oneself inhumane. The trick, when treating oneself, is moderation. Which for me means one cookie, not three—or four—or who's counting?
I also save on calories by living vicariously through the characters in my novels. In One Last Dance, Kitty Seagrave owns a tea room, Tea and Sympathy, and makes killer scones and muffins when she and her sisters aren't solving the mystery of why their mom, a seemingly devoted wife of 40 years, fatally shot their dad. My Carson Springs trilogy—Stranger in Paradise, Taste of Honey and Wish Come True—has beekeeping nuns, renowned for their Blessed Bee honey. My cookbook, Something Warm From the Oven, contains several of my characters' recipes, including one for cornbread with everything but the kitchen sink.
These days it's all about adapting. To getting older. To the changing book business. To social media,which ate my life. This extends to the kitchen.
One way to make the most of limited free time is to pull more than one rabbit of the hat…er, recipe. With one master recipe you can have an entire holiday cookie sampler, and your friends will be asking, "How DOES she do it?"
So here it is: chocolate chip cookies with variations. No bullshit. No wheat germ.
Makes 5 dozen
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 scant teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2 cups (12- ounce package) semisweet or bittersweet chocolate morsels
1 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightly grease two baking sheets or line with parchment.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. In a small bowl, combine the sugars. Cream the butter with an electric mixer or standing mixer, adding the sugars ¼ cup at a time until blended. Blend in the vanilla extract. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add half the flour mixture, beating just until blended. Repeat with the remaining flour mixture. Sir in the morsels and nuts.
Drop by rounded tablespoon onto the baking sheets. Bake for 9 to 12 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool slightly before transferring from the baking sheets onto wire racks. Repeat with remaining batter.
Variation #1: Oatmeal Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Decrease the flour to 2 cups. Increase the granulated sugar and dark-brown sugar to 1 cup each. Increase the vanilla extract to 2 teaspoons. Add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 2 ½ cups of rolled oats.
Beat together the softened butter and sugars. Blend in the vanilla and milk, then blend in the eggs one at a time. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add to the creamed mixture, mixing just until blended. Stir in the oats, chocolate chips and nuts. (You can substitute pecans for the walnuts). Drop by heaping spoonfuls (roughly 2 tablespoons) onto baking sheets. Makes 4 dozen.
Variation #2: Chocolate-Chip Macadamia Nut Cookies
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets.
Decrease the butter to ¼ cup. Add 8 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped. Decrease the flour to 3 tablespoons and substitute the baking soda with ¼ teaspoon baking powder. Decrease the chocolate chips to 1 cup. Add 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut. Substitute coarsely chopped macadamia nuts for the walnuts.
Place the butter and chopped chocolate in small microwave-proof bowl. Melt in the microwave, stirring after each 30-second interval (or melt in a heat-proof bowl set over simmering water). Cool slightly. In a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat together the sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Beat in the cooled chocolate mixture. Beat in the dry ingredients. Stir in the chocolate chips, coconut and nuts. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes, until edges are done and soft at the center. Makes approximately 3 ½ dozen.
Variation #3: Peppermint Twist Chocolate-Chip Cookies Substitute crushed candy cane for the walnuts.
Variation #4 Chocolate-Chip Peanut Butter Bars
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line an 8 X 8 baking pan with aluminum foil, using enough to create a 2-inch overhang at two ends. Lightly butter the foil at the bottom of the pan.
Decrease the flour to 1 cup. Decrease the butter to ½ cup (1 stick). Add 1/3 cup of creamy peanut butter (such as Skippy or Jif). Eliminate one egg. Eliminate the granulated sugar and substitute 1 cup of packed light brown sugar for the dark brown sugar. Increase the vanilla extract to 1 tablespoon. Decrease the chocolate chips to 1 cup, plus 2 tablespoons for topping. Eliminate the nuts.
Place the butter in a large microwave-proof bowl. Microwave until melted, about 1 minute (or melt in a pan set over low heat.) Cool slightly. With an electric mixer, blend in the egg. Blend in the peanut butter, brown sugar and vanilla, beating until smooth. Blend in the flour, beating just until mixed. Stir in the 1 cup chocolate chips.
Dump the dough into the pan and smooth even. Sprinkle evenly with the remaining chocolate chips. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean with only a few moist crumbs. Cool in the pan. Remove using the foil overhang. Cut into squares or bars.
Eileen Goudge is the New York Times' bestselling novelist of 15 women's fiction titles with more than 6 million copies of her novels in print worldwide. Book One of her Cypress Bay mystery series, Bones and Roses, was just released and she's working on Book Two, Swimsuit Body. She lives in New York City with her husband, television reporter and film critic Sandy Kenyon. Visit Eileen at her website or Facebook page.


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Profiling ecosystem vulnerability to invasion by zebra mussels with support vector machines
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Decades since the initial establishment of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in North America, understanding and controlling the invasion of aquatic ecosystems continues to be a problem in continent-wide conservation and landscape management. While the high economic and conservation burden of this species makes accurate predictions of future invasions a research priority, forecasting is confounded by limited data, tenuous model assumptions, and the stochasticity of the invasion process. Using a new method for niche identification, we profiled invasion vulnerability for 1,017 lakes in the Great Lakes region of the Unites States. We used a nonparametric geoadditive regression model to test for effects of two water quality variables on the present distribution of zebra mussels. We then used the support vector data description (SVDD), a support vector machine for one-class classification, to estimate the boundary of the ecological niche. By disentangling niche estimation from distributional assumptions, computational niche models could be used to test an array of fundamental concepts in ecology and evolution, while species invasions forecasting is representative of the wide range of potential applications for niche identification in conservation and management.
KeywordsInvasive species Niche Support vector machines Zebra mussels
This research was conducted while JMD was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (Santa Barbara, California, USA). Additional support came from the University of Toledo, Department of Environmental Sciences and Lake Erie Center (to JMB) and the University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology (to JMD). We thank D. Strayer and T. Peterson for comments on an earlier version of this paper and A. Silletti for comments and assistance preparing the manuscript.
This is publication No. 2009-07 from the University of Toledo Lake Erie Center.
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Many Americans dream of one day having a child, but for those who have infertility, the road to parenthood is riddled with financial and emotional strain. USA TODAY Network
A map released Wednesday grades states based on access to fertility resources.
One in eight couples experience infertility and about 65% of women who seek medical intervention give birth, according to RESOLVE.
RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association's Fertility Scorecard shows Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island are the best states for those seeking fertility treatments. Alaska, Mississippi and Wyoming ranked the worst, receiving an F grade.
States were evaluated based on state mandated insurance for infertility treatments, amount of fertility specialists and RESOLVE support groups relative to state's infertile population.
By clicking on each state at www.RESOLVE.org/fertility-scorecard, users can also see the number of women who have experienced physical difficulty becoming pregnant. Blue dots on states indicate state lawmakers have tried to pass laws that restrict or expand access to care for the infertility community.
Barbara Collura, president/CEO of RESOLVE, told USA TODAY while state grades haven't changed much in the last two years (when RESOLVE last released a scorecard), more state lawmakers are increasingly talking about infertility options.
"We were seeing a trend toward a lot more restrictive legislation," Collura said. "That was a trend I was surprised to see and alarmed."
Collura said she believes pushback comes from those who are uncomfortable with untraditional ideas of family.
An example is Minnesota, where gestational surrogacy (now legal) could be outlawed.
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All elements work together, each herb enhances the other . I recommend giving the spirit a chew to open the flavour. Take a sip and let the liquid swoosh around your palate using your tongue. Almost making a smacking sound warming the liquid, letting the flavour envelop your mouth; experience berries and if you close your eyes you can almost smell the Alaskan air.
Joshua Groom, mixologist for Ungava Gin, sent me a few cocktail ideas to try:
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Campari – 20.00 ml
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Soda – 90.00 ml
Orange zest
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The alcohol industry, similar to fashion, is an ever-revolving door of styles and ideas. Cocktails we thought were dead and buried have come back. Gin, thought to be a popular of spirit of the "Mad Men" times is becoming more interesting among the younger crowds, evolving from a herbal remedy to a delicate balance of subtle flavours.
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Eric's 'American Dream' Comes True
Howard had an update today on Eric the Midget's performance in the NBC show "American Dreams." Last month Howard was able to help Eric achieve one of his dreams by landing him a small role on one of his favorite TV shows. Howard even negotiated a high salary for him with free plane tickets and a hotel room. After shooting his scene, Eric left Howard a voicemail making all sorts of demands for today's interview. He told Howard there was to be absolutely no "toilet humor" and he wasn't to ask Eric if he had gone home and pleasured himself to the girls on the show. Howard got Eric on the phone and told him that his demands made him sound a little ungrateful. Eric said he did thank Howard in all the video that E! shot though, just not on that particular voicemail. Howard played Eric's scene from the show and thought he did pretty good. He then asked Eric if he pleasured himself to his co-star in his scene, Daphne Zuniga, who also happened to be on the phone at the time, Eric refused to answer. Daphne said she actually appreciated Eric's discretion because few men in Hollywood stick up for women like that. Howard said he thought Eric was going "Hollywood" on him by making all these demands.
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Howard told Eric that he was pretty proud of the work Eric did on "American Dreams". He said it's not an easy thing to go on a TV set for the first time and perform, especially on a show that you love, and Eric had done a very good job. Eric thanked him and then asked Howard why he had told Marty the Midget that no one had ever told him that the word "midget" is like the "N" word to little people - even though Eric has told Howard this many times. Howard told Eric he that was lying to Marty, plain and simple. Eric said he wanted a new name now and Howard asked him to suggest some. Eric suggested Eric the Actor or Hollywood Eric. Howard said he actually liked Eric the Actor a lot, so he'll consider it. However, he's still refusing to buy into the idea that the word "midget" is as bad as the "N" word. Artie told a great story about midgets on the set of his movie "Dirty Work" with Norm Macdonald. He said they had used a midget in the movie and the production company had the guy on the call sheet as "midget". The call sheet is a document that's handed out to the cast and crew every evening detailing when they are due on the set the next day. That day's call sheet read something like, "Norm Macdonald - 8:00, Artie Lange - 8:30, Midget - 8:30?" The guy playing the midget freaked out about this and refused to come to the set. He called his agent and the agent in turn yelled at the producers. The agent told the producers that his client had a real name, Paul, and the name on the call sheet was insulting. He questioned whether or not the crew of "Dirty Work" thought they were working in the 1820's or something. They ended up canceling the entire day of shooting over the incident and the producers were so afraid of a lawsuit, they made sure the call sheet was changed permanently. The call sheet was changed, but the next day it read for, "Paul the Midget" to be on set at 8:30. Artie said it was hysterical, but the guy freaked out again and had to be calmed down.


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Common God, Common Purpose - Part 2
by Dr. David L. Johnston
I argue the case for a common purpose between Muslims and Christians explicitly in my book, "Earth, Empire and Sacred Text: Muslims and Christians as Trustees of Creation" – an expanded creation argument on the basis of both Bible and Qur'an. But it is also the point of Miroslav Volf's new book, "Allah: A Christian Response."
Volf's book, both easy to read and convincingly argued, is a refreshing spring that sprung up from two very different wells. The first was his Pentecostal preacher father in Croatia, who knew many Muslims, counting several of them as good friends. He taught his son that they worshiped the same God and that it was important to focus on this common theological ground. Then many years later, after 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the continuous spewing of prejudice against Muslims in the West, and finally the Pope's ill-fated 2006 lecture in Germany, over a hundred prominent scholars and clerics from all tendencies penned a letter to the Pope and Christian leaders worldwide. Their message (now famously known as "The Common Word"): what unites Muslims and Christians is not some peripheral religious themes, but rather core convictions at the heart of their faith; namely, love for God and love for neighbor.
Some of you will know that the first high-profile Christian response – a full page in the New York Times – was called the "Yale Response," mostly penned by Miroslav Volf himself. This was the second stream of inspiration for his book. His purpose is simple: to demonstrate the plausibility of Christians, Muslims and Jews worshiping the same God, the God of Abraham, Moses and the prophets.
If indeed this is the case, he writes, "they will have a set of overlapping ultimate values, which will provide them with a common moral framework in which to debate their differences" (p. 260). Among other possible benefits (like cooperative work for peace and justice), such a stance is the best antidote to religious extremism. For a common God should, in the case of Muslims and Christians, highlight belief in a loving ("beneficent toward all and merciful toward transgressors") and just God, helping to build bridges between the two (or three) communities, and extremism loses religious legitimacy."
To that "ultimate value" add this one: "love for neighbors." Volf explains, "If God commands believers to hate all infidels and love only coreligionists, extremism has a religious sanction. On the other hand, if God commands believers to love all neighbors – utterly irrespective of their creeds – then we have strong religious reasons to oppose extremism and work for caring and just relations among peoples of all religions" (p. 260).
Christians in the Arab Middle East (including Persian Iran!) have for centuries lived out their faith with great conviction; sometimes oppressed by their Muslim overlords, sometimes thriving in their midst while staying on their guard; but always believing that, in spite of their differences, the two faiths were focused on the one Creator God who will judge humankind on the Last Day. And now the emerging consensus is that the top two criteria for judgment are love for God and love for neighbor.
This leads us back to Metropolitan Ibrahim, gingerly speaking out in a Syria fraying on the edges and threatening to slip into civil war. The conclusion of his address is the following Beatitude: "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." Add the sentence before, and you have the one point of this blog: a common God does make for a common purpose in the world, "to re-design our common understanding of living together, and respecting the diversity in peace."
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College students will get to watch Naanu Avanalla…Avalu
Apart from attending classes on history, physics and maths, students in degree colleges in the State may have an unlikely addition to their routine — watching a film. The Department of Collegiate Education (DCE) has sent out a circular to all government, aided and unaided degree colleges to arrange for the screening of Naanu Avanalla…Avalu , which is doing the rounds of film festivals and was honoured with a national award. The circular asks colleges to see the relevance of the film to the students and teachers and allow it to be screened without any financial implication for the government. DCE officials said the choice about whether to watch the film will be left to students. The proposal was pitched by the makers of the film. B.S. Lingadevaru, director of the film, approached the DCE with the proposal for the simple reason that a film such as theirs would need an alternative platform. "Persisting with conventional theatres is difficult for our kind of films. Also, the perception of cinema is often limited to entertainment; it is not considered an art. Now, all big colleges have auditoriums and infrastructure for holding such screenings," he said. However, not everyone is optimistic about changing the perception of students by making them watch a film. Activist Akkai Padmashali said many educational campuses continued to be 'homo and transphobic'. She, instead, advocates asking members of the transgender community to deliver talks on campuses.
Umesh alias Uma, a radio jockey with Radioactive, was also of the view that screening a film may not be the most effective medium to convey the struggles of the community. "Having members of the community, who are spread across the State, come into campuses and talk directly to students will have a better impact. It is important that students be sensitised at this stage as some of them may go on to become lawyers and police personnel," she said.


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"Looking Glass" featured on Acoustic Cafe's One To Watch Series
This month I'll be featured on the nationally syndicated radio program, Acoustic Café. Tune in on Monday May 16th when a song from my latest album, "Looking Glass" (Year of the Swallowtail, 2010) makes its official radio debut on their One To Watch series, a once a month feature dedicated to up and coming songwriters around the country. It's an honor to be selected to be played alongside the legendary songwriters that are often featured on their playlist, and especially exciting because my song will be featured alongside an in-studio interview and performance by Iron & Wine, one of my all-time favorite songwriters. Click here to find out more about Acoustic Café or check out the latest show.


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This morning, a rare "Error Fare" populated from locations all across the United States to New Zealand! Prices were found as low as $242RT! A normal fare to Australia or New Zealand starts around $800 and goes up to $1300 depending on origin and dates. As you can see, this is huge savings.
Error fares are most common when airlines codeshare. Sometimes it's a system error and you only end up paying taxes and fuel surcharges. Sometimes the errors are human in nature. The key to booking these fare deals is to book it right now and figure the rest out. Generally, you have 24 hours to cancel a flight booking with no penalty.
The most important thing to understand is that the airline does not have to honor these fares. They have the right to cancel them and refund you. It's imperative that you don't make any other arrangements such as hotels, rental cars and shuttles until the airline has ticketed you. Even then, it's good to give the airlines a 72-hour buffer after booking a deal this cheap.
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Can you hear the gasp of the rust snap?
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Those cries of pain, the last cries of souls being devoured as hands reach out through gnashing teeth, these are the sounds of the hell that awaits us all, the night the bestows upon us the candied apples and razor blades, the burning bodies hanging from poles, you'll remember halloween.
To get you in the spirit of thing, Cigarette Burns would like to present to you Cemetery Man, perhaps better known under it' more poetic title, Dellamorte, Dellamore, starring Rupert Everett in his least annoying role to date, as the caretaker of a cursed cemetery, forced to slay the undead night after night alongside his faithful assistant, Gnaghi.
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Toronto writer Sky Gilbert sets Come Back, his new novel, in a dystopia in the year 2050 in which a 138-year-old Judy Garland longs for her old addictions.
Unknowingly, the gay playwright and drag queen was writing about something close to home.
"Until Come Back was over, I didn't realize how much it was about my struggles with addiction, alcohol and cigarettes mainly," Gilbert says. "It also relates to my mother a little because my mother died of alcoholism."
In the novel, Garland corresponds with her thesis advisor, expounding on stardom and gay life. In this way, Gilbert jams Come Back with radical ideas on an array of topics, including gay theory.
In 2050, everyone lives in a virtual cyberworld instead of reality. Machines keep Garland alive. Addled like most of the populace, she rarely leaves her home. When people do go out, they bear hideous physical alterations from living beyond their natural life spans. In using a sci-fi lens to critique our technology-addicted culture, Gilbert shares CanLit ground with Margaret Atwood, whose literary sci-fi novels, including Oryx and Crake, occur in dystopias caused by humankind running amok.
"I'm talking about our relationship to that [technological] world," Gilbert says. "Like anything, you don't blame technology; I think that human beings would find a way to fuck themselves, and have, without technology."
His disenfranchised playwright, Dash King, the subject of Garland's thesis, also runs amok failing to prove to academia that Shakespeare was gay. Sky used Dash to express frustrations about his failed attempts to write an academic paper on Shakespeare.
Dash, like Gilbert, is a sexual intellectual. This is how Gilbert describes himself and his Toronto housemates of the mid-to-late 1980s, when he roomed with Sue Golding at 67 Homewood Ave. She and another housemate were involved in the early years of The Body Politic, Xtra's predecessor. His roommates proved to be radical, intelligent, promiscuous activists who expanded Gilbert's intellectual vistas.
"They said, 'You're a slut' and taught me how to love my 'slutness' and be intellectually informed, to understand intellectually what I was physically," he says.
"That sort of ethos is gone," Gilbert says, referring to gay culture, "except in older people like me and some younger ones who come back and discover it again because they're just so frustrated with what's out there."
In Gilbert's opinion, gay culture involves three elements: the first is gender play, the idea that femininity and masculinity can exist in equal parts in men and women and are explorable and enjoyable in both genders; a camp sensibility; and the idea of alternative relationships such as polyamory.
Gilbert opens Come Back with Garland rejecting gay culture, hoping to attract people who have also rejected it.
"Gay people are not really interested in . . . gay culture anymore," Gilbert says. "The vast majority of gay men and lesbians have moved into this sort of marriage, religion, military thing."
Such perspectives from Gilbert and Garland are oddly irresistible.
"It's a really crazy novel about a Hollywood star, a gay icon who doesn't want to be a gay icon," Gilbert says.
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Subaru is an internationally renowned car manufacturer which was founded in Japan. The name finds its roots in the Japanese word for the star constellation, Pleiades. It also means unite in Japanese. The company has its origins in Fuji Heavy Industries which used its expertise in aircraft technology to manufacture prestigious cars.
The first model to be manufactured was the Subaru 360. The company has a history that expands over more than 60 years in Japan. In 1992 Subaru Southern African was launched. Since then it has grown to include 18 dealerships. The company has its main office in Gauteng. One of the auto manufacturer's latest releases is the Subaru Outback. To find out more, read our blog.
The 2016 Subaru Outback
With a 5-star ANCAP rating the Outback offers high levels of safety. Active safety features, such as blind spot detection, support the driver. Anther safety highlight of this model is lane change assist. Rear cross traffic alert plays a role in keeping the vehicle's occupants safe.
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- Year Built: 1959
Uniquely designed 4000+ SF home is steps to Vlg. of Hamburg w/no Vlg. tax. 1st flr. design incl. 2+ car heated gar., mud rm., util. rm., wet bar, fr/rec rm w/WBFP & heated flr., ldry. rm., .5 bth & 3 season sun rm. Go down to full partially fin. bsmt. w/gas fp, wksp. & util rm. Main flr. lives like a ranch consisting of foyer, LR w/gas fp, din. rm., kitchen, Florida rm. & sunken mbdrm. w/full bth. 2nd flr consists of 3 lg bdrms, full bth & addl master suite w/en suite, linen closet plus extra rm used as ofc. Drop down stairs lead to 2 tiered attic w/hdwd flrs for living space expansion or storage. Partially fenced yard, invisible dog fence. Wrap around deck w/gazebo & patio. No rear neighbors. Newer tear off roof (2017) 2nd flr windows, new furnace & air. Sale incl lot across st. (90x70).
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Welcome to 5583 Truscott Terrace! This beautiful 4200 sqft home sits on a picturesque 1.6 acre lot. Loaded with original charm and natural woodwork, this home offers 5+ bedrroms, 4 full and 2 half baths. Remodeled kitchen and master bath. Balconies, terraces, patio and in-ground pool make enjoying...
5 beds, 4 baths, 4,198 sqft, $449,000
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6518 Old East Eden Road Hamburg, NY